At Munich train station, a loudspeaker is broadcasting.

"Passengers, please note that the train to Zhongdu will depart from Platform 10 at ten o'clock."

On the platform, a tall Celestial Empire man stood there and scanned the surroundings, trying to find the person who saw him off.

"She should come."

Zhu Mingzhong secretly thought to himself that the radio on the station was spoken in French. He didn't speak French, let alone understand it. But fortunately, he heard the name of "Zhongdu" clearly.

At this moment, he saw a touch of red in the crowd, even if it was far away, he could see her, she was wearing a red dress, fully showing her slender figure, she was very tall, at least one meter seven and very short, as she walked bare a pair of snow-white ankles, when she saw Zhu Mingzhong, she immediately ran over happily.

"Minghe!"

When she ran towards the platform, she was like an elf, and all eyes were on her.

"Sissi."

Looking at the girl who came running, a smile appeared on Zhu Mingzhong's face.

"Hey, it's a pity, I thought you could stay a little longer, and maybe I'll introduce you to my family then."

"I'll have a chance later."

Zhu Mingzhong still smiled at the little girl, she was indeed very small, just a fourteen-year-old little girl, and she had been his guide in Munich for the past few days.

"Is there really a chance? You're going back to the Celestial Empire. ”

Sissi pouted, looking a little lost.

"Make a train...... It only takes a few days. ”

Zhu Mingzhong looked at the train on the side, which was a diesel locomotive. The blue carriage looks quite old.

There was actually a train from Paris to Zhongdu, which was definitely beyond his expectations.

"Mr. Zhu, the train is about to leave."

Just then, a man dressed in light gray came up and reminded him that he was a staff member of the consulate and that two days earlier, he had informed the passengers who had not been injured in the attack to return home by car today.

Although he was a little reluctant, Zhu Mingzhong could only choose to leave in the end. looked at the girl in front of her who looked plain and elegant with light makeup, and breathed in the fragrance emanating from her body.

This fragrance is extremely familiar, and it is the perfume of the Ming court. Famous high-end goods.

Facing the urging of the consulate officials, when she was about to get into the car, Sissi's body stretched forward, her face tilted slightly sideways, and when Zhu Mingzhong was about to ask her cheek to say goodbye, she turned her head to greet her. The moment his lips touched lightly, Zhu Mingzhong couldn't help but be stunned.

After a moment, the girl with crimson cheeks looked at him and said.

"Goodbye ......"

People were crowded, and the flow of people from all directions squeezed Zhu Mingzhong into the car, standing at the car door, and when he said goodbye to the girl, he heard the girl shouting loudly.

"This is my first kiss, you have to remember it......"

It wasn't until the train left that Zhu Mingzhong came back to his senses and touched his lips with his fingers, as if he was thinking about something.

"Hey, it's been fifty years since Du Yongping, and there are still so many Western girls who want to fall in love with a Celestial Empire, especially those ordinary girls."

On the opposite sleeper, a middle-aged man in his thirties sighed.

"No, she's a Bavarian nobleman and seems to be ......"

Zhu Mingzhong smiled suddenly, originally he just thought that her name was more familiar, but he never thought that she was really the Sissi who was well-known to the world for her extraordinary beauty in another time and space. Closing his eyes, his mind once again conjured up those gentle fawn-like eyes, red lips with a sweet smile, a slightly beautiful voice, and a shy but very elegant demeanor.

Over the past six days, she has brought him more joy than he could have imagined. It's just that the joy is always short-lived.

"Oh, nobleman, then there is no hope, you are not a nobleman, nobles do not intermarry, have you forgotten?"

Then the man on the other side introduced himself.

"Contemptible Li Hanzhang, the word Xiaoquan, a person from Luyang in the south, did not consult ......"

Li Hanzhang?

Looking at the person in front of him in surprise, Zhu Mingzhong felt a little surprised.

What's going on?

How did I meet all "acquaintances".

"Under Zhu Minghe, the word ...... Restoration. ”

Why the word?

