Chapter five hundred and sixty-six patent rights and the plan to attack Shu
It only took more than half a month to increase from 20,000 to 100,000. Just last month, the average daily passenger volume of postcars in Chang'an City has reached 257,000. According to the shortest two stops for each person, the 257,000 passengers are 1,028 guan, and the average monthly income has reached more than 30,000 guan.
After deducting the relevant maintenance costs, wages and rations, I actually had a surplus of 17,000 chunks per month. Not only did the Ministry of Transportation, but even I was shocked. My conservative estimate was that I could guarantee the capital to be able to make a profit within a year at least half a year, but what I didn’t expect was.
In just five months, the profit has reached more than 17,000 chunks. It is surprising that after sending professionals to investigate, it was confirmed that the guys from the National Transportation Company did not lie.
What is Chang'an? Chang'an can be regarded as the world's first giant city with a population of more than one million. After more than a year of support, Chang'an's industry and commerce have developed rapidly, with 200,000 customers and vendors traveling to and from the East and West City of Chang'an every day.
In addition, over one million people in Chang'an must have to go out every day. Just before the Chinese New Year, statistics have been made again. There are a total of 1.273,754 residents in Chang'an City and within 20 miles around Chang'an City.
There are also more than 100,000 troops, and the number of migrant populations from all over the world is probably at least 1.6 million.
In the past year, the population of Chang'an has been increasing significantly. After Yang Guang moved the capital to Luoyang, the population in Chang'an and surrounding areas has dropped from more than one million at its peak to more than 980,000.
However, now, the entire Guanzhong is under my rule and vigorously developing industry and commerce. In addition, the population flows, so the migrant population in Chang'an City has reached an advanced scale.
However, this is far from the capacity of a super city with a radius of 84 square kilometers, such as Chang'an City. Think about it, Kaifeng Prefecture in the Song Dynasty was only 50 square kilometers, with a population of over one million. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the population of Ming and Beijing City was the largest in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the population was more than 1.2 million. What's more, Chang'an?
Anyway, I can't help but admire the ancient architects. It seems that they had long anticipated such a crowded situation in the capitals of Chang'an. Therefore, all the roads were built extremely wide, which gave the postcars great convenience. After the postcar traffic was adopted, many people gave up the slow ox cart and instead took the postcar.
This makes road traffic more convenient. In addition, the strict rules for transferring energy are required, and all pedestrians must walk on the sidewalk. It is strictly forbidden to walk on the vehicle passage in the middle of the road. Whoever dares to commit a crime, I'm sorry, if you commit a crime, it will not only be a fine, but also record your name and address.
If he is caught for the second time, he will be asked to be a voluntary traffic propagandist and voluntarily distribute leaflets on the street for two days. For this reason, many people who like to run around criticize this matter, but after the newspapers told the newspaper to report several incidents of pedestrians hit by a carriage and were killed and disabled.
Those guys were stunned. After all, no one wanted to use their own wealth and life for such a little convenience.
Therefore, based on the population and daily number of passengers, 257,000 passengers are still a small number. According to cities with a population of only one million in later generations, the daily number of passengers taking buses alone must reach at least 450,000 passengers to be considered basically qualified.
This does not include private cars and taxis. In this era, people who truly own private carriages will not exceed one thousand in Chang'an. In addition, the flow of people in a country like Chang'an must exceed that of an ordinary city with a population of one million. The daily transportation volume must at least double to basically meet the transportation needs of the people and business people in Chang'an.
Now it’s not that no one is taking a car, and each stagecoach is strictly standardized to allow only 50 people to squeeze in and carry up to 50 kilograms of goods. But even so, the production volume of the stagecoach can no longer keep up with the use. Therefore, now the carriage manufacturing company in Hancheng County no longer sends goods to Chang'an once a month, but distributes every ten vehicles to Chang'an for the first time.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Transportation, Chang'an City alone requires at least 1,500 to 2,000 eight-wheeled carriages to meet the needs of Chang'an City. What a shocking number, at least I was shocked.
As the boss behind Hancheng County Carriage Manufacturing Company, he knew very well that this number alone would be equivalent to the Hancheng County Carriage Manufacturing Company's production for a year without stopping, and other types of carriages can only be put on hold.
To this end, as early as the end of last year, under the order of this son, the Royal Carriage Manufacturing Company once again expanded its production scale. By the end of this year, the company expanded from an annual production of 1,000 vehicles to an annual production of 2,500 vehicles, and strived to achieve an annual production of 5,000 vehicles within three years and build the world's largest carriage manufacturer.
