Chapter 438: The Way Home

A month is a long time, and a month is a short time. In www.biquge.info the early morning, the sun shines on the river.

Wang Zhizheng was sent to the dock back to Anqing by his tearful parents and brothers, and there was a freshly baked brother-in-law in the crowd. "Brother-in-law, next time I come back, I want to hug my little nephew's ......"

The spring breeze blows the face, crying, laughing, shaking and choking, as if it is the broken passing years of the past, deeply engraved in the time of life, as the most beautiful embellishment in the life of a person.

One step and three turns, there will eventually be a time to part. How many times have relatives wanted to keep it, but they couldn't, what is rare in the world is family affection, but the most fragile thing is also family affection. In the face of the rules of the imperial court, the feelings seem so small.

Wang Zhizheng was just a young man who was not yet eighteen years old, and when he arrived at the cabin, he couldn't help but cry. Fortunately, he is not wearing a military uniform now, otherwise he would be seen crying when a soldier is seen, no matter how old the soldier is, it will affect the image of the army. Wang Zhizheng was wearing a new black outfit, and there was a big box beside him, which was full of Jiangnan flavor. Wind chicken, wind duck, bacon, ham, sausage, pickles......

After three years of separation from his son, Wang Zongquan and Wang's likes are broken, and a box full of things represents the deep affection of their parents.

The passenger boat went up the river and arrived at Nanjing Xiaguan Wharf at noon the next day. A large number of passengers disembarked at the pier, and then a number of passengers re-boarded, and the boat did not leave until tomorrow.

Wang Zhizheng is not annoyed, this is Nanjing, this is the most prosperous place along the Yangtze River, and it is about to become the capital of Chen Han.

The territory is getting bigger and bigger, the location disadvantage of Lushan is becoming more and more obvious, it is not only small, the location is too far away, and the water and land transportation is not developed, even if the Fu Han army has been taking care of the road in southwest Henan in recent years, but as the capital of the empire, the natural disadvantage is too great.

It is not surprising that Chen Han moved the capital from the small small city of Lushan to Nanjing. Although Nanjing cannot be compared with Beijing, its huge political influence, as well as the economic and political center of the Yangtze River, is thousands of times better than that of Xiaoxiao Lushan. Previously, Chen Han sent more than 20 labor camps and recruited more than 3,000 craftsmen to clean up and repair the Ming Imperial City in Nanjing, which is already a clear signal. In the middle of last year, as soon as the news broke that Chen Han would move the capital to Nanjing this year, the land price of the entire Nanjing still rose by 30%.

Wang Zhizheng passed through Nanjing before, and he didn't leave the dock at all, but immediately transferred to a passenger ship to Shanghai and got off the boat through Zhenjiang. This time his greatest wish has been fulfilled, after a day of 'treatment', the sadness of parting has also dissipated a lot, as the flow of people off the boat, Wang Zhizheng wants to go into Nanjing City for a walk.

Before getting off the ship, Wang Zhizheng looked at his wallet, in addition to the money and a military ID, relying on this, he could go to any public department store to buy a total of twenty silver dollars of goods in a year, and enjoy a nine-percent discount.

When Wang Zhizheng went home before, he sold seven or eight silver dollars, and now he plans to use up the rest at once.

Although there is everything in the army, the taste is not the same. Now there are more and more brands of paper cigarettes on the civilian market, and alcohol is much more abundant than that of the military, as well as canned food, which is available in all tastes, although it is expensive. There are other souvenirs, such as bamboo carving, wood carving, ivory carving, nuclear carving, porcelain carving, bamboo carving, straw weaving, Huishan clay figurines and so on.

Among Wang Zhizheng, his teacher and senior brothers, many people like these delicate little things.

In this era, military doctors are soaked in flesh and blood as soon as they work, and if they don't want to go crazy, they need to cultivate their sentiments [I personally express my timidity to the current surgeon]. Wang Zhizheng also prepared a purple clay pot for his teacher, which is not a fine product, and he can talk about his heart.

