.A Gan Mother,
Ouyang Bijin took it and took a look. It was an ordinary official letter envelope. When opened, it was also an ordinary official letter paper. There was a line of elegant running script on it that was absolutely extraordinary:
"I heard that the Duke had the ambition of a wooden ox and a horse, but he didn't know how to get a book, and he would describe the directions according to the picture. It was so wonderful and indescribable. It was just like the magical and exquisite thing in ancient books. If the Duke was interested, he would come to watch it at noon today, and he would not be futile to travel back and forth."
Below is the address of that family.
"What the hell is it, it's mysterious?" Ouyang Bijin said sourly.
But with the attitude of believing in his presence than not, Ouyang Bijin finally decided to go to this appointment.
After lunch, he followed the letter's request, "White clothes come to see," and changed into the clothes of the old servant in the mansion, and no one took them. He just walked out from the back door, saw the direction clearly and walked towards Zhengyangmen. When he arrived at the chessboard Tianjie, which was noisy and sweating profusely, the old man was almost fainted by the bustling crowd.
After finally squeezing out of the crowd, he gasped for a while and said to himself: "It's a good thing that I'm a good person. If I'm a little weaker, I'll really squeeze it out." If I'm really squeezed to death here, I'll become "the first Minister of Personnel to be squeezed to death in the market" and will be recorded in history and will last forever.
He inquired about it from others. He arrived at Qipan Hutong and walked to the deepest house. He looked at the door that was closed, and pushed it open and walked in.
"What are you doing?" Unexpectedly, four servants with tiger backs and bears suddenly appeared in the door opening, and surrounded him in the middle with a fierce spirit.
After all, Ouyang Bijin had seen the world. He said calmly when he heard this, "I", I'll take a look."
The guards looked at him and said, "What are you looking at?"
Ouyang Bijin said: "The wooden ox flows through the horse."
"Walk in, you will see it when you pass through the hanging flower gate." A guard reminded the hospital. The four of them hid back into the darkness, as if they had never appeared before.
Ouyang Bijin calmed down. He walked into the house and said while walking, "It's inconspicuous to look outside, but when he came in, the yard was so generous. He couldn't help but guess in his heart, which senior official's home is actually making such a joke with him?
With a random thought, the Hanghuamen arrived. The door was the inner house of the house. The place where the female family lived was usually stopped. He hesitated for a moment and thought to himself, "I'll take a look at the door," and walked over and looked in. He couldn't take a look at it immediately.
I saw two big guys standing quietly in the garden open space, a six-foot-long wooden horse, and a slightly short but thick wooden cow. Looking carefully, the heads, trunks and limbs of the wooden cow and the horse were both well-liked, and even covered with animal skins, which looked very well.
"I guess this is the wooden ox and the flowing horse. Just from the appearance, it looks more like mine." Ouyang Bi entered and felt like he was possessed. Regardless of whether it was someone's backyard or whether there were female relatives, he walked in and carefully observed the two big guys. He found that the back of the wooden ox was empty. If he could really walk with a load of 700 kilograms of food, it would be no problem to hold 700 kilograms of food; and the abdomen of the "flowing horse was also hollow, and the volume could be about 500 kilograms.
He has studied this thing for many years and naturally knows that ancient books record "The wooden cow is leaning on the double shaft, and the flowing horse is like an elephant." Compared with this cow and horse, the wooden cow's long tail is actually a pair of double shafts connected by beams at the end; and the flowing horse has a long horse neck, which is like an elephant.
Of course, this static display is not enough to fascinate Ouyang Bijin, let alone the animal skins are covered. He can't see the mechanism inside, so he can't wait to operate this thing.
Just as he was about to try it, he suddenly stopped and said, "If it gets apart, they won't be reluctant to me, right?" As soon as he thought, the old man was afraid to move, and asked loudly, "Is anyone?" "Yes!" Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, someone immediately replied, which scared the old man. Looking in the sound, he saw a young man in a cloth robe standing on the other end of the yard and saying.
