People in Dasong: starting from the sign-in

Chapter 237 Building a National Transportation Network

Chapter 237 Building a National Transportation Network

Those merchants who regretted it all ran to the Foundry Bureau to ask for a second-class carriage.

Xiao Qi had expected this to happen a long time ago, and made a condition, saying that since the order has already been placed, this thing cannot be changed easily, and if it is necessary to change it, a liquidated damages of ten taels of silver must be paid.

The 1000 tael carriages of these guys are going to be replaced by 2000 taels of carriages. They don't care about ten taels of silver, and they all paid twelve taels of liquidated damages to change to second-class carriages.

For those low-priced carriages that have already started production and have been returned, Xiao Qi did not stop, he asked the Foundry Bureau to continue to make such carriages with all their strength.

He knew very well that it would not be long before he completed the Changsheng Camp rapid response transformation plan, and the method of making cement would be available.

At that time, with the reconstruction of the roads, the commercial and passenger transportation between each big city will become very convenient, and this transportation industry will definitely rise.

Since none of the common people dare to try it now, it would be great if Chang Shengying would show you a head start.

For this reason, Xiao Qi ordered to search for retired and injured soldiers from all over the country, as long as your disability does not delay your perfect driving of the carriage.

Wow, there's another good way to place wounded soldiers.

Of course, Xiao Qi also knows that it's not that the common people and those businessmen have never thought of this way of making money, but there will be many difficulties on the road, such as accommodation safety and so on.

For this reason, Xiao Qi mobilized tens of thousands of troops from the transport troops before Changsheng Battalion, and ordered them to set up numerous merchant stations throughout the Song Dynasty according to their own deployment.

These post stations are not just about board and lodging. Even the smallest post station must have a large yard that can park hundreds of carriages and rooms that can provide board and lodging for hundreds of people.

One hundred soldiers are stationed in such post stations, and there will be a large post station with five hundred soldiers stationed every three hundred miles.

The large post station not only has a large yard that can park nearly [-] carts, provides food and accommodation for nearly [-] people, but also has nearly [-] war horses to ensure the safety of merchants within a radius of [-] miles.

Xiao Qi is very clear that the common people today are still accustomed to walking on their own two legs when traveling, and it is impossible for the common people to change their minds all of a sudden, this thing can only be done little by little.

So at the beginning, 90.00% of the carriages were used to pull goods, and only a few were passenger carriages with carriages, in order to work out reasonable freight and passenger transportation prices.

He ordered people to do a lot of research work, especially the freight price cannot be set too low, because there are many people in the Song Dynasty who have two-wheeled carriages to help people transport goods.

If the price is set too low, it will rob the common people of their jobs. At the very least, it is necessary to give the common people a buffer time, so that they have time to change their carriages into four-wheeled carriages that can carry more cargo, so as to improve their competitiveness.

Thinking that after the concrete road is repaired in the future, those four-wheeled carriages will be more stable and stable, and the speed will become very fast.

At that time, another problem will appear, that is, traffic accidents, horse-drawn carriages hitting people or horse-drawn carriages hitting carriages.

It is not an easy task to solve this problem that was difficult to control when so many traffic regulations were issued in the previous life.

Xiao Qi wrote many articles at home, about the traffic rules that need to be followed after there is a concrete road in the future.

Not only that, Xiao Qi also planned the construction specifications of various cement roads. Referring to the method of the previous life, some important long-distance transportation lines were designed to be very wide and named the Great Song National Road.

Some roads with little transportation pressure and only used for transportation between several state capitals are called government roads.

Of course, Xiao Qi has not forgotten the horse bells hanging around the necks of horses that he saw in movies and TV dramas in his previous life. This thing was determined by Xiao Qi to be a must-have for carriages.

Because of the sound of the horse bell, people with their backs to the carriage can know from a distance that there is a carriage coming from behind, so they can dodge aside early to avoid unnecessary accidents.

This horse bell is a must-have for a carriage. A carriage without a horse bell is not allowed to travel.

As for the method of separating pedestrians and carriages, Xiao Qi thought of the curbs in his previous life that made Bolinggai's skin bald.

He planned to use this thing to separate the carriageway from the sidewalk, so that if the carriage lost control and rushed to the sidewalk, the curbs could overturn the carriage.