Although there are many 5,000 vehicles, in fact, after the cement straight road is built, people with some money are unwilling to squeeze in stage cars with others. What should I do? Only those who have to equip themselves, but many four-wheeled carriage patents have been registered by my carriage manufacturing company. If you want to produce them, you must spend a lot of patent use rights.
Otherwise, if you are caught, I'm sorry, you can get rid of your bankruptcy. Well, the National Patent Office has been established, not only patents on various devices, but also many patents on medicine have been registered. For example, I have registered patents on thermometers, blood pressure meters, stethoscopes and other medical devices.
As long as it is authorized to a certain manufacturer, I will have countless money falling into my pocket. Although the term for invention patents is only twenty years, and the term for utility model patents and design patents is only ten years.
However, even so, as long as the reputation of the Royal Carriage Manufacturing Company is established, what can we do even if the patent right is reached? Think about the old brands that have been passed down for hundreds of years in the later generations, and they will not still live a comfortable life in the 21st century.
Anyway, the order for four-wheeled carriages of the Royal Carriage Manufacturing Company has been scheduled for March next year, and there are many shameless friends who come to find me, hoping that I can help them get in line and get the carriage as soon as possible. Naturally, I was so embarrassed that I asked them to take out one-third of the money and deliver it to them in advance.
Although doing this is a bit shameless, these guys not only can't despise me, but also have to thank me, a righteous brother. Otherwise, I really want to do official business, let alone a year. If I am indifferent to them, I will still say whether I can take it for a year and a half.
Everyone was also in silence. The warrior nodded and sighed: "There are only five stagecars to Hanzhong now. If you really want to bring all the carriages that can transport a division, supplies and spare horses, this is not a small project."
Luo Shixin grinned and said, "Then let the soldiers walk, only six or seven hundred miles away. What's the matter? At the end of that year, the generals led their troops to attack thousands of miles, and they didn't think it was a big deal."
These words made many generals come back to their senses. "Yes, we have never walked such a good road in the past, but it is no problem to be able to travel about eighty miles a day. Now that we have a wide and flat cement straight road, I believe there should be no big problem to arrive at the chessboard within ten days." Qin Qiong said happily with a high-high.
"There is no need to use so many carriages. In fact, the cement straight roads today are already smooth for our soldiers compared to the past roads. 780 miles away, even if our soldiers are on their legs, they can arrive within ten days." Qu Tutong nodded with his long beard under his chin and said to the ministers.
"But in this way, we must find a way to keep it confidential. After all, the ten-day situation is enough for Yicheng County, Shuzhong, to receive the news. In this way, we will definitely be prepared." Li Jing couldn't help but frowned slightly and expressed his worries.
"Ten days... Indeed, now the territory of Guanzhong is well-connected and there are no checkpoints, so it is easy to leak military information." Qu Tutong couldn't help but frown. "Besides, after leaving the chessboard gate, this road is difficult to walk. It is already the limit to be able to travel thirty or fifty miles a day."
"The road to Shu is difficult than climbing to the sky..." I couldn't help but sigh. In order to attack the land of Bashu, I knew more about the difficult and dangerous transportation in the land of Bashu. For this reason, I spent a lot of money to open up the road from Hanzhong to Qipanguan.
You should know that in the past, I had to walk from Hanzhong to Miangu County, Yicheng County, at least for nearly a month because the road was too rugged and difficult to walk. The road from Hanzhong to Qipanguan was not only the earliest to be built, but also the most invested money.
After digging the mountain and digging stones, I tried my best to open the mountain and dig out seven tunnels that were about one mile long, which straightened the road a little. And for this road, at least seventy workers fell down.
"By the way, how many soldiers and horses are there in Yicheng County?" I stroked my eyebrows and asked loudly.
"Your Majesty, Yicheng County has a total of 7,000 soldiers and horses, of which 4,000 were originally the Dasui County, and the next three thousand were the young and strong militia recruited by the county prefect. Although they were militias, the Shu people were brave and fierce. Therefore, they should not be ordinary young and strong tricks." As the General Staff member, Li Jing naturally knew the primary target of attack.
"Seven thousand..." I stroked my eyebrows. "Seven thousand soldiers can stop the tens of thousands of troops of our Chinese Revival Army.
Chapter completed!