Shortly after that meeting, Gande began his hard work in Pengcheng.

Pengcheng is a city that only began to emerge more than 20 years ago. It is regarded as the earliest city among the Jiuzhou of Xia to combine "city" and "city" into one.

The cities before the Spring and Autumn Period were more like colonial sites, and the exchange of goods between savages outside the city and the exploitation of the city supported the prosperity of the city.

With the development of Sishang's economy, several important cities such as Peiyi Pengcheng began to form a new urban model. The boundaries of cities were opened, and the expanded streets and the cancellation of policies that could only trade in "city" were all enabled to develop cities rapidly.

The commodity economy is gradually developing and is close to the important road of Sishui. Pengcheng, which was the first to allow private transactions and stamp duty, has caused housing prices to soar.

For the long-term consideration, Gande had to choose to buy a small house in the southeast of the city. The house was not big, there was no courtyard, and it was close to the street.

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

There is a lot of firewood in my home, but it burns local coal, which is cheaper than firewood. People living here are either the Youshi who come to study, or the local employer who works in the textile industry, and there are many wooden frame buildings, which are the cheapest houses. There is no flush toilet or tap water, and because of the problem of building structure, it has to be a small building. At this time, it is much cheaper than such a bungalow, and it is mostly lived by local small businessmen.

Unlike Gande in Yangxia, this house has a window, but it is very small and not an expensive large piece of a house.

Two old servants who had been following him, one wife and three children, were all the people in Gande's family.

The first thing that happened to Si Shang was that the two old servants had free status and had their original personal dependence. However, the two old servants had no land and no other life skills, so they still worked at Gande's house and took care of the Gande's family's daily life.

When we were in the population registration process, the two old servants did not draw lots when choosing their surnames, but chose to borrow Gande's surname directly.

All three children were in the elementary school next to them. After his wife came to Sishang, she was restless and began to learn more words and arithmetics by herself, wanting to get the teacher qualification certificate.

Fortunately, the two old servants could not separate the land and do other things, and there was someone to take care of Gande's daily life.

When buying a house, the stamp transaction tax was conducted at Siyue, which was a very important income in Pengcheng, and no one could exempt it from this.

Gande paid the tax and obtained a contract printed by the government. It seemed that the government endorsement further promoted the promotion of stamp duty.

After applying for household registration and going to school, I paid 60 yuan in compulsory education fees for one year, which is what every household must pay.

Apart from this, there are no other taxes, because many taxes are sandwiched into consumer goods and are not easily felt.

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

The University Hall in Pengcheng is northeast of the city, a little far from where Gande lives. Both old servants can drive, but Gande calculated his current income and decided not to buy a cart and horse for the time being, but chose to rent it temporarily.

The neighbor told him that just a hundred steps away from the south, there was a special trading market where horse-drawn carriages could be rented.

The rental method is called monthly subscription. Because manpower is scarce, the carts pulled by people have no meaning. Horse carts and ox carts are popular, and there is the most formal horse farm in the world at this time on Si Shang.

If you pay a certain amount of money every month, the carriage can be picked up and dropped off regularly and at regular locations. The cost is not high. The carriage can continue to do other work for the rest of the time, without delaying it.

But unlike Yangxia, the carriages here are basically double shafts.

However, the road is much flat and harder than elsewhere. It is full of stone pavement in the main urban area, so it is much worse here, just loess.

However, because the cars around Si Shang and Si Shang are on the same track, the road is not bumpy.

The carriages rented by Gande are cheaper, and the more expensive ones include carriages and trouser windows, and there are woolen blankets inside, but they are usually carried by merchants.

When I first took the bus, Gande found that the people in Pengcheng were very talkative, very different from the local people in Yangxia. They exuded an indescribable spirit in their bones, and even the sound of whipping the wrist was louder than elsewhere.

The carriage needs to be rushed from the southeast to the northeast so as not to delay the preparatory class.

Gande did not prepare food either because there is a canteen in the university, and the price is basically the same as outside. However, some of the subsidies for students in the university are directly distributed to themselves, which not only saves the expense of checking outsiders to eat inside, but also allows some students to save some money in their hands and even buy some good things for their younger brothers and sisters.

