The distance between Beijing and Tianjin is 173 kilometers, the average speed of the train is 60 kilometers per hour, the whole journey takes 3 hours and 15 minutes, and there is a stop at one station on the way.

The train can reach a maximum speed of 120 kilometers per hour, which is reduced because it is a new line.

Since the opening of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway, the starting point city has sent two road guards of the public security brigade to publicize the common sense of the railway and ensure the safety of the road section along the way. The speed of the train at 60 kilometers per hour is as fast as a galloping horse, so the safety of the people along the way has to be considered.

If conditions permit, the railway department of the starting city will also put on the railway guardrail, and then the train will increase the speed according to the actual situation, and the next stage is 80 kilometers per hour.

The whole train group from Beijing to Tianjin, together with the front and dining cars, has a total of 13 cars, and because the distance between the two places is shorter, there are no sleeper cars.

As a new thing, the train does not have many passengers, mainly people who travel between the starting point city and Tianjin New Town and some wealthy businessmen from the two places.

The tickets purchased by Xie Baoqing and Lu Xiangsheng are soft-seat carriages, which are fifty percent more expensive than hard-seated carriages.

Of course, this is not the first time Xie Baoqing has taken a train, and he also attended the opening ceremony as an invited guest when the Beijing-Tianjin Railway opened.

"In the past few years, Jingshi has changed too much and too fast, I can't imagine it!"

Lu Xiangsheng, who didn't speak from entering the station to getting on the train, and had been observing carefully, looked at the trees and fields flying by outside the car window, and couldn't help but sigh.

Xie Baoqing, who was sitting opposite, smiled and said, "It's all because of Sihua, and it is the great changes he has brought about." When I first met him four years ago, who would have thought that he would be where he is today, it was really dazzling. ”

Lu Xiangsheng was also happy, and said with a smile: "Of course you Lord Xie didn't expect that there would be today, and he entered the cabinet from Jingzhi County within a year, and his current status is as stable as Mount Tai." ”

"Moti, Moti." Xie Baoqing shook his head again and again and said: "When Xie first entered the cabinet, it was really like sitting on pins and needles, completely chasing ducks to the shelves, and now he has only sat firmly in this position." ”

Lu Xiangsheng said tentatively: "You Lord Xie now have a great relationship with that Wang Sihua, which can be described as both prosperity and loss. However, the current situation of the starting point city and the Tiance army is an outlier for the imperial court after all, and the emperor's attitude is obvious, and he is both dependent and defensive against Wang Sihua, so once the Tiance army has any accidents in Liaodong, Lord Xie will have to deal with it as soon as possible. ”

"Lord Lu is too worried." Xie Baoqing said disapprerovingly: "The defeat of Li Zixuan, the chief soldier of Tianjin, was purely accidental in the eyes of this official, but those people in the court took it for granted, thinking that the Tiance army was very likely to lose Liaodong, and the opportunity for the imperial court would come." In fact, you still know too little about the Tiance Army, except for the Tiance Army itself, they are no longer invincible in this world. ”

Lu Xiangsheng asked, "Really?" How does Lord Xie judge the new army trained by Lu Mou, can it have the strength to fight with the Tiance army? ”

Xie Baoqing said with a smile: "Lord Lu once confronted the Tiance Army head-on, do you still use Xie to judge?" However, Lord Lu is indeed well-trained, and I think the new army can indeed be called elite. ”

For Xie Baoqing's praise, Lu Xiangsheng lacked any pride, and the gap between him and the Tiance Army compared with the new army was obvious.

He sighed and said: "Lu has worked hard to build a new army, but the swords, guns and ordnance can't be compared with the Tiance Army after all, I don't know how the current Tiance Army is different from the past?" ”

When it comes to military training, Lu Xiangsheng is still very confident, and he believes that the key to the gap between the new army and the Tiance army is still in the ordnance. In fact, this is only the main reason, but it is not the only reason.

The gap between the new army and the Tiance army is manifold, and the new army is still built in a feudal way, while the Tiance army is built in accordance with the modern army.

Tianjin Railway Station is not far from Tianjin New Port, which is divided into two parts: a civilian port and a military port. Among them, the military port undertook the task of transporting military supplies to Dalian, while the civilian port was also increasingly busy due to the rise of Tianjin commerce, and the merchant ships from Shanghai, Japan, Incheon, Lushun and the south were constantly coming and going.

Xie Baoqing and Lu Xiangsheng, as representatives of the imperial court, went to the Liaodong front line to comfort the Tiance army, and they had greeted Wang Yue by telegram in advance, so they were arranged on the passenger and cargo ro-ro wheels transporting personnel.

The passenger and cargo ro-ro ship is a regular passenger ferry between Tianjin and Dalian, with one daily departure, mainly transporting internal personnel and vehicles belonging to the starting city.

Wu Zhi, the supervisor of the Tiance Army, had already arrived in Dalian first, and at this moment he had already rushed to Gaizhou with Wang Yue. Although this Wu Zhi is the supervisor of the Tiance Army, in fact, he does not have much say in the Tiance Army at all, and his main role is only to act as Chongzhen's eyes and ears.

So Xie Baoqing and Lu Xiangsheng pounced in Dalian, and under the guidance of the remaining personnel of the Tiance Army, they continued to rush to the front line in Gaizhou.

The Tiance army is setting up an advance position on the front line of Gaizhou, and what catches the eye is a continuous array of tents and vehicles, and a large number of materials are being transferred here.

"On behalf of the whole army of Tiance Army, Wang Yue welcomes the two adults to come to the front line to guide the work." Wang Yue used the usual welcome words of later generations, and smiled at Xie Baoqing and the others.

Xie Baoqing and Wang Yue are old acquaintances, just as Lu Xiangsheng said, the two can be said to have both prosperity and loss. Of course, this loss refers to Xie Baoqing, if Wang Yue and his forces disappear, Xie Baoqing, as a political ally, will be lonely in the court, and even difficult to gain a foothold, because he has already engraved the brand of the starting point city.

Wang Yue did not deliberately develop his own power within the imperial court, and what he relied on was still the strength of the starting point city and the Tiance army itself, which was also the reason why Chongzhen, who was most disgusted with the party, was able to coexist peacefully with Wang Yue for a long time.

However, there are still Wanping claims within the imperial court, including Xie Baoqing, Sun Jinyong, Lu Chengde and other people from Wanping County, who originally maintained a close relationship with Wang Yue.

Because of the radiation effect of the starting point city, the current Wanping County is economically active, the population has increased, and the political achievements are remarkable, and the officials have to give Lu Chengde a good evaluation when they are evaluated.

Of course, Xie Baoqing and Wang Yue would not see each other, and said, "Sihua, you should already know the purpose of the imperial court sending me here. The emperor has been praying for many years, but the Tiance army is needed, you can mention it, I will definitely fight for it to the imperial court. ”

"Lord Xie laughed, I think the imperial court can't wait for the Tiance army to run into a bloody encounter in Liaodong, right?" Wang Yue teased.