Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1799, Trains and Coaches
Beijing Railway Station, with the start of the annual holiday, a flood of people poured into the railway station, turning it into a sea of ​​people.

Liu Jin, Qi Zhong, Wang Shouren and other court ministers came here again, ready to check the situation at the train station.

Because the train station has a huge flow of people and it is related to important events for everyone to go home for the New Year, so every holiday, the emperor and the court will pay special attention to it.

At the train station where there are a lot of people, the Royal Guards of the Ming Empire, who defended the capital, have been mobilized to maintain order at the scene.

Groups of Ming soldiers, fully armed, wearing military uniforms, wool caps, and leather boots with suede, standing straight, straight, row after row, so that the train station has always maintained good order, Whether it is buying tickets or queuing to enter the station, it is always in an orderly manner.

At the same time, there are also policemen and guards from the Shuntian government office in the capital city on patrol, watching out for petty theft and scalpers who resell train tickets.

During the Chinese New Year, many people go home with the money they have earned in a year. The train station has the most petty theft, especially at this time.

Every year, some people say that their money has been stolen. After a year of hard work, it turned out to be cheap and petty theft, and there was no place to cry.

Liu Jin attached great importance to this, and made arrangements in advance. A large number of arresters and government servants, both openly and secretly, specifically targeted these petty thieves, and severely punished each one they saw.

Assigning them to Cold Winter City is already the greatest kindness to them. If they don't punish them severely, but just lock them up for a few days like later generations, they will continue to do petty theft after they come out.

So it must be severely punished, directly exiled to the cold winter city, let you steal slowly in the ice and snow, or simply exiled to the no-man's land in Australia.

In addition to petty theft, beggars, street vendors, acrobats, human traffickers, etc. also need special attention. Losing money is not the most important thing. Every time someone loses their children.

Some were just lost at the train station, but they were still able to be found, while others were directly abducted by traffickers taking advantage of the crowds.

For such people, Liu Jin's principle has always been to punish them severely. If one is caught, he will be exiled immediately. Cold Winter City, Congling, Australia, and Outer Xing'an Mountains are all good places, very suitable for these people.

Under such strict measures, the order of the train station is getting better and better, petty thefts are getting less and less, and human traffickers are gradually dying out, which also makes people who are going home during the Chinese New Year feel at ease Come home for a good year.

Liu Jin walked outside the station very casually, looking at the long queue of ticket sellers patting the ticket gates, and at the ticket gates, people were packing big and small bags, holding their children in their hands, or holding their children tightly, touching them from time to time. An important place to touch and hide money.

The railway stations of later generations are almost the same when it comes to the New Year. Millions of people will take the train back to their hometowns in just a few days.

The situation in the capital is relatively better.

Because most of the migrant workers in the capital are from Beizhili, and they are very close to the Beijing and Tianjin areas. Many people can go back directly by bicycle or four-wheeled carriage.

Those who need to take the train home are people from Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, and Nanzhili, which are farther away. The total number of people in these places is not very large, and the total number is about one million. With a slight stagger, it takes a few days , Hundreds of thousands of people are sent out by train every day.

For future generations, it is of course not worth mentioning, but in this era, it is still a very difficult task to dispatch hundreds of thousands of people a day.

This train can carry thousands of people, and hundreds of trains will be dispatched on this day. The work tasks are very heavy, which has created a huge pressure on the operation of the railway station.

"So it is still necessary to develop in a balanced way!"

"It can't just be rich and develop a place, otherwise it will be very tiring during the Chinese New Year alone, and it is easy to go wrong."

Liu Jin has a lot of thoughts, thinking about future generations, almost all of them are concentrated in the eastern coastal areas. When it comes to the Chinese New Year, the flow of people at the train station is really large. How big is the load.

That is to say, with the gradual popularization of private cars later, during the Chinese New Year, the train station will not be so congested and tense, but the expressway will become extremely congested, and it will take an hour or two to be blocked. If you are unlucky, you may be stuck in traffic for hours.

In the final analysis, it is because the development is not balanced enough, they are all concentrated in the eastern coastal areas to work and work, and this will naturally give birth to such a scene.

Later, with the development and rise of the central and western regions, the situation is relatively better, and there is no need for people to flock to the eastern region to work.

If you can find a job in your hometown, you will naturally not go out again.

