Soon after that meeting, Gander began a career of hard work in Pengcheng.

Pengcheng is a city that only began to rise more than 20 years ago, and it is the first city in Zhuxia Kyushu to combine "city" and "city" into one.

Before the Spring and Autumn Period, the cities were more like colonies, and the exchange of goods between the wild people outside the city and the industrial and commercial industries inside the city, and the exploitation of the outside of the city, supported the prosperity of the city.

With the economic development of Sishang, several important cities such as Peiyi Pengcheng began to form a new urban model, and the boundaries of the city were opened, and the expansion of streets and the abolition of the policy of only trading in the "city" led to the rapid development of the city.

The gradual development of the commodity economy, and the proximity to the main road of Surabaya, Pengcheng, which was the first to allow private trading and stamp duty collection, have caused housing prices to skyrocket.

For the sake of the long term, Gander had to choose to buy a cottage in the southeast of the city, which was not very large, had no courtyard, and was close to the street.

There is a communal well not far from the door, and a little further away is a market for daily necessities.

There is a lot of firewood in the house, but the local coal is burned, and the price is cheaper than firewood. It is usually inhabited by either travelers who come to study or local employees who work in the textile industry, and there are many wood-framed buildings, which are the cheapest residences. There are no flush toilets, no running water, and small buildings that have to be cramped because of the construction problems, which are much cheaper than such bungalows, and are mostly inhabited by local small businessmen.

Unlike Gander in Yangxia, that is, this house has a Xuanlin window, but it is very small, and it is not the kind of expensive large Xuanlin.

Two old servants who had been following him, a wife, and three children, these were all the people in the Gander family.

The first thing they did when they came to Sishang was that the two old servants had a free identity and dissolved their original personal dependence, but the two old servants had no land and no other life skills, so they still worked in the Gander family and took care of the Gander family's daily life.

When the population was registered after coming, the two old servants did not draw lots when choosing their surnames, but chose to borrow Gander's surname directly.

The three children all attended the elementary school next to it, and his wife was not easy to learn more words and arithmetic after she came to Sishang, and she wanted to get a teacher's certificate.

Fortunately, the two old servants could not divide the land and could not do anything else, and there was someone to take care of Gander's daily life.

When buying a house, the stamp transaction tax is a very important income in Pengcheng, and no one is exempt from this.

Gander paid the tax and got a contract stamped by the government, which seemed to have the government's endorsement, which further promoted the promotion of stamp duty.

After completing the household registration and the children's schooling, they first paid 60 yuan a year of compulsory education fees, which every family must pay.

Other than that, there are no other taxes, because many taxes are sandwiched into consumer goods in the form of excise taxes, which are not easily felt.

There are many local goods, and the prices are not expensive, and Gander doesn't know much about this, but it can still be felt from the fact that his wife did not complain about the price.

Pengcheng's university hall is in the northeast of the city, a little far away from where Gander lives, and the two old servants can drive, but Gander calculated his current income and decided not to buy a car or horse for the time being, but chose to rent it temporarily.

Neighbors told him that just a hundred and ten paces to the south there was a special market where horse-drawn carriages could be rented.

The way of renting is called a monthly subscription, because of the scarcity of manpower, so the car pulled by people has no meaning of existence, the carriage and ox cart are popular, and there is the most formal horse farm in the world at this time.

By paying a certain amount of money every month, the carriage can be picked up and dropped off at a fixed time at a fixed time, and the rest of the time the carriage can continue to do other work without delay.

It's just that unlike Yangxia, the carriages here are basically double-wheeled.

However, the road is much smoother and harder than other places, and in the main urban area it is all stone pavement, but here it is much worse, only loess.

However, because the whole Sishang and the surrounding cars of Sishang are on the same track, it is not bumpy to walk on the way.

The carriages rented by Gander were cheaper, the more expensive ones were carriages and windows, and there were woolen blankets in them, but they were usually used by merchants.

The first time he took the car, Gander found that the people in Pengcheng were very talkative, very different from the local people in Yangxia, with an indescribable spirit in their bones, and even the sound of whipping their wrists was louder than elsewhere.

The carriage had to be driven from the southeast to the northeast so as not to delay the preparatory classes.

Gander didn't prepare food either, because there was a cafeteria in the university hall, and the price was basically the same as outside, but the students in the university hall had a part of the subsidy directly sent to themselves, which not only saved the cost of checking outsiders to eat inside, but also made some students have some money in their hands to save and even buy some good things for their younger siblings.

The man who drove the car on Gander's monthly subscription was a one-armed, with an empty sleeve, and after a few casual conversations, the person who drove the car opened the conversation.

