The first thousand nine hundred and sixty-six chapters the emperor drives twelve
The carriage industry of the Tang Dynasty is not old-fashioned. They have always been on the wave of the times. The earliest application of springs, besides flintlock muskets, was carriages!
The carriage technology of the Tang Dynasty has actually made great progress in recent years. At the beginning, it was only a wooden structure vehicle, but now, the main structure of many carriages is actually steel.
In particular, Jinling Carriage Company has built a series of new royal carriages for the royal family, which basically use steel as the main structure.
Among them, the twelve-horse chariot specially built for the Holy Emperor weighed six tons and was pulled by multiple rows of twelve horses. There were six riders accompanying the horses. By the way, this is not
If you really need so many horses, even if the vehicle weighs five tons, six horses are enough, eight or nine at most.
The reason why twelve horses are used is purely to reflect the particularity of the Holy Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
In the past, it was said that the emperor rode six horses, but how could the Holy Emperor of the Tang Dynasty be comparable to those emperors in ancient times? If six horses were also used, how could the Holy Emperor's status beyond the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors be demonstrated?
Therefore, more horses were needed, but it was difficult to arrange too many horses. In the end, we chose a consistent twelve-horse plan.
Therefore, although the Zhou rites were still followed in the Tang Dynasty, the emperor drove six, the kings drove five, and the rest drove four, but the holy emperor was not included in this group, and the holy emperor drove twelve.
Therefore, when initially designing this special carriage, which was usually used for important occasions, the twelve-horse plan was determined first, and then the body was designed.
Because the car body is huge and has a lot of decorations, although many structures are made of gold and wood, and in order not to look so bulky, the design is very difficult, especially the load-bearing design.
In order to solve the load-bearing problem of the core structure, the core load-bearing structure is made of the latest alloy steel from Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company.
The development of horse carriages in the Tang Dynasty has always kept pace with the times. It is not said to be complacent. Otherwise, the horse carriages that are now prevalent in every corner of the Tang Dynasty society would not have been discovered.
Today's carriage industry is already very complete. There are countless carriage manufacturers throughout the empire, some are medium and large enterprises, and some are just small workshops.
These people had different reactions to the appearance of cars.
Some people see an opportunity, an opportunity to upgrade and transform horse-drawn carriages, while some people see a crisis and think that cars will impact the horse-drawn carriage industry and eventually lead to their own bankruptcy.
Different people see different things.
So some people started to say weird things, just like some people opposed the steam engine when it appeared. However, these people's objections were basically useless, because the official would definitely not object. At most, it would be objections from related interest industries among the private sector.
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As for the government, it has always supported the development of science and technology.
When you know that in the aristocratic system of the Tang Dynasty, there is such a thing as a scientific aristocracy, and many top scientists are aristocrats, including earls, marquises and even dukes, you will know that the Tang Dynasty official supports science.
It's gone and there's no turning back, it can't even be reversed.
When a matter is combined with an interest class, unless the existing interest class structure is completely broken, there is no hope of disrupting the development of the matter.
After the interview, the car received support immediately, instead of being subject to many restrictions like the original time and space of the earth. This is because of the particularity of the entire social system of the Tang Dynasty.
In this environment, some more discerning carriage manufacturers are already thinking about actively integrating into it.
As a result, the largest carriage manufacturer in the empire, the Jinling Carriage Company, quietly found the Royal Institute of Technology, obtained the patent authorization for gasoline engines, and prepared to build their cars.
Carriage companies engage in automobile manufacturing, which is in line with technological development and can also provide a smooth upgrade and transformation path for the huge horse-drawn carriage industry.
Avoid large-scale turbulence in the entire horse-drawn carriage industry.
After all, the Tang Dynasty has been developing horse-drawn carriages for decades, and horse-drawn carriages have penetrated into every corner of the Tang Dynasty society. There are many practitioners related to horse-drawn carriages.
The modern horse-drawn carriages developed by the Tang Dynasty were used as load-carrying trucks from the beginning, and the subsequent four-wheeled load-carrying carriages used by the military were even more typical.
Later, it was generally used for carrying passengers, and even for private use, and finally evolved into horse-drawn rail vehicles, and finally even evolved into trains.
The track gauge of today's trains is based on the track gauge of horse-drawn rail vehicles back then.
In today's Tang Dynasty society, horse carriages are one of the two most important land means of transportation and undertake huge tasks.
In Datang's land transportation system, regardless of whether it is freight or passenger transportation, it has become people's consensus to use horse-drawn carriages for short and medium distances and trains for long distances.
In order to allow horse-drawn carriages to travel better, Datang began to harden the road surface very early, so that now there are cement official roads or asphalt official roads. The hundreds of kilometers of high-grade asphalt roads in Songjiang Prefecture are used for horse-drawn carriage transportation.
A symbol of importance in the imperial transportation system.
When this asphalt road was built, it was not for cars, but for horse-drawn carriages.
In some areas of Gangnam-do, especially the main roads in Songjiang Prefecture, the main roads have been cemented or asphalt, and many horse-drawn carriages shuttle various commodities.
The huge influence of horse-drawn carriages also directly affected Zhongyuan Automobile Company and Hangzhou Power Machinery Company, both of which used existing four-wheeled horse-drawn carriages as the basis to manufacture cars.
This is also the reason why the two cars have a strong horse-drawn carriage style.
However, this style of horse-drawn carriage is also different from Li Xuan's impression that the original cars that came out of Europe in history were all three-wheeled or simple four-wheeled.
The four-wheeled carriages of the Tang Dynasty, especially the private four-wheeled carriages, are still different from the same-level carriages in Europe in the original time and space. For example, the seating arrangement is different, such as the space.
At the same time, for the sake of comfort, the rich and powerful will choose larger and longer carriages, and generally use four horses!
In fact, if possible, these dignitaries would even want to use a carriage with five or even six horses, so that the vehicle can be made more luxurious and comfortable.
but!
The Tang Dynasty had clear etiquette regulations: the emperor drove six, the kings drove five, and the subjects drove four. There was also an unwritten rule that the emperor drove twelve.
Strictly speaking, only the Holy Emperor can use six horses to drive, and the princes and princes can use five horses to drive. The rest can only use four horses at most, and any more is an overstep.
After all, the Tang Dynasty was a monarchical empire, and it was also a country that prided itself on adhering to Zhou etiquette and governing the country with filial piety, so it attached great importance to etiquette.
However, the restrictions on such horses are limited to private carriages, public carriages for carrying passengers, freight carriages for transporting goods and other vehicles, and are not subject to restrictions.