Valley Emperor

The emperor's grandson was a little surprised by Li Xuan's words. Li Hongyi thought that although the aircraft looked very advanced, its practicality may be questionable.

The range is only a few hundred kilometers, and the carrying capacity is extremely small, the speed is not very fast, and the site requirements are extremely high. In his opinion, such an aircraft is not as good as the rigid airship currently equipped by the military.

Although the commercial application of airships in the Datang Empire was not smooth, it was questioned by the public because of accidents in the early years, and it has not yet been commercialized into the market, but its military use is still quite extensive.

Huang Taisun expects that the airship will continue to develop and may become an important military equipment.

But the plane, it looks like a toy, it's hard to believe its future prospects.

However, Li Xuan didn't say anything to the emperor's grandson. The huge potential of the plane does not need him to explain anything in detail. Time will tell everything.

After watching the plane and returning to the palace, the Son of Heaven returned to a peaceful life.

The grandson has returned to his busy life. After returning from the test flight field, the grandson has a special meeting on the auto industry.

At the meeting, the grandson Li Hongyi once again emphasized the importance of the automobile industry, especially the huge potential and role of freight vehicles in the field of short- and medium-distance transportation.

There are no rivers in many places, and the construction of railways is also very expensive. In the past, people could only travel on two legs, and even riding a horse-drawn carriage was very slow, but the advent of automobiles will change this.

In the process of urban development, after a large area of ​​automobiles replaces horse-drawn carriages, it can further promote urban development and further alleviate various problems caused by the large area of ​​some large cities.

Many cities in the Datang Empire are very large in area!

Shanghai is the most typical example. This year's Shanghai is also called Songjiang Prefecture!

This is because the area of ​​the entire urban area of ​​Shanghai is very huge!

To a certain extent, in fact, the entire Songjiang Prefecture area is now considered a city, and even the east bank of the Huangpu River, which was desolate in the early years, is now prosperous.

Since the completion of the Huangpu River Bridge, Songjiang Prefecture has focused on developing this area. Subsequently, the Second Huangpu River Bridge and the Third Huangpu River Bridge have been built. Now the east bank of the Huangpu River has become the best planned and most extensive area in Songjiang Prefecture. The commercial area brings together a large number of enterprises, large shopping malls, etc.

In the continuous development of Shanghai for many years, the area of ​​the urban area has become larger and larger, and even the entire Songjiang Prefecture has become an urban area. In addition to the growing population factor, this is related to contemporary construction technology and people's living concept or land cost. .

The cost of high-rise buildings these days is still high, and the cost of land in the city center is also high, which means high prices when built.

But yeah, rich people in Datang don't like to live in the city center!

Datang people with a little money like to live in those suburbs with a good environment, and they like to live in small buildings with courtyards, and even small buildings in rows even if they are bad.

During the decades of Datang's development, some concepts have gradually become popular among the people, that is, the poor live in the city center, the rich live in the suburbs, and the high-end residential areas in Datang are all suburban communities with beautiful environments.

Often only some lower-middle-income earners who cannot afford to buy real estate in the suburbs, and who cannot afford to commute to and from their suburban and inner-city workplaces, choose to buy real estate in urban areas.

As for why this idea was formed!

You can see the gloomy sky in Shanghai all year round, and the smell of cinders and horse manure that persists all year round.

The steam engines of countless factories and the coal stoves of countless urban homes emit countless soot every day. Tens of thousands of horses run around the city releasing countless feces. Dead horses can often be seen on the streets...

How to say the city of the contemporary Tang Dynasty, it seems bright and prosperous, but the city center is definitely not suitable for human survival.

In addition to environmental issues and living concepts, it is also related to land. In the Datang Empire, except for the special place in the center of Shanghai, almost all of which belong to official land, most other cities, including the current large area of ​​Shanghai In the central and peripheral areas, all land is privately owned.

Private landlords are difficult to deal with at any time. The government needs a lot of land for construction. The most important thing is that after the land does not belong to the government, the government has no incentive to concentrate resources. In the process of urban development, it will be more inclined to expand to the periphery, and there will be less trouble.

