Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 78, Visit

Author: Flying Wooden Fish

Chapter 78, Visit

"What majors do you all major in?" Zhang Jiachen spoke first after a few minutes.

"I want to learn aviation." My father was killed by a Japanese plane. I must develop our own plane so that I won't be bullied by others.

Cao Bin was the first to speak. When he said this, his hands were still clenched into fists.

"I want to learn mechanics." As long as the country's own machines are manufactured, Zhang Jiachen also spoke.

"I want to learn geological exploration." Zhao Zhanqiang, who was next to him, also spoke.

"Jiang Yan, what about you?" Cao Bin asked Jiang Yan.

"I want to learn goldsmithing."

Jiang Yan had already thought about materials science before. In his previous life, he studied mechanical manufacturing, so there was no point in learning it again. Besides, he knew more than them.

For a long time, material issues have been restricting my country's development. Aircraft lacked lightweight alloys, weapons lacked hardened steel, and for a long time, my country could not even manufacture qualified rails.

If steel is the backbone of a country, Jiang Yan wouldn't mind making this backbone stronger.

Besides, there are many alloy formulas in my own space, including my own mind. How can I take them out if I don’t have an excuse?

In the following days, everyone would take professional books and study somewhere when they had nothing to do. In order to integrate into the SL environment as soon as possible, Jiang Yan suggested that they try to speak in Russian as much as possible.

With the language environment, everyone's Russian proficiency has been greatly improved, and ordinary conversations are basically not difficult.

During Jiang Yan's rest time, he likes to sit somewhere by the car window and watch the scenery.

The scenery along the way is excellent, and the three countries passing through each have their own characteristics. The mountains, grasslands, birch forests, Lake Baikal, SL characteristic countryside, etc. are constantly changing along the way.

Ten days later, at night, they arrived in Moscow, the capital of SL.

Jiang Yan and the others got off the car and were picked up directly by people from the consulate in Moscow.

On the way to the hotel, Jiang Yan and the others looked at this strange city curiously through the car window.

I have to say that Moscow is quite beautiful now. What I saw along the way were tall European-style buildings, especially their upper floors, which almost all have small spires.

Stalinist architecture was extremely popular here during this period. Such buildings have strong ideological symbols. The appearance of the building is intended to "praise the ideal social order of communism". It is often majestic, majestic, symmetrical in layout, and luxuriously decorated.

Since it was already night, the street lights were all on, adding a lot of strange beauty to the city.

This made many people in the car marvel!

When they arrived at the hotel arranged by the embassy, ​​when they were about to go upstairs, the teacher who led the team told Jiang Yan and the others that they would be taking them around for the next three days and asked them to maintain a good image.

The room arranged by Jiang Yan and the others was a standard double room, and Cao Bin and he were arranged in the same room.

Returning to his room, Jiang Yan put down the box in his hand, said hello to Cao Bin, who lived in the same room, washed briefly, put on his pajamas and lay down on the bed to sleep.

When Jiang Yan wore pajamas to sleep, they laughed at him, saying that he was a dog with horns and making foreign troubles.

However, Jiang Yan was really not used to sleeping naked, so he just let them laugh. As time went by, they got used to it.

Russian-style breakfast is very rich. The staple food is usually black bread, Bollinger cakes, and various oatmeal porridges. Breakfast also includes eggs, milk, black tea, yogurt, sausage, cheese, honey, jam, sugar cubes, etc.

But Jiang Yan is really not used to eating this Russian-style black bread. Their bread is fermented with old flour. Most of this kind of bread does not use oil, and only needs the original flavor of wheat and yeast, but its size

The bread is a representative type of Eastern European bread.

Jiang Yan could only eat it with jam and porridge.

Although they have many types, Jiang Yan feels that the stir-fried liver buns from Sijiucheng are the most suitable for him.

After enjoying a hearty Russian breakfast, they arranged a visit, accompanied by government staff.

The first stop they visited was the collective farm.

Collective farms are socialist collective economic organizations organized by CL farmers to jointly manage agricultural production.

In the second half of 1929, CL began full collectivization, established a large number of agricultural communes, and enforced the public ownership of most of the means of production. In 1930, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) determined that the basic form of the collective farm movement was agricultural labor combinations, that is, state-owned land.

It is permanently used by the labor union, and other means of production and labor products are owned by the collective; the farmers in the union work together, and the income is distributed according to the amount of labor after making various necessary deductions. The farmer in the union can keep small farm tools and a certain number of livestock and poultry.

Operate the prescribed fields next to the house and family sideline business as auxiliary income.

In the 1950s, almost all villages in SL were affiliated with collective farms.

The government officials were explaining eloquently. Jiang Yan and the others were talking seriously below, but compared to others, Jiang Yan was just curious.

In the previous world, Jiang Yan often mentioned the life of the collective farm from his elders. This made Jiang Yan very curious about the collective farm, so he listened very carefully.

After visiting the collective farm, their next stop was the "Red October Chocolate Factory".

To be honest, this factory is very famous. It was built in 1851. This factory is located on the banks of the Moskva River. Its iconic red brick walls have become one of the landmarks of Moscow.

The "Red October" factory is famous for two things in history: First, during the Great Patriotic War, it overcame various difficulties and supplied a large number of "Konguard" and "Coke" series to the military, especially Air Force pilots.

chocolate.

The second is the production of the Alenka and Big-Head Doll series of chocolate candies. The little girl's head on the yellow paper cover was strongly loved by everyone as soon as it appeared, and became the best symbol of the "Red October" factory, even more than

The original logo. In short, this is the "white rabbit" of SL. Everyone once liked it and everyone has memories.

This kind of big-headed doll chocolate was still being sold online until Jiang Yan's time travel, and the scene was quite popular.

Before leaving, Jiang Yan and the others were each given a bag of chocolates like this as gifts.

Next, they took Jiang Yan and the others to visit some department stores and other buildings in Moscow.

During the visit, Jiang Yan noticed that this era was indeed the golden age of SL. Everyone on the street was smiling and looking relaxed.

There are also a wide variety of products in the department store, and the prices are not high.

According to government officials, the per capita salary in SL at this time is around 715 rubles, and the trauma of the war has basically been restored. However, there are more women than men on the street.

The purchasing power of the ruble in this era is quite strong.

There is a price list posted inside the department store building.

Black bread costs 1 ruble per kilogram, white bread costs 3 rubles per kilogram, beef costs 12.5 rubles per kilogram, etc.

So Jiang Yan and the others can buy almost 200 kilograms of white bread or 48 kilograms of beef, 200 liters of milk, etc. for 600 rubles a month.

These subsidies can completely enable them to live well in Moscow.

However, we should not forget that the development of CL was still very uneven at that time.

In the early 1950s, there were many gourmet restaurants in Moscow and Leningrad, but people's lives in other areas were much more difficult, and rural people's lives were especially poor.

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