As for pedestrians crossing the road at will and being hit by carriages, Xiao Qi really has no way to prevent it. In his previous life, this thing was a problem in the world, and he is not a god, so he really has nothing to do about it.

Xiao Qi knew that in this day and age, preparations should be made in advance for such a big event as the construction of cement roads. There are too many things to do.

He asked that there be quarries throughout the Song Dynasty to start mining a large number of stone slabs. These stone slabs are three inches thick, one foot wide and three feet long.

Of course, given that there were no machines in this era, it was all quarried and hand-chiselled by stonemasons, so the size requirements couldn’t be too strict, so that’s probably what I meant.

Moreover, Xiao Qi needed a lot of stones, as well as large-grained river sand, both of which were essential for paving cement roads.

Looking at the things I wrote that needed preparation and attention, the paper alone was piled up more than a foot thick, and Xiao Qi had a headache. These things are easy to say, but in practice, the manpower and material resources required are simply astronomical!

Fortunately, there are no foreign troubles in the Song Dynasty now. As long as the wages are reasonable for what you want to do, the enthusiasm of the people is still very high.

After receiving Xiao Qi's order, there were still many places suitable for stone mining in the Song Dynasty, and there were also many places where large particles of river sand could be dug.

These works began to be carried out in an orderly manner. However, in the Song Dynasty today, there are few places where people are hungry. In addition, stone mining in stone factories is very hard and dangerous. Many people are unwilling to work in quarries.

This made Xiao Qi even more troublesome. You can't force the people to do this stuff. The wages are already very high. If the wages are really raised enough to make the people willing to do it, even if enough people are recruited, the imperial court will not be able to afford it. wages of these people.

Xiao Qi was almost depressed by all kinds of problems.

Fortunately, at this time, in the official document sent back by the defender of Dongpu, there was an incident that aroused Xiao Qi's idea. It turned out that someone from Dongpu had called some people to rebel, but it was quickly quelled.

This kind of thing will happen once or twice, Xiao Qi didn't care about it before, it's normal, but now he doesn't see it that way, these people are hard workers!

Xiao Qi hurriedly wrote letters to his men in Peninsula, Dongying, and Nanhai, telling them that there is a great shortage of working people here, and if there are troublemakers who are captured, don't kill them at will, send them to me, the more the more the better. good.

Zhang Jiangong, Lin Zheng, Qin Tu and the others all wondered when they received Xiao Qi's letter, what is this son-in-law going to do? There have been many captives transported to the Song Dynasty over the years, and they even said that no one was working. .

However, after these people read the letter, no one was delayed. Isn't it because there is a shortage of people to work? There are many people who are doing things secretly. I used to think that as long as you don't carry the flag of rebellion, I will ignore you.

Now that the son-in-law is so short of labor, let's start arresting them.

As far as the scouts of the Changsheng Battalion are concerned, they are definitely the best special forces in the world, not one of them.

After the war ended, these scouts became the existence of monitoring unstable factors in various places, and the every move of those who wanted to make trouble was recorded.

It is too easy to arrest people now, the charges are all ready-made, and the evidence is solid.

Xiao Qi wrote letters to these subordinates and he forgot within a few days. At that time, he was also worried and read the official documents from Dongying, so he wrote letters to these people.

What he didn't expect was that in just the past month, all three places had sent him a large number of captive laborers.

Qin Tu and the others were worried that Xiao Qi would scold them for arresting people indiscriminately, and wrote a letter to Xiao Qi, asking Xiao Qi to rest assured that these people were doing things secretly.

In the past, because they didn't resist clearly, they didn't move them. Now that Da Song is in urgent need of labor, they happened to be arrested. This can not only solve Da Song's labor problem, but also make them more stable.

After reading the letters of these people, Xiao Qi was overjoyed, it was true that someone would send a pillow just after falling asleep, these people really pick their time when they do things.

Thinking that not only people are needed for mining and mining stone materials now, but also cement will be available in the future, and paving roads throughout the Song Dynasty will require a lot of labor.

Xiao Qi immediately wrote a letter to the generals under his command, telling them that he needs a lot of labor here, and that anyone who is doing things will be arrested for work in the future. I am not short of people in general, but very short. people.

After the letter was sent away, Xiao Qi immediately ordered people to take the [-] to [-] captives who had just been escorted, thousands of people in each quarry, and scattered them into dozens of quarries in Song Dynasty that were short of manpower.

