Chao Fang and Wu Qi once again made an appointment to go to Na Ajinomoto to taste the latest food.

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

This Chang'an City is too big, and many times when everyone goes out, they have to use a horse-drawn carriage.

Naturally, there are some coachmen who rely exclusively on horse-drawn carriages to transport guests to earn money.

In the past, outside the Danfeng Gate, there were always some carriages waiting there, waiting for business that might come at any time.

However, it is clear that today is not the same as usual.

"Chao Langzhong, it's really strange today, I actually wasted a quarter of an hour outside the Danfeng Gate, where did all those carriages go?"

Wu Qi was a little fat, although the temperature had slowly dropped, but he was wearing more.

Walking out of the Daming Palace, he stood in the sun for a while, and his forehead actually began to sweat.

"It's a bit strange, it stands to reason that Danfengmen Street is a better place for these drivers to attract business, and there should be a lot of drivers waiting here, but today there is none."

Chaofang got into the carriage and glanced at the coachman curiously.

"Two Langjun, it's not strange at all. Nowadays, no matter where Chang'an City is, it is not as easy as before to find a carriage. You waited a quarter of an hour to arrive, which is relatively fast, yesterday I picked up a guest, and waited for half an hour, so that he couldn't wait, and he didn't wait. ”

The coachman was more talkative, although the two nobles in front of him seemed to have come out of the Daming Palace, but he was not very afraid.

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

Besides, he is the driver of the transportation team in the south of the city, as long as he doesn't cause trouble and if there is an accident, the shopkeeper will help them.

"Huh? Why is that? Isn't it true that these four-wheeled carriages are sold more and more? Why is it so scarce now? ”

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

"There are more and more four-wheeled carriages, but this is not the same thing as being in short supply. I don't know if you have noticed, these days, every day, there are as few as a hundred carriages, and as many as hundreds of carriages, from Chang'an City to Hedong Road. During this time, so many carriages left Chang'an City, and naturally there would be some related influences. ”

No matter what era it is, these drivers, who resemble taxi drivers, are more talkative.

Especially at the feet of the Son of Heaven, these coachmen are even more up to the major affairs of the court and politics, down to the life of the people at dawn, and they can talk about anything.

"When you say that, I remember. During this time, the imperial court was vigorously promoting the immigration of the people of Guanzhong Province to Hedong Province, and I heard that this matter was still led by His Royal Highness the King of Chu, and was personally organized and implemented by Shangguanyi of the Chu Palace, with the full cooperation of the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry and other yamen. ”

Although Wu Qi is in charge of the imperial dining room, he knows a lot of things in the palace.

Besides, it is no secret that this immigrant went to Hedong Road to plant cotton, but they did not link it to the shortage of four-wheeled carriages just now.

"I see."

The nest party looked suddenly enlightened.

As a Lang Zhong, he may be technically qualified, but in some consciousness, he is obviously half a beat slower.

……

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

"Lang Jun, in the past few days, the sales of our two-wheeled carriages have been much better than before, especially the kind of two-wheeled rickshaws that you proposed that do not use horse-drawn horses, which can sell dozens of them a day, that is, the four-wheeled carriages that no one bought before, can also sell a few every day."

Since being hit by the Mercedes-Benz carriage shop opposite, Wei Bao has also learned from the pain and made a good change.

First of all, he arranged for personnel to imitate the four-wheeled carriage of the Mercedes-Benz carriage company, and now he can be regarded as having some achievements.

Although the service life of these four-wheeled carriages is not as good as that of the other side, it is better to be cheaper and can be sold from time to time.

Of course, he did not completely give up the traditional two-wheeled carriage of Chengnan Carriage Company, but did some addition and subtraction on the basis of the previous one.

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, simply made a big simplification of the two-wheeled carriage, produced a rickshaw, and sold it to some people in Chang'an City for transportation.

Originally, Wei Siren didn't have much hope for this rickshaw, but after it was launched, it sold very well.

Especially in the last few days, it has sold out!

