The Science Fiction World of Xueba

On February 1, 1993, the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, it is advisable to travel.

Early in the morning, Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa finished packing, put on the new clothes they bought in the county a few years ago, and each brought the 600 RMB they had saved before. Under the eyes of the third uncle and third aunt, they set foot on the Journey to the provincial capital.

"Lin Wazi, where are we going?"

Pang Xuelin only said that he was going to the south, but he didn't say where he was going.

Pang Xuelin smiled and said: "This amount of money is not enough to go to the south, we have to find a way to go to the provincial capital to earn some money."

"Go to the provincial capital to make money? What are you going to do?"

Pang Xuelin shook his head and said, "I haven't made up my mind yet, let's go and have a look first."

"Um."

Shui Wa nodded, he was inexplicably convinced of Pang Xuelin.

Of course, Pang Xuelin has never disappointed Shuiwa.

From Linxiong County to Lancheng, the capital of Gannan Province, the straight-line distance is only more than 300 kilometers. If you change it to later generations, you can definitely reach it in three hours by driving on the highway.

But in this era, Pang Xuelin and the others got on the bus at nine o'clock in the morning and did not drive into the Lancheng Bus Terminal until after eight o'clock in the evening.

When Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa came out of the station with their bags in hand, they were greeted by a group of enthusiastic men and women.

"Young man, do you want to stay?"

"Tongshun Hotel, ten yuan a night, ten yuan a night."

"Jiaxin Hotel, you can take a hot bath, ten yuan for Datong shop, thirty yuan for a standard room."

...

All kinds of voices mixed with Lancheng dialect rushed towards him.

Shui Wa subconsciously took a few steps back.

But Pang Xuelin went straight to meet him, and said loudly in standard Mandarin: "Rang Rang, Rang Rang, we have someone to pick us up, and we don't need to stay."

Soon, the originally enthusiastic crowd made way for Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa to go out first, and then blocked the others.

Finally walked out of the passenger terminal,

Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa stood on the side of the road, looking at the spacious roads around them, the cars flowing like water, the street lamps standing in rows, and the neon lights flashing on the tall buildings. Shuiwa was stunned for a long time, and even forgot to ask Pang Xuelin why he said So the standard Mandarin thing.

After holding back for a long time, he finally said: "Lin Wazi, this... this is too much electricity."

Pang Xuelin laughed, patted Shuiwa on the shoulder and said, "Brother Shuiwa, this is a provincial capital with a population of several million."

Afterwards, Pang Xuelin stretched out his hand, stopped a yellow-faced vehicle passing by, and said to Shuiwa: "Shuiwa, let's go, get in the car."

"ah?!"

Shui Wa was taken aback for a moment, and only when the driver began to urge her did she and Pang Xuelin get their luggage into the car.

Pang Xuelin sat down in the passenger seat, and Shui Wa got into the back row.

Pang Xuelin said to the driver: "Master, I will give you ten yuan, and you can find me a clean hotel within thirty yuan."

"okay."

It was rare for the driver to receive a big order, so he smiled all over his face and said, "Brothers, have you just come to Lancheng?"

Pang Xuelin smiled, took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to the driver: "We are students of Lancheng University. Isn't this just the end of the new year and school hasn't started yet? The dormitory at the school is not open yet, we are going to Stay in the hotel for two days first, and have fun in Lancheng by the way."

"Hey, it turns out you're a college student, sorry for your disrespect."

"Master, your taxi business is not bad."

The driver smiled and said, "It's not bad. I only earn eighty or ninety ten a day. After deducting the oil contract fee, it's good to have fifty or sixty left."

Shui Wa, who was sitting in the back seat, couldn't help but widen her eyes. She never thought that driving a taxi would make so much money.

Pang Xuelin was not surprised.

In the 1980s and 1990s, taxis were one of the most profitable industries for ordinary people.

What did the taxi drivers earn at that time?

From 1985 to 1995, the national per capita monthly income gradually increased from 60 to 100 yuan to 300 to 500 yuan, but the monthly income of taxi drivers remained at around 2,000 to 3,000 yuan. , equivalent to the per capita income in 2019, it is about 50,000 to 100,000 per month.

And it doesn't mean that you have to be at the top level to have this income. As long as you participate in this industry, you will have such a high income. There will be no obvious disparity in income between high-level taxi drivers and poor ones.

