Hearing Yunxi call out the word "good", Yang Ling immediately didn't dare to say anything, but thought in his heart: "You are just a servant of the internal government yamen. The tax police will not pay you the tax if they collect it too much."
Even if you collect taxes, you won't lose your share of money and food. What's that good about?'
These more than ten tax policemen held batons in their hands and collected commercial taxes from north to south. Several of them glanced sideways as they passed by Yunxi and his group, seeming to be sizing up the group with six children.
What is the identity of the person? But they took a few glances and passed by, saying as they walked: "This town is far enough from the city, and it is quite difficult to walk there. You should ask the department for some horses."
"Forget it. Horses are more valuable than us, and you still want to come here on horseback? Why not ask for a carriage to pull goods, and come back in the carriage later."
Yunxi stood at the door of the police station, watching them collect taxes while waiting for the person he was waiting for. Yang Ling felt that nothing had happened to him and wanted to go back to rest, but he didn't dare to say it. He was not afraid that Yunxi would not allow it, even if
If you don't allow it, it's just a few scoldings, which doesn't count. He was afraid that if he asked this question, he would not be rewarded with what he originally planned to reward him. So he followed Yunxi and waited. After a while, the person Yunxi wanted to wait for
Come over here.
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"I have met the young master." Cao Zheng and Claviyo saluted Yunxi.
"My subordinate has met the young master." Borunevsky imitated Cao Zheng and said in very stiff Chinese.
"No gift." Yunxi immediately asked: "How is the promotion of bicycles? Are the workers in the steel plant willing to have them?"
"Master, it's not ideal." Cao Zheng replied: "I just took two craftsmen to the steel factory to introduce it to the stewards and workers in the factory. They were all very interested in bicycles. Someone saw the two craftsmen riding one.
They were eager to try it and ride it. Although they fell down quickly, it still felt very novel. They also heard that the front frame and the back shelf can hold things, and the back shelf can hold 200 kilograms of things.
Later, I became more interested.”
"But when they heard the price of this thing, they all shook their heads. I asked, and someone said: 'This thing costs ten guan, which is too much. It only costs three guan a month. And this thing
Just like a carriage, it will break down after being used for a long time, so it doesn’t count.’ In the end, only one of the two craftsmen paid for a bicycle,” said Cao Zheng.
There are three reasons why Yunxi came here today. One is to take the children to see the steel plant and the family area, to see if there have been any changes after the steel plant became privately owned, and to take a break and chat with the workers.
Understand the sentiments of the people; the second reason is for this bicycle.
After the bicycle was developed two years ago, Yunxi immediately thought of the group that might use it, namely the workers of the steel plant. Because the system of the steel plant is the closest to the factories of later generations, and the lives of the workers in the steel plants are also the closest to the workers of later generations.
In other words, he is the person closest to future generations and therefore the most likely to use bicycles, so he wants to promote bicycles to them. But as an emperor, he cannot personally promote bicycles even if his identity is not revealed. It just so happens that he still has
Other matters brought Cao Zheng and Borunevsky here, so Cao Zheng took two craftsmen who developed bicycles to the steel factory to promote them. However, they did not expect that the results were not satisfactory.
"Can the cost of bicycles be lowered?" Yunxi turned his head and looked at the two craftsmen.
"Young master, it really can't be lowered." One of them said: "The places that can be replaced with wood have been replaced with wood. If it is replaced, it will not be easy to ride; the structure cannot be changed. Unless it is not durable.
"
"No, it must be durable." Yunxi said. Originally, the price was too high and people were unwilling to buy it. If it was not durable, no one would want it.
"Well, it seems I took it for granted." Yunxi asked a few more questions, and finally had to admit: "The cost of bicycles is still a bit high now, and ordinary people have never used them, so they are suspicious. The promotion of bicycles is nothing more than that."
"Please, sir, forgive us two for our sins." The two craftsmen said hurriedly.
"This is not the fault of you two. What sin can be forgiven?" Although his idea was wrong, Yunxi obviously did not take this matter to heart and said with a smile: "That's good, tricycles also use rubber.
There isn't much rubber now. If everyone wants a bicycle, there won't be much rubber that can be used on tricycles. Even if people don't want to use tricycles, there are also four-wheeled carriages. As long as the research is successful, the court will definitely need a lot, which will just happen.
Save the rubber and use it on it.”
"Thank you, sir." Although Yunxi did not blame them, they still said this.
Yunhe said a few more words to them, asked the two craftsmen to step back, and then he was going to talk to Cao Zheng and Borunevsky about the third thing he had come here for today. But before he could say anything,
Then I heard a loud shout: "The tax police are robbing something!"
"The tax policeman is robbing something?" Hearing this, Yunxi immediately raised his head and looked over, and saw a man wearing a blue tax policeman's coat blocking another person. It really looked like he was robbing something; he was blocking him
The man kept shouting "tax police are grabbing things" repeatedly. That was enough. What made Yunxi even more curious was that what the man was pushing with both hands was a bicycle.
