"It's so congested!?" Liu Changyou suddenly changed color. He knew the distance from the palace to the railway station, mainly along the Xuanwu Lake around the upper half circle, which was at most ten miles, and according to the speed of the carriage, at least ten miles per hour, but Fan Ruzeng took the carriage two hours in advance, or was late, and the special carriage that Fan Ruzeng took must be special, the speed must be the fastest, and the priority is also along the way, but just like that, it still didn't arrive for two hours, and the streets in the holy capital were inevitably too congested.

"How many wagons have been put in?" When Liu Changyou arrived in Shengjing, he encountered problems in people's livelihood, so he couldn't help but think about it and asked deliberately.

"The Ministry of Communications may only put 300 vehicles, but there are now more than 800 vehicles in the entire Shengjing. Seeing that this carriage was profitable, many merchants followed suit and hired horsemen to operate it, transporting the city's residents who needed to go out for a fee, and the number of them is still increasing at thirty or forty per day. Fan Ruzeng explained.

"How's that going to work? Why didn't the Ministry of Transportation leave this privately run carriage alone? Liu Changyou asked strangely: "How can these private individuals be allowed to operate the carriage at will, first, to rob the profits of the state-owned bus carriage of the Ministry of Communications, and secondly, it will also cause chaos in the Holy Capital City, and everyone will operate it casually, wouldn't it be a mess?" ”

He didn't notice that the son next to him, Liu Siqian, had bright eyes and a disapproving face.

Fan Ruzeng waved his hand and said with a wry smile: "I also have the same questions as my brother, including many other ministers of the DPRK and China, who knows that the Ministry of Communications completely ignored it, but said that the road is too narrow and needs to be widened." Guess what they said, they replied that the launch of public carriages was an introduction, and the original purpose was to attract private capital to invest in and operate public carriages. The bus is a good thing, which can facilitate the travel of the people, speed up the flow of people in the city, improve social efficiency and labor exchange, so it needs to be vigorously cared for and promoted.

They originally wanted to try the effect of the bus carriage, but they didn't expect that the people in the city would have such a huge demand and cause such a sensation. For a while, the preparation was insufficient, the corresponding management regulations and operating methods were not introduced, and the bus and carriage were not easy to come forward to restrict for the time being, and the roads in the holy capital were not widened and widened, and it was said that His Majesty personally spoke, and temporarily did not allow the restriction of private capital investment in the bus and horse-drawn car, so that all the things were done together, and the entire capital was blocked like this. ”

"Your Majesty personally spoke, saying not to restrict the investment of private capital in buses and carriages?" Liu Siqian immediately grasped the key point in Fan Ruzeng's words, and asked Fan Ruzeng: "This, Director Fan, although the concept and launch of this bus carriage was made by the Ministry of Communications, it should be His Majesty's idea, right?" ”

Fan Ruzeng looked at Liu Siqian in surprise: "Brother Xian is really a god!" How do you know that this carriage was His Majesty's idea? This is a confidential matter, and the Ministry of Communications has never revealed anything to the outside world, and I only learned about it from His Majesty's mouth two days ago. ”

"It's a good guess! Your Majesty is the most holy in the world, and only Your Majesty has so many ingenious inventions and incredible ideas. Have you forgotten how the Taiping Holy Kingdom and the Chinese Empire began? Your Majesty has invented all kinds of novelties similar to holy fat and holy oil, is there still a few? Speaking of His Majesty, Liu Siqian looked adoring, and his eyebrows fluttered when he spoke, and he was very excited: "Actually, I said from His Majesty's statement that there should be no restrictions on the investment of private capital in the bus and horse, and I can see that this bus and horse carriage is the creation of His Majesty!"

Come to think of it, His Majesty must have had great confidence in this carriage with so much importance and care, and it can be guessed from this that only the creator would have so much love and confidence in this novel business. I believe that in the eyes of His Majesty, this thing will have a great future. And guiding private businessmen to invest in the operation of this kind of bus and carriage is the real purpose of His Majesty. ”

After speaking, Liu Siqian winked proudly at his father Liu Changyou.

Liu Changyou naturally understood what his son meant, and this was to remind him that His Majesty was going to promote the upcoming reform of the cabinet, and he would vigorously promote private capital, especially the squires who had strong economic strength but were still operating land and loans, and lured or drove these people out of the fields and towards industrial and commercial development.

As soon as he heard that it was the bus carriage promoted by His Majesty, Liu Changyou understood why the Ministry of Communications did not immediately take measures to control the bus carriages that caused congestion.

He was even more curious about this kind of carriage: "There are dozens of bus carriages added every day, how many passengers can this one usually carry?" ”

Fan Ruzeng led the way out of the square and said, "Brother, you can see that kind of carriage later, and it is quite comfortable to sit on." This kind of bus carriage is a large four-wheeled carriage, which is much wider and longer than the previous family carriages of rich and noble families, and most of them are still double-decker structures, and a car can carry thirty or forty people.

The Ministry of Transportation divides these carriages into dozens of routes, which pass through a dozen or more points in between from one point to the end point. Like the little brother to pick you up today, this carriage is specially requisitioned a No. 12 car, from the southeast corner of the city to the northeast corner, the whole journey is 11 miles, a single trip will take nearly an hour or so, and there will definitely be 2 to 3 times as many passengers on the way, that is, 1 hour can pull up about 80 to 100 passengers. ”

Liu Siqian immediately interrogated: "Director Fan, how much should a passenger pay on average?" As he asked, his eyes lit up, obviously he had an idea.

"I don't know. I sat twice, about five or six miles, and charged me 5 cents once. How? Brother is still interested in this? Fan Ruzeng replied.

"Just ask." Liu Siqian replied casually, but in his mind, he was already calculating that each bus carriage could pull 8 to 10 hours a day, that is, about 800 passengers, even if it was a fare of 5 yuan, that is, an income of 40 saint yuan, in a month, it would be 1200 saint yuan, excluding the cost of the coachman, horses and carriages, the profit of 500 saint yuan a month would always be there, then it would be 6000 sheng yuan a year, which was only the profit of a carriage, if it was ten carriages and 100 carriages. There are also cities, which are only in Shengjing, and they can also be quickly promoted to the major cities of other empires, such as Wuchang, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, etc., isn't it......

Liu Siqian unconsciously saliva was about to leak out.

Liu Changyou patted Liu Siqian's brain, woke him up from his fantasy, and said to Fan Ruzeng: "This kid is fascinated when he hears about making money, and he doesn't know how he was born to our Liu family!" Brother Xian, although this 5 yuan is not much, it is enough to buy a bun, and so many people are willing to spend this money to take a car? ”

Fan Ruzeng laughed: "My brother didn't come to the capital last year, and he may not know the great changes in the holy capital in the past two years." In the past two years, the holy capital has ushered in great development, all walks of life have developed rapidly, and the population of the capital has grown explosively! Does my brother know how many people there are in the Holy Capital today? 2.4 million! ”