On August 29, 2763 (1922),

Today is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, which is the Qixi Festival. Under the policy of promoting traditional Chinese culture, this festival has also been designated as a statutory holiday by the government, defined as a festival of "couples and love", of course, this is a small festival, and the holiday is only one day. With China's growing influence in the international arena and the joint hype of the government, the media and some businesses, "Qixi Festival" has been promoted as "Chinese Valentine's Day" in Western countries.

On the eve of the Qixi Festival, various military organs, enterprises and institutions, as well as non-governmental grassroots governments, will organize a "blind date meeting" to organize unmarried men and women to participate. This practice has been around since the time of Xingke, and on the eve of the Qixi Festival in 1907, Xingke Group organized a "blind date meeting" in the company for the first time, and then it has become a common practice. The same was true in the Kyodo Era that followed, and after the Socialist Party came to power, it became a national practice, and it is now called a "holiday custom."

Wuhan First Hospital is no exception, today they also organized a party limited to single men and women, it is said that they went to the East Lake to open a literary and artistic party, in fact, it is a continuation of last night's blind date meeting.

"Jingle bell......" The phone in the office of the director of internal medicine rang.

"Hey, hello!" Lu Xiaming picked up the phone.

"Hello, Director Lu, I'm Wang Xiaoli from the hospital office......" A young girl's voice came from the phone.

"Oh, what's the matter?"

"Director Lu, there is a single youth literary and artistic association in East Lake today, and the single employees of your department who are not on duty have to go. Oh, but you won't have to go this year, hahahaha......" Xiao Wang said with a smile. Lu Xiaming, director of the Department of Internal Medicine, got married last year, and of course he is not qualified to participate in this kind of activity.

"Hahahaha, okay, I'll let them know right away. Lu Xiaming also laughed, and suddenly remembered something, and said, "Hey, wait, Xiao Wang, what do you think of Dr. Xiao Zhou in our department?"

"Come on, Director Lu, you've only been married for less than a year, and you want to be old?" You said that Doctor Zhou, he's sour, and his whole body is sour, I can't stand it, you better find someone else......" That Xiao Wang hung up the phone after speaking.

"Oh, it's sour, the whole person is sour, what do you mean? Xiao Zhou loves to be clean......" Lu Xiaming didn't turn the corner for a while, but he quickly left this matter behind. Anyway, it's just to help his subordinates talk about it, it's another thing to succeed or not, and he's not a professional matchmaker. He immediately made a phone call to the nurse's station and relayed the matter of the literary and artistic sorority.

"Well, by the way, I also spent Qixi Festival with my wife today......" Lu Xiaming thought about it and made a call to China Medical University.

"Hey, hello, who are you looking for?" the phone quickly connected, and a soft voice came from inside.

"Frost, is your school off today?"

"Oh. Husband. The unmarried are on holiday, and the married ones are still on duty, and they will be fine in the afternoon......"

"Alright, let's go to the movies in the afternoon. I'll pick you up after work in the morning......" Lu Xiaming said with a smile.

"Okay, then I'll wait for you. ”

Lu Xiaming's wife's name is Tang Feng, and the word Lingshuang. A native of the suburbs of Chengdu, his family is a merchant of medicinal herbs, and he also doubles as a sitting doctor, but his medical skills are relatively average. She herself is the youngest of seven daughters, and she has a younger brother below, and because her parents want a boy too much, they have long regarded her as a boy to support.

When I was a child, I studied in a private school for a period of time, and when Mr. Wen first arrived in Sichuan, he listened to some new learning in the children's school of Xingke Company. Originally, in 1907, she had already agreed to marry the children of nearby relatives, but she was dissatisfied with the boy and decided to run away from the marriage, in fact, it was not the boy's fault, she was just dissatisfied with the arranged marriage. It happened that Mr. Wen's newly opened hospital was recruiting, and the Tang family girl went to sign up as an intern doctor, study surgery, and later became a student of the famous surgeon Jin Lin, and is now an associate professor of surgery at China Medical University.

