Chapter 258: The two countries have a war and are not as good as their wife and son

Just when he thought that sinking the ship to the bottom of the river could prevent Chen Ying's army from heading north. When Chen Ying discovered that a shipwreck appeared in the Yongji Canal and blocked the channel, he immediately thought of abandoning the ship to the shore. However, the huge pressure on transportation of supplies forced Chen Ying to give up this idea.

Chen Ying's army had more than 40,000 mules and horses at this time. The slow horse was better, and it could be dealt with by making some grass. However, war horses were different. During the war, war horses could not only eat grass, but also had beans and mickey forage to maintain the nutrition of war horses so that they would not get rid of war horses.

But war horses are not as good as humans, and these beasts have an amazing appetite. The normal supply of forage for a war horse is ten liters per day. If it is a state of war, it is necessary to feed wheat bran or beans, and even eat 14 or 5 liters of forage. Chen Ying's nearly 30,000 war horses need to eat 4,000 5,000 shi of forage every day. If 50,000 soldiers are included, they will eat 6,000 7,000 shi of grain every day.

Six or seven thousand stones are not too much. If it is converted to tons, it will only be about 300 tons. The key is that in this era, if it is transported by rickshaws, at least thousands of deer cars are needed.

There is also a relatively reliable method to adopt hydraulic transportation. Chen Ying had no choice but to order the soldiers, Zhang Zhongjian's subordinates and the canal shipmen under Sun Jingchu began to salvage the wrecked ship.

When there is no mechanical salvage ship, it is not easy to work a shipwreck. First of all, these shipwrecks are filled with huge rocks. First, clear the sand and stones at the bottom of the water, and then use ropes to fish the shipwreck up.

After taking a long time, hundreds of people took action together, he took out a wrecked ship. "It's really a wreck!" Looking at a wrecked ship that had just been salvaged, Chen Ying felt powerless. The canal transport seemed to be less than a year after it was built, and there was no trace of water corrosion even on the bottom ship or the side of the ship. However, such a new ship was filled with huge rocks, drilled through the bottom of the ship, and sank into the Yongji Canal.

The Xia army did not dare to fight Chen Ying head-on. They smashed the canal or wooden stakes into the river. Although the average water width of Yongji can pass through three thousand large ships, the artificial canal is a canal dug out by artificially, and the average water depth is only more than three meters. For example, Chen Ying's flagship "Wan'an" has a draft of 10,000 feet deep and can barely pass through.

However, the shipwreck that sinks to the bottom of the canal barely crosses the roof of the cabin, including the roof and masts on the upper deck, are exposed on the water. Not to mention Chen Ying's "Wan'an", even ordinary square boats cannot pass. Chen Ying had to salvage the shipwreck while slowly advancing.

"Yes, it's such a spendthrift!" Sun Jingchu couldn't help feeling distressed when he looked at the 1,000-foot basket ship. The cost of a 1,000-foot basket like this is not low, a total of thousands of stakes.

Chen Ying suddenly had an idea and said, "Is there any possibility of repairing this shipwreck like this??"

Sun Jingchu nodded and said, "Yes, it's not difficult to repair this ship. You just cut off the rudder and main mast and chiseled through the bottom of the ship. You only need to replace the new rudder and mast, replace the chiseled bottom board, brush with tung oil, seal the loopholes, and then use it after the invisibility is not low, but it is much cheaper than building a new ship!"

Chen Ying suddenly realized that he wanted to build a canal transport fleet, even if he only had business in the future, he could make a fortune.

"It's good to use it, it's good to use it!" Chen Ying said to Sun Jingchu: "You send someone to salvage the wreck, and these ships will belong to you!"

"What? Give it to me?" Sun Jingchu was as ecstatic as if he had won the first prize. You should know that there were not one or two or three ships sinking into Yongji Canal, at least thousands of ships. Even if only one-third of them were new ships, it was a huge wealth. Sun Jingchu said: "How did this make it?"

"It's nothing. How can it be outsiders' turn if there is a cheaper one? This general has always been like this. If there are benefits, consider your own people first!" Chen Ying smiled and said: "Some of these wrecks are new ships, while others are tattered and have no repair value. Choose some useful and unusable ships, then tear them off, pick out useful wood, and use them as firewood!"

When Sun Jingchu heard the three words "Owner" mentioned by Chen Ying, he was extremely moved. Sun Jingchu knelt on the ground and said, "Don't worry, please send more people to the bottom of the country, so as to try to clear the channels as soon as possible!"

Just when Sun Jingchu was about to send a speed up fishing boats, Chen Ying called Sun Jingchu: "But your method of fishing boats is too slow. You have to wait for you to clear these wrecks. God knows that it will be the year of the monkey and horse month?"

Sun Jingchu asked, "What is the master's plan?"

