I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 255 Big Car

This new son-in-law is really thick-skinned, and he directly asked for a military quota and an official position.

He also uttered wild words, within five hundred miles of Zhangjiakou, no one would be able to stay here without his support, and whoever dared to make a mistake would definitely not be able to return to the pass alive.

If the imperial court forced back the base area, they would not be able to defeat Xinghe City even if they sent [-] troops.

Such rebellious words made Geng Ruqi feel very uncomfortable.

But he didn't have an attack. He felt that Huang Yi grew up in a barbarian land and refused to accept Wang Hua, so he needed to slowly teach by example.

After thinking about it, I felt that Huang Yi's refusal to enter the customs might not necessarily be a bad thing, otherwise, it would be enough to confiscate the family and exterminate the family just by talking about the misfortune.

Three days later, Geng's father and son and Xuanda's civil and military officers returned.

Geng Ruqi was a little worried, concerned about whether the battle of Dalinghe would start, and checked the court newspaper as soon as he returned to Xuanfu.

After getting married, Huang Yi did not spend his honeymoon, but was still busy with work and industrial progress.

On the wedding night, Huang Yi confessed to Geng Yueru that she doesn't need to go out of the door, she is free and can go wherever she wants.

That night, Huang Yi took a good look at Geng Yueru's little feet. Fortunately, her family wrapped her "Yangzhou little feet" and didn't forcefully break off the toes and wrap them into deformities.

Huang Yi issued an order a long time ago that no one is allowed to bind their feet in the base area. Women such as Zuo Fanglian, Xiao Jiu, Ye Huiling and others who had their feet bound had already freed their feet.

On the wedding night, Huang Yi first freed Geng Yueru's little feet, and then immediately asked Geng Yueru's dowry maid, Haitang, to untie the wrapping cloth for Geng Yueling's feet.

Huang Yi couldn't figure out from the beginning to the end, what kind of bad taste caused women to half-mutilate their healthy feet.

The instigator of the foot binding should really have his offspring cut to pieces!

China's splendid history of civilization will also be overshadowed by such a disgraceful page!All Chinese should be ashamed.

Geng Yueru and Geng Yueling were the happiest, because they found that after they got married, their lives were happier than when they were in their mother's house.

To be honest, Huang Yi traveled to Daming alone. There were no elders or brothers and sisters here. Geng Yueru married and immediately became the master of the backyard, equivalent to the second largest person in the base area.

Huang Yi never restricts the freedom of the two sisters, they can go wherever they want, and if the distance is far away, they will be escorted by dozens of female cavalry led by Bao Leer or Aqi Dolan.

The ancient people's idea of ​​superiority and inferiority was deeply rooted. Aqi Dolan and Bao Leer never had any unreasonable thoughts, and they were very satisfied with their status as concubines.

The two of them called Mrs. Geng Yueru and Mrs. Geng Yueling, and they would go to pay their respects every morning and obey orders.

The autumn harvest in the base area is about to begin, and all men and women over the age of ten must be busy.

Schools will also be closed, and all elementary school students will also have to participate in the autumn harvest. The children can't do heavy work without strength, so they can pick up ears of wheat with bamboo baskets.

In order to keep the harvest and let all the soldiers and civilians harvest with peace of mind, at this time Huang Yi will lead all full-time cavalry soldiers to patrol the four directions.

There are no idlers in the base area, and there are dozens of idlers in his own family, which will not be good, so Huang Yi plans to let the sisters go back to their natal family for a month.

By the way, I brought a generous gift for my father-in-law—a luxurious version of a four-wheeled carriage with eight carriages and a large sedan chair.

Huang Yi gave this low-key and luxurious carriage a good name-big sedan.

The task of Geng Yueru and sisters returning to Xuanfu is not only to deliver a car to her father, they also have to find ways to sell this car.

A car does not count as a horse, and weighs about [-] catties. Huang Yi's price is relatively high. Dividing the weight of the carriage by two is about the weight of silver.

The retail price of a car is 500 taels of silver, which is the same price.

Is it expensive?

In fact, it is not very expensive. They are all hand-crafted by great craftsmen, using more than a hundred and dozens of new inventions that are unique in this era.

For example, spring shock absorbers, Eucommia rubber solid tires, steel ball bearings, steel steering shafts, glass sunroofs, car windows that can be shaken up and down to close and open, cupronickel heat sinks and so on.

Not counting R&D costs, but only material and labor costs. Without mass production, it would cost 300 taels of silver to produce a large car.

hey-hey!If we want to develop industry, how can we not produce big guys like cars?
Without the support of high profits, how can it develop faster and better?
Geng Yueru and Geng Yueling are full of confidence in the big car, because they often test the car during this period, and feel that traveling in a big car is much more comfortable than taking a sedan chair.

Going back to her mother's house to deliver a big car to her parents is of course more face-saving.

Huang Yi has always advocated frugality, and the two sisters who returned to their natal homes were light and easy. Apart from their personal maids and mother-in-law, they were only two small flag female cavalry guards.

The two of them brought four large cars, and only eight were produced in the base area.

Four are prototype cars, one is given to the father-in-law, one is used by Geng Yueru and the sisters, and the other two are commodities.

Geng Ruqi was overjoyed after receiving the gift from his daughter, and took a limousine to Baoan Prefecture for inspection that day.

After returning, Geng Ruqi repeatedly praised the two daughters for their filial piety, saying that a big car is a hundred times more comfortable than an eight-carrying sedan chair, and the speed is not much slower than riding a horse.

If all the officials in the feudal borders use this kind of transportation, the efficiency of work will definitely double.

He believes that such a large car will be sold in the base area in the future, and sales should not be a problem.

The Governor did not say that sales would not be a problem, but took practical actions. He bought one of the two large cars brought by his daughter for sale and gave it to the new official as a guard eunuch.

These few days, Geng Ruqi was a little bored. After he was released from prison, he was promoted to Governor Xuan. At this time, it was Emperor Chongzhen who abolished the supervising army and guarding eunuchs.

So in the past two years, Geng Ruqi basically kept his promise in Xuanda University.

However, this autumn, Emperor Chongzhen changed his original intention and appointed the great eunuch Tang Wenzheng to supervise the military administration of the Beijing camp, dispatched eunuch Wang Yingchao and others to monitor Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan, and sent Wang Kun to Xuanfu, Liu Wenzhong to Datong, and Liu Yunzhong to Shanxi to monitor the army and horses.

Chongzhen admired Zhang Yixian, the great eunuch, and ordered him to explore and assess the entry and exit officials of the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry, and built an official office for him, named "Prime Minister of Household Workers", with the same power as the outside governor and the regiment admiral of the capital. ...

The eunuch who lost power because of Wei Zhongxian's downfall for a while is likely to make a comeback.

Why?Of course, it was because the young emperor felt that the civil servants and military generals were bastards and had to send eunuchs to supervise them.

However, how many eunuchs are not jerks?
So there is another group of eunuchs who are unscrupulous in knocking bones and sucking marrow.

Civilian and military generals had to earn more money in order to unblock the eunuchs who supervised them.

The group of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty was actually similar to the group of civil servants and military generals. The same thing is that there are fewer people and more animals.

The demise of the Ming Dynasty was actually the result of the common corruption of those in power.

(End of this chapter)