She and Lu Xiaming met during their study at Southwest Medical University, and Lu Xiaming chased her for eight years before finally getting her wish.

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After Lu Xiaming arranged for duty, he gave himself a holiday.

"Many, just sing, a turret hurts......" he hummed to the hospital parking lot, said hello to the security guard, and walked over to his car.

This is a Volkswagen brand sedan, with a shiny royal blue paint and a delicate Beetle-like streamlined body, which looks very comfortable. Volkswagen sedan is a famous brand of Xingke Automobile Factory, and just like its name, it is a low-end car for the masses. According to Mr. Wen's words, "We want to make this kind of car affordable for ordinary working people!"

Although at the same time in the United States, Ford also launched their Ford Model T, which is also a so-called popular model, the Model T made the car a practical tool into the homes of ordinary people with its low price, and the United States has since become a "country on wheels". However, in addition to the reason for the use of flowing seats, the low price of the Model T is mainly based on shoddy manufacturing, which saves almost all the parts that can be saved, such as the water pump and cooling fan, and the clutch is also the simplest, not even a special clutch pedal, only three gears, one of which is a reverse gear. In order to reduce costs, the wheels of the car used wooden "cannon wheels".

Well, even with such a humble vehicle, the Model T was initially priced at $850 (about $1,700), and the average annual income of American workers at that time was $1,200. Therefore, its target market is not the mass class as advertised, but the middle class of American society.

Of course, happiness is comparative, and other competing models in the same period usually cost $2,000 to $3,000, so it seems that the Model T is indeed a mass product. But unfortunately, it is also comparative, in front of Xingke's Volkswagen, the Model T is uncompetitive. The Volkswagen brand is priced at $799 in the United States, and it is too mature in design, whether it is product appearance or ergonomics, it is not at the same level as the Model T. And it didn't rely on cutting corners to reduce costs, and the performance was a complete T car.

So on this plane, Ford was killed by Volkswagen, and soon knelt down, and finally went bankrupt by the Zenith consortium at a low price, and became Volkswagen's production workshop in the United States.

Volkswagen cars are sold much lower in China, at 700 yuan (about $350) per unit. Of course, even at this price, with the current income level of most Chinese people, they can't afford it, and taking 700 yuan at a time has exceeded the ability of most people to pay. However, the government has introduced an instalment payment system to encourage car consumption, and banks provide low-interest car purchase loans. It can be paid in up to 10 years, and of course, after adding interest, the total price becomes 820 yuan. As long as those who meet the conditions can drive the car home after a down payment of 100 yuan, and pay 6 yuan per month in the future, this price can be affordable by many people.

With the income of Lu Xiaming's family, he could naturally afford it, but this car did not cost him money. It was a reward from the government for his contribution to the Spanish flu, and the car was a high-end Volkswagen with air conditioning and cassette recorders, televisions and stereos.

Not only Lu Xiaming, but all the medical staff who participated in the "anti-influenza action" have all won medals issued by their own countries and other countries, as well as awards from governments and units at home and abroad. Today's CSD government has absolutely no such style of making people work in vain, and these people not only have rewards during the "anti-current" period, but also have double their earnings.

Even if it is the least, its various rewards and income are at least thousands of yuan. There are even more main doctors like Lu Xiaming, although he has been running around the world for more than a year, but now he has villas, cars and all kinds of household appliances. has been busy for a year, which is at least equivalent to more than ten years of income.

"If this flu comes a few more times, hehe......" Lu Xiaming suddenly had this idea in his mind as he started the car, but he quickly dispelled this thought, and blamed himself for a while, thinking that he should not have come up with such an immoral idea. In the end, he comforted himself: "Okay, what I think is that foreign countries are unlucky, and our own country will not want ......"

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"Dudu ......" Lu Xiaming's Volkswagen emitted a puff of green smoke and swept away.

The city of Wuhan is characterized by its large, very large, and exaggerated urban area, straddling the Yangtze River and the Han River. No way, it's a merger of the previous three cities. Lu Xiaming's work is in Wuchang District, and his wife Tang Feng's China Medical University is in Hankou District, separated by the Yangtze River, and it takes an hour to drive there.

