One person's shortcomings, everyone's shortcomings, this sentence is fully confirmed this time.
Zhao Xi didn't consider Xiangguo Temple at first, he didn't understand it.
It was Mr. Lu who said this casually that made Zhao Xi prepare for this.
The whole day today, the purpose of Zhao Xi's coming here was to wait for this to happen.
Merchant has never been Zhao Xi's focus. If you ask whether the merchant is rich, the answer is yes. But if you ask if the merchant has spare money, it may not be the case.
Most of the merchants' money is used to stock goods. However, their profit-seeking purpose makes them reluctant to let go of this opportunity to make a fortune.
They had been plundering for half a year, and Zhao Xi didn't take them seriously... He just didn't know if these merchants would all go to pieces if they knew what the Crown Prince was thinking.
What Zhao Xi didn't expect was that now, there was already an investment company of the kind that would come later...Xiangguo Temple.
After listening to Lu Gongzhu and Han Zhen's explanation of Xiangguo Temple, Zhao Xi definitely had to define it...an investment company.
Now, I probably saw that the new coins look good, so I’m ready to redeem them and get a golden body for the statue in the main hall?
Zhao Xi squinted his eyes and didn't even notice the gloomy faces of his husbands.
This is what really deserves to be killed!
"Your Highness...Your Highness..."
Zhao Xi was a little distracted. Fu Bi shouted twice before he came back to his senses.
"Your Highness, do you need the court to respond?"
Fu Bi didn't mind the court's intervention at this time. He could temporarily stop the exchange for any excuse.
Stopping the exchange will make people suspicious, but it is better than not being able to exchange it on the spot.
"Prime Minister Fu, gentlemen, there is no need to worry... Zhongzheng, send the signal!"
Only then did Wang Zhongzheng have the opportunity to poke his head into the window...then he took out a long bamboo stick from his arms and lit it with a fire stick.
"Bang...bang...bang..."
After three blasts, flowers exploded in the sky... It wasn't that Zhao Xi was trying to show off, it was because it was a waste of time and effort to send people back and forth, and there was no signal to firecrackers directly.
The first thing I heard was the sound of horse hooves. In the streets, the sound of neat horse hooves can be heard far away.
Then I saw a carriage pulled by four horses coming out from behind the monks' ox cart. It was four-wheeled and looked like a small house, and the size seemed not much smaller than a house.
Just stick to the side of the monk's ox cart and move forward quickly...
The rail carriage has been designed for a long time. Zhao Xi and Su Song mentioned some concepts such as bogies, steel pulleys, etc.
As for bearings, Zhao Xi thought they didn’t exist in this era, but it turned out they did.
Anyway, Zhao Xi told everything he knew.
I didn’t expect Su Song to actually come up with such a car. I have to say, Su Song is really a great talent.
Just this car, with a little decoration, is more than enough to be used as a driving chariot for dad.
Manganese steel wheels... Nowadays, manganese steel is used for everything in the guard camp. Almost the entire vehicle is made of manganese steel.
If you use it as a chariot, you don't have to worry about safety. Once the door is locked, unless it is lifted to melt, the current swords, guns, swords and halberds can survive half a day if you just cut them up.
"This...is this a carriage?"
This is of course a carriage, and it is a carriage that will be born soon and will be highly praised by people.
"Your Highness, how much weight can this car carry?"
Fortunately, we are husband-in-law after all, and we always think about affairs rather than enjoyment.
"About four to five thousand catties."
Zhao Xi said less, and only roughly said this.
It shouldn't be a problem for a carriage like this to pull two or three tons of cargo. It's just that I haven't done any tests... After the carriage was born, even the knowledgeable guard camp was not willing to use it to pull cargo.
Reluctant to part with it!
"My dear sirs, the carriage was originally designed and manufactured as a track carriage. Since the track was not yet completed, many ideas were concentrated on this carriage."
The track is the key point. Regardless of whether the husband likes to hear it or not, Zhao Xi will always mention it when he sees an opportunity.
"Is the track carriage the same as this car?"
"The size of the track carriage should be two or three times the size of this car, maybe three to five times."
No more asking, no more telling. Zhao Xi doesn’t know what your husbands think, and can’t tell you what to say. They are all old fools.
Zhao Xi said and did what he could and should say. As for the court... he didn't have much hope.
Just wait, the court will change. If you don't change, change it yourself. Zhao Xi is not in a hurry, he has plenty of time.
At this time, no one in the entire Fuqian Street was thinking about the old and new coins.
Enjoyment is not a shameful thing in today's dynasties, let alone merchants.
When the carriage appeared, no one thought about how many new coins the carriage could hold. Instead, they thought about how they could own such a carriage.
Merchants, in order to make business profits, are often on the road.
Horseback riding? The country is short of horses, but merchants are not short of them, especially non-war horses, which can be obtained. The key is to travel long distances, and riding a horse is a very tiring task.
The most common thing in the imperial dynasty was the ox-cart, but there were also horse-drawn carriages, but the carriages were not the same as the horse-drawn carriages.
Even the monks at Xiangguo Temple stopped and looked at the carriage running past... Xiangguo Temple should have such a carriage.
They all have a lot to think about.
The carriage stopped in front of the exchange point. The Imperial Guards on duty were stunned, and the driver got out of the carriage, turned to the back of the carriage... and opened the door with a click.
There is still a door inside, or an iron plate is more appropriate, and there are many iron rods scattered vertically.
"Hey... you idiot, what are you looking at? Come over and unload the money."
It was definitely not called the exchange officer, but the imperial guard on duty.
I got closer, I put the weapons aside, but I didn't know what to do, so I just stared blankly.
"What are you looking at? Put down the baffle..."
There was no other way, a group of idiots. The driver randomly pulled at both sides of the iron plate, pulled the idiots over, asked them to hold on to the baffle, and slowly lowered it...
The fender is still attached to the car, but the other side is already on the ground.
Yu pointed at the vertical pole he saw, meaning to let the soldiers pull it out...
When I pulled it out, it was very neatly arranged. There were piles of new coins, and something seemed to be stuck between each pile. The pile of coins was so high that it didn't wobble at all...
This is what we need too! Whether they are merchants or monks, they all think so.
Money strung together with a rope never lasts long before the rope breaks and the copper coins are scattered all over the floor. This happens every once in a while, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
If you have something like this at home...
The soldiers understood, and then they worked very hard... unloading the coins.
They are all lazy people, but they are quite active at this time. It is not because it is money... no matter how much money there is, it has nothing to do with them. It is also not that there are superior officials watching, and the officials who exchange new currency do not belong to each other.
What really makes them positive is that this thing is very novel and the carriage is very noble. Most people don't have this opportunity at all!
The new coins were just unloaded and piled up casually in front of the public...
But everyone's thoughts were focused on the carriage and these novelties that were the same as the carriage.