At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 354 What the Bus Corporation and the Imperial Court should do
On October 6, the seventh year of the Han Dynasty, Chang'an City, Yan Palace.

Xu Fan found his old subordinate Chen Rui. He was Lao Dao, the butcher of the Chen family. Over the years, he had been managing the disabled soldiers who followed Xu Fan to conquer the world.

Although Xu Fan had tried his best to arrange soldiers to become Han officials, as well as craftsmen and stewards in workshops.

However, there were still a group of soldiers who were seriously injured and could no longer live a normal life. Xu Fan built a veterans' farm in Guanzhong, mainly to take care of these wounded soldiers, and it was managed by Chen Rui.

Xu Fan asked: "How is your life on the farm? What difficulties do you have?"

Chen Rui said: "With His Majesty's care, everyone is helping each other and living a good life."

This is not Chen Rui's polite words, but his truest thoughts.

The Rongjun Farm is located in Zhengguo Canal, and the Han court used millions of acres of land to house these wounded soldiers.

Because these veterans are either missing arms or legs, it is obviously impossible for a small-scale yeoman farmer to do this.

Everyone lives there as agricultural workers. The profits from the farm are equally distributed to everyone, and they also help each other in daily life.

My idea is this. The imperial court and I will spend a sum of money to buy 500 heavy-duty carriages to be used as passenger cars. We will set up a passenger car company in Chang'an City. You will serve as the manager. Each passenger car must be equipped with a coachman and a conductor. In this way, It can accommodate 1000 old guys. "

Coachman Chen Rui knows, but what is a coachman? Chen Rui was confused.

However, the imperial court does not intend to make too much money in this area. Firstly, it can give them a job, and secondly, it can provide transportation convenience for the people of Chang'an City. "

If the Bus Corporation can make a profit, it will continue to increase the number of buses and at the same time establish branches in other counties in Guanzhong. It should be possible to accommodate tens of thousands of old brothers. "

Xu Fan used the system of later generations to mobilize the people of Guanzhong to take care of these veterans. It gave these veterans great satisfaction, thinking that the court had not forgotten them.

A better-quality carriage costs more than tens of thousands. If the price of the horse is included, the price of such a carriage ranges from twenty to thirty thousand to forty to fifty thousand. After spending tens of thousands of dollars to buy a car but only making a penny, Chen Rui felt that the business might lose money.

First, they also wanted to do something for the emperor.

These veterans enthusiastically signed up one after another to become coachmen and conductors.

At the same time, Xu Fan also sent people from the Mo family and farmers to help. Neishi County would also help these veterans during spring plowing and autumn harvest.

With the help of all parties, Prime Minister Zhou Zhang took out 1000 million yuan from the court, Xu Fan took out million yuan from his own private treasury, Liu Jie also sold modified buses at cost price, and the servant paid the lowest price. horses were sold at a price of yuan, and Chang'an Bus Corporation was established. Zhang Cang was ordered to help design bus routes.

Xu Fan said with a smile: "In the past two years, the population of Chang'an City has increased, and there have been more and more workshops. New workshops have been built in the suburbs of Chang'an City. The people of Chang'an City have to go to work, and they have to spend money every time. The time is not that short. If there is a special carriage that costs a penny to transport workers from where they live to the workshop area where they work, the people who come to Chang'an City will be willing to pay the money. "

Chen Rui asked doubtfully: "Your Majesty, the cost of this kind of bus is not too low. Can it be earned back?"

Xu Xiaofan said: "I found a good job for my brothers, which is to become a bus driver. Although this job is tiring, people with limited hands and feet can also do it."

Chen Rui said happily: "If there is a certain reason to spend this money."

Second, they also want to go to Chang'an City. No matter how many people take care of their rural conditions, they are still not as good as those in cities.

During holidays, students from Chang'an will also go to the Veterans Farm to help the veterans weed and fertilize, clean the place where they live, and listen to them tell stories about previous wars.

In the afternoon, Chen Rui returned to the Rongjun Farm and expressed Xu Fan's opinions.

"There are millions of people in Chang'an City, which means you have millions of customers. The bus market is extremely large and should be profitable."

Chen Rui said: "Since Your Majesty trusts me, a loser, I will take my brothers and give it a try."

Xu Fan smiled and said: "The imperial court will build specially built buses that can accommodate 20-30 people, and set up more stops along the way. Although each person only charges one penny, the more people there are, the more money they will make. They will make more trips a day. It is still possible to make hundreds or thousands of dollars, and it should be profitable.

