Bao Ling's train runs along the bank of the Yangtze River not far away, and when he passes the Dangtu City of Taiping Mansion, his vision will be broadened, and from the train, he can see all kinds of ships on the Yangtze River.

I saw that the number of fishing boats was gradually decreasing, and the number of merchant ships, cargo ships, and warships was gradually increasing, because they were relatively far apart, and the train that Bao Ling was riding was not completely parallel to the surface of the Yangtze River. However, when he was about to reach a small town called Ma'anshan, eight or nine large warships suddenly appeared on the shore of the river, and when he saw the tonnage of the warships, it was as much as three or four thousand tons.

Bao Ling immediately realized that this must be a shipyard specializing in the manufacture of warships. Unexpectedly, Bao Lingzhen didn't expect to take a train from the interior of the Chinese Empire and see the other party's shipyard. From this point of view, the other side must be secretly developing a large number of naval fleets, and it is likely that the naval strength of the Chinese Empire is not only what it is showing today. Judging from the shipyard I just saw, it is already a huge scale to be able to launch at the same time.

As the train went further, Bao Ling saw rows of huge chimneys towering and spewing smoke out, and immediately understood: this small town called Ma'anshan is clearly a huge steel factory. Bao Ling also knew why the Chinese Empire would put a good shipyard on the Yangtze River in this small town called Ma'anshan, obviously to provide steel nearby, and send the refined steel directly to the shipyard next to it, and even without cooling or reheating the process in the middle, which greatly improved the time to build ships. But this kind of technology is clearly the manufacturing technology of ironclad ships, and Bao Ling gasped!

Because of his special status, he is a member of Parliament, so he has visited the shipyard in London to build the latest warships for the British Navy, and knows this most advanced ironclad technology, but this is a warship manufacturing method that even the Kingdom of Great Britain has only mastered and developed, and even other European countries are still in the stage of reluctant exploration, and they can't imagine that this distant eastern country has this kind of technology, and has begun to manufacture ironclad ships on a large scale. You know, this is not only advanced technology, but more importantly, it is expensive and very troublesome to manufacture, and it needs to be riveted one by one with rivets, and the seal is intact without leaking a little water.

I didn't expect that the Chinese Empire had such financial resources to build such a large warship factory directly on the edge of this ordinary Yangtze River bay, and it was also directly to manufacture the most advanced ironclad ships that cost a lot of money! This, this made Bao Ling very amazed. At the same time, he also understood the reason why the British Expeditionary Force had been defeated twice at the hands of the Chinese Imperial Army. It's not luck, it's just a sign of opportunity and strength. The Chinese Empire was able to manufacture such a large number of warships, but they still desperately purchased warships from Europe, and it is conceivable that the number of their warships has grown to an unpredictable point in just a few years.

Bao Ling thought that after returning to London, he should immediately advise the Congress and the Cabinet not to underestimate the naval strength of the Chinese Empire. Of course, in fact, no one dares to underestimate the disastrous defeat of the two expeditionary fleets in succession.

And from the supporting application of the Maanshan Iron and Steel Plant and the shipyard, Bao Ling also found one thing, that is, the shipyard is set next to the steel plant, which must have great benefits, this model, when he returns to Europe, he must put forward it to the cabinet, work out the tricks, and try to apply it.

After passing through this Ma'anshan town, it officially entered the scope of Shengjing, although it was still in a relatively far suburbs, but Bao Ling had already experienced the prosperity of Shengjing from the train.

There is no need to know the specific data, but Bao Ling can also see the prosperity of this city, which has experienced several wars. There are constantly passengers getting off the bus, and there are also passengers getting on the bus, and they are all dressed more decently, which also reflects the wealth of the people of Shengjing.

When Bao Ling arrived at the Shengjing Railway Station, it was already the evening when the lights were on, and the entire Shengjing Railway Station was brightly lit, and countless windproof horse lanterns were hung on the cement pillars of the station, illuminating the entire railway station.

Bao Ling couldn't help but sigh at the spaciousness of the Shengjing Railway Station, this station, Bao Ling looked back from the beginning, and he couldn't see the end at a glance, supported by thousands of cement pillars in the middle, and even Bao Ling wondered how it was built. This railway station is only larger than London's Westminster railway station, which can accommodate 30,000 people, which is undoubtedly beyond the reach of London's largest railway station.

What a country it is!

Bao Ling roughly calculated that it was a 2,000-kilometer journey from Guangzhou to Shengjing, which was formerly Nanjing, and a detour to Wuchang, and the time he took the train was only less than three days, that is, the speed of the train had reached a speed of about 30 kilometers per hour. This speed, although not as fast as the fastest train in the Kingdom of Great Britain, is relatively fast, after all, the line is so long, and it also includes the time of stops.

It's more than twice as long as taking a boat! Bao Ling knows exactly what this means!

After getting off the train and walking a distance of almost a kilometer, Bao Ling spent a corner to get into a public carriage and prepare to go from the train station to Xuanwu Lake in the Shengjing City. At the beginning, after the defeat of the first expeditionary force of the Kingdom of Great Britain, the peace agreement was signed on the shores of Lake Xuanwu, and I never imagined that I would have to represent the Kingdom of Great Britain again. It's just that this time it's probably not so easy to sign.

However, before Bao Ling came back to his senses, the other passengers in the public carriage were dispersed, and he was the only one left, the driver of the carriage and the two young men looked at him with a smile, and the young man at the head said, "Excuse me, are you Mr. Bao Ling from England?" ”

"Yes!" Bao Ling nodded.

"On the order of Minister of Foreign Affairs Wu Ruxiao, Mr. Bao Ling will be sent to the Western Embassy, and please follow us to the Western Embassy." As he spoke, the two young men stepped forward and pressed Bao Ling on the carriage without saying anything, and it turned out to be the appearance of being a prisoner, which made Bao Ling extremely humiliated, but thinking about the task of his trip, he couldn't help but obey the arrangement.

However, he still wondered why these intelligence officers, who were obviously agents of the Chinese Empire, could accurately know their whereabouts. After a little thought, it became clear that it must be a telegram! I can't think of it, there is a railway along the line, and the telegraph will definitely be laid.

The merchant must have betrayed him, or he had leaked his whereabouts. Otherwise, the intelligence agencies of the Chinese Empire are very tight, and they have become the target of the other party's surveillance from the moment they enter Nanyang or set foot in Guangzhou, and at this moment when they arrive in Shengjing, it is time for a showdown. Thinking about it like this, Bao Ling was a little frightened, he didn't think that he had been being watched, and he didn't realize it at all, just thinking about it was a little frightened.

What he didn't expect was that he was escorted into the Western embassy with him, as well as the envoys of Tsarist Russia.

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