At Fort Partenham, Rose and Elizabeth finally see the legendary train.

The locomotive of the train is like a huge black monster parked on the platform, full of iron-like power, and the carriages behind it are uniformly painted in bright and beautiful blue and white colors.

This is the culmination of the latest smelting and casting technology. It has more powerful and efficient power, a stronger and safer body, and almost every new front end has improved over the previous one.

With the sound of a whistle, the behemoth began to move slowly, accelerating shortly after exiting the platform, and then galloping through the hills of North Genoa.

The route has been in operation for almost a year. Railways and trains are new after all, people are unfortunately killed by trains every month along the railway line, and more livestock are killed and injured along the line, and the railway company pays a lot of compensation for this, but it still can't stop people's love for trains.

The first choice for business travelers who travel overland from the north to Poitou, or from the north to Poitou, is the train, and even some northerners who want to go to the province of Javia are willing to take a train to Poitu first, and from there follow the coastline to their destination, which is faster.

This convenient and comfortable way of traveling has been embraced, saving not only time but also money.

This has also shortened the distance in time and space, strengthened the ties between Genoa and the northern provinces between the north and the south, and greatly promoted the economic and trade exchanges between the north and the south.

The success of this route has contributed to the tendency of Patnamburg, which was already located in the mining area, to become an economic powerhouse in the north of Genoa. Many people settle down here to buy property.

It was the first stop for northerners on their way south, and the last stop for southerners to leave the south and travel north, and it also led the Genoese to make ambitious plans to connect all Genoese cities by rail.

The construction of railways is itself an intrinsic driving force for investment-driven economic and employment, including tax revenues.

Capital is always profit-seeking, and in 1832 the Estates-General of Genoa decided to gradually abolish the barriers to investment and trade between various parts of the country, and form a unified market and a unified tax system, which also played an important role in setting off an upsurge of capital investment in new industries, and the rise of investment in turn accelerated the abolition of all laws that did not meet the needs of capitalism.

Railway-related, mining, smelting, metalworking, high-performance steam engines and related industries have been greatly developed, which in turn has led to the development of related service industries and absorbed a large number of people.

The mining industry, in which the Koval family had previously invested, was suddenly worth a hundredfold from being saddled with heavy bank interest.

The family transferred all the unimportant mining areas in their hands at a high price, repaid the bank loans, raised a lot of funds, kept only a few rich mines, and followed Sean's industrial layout and joined the investment feast.

Although this inevitably competes with Sean's industry, the market demand is too great for the Koval family to win a place before the northerners' big capital reacts.

This is something that Sean personally agreed with Count Koval when he was in the Holy City, and the banker Siyes also played an important role in this.

In fact, the two have formed a situation of duopoly competition, of course, now mainly with Sean as the main body, supplemented by the Koval family, and the two sides jointly exclude third-party competitors.

In fact, for a long time in the future, not only the casting technology of the locomotive, but also the railway construction technology, Kang's railway and Kang's power are at the leading level.

The train smits black smoke and runs through the fields, and the cattle and sheep on the neat fields and meadows on both sides quickly retreat.

Many of the passengers of the first train exclaimed the greatness and novelty of this new form of transport, while the natives looked with disdain at these rare and strange strangers, especially those from the north.

Elizabeth was also screaming, and even poked her head out of the window, accidentally blowing her hat away from the wind.

The tiring and long journey of more than a thousand kilometers could not let her settle down.

It was also Rose's first time on a train, and she had chartered a box in the VIP compartment where she could lie down and sleep without being disturbed by outsiders.

After all, it takes almost 2 days to take a train from Fort Partenham to Poitou, with stops along the way. Due to the backwardness of lighting technology and railway signaling technology, for safety, the train at this time is not running at night, and long-distance passengers have to spend the night on the train.

As the train arrived in Bern, a man in a railway police uniform came to the VIP car to check his ticket.

Armed with a dagger and a pistol, the policeman scrutinized everyone's tickets and identification, sometimes asking suspicious provincial passengers what they were doing in Genoa.

Although he had a lovely smile, anyone could tell that this man was actually very serious, even those passengers from high society obediently cooperated.

"Miss, please show your ID!"

The policeman said to Elizabeth, who was standing in the hallway outside the box.

