Catkins are flying on the avenue and the sun is shining brightly. The weather is good today. Many people are going out for outings. The cars and horses are bumping on the road, which is quite lively. In Huanglong County, Pingxi County, the place that is more lively than the official road is the tight Ganzhou Manufacturing Bureau next to Guandao.
In just half a year, the former Huanglong Craftsmanship Camp and now the Ganzhou Manufacturing Bureau have already changed. When Yan Liqiang came out of the manufacturing bureau in a black four-wheeled carriage, there was still a sign at the door of the manufacturing bureau. There was a long queue of motorcades and a bustling scene.
There are three types of convoys lined up at the entrance of the manufacturing bureau. One is the delivery vehicles from Shugang Village and Hepingba Village near the manufacturing bureau. These vehicles are all four-wheeled ox carts. Although they are slow, they are The four-wheeled carriages manufactured by the Manufacturing Bureau have long been popular in Huanglong County due to their large load capacity. Although those ordinary four-wheeled carriages do not have advanced shock absorbing devices such as springs, after all, four-wheeled carriages are more powerful than two-wheeled carriages. Cars with two wheels were too convenient, so once craftsmen from all over the country understood the principle of four-wheeled carriage bogies, more and more four-wheeled carriages were running on the official roads, and there was a strong tendency to completely replace two-wheeled carriages. .
The things that the villagers of Shugang Village and Hepingba Village sent to the Manufacturing Bureau were exactly the swords and arrows that the Manufacturing Bureau commissioned them to process, which were the two most consumed and used items among the army. Today is the manufacturing The bureau and the villagers of the two villages agreed on the monthly delivery date, so there were particularly many bullock carts coming.
The spears and arrows on the oxcart have been bundled and wrapped. After being brought to the manufacturing bureau, the craftsmen of the manufacturing bureau are responsible for inspecting and storing them in the warehouse. As long as the quality is qualified, real money will be paid to the villagers immediately. One hand delivers the goods and the other hand collects the money. There is no default and no IOU. The villagers who got the money all narrowed their eyes with smiles.
In the past six months, after experiencing the real sweetness and benefits in Shugang Village and Hepingba Village, which are close to the Manufacturing Bureau, more and more people have joined the ranks of making weapons. After eating every night After meals or during farm breaks, each home is like a small workshop. Men, women, old and young come together to do the work. The whole village is busy taking orders from the manufacturing bureau. And every time it is time for delivery, the old and young men in the village rush to the truck. , sending large quantities of qualified arrows and spears to the manufacturing bureau. This scene has become a unique scenery in Huanglong County.
The manufacturing bureau is collecting arrows and spears sent by the villagers on one side, and on the other side, after these arrows and spears were put into storage, they were sent out in a blink of an eye and became the ordnance purchased by the Pingxi County garrison, especially Compared with spears, the consumption of arrows in the army was greater, and the demand was greater. When there were almost no enough arrows, after learning that the arrows produced by the manufacturing bureau were of excellent quality, Lei Lei With a wave of his hand, Sitong said that all the arrows produced by the Ganzhou Manufacturing Bureau were covered by the Ganzhou Army, and the purchase price was the same as the arrows purchased by the Ganzhou Army from various crafts battalions.
For this reason, the manufacturing bureau collects things and puts them into the warehouse. After that, these things will be taken out of the warehouse and moved to four-wheeled carriages. According to the requirements of the governor's office, they will be sent to the main camps of the armies in Ganzhou. .
Among the four-wheeled vehicles lined up outside the manufacturing bureau, those pulled by horses to the outside of the manufacturing bureau were Deku's arrows and spears.
Among the carriages outside the manufacturing bureau, there are many traditional two-wheeled carriages, pulled by rhino horses, and there are also four-wheeled carriages. The carriages that look like they are pulling people rather than goods are from In all directions, some were from Ganzhou, some were from the northwest states, and some were from other states and counties in the Han Empire. On those carriages, there were well-dressed people sitting on them. Through the window of the carriage, I said this to the people sitting in the carriage, asking questions, and looking at the fleet of cars outside the manufacturing bureau with interest. These carriages came to the manufacturing bureau to place orders. .
