Chapter 275 Strange carriage
The upcoming war will affect the five places of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Guangxi, Fujian, Huguang and Jiangxi under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, which has affected the daily lives of the people.
The people under the rule of the People's Army still live the same life. At most, the people began to pray for the People's Army, hoping that the People's Army would win the war, and hope that their son who joined the army would come back alive.
In Muxia Village, Yong'an County, Huizhou City, Du Chensheng's mother packed her son with tears in her eyes. Today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Tomorrow, her son will go to the county town and take a carriage to Guangzhou City hundreds of miles away to school. On weekdays, even the county town is rarely visited, and she has to go so far. Du's mother is worried that her son will not eat well, drink well, and sleep well.
"Stop crying, Chen Sheng is not coming back. He can come back in half a year after leaving. Maybe he can bring back a daughter-in-law." Du's father comforted.
Du's mother said "hmm" and continued to pack her son.
At this time, a poem is very suitable: the thread in the hands of a loving mother and the clothes on the wandering son. She sewed it tightly before leaving, and she was afraid that she would return late. Who said that the heart of a grass can repay the spring sunshine?
The new day comes. Early in the morning, Du Chensheng and seven classmates took a ox cart to the county town. Behind them are mothers who are already crying and fathers with red eyes.
The ox cart's ox was originally owned by the landlord, but now it has a shared property in Kinxia Village. Two students are going to Guangzhou City, and six teachers are going to teach students in other places. This is a big deal for Kinxia Village. The village chief directly sent the ox cart to send eight people to the county town.
The ox cart is not fast, so at least it can save some energy and not get tired.
On the carriage, Du Chensheng started chatting with others. The first time he traveled a distance was still hundreds of miles away, and Du Chensheng couldn't calm down.
Du Chensheng, the six teachers, had already visited other places last year. On the one hand, they determined their teaching locations, and on the other hand, they were engaged in freshmen registration. During the Chinese New Year, the six of them returned to Kinoshita Village for vacation. On the first day of February, the start date of primary school, and the six of them had to go back to work and teach.
After returning from another place, everyone talked about the situation in another place. There is no need to say anything more. Now the eight people are fantasizing about what Guangzhou City would look like. As the largest city in the People's Army ruling region, all the eight people think that Guangzhou City is extraordinary, with many tall houses and crowds, and the Great Governor of the People's Army who brought good days to them.
Du Chensheng's six teachers envied Du Chensheng and Liu Siyuan very much. They knew that the president of the university was the chief governor they had always admired. Du Chensheng and Liu Siyuan entered the university to study and would have the opportunity to meet the chief governor. In order to see the chief governor themselves, all six of them made up their minds to study in college in the future.
After most of the day, the ox cart finally arrived at the county town. Du Chensheng, Liu Siyuan and others wanted to stay in the county town for one night. Tomorrow, the People's Military Government will arrange a carriage to take the students to Guangzhou City and send teachers to various places under the rule of the People's Army. The places where the eight people live at night were also arranged by the People's Army.
When he arrived at the place where he lived, Du Chensheng met other students and teachers. From the morning, the students who were going to carry out work in various villages outside the city and the teachers who were going to teach in other places all gathered towards the county town. If there was a longer distance, they might not arrive tomorrow morning.
Du Chensheng communicated with his future classmates. Du Chensheng was lucky enough to meet a student with the same major as him, named Xu Liang, who was about the same age as Du Chensheng, and was both eighteen years old this year. Both dreamed of creating better firearms for the People's Army soldiers to defeat the Ming army and overthrow the Ming court.
The same family background, the same age, the same major, and the same dream made Du Chensheng and Xu Liang quickly become good friends. The two agreed to study hard together after entering university and study firearms together.
No words all night.
Early in the morning, many carriages came outside where Du Chensheng, Xu Liang and Liu Siyuan lived, and the carriage made Du Chensheng feel a little.
In Du Chensheng's impression, whether it is a ox cart or a cart, there are two wheels, but the cart in front of him actually has four wheels, two horses pulling the cart, and the body is much larger than that of an ordinary cart.
There are more than these strange things. The door of this strange carriage is on the side. There are four rows of twelve seats in the carriage compartment, which can seat twelve people. In addition, the two coachmen who educated the carriage in front of the carriage, a carriage can actually ride fourteen people. It seems that it is quite comfortable to ride, which is really unimaginable.
Du Chensheng and his classmates got on the carriage, and the carriage drove outside the city, with a slight bump, and was still within the affordable range. When the carriage left the county town and stepped onto Huizhou City, the cement road in Guangzhou City completely disappeared, and it was the flat cement road that made the carriage no longer feel bumpy.
In China, the original traces of four-wheeled carriages were very rare. The mainstream was two-wheeled carriages, mainly because the road was uneven and the carriages were not equipped with shock absorbers. Four-wheeled carriages were more bumpy than two-wheeled carriages. In this case, people used two-wheeled carriages more.
Nowadays, there are more and more cement roads in the People's Army ruling areas, and some main roads have even been replaced by cement roads. On flat cement roads, carriages do not need to worry about many bumps.
With two wheels, the carriage can be made larger and can carry more people or goods. Therefore, with the emergence of cement roads, the People's Army first used four-wheeled carriages, and soon the gentry and merchants under the People's Army also used four-wheeled carriages.
If it weren't for too few horses, Fang Nan even planned to ask the People's Chamber of Commerce to launch long-distance passenger services between cities and short-distance passenger services within the city.
When the railway tracks connect more cities, it will be very convenient for remote passenger service. Two horses can drive more than 14 people when driving on concrete roads. When switching to the railway tracks, the two horses can be greatly lengthened, and even one carriage can be added, which can pull dozens of people at a time.
Although the People's Army has not overthrew the Ming court yet, Fang Nan's eyes have already been on the prairie north of the Great Wall. Some of the Tatar tribes in the prairie were cattle, horses and sheep, horses can be used to pull carts and cattle can be used to plow the land.
On the carriage, Du Chensheng curiously opened the curtains of the window and looked outside. It was the first time away from the place where he was born and raised. Du Chensheng felt a little nervous, but he was more yearning. Du Chensheng wanted to see the Grand Commander as soon as possible, to enter university as soon as possible to learn new knowledge, and to build a better firearm sooner.
Chapter completed!