Chapter 63: Beautiful Car

A wide four-wheeled carriage slowly advanced along the official road. Li Xiuning was actually unwilling to ride the carriage. She prefers to ride a horse and enjoys the feeling of strong wind whistling in her ears.

However, this carriage was given by Chen Ying. Li Xiuning did not want to let Chen Ying down. Of course, the most important thing is that Li Xiuning was also very satisfied with this carriage. The whole carriage was three and six feet long and ten and six feet wide. Even in later generations, this type of carriage was of medium-sized bus level. In this era, it was even more of a huge thing. The carriage, which was as long as three and six feet long, was divided into two parts in the middle. On one side, it was used to rest, and a soft couch was arranged, and a drawer connected to the wall of the carriage can place items with you. A table was arranged in front, which could be used for office or meeting guests.

The key is that this huge carriage requires five horses to pull. Although there is no luxury on the outside, the decoration inside is very warm. There is also a small charcoal stove in the bedroom behind, which can be used to cook tea or steam some food. There is also a skylight on the top of the carriage. If you want to bask in the sun, you can also lie on the soft couch to bask in the sun. The four corner pillars and the screen wall are hollowed out, and candlesticks are placed inside. Even at night, if you need it, the candlelight can be opened in the carriage.

With a bridge shock absorption and spring shock absorption dual shock absorption system, you can get on the carriage without any turbulence. This is the best equipment for long-distance travel. Of course, this is Chen Ying's wish. There is only one such carriage in this world.

What surprised Chen Ying was that the four-wheeled carriage equipped with shock absorption equipment was very good. In this era, the vehicles people used were usually military vehicles. Although military vehicles could be used for transportation, they could not hide from wind and rain. Of course, there were also chariots. chariots were lightweight carriages with ceilings but were airtight on all sides. Although they could block rain when it rained, they still endured the cold wind when it was windy.

More advanced is the Anchor. The Anchor has a closed car that can block the wind and rain, and the body is also large. It has facilities that can be laid out, lie, live, and ride, and is more comfortable. In short, it is the same as the shape in film and television dramas.

In ancient times, cars were of very high value. Even the simplest military car was a two-wheeled car with handrails. The human-powered vehicles in rural areas in later generations were actually derived from military carriages. They were simply military carriages composed of two wheelbarrows and a large wooden board. In this era, they also cost 20,000 yuan, or twenty cents. Those who can own their own military carriages are actually wealthy families.

The carriage is a carriage with roller bearings. Although its appearance is not complicated, its value is not low. It costs 50,000 yuan, which is fifty cents. The family who owns the carriage is at least a commoner landlord. As for the carriage, the price ranges from one hundred to five hundred cents depending on the materials used.

At this time, Anche is actually a symbol of the identity of the aristocratic clan, which is comparable to the Bingbo BMWs in later generations. However, although Anche is expensive, it is extremely bumpy because it does not absorb shock. Even if a person is strong, he will be like a serious illness after sitting for 300 miles.

Chen Ying gave Chen Qi a four-wheeled carriage. Before Chen Qi enjoyed it for two days, he was forced to recruit by Li Yuan. Li Yuan liked this four-wheeled carriage very much, but because Chen Ying's carriage was too vulgar, Li Yuan ordered the master of the Shaofu Supervisor to create a big-wheeled carriage according to the standard of the big-wheeled carriage.

The big-carrying jade is the emperor's exclusive, so ordinary people naturally cannot ride it. However, the princes and nobles followed suit. Shaofujian could not completely prevent four-wheeled carriages. The most critical technology was shock absorption devices and spring steel. Chen Ying provided Shaofujian with two sets of bridge shock absorption and twenty-four sets of spring shock absorption, and Shaofujian paid 8,000 guan.

Of course, Li Yuan's four-wheeled big-wheeled jade carriage cost more than 20,000 jin.

