On the highway from Beijing to Shanxi, a large number of cars are moving slowly, and there is a traffic jam!
"Oh, times are changing so fast!"
"I think back when I bought the bicycle, this road had just been repaired. At that time, there were not even a few bicycles on the road, let alone cars."
"It's okay now. You can't see the bicycles anymore, but there are so many motorcycles and cars that there's a traffic jam."
Wang Erzhu looked at the endless dragon in front of him and couldn't help but complain.
There are more and more cars in Ming Dynasty, especially now that more and more cheap cars appear, making ordinary people in Ming Dynasty able to afford cars. During the Chinese New Year, the roads are full of cars.
"Yes, it has indeed changed too much, too much."
"In just a few decades, the trees on both sides of the road have become so tall."
Li Erxiu also said with a smile, recalling in his mind the experiences he had every time he went home in the past 20 years, from riding a bicycle at the beginning to a motorcycle and now a car.
Times have changed too fast.
"Dad, how long did it take to get home by bicycle?"
Wang Dawa, who was sitting in the back, quickly interjected and asked.
"It will take two days."
"In the past, your mother and I would freeze to death every time in order to come back early. It's too cold to ride a bicycle in winter, and it's even colder to ride a motorcycle."
"It's better to live in this era, when all the people at the bottom of our society are driving cars."
Wang Erzhu couldn't help but sigh.
Wang Erzhu is a person who has suffered a lot since he was a child. When he was a child, he often didn't even have enough to eat. He only started to work in the capital when he was in his 20s.
great changes.
Not only can I have enough to eat, but I can also build a new house, raise several children, and send them to study. Now I not only have a house in the capital, but also a car.
When he was a child, Wang Erzhu would not even dare to think about such a life.
Wang Erzhu himself went from being an illiterate who couldn't read a word, from an out-and-out farmer to an industrial and technical worker through study and training.
Now Wang Erzhu can recognize a lot of Chinese characters and has no problem reading newspapers. His whole person has undergone tremendous changes.
Wang Erzhu's changes are the epitome of this era.
There are countless lower-class people like Wang Erzhu, and countless changes in Wang Erzhu's fate slowly led to changes in the entire Ming Empire, and finally converged into the changes of this era.
Just like after the reform and opening up in later generations, countless migrant workers poured into the city. They got rid of the land they cultivated and became industrial workers in the city. Through continuous learning and study, many people became skilled workers.
Their destinies changed and converged into the torrent of the times, eventually making the land in the east glorious again.
It's just that compared to the reform and opening up of later generations, the Ming Dynasty people in this era had more initiative and were able to enjoy more social development dividends.
The Ming Empire occupies almost all industrial chains in the world, colonizes the world, and continuously funnels the world's wealth into the Ming Empire.
It nourishes the entire huge empire from top to bottom, not only making the princes and generals at the upper level full of food, but also spreading to the people at the bottom.
The vast land, scarce labor force, abundant resources, preferential immigration policies, and reasonable court system all gave the people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty more autonomy and choice.
They rely on overtime work 996% to get more income, and they don’t need to worry about whether their boss will fire them tomorrow, because in this era, what they worry about most is actually the boss, who is worried about his workers leaving and not being able to recruit enough.
people.
If you master some skills, you will become more popular. People will want you everywhere, so you don’t need to worry about anything.
The Ming Empire, which was developing rapidly, benefited from huge dividends.
Even ordinary Ming people like Wang Erzhu can live a prosperous life, their children can study, and they can have a future and hope.
In fact, many scholars from ordinary peasant families have emerged in Ming Dynasty, such as Hu Xiwen, the third flower in this scientific examination, who came from an ordinary peasant family.
In the past, they were all farmers and made a living by farming. It was this era that changed the fate of their family and also changed the fate of Hu Xiwen.
There is also Wang Erzhu's second son Wang Erwa. If it had been the past, he would have continued to carry the hoe, facing the loess, with his back to the sky, like his ancestors had done for generations. After working hard for a year, he might not even be able to fill his stomach.
But now, Wang Erwa is a top student at Imperial College. Although she is still a junior, she has been signed by a large commercial bank early. Her annual salary after graduation is more than 500 taels, which is better than Wang Erzhu, who has been working in the technology industry for many years.
Workers' incomes should be high.
Wang Erwa's fate has also undergone tremendous changes, just like countless children from lower backgrounds in this era.
