In fact, Wuwei County can be said to be very rich in products, but a large number of various local products produced by Wuwei County, especially the kind of fruits and other specialties that have a very short shelf life after picking, and are not convenient for long-distance transportation. This time, they all took these two steam locomotives from Wuwei County and brought them back when they returned to Dunhuang County. In Li Wenyuan's words, these things could be sold to dignitaries and dignitaries in Dunhuang County, as well as to foreign visitors and merchants who came to visit the county.

Of course, these are carefully selected from the various specialties that are transported, and the goods of good quality will be sold to the class of this noble person. As for those that were not in good condition, Li Wenyuan only sold them to the people at cost price to enjoy. Although the things sold to the people did not look as good as the things sold to those dignitaries, Li Wenyuan had personally tasted them. Aside from the quality aside, there is no difference between the two. Therefore, even if these are some specialties that are not in good condition to the people, Li Wenyuan will not feel too guilty in his heart.

After all, only those dignitaries and nobles in the upper echelons will consider carefully taking a closer look at whether it looks good when buying something, after all, if the condition is not good, it is acceptable when eating or using it yourself. But there's no way to give it away. However, compared with the dignitaries, the needs of the common people are much lower. It doesn't matter if it's good or not, as long as the taste is good, the taste is good, and the price is good, then it's fine. After all, only for the rich can there be life, and the poor crying people can only survive.

Not to mention, this steam train was loaded with all kinds of military supplies needed for the war on the Eastern Front when it departed from Dunhuang County, and it drove directly into the large warehousing and logistics center in Wuwei County without stopping all the way. After the car was stopped, it took less than an hour for the unloading of the people waiting next to the car to unload all the materials loaded from the steam locomotive.

Then, under the command of the relevant officials, the unloaded materials will be stacked in different warehouses. At this time, the steam locomotive, which was already empty, would continue to travel some distance. Because there was a special track in front of him for him to turn around, after turning back, the steam locomotive would stop on another platform. This platform was originally used to replenish coal and clean water for the steam locomotive, but now, under Li Wenyuan's instructions, it has to take on the additional function of loading the entire steam locomotive. Once the steam locomotive had stopped here, a large number of well-trained workers stepped forward and inserted the thick water pipes wrapped in snakeskin directly into the steam locomotive's water tank. Other workers began to work in groups of twos and bags to load the steam locomotive with coal, and bags of coal were dumped into the wagons.

In addition to the workers who were specially hired to train the steam locomotive, there were also many hired laborers from the private sector, whose duty was to carry the large amount of goods piled up on the platform into the cargo hold behind the steam locomotive. All of these goods were to be brought back to Dunhuang County for sale, and on the last two carriages, each of which was guarded by ten elite soldiers.

Moreover, these soldiers were standing at several entrances and exits of the carriage with loaded guns, strictly checking everyone who entered the carriage. The muskets in their hands were already in a state of fire early, and as long as things were not right, they could be directly activated at any time. These two carriages were loaded with nothing else, but the various money and account books that were to be sent to the general merchants of Dunhuang County by the semicolons of some merchants in Wuwei County. In addition, a large number of letters from the people were also sent back. In the past, it was necessary to spend favors, and good words were used to entrust people to bring things to their homes far away in Dunhuang County, but now only a small amount of money is needed, and this steam locomotive will be sent from Wuwei County to Dunhuang County. The whole time was only a day and night, far faster than the delivery of people. Moreover, the consignment is now guaranteed by Li Wenyuan himself, as long as it is a reasonable and legal goods, then once something is lost in the process of consignment, then Li Wenyuan will compensate according to ten times the price. So although it was a little neglected at the beginning, since the first person to eat crabs, the people gradually discovered the convenience and speed brought by this new way of logistics, so they began to flock to all the things they were going to send to Dunhuang County, and they simply relied on this steam locomotive to send them to Dunhuang County.

At the beginning, the people did not agree, so the daily cargo transportation volume was very small, so at that time, Li Wenyuan only planned a carriage to load those things, and often did not load it, and even ran several back and forth empty. But now it's different, and now the people are crammed to use steam locomotives to transport their things. This made Li Wenyuan have to temporarily transfer a carriage used to load Wuwei County's specialties again, and instead use that carriage to transport the goods consigned by the people, but even so, the transportation capacity still cannot meet the strong demand of the people.

Now for this situation, Li Wenyuan has no good way to deal with it for the time being. After all, through this mode of transportation, the carriages are never transported by air, which is barely equal to the cost of maintaining the transportation of steam locomotives. Later, after the introduction of the business of consignment of goods for the people, it began to make a profit. Li Wenyuan also knew that the only way to deal with this situation was to add another train of steam locomotives for transportation. But adding a steam locomotive meant laying one more railroad track.

After all, the means of communication are still a problem, if there are two steam locomotives running on the same track at the same time, then once the dispatch is not timely, or if there are some unexpected situations, then it is very likely to cause the rear-end collision of the two steam locomotives. At that time, the economic losses incurred will not be a small amount.

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