I want to be emperor

Jiao Tiancheng rode with Chen Linlin on the asphalt carriage, and the sycamore trees on the roadside backed up one after another.

Chen Linlin stretched out her hand and felt the summer breeze in the morning. It was not as hot as in midsummer, but instead had a slight spring-like coolness.

The gradient sky blue shawl is unpredictable, like a constantly changing stage, and the long shawl hair moved by the breeze is on this stage, dancing seductively in the early morning sunshine!

The hem of the pink skirt is lifted back and swayed from side to side, as if the audience under the stage were intoxicated.

This scene made many people passing by couldn't help but look sideways. A carriage passed by, and the driver almost couldn't control his horse and ran off the road because he looked at it a few more times.

But Chen Linlin herself did not care about the looks of people on the road... At this time, she looked at the back in front of her and listened to Jiao Tiancheng's slight gasp from pedaling the bicycle hard.

Everything so far... was different from all the scenes she had expected before, but she liked it very much.

As the bicycle progressed, she occasionally passed through a few bumpy roads. Unknowingly, she gradually moved forward, close to his back... This wide back seemed to have a sense of security, and she could be safe as long as she got close.

Of course...she is a girl after all. This is so close, and the hand holding the clothes tighter is already the limit...she can't make any more movements.

She didn't want him to think she was a frivolous girl!

You know, she has never been alone with a boy before, let alone being so close.

So, she held back...

On the other hand, Jiao Tiancheng, who was in front, didn't feel much about the current situation... He was busy riding his bike right now.

To be honest, bicycles these days are just like that. There are no so-called variable-speed bicycles in later generations, and the body is made of steel, which is not lightweight, so it is quite laborious to ride. It is far inferior to the bicycles in later generations. Riding is easy and comfortable.

Not to mention, there is a person on the back seat of this bicycle... Even though Chen Linlin is not very tall, only about 1.6 meters tall, and her weight is probably not a hundred, but it is still nearly a hundred kilograms!

So when Jiao Tiancheng was riding his bicycle, he felt nothing at first and felt quite relaxed. However, after riding for five or six kilometers in a row and going through two consecutive sections of uphill road, Jiao Tiancheng felt that pressure!

Although he is a strong young man, although he has not done any special exercise on weekdays, whether he used to work or be a driver now, it actually requires physical strength, so his physical fitness is pretty good... but even so he feels pressure. .

No wonder those who have a little bit of money are unwilling to buy bicycles to ride, and would rather take a taxi... This is really not easy to ride.

While Chen Linlin behind him was still immersed in the summer morning breeze, enjoying the tranquility with a hint of ambiguity, Jiao Tiancheng in front of him had already made up his mind that next time if he invited Chen Linlin to play, he would book a horse-drawn carriage in advance, and he must work hard to make money in the future and buy a car of his own.

Otherwise, when he takes Chen Linlin out to play in the future, he will be exhausted every time he rides on this thing... and it is really shameful to be sweating all over in such a big summer.

After walking for a while, and reaching a small slope uphill, Chen Linlin also noticed that Jiao Tiancheng's riding speed had slowed down, and he had stood up and pedaled. She immediately said that it was uncomfortable to sit in the car for a long time. It's so comfortable that I want to get out of the car and take a few steps.

After hearing this, Jiao Tiancheng breathed a sigh of relief and stopped the car.

Then Jiao Tiancheng pushed the cart, and Chen Linlin stood on the other side of him, walking side by side slightly half a step behind, and talking softly from time to time.

The two of them actually had a rough understanding of each other before this. After all, they were colleagues who had worked together in the same place for several months. There were not many staff members in the Sun Mansion, only about ten people. If you wanted to It’s hard to get in touch.

So some basic understanding is still there.

But it is only limited to the most basic understanding, and there is basically no in-depth understanding.

Jiao Tiancheng knew that Chen Linlin was from Zhejiang before, but he didn't know where in Zhejiang specifically. Now after chatting, he found out that Chen Linlin is not actually from Zhejiang, but from Jiangxi. She just lived with her parents in Huzhou, Zhejiang when she was in her early teens. .

His father was a textile worker in a silk reeling factory, and his mother, like many women of the older generation today, was a housewife.

