I have seen the place where horse-drawn carts are produced, and I went to the side to see the production of wheelbarrows. The model is not much different from that of horse-drawn carts. As a supplement to animal power vehicles, wheelbarrows are also indispensable. The transportation distance of horse-drawn carts is a little longer, while wheelbarrows are used for short-distance transportation. This simple vehicle does not require animal power, but is convenient and flexible, and has its own division of labor with horse-drawn carts.

This area mainly produces wood products. In addition to vehicles, there are also various agricultural tools such as plows, rakes, etc., and even mobile stalls specially used by street vendors. According to Xu Ping's previous life, various production tools are produced here, which provide the society with means of production and is a heavy industry. Heavy industry is the foundation and should naturally be supported and given priority development. Although there are not many people here, they occupy a good place and have a large territory.

Industry refers to the work and process of collecting raw materials and processing them into products. The most important sign is that it forms a social division of labor and truly becomes independent from agriculture and commerce. The development level of productivity is different, so industry naturally has different products. You cannot just make wood products at this time, so it is not considered industry.

Just as industrial areas in the steam era were best built in places with coal and steel to form a coal-steel complex, of course, in this era, we should choose a place with hydraulic power and convenient logging of wood. The upper reaches of the Luo River are a rare large mountainous area in the Central Plains, with rich primeval forests that can flow down the Yi River and Luo River, with convenient sources of materials and low costs. After building a dam, there is also rich hydraulic power of the Yi Luo River, which is equivalent to a good location for building the coal-steel industry in the steam era.

As for the future when productivity develops and steam engines appear, it is not a question that Xu Ping needs to consider. In his previous life, with the change of productivity levels, the previous heavy industrial zones also declined and were replaced by emerging industrial centers, which does not mean that the construction of an industrial center was wrong.

After watching all the places, I sat down in the official hall of the official in charge of the Independent Commissioner. Xu Ping said to Yang Gao and Zhong Shiheng: "I have read it once, what do you think? If you have any suggestions and opinions, please give it up."

Yang Gao thought for a while and replied, "Ducao, I don't know how many carriages and donkey carts can be made in the field here in a year? By the way, there is another point. I only talk about donkey carriages and horse carriages. Can this carriage be used? Nowadays, people still use cows."

"Of course, you can also make ox carts. Just change the sets you use. Horses, donkeys and mules use short sets. It is best to use long sets for ox carts. Although short sets can also be used, they cannot pull heavy objects."

Yang Gao and Zhong Shiheng looked at each other and shook their heads secretly. To be ashamed, they have never seen what the long and short condoms Xu Ping said before, and they don’t know why they distinguished this. Now they have to remember them in their hearts and ask someone in the future.

The reason is actually very simple. Humans mainly use the two aspects of weight-bearing ability and pulling force, or the type of riding and pulling. In China, horses, donkeys and mules are both riding and pulling. In other words, they can use both traction and loading, but they mainly use weight-bearing ability. Try to avoid using traction as much as possible when using it for a long time. Because their instantaneous traction, such as horses, are not much different from cattle, but one or two sticks of incense will be exhausted, and the traction ability will drop rapidly, and forced use will die quickly. However, the loading ability will not decrease much after a long time. Military horses can carry people for several hours. Therefore, when pulling a cart, part of the load should be divided on their weight-bearing ability, otherwise they will not be able to pull heavy objects.

The ox is different. The strength is mainly about traction, especially when used for a long time. The traction force decreases slowly and is not easy to get tired. It is natural that the ancients convinced the ox to ride a horse.

In line with the use of load-bearing capacity and pulling force, there is a difference between long and short covers. Long covers are to try to keep the load of the car on the wheels, and drive the car to control the direction and use the traction force of the serving animals. Short covers must be divided into a large part of the load on the serving animals. As the saying goes, the car must sink forward and use both loading force. When pulling goods, the car must use short covers to fully utilize the horsepower. When empty cars are replaced with long covers, the horse can rest. The cattle is just the opposite. When pulling goods, long covers can be used to use the traction force of the cow. When empty cars, they can be replaced with short covers, so that the driver can rest.

It is precisely because of this characteristic that cattle are used to plow the land, horses, donkeys and mules are used to ride or carry goods. Those riding on the back of cattle are often shepherd boys, young and light, or gods. Horses are generally not used to plow the land. Donkeys in this era are not big and cannot be used. Only mules can barely replace scalpers, but they cannot be used for a long time.

As for the horse farming mentioned in later generations, let alone the horse breeds in the Central Plains and surrounding areas, even Europe has not successfully cultivated heavy horses. Without heavy horses, horse farming and horse-drawn trains are jokes. Under heavy traction, ordinary passenger horses will be abandoned if they can't run a mile. In history, there were wild heavy horses in Europe. People there used hundreds of years to breed heavy horses to breed heavy horses, and then crossed with other horse breeds to get dual-use horses that tend to be tied. With heavy horses, European horses have horse farming, four-wheeled carriages, and horse-drawn trains. Using Asian passenger horses, whether Mongolian or Arab horses, is far from comparable to old oxes. Even if the life of the cattle is not suitable for long-distance transportation, and they have to spend a lot of time eating grass, they will not be exhausted for one or two days, and they will not be exhausted for a few miles.

The horse farming in the Northeast was developed in the early days of China's founding of the People's Republic of China. Without those hybrid horse horses, even if every household raises dozens of horses, it would be useless. Chinese horses cannot do the job of cows.

In this era, even if heavy horses are brought in from Europe, Xu couldn't wait to cultivate useful heavy horses. Such time is over a hundred years, so how can we afford it? We should naturally adapt to local conditions and according to actual conditions.

The carriages made here are equipped with sets when sold, with one pair of long and short sets. When selling plows, they are also equipped with long and short sets. Unlike carriages, the kind of sets are used for cattle. The cattle and long sets can be used for plowing land or pulling carts. Short sets are used for driving, which are basically the same as ordinary ox cart sets.

In fact, compared with cars, these sets have a greater effect. Xu Ping used his experience of running around in the countryside for many years in his previous life to improve it. However, the sets are not conspicuous and have not attracted the attention of others.

Resetting the fifth-class households, horses, donkeys, mules, oxes, camels and other households is no longer counted as assets such as households, which will inevitably stimulate the public to raise more. With more numbers of households, coupled with new cheap vehicles, it will facilitate social transportation and commodity circulation, and the enhancement of commodity circulation capacity will in turn stimulate the development of the commodity economy.
Chapter completed!