More than a month later

August 16, 1867

The imperial capital is Chang'an

The luxury convoy with the royal flag fluttering on the front of the car quickly passed through Danfeng Street, and on both sides of the convoy were 800 royal guard cavalry galloping horses, and the iron hooves flew like dense rolling thunder, accompanying the ride all the way.

The bustling street was blocked by the patrol police, and everyone respectfully touched their chests with one hand, and watched the convoy of more than 30 black luxury cars gallop past with reverence.

With such a big battle, it can only be that His Majesty returns to the palace after inspection.

Sitting in the back seat of the sleek car, Emperor Richard watched the tall buildings on both sides of the street continue to retreat, and there was no expression in his deep eyes.

For more than 20 years

The imperial capital of Chang'an has developed into the second largest metropolis in the world after London, and is famous for its wide streets, beautiful scenery of the four seasons, urban architecture that highlights the characteristics of various countries and orderly transportation.

In particular, Chang'an's street parks and urban green belts that bloom all year round are beautiful, and it is known as the "Garden City of the West Coast".

Trams, which originated in the Tang Empire and quickly spread to cities around the world, are now spread throughout the empire's large, medium and small cities, and have become the main way for urban people to travel.

The emerging automobile industry has become a beautiful scenery in the city, with a total of 22,000 cars produced in the previous year, and sold at home and abroad, accounting for more than 80% of the number of internal sales in the empire.

Recalling today's inspection of the Dongfang Automobile Factory, Richard smiled comfortingly at the corner of his mouth.

Due to the strong demand for transportation, very intelligent Chinese engineers have developed several diesel cargo vehicles, and Dongfang Automobile is one of the more mature ones, which basically has the general department of later freight cars, the only difference is that it is open-top.

"Oriental" brand freight car approved load of 1.5 tons, overload two or three tons can also pull, using the front 2 rear 2 of the 4-wheel convertible layout, the overall than the rural tricycle of the city is larger, higher, but also more stout.

The car uses a two-cylinder diesel engine, which runs more smoothly and has more powerful power than a single-cylinder diesel engine.

The truck was an instant hit, with orders coming in like snowflakes, especially among farmers of all sizes in the empire.

The only disadvantage is that the price of Dongfang brand cars is still high, and the initial output is small, and now only 42~45 units can be produced by manual assembly every month, which is far from meeting the strong demand of the market.

During this inspection, Richard gave key investment and five-year preferential tax support with a wave of his hand.

It will be invested by the Science and Technology Industry Fund under the Royal Home Office, and a 75-acre piece of land in the southeast of Chang'an City will be allocated for the construction of new plants and equipment, after the completion of the automobile production will increase by more than 10 times, reaching a monthly production capacity of 500 "Dongfang" brand trucks.

Let's be honest

With the empire's abundant financial resources in the world, it was originally not able to look down on the interests of the shareholder Fangpai Automobile Company, and the profits of hundreds of thousands of Tang Yuan a year (Note; What can it be counted after the tenfold expansion of production capacity?

The reason why this is so is mainly to promote the vigorous development of the automobile industry and attract more social capital to invest in the automobile industry, so as to create a new driving force to lead the development of the industry.

What's more, the profit of expanding production capacity by 10 times is not good, so what about expanding by 100 times?

If Dongfang Automobile Factory can reach the capacity of producing tens of thousands of cars per year, its profitability will be quite amazing, and it is a good business that will make sure you don't lose money!

The investment of royal capital is a weather vane, and it is also the best publicity action.

The automobile industry of the Tang Empire has been developing for more than ten years, and the technology is becoming more and more mature, and a series of new inventions in the automotive field, such as new transmissions, clutches, shock absorbers, air rubber tires, hard steering machines, cross universal joints, etc., have been applied to automobiles, so that the automobile industry has a basis for extensive promotion.

The booming economy of the Tang Empire provided a rich soil for the outbreak of the automobile industry.

Among other things, according to the statistics of the Imperial Ministry of Agriculture, as of the end of June 1867;

The Tang Empire has a total of 463,100 pastures, 725,000 private plantations and farms of various scales, and more than 17 million people working in agriculture.

And the European countries were the empire's largest export destinations for agricultural products.

These more than one million ranches and farm plantations are a vast market for future freight vehicles, and there is a strong hard-core demand for freight vehicles.

Such a huge market is a solid foundation to support the automobile industry of the Datang Empire.

meanwhile

The Tang Empire is also the country with the largest number of cattle and horses in the world, with beef cattle alone, with more than 500,000 heads in California, Texas, Oregon, Colorado, Northern Province, Michigan, Nanda (formerly South Dakota), Chihuahua and Kansas, a total of 9 provinces.

