Li Ye took Yang Yuhuan and his daughter Qiu He onto the carriage. Yang Yuhuan looked around and said with a smile: "It's much bigger than our previous carriage. It's almost a mile!"
Li Ye smiled and shook his head, "It's completely exaggerated, but it's less than half a point."
Li Ye estimated that it was about twenty square meters, and if it was made more compact, it would be almost one bedroom and one living room.
After getting off the carriage, Wang Pingchuan asked nervously: "What do you think, Your Highness?"
Li Ye nodded, "The space is okay. I don't have time to test it. How is the sturdiness and bumpiness?"
"Reporting to Your Highness, the carriage is 40% larger than the previous one. It is very sturdy and the comfort of shaking has been improved. The only disadvantage is that the cost is relatively high. It has iron wheels, copper axles and a datewood carriage. It costs several hundred dollars to make one."
"It actually costs hundreds of dollars?" Li Ye frowned. This is too expensive. How can it be popularized?
Wang Pingchuan saw that His Highness Prince Qi was too expensive and quickly explained: "Your Highness, the cost can be reduced. For example, the carriage can be made of ordinary wood and the luxury carpets and tapestries in the carriage can be removed.
Then I drew out the dimensions and asked ordinary craftsmen to build them, because the size of each axle and each wheel is very particular. I have repeatedly studied and tested the size of the bare wheels and the weight of the carriage. For example, the comfort level is determined by the carriage.
The proportion of size, weight and wheel size can be said to be my lifelong experience in building cars, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is worth thousands of dollars.
I can make the technology public and let every craftsman know how to build a car, and the cost will be reduced. A car only costs about a hundred guan at most. If the price of copper and iron drops further, the price of a large car will be even cheaper."
Li Ye was well aware of the importance of cart technology. When he came back from Luoyang, he used a cart to carry the old lady's coffin, but the bumps along the way even knocked the old lady's coffin to the ground in Mianchi. Fortunately, the coffin was nailed shut with big nails.
, otherwise the old lady’s corpse would roll out, which would be a grave sin.
In the end, Li Ye had no choice but to give up his carriage, and the coffin was placed in his own carriage before being delivered to Chang'an smoothly. In the end, his own carriage was also used for the funeral, and the carriage was given to the Dugu family. Although the Dugu family was rich and could rival the country,
, but they really didn’t have a carriage as smooth and comfortable as their own, and they were full of praises along the way. This is Wang Pingchuan’s unique skill.
There are many such awesome technologies in history, such as the chrome-plated Yue King Sword and the Qin King Sword with memory function, but they were all lost in the end. Most of the technologies were destroyed in wars, either because the technical data were burned or the people who mastered the technology died.
On the war zone.
If these unique skills can be spread, it will promote the progress of the entire society, but it is unfair to the craftsmen who master the skills, so appropriate compensation is the most important, a profit and a reputation.
Wang Pingchuan's lifelong car-making experience is his unique intellectual property, and Li Ye must get it. He thought for a moment and said slowly: "If Master Wang is willing to share his car-making technology and experience with the government, I will not only reward you
A five-acre house in Chang'an will also be made a viscount for you and you will be allowed to inherit it from generation to generation."
Wang Pingchuan was overjoyed and knelt down to kowtow, "Your Highness is so kind, I am so grateful!"
Commoners can only live in a house of one acre, and officials of the fifth rank can live in a house of five acres, not to mention the title. Ordinary people can only be awarded the title of knight. The title can only be earned by fighting on the battlefield, and it can only be passed down to three generations, and the city can be inherited from generation to generation.
The title of nobility is only available to those who have made special contributions. This is the greatest sincerity shown by King Qi.
Of course, Li Ye could also issue an order to order Wang Pingchuan to hand over all technical information, otherwise the whole family would be beheaded, and Wang Pingchuan would also have to hand it over.
But as a ruler, Li Ye couldn't do that. He had to spend thousands of gold to buy bones and set an example for officials all over the world. Only then would craftsmen be brave enough to innovate and exchange their skills for wealth.
Li Ye's motorcade left Xianyang and headed for Chang'an City of the Han Dynasty. In the carriage, Yang Yuhuan saw that her husband had been thinking deeply, so she asked with a smile: "What are you thinking about?"
