Official cars also have rules for official cars.

Officials who take office with a large family can be assigned one or half carriages according to the number of people and the level of rank. If you are a single officer, there is only one small room. It's just that this is the treatment that only ordinary court officials have.

As for the important ministers of the council, they rode on the tamarin, rode eight cars, and got on the car...... Naturally, there is a special train.

The last time Wang Anli, a scholar of the Xianmo Pavilion, went south to Jiangning, his family had a small population and only occupied two carriages, but it was still sixteen horses pulling horses on the road, and six empty carriages were dragged behind. The merchants in the capital came to the door for this, and Wang Anli made a lot of money on this trip alone.

It's just that if it's really the son of a powerful minister's family, there should be a box, right? Wang Jue was puzzled.

"I don't dare to take the word Yanei, it's just a small family, it's not worth mentioning."

It's normal to be cautious and wary of strangers, but this tone is more like the children of a big family. Which child of a small family would say this about his family?

Wang Jue was curious, "May I ask your surname?" ”

The boy hesitated before he spit out a word: "...... Han ......"

Wang Jue was startled, and even felt that the eyes around him were eager.

Han is the surname of the world, and he is a prominent family in the court.

Anyang, Lingshou, Longxi, these three Koreas are the most well-known in the DPRK. Han Gang, who is the prime minister, does not say, the descendants and clansmen of Han Qi and Han Jiang have a large number of officials in Beijing, and among the important ministers, Anyang and Lingshou Han, but they each occupy two seats.

No matter which family it is, this thigh is thick that Wang Jue, who was born in the Ming Law Department, can't hold his arms.

"In Xia Wang Jue, he is on an errand in the trial court, and this time he is going to Chuzhou to handle a case."

"In Xia Jiang Ying, I want to go to Huzhou to take office."

"In the following jade, it is to return to the hometown and guard the system."

The officials in the carriage, you and I said the name and destination one by one, and after going around, Wang Jue asked cautiously, "I don't know where Han Yanei is going south this time?" ”

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"Go to Jiangning. First to Sizhou, then transfer to the car and boat. ”

Han Cheng coughed without any trouble, and said his destination.

I didn't say my family background, I didn't say my name, I only mentioned my surname, what does it matter?

Han Cheng fiddled with the jade pendant on his waist with his fingers, smiling and chatting with those burning eyes.

This gift. Han Cheng entered the palace with his mother when he was a child, and was given by the Queen Mother. As long as you have some eyesight, you should know that this is a royal thing after seeing it.

Han Gang had earlier been vaccinated because he was going to Hengqu Academy, and he used his brother who was studying incognito to motivate him, and Han Cheng didn't think it was a good thing to show off his identity. But although your identity should not be flaunted, you can show it appropriately and avoid the villain's concern, which is not a bad thing.

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The car had already set off, and the four servants brought by Han Yanei also found three empty beds to rest without any objection.

Under the deliberate flattery of a group of officials, Han Yanei talked endlessly from horse racing to keju, from keju to hunting, from hunting to firearms, and from firearms to steel.

"Fine iron needs crucibles, which is not something that Liao can have, so whether it is a railway or artillery, no matter how hard the Liao people are, they can't compare to my China!"

Everyone seemed to be admiring Han Yanei's military erudition, but the focus of everyone's attention was not on the secret he had said, but on what he called steel.

Iron!

It's not steel! When it is time to say steel, it is said that it is fine iron, which is clearly to deliberately avoid the pronunciation of 'Gang'.

People in the world avoid their fathers, some of them avoid writing, and some of them avoid speaking. Sima Guang's father is named Sima Chi, so he calls Han Wei, who holds the country, Han Bingguo.

In front of me, when steel is mentioned, I avoid mentioning the word steel, which is too traceable. His identity is about to be revealed.

As far as Wang Jue knows, one or two of the sons in Han Gang's family should be of this age.

Wang Jue's eyes lit up.

The son of the prime minister's family, no matter what the reason is, if you don't hold this big thick leg, will you have such a good opportunity in the future?

The speed of the car slowed down.

Wang Jue turned his head and looked at the increasing lights outside the window through the small window, "The station in front is about to change horses." ”

"This train only needs to change horses twenty times, and you can get to Sizhou. If you want to eat conveniently, you can go down first. ”

There was no hot food on the official bus. This is to prevent fire in the car. Only when you stop at the station will you have hot food delivered to the bus. There is also no convenient place, this is for the sake of hygiene in the car. So eating, drinking, and Lazar can only be done in a hurry when the train enters the station to change horses.