Because her family was average, her academic performance was not good enough to get a scholarship, and she had an older brother who wanted to go to a technical secondary school, so Chen Linlin did not continue schooling after she entered elementary school.

She worked as a handyman in Huzhou for several years. Later, under the introduction of a friend, she came to Songjiang and became a maid in Sun's mansion.

As a maid, although her job is to serve people, which may not be considered decent, in fact, her job is quite easy.

The treatment of servants in the Sun Mansion is quite good. In addition to salary, daily food and accommodation are provided without any extra deductions. The service company also helps them pay for pension funds. If they encounter illness or the like, they will also provide compensation according to the situation. Subsidy for medical treatment.

After working here for more than a year, she has saved more than 100 yuan...

The servant group in the Da Chu Empire is actually quite large. After all, the Da Chu Empire is a feudal empire with emperors and nobles. Moreover, the Da Chu Empire is a traditional feudal agricultural empire that has suddenly entered the industrial age. Feudal empire!

Such a great Chu empire not only had many characteristics of the industrial era, but also retained many characteristics of the traditional feudal era.

For example, in the education system of the contemporary Great Chu Empire, "Classics" is still the main subject. Students must learn the Four Books, the Five Classics and many other classic literary works starting from elementary school. When they are a little older, they must start to learn composition, but articles It is not limited to stereotyped writing, but expanded to a variety of literary styles...

In examinations at all levels, the classics have always been the main subject, and the articles in the classics are the key examination content... Generally speaking, they are similar to the compositions of later generations.

It's just that the articles used by the Chu people for the exam are not vernacular, but serious classical Chinese. Even if the candidates write prose, it is the kind of classical Chinese prose. Even if it is not good, it will be half ancient and half white. …

Although future generations will find it strange and difficult, when you learn these things from a young age, you won’t actually find it strange... Of course, it is really difficult.

However, the education system of the Dachu Empire was originally a screening system, and if it were not difficult, it would not play a screening role.

So, you will be in a school in the Great Chu Empire, and the students will be shaking their heads while reciting the Analects of Confucius, Daxue, Shangshu and other classics, opening their mouths to talk about all kinds of things, and then turning around, they will be talking about physics, chemistry, mathematics in the science and engineering class...

It may seem contradictory at first glance, but this is actually a microcosm of the social changes in the Chu Empire over the past few decades: the integration of the feudal era and the industrial era! The same is true for the group of servants... This is a remnant of the feudal era.

However, servants in the Da Chu Empire are completely different concepts from slaves in the traditional feudal dynasty... After the comprehensive rectification and crackdown of the Da Chu Empire in the early years, there are no longer physically restrained slaves in the Da Chu Empire. Now, there is only a group of servants with a purely employment relationship...

When wealthy people hire servants, they usually sign a work contract and arrange their benefits and even pensions according to the employees of the company.

Jiao Tiancheng is like this, and so is Chen Linlin!

And none of them have any plans to work in the Sun Mansion for a long time... For example, Chen Linlin, although working in the Sun Mansion is easy and can save money, it is not a long-term solution.

And Jiao Tiancheng also has the ambition of a young man!

On the way, the two inevitably chatted about their dreams for the future.

Chen Linlin said that she has been studying middle school courses and accounting courses by herself in the past two years, and then plans to take the adult middle school examination next year to get a junior high school diploma, and then enroll in an accounting training class to get an accounting certificate.

She has a cousin who obtained her junior high school diploma through self-study, enrolled in an accounting training class, and now has an accounting job.

Although the comprehensive income is much lower than the salary of a maid, and it does not even include food and accommodation, the work is decent!

She also wants to be like her cousin, wearing professional attire and sitting in the office to work decently!

After hearing this, Jiao Tiancheng expressed his approval and encouragement... He likes people like her who have clear plans and actions for the future!

And this path is indeed possible... Because of the traditional idea that men are the masters of the outside world and women are the masters of the house, most of the contemporary Chu women do not go out to work. Especially after getting married, they usually resign and go home to live. Husband teaches son.

But many jobs also require women. For example, some complicated and ordinary accounting work with little technical content requires a large number of careful junior accountants. However, because these jobs require a large number of manpower and have little technical content, companies generally Nor will the salary be given too high.

