Valley Emperor

The carriage industry in the Tang Dynasty is not old-fashioned. They have always been on the wave of the times. The earliest application of springs, except for flintlock guns, is a carriage!

Datang's carriage technology has actually made great progress in recent years. At first, it was only a wooden vehicle, but now, the main structure of many carriages is actually steel.

In particular, the Jinling Carriage Company, a series of new royal carriages built for the royal family, basically use steel as the main structure.

Among them, the twelve-horse imperial chariot specially built for the Son of Heaven weighs six tons. It is dragged by a total of twelve horses in multiple rows. There are as many as six riders who control the draw horse. By the way, it is not It is said that so many horses are needed, even if it is a five-ton vehicle, but six horses are enough, at most eight, nine.

The reason why twelve horses are used is purely to reflect the particularity of the Son of Heaven in the Tang Dynasty.

In the past, it was said that the Son of Heaven drove the sixth, but how could the Son of Heaven in the Tang Dynasty be comparable to those of the ancient emperors? If six horses were also used, how could the Son of Heaven surpass the status of the Three Sovereigns and the Five Emperors?

So there must be more horses, but it is not easy to arrange too many horses, so I finally chose a consistent twelve-horse plan.

Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, although the rituals of Zhou were still followed, the emperor was driving six, the kings were driving five, and the rest were driving four, but the holy emperor was not included, and the holy emperor was twelve.

Therefore, this special carriage, which is usually used only when attending major occasions, was first designed when the plan for twelve horses was determined, and then the body was designed.

Because the body is huge and has a lot of decorations, although many structures are made of gold and wood, and at the same time, in order not to appear so cumbersome, it is difficult to design, especially the load-bearing design.

In order to solve the load-bearing problem of the core structure, the core load-bearing structure is the latest alloy steel of Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company.

The development of the carriages in Datang has always kept pace with the times, and it would not be complacent, otherwise, the carriages that are now in every corner of Datang society would not have been discovered at all.

Today's carriage industry is very complete. There are countless carriage manufacturers in the entire empire, some of which are medium and large enterprises, and some are just small workshops.

These people have mixed reactions to the appearance of the car.

Some people see an opportunity, an opportunity to upgrade and transform a carriage, while some people see a crisis and feel that the car will impact the carriage industry and eventually lead to bankruptcy.

Different people see things differently.

Therefore, some people start to talk about yin and yang strange things, just like some people opposed the steam engine when it appeared, but the opposition of these people is basically useless, because the official will definitely not object, at most it is the related interest industries of the people who oppose one or two .

As for the official, it has always supported the development of science and technology.

When you know that in the aristocratic system of Datang, there is such a thing as scientific research nobility, and many top scientists are nobles, including earls, marquis and even dukes, you will know that Datang officials are supporting science on the road, It's gone forever and can't even be reversed.

When a business and interest class are combined, unless the existing interest class structure is completely broken, don't expect to break the development of the business.

After the interview, the car got support immediately, instead of being limited by many restrictions like the original time and space of the earth, this is because of the particularity of the entire social system of Datang.

In such a big environment, some carriage manufacturers who have seen more clearly are already thinking about actively integrating into it.

As a result, the largest carriage manufacturer in the empire, Jinling Carriage Company, quietly found the Royal Institute of Technology, obtained the patent authorization of the gasoline engine, and was ready to make their cars.

The carriage company engages in automobiles, which is also in line with technological development, and at the same time can give the huge carriage industry a smooth way to upgrade and transform.

Avoid massive upheaval across the carriage industry.

After all, Datang has developed carriages for decades, and carriages have penetrated into every corner of Datang society, and there are many practitioners related to carriages.

The modern horse-drawn carriage developed by Datang has been used as a truck from the beginning, and the subsequent military four-wheeled carriage is more typical.

Later, it was generally used for passenger use, and even for private civilian use, and finally evolved into a horse-drawn rail vehicle, and finally even evolved into a train.

The gauge of today's trains is based on the gauge of the carriage rail vehicles of the year.

In today's Datang society, the horse-drawn carriage is one of the two most important land means of transportation, and has undertaken a huge task.

In Datang's land transportation system, regardless of whether it is freight or passenger transportation, the use of horse-drawn carriages for short and medium distances and the use of trains for long distances has become the consensus of people.

In order to make the horses and carriages walk better, Datang started to harden the road even very early, so that there are cement official roads or asphalt official roads. The high-grade asphalt road in Songjiang Prefecture is hundreds of kilometers long. A symbol of importance in the imperial transport system.

Back then, I started building this asphalt road, not for cars, but for horses.

In some areas of Gangnam, especially the main roads in Songjiang Prefecture have been cemented or asphalted, and many horses and carts shuttled to transport various commodities.

The huge influence of the carriage also directly affected the Zhongyuan Automobile Company and the Hangzhou Power Machinery Company.

This is why the two cars have a strong carriage style.

However, this type of carriage style is also different from the original cars that came out of Europe first in history in Li Xuan's impression, which were all three-wheeled, or simply four-wheeled.

Datang's four-wheeled carriages, especially private carriages, are still different from the European carriages of the same level in the original time and space~www.wuxiaspot.com~ For example, the seating arrangement is different, for example, the space.

At the same time, for the sake of comfort, the rich and powerful will choose larger and longer carriages, generally using four horses!

In fact, if possible, these dignitaries even want to use five or even six horse carriages, so that the vehicles can be made more luxurious and comfortable.

but!

In the Tang Dynasty, there were clear etiquette regulations, the emperor drove six, the kings drove five, and the subjects drove four. There is also an unwritten rule that the holy emperor should drive twelve.

Strictly speaking, only the chariots of the Son of Heaven can use six horses, the princes and princes of each county can use five horses in their chariots, and the rest can only use four horses at most.

After all, the Tang Dynasty was a monarchical empire, and it was also a country that prided itself on adhering to Zhou etiquette and ruling the country with filial piety, so it attached great importance to etiquette.

However, the restrictions on such horses are limited to private horse-drawn carriages, public carriages for carrying passengers, freight carriages for transporting goods and other vehicles, which are not included in the restrictions.