Li Yinan was stunned for a moment, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "Common Chamber of Commerce?"
Although he, Li Yinan, did not contact the old Turkic tribe after coming to Chang'an, nor did he establish a good relationship with anyone, it did not mean that he did nothing. He only did one thing, and that was to inquire about everything related to His Highness the King of Qin.
Everyone thought that he, Li Yinan, was stupid, but Li Yinan knew very well that the person who could have such a way for him to go directly to the Tang Dynasty instead of choosing to fight Xue Yantuo could only be His Highness the King of Qin, not Tian Khan.
If it was Tian Khan who had directly requested it a few years ago, he would certainly not have refused at that time. Because at that time, his influence in Xue Yantuo was very weak.
Therefore, it is only possible that His Highness King Qin was involved.
He couldn't contact Tian Khan, and it was impossible to contact Tian Khan, so he naturally wanted to find out everything about His Highness King Qin.
Fortunately, there are too many legends about His Highness King Qin in the entire city of Chang'an. The storytellers in many storytelling teahouses live by telling the legendary experiences of His Highness King Qin all day long.
I can’t tell any other story, so why don’t I tell the story of His Highness King Qin? Some people would like to hear it!
He had visited all the storytelling halls in the Evernight City of the Tang Dynasty, so he naturally knew the reputation of the Chamber of Commerce and the relationship between the Chamber of Commerce and His Highness.
"Of course, Mr. Bai Lang, please." Li Yinan stood up directly.
"How about I invite a few more princes from Shiwei to join me?" Bai Ling said with a smile again.
Bai Ling focused on the richest group.
"Of course." Li Yinan naturally didn't care.
Soon, Bai Ling invited four more great khans from Shiwei, and then they went directly to the carriage where Bai Ling and the others were.
When they saw Bai Ling and several Turkic princes and princes coming in, the people in the carriage were obviously stunned for a moment, but they soon understood why Bai Ling had invited them.
Suddenly, these people looked somewhat annoyed and regretful. Why didn't they think of this?
…
While Bai Ling and others in the carriage continued to negotiate together, at this moment, the villagers of Maquan Village gathered on the high ground where their village was located. This place was a small soil slope. Although its height was not high, the people next to it were The railway is not very high either.
To be honest, they had not been too close to this place before, but now they could see clearly that there were actually two steel tracks on the road.
Is this the new path?
"Look! What is that?!" A villager suddenly pointed in the direction of the station and shouted, which suddenly attracted everyone's attention, and everyone's eyes were immediately cast in that direction.
I saw a long black dragon advancing vaguely in the distance, and its front and rear were spitting out long black smoke. The black smoke pillars were sprayed into the air, and then were pulled by the oncoming wind. later.
The villagers in Maquan Village were a little noisy. After all, the long black dragon was quickly heading in this direction along the road.
"I know, it must be the carriage newly built by His Highness!" A villager said loudly.
Everyone else nodded in agreement, but someone loudly retorted: "Can your carriage emit black smoke? And it can run so fast while pulling so many things?"
"Then what do you think this is?" the man asked.
"Um...I don't know, but it's not a carriage."
The villagers in the village immediately started arguing, but while they were arguing, the train was constantly approaching in their direction. Maquan Village was the closest to the train track, and their location was also very good. They could see A panoramic view of the railway.
When the train continued to drive in this direction, the villagers' arguments stopped. Everyone stared at the approaching train.
Looking at the train rushing towards me with long black smoke.
steam train
It wasn't until the train arrived that everyone could feel how big and fast it was. In fact, its speed was only that of a galloping horse, but when the size of the galloping horse reaches a certain level, it would give people an illusion. , and greater pressure.
The train that finally arrived next to these villagers also saw these villagers. The train driver blew the whistle directly, and the piercing "woo" sound of the whistle sounded. Along with the sound of "bang-dang" and "bang-dang", the train roared directly past the villagers. Pass.
All the villagers looked at the train rushing past at a terrifying speed with shocked expressions. This... is this the brand new road built by His Highness?
And they also saw the dense crowd inside the carriage through the glass of the carriage.
"I saw His Highness, definitely Your Highness, wearing the clothes of a prince." Someone in the crowd shouted excitedly.
"What the hell, have you seen the prince? You've just seen the prince's clothes." Another person immediately retorted.
"I don't care, I saw His Highness anyway, His Highness King Qin must be inside." The man said loudly.
"You saw His Highness. I also said that I saw His Majesty. Your Majesty is also inside."
"Huh, I don't know if His Majesty is here, but His Highness is definitely here!"
Amid the quarrels and shocked gazes of the villagers, the train roared away. Looking at the long steel dragon that stretched away, everyone was subconsciously demonstrating their inner shock by quarreling.
They didn't understand any more, but they knew that they seemed to have witnessed the new history of Datang. In the future, these trains would pass by their villages every day.
Just as these villagers thought, Li Shimin and Li Ke naturally saw these ordinary Tang people in the train carriage.
"As you can see, trains not only bring convenient logistics, but more importantly, they will bring a lot of development to the people, counties, towns, etc. along the way. All it takes is to build a train station in each town. Then there will be a large amount of logistics gathered nearby, thus prospering the economy."
"The simplest one is that within a radius of one to two hundred miles, or even three to four hundred miles, there is a place for transportation of cash crops and raw materials grown by the people in a certain township."
"When more people gather in a place, a prosperous market will form. For the small merchants who set up stalls in these markets, we adopt a fixed tax collection method and collect very little tax. In addition, for some people who set up temporary stalls It will be tax-free."
"In this way, the circulation of goods in Datang can be promoted, and such distribution bases can promote more prosperous towns. The most important thing is that big cities like Chang'an can arrange some manufacturing industries nearby. city, thereby driving surrounding cities to become rich together.”
Li Ke pointed to the people watching outside the window and said.
All the officials nodded one after another, but His Highness King Qin still looked far away. Li Shimin also nodded with satisfaction, yes, Sanlang did a good job, continue to maintain this rhythm.
