486 Appearance (I)

On the morning of February 26, 1694, Agnelli had just woken up.

This is the first time he spent the night in Dongfang Port in the past six months, and the result was a very bad feeling. China Railway Company didn’t know what it was doing. There were trains entering the station all night at Dongfang County Railway Station, and they didn’t know what they were transporting, creating such a big formation.

"Ah, the city has its lovely side and its annoying side. You can hear the rumbling sound of trains in the middle of the night, and it is usually in the hustle and bustle during the day. It is really not a bit quiet." Agnelli, who was still wearing a nightgown, pulled open the curtains of his later generations, looked at the lively streets outside, and sighed.

By the way, more and more people on the east coast live in towns and their radiation ranges. Trains are something that many urban and rural people often see, and many people have even become accustomed to its existence. On the eastern prairie where the railway was earlier, the railways in most places have merged with the scenery, just like canals and post roads before the railway era.

Agnelli lived in a small old house, which he bought from a dead old man. The old man's children are now working in Qingdao and do not want to return to Dongfang County to live. Therefore, after the old man passed away, he sold this house that may have been back to the first ten years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and completely cut off contact with the city.

In fact, in the capital Dongfang County, there are many such old houses, mostly built decades ago, and now they are full of people. For example, the yard that Agnelli now owns is generally normal to live in five or six people, and there is no need to be surprised to live in eight or ten people, and many of them rent them.

With the increase in the population of the East Coast and the increase in urban job opportunities, the number of urban populations is increasing almost every day. These newly added populations are not all very rich, especially the capital's housing prices are very high, so basically you can only choose to rent a house and find a job to make a living.

These houses are basically face to face, and when constructed, they consider saving space. They generally include three rooms, a utility room and a kitchen, which are full of shop staff, restaurant waiters, young workers and other low-income professionals. Agnelli's partner Gao Jinzhong once opposed his living here, believing that this was "a maximum share", but Agnelli thought he liked this atmosphere very much and insisted on living here, let alone that he owned a house independently, and his living conditions were much better than others, so Gao Jinzhong had to give up in the end.

Apart from this area one street, a residential area of ​​this type has been demolished and replaced by 20 or 30-unit apartment buildings. These apartment buildings are made of solid materials, modern design, and have good facilities. Therefore, most of the people living there are senior technicians in factories, middle-level managers of various enterprises, small businessmen, scholars and other people with certain social status, which is in sharp contrast to the neighborhood in front of them.

The government once had the idea of ​​improving this residential area to improve the living conditions of these people who lived "overcrowded". But after confirming the capital relocation, this matter was basically put aside. At least the central government would not invest, so it could only rely on the Dongfang County Government to find a solution. However, the county government has a large stall and many places urgently need money. Improving residents' residences is not a priority project. Dongfang County Government once planned to move them to the suburbs of the city, but was rejected because it was too far from the place to work.

If you are not satisfied with building a house in the suburbs, it will be crowded to death if you build it in the city. This is actually not just a problem faced by the Dongfang County Government. In Qingdao, big cities such as Ping An are also very common. There are two or three-story residential areas separated by small alleys. They were mostly built many years ago. They are crude but not easy to damage, and the total number is about 10,000. A large number of working people live in it, among which non-skilled workers often have only one single room, and technical workers are better, and they look like two houses and one kitchen. They can afford the rent or simply buy these rooms.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs once counted that about one-quarter of the population of Ping'an County, the industrial city, lives in these rooms, and children play around in the alleys. The residential areas have basic tap water, gas lamps, sewer pipes and other facilities, and the garbage generated is also cleaned up regularly by non-national labor workers. Overall, it is quite reasonable.

During the planning of the new capital Luoyang Prefecture, the government also learned lessons and put a lot of effort into the construction of residential areas. They built many 30-unit apartment buildings in office or commercial areas for renting out for the lower-level civil servants and service personnel. These houses have basic living facilities, windows, public toilets and kitchens, which are very good overall. For well-off homes with a certain income, they provide higher-end apartment buildings for renting or selling. These apartment buildings often have three rooms, which is very suitable for family life.