"Dudu Dudu......" road is full of traffic, and many of the traffic is Volkswagen, some are taxis, some are official cars, and some are private cars. In addition to these Volkswagen cars of various colors and models, there are also Mercedes-Benz and BMW, as well as new brands such as Changan, Peugeot, Chery, and Roewe, all of which are of course domestic cars. In the field of automobiles, China is completely unbeatable, accounting for about 70% of the world market, and other countries can only follow behind.

In the past few years, the domestic automobile production capacity, especially the car production capacity, was mainly supplied for export, and there were not many domestic cars, especially private cars, and the share allocated to the country was in short supply at all. However, this situation of "carpenters have no benches to sit on, and cooks have no good food to eat" has changed after the end of World War I, and old Europe has basically been shattered, like the elite areas of Britain, France and Italy have been scorched to the ground, and Russia has even declined, and is still in civil war. Although the native territory of Germany and Austria has not suffered much loss, it is not easy for one family to make a revolution and a family to split up. Several major European countries were greatly damaged in the First World War, and social contradictions intensified, and everyone was either busy rebuilding the country or busy pacifying the lower classes, in this case, the consumption power of luxury goods such as cars was naturally greatly reduced.

Since the demand in the European market has decreased significantly, the domestic share has risen. At present, various domestic automobile manufacturers are vigorously exploring the domestic market, and the state has also launched many preferential policies in order to support enterprises and improve the level of domestic people's livelihood. In this context, the number of private vehicles in China has grown explosively after the war.

In the past few years, the gas cars that could often be seen on the streets of Wuhan are now completely invisible, and they have all been replaced with new fuel or gas vehicles.

Of course, the products of Xingke Automobile Factory are not only Volkswagen's low-end cars, but also luxury and special car series "Hongqi" and "Peony", high-end car series "BMW", mid-range car system "Mercedes-Benz", as well as "Hummer" series of off-road vehicles, "Golden Dragon" series of buses, and "Jiefang" and "Dongfeng" series of trucks. Later, Xingke Automobile Factory expanded and reorganized into several automobile companies, each responsible for different types of vehicles.

Well, if a guy who is also a traverser sees the vehicles on the Chinese road at this time, he will definitely shout: "Aren't you plagiarizing? What BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen Hummer has become a domestic brand...... Wen Desi will definitely say: Who makes these brands sound so "Chinese"? Since they haven't used these names yet, why can't I use them? And as a traverser, if you don't plagiarize or plagiarize, isn't that a waste of the meaning of crossing? Taking someone else's path and leaving others with no way to go is the essence of crossing.

That's right, now China has snatched up all the famous brands that seem to be "Chinese" in the original time and space, and this is not limited to vehicle brands.

At this time, there was a sudden traffic jam in front, and the motorcycle on the lane next to it overtook it with a "whirl". This time, the traffic jam lasted for more than ten minutes, and at least hundreds of motorcycles whizzed past him.

"Hey, it's still convenient for motorcycles!" Lu Xiaming looked at those motorcycles with some envy. In fact, with Dr. Lu's family background, it is completely possible to buy another car, even a high-end car like BMW, which can be paid in full, not to mention a motorcycle. Although this motorcycle is convenient and flexible, it is not as comfortable as a sedan.

At present, although China has an annual production of more than 6 million cars, but in the past it was mainly exported, and now there are a large number of trucks in the domestic share, even if the number of private cars has exploded in the past two years, the number is only about 3 million. At present, the main motor tool that is truly popular in China is the relatively cheap motorcycle to purchase and use, and the number of vehicles currently in use has reached 20 million, and it is still rising.

Among them, the mainstream model is the pedal type, which only appeared in the 80s, and it is suitable for men, women and children. Another popular form of transportation is bicycles. Motorcycles and bicycles, like automobiles, are one of China's main export products.

The vehicle in front of the "Dudu ......" finally moved, and Lu Xiaming breathed a sigh of relief.