Originally, Tang Ning felt that an old driver like himself had absolutely no problem driving, but after he learned about the requirements of drivers in the Republic of China, he suddenly found that he still had to learn it, because there are many precautions for driving in the Republic of China that are different from now.

First of all, the names of the various parts of the car during the Republic of China were different from now. For example, the steering wheel was called "steering rudder" at that time, the brake pads were called "brake shoes" at that time, the handbrake was called "hand-pulled brake lever" at that time, the cigarette lighter was called "cigarette lighter", and those large and small storage boxes were called "zero room". These names seem strange today, and even drivers who are familiar with cars will be confused by these strange terms. This is not over, during the Republic of China, trucks, buses, and buses were called "cars", and cars with less than six seats were called "motorcycles". As for what we call a motorcycle today, it was called a "bicycle car" at the time, or "bicycle for short...... Have you ever been dizzy? In other words, instead of learning to "drive a car", you are learning to "drive a motorcycle......

Then there is the "hand number" that Downing feels is most necessary to learn. This so-called "hand number" is actually sign language when driving, because in this era, most cars do not have turn signals, and when turning, the driver has to put his hand out of the window and use specific gestures to prompt the driver behind. For example, if you want to turn right, you have to stretch your right hand out of the window, stretch out your forearm, and draw a clockwise circle in the air with your hand. If you want to turn left, you have to put your left hand out of the window, stretch out your forearms flat, and draw your hands in a counterclockwise circle in the air, which means telling the driver behind you that I'm going to go left. In addition, there are braking gestures, slowing down gestures, and reversing gestures, which are collectively referred to as "hand numbers", which are lessons that drivers must learn before going on the road during the Republic of China, otherwise they will not be able to go to the street at all......

In addition, the process of learning to drive is also very strange, unlike now directly to the driving school to drive a coach car under the guidance of the instructor, but a car is framed by four jacks, four wheels off the ground, and the students wave the steering wheel in this motionless car...... Oh no, it's the steering rudder. It turned out that the car at that time did not have a reversing radar, no steering assistance, and friends who had just learned to drive could not control it at all, and it was not good to use the brake as a throttle, hit the wall headlong, or misjudge the distance when reversing, and hit or kill other students in the driving school......

Finally, there are the traffic rules, the main point is the speed limit, because the road conditions were not good at that time and the urban population was large, taking Shanghai as an example, the population density of the British Concession and the old city exceeded 50,000 people per square kilometer, and it was tantamount to suicide to drive on the streets on a large holiday. Therefore, according to the regulations, the speed of the car in the Shanghai French Concession cannot exceed 20 miles per hour, otherwise it will be fined. In Hangzhou and Wuhan, the speed of cars in the city is not allowed to exceed 15 miles per hour. At 15 miles per hour, or 24 kilometers per hour, you will be fined if you exceed that.

According to records, in 1933, Yu Dafu traveled to Zhejiang, borrowed a car from a friend, and drove from Hangzhou to Fuyang, a journey of 42 kilometers, spending two hours on the road, and an average speed of 21 kilometers per hour. Then he drove from Tonglu to Hangzhou, a journey of 90 kilometers, departing at 3:30 p.m. and arriving at 7:00 p.m., it took three and a half hours on the road, with an average speed of 26 kilometers per hour, so the idea of speeding all the way should not be ......

In fact, Tang Ning was still lucky, if he was more than ten years late, he would have caught up with the charcoal car, because of the high price of oil (in 1932, a liter of gasoline in Nanjing was four dimes, which is equivalent to 30 yuan...... And as military supplies, many times you can't buy them even if you have money. (As for the specific charcoal car driving principle and operation, we will talk about it in detail when it comes to it).

Tang Ning originally wanted to apply for the Zhou Xiangsheng taxi company, known as the "Shanghai Taxi King", after taking the driver's license, but after inquiring, he learned that Zhou Xiangsheng was still doing the business of "abandoning his post", that is, illegally parking on the side of the road to solicit passengers, which was like a black car ......, and only Yunfei in the United States and Tailai in the United Kingdom operated it, and Tang Ning didn't want to work for foreigners, so he finally decided to buy one and forget it!

After buying the car, he felt hungry, and he planned to start business in the afternoon, so he wanted to eat out and not go home to accompany Xiaofuzi, otherwise it was likely that eating would become a cannibal, and he would not be able to work.

Since Xiaofuzi was not there, Tang Ning chose to eat Western food, because Xiaofuzi really didn't like and was not suitable for eating Western food, so when he was with her, Tang Ning ate Chinese food, and this time he was not there, so he decided to enjoy it alone.

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So he walked into a Western restaurant that looked to be well decorated, but when he walked in, he found that this restaurant called "Fuxing" was actually run by Russians, but what surprised him even more was that as soon as he finished ordering lunch, the waiter blinked and suggested to him: "Sir, don't you feel bored eating alone, do you need to find a beautiful woman to accompany you?" As he spoke, he pointed to a few coolly dressed young Russian girls sitting by the bar.

Originally, Downing didn't have this idea, but when he followed the waiter's fingers, he found that one of the girls looked very similar to a Russian supermodel he knew in his previous life, Nastia Kusatsina, so he pointed and said, "Well, okay, then invite this girl over." ”

It wasn't until the girl came over that Tang Ning was surprised to find that this girl not only had a delicate and charming little face that looked like Nastia, but also her height was extremely similar, and she had to be at least 1.7 meters tall.

Just when Tang Ning was stunned, the girl sat down and asked timidly in very clumsy Shanghainese, "Hello, sir, are you coming back from abroad?" ”

"Why do you ask?" Tang Ning asked puzzled.

The girl pointed to the match in Tangning's hand and explained: "This says International Hotel, and the people who live in International Hotels are generally foreigners or come to Shanghai from foreign countries, and you don't look like ordinary Chinese, sir!" ”

PS: I suddenly remembered one of my old books "Rebirth America 1929", in fact, now that I think about it, the beginning of that book was quite interesting, but then I didn't know what to write and stopped, now it seems that if I am willing to summarize the American business war articles that have come out in the past two years, I can still finish it, but it is too routine to write it like this......