Eight years. Ma Xiaokai sullenly picked up his schoolbag, preferring to go to the basketball court rather than sit in the classroom.

As the captain of the basketball team of Xuzhou No. 1 Middle School, he is now a second-year student and has become the core of the school's basketball team.

But he didn't want to skip school - in the ninth year of Huaxia, Shoufu Wang Chuanyu proposed in the New Year, and passed the "Huaxia Compulsory Education Law", all school-age teenagers, regardless of men and women, as long as there are conditions, must enter the school to receive education, and the provinces can establish a six-year or nine-year compulsory education period according to their own financial resources, and Xuzhou, where Ma Xiaokai is located, will implement nine-year compulsory education.

The source of funding for compulsory education is the Iron and Steel Group, which Emperor Yu Guozhen handed over eight years ago.

Play truant? Why is it called the compulsory education law, that is, all those who skip class will be punished, the first time they skip class will be punished with caning, and those who repeatedly fail to change will be forced to serve hard labor - every year, the managers and craftsmen of the steel group take out such huge profits, not to raise lazy people, but to train more craftsmen and stewards.

Ma Xiaokai did not want to be whipped or sent to hard labor.

Ma Dabao scratched his head, looked at his son's back helplessly and shouted: "I'm going to have a seven-day meeting this time, be careful yourself, don't get into trouble, if Lao Tzu comes back and knows what trouble you have caused again, he will definitely beat you!" ”

"Have you ever lived in your home seven years in a row? I can't see you a few times a year! Ma Xiaokai didn't look back and said: "You can still beat me now, you can beat me, I will beat you in two years!" ”

"Great rebellion, great rebellion!" Ma Dabao was so angry that his forehead was bruised, but his wife, who was beside him, covered her mouth and laughed.

Her son was angry for her.

As the leading rail erection expert in the Chinese Dynasty, Ma Dabao had to run around every site where there was a rail erection problem for Yu Guozhen's dream of laying 200,000 miles of railways. Especially now that more than 100,000 road-building troops will fight in Sichuan, they are about to extend the railway into the country of Yaofu and strengthen China's control over the southwest.

As a result, he suffered from his wife.

Ma Dabao coughed, looked at his wife, and felt a little guilty on his face: "Xiaoqin, I've tired you all these years." ”

"It's good to know, I know what you want to say, isn't it that you almost starved to death at the beginning, and you thought that this was the case all your life, and you no longer had any interest, and you didn't expect that Jingran would become a railway technician, and it was the first railway technician in our Huaxia Dynasty. You are a poor farmer, all this is given by the Huaxia Dynasty, so you naturally have to work hard for the Huaxia Dynasty - I have heard you say this kind of thing too much, and I am too lazy to listen to it again. ”

Ma Dabao smiled and strode out the door, carrying a large bag on his back, which quickly disappeared. At this time, a trace of worry appeared in his wife's eyes, and he prayed silently.

Ma Dabao is dedicated to building the railway, and he may not feel anything, but Ma Dabao's wife, such a housewife, has already faintly sensed that the Huaxia Dynasty seems to be brewing a storm.

From its establishment to the present, the Huaxia Dynasty has passed 16 years, and in the past 16 years, the changes of the Huaxia Dynasty can be described as earth-shaking. The gentry in the countryside had completely disappeared, and since the tenth year of China, the imperial court has exchanged and redeemed land from the gentry in the form of equity substitution, and then unified these lands into farms of various sizes, and resold them to the gentry or common people who are willing to continue to engage in agriculture - the price is so low that as long as you work in a city factory for ten years, you can save more than 100 acres of fertile land for yourself. It's just that after ten years of development, all the people know that it is industry that can really bring wealth quickly, and although agriculture is stable, it takes more time and effort.

Therefore, those families generally keep a farm for the sake of stability, but most of them yearn for the city: there is better enjoyment in the city, not to mention far away, just one city has electricity, which makes countless people envious.

Nowadays, Huaxia still mainly relies on thermal power generation, which requires a lot of coal and heavy pollution, so electricity is not yet popular, and there is almost no electricity in the countryside.

As Ma Dabao, he could have taken Qinwei with him when he came out, but he was not used to not being a servant, and when he didn't bring a baby, he got on the train, and he didn't even buy a more advanced box, he bought a hard seat.

Ma Dabao felt that from Xuzhou to Shanghai, it was only a half-time train journey, fifteen or sixteen hours, and there was no need to take a box at all, and the hard seats were crowded, which not only saved money, but also lived.

However, when the train was about to arrive in Nanjing, Ma Dabao still couldn't sit still, and his waist and legs were sore, which made him have to serve the old man, and he was sixty years old.

According to Huaxia's "Leave of Absence Law", you can apply for leave at the age of 60, and you can take compulsory leave at the age of 65.

In the past eight years, more than a dozen disciples have been brought out, and even if they retire themselves, the disciples can hold on, and these young people are more vigorous, so it is time for them to take the lead.

"Look, it's here, the Yangtze River Bridge!"

When Ma Dabao was pondering this matter, he suddenly heard a shout, and as soon as the car entered, they all leaned towards the window of the car, looking at the steel and cement giant trees that were rapidly approaching outside.

