Add Bookmark | Recommend this book | Back to the book page | My bookshelf | Mobile Reading

Free Web Novel,Novel online - All in oicq.net -> Historic -> New Era 1912

Chapter 1 The beginning of the era

Previous page        Return to Catalog        Next page

    "At 9:30 a.m. on June 7, 1950, Li Zicheng drove from the Guest House to the National Assembly. At about 0:00, Li Zicheng was sworn in at the National Assembly. //www.//Very subsequently, Prime Minister Li Zicheng delivered a speech of about 5 minutes.  His inaugural speech set the tone for his future governance: change and rejuvenation.

    Change and renaissance!

    This is not only the policy tone of a government, but also the tone of a country and an era.

    Any observer of Eastern issues should see that when that voice spread along the radio waves to the whole of China and to all parts of Southeast Asia, this ancient country had already set off a revolution, and more importantly, just as Li Zi  Just like the call answered by Prime Minister Cheng, everyone in this land responds to the call of the nation in their own way.

    In this transformation, every citizen of this country has embarked on a journey, perhaps in different ways, but the goal is the same - the revitalization of the country and the rejuvenation of the nation!

    Until now, some people regard the inauguration speech on June 7 as the "Thunder of East Asia", but looking back on history, I agree that it was the first cry of a nation after its "rebirth".

    1936 "The Call of the Times" Lippmann's "Today and Tomorrow" column in the New York Herald Tribune

    When he woke up from his hazy state of consciousness, the woman had already woken up. As before, she was holding a bowl, drinking boiling water provided by the train, and eating fried noodles.

    This woman came from Tongguan.  She caught Song Chengjie's attention as soon as she arrived.  The first impression she gives people is that she has dark skin and looks like a country girl.  Song Chengjie took the train from Baoji Station. Sitting on this thousand-mile train, although it was enough to satisfy the train addiction, it made people feel a little tired.

    As the train gradually approached Lianyungang, Song Chengjie saw that the woman's complexion became fairer. Perhaps it was because she was far away from home, and the more people he visited in the car, the more he unknowingly felt sad about being far away from his hometown.  Therefore, this woman from Tongerche made him feel a sense of intimacy.

    At this time, in Song Chengjie's opinion, this woman in coarse floral clothes looked a bit like Achun from Dongtou, her hometown.  Before leaving his hometown, he only thought that Achun was a disgusting woman. It was a bit lucky to not have that shrewd woman around him anymore.  But now that I think about it, people like Achun are not disgusting. They are fierce and aggressive, but they are much more generous.

    Looking at her face alone, the woman in front of her is much more beautiful.  Her tightly pursed lips, watery eyes, and forehead are not as broad as Ah Chun's, which makes her look very comfortable.  Therefore, Song Chengjie would raise his eyes to look at this woman every three or four minutes. Sometimes, their eyes would meet unexpectedly, and he would stare at the woman's appearance for a long time along the way.

    But although he was looking at this woman, Song Chengjie didn't say a word to this woman who looked very Zhou Zheng along the way. He only looked at each other occasionally.

    Maybe she is going to Lianyungang too!

    Going to Lianyungang, after the Longhai Railway was built, factories have sprung up in the stations along the railway. For the people of Shaanxi, it was the first time they saw the appearance of a train.  Cars, seeing modern factories for the first time, and also realizing how wonderful the outside world is for the first time.  .

    Like many young people who might have had to face the earth with their backs to the sky for the rest of their lives, Song Chengjie, who had a large family but little land, gave his mother a head and left his hometown with the twelve yuan that his elder brother exchanged for food.  , at the beginning, he was doing part-time work at Baoji Station. However, he was a smart man and had a broad vision, but while doing part-time work, he started night school again. After getting his junior high school diploma in just half a year, he was not like other people.  , stay at Baoji Station, but choose the train to go to Lianyun, a "big city" that only exists in pictures.

    It¡¯s getting dark, the electric light on the roof of the carriage.  Song Chengjie's stomach also growled, and he took out the lunch box he bought at the previous stop and ate it.  The lunch box was packed in an oil paper box. The rice was very simple. It consisted of red sorghum rice with some radish strips and potatoes, but there were two slices of pork belly in the middle. It tasted very rustic. Half of the rice was already eaten. In order to save money, he didn't take a look at it.  Just eat this one box, it costs a dime.

