The imminent outbreak of war will affect Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Huguang, and Jiangxi, and some chaos has already occurred in Guangxi, Fujian, Huguang, and Jiangxi under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, affecting the daily lives of the people.

The common people under the rule of the People's Army continued to live as usual, and at most, the common people began to pray for the blessings of the People's Army, hoping that the People's Army would win the war, and that their sons who had joined the army would come back alive.

Muxia Village, Yongan County, Huizhou City, Du Chensheng's mother packed up for her son who was about to travel far away with tears in her eyes, today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and tomorrow her son will go to the county seat, and take a carriage to Guangzhou City, hundreds of miles away, to study.

"Don't cry, it's not like Chensheng won't come back, he can come back after leaving for half a year, maybe he can bring back a daughter-in-law." Father Du comforted.

Du's mother said "um" and continued to pack for her son.

At this time, a poem is very appropriate: the line in the mother's hand, and the wanderer's shirt. Before leaving, I am afraid that I will return late. Whoever says an inch is careless, and he will be rewarded with three springs.

When a new day arrived, Du Chensheng and seven classmates rode an ox cart to the county seat early in the morning, and behind them were their mother, who had already cried, and their father, whose eyes were red.

The oxen of the ox cart were originally owned by the landlord's family, and now they are the common property of Kinoshita Village, and the two students have to go to Guangzhou City to carry out, and the six teachers have to teach the students in other places, which is a big deal for Kinoshita Village, and the village chief directly sent the ox cart to send eight people to the county seat.

The ox cart is not fast, but it can save Du Chensheng and the others some physical strength and not get tired.

On the carriage, Du Chensheng chatted with the others, the first time he traveled far away, it was hundreds of miles away, and Du Chensheng couldn't calm down.

Du Chensheng's six classmates who were teachers had already gone to other places last year, on the one hand, to determine the place where they were teaching, and on the other hand, to register new students, and during the Chinese New Year, the six of them returned to Kinoshita Village for vacation, and the first day of February was also the opening date of the primary school, and the six of them had to go back to work and teach.

After returning from the field, everyone talked about the situation in the field, and there is no need to say more, now the eight people fantasize about what the city of Guangzhou will be like, as the largest city in the area ruled by the People's Army, the eight people all think that the city of Guangzhou is extraordinary, there are many tall houses, a sea of people, and the governor of the People's Army who brought them a good life.

Du Chensheng's six classmates who were teachers were very envious of Du Chensheng and Liu Siyuan, they knew that the president of the university was the governor they had always admired, Du Chensheng and Liu Siyuan entered the university to study, and they would definitely have the opportunity to meet the governor, and in order to be able to meet the governor themselves, the six of them all made up their minds to study in the university in the future.

Du Chensheng, Liu Siyuan, and others are to stay in the county seat for one night, and tomorrow the People's Army Government will arrange for horse-drawn carriages to send the students to Guangzhou City and teachers to various places under the rule of the People's Army.

When he came to the place where he lived, Du Chensheng saw other students and teachers, starting from the morning, the students in the villages outside the city and the teachers who were going to teach in other places all converged towards the county seat, and some of them were a little farther, and they might not be able to arrive until tomorrow morning.

Du Chensheng communicated with his future classmates, and Du Chensheng was lucky to meet a student with the same major as himself, named Xu Liang, who was the same age as Du Chensheng, both of whom were eighteen years old this year, and they all dreamed of making better firearms for the soldiers of the People's Army to use to defeat the Ming army and overthrow the Ming court.

With a similar family background, the same age, the same major, and the same dream, Du Chensheng and Xu Liang quickly became good friends, and the two agreed to study hard together after entering the university and study firearms together.

Nothing was said all night.

Early in the morning, many carriages came from outside the place where Du Chensheng, Xu Liang, and Liu Siyuan lived, and this carriage made Du Chensheng feel a little feeling.

In Du Chensheng's impression, both the ox cart and the carriage were two wheels, but the carriage in front of him turned out to be four wheels and two horse-drawn carriages, and the body of the carriage was much larger than that of ordinary carriages.

The strange place is not only this, the door of this strange carriage is actually on the side, and there are four rows of twelve seats in the carriage, which can seat twelve people, plus the coachmen of the two educational carriages in front of the carriage, a carriage can carry fourteen people, and it seems that it is relatively comfortable to ride, it is really unimaginable.

Du Chensheng and his classmates got into the carriage, the carriage drove towards the outside of the city, slightly bumpy, still within the range of bearing, when the carriage left the county and stepped on the cement road to Huizhou City and Guangzhou City, the bumpy feeling disappeared completely, and the flat cement road made the carriage no longer have a sense of bumps.

In the land of China, the original four-wheeled carriage is very rare, the mainstream is the two-wheeled carriage, mainly because the road is uneven, the carriage is not installed with shock absorbers, the four-wheeled carriage is more bumpy than the two-wheeled carriage on the potholed road, so people use the two-wheeled carriage more.

Nowadays, there are more and more cement roads in the areas ruled by the People's Army, and even some main roads have been replaced by cement roads, and on the flat cement roads, the horse-drawn carriages do not need to worry about many bumps.

With the advent of cement roads, the People's Army took the lead in using four-wheeled carriages, and soon the gentry and merchants under the rule of the People's Army also used four-wheeled carriages.

If it weren't for the fact that there were too few horses, Fang Nan even planned to have the People's Chamber of Commerce launch a long-distance passenger service between cities and short-distance passenger services within cities.

When the railroad connects more cities, it is greatly convenient for long-distance passenger service, two horse-drawn carriages can pull more than 14 people on the cement road, and when they are changed to the railroad road, the two-horse-drawn carriage can be greatly lengthened, and even add a carriage, which can pull dozens of people at a time.

Although the People's Army had not yet overthrown the Ming court, Fang Nan's eyes had already set his sights on the steppes north of the Great Wall, where the Tatar tribes included cattle, horses, and sheep, which could be used to pull carts and cattle to plough the land.

On the carriage, Du Chensheng curiously opened the curtains of the window and looked outside, far away from the place where he was born and raised for the first time, Du Chensheng was a little apprehensive in his heart, but more yearning, Du Chensheng wanted to meet the governor of the capital soon, wanted to enter the university to learn new knowledge as soon as possible, and wanted to create better firearms quickly.

"Don't worry, Daddy, I won't be able to go home for the summer vacation in less than half a year, soon." Du Chensheng looked at the location of his hometown and muttered silently in his heart.