I want to be emperor

Chapter 1087 Everyone in the Sun Mansion

In the parking lot of Songjiang West Railway Station, Jiao Tiancheng was standing next to a Tangshan brand limousine, dressed in professional attire.

There were several carriages nearby, and their drivers were also waiting.

Yesterday, the Sun Mansion received a telegram from Jinling, saying that the Sun family would return to Songjiang today. In addition, the Sun family's younger brother Sun Yang would also come with his youngest son to stay for a while.

Therefore, starting yesterday, the Sun Mansion made various preparations under the leadership of the housekeeper and prepared the guest rooms in advance.

At noon today, Jiao Tiancheng and several private carriage drivers were sent to the train station to pick up people. In addition, there were several hired taxis.

The drivers of their cars or carriages were all waiting in the parking lot, while the housekeeper had already taken several people to the station to pick them up.

In the early years, you could actually drive the carriage directly to the road at the train station exit and wait to pick people up.

However, as the number of carriages increased, carriages picking up and sending people off were crowded together, causing traffic congestion at the train station all year round. The former square at the train station was planned as a parking lot for vehicles waiting for passengers. Wait, although you can pass on the road in front of the train station, you can only stop for a short time, otherwise you will be fined heavily and your car will be impounded.

Under such circumstances, Jiao Tiancheng and the others could only wait in the parking lot, waiting for the housekeeper and others to receive the person, then send someone to notify them, and then drive to the road at the exit to pick the person up.

After about noon, a servant of the Sun Mansion trotted over and said to Jiao Tiancheng and others: "Hurry, sir, they are already here. Drive to pick them up quickly. Don't keep me and my wife waiting too long!"

After hearing this, Jiao Tiancheng immediately put on a pair of leather gloves again, started the vehicle with the joystick, quickly got in and drove forward, followed by several carriages.

The small convoy quickly left the parking lot and soon arrived on the road outside the station exit.

There are too many horse-drawn carriages here, and there are also scattered cars besides the horse-drawn carriages. At the same time, there are many large public carriages waiting for passengers on the other side, making this originally very spacious road seem overcrowded.

Jiao Tiancheng drove the vehicle carefully and then arrived at the designated parking space on the roadside.

As soon as the car stopped, he saw Mr. Sun and his wife from the car window, and a middle-aged man holding a child walking over, followed by seven or eight servants carrying various luggage.

After a while, Sun Xu's personal entourage opened the car door. Sun Xu and Sun Mengshi got into the car one after another. The entourage also opened the trunk of the car and put several suitcases in.

After a while, Sun Xu's personal attendant also opened the passenger door and got in.

At the same time, Sun Xu's younger brother, Sun Yang, also carried his child into a luxury carriage at the back. The other attendants put away their luggage one after another, and several personal maids and attendants also got on the carriage one after another.

After everything was ready, the housekeeper walked to the car and signaled to Jiao Tiancheng that he could leave. Jiao Tiancheng started the car and moved forward slowly.

Several carriages followed suit.

Because he had to take care of the speed of the carriages behind him, and there were a lot of carriages on the streets, the car Jiao Tiancheng drove was actually not fast, just about the same speed as the carriages.

Not only is this the case today, in fact, Jiao Tiancheng does not drive very fast on weekdays... Although this Tangshan brand luxury car can reach a top speed of 65 kilometers per hour... But in fact, except for Jiao Tiancheng alone Driving alone, without passengers, when training driving skills... I have never driven so fast.

Even on some open roads, when riding Sun Xu, the speed will usually be kept below thirty kilometers per hour... It's not that the car can't run that fast, but that running too fast is dangerous.

In fact, the quality and technology of cars these days are just that...the body solidity, braking performance, driving stability, etc. are actually not very good. When the car speeds up, you can feel the whole car shaking, as if it will happen every minute. Like falling apart!

And today’s cars don’t even have seat belts that are common in later generations, only ordinary belts... This kind of belt was actually used on carriages at first, mainly to prevent the carriage driver from falling out, but this thing is just a simple fixed belt, and later generations Seat belts are very different.

In short, cars these days are not very safe due to technical problems.