Not to mention, the collection speed of those slabs and stones has suddenly increased, and a large amount of slabs and stones have been stored in a short time, and it is still increasing rapidly.

Of course, these people are not the masters of security. In order to prevent these guys from making troubles in the Song Dynasty, Xiao Qi deployed enough soldiers from the Changsheng Battalion to various quarries to prevent these people from rioting.

At this time, according to Xiao Qi's plan, all the seaports and important river terminals in the Song Dynasty, as well as the major state capitals, have all set up large carriage stations.

Every post station has already had carriages stationed, because there are not many people who use carts at the beginning, and it takes time to manufacture carriages. These post stations, which could originally accommodate hundreds of two carriages, only have dozens of carriages.

Some post stations with few carriages have only a dozen of them stationed.

As for the name of this huge transportation network, Xiao Qi spent a lot of brainstorming, let's call it Dasong Transportation. The common people at this time don't understand the name very well, which is not good.

Not to mention the Escort Bureau, they are engaged in transportation similar to the Escort Bureau, but the Escort Bureau usually transports slightly more expensive things, and the charges are not low.

At this time, most of the merchants hired their own cars to pull the goods, and calling the Escort would scare away many merchants.

In the end, Xiao Qi decided to call it the Great Song Freight and Passenger Station. The people at the station understood what was going on, and freight and passenger transportation were also easy to understand.

Xiao Qi directly adopted the form of the long-distance passenger terminal in his previous life, except that here he mixed freight and passenger transportation.

After deciding on the name, Xiao Qi took out the terms he had written before and asked people to copy them to each inn. He ordered the person in charge there to find someone to carve them on a wooden board and hang them in the inn.

These terms are some of Xiao Qi's thoughts on pricing and division of responsibilities between the employer and the inn, such as the price for transporting goods that are not suitable for damage and the price for transporting items that are easily damaged.

As long as both parties have passed the inspection and agree on the price to be transported, then once the owner of the goods pays, the post station has to be responsible for the goods from pick-up to delivery to the destination.

If it is lost or damaged on the road, the post station must compensate the owner of the goods according to the price.

Of course, the station also has an exemption clause, which was formulated by Xiao Qi referring to some clauses in his previous life.

It is stipulated that the post station does not need to compensate for the damage caused by force majeure, such as earthquake, flood, war and other force majeure.

When formulating these terms, Xiao Qi also thought of the transportation of fragile items, such as porcelain, which made him think that some good freight carriages should be built.

For example, making some carriages with shock-absorbing springs and rubber tires on the wheels can be used to transport things such as fragile porcelain. Not only will the price increase be more reasonable, but the damage to the goods can also be effectively avoided.

As soon as he thought of it, Xiao Qi placed many orders for such carriages to the Foundry Bureau. He knew that there would be people who would need such carriages to transport goods for them in the future.

He also understands very well that the main force of transportation in today's era is still water transportation. In addition, Da Song is located in the south with many water networks. At the beginning, their horse-drawn carriage transportation can only make up for the transportation of goods after disembarking and places without waterways.

But passenger transport is different. Ship transport is still very slow, especially when traveling against the water. It takes longer, and horse-drawn carriages are faster on land. This makes passenger horse-drawn carriages a project that can really compete with water transport for passenger sources.

Those who are in a hurry, but the water transportation is against the current, will definitely choose to take a horse-drawn carriage, because the speed of riding a horse-drawn carriage is much faster than sailing against the current.

The current horse-drawn carriage can't compete with the speed of boats along the water, unless all the cement roads are repaired.

The Song Foundry Bureau now has branches and large craftsmen gathering places in many places throughout the Song Dynasty. It only needs to hand over the dimensions of the four-wheeled carriage to the craftsmen there, and those freight and passenger carriages can be built everywhere. .

As long as the axles, wheels, bearings, brake systems and other items are transported, only a craftsman who is familiar with assembly can be sent, and all craftsmen can be taught to assemble the carriage in two days.

These craftsmen from all over the Song Dynasty are basically busy building the carriages they need nearby. The craftsmen near Lin'an City and Xiao Qi's territory are mainly making transport carriages for Changsheng Camp.

The speed of Changsheng Camp's equipped carriages was not delayed at all, and the newly built four-wheeled transport carriages were continuously sent to Changsheng Camp.

(End of this chapter)