The combination of many comprehensive factors has resulted in a very special status quo of contemporary Datang cities, that is, the area is generally huge!

Not to mention a super-large city like Shanghai, even some small and medium-sized cities with a population of only 100 to 200,000 people often have a very large urban area.

As urban areas get bigger and bigger, a new problem arises, that is, the traffic problem is difficult to keep up with!

In urban areas that are ten or twenty kilometers or even dozens of kilometers wide, it is difficult to travel on foot or by horse-drawn carriage!

This is also the reason why Songjiang Prefecture took the lead in developing intercity railways, because the area of ​​the urban area is too large, and horse-drawn carriages can no longer meet people's daily travel needs.

It is also the reason why automobiles are popular among the upper classes in various cities, especially in big cities, after the appearance of automobiles!

Because the upper class live in the suburbs and work in the city center, the daily round trip distance is very long, either by intercity train or by private carriage, but it is not too convenient and time-consuming.

But after the car appeared, it solved this problem.

This is only for passenger transport. As the urban area becomes larger, it is more troublesome in terms of freight, which also brings a broad market for cars and trucks.

At present, the cars of the Datang Empire, regardless of whether they are passenger cars or freight cars, are actually mostly concentrated in cities. Well, pickups are an exception.

The pickup truck in the automobile industry of the Datang Empire has a cargo box at the rear, but from the very beginning, this thing was not used to transport goods, but as a travel tool for rural gentry and farmers to transport their own agricultural products. of.

Therefore, the passability is generally very good, and the cockpit will be more luxurious.

That thing has better passability and better adaptability in rural areas with harsh roads, so it is very popular with country gentry and farmers.

This special situation of the Datang Empire, especially the peculiarity of the city, means a huge demand for cars.

The demand for both passenger cars and trucks is huge!

And this is more obvious in the second industrial development plan.

With the development of highway network construction, major cities have carried out large-scale road construction to harden the road surface. At the same time, several major oil companies in the empire have also actively responded to the call of the empire and invested heavily in major cities and even small towns. Build a gas station to facilitate car refueling.

The market demand is obviously huge, the road construction is further improved, and the refueling is more convenient. The most important thing is that with the further development of technology, not only the performance of the car continues to improve, but also the price gradually drops, which has laid the foundation for the large-scale popularization of the car!

Taking advantage of this east wind, Qixiang Automobile Company, which has always claimed to let cars enter the homes of ordinary people, launched their latest product: the fifth-generation Soaring Automobile at the spring conference in Xuanping's 65th year!

At the press conference, they emphasized many advantages, but these are not worth mentioning. What really caused a sensation was the price!

Ninety-nine Tang Yuan!

This is the price of the fifth-generation Soaring Car!

And an ordinary worker in their Qixiang Automobile Company's Shanghai factory earns about fifteen Tang Yuan a month!

This means that even an ordinary worker can buy a car with just over half a year's income!

This price is even more sensational than when they released the first-generation Soaring Car many years ago and lowered the price to 400 Tang Yuan!

The first-generation Soaring cars seemed cheap, but in fact, only middle- and high-income earners could buy them. Even ordinary middle-class families were very reluctant to buy a car.

Gasoline was not cheap back then.

In the following years, although the development of cars has become more and more rapid, the price has also decreased, and more people have bought cars, but until now, cars are still affordable for middle-income families or dual-earner families. Before, the cheapest was the fourth-generation Soaring Car, and the beggar version was one hundred and eighty Tang Yuan.

But this beggar version can't be bought by ordinary people... The ordinary version that can be bought is usually more than 200 Tang Yuan.

And the cost of using the car is actually relatively high, the maintenance cost is high, and the fuel cost is not cheap.

But now, Qixiang Automobile Company has once again lowered the price of the car to the bottom line. This time, they don't do anything for one hundred and eighty Tang Yuan, and directly come for ninety-nine Tang Yuan...

Although according to Qixiang Automobile Company's consistent urination, the fifth-generation Soaring Automobile of the 99th Tang Yuan must be a beggar's version, and it will be out of stock from beginning to end. The real mass shipment should be theirs. The ordinary version, the price is estimated to be more than one hundred Tang Yuan.

