Kang Yuanwai took the list text, read it again, and said to several other people: "What kind of car is the train?" Running so fast, you can get to Kaifeng Mansion in one day and night? The imperial court is in a hurry, and it is only five hundred miles a day and a night, and how many horse shops are needed along the way! Is there really such a car in the world? ”

Li Yuanwai said: "The shipping department said that there is, naturally there is!" The court will never deceive people! What is on the official document, how can it be wrong! ”

Jiang Yuanwai said slowly: "You have to be idle, and you can also walk around, and you don't have any knowledge." This kind of car has been driven to Tangzhou, what day to take a look, can really go to Kaifeng Mansion in one day. I heard that coal was burning, and there was smoke on the road, and the railroad was flying like a ride. ”

The Cheng member on the other side said: "It's not Tangzhou, it's been repaired to Xinye City now, but now it's not allowed to get on the bus there." I heard that it was because the price of the railway supervisor had increased and the transfer department could not afford to buy the rails, so we were asked to pay. Let me tell you, this chariot will be very popular in the world in the future, and the place where it is passed will be very prosperous. A few days ago, I went to Xinye City to buy a shop, and it will definitely be prosperous in the future! ”

Kang Yuanwai didn't believe it: "Xinye's place, although it is said that there is a name in three points, Uncle Liu Huang burned Xinye." However, there are not many households now, it's just a grass market, and it can still flourish? You're not talking in your dreams! ”

Cheng Yuanwai said: "Brother Kang, I don't know anything. Although Shinno is small, it is an important place for the railway. The goods in Dengzhou will have to be transported there in the future before they can get on the train. If you think about it, there will be a big wharf in the future, just like here in Xiangzhou, what a trivial matter! ”

At this time, the formal administrative structure was the prefecture and the county, and there were the road level at the top to manage supervision, money and grain, prisons, and the military, and the city level at the bottom. The town is formally organized, located under the county, and some have a supervisory town, and some only have a tax field. The city is a lower level, a bazaar formed by the people. There are grass markets that are held at regular intervals and there are also permanent markets. There is a permanent market in Shinno, so it is called Shinno City, which does not mean a city in later generations.

Several tea sellers discussed outside, some had seen the train, some had never heard of it, and there was a lot of discussion. However, one thing is clear, the shipping department sent a message, and the money must be paid. As for the so-called tickets issued, whether they can really transport goods in the future is another matter. The court does things, and everyone has long been accustomed to this style. If you can't transport goods, there's nothing, so don't turn it into a fixed tax later.

Kang Yuanwai said: "I read the text that it is enough to transport goods from Xiangzhou to Kaifeng Mansion every 100 catties. The owner of the goods carries it by himself, and if the handling is not timely, the fee will be charged according to the weight. If you want to move it from the station, you will be charged separately. Xiangzhou to Kaifeng Mansion according to the post road is less than 900 miles, but the railway is not built according to the post road, the post road is Huyang, but the railway is repaired to Xinye. Just press a thousand miles, and the freight is 100 catties and 100 miles, but it is cheap. ”

Li Yuanwai said: "Of course it's cheap!" This is the price of the government hired to move, measured in 100 catties, 100 miles by land, 10 wen by water, and 30 wen by tracing the stream. At this kind of price, where can we businessmen hire people? Every time you transport tea, you won't give 400 wen for 100 miles, which one is willing to transport it to you! ”

Everyone said yes. This is still a plain area, if you take a mountain road, the distance is too far, and it is not uncommon to calculate a hundred miles and five or six hundred wen.

The government hires people, which is semi-coercive, how can it be compared with the price of the people? The land travel is hundreds of miles and hundreds of texts, and it is worth earning a meal money to come back.

Jiang Yuanwai said: "That's the price." Tangzhou was opened to traffic, and I once transported tea to Xiangcheng, all of which were calculated according to 100 miles and 100 documents. However, people have to buy another ticket, which is similar to transporting goods, which is 100 miles and 50 yuan. ”

When everyone heard this, they looked at the tall and fat Li Yuanwai and laughed: "In this way, Li Yuanwai will earn money by taking the car." You have more than 200 catties, which is cheaper than transporting goods. We, the people, will be compensated. ”

Jiang Yuanwai said: "What to lose, a person in a car can bring one or twenty catties of goods, which is not money." ”

Everyone was surprised when they heard it, and asked Jiang Yuanwai to talk about what the train was and what the benefits were. Tea merchants and salt merchants make money by trafficking forbidden materials, and the lifeblood is in the hands of the shipping department, so that they can pay the money. It is impossible to refuse, and it is impossible to think wildly, and it is in vain to cause trouble. Anyway, if you really lose money, you can earn it back from the price.

