Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2187, the epitome of the times 2
On the road from Beijing to Shanxi, a large number of cars are moving slowly, and there is a traffic jam!
"Oh, times are changing so fast!"

"I think back when I bought a bicycle, the road had just been repaired. At that time, not to mention cars, there were not even a few bicycles on the road."

"It's all right now, the bicycles are no longer visible, but there are too many motorcycles and cars, and there is a traffic jam."

Wang Erzhu looked at the long dragon that couldn't see its head at a glance, and couldn't help complaining.

There are more and more cars in Ming Dynasty, especially now that more and more cheap cars appear, so that ordinary people in Ming Dynasty can afford cars. When it comes to Chinese New Year, the roads are all cars.

"Yeah, it really has changed too much, too much."

"For decades, the trees on both sides of the road have grown so tall."

Li Erxiu also said with a smile, recalling in his mind the experience of going home every time for more than 20 years, from riding a bicycle at the beginning to a motorcycle to a car now.

Times change too fast.

"Father, how long did it take to ride a bicycle home before?"

Wang Dawa, who was sitting in the back, quickly interjected and asked.

"It will take two days."

"In the past, your mother and I had to freeze to death every time in order to come back early. It's too cold to ride a bicycle in winter, and it's even colder to ride a motorcycle."

"It's better in this era. We ordinary people at the bottom are all driving cars."

Wang Erzhu couldn't help sighing.

Wang Erzhu can be regarded as a person who has suffered a lot since he was a child. When he was a child, he couldn’t even eat enough to eat, and he was hungry for a meal. Only when he was in his 20s and started to work in the capital city, his life began to turn upside down. great change.

Not only can I have enough to eat, but I can also build a new house, raise a few children, and send them to study. Now I not only have a house in the capital, but also bought a car.

Wang Erzhu didn't even dare to think about such a life when he was young.

Wang Erzhu himself also grew from an illiterate person who could not read a single character, from an out-and-out farmer to an industrial skilled worker gradually through learning and training.

Up to now, Wang Erzhu has been able to recognize a lot of characters, and he has no problem reading newspapers at all, and his whole person has undergone a huge change.

The change of Wang Erzhu is the epitome of this era.

There are countless low-level people like Wang Erzhu, and the countless changes in Wang Erzhu's fate have gradually led to changes in the entire Ming Empire, and finally converged into the changes of this era.

Just like after the reform and opening up in the later generations, countless migrant workers flooded into the city. They got rid of the land they cultivated in the past and became industrial workers in the city. Through continuous learning and research, many people became skilled workers.

Their destinies have changed, they converged into the torrent of the times, and finally made the land in the east glorious again.

It's just that compared with the reform and opening up of later generations, the Ming people in this era have more initiative and can enjoy more social development dividends.

The Ming Empire occupies almost all the industrial chains in the world, and colonizes the world, bringing wealth from all over the world into the Ming Empire.

Moisturizing the entire huge empire from top to bottom, not only makes the upper princes and generals full of grease, but also spreads to the people at the bottom.

The vast land, scarce labor force, abundant resources, preferential immigration policy, and reasonable court system all gave the lower-level people of Ming Dynasty more autonomy and choices.

996% of them rely on overtime to get more income, and they don’t need to worry about whether they will be fired by the boss tomorrow, because in this era, the boss is most worried, worried that their workers will leave, and worry that they won’t be able to recruit enough people .

If you have mastered some techniques, then you will be even more popular, and people want it everywhere, so you don't need to worry about anything.

The Ming Empire, which was developing rapidly, benefited from huge dividends.

Even ordinary Ming people like Wang Erzhu can live a prosperous life, their children can study, and they can have a future and hope.

In fact, many scholars from ordinary peasant families have emerged in the current Ming Dynasty. For example, Hu Xiwen, the explorer of this scientific expedition, was born in an ordinary peasant family.

In the past, they were farmers who lived by farming. It was this era that changed the fate of their family, and also changed the fate of Hu Xiwen.

And Wang Erzhu's second son, Wang Erwa, if it was in the past, he would continue to carry a hoe, face the loess with his back to the sky, just like his ancestors for generations, and he might not even be able to fill his stomach after a year of hard work.

But now, Wang Erwa is a high-achieving student of Imperial College of Technology. Although she is still a junior, she has been signed away by a big business company early on. Once she graduates, her annual salary exceeds 500 taels. The wages of workers are high.

The fate of Wang Erwa has also undergone tremendous changes, just like countless children from the bottom of this era.