The horses that pull the train can be changed more frequently, while the horse that pulls the bus can be changed less often.

But the speed of this passenger car is really not fast, and it is about the same as an ordinary horse-drawn carriage. Of course, in the racecourse, the light two-wheeled carriage that is galloped all over the field by top horse racing horses is certainly not an ordinary carriage.

The horse-drawn carriages used in motor racing are notoriously light. Horse owners are eager to weave a car out of strips to reduce some weight and make the horses run faster. With such a car, only one person can barely stand, and all that remains is important parts that cannot be reduced.

An hour and twenty miles, that is, the speed at which a person trots. But the biggest feature of the railway is that it doesn't have to stay longer. Except for changing horses at the station, the rest of the time is running on the tracks. Twelve hours, twenty-four hours, ninety-six quarters of an hour in a day, four or five hundred miles a day, two days is a thousand miles.

In the case of express buses -- mainly official buses -- it would be faster. It's almost thirty miles in an hour. So in less than 40 hours, you can reach Sizhou.

When there were no railways, officials and their families took office, left office, entered and left Beijing, and they were eaten and occupied in the post station, and the cost table was a bright red bottomless pit when it was in the account books. Although the express train consumes horsepower, the cost saved by the post transmission system makes the three envoys, the prime minister and the queen mother, who review the accounts at the end of the year, look much better.

"It would be nice if the railway could pass through Yangzhou, so that you don't have to change ships again."

"It should be through Zhenzhou, and across the river is Jiangning, and you can build a few miles less roads."

"Yangzhou's good."

"It's better to be in the real state."

There was a slight dispute in the carriage, and I saw that Han Yanei shook his head and sneered: "The court has been fighting for two years and has not come up with an eyebrow, I want to see the southern extension of the Beijing-Si Railway, but I have to wait." ”

Yangzhou is in the southeast of Sizhou, but from Sizhou to Yangzhou, if it is a waterway, after passing Sizhou, you must first walk a hundred miles northeast from Huaishui to Chuzhou, then turn south, and finally arrive in Yangzhou. This is because the Huaishui is southwest and northeast in this section.

If it is changed to a railway connection, then it can go in a straight line without going around in a big circle. However, there was still a huge controversy in the court about whether the railway to the south of Sizhou led to Yangzhou or Zhenzhou [now Liuhe County, Nanjing] opposite Jiangning.

Yangzhou crossing the river is the exit of the Suzhou-Hangzhou Canal to the Yangtze River, and the grain and commercial goods of the two Zhejiang provinces do not have to go up the river, and the same is true for the seafood of Fujian and Guangdong, which can save at least one day's water journey. However, Jiangning Mansion is an important town in the south of the Yangtze River, and the military and political significance is not comparable to Yangzhou.

This kind of controversy has been going on for two or three years, and Shen Kuo, who was born in Liangzhejiang, hopes that the railway can go to Yangzhou, and after the goods from Liangzhejiang pass through the canal, they can get on the train and go to Beijing after crossing the river. Although the prime minister and privy councillor of Fujian Road did not express their position, most of the officials from Fujian still supported the plan of the Yangzhou line.

Officials from Jiangxi and Jiangdong Road all hope to go to Jiangning. Moreover, the important ministers from the north also felt that the terrain of Jiangning was more important, and the soldiers and horses of the imperial court could arrive in Jiangning Mansion faster than any commercial goods.

The two sides were evenly matched, and Han Gang, who was the prime minister and in charge of the matter, did not speak, and all of them were pushed to the court, so the southern extension of the Beijing-Si Railway has been difficult to give birth to this day.

In fact, it is also related to the dispute between Zhejiang and Jiangdong. The railway was repaired to Yangzhou, opposite to Runzhou [now Zhenjiang] of Liangzhejiang Road, and the railway was repaired to Zhenzhou, opposite to Jiangning of Jiangdong East Road. Passing through one more state capital is equivalent to a two-cent tax increase out of thin air. If you cross the road, in fact, the cost will rise by 10%. Therefore, the two Zhejiang and Fujian mostly hope to repair to Yangzhou, while Jiangxi and Jiangdong, including the military states such as Huang and Shu in the south of Huainan West Road, and even the military states in the east of the north and south roads of Jinghu Lake, are looking forward to the Jiangning line. ”

After listening to Han Cheng's words, Wang Jue no longer had any doubts about his identity. There was also a lot of admiration all around.