Moreover, the amount of goods produced in Chang'an City every year is also extremely large. If you can share a sum of money from short-distance freight, it will be a big market.

On October 16, the seventh year of the Han Dynasty, Chang'an City.

A two-foot-long carriage was parked in the locust tree, arousing everyone's curiosity. Carriages are not uncommon in Chang'an City, but two-foot-long carriages are very rare.

I saw a strong man who was blind in one eye Daodao: "Do you want to take a carriage? Our carriage leads to the West Market for only one penny. You can ride on it for just one penny."

But the strong man was not only blind in one eye, but also had a ferocious face. His roar frightened the people around him so that they did not dare to approach.

The coachman noticed this situation and said, "Don't come out to scare people like you, a good guy."

Then the coachman bowed his hands and saluted the people around him and said: "We are wounded soldiers of the Han Dynasty, not villains. The emperor took pity on the disabled people like me and established the Chang'an Bus Company to accommodate me. At the same time, it was also for the convenience of the people of Chang'an City." For travel, you only need to pay a penny to ride on our carriage and ride all the way to the West Market.”

The driver's explanation made everyone feel relieved, and they still had a high degree of trust in the Han army. Since it was arranged by the emperor, he is not a bad person.

"Is it really a penny?" The West Market is ten miles away from Huaishuli. If you can reach it by carriage for only one penny, it is extremely cost-effective.

The coachman smiled and said: "Young men are innocent, this is the price set by the emperor, we don't dare to increase the price randomly."

"Okay, I'm going to the West Market!" A young man took out a sum of money and gave it to the driver.

After taking the money, the coachman smiled and said, "Is there anyone else who wants to go to the West Market? If so, hurry up and get on the bus."

Finally, 6 people boarded their carriage, and then the coachman shouted all the way: "Anyone who wants to go to the West Market can take a carriage to the West Market for just one penny."

People kept getting on the carriage along the way. Just as Xu Fan thought, there was a huge craftsman class in Chang'an City. These people had the need to ride carriages, but they could not afford carriages worth thousands or even tens of thousands.

The emergence of passenger carriages has supplemented this market. Ordinary people can't afford tens of thousands of dollars, but they can afford it, and they are willing to use it to reduce their own hardship.

So starting from mid-October, the people of Chang'an City discovered something new, and hundreds of vehicles began to drive through the streets of Chang'an City. A group of veterans with missing arms and legs kept shouting to attract customers. They only need to spend a penny to build a carriage to go to their place of work. The passenger carriage solves the travel problem of ordinary people in Chang'an City.

The people of Chang'an City accepted new things quickly. In less than 10 days, every carriage under the Bus Corporation was full.

Each carriage can earn 200 yuan a day, and 500 carriages can earn 10 yuan a day, which is 120 million yuan a month. The salary of the owner of the coach company is only 128 million yuan, and he still spends 172 yuan a month. The monthly cost of feed is million yuan, and the bus company's monthly profit reached million yuan.

Xu Fan, who paid attention to all this, was overjoyed and began to popularize passenger cars in other counties in Neishi County. The great development of the transportation industry can promote the great development of the carriage industry. The great development of the carriage industry, that is, the various standards formulated can slowly penetrate into the Han Dynasty. Among the handicraft workshops.

This huge gap in efficiency can use market methods to eliminate those stubborn people.

In such a market environment of survival of the fittest, all industries will eventually formulate their own standards in order to improve production efficiency, and finally these standards will be combined into Dahan standards.

At the beginning of October, Chen Ping and Zhang Liang reported on the development of local areas.

Chen Ping said: "Your Majesty's investment in overseas affairs is growing day by day, but the income is captured by the local governments. The tax revenue brought by Kuaiji County alone exceeds 80,000 gold. The Han officials in Kuaiji County have begun to enthusiastically build China Unicom." All the county towns in Kuaiji County have cement roads.”

It can be seen that after the rise of maritime trade, the wealth of Kuaiji County has surpassed that of Guanzhong.

The minister believed that this tax should be directly controlled by the imperial court, and then supplemented by investment overseas. "

In September and October, Dahan discovered Nipo Island and Luzon Island. In order to develop these two islands, Prime Minister Zhou Zhang specially approved 9 gold to develop the two islands. That's why Chen Ping said that Dahan's overseas development was increasing day by day. To grow stronger, Dahan invested 10 gold overseas this year.

