Located on the shores of Lake Baikal, Baikalsk is a town of about 10,000 people, but swear to God, it's a lot livelier than those in Outer Mongolia. It looks more popular!

It is said that there are so many place names called 'Baikalsk' here, there is a 'Severobaikalsk' in the Republic of Buryatia, and there is a 'Zabaikalsk' on the border side.

When Yang Meng arrived in Baikalsk, it was covered with ice and snow, and his appearance was eye-catching: riding a 'Ural' motorcycle, wearing a Mongolian robe, and the whole person and the car were covered with snow.

When he arrived in Baikalsk, the rate of turning back was 300 percent! It is estimated that the local residents are thinking: This guy has urine in his brain, right? Riding a motorcycle in the winter, can't he freeze to death?

Along the way, he was no longer surprised by this gaze! Every time he refueled, people felt like they had seen a ghost! And after knowing Yang Meng's plan, everyone was very enthusiastic, all kinds of photos were taken as souvenirs, and some people gave him all kinds of small gifts: a real warrior is worthy of respect.

The timing of his arrival is still very good, and now Lake Baikal has not completely frozen!

Winters on Lake Baikal are long, and the ice season is from January to May, and December is when the ice begins.

It's not easy to freeze Lake Baikal, which has a staggering 23,600 cubic kilometers of fresh water? A fifth of the planet's fresh water is in the lake (ice and snow are not counted)!

Yang Meng also saw one of the most exotic creatures in the world here, and that is the Baikal seal.

What's so strange about seals? Actually, there are!

Just listen to the name, 'seals' live in the sea, and what is Lake Baikal? Freshwater lake! So Baikal seals are the only seals in the world that live in freshwater.

The origin of this seal is still inconclusive.

Biologically speaking, Baikal seals and Arctic seals are close relatives, so many people believe that this Baikal seal came here because of the movement of the earth's crust. But the southern part of the Siberian Plateau, where Lake Baikal is located, has not been flooded by sea for more than 500 million years! How the Baikal seal got from the Arctic Ocean to Lake Baikal is still inconclusive. Most of the creatures of Lake Baikal are endemic to the lake, and it is a very peculiar place.

However, there are many false rumors about this place, for example, there is a surprising claim that there are sharks in Lake Baikal! Even the Du Niang Encyclopedia says so。。。。。。

Alas, there is not a shark there, but a Baikal sculp, which is a translation error.

And since there are seals in Lake Baikal, it is not surprising that there are sharks, right? And there are many people who say that they have noses and eyes。。。。。。

Pure nonsense!

This is a small town with many people in winter, largely because there is a very famous 'Sable Mountain Ski Resort', when the Emperor came here to ski, it was also a wave of advertising, many people would take the train from Siberia to ski here, and now it is the ski season, so it is also the busiest time here.

In fact, the best season to visit Baikal is summer, but few tourists come to Baikalsk in the summer. This is because it is an industrial city that there is

The existence of polluting companies such as paper mills is seen by environmentalists as a rat poop that pollutes Lake Baikal. And to see the scenery of Lake Baikal, there are many more beautiful places than here! Who still comes here?

It's a different story in winter, and there's no Sable Mountain ski resort anywhere else.

Yang Meng looked at the Baikalsk railway station, where he was in front of the camera----- this is probably the best platform in the whole Baikal scenery----- less than 200 meters from Lake Baikal, and you can see beautiful scenery when you get out of the train station.

IT IS ALSO INTERESTING TO SAY THAT THE RAILWAY IN TSARIST RUSSIA IS ALSO VERY INTERESTING, IT IS A BROAD-GAUGE TRAIN, AND THE GAUGE IS 1520MM.

The width of the rails between the trains is called 'gauge', which is the distance between the inner sides of the rails, there are three types of rails in the world, the range is broad gauge, standard gauge and narrow gauge, and the Han country is 1435mm rail, that is, the standard gauge, which is the standard used by most countries in this world. However, even in the Han Kingdom, there were other gauge standards. FOR EXAMPLE, THE BAODAO PROVINCE IS A 1067MM NARROW GAUGE, AND THE RAILWAY LINE FROM KUNMING TO HEKOU IS A 1000MM NARROW GAUGE.

If you look up on the Internet why Tsarist Russia used broad-gauge trains? The most interesting explanation is the Han Dynasty's well-known explanation: It is said that this is because Tsarist Russia has strategic vision, so that foreign enemies will invade Tsarist Russia will not use Tsarist Russia's railway lines to transport materials.

This Nima is absolutely the most ridiculous statement------ people have occupied your railway line, and they can't occupy your train?

