Chapter 1241: The car takes to the road

Style: Historical Author: Niu Bi Lao DaoWords: 4497Update Time: 24/01/12 10:25:35
Just like the envoys sent by the Japanese country to the Tang Dynasty nearly a thousand years ago, all our friends now send overseas students to study in the Ming Empire, that is, they come and copy without any injustice.

If they don't do this, they won't be able to master the relevant procedures and specific methods of doing things. Even if they get things or documents, they won't be able to copy them in their native country.

There is a quota limit on the actual number of international students, which is linked to the total amount of goods imported from the Ming Empire.

For every imported goods worth 100,000 silver coins, one overseas student can be sent to the Ming Dynasty.

Daming will not charge tuition fees for international students. While providing free accommodation, it will also provide them with living expenses of one hundred silver coins per year.

The number of places to study abroad is determined by the sending country, and Daming will not interfere. However, it is recommended that people with criminal records should not come to avoid trouble.

The maximum study time for any international student in Daming is ten years, which includes three years of primary school, three years of middle school, and four years of university.

If you choose to continue your studies after graduating from university and want to become a master's or doctoral student, you must pay the relevant tuition and room and board expenses yourself.

Not counting room and board, the master's degree lasts for three years and the tuition fee is one hundred silver coins per year. The doctorate lasts for three years, and the tuition fee is two hundred silver coins per year.

If you want to study for a master's degree and a Ph.D., the tuition fee alone will cost nine hundred silver coins.

For countries that are not short of money, send ten-year-old children over.

After studying for sixteen years and getting a doctorate at the age of twenty-six, I can make a big difference when I go back.

What these outsiders don't know is that the so-called content learned in primary school and middle school is part of the knowledge of later generations of primary school and junior high school.

"University" corresponds to high school. Real university knowledge requires a master's degree and a doctorate to gain access to it.

As for what you really need to study for a master's degree and a doctoral degree, you have to join the Academy of Sciences...

International students generally study at three institutions of higher learning: Imperial University, Hokuto University, and Hokuto Normal University.

The highest institutions that local students can enter are National Defense University, Beidu University of Science and Technology, and Beidu University of Technology.

If some children from wealthy families came to the Ming Dynasty purely to get gold, they didn't care how much real skills they learned.

You can study at Beidu Dance University, Beidu Music University, Beidu University of Foreign Languages, and Beidu University of Communication.

Not only are there many beautiful girls in these universities, many of them also attend to meet their favorite kids from rich families.

Many young ladies complain that today's holy generals set the threshold for selecting concubines so high that it is impossible for their figures to meet the standards.

It may be possible to reach such an exaggerated state in your thirties and forties. In the youth of less than 20 years old, except for some people who are sick and out of shape, ordinary people's figures cannot be so exaggerated.

The young ladies who can meet the criteria for selecting concubines are all naturally beautiful, leaving other young ladies with nothing but envy and jealousy.

This threshold cannot be overcome by drinking papaya juice every day...

Even if she couldn't become the emperor's concubine, the young lady's parents would have no choice but to let their daughter catch a rich husband.

If you can't catch local ones, you can catch foreign ones. In short, getting married is impossible.

That would be equivalent to allowing a poor boy to reach the sky in one step. How can such a good thing be possible in the world?

If the husband's family is rich, the mother's family does not have to contribute money to help the poor, and this can also prevent the family wealth from being divided.

A married daughter is just water thrown away. At worst, she can just give her a little more as a dowry when she gets married.

Parents don't have to worry about the rest, because the wealthy daughter has already received the guidance of Sister Lou.

You are very familiar with how to please a man, but if you are unable to figure it out when you get to your husband's house, you are arrogant.

There is a default standard for marriage in the Ming Dynasty, which is to marry. Generally, you can look down.

It is best if the status of the natal family is half to one level lower than that of the husband's family, so that the married life can be harmonious.

No need to look at anything else, Emperor Haojing and King Dingzhi are the most typical examples!

Emperor Haojing's empress Xue Wanqing is the daughter of Xue Guoguan, the former chief minister, and the imperial concubine Liu Xier is the maid beside the empress dowager.

The former is the relationship between king and minister, and the latter is the relationship between master and servant.

They can understand each other before marriage and help each other after marriage.

The concubine of King Dingzhi is Su Yan, the empress dowager's female official, and the relationship between the couple is exactly the same.

Later, he married Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi, both women who were good at dancing. With Su Yan in charge and Gu Liu's daughter in charge, King Dingzhong could sit back and relax and devote himself to eating, drinking and having fun.