The long queue of traffic jams moved forward slowly. After more than an hour, Wang Erzhu finally arrived at the source of the traffic jam. It turned out that several cars had collided in a series. The accident was quite serious, and it seemed that someone had died.
"They are all young people, why are they driving so fast?"
"It's winter now, and there's ice and snow on the roads, making them very slippery."
Wang Erzhu shook his head slightly, and then drove slower and more carefully.
At noon, Wang Erzhu arrived at Laohuling.
"Get off the car, take a rest, and have a meal by the way."
We drove the car to a village on the roadside. The entire village was dedicated to small restaurants and inns providing tea, food and accommodation.
"Boss, please bring five bowls of noodles and a pot of hot tea."
Wang Erzhu found the small shop he usually went to very skillfully, found a seat, sat down and said.
"Okay, just wait a moment!"
When the store owner heard this, he quickly replied.
During the Chinese New Year period, business is booming, and the couple is a little too busy. They can't hire a waiter, because if you hire a waiter, you have to pay at least ten taels of silver a month. If you hire a waiter for less than this price,
Less than human.
"The changes in Laohu Ridge have been really great. In the past, Laohu Ridge was notoriously difficult to live in. As the saying goes, it is easy for the King of Hell, but it is difficult for Laohu Ridge. This is what we are talking about."
"Back then, it cost dozens of pennies to eat a steamed bun here. If you don't eat, you can't live without it. You can't even think of leaving."
Wang Erzhu looked at the mountains outside and recalled the scene when he passed Laohuling decades ago.
"Dad, are there really bandits who block roads and rob us?"
When Wang Dawa heard this, she immediately asked.
"Not only are there bandits, there are also bullies, hooligans, black shops and so on. When passing by here, everyone had to pay a toll. Each person had to pay 1 tael of silver. If you don't pay, you can't get through."
"Later, Liu Gong, the current chief minister of the cabinet, launched a vigorous campaign to eradicate gangs and evil. The focus was on cracking down on bandits, bullies, local gangsters, black shops, etc. who were entrenched on the roads."
"I don't know how many people were beheaded because of this. Did you see that tree? I saw hundreds of people beheaded here with my own eyes, and the blood stained the mountain stream red."
"There is also this village. Back then, almost every household had someone blocking roads to collect tolls, robbing, opening illegal shops, etc. As a result, the entire village was almost empty. The men in the village were either beheaded or exiled to Australia. Lin
Went to Winter City and the Golden State."
"Only those who were orphaned and widowed were left, so that this village became famous as a village of widows."
"These people are now the children of those days, but they are honest. The food here not only tastes good, but the price is also reasonable."
"It was back then that I was afraid of being killed!"
Wang Erzhu said with a smile.
"Isn't that right? Hundreds of people were killed here back then?"
When Wang Dawa heard this, she was scared to death.
"Would I lie to you?"
"If you ask anyone, you will know this. In the Ming Dynasty, there were countless bandits, bullies, gangsters, gangsters, horse bandits, pirates, petty thieves and the like. They were countless."
"The social environment is extremely bad. I didn't bring you to the capital back then. A large part of the reason was because the human traffickers in the capital were very rampant. Among them, the beggar gang was the most abominable. They not only abducted and sold children, but also harvested and mutilated them.
, beating and maiming children to gain sympathy and begging.”
"It was very scary at the time. Many people brought their children to the capital and were abducted. Sometimes even some older girls were abducted and sold to brothels or to remote areas."
Wang Erzhu glared at his son, but also told them some dark things in his past.
"Dad, isn't this too scary?"
Wang Dawa and Wang Erwa's expressions changed after hearing this.
"Isn't that right? So at that time, Liu Jin and Liu Gong wrote to the emperor and launched a campaign of crackdown on gangs and evil throughout the Ming Dynasty that lasted for several years. They used thunderous means to sweep away these evil and evil forces and returned to the emperor.
The common people have a peaceful world, and this is how we have the current peaceful and prosperous age."
"Otherwise, where would there be the current peaceful and prosperous age?"
Wang Erzhu nodded solemnly and said, of course he is scared when talking about what happened back then. It was really an extremely barbaric and dark era.
"Liu Gong is really a saint in this world. He has done many good things and practical things for the people of Ming Dynasty!"
Wang Erwa couldn't help but sigh after hearing this.
He is a scholar and cares about national affairs. He has learned more and knows more. He has read a lot about Liu Jin in books. Now when he hears his father talking about the evil things in the past, he is deeply moved.
Feeling.
PS: It is said that more than ten or twenty years ago, it was also very chaotic~
