Chapter 163: Great Wuhan
Yongzhou boundary.
Fan Chengyue had lunch in the canteen of the substation, and then rode his bicycle back to his home two kilometers away for a lunch break. Out of the gate of the substation onto the main road, a domineering off-road vehicle galloped by, he subconsciously turned his head to look over, only had time to see the number plate on the rear of the car.
He was stunned for a moment, this car was too familiar, and his memory suddenly woke up - isn't this the new-looking army off-road vehicle he encountered a few months ago? The styling of the LC80 is definitely impressive at a time when cars are scarce.
However, the car was very fast, and after a while, it disappeared around a distant bend and headed north.
Fan Chengyue remembered the number plate of the original car, which was different from the one just past, but he always felt that it was the original group of people.
He was immediately attentive.
Li Lu and the others did not stop in Yongzhou, and galloped all the way to the north. All the way to Luoyang, this section of the road is familiar, and naturally it is faster than the last time. He didn't know that the traffic policeman surnamed Fan, who he met by chance in Yongzhou last time, had just passed by.
This time, Li Lu and the others still took the original route, and kept going north in the direction of Shaoyang, if not in the direction of Hengyang in the east.
Shaoyang, Changsha, Yueyang, Wuhan, Faith, Zhumadian, Xuchang, Zhengzhou, Anyang, Shijiazhuang line, Baoding through the imperial capital, along the Chengde, Chifeng, Tongliao line to Changchun.
This way, more than 4,200 kilometers, people do not stop, even so, Li Lu estimated that the daily mileage will not exceed 800 kilometers - this is an era without highways. The first high-speed kilometer in China will not be opened to traffic until 1988, three years later.
This is already a very optimistic estimate.
Before leaving, Li Lu inquired about the timetable of the train, and there were several trains in the Lugang area whose terminal was Harbin, and it took him slower than he thought to get to Changchun, taking seven days and seven nights. The point is, it's just a planning schedule. And the current train delay is so serious that it is completely beyond his imagination. Usually ten days and eight days are absolutely necessary.
This also strengthened his determination to choose to drive.
The four of them are all old drivers, except for replenishing fuel, eating, pooping and urinating, they take turns to rest and rush non-stop. The road conditions are predictable, so the principle is to drive as fast as possible. There are also joys in this era - there are very few traffic lights, and there are no speed tests at all.
That's why the LC80 maintained such a fast speed when passing through the Yongju city. Don't forget, this is still an off-road vehicle with a military license plate.
After crossing Yueyang and entering Wuhan, Li Lu and they arrived at the first and only rest point on the way. Wuhan this place, Li Lu wants to take a look, and at the same time it is a relatively central town, just halfway on the road, so he took this place as a rest point, and people and vehicles had a good rest for a night.
The front is quite smooth, except for the frequent encounter with various toll stations and inspection stations, there is no other situation. Li Lu and Zhang Weiwei are both people in the military industrial system, and the vehicles are hung with relatively powerful A-number military plates, so it is very smooth to pass through which toll stations and inspection stations.
After entering the urban area of Wuhan, Li Lu looked at the street signs, and knew that the first to enter was Hanyang, when he was observing the buildings on both sides of the road, he vaguely saw a very tall building in the distance, and was surprised in his heart, and said to Lin Peisen, who was driving, "Big mouth, see that the tall building in the distance is not, go there." ”
Lin Peisen looked intently, saw a tall building in the distance that vaguely seemed to be in the sky, and said in surprise, "Ah, third uncle, that's a building, so high!" ”
After saying that, the throttle is in the end.
In another life, Li Lu frequented Wuhan and was very familiar with the three towns of Hanyang, Hankou and Wuchang. However, he had no impression of Wuhan in the 80s, and he had not even seen old photos of Wuhan in the 80s.
In Wuhan in the 80s, the roads were so wide and the traffic was so smooth, except for buses, there were some units of 212 jeeps, Shanghai brand cars, and imported Soviet-made Volga and Lada cars, very few. Pedestrians can see these cars, usually speeding along the road. More about bicycles and, gradually, motorcycles.
Hanyang, which is not stuck in traffic, made Li Lu stunned, and he couldn't come back to his senses at all.
What was Wuhan like at this time?
When Beijing's second and third ring roads were still barren, it was already full of modern buildings, it already had spacious two-way six-lane and developed bus travel system, it was almost the city that best represented the highest level of urban construction in China and led the trend of the times except Shanghai.
In Li Lu's eyes, this is probably the first and only city he has seen since he returned to this era, and so far the only city that has the prototype of a city thirty years later. At least the current dry port, if he is not very familiar, it is difficult for him to associate the dry port at this time with the dry port thirty years later.
Wuhan has been one of the most important cities in China for thousands of years, and it has never changed.
LC80 turned into a two-lane highway and galloped, and Li Lu raised his eyes to see the road sign - Qintai Road. A few words popped into his head - Hanyang Arsenal.
He couldn't help but sigh, the LC80 speed did not slow, and galloped past in front of the north gate of the original Hanyang Arsenal. After the liberation, the Siye troops, who went south from the northeast all the way to Hainan Island, took over the Hanyang Arsenal and renamed it the Repair Factory of the Ordnance Department of the Siye Logistics Department, and the Hanyang Arsenal has since become history.
This arsenal, which witnessed the Chinese people catching up with the world's firearms manufacturing technology and anti-aggression, has never changed its status in the hearts of military workers, even if it has become history.
Li Lu looked at the walls of the Hanyang Arsenal and those familiar slogans that kept flashing backwards on the side of the road, and his heart was full of thoughts. In this era, there are many similarities with the environment in which the Hanyang Plant was first built. The internal and external environment we are facing is much the same, the gap is much the same, and the only and most important difference is that it is no longer the rotten national government that is in power.
"Hankou Hotel?" Lin Peisen was surprised.
Before you know it, you have crossed the Han River and entered Hankou.
"Third uncle, we don't want to live here, do we?" Lin Peisen's lips trembled.
The milky white exterior wall, the regular and upright shape, and the flat square shape seem to be outdated designs today, if you look at the nine-square grid of photography, the straight up staircase is in the position of one-third, dividing the hotel into approximately one-third of the left and two-thirds of the right, and the standard composition technique can even be inferred that the designer definitely has a certain degree of research on photography technology.
"One, two, three, four......"
Zhang Weiwei and Li Jiahua in the back row had already woken up, and they pointed to the Hankou Hotel and counted it layer by layer, counting over and over again.
"My heaven fifteenth floor!"