As soon as he stepped out of the port area, Wang Zhizheng was shocked, the port area in front of him, the commercial area, the shipping area, the customs agency, etc., clean and tidy is needless to say, but even the toilet is included, it is all neat cement pavement, which surprised him. Cement is still a very important military material until now!

There are green belts on both sides of the road, and small trees have given off tender green leaves, as well as blooming flowers, and tables and chairs that can be used to rest in between.

The management of Xiaguan Wharf is stricter than that of Anqing and Zhenjiang Wharf, and you can't see itinerant vendors buying melon seeds and peanuts here, newsboys and newsstands buying newspapers, and all food and drink have to go to the commercial area. There is eating, drinking, living, clothing, shelter and transportation, everything is available.

Wang Zhizheng has enough time, there is no need to go to the more expensive port business area to buy things, half a day is enough for him to go to Nanjing City for a turn.

As one of the most important places in the whole of China, the traces left by the war in the past have completely dissipated, the criss-crossing ditches and breastworks are no longer visible, and the bunkers have become police offices, which have changed greatly in just two years. At the exit of the port area, there is a large carriage and horse farm! On the left hand side is the parking area, on the right hand side is the bus stop, although the appearance is very neat, Wang Zhizheng's nose is very sensitive, and he can still smell a little horse ring.

Parking in the middle is a private carriage of a water, that is, the carriage and horse travel of the past. As far as the Ela people are concerned, there are from the most high-end four-wheeled carriages, to traditional two-wheeled carriages, and even donkey carts; In terms of pulling goods, traditional trucks, pallet trucks, large four-wheeled trucks, etc., are also very active.

The public carriage in Nanjing City was also after the New Year, and the buffalo was completely eliminated. There are not enough horses. Now that the news of Chen Han's relocation of the capital has broken out, Chen Han himself has enriched Nanjing City without concealment, and all the buffaloes have been eliminated and replaced with horses, is it not a piece of cake?

Wang Zhizheng came to the public transportation station, did not spend money to rent a horse-drawn carriage, stood under the bamboo shed platform and looked up at the number, time and stops along the way hanging on a wooden sign, and there was a big map of Nanjing on the wooden board. It's marked with small red dots, and a number like 12345.

Nanjing City now has a total of six bus and carriage transportation lines.

The map is also marked with several large dots, which are the central stops for horses in the city.

The arrival and departure times of each shift are clearly written. At this moment, a lot of people have gathered on the platform, in addition to passengers who have just disembarked like Wang Zhizheng, there are also many local villagers.

Now it doesn't take a few dollars to cross the Yangtze River by boat, not only the people on the north bank come to Nanjing, but the people of Nanjing often go to the north bank, these people carry baskets on their backs, carry burdens, and are easy to identify.

With the recovery of Nanjing, especially the news of Chen Han's relocation of the capital, Nanjing City ushered in a wave of population influx, so that every day in Nanjing City, vegetables, fruits, meat, poultry, as well as fish, shrimp and river fresh, etc., the consumption is increasing day by day, and the price of similar products has exceeded that of surrounding cities. Naturally, there are people who work tirelessly to sell in Nanjing.

The abolition of sporadic miscellaneous taxes, as well as the convenience of transportation, greatly increased the frequency of travel of the surrounding villagers, and the enthusiasm of the villagers to sell farm products increased, which also stimulated the circulation of materials and the development of transportation.

As soon as Wang Zhizheng, who was wearing regular clothes, arrived at the platform, he saw that a veteran with weak legs and feet, crutches, and wearing an unworthy rank was reading aloud the train number and station on the wooden sign. Many people around looked at the veteran with envious eyes.

Literacy is one of the benefits of serving in the Fuhan Army. No matter how stupid a soldier is, under military discipline and military regulations, he has to go to a tutoring class when the time comes, and for many soldiers, one tutoring class is more difficult than ten ideological lessons. Moreover, there are irregular small exams in the tutorial class, and then the cultural class exam once every six months, and those with high scores can get certain extra points when they are promoted to the title. And with so much time, no matter how stupid a person is, he can recognize some words.

