Sitting in the ground cabin of a giant airship larger than an aircraft carrier, looking out through the floor made of transparent glass or some other material. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Ye Yicai, who has been coming to this time and space for more than 7 months, truly felt the vastness and emptiness of Greater China for the first time, because the reward given to her by Jardine Matheson for the sales champion this quarter was only a 7-day tour of the north and south of Beijing. Now she has visited a city of Beijing that looks relatively familiar, and also visited the Old Summer Palace, which was not burned down by the British and French forces, and is now on her way back. Although this airship did not leave the territory of the People's Republic of China in another time and space". But through the transparent floor, the Central Plains land she saw was completely different from the scene in her impression!

In another time and space, China's population and urban distribution are relatively even. Although there is also a large influx of people into the developed areas of the southeast, resulting in the problem of overcrowding in the five metropolises of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. But compared to this plane, it is a drop in the bucket! After all, the urban layout and construction and even the population flow in another time and space are all unified and carefully planned. In this time and space, although there is such a thing as urban development planning, it is far from being meticulous and rigorous, and to a large extent, it is conforming to the general trend of population flow, rather than guiding population flow.

Therefore, after more than 100 years of full development, if according to the standards of another time and space, the current countries of Greater China must be developed countries, and there are two problems of population agglomeration and extraordinary expansion of the metropolis on the territory of the Ming Empire.

The current Ming Empire has a population of about 1.8 billion, which is 300 million less than the nearly 1.4 billion in another time and space. But the most populous prefectures of Shanghai, Yingtian and Guangzhou all have nearly 550,000 residents! Tianjin, Shuntian, and Wuhan also have a population of more than 3ooo people. The total population of these six provinces alone is 260 million. It accounts for more than 2o% of the total population of Daming! If you count Liaodong Mansion, Xingzhou Mansion and Hangzhou Mansion, which have a population of more than 2ooo thousand. More than 320 million people, or nearly 3o% of the country's total population. Gathered in these 9 provinces of less than 80,000 square kilometers of land and different from the Chinese cities in another time and space will always reserve a considerable amount of land for agricultural development, the Ming Empire did not have the concept of basic farmland protection, so the 9 most densely populated prefectures accounted for more than 9o% of the built-up urban area, that is, more than 70,000 square kilometers became densely populated urban areas. And in the air of the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, where Shanghai and Yingtian Erfu are located, the emerald green farmland has disappeared, and it has been replaced by a huge city that cannot be seen!

Of course, as a developed country with high taxes and high welfare, the transportation, medical care, housing, education, public security and other problems closely related to people's livelihood in the 9 metropolises of Daming are still relatively well solved. It is believed that it is the government's investment rather than the size of the city that is linked to various livelihood issues. If there is not enough financial investment, 5ooo small cities with a population of 10,000 people will definitely not be able to solve these problems better than a metropolis of 5ooo people......

In fact, excluding special circumstances, the fiscal revenue of a metropolis of 5ooo people must be more than the fiscal revenue of 5ooo small cities with a population of 100,000 combined. The finances of Shanghai, Yingtian, and Guangzhou have been the most abundant in the entire empire since the restoration of the Ming Dynasty. Sufficient financial resources are, of course, a powerful guarantee for solving various problems of people's livelihood.

However, the high concentration of population has caused another headache, that is, the emptiness of Daming except for the 9 metropolitan areas and some provincial capitals and resource-based cities, and there is a trend of becoming more and more empty! When Ye Yiren's airship flew out of the huge Shuntian Tianjin City Circle, it was as far as the eye could see. It's the endless golden yellow, and now it's autumn, it's the season when rice and wheat are ripe, and there are no villages and towns dotted on the North China Plain. All that remains is the endless sea of wheat and rice, and only along the railways and highways there are some small towns that are presumably home to farmers.

Agricultural production also seems to be fully mechanized, and it is harvest season, with large combine harvesters in operation in many fields, and trucks full of grain on the highways. Ye Yiren observed with a telescope for a while and found that all the agricultural machinery and trucks looked very beautiful. Obviously, the industrial strength of Greater China in this time and space is no worse than that of the People's Republic in another time and space, in fact, just look at the industrial zones in Shanghai and Yingtian that can only be described as spectacular.

"It's so empty!" Ye Yiren put down the binoculars and sighed sincerely.

