Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms

"Can it be reproduced?" Chen Xi asked casually, without any hope.

"Yes." Li Zhe said calmly, "But the starting requirements are too high, and it doesn't make much sense overall. It's okay as a deterrent blow."

Chen Xi was so rebuked by Li Zhe that he didn't know how to respond. How could he actually repeat it?

"In my opinion, the Air Force is not mature at the moment. It is really difficult for the ordinary Guards to make an effective counterattack against the Air Force. But this is not because the Air Force is strong, but because we are strong." Facing Chen Xi, Li Zhe Naturally, he said whatever he wanted. After all, eating rice from Chen Xifa still has some moral integrity.

"They are all veterans of the fifth level of smelting, and they are in a group. If they are used to fight against the Imperial Guards, the Air Force is actually the same as the Air Force. What shocks us the most about the Air Force is its surprise." Zhao Zhen may be surprised at this time. He also recovered, stood up straight and explained to Chen Xi.

"Actually, if they are both five levels of smelting, those in the air may not have the same advantage as those on the ground. Moving in the air brings more mobility efficiency. In terms of actual combat effectiveness, there is no substantial improvement for most brothers. "Li Zhe pointed to a few soldiers flying slowly in the sky and said, "If Lao Lu comes here at this time, all the brothers in the team will be finished."

Li Zhe didn't say much about the rest, but Chen Xi understood it very well. ’

He actually recognizes one of the veterans flying in the sky, and the others are also familiar. After all, there are only 2,230 veterans who have reached the fifth level of smelting in the country. Gang He basically mixed them up with Chen Xi that time. They looked familiar, so Chen Xi roughly knew what the abilities of the flying veterans were.

It can be said that if these veterans cause trouble for Lao Lu on the ground, Lao Lu will definitely be beaten to death, but if they fly in the sky, Lao Lu can defeat this group of veterans together.

"Some veterans' talent structures are suitable for flying, while some veterans' talent structures are actually not suitable for flying." Li You had to admit this at this time.

For example, Zhao Ying is the kind of veteran who is not suitable for flying. Although he can fly even if he wants to, and his speed is quite fast, and he can also project soldiers from the air, etc., but really speaking, Zhao Ying is more suitable for ground combat.

On the ground, Zhao Ying separated six shadow soldiers with independent combat capabilities and the ability to wear heavy armor. Each of them was at least equivalent to a Imperial Guard soldier who had become powerful through Qi training. Both their survivability and combat effectiveness had reached a considerable level. However, if it is airdropped, the shadow soldiers dropped by Zhao Ying cannot have heavy armor due to weight issues. The Imperial Guards without heavy armor are really useless.

Even if Zhao Ying's shadow soldiers can only wear 200 elite shield guard standard armor and cannot wear Zhao Ying's 330 heavy armor, they are still six big daddies. The guards without 200 armor and the guards with 200 armor are in two places. In this world, the latter can defeat several of the former when all qualities are equal to the former.

"Well, I don't expect all the veterans to form an air force and go to the battlefield. I want to improve the mobility of the veterans. Even the top Friesian horse cannot compare to the five-layer smelting in terms of mobility. Veterans use mechanical wings." Chen Xi said calmly as he watched another veteran fly past his head at high speed.

"There is basically no problem with mobility. If you fly, you don't need to consider the road. It will only be faster than the white horse." Li You is very confident about this, "And if this thing is used as the main force, even I will be a little bit It hurts, but if it is just used as a mobile supplement for veterans, it is indeed very suitable."

Li You never discussed the cost with Chen Xi because it was meaningless.

"Then there's no problem. In fact, I'm here more because I'm curious about this thing." Chen Xi watched a group of veterans flying over his head, spinning as if he had discovered who he was, and smiled after landing smoothly. He said, "What I have always asked Qu to propel is an electric aircraft."

Although the motors developed by Xianglishi still have many problems at present, such as insufficient output power, demagnetization problems, debris problems, etc., generally speaking, they are already on the road. Even if they are used in electric motors, there will be certain problems. question, but the general route is basically correct.

However, in this case, Qu's side had not yet produced a reliable aircraft, and Li You's flying regiment was already on the road. Chen Xi thought that it would be useless if he didn't come and take a look.