Wang Zhizheng already knew how to read, and because of the nature of his work, the medical battalion was also one of the units with the highest cultural level in the entire Fu Han Army.

When he first joined the Fu Han Army, Wang Zhizheng was very incomprehensible to this point. Do you dare to fight a war and have something to do with whether you know how to read or not? But soon he didn't think so. Illiterate soldiers can't even read basic military rules and discipline manuals, they can't take notes in tactical classes, and they can't keep up with the progress in a slight trance, because they can't read the maps and instructions drawn on the small blackboard. There are also various orders and notices issued by the troops, and even their own military merit points are wrong, but they can't find the reason.

In the troops, it is impossible to move the soldiers only by relying on big and simple empty words, at least not for a long time. It is necessary to use the exact practical benefits in order for the soldiers to continue their efforts.

Just like the military merit points just mentioned, for soldiers, military merit points are very important. So how can they ensure that their military merit points are calculated correctly? Then the soldiers themselves must be able to do arithmetic, at least basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Then you have to look at your credit book carefully, and you must read and write.

Otherwise, you have to ask others for advice on everything, which is not only troublesome, but also really uncomfortable -- there is a feeling of being inferior to others.

The wounded self-esteem can make the soldiers take the cultural tutorial seriously at once.

Wang Zhizheng himself served as a counselor for the soldiers, and it was not his turn to teach. In terms of literacy, he has no problem at all. Wang Zhizheng's biggest problem is in math books, and he can't do math. Addition and subtraction can be held, multiplication and division is a joke. No one is perfect, and there is no way to do it.

Because China's watch industry has not yet been mass-produced, it has just developed and just started.

Therefore, Nanjing's morning bell and dusk drum are still a quiet view.

Of course, as an important location as the dock public transportation station, it is also appropriate to have a grandfather clock.

Ten minutes before the time arrives, the driver will drive the carriage to the platform and stop, and the waiting crowd will get on the bus one after another, and then the point is reached, and the carriage will leave the station with a click.

The veteran read the time and station aloud, and the crowd began to divert in an uproar. There are 12 waiting platforms in the entire station. The horse-drawn buses run every fifteen minutes, and each one can be full.

Wang Zhizheng also found that the bus and carriage here in Nanjing are no different from those in Anqing. The poor, the man with the basket and the burden, the man with the big and small packages, took the initiative to climb to the roof of the car, and most of the passengers who went to the carriage were neatly dressed passengers like him.

Wang Zhizheng didn't move, he was not familiar with Nanjing City, even if he went straight to the Confucius Temple and Qinhuai River, he had to find someone to ask first. The veterans in front of you are the best targets. Both sides are armies, and this alone is not bad.

"Yo, you're a military doctor at such a young age?" Wang Zhizheng and the veterans are the formed troops of both sides, the veteran is from the third division, he is from the second division, but the veteran himself is from Zhenjiang. Then naturally it will be intimate for two points. When the veterans knew that Wang Zhizheng was not born in the Boy Scouts, but had a father and a mother, and that he had climbed to the formal military doctor with his own efforts as an apprentice in three years, he was full of admiration. A military doctor is no better than a big-headed soldier.

There are countless corporals of this age in the Fu Han army, but when it comes to the medical camp, there are only a handful.

The veterans were very enthusiastic about Wang Zhizheng because, "The military doctor saved my life." This leg is only lame now, but it is better to be lame than to see it off. If it weren't for the military doctor...... "The veterans who have really been sawed back may not necessarily survive."

"That's your life, brother. Too many seriously wounded people in the unit died......"

On the battlefield today, the healing rate of the seriously wounded is even lower than that of ancient times. Every seriously wounded person who survives is a victor in a hard-fought battle.

Every soldier of the Fuhan Army is sincerely grateful to the military doctor. After listening to what Wang Zhizheng wanted to buy, the veteran gave him detailed instructions, from which car to go up, to that station to get down, and then which store to enter.

