Ang Lee was an important minister in the imperial court of the Tang dynasty, and he was also the inventor of the automobile. Therefore, Ang Lee must be involved in formulating the traffic rules of the Tang dynasty. Moreover, this so-called traffic rule of the Tang dynasty was strongly proposed by Ang Lee. Of course, it was up to Ang Lee to formulate it.
As someone who had lived in the modern era, he was naturally very familiar with the traffic rules. Thus, Li An didn't need to think too much to come up with a set of practical traffic rules to regulate the daily travel of the Great Tang's citizens.
However, many nobles of the Tang dynasty did not seem to agree with this rule. Even the officials who were responsible for formulating the traffic rules with Ang Lee also put forward different opinions. After all, the people of the Tang dynasty did not have the habit of abiding by the traffic rules. It was really difficult for them to accept so many requirements at once.
For example, Ang Lee proposed that people who had drunk wine were not allowed to drive, because drunkenness would lead to slower reactions, which would make it easy to make mistakes and lead to car accidents.
This was a very reasonable rule, but it was opposed by many officials. The reason was very simple. It was common for the people of the Tang dynasty to drink, especially the rich people who could afford cars. There were many wine shops. It was somewhat cruel to not be able to drive after drinking a little wine. Moreover, most people would not cause traffic accidents even if they drank a little wine. Only a very small number of people who drank too much would cause accidents. In short, it was very difficult for the people of the Tang dynasty to accept such a rule, and it was also difficult for them to understand that drinking wine would cause slower reactions.
In order to make the officials understand the impact of drinking on people's mental health, Ang Lee spent a lot of time and effort and gave a lot of examples. He even took the officials to the scene of the car accident and let them smell how strong the smell of alcohol was in the driver's mouth.
After some statistics, many officials thought that Ang Lee's words were reasonable. More than ninety percent of all the car accidents were caused by the drivers who drank wine. This was enough to prove that drinking wine would cause slower reactions.
After some discussion, the officials in charge of formulating the traffic rules approved Ang Lee's rule and felt that it was necessary to implement the rule that people who drank wine could not drive.
This rule was immediately written into the rules, but how to implement it was a big problem. After all, with the current technology of the Tang Empire, there was no alcohol detector. It was not easy to determine if the law enforcers only smelled it with their noses. Moreover, how could they meet a rogue who insisted that they did not drink wine, that the smell in their mouth was natural, or that they did not brush their teeth? In short, as long as they had a strong background, they would have ten thousand reasons to shirk responsibility.
Regarding this point, Ang Lee felt that it was not difficult to confirm. As long as there was a strong smell of alcohol in the mouth, it could prove that they had drunk wine. If the person was a rogue and said he had such a smell in his mouth, he could investigate his social connections and ask his friends and relatives and friends if his mouth, or if, he could ask his relatives and friends and relatives and friends and relatives and friends to see if his mouth smell alcohol, or not, or his friends and relatives and friends and relatives and friends and relatives and friends and relatives to see if the person person's mouth smell smell or not..
In short, there were many ways to punish these people who violated the rules. There was no need to worry that they could not be punished.
In addition, in order to make drivers pay attention to their safety, the price of human life should be increased. In the Tang Empire, the lives of ordinary people were worthless. If a rich man killed an ordinary person with his car, he could just pay a small amount of money to settle the matter. In this way, many people with high status would treat ordinary people unscrupulously.
Increasing the cost of compensation with a high price of compensation would dispel many noble young masters who thought that they could kill people casually with a small amount of money. If they could not afford it, they could only face the disaster of being imprisoned.
Of course, once this policy was enacted, it would also face a big problem, and that was the problem of scamming. Once a person was rich, it was easy for him to be arrogant. But if a person was poor, he would be unruly. There was an old saying, "Barren hills and turbulent rivers have many unruly people." This was definitely not to belittle the poor people. It was just that some ordinary people were easy to not play by the rules when they encountered difficulties. Many of them were also forced by the circumstances of life.
