Taiyuan Railway Station, which was originally the terminal station of Zhengtai Road, is a small border station, Taiyuan Station a year ago, is quite dilapidated, there is only a small waiting room, and even in the open air. Now, with the gradual increase of both passengers and freight, Taiyuan Station has changed a look, led by the political envoy, in the Yang family, Wei family and other Jin businessmen, spent hundreds of thousands of funds, the construction of a new station, the whole station is divided into two different waiting halls, as well as the overpass over the railway, it looks inconspicuous, but suddenly grasped the key point, the efficiency and passenger flow of Taiyuan Station, are much higher than before, even the flow of people is also a little higher, the new Taiyuan Station, there is a waiting hall and freight yard for the railway station, There are also some commercial shopping malls to the outside world.

These shopping malls, selling novelty things, are all from Baotou to transport a variety of industrial products, the price is not expensive, and novel, is very leading the trend for a period of time, several found, is in these different small shops, the daily sales are almost more than 100 yuan, which is almost the usual sales of some first-tier cities, very prosperous stores.

Another train came, a group of businessmen rushed up, promoting their own products, compared with more than a year, Taiyuan at this time, really has the style of a big station, from the original border station, just to contact the role of Beijing and Taiyuan, there are only two or three trains a day, most of them are freight, responsible for pulling out the special products or minerals on this side of Shanxi, the most is coal, but since the middle of last year, this situation has been greatly changed, Baotou has a lot of industrial products, most of them, are through Guò Taiyuan Station, Transshipment to all parts of China, as well as imported machines and resources from abroad, a steady stream of convergence to Baotou, the daily traffic capacity, from the original two or three classes, suddenly increased to more than 30 classes now, and is still improving.

Railway, in the past few decades, has become an important focus, international capital investment one after another, even in China, there are foreign investment in the railway, for no other reason, the railway for the change of transportation, absolutely the first, a closed place, because of the opening of the railway, immediately can become rich, a large number of basic resources out, a variety of industrial products in, forming a constantly jumping pulse, in this strong pulse, the railway continues to expand.

More than 30 trains have made foreign investors who have invested in Zhengtai Road very excited, and the investment that was thought to take decades to recover is expected to be completed within ten years.

Today, this train, slightly different from usual, in the back of the original carriage, four sleeper cars are added, in this era of Chinese mainland, rarely appeared, special sleepers plus matching hard seat card seats, usually appear on Pinghan Road, British and French businessmen, mostly through Guò Pinghan Road, between Beijing and Wuhan, between the Yangtze River Basin, they are more particular.

The train slowly enters the station, the crowd is not dense, getting off the train, generally speaking, those who come at noon are on the train from yesterday, these trains are a little empty, or a little more from the afternoon to the evening. A few middle-aged people dressed in gorgeous clothes and looking extraordinary looked gathered together, waiting for the train to be stable, and when the train stopped, they went to the sleeper cars together.

The sleeper carriage just did not come down, when most of the passengers walked about the same, a bunch of people came down, almost more than a hundred, there are Chinese, more are blonde and blue-eyed foreigners, Taiyuan as a provincial capital, the people are not very closed, foreigners are often seen, in the bustling streets of Taiyuan, there are special foreigners to open shops pù, seeing foreigners is already a common thing.

It was the first time that so many foreigners gathered together, and some idle people began to have a lively scene next to them, and soon formed a group, and those middle-aged people seemed to see something, went up, in front of a foreigner, and said, "Is it Mr. Harpy?" ”

"You were sent by Yang Yuanzhao!" Harpy glanced at them and said, life in China is gradually passing, especially finding a big Chinese boss, Harpy's Chinese is better than before, I don't know how much better, if you don't look at it, you can hardly tell whether it is a Chinese or a foreigner.

"Yes, Young Master Yang ordered, we have already arranged the carriage!"

Harpy thought about it, from Pinghan Road, to Zhengtai Road, lived in Shijiazhuang for a day, along the way, because of the sleeper storage zài, not tired, Taiyuan to Baotou highway, not long ago he also walked, very good cement road, also very stable, at the current speed, may not be until the night, to be able to reach Baotou.

