Five surnames and seven hopes, the forces are intertwined.

If you want to uproot them all at once, it will inevitably cause turmoil in the entire Datang.

Therefore, if you want to deal with the five surnames and seven hopes, the best way is to divide them and break them one by one.

Don't look at the five surnames and seven hopes, the same breath and branches, and the generations are married, as if they are wearing a pair of pants.

However, there are also filthy differences between these seven wealthy families.

When it comes to the outside, it seems to be very united.

In fact, there is still competition and strife within them.

Now it is Lu Yong of the Lu family who has touched Li Yu's scales.

Therefore, Li Su decided to start the knife from the Lu family.

Li Su collected the main business of the Lu family and found that their business was mainly concentrated in the following points.

The first is the chariot and boat business, which refers to the sale of horse-drawn carriages and boats.

More than eighty percent of Datang's car and ship business is in the hands of the Lu family, and the profits in it are so large that you can imagine.

The second is freight, Datang's long-distance transportation, and the Lu family also accounts for as much as forty percent.

For example, if there is a grain merchant or cloth merchant who wants to transport grain or cloth from other places to Chang'an, there are two options.

The first is to form a convoy by yourself, and also to form an escort team to escort all the way to Chang'an.

In fact, the cost along the way is also very huge.

The second is consignment. Find the Lu family's fleet or fleet, as long as they pay a certain amount of employment money, the Lu family can help them transport the goods to Chang'an.

Of course, it is not limited to Chang'an, the entire territory of Datang, basically anywhere.

The Lu family has a special convoy and a special escort team.

At one time, they usually escort a huge batch of supplies, so that the transportation cost can be reduced a lot, and then they can make a profit from it.

Even, even the taxes collected by the imperial court are sometimes handed over to the Lu family.

In fact, the advent of the train has dealt a certain blow to the Lu family's business.

Since the advent of trains, the transportation along the train has been many times faster than transportation in the usual sense.

The cost is also relatively reduced.

The advent of the train has greatly reduced the business of the Lu family.

However, the reason why the family is a family is because their heritage is incomparably deep.

In this case, the Lu family quickly adapted to the new rules.

They began to infiltrate the freight of the train, and gradually took control of the freight of the train.

In this way, they use trains to cut costs.

Profits, far from decreasing, have increased.

For the railway sector, of course.

No matter who consigns the goods, the money given is a lot.

The Lu family controls the freight and will not give a penny less.

And it is enough for them to deal with the Lu family, which is a win-win situation.

And Li Su, who originally wanted to be obscure for the time being, didn't want to deal with the five surnames and Qiwang so quickly.

Therefore, the approach to the Lu family is also to turn a blind eye and not target the Lu family.

Unexpectedly, now the Lu family is so unpopular.

In that case, then don't blame the king for being unkind.

And the last business of the Lu family is the business of the dart game.

The dart game sounds similar to freight, but it's still different inside.

Freight transport is a large number of goods, at least a few trucks of goods, or even a dozen cars of dozens of cars, before they choose freight.

The dart game is usually a small piece of valuables.

The dart game is actually not as bloody as written in the martial arts of later generations.

The role of the dart game is similar to that of express delivery in later generations.

Of course, there was also an official courier company at that time, that is, a post station.

Of course, official, means expensive and inefficient.

And the people, most of them still use dart games.

Above, are the three businesses that the Lu family specializes in.

Of course, as a big family, I don't know how many real estate properties there are in the Lu family.

The output of land is also a very considerable income.

However, their main income is still in business.

And Li Su decided to start with their business.

First of all, Li Su decided to start with their first business, the car and ship business.

As for the second and third cases, Li Su is still in preparation for the time being.

It was decided that after the preparations were completed, another blow was successful.

What Li Su currently focuses on is the Lu family's car and ship business.

The car is the horse-drawn carriage.

After the introduction of bicycles, the carriage industry was affected to a certain extent.

However, the impact was not great.

One is that the price of bicycles is very high, far exceeding the price of horse-drawn carriages.

Second, the bike doesn't carry much.

There are too many people, or you need to carry goods, you still need to use horse-drawn carriages.

The carriage of this era was a two-wheeled wooden-wheeled carriage.

The bumps are so violent that you can imagine it.

Of course, because of the introduction of rubber, the tires of horse-drawn carriages are now replaced by rubber tires.

The bumpy situation was alleviated.

However, the rubber was in the hands of the China Commercial Bank.

They can stop the supply of rubber tires at any time.

