Everyone looked at Su Yuehan with surprise and expectation.
Su Yuehan smiled slightly: "You are also concerned and confused. You only thought of teleportation, but you did not think of another way to get there quickly."
Ouyang Nan slapped his forehead and said suddenly: "Ah, I know! You mean... Guanzhidao?"
Su Yuehan nodded: "Yes!"
Li Chengfeng, Zhao Xiaobao, Dasha Ge and others were all confused. Li Chengfeng said in confusion: "What is the official straight road? No matter how straight the road is, it is thousands of miles away! Even if you can fly, it will be difficult to fly there. How many days will it take? Besides, can any of you fly? Even if someone can fly, these servants of the Huangfu Song family can’t fly!"
Tian Jun laughed and said: "Junior Brother Chengfeng, you don't know something. This Guanzhi Road, also known as Guanchi Road, a carriage on Guanchi Road can travel as fast as two thousand miles in one day."
Li Chengfeng was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter: "Two thousand miles a day? Don't be kidding me. What kind of horse-drawn carriage is this? A Pegasus?"
Ouyang Nan said with a smile: "Junior Brother Chengfeng, it seems you have never sat on it before?"
Li Chengfeng said in astonishment: "Have you ever sat on it?"
Ouyang Nan shook his head and said, "No, but I have seen it."
Li Chengfeng was dubious: "Can you really make two thousand miles a day?"
Ouyang Nan thought for a while and said: "One day and one night, even if there is not two thousand miles, there are one thousand eighty-nine."
Li Chengfeng took a breath of air and thought to himself: What the hell kind of carriage is this? This, this is about to catch up with the green train!
But when Li Chengfeng and others headed to the south of the city and arrived at the post station on Guanzhi Road, Li Chengfeng was stunned and dumbfounded!
This, this, this, this... isn't this a fucking railway! !
Damn it, this, this is black technology! !
What appeared in front of Li Chengfeng was an authentic railway, with four rails paved on both sides, sleepers paved in the middle of the rails, gravel between the sleepers, and gravel between the rails. of fine sand.
Parked on this track was a carriage with eight carriages. In front of the carriage were eight extremely tall and impressive-looking horses. Each of these eight horses was two meters high at the head and shoulders. They were arranged four in front and four in the back. , they are tied with extremely thick and strong ropes, and the ropes are connected to the first carriage behind them, and this carriage is connected to the carriages behind them one by one.
Li Chengfeng no longer had the time to observe what the carriage behind looked like, but this horse-drawn "railway train" really shocked him.
Although this railway is somewhat different from the railway he remembered in his previous life. The railway in his previous life was double-tracked. In order to increase the pulling power, this railway has four tracks. There are eight wheels under each carriage, and the outermost four , the four in the middle are firmly stuck on the track.
Because this kind of horse is extremely tall, not only tall and long in body, but also extremely broad in shoulder. With a saddle and stirrups on, it is nearly one meter wide. Four horses lined up in a row, even if there is no gap in the middle, will occupy four meters. The width of the carriage is four meters wide, and with only two rails for a width of four meters, the middle of the carriage is likely to break during the speed. Therefore, the construction of this rail and the manufacture of the carriage are what Li Chengfeng saw with his own eyes: the gauge. There are five meters between them!
Each of these seven carriages is about eight meters long, and the wheels are all made of iron.
Ouyang Nan patted Li Chengfeng on the shoulder, smiled, and said: "This is Guanchi Road. This road was built during the reign of Emperor Taizu. Just the maintenance every year is worth the gold and silver." ! So, if you want to take this Guanchi Road, the price is not cheap! Poor people like us can’t afford it!”
Li Chengfeng looked at Ouyang Nan with feigned anger: "Didn't you sit there before? We are poor people, but you are not!"
Ouyang Nan smiled bitterly and said: "I was only ten years old when I sat there. My family was pretty good at that time, but not like now... Forget it, forget it, let's not mention it, go find the old guy and ask for money! I looked at this carriage. The train will leave in half an hour, if you miss it, you will have to wait until tomorrow!"
Tian Jun also said: "That's right, this carriage only comes once a day. Fortunately we caught up with it!"
Zhao Xiaobao frowned and said, "Can the old housekeeper pay for it?"