"I'm thinking that our copper and iron production is too little. I have to find ways to find copper and iron ores."
“Where are the imperial copper and iron mines?”
"One iron mine is in Huangzhou, one is in Liyang opposite Jiangning, and one is in Cizhou, Hebei. The copper mine is mainly produced in Jiangnan West Road, and they are all outside my control."
Li Ye mentioned Daye in Hubei, Ma'anshan in Anhui, and Handan in Hebei. Copper mines are mainly produced in Jiangxi and Hunan.
In fact, there were iron ores in the area he controlled, which later became known as Baotou-Bayun Obo and is now the Hetao area.
But large-scale development of mines requires at least hundreds of thousands of people. How can there be so many people in the Hetao?
Li Ye had no choice but to smile bitterly. He couldn't get an increase, so he could only find a way to make a stock. Every household had scraps of scrap metal and exchanged them with grain.
There are also various temples, which have always been big copper and iron companies, and local governments, which have countless copper and iron wares in stock. Rather than leaving them to rot in warehouses, it is better to collect all the copper and iron wares from various places.
The accumulation of all kinds of copper and iron should be a very rich sum.
The carriage quickly arrived at Han Chang'an City. Han Chang'an City is located in the northwest of Chang'an, more than ten miles away from Chang'an City. Although the Sui Dynasty built a new Daxing City, which is Chang'an City in Sui and Tang Dynasties, so far, Han Chang'an City has not been abandoned.
The palaces of the Han Dynasty are still there.
There are still a large number of common people living in Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty, but the exact number of people has never been counted, and it must be at least one hundred thousand.
After Li Ye ruled Chang'an, the city of Chang'an in the Han Dynasty developed vigorously. The reason is very simple. Li Ye implemented a system of keeping the door open at night, and there was no curfew at night. This caused many poor people in the city to move outside the city where rents were cheaper.
A large number of people moved to Han Chang'an City, where life was convenient, rents were low, and prices were cheap, making the silent Han Chang'an City lively. Every day before dawn, groups of people rode donkeys to Chang'an to work, forming a majestic
For a spectacular sight.
The carriage drove into Han Chang'an. Although Yang Yuhuan had lived in Chang'an for so many years, this was her first time visiting Han Chang'an.
The horse-drawn carriage was walking on Weiyang Street, with various two-story shops on both sides, selling all kinds of things. It was very lively and very down-to-earth, making Yang Yuhuan feel like he was back in Jincheng County.
At this time, she suddenly saw a jewelry store, 'Hu Rentang Jewelry'. Yang Yuhuan was surprised and said: "Is this the most famous Dongshi Hu Rentang in Chang'an?"
Li Ye smiled slightly and said, "Take a closer look!"
Yang Yuhuan looked carefully and found that there was a faint horizontal line in the middle of the character, which turned out to be Hu Datang Jewelry.
She spat and laughed: "It's really confusing!"
Li Ye smiled and said: "The jewelry sold inside are actually copper and silver jewelry, not gold jewelry. The people here are basically poor people, so there are no big restaurants on both sides, only snack bars, and no shops selling silk and satin.
cloth store."
"This should be a suburban county in Chang'an! Why aren't there any wealthy families living here?"
Li Ye said calmly: "It's winter now, so I can't see any problems. We'll know in the summer. The terrain here is low-lying and the drainage is not smooth. There is sewage flowing everywhere in the city, and the whole city is filled with the smell of stinky water."
Yang Yuhuan covered her mouth and smiled: "Since my husband is the new lord of Chang'an, I must find a way to solve this problem for the people."
Li Ye nodded, "I'm already thinking about building a drainage ditch to drain the city's sewage into the Wei River."
"Then the Weihe River isn't it?"
Li Ye spread his hands and said helplessly: "Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Wei River has been the drainage ditch of Chang'an. There may be technology to treat sewage in the future, but at least now there is no way to control the erosion of water and soil by sewage."
At this time, the carriage slowly stopped, and Li Ye smiled and said: "There is a famous grilled fish restaurant here. Let's go and try the grilled fish technique."