He shook his one-arm sleeve, but he didn't care about his disability, but said with an extremely proud look: "In the first battle of Nanjishui, the division commander led us to form a formation at the bottom of the mountain and survived to the end. Shishuai's side is about to ...... Qi people."

When it came to Qi people, he seemed to think of some political correctness, and hurriedly said: "It's not Qi people, it's when Shi Shuai was about to defeat the miserable soldiers of Qingzhou who were forced by the unrighteous king, and as a result, our Sima's artillery bombed." Fortunately, those Qingzhou nobles couldn't hold on at that time, otherwise we would have been miserable. ”

"At that time, the division commander made a feint, and the entire Qingzhou army was pressed to our side, and the division commander let the formation be formed, and the artillery could support the surrounding areas in the formation, if we didn't have artillery at that time, we would definitely be rushed down. It's good that our shelling came later. ”

"At that time, Qin Yue had not returned to Sishang, he cut it for me, and saved half a life......"

"At that time, if Shi Shuai had rushed a little earlier, I wouldn't have lost my arm. But then again, if Shi Shuai had rushed earlier, I wouldn't have lost my arm, but there might have been more people who lost their lives......"

Gander nodded, thinking to himself that the many political correctness on this Si was funny. Equality, for example, is an insurmountable line; For example, if you have love, you can't say that you are from Qi country, you have to say that you are from Qingzhou......

Gander said in his heart, there is no etiquette in Sishang, but there is also etiquette, but this etiquette is different from other places. Etiquette is the rules, and there are actually a lot of rules in Sishang.

After the coachman finished speaking, he habitually flicked the sleeve of his empty arm and said: "After living in the Nine Deaths and One Life, those of us who lost our arms were arranged to enter the carriage and horse shop of the official camp at that time. ”

"Qingzhou War...... That is, what outsiders call the Qimo War, we captured a lot of nobles at that time, and finally they had to be returned when Heze met the alliance, and the ransom was horses. At that time, the division commander suggested that Shi Shuai organized such a car and horse shop, and our teacher was the earliest disciple of Shi Shuai, and he followed Shi Shuai in Shangqiu back then, and his brain was also smart. ”

"Two years ago, when private contracting was opened, I got such a set of cars and horses because I had worked for two years and had a disabled military certificate, and I only paid a few dollars. In recent years, there have been a lot of merchants in Pengcheng, and there have been many trade contacts, so it is okay to rely on this mess to eat. ”

"My wife works in the third textile workshop, and my two children grew up in the workshop's conservation garden when they were young, and they don't need our supervision, and they are now in primary school."

"My arm is broken, but the thing below is good, and I can make a lot of money every month, and I can still have a lot left after paying half of the tax and contract fee, and I can live a good life."

"It would be nice to have a few more monthly subscriptions like you. Last year, two of my retired colleagues asked me to go to the South China Sea with me, saying that it was a good place to make a fortune. I'm an artilleryman, and even though my arm is broken, I can actually use it when I go to the Chamber of Commerce over there...... But it's true, with a wife and children, this is really not as bold as when I was young, if I was allowed to go when I was young, I would still do it now. It's always safe. ”

"By the way, after all that, haven't you asked Mr. what he studied?"

Gander said proudly: "Learning some nine-number geometry, astronomy and geography are all the learning of some people. ”

The coachman flicked his whip, turned around and smiled, "Then we are walking together." ”

Gander was stunned, and said in his heart, don't you know what is called nine numbers, geometry, astronomy, geography? How do you drive with me?

But he didn't want the one-armed coachman to say: "Back then, the brigade commander of our artillery had learned nine-digit geometry from Shi Shuai, and we artillerymen had also learned a lot. When you are an artilleryman, is there anyone who can't solve a quadratic equation? ”

Gander's face twitched, blushing slightly for what he had just thought, and he asked a little embarrassedly, "That's really a peer." ”

The one-armed coachman smiled: "That's it, we mainly check the meter." I used to be able to memorize the residual cut table, but now it is useless for four or five years, and I have forgotten all about it. ”

"What you do, that's why you know it. We just know it, you ask me to calculate the cotangent table, I can't, that is, I can memorize. I've heard that the cotangent table will be revised again this year, and those who didn't retire at the time have something to do. ”

"Actually, this is not a skill, all young dolls who have just graduated from the artillery military academy can carry it, but let them go up to shoot artillery, then it will not work. Shi Shuai said, this is called a specialization in the art industry, and what is it called the combination of practice and knowledge, anyway, this is what our brigade representative told us. ”

Gander glanced at the one-armed coachman again, and his heart was full of horror, he thought that although he did not have the same knowledge as those in the university hall, he did not expect that such a coachman with a broken arm would memorize the watch, and he would never be able to do it.

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