"Mr. Huang, the ticket has been bought."

Jiangning Railway Station.

In the waiting hall, an old man and a man sat on a long wooden chair, looking like an entourage, holding three train tickets in their hands.

The train ticket says Jiangning to Guangde, 189 steam engine train.

Soon.

The staff on the platform came and shouted, "The steam engine train No. 189 has arrived, and the passengers who need to get on the train hurry up and get on the train." ”

The pattern is different for each station.

In the case of small stations, passengers will go directly to the platform to wait, and although the train station around Yingtianfu has only been open for a few months, the usage rate is completely different from other places.

There are a lot of people, the train tickets in their hands have been written very clearly, but there are still things about getting on the wrong train, so the post of the station reporter has been promoted.

'Mr. Huang' stood up, the junior next to him took the ticket, and the three of them went to line up as usual, as if it was a very ordinary thing.

Ordinary things indeed.

Both the squires and the common people line up here, enter the platform after passing the ticket gate, and then continue to check the ticket on the platform.

'Mr. Huang''s entourage and juniors closely protect 'Mr. Huang'.

Before and after the queue, there were also many people wearing various clothes, and the ticket inspectors on the platform couldn't help but mutter.

"There are more passengers on this line today."

"It's no surprise that ridership usage is growing every month."

Small talk while working.

The people in the queue only cared about getting to the platform, and no one cared about anyone, some carrying burdens, some carrying sacks, and some carrying boxes.

From the different dresses and salutes, you can tell who each person is.

Whether it is a shop work with the help of small-scale commodity circulation on the railway, a short-term worker at the wharf, a common man who walks with relatives, or a scholar, or a local squire, etc., each identity is very different.

Specially bought a steam engine train ticket, 'Mr. Huang' sat in his seat exceptionally smoothly.

"Squeeze what?"

A man scolded.

"If you are offended, you still want Haihan." Mr. Huang's juniors apologized.

Several men around quietly leaned over, ready to prevent accidents at any time.

The man was stunned, he didn't expect the other party to take the initiative to apologize, and then looked at the old man who was being protected by the other party, who looked to be around seventy years old.

The man didn't make a sound, put away the dissatisfaction on his face, and carried his hemp bag elsewhere to find his seat.

Seeing that the man was gone, many people around him resumed their normal movements.

"Mr. Huang, our seat is here."

The attendants found their seats, and 'Mr. Huang' and his juniors walked over, and the window seat was given to 'Mr. Huang'.

The seat is a seated type.

In the middle is the aisle, and there are two rows of seats on each side, which means that one card has four seats, and the two cards on the left and right are eight people, making a total of 72 seats.

"Uncle, there is a seat for outsiders."

"Very good."

'Mr. Huang' looked out the window curiously, and there were people on the platform going inside, all kinds of people.

The juniors of 'Mr. Huang' know that 'Mr. Huang' will not blame.

Originally, the remaining seat would have been bought by their own people, but it had already been sold, and when they were thinking about whether to use their power, they had a flash of inspiration.

Really.

'Mr. Huang' not only did not blame, but his face was still very satisfied.

It didn't take long.

The rest of the aisle seats came a man, dressed in a long shirt and a pair of glasses, struggling to move around with a box in his hands.

"I'll help you."

"It's heavy."

"Oh, it's so heavy."

'Mr. Huang''s entourage really didn't expect it, originally thought that the other party was a scholar with a delicate body, but he didn't expect the box to be really heavy.

"What's in there?" The attendant asked lightly, shoving the other party's suitcase under the seat on his side, blocking the reader.

"It's all books."

The scholar smiled and thanked the other party, and the other party only went in after hearing this, and gave up his seat to the reader.

As most of the people took their seats, the carriage was not only not quiet, but gradually noisy.

The people in each booth chatted.

What identity is not identity, those extroverts do not care.

Wonderful stories from all over the world appear in this small carriage, and even the most introverted person will prick up their ears and listen to it with relish.

It's just such a small carriage, as if the whole world, every corner can't escape, and names appear one by one.

The reader is a quiet person, but the booth he is in is too unique.

None of the three of them spoke, and it seemed very different from what was in the carriage, but he thought too much, and the oldest one listened with his ears pricked up for a moment, as if he had just discovered him.

"What's your surname, sir? Where are you from and where are you going. ”

"Mr. Hui, your surname is Chen, your ancestral home is Jiangxi, and now you live in Beiping, and you are ready to go to Zhejiang." The reader said politely.

"It's from Beiping."

"Peking is a good place."

"Our surname is Huang, and we are seventy years old this year."

"Wow."

"Your old man is old, but at such an old age, he still runs away from home, it's not good, what does your family do."

Before the reader could answer, the person next door came uninvited.

'Mr. Huang' is also a self-familiar character, and he has become the most beautiful old man in the carriage in just a few words.

Flying in the sky, swimming in the water, crawling on the ground, the customs of various places, and local stories, 'Mr. Huang's mouth is one after another.

In the end, the topic was led to the reader by 'Mr. Huang'.

"The tallest building in Peking has 13 floors, plus the bell tower and the water tower, which is close to 20 zhang. The thatched hut inside is flushed with water, otherwise the traditional thatched hut will stink. ”

"There are railroad tracks on all the main roads in Beiping City, horse-drawn trains are used, and there is the first steam engine bus, which originally took eighteen people, and now it can transport more than thirty people for both station and station."