Although Mr. Sun keeps up with the times and has a strong ability to accept cars, he also bought a car like other rich people and changed his car from a luxury carriage to a luxury car, but he is also afraid of death... so generally Jiao Tiancheng would not be allowed to drive the car too fast. The daily speed of twenty or thirty kilometers per hour was about the same.

And this speed is much faster than the speed of ordinary carriages.

These days' two-horse passenger carriages, even if the road conditions are good, are actually only about ten kilometers per hour... Of course, they can go faster under special circumstances, but they are extremely dangerous, so they generally don't do this. .

Traveling by car is definitely faster than traveling by carriage. As for how much faster it is, it depends on how brave you are!

And like now, on the streets in the city, there are many horse-drawn carriages around, and you can't go fast even if you want to... But even so, this slowness is relative to a car... If it weren't for taking care of the few horse-drawn carriages at the back of the convoy, The car driven by Jiao Tiancheng could easily maintain a stable speed of about twenty or thirty kilometers per hour.

But there were several carriages following us today, so we couldn’t go too fast and could only maintain a speed of about fifteen or six kilometers per hour.

Even so, it was more difficult for the following carriages to follow.

The horse pulling the cart needs to maintain a trot to keep up, and it cannot be a slow trot. It needs to maintain the speed of a normal trot.

In fact, when a horse-drawn carriage is moving forward, it usually only uses slow steps, and the real-time speed is maintained at about four or five kilometers, which is similar to the walking speed of a person. Riding a horse is faster, about seven or eight kilometers.

The normal speed of carriages used for commercial operations, such as taxis, is only about ten kilometers. In special circumstances, they can run up to twenty kilometers, but that is very rare, and the duration is very short, and it must be in very good road conditions. Only on the road, otherwise it will be easy to break the horse's legs!

So when taking a taxi, if you ask the driver to run so fast, you will have to pay a lot of extra money...

It is worth noting that these draft horses used for commercial purposes have a very short service life because they maintain high-intensity exercise for a long time... Draft horses with high working intensity are generally worn out in about three or four years. Lighter draft horses for commercial use were basically scrapped in five or six years.

How should I put it, if you let the horses pull the cart at a fast pace every day, even if you have rest and food, it won't take long.

The loss of horses was large, which led to greater demand, which then led to a very large number of horses... This is why the Chu Empire owned tens of millions of horses.

And so many horses are one of the important reasons why the empire's top officials are determined to promote the development of internal combustion engines and develop the automobile industry... It is a waste of food to raise so many horses. If you don't need to raise so many horses, what will be freed up? Food or cultivated land can be used to feed two to three billion people.

The strong promotion of the imperial officials has resulted in a mixture of horse-drawn carriages and cars on the streets of Songjiang today. Today's car ownership is still too low, and the cost is relatively high. Both the purchase cost and the use cost are relatively expensive. It is not yet popular, but it has appeared sporadically. It is mainly used for private cars of wealthy people and a small number of passenger and cargo vehicles. superior.

However, horse carriages are still the most important means of short-distance land transportation in the contemporary Chu Empire and cannot be replaced in a short time.

How should I put it? In a big city like Songjiang, at least hundreds of thousands of cars are needed to completely replace horse-drawn carriages.

So far, the total automobile production of the Dachu Empire over the years is not enough for Songjiang City.

Therefore, for a long time in the future, horse-drawn carriages will still be the main means of transportation in the Chu Empire. In suburban and even rural areas or in some relatively remote places overseas, horse-drawn carriages may be used for decades!

Along the way, Jiao Tiancheng's small convoy moved quickly in the traffic. Although the road became smaller after leaving the city, it was easier to walk because there were not many vehicles in the suburbs.

After walking on the asphalt road in the suburbs for a while, they finally arrived at the community where Sun Manor is located.

The environment here is very good. You can see landscaped gardens, pavilions and lawns everywhere. Between the groves and gardens, there are manors with very large areas.

This is a well-known high-end community in Songjiang City. It is a gathering place for rich people. Every house in it is a manor worth tens of thousands of Yuan. Among them, the most expensive manor can reach more than ten or two dozen yuan. One hundred thousand Chu yuan.

After Jiao Tiancheng and the others entered the community, they walked for a while and finally arrived at Sun's manor. As soon as the motorcade arrived, there were waiting servants at the gate of the manor and opened the large iron gate to let the motorcade slowly enter.

