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After the first year of Kaihong, it ushered in not only the country, but also thousands of ordinary people. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info they also welcomed a new life, and everyone's life was changed from that day on.

In the year that follows, the people of the land will have to face the reality that their lives have been changed, whether they want it or not, and this change will be long-lasting, continuous, and even earth-shattering.

For many people here, whether they want it or not, this change is changing and impacting everyone's lives.

In the first year of Kaihong, all provinces in Jiangbei were exempted from land for three years, so that the people could recuperate.

Although this exemption from land taxation was a favor given by the new dynasty to hundreds of millions of people in the north, it did not mean that the people did not pay - they still had to bear heavy labor during the three years of slack, but this labor was directly related to them, and all labor was for the construction of water conservancy and roads.

The canals, which had fallen into disrepair, were rebuilt, and the potholed official roads, which had barely been repaired from the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the Central Plains, were also renovated, but the official roads two to five meters wide were straightened and widened to 15 meters wide.

According to this huge road construction plan, these national roads will be completed in three years, the first year will be straightened, widened, and laid with rammed earth, and the second year will be planted on both sides of the roads with a width of no less than 15 meters. In the third year, 65,000 kilometers of national highways with hardened residue roads will be completed.

Jing Jing Guan said that from the very beginning, it faced many difficulties, such as land acquisition, capital and other issues, but through a year of practice, the first year of the official road renovation project was still basically completed, although there were some problems encountered in land acquisition, but through immigration and other means, the land acquisition problem was still solved.

"I got a few more big ......"

When he saw the toll booth in front of him, he immediately complained in his mouth.

"In the past, I only heard of the road money bought by bandits, but I didn't expect that the government of our Chinese Dynasty also collected this road money like bandits......"

He complained so much because, although these official roads are now widened and smoothed, and the carriages are faster, there is one more toll station than in the past, and most of these toll stations were built in the past.

Although he complained, he also knew that if it weren't for these toll stations, it was estimated that the horses pulling the cart would eat grass and drink water, and even the horses of the carriage shop were raised here, and there would be no such convenience without toll stations.

"Three copper dollars again!"

For Qian Fakui, who had just retired, a smile suddenly appeared on his face when he saw the carriage coming on this smooth official road, and a passenger carriage was three copper yuan, and a freight carriage was five copper yuan.

However, for the toll booth, the biggest source of income is not this, but the provision of horse feed, boarding and other services to passing carriages.

In fact, there are now more than 2,000 toll stations set up in the country, not so much highway toll stations, but rather roadside comprehensive service stations, where travelers can stay, and the price is extremely low, and each toll station is also equipped with a post box, they can send letters here, and it also assumes the function of a post office, just like the toll station where Qian Fakui is located, it is responsible for the collection and delivery of 8 nearby post shops.

Now these toll collection on the basis of the old post station reconstruction, by 2,437 toll stations, more than 14,000 post shops, more than 26,000 station staff and more than 70,000 gendarmes to form a nationwide highway toll collection, post post organization, the scale is huge, dotted, the network is vertical and horizontal, both in breadth and depth are more than any previous dynasties, also more than any European and American countries.

Of course, compared with the postmen who lived in a harsh environment and were oppressed, the staff of these toll booths now earn quite a lot. And its biggest feature is that it does not need to be financed by the state - the carriage dealership engaged in passenger and freight services provides its basic maintenance funds, and the foreign-contracted inn is an additional income for the government, ensuring that it has sufficient operating funds for the operation of toll stations.

More important for the government is the tens of millions of dollars in additional revenue from toll booths, which the Ministry of Transport can use to repair roads, bridges and build new roads.

Of course, for the government, what is more important is that through the station's military police, the imperial power has penetrated into the countryside for the first time, and the toll stations dotted around the land of China have become small security stations to maintain law and order in the nearby villages, and it is the existence of these gendarmes that has made the bandits that have existed in China for hundreds of years are tending to disappear, after all, the reason why bandits exist is because they hide in the blank space of imperial power, and toll stations and postal shops have extended the imperial power to the countryside to the greatest extent.

For Qian Fakui, although he is still an active non-commissioned officer and the captain of the gendarmerie stationed at this toll station, he prefers to believe that this is a place given to him by the emperor to rest in his old age.

As a sergeant of the military police, he was paid 10 yuan a month, and in this kind of rural place, he only needed 3 yuan a month, which was enough to live a good life, and he even hired a servant for himself, a woman from a nearby village, who usually only needed to cook and wash clothes for him, and only needed to pay him two yuan a month.

A small courtyard with three rooms, a servant, this day ...... It's a good time! At least back then, he never dreamed that he would live such a good life as he is now. Even his son is now the commander of the artillery regiment, which is a more decent officer than the prefect.

It's a baby......

Thinking of this, he was sad!

Not really!

Since the baby and his mother married him, he didn't live a good life, and in the end, he was on the way to escape the famine, and he didn't even save his life.

Thinking of the baby, Qian Fakui's mind sank, and his heart suddenly became a little sour, and his eyes seemed to be a little hot. How good would it be if she could survive to this day?