"Actually, what I need is not a flying corps, what I need is a technical idea, but the technology you developed here, Wenru, is indeed beyond my estimation." Chen Xi said seriously.

It is obviously an unpowered hang glider, but relying on the veteran's talent output, it actually flies at the speed of sound. It is outrageous to say the least, but it is indeed in line with the thinking of this era.

"You're building an electric airplane, that's the name, right? What's the purpose of doing this?" Li You asked a little strangely. He didn't follow Chen Xi's train of thought.

"Logistics and transportation..." Chen Xi said expressionlessly.

Li You was silenced by Chen Xi's words, but after a while, after recalling what Chen Xi had done with the chassis of the chariot, the explosion of military formations, the smelting of blast furnaces, etc., he didn't think there was anything wrong with it. On the contrary, he carefully thought about it. If you think about it, this is more in line with Chen Xi's behavioral logic.

In later generations, the price of air transportation has always been the most expensive among all logistics, but that is caused by a combination of many factors. However, the era that Chen Xi lives in is different. The motor developed by Xiangli is almost a second type of perpetual motion machine. .

Taking into account the cost of repairing tracks and building rail trains, Chen Xi found that air transportation was cheaper, and the efficiency of air transportation surpassed that of rail transportation.

After thinking about this, Chen Xi began to officially invest money in Qu's. However, Qu's was extremely incompetent. So far, he has not produced anything that can be called an airplane.

Of course, Chen Xi also knows that this kind of thing cannot be rushed, and even if the first-generation aircraft is produced, it will take a considerable amount of time to transform it into a transport aircraft with a large warehouse. The accumulation of technology requires a lot of time, and rushing will not solve any problems. of.

At the same time, rail trains are also advancing in an orderly manner. Even if Chen Xi is optimistic about the so-called air transportation, the current logistics and transportation problems must be solved as much as possible if possible. Large rail trains are what Chen Xi uses to solve northern logistics. The essential.

It's just that so far, only one track has been built, that is, the one from Chang'an to Changshan. This track has largely solved the problem of how to transport meat from the northern ranches to the core area of ​​the Central Plains, and Changshan The county also relied on this terminal to develop crazily.

When Gu Xi was a cancer patient, he was only short of a sum of money to move Changshan County to the Hutuo River. Later, he blackmailed Li You with his life and made a sum of money. After Jian Yong completed the survey, Gu Xi He mobilized the people of Changshan County to move the county seat to the Hutuo River.

After the old county city was released, it was used as a supporting facility for the northern logistics distribution center. Even after having a little extra money, Gu Xi planned to repair the Hutuo River and provide supporting facilities for the entire terminal.

Under such favorable geographical conditions, he begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother, communicated with Wang Yi for a long time, and then shamelessly worked in the Political Yuan to get the first track to Changshan. After that, Gu Xi turned around.

The fastest way to transport Jizhou's supplies, Youzhou's supplies, and Bingzhou's supplies is to send them to Changshan. After that, whether by water, land, road, or rail train, they will be sent to Han at a very fast speed. The core area of ​​the room.

What's more important is that when the rail train was originally designed, the problem of large-scale etching was taken into consideration. Almost all carriages are inscribed with the temperature-controlled etching developed by Zhou Yu, which directly solves the problem of meat transportation in summer.

Driving cattle and sheep from Youzhou and the northern part of Bingzhou to Chang'an takes several months. The cattle and sheep lose weight and feel distressed to death. If they just go to Changshan and then slaughter them, it will not even take a month's journey, and then they will go directly. Send it to the cold chain carriage.

Although due to their location, there are only four large ranches that can enjoy such benefits, other large ranches can take advantage of the rich pasture and spend some time transferring their cattle and sheep to these pastures, and then process them together. With this method, the price of meat at stations along the track has dropped significantly, which is gradually in line with Chen Xi's price perception of meat and cereals.

However, only one track of this thing has been built, and the rest are still under planning. A large part of the reason why it can be built so quickly is that this track itself has been planned for several years. Before construction, Chang'an to Luoyang, Luoyang The roadbed to Yecheng has already been laid.

