Chapter 438 What's New in the Old City
Early July 1629.
It was evening, and Tai'an City, which was midsummer, did not feel very hot when the sun set, especially the whole world was in the Little Ice Age.
The city no longer has the same sense of crowded crowds as before. Since the emperor was changed to the top of his head, the lives of the people have been completely different. Moreover, many villagers and neighbors have moved to other sparsely populated areas. It is said that they are thousands of miles away, and the distance may be tens of thousands of miles away. Perhaps it will be difficult to meet their originally familiar partners again in this life.
It may not be certain. The Iron Dragon outside Tai'an City, which has just been opened to traffic, is said to be able to travel thousands of miles a day, if you have the conditions to afford tickets. What's more, a new "chicken farm" has been built outside Jinan City. That's right, and the people can't understand why the masters in the government call the "chicken farm". Anyway, they say that, but they also called it like that, although they always mind that the man calls the "chicken farm" in his heart, yes, they can't call them.
It’s said that they can just call their names, but they don’t dare to think about it. Who knows if they will wear their own little shoes behind their smile? They just harvested a batch of food, but they can’t stand the troubles of the men. The whole family is counting on these food rations to live. They can’t always count on the government’s relief food. They have been eating for so long for free, and their own conscience will feel uneasy, except for those lazy people who are eating and waiting to die.
Although those smiling government officials have never done anything bad to their ears, it is always right to be careful.
The people still live as cautiously as usual.
The children at home all said that the planes in the "Chicken Farm" are faster than the iron dragons on the ground, and they can reach the imperial capital thousands of miles away in one day. Although they say this a little exaggeratedly, at the current aviation speed, they still cannot meet this requirement, but the difference is not far away, and the people are not wrong. When they think about it, they seem to feel that the world has become much smaller. They used to go out for ten days and half a month, but they may not be able to come back for half a year. Now they can complete a round trip within a few days.
The world is changing so fast that the older generation can't accept it.
Maybe it is time to go to the outside world? After the children came back from school, they said that the Eastern continent is just a corner of the world. The outside world is still very big. Every place has its own characteristics. For most people who have never left the city, the outside world is too far away. They want to go but dare not, and they will leave with their families unless they have to. They are cautious and cautious about it. It is too difficult for them to think about changing their inherent concepts.
There is also more information that subverts traditional concepts and comes to their ears, especially the teachers in the school told the children that they live on a ball, and that ball is called ‘Earth’.
Isn't that nonsense? If a person stands on the ball and falls into the abyss early? The legend has been that the sky is round and the place is never heard of the possibility of a ball under his feet.
But the children simply retelled the examples given by the teachers, and they had to doubt whether the ancestors' statement was correct?
Maybe, maybe the teachers are the right one?
The new things were so dazzled that they were filled with new information, and they were all confused.
Zhang Butuhu’s family on South Street just bought a TV, which is said to be able to take people into acting for everyone, and it is vivid and vivid like a real person.
In order to explore the new things, Zhang Butuhu, who was already popular, immediately put the newly bought large TV in the yard. The crowded people in the yard were shocked when they saw the TV scene. Could it be that the old emperor sitting above their heads really a god descended to earth?
After the children explained it seriously, they roughly understood that the difference between this thing and the movies they had watched before. It was not so strange over time, but the courtyard of Zhang Butuhu's house was still full of people every day.
When one day there was a loud singing sound on the street, they were stunned again.
Can sound be ingested in it?
And every day, there are some new things in the empire, as well as policies and regulations announced by the government. More are reports of frontline officers and soldiers fighting with monsters, as well as operas that were previously only able to hire a troupe to perform. Now you can hear them every day.
Sitting under an old tree and listening quietly to the opera coming from your ears, the people now realize that the times may be really not high, not just changing to an emperor.
At least they don’t have to go hungry now, and the house they live in is beautiful and spacious. As long as they are willing to work hard, the land they allocate to their own heads will make them worry-free.
But seeing that wealthy people have added new homes and new things to their homes, the conservative people seem to think that just farming may not be enough, especially when their children look at them with envious eyes, this idea becomes stronger and stronger.
"Do you do some small business? Or raise some livestock?"
I don’t know how many people have tried their own little thoughts and completely solved the problem with food and clothing. Human beings’ pursuit of beauty slowly begins to awaken. This is just an instinct, and everyone is the same.
Life is better, life is much more leisurely than before, and there are no more taxes. The people's backs slowly straighten up, and their voices begin to become more confident.
Compared with the older generation, children have much stronger receptive ability, especially what they learned in school, which broadens their horizons and increases their confidence. At a certain moment, the two generations seem to be completely from people from two eras, and they seem a little out of place. Maybe it is time to change the ideas of the older generation.
"At 8 a.m. today, in front of the Heroes Hall of the Empire, the sacrificial ceremony personally presided over by the national teacher Taoist Qingfeng was held in a solemn and solemn atmosphere. The Empire Emperor Yun Yi, along with his fiancee Zhu Mingyue, Prime Minister Li Mu, Deputy Prime Minister Wang Zhen and Huang Yi, went to see off the heroes who died for the Empire in this battle..."
Under the old locust trees in the small village outside Tai'an City, accompanied by the afterglow of the sunset, the elderly and children surrounded the big tree stump and listened quietly to everything reported on the radio. For them, this was a rare entertainment project and the only way for them to obtain information from the outside world. No one in the village can afford a family that can afford a TV.
"Damn monsters, I really don't know where they came out. The empire has sacrificed so many young men. Alas... they are all children!" The old uncle murmured softly.
Chapter completed!