"The only bicycle sold was bought by this person?" Yunxi asked.
"Yes, sir." Cao Zheng replied.
While they were asking and answering questions, the situation at the scene had changed. Many workers heard the shouting and ran out of the family area to surround the tax policeman. Seeing that their companions were in bad condition, other tax policemen also hurried over.
Support. Originally, the workers didn’t like the tax police. Now that they heard that they were trying to rob something, of course they were not polite. Although they didn’t dare to hit them, they had nothing nice to say. After hearing these words, the tax police certainly didn’t like them.
Unhappy, he waved his baton with all his teeth and claws. Seeing this, the patrolman from the police station hurriedly ran out and squeezed between the two groups to prevent them from fighting.
"What's going on?" Yunxi asked the six children to stay where they were. After the order was slightly restored with the efforts of the patrol officers, he walked over with three or four guards and asked.
Some people from the three parties turned to look at Xiang Yunxi, but no one answered. They all seemed to be assessing who Yunxi was. Seeing this, Yang Ling, who was following Yunxi, shouted: "Master Zhu, the internal officer and supervisor, is here!"
Why don't you salute quickly!"
"Inner Official Prison? Isn't that the yamen in the palace? Is this man a eunuch?" "You didn't see the beard on his chin, how could he be a eunuch?" "Then how could he be from the inner official prison? Yang Ling/This
Are you shouting randomly?" "Although Yang Ling is naughty, he doesn't dare to shout randomly. Besides, all the yamen in the inner palace must be father-in-law? Can't there be a few normal men?" Everyone started talking, and
The worker pulled Yang Ling over and asked Yunxi's identity.
"Master Zhu," after a while, maybe because he believed Yang Ling's words, or maybe because Yunxi's style was different from ordinary people, the man pushing the bicycle said: "The little man's surname is Ma. I just saw him in the factory.
Someone was playing with a bicycle and thought that this thing can be ridden and can carry one or two hundred kilograms of goods. Although the price is a bit expensive, the villain thought it was worth it, so he bought one. Just now, the villain was pushing the bicycle to enter his house. This tax policeman
Suddenly, he rushed over and said he wanted to see my bicycle. The villain didn’t know who the tax policeman was, so how could he show it to him? He wanted to steal it, but the villain could only shout, “The tax policeman is grabbing something,” and let him
The workers came over to help."
"Please also ask Mr. Zhu to uphold justice."
"I didn't mean to rob!" the tax policeman said immediately, "I just wanted to take a look. You mistakenly thought I wanted to rob."
"I don't know you, why should I show it to you?" the man said again.
The tax policeman said for a moment. Because the tax policemen shoulder the heavy responsibility of collecting taxes, all the people they see are afraid of them. Their attitude is so good that they swell. Although they dare not do anything wrong due to strict discipline,
They didn't even dare to learn from the old government officials, but they were a little arrogant when facing the people. Of course they didn't dare to steal things, but they just borrowed them to look at, and they didn't think it was anything. But they didn't expect that this time they met someone who was not afraid of them.
people.
After Yunxi heard the whole story, he immediately scolded: "Even if you want to borrow something, you have to get permission from the other person. If you forcefully 'borrow' it without consent, it's no different from robbing! Why don't you apologize to them quickly!"
"I'm sorry!" The policeman was probably afraid of Yunxi's background in the palace. Although he was dissatisfied with his reprimand, he didn't dare not listen. He could only take a few steps forward and salute: "I'm sorry!"
"Well, I shouldn't have yelled like that, and I have to apologize to you." The worker surnamed Ma thought it would be better not to offend the people in the yamen too much, so he said. Even if the matter was resolved. When the workers saw that the matter was resolved, they dispersed one after another.
Go; these tax policemen seemed to have finished collecting the taxes, put their batons on their waists, saluted Yunxi again, and were about to leave.
"Hold on!" Yunxi suddenly asked the person who wanted to 'borrow' a bicycle just now: "What did you want to borrow from that person just now?"
"Master Qi, it's him who is pushing this bicycle."
"You want to borrow a bicycle? Why?"
"I think that thing is very interesting, and it may be useful to us." The tax policeman said: "Sir, we tax policemen have been running around the city and outside the city all day collecting taxes, walking around on two legs. We are so tired.
I've long been looking for something to rest my legs and feet."
"But you can't ride a horse. Horses are so expensive, so it's impossible for the office to prepare horses for us; and carriages are inconvenient in the city."
"Just now, the little man was chatting with his colleagues when he suddenly saw this bicycle and heard the man's conversation with his co-workers. He knew that this bicycle can be used by one person to ride, and the rear rack can also hold things, and the price seems to be low.
It's too expensive, so I decided to take a look. If it's suitable, I'll ask the office to buy a bicycle as a substitute when I get back."
The tax policeman was about to say a few more words to show that he really didn't want to steal the bicycle, when Yunxi said: "That's it! I was negligent." (To be continued)
