On the public carriage lines in many cities in the Tang Dynasty, some public carriage companies will also build super large six-horse carriages to transport more passengers in a single trip and solve the problem of difficulty for passengers to ride.
If you have money, you can rent one of these super-large public carriages from a horse-drawn carriage company, and then sit on it alone and enjoy the feeling of an emperor driving a horse.
It's just that this kind of behavior is considered very shameful and disgraceful in the eyes of contemporary Tang Dynasty people. If you really do it, the officials won't bother to trouble you, but it will be difficult for you to get away with it in the future.
It is difficult for a Tang Dynasty person who has lost his dignity to get along in the contemporary Tang Dynasty society.
In recent decades, with the improvement of national power, the improvement of people's living standards, and more importantly, the national self-confidence brought about by defeating the world, the people of the Tang Dynasty began to pay attention to some things that they would not pay attention to in the past.
Especially in terms of etiquette, it has reached an almost pathological level.
Any ordinary person who goes out will put on a set of professional clothes or robes, comb their hair neatly, and bring a cane or a folding fan.
Because over the years, literati have been advocating that dressing neatly is not only for yourself, but also to show respect for others.
If you dress slovenly and go to visit a friend, at some point in the past, they might have said you were a gentleman and did not stick to trivial matters.
But now, people will think you are humiliating him!
How should I put it? Nowadays, the entire society in the Tang Dynasty talks about the word respectability. To put it bluntly, it means eating enough to hold on!
I used to be hungry every day, but now that I can eat enough, I start to want other messy things.
There is nothing to think about when you are full of wine and food!
This carriage, in the past twenty years, has also been a symbol of "respectability" in the Tang Dynasty society.
Whether you can own a private carriage and what kind of private carriage you can own are almost the most direct criteria for judging a person's social status. Ordinary people naturally do not expect to be able to own a private carriage. Most of them are even reluctant to ride a public carriage every day.
, because although public carriages or public trains are not too expensive, they can’t be afforded if they are used frequently.
The ordinary middle class can actually only rely on public carriages or public trains for daily travel. Of course, they can also take taxis when necessary.
However, even middle-class families with relatively high incomes find it difficult to own a private carriage.
And being willing does not mean that the carriage itself is expensive. In fact, carriages can be expensive or cheap. Except for the high-end carriages that are specially designed for the middle class and the rich, ordinary carriages actually do not cost much. They are nothing more than a wooden frame and two wheels.
There are a lot of simple carriages of various kinds in the vast rural area.
But a decent gentry would never ride in those crude carriages. They would rather take a public carriage or a taxi. If that doesn't work, walking is better!
Generally speaking, in the Tang Dynasty, a relatively decent two-wheeled carriage cost at least a hundred Tangyuan. But having a carriage was not enough. You had to have horses, and you had to hire a dedicated coachman to double as a groom.
Not only was the purchase price of this horse not cheap, but the food was also expensive.
The salary of the coachman and groom is not low either.
All these things add up, and the annual expenses are quite large.
In addition, another very important thing is that to raise horses, you must have a stable. This alone is an unsolvable problem for people who do not have an independent manor.
In comparison, it is much more difficult to own a carriage these days than it is to buy a BMW and Mercedes-Benz in future generations.
This is why in today's Tang Dynasty society, it is difficult for the middle class to own one or two private carriages.
Generally, only the rich can own a private carriage.
In contemporary Tang Dynasty society, it is actually very simple to judge whether a family is a true upper-class gentry family.
First of all, look at where he lives. Gentry families generally do not live in the real city center or business districts. They usually live in relatively secluded areas, or simply in the suburbs. A standard upper-class family usually lives in
There are spare mansions in the city. Well, this one is used as a hotel. We don't usually live in it. We only stay there when we go to the city to do business.
They usually live in the suburbs or in their hometowns in the countryside further away.
Because they don’t want to die…
Many cities in Datang, especially the more developed cities, have more serious smog. This haze problem has attracted the attention of all walks of life in Datang. Many local cities have begun to solve environmental problems, such as relocating seriously polluted cities.
Factory, reduce residents' use of briquettes, but it doesn't work!
The entire industrial system and social system of the Tang Dynasty were built on steam engines and coal.
Countless coals were consumed every day to support the operation of countless factories in Datang. Countless residents, especially urban residents, could make fires for cooking and boiling water. It was simply impossible to prevent or reduce the use of coal.
As for using technical means to reduce pollution without significantly increasing costs, you are overestimating Datang's science and technology.
Because of the increasingly serious environmental pollution problems in cities and the traditional Chinese gentry living in the countryside, the daily residences of the rich are usually in the suburbs or their hometowns in the countryside. Of course, they are all large and magnificent houses.
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In addition to suburban mansions and urban residences, vacation homes are usually purchased in other places, especially in places with beautiful scenery.
As rich as they are, the middle class will live in the suburbs as much as possible and take their families on trips during holidays.
As for those who live in the city all year round, they are people from the middle and lower classes of society because they cannot escape from the city.
During the decades of development of carriages, the changes in the entire society of the Tang Dynasty were seen in many aspects.
Today's automobiles are also a concrete symbol of the overall social changes in the Tang Dynasty, because to a certain extent, automobiles are just an upgraded version of horse-drawn carriages.
In this process of change, some people are afraid, some are afraid, some are happy, and some are looking forward to it.
As for Hanyang Prefecture, it is the largest in Hanyang Prefecture and the only one in the Tang Empire that has the technology patent for two-wheeled pedal bicycles. After launching the pedal bicycle five years ago, the 'Li's Bicycle Company' completely led the trend of the entire middle class young people.
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After a young man saw the description of the car in the newspaper, his eyes lit up!
"That's it, that's it, that's what I need for my two-wheeled bike!"
"The steam engine is too bulky and the gas engine is unsafe. This gasoline engine is the only solution!"