"What is that?" Elizabeth's question made the policeman stunned for three minutes.

"It's a document that proves your identity, usually issued by the police station where you live!" said the policeman patiently, "I'm sorry, but my duty is to arrest fugitives and prevent bad actors from committing crimes on the train, and it is my basic duty to check passengers' ID cards." ”

"Oh, I lost my ID and it was stolen by a thief. Elizabeth suddenly said, "Sir, you won't arrest me for this, will you?"

Her innocent eyes made the police a little soft-hearted. The policeman said, "Miss, you are alone on the train." ”

"No, I still have a companion. Elizabeth pointed to the closed door.

The police knocked three times and pushed open the box door. Elizabeth, who was standing behind him, seemed to see something terrible.

The handsome gentleman with a sense of justice she knew disappeared, and standing in the box was a young girl.

Rose had removed her top hat, revealing long, soft, chestnut hair that was simply tucked back with a hairpin.

Wash away the disfigured powder, revealing her delicate face and white swan-like neck.

She changed into a pale blue dress with small light flowers that she had loved, with a yellow ribbon tied around her waist and a lace ring at the neckline.

She is tall and feminine, smart and beautiful, and has a heroic spirit that ordinary young women rarely have.

In Elizabeth's stunned gaze, Rose handed her identification to the police. When she was "exiled" to Vichy, she had an identity certificate there, and her name was on the population register of Vichy.

"Rose Coty, are you from the town of Poitovich, and live in the rose garden?" the policeman wondered.

"As you can see, Mr. Officer!" Rose said.

"Don't get me wrong, miss. In Genoa, no one yet dared to pretend to be a native of Vichy, especially one who lived in the rose garden. The policeman was in awe, "In fact, your name appears on a list." ”

"What list?" asked Rose curiously.

"I'm afraid you don't know, although our railway police are under the jurisdiction of the provincial police department, we have a lot of connections with the Earl of Rocky Mountain. In fact, I used to be a corporal in the former Civil Guard, and the Count was always our commander. ”

The officer didn't say anything outright, but his hint made Rose quickly understand that most of these railway cops were probably transferred from a group of former retired Civil Defense soldiers, and these people were naturally Sean's supporters. These people certainly know what the rose garden in the town of Poittuvich means.

It can also be seen that Sean has not given up looking for her in recent years.

The officer returned his identification to Rose, saluted and left. Rose knew that the news of her appearance in Genoa would soon be sent to Sean.

Elizabeth was very disappointed, she felt that her emotions had been seriously cheated, and she lay on her stomach on the sleeper and cried very sadly.

Along the way, she has relied on Rose, who is pretending to be a man, and even has a strange feeling, but the truth shatters her illusory dreams.

The world is horrible, full of deception.

Rose didn't try to persuade her at all, picked up a book and read it with relish.

"Why don't you coax me?" said Elizabeth, who wept for a while, and sat up, feeling bored.

"Why?" Rose lifted her gaze from the book.

Elizabeth really wanted to say that she was the noble princess, but when she really left the palace, she found that she was worthless except for her identity.

Even the little girls and boys on the train who carried bamboo baskets to sell food and cheap knick-knacks were much stronger and more independent than her.

"You're not a good person!" said Elizabeth, puffing out, "only bad people can change their faces." ”

"Oh......" Rose put down her book, "in Gesar City, I also saw a poor creature who had also been transformed. My Highness the Princess!"

Elizabeth cried out in horror, "You...... You...... How do you know who I am?"

"Arrogant, willful, ignorant, and at a loss in the face of difficulties, the words superiority and ignorance are written everywhere in you. Luo said mercilessly, "This is a specialty of a wealthy family, especially the best in the palace." ”

"You...... You...... Be...... Jealous!" Elizabeth finally found a word to defend herself.

"No, you're jealous of me. Rose laughed.

"What is there about me to be jealous of, you liar?" questioned Elizabeth.

"Independent, self-reliant, and free, I don't need the protection of others, and I don't cry like a little quail in the face of difficulties!" Rose's outspokenness hurt Elizabeth.

Elizabeth stared at Rose for a long time, then said, "You're a liar. ”

"You're right, deception is my profession!, but your father wouldn't admit it so happily. ”