(Cat flutter Chinese) After a stroll, He Xiaojun found that Ningcheng at this time was much more prosperous than he imagined, faintly compared with the big cities such as Shanghai and provincial cities in this era that remained in his mind.

In He Xiaojun's imagination, this should be a small county town in the thirties, and it should be similar to a ruin in the post-social countryside.

And today's visit, He Xiaojun learned that the county seat in his hometown is no less than the provincial capital of this era that he has seen in books or movies, but it is much smaller than the provincial capital.

Perhaps, judging from the current situation, it should not be an exaggeration to call Ningcheng a small provincial city.

In Ningcheng in front of him, the prosperous place He Xiaojun saw was that there were many shops of all kinds, in addition to the common grocery stores, snack shops and medicinal herb stores at that time, he also saw several industries that symbolized the prosperity at that time, money houses and taverns.

Another thing that made He Xiaojun feel incredible was that in this small county town, there was a brothel of a large scale.

The west of the county seat, where the brothel is located, is the most prosperous place in the county today, because, in this area, there are actually two means of transportation that He Xiaojun had disappeared in this place in his previous life. The two modes of transportation are trains and boats.

Seamounts belong to the southern water network zone, and the whole area is full of rivers of all sizes like spider webs, so it is not surprising that there is such a means of transportation as boats.

The reason why in He Xiaojun's previous life, the boat as a means of transportation became extinct in this place was caused by two reasons, one is that the storage of water and power generation at that time intercepted the source of many rivers, making the rivers in Haishan shallower. Second, the serious blockage of the river has also caused the river to become shallower and narrower.

If the river is shallow and narrow, of course the boat will not be navigable, so in He Xiaojun's previous life, in the river in the territory, except for a few small fish boats that can be ignored, the means of transportation such as boats will be completely extinct.

At this time, what He Xiaojun saw was opposite the only brothel in the city, there was a small wharf, and the wharf was full of some large and small boats, all of which were transporting goods without exception.

From the prosperity of the wharf, it is not difficult to guess the role and status of ships as a means of transportation and transportation at that time.

Less than half a mile away from the brothel is the station where He Xiaojun was in his previous life, and now, this is also a station, but it is a train station.

As a Haishan person, He Xiaojun certainly knows a lot about the glorious history of Haishan.

In the history of Haishan, the construction of China's first private and second commercial railways must be the most brilliant one.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, an overseas Chinese who had been engaged in railroad work in the United States for more than 40 years proposed a plan to build the Haishan Xinning Railway in order to prosper the economy of his hometown and solve the employment problem of the locals.

After several setbacks, the plan to build a railway on Haishan was approved by the Qing government.

After the construction plan was approved, with the strong support of the people in the hometown and overseas Chinese, and through the efforts of overseas Chinese and hometown associations in various parts of Haishan, more than 2 million silver dollars were raised.

The Xinning Railway in Haishan can be said to be a project that was a national competition at that time, because it was completed under the principle of "not recruiting foreign shares, not borrowing foreign money, not employing foreign workers, and the project was run by the people of the county".

The Xinning Railway was opened to traffic in 1909 and was dismantled by the Kuomintang government in 1939 when the Japanese invaded Guangdong.

After the Xinning Railway was demolished, Haishan has no means of transportation like trains. It can be said that if you compare this aspect alone, the two thousand years of Haishan in He Xiaojun's previous life are not as good as those of half a century ago.

He Xiaojun, a military fan, is still relatively clear about the history of the Xinning Railway during the Anti-Japanese War, after the "77 Incident", all domestic transportation settings have become the target of the Japanese army's air raids, even the Xinning Railway on the border of southern China is no exception.

In mid-October 1937, the Japanese army sent 10 sorties to attack the Niuwan Ferry, and the iron boat crossing the river was blown and sunk. In late October, four planes were sent to bomb the Huicheng Railway Station, causing serious damage to the Xinning Railway and the only way to run trams in sections.

After the fall of the provincial capital at the end of 1938, the Nationalist Government ordered the demolition of the railway in order to prevent the Japanese army from using the railway to advance. The railway was demolished by residents within ten miles of the line, and the locomotives, carriages, and rails were demolished and hidden, and the roadbed was dug up, and the sleepers were used as compensation for the residents who dismantled the railway.

At the beginning of 1939, the Xinning Railway Company officially closed and dismissed its employees. A month later, Jiangmen fell.

Most of the equipment, carriages, and railroad tracks worth 30 million Hong Kong dollars along the Xinning Railway were looted by the Japanese army or scattered among the people, and by 1942, the Nationalist Government had collected only 33,782 railroad tracks for the construction of the Guizhou-Guizhou Railway.

He Xiaojun, who was reminded of this period of history from the railway station he saw, sighed for the local train that was about to become history, and also knew that the era he was in now must be before 1939, otherwise, there would be no trains running in the county.

After seeing these two kinds of transportation, which were not available locally in his previous life, He Xiaojun already knew that Ningcheng was in that backward society at that time, regardless of economic and political status, could not be underestimated.

In the process of visiting the county seat, He Xiaojun also saw a lot of rare means of transportation at that time on the streets of Ningcheng, which was a luxury item of that era - bicycles.

Anyone who knows a little history will know that in the thirties, China did not have its own bicycle brand and production capacity, and the bicycles driving on the land were 100% imported from foreign countries.

In his previous life, He Xiaojun knew from some old people that because there were many overseas Chinese in Haishan, there were many items brought back from abroad by overseas Chinese in each era.

It seems that the bicycle driving in Ningcheng at this time should be such a special item.

He Xiaojun paid attention to the bicycles driving on the streets of the county and saw that these bicycles were all imported brands that he had seen in the museum that exhibited the history of overseas Chinese in his previous life, such as the British-made three-gun brand and the Kejia road sign.

Along the way, He Xiaojun saw no less than 100 bicycles in the county.

He Xiaojun estimated from the houses he saw in Ningcheng at that time that the population of Ningcheng at that time should not exceed 20,000 people. In other words, Ningcheng had an average of one bicycle per 100 people at that time. At that time, the industrial power of the country was extremely barren, and it is believed that the density of bicycles in Ningcheng may have been unique in China at that time.

Judging from the scene of bicycles alone, contemporary Ningcheng should be a place that is not backward and not poor.

Judging from the fact that there is more than one money village and tavern in a small county, it can be seen that Ningcheng at least has a lot of business in the entry and exit of money and silver, and has a certain height in the pursuit of living standards.

The large scale of the brothel shows the prosperity of Ningcheng even more. Doesn't the old saying say: full of warmth and desire? With such an industry, it also proves that people here at least don't have to struggle with food and clothing.

Based on everything he saw, He Xiaojun came to the conclusion that the county seat of his hometown had a good standard of living in this year.

After coming to this conclusion, He Xiaojun felt a burst of joy in his heart.

A place with a good standard of living will have more needs, which will provide opportunities for employment and provide business opportunities for the society. In other words, it also created opportunities for He Xiaojun's future life.

Although Ningcheng was not big at that time, and the central area was only about two square kilometers, because of the observation while walking, after walking for more than half an hour, He Xiaojun and the others walked all over the county and came to the office of the county government at that time where the county clerk informed them to come. Cat flutter Chinese