Now, the China Commercial Bank has stopped selling carriage tires under the pretext of this.

In recent years, because of rubber production, tires have been supplied in limited quantities, and for a while, the Lu family didn't care.

Next, Li Su began to set up a factory in Yizhou to make four-wheeled carriages.

The four-wheeled carriage is more comfortable to ride than the two-wheeled carriage.

If it is to transport goods, it can carry more goods than a two-wheeled carriage.

And if the four-wheeled carriage is equipped with tires, it is definitely a two-wheeled wooden-wheeled carriage.

As soon as the four-wheeled carriage came out, the two-wheeled carriage was estimated to lose the market immediately.

In ancient China, four-wheeled carriages were never in large-scale circulation.

Of course, it is not that there are no four-wheeled carriages.

The four-wheeled carriage at that time could not complete the steering, and it needed to be carried by manpower, which was very difficult.

And in the West, four-wheeled carriages were popular very early.

Because the West has developed a very ingenious setup, that is, the front two wheels, and the two rear wheels, on two shafts, the two shafts are connected by a bearing.

In this way, steering can be carried out easily.

Li Su set up a factory to make this kind of four-wheeled carriage.

Because Li Su has advanced technology here, the cost of making a four-wheeled carriage is not much higher than that of a two-wheeled carriage.

But Li Su believes that as long as the four-wheeled carriage comes out, the two-wheeled carriage will soon be eliminated by the wheels of history.

As for Li Su's carriage manufacturing factory, Li Su felt that the speed at which they made four-wheeled carriages should be faster than the speed at which the Lu family made two-wheeled carriages.

Because in their manufacturing plant, steam engines are already used.

For example, a sawing for wood is driven by a steam engine.

The dimensions are fixed, and a new worker without any carpentry foundation can easily unravel different sizes of wood after a short period of training.

The resulting wood is smooth and regular, and almost identical in size.

Handmade, it's hard to do that.

And those bearings and other materials are uniformly made with molds.

It's incredibly fast.

In terms of technology, Li Su uses assembly line production.

Those who dissolve wood are specially responsible for dissolving wood, and those who assemble are specially responsible for assembly, so that each is responsible for its own responsibilities, and the efficiency is greatly improved.

At present, there are not enough personnel, and if all the personnel are recruited, it will require 2,000 people.

With full firepower, Li Su estimated that he would be able to produce hundreds of carriages every day.

……

Next, Li Su built a shipyard by the river.

The Lu family produced wooden boats, and the ancient ones were basically wooden boats.

Making wooden boats is a very tedious task.

If you want to learn shipbuilding, you must first learn carpentry for three years and learn to read drawings.

Then you have to learn how to choose materials and fix the keel.

Without patience and perseverance, you can't learn.

The planks used for shipbuilding need to be smooth and visible.

If it is not planed well, the gap between the planks will become larger and larger.

Water seeps through the water.

After the boat is made, it needs to be painted, then set aside to dry for several days, then coated with tung oil, and so on.

Six skilled workers need to work hard for a month to build a boat.

You can see how long it takes to build a boat.

The cost of labor alone is considerable.

And what Li Su wants to make now is an iron ship, or iron-clad wood.

In terms of the cost of raw materials, it is actually comparable, and even the cost of iron ships is lower.

Because these hulls can be produced with molds and then cut with a cutting machine.

In terms of process and manufacturing costs, iron ships will save too much.

Of course, iron ships have the weakness of iron ships, that is, they are not corrosion-resistant.

After a long time, the iron will rust.

For this point, Li Su also has a solution, that is, to use the best anti-rust paint.

Datang's craftsmanship naturally can't do this.

But it doesn't matter, the production process of anti-rust paint, these can be purchased from the system.

For two whole months, Li Yu really kept busy.

After all, whether it was the construction of a four-wheeled carriage, or the manufacture of iron ships.

This is the first time in Datang, and those craftsmen who have been recruited, even if they are skilled workers, have had experience in this area before.

It's all confused right now.

Because both of these are new things.

Although Li Su took out the drawings, how to assemble and how to produce, at the beginning, Li Su had to be here to stare at it.

On the side of the four-wheeled carriage, that's all.

Because all kinds of parts were produced, the first carriages were produced, and they experimented with them, and then they were amazed to find.

This four-wheeled carriage is really very useful.

When turning, it is very relaxed, not as bulky as those four-wheeled carriages on the market.

It's not the same with the shipyards.

Before that, there had never been an iron ship.

