Beijing Railway Station, as the annual holiday begins, a flood of people continues to pour into the railway station, turning the place into a sea of people.
Liu Jin, Ji Zhong, Wang Shouren and other ministers from the DPRK and Central Government came here again, ready to take a look at the situation at the train station.
Because the train station has a particularly large flow of people and is related to the important events of everyone returning home for the New Year, the emperor and the court will pay special attention to it every holiday.
The train station was crowded with people, and the Royal Guards of the Ming Empire who were guarding the capital were mobilized to maintain order at the scene.
Groups of Ming soldiers, fully armed, wearing military uniforms, woolen military caps, and velvet leather boots, stood straight, straight, row after row, keeping the train station in good order.
Whether buying tickets or queuing to enter the station, everything is always in order.
At the same time, there are also agents and officers from the Shuntian Prefecture Office in the capital on patrol, keeping an eye on petty thieves and scalpers reselling train tickets.
During the Chinese New Year, many people go home with the money they have worked so hard to earn over the year. There are the most petty thefts at the train station, especially at this time.
Every year, some people say that their money has been stolen. They have worked hard for a year, but in the end, they have gained money due to petty theft, and there is no place to cry.
Liu Jin paid great attention to this and made arrangements in advance. A large number of police officers and government officials, both overt and covert, were specifically targeted at these petty thefts and severely punished each one they saw.
Distributing them to Winter City is already the greatest kindness to them. If they are not severely punished, but just locked up for a few days like the later generations, they will continue to do petty theft after they come out.
Therefore, you must be severely punished, directly exiled to the cold winter city, and let you steal slowly in the ice and snow, or simply exiled to the no-man's land of Australia.
In addition to petty theft, beggars, vendors, acrobats, human traffickers, etc., also need special attention. Losing money is not the most important thing. Someone will lose their child every time.
Some of them were just lost at the train station and could still be found, while others were kidnapped by traffickers who took advantage of the crowds of people and simply abducted the children.
For such people, Liu Jin's principle has always been to severely punish them. If they catch one, they will be exiled directly. Winter City, Congling, Australia, and Waixing'an Mountains are all good places, very suitable for these people.
Under such strict measures, the order of the train station is getting better and better, petty theft is getting less and less, and human traffickers are gradually dying out, which also allows people who are preparing to go home for the New Year to feel at ease.
Go home and have a good New Year.
Liu Jin walked very casually outside the station, looking at the long queue of people taking pictures and at the ticket gate. People were carrying large and small bags, holding their children in their arms, or holding their children tightly, and touching them from time to time.
An important place to hide money.
The train stations in later generations were almost the same during the Chinese New Year, when millions of people had to take trains back to their hometowns in just a few days.
The situation here in Beijing is relatively better.
Because the people working here in the capital are basically from Beizhili, which is very close to the Beijing-Tianjin area, many people can go back directly by bicycle or four-wheel carriage.
Those who need to take the train home are people from Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, and South Zhili, which are relatively far away. The total number of people in these places is not very large. The total number of people is about one million. If you stagger it a little, it will take a few days.
, hundreds of thousands of people are sent out by train every day.
In terms of future generations, it is certainly not worth mentioning, but in this era, it is still a very arduous task to send hundreds of thousands of people out in one day.
This train can carry thousands of people, and hundreds of trains are sent out every day. The work tasks are very large, which puts huge pressure on the operation of the railway station.
“So we still need balanced development!”
"We can't just get rich and develop a place, otherwise it will be very tiring just during the Chinese New Year and it's easy for problems to arise."
Liu Jin had a lot of thoughts. Thinking about future generations, almost all of them were concentrated in the eastern coastal areas. During the Chinese New Year, the flow of people at the train station was really huge. During the entire Spring Festival, hundreds of millions of people had to be transported. One can imagine the consequences.
How big is the load?
Later, with the gradual popularization of private cars, during the Chinese New Year, train stations were no longer so crowded and tense, but the highways became extremely congested, and you would be stuck in traffic for an hour or two.
If you are unlucky, you might be stuck in traffic for several hours.
In the final analysis, it is because development is not balanced enough that people are concentrated in the eastern coastal areas to work and work, which will naturally lead to such a scene.
Later, with the development and rise of the central and western regions, the situation became relatively better. People no longer needed to swarm to the eastern regions for work.
