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Chapter 918 The Slowly Moving Train

After the early morning showers, the clouds open and the sun rises. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The ancient city of Nanxi, which has a history of more than 1,400 years, is full of vitality under the bright morning sun, the whole city is covered with red and hanging colors, it is as lively and festive as a festival, more than 70,000 people in ten miles and eight townships outside the city help the old and bring the young, pour out the nest, flock to the north of the city under the slope of the colorful flags, many simple mountain people in the remote mountains also come one after another, many of them are the villagers who heard the good news in advance, and rushed over the mountains and mountains with torches last night, all of them are for one reason - to see with their own eyes what the train looks like.

The newly completed Nanxi Railway Station is not large in scale, but the functions are complete, the layout is reasonable, the station covering an area of 1,200 square meters is a rectangular building, 49 huge square support columns and beams inside and out, all of which are reinforced concrete structures, to ensure the stability of the building at the same time, but also to obtain a wide span, the blue bricks and gray tiles with national characteristics and the four corners of the antique cornices, so that this will be the waiting room, the ticket hall, the private room, the office into one of the building, it appears concise and bright, solemn and grand.

On the flat platform, which is 36 meters wide and 120 meters long, at the moment full of colorful flags and crowds dressed in festive costumes, the drum band composed of 240 students from Nanxi Middle School is playing cheerful music.

On the two platforms between the three parallel tracks, there are more than 1,200 railway builders who are full of laughter and pride, and these railway workers from all over the motherland are all employees of the South Sichuan Railway Company, which is the first railway built by the company in the past year, how can it not make the people involved in the construction proud and excited?

A temporary erection of a large color gate ten meters high, across the first track in the middle of the platform, the color door is decorated with colorful flowers and party flags and national flags, seventy-two fully armed officers and soldiers of the Nanxi County Garrison Corps, neatly standing under the color gate, in the eager eyes of the girls, one more majestic than the other.

On the track west of the platform, there is a group of figures dressed in casual clothes and wearing red hard hats, among which three tall foreign devils are the contractors of this railway, and the general manager of the German Asia-Europe Railway Engineering Construction Group, Hawkes. Huffman, Chief Engineer Duff. Mueller and Engineering Director Achim. Loew.

A group of people standing next to the three Germans and talking with a smile were Yang Bin, old man Qi, Jiang Yunshan, Dong Fuchuan, Nanxi county magistrate and manager of the railway company in southern Sichuan, and everyone was very happy about the early completion of the first phase of the Xulu Railway (Xufu to Luzhou), and through 45 days of trial operation and strict testing, the 50-kilometer section of the section from Xufu to Nanxi was accepted and put into use at one time, so that the southern Sichuan government is full of admiration for the Germans who are rigorous and scientific and strive for perfection.

The remaining Nanxi-Luzhou section of the railway has been basically completed, and it is expected to be put into operation on the eve of the Southwest Games and the Commodity Expo.

Twenty days ago, the Nanjing Ministry of Railways organized a delegation of British and French railway engineers and officials stationed in China to come to southern Sichuan.

The Germans already knew the purpose of the trip between the British and French counterparts, and also knew the grudge between the British and French railway contractors and the officials of the Nanking government, but the Germans were not afraid, politely accompanied the visiting group through the whole journey, and finally said unceremoniously:

The German Eurasia Group is determined to win the next stage of the 850-kilometer railway bidding project of the southern Sichuan government, and will also show the world Germany's most advanced research results and the most sophisticated construction technology.

More than 20 meters in front of the Germans and government officials, three men in training uniforms with a descending age difference squatted between the two railroad tracks, looking at the railway stretching to the west, and talking in low voices. These three people with special identities were He Yaozu, Chairman Chiang's special envoy, Huang Shaohong, and An Yi, the supreme military and political chief of southern Sichuan.

He Yaozu and Huang Shaohong arrived in Syria as early as the day before Li Jishen and others left, in order to avoid suspicion, and in order not to make too much movement, the two took the initiative to avoid meeting with Li Jishen and others, and as soon as they came, they lived in the non-commissioned officer school, taking the opportunity to visit this famous military academy, and Huang Shaohong also took the opportunity to visit more than 100 children in his hometown, accompanied by Ding Zhicheng and Li Fuqiang, to carry out research.

An Yi did not end the secret negotiations with Liu Wenhui until late yesterday night, reached a series of agreements, and returned to Syria from Muchuan County, but he would not be stupid enough to take the initiative to tell the two of them his whereabouts, He Yaozu and Huang Shaohong knew that An Yi was a busy man, and at this time the crisis between the central government and An Yi Group had been resolved, and the two became relaxed, so they ignored An Yi's whereabouts in the past few days, and were happy to visit and learn from various places in Syria and Luzhou, summarize experience, and enjoy delicious food and wine.

After An Yi came back, he accompanied the two elders who had a deep friendship around Syria for a day, and invited the two to Nanxi early this morning to attend the opening ceremony together.

The three of them chatted for a while about this high-quality railway, listened to An Yi explain the next construction plan, and after listening to He Yaozu and Huang Shaohong, they looked at each other with doubts.

