Chapter 17: Steam Trains Are Slow
The next morning, Xiaolu arrived at Mukden Station half an hour early. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info checked near the station for a long time, and arrived at the station when he saw that he was fine. It may be that they tossed for more than a day and gave up, or it may be that they are tight inside.
When Xiaolu entered the station, the ticket inspection was almost over, Xiaolu entered the station, got on the platform, entered the train, placed the boxes, checked the situation nearby, and did not relax until the train started.
Propaganda posters were plastered on the walls at both ends of the carriage, and on one side of the propaganda poster depicted the crime of sabotaging railway facilities, and depicted a man being arrested by the police. Another propaganda poster was about the promotion of the Five Ethnic Harmony, with several people in different ethnic costumes smirking and standing with the Japanese, and several people with the Manchurian flag painted on their heads.
Note that it is a five-ethnic concord, not a five-ethnic republic.
The difference between the two is huge.
"The republic of the five ethnic groups" is the word of the Republic of China, which was originally Sun Wen's inaugural speech at the provisional president: "The foundation of the country lies in the people, and the Han, Manchu, Mongolian, and Hui Tibetan lands are one country, and if the Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui, and Tibetan ethnic groups are one person, it is said that the unity of the nation is the unity of the nation." ”
The national flag in the early years of the Republic of China was the five-color flag, advocated by Yuan Shikai, and the red, yellow, blue, white, and black symbolized Han, Manchu, Mongolia, Hui, and Tibet respectively. Of course, this flag, and Sun Yat-sen was against.
The harmony of the five ethnic groups is a word for the puppet Manchurians.
The political slogan of the puppet Manchurians is the harmony of the five ethnic groups and the royal paradise. In the puppet Manchu, these five ethnic groups are interpreted as Manchu, He, Han, Chao, and Mongolian. And, Yamato, i.e. Japan.
The puppet Manchurian flag is still five-colored, but with a yellow background and a red, blue, white and black flag.
The five colors are interpreted as: yellow represents Manchuria and the Manchurian nation, red represents the enthusiastic Japanese nation, cyan represents the youthful Han nation, white represents the innocent Mongolian nation, and black represents the fair Korean nation.
There are not many people in the carriage, and the seats are all wooden, very narrow and hard, and it is not uncomfortable. This carriage is not far from the locomotive, and the sound of the locomotive can be heard very clearly, and the smell of train smoke comes from time to time.
Looking at the people in the carriage, most of them are civilians, and you can see at a glance that most of these people are from the Northeast and are honest.
There were several Koreans at one end of the carriage, talking loudly and with a swaggering appearance, and among them there was a man who seemed to be the head of these people, most likely Japanese.
Above the seats is the luggage rack, on which the boxes of the path are placed.
The box is a good case.
Space doors are very narrow, and as such, the boxes are elongated. However, due to the excellent design, the box is combined, and by recombining the modules at both ends, the box becomes rectangular, the same shape as a normal chest. The documents were put together with the important supplies he had brought with him, and the boxes contained clothes, money, and gold bars on the surface.
Xiao Lu prepared carefully this time, put away the dagger and the five-four gun, and pinned a shiny Wang Ba box to his waist, because he had observed it when he sold tickets yesterday, and he would not search his body when he entered the train station.
The train speed is very slow, and the scenery on both sides of the railway is very good, but unfortunately a lot of land is planted with **. In addition to ** fields, there are also a lot of sorghum and millet. There are many trees on both sides of the railway, which are very neat, and many intersections are guarded by pillboxes.
The train passes through every station and stops for a while. When stopping, there are constantly trains whistling past, some are military vehicles, and some are material vehicles.
It's too slow.
In the early days, train speeds, on average, were about 30 kilometers per hour. The station stops for a long time, which is one of the reasons for the slow speed. Nanjing to Shanghai, 300 kilometers, ten hours. At that time, the business scope of the Manchurian Railway had already reached North China.
In the afternoon, when I arrived in Jinzhou, many people got off the bus. Japanese people have very strict restrictions on who can get on a bus, so many people who want to enter the customs cannot go there.
