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Part One, Chapter 1554: Travel by Yiren

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    Sitting in the bottom cabin of a giant airship larger than an aircraft carrier, looking at the ground through a floor made of transparent glass or other materials.  ¡ËTOP¡Ë¡ËС¡ËSay, 2+3wx Ye Yicai, who has been in this time and space for more than 7 months, has truly felt the vastness and emptiness of Greater China for the first time because Jardine Department Store gave her the title of sales champion this quarter.  The reward is just a 7-day tour of the North and South Beijing.  Now she has visited a Beijing city that looks relatively familiar, and also visited the Old Summer Palace, which was not burned by the British and French forces, and is now on her way back.  Although the airship did not leave the territory of the People's Republic of China in another time and space.  But through the transparent floor, the Central Plains she saw was completely different from the scene in her memory!  In another time and space, China¡¯s population and urban distribution were relatively even.  Although there is also a large influx of people into developed areas in the southeast, causing overcrowding in the five major cities of North, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.  But compared to this time and space, it pales into insignificance!  After all, the urban layout, construction and even population movement in another time and space were unified and carefully planned.  In this time and space, although there is such a thing as urban development planning, it is far from being detailed and rigorous. To a large extent, it is in compliance with the general trend of population mobility rather than guiding population mobility.  Therefore, after more than a hundred years of full development¡ªif according to the standards of another time and space, all the countries in Greater China must be developed countries¡ªvery serious population agglomerations and metropolises appeared on the territory of the Ming Empire.  Two problems with extraordinary expansion.  The current Ming Empire has a population of about 1.08 billion, which is a full 300 million less than the nearly 1.4 billion in another time and space.  But the three most populous cities, Shanghai, Yingtian and Guangzhou, have nearly 55 million residents!  Tianjin Prefecture, Shuntian Prefecture, and Wuhan Prefecture, three prefectures with slightly lower populations, also have a population of more than 30 million.  The total population of these six provinces alone is as high as 260 million.  Accounting for more than 20% of the total population of Ming Dynasty!  If you include Liaodong Prefecture, Xingzhou Prefecture and Hangzhou Prefecture with a population of more than 20 million.  More than 320 million people account for nearly 30% of the country's total population.  It is gathered on less than 80,000 square kilometers of land in these 9 prefectures - and unlike Chinese cities in another time and space that always reserved considerable land for agricultural development, the Ming Empire did not have the concept of basic farmland protection.  , so these nine most densely populated prefectures all account for more than 90% of the built-up urban area, which means that more than 70,000 square kilometers have become urban areas with dense housing.  And from the aerial view of the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River where Shanghai and Yingtian Erfu are located, the emerald green farmland has disappeared, replaced by huge cities that can't be seen to the edge!  Of course, as a developed country with high taxes and high welfare, the transportation, medical care, housing, education, public security and other issues closely related to people's livelihood in the nine metropolises of the Ming Dynasty can still be solved relatively well - the politicians and people of the Ming Dynasty in this time and space  There is a misunderstanding.  It is believed that government investment rather than the size of the city is linked to various people's livelihood issues.  Without sufficient financial investment, 500 small cities with a population of 100,000 will definitely not be able to solve these problems better than a metropolis with 50 million people In fact, excluding special circumstances, the finances of a metropolis with 50 million people will not be better.  The income must exceed that of 500 small cities with a population of 100,000 combined.  Since the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, the finances of Shanghai, Yingtian, and Guangzhou have always been the most abundant in the entire empire.  Sufficient financial resources are of course a powerful guarantee for solving various people's livelihood problems.  However, the high concentration of the population has caused another troublesome problem, that is, the areas outside the 9 metropolitan areas of Ming Dynasty and some provincial capital cities and resource-based cities are empty, and there is a trend of becoming more and more empty!  When Ye Yiren's airship flew out of the huge Shuntian-Tianjin city circle, what he could see was.  It is an endless golden yellow - it is already autumn, the season when rice and wheat are ripe - and there are no more villages and towns scattered on the Great Plains of North China.  All that is left is the boundless sea of ??wheat and rice, and there are some very small towns along the railways and highways, where farmers probably live together.  Agricultural production seems to have been fully mechanized. Now is the harvest season. Large combine harvesters are operating in many farmlands, and trucks loaded with grain are passing by on the highway from time to time.  Ye Yiren observed with a telescope for a while and found that all the farm machinery and trucks looked very beautiful.  