Li Chengfeng sneered: "As long as this old guy wants to plot against us, he will definitely pay for it! Moreover, for us, this money is a lot, but for Huangfusong, this money... I'm afraid it's not much. "
Sure enough, when the old housekeeper heard this, he just smiled slightly, called Wei Ping, took out a small bag of tips from his sleeve, handed it to her, and said, "Hurry up and register and buy tickets. Don't delay your trip."
Li Chengfeng and others quickly exchanged glances with each other and understood in their hearts: This old guy really has no good intentions! Really willing to spend money!
At that time, Da Qi's military power reached its peak. Emperor Taizu devoted all his efforts to build eight official roads leading to the southeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, northeast, and northwest. Each official road was as huge as this territory. With this kind of relaxation of the arteries and blood vessels in the empire, a large amount of materials can be quickly transported from south to north, from east to west!
This is also one of the important reasons why Emperor Taizu was able to conquer many steppe empires: once a war started, this empire could instantly mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops, and they could reach thousands of miles away within a week! At the same time, a large amount of materials and food can also be continuously supplied through Guanchi Road.
After Li Chengfeng boarded the horse-drawn train, he didn't even bother to look at the exquisite carvings, accessories and expensive furniture in the train. He sat on the soft sofa-like seat and blew the windows with his hands. He sighed: "To be able to build such a majestic and magnificent road, Emperor Taizu... is truly an unparalleled emperor, wise and mighty!"
Tianjun sat next to Li Chengfeng. He nodded slightly, with admiration in his eyes, and said: "Even among practitioners, there are very few who do not admire Emperor Taizu. Although the royal family does not allow cultivation, Emperor Taizu His talents and strategies are enough to make all cultivators in the world surrender. Otherwise, how could Chang Yuan, the national master at that time, worship Taizu as the king and be willing to be his minister?"
This kind of carriage is slightly different from the train that Li Chengfeng took in his previous life. Although there are rows of seats, the seat gaps and space are very spacious. The emphasis is on comfort and freedom. The entire carriage can easily accommodate ten people. If one is squeezed in, It can seat twenty people in a squeeze. The floor in the carriage is covered with thick velvet blankets, and the tables are also covered with woolen cloth. Everything you touch is beautiful, and everything you look at is luxurious.
After a while, brass bells rang on the platform of the inn. After the clanging sound, eight whips sounded in front of the carriage. Then the horses began to walk slowly. After a while, their speed gradually accelerated, and then Speeding all the way, the carriage made a clanging sound on the track, and galloped away at lightning speed.
Li Chengfeng sat by the window, feeling the strong wind blowing his hair on his forehead. He felt extremely emotional: I never thought... that I would be able to experience the taste of my previous life again in my lifetime
While he was thinking, he suddenly remembered something, and quickly turned to Ouyang Nan and said, "Do you think... will the old housekeeper take action on this carriage? The track is fixed and is perfect for ambushes. Isn't it a sure shot?"
Ouyang Nan laughed loudly: "Give him eight courages, and he will never dare!"
Li Chengfeng asked in confusion: "Why?"
Ouyang Nan smiled and said: "Attacking, stealing and destroying Guanchi Road is a serious crime of confiscating the family and exterminating the clan! The Huangfu family would never dare to do this! The old housekeeper would only attack us on Guanchi Road unless he was crazy."
Li Chengfeng finally relaxed a little and continued to feel this strange experience and taste.
Zhao Xiaobao, Han Tianxing and others were naturally country bumpkins. They had never seen such an interesting carriage before. They sat by the window one by one, pointing and shouting.
Li Chengfeng watched like this for an hour, and then suddenly asked: "Aren't the horses pulling the cart tired? What if they run at different rhythms?"
Tianjun laughed and said: "Look at the sleepers on the railway track. The distance between them has been carefully calculated and is exactly in sync with the pace of the horses. Moreover, when running, the horses and carriages will involuntarily excite themselves. The oscillation makes it impossible not to run very fast, so the distance between each sleeper laid out is exactly the same, and the horse cannot stop even if it wants to."
Li Chengfeng was dumbfounded: "Is there such a thing? Then... how can this carriage stop?"
Ouyang Nan smiled meaningfully and said, "You'll know when it's time to rest and change horses at the inn!"
Li Chengfeng sighed with great admiration: "It turns out... this is the true meaning of non-stop!"
===========================
As a digression, some people may say that this kind of thing is inappropriate and too modern, but what I want to say is: this thing... existed as far back as the Qin Dynasty. What does it mean to have cars on the same track? What does Qin Chidao mean? If you are interested, you can check it out yourself. Our ancestors...were so awesome!