Chapter 8 Travel to Sarajevo
At noon, I declined Caprol's invitation to lunch, took an old-fashioned car, and slowly returned to my school, sitting in a car of this era is a kind of torture for Zhao Xiang, not to mention the shock absorption, the speed of the vehicle is still slow, and I don't know who designed it, the exhaust port is in front of the vehicle, and I accidentally inhale the exhaust of the car, no, it should be called the front gas now. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Back in the dormitory of the school, Zhao Xiang put away the money and pistol first, and began to think about the next plan, he is now only one person, there is no group of like-minded friends like Princip in history, and Zhao Xiang does not expect to be able to find like-minded friends in a month.
And the assassination of the **** of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, how big a crime is this? If you meet someone unladylike and just tell your plan, the next day someone from Austria-Hungary will arrest you.
For the sake of secrecy, Zhao Xiang can only do it by himself, his only advantage now is that he has some knowledge from the future, he has been a soldier before, and he is familiar with weapons, maybe he can make a time bomb, or a weapon like black technology, and directly kill Ferdinand with one shot.
However, the time is too short, maybe give Zhao Xiang a year, Zhao Xiang can figure out the black technology, a month, there is no possibility at all, the most important thing is that the No. 7 that he carries with him cannot give himself any help.
"Hey, you can only take one step at a time, let's go to Sarajevo first!" With a deep sigh, Zhao Xiang got up again, carried the box and left the school with his weapon.
He first went to a courier company, Europe has now appeared similar to the courier company consignment company, but the speed of these companies is very slow, and there is no door-to-door delivery and other services, can only be their own door-to-door pick-up, and it is not very developed, in addition to some large cities and important cities, many small cities do not have these companies.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, there was no so-called X-ray and other equipment inspection, but in European railway stations, there were still special security officers responsible for inspection, who would conduct random spot checks, and Zhao Xiang decided to express the weapons out in order to avoid trouble, and at the same time deposited 30,000 francs in the bank.
In 1914, France is still the world's army NO.1, the franc is very strong, in addition to the pound sterling, it is the most valuable currency in the world, 30,000 francs can be exchanged for 160,000 Serbian dinars, what can 160,000 dinars do? You can buy three cars or buy a large plot of land in Belgrade.
In the end, 2,000 dinars were left for him, and the rest of the money was deposited in the bank, and there were no bank cards in this era, only something similar to a passbook, because the amount was huge (100,000 dinars was a huge amount at the time) and a black and white photo was taken specifically for Princip to prevent fraud.
After doing everything, Zhao Xiang boarded a train to Sarajevo, and without saying goodbye to anyone, he said goodbye to Belgrade with a suitcase containing a few clothes.
Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia under the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1908, was annexed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1908.
It would take only 40 minutes to travel from Belgrade to Sarajevo in the afterlife, but in this era of extremely underdeveloped transportation, it took Zhao Xiang a whole day to reach Sarajevo.
The trains of this era, still using steam trains, have low power, slow speed, and there are many problems, although diesel locomotives have been studied, but they are not popular, and Serbia does not have such advanced equipment.
Another interesting thing is that people in this era are very decent for taking trains, and the price of train tickets is also expensive, and ordinary people can't afford it, so those who can take the train are wealthy people in society.
Zhao Xiang has seen a story before, when the train just came out, it was forbidden for civilians to ride, when the first train in Britain was opened, a group of British nobles dressed in costumes took the train, and in the next ten years, you can often see aristocrats dressed like peacocks on the train.
Originally, Zhao Xiang had always seen it as a joke, but today he saw this scene with his own eyes, several nobles dressed ceremoniously got off the train at the railway station and boarded the train in advance like proud peacocks, while Zhao Xiang, who was a commoner, could only buy the most ordinary tickets, and waited for all the nobles who took the train to get on the train before it was their turn to get on the train.
The ride took nearly an hour, first the nobles got on the train, then the commoners' turns, and there was a small episode in between, a nobleman had a temporary business and needed to deal with a paperwork, and the train stopped at the train station for twenty minutes before restarting.
In this era, trains and automobiles are the same, and taking the train is a kind of torment, a kind of self-punishment.
Although the train has a simple shock absorbing device, but this does not have any sound insulation effect, sitting inside the train is like being in a working steel mill, the huge roar makes the whole person's eardrum very uncomfortable.
Not only that, the civilian carriage is also very crowded, public health is very poor, Serbia in May has entered the summer, the temperature during the day can reach 30 degrees, in this sealed environment the whole person feels very uncomfortable, all kinds of strange smells fill the entire workshop.
But fortunately, there was no shortage of scalpers in this era, and at the suggestion of a train worker, Zhao Xiang spent a hundred dinars to get the privilege of going to the nobles' boxes, of course, only to rest in them, and if they needed other services, they also needed to pay for them.
When Zhao Xiang walked through two crowded civilian carriages with the staff, opened a door that had been locked, and entered the noble carriage.
The aristocratic carriage is very luxurious, if there are ten carriages in a train in this era, the aristocratic carriage will have a minimum of six, even if there are not so many nobles, they must be designed according to this requirement, which is the privilege of the nobles.
The staff secretly took out a bunch of keys and called the door of one of the boxes, pushed Zhao Xiang in, and whispered in his ear, telling him that if someone checked, he would say that he was a member of the Parsha family, and left a note, briefly introducing some of the history of the Parsha family.
"Thank you, what's your name?"
"My name is Heinz Wilhelm Guderian."
After saying that, Guderian closed the door of the box, leaving Zhao Xiang alone in the air.