If a poor commoner's family was so poor that they couldn't survive, as long as one person hit the car of a rich family's son and used his life to bring a rich life to his family, this kind of situation could happen, and this kind of situation must be avoided at all costs. After all, even if a rich family's son was rich, he couldn't be cheated for no reason. This was unfair.
In the Tang Empire, where there were no surveillance cameras, it was very difficult to prove whether the car hit the pedestrian on its own initiative or the pedestrian took the initiative to die. Even Ang Lee, who had lived two lives and had seen a lot of things, was a little embarrassed on this point.
However, Ang Lee believed that this kind of situation was bound to be rare. Even if the people were poor, under normal circumstances, they would not take the initiative to die to make a good life for their relatives.
Moreover, after Ang Lee's industrialization reform, the Tang Empire was already very rich. The social security facilities were still in place. There was a temple and a Taoist temple almost every dozens of miles.
The rich wanted to live a long life, so they would spend money to go to the temple to make a wish. After the temple had money, they could buy some of the most basic food and give it to the poor people who could not eat. In this way, a very good cycle was formed.
Therefore, as long as the poor people could eat, there would not be many problems. Basically, there would not be too many cases of scamming. After all, people cared about their dignity. If they were not forced to live, no one would risk their life to scam and throw away their lives.
There were still many issues that needed to be paid attention to in the formulation of traffic rules, and these needed to be discussed responsibly by Ang Lee and the officials, so as to avoid the policies that were not in place and caused bad effects.
As for the problem that some officials mentioned that they could not drive or go home after drinking, Ang Lee felt that this was not a problem at all. As far as the current situation was concerned, all the people who owned cars were very rich and had a very high status. It was impossible for them to go out alone. They would definitely be followed by their servants.
According to the rules of the Tang Empire, when the masters drank and ate meat, the servants could only watch. Therefore, the servants certainly did not have the opportunity to drink. This problem could be solved by letting the servants drive. It was very simple.
After a Herculean effort and nearly half a month of discussion, the traffic rules of the Tang Empire version were finally out. Ang Lee had poured a lot of effort into it. It could be said that the traffic rules of the Tang Empire version were mostly due to Ang Lee's efforts.
After the rules were formulated, the first thing to do was to implement them. If no one followed the rules, then the rules were equivalent to not being formulated and would become meaningless rules.
As Ang Lee expected, when the rules were first promulgated, many people with high status were dismissive of them and were not willing to follow them at all. It was most comfortable to drive in the middle of the road. It was embarrassing to drive on the side of the road. As for the problem that they could not drive after drinking, they did not take it seriously. They were so high in status. Who would dare to stop a car and check on them?
However, these arrogant guys miscalculated this time. Because the traffic rules were formulated by Ang Lee, and Ang Lee had long known that there would be many people who were not willing to follow them, so he had already made sufficient preparations.
First of all, he organized a large inspection team. In this team, there were not only tough soldiers, eunuchs in the palace, but also common people. In short, all kinds of people were present. No matter how powerful you were, there was always a kind of people that you could not deal with.
After the inspection team took up their post, they caught dozens of rich young masters who violated the rules in a very short period of time. Some were still driving after drinking, some were driving in the middle of the road and did not turn to the right, and some were driving too fast, rampaging through the capital as if the road was their home.
For these drivers who violated the rules, the inspection team unceremoniously arrested all of them and sent them to prison. No matter what kind of background they brought out, the inspection team ignored them. This team was formed by Ang Lee, and some of the members were eunuchs around the emperor. They obeyed the emperor's decree, and no one could do anything to them.
Among these people who were arrested, there was no lack of high officials in the capital, and there were even more rich young masters. At first, they were very arrogant, cursing at the inspection team, but then they complained that they had been wronged. They felt that they had not bumped into anyone and had only made a small mistake. Was there a need to be treated so seriously? At worst, they could just bribe them with some money. At least, they could not be arrested and sent to prison for such a trivial matter!
In the Tang dynasty, the prison was not a good place. It could be said that it was dirty and smelly. Normal people could not stay for even a minute. The rich young masters usually lived in luxury and could not bear the dirty air and humid environment in the prison. Moreover, they had to stay in prison for half a month, which was simply killing them.