In the past six months, the four-wheeled carriages of the Ganzhou Manufacturing Bureau have become famous all over the world and have become a symbol of the identity and status of the Han Empire. All of this came from Yan Liqiang having someone send it to the Imperial City to the emperor before he went into cultivation last year. His Majesty’s “gift” is the “celebrity marketing” carefully planned by Yan Liqiang.
According to the returning craftsmen, when the four-wheeled carriage of the Manufacturing Bureau was assembled in Luyuan for Eunuch Liu to take to the palace, the entire imperial capital was in a sensation. After receiving the four-wheeled carriage sent by Yan Liqiang, His Majesty the Emperor Long Yan was delighted. , not even two days later, he had a winter hunt with the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty at the royal hunting ground outside the imperial capital. During the winter hunt, under the envious eyes of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, His Majesty the Emperor sat down and gave it to him with a strict ceremony. The unique four-wheeled carriage appeared in the hunting ground. It was so majestic that it immediately surpassed the frame of Prime Minister Lin Qingtian. It completely overwhelmed Lin Qingtian. As a result, the four-wheeled carriage of Ganzhou Manufacturing Bureau His reputation spread all of a sudden among the dignitaries and wealthy families in the Imperial City.
Before the few craftsmen sent by Yan Liqiang to the Imperial City could come back, orders for luxurious four-wheeled carriages had already arrived from all directions in the Han Empire.
A carriage worth more than 5,000 taels of silver is naturally a huge sum of money in the eyes of ordinary people, but this small amount of money is nothing in the eyes of the wealthy families and dignitaries of the Han Empire. You must know that in those families An exotic rhinoceros horse sometimes costs tens of thousands of taels of silver. Some of the rarer and rarer exotic rhinoceros horses are more likely to cost more than 100,000 taels of silver. Compared with those exotic rhinoceros horses, the price is less than 10,000 taels of silver. A four-wheel carriage is not expensive, but cheap. For those people, let alone thousands of taels of silver, even if the price is ten times higher, as long as Ganzhou Manufacturing Bureau can let them ride in a four-wheeled carriage that can make His Majesty the Emperor like it, it will be worth it. .
Facing the roles of stewards and other wealthy families from all over the Han Empire, Qian Su's views on rich people were refreshed for the first time -
A special custom-made four-wheel carriage worth more than ten thousand taels of silver. When many people came, they smashed their banknotes in front of Qian Su and asked for dozens of them. It was like buying watermelon on the street.
Because the ordering cycle for four-wheeled carriages is long, many people who come to order carriages even say that if they can deliver the carriage one day in advance, they will be given an extra thousand taels of silver.
What's more, after finding Qian Su, he directly offered millions of taels of silver to buy the manufacturing method of springs needed to make four-wheeled carriages...
In addition, those forces who saw the business opportunities of the Manufacturing Bureau's four-wheeled carriage and wanted to cooperate with the Manufacturing Bureau also came one after another...
Of course, just when Yan Liqiang Qianxiu was not interested in worldly affairs, because of such a four-wheeled carriage, the name Yan Liqiang was completely known in the Han Empire. This time, it was not only the northwest of Ganzhou and the Imperial City, but the entire Everyone in the Han Empire knew that there was such a famous governor Qi Yun in Pingxi County in Ganzhou...
Yan Liqiang's past affairs were uncovered. Suddenly, many people compared his attainments in the art of detecting objects with organs to Zhang Yourong, the first organ master in the Han Empire. He was known as Yan Liqiang in the East and Yan Liqiang in the West. Yan Liqiang's reputation in Ganzhou and Pingxi County was suddenly Zi has reached a peak again...
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