Eight years. Ma Xiaokai carried his schoolbag gloomily. He preferred going to the basketball court than sitting in the classroom.
As the captain of the basketball team of Xuzhou No. 1 Middle School, he is now in the second grade and has already become the core of the school basketball team. In his opinion, sweating on the basketball court is much more suitable for him than dozing in the classroom. .
But he never thought of skipping school - in the ninth year of China, Wang Chuanlu, the chief minister, proposed during the New Year that the "China Compulsory Education Law" was passed. All school-age teenagers, regardless of gender, must enter schools to receive education as long as they have the conditions. Provinces can The compulsory education period of six or nine years is established according to one's financial resources. Xuzhou, where Ma Xiaokai is located, implements nine-year compulsory education.
The source of funding for compulsory education comes from the steel industry group handed over by Emperor Yu Guozhen eight years ago.
Skipping class? Why is it called a compulsory education law? All those who skip class will be punished. The first time they skip class they will be whipped, and those who repeatedly evade will be sent to hard labor. Every year, the stewards and craftsmen of the Steel Group will make such huge profits. Taking it out is not to raise lazy people, but to cultivate more craftsmen and managers.
Ma Xiaokai did not want to be whipped or forced to do hard labor.
Ma Dabao scratched his head and looked at his son's back helplessly and shouted: "I'm going to have a seven-day meeting this time. Be careful and don't get into trouble. If I come back and find out what trouble you have caused, I will definitely beat you up." you!"
"Have you ever lived at home for seven consecutive years? I haven't seen you a few times throughout the year!" Ma Xiaokai said without looking back: "If you can still beat me now, you can beat me. In two years, I will beat you." is you!"
"It's a treasonous act, a treasonous act!" Ma Dabao was so angry that veins popped out on his forehead, but his wife beside him covered her mouth and laughed.
Her son was venting her anger on her behalf.
Ma Dabao has been extremely busy in the past few years. As the leading rail erection expert in China, in order to fulfill Yu Guozhen¡¯s dream of laying a 200,000-mile railway, he must rush to every site where rail erection problems arise. Especially now that more than 100,000 road-building troops are fighting in Sichuan and are about to extend the railway into the country of Yaofu and strengthen China's control over the southwest, Ma Dabao is even more needed to play a role.
The result is that his wife suffers.
Ma Dabao coughed and looked at his wife with a little guilt on his face: "Xiaoqin, you have been tired these years."
"It's good to know. I know what you want to say. Didn't you almost starve to death at the beginning? You thought that this was the way it was all your life, and that you would never have any future. You didn't expect that you would become a railway technician and be the number one in our Chinese Dynasty. Railway technician. You are a poor farmer. All this is given by the Chinese Dynasty, so naturally you have to work hard for the Chinese Dynasty - I have heard you say this so many times that I am too lazy to listen to it anymore."
Ma Dabao laughed and strode out. He was carrying a big bag and disappeared quickly. At this time, a trace of sadness appeared in his wife's eyes, and Heshi prayed silently a few times.
Ma Dabao is focused on building the railway, so he may not feel anything, but Ma Dabao's wife, a housewife like him, has already vaguely noticed that a storm seems to be brewing in the Huaxia Dynasty.
From its establishment to the present, the Huaxia Dynasty has gone through sixteen years. In these sixteen years, the changes in the Huaxia Dynasty have been earth-shaking. The gentry in the countryside have completely disappeared. Since the 10th year of China, the court has exchanged and redeemed land from the gentry in the form of equity replacement, and then unified these lands into farms of various sizes, and resold them to those who are willing to continue The gentry or common people engaged in agriculture - the price is so low that as long as they work in a city factory for ten years, they can save themselves more than a hundred acres of fertile land. However, after ten years of development, everyone knows that industry can really bring wealth quickly. Although agriculture is stable, it takes more time and energy.
Therefore, for the sake of stability, those families usually leave one branch to run the farm, but most of them yearn for the city: there are better enjoyments in the city, not to mention being far away, just having electricity in the city is enough. It made countless people envious.
Nowadays, China mainly relies on thermal power generation, which requires a lot of coal and causes heavy pollution. Therefore, electricity is not yet popular. There is almost no electricity in the countryside. Only in cities, and larger cities at that, can we have electric lights, telegraphs, and electric fans. such as.
As Ma Dabao, he could have taken the Qinwei with him when he came out, but he couldn't get used to the life of being a waiter. Without the baby, he got on the train alone, without even buying a higher-end box. He bought a hard seat.
Ma Dabao felt that the journey from Xuzhou to Shanghai was only a long train ride, only fifteen or six hours. There was no need to sit in a box. The hard seats were crowded, which not only saved money, but was also lively.
However, when the train was approaching Nanjing, Ma Dabao was still a little unable to sit.The pain in his waist and legs was severe, which forced him to accept his old age. After all, he was sixty years old.
According to China's "Retirement Law", you can apply for retirement at the age of sixty, and mandatory retirement at the age of sixty-five. For the first time, Ma Dabao began to wonder whether it was time for him to retire.
In the past eight years, more than a dozen disciples have been brought out. Even if they retreat, the disciples can support it, and these young people entering JING are more vigorous, and they should also make them pick up.