"You" I know you!" Ouyang Bijin patted his head and said, "Who are you here?"
"The lower official is silent. Meet the master of the ministry." Chen Si bowed and bowed and said with a smile.
"Yes, yes, yes. You are silent!" Lord Yu Yang said with a look of embarrassment: "It's the Imperial College Priest, and I was still saying something in the court that day."
"It's the official." Ji Mo had a warm smile on his face.
"Is this your home?" Ouyang Bijin asked, "Why didn't you see you just now?"
"It's the humble house. Just now, the adults didn't look at the two big guys, so of course they couldn't see me anymore." Said silently and made a call and said, "Master Takata, please move to use tea."
"Don't be anxious, no hurry." Ouyang Bijin said with an itchy look on his face: "Hurry and demonstrate to me, is this wooden ox and horse useful?" He is now a scientist, Ouyang, wearing a civilian clothes, and there is no trace of the dignity of a senior official in the department.
Silently nodded, walked to the side of the wooden ox and horse, and asked, "White Do you want to see first."
“Everyone is OK,
Yang Bishe was so anxious that he stroked Hu Wu's knife straight!" Then the wooden cow "Okay, you saw it and said silently. He pulled up his lower collar, pierced into his belt, stood behind the wooden cow, stretched out his hand on the cow's tail, that is, the pair of shafts, and used a little force. The seemingly heavy wooden cow lifted its front legs and followed the trend, and the cow's front legs went further. He lifted up his front legs and stood at the same time the hind legs were pulled up. He then pulled them up repeatedly, and the wooden cow walked forward step by step.
As the saying goes, outsiders watch the excitement, while insiders see the tricks. Ouyang Bijin knew that Zhuge Liang's wooden ox could "go six feet to walk, and the ox walked four steps. He walked twenty miles a day, but people didn't have much effort. So he looked carefully and controlled the ox to walk forward silently. Sure enough, when the ox took four steps forward, the person walked six feet, and his walking pace was exactly the same as the historical records.
How did this be done? Ouyang Bijin knew that the double shaft, like a ox tail, was actually a pair of carrying rods, which played the role of a labor-saving arm. The longer the double shaft, the more effort it was, of course, the less effort it was. Therefore, this wooden cow looked at the bulky wooden cow and could be easily driven by a person.
And because its two hooves under force always form a triangle with the person who manipulates it behind, he knows that among all shapes, the triangle is the most stable. With the low center of gravity, this wooden cow is also easy to control.
"Can you carry a load? Although Ouyang Bijin feels that the problem is not a big deal, he still has to see it with his own eyes
letter.
He nodded silently and asked him, "The book records, what is the load of a wooden cow?"
"The book says that the wooden ox can carry the grain for ten people for a month. Ouyang Bijin said, "There is at least 30 kilograms per person per month, so why should it be 300 kilograms?"
He nodded silently and said, "How heavy are the good blue bricks burned in the Mentougou official kiln?"
Ouyang Bijin is from the old Ministry of Works and has presided over the reconstruction of the Forbidden City. Naturally, he would not be subjected to such problems? Without thinking, he said: "The whole five pounds can not exceed one ounce, otherwise he will not be able to appear.
"That's right" said silently: "Sixty yuan is 300 kilograms, so I'll give you ten more." He said, "When I brought seventy bricks, several guards brought seven bricks over and put them on the back of the wooden cow. Ouyang Bi went in and saw that it was indeed the product of Mentougou brick kiln, and knew that it was now 350 kilograms.
Silently made a gesture of invitation and said, "Master Doctor might as well verify it yourself." Ouyang Bijin agreed happily and put his hands on the shaft. He thought to himself that the wooden cow itself was afraid that it would be seven or eight hundred pounds, but he had to use some force, so he pressed it hard. Unexpectedly, the shaft was still very labor-saving and almost flashed his waist.
