Chapter 139: The Public Carriage (Second Update, Ask for Recommendation, Ask for Collection)

Time hangs heavy on one's hands!

In the past two days, Zhu Yijun, who is the king of a country, finally realized what it means to live like a year.

Finally, on the third day, without waiting for the waiter outside the door to knock on the bang and shout, "Please ask the emperor to get up-", Zhu Yijun got up early.

Today is not the day of the regular dynasty, after getting up and dressing up, Zhu Yijun and the queen both went to say good morning to the two queen mothers, this is for the filial piety of their son, and then absentmindedly had breakfast, and the day began step by step.

However, Zhu Yijun will not waste time on these things today, when he went to the warm pavilion, the guest over there was waiting in the corridor, looking mysterious.

"How? Is the errand done? ”

Seeing the emperor's question, the guest's waist softened, and he bowed down to answer.

"Back to the emperor, what you tell the slave to do, the slave will naturally do it as well as possible."

Then he whispered.

"Emperor, as usual, you go to the pavilion for a while, and then ......"

And then naturally it was out of the palace!

What are you doing when you leave the palace...... Money, of course!

Although he is the emperor, Zhu Yijun has never experienced the privileges of the emperor, Feng Bao's eyes are everywhere in the palace, his every move is monitored by Feng Bao, and the reality of the big companion at every turn makes him have to be cautious.

If you want to get out of the palace, you have to be even more careful, in case the queen or the first assistant knows, it will be troublesome.

Although anxious, Zhu Yijun still waited for more than an hour, mixed with the eunuchs who left the palace, and then went directly to the restaurant that was agreed that day. When he arrived at the restaurant, Zhu Yijun, who was trotting all the way, deliberately slowed down, in fact, he knew that Shi Yiwen, who had been sitting upstairs, had already seen him, and naturally saw his impatience.

"Your Majesty."

After the emperor entered the private room and saluted quietly, Shi Yiwen stood like that. Although the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty do not need to kneel and kowtow when they meet, the etiquette of the monarchs and ministers must always be kept.

"Don't stand, sit down."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

After Shi Yiwen sat down, Zhu Yijun said deliberately.

"I'm here today to ask how your business is going."

"The minister knows,"

Anyway, the ticket will definitely be given to you later. Thinking to himself, Shi Yiwen got up again, and then said to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, please move, the minister has something fresh for Your Majesty to see."

led the emperor downstairs and went directly to the back alley of the restaurant, as soon as he arrived in the back alley, Zhu Yijun was startled by the "big guy" in front of him.

"Is this a cart?"

"Back to Your Majesty, this is a four-wheeled carriage."

Shi Yiwen explained with a smile.

"Your Majesty, please see, this four-wheeled carriage is more than a zhang long and five feet wide, and it can seat sixteen people in the carriage......"

That night, Shi Yiwen, whose legs were frozen in the study, naturally thought of the experience of being frozen into a dog when going back and forth in the city, and of course, the experience of "taking a taxi" in Nanjing, and thought of the public carriage in another time and space, and the appearance of the public carriage not only facilitated the people in the city, but also brought huge profits to the operators.

According to an 1853 travel book in New York, about 120,000 people traveled in horse-drawn carriages in New York City every day, and the passengers of the public carriages were mainly middle-class or higher-class people. Fares range from 6 cents to 12.5 cents, but despite this, public carriages allow more people to use wheeled transport than horse-drawn carriages and stagecoaches.

So he chose this business, and in order to keep it secret, but when there was no one on the road as soon as the city gate opened, he brought the carriage into the city, which was sure to cause a sensation for a while.

"Sixteen ......"

Boarding the carriage in surprise, Zhu Yijun looked at the spacious carriage, which completely subverted his perception of the carriage, and there were two benches on both sides of the carriage.

"Hey, why is this car a little shaky?"

After walking a few steps, Zhu Yijun felt the shaking of the carriage.

"Your Majesty, this is the leaf spring on and below the carriage, if there is no leaf spring between the carriage and the axle, when the carriage walks in the city, the carriage will be very bumpy, even if you put multiple layers of cotton pads, it feels very uncomfortable."

Whether it is the "taxi" in Nanjing or the experience of taking a carriage from Zhangjiawan to Zhuangzi, it is not a wonderful memory for Shi Yiwen, sitting in a car without shock absorption, can only rely on human flesh to absorb shock.

"With leaf springs, you don't feel any bumps in the carriage."

Shi Yiwen said as he instructed the driver outside the carriage.

"Now, let's go, go to Xidan Archway."

In Zhu Yijun's curiosity, the carriage moved, sitting on the car, because there was no canopy, he could see that as soon as the carriage drove out of the alley, it attracted people's curiosity.

"Look, the carriage is drawn from three horses......"

"Yo, this car is really ......"

As soon as the carriage arrived on Chang'an Street, it immediately aroused people's interest, and when passers-by were watching, Shi Yiwen took down the cloth covering the side of the carriage.

"Father-in-law, please take off the cloth over there."

As soon as the cloth was taken down, the onlookers looked at the carriage that was more than one zhang long, and it read "Public carriage, stop when you wave, 2 Wen ......"

Passers-by who were originally watching the bustle saw the advertisements written on the carriage, and they were immediately interested, and immediately someone reached out to stop the car.

"Man, how does this car sit?"

The person who stopped the car didn't wait for the car to stop, and hurriedly asked.

"Isn't it written on it, 2 texts."

"Two texts and one person? How far is it at this price? ”

"Look at what you said, our car has a line, go north to Xuanwumen Street, then go north to Fuchengmen Street, and then stop at the Xinjiekou of Xizhimen Street for a return trip, if you come back, you have to pay two more pennies."

Li Li, who was driving the car, was a slave in the village, and when he came, he had already heard the young master say how to collect money.

"Yo, two pennies, it's not expensive to sit so far."

"Indeed, if you take the porter's cart, you have to go out for more than a dozen dollars for such a long road, which is several miles away, and this is only two dollars, which is cheap......

After asking the price here, the people over there got into the carriage, and the people who got on the carriage were also happy, and directly stuffed the money into the money cabinet on the side.

As soon as this carriage went out, it attracted people's onlookers, and the four-wheeled carriage more than a foot long and more than five feet wide had indeed never been seen, but it was only a moment before the carriage was full of people. There was even some overloading, but even so, passers-by still waved to stop the car, and Li Li, who was driving the car, could only refuse loudly.

"The car is full, it's full, and I'll be back later......"

After almost a cup of tea, the carriage arrived at Xinjiekou, and before Li Li stopped, the people in the car shouted over there.

"Man, sit back again, sit back again, this car is too comfortable to sit on, not bumpy or shaky, even the sedan chair can't compare to this ......"

As soon as the man who shouted stopped talking, the people on the side of the road were not happy.

"I said, you're comfortable, you have to come down and let us be comfortable for a while, isn't it ......"

"You wait to come back, two pennies, even this comfort is worth it, even the sedan chair can't compare to ......"

"You just blow it, have you ever sat in a sedan chair......"