Huang Shaohong has been the Minister of Railways for more than half a year, and He Yaozu is also a member of the National Defense Committee, and they all know that the Ministry of Railways has long had a plan for the construction of a railway from Chongqing to Chengdu, but they didn't expect An Yi's Syrian government to go ahead, but An Yi, who has a lot of money, did not have a construction plan to build Chongqing and Chengdu, which is really unexpected.

Huang Shaohong couldn't bear it anymore and asked An Yi: "Xiao Yi, you plan to build Kunming and Qianxi Water City in the south, and only Luzhou in the north, but no longer extend north to Chongqing and Chengdu, the two most important places in Bashu, why is this?" Could it be that Liu Chengfu (Liu Xiang) is unwilling? ”

"Liu Chengfu? He is never in a hurry, I guess what he wants to do most now is not to build roads, but to drive his uncle to the Sichuan-Tibet border to be happy, he has also shouted a few times about road repairs, I haven't heard any movement in the past two years, and the road repair in southern Sichuan has nothing to do with him.

"Let's tell you the truth, Uncle He, big brother, I have no money in my hands! Gritting his teeth and slapping his swollen face to fill a fat man, he stole his wife's private money, and then reluctantly built the Xulu Railway and the Xuzhao Railway (Xufu to Zhaotong), until now these two roads have made the little brother bankrupt, miserable, how dare you dream of repairing to Chengdu and Chongqing?

"Our Nanjing government is in charge of the whole of China's taxes, today it is said that it is repaired here, and tomorrow it is said that it is repaired there, but it has been shouted with great fanfare for a few years, but there is no movement, and the younger brother asks to know all kinds of mysteries, it turns out that it is purely those guys in the court who are full of food and nothing to do are painting cakes to satisfy their hunger, and even if they increase their popularity, no matter how big the family business is, they are powerless, not to mention that the younger brother has three points of land per acre, how much tax can there be a year? If it weren't for this major disarmament, hundreds of thousands of soldiers would probably not even have a change of underwear! ”

An Yi screamed out for poverty vigorously, sighed for a long time, and the look on his face was also extremely sad, which provoked He Yaozu and Huang Shaohong, who knew An Yi's details well, laughed heartily and scolded for a while.

He Yaozu finished scolding and returned to the topic: "To be honest, after today's news of the opening of the road is announced, it will definitely attract national attention, and all walks of life across the country will definitely compare your boy's achievements with the central government, the central government will be very embarrassed and passive, maybe you will offend people again." ”

An Yi shook his head and said helplessly: "Is there any way?" You can't be afraid of offending those corpse vegetarians, so you don't care about the life or death of the old folks in southern Sichuan, right? Besides, the younger generation is now Wang Xiaoer's New Year, and a year is not as good as a year, and if he doesn't build a better place for himself to live, I'm afraid there will be no place to live by then. ”

He Yaozu couldn't help but smile again, saying that your kid's temper has grown. The three of them saw that the time was almost up, and walked back to the platform full of celebratory crowds.

Huang Shaohong saw the vibrant and hopeful crowd, and couldn't help but think of his hometown Guangxi, walked a few steps, and asked An Yi in a low voice:

"Brother Yi Xing came this time, what deal did you make?"

"Four planes, and three sets of cement production equipment, except for these, the rest are still on paper, without the nods of Degong and General Jiansheng, it is estimated that nothing can be done." An Yi replied.

Huang Shaohong was a little surprised: "Cement complete sets of production equipment? Imported or produced by you? ”

An Yi saw He Yaozu also approaching with interest, and raised his voice very proudly: "Our Luzhou Mining Machinery and Equipment Factory was put into operation at the beginning of the year, and the daily output of 300 tons of rotary kilns, large crushers, ball mills and dryers produced by purchasing German technology has been sold to Kunming and Guiyang. In addition to the four cement plants in Jiang'an, the rest are all using their own production equipment, especially after the Luzhou Bearing Factory and the Xufu Machine Tool Factory were put into operation, many of the machinery and equipment we produced do not need to import key spare parts from Europe and the United States, and so on next spring, the rails used in the railway we built will all be produced from Luzhou Iron and Steel Plant and Xuyong Iron and Steel Plant, and I no longer have to spend a lot of money on this. ”

Huang Shaohong and He Yaozu saw An Yi's confident appearance, sighed in unison, and before they could say a few words of applause, they saw Yang Bin striding over, thousands of people on the platform were waiting for the three of them, and they saw that the people around were all black and oppressive, and even the big trees outside the railway were full of people watching the excitement.

Under the colored door in the middle of the platform, a brand-new locomotive clad in red and green was steaming, and it seemed that it was waiting impatiently.

Half an hour later, the grand ceremony ended, and officials at all levels in southern Sichuan, 300 railway builders, 50 ordinary teachers in Nanxi County, and 300 outstanding students from primary and secondary schools excitedly boarded the carriages one by one, becoming the first batch of people in the history of southern Sichuan to take the train, enjoying the glory of bursts of cheers and the attention of thousands of people in the wide carriages.

"Whew-"

The sound of the whistle of the departure train, resounded through the earth, straight up to the sky, the train in the deafening drum music and firecrackers, slowly started, headed for Syria, An Yi's majestic cause and involving tens of millions of fathers and villagers in the future of the construction of southern Sichuan, but also like the slow start of the train, steady progress, continue to accelerate......