How can a child who is not a child of the prime minister's family have such insight? It's not their own thing, they hear it from their fathers and brothers.

"Why did Han Gongzi go south overnight?"

This question was exchanged for a sad sigh, "The elder is sick." ”

Elders?

Wang Jue nodded dizzily.

Elders, of course! Kiss my grandfather, the person is in Jiangning.

In that person's capacity, it is also appropriate to be a grandson who travels thousands of miles to visit. At the meeting, this night bus squeezed into the current carriage, most of which was in a hurry, and could only get on this southbound train with no extra carriages and boxes.

It took a day and a half to arrive in Sizhou, and then it took two or three days to arrive in Jiangning by car or boat or by horse-drawn carriage as he said.

Wait a minute! Wang Jue was shocked, why did Han Gongzi say that he would transfer to a car and boat before? !

If it weren't for the old minister Wang or the lady of Chu who suddenly fell ill, there was no need for the prime minister's house to rush to visit overnight.

If the old minister Wang and Mrs. Chu Guo had a sudden illness and wanted to rush to Jiangning, they should change horses in Sizhou and go south and cross the river from Guabu Town, so that they could save at least one day.

Transferring to a car or boat, this is completely unreasonable!

Definitely not!

Suspicious, Wang Jue recalled the previous conversation, and felt full of flaws.

Which family's yain is not an expert in mocking the wind and the moon, even if the family is strict, this age is also the age of hard work, and in the future, he can also protect the family from falling. A little better is to learn more about the general trend of the world and broaden your knowledge for future use. But distraction practice should never be done by the children of noble families.

The cost is two cents or one percent more, which fourteen or fifteen-year-old Yanai would care about such a thing? What is the significance of this business and family management to the prime minister's family, which can be compared to a Jinshi with a gold list title?

What's more, at a glance, Wang Jue saw that the palm of the Han family's son actually had a thick layer of calluses.

The back of the Han family's hands is thin and tender, his face is fair and pink, and his teeth are even more neat and white. This is raised with money, and no matter how good it is, it must be maintained by daily maintenance. The children of noble families can afford to raise this good skin by being pampered since childhood. So at first sight, no one doubted his identity.

But the calluses in the palms of the hands are completely wrong, which noble son will work every day and get calluses on his hands?

The outside is glamorous, the inside is shabby, and there are such people. If it is a natural quality, even if it has been worked hard for more than ten years, as long as it is maintained for a year and a half, it can become the appearance in front of you, but the calluses on the palms of your hands cannot fade for a while.

Such a person, Wang Jue has seen, and it was specially raised by some Qinglou who went off the beaten track and provided to good male guests. At the beginning, Wang Jue saw one at the party, who appeared in women's clothes, and was three points more delicate than the Oiran. The one in front of him is good, he doesn't pretend to be a woman, but pretends to be a yain.

No wonder as the son of the prime minister, he can only come here to lodge. It must be because the carriage and the box can't be obtained, let alone the special train.

As for the insight about the railway, I don't know where I heard it at a banquet. Maybe I also flipped through the tabloids of the Beijing Division, and heard more rumors in the restaurant and tea shop. Thinking about it carefully, when this topic was mentioned before, it was not this Han Yanei who got up first.

'What a dizziness! Wang Jue thought.

What do you mean by 'most of the time, you can only get on this southbound train with no extra carriages and boxes?' -No one said anything, and he helped to fill the flaws.

But now that I've found out, I can't let it go.

As a judge in the trial court, Wang Jue knew that this was a great opportunity to make his name hear.

Wang Jue got up with a smile, accused the few people who were talking about it, and left quietly

Someone glanced at him casually, and only felt that this Wang Jue was going to be convenient.

But after a while, Wang Jue came back, followed by four guards who were with the car.

The guards stood at the gate with their weapons in hand, and there was no sound when the carriage boarded.

Everyone turned their faces suspiciously, and the liar Yanai also looked confused.

'Pretending to be. ’

Wang Jue sneered, walked over first, and pointed at Han Cheng's nose, "It's them, a group of liars, who dare to pretend to be the prime minister's family!" ”