However, the Chinese have been comparing since ancient times. Li Yuan's Dahua Jade Guru made a living advertisement for Chen Ying. Although Pei Ji did not use the style of Dahua Jade Guru, he customized a simple version of a four-wheeled carriage from Chen Ying. The style is much smaller than Li Xiuning's four-wheeled carriage, only two feet long and one four feet wide. However, precious woods such as sandalwood and yellow rosewood are used as decorative materials.

Chen Ying, who was thinking of not taking advantage of it, asked Pei Ji for 12,000 guan. Originally, Chen Ying planned to ask for a lot of money in business and pay it back, but he didn't expect that Pei Ji would make a decision without blinking and made a decision and paid the full amount four times in succession.

Pei Ji sat in his new four-wheeled carriage to show off to Li Yuan, Chen Shuda, and Xiao Shiwen. Song Duke Xiao Shiwen placed an order to Chen Ying that night, and he must make a four-wheeled carriage exactly the same as Pei Ji.

Chen Ying was very happy. In fact, although he used a lot of precious wood and consumed a lot of money to build his four-wheeled carriage for Pei Ji, he only had 3,400 guan in total, except for the expenses of craftsmen, and earned a total of 8,600 guan.

Chen Ying did not expect that Xiao Shiwen's custom-made carriage was not half done, and Chen Shuda also placed an order with Chen Ying, but the specifications were slightly different, with orders of 10,000 yuan.

Chen Ying saw that this was a good source of wealth, and happened to use craftsmen from Lingzhou to build a carriage workshop. However, Chen Ying knew that things were rare and thought they were expensive. Regarding Chen Shuda's order, Chen Ying promised Chen Shuda that it would take at least two months to reach the Lantern Festival in the third year of Wude.

Chen Ying gave Li Xiuning this huge four-wheeled carriage, and the purpose was naturally not simple, because Li Xiuning's carriage not only had functions such as washing, dressing up, sleeping, cooking tea, steaming rice, playing chess, and entertainment. These functions would definitely make the princesses, princesses and destiny of the Tang Dynasty flock to them.

As long as the princesses of the Tang Dynasty started, Chen Ying's carriage business would definitely make a fortune. There was no way. Chen Ying was short of money at this time, not only because of building the Chen family fort, but also because he wanted to build a Modao Army for Li Jiancheng. However, the equipment of the Modao Army was too expensive. Although crucible steel can solve the problem of easy breakage of Modao, there were no raw materials around Chang'an, and all the raw materials needed to be transported from other places, and the cost itself was very high. Chen Ying had to put his ideas on these princesses, princesses, and life wives.

Who says women are so easy to make money?

When he heard that Li Xiuning had arrived, Chen Ying prepared a good gift for Li Xiuning, of course the ultimate goal was to make money.

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Li Xiuning sat in the carriage, frowned, and felt very heavy. What made Li Xiuning the most helpless was that the Chai family was not willing to let go and insisted on letting Li Xiuning keep the rituals for Chai Shao. Although Li Yuan did not want Li Xiuning to die for the rest of his life, Li Yuan now owned the world, and his Hu bloodline was his weakness. If Li Xiuning forced remarry, it would probably cause criticism from the world. Li Yuan considered the issue of the world, the country, and the Li family's tenacious rule. As for Li Xiuning's problem, he just felt wronged.

Whenever Li Xiuning thinks of this, she feels very upset. She has worked hard and fought hard for this Tang Dynasty, but to be honest, if it weren't for Li Xiuning's wife's army occupying two-thirds of Guanzhong, it is unknown whether Li Yuan can conquer Chang'an and sit firmly in Guanzhong.

But now, Li Yuan's heartless performance made Li Xiuning feel inexplicably heartbroken. Li Xiuning was in a bad mood and naturally thought of Chen Ying. But she understood Chen Ying. At this time, Chen Ying wanted to split herself in half and use it. She was so busy that she didn't touch the ground all day, so Li Xiuning wanted to go outside the city to relax.

When the carriage came to the Qinglin, Li Xiuning's personal maid Cui'er was a curious baby. She pushed open the car window, stuck her head out of the car window, and looked at Qinglin. For Cui'er, every place in the Qinglin was fresh and unfamiliar.
Chapter completed!