The man who drove the train for the month of Gande was one arm and had an empty sleeve. After a few casual conversations, the man who drove the train started talking.

He shook his one-armed sleeve and didn't care about his disability. Instead, he said with an extremely proud look: "In the battle of Nanji River, the division commander led us to form a formation at the foot of the mountain and lasted until the end. Shi Shuai was about to hold the Qi people..."

When talking about Qi people, he seemed to think of some political correctness and hurriedly said, "It's not Qi people, but Shi Shuai was about to defeat the miserable soldiers of Qingzhou who were forced by the unrighteous king. As a result, our Sima's cannon was blown up. Fortunately, the Qingzhou nobles could no longer hold on at that time, otherwise we would be miserable."

"At that time, the division commander made a feint attack, and the entire Qingzhou army was pressing against us. The division commander asked the formation of a formation and the artillery could support the surroundings in the formation. If we had no artillery at that time, we would definitely be washed down. Fortunately, our artillery bombed later."

"At that time, the Qin Yue people had not returned to Si, so he cut it for me and saved half of his life..."

"If Shishuai had rushed for a while, I wouldn't have lost my arm. But then again, if Shishuai had rushed earlier, I wouldn't have lost my arm, but more people might have lost their lives..."

Gan De nodded and thought to himself that the many political correctnesses on Si are funny. For example, equality is an insurmountable line; for example, love is not a person in Qi, but a person in Qingzhou...

Gan De thought to himself that there is no etiquette and law in Si, but there is also etiquette and law. But the difference between this etiquette and law is the rule. There are actually quite a lot of rules in Si.

After the coachman said that, he habitually shook the sleeve of his empty arm and said, "After living in the near future, those of us who lost our arms were arranged to enter the carriages and horses in the official camp at that time."

"The Battle of Qingzhou... is what outsiders call the Qi-Mo War. We captured a lot of nobles at that time, and finally we had to pay it back when the Heze alliance was in the league. The ransom was horses. The commander suggested that Shi Shuai be organized at that time and we had planned such a carriage and horse business. Our commander was Shi Shuai's earliest disciple. He followed Shi Shuai in Shangqiu and had a good brain."

"Two years ago, I opened private contracting. Because I worked for two years and had a disabled military certificate, I only paid a lot of money, so I got such a carriage. In recent years, Pengcheng has a lot of merchants and trade. It's okay to make a living by relying on this."

"My wife works in the third textile workshop. My two children grew up in the workshop's maintenance park when they were young, and we don't need to take care of them. Now they are all in elementary school."

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

"It would be even better if I had more months like you. Last year, my two retired comrades asked me to go to the South China Sea together and said that it would be great to make a fortune there. I am an artillery soldier. Although my arm is broken, I can actually use it when I go there... But it's true that with my wife and children, I'm not as bold as when I was young. If I were young, I would still be in this industry and work hard now. It's always safe."

"By the way, after saying so much, I haven't asked the teacher what he learned?"

Gande said proudly: "Learn some nine-digit geometry, astronomy and geography, are all learned by people in the fields."

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

Gan De was stunned and thought to himself, may you not understand what nine-number geometry astronomy and geography are? How do you, the driver of the car, travel with me?

But he didn't expect the one-armed coachman to say, "The brigade commander of our artillery back then, who had learned nine-digit geometry with Shi Shuai, and we artillery soldiers also learned a lot. Are there any artillery soldiers who can't solve quadratic equations of the univariate?"

Gande's face twitched, blushing slightly at what he thought just now, and asked a little embarrassedly: "That's really a fellow traveler."

The one-armed coachman smiled and said, "Just say that, we mainly check the table. I was able to memorize the table, but now it has been useless for four or five years, and I have forgotten it all."

"The knowledge you do is to know the reason. We just know the reason. If you ask me to calculate the reciprocating table, I don't know, that is, I can memorize it. I heard that I will correct the reciprocating table this year. Those who have not retired at that time have something to do."

"Actually, this is not a big skill. All young dolls who have just graduated from artillery military academy can recite them. But let them go up and shoot artillery, that's not possible. Shi Shuai said that this is called having a specialty in arts and professions, and it is called the combination of practice and knowledge. Anyway, this is what our brigade representative told us."
Chapter completed!