According to Cheng Qi's current progress, the single book of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" will be divided into about four or five volumes, with about 200,000 texts in each volume, with a long commentary of the same text, using the most popular four-color overprinting technology in Jiangnan nowadays, with embroidered images and pictures of famous engraving artists, each book costs fifteen yuan, which can be regarded as a high-priced book in the current book market.

After all, it only costs 20 yuan for four or five people in the city to go to a restaurant, eat a good drink, and ask a little girl to sing a song to help the fun. But from another point of view, it's still worth replacing a meal with a good book that can be collected.

Before he knew it, it had been more than a month since he came to this new plane, the heat had subsided, the moonlight had turned white, and there were only a few days left in the fiery July. Someone from his hometown also came and told him that it was time to get ready to study in Tokyo - don't forget, you're still a student.

"I really didn't expect that there would be such a hard thing as starting school in this world." Cheng Qi threw the letter written by his "father" on the bookcase, stretched lazily, shook his arms and legs in the study, pushed open the window only to realize that it had rained lightly, pinched his fingers and counted that it had been two or three days in the past, although it was Jiangnan, but he seemed to be able to see the tips of the green treetops and leaves a little yellow.

Fortunately, in this world, the summer vacation generally follows the practice of agricultural life, from the first two or three days of mango planting to the autumn equinox or Mid-Autumn Festival, generally there can be a full three-month long holiday.

It is said that the earliest reason for this must be because of the inconvenience of transportation, to leave enough travel time for students who return to their hometowns to visit relatives and participate in agricultural production, and now train travel is more convenient in the Song Kingdom, although it is not to the exaggerated extent of 100,000 kilometers, but there are basically railway connections between major cities and metropolises, and the speed is generally about 120 miles per hour - it is also strange to say that the Song people are still using the timekeeping method of twelve hours a day, while the Liao people use the hour and the metric system of weights and measures that Cheng Qi is more familiar with. In other words, trains in Liao are traveling at speeds of about 30 kilometers per hour – not much different from those in the Song Kingdom.

And fortunately, from Huzhou to Guangde Zhili Prefecture, there is actually a railway passing through - from Nanjing Yingtianfu (i.e., Shangqiu, not Jinling) to Lin'an Hangzhou - this plane once broke out a Song civil war, the republican government cut off the emperor's head in Tokyo Bianliang, and a prince ascended the throne in Lin'an, and organized a royalist counterattack, although the war ended in the victory of the republican army, but the alias of Hangzhou Lin'an Mansion remained.

And in this day and age, traveling by train is still a relatively high-class activity. Cheng Qi saw at the station that the passengers in the first-class carriage all had Kunlun slaves to help them carry large bags of luggage, and the ladies and ladies also brought their own maids. After entering the carriage, Cheng Qi found that even the second-class carriage he chose to take seemed to be quite luxurious.

Not to mention the seat wrapped in fine silk, but looking at the crew who carries tea and water, there is a feeling of taking the first class cabin and enjoying the special service of the flight attendant in the future - this is still improvised, people who sit in the first class car are all brought!

The steam locomotive let out a screeching whistle and was about to start, Cheng Qi and Huang Yang found their place and sat down, and soon a beautiful young lady brought a five-color fruit plate, as well as freshly brewed tea—all of which were free—in fact, it was already included in the ticket price.

Because the train was moving slowly, the passengers began to talk in twos and threes, and the newspaper boys who sold newspapers and the jugglers who performed on the train also came and went from car to car. Cheng Qi bought a copy of yesterday's "Guide Evening News" to hold melon seeds and peanut shells - don't look at these things inconspicuous, but the origin of sunflowers and peanuts is South America, although the Song navigators have discovered Dadongzhou at the end of the First Empire, and established the Dadongzhou Development Company, but because of the long distance and navigation technology problems, it was not until the republican government that the Song Dynasty established a solid colony on the western coast of Dadongzhou, and then because of the discovery of gold and silver waves in the Andes, The Second Empire intensified its efforts to develop the Americas, and many crops native to the other side flowed back to the land of the world's most agriculturally gifted Chinese people, such as corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, pumpkins, peanuts, sunflowers, peppers, tomatoes, kidney beans, pineapples, custards, guavas, avocados, cashews, cocoa, tobacco, and ...... After being carefully cultivated by the farmers of the Song Dynasty, these crops have gradually entered the homes of ordinary people, becoming as if they have been local products of the Chinese family since ancient times.

To tell the truth, when he saw the little girl who was quite a peugeot singing song to a few rich and idle people, Cheng Qi also thought about whether there would be any chance for heroes to save the beauty, but obviously he didn't have such a chance to be a hero in the limelight, and he sat down at Guangde Station safely, and the whole process was boring and lackluster.

After saying goodbye to each other, the two friends went home separately. Cheng Qi also had the opportunity to step into his hometown for the "first time".

Although Guangde Zhili Prefecture hangs the tail of a Zhili Prefecture and enjoys the treatment of the prefecture, this is mainly of great significance to the lord of Zhizhou, and for ordinary residents, it does not make the salary a little more and the price of food cheaper.

However, the population of Guangde in Jiangdong is quite dense, and the two counties under its jurisdiction, Guangde and Jianping, have a population of 250,000 and 160,000 respectively, adding up to more than 400,000 people, far exceeding the neighboring Ningguo Mansion. Not to mention compared to the slightly farther Huizhou Mansion.

In the agricultural era, population was productivity, and more people were more powerful, and there was more output. In the industrial age, population was also a very important resource, and without population, much wealth could only sleep in the mountains.

Jiangnan East Road is the richest road in the Great Song Empire, and there is no one! The port of Shanghai in Songjiang Prefecture is constantly carrying raw materials brought in from overseas colonies and manufactured goods from factories in the interior of the country that are produced and shipped out of the port of Songjiang Prefecture. The silk produced in Jiangning Mansion and Suzhou Mansion is a well-known luxury item from all over the world, Yangzhou Mansion has the benefit of transporting salt and iron, and Xuanzhou Mansion has tea and rice, which are special products since ancient times, and now under the iron horse of industrialization, the coal mines of Guangde, the stone of Huizhou, and the ferrous metals of Chizhou...... Dotted along the Yangtze River, along the water network, large and small factories make Jiangnan more rich in the world.

Although the city is not large, its overall wealth is among the best in the Great Song Dynasty - most of this is due to its rich mineral resources and the industrial and mining enterprises it brings. Cheng Qi was surprised to find that there was a considerable area in the north of the city densely counting dozens of chimneys spitting black smoke, and only after inquiring did he know that it was a steam locomotive manufacturing factory, and with this locomotive manufacturing plant as the core, there were dozens of large and small spare parts manufacturing factories near the entire county, absorbing tens of thousands of industrial workers to live here.

After a few moments of watching the majestic scenery of the marvelous industrial age on the awning boat, the bow of the boat deviated slightly from the center of the wide water and slid into a cramped alley. Cheng Qi has become accustomed to this kind of water-based road in the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River, although in the era when he came, these waterways have been filled in and become roads for cars, battery cars and bicycles to gallop, but in this time and space, water transportation is still the most convenient mode of transportation for water town residents.

Cheng Qi's door is also facing a water alley, and the steps up and down are built along the river with blue stones, and with the help of the father-in-law, Cheng Qi got off the boat, and stood at the door of the house with a bamboo and rattan box, looking at the words "Cheng Zhai" in black vermilion paint, and suddenly felt an inexplicable panic.