Sitting in the bottom cabin of a giant airship larger than an aircraft carrier, looking to the ground through transparent glass or some other material floor. ∷ Top ∷ Small ∷ Say, 2+3wx is here Ye Yi, who has been in 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 for this quarter's sales champion was only a 7-day trip to the north and south. Now she has already visited Passing a city that looks familiar to Beijing, I also visited the Old Summer Palace, which was not burned by the British and French forces, and am now on my way back. Although this airship did not leave the territory of the People's Republic of China in another time and space, it was through transparency. The floor, the Central Plains she saw were completely different from the scene she remembered!

In another time and space, China's population and town distribution are relatively even. Although a large number of people pour into the developed areas in the southeast, causing the problem of overcrowding of the five metropolises in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. However, compared with this time and space, it is simply a terrible thing Ha! After all, the urban layout and construction of another time and space, and even population movement are all unified and carefully planned. In this time and space, although there are urban development plans, they are far from being meticulous and rigorous. To a large extent, it is adapting to the general trend of population mobility, rather than guiding population mobility.

Therefore, after more than a hundred decades of full development - if we follow the standards of another time and space, the current Greater China countries must be developed countries - there were very serious population gatherings and metropolises on the territory of the Ming Empire. Two problems with extraordinary expansion.

The Ming Empire currently has a population of about 1.08 billion, a total of 300 million less than the nearly 1.4 billion in another time and space. However, the three prefectures of Shanghai, Yingtian and Guangzhou have nearly 55 million residents! Tianjin Prefecture and Shuntian Prefecture The three prefectures with a slightly lower population, including Wuhan Prefecture, also have a population of more than 30 million. The total population of these six prefectures alone is as high as 260 million, accounting for more than 20% of the total population of the Ming Dynasty! If you do, Including Liaodong Prefecture, Sin Chew Prefecture and Hangzhou Prefecture, which have a population of more than 20 million, more than 320 million people, which is nearly 30% of the country's total population. It is concentrated on the less than 80,000 square kilometers of land in these 9 prefectures. ——And unlike another Chinese city in time and space that always retains considerable land for agricultural development, the Ming Empire did not have the concept of basic farmland protection, so the area of ​​the built urban area of ​​these nine most densely populated prefectures The ratio is more than 90%, which means more than 70,000 square kilometers have become a city with dense houses. In Shanghai, the sky view of the fish and rice town of Jiangnan where Yingtian two prefectures are located, the emerald green farmland has disappeared, and the one that is replaced by the eyes is A huge city that is beyond the border!

Of course, as a developed country with high taxes and high welfare, the problems related to transportation, medical care, housing, education, public security, etc. in the 9 metropolitan areas of the Ming Dynasty were better solved - the Ming politicians and people in this time and space There is a misunderstanding. It is believed that the government's investment is linked to various people's livelihood issues rather than the size of the city. Without sufficient financial investment, 500 small cities with a population of 100,000 will definitely not be more important than a metropolis with a population of 50 million. Good solution to these problems...

In fact, excluding special circumstances, the fiscal revenue of a metropolis of 50 million people must exceed the sum of 500 small cities with a population of 100,000. The finances of Shanghai, Yingtian and Guangzhou have been around since the restoration of the Ming Dynasty.

It is the most abundant and sufficient financial resources in the entire empire, of course, a strong guarantee for solving various people's livelihood problems.

However, the high concentration of population has caused another headache, which is that the Ming Dynasty has become empty except for the nine metropolitan areas and some provincial capital cities and resource-based cities, and there is a tendency to become increasingly empty!

After the airship on the ride flew out of the huge Shuntian - the sky above the Tianjin urban circle, the boundless golden color - it is already autumn, the season when rice and wheat are ripe - on the North China Plain

There is no scene of villages and towns scattered. Only the boundless sea of ​​wheat and rice is left. There are only some small towns along the railways and highways, which are probably where farmers live in concentrated areas.

Agricultural production seems to have been fully mechanized. Now is the harvest season. There are large combined harvesters operating in many farmlands, and trucks loaded with grain are occasionally traveling on the highway. Ye Yiren observed with a telescope for a while.

, found that all the agricultural machinery and trucks looked very beautiful. Obviously, the industrial strength of Greater China is not worse than that of the People's Republic of China in this time and space - in fact, looking at Shanghai, the industrial area in Yingtian Palace can only be described as spectacular.

You'll know.

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

"How can we not be empty? How many young people are still willing to live in the countryside now? All people have left, and the countryside is of course empty."