"I heard that the carriage workshop in the Chu Wangfu is now producing all the carriages for the Datang Transportation Group, and the Mercedes-Benz carriage shop opposite is even out of goods to sell?"

Wei Siren glanced at the direction of the warehouse of the carriage shop in the south of the city with a smile, and felt that the best opportunity had been placed in front of him.

"Yes, under 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, plus His Majesty has rewarded more than one million acres of Yongye fields to various heroes in one go, and these fields are all in the north of Shuozhou, and now the nobles of Chang'an City are busy transporting manpower and materials to Shuozhou."

Wei Bao naturally knew the reason why his carriage behavior suddenly prospered.

To be honest, it was definitely a bonus.

The previous carriage shop in the south of the city has always been a tepid life, far from being a hot 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, go. These families have more fertile land in Shuozhou, and the demand for transportation is naturally more. At that time, just on the cement road from Chang'an City to Shuozhou, I don't know how many carriages will be needed to fill it. I heard that the carriage workshop in the Chu Wangfu has been expanding, and our workshop cannot be left behind, so we quickly recruited a group of craftsmen to raise the output even higher. ”

Wei Siren is not stupid, seeing that Datang is now building a lot of cement roads every year, which is definitely a good thing for the demand for carriages.

In addition, there are many more workshops in Chang'an City now than before, many goods and materials need to be transported everywhere, and there are many more occasions to use horse-drawn carriages than ten years ago.

"Lang Jun, don't worry, I'm already arranging. In addition to expanding the production of horse-drawn carriage workshops, I think we can expand the size of our transportation fleet in the south of the city. This is also very beneficial to the promotion of our four-wheeled carriage. ”

Although the two-wheeled carriages and rickshaws of the Chengnan Carriage Company are selling well.

But the price of these things is not high, and the money earned is far less than that of the four-wheeled carriage, so Wei Bao still hopes that the four-wheeled carriage in his workshop can be on an equal footing with the Mercedes-Benz carriage company.

"Well, judging from the trial situation in the past six months, you have made a great contribution to the formation of the transportation team in the south of the city. Before, our four-wheeled carriages were produced, many of them could not be sold, and they were put into the transportation team and put into transportation all over Chang'an City, but it suddenly made the demand for four-wheeled carriages go up to a higher level, and now, it can really expand the scale. ”

As a major customer of Mercedes-Benz Carriage Company, the Lao Niu Transport Team is the largest transportation team in Chang'an City, and Wei Bao naturally arranged for someone to figure out their situation early.

This investigation doesn't matter, Wei Bao found that it seems that the profits are not low when engaging in transportation.

However, in order not to directly compete with the Lao Niu Transport Team, Wei Bao ingeniously let the Chengnan Transport Team aim at the market of personnel transportation, which is just different from the Lao Niu Transport Team, which is mainly based on cargo transportation.

In the past six months, the driver of the Chengnan transportation team has driven a four-wheeled carriage to run in Chang'an City, which not only improved the exposure rate of the Wei family's four-wheeled carriage, but also greatly verified some problems of the Wei family's four-wheeled carriage, which really satisfied Wei Bao.

"Lang Jun, it just so happens that now the Chu Wangfu has seconded a lot of coachmen and carriages from the Lao Niu Transport Team and other places to Hedong Road, and now the demand for four-wheeled carriages in Chang'an City, whether it is the movement of people or the transportation of goods, has reached a point where supply exceeds demand. According to the coachman below, many customers are complaining that they have to wait a long time for an idle carriage to pass by, which is a great opportunity. ”

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

"Since we want to expand the size of the transportation fleet in the south of the city, let's just make it bigger. Isn't the Datang Transportation Group preparing to annex the various post stations of the imperial court and start long-distance passenger transportation from Chang'an to many state capitals? Then our Chengnan transportation team can also consider developing passenger transportation between states and counties in the Guanzhong region, and the benefits and reputation of the province have been taken away by Datang Transportation Group. ”

Wei Siren, as the nephew of Wei Guifei and an important figure in the Wei family, naturally knows no less.

