After settling down with the Legalists, Merton set his sights on Li Xin,

"Young Master!" Li Xin suddenly sat upright, feeling uneasy. Li Xin is in charge of the transportation department of Mojia Village, from the original fish transportation team, gradually developed and expanded, and now some materials in Mojia Village are transporting and shipping, and Li Xin's transportation team is busy.

"The transport team has done a good year, but it is still not enough." Merton's first sentence made Li Xinzhong's confidence sink, "With the full supply of cars and horses, the scale of the transportation team is now only limited to the two lines from Mojia Village to Chang'an City and Chang'an City to Luoyang, which is a bit timid. ”

"The young master taught me a lesson!" Li Xin bowed his head and reviewed.

"In fact, it is not that Li Xin is afraid, but after the goods of Mojia Village arrive in Luoyang City, most of them are mainly canals, and the transportation team is laying out the canals, and once successful, the products of Mojia Village will be able to be marketed to the north and south of the river." Xu Jie exonerated Li Xin with a few words.

When it comes to the layout of the Grand Canal, Li Xin suddenly showed a smug smile, the role of the Grand Canal is known to the world, a steady stream of goods from the north and south in one day, it can be described as extremely busy, once the transportation team of Mojia Village lays out the entire Grand Canal, the benefits are naturally self-evident.

Many people in Mojia Village suddenly showed a satisfied smile, and couldn't help but glance at Li Xin, especially Li Yi, who immediately looked at his son with a look of relief.

However, Merton's face sank and commented: "Put the cart before the horse." ”

Suddenly, Li Xin's smug face was like pouring a basin of cold water, and he suddenly collapsed.

Everyone also looked at Merton in surprise, needless to say, the importance of the Grand Canal is well known to the world, and Li Xin is not wrong to do this! Why don't you reward but blame.

Among the crowd, only Han Zheng was thoughtful, but he had just arrived in Mojia Village, so he naturally wouldn't express his opinion on some things.

Merton hated iron and said with a hatred of iron and steel: "Mojia Village started with a four-wheeled carriage, and the carriage and horses are the advantages of Mojia Village. ”

Li Xin immediately lowered his head, and everyone was silent.

"Besides, there are gangs everywhere on both sides of the Grand Canal, which have been operating for more than ten years, and they are deeply rooted, if Mojia Village joins rashly, how can it fall into the benefits!" Merton shouted.

Li Xin suddenly realized, and said with shame on his face: "Young Master, Li Xin knows that he is wrong. ”

Now that he thinks back, when he laid out the Grand Canal, he was not full of difficulties and was repeatedly harassed, and this was not because of the resistance of the Cao gang on both sides of the strait.

Merton waved his hand and said: "Immediately withdraw all the layouts of the Grand Canal, and in the future, if the products of Mojia Village go through the Grand Canal, they will be subcontracted to the Cao Gang for transportation." ”

"Yes!"

Li Xin suddenly felt a pity in his heart, the Grand Canal, which runs through the north and south, gave up like this, which was really a pity.

"There's nothing to be sorry for!" Merton snorted coldly, "The Grand Canal is indeed important, but it is not irreplaceable. ”

"The young master said it was a brick road?" Xu Jie said suddenly.

Merton nodded and said, "Yes, although the waterway has a large carrying capacity, it is fine if it goes downstream, but once it goes against the current, it can only rely on the power of the slender man." After the brick road was built, the advantages of the four-wheeled carriage were undoubtedly revealed, and the future transportation will definitely be mainly by land. ”

Everyone nodded approvingly. Anyone can see that the pace of building brick roads in the Tang Dynasty cannot be stopped at all, and the news of the Great Dynasty Meeting at the end of the year has already spread to the government and the opposition, and the concept of the Longhai Line has been hotly discussed by the people of the Tang Dynasty.

"In the future, the transportation team of Mojia Village will be further expanded, focusing on the brick road. Where is the convoy of Mojia Village going to extend! As for the carriages, the convoy did not have to worry, the four-wheeled carriages were given priority to supply the convoy, and the horses and horses would be transported in a steady stream. Merton waved his hand.

"Further expansion?" Li Xinzhong was overjoyed, and nodded heavily, if the convoy of Mojia Village continued to expand with the brick road, over time, when all the ten brick roads of the Tang Dynasty were connected, the convoy of Mojia Village would develop into such a behemoth.

"I have one requirement about the convoy, and that is to be fast!" Merton's positive color channel.

Li Xin suddenly straightened up, and said proudly: "Young master, rest assured, the speed of the transport team in Mojia Village can be described as the best place in the pass. ”

Merton shook his head and said: "This is far from enough, with the construction of the brick road, the traffic from Chang'an City to Luoyang will definitely usher in a big explosion." Luoyang is located at the intersection of the Longhai Line and the Grand Canal, where goods from the east, west, north and south converge, and will surely usher in huge opportunities. ”

Regarding the importance of Luoyang City, even Hua Yuan, who paid the least attention to current affairs, nodded thoughtfully, with the Longhai Line, Luoyang City's future status will surpass that of Chang'an City.

Merton said proudly: "Therefore, the next focus of Mojia Village is Luoyang City, and the transport team will first open a passenger train from Chang'an City to Luoyang." ”

"Morning and sunset!"

Everyone was suddenly shocked, after the brick road from Chang'an City to Luoyang City was opened, the empty vehicle test of the Ministry of Industry was only coming in the morning and evening, and Merton even asked the transport team to do so.

"Young master, the horses will have to rest after running a hundred miles at most. Otherwise, the horsepower will be lost, and Chang'an City is a full 800 miles away from Luoyang, unless it is like the imperial court, there are post stations along the way. Li Xin smiled bitterly.

Unexpectedly, Merton nodded and said, "Yes, we are going to build a post station, no, a service station." ”

"Chang'an City is 800 miles away from Luoyang, Mojia Village only needs to build a service station every 100 miles, which is stocked with grain and grass, horses, and the carriage arrives at the service station every 100 miles, and the horses change cars non-stop, unload the horses, put on the new horses and start again, and wait until the next transport team passes by, and then change to the horses that have been rested, and set off again. You will definitely be able to reach Luoyang City within two days. Merton said.

Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard this, Merton's move was indeed operable, so that the horses could also rest, and they could save a lot of time, and the efficiency was increased several times, the only drawback was that it was too expensive.

"Young master, don't you want to enter the passenger transport industry?" Li Xin asked cautiously.

Mocun shook his head and said: "No, since Mojia Village produces four-wheeled carriages, it is naturally not suitable to intervene in the passenger transport market, but it is too slow to get from Chang'an City to Luoyang." This time, let Mojia Village make catfish again!

"Slow!"

The corners of everyone's mouths twitched suddenly, and they all understood the catfish effect! But when the original rammed earth official road, it took at least five days to reach Luoyang from Chang'an City, and after the brick road was built, it had been increased to two days, which was already rapid in the eyes of everyone, but it was still too slow in the eyes of Merton.

Merton, who has experienced the baptism of highways and high-speed railways in later generations, naturally looks down on the slow carriage now, and has no choice but to copy it according to the idea of the service station in later generations, but the refueling has become a change of horses, which can be regarded as barely making do.

Xu Jie agreed: "This can be done, Chang'an to Luoyang rich households, if you can save a day, even if it costs twice the money, there are many people who are willing to ride." ”

He often traveled back and forth between Chang'an City and Luoyang, and naturally knew that if the passenger carriage in Mojia Village could arrive in the morning and evening, it would definitely be very popular.