The congested long queue slowly moved forward. After more than an hour, Wang Erzhu finally came to the source of the traffic jam. It turned out that several cars had a series of collisions. The accident was quite serious, and it seemed that some people died.

"They're all young people, why are they driving so fast?"

"It's winter now, and there are ice and snow on the road, which is very slippery."

Wang Erzhu shook his head slightly, and then drove slower and more carefully.

At noon, Wang Erzhu came to Tiger Ridge.

"Get out of the car, take a rest, and have a meal by the way."

I drove the car to a village on the side of the road, and the entire village was dedicated to this kind of small restaurant, inn that provided tea, board and lodging, and the like.

"Boss, here are five bowls of sliced ​​noodles and a pot of hot tea."

Wang Erzhu skillfully found the small shop he used to go to, sat down directly to find a seat and said.

"Okay, wait a minute!"

When the boss in the shop heard this, he hurriedly replied.

During the Chinese New Year period, the business is at its peak, and the husband and wife are a bit too busy, and they can't hire a mistress, because if they hire a mistress, they will have to pay at least a dozen taels of silver a month. less than human.

"This Tiger Ridge has really changed a lot. In the past, this Tiger Ridge was notoriously difficult. As the saying goes, Hades is easy to live, and Tiger Ridge is sad. It is about this period."

"Back then, it cost tens of pennies to eat steamed buns here. If you don't eat, you can't do it. Don't even think about leaving."

Wang Erzhu looked at the mountains outside and recalled the scene when he passed Tiger Ridge decades ago.

"Father, are there really bandits blocking the road?"

When Dawa Wang heard this, she hurriedly asked.

"Not only bandits, but also bullies, local hooligans, black shops and so on. When passing by here, everyone has to pay tolls. One person pays 1 tael of silver. If you don't pay, you can't get through."

"Later, Liu Gong, the chief assistant of the current cabinet, vigorously launched a campaign to eradicate gangsters and evil, focusing on combating bandits, bullies, local hooligans, black shops, etc. entrenched on the road."

"I don't know how many people's heads were beheaded because of this. Did you see that tree? Back then, I saw with my own eyes that hundreds of people were beheaded here, and the blood stained the stream in the mountain."

"There is also this village. At that time, basically every household had someone blocking the road here to collect tolls, robbing, opening illegal shops, etc. As a result, the whole village was almost empty. The men in the village were either beheaded or exiled to Australia. Went to Winterfell and the Golden State."

"There are only those orphans and widows left, so that this village has become a famous widow's village."

"Now these people are the children of the past, but they are honest. The food here is not only delicious, but also the price is fair."

"It was all back then, I was afraid of being killed!"

Wang Erzhu said with a smile.

"No way, hundreds of people were chopped off here back then?"

When Wang Dawa heard this, she was frightened to death.

"I will lie to you?"

"If you just ask anyone, you will know about this. Back then, there were bandits, bullies, local hooligans, gangsters, horse bandits, pirates, and petty theft in various parts of our Ming Dynasty. There were as many as a cow's hair."

"The social environment is extremely bad. I didn't bring you to the capital back then. A large part of the reason was because the human traffickers in the capital were very rampant. Among them, the beggar gang is the most abhorrent. They not only abducted and sold children, but also harvested and cut them up. , Beating and maiming children to gain sympathy and begging."

"It was very scary at the time. Many people brought their children to the capital and were abducted by others. Sometimes even older girls were abducted and bought into brothels or remote areas."

Wang Erzhu glared at his son, but also told them some dark things about his past.

"Father, isn't this too scary?"

Wang Dawa and Wang Erwa's faces changed when they heard this.

"That's right, so at that time, Liu Jin and Liu Gong wrote a letter to the emperor, and launched a campaign of sweeping against evil and evil across the whole of Daming for several years, using thunder to sweep away these smoky black and evil forces. The common people are in a bright and bright world, and this is the only way to have the current peaceful and prosperous world."

"Otherwise, where would there be the current peace and prosperity!"

Wang Erzhu nodded solemnly and said, "Of course I'm afraid when talking about the events of that year. It was really an extremely barbaric and dark era.

"Liu Gong is really a saint in this world, and he has done many good and practical things for the people of Ming Dynasty!"

Wang Erwa couldn't help sighing after hearing this.

He is a scholar, caring about national affairs, learning more and knowing more, he has read a lot about Liu Jin in books, and now he hears his father talking about the dark and evil things in the past, he is deeply moved Feeling.

PS: It is said that it was very chaotic ten or twenty years ago~
(End of this chapter)