Prince of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 626 Take off, Datang
The operation of the train was surprisingly good. There was an endless stream of passengers every day. Some people even queued up at the train station in the middle of the night just to take the train.

Of course, there are people who want to go to Luoyang or Taiyuan, but don't want to spend time and money on the road, so they choose to take the train, but most of them are for gaining knowledge.

To put it bluntly, it is the psychology of curiosity.

This is like many people in modern society who have never been on a plane. If they always listen to others bragging about how fast the plane is and how comfortable it is to sit on, they will have the idea of ​​taking a ride after listening for a long time.

The same is true for the people of Tang Dynasty.

Now there are thousands of people in Chang'an who have taken the train. Through their word of mouth, many people from Chang'an City or the surrounding areas have also flocked to Chang'an, intending to learn more.

Under such circumstances, the train is naturally full every day.

Moreover, the most important thing in Chang'an City is the sons of nobles or rich families. These guys are not short of money and have nothing to do all day long, so they come to play by train every day.

After sitting, I still show off the black circles or black crosses on my face.

"See, I've been on a train before, and this is the proof!"

In this way, if you have never been on a train, you will naturally feel inferior, and you will also run to squeeze the train.

Because these guys went to join the excitement of the train, the Datang Royal Club, the rugby stadium, and the Datang Royal Racecourse were not as crowded as before, and naturally the money they earned was much less.

After Gao Ming discovered this, he immediately became unhappy.

"No, it doesn't matter if these guys don't come to spend, anyway, I don't expect to earn their little money to live, but let them always compete with the common people for cars and occupy social resources indiscriminately, I have to find a way! "

For this matter, Gao Ming went to find Cheng Yaojin, but when he heard his words, Cheng Yaojin laughed immediately.

"Haha, what is this? Don't worry, His Royal Highness, I will solve this matter for you immediately!"

Seeing Cheng Yaojin's full promise, Gao Ming naturally had doubts, but to his surprise, Cheng Yaojin really solved the matter, and he still used an extremely simple method.

Change the ink!
In the past, ordinary ink was used to draw circles and crosses on the faces of passengers on the train, and this ink would fall off as soon as it was washed with water.

But this time, following Cheng Yaojin's order, the officials who charged the fee directly changed the ink and used lacquer instead.

That is paint.

Lacquerware was popular in the Tang Dynasty, and the paint technology was relatively mature. The biggest feature of paint is that it is difficult to wash off after it is stuck.

Very difficult to wash!

In this Tang Dynasty, which is still being cleaned with saponin and pig pancreas, once the paint is stuck, it will not be removed for ten days and a half months.

But paint is not cheap in the Tang Dynasty, so Cheng Yaojin didn't use it for everyone, but ordered the officials below to use it for those noble children who got priority as a gentry and came to take a car every day!

And the arguments given are quite reasonable.

"As the privileged class of the Tang Dynasty, it is too cheap to use ordinary ink. Only more expensive paint is worthy of your status. If you don't want to, you can queue up like ordinary people. Squeeze if you can, and get out if you can't. !"

As soon as these words came out, these honorable children naturally had nothing to do, but they were not happy to let them not sit or squeeze with ordinary people, so they could only put on a bitter face and let people draw circles on their faces with paint Chacha.

Draw one when you go, and draw another when you go back. The overlapping is like a no-parking sign on the side of the road, but it can't be washed off all at once!

Although they really want to play on the train, the paint on their faces hasn't come off yet. If they put on a few more layers, wouldn't they become human-shaped lacquerware?
This kind of thing is scary to think about, so let's forget it. As for the train, it's better to take it once a month!
In this way, within a few days, this group of guys disappeared from the train station.

After being unable to take the train, they gathered in the Datang Royal Club, the rugby stadium, and the Datang Royal Racecourse, which ushered in another wave of consumption in the three places.

Although there is no seat for Xungui's children, the supply of train transportation is still in short supply. For this reason, Cheng Yaojin asked to double the price of the train ride, but was rejected by Gao Ming.

"We don't need to use high prices to prevent people from taking trains, but to find a way to provide more ride space. Cheng Guogong, don't worry, the second train will be put into use in three months, and the pressure on rides will be reduced by then." It will ease up a lot.”

The idea was good, but Gao Ming soon realized that his idea was still too naive.

Half a year later, when the second train was put into use, the overcrowding situation not only did not decrease, but became more serious.

The reason is very simple. After half a year, too many people have known about the magic weapon of the train. Many people even came from Jingzhao Mansion just to take the train.

The explosion of passengers made the pressure on the train much higher, and some people even lay on the outside of the train compartment or on the roof of the train, which made Gao Ming very helpless.

"Why did it become like Ah Sanguo? It seems that we can only take some emergency measures first!"

Thinking of this, he immediately ordered to remove half of the seats in the two running trains to load more passengers.

At the same time, he told Liu Tao that the craftsmen were paid double wages and asked to work overtime to build the third train, and there was no need to set up seats in the carriages, only that they were required to be built as soon as possible.

Under such an order, it only took three months, and the third train was also freshly baked, which finally relieved some pressure on the railway.

Because of the upsurge in the operation of trains, the reform of banknotes has also been very smooth. Now Datang has almost recovered all the treasury bills, and then issued more exquisite new coins.

The main materials of the new coin are bamboo fiber and cotton fiber, which are dyed with lacquer technology to make it more durable.

And the denominations are also divided into five types, with Li Shimin's ten coins printed, empress Changsun's five coins printed, Gao Ming's consistent coins printed, civil servants' five hundred coins printed, and military generals' one coin printed. A hundred coins.

Before, it was to compete for the denominations of [-] Wen and [-] Wen, and the civil servants and generals almost fought in the court.

Facts have proved that civil servants can really risk their lives for the sake of fame, especially the reputation of celebrities through the ages!
Because of the face value of the banknotes, Fang Xuanling and other senior civil servants almost bumped into the courtyard pillars, Gao Ming couldn't bear it, so he had to give them the rights to the face value of five hundred Wen.

After getting the right to face value of five hundred coins, the civil servants celebrated the new year like celebrating the new year, and even their work efficiency improved a lot, and new banknotes were produced like flowing water.

With the new currency, there must be an institution to manage the new currency, so Gao Ming proposed again, and Li Shimin agreed with it, and a new institution appeared-Datang Royal Bank!
The appearance of the bank made Gao Ming inexplicably excited.

"With the bank, Datang is equivalent to having the wings to take off, and is about to soar into the sky!"

(End of this chapter)