Originally, the upper class in the Ming Dynasty were proud to marry Sho Ma and Lou Jie. This move directly led to Min Jian following suit.

The palace maids and Sister Lou were sold in batches, which made Emperor Haojing very happy, and it was regarded as a great good deed.

After some wealthy daughters became female sea queens and their reputations declined, they turned their attention to international students.

After dressing up carefully, you can create an extremely romantic encounter in all your glory...

Unless the party being fished has a special background, such as being the eldest nephew of Louis XIV, etc.

Otherwise, Emperor Haojing would not care about this at all, leaving the female sea kings to eat the "big fish" they caught with tears in their eyes.

Of course, using Neptune to make these foreign students lose their minds also achieves the purpose of diluting the knowledge they have learned.

Otherwise, if Ming Dynasty finally sells the goods produced in sweatshops and allows these international students to learn valuable knowledge back, wouldn't it be a huge loss?

Emperor Haojing has always wanted both appearance and face. He doesn't want to suffer any loss inside or outside, but he also wants to take advantage of both inside and outside.

The international students not only had to eat what they learned, but also packed up the Ming Dynasty's specialty - the female sea king.

In contrast, Emperor Haojing will also reward those good local students who strive for self-improvement and excellence.

The scholarship is one thing, and introducing a beautiful woman who is still in perfect condition is an encouragement to top academics.

Emperor Haojing would grant marriages to academic masters and ladies who both liked each other at the right time every year.

The emperor used his own money to buy a house for the couple, give out red envelopes, and purchase various daily necessities.

The groom will get married after graduation, and then he can go to work in Yuci's position.

The bride does not have to worry about being noticed by bad people at home, as the community where she lives is full of families like this.

The community still adopts a closed management method, and there are female soldiers from the South Factory at the door who are responsible for checking the documents of visitors.

Even if you forget to bring your ID, you can enter. The premise is to call your family and come to the door to claim your husband...

The population in and around Beidu has reached eight million, and the security situation is not optimistic.

However, in urban areas, due to the deployment of a large number of patrol teams and closed management of key communities, the number of cases in major areas is not large.

The most important thing is that cameras, also known as low-speed cameras, are installed on telephone poles or high buildings along major roads, which has become a nightmare for robbers and thieves.

With these high-tech weapons, it is impossible for some people to succeed even if they try to hit the main road sections.

If caught once, once verified, it will be treated as extortion...

On Class I and II streets, the most common cases are traffic accidents.

Horseback riding or horse-drawn carriages are not allowed on the roads here in New Town, so motor vehicle accidents are a common occurrence.

Even if there are hundreds of accidents, the number of accidents remains high despite increasing penalties.

Drunk driving, driving on the wrong side of the road, running red lights, and rushing onto the sidewalk are all common occurrences.

The scariest thing is the sticker on some cars - female driver! Please stay out of the way!

Especially after fuel vehicles began to go on the market, the number of motor vehicles in Beidu has reached more than 100,000.

On average, there is one car for every eighty people, which is definitely a miracle that leads the world.

It’s not that people in Beidu can afford cars, but there are many government offices, armies, foreign businessmen, and rich people here.

All institutions can buy cars, and the military is naturally a big user of cars. Rich people basically have two or three cars in every family.

Foreign businessmen and students do not have driving qualifications and cannot obtain driver's licenses, so they can only hire local drivers.

This avoids unnecessary trouble caused by the other party's special status after an accident.

Foreigners must be driving without a license, and patrolling factory guards and government officials can arrest them immediately.

According to information provided by Shuntian Prefecture, there are currently more than 5,000 cars registered in Beidu every year.

It is still an acceptable quantity, but the traffic situation is already serious.

The imperial court has put the plan to build overpasses both inside and outside the city on the agenda.

One of the reasons is that during the holidays and New Year, a large number of vehicles from Kifu and surrounding areas will flow into Beidu.

The traffic management in Beidu is under great pressure, and there are also cases of random parking in the city.

The expressway from Beidu to Tianjin was launched two years ago and is expected to be completed in another three years.

This is a highway only used for cars. No livestock is allowed on the road. It is also the first highway in the Ming Dynasty and even in the world.

In the future, highways from Beidu to Baoding and Datong will be built, which will be a strong supplement to areas without railways.

At the same time, the expressway from Nandu to Huating (Songjiang) via Wujin (Changzhou), Wuxi, Changzhou (Suzhou) is also under intense construction.

