Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2185, Spring Festival

As the new year approaches, the cold wind howls, the snowflakes fly, the sky is cold, and the world is icy and snowy.

However, no matter how cold the weather is, it can't stop people from going home for the New Year.

Beijing Railway Station, since the twentieth, Beijing Railway Station has entered the annual peak period of Spring Festival travel. The population of the entire capital has exceeded tens of millions a few years ago, and there are several million people from all over the country. The migrant workers work here in the capital.

As soon as the Spring Festival and Qingming Festival come, there will be two peak passenger traffic periods.

Needless to say, the Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival for Ming people. There is almost half a month of holiday before and after. Even if you are thousands of miles away, you can go home and reunite with your family by train or car.

As for the Qingming Festival, it is also extremely important for Ming people. Tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship are extremely important and sacred moments. There are also about 7 days of holidays every year.

Compared with the later generations, Ming people have relatively more holidays in this period.

Of course, this is also related to the traffic conditions when Liu Jin made the holidays. At that time, the traffic in Daming was far less convenient than it is now, so the holiday time was naturally longer.

More importantly, Liu Jin from later generations feels that there are too few holidays for later generations. Even if there are statutory holidays, they often have to take days off. Hours of work are the best.

On the other hand, Europe and the United States are different. About one-third of a year, and even half of the time in some regions, is on holiday, and the small days are very restrained.

Therefore, when Liu Jin formulated the Humu Code, he formulated the current holiday time after comprehensive consideration of various factors. Basically, any holiday is a week.

Half a month for the Spring Festival, one week for the Qingming Festival, five days each for the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, one week for the National Day of the Ming Dynasty, and five days for the Tianzi and Taishanghuang Qingchen. If calculated in this way, it is almost 36 days off.

It can be said that this is definitely a great conscience.

And during this period, Daming was rich and powerful, occupying almost all industries and fields around the world, which also determined that the Huumu Code of the Ming people could be well implemented.

If life is not good, even if you are told to take a break, you may ask to take the initiative to work overtime, but if the living conditions are good, even if you are given double salary, I am afraid that you are not willing to work overtime.

The standard of living of the people of Ming Dynasty now is definitely much higher than that of future generations. Even if they live in the capital city like the Beijing-Tianjin area, the life of ordinary people in Ming Dynasty can still be very good.

Based on the current salary level in Gyeonggi, as long as the two couples are both working, the combined annual income of the two couples can reach 400 taels of silver.

In this era, this is definitely a considerable income.

You must know that the price of goods in Daming is extremely cheap. Grain, meat, fish, beef and mutton, vegetables and fruits are basically a few pennies per catty, and 1 tael of silver is equal to 1000 pennies.

If two couples work, it is enough to easily support seven or eight children, and they can also build a beautiful house in their hometown. Even if they want to buy a house in the capital, it is a bit unrealistic. The housing prices in the capital have indeed risen now There are too many.

Now the holidays in the capital generally start at 6000 taels of silver, and the pressure to buy a house in the capital is indeed very great.

But the people of Ming Dynasty in this period had many choices. They didn’t have to go to big cities. Daming had a vast territory and a small population. There were also a large number of vassal states and colonies overseas, so they could live a good life if they immigrated.

If the 400 taels of silver is converted into the currency of future generations, its purchasing power should be more than 50 yuan. The couple can earn 50 yuan a year from work, and they can live a good life in future generations.

And this is the income of ordinary people in Daming. You can have this kind of income if you work as a waiter in a store or work in a factory. If you have the opportunity or go to a construction site to do hard work, your income will be much higher.

Have a rich life, plus have a good vacation.

During this period, the life happiness index of Daming people was very high.

As soon as the Spring Festival comes, millions of people working in the capital are eager to return home, wishing to go back to their homes immediately, see their children and parents, and brag to the people around them about their status in the capital. Life.

And every time it comes to the peak period of customers, the train station ushers in the busiest time of the year.

It was better during the Qingming Festival. During the Spring Festival, the weather was extremely cold, and sometimes it snowed heavily, so the imperial court paid special attention to it.

Just like this year, Emperor Zhengde issued multiple imperial decrees one after another, requiring all localities to do a good job in the work related to the Spring Festival travel, and to go all out to ensure that every Daming person can go home and reunite with their families, and at the same time ensure the safety of the Spring Festival transportation. Prevent various traffic accidents.