As for the Jizhou section, the most important point that Gu Xi was able to convince Wang Yi and the Political Yuan was that in order to connect the three states, Gu Xi built Changshan into a northern logistics distribution center. The roads built at that time were built according to Chidao specifications. , because only Chidao can ensure transportation efficiency.

At that time, Gu Xi made it very clear that he knew he was terminally ill, so he did what he did. The worst he could do would be death. He had no children and no clan members. When the roadbed was completed and the roads were paved, the higher-ups would investigate. Come down and just go and pay the penalty yourself.

Anyway, we don’t have much time left. If we die early or die late, we will all die. It’s better to use the trick that will last forever and die!

Originally, this was already a major issue of trespassing, but Liu Tong, Liu Bei, and Chen Xi did not pursue it afterwards, and just pretended that it was nothing. Who allowed what happened in Jizhou to be too bad? Gu Xi was able to show off in the worst environment. What is the noblest morality of human beings comes out.

So the matter was over, and no one pursued it. Later, Gu Xi secretly brought people to put soil on it, but because he was cured by this time, Gu Xi did not dare to really make it ten feet wide, but chose nine feet. Ninth, pretending that it is not Chidao, and then while repairing it, he received the news that Chang'an was going to build a track. Gu Xi's brain changed and he realized that Chidao with track can run faster than the ordinary version!

Because the roadbed was qualified and moral people were still respected these days, after some discussions with Wang Yi, the Political Yuan agreed to lay the track all the way to Changshan.

This road has solved a lot of problems, but essentially it is used to verify technical ideas and transportation efficiency. Now that it has been verified, the remaining eight roads need to be built. The problem is that the roadbed for rail trains cannot be used. It takes a considerable amount of time to repair, and it is not something that can be mounted quickly. Even if many county guards have sent reports to Chang'an, this is something that requires a lot of inspection.

Unlike the situation of building two large palace complexes in Chang'an, this seemingly worthless thing is the real life-threatening thing.

According to the standard construction regulations, the pure cost of each kilometer of a track-equipped Chidao is about 4 million yuan, and it took a thousand kilometers to build it from Chang'an to Changshan.

You must know that this is the cost price of steel, concrete, etching technology, design, construction and so on, after the Shaofu has solved it internally.

It is said that the two palaces built in front of Weiyang Palace cost tens of billions of dollars. However, Chen Xi’s family knew about his affairs and basically paid for them. The Wei family paid for the money, the materials were allocated, and the design and construction were paid by the Wei family. According to the master craftsman's assessment, there is basically not much money that Chen Xi actually spends on.

But the track is different. Every aspect of this thing requires Chen Xi to pay, and in order to ensure quality, not a penny is less.

Different from other situations where the wolves are left and right and end up with nothing, no matter how you do this thing, you still need to spend such a huge amount of materials. Even if there is an industrial chain that can dilute everything, you still have to spend it. Use some of the money earned elsewhere.

Of course, the benefits of building the track are also obvious. In the areas along the entire track, the price of meat has stabilized to the level that Chen Xi previously recognized, social stability has increased significantly, and happiness has improved again. But generally speaking, based on the current situation of the Han Dynasty, Large-scale rail train repairs will actually lead to losses.

Chen Xi only started to build aircraft after calculating the cost. At first he wanted to build an airship, but later he discovered that this thing was said to have no technical content. In fact, if it really wanted to carry a load, given the current environment, it might be more troublesome than an airplane. The preparation of hydrogen and helium is not that easy, and hydrogen airships are actually very dangerous.

By the way, Chen Xi has been involved in things like hot air balloons for a long time, but they are not easy to operate. Generally speaking, Chen Xi has always had the idea of ​​​​doing three things with flying machines, and it is not Think of it not as a weapon of war, but as a delivery vehicle.

"Anyway, it can be considered a success. Although it is not the kind of success I thought, but considering other uses, it is not bad." Chen Xi thought for a while and said, "At least the centurion-level backbone will go to Northern Europe. But it’s much easier.”

"Support Northern Europe." Li You sighed, "That's okay, but will Rome not mention the centenary celebration at all?"