Under such circumstances, male accountants generally would not work...if he did, he would not be able to support his family, and the salary would be too low.

Therefore, many companies generally recruit young, careful girls with basic accounting certificates to work... But there are not many such girls on the market, and they are relatively mobile... Many of them just start working and suddenly become Throw the resignation letter in your boss's face, get married and have a baby...

Well, in fact, Chen Linlin in the future will probably do the same thing... Although she wants a decent job, it is only limited to before marriage. After marriage, she will definitely have to quit her job to take care of her husband and raise children... This is the majority of Chu Linlin at present. This is the choice of Chinese women, whether they want it in their hearts or not... because the social atmosphere is like this... The Dachu Empire is still a very conservative feudal empire in many aspects!

But before getting married, Chen Linlin had this plan and planned to do it. And if she really got the basic junior accounting certificate, it would be easy to find a job!

Chen Linlin talked about the future, and Jiao Tiancheng also talked about his plans for the future... He wants to save money and then open a car-related shop to repair or sell cars. His interest in cars is partly due to the fact that he has been dealing with cars for more than two years and is familiar with them.

Therefore, when thinking about the future, it is natural to engage in automobile-related industries.

Both of them have their own plans for the future, and naturally they can't help but have some fantasies about the future when they talk about it... As they talk about it, they naturally talk more.

The two of them talked all the way, and when they encountered some flat roads or downhill roads, Jiao Tiancheng got on the bike and let Chen Linlin sit behind.

Gradually, they entered the city... Songjiang West City to be precise.

Songjiang City is actually very big... The large cities in Chu State these days are limited by many restrictions such as construction technology, transportation, and private land. Urban development is flat. The urban area of ​​most industrial cities is very large. big.

From Huating in the west to Wusong in the east, it actually belongs to Songjiang City in a broad sense... But in fact, Wusong and the surrounding areas actually belong to the jurisdiction of Suzhou Prefecture!

The huge Songjiang City is divided into multiple districts, such as Jiangbei District, Xicheng District, Nancheng District, Beicheng District, and Pudong District, etc.

They only came to Xicheng District, which is the city west of Jing'an Temple.

Even Xicheng District is very big. The new department store that Jiao Tiancheng and the others are going to today actually belongs to the northwest edge of Xicheng District...

Why open in the fringe area... Because there are a large number of middle- and high-income communities in the fringe area of ​​​​Xicheng District, with a large number of consumers with spending power, and it can also radiate to upper-class communities in further suburbs.

As for the central urban area of ​​Xicheng District, although there are more people there, there are more factories... You must know that Xicheng District was originally an industrial zone. The entire city was actually built around the original Xicheng Industrial Zone. The huge Xicheng District The middle location is either the factory area or the four- or five-story dense buildings that provide accommodation for workers. In fact, most of the people living here are middle- and low-income groups, and the consumption power of mid-to-high-end products is not very good.

The cities of Chu State these days are hugely different from the cities of later generations...especially the industrial cities.

This is the comprehensive result of environmental governance, traffic impact and other aspects... and then gradually formed a social atmosphere... After all, we have been saying that the urban environment is not good for decades, and people have long regarded it as a waste to not live in the city if you have money. common sense.

This is especially true in a place like Songjiang City.

This has also resulted in many commercial facilities such as mid-to-high-end department stores. In fact, they are not located in the central city in the traditional sense, but at the edge of some urban areas.

Of course there are exceptions... Some commercial areas are located in the city center, but most of them are office buildings, restaurants, department stores and other commercial facilities without industrial pollution, and they are generally built in places such as rivers and seasides.

For example, the famous Linjiang North Road... is located along the Huangpu River in Jiangbei District. It is the core central urban area in the traditional sense.

But this place is full of office buildings, department stores, hotels and other facilities, but there are no factories... and the greening and the like are also very good, so the overall environment is actually no different from the suburbs.

This kind of business center is completely different from an industrial center.

There are actually very few such commercial centers. Looking at the entire Chu Empire, there are only a few places, such as Linjiang North Road in Songjiang, Zhujiang Road in Guangzhou, and Northern Avenue in Tianjin...

This kind of large commercial central urban area can only be supported by the above three megacities. Other cities, not even Jinling City, can support it.