As the chief assistant of the cabinet, Liu Jin would come to the train station to take a look at the preparation work at the train station whenever this time came.

At the Beijing Railway Station, Liu Jin and Zhong Fan were watching the bustling scene in front of them.

The huge square outside the train station is crowded with people. There are tens of thousands of people crowded on this square. A large number of people are crowded together, making the originally cold weather seem to suddenly become less cold.

People are waiting to enter the train station in an orderly manner. Many speakers are installed around the square, and the latest train schedule information is played over and over again, reminding passengers who bought train tickets to check in and take the train in time.

"It's more heart-warming than before, and tea is provided!"

Liu Jin looked at the sheds here and there, where the staff of the train station were providing tea for everyone for free. The weather was really too cold.

Now the temperature here in the capital has reached minus ten degrees. It is such a cold weather, and it is still snowing. You can clearly see that many people have a lot of snowflakes on their bodies, and many people have eyebrows. Frost had condensed on the hair, hair, and beard.

Provide some hot tea for free, drink a cup of tea, the whole person can become extremely warm and comfortable.

Daming's railway stations and railways are privately owned, which is very different from later generations.

For example, the railway station in the southern part of the capital in front of me was built by Liu Jin alone, and it also belongs to the private property of Liu Jin and the current prince.

When building the Beijing-Tianjin Railway, the first railway in the Ming Dynasty, Liu Jin built large-scale railway stations in Tianjin and Beijing, all of which were paid for by himself.

The land is still his own private land, and the money is also his own private money. Naturally, this train station is also his own private train station.

A private train station, which also means that all income and so on are all private.

Daming’s railways are basically private railways. Of course, many of them are public and private. Some of them are funded by the imperial court, and some of the funds are raised by the society, and then they are listed on the Tianjin Stock Exchange.

To raise funds to build railways in this way, there are only a very small number of railways, such as the Changcheng Railway, because it is a railway to Sichuan, and the investment is too large, and everyone is unwilling to invest, so this railway belongs to the imperial court.

Railway stations and railways are privately owned, so in many cases, these private bosses pay more attention to their own industries. There are many kinds of considerate services here at the railway station.

The tea in front of me is just one of them. Another example is here at the train station, there are many yamen servants and policemen who are constantly patrolling, maintaining order while arresting those thieves and the like.

During the Chinese New Year, everyone's pockets are bulging, and it is also the time when thieves are most active, especially this train station, where there is a lot of traffic, is the favorite place for these thieves.

Every year, people who have worked so hard to earn money for a year are stolen by thieves at once, so that the whole person is crying there.

Fighting thieves is also an important task here at the train station.

Although there were many people at the scene, the overall order was very orderly.

Since the train appeared, it has become more and more an important means of transportation, and it is also the most chosen means of transportation.

In many respects, it has become more and more perfect now.

Whether it is the railway dispatching system or the operation of all aspects, it has been very perfect, even during the peak period during the Spring Festival travel season, it can be very orderly.

"Now the trains are much better than before. In the past, they were still chaotic and lacked management."

"As soon as the Spring Festival travel season arrives, a large number of people rush over, and they are in a hurry, and it is easy to cause problems."

"What needs to be worried the most now is the road side. Now that there are more and more cars, driving home for the New Year in this winter is often prone to accidents."

"At this time of year, we can receive reports from all over the place, many vehicles have accidents on the road, causing serious traffic accidents."

Zhong Fan smiled and said, he used to be Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and now he is a cabinet minister and is still in charge of this aspect, so he knows these things very well.

In Daming, the most accident-prone thing is not the train, but the car, or the road, especially in this winter, when the road is slippery and there are many vehicles, accidents are easy to happen.

"Well, to be strict, local governments must do a good job in deicing, snow removal, emergency rescue, and rescue work to ensure everyone's safety as much as possible."

Liu Jin nodded solemnly, and then gave an order.

"Yes!"

Zhong Fan also hurriedly replied solemnly.

At this moment, in a community in the capital, Wang Erzhu and Li Erxiu were also preparing to go home for the New Year, but this time, they chose to drive home.

(End of this chapter)