The person who answered this question was the Personnel Minister of the Guangfu North Road Store of Jardine Arts, who received Ye Yiren on the same day. The old man's surname was Wu, and he seemed to be a distant relative of the Wu family of Jardine Arts. When he was young, he worked at the Guangfu North Road Store of Jardine Arts.

I have been a store manager for 50 years! I went from the counter to the station to the store manager. I gave up the position of the store manager to the "young man" 15 years ago and became the Minister of Personnel. He recruited Ye Yiren and trained him personally.

And it was the first quarter sales champion he trained - uh, if Ye Yiren had come thirty or forty years earlier, it would definitely not be her turn to be the sales champion of this quarter, because the clerks of Jardine Arts Department Store thirty or forty years ago were comparable to those of now.

Working harder!

At that time, Jardine Mahjong Department Store opened at 9:30 am until 10:00 pm. At that time, the clerks had to work at least 200 days a year, including overtime work, which was about 2,500 hours per hour. Almost everyone was in the process of working overtime.

He is a workaholic, but there is no such person now, except Ye Yiren...

This time, because the sales champion was at the Guangfu North Road store of Jardine Arts, the old man Wu and his wife also got a public travel opportunity. They also had a model clerk from various stores of Jardine Arts Shanghai Mansion and Yingtianfu. Needless to say,

Most of them are older men. These people joined Jardine Mahjong Department Store forty or fifty years ago in the most prosperous period of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the department store business was good and the salary offered was relatively high.

It will naturally attract young men. Moreover, women in that era got married earlier and generally did not come out to work after getting married. Unlike women nowadays, they usually consider getting married after working seven or eight years after graduating from college.

"Yes, farmers' income is low, and it is normal for young people to be unwilling to stay." Ye Yiren nodded. She had her own special opinion on Mr. Wu's views.

"Uh... the farmers' income is not low," Old Man Wu has long been accustomed to the strange views that Ye Yiren has made from time to time. "On average, every farmer has several thousand acres of land, and the government will also issue subsidies to them to ensure their

The income is equivalent to that of middle-aged and upper-middle families in the city, and the agricultural cooperatives provide them with various help. Generally speaking, farmers are relatively wealthy. But life in the countryside is too boring, and there are no colorful metropolises... Oh, yes

You say it is the same. Anyway, you just work overtime, save money, and buy a house. Why don’t you consider marrying a rich farmer so that you don’t have to be so tired.”

The old man's last words were actually the clerks at the Guangfu North Road store in Jardine Arts to joke with Ye Yiren - a girl in her 20s who doesn't hurry up and enjoy life or have a boyfriend, so she keeps working overtime to make money

I even spent 95,000 yuan to buy a three-bedroom and two-living terrace house... It's just an old antique!

"Mr. Wu, you're making fun of me again. I'm not marrying a farmer. I'm going to save enough money to go to college..." Miss Ye said of her life plan - how could she endure that she didn't have a college photo

Where is the diploma? She has studied the higher education of the Ming Empire in this time and space... Naturally, she is in a state of oversupply! The threshold for going to college is very low, and almost everyone has the opportunity to receive higher education! Guangfu North Road, Jardine Mall

In the store, there was probably only Ye Yiren who couldn't get a university diploma.

"Save money to go to college..." Old Man Wu shook his head with a wry smile, "Xiao Ye, you are so old, don't you hurry up and find a boyfriend, when do you want to wait? 30 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 Restoration of the Ming Dynasty?

'It's time to go and see him...'Ye Yiren once again thought of the same problem - go and see Zhu Jishi's Siling... This Daming Saint who has been dead for 100 years and has probably rotted bones

Emperor Zu was spending time with our Miss Ye just a few months ago! Ye Yiren could never truly accept that his Zhu Jishi was the reality of Zhu Jishi in Siling Underground Palace!

Therefore, after more than half a year of coming to this time and space, Ye Yiren had never been to Siling, and even Yingtian Mansion.

"Mr. Wu, I'm still young, so don't rush to find a boyfriend." Ye Yiren's feelings for Zhu Jishi were obviously much less indifferent, and he did not show any sadness. He just smiled and changed the topic and pointed to the following one

The shimmering river asked, "Mr. Wu, that river is so big and clear. What kind of river is it?"

"That's the Yellow River. Now it's the northwest wind. The airship is fast. You can reach Yingtian in 2 hours. We will rest in Yingtian tonight. Let's visit Siling, Xiaoling and Yingtian Forbidden City tomorrow.
Chapter completed!