After entering, Jiao Tiancheng parked the vehicle steadily at the gate.

Then the passenger's entourage quickly got out of the car and opened the door at the back.

Sun and his wife got out of the car, and then walked towards the luxury carriage at the rear. At this time, Sun Yang also got out of the car with his child. Sun Yang's youngest son stared with big eyes, looked left and right, looked for it, then raised his head, and walked all the way. He asked doubtfully: "Where is my mother?"

Seeing this scene, Sun Meng took two steps forward and held the child's hand: "Come on, I'll take you to your cousins. They have been looking forward to you coming to play!"

Sun Xu looked at his sad brother and did not speak directly. Instead, he took out a cigarette and handed one out: "Take your time and let the child live here for a while, and he will naturally get better!"

Sun Yang squeezed out a smile on his somewhat haggard face: "I hope so!"

Afterwards, the Sun brothers also entered the house... Jiao Tiancheng, who had just gotten off the car outside, also helped get Li Li out of the car. He vaguely heard a few words, but he didn't know what happened.

After parking the car and arriving at the restaurant on the side floor where the servants often gathered to chat, I heard someone discussing matters in the main building.

He didn't come forward, but leaned against a pillar with a cup of coffee, drinking and listening to the gossip.

One of the older aunts sighed: "The lady in Jinling is a very good person. When her family came to visit the year before last, she even brought gifts for us servants."

A follower next to him said: "No, this man was so good, how could he suddenly become seriously ill and die in such a good way!"

"I heard that it was a sudden brain attack. When the people in Jinling found out that my wife had fainted, they sent her to the hospital as soon as possible, but they still couldn't save her!"

"Will the Second Master's family be living at home for a long time now?"

"It should be quite a long time. I heard from the people on the second master's side that the second master took a leave of absence and wanted to live here with his children for a while to relax. He even brought his maid and attendants with him, so he had to live here anyway. A few months...otherwise it would be so uncomfortable to go back now!"

While everyone was talking, the door outside was suddenly opened. Everyone looked up and saw the housekeeper walking in. The forty-five-year-old female housekeeper came in and looked around, and then said: "Everyone, step back. You should pay more attention to your time, and don't talk too much about the second master's side, let alone talk nonsense. In addition, the second master has also brought servants, so we should get along better and not make any jokes. "

After everyone heard it, they naturally praised it.

Not long after, the housekeeper came over with three people. These three people were all from the second master's side. There was a maid, an attendant, and a governess... Looking at this battle, you knew that the second master's family was going to... Been here for a while.

Everyone said hello one after another, and Jiao Tiancheng also stepped forward to say hello, but the attitude of these three people towards Jiao Tiancheng was obviously better.

Because Jiao Tiancheng is not a servant, but a technician, and his income is actually far higher than that of these servants... In the small circle of Sun Mansion, Jiao Tiancheng is actually different from the maids and followers.

How to put it, comparing it with other explanations is not appropriate... Let's put it this way, Jiao Tiancheng can resign at any time, and then he can find a job as a professional driver the next day, and there may be a salary increase... In daily life Sun Xu was also more polite to him.

But not ordinary servants.

So in the circle of Sun Mansion, Jiao Tiancheng actually seems a bit lonely, and he can't blend in even if he wants to... People don't regard you as a similar person.

But Jiao Tiancheng didn't think it was anything... He came here just to make money and save money, and he had no interest in getting involved in the many messy things in the servant circle.

However, he did not participate, but his romantic partner Chen Linlin was involved... In the evening, the two of them brought some snacks to eat under the bushes behind the manor. Chen Linlin said that the cook in the kitchen was making things difficult for her today. Said something unpleasant.

He looked aggrieved.

While he was talking, he said that another female colleague was not good and even stole her things.

What Jiao Tiancheng could say was to comfort her and study with her... This year's self-examination for junior high school graduation was about to begin. Chen Linlin had to seize the time to study and try to pass the exam this year and get her junior high school diploma.

Only then can we talk about taking accounting training classes and obtaining a basic accounting certificate.

Chen Linlin studied the content of junior high school courses by herself, while Jiao Tiancheng held a thick Tangshan brand automobile repair and maintenance manual and studied it!

They are all working hard for their tomorrow!

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