Chao Fang and Wu Qi met again to go to Ajinomoto to taste the latest delicacies.

However, after leaving Daming Palace, they waited for a full quarter of an hour before stopping a four-wheeled carriage outside Danfeng Gate.

The city of Chang'an is so big that most people have to use horse-drawn carriages when going out.

Naturally, there are some coachmen who make money by running carriages to pick up and drop off guests.

Usually, there are always some carriages waiting outside Danfeng Gate, waiting for possible business at any time.

However, it is obvious that today's situation is different from usual.

"Mr. Chao, it's really weird today. You actually wasted a quarter of an hour outside Danfeng Gate. Where are the usual carriages?"

Wu Qi was a little puffy. Although the temperature had slowly dropped, he was wearing more clothes.

After walking out of the Daming Palace and standing in the sun for a while, his forehead started to sweat.

"It's a bit strange. Logically speaking, Danfengmen Street is a better place for these rickshaw drivers to attract business. There should be many rickshaw drivers waiting here, but today there are none."

Chao Fang got on the carriage and glanced at the coachman curiously.

"Two gentlemen, this is not surprising at all. Nowadays, no matter where you are in Chang'an City, it is not as easy as before to find a carriage. You waited for a quarter of an hour to get it, which is relatively fast.

"Yesterday, I picked up a customer and waited for half an hour, making it difficult for him to wait any longer and even if he didn't wait."

The carriage driver was more talkative. Although the two people in front of him seemed to be nobles who came from the Daming Palace, he was not very afraid.

The overall quality of officials during the Zhenguan period was relatively high, and they would not easily bully the people.

Besides, he is the driver of the Chengnan Transportation Team. As long as he doesn't cause trouble, if there is an accident, the boss will help them.

"Ah? Why is this? Isn't it true that more and more of these four-wheel carriages are sold? Why are they in such short supply now?"

Chao Fang didn't mind chatting with a coachman, so he asked humbly.

"There are more and more four-wheeled carriages, but this is different from whether there is a shortage or not. I don't know if you have noticed. These days, there are as few as a hundred carriages and as many as several hundred carriages coming from Chang'an City every day.

Heading to Hedong Road. During this period, so many carriages left Chang'an City, there will naturally be some related effects."

Regardless of the era, these taxi drivers, who are similar to taxi drivers, are always talkative.

Especially at the feet of the Emperor, these carriage drivers can talk about everything from important affairs of the government to people's lives at dawn.

"When you said that, I remembered it. During this period, the imperial court was vigorously promoting the migration of people from Guanzhong Road to Hedong Road. I heard that His Highness the King of Chu was leading this matter, and Shangguan Yi of the King of Chu's Mansion personally organized and implemented it.

The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Works and other yamen fully cooperated.”

Although Wu Qi is in charge of the imperial kitchen, he knows a lot about many things in the palace.

Besides, the fact that the immigrants went to Hedong Road to plant cotton was not a secret, but they just didn't connect it with the shortage of horse-drawn carriages.

"So this is ah."

Chao Fang looked like he suddenly realized something.

As a doctor, he may be technically qualified, but in terms of some awareness, he is obviously a little slower.

…

In the carriage workshop in the south of the city, Wei Siren and Wei Bao happily looked at the customers who were haggling with the waiters in the hall.

"Lang Jun, in the past few days, our sales of two-wheeled rickshaws have been much better than before, especially the two-wheeled rickshaws you proposed that do not require horse-drawn carriages. We can sell dozens of them a day, but few people bought them before.

We can sell several four-wheeled carriages every day."

Since being impacted by the Mercedes-Benz Car dealership across the street, Wei Bao has also learned from the experience and made some changes.

First, he arranged for people to imitate the four-wheel carriages of the Mercedes-Benz Carriage Company, and now he has achieved some results.

Although the service life of these four-wheel carriages is not as good as the opposite ones, they are cheaper and can be sold from time to time.

Of course, he did not completely give up on the traditional two-wheeled carriages of the Chengnan Carriage Company, but made some additions and subtractions based on the previous ones.

The addition is to make these two-wheeled carriages more durable, and the subtraction is to make these two-wheeled carriages cheaper.

This year, Wei Siren made a suggestion to Wei Bao, which was to greatly simplify the two-wheeled carriage, produce a rickshaw, and sell it to some people in Chang'an City for transportation.

Initially, Wei Siren did not have high hopes for this rickshaw, but after it was launched, it sold well.

Especially in the past few days, it has been sold out!

"I heard that the carriage workshop of Prince Chu's Mansion now supplies all the carriages to Datang Transportation Group. The Mercedes-Benz carriage shop opposite is even running out of goods to sell?"

Wei Siren glanced at the warehouse of the carriage house in the south of the city with a smile and felt that the best opportunity was already in front of him.

"Yes, with the promotion of His Royal Highness the King of Chu, the imperial court is now fully supporting the people to immigrate to Hedong Road to plant cotton. In addition, His Majesty has rewarded more than one million acres of Yongye fields to various meritorious officials in one go. All these fields are

They are all in the north of Shuozhou, and now the nobles of Chang'an City are busy transporting men and materials to Shuozhou."

Wei Bao naturally knew why his carriage business suddenly boomed.

To be honest, this is definitely an unexpected surprise.

The previous Chengnan Carriage Shop had always been a tepid business, far from being a booming business.

But now...