But even a car costing more than 100 Tang Yuan is still cheap.

An ordinary single dog who works in a factory for a year can earn enough to buy a car. Of course, the premise is that he does not eat or drink to save money!

If it is a young couple and is a dual-employee, you can buy a car within a year while maintaining a living.

Most importantly, they are affordable!

Unlike before, many middle-income families can actually afford it but cannot afford it.

As for early cars, the trouble-free time is not long, let alone cheap cars. It seems cheap, and there is basically no problem with the core components, but there must be some minor problems, and there are many. Many, it is very fatal to repair.

This is also the reason why many male owners in ordinary families become auto mechanic after buying a car... They can only drive and can't repair cars, that is to repair cars until they go bankrupt...

And sometimes, go to a slightly remote place, and you can't find a place to fix your car if you have the money.

So, don't be surprised if you see a car suddenly stop on the side of the road, and then a middle-aged man in decent business attire or a robe gets off, takes off his jacket, takes out a wrench and fiddles with the car, it's a normal thing!

This car is expensive to repair, and the gas price is also very expensive!

So many people buy a car on impulse at first, but then sell it again after a while because they can't afford it.

Even if you park in the family and don't need it, you can't afford it, because you have to pay for vehicle insurance every year, which is not low.

There are also 18 kinds of fees paid together with insurance fees: road and bridge construction fees, air pollution fees, noise control fees, etc.!

In the end, a seemingly cheap car costing two or three hundred Tang Yuan would cost at least fifty Tang Yuan a year for normal use.

How can I say it, for ordinary families, the three-year use of the car costs more than the price of the car itself!

But now, the price of gasoline in the empire has dropped significantly!

Before Qixiang Automobile Company's spring press conference, that is, five days ago, the Energy Department under the Ministry of Mining of the Datang Empire, already one of the eight major oil companies in the United Empire, was preparing to cut gasoline prices in an all-round way, and the price reduction reached 100%. more than sixty percent.

The reason is that large reserves of oil fields have been discovered in West Asia, and oil fields in the Americas have also begun mass production!

But this is not the real reason. The real reason is that because of the needs of the second industrial development, the upper class of the empire needs to reduce the price of petroleum products!

But the oil industry has developed to now, and the volume has been very large. Although oil companies also want to expand the gasoline market more, they are not willing to cut prices too much.

Although their oil industry is highly profitable, the tax is also high!

The oil companies in the empire are all except the Royal Oil which belongs to the royal family. The other seven oil companies are all owned by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises. Most of the money these oil companies make is not only to meet their own development needs, but also as a Taxes paid.

In the oil industry of the empire, taxes are very heavy.

In addition to taxes, they also turn over a large amount of profit income to the national treasury every year.

Oil companies with great pressure on profits and taxes are naturally unwilling to cut prices rashly.

However, after the coordination of the upper levels of the empire, the taxation and selling price of the oil industry were comprehensively coordinated, and finally a tax reduction policy was adopted to reduce the burden on enterprises. At the same time, the oil company also removed a part of the profits, so that the Gasoline prices have been pushed down to the point where the average consumer can accept it.

This is how Xuanping's 65 years of oil-related products have been greatly reduced in price, among which gasoline has been reduced by more than 60%, and this oil price also includes road and bridge tolls.

In addition to lower oil prices, some messy taxes and fees have been cancelled, such as noise control fees and environmental pollution fees, and road and bridge tolls have also been cancelled directly. As for insurance, it is naturally impossible to cancel, as always. Compulsory insurance.

When the price of a car breaks through 100 Tang Yuan to only 99 Tang Yuan, the price of gasoline is also greatly reduced, and at the same time, a lot of messy taxes and fees are also cancelled, the warranty period of the car is longer, and certain worries are relieved, which means that Even ordinary families can use ordinary cars.

Not just affordable, but affordable!

Under the guidance of this series of policies, Qixiang Automobile Co., Ltd. once again took the lead in other automobile companies, and launched five generations of Aoxiang brand cars, which opened the prelude to the era of universal automobile!

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