As he got out of the station as a public carriage, Wang Zhizheng's heart was still full of emotion, for the comradeship, and for the veterans themselves. He was only blown up in the leg by a grenade fragment on the battlefield, but he was very unlucky enough to hit the wound and became inflamed, and almost broke his thigh with an axe.

Retired from the army, he has been working at the dock station for a year.

He used the pension and the money from the sale of the military merit field to buy a small set of small stores in the port business district, and now others work at the station, and his mother-in-law sells soup in the business district. The family life is still very happy.

The eldest son is eight years old this year. "I thought about sending him to the academy. In the second half of the year, the school will recruit people. I can't grow up and be blind. Isn't the family a poor jingle? I know these words, and the Arabic numerals, all of them have been handed over. The child is very smart, and he can't delay it......" Speaking of his son, the veteran's face was full of smiles.

Wang Zhizheng thought about it, and his face was also full of smiles. When he gets married and gives birth to a son, he will definitely let the child go to school in the future.

Wang Zhizheng thought of the rumors of the medical camp set up by the imperial court in the local area, the primary school, the middle school hall, and the future university, and said that it would not be long before the medical school was established. In the future, if my son can enter medical school, and then enter the army as a military doctor, he will not have to worry about eating and drinking for the rest of his life.

The Qinhuai River is still one of the most romantic places in the southern country, but Wang Zhizheng will not glance at the red flowers and willows and green places. His heart is on a female doctor named Pan Xi'er, although the beautiful Pan Xi'er is definitely not as good as the red cards in these flower buildings, but Wang Zhizheng likes the kind of temperament that she exudes that is different from the ordinary. It's nice to be with her!

Pan Xi'er has a very attractive temperament, and Wang Zhizheng can't say what it is, but it just attracts his attention and gives Wang Zhizheng a completely different feeling. Comparing Pan Xi'er to his mother and sister, this difference is even more obvious.

Wang Zhizheng, who hasn't experienced a lot of things, certainly doesn't know why Pan Xier's temperament is so different from that of folk women. Pan Xi'er, who joined the Boy Scouts with her two elder brothers, Pan Manchu and Pan Mancang, has been living under military management for four years so far. The most important four years for a person from childhood to youth, out of the melting pot of the army, even if the boy scouts are far less rigorous than the regular army, how can a woman like Pan Xi'er be the same as a woman in the people?

In fact, it is Wang Zhizheng himself, and the three years of the medical camp have also left an indelible mark on his outlook on life, so he likes Pan Xi'er, and he does not see the flowers and willows on the banks of the Qinhuai River.

The prosperity of the Confucius Temple in Qinhuai River dazzled Wang Zhizheng. He had also been to Nanjing before, when he was twelve years old, his father took their family to Nanjing to watch the Lantern Festival, and the Qinhuai River Confucius Temple was also full of flowers, but compared to now, he always felt inferior.

"Durian sugar, coconut sugar, ......"

Stopping at a store selling candy, Wang Zhizheng stopped. This shop with the sign of Tang Ji was not recommended by the veterans for him, but Wang Zhizheng was deeply attracted by the signboard hanging on the store.

Fruit candy is not uncommon in the Fu Han army, what grapes, pineapples, bananas, oranges, the army supplies fruit candy. But coconut candy and durian candy, he had never heard of it. But Wang Zhizheng had heard of durian, and he also knew a joke about durian circulating in the medical camp, which was the joke that the first batch of durian was sent to the second division in Anqing, and then came out:

A native of Nanyang came to Guangzhou to work, he liked to eat durian very much, but his co-workers didn't like it and were not used to the smell. One day he was really greedy, secretly bought a piece back and then hid in the toilet to eat, when the food was happy, one of his roommates was very curious about what he was doing, so he secretly took a look at the crack in the door, and then walked away silently, and when the worker was eating at night, he pushed his bowl to the natives, and said: Brother, if you can't eat enough, eat my food, don't hide in the toilet alone in the future and eat yellow...... (To be continued.) )