What's even more interesting is that because the railway gauge of Tsarist Russia and Han is different, Tsarist Russia proposed to build a broad-gauge railway from Zabaikalsk to Manchuria。。。。。。

This incident once again proves the ignorance of those who are known.

In fact, Tsarist Russia originally had a broad-gauge railway that went directly to Manchuria!

But it was a freight railway, not a passenger railway, and the freight train could run directly from Zabaikalsk all the way to Manchuria, which was convenient. But what if the passenger railway wagons ran from the territory of Tsarist Russia to the Han Congress? Because there was no broad-gauge bus station in the Han country, the broad-gauge train first had to stop at Zabaikalsk, and everyone got off the train and waited for the train to change the bogie, and the whole train was regrouped, and then boarded the train from Zabaikalsk railway station to Manzhouli railway station. The process takes about six hours, and the distance between the two train stations is only about nine kilometers。。。。。

Isn't it a pit to wait for more than six hours at such a close distance? This is the reason why people are asking for the construction of a broad-gauge railway!

Of course, it's their business to suggest or not to adopt, and it's our business to adopt or not.

This fact can only be proved once again;

So the question arises: why did Tsarist Russia use broad-gauge railways?

In fact, the reason is really simple, it is two words: cheap!

As we all know, what do Tsarist Russians like the most? That is 'big'! Everything must be magnificent!

In the middle of the 19th century, Tsarist Russia built its first railway, called the Tsarskoye Railway, and what was the gauge of that railway? Six feet, or 1,829 millimeters! But that's nothing, after all, the world's railways were just beginning to develop, and there was no standard

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After the construction of this railway, the second railway was called the 'Nikolaev Railway', and at that time a consultant from the Stars and Stripes was hired called Joe Westler, who was a native of the Stars and Stripes at the time, and the most common railway gauge there was five feet, or 1524 millimeters.

At that time, a special organizing committee was set up to study whether to use six feet or five feet, and finally found that if the five-foot gauge was used compared with the six-foot gauge, it could save 3% of the project money, so the five-foot gauge was adopted.

At that time, the railway gauge of each country was different, and everyone was groping, and finally when the unified gauge appeared, the railways in Tsarist Russia had already formed a scale that could not be changed, so it became what everyone sees today. It has nothing to do with strategy!

Some countries, such as Pakistan Railway, Tianzhu, Argentina, Chile, Portugal, and Spain, also use broad gauge, and they are wider than those of Tsarist Russia: they have a 1,676 mm rule, while the Dongying Shinkansen uses a standard rule of 1,435 mm, while ordinary railways use a narrow gauge of 1,067 mm! Many countries in Southeast Asia use meter gauge, that is, 1,000 mm. Africa is even more chaotic, with some countries using 1067mm, some countries using 1000mm, and some countries using 1435mm.

There are even some countries such as corrupt countries, there are several railroad tracks in a country, to put it bluntly, it is the situation caused by the lack of unified standards at the beginning, and the result is that it has become a strategic purpose in the mouth of the 'public knowledge'.

"Hmm。。。。。。 You've seen it too. Yang Meng turned the camera in the other direction after introducing the railway: "Baikalsk is full of such wooden houses, which are prepared for skiers." See all this firewood at the door? These wooden houses are all wood-burning for heating. I was going to go straight to the road, but now I want to experience what it's like to live in a wooden house. So I'm going to stay here for two days and get ready before I go。。。。。。 During this time, I haven't seen anyone alive except at the port, just here to eat some hot soup and hot rice and take a hot bath----- I haven't taken a bath for so long, my body is about to stink! Let's go find a place to rest!"

When he was talking, he saw a train entering the train station, a group of tourists walked out of the train station, and a group of young men and women walked out talking and laughing, and they were stunned when they saw Yang Meng: Everyone wanted to ask Yang Meng: Are you riding a motorcycle this day?

A white girl with sunglasses and a mask is very generous, and walking in front of Yang Meng is a long list of words. Yang Meng was stunned, although he couldn't understand what the girl said, but he knew that he knew that it was Mongolian.

It turned out that he was misunderstood because he was wearing a Mongolian robe?

Yang Meng also didn't know Russian, so he could only say in English: "I'm not from Outer Mongolia, I'm from Han." ”

After speaking, he also took off his windproof mask and sunglasses to reveal his face for those people to see, hoping that they could distinguish the difference between Han and Outer Mongolian.

As a result, the white girl was stunned when she saw Yang Meng's face clearly, and directly stretched out her hand to slap Yang Meng in the face! This thing was so sudden, Yang Meng didn't react, and she was slapped in the face.

"Vake, who the hell are you?" Yang Meng was really anxious.

As a result, the white girl was not to be outdone: "It's not that you haven't beaten it!