"People get up in the morning in the south of Beiping City, take the bus to work in the north of Beiping City, and go to the east of Beiping City to play on holidays, as well as the events in the west of Beiping City, because there are many big mines in the west of Beiping City, and the people on the mine play a lot of football, and the events are fierce, and people like to watch them."

"In Beiping, the most envied are those who farm the land."

As soon as the reader said it, people began to be suspicious.

"This gentleman is really good at deceiving people, and there are still people in the world who envy farming."

"How can it be?"

People look at me at what you say, and people who read are anxious.

"Beiping implements a large well system, mainly military households, and the average military household who farms land is 100 acres of land per household, and ordinary people are not qualified to farm."

"Wouldn't that be a landlord?"

Someone said in surprise.

"It's not the landlords, they farm the land themselves."

"A hundred acres of land can be cultivated by only one family."

"Beiping is dominated by wheat, with sickle carts for sowing, seven-legged carts for harvesting, fan carts for hand-cranked husks, water husks for husking, etc., as well as chemical fertilizers and pesticides."

The reader told about the agricultural model of Beiping, and people were amazed to hear it.

"It's not cheap to have so many appliances."

"Where can the average person afford it?"

People shook their heads.

The reader smiled: "This is the benefit of the large well system, which increases people's income, and there is a need to use machinery, so there is a great development of agricultural machinery." ”

"Think about it, if a family only has a few acres of land, a dozen acres of land, and can be cultivated by manpower, who is willing to buy machinery, even if they want to buy it, they can't afford it."

"The North is different from the South."

A squire said: "At that time, the population of the Northern Parallel Province was less than two million, which was still the number of immigrants from all over the country for many years. ”

"So there is a lot of vacant land in the north, but there is no in the south, and the south has a large population and few acres, so how can we achieve a large well system."

The reader pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, disapproving of the squire's statement.

As the conversation continued, more and more people gathered around.

That's the case on the train, nothing has changed.

It was not until the rise of faster and more effective ways of exchanging information that this custom changed.

"Industry can be developed, more people can be absorbed into industry, and if there are fewer people who farm, more land can be allocated."

The statement of the reader did not convince the people in the carriage.

Because they haven't seen it.

It's like saying that there are no gods in the sky, because people haven't seen them, and they can't understand why there are no gods in the sky.

'Mr. Huang' interjected.

"Mr. Chen went to Zhejiang to teach?"

"Yes, every provincial government has to run a school, and Peking has drawn out many people, and I was assigned to Zhejiang." The reader laughed.

When it comes to teaching and educating people, readers are interested.

His face adored.

"Our ancestors, each generation is developing, such as the development of sound and rhyme, the development of mathematics, all have a context to follow."

"The original ancestors, they didn't know what the countless 'grasses' in the world did, which ones could be eaten and which ones could not be eaten, which yields high and high value, and which yielded low yields and had low values."

"Therefore, the ancestors of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, they tasted a hundred herbs, went to the Qin and Han dynasties, divided a hundred grains, and then the ancestors of the Sui and Tang dynasties set out the five grains, and to the ancestors of the Song Dynasty, laid the agricultural foundation for the rotation of southern rice and northern wheat grains."

"Just like astronomy, each generation of astronomy is developing, and it is becoming more and more accurate, from the annual difference of one month to the annual difference of ten days, to my Ming Dynasty, it is already a year difference."

"Our Da Ming's calendar is inaccurate?" People said in disbelief.

"It has been said in the technical newspaper that our Daming calendar is one day short every year." The reader laughed: "But since the mistake has been discovered, there will soon be a more accurate almanac." ”

If Zhu Gaochi was here, he would know that the new calendar of the Wanli period came out two hundred years earlier, and the error was reduced to an hour difference in years.

This calendar appeared exactly in the Western calendar at the end of the 16th century, when the West was newly formulated.

Some people explain that it was invented by missionaries in the Ming Dynasty.

So think about it from another angle, the ability of the Western native calendar is not as good as a few missionaries, and they need to come to Daming thousands of miles away and then invent a new calendar.

The accuracy of the calendar can represent the height of mathematics, astronomy, navigation, application of technology, and other comprehensive civilization levels.

Changes in the Chinese calendar, improvements in each period, are heavily documented, including detailed data on astronomical observations.

It is precisely because there are a large number of written records that have been washed over time that some of them have been preserved to future generations.

And the West has been using the calendar thousands of years ago.

For example, when Matteo Ricci left Europe, astronomy in Europe was in a "two-no" stage: there were no observatories and no astronomical observations.

came to Daming and became a powerful astronomer.

And the emergence of the new calendar of the same period in the West suddenly made a huge breakthrough, without any detailed records, in short, there is no process, only results.

That's how important it is.

If you don't occupy it, others will occupy it.

For example.

The remarks of later generations are the concept of the Han people after the Yuan Dynasty, and in the future, there may be no Han people, but they are just patched together.

Don't think it's impossible.

The former statement would have been shocking to people decades later.

Another example is the beginning.

The consensus of the people is that the evening is mistaken for China.

In the end, unconsciously, it became the inevitable result of Chinese civilization.

That's how important it is.

Why it became like this, I naturally understand.

(End of chapter)