If you can find a job in your hometown, you will naturally not go out again.
Chengdu, Wuhan, Henan, Xi'an, Changsha and other places have continued to develop, which has also played a big role.
Therefore, Liu Jin also had the same layout for the Ming Dynasty. Multiple city centers, multiple regional cores, and balanced development would promote the balanced development of the Ming Dynasty. The east would not be more developed than developed countries like later generations, and the west would be comparable to Africa.
“Here are 2 train tickets to Kaifeng, Henan~”
"4 train tickets to Jinan, Shandong."
"Hurry up, hurry up, the train will leave in fifteen minutes. We haven't even entered the station yet. If we can't catch the train later, we will have to spend the New Year in the capital."
"Hold the child, but never lose the child."
"I'm so exhausted. Every time I take the train, I feel like I'm in a hurry. I don't even have time to go to the toilet."
"..."
Liu Jin listened to the anxious voices of everyone at the train station. People were in a hurry and in a hurry because there were too many people here. There was a long queue at the entrance to the station.
Look at the staff here at the train station. The people with tin speakers are shouting hoarsely. They are shouting from morning to night, reminding passengers over and over again to bring good things, beware of petty theft, and pay attention to their own safety.
Train departure time, arrival time, etc.
I walked around the train station, everything was in good order and orderly, but there were always some people who couldn't find the east, west, east, west, couldn't read, didn't know how to read the prompts, didn't listen to the loudspeaker, and were always confused.
Of course, such people have existed since ancient times. Even in later generations, there are many such people. They can't find their place when taking a train and don't know what to do.
"Old Wang, my Ming Dynasty still needs to vigorously develop the automobile industry and make automobiles affordable to everyone. Otherwise, the pressure on the railway will be great."
When he found Wang Shouren, Liu Jin also sighed.
"It may take time for everyone to be able to afford a car."
Wang Shouren thought for a while and said: "In my opinion, we can vigorously develop passenger cars first, so that we can divert part of the flow of people."
"bus?"
"Yeah, let's go and have a look at the long-distance bus station."
Speaking of buses, Liu Jin immediately thought of the long-distance bus station, and hurriedly took the bus to the long-distance bus station.
The places that trains can reach are places with train stations, but not every place can be reached.
Cars have also played an important role in passenger transportation for a long time in later generations.
Even in many places, cars are much more convenient than trains, and you can directly reach your hometown.
But there are many problems with cars. For example, when taking a bus, you will always be taken to a place where consumption is mandatory. If you don't consume, you can't even think about going out.
There are also robbers who specifically block roads and rob cars, and they specialize in robbing migrant workers returning home during the Chinese New Year. These problems all arise with the popularity of passenger cars.
Of course, later on, with the gradual popularization of cars, the glorious bus transportation also gradually came to an end.
Soon, Liu Jin arrived at the long-distance bus station.
With the establishment of Daming Long-distance Bus Company the year before last and the opening of the first long-distance bus line between Beijing and Tianjin, it developed rapidly.
Nowadays, in the capital, you can already take buses to reach the lower state capitals such as Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Liaodong, etc., and special buses have been opened to these places.
During the Chinese New Year, a lot of people come here to buy tickets and take buses home.
Compared with trains, cars are not slow. The key is that cars can basically go directly to your hometown county, which can save you a lot of travel.
Of course, for ordinary people, it seems unrealistic to buy a car by yourself, but it seems to be a very cost-effective deal to be able to experience the feeling of riding a car for the price of a bus ticket.
The flow of people here at the bus station is also very large. From time to time, cars full of passengers drive out, carrying passengers to various places.
Just by looking at the characters spray-painted on these buses, you can tell where they will pass. Of course, many migrant workers don't know the characters at all, so they can only follow their fellow villagers, fellow villagers, and fellow countrymen.
"Train, bus~"
"Plus cars and bicycles~"
"The transportation system in the Ming Dynasty has finally improved. Otherwise, if we just rely on walking, it would be impossible to form a wave of people returning home. People will still choose to celebrate the New Year here in the capital."
Liu Jin looked at the orderly bus station and thought of many things.
Today's Ming Dynasty is developing very fast. It's so fast. In just a short period of time, it actually feels like the 1990s in later generations. Maybe if research on lighting and other things is done, it will really be similar to the 1990s in later generations.
Already.
Of course, Ming Dynasty must be much richer than that time.