Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 77, On the Train

Author: Flying Wooden Fish

Chapter 77, On the Train

Jiang Yan's departure naturally caused speculation among many people in the courtyard.

Some people said that Jiang Yan made a mistake and was taken away.

Some people say that Jiang Yan found his family and left.

In short, everyone has their own version of events. He Yuzhu and the others actually remembered what Jiang Yan said before leaving. No matter who asked, they remained tight-lipped.

But the only bad thing is that He Yuzhu and Xu Damao work together to basically bring trouble to anyone who speaks ill of Jiang Yan. Smashing windows at night is almost a routine operation.

At this time, Jiang Yan had already boarded the train to Moscow.

There are only two ways to get to Moscow now, one is by plane and the other is by train.

There’s no need to think about flights. At the moment, it’s hard to say whether flights will be open or not.

If you dare to sit on it once it is opened, you will understand if you look at RH in later generations. They treat civilian aircraft as fighter jets.

At present, there is no direct train from Sijiucheng to Moscow, only Manzhouli.

If you want to go to Manzhouli, you can only go to Tianjin and take a train. The speed of the train is not as fast as that of later generations, and the speed is only 50 kilometers per hour.

Starting from Tianjin, you need to pass through Tangshan, Shanhaiguan, Jinzhou, Shenyang, Siping, Changchun, Harbin, Daqing, Angangxi, Boketu, Hailar, Manzhouli and other places.

It took almost two days to get from Tianjin to Manzhouli.

Fortunately, the state had arranged soft sleepers for Jiang Yan and the others. It would have been a lot of fun if they had been sitting on hard seats.

However, the train from Manzhouli to Moscow does not run every day. Unfortunately, the time they arrived in Manzhouli was that the last train had just left and the next train would arrive two days later, so they could only stay in Manzhouli.

Manzhouli is a county that is familiar with HLBE City. It is located in the northeast of NMG Autonomous Region and northwest of HLBE City. It is located in the transition zone between the HLBE Plateau and the edge of the Daxingan Mountains. It has a temperate semi-arid continental climate and borders SL to the north. It is a national land port city.

In the 27th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1901), a railway station was built on the western line of the Middle East Railway. It was the first station from Russia to Northeast China (commonly known as "Manchuria" at the time), so it was named "Manzhouli Station", which in Russian is "Manzhouli Station".

", transliterated into Chinese as "Manzhouli".

Nowadays, Manzhouli is not at all the first land port city in the country as it will be in later generations. It is just an ordinary border city.

Here, Jiang Yan experienced what it means to be frozen for thousands of miles and covered with snow.

It is now March. At this time, Sijiu City is basically in the early spring season. In addition to being a little cold in the morning and evening, the temperature is basically around ten degrees. Most of the cotton-padded clothes have been taken off and put on lightweight ones.

clothing.

Like Manzhouli now, the temperature here is basically around minus 20 degrees, the snow outside is still melting, and there are still large chunks of ice in the river.

At this time, the city of Manzhouli is now very small. According to Teacher Wu who led the team, the entire city has a population of less than 30,000, so it can be considered a vast area with sparsely populated areas.

The journey from Manzhouli to Moscow is almost more than 10,000 kilometers, and it will take at least ten days at the current speed.

Jiang Yan, who was resting in a hotel in Manzhouli that day, received the notice and started boarding the train at 7:29 in the morning.

Early this morning, Jiang Yan packed up his things and went out together with Cao Bin, Zhang Jiachen and Zhao Zhanqiang who lived in the same house and joined the team in front of the hotel.

After the leader of the group counted the number of people, they lined up neatly and walked towards the train station in Manzhouli.

Thirty minutes later, Jiang Yan and the others successfully boarded the train to Moscow.

Jiang Yan and his group of international students are under the care of the state, and all of them are assigned soft sleepers.

Only when Jiang Yan walked into the sleeper berth did he realize that the soft sleepers of this era were not much different from the soft sleepers he used to ride in a green leather car in the previous world.

There are four bunks in the soft sleeper box, two up and two down. The width of the bunks seems to be about one meter. The soft sleeper is also wider and thicker than the narrow hard sleeper.

Between the two bunks is an aisle about 1.5 meters wide. There is a table at the top. There are two hot water bottles on the table, which are already filled with hot water. There is also a small desk lamp at the top of each berth for lighting.

The bathroom and water room in the soft sleeper carriage are at both ends of the carriage.

It may be a coincidence, or it may be that the superiors have arranged that the person assigned to the sleeper compartment with Jiang Yan is still the same person in the same room as him in the hotel. Due to Jiang Yan's young age, they took care of him and assigned him to the lower berth.

Since they lived in the same house these two days, the eldest Cao Bin was five years older than Jiang Yan. They were both young people, so they got along quickly.

"I heard that it is tens of thousands of kilometers from Manzhouli to Moscow. We will probably be on the road for half a month!" Cao Bin said while putting the box away.

"It's almost 11,000 kilometers. According to the current speed, it will take ten days." Zhao Zhanqiang, who was on Jiang Yan's upper bunk, spoke.

"It took a long time. My mother was afraid that I would be hungry on the way, so she specially steamed a lot of steamed buns for me, and put a lot of brown sugar in them!"

Cao Bin said as he took out a small bag from the backpack he brought on the bed, opened it and distributed the steamed buns inside to everyone. Jiang Yan also took one.

"I have Liubiju's pickles and sesame sesame pancakes here. You can try them."

Jiang Yan also put the things he brought on the table for everyone to taste.

Then Zhang Jiachen and Zhao Zhanqiang also took out the things they carried.

"Oh! I heard that we will be given 600 rubles a month to study abroad this time!"

Zhao Zhanqiang said while eating melon seeds.

"So much, how much would it cost if converted into RMB?"

Cao Bin asked curiously.

"It's almost more than 16 million yuan," Jiang Yan replied.

The ruble during this period was quite valuable. After the currency reform of CL, the Soviet Union carried out currency reform. The gold content of the ruble was set at 0.987412 grams, and the exchange rate against the US dollar was set at 0.9 rubles per US dollar.

During the same period, the exchange rate of RMB against the U.S. dollar was 26,000 to 27,000 RMB per U.S. dollar.

When converted into rubles to RMB, it is basically around 160,000 yuan.

"Oh my God! My mother's monthly salary is less than 800,000 yuan, so my monthly subsidy is higher than my mother's annual salary." Zhang Jiachen got up from the bed and opened his mouth in surprise.

mouth.

The state's subsidies for international students are quite high.

"Our one-month subsidy is estimated to be the income of a village in China in one year, and may not be as high as this."

Cao Bin said in a muffled voice.

As soon as he spoke, everyone fell silent.

According to Jiang Yan's understanding, some of them have even lived in rural areas for a long time, so they are more familiar with the hardships in rural areas. They also know that the country is in a period of poverty and poverty. At this time, spending so much money to study abroad, then

Such determination was made, it is not an exaggeration to say that one county can support one person.

Since the country has made such a large investment, everyone here can only study hard and use the knowledge they have learned to serve the country. That is what they should do.

I think everyone sitting here has this awareness.

(End of chapter)