As for some, such as merchants, senior engineers, middle and senior officials, there are also arrangements. They are standardized villas built on beautiful granite streets. The walls are made of blue bricks, with basements, corridors, lofts, stables, and a yard full of evergreen shrubs and flowers, which looks very comfortable. These houses are very valuable, and there are more than a thousand sets built in total. They are not rented, but only sold, in order to quickly recover some funds for urban construction.

Agnelli had asked someone to buy such a house in Luoyi District, which cost him a lot of money. But he did not regret that owning a villa in the capital is simply necessary for businessmen of their identity. The rabbit hole flour mill, which they jointly operated, has reached a stage of transformation since the development of the Rabbit Hole Flour Mill. If you go further, the farm, grain processing and sales will bloom together. If you take a step back, you can also become a large grain production and processing enterprise. There are hundreds of jobs created and have entered the roster of enterprises above the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Therefore, you often need to go to the capital to see if there are any policy or financial discounts. This is obviously inappropriate if you don’t have a fixed residence.

"The process of urbanization is accelerating. Rail transit, gas lamps, and tap water serve more and more people. The division between cities and rural areas is gradually blurring. Farmers who produce milk, poultry and nursery gardening for cities are often more urban people than urban people. They say words that only urban people can understand, wearing good-quality clothes, is really far from the pastoral life in the Pampa area. Yet, one is a real farmer and the other is a classical life.

The merchants who manage agriculture are not all the people." Agnelli turned back to the side of the coffee table, lit a cigarette, and thought silently: "If our country continues to develop rapidly like this, the urban population will probably be even larger? Maybe one day, when the land in the entire county is covered with urban buildings, and hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people live in it, relying on industry, commerce or service industries to live, and the daily needs of the city are all transported from afar by railways. What a grand scene it would be."

Agnelli felt that his imagination might be a bit too rich. To be honest, he couldn't imagine a city that covers an area of ​​thousands of square kilometers, and it was impossible to imagine it. This requires hundreds of thousands or even millions of industrial and commercial people. What kind of market can support such production and service groups? I'm afraid there isn't yet on this planet.

However, the bigger the city, the more it is, it is definitely a sign of a country's prosperity and strength. Cities mean money, industrialization, knowledge, and modern lifestyle. Look at the bitter farmers in the old continent, who are sick, malnutrition, and mentally numb. Compared with those in the East Coast cities who are well-dressed, strong in their bodies, and strive for a more comfortable life all day, you may think that these are people from two worlds.

The eastern coast has been continuously industrialized for decades, and the social landscape has finally undergone tremendous and profound changes. Living in it may not be particularly obvious, but Agnelli took a boat to New Courland before, and the place has developed for decades, but its appearance has not changed much, and it is still the same as before. It seems that this is the norm for most countries on the earth.

"I just hope to get a favorable international environment that can give us more time on the east coast, so that our social outlook will undergo greater positive changes. I just heard that Spain is not peaceful and the situation is very complicated. Maybe it will become the fuse of a huge war, which is very negative for the development of industry and commerce." Agnelli leaned on the back of the chair and thought: "But how can things always go smoothly? I believe that with the solid national strength foundation of our country, even if the external situation is not very good, we can continue to develop, continue to make progress, and then push the entire society to a higher level. Now the city is changing to the better side every day, and I believe this will continue, sure!"

Thinking of this, Agnelli put his pipe down and then took out a decent dress from the closet to change it. It was already past seven o'clock outside, and the sun shone in through the glass window. A train passed by in the distance, with dull rumbling and sharp whistle, and a commuter track train full of office workers swaying through every block. There were black, yellow or white dragons dancing over the city, contracts were signed, checks were drawn, ships were loaded with cargo, and students rushed into the classroom before the class bell rang...
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