Chapter 1362 If you want to make the carriage gallop, unless you don't put the inside
Chapter 1362 If you want to make the carriage fly, you must not treat the passengers inside as human beings (please subscribe and vote)
"That is to say, we only spent five hours and two quarters of an hour.
He has already arrived at Luzhou City from Rongzhou, which is three hundred miles away..." Li Ji murmured in a low voice.
Looking around, he saw all the tired merchants leaving the station and heading towards Luzhou City not far away.
I turned around again and looked at the station, which was still very lively at this moment, and four-wheeled carriages were arriving one after another.
Li Ji lingered here for a while, and all his personal entourage could only follow the governor of Jiannan Road.
Li Ji easily found out a lot of information. For example, the entire Tang Dynasty now has clear regulations on the itinerary of stagecoaches. Luyi fast horses can travel six stages a day, which is 180 miles.
No matter how close you are to traveling three hundred miles a day, the fastest you need is to travel five hundred miles or even eight hundred miles a day.
But the problem is that they are all used to convey important news and military affairs.
But here in Luzhou, they actually traveled three hundred miles a day just to transport those business travelers. This really made Li Ji speechless.
"No wonder Luzhou has developed so rapidly. It turns out that the smooth traffic can indeed attract a large number of business travelers."
Even Li Ji himself felt that although he was more comfortable riding a horse, riding in the snow, frost, rain and dew was the most difficult thing in winter.
Even if it is a carriage, sorry, except for the most important official road from Chang'an to Luoyang.
In other official ways, if you want to make the carriage fly, you must not treat the passengers inside as human beings.
In short, if you want to run like this, you will either knock the carriage apart or knock people over.
Li Ji raised his foot and stamped on the smooth concrete floor. There were also shallow marks on the cement official road.
This is naturally done to increase the friction between the tires and the road, not to bump people...
"Master, why don't we go to the city first?"
Li Ji then slowly stood up and nodded, taking long strides towards Luzhou City.
However, Li Ji did not go directly to the Governor's Mansion of Luzhou immediately. Instead, he found a lively inn in Luzhou City and stayed there.
The reason was that he was waiting for the accompanying officials to arrive and join him before heading to the Governor's Mansion.
But in fact, Li Ji wanted to have a good understanding of Luzhou's human customs, geography and people's sentiments before meeting Cheng Sanlang and Li Ke.
Let's see if it is true as these three young people said. This is a serious matter that His Majesty secretly confessed.
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After entering the inn, Li Ji did not go straight back to the room to rest, but stayed in the lobby and had dinner there.
While holding his ears open, he listened to the chatter and laughter of the diners who were also dining around him.
But most of them were ordinary topics, about Dong's parents and Li's family, which made Li Ji look bored.
At this moment, I saw two tired-looking guests walking into the inn-restaurant.
I ordered some food and drinks and started drinking together here.
"Gu Guanshi, how has your Shunzhou breeding farm been doing these past few months?"
"Sigh... I won't mention it anymore. Since the beginning of winter, the number of business trips has dropped a lot. Fortunately, the Governor's Office has come up with this interstate shuttle bus."
"Allowing those business travelers to travel between the states in such unbearable weather will make my life easier."
After hearing such a conversation, Li Ji suddenly became energetic, chewed food slower, and listened intently to the answers between the two men.
One is a steward from a trading firm in Changning Prefecture, and the other is a steward from a breeding firm in Shunzhou.
The two of them talked about the impact of the cold weather on their business. After listening for a while.
Li Ji picked up his own pot of fine wine and slowly came to the two business stewards.
After some pleasantries, the two business managers were naturally good people. Seeing that this man had an extraordinary bearing, he looked like a middle-aged man who had been in a high position for a long time and wanted to chat, so naturally he would not chase them away.
Li Ji was invited to sit with them and drank three glasses of wine. Li Ji asked the waiter to bring two more bottles of wine.
Then he smiled and raised his hands towards the two of them.
"Both of you are managers of various Jisizhou trading houses in Luzhou. You must know this place of Luzhou very well."
"I came from a foreign country and have always heard that the land in southern Shu is not as rich as the land in central Shu.
Moreover, there were many conflicts between the Tibetan people and the people, which made life difficult for the people, and even Jizhous often fought with each other."
"But just listening to what you two said, it seems that Luzhou is full of singing and dancing..."
After hearing this, the two stewards looked at each other and smiled in a tacit understanding. One of them, Steward Gu, saluted Li Ji with a smile.
"This Mr. Li, such rumors are talking about the Luzhou of the past, not the Luzhou of today."
"Actually, there are too many people like you, Mr. Li, who have doubts. Almost everyone who comes to Luzhou for the first time has this idea."
"But today's Luzhou, as Mr. Li said, is full of singing and dancing, and the people are very prosperous."
"Speaking of which, I would also like to thank our Luzhou Governor for his diligent work and caring for the people, which made Luzhou prosperous."
"Yes, yes... our Changning Prefecture is now considered the richest Jisi Prefecture in the entire Luzhou."
"In the past, Changning Prefecture was short of food and clothing, and the people were hungry and full. Sometimes during the lean years, they could only hunt game in the mountains to satisfy their hunger..."
However, after the newly appointed Governor of Luzhou came to Luzhou, he allowed merchants from the Han and Tang Dynasties to enter Zhuji Prefecture.
Their initial investment soon brought benefits to Zhuji Prefecture, and now there are many factories, mines, and workshops in Changning Prefecture.
And there are more than a dozen bamboo rat farms alone.
In the first year, coal mining was Changning Prefecture's pillar industry, but now, the benefits derived from coal mining have become smaller and smaller.
As for the people in Changning Prefecture, almost every household has food in stock and winter clothes.
It’s no longer like in the past, when the last meal was eaten but not the next meal, the animals could only rob and loot each other...
When I heard the discussion of these two stewards, they were full of praise for the Luzhou Governor's Mansion.
It is said that the Governor of Luzhou has beautiful trees in the wind, and that the Governor of Luzhou is diligent and caring for the people. He often goes among the people and greets the people.
Or that the son of the Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty also brought countless benefits to the people of Luzhou.
After talking about it, they were all talking about His Highness the King of Wu, Fang Erlang, and even officials from various places, but there was one important person missing.
Li Ji couldn't help but asked with some confusion. "Where is Shi Chengsanlang, the governor of Luzhou? I heard..."
"Shh!" Upon hearing the words Cheng Sanlang, Gu Gu's eyes of Shunzhou Commercial Bank suddenly bulged in fear, and he quickly raised his finger to stop it in front of his mouth.