Chen Ying vaguely remembered that when he was in school, there was a text "Snatching Iron Ox". A monk named Huai Bing of the Song Dynasty asked him to tie the two boats side by side, build a rack with solid wood, and cross the two boats. He also asked people familiar with water to bring a very thick rope to the bottom of the water, tie one end of the rope to the iron cow, and tie the other end of the rope to the rack between the two big boats. The preparations were done. Huai Bing asked the sailors to do their job together and shovel the mud and sand on the boat into the Yellow River. The mud and sand in the boat slowly decreased, and the hull slowly floated upwards, and the rope that tied the iron cow became tighter and tighter. The boat leaned against the buoyancy of the water to pull the iron cow upwards little by little.

The mud and sand on the boat were shoveled away, and the iron cow also left the bottom of the river. The monk did not rush to fish the iron cow onto the boat, but asked the sailors to row the boat to the shore with all their strength, and then let many people drag the iron cow in the water to the shore.

Of course, although Huai Bing's method is good, it is too inefficient. Chen Ying was not just eight iron cows, but hundreds or thousands of wrecked ships.

However, Chen Ying did not have to install sand and shovel sand. First of all, he could use the method of moving pulleys to save labor by using a human-powered pulley to remove the wreck from the water. As for the rocks in the wreck, they would be fished out and placed on the river bank to build a small pavilion for pedestrians to rest.

Chen Ying took a charcoal pen and told Sun Jingchu the principle of the moving pulley set. According to Chen Ying's drawings, Sun Jingchu used a large ship of two thousand-material wheels as the mother ship of the salvage ship. He set up four cranes on each of the two ships, used the principle of the pulley set to fish the wreck out of the water, and then sent sailors who could repair the ship quickly to repair it.

At this time, the ship workers, like veteran drivers in later generations, had some faults in the vehicle they were driving and they didn't have to go to the auto repair shop at all. They could use things like replacing the ship board and repairing loopholes.

After testing, Chen used less than an hour to fish out a shipwreck from the bottom of the water. After the repair of Dingdangdang, the shipwreck was blocked and the ship was installed with a spare rudder, so the ship could be towed. Of course, to undertake normal transportation tasks, it also needs to go back to the shipyard for overhaul.

With this efficient salvage method, Sun Jingchu was overjoyed. In just one day, he not only cleared the channel equivalent to more than a thousand steps, but also fished out six ships. After running-in, these shipwrecks who salvage the wrecks became more and more proficient in their movements and faster and faster.

After all, most of the canal transport ships were mainly hundreds of material ships, usually small boats that could carry more than one hundred stones and weigh more than ten tons. In the end, two thousand-foot ships could only salvage the task of a wreck. Unless they encountered thousands of stones of wreck, two two thousand-foot ships would cooperate to salvage.

Especially Chen Ying ordered that the ship who salvaged it would belong to whom. In the end, not only Sun Jingchu's people went to salvage the shipwreck, but even the sailors under Zhang Zhongjian also went to salvaged the shipwreck. After all, most of these shipwrecks were repaired and used, and the salvaged it was all money.

Not only did Chen Ying's men come to fish for boats, but some brave people on both sides of Yongji Canal also joined the fishing team. For these fishing people, Chen Ying not only did not let someone drive them away, but instead gave them a pot of ginger soup to warm them up.

As Sima Qian said: "The world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit." This is an irrefutable truth. From the past of the primitive society to the present, there has not surpassed the word "profit". No major event in the world is not caused by profit. Fighting between animals, wars between tribes, disputes between countries, quarrels between enterprises, quarrels between neighbors, struggles between husband and wife, struggles between sons, struggles between officials, struggles between people, struggles between actors, food for animals, and glory for all things... Everything, the first one who started to make a pupa fights for profit, fights for profit.

Because of these wrecks, Song Zhengben harmed the interests of countless ship bosses. Because of the huge benefits of fishing for ships, countless people who relied on water on both sides of the Yongji Canal stood opposite to Xia State.

Chen Ying seemed to have been unintentionally planting willows, tearing a crack of interest for Xia Guo.

Later, Xia army soldiers sank the ship during the day and then left the people to fish it away at night.

As time goes by, the speed of clearing the wreck is getting faster and faster. Just now, Chen Ying's fleet can't walk for 100 miles a day, and now he can basically resume his speed of traveling a hundred miles a day.

Just when Chen Ying's troops were about to arrive in Shuiye Town, Xiangzhou, Chen Ying unexpectedly received news. Zuo Pushe, the Minister of the Hebei Daotai, Shandong Dao Pacifier, Li Shentong, King of Huai'an, General of the Left Wuhou of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shiji, Duke of Cao, and Li Yuan's younger sister, Princess Tong'an, were led by a small school under Dou Jiande and joined Chen Ying.

Chen Ying really couldn't figure it out. Whether it was Li Shiji or Li Shentong, their weight was not too heavy and could not interfere with the trends of the Tang Dynasty's court. At least it was a hostage of great importance. Why did Dou Jiande put them back? And there were no additional conditions.

Li Shentong shook his head and said, "What General Chen said is bad, and Master Xia is not without conditions!"

"What are the conditions for Dou Jiande?" Chen Ying asked in surprise.
Chapter completed!