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Chapter 1553 The madness of the merchants (1)

Li Chengqian said the heroic spirit, and after hearing this, Li Ke felt a little calmer, and thought for a moment and said, "Since the eldest brother believes in me, then I will take on this job."

"This is the child of my royal family. Be brave and don't always listen to those messy people gossiping." Seeing that Li Ke agreed, Li Chengqian stood up with a smile, patted his shoulders, and encouraged him, "Do it well, get some results, and teach those old guys a good lesson."

"My brother understand!" Li Ke has been cautious since he became sensible. Concubine Yang has always reminded him to pay attention to his identity, so although he is careless, he is actually very sensitive.

This time, Li Chengqian generously handed over all the transportation-related errands in the Tang Dynasty to him, and personally cheered him up, which also aroused his competitive spirit and planned to show his skills.

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Two days later, wealthy businessmen gathered at the railway station east of Chang'an City, and those with better relationships gathered in a small circle to discuss about the train.

Since Li Chengqian returned from Luoyang, His Majesty Li Er also released the train from Luoyang to Chang'an. During the period when Little Li was regent, the train put back to Chang'an carried a large amount of wood every day to conduct reliability experiments.

Nowadays, all the truck boxes carrying wood have been unloaded, replaced by green car skins one after another, which looks like rectangular boxes from the outside.

"Hey, I said Lao Wang, why are you here too? Haven't you been doing water transportation business all the time? Why are you interested in this train?" A wealthy businessman named Jiang had a big round belly, like a pregnant woman who had been pregnant for several months.

"Old Jiang, the water transportation business needs to be done, so we have to care about the matter on the railway. After all, this is the result of the efforts of His Highness Qin King spent several years. I, Lao Wang, have to go up and sit, open my eyes, right?" The rich businessman surnamed Wang was a tall and thin man. He stood next to Fatty Jiang, and the two of them were a copy of Fatty Thin Head Tuo.

"Old Wang, don't scare me. I heard that the speed of this train is much faster than your water transport. It's enough to make a round trip from Chang'an to Luoyang. Your water transport business is afraid that you haven't arrived in Tongguan in one day!" Another guy who runs a cloth business squeezed over from one side and came to the two of them to fight haha.

"Is this necessary to hear?" The wealthy merchant surnamed Jiang looked at the new guy with contempt, first curled his lips, and then said mysteriously: "Do you know? I came here half a month ago. I was about to leave at that time. Do you know what I did?"

"What did you do? You won't climb up, right?" the thin businessman named Wang teased.

"Bad, do you think I can get up with this figure?" Jiang, who was surnamed Jiang, spitted, rolled his eyes and continued, "I used the stones I picked up from the ground to mark a piece of wood in the car, and then waited here. As a result, you guess what!"

"What's wrong?"

"Hey, hurry up and say it, what's the point of selling it?"

"That's right, say it quickly, don't suck our appetite."

The conversation between Jiang Fatty and Wang Shouzi quickly attracted several businessmen. These people surrounded them and saw that Jiang Fatty was halfway through, and immediately urged him.

"After six hours, I waited here for six hours, the train returned here, and then I saw the mark I made again." Fatty Jiang glanced at the people around him: "Do you know what this represents?"

"Six hours? So fast?" Without Jiang Fatty, everyone around understood. His words meant that the train could go from Chang'an to Luoyang in six hours, and then return from Luoyang to Chang'an.

"Yes, it's so fast, and you should have sent someone to see you, right? The wood in the car added up to more than 100,000 kilograms." Fatty Jiang looked a little proud, as if he had discovered some amazing secret.

"If this is true, it seems to be a waste. All the goods in my house are not ten thousand pounds together." A sharp voice suddenly inserted in, and his tone was a little hesitant.

"Bah, do you really think that a train only contains your family's things? Even if you really only contain your family's things, you have to afford to pack this car." The businessman surnamed Li rolled his eyes and said disgusted.

"That's right, we can cooperate with several companies. Anyway, the capacity of the train is there, and it won't be a problem even if we put all of our goods in it." Someone took the words of the merchant named Li and said excitedly.

At this moment, someone noticed Li Ke’s whereabouts and immediately stopped everyone’s discussion: “Okay, okay, stop talking, the King of Wu is coming down there, let’s go there.”

"Hula", all the merchants around them squeezed in one direction and surrounded Li Ke who was strode.

The guards who followed Li Ke paid tribute to him in the middle, separated him from the merchants who were pushing over, and shouted loudly: "Everything goes away, your highness has something to say to everyone." The guard's voice was very loud. After shouting in one sentence, the noisy sound in the station was instantly quiet, so quiet that it was almost a sound of the needle falling.

Li Ke took this opportunity to separate the crowd and come to the next to the train, board a carriage, stood at the door of the carriage and said loudly: "Everyone, I have two purposes to come to you today. One is to let everyone experience the convenience of the train. After all, this is something that everyone has been looking forward to for a long time."

"Thank you, Your Highness, King of Wu!" Several businessmen who were crowded in front of Li Ke shouted loudly, competing to leave a good impression in front of him.

"As for the second thing, everyone gets in the car first, let's talk about it." Li Ke had a spoof smile on his face, and he seemed to like this feeling that was so enchanting.

The merchants were very helpless about Li Ke's bad taste, but they were princes. They were just businessmen with low status. Even if they were dissatisfied, they would not dare to say it out loud. In addition to laughing, they would also follow the arrangement of Li Xiaosan's guard and climb the car along the escalator.

The carriages that merchants boarded have dozens of seats, which looked similar to the high-speed rail in later generations. According to Li Ke's explanation, this is a business carriage, which is much more comfortable than ordinary carriages. Of course, the price will also be much more expensive.
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