Chapter 349 The First Pot of Gold(2/2)
Shen Lie has thought about it. To run a logistics and warehousing business, a large number of horse-drawn carriages are needed. Whether they are two-wheeled or four-wheeled, the demand is huge.
It’s too expensive to buy in the market.
It's better to make it yourself.
In fact, there were four-wheeled carriages in the Ming Dynasty, but the number was very small and they were not popular. It was not because the people of the Ming Dynasty did not know how to build them, but because the Ming Dynasty was mountainous and the road conditions were poor.
The four-wheeled carriage was simply too impractical.
There are even very few two-wheeled carriages.
Ming people are not stupid.
In such a geographical environment, people in the Ming Dynasty mostly used ox carts for commercial transportation, because although oxen are slow, they are powerful!
But Shen Lie has studied it repeatedly over the years.
despite this.
Under certain specific conditions, Western-style four-wheeled carriages are still very valuable. The four-wheeled carriages are fast and have a large carrying capacity.
On the spacious and flat official roads in the Gyeonggi area, or on the hundreds of miles of plains from Xuzhou, Yanzhou, and Bianliang to Ma Pinchuan.
Chapter completed!