After listening to what Jiang Yuanwai said about the train, Li Yuanwai said: "There is nothing to do left and right, let's go to Tangzhou tomorrow and see how about the train together?" Since you can get to Kaifeng Mansion in one day and night, you don't have to get off the train, so convenient, how about taking your family to visit the capital! ”

More than 200 miles from Xiangzhou to Tangzhou, if you take the land route and ride a horse, you will arrive in two or three days. You can get to the capital in a few days, especially on the train, there is a car and a drink, you don't need to get off the train, you just go out to play. To do the tea business, the capital has gone through several trips. These people are the so-called Nanshang, which one has no acquaintances in the capital? When transporting tea to the capital, when cash is paid instead of salt, it is always necessary to sell some other goods back.

The crowd applauded. The money is already out, so let's go and see if it's worth it.

Jiang Yuanwai said: "The train is different from ordinary cars and horses, every time you drive, there is an hour, and you need to buy a ticket in advance. Now there are few buses on the road, and tickets are not easy to buy. If you want to go, I will send someone to buy tickets in Tangzhou tonight. How many people are going to go, report the number, and buy the ticket first. ”

Kang Yuanwai said: "One person is only about 500 Wen, what a lot of money!" Ask him to try to buy some tickets for me, what if there is no seat there! ”

Jiang Yuanwai listened and said, "If this is the case, we will charter a carriage and have a lot less trouble." Bring your family and go with you! ”

Kang Yuanwai asked strangely: "Brother Jiang, what does it mean to pack a carriage?" If it's like a horse-drawn carriage, there won't be many people in the carriage. ”

Jiang Yuanwai laughed: "How can a train be compared to a horse-drawn carriage!" There are dozens of seats in that carriage, which is enough to sit. ”

Kang Yuanwai thought for a while and shook his head: "We people are not small families, who don't have dozens of people. One carriage, I'm afraid it's not enough. Since I went, I would like to pack a few more sections. How about a family section? ”

The crowd applauded. A carriage is counted as one hundred seats, and one person is five hundred wen, which is only fifty. This small amount of money was spent in one night for eating, drinking, and gambling. Take the whole family to the capital, what a beautiful thing, what a few dozen pieces of money.

Jiang Yuanwai thought about it and said, "Everyone, although I have ever done a train, I have never done this kind of thing. Even if there are officials and eunuchs in the same car, it is nothing more than a few seats apart, and I have never seen a family occupying a carriage. If you can do that, you have to ask. ”

Li Yuanwai said disdainfully: "They built roads and ran trains, didn't they make money?" We give them a lot of money, how can we not give it! ”

Jiang Yuanwai didn't answer, and thought about it secretly. These rich landowners are usually used to showing off, thinking that the train is their own? The government does things not so simple, it is not about paying for what you want.

The others ignored it and excitedly began to talk about how to play in Kaifeng Mansion and what things to buy. In the past, I sold tea, traveled thousands of miles, and where did I have the strength to play in the capital. In addition, it is a big business of tens of thousands of dollars, and I don't have that mind. This time I just went to play, with my family, the scenery and scenery, it was different. What is delicious and fun, I used to just say, this time let the family also see it.

The one who said that the wine in the iron scrap building was good, the one who said that the fairy building was all silverware, and the one who said that the Fan Lou was the first in the world, and there was no dispute. When someone mentions the little lady in Pig Killing Alley, some people look down on it, saying that the vicinity of Niuma Market is the place where people with status go.

There are also people who want to take their families to see the palace Ouchi, get up early to see the appearance of the ministers who are in charge of the world's power, and all kinds of ideas are varied, and the more they talk, the more lively they become. As for the shipping division, if you want to pay for it yourself, you will forget it until you are outside the clouds, and it is inevitable that you will have fun first.

Let the tea and salt merchants pay for the construction of the road, and the shipping department inadvertently contributed to the first tour group from Xiangzhou to Kaifeng Prefecture.

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