Ouyang Bijin was fucking the wooden cow. At first, he was a little unfamiliar with his movements, but in a short while, he became familiar with it. He could move forward and backward in the yard. He was very comfortable and effortless, and he could even drive it with one hand. The progress was not slow. He thought to himself that "walking twenty miles a day, but not much effort is needed" could definitely be achieved.
Moreover, the ox leg does not have knee joints, it is purely a thick log. Although it is not as flexible as its own works, it must be more practical. Because it is precisely these four pillar-like straight legs that play a good supporting role. No wonder the silent wooden ox and flowing horse does not have the problem of carrying weights."
After some operation, Ouyang Bijin completed the experiment on the wooden cow and turned to the flowing horse. Silence demonstrated to him that the joystick of the wooden cow is different from the tail. When the flowing horse is operated, you must hold the horse's head and press it hard, and the horse's hind legs will take the air. Pull it up again, and then lift the horse's hind legs. The horse's hind legs stand and the front legs are pulled up at the same time, and push and move forward again.
The effect is similar to that of the wooden cow. Just walk more flexiblely, and the corresponding load is also necessary.
.
Moreover, in historical books, there are detailed dimensions of the Liuma. Ouyang Bijin observed that this Trojan was made strictly according to the size of the book! What surprised him even more was that if the Trojan needed to stop, he just pressed his tongue to block the movement mechanism, which was completely in the golden light.
.
After tossing out the two "big things, Ouyang Bijin looked at them and said silently: "As long as you can solve the last problem, I have nothing to say. I admit that this is Zhuge Wuhou's wooden ox and flowing horse."
Silently smiled and said, "People say it."
"The road to Shu is difficult. It is harder than climbing to the blue sky." This thing is on the humble earth and reaches that winding mountain road." Ouyang Bijin said, "Can it work?"
"Then try it." Silently smiled, "It's raining in front of me, which has washed away several old houses in my west yard. A few days ago, I pulled some bricks from Mentougou and piled them there. I haven't started construction yet." He said, and picked up the wooden cow and said, "It's better to fuck this wooden cow and go over and experiment to see if it can be done.
What Ouyang Bijin most disgusted with was the so-called "sitting and talking in a simple family" In his opinion, all the officials in the court were all misleading people who would rather talk for a day than be a country-related misleading person. Therefore, the attitude of silently not fighting or discerning, and speaking with facts was really about Ouyang Bijin's appetite. He smiled and said, "It's better to obey your orders than respect, and then led the "Liuma" to him and cross the courtyard with him.
The servants in the mansion had ordered the orders early, and no one was allowed to leave the house except for a few guards, so there were no onlookers along the way. The two of them entered the Xiqianyuan and saw that the guards who had arrived earlier had already placed the bricks in a three-meter-long, three-meter-long, three-meter-long, three-meter-long, high and low-lying "mountain road" imitating the plank road in the middle of Shu.
Silently, he found a guard with the best body and asked him to put Sanfeng bricks in a single mule door cart. He asked him to push Duanzangdao Wei Shi to follow his life. However, he threw the steadily small cart as fast as flying. Once he arrived at such a high and low place, he immediately showed his fear of pulling down the steps and pulled it hard, but he could barely make do with it when he went up the steps. He caught it blindly. He could only push it up at just the height of the two bricks.
Seeing that the guard was blushing, he was silent and asked someone to go up to help. He pulled the cart in front, but still couldn't pull it up. He had to add another person, and the three of them pushed and pulled it. After all, they tried their best to get the cart up the steps. They were about to breathe a sigh of relief, but they overturned the cart all at once.
The cart ended in failure. It was the turn of the wooden ox to fly the horse below. He silently fucked the wooden ox that had been more than 650 kilograms. He walked through this "plank road" easily, no matter how far it was, it was basically like walking on flat ground without much inconvenience.
