[It's scheduled to be sent at noon, but it's a little late, and there's a shift in the evening.] 】

The train comes to a slow stop, and through the glass windows of the guò carriages, you can see the endless flow of people on the platform outside.

It's completely different from the station you used to visit.

Chapter recalled.

When the scenery outside the window changed to the platform, the train walked nearly a mile before stopping.

Looking out of the windows on both sides, there are as many as seven or eight parallel platforms, and between the platforms and the platforms, they are connected by high bridges and directly cross the railway line. No platform is empty, and even if there are no cars on the railway line next to the platform, there are still passengers waiting.

Such a huge building, Zhang Hui has never seen it once in his thirty years of life, and it feels a little bigger than the county seat of Xianyuan [now Qufu] where he grew up.

The door opened from the outside, Zhang Hui took out his luggage from under the seat, and followed the passengers in the same line to get off the bus in turn.

Arrived in Beijing by car from the county [now Yanzhou], a two-day journey, Zhang Hui was removed, and he slept on a hard seat all the way.

This is Zhang Hui's first time in Beijing, surrounded by hurried travelers, alone, he is a little excited, but also a little confused.

There was a sudden commotion ahead, and Zhang looked back at the next platform. Over there, two so-called policemen lifted an old man out of the carriage, followed by a policeman with a suitcase in his hand. After getting out of the platform, he threw the box to the ground, and the box collapsed, and the contents were scattered all over the ground.

Before Zhang Hui could understand what was going on, someone next to him sighed, "Why bother, the print is not expensive." ”

Then came the voice of schadenfreude, "There is a railway to ride, I have saved so much, and I am reluctant to buy a print, I deserve to be arrested." ”

It turned out to be a tax evader. Zhang Hui understood.

In the past, when you traveled thousands of miles, you had to pay two tax dollars for every tax card you passed. Nowadays, with the railway, if you bring goods on the train, as long as you buy stamps according to the distance and category, it is equivalent to paying taxes along the way, and then you don't have to pay more taxes through the state and county.

Compared with the past, taxes and travel expenses are much saved, but if someone dares to evade this stamp duty, not only will the goods be confiscated, but they will also be fined two to five times the price of the goods.

This is when Zhang returned to the car, he listened to the warning of the car. Every time you pass a station, every time a new group of passengers arrives, the police will come and make a notice. If someone hasn't bought the stamp yet, it's too late to make up for it, and if you start checking it and get found out, you'll have to suffer a lot.

Moreover, the inspection on the train was still very strict, and along the way, the book that Zhang Hui carried with him was checked twice.

This is because he looks like a scholar, so he has been less harassed, and the passengers in front and behind him have been checked more than four or five times.

Zhang Hui shook his head, it is a good thing to reduce the commercial tax by printing, and the government should also check the tax - otherwise the tax burden will fall on the good people who dare not evade taxes - but there is no need to be so rude.

A long whistle rang out abruptly from its side.

The whistling sound was sharp and piercing, and Zhang Hui, who was still shaking his head, staggered in fright.

When I looked back, I saw that it was an iron rod that I had just noticed—now it seemed to be hollow—with a cloud of white gas spreading high on the top outer ring.

Many people around noticed Zhang Hui Fangcai's wolf bèi, and their faces couldn't help but have a disdain for the buns of the foreign land. Zhang Hui didn't pay attention to this, and looked at this iron rod curiously.

"That's a whistle."

Whistle?

Chapter back.

The person who was talking to him, hand-cranked folding fan, was dressed as a scholar like Zhang Hui, he was younger than Zhang Hui, but he was tall and handsome, and his clothes and outfits were much brighter than Zhang Hui.

But Zhang Hui only glanced at it and didn't pay attention, but asked, "Why don't you see the boiler?" ”

Although he had never seen the whistle, he had seen an introduction in "Nature". The factories under the imperial court were too large to ring the bell to carry the news of work, so they invented the whistle and used the steam generated by the boiler to make sound.

The scholar pointed to the bottom of his feet, "The pipe comes through the ground. ”

Zhang Hui looked at the ground and suddenly became stunned.

The tall scholar looked at Zhang Hui with a smile, "Brother Tai is the first time to go to Beijing." ”

Zhang Hui nodded and saluted, "In the next chapter Hui, the table character Yuan Fu, dare to ask the honorable surname Taifu?" ”

"Rushing to the sea and not returning?" Seeing Zhang Hui nodding again, the tall scholar laughed, laughed a few times, and returned his hand, "This is too coincidental." In the lower Li Ying, the table word is also Yuan Fu. ”

Zhang Hui's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked, "But Kunshan Li Yuanfu?" Brother Tai's three "New Treatises on Prescriptions" are really unprecedented......"

When I saw the math master who worshiped him when I first saw the paper, Zhang Hui's feelings were high, and Li Ying also took Zhang Hui's hand affectionately, "Brother Tai should have discovered Zhang Yuanfu who discovered the element of ytterium, right?" The younger brother has been friends for a long time, and he doesn't want to see him today. ”

"Yuan ...... Brother Yuan Fu," Zhang Hui read his words, feeling a little awkward, "You also came to Beijing to attend the conference?" ”

"Of course, when I received the invitation that day, I wanted to leave, but I didn't expect something to happen at home, and it was delayed until now. Brother Yuanfu ......" Li Ying blinked his eyes and said with a smile, "I'm also awkward to Dao Yuanfu, so let's go down for nine ......."

