"Brother, Pudong's land is much cheaper, but what can we do if we buy the land there? A big river separates the two sides of the shore. Where can the prosperity of the other side be compared with that of this place?" Qi Bansun shook his head and said disappointedly.

After hearing what my brother said, Qi Lisun was worried, yes, what can he do? Should he buy land and wait for the price to increase? Then he has to wait until the year of the Monkey and Horse Month?

The development of Pudong in real history was only after the Jiangdi Tunnel and Bridge were repaired before it truly developed rapidly. In this era, people would never have thought that there would be such Jiangdi Tunnel and Cross-River Bridge in the future. Even with this mindfulness, those things will only be achieved after hundreds of years, and at least the internal combustion engine must be invented.

Internal combustion engine? Stop joking, there is not even a steam engine yet.

Since it is unrealistic to go to Pudong to buy land for development, we can only find other solutions.

"Here!" Looking at the luxurious four-wheeled carriage passing by on the street, Qi Lisun suddenly had a good idea, "We can drive cars, after all, those who own cars are rich. This city is so big, how many people do not have their own carriage? We can drive cars and let people take the car for a fee."

In fact, car dealers are not a new concept. There were car dealers in the Ming Dynasty very early. In the northern Zhili Province in the north, there were buses with passenger carriages from every county to the capital, and every city to the capital to the capital. Just like the buses later, they depart at a fixed time every day according to the flight schedule. Those who need to take the bus can buy tickets to take them.

However, there is no concept of car trips or shuttle buses in the south. From southern county town to Fucheng, Fucheng to provincial towns, they all rely on ships, that is, passenger shuttles, and the traffic between them depends on ships.

The car dealers in the north have regular shuttle buses every day, divided into several grades, and the lowest-grade carriage can take at least six people; those with higher grades can take two or three people, and the highest-grade one is directly a carriage for one person. After the Qing Dynasty introduced the four-wheeled carriages produced in Guangdong, the car industry has developed rapidly, and the most luxurious four-wheeled carriages appeared in the car dealers in the north, and some buses that can be used to convert freight four-wheeled carriages to ride more than ten people.

"Cars?" Qi Bansun shook his head, "Even if we drive, how many people can get on the car? Should people who don't have carriages walk or walk; why should people who have cars take our carriages?"

"We can buy some trucks and convert them into buses. This way, a car can take more than a dozen people, and those who have no money can take buses to work." Qi Lisun said.

Qi Bansun suddenly smiled: "Brother, it's better to build a car park than to drive a car. How good is it for us to build our own cars?"

"Yes! This is a good idea! All the cars seen on the market are made in Guangdong now! It's so in short supply! We build our own cars, and the business will definitely be good!" Qi Lisun laughed.

To build a car park, you need to buy a piece of land, and you have to go to the prefect's office to apply. After obtaining the approval of the yamen, you can build a car park in Shanghai.

After arriving at the prefect's yamen, the minor officials and officials in the yamen did not take special care of Qi Jia's brothers as the son of the right censor Qi Biaojia. Qi Biaojia was a Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi and served as the governor of Jiangnan. He could be said to be a high-ranking official. However, his two young men applied to open a factory in Shanghai, and no one in the prefect's yamen was favored.

An official who was responsible for handling various business licenses met with the two brothers and heard that they were going to open a car park for producing four-wheeled carriages. The official asked, "Do you know how to build four-wheeled carriages?"

"What don't you understand? We bought one and dismantled it, so don't you know how it was built?" Qi Bansun was very smart, and he also had a relationship with the Xu family in Shanghai. With the help of the Xu family, he was not afraid of being unable to imitate the four-wheeled carriage.

Who knew that the official laughed: "If you want to get the certificate that allows the car manufacturer, you need to go to Guangdong and purchase a car manufacturer from the car manufacturer in Guangdong. You have to pay them a certain patent fee every year, so we can approve it here."

"What patent fee?" Qi Bansun asked.

"The patent fee is because they invented this kind of car, and the key bearings and the glue covered on the outside of the wheel are their own products. If others imitate it, they must obtain their permission. If they do not obtain their permission, they have the right to sue you, let you sue you, and also pay them a large amount of silver."

"Is there such a thing? Those Guangdong people are too cunning!" Qi Bansun said hatefully.

The official said, "But do you know how to make key components of a four-wheeled carriage? For example, bearings and wheel glue are missing, even if you copy the appearance, the comfort is far from comparable. So, these two young masters, I kindly advise you, and you should go to Guangdong first. After the negotiation is completed, buy their patents and let them teach you so that you can come back to produce a four-wheeled carriage. If you want to learn, as early as possible. If it is too late, when everyone thinks about this, you will not make any money."

Qi Lisun and Qi Bansun discussed it and found that there are indeed no factories producing four-wheeled carriages in other places except Guangdong. At present, this kind of carriage is in short supply, whether in the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty. In fact, the Qing Dynasty also imitated it, but because the quality of the bearings was not up to standard, the imitated bearings were damaged after less than a month of use and were useless.

The steel balls of bearings are the key. The steel output of the Qing Dynasty could not keep up with it at all. The cost of producing steel was high. If steel balls were used as bearings, the price would be very expensive. You can only use pig iron to make iron beads for bearings. However, the bearings of the iron balls would not last long, and all the iron beads inside were broken.

This patent law was also created by Li Guodong. It was to imitate the results of others' hard work, and it was stolen not long after.

The brothers Qi Lisun and Qi Bansun finally decided to send someone to Guangdong to buy the patent rights and learn the car manufacturing process.

People who went to Guangdong negotiated with the car manufacturer there. In the end, the Qi brothers obtained a production license at the cost of one tael of silver for each car they built, and sent skilled craftsmen to the Guangdong car manufacturer to learn the technology. At the same time, they also signed a contract with Foshan Iron and Steel Plant, where the bearings were provided by Foshan Iron and Steel Plant.

In this way, the first private car manufacturer in the Ming Dynasty that could produce four-wheeled carriages was established in Shanghai.

After the Shanghai car manufacturing factory invested by the Qi brothers was put into production, although it had to pay Guangdong car manufacturing a high patent fee every year and also had to spend a lot of money to buy bearings, this car manufacturing factory could bring more than 100,000 taels of silver to the Qi brothers every year, and the four-wheeled carriages produced were in short supply.

"Two young men, you actually have a better way to make money," Fang Yizhi, who came back from Qizhou, said to the Qi brothers. "I went to Qiongzhou and saw a kind of car in the mine. The wheels were iron wheels and stuck on two tracks. The tracks were wooden, but they were covered with iron sheets, so that the car was very labor-saving to walk, and one person could drag a car worth thousands of pounds. If you could build such a car, wouldn't it be more profitable?"

"A carriage walking on the track?" Qi Lisun was shocked.

Fang Yizhi took paper and pen and drew a schematic diagram of how the wheels got stuck on the track on the paper.

"This is a good idea. The passenger carriages now carry more than ten people at most, but they still cannot meet the needs of people commuting in this city. If such a rail carriage is built, the passenger capacity can be increased many times!" Qi Lisun smiled, "Is there a patent fee for this kind of rail mine carriage?"

"No, this thing was created by Duke Chu, so there is no need to pay him a patent fee." Fang Yizhi said.
Chapter completed!