Because of the sharp tool of springs, Jinling Carriage Company's many series of carriages are now selling very well, regardless of whether they are commercial carriages with ordinary prices or luxury carriages specially built for wealthy people. The sales are very good.
This also led to the Jinling Carriage Company becoming the most profitable carriage company in the entire Tang Dynasty.
However, this was not the intention of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises when it originally invested in the company. When it invested in the company the year before last, its purpose was relatively simple, which was to provide the military with high-performance four-wheel transport carriages.
It's just that although the sales volume of military carriages is large and the purchase price is not low, relatively speaking, the workmanship and materials used are relatively solid, so the overall profit is not too high. Later, in order to expand the company's profits, Jinling Horse Carriage Company began to enter the market
Official carriage market.
It specializes in providing high-quality passenger carriages to various official yamen. Later, after simplifying and transforming military four-wheel carriages, it launched a series of civilian transport carriages, but its customers are still major enterprises.
It was not until the summer of the sixth year of Xuanping that they began to enter the private carriage industry, launched high-performance luxury carriages, and successfully opened up and seized the high-end private carriage market.
However, although the Jinling Carriage Company is famous, it is not actually the only carriage company in the Tang Dynasty, because in the Tang Dynasty, various types of carriages with springs are selling well, especially transportation carriages, which are in great demand
, many companies have begun to enter the horse-drawn carriage industry.
Not to mention other places, in Jinling City alone, there are already three horse-drawn carriage companies. Well, one of them is invested by the local finance of Jiangnan Province, and the other is invested by the local finance of Chengtian Prefecture. These two are currently the largest carriage companies.
Typical local state-owned enterprises in the Tang Dynasty, although they were supervised and managed by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, their profits or losses had nothing to do with the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises. The types of carriages they operated varied, and they were basically ordinary riding carriages.
The remaining company is a carriage company invested and established by the Royal Assets Division. However, when the Imperial Assets Division makes investments, it basically follows a very important core concept, which is not to engage in existing ordinary industries.
, only engaged in new industries.
Therefore, the business of this carriage company is also quite special. Their carriages are rail carriages, which are the large rail carriages that can be seen in industrial areas, docks, and warehouses.
In addition, they are also preparing to develop rail passenger carriages in the city. Well, they have also set up a subsidiary company called Jinling Bus Company for this purpose. They are planning to lay rail tracks on the main roads in the city and then run buses with a huge passenger capacity on them.
Rail carriage.
This business direction is basically not the same as the business of other carriage companies or private carriage workshops!
Well, so the carriage company invested by the royal family, to a certain extent, is actually a bus company that produces and sells its own carriages, and its carriages are basically not sold to other companies.
Sit in a comfortable carriage and go all the way into the city along the cinder road. After entering the central area of the city, you walk on the stone road and then enter the Royal Villa.
After returning to the palace, before Li Xuan had time to return to the harem to visit Empress Dowager Bai, Empress Dong and others, he held a meeting first and ordered the implementation of many follow-up tasks.
After all, he just came back and there were too many things. Li Xuan needed them to deal with them quickly, otherwise things would be delayed for too long.
After the meeting, Li Xuancai returned to the harem and went to Queen Mother Bai immediately!
After all, as the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he still needs to take the matter of filial piety seriously. Before leaving, the maid accompanying him had already told him that Empress Dong and other concubines, as well as several of his sons and daughters, were all under the care of Empress Dowager Bai. Over there, I stayed with Queen Mother Bai waiting for him to return to the court.
Thinking that he would be able to see those little ones later, Li Xuan's mood also improved. The fatigue of many days seemed to be swept away, and his steps became much lighter.
Li Xuan has always had an accurate positioning for the royal family.
Queen Mother Bai, that is her original mother, but she is not his own mother, so the necessary respect is necessary, but it is only respect, and everything else is basically gone.
After all, it’s not like Li Xuan has a child without a mother. His mother is still in another time and space, and she may be very sad because of her disappearance or death. How could he accept an indigenous woman as his mother in this time and space?
It’s not that nonsense!
As for Empress Dong, Li Xuan admitted that he liked her a little bit at first. Well, he still likes her a little bit now, but it's not like he loves her to death. Otherwise, Li Xuan wouldn't find a large group of young and beautiful women. After entering the palace, he also formed a Tang Dynasty court dance troupe.
As for the other concubines, their presence was even lower. Li Xuan could not even remember the names of most of the concubines. At most, he only knew their surnames and titles. As for the names, he was too lazy to remember them.
However, his children are different!
To be more selfish, in his opinion, his children are his real relatives in this era.
You see, he has pampered Princess Wei'er in the past few years. He is happy even when she climbs on his head to poop and pee!
After walking along this way, it didn't take long to arrive at the Jingzhai Hall where Queen Mother Bai lived. In the past two years, Queen Mother Bai began to believe in Buddhism. She talked about feudal superstitions every day. Later, she even changed the name of the palace she lived in to Jingzhai Hall. Zhaitang.
Before he could enter, he heard a loud voice singing from inside: "Your Majesty has arrived!"
After he entered, he heard a group of people inside kneeling down and saying words such as "I bow to your majesty" and "I bow to my father".