China's transportation is really inconvenient, take a boat from Shanghai, turn all the way, to Wuhan, and then Pinghan, Zhengtai, this is also thanks to the railway, if not, just to make a carriage, Harpy can't help but shudder.

Just behind Harpy, two foreigners were talking in a low voice, one of them was called James, the other was called Jeffrey, both of them were senior researchers in Williams's room, especially James, he was only 31 years old, but he had been a senior researcher in Williams's room for 5 years, and he was an outstanding young talent, and almost all of the 120 people from the United States were in charge of him and Jeffrey.

"It's a big country, it's just too backward, Jeffrey, do you think you can build a steel mill here?"

"Before the merger of the National Iron and Steel Company, it was not as dilapidated, do you remember the eleventh special steel mill, 10 years ago, there was a desert, how much we did back then, it took 2 years to complete its construction!" Jeffrey said disapprovingly.

"That's in the United States, the advancing United States, what can't be done, what kind of place is this, the Qing country with pig's tails everywhere, I don't think, there is industrial blood here!"

"Okay, James, I know, you are not satisfied with this business trip, but this is Mr. Williams's order, do you know how much this backward Qing country spent on Mr. Williams, a full 1 million dollars, and also ordered more than 7 million US dollars of machinery, do you think such a million, or even a multimillionaire, will casually joke with us?"

At this time in the United States, the dollar has not depreciated significantly, the reason why the $20 dollar bill is called the dollar, is because the dollar can really be exchanged into gold, for ordinary people, even senior researchers, one million dollars, is still an unimaginable number, can get this money, without exception is a big man.

James's heart was full of curiosity, even if it was the old and steady Jeffrey, his heart was also full of curiosity, at that time, when the ship stopped at the port of Shanghai, he was still amazed, in the Far East, there was such a huge city, such a perfect port, he thought that the steel mill would fall there, but after seeing Harpy, this has been quite famous in the United States, the German rich man personally led, they started by boat, took several trains, and then arrived at an inland city where I don't know where it is, Along the way, I saw all kinds of strange things, and even crossed the river and used a small locomotive to pull it, which has not been seen in the United States for decades.

Jeffrey also asked himself more than once, can Baotou, where this border is located, really build a 4 million tons of steelmaking plant, even after technological transformation, the total investment will be reduced to 15 million US dollars, this money, even if it is taken to the United States, in front of Williams, is a huge amount of money.

After confirming that the personnel were correct, the four-wheeled carriages entered the platform, and pulled the foreigners into the carriage one by one, a total of more than 60 vehicles, which attracted people's attention, especially in the carriage, and there were blond foreigners sitting in the carriage.

"What a run-down city!" James said disgustedly, if the train station still has a little bit of modern atmosphere, then Taiyuan, the whole is a backward place, even if you can see the signboard in English, in the eyes of James and Jeffrey, it is also similar to the west, down-and-out, full of earthy countryside, and most importantly, dirty and messy, a few miles of road, they took more than half an hour to leave Taiyuan.

"Oh my God? What is it? A sharp-eyed foreigner exclaimed, because after leaving Taiyuan, what greeted them was a seven-story tall building, which adopted a more Chinese-style architectural model, at the top, not the cement top, but a bunch of glazed tiles, which was under construction, the investment was much larger than expected, but the overall effect was very good, very Chinese-style feeling.

More and more foreigners, noticed this building, in a barren northwest, to see such a unique, even distinctive modern building, is really surprising, but next, the greater shock is still behind, a wide road, almost ten meters, smooth and heavy, from their point of view, you can see the thickness of the cement, also about 20 centimeters, the most shocking thing is, this road, at a glance can not see the end.

When the carriage stopped, Jeffrey went to Harpy's carriage, and when he came back, he said solemnly to James: "James, do you know that this highway is all like this, more than 300 kilometers, now, do you doubt that a steel group can be built here?" ”

James opened his mouth, but did not say a word, pale language, can never compare to the reality of what he sees, in his impression of the barren land of the Qing Kingdom, there is such a huge, such a modern cement road, although it did not go down to test, but the carriage gave him the feeling, clearly told him that the quality of this road is extremely high.

A bunch of foreigners, in shock, were pulled to Baotou by a carriage, but Yang Yuanzhao, surrounded by a group of engineers, personally inspected the site selection of Baiyun Obo Steel Plant. R1152