    About two minutes after the train left a small station, the woman stood up, walked past Song Chengjie, and walked out of the carriage.  At this moment, the color of the woman's belt caught Song Chengjie's eyes.  Song Chengjie ate sorghum rice in his mouth and watched the woman's back.  While he kept eating, he thought that maybe she was from the toilet.  After a while, when the woman came back, Song Chengjie's lunch box was almost at the bottom. He lowered his head and took two or three bites with chopsticks, but the woman didn't seem to have returned to her original seat.

    "She might"

    Song Chengjie thought about it, suddenly raised his head and saw that the woman was standing opposite.  Just when Song Cheng raised his eyes and looked up, the woman took another step.  She comes from Song DynastyChengjie walked past and did not return to his seat. Instead, he continued to take two steps forward, turned sideways, stretched his head out of the car window, and looked out quietly.

    The wind when the train started blew violently into the carriage, and the woman's disheveled hair at the temples caught Song Chengjie's attention.  At this time, Song Chengjie threw the leftover empty box out of the window. The window where the woman was sitting was adjacent to the window next to Song Chengjie, with only a row of seats in between.  He then saw the slate-colored lunch box lid that had been thrown into the wind blowing back again, and thought, this is going to be bad.  He couldn't help but look at the woman's face, which was just stretched out the window; the woman silently retracted and wiped her forehead carefully with a printed handkerchief.  Song Chengjie thought it would be safer to apologize proactively.

    "sorry."

    "It doesn't matter."

    The woman replied.

    She is still wiping her face.  Song Chengjie had no choice but to keep silent, and the woman didn't say anything either. She stuck her head out of the window again.  Three or four passengers looked sleepy in the dim light.  No one spoke, only the train made a huge roar and moved forward.  Song Chengjie closed his eyes.

    After a while, Song Chengjie heard the woman ask:

    "Are you almost arriving at Lianyungang?"

    At first glance, she had already turned to face him, stretched her waist, and put her face next to Song Chengjie.  Song Chengjie was surprised.

    "This" Song Chengjie responded.  The first time he went to Lianyungang, he didn¡¯t know anything.

    "Are you getting off at Lianyungang too?"

    "Well, get off the car."

    This train only goes to Lianyungang. If you go further, you will see the sea in front of you, so this kind of conversation is natural.  The woman had been sitting diagonally opposite Song Chengjie, and for a long time she could only hear the roar of the fire.

    When the train stopped at the next station, the woman finally spoke again.  She wanted to trouble Song Chengjie with something. After arriving in Lianyungang, she wanted to ask him to help her find a hotel.  The woman insisted on supporting each other, and Song Chengjie also felt that this was the right thing to do, but he was unwilling to agree to it.  After all, he and this woman were strangers, which made it difficult for him to make a choice. However, he did not have the courage to refuse outright, so he had to deal with it hesitantly for a while.  As we talked, the train arrived in Lianyungang.

    When the announcement came from the train that the train had arrived in Lianyungang, the people in the carriage started to move. Like many people, Song Chengjie was only carrying a not too big rucksack. It was the bag he bought at Baoji Station, which was much less labor-intensive than a cloth bag.  , carrying a big backpack, went out of the ticket gate.

    The woman followed him and walked out of the central train station along the passage. Although it was already ten o'clock, because it was summer, the street was still as lively as when it was just dark, and the buildings on the street were as tall as Song Chengjie.  It was just a moment of dizziness. He looked at the brightly lit domestic products exhibition hall and only thought about how people could live in such a high place.

    Finally, after leaving the train station and walking through a few more intersections, there were two or three hotels in front of him. However, in Song Chengjie's opinion, they were too luxurious, so he had to pass by these brightly lit three-story buildings quietly and then take a stroll.  Forward.  Where should I go in this unfamiliar place?  Of course he had no way of knowing, he just wandered around the city blindly.

    The woman followed him without saying a word. After a while, she walked to a relatively quiet intersection and saw a "hotel" sign hanging at the door of the second house.  This is a sign that is not very conspicuous. It seems that this place is suitable for Song Chengjie and the woman.  Song Chengjie turned around slightly and asked the woman,

    "Is this okay?"

    The woman looked at it and replied:

    "fine."