Xu Fan felt annoyed in his heart. Isn't this what Chen Ping was talking about, which was one of the pillars of tax revenue for the imperial court in later generations? He actually forgot about this income and only remembered it after Chen Ping reminded him.

Xu Fan said to Zhou Zhang: "The Prime Minister's court will establish a customs department. All overseas taxes will be controlled by the court, and the money obtained will be invested in overseas development."

Zhou Zhang said: "No!"

Then Chen Ping talked about the situation of the shipbuilding industry in Kuaiji County and the problems of workshops in various places.

Chen Ping said: "I think that the factory directors under the Shaofu should also be recalled to Chang'an to study. These workshops are too important to the imperial court. If they decline, the imperial court's income will be difficult to protect."

After hearing Chen Ping's description, the words "big pot rice" came to Xu Fan's mind.

Xu Fan couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. History is a cycle. It's true that even though they were 2000 years apart, the choices made by these factory directors were the same.

Even Xu Fan couldn't say anything. Can you say that they are not exploring the world of Datong and that it is wrong to spend money on welfare benefits for craftsmen?

But Xu Fan knew that the consequence of doing so was to put a heavy burden on the government-run workshops.

When the market is still actively expanding, the harm caused by this kind of thing is not apparent at all.

But once the market is saturated and begins to fall into fierce competition, how can the workshops that carry burdens beat those that are traveling lightly.

Especially in the textile industry, which has little technical content, almost anyone with some wealth can enter. The competition in this industry is the most fierce. The factory directors of the Han Dynasty bear the burden, but they have to compete with the most elite in the world. How can a group of people fight to win? If they had selfish motives, they would lose even faster.

In fact, in later generations of the Internet, this kind of thing has been discussed very clearly. The purpose of the existence of a workshop is to make money. This is its nature. If some tasks that do not belong to it are forcibly added, such an enterprise will naturally not develop.

Welfare is what the court should do. The court should formulate rules, create a good business environment, and make a fair judgement.

Rather than wanting to be an athlete and a referee, and desperately blowing whistles,
How many bad things will happen in future generations will not happen because of this situation of wanting and wanting at the same time.

For Xu Fan, the only good thing is that Dahan has no competitors at all and there is almost no external pressure. Dahan has a very high fault tolerance rate and can focus all his energy on internal development.

Private workshops are also Dahan's own enterprises. If they can survive, Dahan's economy will not decline. On the contrary, after a group of cancer cells are eliminated, the economy will be more dynamic.

Xu Fan estimates that overcapacity in the textile industry is not far away, and the economic crisis in the future is expected to occur every 10 years.

Of course, in China it became overcapacity, and the crisis of overcapacity lasted for almost 10 years, and it happened constantly in different industries.

The total population of the Han Dynasty and the subordinate barbarian forces is probably a little over 4000 million.

Without accounting for purchasing power, 4 million people consume about 000 million pieces of cloth per year. According to statistics from the Shangjifu, the annual production capacity of government-run and private textile machines in the Han Dynasty has exceeded Twenty million bolts of cloth of all colors. This does not include the looms of small households.

Moreover, the number of Dahan's looms is still increasing at a rate of 20% per year.

If nothing else happens, Dahan's overcapacity crisis may break out in the next four to five years.

When everything goes smoothly, who is the talent? Which one is mediocre? It's hard to see clearly.

But in the face of headwinds, only real talents can lead a company to survive. If the economic crisis can help the big man select these talents and put them in a more important position, this can be regarded as a bad thing turning into a good thing.

Not all industries should be left alone. There are some pillar industries that should be protected.

In Xu Fan's opinion, the textile industry is an industry that can be gradually withdrawn, but the shipbuilding industry is a core pillar industry. Dahan must invest enough talent and funds to further develop this industry.

Xu Fan thought for a while and said: "The Prime Minister and the Shaofu will start inspecting factory directors from various places next year. Those who pass will be rewarded, and those who fail will be asked to come to Chang'an City to study."

Wuxian Shipyard also has the same strict rules as the carriage yard. Parts standards and production standards.

Tu Shenpu had renovated Chang'an Horse Racing Farm and established a standard assembly line. He had experience in this field and appointed him as the director of Wuxian Shipyard.

Zhuo Hong was transferred back to Chang'an to study, and then he was appointed as the county magistrate and let him take charge. "

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(End of this chapter)