Strictly speaking, taxi drivers at that time were self-employed or contractors. Taxi licenses and contracting fees were later pushed up to sky-high prices, which eventually made it difficult to get a taxi in major cities. The root cause was the huge profits in the 1980s and 1990s.

This situation did not gradually ease until the emergence of online taxi-hailing platforms.

More than ten minutes later, the driver sent Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa to a place called Juyuan Guest House.

The overall environment of the hostel is good. Not only are the standard rooms equipped with heating, you can take a hot bath, and the most surprising thing for Shuiwa is the TV.

In the entire Xiaoxinfang Village, only a few households have TVs, and they are all 14-inch black and white TVs.

As for the Juyuan Guest House, there was actually a 21-inch large color TV inside.

Shuiwa looked at the surrounding environment with curiosity, joy and worry.

"Lin Wazi, we have brought a total of 1,200 yuan. We live in such a good place, and we don't need to spend this money."

Pang Xuelin laughed and said, "Don't worry, Brother Shuiwa, we'll just stay here for a few days, and we'll go out to look for a house tomorrow."

Shui Wa nodded, and then asked curiously, "Lin Wazi, why do you speak Mandarin so well? Also, why did you lie to the driver just now that we are college students?"

When talking about college students, Shui Wa's eyes flashed with longing.

In this era, college students are truly the favored children of heaven. Although in a few years, with the expansion of university enrollment and the no longer being assigned jobs, college students will also fall from the altar.

But in the hearts of most people, college students are still the real elites of this era.

Pang Xuelin smiled and said: "I learned Mandarin from Accountant Yang from the coal yard. As for lying to him that he is a college student, brother Shuiwa, since we came to Lancheng with unfamiliar places, we have to let others know that we also have a solid foundation in Lancheng. Otherwise, what if someone drags us to a remote corner and wants to attack us?"

"oh."

Shui Wa nodded with a vague understanding.

The law and order environment in this era is far from the level of later generations. Car bandits and road tyrants are rampant. In addition, PRCDNA fragment amplification technology is far from mature. Criminal cases in society are high, but the detection rate is not high.

Things like going out and evaporating among outsiders also happen from time to time.

Although Pang Xuelin was not afraid, it would be better to have as little trouble as possible.

After the two settled down in the guest house, they went out to eat a bowl of noodles before returning to their room to rest.

Shuiwa seldom watched TV once, and the popular Hong Kong version of "Shooting the Condors" was broadcast on TV, and she soon became addicted to it.

Pang Xuelin lost interest after watching it after a few glances. Although this film is a classic, but after all, the level of production is so high, Pang Xuelin does not have that kind of nostalgic feeling.

Early the next morning, Pang Xuelin took Shui Wa out for a stroll.

Juyuan Hotel is located near Lancheng University. Pang Xuelin first took Shuiwa around Lancheng University.

Although Lancheng's economy is not ranked first in the country, Lancheng University is a well-known existence in the country in this era.

As one of the fourteen comprehensive universities that existed at the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lancheng University's chemistry, physics, ecology, life sciences, geography, meteorology, and mathematics can all be ranked first in domestic academic disciplines. Phalanx, organic chemistry in chemistry, magnetism in physics, ecology, and physical geography are among the top three in China.

Even in later generations, due to the geographical environment, Lancheng University was poached by eastern universities with a large number of high-level teachers, and its strength has declined seriously. However, it still maintains the title of 985 universities and still has strong strength in the field of basic science.

Lanzhou University is like a hidden school, out of touch with business, less utilitarian and shrewd, holding the kind of academic seriousness and persistence inherited from the last century, still rigid, and rarely flexible.

The entire school has an excellent academic style, meticulous undergraduate education, and everyone has high academic ideals. Knowledge still maintains a high and sacred status in Lanzhou University.

Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa first came out after a tour of Lanzhou University, and then began to investigate the business environment of the surrounding communities of Lanzhou University.

After coming to this world, Pang Xuelin didn't expect to be able to make a name for himself in the academic world in a short time.

After all, it is a bit too scary for a seventeen-year-old child who has only graduated from the third grade of elementary school to suddenly possess the world's top academic level.

He needs a suitable platform to show his talent.

In addition, after entering this world, Pang Xuelin is not going to go the academic route alone.

After nearly half a year of understanding, Pang Xuelin found that although this world as a whole is not much different from the real world, there are quite a few differences in some details.