    Then he made up his mind and walked straight in.  They had just arrived at the door of the room and hadn't had time to make a statement.

    "The two are not together",

    I heard a series of greetings:

    "Welcome, please come in and lead the wayon the 16th",

    The two had no choice but to silently follow the man into No. 16.  When the waitress went to bring the tea, they just sat facing each other blankly.  When the waiter came in with tea and invited the guests to take a bath, Song Chengjie no longer had the courage to declare that the woman was not with him.

    He carried the handkerchief, said "I'll wash it first" and walked towards the bathroom.  The bathroom was at the end of the corridor next to the toilet. It was dark and looked very unclean.  Song Chengjie took off his clothes, jumped into the bathtub, thought for a while, and thought to himself, this woman has really become a burden.

    Well, when I was taking a bath, there was footsteps in the corridor, as if someone had a toilet, and soon came out again.  Then wash your hands.  Song Chengjie wiped his body hastily and went back to his room.  As soon as he entered the room, the waitress came in with the accommodation registration book.

    Song Chengjie took the registration book and wrote politely:

     "Song Chengjie, 23 years old, unemployed in Songdaodao Village, Baoji County, Shaanxi Province."

    When it was the woman's turn, Song Chengjie was a little at a loss. He wanted to wait until she came back from the shower, but the waitress kept waiting nearby.  Unable to remember Song Chengjie, he had to write randomly:

    "Same county, same county, same village, same surname, name Ahua, nineteen years old."

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? When doing the business, he asked specifically.

    ¡°How much does it cost to stay one night?¡±

    "Three cents!"

    With the sound of thirty cents, he completely gave up the idea of ??asking for a room again, thirty cents!  too expensive!  That night, Song Chengjie, who was sleeping on the floor in the narrow room, didn't sleep all night. Likewise, the woman didn't sleep either.

    There are many things that surprised Song Chengjie in Lianyungang.  First, it was the jingling sound of the tram that aroused his interest.  With the sound of jingling bells, so many people came down, which was really novel.  Next is First Street.  However, what surprised him even more was that no matter where he went, it had the same "Lianyungang flavor", and there were piles of wood and stones everywhere.  The new houses are one or two feet away from the road. Only half of the seemingly new buildings have been demolished, and the front half has been carefully protected.  It seems that everything continues to be destroyed; at the same time, everything is under construction.

    Just as Mr. Ketang said, Lianyungang is undergoing huge changes on the first day. When such changes spread to the whole country, it will be a day when China becomes stronger.

    At this time, standing in this ever-changing city, Song Chengjie was simply stunned. It was the first time for a countryman from inland China to be in the center of the city. What an unusual mood and feeling it was!  The knowledge he had learned in Baoji could no longer force him to calm down from this surprised mood.

    And most of his self-confidence disappeared with this excitement. Originally, he thought that this city was just an ordinary city like Baoji, but there were more opportunities here and he could earn more money. But now, he is in this city.  In this big city, looking at the tall buildings on both sides of the street, and looking at the crowds of people that were larger than those in Fucheng, he suddenly realized that in such a big city, there were countless people like him who carried the same ideals.  The dream of getting rich comes here.

    And how many of those people can really make a fortune?  Looking at the well-dressed pedestrians around him and looking at the clothes he was wearing, he only felt uneasy.  He just stood in the center of Tokyo, watching trams, trains, people in white clothes, and people in black clothes moving around quickly, and he felt very enlightened.

    ¡ª¡ªFrom a historian¡¯s perspective, Lianyun¡¯s short three-year history has reproduced major changes equivalent to three hundred years in the West.

    The sir's words rang in his ears again. At this moment, he saw two policemen in black uniforms walking towards him. Looking at the policemen with short guns on their waists, Song Chengjie suddenly got close to him for no reason.  Perhaps the most "familiar" thing he saw after coming to this city was the railway police. There were also railway police at Baoji Station, and those railway police were different from the police from other places who were engaged in extortion.  The purpose is to serve the people. He remembers that when he was in Baoji, it was under their guidance that he went to the employment agency. Because he did not want to work outside the city, he worked as a casual worker. Although he did not make much money, he  He spends most of his time in the city.

    "Hello, Mr. Police Officer, where is the nearest employment agency?"
Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report