In fact, although the craftsmanship of iron ships is a little more complicated for this era, it is not impossible to manufacture.

However, why has the tin boat never been built in this era?

Even in the whole world, it will be postponed until more than 200 years later, until the beginning of the industrial revolution in the West, and the iron ship will not be introduced?

That's because, first of all, people in this era felt in their hearts that they couldn't build ships with iron.

If you use iron, you will inevitably sink into the water.

The same is true of the shipyard established by Li Su, when the workers recruited by Li Su heard that they wanted to build iron ships, they refused at first.

Because they think from the bottom of their hearts that the tin boat will sink when it enters the water, which is a complete joke.

These people were all forced to start making iron boats under Li Su's orders.

After a few days of hard work, a tin ship was finally built.

Li Su ordered them to put the boat into the river for a trial voyage to test the function of the tin boat.

The workers refused because they were afraid that they would sink to the bottom as soon as they entered the river.

It was under Li Su's order that they threw the iron boat into the river.

To their great shock, the iron ship did not sink to the bottom, but floated lightly on the river.

This? How is this possible?

It's iron, hey, and there's a little wood in the cabin, so how could it float on the river?

This is not scientific!

And the people who were selected for the sea trial, although they saw the iron boat floating on the river.

When he got on the boat, he was still cautious, lest the boat capsize.

However, when he got on the boat, he soon found out.

The iron ship was very light, but it was more agile than the wooden ship.

It turns out that the iron boat can really go down the river!

No wonder His Highness would let them build iron ships!

This iron ship is much faster to make than a wooden ship.

It takes six skilled workers to build a wooden ship, but what about an iron ship? One person can build five or six ships a month.

After becoming proficient, it is estimated that the speed will be even faster.

Of course, the manufacture of this iron ship is actually an assembly line operation mode.

Five or six ships a month for a person refers to the average speed.

Compared to the two, it is much faster to make an iron ship than to make a wooden ship.

Producing a finished product, and then passing the test and inspection, is actually only the first step.

The next problem that needs to be done is the operation process of the assembly line.

The operation process of the assembly line has been tested by future generations and can greatly improve efficiency.

Each worker, who only needs to be responsible for his own process, can also become a skilled worker at a faster speed and manufacture more precise parts.

Of course, there is another benefit.

That is, if someone digs the foot of the wall, only digging one or two workers, you will not get the complete process at all.

You have to dig up a whole chain of workers to make it.

Of course, although the assembly line operation, the efficiency can be greatly improved.

But when it was first introduced, there were still these myriad problems.

Let's say, the question of standards.

There is also the problem of personnel allocation in each process.

If the time required for each process can be guaranteed, the same frequency can be maintained.

All of these need to be worried about by Li Su.

In this world, only Li Su knows these best.

……

Before I knew it, two months had passed.

Car manufacturers and shipyards are finally on the right track.

Li Su can finally get out and hand over these two things to Wu Meiniang to manage.

And Li Su directly found Xia Yuntian, the editor of Yizhou Monthly, and ordered him to publish a few news in Yizhou Monthly.

On the second day, a new issue of the Yizhou Monthly Report was released, and a news on the Yizhou Monthly Report immediately attracted the attention of countless people.

Because this time, Yizhou New City once again held a grand new product launch conference.

The time of the press conference is set for a month after the fifth day.

This news immediately caused a sensation.

Because of the Yizhou New Town, a scientific research institute has now been established, in fact, new products will be launched every once in a while.

For example, electric heaters, hair dryers, etc.

Let's talk about the electric heater, as long as it is plugged in, it can boil water, which is very magical.

Of course, not many people have its practical use.

is still a Tang Dynasty, but he is not as lazy as the people of later generations.

Now every household burns firewood, and a few fires can boil water.

The price of electricity is 50 yuan per kilowatt-hour.

With such a high price, few people will use electric heaters.

Like these products, Yizhou Monthly will not publish them at all, and then open a new product launch conference.

However, if the Yizhou monthly report is published, a new product launch conference will be held.

Then the products released are all new products that will be a sensation.

Therefore, after those rich people saw the news, they were all moved.

They all went to Yizhou to find out.

Of course, the new product launch will be held in five days.

Except for those along the railway, others are estimated to not be able to catch up at all.

But it doesn't matter, this new product launch conference will be held for a whole month.

In terms of time, it was completely in time.

And the people who came this time are not only those rich second generations, but also those rich generations.

They didn't come to be cool, but to find a discussion.