For example, Huaxia did not experience buzzing. Although there is a certain gap in technological development compared with Western countries, it still ranks at the forefront of the second echelon overall.

Aerospace technology is unprecedentedly advanced.

Since the Americans landed on the moon in the 1960s, the Soviet N1 rocket has not failed. It successfully sent Soviet astronauts to the moon and established a lunar base.

The success of these two superpowers in landing on the moon has stimulated the global investment in the aerospace industry.

In the 1980s, ESA also completed missions to the moon.

The United States completed the research and development of the space shuttle in the mid-1970s and successfully launched it, while the Soviet Union's Buran space shuttle was successfully launched into space by the Energy rocket in the early 1980s.

Subsequently, low-Earth orbit space stations, space solar power plants, synchronous orbit space stations, lunar orbit space stations, and Lagrange space stations were established one after another.

Even though the Soviet Union disintegrated, the United States did not relax its investment in space, and now even the Mars landing plan is on NASA's agenda.

And China is not far behind in this regard. Although it has not yet landed on the moon, China's space shuttle program has entered the agenda and is expected to be launched within a few years.

And with the progress of space industrialization, newspapers have begun to say that the control of the civil aerospace industry will be relaxed in the future.

Therefore, Pang Xuelin decided to accumulate a wealth and capital that would allow him to enter the space industry as soon as possible before opening up the civilian aerospace industry.

After all, China's solar project was not originally established for pure interstellar exploration. Pang Xuelin wanted to complete the interstellar exploration plan, and needed an interstellar spacecraft that was truly tailored for himself.

It is impossible for him to wait until 20 or 30 years later when the "Chinese Sun" is retired, and then engage in his star exploration program.

...

On the third day after arriving in Lancheng, Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa found a small courtyard with two rooms near Lanta University to live in. It cost 60 yuan a month, and Pang Xuelin paid half a year's rent at once.

However, Pang Xuelin still didn't tell Shuiwa what he was going to do. He took him out every day to walk around here and there, and sometimes he was even bold enough to take Shuiwa to Lanzhou University to take classes.

Shuiwa was almost scared to death. When she was in the classroom, she didn't dare to look up at the teacher on the podium.

Of course, even if he read it, he couldn't understand it.

Pang Xuelin looked calm, and even commented on the teaching level of these teachers.

Of course, going to Lanzhou University to take classes is just an adjustment. Most of the time, Pang Xuelin took Shuiwa to walk around the streets, counting the number of shops near Lanzhou University, and the development of catering, clothing and other industries.

One day, he even asked Shuiwa to stand guard at the gate to count the number of students entering and leaving the Lanta campus every day.

After nearly a week of understanding, Pang Xuelin had a bottom line in his mind.

Although the historical details of this world have changed to some extent, the level of economic development in China is similar to that of the previous life.

Now is the era of vigorous development of China's private economy.

The most profitable occupations that individuals can engage in are all concentrated in the self-employed, private contractors, small workshops and other industries.

Because self-employment is so profitable, it became a trend for all the people to go to sea for a while, and even county magistrates and mayors resigned and went to sea.

Intellectuals have become the main force in going to sea. The wages of getting a Ph. D. to do atomic bombs are not as good as selling tea eggs after graduating from elementary school. This obviously unfair treatment has caused a large loss of practitioners in the field of science and technology. Anything is better than technology.

In the real world, in order to reverse this, the country began to consciously and comprehensively improve the treatment of intellectuals starting from the mid-1990s.

Moreover, after the 10-year madness in the 1980s and 1990s, the number of self-employed people has also been seriously saturated. The most urgent need of the fast-growing Chinese economy is no longer low-end manual labor, but technical personnel.

The demand for technical talents, on the one hand, is due to the large loss in the past ten years, on the one hand, the insufficient supply of China's higher education, and because of the rapid economic development, a large number of companies have sprung up, resulting in a huge demand. The shortage of supply and demand has boosted the rapid increase in the wages of technicians, who are admitted to university and become white-collar workers, which is synonymous with Guangzong Yaozu.

Intellectuals are no longer despised, and the college entrance examination has become synonymous with carp jumping over the dragon's gate.

At the end of the 1990s, the huge shortage of supply caused the wages of scientific researchers to rise rapidly, and on the other hand, it also prompted the country to carry out educational reforms. Universities began to expand their enrollment substantially in an attempt to alleviate the shortage of college students.

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