The train stopped in Jinzhou for fifteen minutes, there was no food prepared on the path, and there were no water cups, and I saw a pool on the platform outside the carriage, which was the kind that could wash my face, and there was water on the faucet. One of the young men looked up to drink water with a tea jar, saw the path, and his eyes lit up, it turned out to be an acquaintance. Xiao Lu also remembered that it was the young student who took the money for Miss Xue.
The young man's eyes widened suddenly, he beckoned to the path, and ran over and said, "This classmate, you have been here, great, we are in the next carriage." ”
Xiaolu nodded and said, "It's all out?" ”
The young man said, "It's all out." What's wrong with you, thirsty? Come, if you don't dislike it, drink some. ”
Xiaolu used to go out and take fast trains and bullet trains. When he was in graduate school, his supervisor paid him to fly. Drinking water, taking bottled water, eating and buying boxed lunches, basically there is no habit of taking the car with household utensils, so except for buying dry food a few times, I just sat there and was very thirsty.
Xiao Lu drank half of it in one gulp and said, "Thank you." ”
The young man said: "My name is Zhao Ziqiang. You wait. He ran away.
After a while, more than a dozen young students came running from the next car. It was Miss Xue who was the leader, and Zhao Ziqiang was also there. Miss Xue said: "I saw you also buy a ticket the night before yesterday, so I guessed that you should be here, but I didn't expect you to be next door." Then come to us. We've got you a seat. ”
Xiao Lu felt that there was no problem and said, "Okay." "Took the box and walked with them. Zhao Ziqiang wanted to help him get the box, but Xiaolu refused.
The trail entered the carriage and was accustomed to observing. There were more people in this carriage, and many of the seats in the middle were filled with students and people, about twenty or so. At one end of the carriage sat several businessmen, on the other sat three people, a schoolgirl who looked like a single person, and on the other sat two men in their thirties. They all glanced at Xiaolu when he came in, but immediately withdrew his gaze.
Xiao Lu's heart tightened, he felt that these two people were soldiers.
The students ignored it and arranged for Xiaolu to sit down in a window seat, opposite Miss Xue.
Miss Xue said, "You, you haven't eaten, have you?" As he spoke, he took out a towel bag from his bag, opened it, and there was an oil cake inside, and said, "Eat one first." When the other students saw it, they immediately turned around, and then several people handed over eggs, cakes, etc.
After a while, a young man who looked like a teacher walked over, and the other classmates asked him to sit down. The teacher sat across the path and said, "It's you." You have helped your classmates so much, and you have helped half of them. Say nothing, thanks. What are your plans after you arrive in Beiping, just stay with us and take care of each other. ”
Miss Xue said: "This is our teacher from Dongda, Teacher Yan Shushiyan. ”
When Xiao Lu heard this, he was taken aback, and it turned out that he had met the composer of the flowers of May, and he stood up at once and said, "Teacher Yan, I am fortunate to be there." The teacher is dedicated to music education, and I have been looking up to it for a long time. Your songs, I know, okay. "Five fingers out.
Teacher Yan understood that he was talking about "Flowers in May", and said, "Don't, this classmate, you are polite, sit down and sit down." ”
Miss Xue said, "Mr. Yan is now in Peking University, our Dongda Law School, and also teaches music. ”
Xiaolu whispered: "May flowers, what a song." ”
A girl whispered: "The flowers of May are blooming all over the field, and the flowers cover the blood of the heroes." In order to save this dying nation, they are fighting tenaciously and unstopprisingly. ”
Zhao Ziqiang put his finger on his mouth, looked at the other side of the carriage, and sighed. The girl immediately stopped singing.
Xiao Lu understood that they were also aware of the two soldiers.
Teacher Yan said, "This classmate Lu, what school are you studying?" ”
Xiaolu said: "My family is ruined, I didn't study, and now I work and study." ”
Teacher Yan said: "Okay, classmate Lu, you have ambition. ”
Miss Xue said, "Then where did you get your money?" Borrowed? The question got to the point right at once.
Xiao Lu didn't answer, and shook his head.
The train departed, and the conductor walked back and forth several times, and the businessmen were gone.