Chapter 759 (2/2)
”But they have been blocked in the front store,” the employee swallowed. ”Some people come to return goods. They say they threaten to smash our store if they don't return them.”
”They dare! Next to them is the guard's post. Go and call the guard immediately!”
Nicole finished and hurried down to appease the customers.
”Bertie, my friend, your carriage will be made tomorrow. I swear in the name of Peters, you will love that carriage. It is newer and more beautiful and runs faster and more stable than the old model!”
Bertie said with a depressed face, ”Nicole, it's too late to say anything now. Don't you see Datang daily? It's over, it's all over, and I have no business to do.”
Damn city bus!
Nicole said to the other man with a silent smile, ”Linde, we've been working together for a long time, haven't we? You should believe in the quality of my carriage. Why do you want to return the order?”
Linde is a running merchant. There are more opportunities to pull goods. It should have nothing to do with the city bus, right?
”Nicole, needless to say, cancel the order.”
Linde smiled and said, ”I don't need a carriage anymore.”
”But how can you transport goods between those villages and towns...”
”Don't you know?”
Linde looked at Nicole in surprise.
”Know what?”
”Intercity bus.”
Linde finished and patted his forehead: ”look at me, I forgot that the news hasn't been made public yet...”
A group of people around him suddenly quieted down and stared at him.
”Linde, we are old friends, aren't we? What news do you have that you don't share with us? Isn't it interesting enough?”
Being stared at by a group of people, Linde smiled proudly and said, ”since everyone wants to know so much, I'll share it with you.”
”I have a friend in Ellington -”
”We don't care what your friends do! We want to hear the news!”
Linde reluctantly said: ”well, it's like this. The transportation transformation is to pave the way for the urban bus. The urban bus is a large-scale multi person public transport launched by Datang chamber of Commerce. You should know this from Datang daily, but you don't know that the urban bus is actually the foreshadowing of another larger plan.”
”After the official operation of urban public transport at the end of the month, we will immediately select sites around major cities to build urban passenger transport centers, and connect other surrounding cities through urban passenger transport centers. Intercity public transport will start from the passenger transport center, pass through surrounding villages and towns, and reach the passenger transport center of another city.”
”It is said that this plan is called the one-day transportation network plan.”
”I heard from my friend that because the passenger flow in the early stage will be relatively small, the goods everyone is allowed to carry will be relaxed, which means that I can completely use the intercity bus to replace the carriage in the early stage.”
”You may not know how fast the bus is? I tell you, the bus runs four or five times faster than the carriage at full speed!”
”You say, now that I have such a convenient means of transportation, why should I order a carriage?”
”But,” Nicole tried to pull himself back, ”you don't know how the bus charges for carrying goods, do you? What if the price is very expensive?”
”No, on the contrary, I know how to charge.”
Linde smiled proudly: ”according to the new weight standard issued by the Empire, carrying objects no more than 20kg are free. If they are more than 20kg to 50kg, you can buy one ticket per person, which means that for every 50kg of goods, I only need to issue one ticket according to my own standard, which is much more cost-effective than a carriage!”
”The ticket price is the key! We don't know what the ticket price is!”
”Don't worry, since your majesty Donne has decided to promote this and still passes through villages and towns, the price of this intercity bus will certainly not be too expensive. At least ordinary residents in villages and towns can afford it, otherwise who will take it?”
Linde stood up and said, ”I heard from a friend that the bus is only the first step in advance. After people get used to the bus and traffic law, Datang chamber of Commerce will launch a new personal means of transportation, which will not only take more passengers than Harley motorcycles, but also have the choice of types of goods. At that time, I'm afraid you can't do the carriage business.”
When Nicole heard this, his heart was cold and his body was chilly.
At the beginning, he also laughed at the new king named Donne, foolishly suppressed the domestic aristocratic forces, liberalized the market competition, and let their ronitant businessmen make a lot of money. As a result, now he found that the most cruel was the new king.
Others failed in business competition and led to bankruptcy, but he did well and quietly destroyed the whole market!
It can be predicted that with the emergence of Harley motorcycles and city buses, the carriage market will shrink rapidly, and Ronnie Tante's cheap horse business will also be greatly affected.
Obviously, his majesty Oscar will not like to hear this news.