"How not to be empty, how many young people are still willing to live in the countryside? The people are gone, and of course the countryside is empty. ”

The answer to this question was the personnel minister of the Guangfu North Road store of Jardine Department Store, who received Ye Yiren that day, and the old man's surname was Wu, who seemed to be a distant relative of the Jardine Xingwu family. When I was young, I worked in the Guangfu North Road store of Jardine Department Store and has been doing it for 5o years! From the station counter all the way to the store manager, 15 years ago, he gave up the position of store manager to the "young man", and he became the minister of personnel, Ye Yiren was recruited by him, and he personally trained him, and he trained the first quarterly sales champion Well, if Ye Yiren had come thirty or forty years earlier, this quarterly sales champion would definitely not have been her turn, because the staff of Jardine Matheson Department Store thirty or forty years ago worked much harder than now!

At that time, Jardine Matheson Department Store was open at 9:3o in the morning until 1:oo in the evening, and the clerks at that time had to work at least 2oo days a year, including overtime, which was almost 25oo hours when converted into hours. Almost everyone is a workaholic, but there are no such people anymore, except for Ye Yiren......

This time, because the sales champion was in the Jardine Department Store Guangfu North Road store, the old man Wu and his wife also got a chance to travel at public expense, and they were accompanied by model clerks from the stores of Jardine Matheson Department Store Shanghai and Yingtianfu. Needless to say, most of them are old men who joined Jardine Matheson Department Store forty or fifty years ago in the most prosperous era of the Daming department store, when the business of the department store was good, and the salary was relatively high, which naturally attracted young men, and women in that era got married relatively early, and generally did not come out to work after marriage, unlike women who generally work after graduating from college for seven or eight years before considering getting married.

"Yes, it is normal for farmers to have low incomes and young people who are reluctant to stay." Ye Yiren nodded, she had her own special opinion on Old Man Wu's point of view.

"Uh...... The income of the peasants is not low," Old Man Wu has long been accustomed to the strange views that Ye Yiren put forward from time to time. "On average, each farmer has several thousand acres of land, and the government gives them subsidies to ensure that their income is equivalent to that of the middle and upper urban families, and the agricultural cooperatives provide them with all kinds of help, and the farmers are generally relatively wealthy. It's just that life in the countryside is too boring, and where there is a metropolis is colorful...... Oh, it's the same for you, anyway, it's about working overtime, saving money, buying a house, or you might as well consider marrying a rich farmer so you don't have to be so tired. ”

The old man's last words were actually in the Jardine Matheson Department Store Guangfu North Road store The clerks laughed at Ye Yiren's words, a girl in her 2O, who didn't hurry up to enjoy life and didn't have a boyfriend, worked overtime to make money, and actually spent 95ooo yuan to buy a three-bedroom and two-hall townhouse...... It's an antique!

"Mr. Wu, you are making fun of me again, people don't marry farmers, and I am ready to save enough money to go to college......" Ye Da has her own life plan, how can she bear that she doesn't have a college diploma? She had already studied the higher education of the Ming Empire in this time and space...... Naturally, it is also in a state of great oversupply! The barrier to entry to university is low, and almost everyone has access to higher education! In the Jardine Department Store Guangfu North Road store, probably only Ye Yiren can't get a college diploma.

"Save money for college...... Old Man Wu shook his head with a wry smile, "Xiao Ye, you are so old, if you don't hurry up and find a boyfriend, when do you want to wait?" 3o years old is just a blink of an eye! ”

'Looking for a boyfriend ......' Ye Yiren sighed in his heart, can he still find a boyfriend better than Zhu Jishi, the Emperor of the Great Ming Dynasty?

'It's time to go and see him...... Ye Yiren thought of the same question again, and went to see Zhu Jishi's Siling...... This Emperor Ming Holy Ancestor, who has been dead for 1oo years and whose bones are probably rotten, was still getting along with our Miss Ye day and night only a few months ago! And Ye Yiren has never been able to truly accept that his Zhu Jishi is the reality of Zhu Jishi in the Siling Underground Palace!

Therefore, after coming to this time and space for more than half a year, Ye Yiren has never been to Siling, not even Ying Tianfu.

"Mr. Wu, people are still young, so they are not in a hurry to find a boyfriend." Ye Yiren's feelings for Zhu Jishi have obviously faded a lot, and he didn't show sadness, he just smiled and changed the topic, pointing to a sparkling river below and asked. "Mr. Wu, that river is so big, so clear, what kind of river is it?"

"That's the Yellow River, it's the northwest wind now, the speed of the airship is fast, there are 2 hours to get to Yingtian, we will rest in Yingtian tonight, and tomorrow we will visit Siling, Xiaoling and Yingtian Forbidden City." (To be continued......)