Among them, California and Texas have more than one million beef cattle herds, and they are out-and-out agricultural and animal husbandry provinces.

In particular......

The northern provinces of Montana, Iowa and North Dakota (formerly North Dakota) are remote and have small populations, low beef cattle populations, and fewer farms.

But the area is vast, with streams and lush forests at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.

After more than ten years of organized hunting, the three provinces still have 4.5 million to 5 million bison, and the number of hunting licenses issued by the imperial government is about 400,000 each year.

This is one of the main economic pillars of the three northern provinces, and it can make a huge profit every year by selling a variety of cattle products, and its reputation spreads far and wide all over the world.

For example, the famous spiced bison jerky in the region is the military supplies of the imperial military, and the military of France, Britain, Prussia, the Netherlands, Belgium and other countries also regularly purchase a large number of bison jerky every year for soldiers to supplement nutrition and combat readiness storage in the field.

Cowhide mats, cowhide slippers, leather shoes, horn combs, various horn handicrafts, cow blankets, cowhide tents, cow felt, etc., produced in the area are all special products.

For example, cow felt is a must-have for armed militia soldiers on desert expeditions in South America, which can be put under the body to sleep, or placed under the butt as a cushion to protect pack horses when carrying goods.

Plugging in branches and leaves on the body is a protective suit, which can be used for hunting and combat.

When you are in a desperate situation, you can burn it with horse dung cakes to keep warm, which is one of the must-haves for life in the wild, and it is much better than ordinary blankets.

The most famous specialty snack in Montana Province is beef offal soup with oil cakes, which you have to drink almost every day in cold weather, and a bowl of hot and flavorful beef offal soup with oil cakes is really not too beautiful!

The North American Unified Market Agreement after the North American War created a large consumer market of more than 80 million people (Don, United States, American Union and Canada), and the unimpeded flow of people and logistics generated huge economic benefits, further facilitating rail transportation and road construction.

Nowadays, you can take a railway train to reach North American countries smoothly, the Tang Empire adopts national treatment for white immigrants to do business, and other countries do the same for Chinese immigrants to do business, and you only need to pay a passport visa fee of 10 Tang yuan when you go abroad, and there is no other fee.

The only restriction was on black slaves, who were strictly forbidden to enter the Tang Empire.

With the expansion of the empire's territory, this extended the scope of interconnection to Central America, and the Central American Railway, which was under construction, would be linked to the North American rail network as a smooth trunk railway for the flow of people and goods.

The railway construction of the Tang Empire has always been the focus of capital construction, and now the scale of construction is getting larger and larger, with more than 4,200 kilometers of new railways opened to traffic in a year, which has strongly supported the rapid development of the economy.

Martial law has been imposed on Danfengmen Square, and Royal Janissaries and patrolmen have blocked pedestrians and vehicles from the intersection and are not allowed to enter the square.

With the thunderous sound of the horse's hooves of the cavalry of the Royal Praetorian Guard, the military police on duty raised their hands and saluted, and the dense crowd all touched their chests with one hand in salute, and their bodies bent down slightly.

The palace gate on the side of Daming Palace has been opened

The heavily armed cavalry guards slowed down their horses, drew their sabers and held them flat in front of their chests, shouting in unison with the tips pointing upwards;

"The Royal Praetorian Guard respectfully sends His Majesty back to the palace, long live my Emperor...... Banzai...... Hooray......"

The cries of hundreds of cavalry resounded in the sky, and they were neatly arranged and imposing.

This triggered a tsunami-like cry from the surrounding crowd;

"Long live my emperor...... Banzai...... Hooray......"

"Long live the Tang Empire, long live my emperor...... Banzai...... Hooray......"

The black luxury car team that was speeding all the way did not slow down at all, and after speeding from Danfengmen Street, it turned a corner, and quickly drove into the palace gate one after another, showing the coldness of the royal style.

Many old-fashioned figures and former retired officers and soldiers knelt down from afar, chanting "Long live my emperor", and tears of excitement could not help flowing out......

There will always be a ruler in the hearts of the subjects of the empire, who does a happy life depend on now?

The bell and drum tower of Danfengmen Square stands tall and makes a dull whine, the bell rings every 15 seconds, ringing 12 times in total, and the melodious bell spreads far away.

This is the highest courtesy to welcome the emperor home, and the people who have lived in the imperial capital for a long time know it when they hear it; His Majesty has returned to the palace.

Never underestimate the meaning of the bell, in the Tang Empire, His Majesty the Emperor is the eternal core of this great empire with a territory of thousands of miles, the most solid backbone, and the spiritual pillar of all the people uniting as one.

As long as His Majesty the Emperor is there, everyone will feel at ease.

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