This is the first giant bridge on the Yangtze River, with two floors, the lower layer is for trains, and the upper layer is for entry and ordinary lanes. When Lei Dafa designed the bridge, its bottom was only 24 meters above the river. The plan was reported to Yu Guozhen, but was vetoed by Yu Guozhen, who asked Lei Dafa to think more long-term and leave more room for backward entry, especially not to affect the future 10,000-ton giant ship to directly arrive in Nanjing through the Yangtze River waterway.

After that, it took another half a year for Lei Dada to plan for the bridge. It took another six full years for the bridge to be built.

The train slowly passes through the lower level of the bridge, and when passing the bridge, the train slows down for safety reasons, and Rao is the case, and the Yangtze River, which used to take more than two hours to cross by boat, is now only five or six minutes. This change made Ma Dabao sigh a few times, and I just felt that it was amazing.

Thinking that this magic also has his own strength, Ma Dabao felt extremely proud in his heart.

The train stopped not long after crossing the bridge, Nanjing Station is located here, there are many passengers who get on and off the train, Ma Dabao also left his position, standing in front of the window and looking at the bridge outside, at this time, the lights are on, the bridge outside is like a string of jewels, shining with the light that captures the heart.

After the train started, he returned to his seat, but before he could sit down, he suddenly jumped up, looked at the passengers in front of him, and was dumbfounded: "You...... You...... You...... Your Majesty ......"

"It's Bi."

Sitting in front of him was Yu Guozhen, but now he was dressed as an ordinary person, wearing a long coat with cloth buttons folded in half, and a beard, if Ma Dabao wasn't very familiar with him, he didn't expect it to be him.

Beside Yu Guozhen, there were seven or eight young people who Ma Dabao didn't know, all of them were strong and strong, obviously Yu Guozhen's bodyguards. Even so, Ma Dabao still felt a little uneasy, looked around, and found that there were still some strong-looking young people scattered in this carriage, so he was relieved.

Yu Guozhen did not just bring a few in and out, but brought dozens of guards.

"Bi ...... Mr. Bi, how do you have time to come out? Ma Dabao knew that Yu Guozhen did not reveal his identity, so he also called him "Mr. Bi".

"Stuffy at home, like a bird in a cage, panicking, always wanting to see the situation outside." Yu Guozhen smiled, but there was a slight worry between his eyebrows.

Mr. Bi...... What's going on? "Don't enter, I definitely don't dare to ask such a question to Yu Guozhen, something that makes Yu Guozhen feel annoying, it must be a big trouble, whether it is from the perspective of avoiding suspicion or from the perspective of state secrets, it is not something that ordinary people can know.

Yu Guozhen smiled: "It's really a little troublesome, I came out this time and found that our Huaxia things seem to be a little excessive." ”

"Excess? There is no o'a. Ma Dabao blinked in confusion.

In Ma Dabao's mind, there is nothing excessive, he came from that era of scarcity, so he believes that as long as what is produced, it will be useful.

"It's just that there are too many things produced, and the money in the hands of the people is less, on the one hand, they can't sell it, and on the other hand, they can't afford it." Yu Guozhen used the simplest way to explain the problem to Ma Dabao, and finally added softly: "This is an economic crisis." ”

It was the economic crisis, after 16 years of rapid development, that the Chinese Dynasty faced an economic crisis. Ordinary people just felt uneasy from the restlessness in the market, and they didn't know what the problem was, and Yu Guozhen only received beautiful reports when he was in the palace, and he didn't know that the storm was brewing, until this time it came out, he realized that the seemingly prosperous Huaxia Dynasty actually had its own troubles.

The capital and labor liberated from the land poured into the light industrial sector with a very low threshold, and this made the quantity of shoddy light industrial products indigestible, and the products could not be sold, so that the small factory owners could not pay the wages of the workers, and the purchasing power of the workers was insufficient, which further made the light industrial products unsalable.

"It turned out to be this...... What's so difficult, let them switch to other things, it's a big deal that the court lends them money to change production. ”

Yu Guozhen laughed.

Ma Dabao said lightly, but in fact it was far from so easy, the Huaxia Dynasty was richer than any other dynasty in history, and Huaxia had a record financial income of 10 million gold yuan in 15 years. But in the same way, the expenditure of the Huaxia Dynasty is also larger than that of any previous dynasty, not to mention the construction of roads and bridges, that is, Yu Guozhen returns a batch of industries to the public every four years, but compared with the huge expenditure on education, medical care and pension, it is still less.

More importantly, the entrance of Huaxia has increased rapidly in the past 16 years, and it is estimated that it has reached 300 million, and if it survives this economic crisis, then the Huaxia Dynasty will have a long period of enjoying the import dividend, but if it can't survive, so many entrances will have to work and eat, and it will become a hidden danger for the Huaxia Dynasty.

To solve this problem, it is not possible for Ma Dabao to solve it in one sentence. Before that, Yu Guozhen felt that the first and second assistants of the center really had to pay the price for not discovering this hidden danger or not reporting this hidden danger to him. (To be continued)