The continuous development of Chengdu, Wuhan, Henan, Xi'an, Changsha and other places also played a big role.

Therefore, Liu Jin's layout of Ming Dynasty is also the same. Multi-city centers, multi-regional cores, and balanced development will promote the balanced development of Ming Dynasty. It will not be like later generations that the east is more developed than the developed countries, and the west is comparable to Africa.

"Two train tickets to Kaifeng, Henan~"

"Four train tickets to Jinan, Shandong."

"Hurry up, hurry up, the train will leave in fifteen minutes. We haven't even entered the station yet. If we don't catch the train later, we will be in the capital for the New Year."

"Hold the child, but don't lose the child."

"I'm exhausted. Every time I take the train, I feel as anxious as anything. There's no need to go to the toilet."

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Liu Jin listened to the anxious voices of the people at the train station. People were in a hurry and anxious, because there were too many people here, and there was a long queue at the entrance to the station.

Look at the staff here at the train station. The voices of the people holding the tin horns are all hoarse. They shout from morning to night, reminding passengers over and over again to bring good things, beware of petty theft, and pay attention to their own health. Take the train's departure time, arrival time and so on.

Walking around the train station, everything is in good order, but there are always some people who can't find the southeast and northwest, don't know how to read, don't know how to read the prompts, don't listen to the sound of the horn, they are always confused.

Of course, there have been people like this since ancient times, and even in later generations, there are many people like this who can't find their place on the train and don't know what to do.

"Old Wang, I am Ming, we still need to vigorously develop the automobile industry, so that everyone can afford the automobile, otherwise the pressure on the railway will be great."

After finding Wang Shouren, Liu Jin also sighed.

"Everyone can afford a car. I'm afraid it will take time."

Wang Shouren thought for a while and said: "In my opinion, we can vigorously develop passenger cars first, so that we can also divide part of the flow of people."

"bus?"

"Yeah, let's go, go to the coach station and have a look."

Speaking of buses, Liu Jin immediately thought of the long-distance bus station, and hurried to the long-distance bus station by car.

The places that can be reached by trains are places with railway stations, not every place can be reached.

Automobiles also undertake the important mission of passenger transportation for a long time in later generations.

Even in many places, cars are much more convenient than trains, and you can go directly to your hometown.

But there are also many problems with cars. For example, when you take a bus, you will always be taken to a place where consumption is compulsory. If you don’t consume, you don’t even think about going out.

There are also robbers who specifically block roads and rob cars, and specifically take advantage of the Chinese New Year to rob migrant workers who return home. These problems all appeared along with the popularity of buses.

Of course, with the gradual popularization of cars, the glorious passenger car transportation gradually came to an end.

Soon, Liu Jin arrived at the long-distance bus station.

With the founding of Daming Coach Company in the year before last and the opening of the first long-distance bus route between Beijing and Tianjin, it developed rapidly.

Today, on the capital side, it is already possible to take a bus to reach the following state capitals such as Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, and Liaodong, and special buses to these places have been opened.

When it comes to the Chinese New Year, there are also a lot of people who come here to buy tickets and take the bus home.

Compared with the train, the speed of the car is not slow. The key is that the car can basically go directly to the county town of my hometown, which can save a lot of roads.

Of course, for ordinary people, it seems unrealistic to buy a car by themselves, but it seems to be a very cost-effective deal to experience the feeling of riding a car for the price of a bus ticket.

The flow of people here at the bus station is also very large. From time to time, a car full of passengers also drives out, and a car full of passengers goes to one place after another.

Looking at the words sprayed on these buses, you can know where they will pass. Of course, many migrant workers can't read at all, so they can only follow their fellow villagers, fellow villagers, and fellow villagers.

"Train, bus~"

"Plus cars and bicycles~"

"Daming's transportation is finally in a good shape. Otherwise, it would be impossible to form a wave of returning home just by walking. Everyone will still choose to celebrate the New Year here in the capital."

Looking at the orderly bus station, Liu Jin also remembered many things.

The current Ming Dynasty is developing very fast, and it has only been so long, and it has a feeling of the 90s of the later generations. Perhaps if the research on lighting and other things is done, it is estimated that it will really be similar to the 90s of the later generations.

Of course, Daming must be much richer than at that time.

(End of this chapter)