However, no matter how these rich young masters who made mistakes coaxed and pestered, or how their families came to spend money to get rid of the disaster, it was all useless. All the people who made mistakes had to be locked up for half a month before they were released. Even if it was a visit from relatives, there was a strict time limit.
The reason why such strict punishment measures were formulated was to make an example of them and vigorously regulate the traffic rules of the Tang dynasty to avoid more car accidents in the future. Moreover, it was only half a month in prison, which would not take the lives of these rich young masters.
The deterrent force of prison was huge. After many rich young masters were imprisoned, the news of the traffic rules quickly spread in the capital. No one dared to violate the traffic rules again. After all, everyone had realized that the traffic rules set by Ang Lee did not recognize people. No matter how strong the background was, they could not avoid being severely punished.
No one dared to violate the traffic rules again. The traffic order in the capital suddenly improved a lot. The probability of car accidents was reduced several times, and the degree of tragedy was also greatly reduced. This was all due to the traffic rules set by Ang Lee.
In the past, the officials who had reservations about the traffic rules set by Ang Lee began to approve of Ang Lee after seeing the data of the greatly reduced number of car accidents. They felt that the rules set by Ang Lee were reasonable. As long as it could reduce the number of car accidents, it was worth it no matter what. Moreover, this did not arouse public resentment. It could be regarded as a complete success.
After the traffic was orderly, the efficiency of the circulation of various materials and personnel was greatly increased. This was of great benefit to the economic development of the Tang Empire. All of this was due to Ang Lee.
Of course, not all vehicles had to obey the traffic rules. For example, some special vehicles did not have to obey the traffic rules.
The vehicles that conveyed important information at the border did not have to obey the traffic rules, but they needed to be equipped with alarm devices to remind passers-by to avoid traffic accidents.
When the imperial court needed to transport important materials, it would also occupy most of the lanes, thus violating the traffic rules. In addition, when the emperor went out, he had to walk in the middle of the road to reflect the royal style. Naturally, the emperor's vehicle could not be allowed to move to the side.
However, whether it was the emperor's travel or the special vehicles used by the imperial court, they were relatively small and would not violate the traffic rules too much. Naturally, there was no need to worry about affecting the traffic.
There were many post stations in the Tang Empire. Each post station was equipped with a sufficient number of horses for the transmission of information. After the completion of the railway, all the post stations along the railway line were canceled. After all, the speed of the transmission of information by horses was not as fast as that of the train. Naturally, they had to be canceled.
As for some of the routes that did not have trains, they still used horses to transmit information. However, in the areas within a thousand miles of the capital, they had gradually replaced horses with cars, which were very suitable for transmitting information at high speed. This way, the speed of transmitting information would be much faster.
However, Ang Lee felt that it was too extravagant to use cars to transmit information. Moreover, cars could not run fast. He should invent a faster and more suitable motorcycle for the transmission of information. This was crucial to improve the efficiency of the transmission of information. The most suitable motorcycle was undoubtedly the motorcycles of the future. Motorcycles were smaller and lighter, and the load was lighter. They could be driven very fast and save much more energy than cars.
The technical difficulty of developing motorcycles was very small. After all, cars had already been developed. How could motorcycles be inferior?
After a lot of hard work, the first motorcycle was produced and placed in front of Ang Lee.
"Assistant Minister Li, will this thing be dangerous? After all, it only has two wheels. Can it really be driven?"
The craftsman in charge of the development looked at the motorcycle in front of him and felt a little nervous.
"Isn't a bicycle also two wheels? Since a bicycle can be ridden, this guy should be fine too."
Another craftsman hurriedly said.
Ang Lee did not say much. He stepped forward and grabbed the handlebars of the motorcycle. He said, "Move aside. Let this official drive around first."
Ang Lee was very familiar with motorcycles. In his previous life, Ang Lee had driven these things many times. Naturally, he did not need to learn to drive them and could drive them directly.
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