Looking at the flow of people outside, Wei Bao thought of the bustling scene before the establishment of the Mercedes-Benz carriage shop opposite.

"Go, let's all go. As each family has more fertile land in Shuozhou, the demand for transportation will naturally be greater. By then, just on the cement road from Chang'an City to Shuozhou, I don't know how many carriages will be needed.

It’s filling. I heard that the carriage workshop in the Chu Prince’s Mansion is already expanding its production. Our workshop cannot fall behind and we must quickly recruit a group of craftsmen to increase the production."

Wei Siren is not stupid either. Seeing that Datang is building a lot of new cement roads every year, the demand for horse-drawn carriages is definitely a good thing.

In addition, there are many more workshops in Chang'an City than before, and many goods and materials need to be transported to various places. There are many more situations where horse carriages are used than ten years ago.

"Lang Jun, don't worry, I'm already making arrangements. In addition to expanding the carriage workshop, I think we can expand the scale of our south-city transportation team. This will also be very beneficial to the promotion of our four-wheeled carriages.

"

Although the two-wheeled carriages and rickshaws sold by the Carriage Shop in the south of the city are pretty good.

However, the prices of these things are not high, and the money earned is far less than that of four-wheeled carriages, so Wei Bao still hopes that the four-wheeled carriages of his own workshop can be on par with the Mercedes-Benz carriage shop.

"Well, judging from the trial situation in the past six months, you have made a great contribution to the establishment of the Chengnan Transportation Team. We had produced four-wheeled carriages before, but many of them could not be sold. Put it in the transportation team

, investing in transportation throughout Chang'an City has suddenly raised the demand for four-wheeled carriages to a higher level. Now, we can really expand the scale."

As a major customer of the Mercedes-Benz carriage shop, Laoniu Transport Team is the largest transport team in Chang'an City, so Wei Bao naturally arranged for people to find out their situation early on.

This investigation doesn't matter, Wei Bao found that transportation seems to be quite profitable.

However, in order not to directly compete with the Laoniu Transport Team, Weibao ingeniously asked the Chengnan Transport Team to target the personnel transportation market, which is just different from the Laoniu Transport Team that mainly focuses on cargo transportation.

In the past six months, the driver of the Chengnan Transportation Team drove a four-wheeled carriage through Chang'an City. This not only increased the exposure of the Wei family's four-wheeled carriage, but also greatly verified some problems with the Wei family's four-wheeled carriage. It really made the Wei family's four-wheeled carriage more popular.

Bao couldn't be more satisfied.

"Mr. Lang, it just so happens that the Prince of Chu's Mansion has seconded many coachmen and carriages from various places such as the cattle transport team to Hedong Road. Now the demand for four-wheeled carriages in Chang'an City, whether it is for the movement of people or the transportation of goods, has reached a point where the supply exceeds the demand.

The situation. I heard from the coachman below that many customers are complaining about having to wait a long time for an idle carriage to pass by. This is a great opportunity."

Wei Bao has never been as fond of Li Kuan as he is today.

"Since we want to expand the scale of the Chengnan Transportation Team, let's just make it bigger. Then isn't Datang Transportation Group planning to annex the various post stations in the imperial court and start long-distance passenger transportation from Chang'an to many state capitals? Then our Chengnan Transportation Team will also

You can consider developing passenger transportation between prefectures and counties in the Guanzhong area. The province's benefits and reputation have been taken away by Datang Transportation Group."

As the nephew of Concubine Wei and an important figure in the Wei family, Wei Siren naturally knows a lot.

"Lang Jun, if this is the case, it would be the best. Nowadays, the flow of people in various parts of Guanzhong is much greater than before. There is a market for this long-distance passenger transport. When the time comes, I will arrange for the workshop to produce a batch of special four-wheeled carriages to do this

Passenger carriages will definitely have an extraordinary promotional effect."

Wei Bao seemed to see the scene where the four-wheeled carriage produced by his carriage workshop kept pace with the four-wheeled carriage of the Chu Palace.

The Tang Dynasty was so big, even if its own four-wheeled carriage could not be ranked first or second, it could still live a very comfortable life.

…

In Gaochang City.

It’s a chaos of war!

After the reinforcements from the Western Turks were easily defeated by Xue Wanjun, Qu Zhisheng persisted in the city for a period of time before being unable to withstand the pressure and surrendering.

Hou Junji traveled thousands of miles from Chang'an to Gaochang, but he did not follow the benevolence, justice and morality of the people in Gaochang.

Although he did not let the army burn, kill and loot like the Hu people invaded the Central Plains, he did not go too far to restrict military discipline.

The most important thing is that Hou Junji personally arranged for his own soldiers to lead a team to raid the homes of many Gaochang nobles, and even the palace of Qu Zhisheng was not spared.

Although Xue Wanjun expressed cautious opposition to Hou Junji's approach, he did not insist on it too much.

"Aye, of those belongings, I have selected the valuable ones and put them in the big tent. The other less valuable ones have been registered by the marching Sima and counted among the spoils of war."

Hou Qiang came to Hou Junji in high spirits and reported what he had gained these days.

As the adopted son of Hou Junji, Hou Qiang is the main person responsible for the raids on homes in Gaochang City.

I don't know whether it was a trick of fate or something else, but Hou Junji never had a biological son, but he had a lot of adopted sons.

Among his soldiers, the main ones were all his adopted sons.
To be continued...