On the side of Yizhou New Town, it can be said that there are business opportunities everywhere and money everywhere, it depends on whether you have the ability to pick it up.

For five days, a large number of people poured into Yizhou every day.

Five days later, Yizhou New Town was crammed despite repeated expansions.

Even the guest rooms are a little insufficient.

As soon as the time of the fifth day arrived, Yizhou's new product launch conference was officially held.

The venue of this new product launch conference was placed in the square in the city.

In Yizhou New Town, there is a large square, which is a venue specially prepared for various activities by Li Su.

On this day, the square was surrounded by countless people.

And in the square, they saw today's new products.

It's a four-wheeled carriage!

This actually made those who came today quite disappointed.

They already knew that the steam tricycle had already been developed and was used in military terms.

Before coming, they naively thought that this new product launch conference would be a steam tricycle.

Unexpectedly, it was not a steam three-wheeled carriage at all, but a four-wheeled carriage.

They were really disappointed!

Because, the four-wheeled carriage is not unprecedented.

The advantage of a horse-drawn carriage is that it is less bumpy and can carry more cargo.

But the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, it is not easy to steer, and if you don't brake in time, it is easy to hit the wall.

China Commercial Bank, this time it actually launched such a thing?

This doesn't look like the handiwork of Yizhou New Town at all!

At this time, Li Su, who was presiding over the new product promotion meeting, seemed to see everyone's voice.

Li Su couldn't help but raise the microphone in his hand, smiled slightly, and said: "This king knows that at this time, there are probably many people who are very disappointed in their hearts. This time, the new products launched by the China Commercial Bank are just these four-wheeled carriages? ”

"This four-wheeled carriage has no way to turn at all, it's useless! China Commercial Bank, how can it launch this kind of garbage? ”

"However, do you think that we, China Commercial Bank, will really launch this kind of garbage? The answer, of course, is no! ”

"This four-wheeled carriage launched by our China Commercial Bank can easily complete the turning!"

"In addition, the shock absorption of the carriage is first-class, and there are luxury versions and supreme versions!"

"The supreme version of the four-wheeled carriage is definitely a necessary means of transportation for you to go out and play and travel long distances!"

"The so-called hearing is better than seeing, below, please get on the car, let's experiment, whether the four-wheeled carriage produced by our Chinese commercial bank is exaggerated."

After listening to Li Sude's introduction, these rich people have some intentions.

Hey?

If the carriage could be steered, it would be a good means of transportation.

Next, everyone stepped into the four-wheeled carriage parked in the square.

There is a lot of space in the four-wheeled carriage, and it is not a problem to seat six people inside.

The square was so large that there were 200 horse-drawn carriages, enough for 1,200 people.

However, there were more people at the scene.

Two hundred carriages, certainly not enough.

Those who got into the carriage were naturally full of curiosity, touching here and where on the carriage.

It's just that I always feel that there is nothing unusual about this carriage and ordinary carriages.

And those who did not get into the carriage were immediately unhappy and complained.

Li Su immediately said: "Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry. In this way, the first carriages will pull them to the second new sightseeing spot. ”

"Then after the first group is delivered, the wagon will return immediately to transport the second group. The king promises that if you want to experience the new carriage, everyone will have a part in it today. ”

With the assurance of the king of Shu, these people were quiet.

Under Li Su's order, the carriage began to slowly drive out.

And the first group of tourists to get on the bus, when the carriage started, except for feeling a slight vibration, there was not the slightest sense of bump, which couldn't help but shock them.

This four-wheeled carriage is really not bumpy.

These carriages soon drove out of the square, and they were about to turn around.

The passengers in the carriage have not yet felt it.

The tourists who stayed in the square were surprised to find that, yes, the four-wheeled carriage could really turn lightly and easily.

This is completely different from the four-wheeled carriage they have seen before.

I have to say, it's really amazing.

In a short time, they came to the destination of the next exhibition, the riverside.

They seem to have spotted some boats on the river.

These ships seem to be a little different from ordinary ships.

However, it is clear that they don't care.

What they care more about now is the carriage they are riding.

And the rich second generation has a lot of money, and he is among the first batch of passengers.

At this time, Qian Duoduo couldn't help but ask: "Your Highness, I don't know how much this carriage costs?" What is the price of the Supreme Edition and the Deluxe Edition? ”

Qian Duoduo now has two electric cars, one for himself and one for the scholar.

But men, they will never dislike having too many cars.

When I come across a new car, I can't help but want to buy it.

Alas, this is probably a common problem for men, right?