Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

"Yes, it's like controlling a flood. It's better to drain it than to block it."

"Well."

Qin Ming nodded without hesitation.

This surprised Wan Shu a little. She didn't expect Qin Ming to agree so quickly.

Putting this matter aside, Wan Shu continued:

"Are you confident that you can intercept Daqian's things? This is going against the imperial court."

Qin Ming seems to be in conflict with the imperial court.

She also has to bring the Lingnan Chamber of Commerce along, which is not in her interest as a businessman.

Qin Ming waved his hand and said:

"I never said I wanted to go against the court."

"But since those Nanyang merchant caravans can do business with the imperial court, who says they can't do business with me?"

"You're also a businessman, you should understand that business is free..."

"You want to steal the court's trade share, so that's fine."

Wan Shu breathed a sigh of relief. With Qin Ming's current power, it would be very difficult to confront the imperial court.

Qin Ming did not want to leave the court with nothing to do.

His main purpose was actually to take away some of the court's orders.

This way he could profit from it himself.

Just do it.

That night, Qin Ming's workshop began to operate, producing carriage parts in large quantities.

Only by making horse-drawn carriages could they transport goods to the port quickly.

Qin Ming was not idle when arranging people to produce it.

He called over several skilled craftsmen.

"Everyone, are there any technical difficulties?"

Everyone scratched their heads and said:

"Your Highness, it's not a big deal. It's just a carriage."

"No, no, no, your current understanding is still too superficial."

While speaking, Qin Ming passed on the knowledge about pulleys and bearings to them.

This is a common method used on some speed bicycles.

"Put these pedals inside the carriages and make some tricycles. In the future, we won't need carriages for short-distance freight transportation."

Human endurance is stronger than that of a horse-drawn carriage.

Qin Ming's move was to pave the way for the popularization of those tires in the future.

The second is to save money.

There's no way, I'm so poor now.

But the war horses in the military camp must be arranged.

To do this, he had to seize all the horses transporting goods in the post station and cloth shop.

This way, at least there will be more horses in the military camp in the near future.

When the craftsmen next to him heard Qin Ming say this, they were shocked at first.

Then the corners of their mouths all twitched.

"After all this time, we still need someone to pull it..."

"This must be exhausting, right?"

"Your Highness, humans cannot be treated like animals!"

They all looked unhappy.

"A three-wheeled vehicle with shifting gears can correspond to different gears for going uphill, downhill and on flat ground, so it's not tiring."

Qin Ming explained quickly.

Hearing this, everyone's faces were filled with suspicion.

Two days later, an extremely simple tricycle landed.

The three-wheeled vehicle with three gears aroused everyone's curiosity.

Many craftsmen gathered around and kept looking at it.

"What are you looking at? Just go up and try it!"

Under Qin Ming's urging.

A craftsman walked out from the crowd and stepped on the pedal.

"It seems... it's really easy."

"Yes, as long as the road conditions are good, you can travel longer than a horse and cover more distance each day. The key is to save money."

Qin Ming patted their shoulders with a smile, and called Cao Chuan and the other two over.

"We'll arrange for the soldiers in charge of logistics to come over and learn how to use the tricycles. We can use them to transport our supplies in the future."

"Your Highness, you are truly a genius."

Although it looks like a small tricycle, it can carry hundreds or even thousands of kilograms of cargo.

At this time, even Cao Chuan's face was full of joy.

In this day and age, transportation capacity is the most important thing.

No matter what you do, you cannot escape the collection and distribution of materials.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Let me try!"

When Liu Chuang saw Cao Chuan riding the tricycle and refused to let go, he rushed over and snatched the handlebars.

"You are so impatient!"

Cao Chuan stood up unhappily.

Liu Chuang hurried over and rode his tricycle out of the military camp.

Chang Baishan, who was following Qin Ming, frowned and said:

"This guy is too reckless. I hope nothing will happen to him. I'll go check it out."

Qin Ming nodded and asked him to follow first.

Soon, Chang Baishan returned to the military camp with an angry face.

"It turned over."

"what?"

Several people were stunned.

Chang Baishan explained:

"Your Highness, Liu Chuang thought I was going to compete with him for the tricycle, so he pedaled furiously on the official road."

"The official road was rough and this kid tripped over something and fell directly into the ridge of the field next to him."

"I came back to bring a few people to move the car."

Hearing this, Qin Ming's face suddenly turned ugly.

"how so……"

Seeing this, several people were very scared.

Cao Chuan quickly spoke up for Liu Chuang:

"Your Highness, Liu Chuang is just too careless and curious. He didn't mean it. Please don't take it to heart."

"Come back later, I'll help you teach him a lesson!"

Qin Ming came back to his senses from his deep thoughts and said casually:

"Let's get that guy and the tricycle out of the paddy field first."

Soon, everyone walked out of the barracks.

It was only then that Qin Ming discovered that the official road outside was extremely rugged.

In many wealthy areas of Daqian, some stone roads may be built.

But it is different in remote areas like Lingnan. Many official roads are dirt roads, all covered with bumpy gravel.

Normally, riding in a horse-drawn carriage is very bumpy. Now Liu Chuang was in a good mood and excitedly rode a tricycle, even going straight into the fields.

"Your Highness, what's wrong?"

After rescuing the person, Chang Baishan keenly noticed that Qin Ming seemed to be worried about something.

Qin Ming said:

"Today's rollover wasn't because of Lao Liu, but because the road was too bad."

Chang Baishan frowned and said:

"You don't want to repair the roads in Lingnan, do you?"

"These roads are not suitable for doing business. Even someone as hardworking as Lao Fang, after working here for a while, ended up expanding his business to Huxi. Do you know why?"

"why?"

Chang Baishan asked doubtfully, and Qin Ming explained to him what Fang Qingyuan was thinking.

Qin Ming originally thought that Fang Qingyuan had lofty ambitions and wanted to expand his business to other places as quickly as possible, which was why he took the initiative to go there and do business with others.

Others thought so too.

After what happened to Liu Chuang today, he finally felt that it was not the case.

The reason why Fang Qingyuan went to that place was because he could make a lot of money.

Another reason is that the business environment here is really too bad.

Apart from anything else, the road itself is difficult to navigate.

Thinking of this, Qin Ming uttered that wise saying.

“If you want to be rich, build roads first!”

"After these few days of repairs, let the expanded Wuwei Camp get back to work!"

Cao Chuan came forward and heard Qin Ming's arrangement for Changbai Mountain. He was immediately surprised and said:

"Your Highness, what are we going to use to build the road?"

Although they have labor, they are short of materials and still need to find gravel and mud for road construction.

At this time, Qin Ming's original preparations came in handy.

“Just use cement.”