But at this time, he is not the protagonist. Queen Dowager Bai, who is sitting on top and looking at him with a kind smile, is the protagonist!
So he stretched out his hand slightly to let them get up, and then he continued to step forward, and then saluted in front of the Queen Mother Bai who was sitting on top, and at the same time said: "My sons and ministers bow to the Queen Mother!"
After the ceremony, Queen Mother Bai immediately dragged her fat body forward and touched Li Xuan's face with her hand: "Okay, okay, just come back!"
"It must be hard to be out for so long. Look, I'm all darker and thinner!"
Over the past few years, Li Xuan has clearly understood that in the eyes of Queen Mother Bai, he is the most important, while others, including his sister Princess Huichen, are dispensable.
Well, that may be a bit euphemistic, but to put it simply, these old ladies favor boys over girls!
Such Queen Mother Bai is naturally a blessing to Li Xuan, because when he traveled through time, he did not inexplicably turn into a woman like the protagonists in some weird online articles in his previous life.
But for his sister Princess Huichen, it was a misfortune.
After the mother and son greeted each other, others gathered around them one after another!
"Father, Weiwei wants a hug!" Princess Wei'er even directly competed for Empress Dong's hand, then moved her short legs and ran to Li Xuan's side, and then she flew up!
Li Xuan picked up Princess Wei'er with his hand and held her in his arms. At the same time, he said: "When your father is not at home, is Wei'er good or not?"
"Weier is so good!" Princess Weier told lies with her big eyes open, not caring about God in advance. She didn't care about her grandma's obstruction at all, and cried and wanted to ride a horse.
Well, this horse riding is not really riding a horse, but specifically refers to riding on Li Xuan's shoulders. Li Xuan went to the expedition in person. The little guy missed it very much, especially the feeling of riding on Li Xuan's shoulders.
Princess Wei'er took the first step and jumped directly on Li Xuan. The eldest son of the emperor, Li Yan, and the second son of the emperor, Li Han, were two steps slower and did not catch up. The last one hung on Li Xuan's thigh, and they were also shouting for a hug.
!
The second daughter, Lin Qian, followed her mother Zhang Huibi's temperament and had a somewhat soft personality. Although her big eyes showed a look of envy, she still did not dare to run over like the other three.
As for the remaining third prince, he is too young. He is still sucking milk from his wet nurse and cannot run away!
In the past few years, Li Xuan's health has improved somewhat, and he is not a dedicated and good man. He prefers the new and dislikes the old, and has already made several women in the palace pregnant and gave birth to children.
Today, in the seventh year of Xuanping, many concubines in the harem have given birth to three sons and two daughters for him, which is naturally not many for many emperors in history.
Because he had some physical problems to begin with, although he recovered after this treatment, he was still slightly worse than normal people.
That is to say, Li Xuan is passionate, likes the new and hates the old, and enjoys dancing every three days. Otherwise, there is no hope for these three sons and two daughters.
If it is an ordinary family with only one or two daughters, it would be good if they could give birth to one or two.
However, in the third year of Xuanping's reign, the eldest princess Lin Wei was born. In other words, in just three or four years, he already had three sons and two daughters, and there was also a concubine who was almost pregnant and about to give birth.
Given time, ten or twenty years later, it is estimated that there will be at least a dozen children. If Li Xuan works harder, it is still possible to have dozens of children, even if his fertility is a little worse.
The only thing that needs to be noted, even Li Xuan himself cannot control, is that the level of medical care is relatively low, difficult labor, and diseases are difficult to overcome.
Fortunately, in the past few years, Li Xuan has focused on, especially disinfection and hygiene, scientific fetus care and child care.
In addition, the concubines were very successful when they gave birth, and there was no such thing as dystocia, so the last five births were passed safely; in addition, the little ones also gave face, and they did not get seriously ill in the past few years!
Occasionally, for minor illnesses, there are teachers and students from the Department of Medicine at the Royal Institute of Technology and a large number of excellent Chinese medicine doctors from the Royal Hospital collected from all over the country as the backing. With the combination of Chinese and Western medicine, there are no accidents.
Looking at the children around him, Li Xuan also showed a very rare smile. Basically, only his children can enjoy this kind of smile. Others, don't expect to be able to let him show such a sincere smile.
Li Xuan is in a good mood now. Although he doesn't want to be too presumptuous in front of everyone, he still lets Princess Wei'er climb on his shoulders, one in each hand, and the eldest son of the emperor Li Jian and the second son of the emperor Li Han also do it.
Hug him.
Fortunately, these three little guys are still young and not heavy, but in a few years, they may not be able to hold three at once.
But even so, Empress Dong and the others came over quickly. Empress Dong stepped forward and said to Wei'er: "Your father has just come back. You are tired from traveling all the way. You are still struggling, come down quickly!"
Princess Wei'er pouted her mouth and twisted her little head!
Quit!
Empress Dong laughed at this!
Regarding her daughter, Empress Dong said that she had a hundred ways to deal with her, so Empress Dong stepped forward and picked up the little guy, causing Princess Weier to scream, while her short legs and hands flew around, but
Still failed to compete for the clutches of her mother!