The attention of the government and the opposition was all on the "joy of smallpox" of the little emperor, and against this background, the opening and filling of vacancies in the general army of the right wing of the Yamen under the command of the infantry army did not cause any major waves. Prince Xuan's move of "appointing private individuals", in addition to the tacit understanding of the "settlement of accounts after the autumn", is more interpreted as to strengthen the control of public security inside and outside Beijing, so as to prevent the "holy bow" from causing people's hearts to fluctuate and cause turmoil in the court, and this is understandable.

is naturally the effect that Guan Zhuofan wants, "quietly enter the village, don't shoot".

However, another thing was originally planned to be publicized and celebrated with great fanfare, and all kinds of plans were done, but because of the little emperor's "smallpox joy", all Qingji had to be canceled, which was very different from Guan Zhuofan's original wish.

This event is the completion and trial opening of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway.

This is the most iconic achievement made so far by China since it started the process of modernization and industrialization, and it is completely from the hands of Guan Zhuofan himself, which is really "of milestone significance". Originally, whether it was to "bless" oneself or to further change people's concepts and "ferment" for the subsequent deepening of reform, it should be publicized and written in a big way.

Alas, alas, alas.

The Beijing-Tianjin Railway is not China's first railway - the first railway, the Tangjin Railway, which was completed last year, is also complete, from the hands of Guan Zhuofan, but the shock and impact of the two on ordinary Chinese are not the same.

The Tangjin Railway was built in the name of the coal produced by the Kaiping Mining Bureau of Foreign Transport, after its completion. For the time being, it is also mainly freight. Ordinary Chinese. I don't feel that this railway has any direct connection with myself, but the Beijing-Tianjin Railway is different!

The Beijing terminus of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway is located outside the Zhengyang Gate, and its railroad tracks, parallel to the south wall of the inner city of Beijing, face each other, and every Beijinger can see it. In the distant sky, thick smoke billowed out, and then, a long steamer appeared on the horizon, swallowing clouds and spitting fog, whistling all the way.

The shock is almost indescribable.

For the courtiers, the little emperor's "smallpox joy" was the biggest thing, but. For the ordinary people of Beijing, the steamer drove under their noses. But it is the biggest thing, people run to tell each other, and the daily chatter in the market must be the word "hot wheel".

In the spring of last year, Guan Zhuofan and Vice President Johnson, who led the "American delegation to China," jointly presided over the "opening ribbon cutting" of the Tangjin Railway, and then boarded China's first train and went to Tangshan, 186 miles away, to visit the Kaiping Mining Bureau, where the "first phase of the project" had been basically completed.

In Tangshan, the then vice president of Xuanjun Wang and the Covenant once again presided over the "ribbon-cutting" ceremony - the "ribbon-cutting" ceremony to celebrate the official "production" of the Kaiping Mining Bureau.

After returning to Dagu, King Xuanjun and Vice President Yue "cooperated" for the third time and jointly laid the first road nail of the "Beijing-Tianjin Railway".

Today, more than a year later, the Beijing-Tianjin Railway was completed as scheduled.

The Tangjin Railway ends at Dagu in the south, and the Beijing-Tianjin Railway starts from Dagu in the east, and the two converge here to become the southern section of the "Jingfeng Line" in the future. The total length of the Tangjin Railway is 186 miles, and the length of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway is almost twice that number, 365 miles long – well, that's a very coincidental and very interesting number.

Zhengyangmen Railway Station, the Beijing terminus of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway, is a combination of Chinese and Western, which is very distinctive.

The Zhengyangmen Railway Station in the original time and space—of course, in the original time and space, that was forty-four years later—was a domed European-style building, and Guan Zhuofan thought that this railway station was really too special, too ugly! In addition to the fact that the building itself is like a rural rich man in a small European country, the most terrible thing is that it is not in tune with the Zhengyangmen City Tower and the city wall next to it!

I want to learn from the Boxers, just burn it!

The contrasting tricks of the Louvre and the glass pyramid are not for everyone.

Guan Zhuofan decided that Zhengyangmen Railway Station, the main body of the building, adopts the British rural architectural style, square, simple and generous, and has high practicality, which is basically a copy of the original time and space Majiapu Railway Station. However, the roof of the main building of the railway station is a traditional Chinese "big roof" with heavy eaves and mountains; Among them, the roof of the bell tower is also a traditional Chinese heavy eaves and four corners of the pointed type.

Yes, it is the kind of "antique architecture" that we are very familiar with.

Guan Zhuofan's "antiquity in the ancient" is not only out of aesthetic needs, but more importantly, in order to reduce resistance from conservatives.

The British country architectural style, a rough look at the past, and the traditional Chinese building of the "bay", there is a certain degree of similarity, plus the exterior wall with clear water bricks, the overall visual sense, and China's city tower, city wall, is quite compatible, now, plus a heavy eaves mountain style "big roof", between the railway station and the Zhengyangmen tower, each other really do not feel how abrupt.

Also, Guan Zhuofan claimed that the roof is on top, which is "from the middle to the west", and it is with the excellent tradition of China to "build from a high house", and it is we who suppress the foreign devils, Yunyun.

In addition, the overall layout of the railway station, Guan Zhuofan strongly advocated, adopted a structure similar to the traditional Chinese courtyard, with the south room, the north room, and the east and west compartments of the famous hall, which is a "divided courtyard" layout.

Guan Zhuofan is not an architectural expert, but on this issue, he has enough confidence to "command an insider" - because when the original time and space renovated the old Beijing Station, it was like this.

Guan Zhuofan's four dissimilarities have indeed greatly reduced the resistance of the old school.

At that time, Guan Zhuofan took the design drawings and ran to the cabinet in person, and after foaming at the mouth, even Wu Ren thought that this "railway station" was really "used in China and the West", and the things of foreign devils were just used to embellish them, and in their bones, they were all the things of our ancestors, not bad, not bad.

However, the railway station was completed, but the old man was gone, alas, I could not see what the iconic conservative figure of this era looked like in front of the most symbolic new things, sad.

Zhengyangmen Railway Station got started, and the "big roof" building that combines Chinese and Western styles became popular in this time and space at a speed that Guan Zhuofan did not expect, and soon after, it spread all over the country - but this is a story for another time.

Zhengyangmen Railway Station is a passenger and cargo dual-use, the construction of the passenger transport building, has been basically completed, the stack yard is still under construction, routes, vehicles, is in full swing of commissioning, the plan is to pass the passenger first, and then through the freight.

At this time, not many people thought that the first large-scale crew of this railway was the army.

*(To be continued.) )