Obviously, the industrial strength of Greater China in this time and space is no worse than that of the People's Republic of another time and space - in fact, just look at the industrial zones in Shanghai and Yingtian that can only be described as spectacular.  "It's so empty!" Ye Yiren put down the telescope and sighed sincerely.  "How can it not be empty? How many young people are still willing to live in the countryside now? Everyone has left, so of course the countryside is empty." The person who answered this question was the HR director of the Guangfu North Road store of Yihe Department Store who received Ye Yiren that day. The old man's surname was  Wu seems to be a concubine of the Yihe Xingwu family.?Distant relative.  I have been working at the Guangfu North Road Store of Yihe Department Store since I was young and have been working there for 50 years!  From the counter to the store manager, 15 years ago, he gave up the position of store manager to a "young man" and became the personnel director. He recruited Ye Yiren and trained him personally, and he also trained her.  The first quarterly sales champion - well, if Ye Yiren had come thirty or forty years earlier, she would definitely not be the sales champion this quarter, because the clerks of Jardine Matheson Department Store thirty or forty years ago worked much harder than they do now!  At that time, Yihe Department Store opened at 9:30 in the morning and stayed until 10:00 in the evening. At that time, the clerks had to work at least 200 days a year including overtime, which was almost 2,500 hours converted into hours.  Almost everyone is a workaholic, but there are no such people anymore, except Ye Yiren This time, because the sales champion was at the Guangfu North Road store of Yihe Department Store, Mr. Wu and his wife also got the opportunity to travel at public expense.  , and together with them are the model clerks from the Shanghai and Yingtianfu stores of Yihe Department Store.  Needless to say, most of them are older men - these people joined Jardine Department Store during the most prosperous era of the Ming Dynasty department store industry forty or fifty years ago. At that time, the department store's business was good and the salaries offered were relatively high.  Being tall will naturally attract young men, and women of that era got married relatively early and generally did not go out to work after getting married, unlike today's women who generally work for seven or eight years after graduating from college before considering getting married.  "Yes, farmers' income is low, and it's normal for young people not to want to stay." Ye Yiren nodded. She had her own special insights into Mr. Wu's views.  "Wellthe income of farmers is not low," Old Man Wu had long been accustomed to Ye Yiren's strange opinions from time to time.  "Each farmer has an average of several thousand acres of land. The government will also provide them with subsidies to ensure that their income is equivalent to that of an upper-middle-class urban family. The Agricultural Cooperatives also provide them with various assistance. Generally speaking, farmers are relatively  Wealthy. It¡¯s just that life in rural areas is too boring. There are no colorful metropolises Oh, it¡¯s the same for you. Anyway, it¡¯s just about working overtime, saving money, and buying a house. Why don¡¯t you consider marrying a rich man?  Be a farmer, so you don¡¯t have to be so tired.¡± The old man¡¯s last words were actually what the clerks at the Guangfu North Road store of Yihe Department Store laughed at Ye Yiren¡ªa girl in her 20s who doesn¡¯t seize the time to enjoy life.  I didn¡¯t even have a boyfriend, I just kept working overtime to make money, and I even spent 95,000 yuan to buy a three-bedroom and two-living townhouse It¡¯s like an antique!  "Mr. Wu, you are making fun of me again. I don't want to marry a farmer. I am also planning to save enough money to go to college" Miss Ye said about her life plan - how could she endure not having a college card?  Where's the diploma?  She has already studied the higher education of the Ming Empire in this time and space Naturally, it is also in a state of huge oversupply!  The threshold for going to university is very low, and almost everyone has the opportunity to receive higher education!  In the Guangfu North Road store of Yihe Department Store, Ye Yiren is probably the only one who can't get a college diploma.  "Save money to go to college" Old Man Wu smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Xiaoye, you are already so old. If you don't find a boyfriend quickly, when will you wait? You can reach 30 in the blink of an eye!"  Boyfriend' Ye Yiren sighed in her heart - can she find a better boyfriend than Zhu Jishi, the great emperor of the Ming Dynasty?  'It's time to go see him when you have time' Ye Yiren thought of the same question again - go see Zhu Jishi's Siling This Ming sage has been dead for 100 years and his bones are probably rotten.  Only a few months ago, Emperor Zu was getting along with our Miss Ye day and night!  But Ye Yiren still can't really accept the reality that his Zhu Jishi is the Zhu Jishi in the Siling Underground Palace!  Therefore, after coming to this time and space for more than half a year, Ye Yiren has not been to Siling, not even to Yingtian Mansion.  "Mr. Wu, I'm still young, so don't be in a hurry to find a boyfriend." Ye Yiren's feelings for Zhu Jishi have obviously become much indifferent. She didn't show any sadness. She just smiled and changed the subject, pointing to the following item.  asked the sparkling river.  "Mr. Wu, that river is so big and clear. What kind of river is it?" "That's the Yellow River. The wind is northwest. The airship is fast. We can reach Yingtian in two hours. We will reach Yingtian today.  Let¡¯s rest in Yingtian tonight and visit Siling, Xiaoling and Yingtian Forbidden City tomorrow.¡± (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature for better and faster novels!
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