"Look, here it is, the Yangtze River Bridge!"
While Ma Dabao was thinking about this, he suddenly heard someone shouting. As soon as a car entered, they all moved towards the car window and looked at the giant steel and concrete tree that was approaching quickly outside.
This is the first giant bridge on the Yangtze River. It has two levels. The lower level is for trains, and the upper level is for traffic and ordinary lanes. When Leifa designed the bridge, its bottom was only 24 meters above the river. The plan was reported to Yu Guozhen's office, but Yu Guozhen rejected it. Yu Guozhen asked Lei Fada to think more long-term and leave more room for latecomers. In particular, it should not affect the direct arrival of 10,000-ton giant ships in Nanjing via the Yangtze River waterway in the future.
After this, it took Lei Fafa another half a year to come up with the plan for the current bridge. It took another six years for the bridge to be built.
The train passes slowly from the lower level of the bridge. When passing the bridge, the train will slow down for safety reasons. Even so, the Yangtze River that originally took more than two hours to cross by boat now only takes five or six minutes. . This change made Ma Dabao click his tongue a few times, thinking it was so amazing.
Thinking that he had a hand in this miracle, Ma Dabao felt extremely proud.
The train stopped not long after crossing the bridge. Nanjing Station is located here. There were many passengers getting on and off the train. Ma Dabao also left his seat and stood in front of the window looking at the bridge outside. At this time, the lights started to come on, and the bridge outside It is like a string of jewels, shining with light that captures the soul.
After the train started, he returned to his seat, but before he could sit down, he suddenly jumped up and looked at the passengers who had changed in front of him, dumbfounded: "You you you Your Majesty"
"It's Bi."
The person sitting in front of him was Yu Guozhen, but now he was dressed in ordinary clothes, wearing a long coat with cloth buttons folded in half, and a beard. If Ma Dabao hadn't been very familiar with him, he wouldn't have expected it to be him.
Next to Yu Guozhen were seven or eight young men whom Ma Dabao didn't know. They were all strong and strong, and they were obviously Yu Guozhen's bodyguards. Even so, Ma Dabao still felt a little uneasy. He looked around and found that there were some strong-looking young people scattered in this carriage, and then he felt relieved.
Yu Guozhen did not come out with just a few soldiers, but dozens of guards.
"BiMr. Bi, why are you free?" Ma Dabao knew that Yu Guozhen did not want to reveal his identity, so he also called him "Mr. Bi".
"I'm bored at home, like a bird in a cage. I'm so suffocated that I always want to see what's going on outside." Yu Guozhen smiled, but there was a slight hint of sadness between his eyebrows.
"Mr. Biwhat troubles have you encountered?" Anyone else would never dare to ask such a question to Yu Guozhen. If Yu Guozhen finds something troublesome, it must be a big trouble. No matter from the perspective of avoiding suspicion, From the perspective of national secrets, it is not something that ordinary people can know.
Yu Guozhen smiled: "It is indeed a bit troublesome. When I came out this time, I found that our Chinese products seem to be a bit surplus."
"Surplus? No o." Ma Dabao blinked in confusion.
In Ma Dabao¡¯s mind, nothing is in excess. He came from an era when everything was in short supply, so he believed that anything produced would be useful.
"There are too many things produced, and the people have less money. On the one hand, they can't sell them, and on the other hand, they can't afford them." Yu Guozhen explained the problem to Ma Dabao in the simplest way, and finally said softly Added: "This is an economic crisis."
It is the economic crisis. After sixteen years of rapid development, the Chinese Dynasty is facing an economic crisis. Ordinary people just felt uneasy from the turmoil in the market and did not know where the problem lay. When Yu Guozhen was in the palace, he only received beautiful reports and did not know that a storm was brewing. It was not until this time that he realized , the seemingly prosperous Huaxia Dynasty actually had its own troubles.
The capital and labor that were liberated from the land poured into the light industry sectors with extremely low thresholds. This resulted in an indigestible amount of shoddy light industry products. If the products could not be sold, the small factory owners could not pay their workers. Income wages and workers' insufficient purchasing power further make light industrial products unsalable.
"So that's what it is??What's the problem? Let them switch to something else. At worst, the court will lend them money to switch to other industries. "
Yu Guozhen laughed.
Ma Dabao said it was easy, but in fact it was far from that easy. The Huaxia Dynasty was richer than any other dynasty in history. In the past fifteen years, the Huaxia Dynasty had a record-breaking fiscal revenue of 10 million gold yuan. But similarly, the expenditures of the Huaxia Dynasty were larger than those of any previous dynasty. Not to mention the construction of roads and bridges, Yu Guozhen returned a batch of properties to the public every four years, but compared with the huge expenditures on education, medical care and pensions , still missing.
More importantly, Huaxia's imports have increased rapidly in the past sixteen years, and are estimated to have reached 300 million. After this economic crisis, Huaxia Dynasty will enjoy the import dividend for a long period of time, but if it cannot survive, With so many entrances to work and eat, it would become a hidden danger for the Chinese dynasty.
Ma Dabao cannot solve this problem with just one word. Before that, Yu Guozhen felt that the central government's first and second ministers really had to pay the price for not discovering this hidden danger or not reporting this hidden danger to him.