Zhang Hui smiled bitterly, "It's also Xingjiu below." ”

Li Ying was also stunned, "This is really too coincidental." He looked at Zhang Hui, "When you and I have been friends for a long time, I only call Brother Zhang and Brother Li, which is too rusty." ”

"It's better to be like this," Zhang replied, "Brother Li can call Zhang Jiu directly, you and I have been shining for a long time, why should we care like ordinary people." ”

"Chapter nine, Li Jiu." Zhang Hui was straightforward, Li Ying was even more happy, read two sentences, and laughed freely, "That's good, Eli Lilly and courtesy, I don't know how much time it will take in vain." ”

"Li Jiu." Zhang Hui asked, "What are you going to do next?" Are you going to settle down first, or do you want to learn to report first? ”

"Let's see if there are people living there in the society, and if you can live, try to live, and there are relatives in Beijing at home, and it's not difficult to use it, but let the younger brother choose, it's best to live near the society." Li Ying replied to Zhang, "Wouldn't it be happier to talk to my colleagues at night than to lie alone?" ”

Zhang Huilian nodded, "This is very much my opinion, this time I went to Beijing, just to discuss everything with my colleagues, and I can't waste a night." ”

Li Ying closed the folding fan, "Without further ado, let's go." ”

Zhang Hui was dressed plainly, and he went to Beijing alone, without a servant, and carried a book on his back.

And Li Ying is followed by a scholar and two companions, the companion is carrying a big box, the scholar is carrying a small bag, and Li Ying himself is holding a folding fan of Xiangfei bamboo, dressed beautifully, and at a glance he knows that he is a suave rich son.

Li Ying read it, so he asked the scholar to take Zhang Hui's book on his back, and said: "The younger brother has been to Beijing twice, and he will leave the station first when he arrives in Beijing. ”

Li Ying took Zhang Hui's hand and was about to go to the exit, but his scholar shouted violently, "Jiulang, there is someone holding a sign over there." ”

"How could it be ......," Li Ying paused, "Oh, it's really a brand of the Natural Society!" Chapter 9, do you see it? ”

"See." Zhang looked back at the two people holding wooden signs dozens of steps away, "It's on the other side." ”

On the wooden plaque, six characters of the Emperor Song Natural Society are written.

"On the other side, right here, not over there...... Hey, why do you have it over there! ”

Zhang Hui looked back and forth, left and right, "Every platform seems to have one." ”

Li Ying and Zhang Hui looked at each other in shock. This momentum is not small. Just to welcome guests, dozens of people were sent to guard the station.

Sensing the sight of Li Ying and Zhang Hui, the person holding the sign on the platform walked over.

Walking in, he glanced at it, naturally excluded the companion and the little servant, and saluted Li Ying and Zhang Hui, "Two officials, but are you here to see the meeting of the Natural Society?" ”

Li Ying and Zhang Huiqi nodded, "Exactly." ”

"Below is the assistant of the society, who was ordered to wait here for the members who attended the meeting in Beijing. Dare to ask the two officials, do you still have the invitation? ”

"Brought it."

Zhang Hui took out the invitation card from the hidden pocket in his arms, and Li Ying's invitation card was also handed over by the scholar.

Only the official members of the society can get an invitation to participate in this national conference, and at the end of the invitation, it is also indicated that the members who participate in this conference can be reimbursed for their own travel expenses.

Such good conditions certainly made all the members who received the invitation rush to it.

Needless to say, you can meet the Zaifu of the current dynasty - Pingzhang Su Song, Prime Minister Han Gang, and Deputy Cardinal Shen Kuo, all three of whom are official members of the society, and there are also four members such as Huang Shang and Wang Juqing in the middle of the discussion.

Just a trip to Beijing and meeting like-minded pen pals who could only communicate with guò Hongxin in the past is a rare pleasure. What's more, you don't have to spend money on travel?

After inspecting the invitation, the assistant greeted his companion, and led Zhang and Li to follow him. But it was not the road out of the station that Li Ying had walked, but after passing through a heavily guarded checkpoint, he turned to another road.

The assistant explained while leading the way, "This is the way for officials to walk, and it is more convenient." ”

"But my seventh brother is also an official, but he doesn't take this road."

"Politics." The assistant spit out two words and blocked Li Ying's mouth, "This is where the special train stops." ”

It's a big face.

Zhang Hui and Li Ying didn't dare to make a sound, but they looked at each other and found excitement and pride in each other's eyes.

It is worthy of being initiated by the prime minister.

It's great to be here.

……………………

Imperial Taitung.

I don't know how long I waited, but the side door in front of me finally opened.

A Taiwanese official in a soap coat walked out first, glanced at Wen Jifu, and then turned around and shouted inside, "Come out." ”

Two familiar faces stepped out of it one after the other.

They are all emaciated and thin, as if a gust of wind can blow them down.

Wen Jifu hurriedly stepped forward and hugged the two of them, tearful with emotion, "Second brother, ninth brother." ”