Thinking about the appearance of the baby's mother, Qian Fakui, who found that the appearance seemed to be a little blurry, sat there silently and smoked a cigarette, his eyes narrowed into a thin slit, there was a mouthless puff of smoke, looking at the coachman who was feeding the horses, and then looking at the guests who were moving their waists in the service area by the toll station, he walked towards the carriage as if he had made some decision. "Master Jun, what are you doing?" "Go to Tongguan!" Dropping a few copper dollars, Qian Fakui got into the carriage, his eyes staring out the window, and those eyes revealed memories of the past. The carriage leaves the toll station, the road leading to Tongguan is driving, looking into the distance, you can see the very lively railway construction site, although the construction of the railway has a great impact on road transportation, but the carriage handlebar type is not worried, after all, the distance between the station and the station is dozens of miles, unlike the carriage, you can stop at will. But this business will always suffer somewhat, especially for the handlebar type of horse-drawn carriages for long distances, but it will be a few years before the railroad is opened. After leaving the toll station, I walked more than 30 miles to the west, and Tongguan was in front of me. A young daughter-in-law in the car looked at Tongguan and said excitedly: "It's home!" The carriage rushed through Tongguan, and when the passengers got on and off the train, Qian Fakui was still walking forward in the carriage. At this time, the sun has already sunset, and the water of the Yellow River in the distance has been smeared with a layer of red. After about half an hour, looking at the hillside Qian Fakui, he immediately shouted at the coachman. "Stop!" The car stopped, and Qian Fakui got out of the car. Under the old willow tree on the side of the road, I don't know who has a paper cigarette stall, and a few people are sitting around. The cigarette seller was rolling up his white canopy in the evening breeze. Seeing this military master in military uniform, who got off the car, they just looked at it, and then the vendor on the cigarette stall greeted him warmly. "Master Jun, do you want to smoke? I have a ...... here" Before he could finish speaking, he saw the military master walking directly towards the hillside. That's right, this is it! Walking towards the hillside, Qian Fakui silently thought in his heart, this was the first time he came here, he was afraid, afraid that he would not find his daughter-in-law's grave. I don't know how long I searched, Qian Fakui finally found the crooked-necked pine tree, and a small mound could be faintly seen under the pine tree. That's it! The mound didn't look like a grave no matter how it looked, but Qian Fakui knew that he had dug the pit with all his strength, and his daughter-in-law was buried here. "Daughter-in-law, I've come to see you!" Sitting on the edge of the mound, Qian Fakui said with some emotion. "It's been so many years, I'm still the first to come to see you, it's not that I don't want to come, it's that I don't dare to come......" As he spoke, tears flowed from his eyes, the first time he cried in these years, even when he was hit by a bullet that year, he didn't have a single tear. But now he is crying. "I'm afraid I can't find you, if I can't find you, then what can I do, if you marry me, you haven't enjoyed a day's happiness, until you die, you don't even have a thin coffin, if I can't find you now, then, then I can see Lei Lei again......" He said this, tears flowed uncontrollably. Wife, now it's okay, our family is living a good life now, you don't know, I can now earn more than a dozen yuan a month, and I can earn a hundred and ten taels of silver a year, put it aside, even the rich man of the land may not earn more than us, and now Lei Lei is also out, they are all regiment commanders, that is a great big man, and he will be a brigade commander and division commander in the future, and when the time comes, even the emperor can see ......" When he said these words, Qian Fakui's face was smiling, it seemed that because of these words, it was a comfort to his daughter-in-law, It was he who told his daughter-in-law about the changes in his family over the years. "People tell me about my daughter-in-law all day long, I don't even see it, the daughter-in-law in my heart, only you, just you, in this life, the old Qian family is a daughter-in-law of you......" I don't know how long it took, the sky has completely darkened, if it was replaced by someone else, maybe this would have been scared a long time ago, but for Qian Fakui, he is naturally not afraid of this black forest, if there is really a ghost, he would rather see this ghost, at least then he can see his daughter-in-law again. But after all, this is just a dream, he has been waiting for a few hours, he did not wait for his daughter-in-law, and finally when he left, he looked at his daughter-in-law's grave again and said, "Daughter-in-law, don't blame you, this time your man is in a hurry, he didn't bring paper money, and when he comes next time, I will bring you paper money, this, this grave our master will not move, after all, after all, Lei Lei is now ......" Qian Fakui is worried that moving the grave will move the luck of the Qian family, perhaps, it is precisely because the daughter-in-law is buried here, so there is the Qian family and Lei Lei today. However, Qian Fakui did not go far, but lived in a nearby village, if it was replaced by an ordinary person's accommodation in the middle of the night, no one would naturally take him in, but after others saw the military uniform on his body, they were naturally willing to keep him staying, after all, this is an official. Early the next morning, Qian Fakui left the village, and waited for more than an hour before waiting for the carriage, and he did not go to other people's places, but to another village a dozen miles away, where he still had a debt to pay. The carriage walked for almost an hour before it reached the intersection not far from Wangjiazhuang, and the meeting in the carriage also shouted: "Stop!" It's in place. Because the situation on the side of the road has changed a lot, Qian Fakui specially asked, it was indeed Wangjia Village, he got out of the car, and walked a bag of cigarettes, he swept his eyes, this area is a color of green brick houses, occupying a small half of the street, yes, this is it, it was here back then, but the earthen house at the entrance of the village can not be found.

Where did the house go?

He still owes that man a few yam eggs, if it weren't for those yam eggs, he and his son estimate that this would have been gone a long time ago, how could there be today? "That ......" Looking at a person in the village, Qian Fakui walked out, "Where is the aunt of the Wang family who lives at the entrance of the village?" "Aunt Wang? Who is it? "It's the one who lives at the entrance of the village, and she has a daughter!" "You're talking about the sixth aunt!" "Yes, yes, is that her?" "Dead!" He's dead! That person's words made Qian Fakui stunned, why did he die? "I starved to death the year before last!" "So, where is her daughter?" Qian Fakui asked, as if he remembered something. "His daughter," "Where, just as a maid in the Wang family, if it wasn't sold to the Wang family, it is estimated that it would be starved to death here, where, where to draw water......" Seeing a girl who was fetching water next to the well not far away, Qian Fakui hurriedly walked over, he looked at it, and couldn't help but be excited, and the tears almost flowed out. "Girl, do you remember your uncle? The uncle who stole your yam eggs! ”

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