Just when Shi Dakai and others were showing their skills in the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains, the far east, the imperial capital of the Chinese Empire, and the Western embassy in the Holy Capital City, welcomed the envoys of the two countries at the same time, the British envoy Sir Bao Ling and the Russian envoy Balyu Czech.

Although this was Bao Ling's fourth visit to Shengjing, he was still a little surprised by the rapid changes in the city. But what surprised him even more was the status of the British Empire in the hearts of the Easterners.

Bao Ling still remembers that the first time he came to this city, which was still called Nanjing at that time, he was also the acting commercial director of the British Empire in Hong Kong and the consul of Guangzhou.

But now, he is already a member of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Great Britain, Queen Victoria and the new Prime Minister Gladstone personally signed and approved the plenipotentiary envoy of the Kingdom of Great Britain to the Chinese Empire, it can be said that in the East, he is already the highest decision-maker in Britain, but now the scene and treatment along the way made him extremely stunned, compared with the treatment he came to Nanjing, it is a world of difference, not the same.

The most unforgettable thing for him is that since he resisted the Chinese Empire, what he has seen and heard along the way has shocked him incomparably!

Along the way, it's okay to say that he was treated as a prisoner, but the point is that people don't care about him at all, neither deliberately embarrassing him, nor any flattery or any attention, they really treat him as dispensable air, but this feeling makes him very uncomfortable!

He hated the feeling of being ignored. Along the way, he was first seized by the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire in the port of Aden, and then the commander of the fleet sent a small warship to send him directly to Penang, and then handed him over to a merchant ship from Penang bound for Canton.

In desperation, he had to take a merchant ship to Guangzhou by himself. Poor him, because when he was seized in the port of Aden, all his luggage was searched, and he had no savings, and on the way to the merchant ship, he was chased by the shrewd merchant ship owner from Nanhai, Guangdong, and could not do it, and the embarrassed Bao Ling had to be forced to accept the miscellaneous work done by inferior slaves such as cleaning, catching rats, and dumping household garbage on the merchant ship, in exchange for some remuneration for the passage fee!

Bao Ling has never been so humiliated in his life! But for the sake of the future of the entire Kingdom of Great Britain, he had to endure it!

After arriving at the Thirteen Lines Wharf in Guangzhou, no one paid attention to him, and finally found a Guangzhou tea merchant who he had known before, so he could talk about it, but the Guangzhou tea merchant who had always grovelled in front of him actually didn't buy his account, and said that the British invaded the Chinese Empire, and the British were the enemies of the Chinese Empire, saying that although he was a friend of Bao Ling, he was a child of the Chinese Empire, and could not betray his own country to fund foreign enemies. Angry that Bao Ling almost wanted to jump up and scold, what bullshit logic, it was all an excuse, and after he promised to return the borrowed money by 10 times, the tea merchant finally agreed to lend him 200 holy yuan as travel expenses.

The reason why the cost of the journey was so expensive was that the tea merchant told him that in order to get to Shengjing as soon as possible, he should take the train instead of a passenger ship at sea. However, the train ride is much more expensive than the boat ride. But Bao Ling was eager to rush to Shengjing at this moment, and immediately asked the court and the emperor of the Chinese Empire for an armistice, and the sooner the negotiations were successful, the sooner the captured soldiers were rescued, the sooner the losses would be reduced, so he immediately chose to rush to Shengjing by railroad and train!

Bao Ling was about to leave the Thirteen Lines Wharf in Guangzhou and go to Guangzhou Railway Station, only to find that he was very familiar with the city of Guangzhou, which he could barely recognize!

At this time, he had the heart and time to notice that the Guangzhou Thirteen Lines Wharf, where he had stayed here for two years, was completely different from the original crowded and cramped Thirteen Lines Wharf. There are many tall buildings, and the square outside the dock is full of people, but there is no such porter and foot seller, all of them are horse-drawn carriages, human-powered two-wheeled vehicles, etc., and the traffic is busy, which for a while makes him feel like he is walking in the most prosperous district of London, Westminster.

Leaving the Thirteen Lines Pier Square, which is much wider than London's Parliament Square, after inquiry, Bao Ling learned that there is a fixed public carriage at the Thirteen Lines Pier to go to the Guangzhou Railway Station. Oh my God, isn't that the idea of urban public transport? The horse-drawn public transport vehicles that appeared on the streets of London have only appeared for a long time, and the city of London only began to set up horse-drawn bus companies eight years ago. Moreover, London's public carriage is only a long-distance special line from Greenwich to central London, but it can be clearly seen in the thirteen-line wharf in Guangzhou, only this thirteen-line public carriage station, there are more than five public transportation lines, namely to Nanhai County Ya, Teachers College, Guangzhou Railway Station, Huangpu Military Academy, Guangzhou No. 1 Textile Factory, Fangcun and so on.

Bao Ling lamented that the public transportation in the far east of Guangzhou was so developed, and at the same time spent a dime to get on a large and comfortable public carriage with a fixed route and go directly to the Guangzhou Railway Station.

On the way to the train station, Bao Ling looked at the scene outside the carriage, which shocked him!

He is very familiar with the city of Guangzhou, when it was still the rule of the Manchu Dynasty, he served as the consul of the British Empire in Guangzhou, and he still knows a lot about the people's livelihood. At that time, most of the people walking on the streets of Guangzhou were in rags, and half of them were covered with patches, which may be an exaggeration to say that they were skinny, but it was an obvious fact that most of them had food and a difficult life.

But now, through the bright glass windows of the carriage, he could clearly see that the crowds on both sides of the street were full of excitement, not to mention that the people in their patched clothes were extinct, and even the poor people on the side of the road, who looked like coolies, were dressed in new and decent clothes, although they were cotton and linen, but they did not look like the great crowds of beggars in the past. These passers-by on the street are obviously completely different from what Bao Ling saw ten years ago, although they are not all red-faced, and Bao Ling can't say why, this is just a feeling, these oriental Chinese on the streets of Guangzhou, it seems that the whole spirit is different, with that kind of self-confidence, upward motivation, they all have a vivid soul, not the body of the past.

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