The railway from Pontianak to Dong Wanlu is only more than 150 kilometers away, and it is a small railway worth mentioning in later generations, but this is the first railway built by Chen Yixi and Zhan Tianyou with Chinese workers after the establishment of the Nanyang Railway Company.

At this moment, the ribbon-cutting site of the railway completion has been hung with archway ribbons, crowded with people, a festive atmosphere.

Liu Liujin saw a lot of new and strange things today.

Liu Liujin is a young villager on the edge of the Yellow River, 16 years old, but after the Yellow River burst, he was separated from his parents, brothers and sisters, he searched everywhere, but everyone in the family was alive and dead, because there was no food, Liu Liujin was starving to death, but fortunately, the relief workers from Nanyang appeared, saved his life, and took him to Pontianak.

In the study area of Pontianak, Liu Liujin, who has never been to school, showed excellent natural learning ability, he was able to read and write 1,000 words in only a month and a half, and was originally selected to be sent to a cultural school to continue learning knowledge on the road of primary school, middle school, and university. However, during the professional personality test, the testers found that he showed a more amazing talent for mechanics than learning written knowledge, so they sent him to Wang Kaitian's mechanical research institute.

Today, Liu Liujin drove a car from the Institute of Mechanical Research as a temporary driver to the railway ribbon-cutting site to provide maintenance guarantee for all the cars on the site.

Hundreds of cars came to the scene, most of which were the mounts of dignitaries, army generals, and elders of the Huaxia Guild.

Since Hu Zhen appeared majestically in a car to recruit relatives, this is a big advertisement that does not cost a penny, owning a car has become a sign of a successful person, and capable people are vying to inquire where to get a T-type car that is extremely simple in Hu Zhen's eyes.

Of course, the production of automobiles is controlled by Hu Zhen, and people with conditions are vying to order it, which he can't ask for. However, the current automobile production capacity is indeed very limited, and the orders that are rushing to carry the full payment have reached more than 1,000 units, but it took four or five months to produce less than 200 units. It can only be sold to buyers in the form of a lottery.

Today, more than half of the cars came to the ribbon-cutting site for the completion of the railway, and today it is said that it is the day of the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the completion of the opening of the railway train, but it has become a day of a big car party.

Chief engineer Wang Kaitian, who was in charge of the mechanical research institute, was very nervous, and he was worried that something would go wrong with the car at the scene. He lost the face of Chief Hu, and that was okay, so he personally took the people from the institute to the scene to escort the car that might break down.

But. Although he has not yet understood all the structural principles of the car and does not know how to repair the car, he feels that Chief Engineer Wang Kaitian is too allergic and unconfident.

At the ribbon-cutting scene, in addition to hundreds of cars, there were also more than 200 three-wheeled and three-wheeled motorcycles, which were used by the army and police and other public departments, and there were many people who could not buy cars to buy and use, of course, the orders for motorcycles were more than 3,000. But the output is less than 1,000, and it is also a state of more wolves and less meat.

And the number of motorcycles is not the largest mechanical products, at the ribbon-cutting site, more of a two-wheeled or three-wheeled human-powered bicycle.

Liu Liujin looked at it and saw an endless stream of bicycles, neatly placed in several parking lots under the command of the personnel who maintained order at the scene.

Most people can't afford to buy a car or a motorcycle, and even if they can, it's hard to draw lots for themselves, but buying a bicycle is not a difficult thing. Since the opening of the Pontianak bicycle factory, more than 10,000 bicycles have been produced, and it is said that the production will triple in half a year.

Liu Liujin also heard that it was personally approved by the head of the Huaxia Guild, Hu Da. In Pontianak, there have been several Nanyang Chinese people invested in the construction of bicycles, free of charge to obtain the bicycle patent technology granted by General Minister Hu Da personally, about to mass production of bicycles, which will form a fully competitive situation, the sales price of bicycles is estimated to be cheaper. Chief Hu Da decided that the bicycle should be sold at the lowest price of one yuan (one tael of silver), so that all Chinese people could afford it. In the future, prices will also fall as costs fall due to mass production. Although Liu Liujin is still in the internship period, his salary for two months is also one yuan, and if the internship period is over, the salary is also one yuan a month, which means that as long as he endures two months, he can also buy a bicycle.

Thinking of these, Liu Liujin thought of his family, and couldn't help but feel sad: "If my father, my mother, my sister and my brother come to Nanyang like me, not to mention what kind of bicycle they can ride, they can eat here, how good it would be!" ”

When Liu Liujin was thinking nonsense, Hu Zhen, the general director of the Huaxia Guild, brought the two ladies to the scene in person, and the ribbon-cutting ceremony was about to begin.

But there was still half an hour before the auspicious time of the ribbon cutting, Hu Zhen took a break at the ribbon cutting site for a while, and chatted with Chen Yixi, general manager and chief engineer of the Nanyang Railway Company, who accompanied him: "Mr. Chen, now the domestic anti-Chinese situation in the United States is very serious, how many Chinese railway workers have returned from the United States?" ”

"Tell the chief that half a year has passed, more than 13,000 people have returned from the United States, and now there are more than 8,000 people on the sea route, but the sea route is far away, the distance reaches more than 10,000 nautical miles, and it is estimated that they will all arrive in Nanyang in two months. At present, there are nearly 300,000 Chinese workers in the United States who are willing to return to Nanyang, but due to the restrictions of transportation conditions, they do not know when they will all be transported back. ”

Hu Zhen looked at Fan Qianhai, who was in charge of arranging the ships, and asked: "The Pacific Ocean is more than 10,000 nautical miles wide, that is, more than 18,000 kilometers, and the Pacific Ocean is indeed too much, and our ships may not be enough, right?" ”

"Yes, in addition to transporting the Chinese workers of the United States back to the South Seas, we also have to transport the 1.5 million victims of the bursting of the Yellow River in the Central Plains, and the ships are already overloaded! The foreigners knew that we were in great need of ship transportation, so they immediately sat on the ground and raised the price of the ship, and our shipyard is now ......" Fan Qianhai stopped when he saw that Liu Dingzhuang, who was in charge of managing the industry, happened to be sitting next to him. (To be continued.) )