Maybe it's because I want to start anew. Zhu Mingzhong thought to himself. After introducing themselves, the two who were familiar with each other chatted there, in fact, most of the time, it was Li Hanzhang who said and Zhu Mingzhong listened.

The journey to Zhongdu is long, and according to Li Hanzhang, even if it takes nine days, it is currently the most convenient mode of transportation between Eurasia.

"Railways have changed the world, and sometimes, there are opinions in China about how our railway companies coerced and induced one country after another to sign unequal treaties, but they know what kind of impact we had on those people in the wilderness more than a hundred years ago, when we built trains into Europe, we built trains to Moscow, we built new cities near the train stations, we built new schools, they were educated there, and Warsaw, if not out, They had no idea what kind of change the railroad had made to the world, and I dare say it was definitely the greatest invention in the world. ”

Regarding Li Hanzhang's mention, Zhu Mingzhong just said with a smile.

"It's just too slow, it takes nine and a half days to get to the central capital......"

Why can't you fly?

Zhu Mingzhong looked out the window and looked at the blue sky, the airplane had been invented for more than half a century, but air travel was still the patent of a few wealthy people.

"Take a plane, the plane is fast, but the Restoration, you know, how far is the range of the plane? Even the most advanced Dapeng 3 can only fly to Moscow, and then what? Constant landing, refueling, in fact, not a few days faster. It's still comfortable to take the train. ”

Saying that, Li Hanzhang lazily lay on the bunk, and then said.

"You see how comfortable it is, you can sleep here, nine days is a long time, but we can sleep, we can read, we can eat in the restaurant, we can even go to the show, these are things that you can't enjoy on the plane, I tell you, if it weren't for the attack...... I'm afraid we won't have a chance to sit in first class, do you know who paid for our tickets? ”

"The Emperor of France?"

"Yes, it's him, the reason why he asked us to leave as soon as possible was to avoid possible troubles, such as another attack, and someone died, there must be a councilor in Zhongdu who blamed him, and the court will also intervene, a series of troubles, enough for him to have a headache, so he wants us to leave quickly, oh, by the way, he also gave us some financial compensation, I see you are injured, is it 2000 pairs?"

Looking at the chattering Li Hanzhang, Zhu Mingzhong wondered if he was just the same name as that person, but from his words, Zhu Mingzhong got a message parliament, the so-called parliament is actually the House of Nobles, an institution established more than fifty years ago.

On the next journey, with such a talkative guy, he was not lonely, although most of the time, Zhu Mingzhong was just a listener, but an occasional sentence would make Li Hanzhang fall silent, just like when he arrived in Moscow after driving for two days and two nights, Zhu Mingzhong said something casually.

"This railway is too slow, the empire is so vast, it is long overdue to build a high-speed railway, a high-speed railway with a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour."

Then the first thing Li Hanzhang said when he woke up the next morning was, "Indeed, the Celestial Empire really needs fast railways, otherwise the empire that is too vast will sooner or later fall into division because of transportation." Then from his mouth, Zhu Mingzhong knew that the Ming Dynasty was now clearly divided into east and west, the west was the past Russia, and the east was the Ming Dynasty, although it was difficult to find a pure Russian now, but the culture of the west was obviously influenced by Orthodox Christianity. The regional and cultural differences often cause people on both sides to have various arguments in schools and newspapers.

"There are more than 95% of the people of the Celestial Empire, and it is impossible to go from the east to the west and not from the west to the east in their lifetime, maybe the high-speed railway can make up for all the ......"

When the train passed through the vast Central Asian steppe, early that morning, Zhu Mingzhong got up from the bed, staggered to the league washing room, washed and shaved his face, and listened to the radio in the carriage.

"We can't laugh at the ...... of this effort"

While he was brushing his teeth, he heard something like this on the radio.