Some officials in the Yangtze River Delta always complain that sea transport cannot cover Wujin, Wuxi and Changzhou, and there is no local railway to supplement it.

After the expressway is completed and opened to traffic, we can take advantage of the land and water advantages to bring together the entire economy of the richest region in the Yangtze River Delta.

These were the only two highways that were built during the same period. If there were more highways, the court would not have the money to deal with them.

Both expressways adopt a two-way design of ten lanes, eight traffic lanes and two auxiliary lanes.

The reason for so many lanes is simple: car engines are unreliable and break down often...

Even so, fuel vehicles did not suffer from slow sales. Instead, orders were flying in from all directions.

Orders for more than 250,000 vehicles were obtained from overseas alone, and the New Inca Empire and the Ottoman Empire each placed orders for 100,000 vehicles.

Poirot believed that trucks were very effective in mining saltpeter and copper ore and could greatly improve mining efficiency. He wished that each miner could drive a truck.

Oil extracted from Bolivia can be easily transported via pipelines to coastal mining areas, where it is refined and used to power trucks.

Ibrahim likes these oil-burning motor vehicles more than Poirot, because his territory is full of oil, which means he only has to pay for the car, and the fuel can be used as he likes.

Zheng Zhilong placed an order for 50,000 trucks. There are oil fields in South Africa, but their scale cannot be compared with those in the Middle East or Venezuela. At best, they can only achieve self-sufficiency.

Louis XIV benefited from Venezuela's giant oil fields. While placing an order for 10,000 vehicles, he also wanted to obtain the manufacturing technology for complete vehicles and engines.

But at present, Emperor Haojing only plans to sell complete vehicles, and the factory's production capacity is also very limited. Only 70,000 trucks can be rolled off the production line every year.

It’s not that the whole vehicle is difficult to save, but it’s that the quality of the engine is difficult to guarantee. It’s exactly the same as the rotary chamber used to manufacture the revolver. If you’re not careful, the entire engine cylinder will become useless.

Although standardized production has been implemented for many years, the quality of Daming Motors is still far inferior to the Ford Model T, and it is only slightly better than the first-generation model of Mercedes-Benz.

Generally speaking, there are two consequences for the engine and the driver, either the engine explodes or the driver is unlucky...

Not to mention the 24-hour endurance race, even driving smoothly for 12 hours without breaking down is considered a high achievement.

If you want to prevent the engine from getting angry easily, you have to keep the car at a low speed, usually the speed limit is 20 kilometers per hour.

This speed is about the same as the minimum, but it is much more comfortable than riding a horse. After all, it is difficult to fit a sofa on a horse.

The advantage of the Daming limousine over the Ford Model T lies in its comfort, which allows you to sit directly on the sofa.

There are two single sofas in the front row and a double sofa in the back row, both with cushions, making the passengers very comfortable.

Customers can also choose a style with two single sofas in the back according to their own preferences.

As long as you have enough silver coins in your pocket, you can even choose the color of the car body and sofa.

It’s no wonder that some car owners laugh at themselves and say that when the car has no faults, I bought the car.

When the car breaks down, the sofa is what I buy!

In addition to car owners who love driving and repairing cars, most car owners have full-time drivers and part-time mechanics.

Car owners only need to sit on the sofa and read newspapers and magazines, and they don't have to worry about getting wet in the rain. The car has a closed top.

In Beidu City, since maintenance points are everywhere, advertisements can be seen everywhere.

As long as you make a phone call nearby, someone will come to repair the vehicle within a quarter of an hour.

Why are there so many repair points?

The reason is simple, to take care of veterans who have retired due to injury or illness!

Those seriously injured veterans cannot do this kind of thing. The situation is not that serious, and veterans who have retired normally can do this job.

His Majesty the Patriarch asked the Ministry of War to provide free training to them. After graduation, they can get relevant certifications and qualifications, and then they can work with certificates and earn money to support their families.

The entire automobile industry in Beidu supports tens of thousands of retired and disabled soldiers, and Emperor Haojing can guarantee that their jobs in this job will be higher than the average salary of Beidu workers.

Including car building, selling cars, car repairs, car washing, daily maintenance and other links, they are mainly completed by them. This can also ensure a certain degree of efficiency, and problems can be reported in a timely manner.

With the dual blessings of veterans and car dealers, even people from poor backgrounds can have enough food and clothing and earn a wife.

Ordinary people recognize soldiers, and wealthy families recognize officers.

This was the result of Emperor Haojing's efforts, which changed everyone's previous bad impression of those who served in the army.