Ouyang Bijin also fucked his flowing horse. After walking on the "plank road, I walked several times, and finally said convinced: "On the flat ground, this wooden ox and flowing horse is actually not as convenient as a wheelbarrow, but when it comes to such a high and low mountain road, the advantages are fully reflected. "No wonder Zhuge Wuhou would have created this kind of thing and used it to transport military rations on the rugged plank road."
Shun heard the words and said with a smile: "It seems that the ministry admits that this is Zhuge Liang's wooden ox and flowing horse."
Ouyang Bijin said with great emphasis: "Yes, it's!" and said with deep tribute: "I would like to ask Lord Shen for advice on what kind of structure is inside this thing."
"Please let's talk inside.
Chen Si took Ouyang Bi into the study. Who can help me to reveal the mystery of the wooden ox and flowing horse? I will promise him a condition, but it must be within my ability and legality." As he said, he looked at Chen Si and said, "Please tell me, as long as these two points are met, I will definitely agree."
He smiled silently, "That's of course." He picked up a gold-burned red-skinned Cheng from the table: "I hope you can always accept the appointment of a junior official and serve as the director of the Suzhou Research Institute."
"What research institute?" Ouyang Bijin took over the recruitment.
Chen Si introduced the situation of the research institute to Ouyang Bijin, saying: "Since ancient times, the capital only paid attention to classical articles. The so-called "everything is inferior, but only high reading is the beneficiary of this situation. But I want to say that this view is extremely one-sided and even wrong."
Ouyang Bijin's face was slightly excited, but he still insisted on himself and said, "I would like to hear his direction."
"Looking back to ancient times, without Lianren teaching us to make fire, we can only eat raw meat and drink blood. Without Nuwa teaching us to wear clothes, we can only be naked. If naked, eating raw meat and drinking blood is no different from beasts! Without Hen Hen Chao teaching us to build houses, we can only live in caves, and we can't walk out of the mountains and forests to show civilization to the plains; without Shennong teaching us to cultivate fields and farm, we will not survive on the plains, so how can we talk about showing civilization? Without Fuxi's writing, how can our civilization pass on from fire and grow?" Silently said: "Bao people, Fuxi, prostitutes, and nests, Shennong, these ancient sages would definitely not say any moral articles before Confucius and Mencius, but they taught us skills to get rid of ignorance and towards civilization. Is this merit comparable to any philosopher?"
Ouyang Bijin shook his head and said, "I can't compare."
"I am not belittled Confucius, Mencius, Lao Zhuang, but to explain a truth. In addition to the glorious philosophical thoughts that promote our China development, there are also great Ming Dynasty that is seriously underestimated. There are no great Ming Dynasty without bronze smelting, iron casting, papermaking, printing, guide, etc. How did the glory of the Qin, Han, Tang and Song dynasties appear? I am afraid that it has been eliminated by foreign races long ago, and China will be malarized again!"
If those scholars with elm-headed heads listened to these words, they would criticize them and even denounce them as evil sayings. But in Ouyang Bijin's hearing, it was simply a matter of saying that he had reached his heart and couldn't help but say, "Okay! That's great! If our Ming Dynasty wants to revive, it is absolutely inseparable from technical development!" He could devote himself to studying human farming machines during rinderpest, instead of praying to God and worshiping Buddha like other officials, hoping that God would bless him. It is precisely because he believed that saints and immortals can only solve ideological problems. But the problems encountered in reality can only be solved by realistic methods!
But he is not a simple-minded guy. After being happy, he quickly calmed down and looked at the recruit again: "Are you going to Suzhou to take office before the New Year?"
Chen Si smiled awkwardly and said, "Yes, it's quite urgent." Ouyang Bijin was not an ordinary scientist after all, and he was the Minister of Personnel of the Ming Dynasty. Chen Si tried his best to lay the foundation layer by layer, but it was just to make it easier for negotiations later, but he would never think that with two wooden oxes and horses and a generous speech, he could directly achieve his goal.
Chapter completed!