"Those Europeans, what have they done in Africa for more than 100 years? As they did in South America, they turned men into slaves, cultivated land for them, mined ores, cultivated rubber, spices, and all kinds of other crops, they took women to their beds, turned them into instruments of fertility, and multiplied for them, and the whole of southern Africa, except for our Viceroyalty of Siping, became a paradise for the French, the Spanish, the Portuguese, and the Anglo-Dutch......"

While smearing soap bubbles on his chin, Zhu Mingzhong hummed a ditty and listened to the various sarcasms of Europeans on the radio, which focused mainly on what they did in their colonies in Africa, and continued on the radio:

“…… We have succeeded in foreseeing the prospects and trends of Africa, and in any case they have almost achieved their goal of turning Africa into their own land, and what kind of people are living there? Are you French? Germanic? Englishman? Scots? Dutch? No, one thing is for sure, they are all people with local indigenous blood, as for the local natives, maybe this is exactly what they committed heinous crimes Now human beings can only see the people who used to live there through photos, oh, there seem to be some in South America, they were also sold as slaves by Europeans, God knows how many crimes Europeans have committed......"

When Zhu Mingzhong was getting dressed, listening to the sarcasm on the radio, his mood was a little complicated......

The conquest of Africa by the Europeans was brutal, and their colonization activities there were far more than the affairs of South America, they burned the jungles in the interior of Africa, turning the local indigenous people into their slaves, and when generations of European girls married into the Ming Dynasty, European men turned Africa into their paradise.

By the time the Ming Dynasty launched its century-long expedition, the Europeans had already occupied almost all of Africa, except for North Africa under Egyptian control, as well as Xiping and Madagascar.

When European countries took advantage of the Ming Dynasty's inability to look westward to complete their overseas colonization and establish their respective colonial empires, the Ming Dynasty was the first to reach Africa, but Africa was in the Africa of the Europeans. And this time they won't be left behind.

They eat a trench and grow wise. The European expeditions in Africa were brutal, and the natives were all slaves.

Thinking of this, Zhu Mingzhong's hand froze for a moment, and then sighed.

breech guns, artillery, high-energy explosives, only made the massacres of Europeans more effective, and the savagery of advanced weapons did not change their essence.

The satire of Europeans continued on the radio, from Africa to the prevalence of anarchism, and because of this, Zhu Mingzhong suddenly realized that it seemed that there were only two kinds of people left in this world, the Chinese and the Europeans, and the Chinese were not only limited to the Ming Dynasty, Zhuxia and Western Xia, but also the same. I don't know what the situation is in Western Xia now.

"Western Xia? You mean the Roman Empire, Bulgaria, Serbia, those places? ”

Faced with Zhu Mingzhong's question, Li Hanzhang picked up a pictorial magazine as if he remembered something, pointed to the cover and asked.

"Do you think she's pretty?"

The magazine cover girl is, of course, very pretty, and she looks a bit like a mixed race from Central Europe.

"She is the most well-known movie star in Serbia, it seems to be called, called Xu Li."

Serbian movie stars?

Xu Li?

Perhaps seeing Zhu Mingzhong's incomprehension, Li Hanzhang shook his head and sighed.

"So, you young people, don't understand the outside world at all, you always think that the Ming is the world, the world is the Ming, it's really too self-righteous, you know, why I say that the railway is the greatest invention?"

Looking at Zhu Mingzhong, Li Hanzhang asked rhetorically and explained.

"Because at that time, when we built the railroad there, our people would get there, and the second sons who had no inheritance rights and were penniless in the past, but even so, for the locals, the people of the Celestial Empire were still noble, even ordinary little nobles were not as noble as the people of the Celestial Empire, they all married local girls, and it was like this for more than a hundred years, you see......"

Flipping through one of the pages of the pictorial, Li Hanzhang smiled.

"Haven't you seen this year's Olympics? In the entire Albanian team, only one member of the team looks like a Europa, and the others are not much different from us. Why are railways great? Just because through the railway, our civilization has spread to every city and village along the line, and of course, there is also the blood of China, which is a place that ports and ships cannot reach, do you say that the railway is not the greatest invention? ”