"Lang Jun, if that's the case, it's the best. Nowadays, the flow of people in various parts of Guanzhong is much larger than before, and 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 make these passenger carriages, which will definitely have an extraordinary promotion effect. ”

Wei Bao seemed to see the scene of the four-wheeled carriage produced by his carriage workshop and the four-wheeled carriage of the Chu Palace.

Datang is so big, even if its own four-wheeled carriage can't be the first, the second life can be very nourishing.

……

Gaochang City.

It's a mess!

Since the reinforcements of the Western Turks were easily defeated by Xue Wanjun, Lu Zhisheng held out in the city for a period of time, and then he could not resist the pressure and surrendered.

Hou Junji came to Gaochang from Chang'an thousands of miles away, but he was not with the people of Gaochang who would be benevolent, righteous and moral.

Although he did not let the army burn and plunder like the Hu people invaded the Central Plains, he did not restrain military discipline too much.

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

Regarding Hou Junji's approach, although Xue Wanjun expressed cautious opposition, he did not insist too much.

"Aya, those belongings, the children have already selected the valuable ones and put them in the big tent, and some other things that are not so valuable have been registered with the marching Sima, and they are counted among the spoils."

Hou Qiang came to Hou Junji's side in high spirits and reported the harvest of these days.

As the righteous son of Hou Junji, Hou Qiang is the main person in charge of this Gaochang City raid.

I don't know if it's a trick of fate or what, Hou Junji has never had a biological son, but he has received a lot of various righteous sons.

Among his own soldiers, the main team was his adopted son.

Among them, Hou Qiang in front of him and Hou Bao, who led his soldiers to protect his own safety, were the most trusted by him.

"It is not easy for everyone to come to Gaochang, and many brothers have been sleeping in the desert, especially some of them are old people who have been with me for many years. When you return to Chang'an City, you can send some belongings to each family, so that other families can have a way to live. ”

Hou Junji is greedy for money, but he has not reached the point of treating money as his life, otherwise he would not be able to go today.

However, this trip to Gaochang was extremely difficult, so he let his soldiers raid the nobles of Gaochang Kingdom, preparing to use these belongings to reward the soldiers and reward himself.

"The child understood. Aya, this time, in Gaochang City, the child also found two stunning beauties, which had been sent to Aya's account. These two women, whose skin is like congealed fat, can be broken by blowing, like babies, and only heroes like Aya deserve to enjoy them. ”

When Hou Qiang said this, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

"Then what have Xue Wanjun and Qi Qi He Li been doing these days?"

Although Hou Junji was the chief of the marching army, the status of Xue Wanjun and Qi Bi He Li was not low, especially since both of them vaguely expressed their dissatisfaction with the situation in Gaochang City.

So Hou Junji felt that he still had to be appeased a little.

"They basically spent this small group of people hunting outside the city during this time, and it seems that they don't want to get involved in the city's affairs. Aye, are they a little dissatisfied with you? ”

Hou Qiang only has Hou Junji in his eyes, but he doesn't care about Xue Wanjun and Qi Bi.

"Hmph, pretend to be high!"

Hou Junji felt that they were not the number one and did not need to consider the issue of rewarding the soldiers, so he did not intervene in the affairs of the city on the side.

After all, if he is impeached by the imperial history, this matter will be more or less a trouble.

"Aye, why don't I go back and give them some money in their two accounts and see if they can accept it?"

"Forget it, they don't want to interfere, so I don't bother to pay attention to them. You go and make arrangements, and in a few days, you will have to consider the return of the army to the DPRK. Don't leave anything behind. ”

Hou Junji was generally satisfied with this trip to Gaochang.

How can it be said that it is also a battle to destroy the country, and in the history, you can also leave your own name, right?

"By the way, didn't the people of the Northwest Trade also enter the city? Give them some convenience, and give him all the shops they like in the city. I was going to show people that I wasn't the kind of person who wouldn't recognize me if I got cheap. ”

Hou Junji thought of the role played by those camels when crossing the desert, but he did not forget the benefits of the Northwest Trade.