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Xiaolu gets on the train from Qianmen Railway Station and goes to Shanghai via Tianjin. Xue Rui bought a few zongzi for him, it turned out that today was the Dragon Boat Festival.

The train departed, and there were many passengers on board. After driving a few stops, when I arrived in Langfang, I saw a person getting on the bus on the road, it was Wenhua.

Xiaolu had a bad feeling and was about to dodge, but Wenhua had already seen him and beckoned to him. approached and said, "Senior Brother Lu." I didn't expect to see you here. ”

Xiaolu said: "Wenhua, it's too coincidental." Where are you going? Tianjin? "I thought in my heart, if you say Shanghai, I'll get off the train in Tianjin.

Wen Hua said: "Senior Brother Lu, it's a coincidence. I was going to Shanghai too, but I heard you say that you will go too, so I changed it to today. I got on the car at the front door, looked for a few cars, and finally found you. How is it not welcome? ”

Xiaolu said: "I didn't expect Wenhua to be so eloquent." You may be seated, please be seated. What to do in Shanghai? ”

Wenhua said: "Defect to relatives." My hometown has fallen, and it is good to go to school in Beiping, but a relative of mine asked me to go to Shanghai to join him, so this is not the case. ”

Xiaolu said: "What do relatives do?" It's not going to be a business, is it? ”

Wenhua smiled: "You guessed it accurately, it's really business." ”

Xiaolu said: "Most of our Kanto people fled from Shandong and Hebei, and there are not many relatives in Shanghai at home. How are you a relative of Shanghai? ”

Wen Hua smiled again: "Senior Brother Lu, you are just like a prisoner. Tell me about you. What are you doing in Shanghai? ”

Xiao Lu also smiled: "As for me, I'm definitely not going to my relatives." It's not about going to study. As for what to do, I won't tell you. ”

The two of you come and go, like two treacherous and cunning slippery heads, who want to explore each other's background, but refuse to reveal their own background.

The train of this era is too slow. The train took more than 20 minutes to go, and the train took four hours to arrive at the station.

In Tianjin, many passengers got off the bus, and many people came up. An intellectual-looking man approached Xiaolu and asked, "Sir, do you have someone here?" Can I join in the fun here? ”

Xiaolu nodded and said, "Please be seated." ”

The man lifted the suitcase and placed it on the rack above his head, right next to the box on the path. He seemed to be clumsy on his hands and feet, and when his body was crooked, his hand was on the box of the path. Xiaolu stood up, gave him a hand, and helped him put the box away.

The train started slowly, there was no word all night, and it was already daytime when it arrived in Shandong. Xiaolu brought daily necessities this time, bought a roast chicken in Texas, and asked the roast chicken seller to help fetch a large jar of water.

A businessman came up from Texas, wearing a suit, gold-rimmed glasses, leather shoes, and carrying a leather bag.

Texas Roast Chicken is famous, especially sold at train stations, making passers-by think that the whole city of Texas is full of roast chicken.

Xiao Lu said to Wen Hua: "Classmate Wen, if you don't dislike it, I will invite you to eat roast chicken." ”

Wenhua smiled: "Then I'm welcome." "I took out a toothbrush bag from my box and took out towels and chopsticks.

Xiaolu's toothbrush bag was bought in Beiping. This kind of bag, only when I was a child, I saw my grandmother have one, and my mother threw it away. For this reason, my grandmother nagged for a long time until she died. For this, my mother regretted it, and now that she saw the toothbrush bag again, Xiaolu suddenly remembered her grandmother.

Wen Hua put the toothbrush bag in the corner of his seat and said, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Xiaolu said: "I'm sorry, I remembered something, please." This benevolent brother, the roast chicken is very big, why don't you come and help eat a little? "Roast chickens are actually not very big, and unlike the feed chickens of later generations, most of them are made by hens when they don't lay eggs.

The man smiled and said, "Then I'm welcome." Come on, I've got some cookies here, let's eat together. As he spoke, he took out a paper bag.

The meal began, and everyone had a harmonious atmosphere. Xiaolu finished eating and wiped his mouth with a handkerchief.

Handkerchiefs are no longer a necessity in the era of small roads, and have been replaced by convenient facial tissues, napkins, toilet paper, etc., and only a few people put a handkerchief in their pockets in order to pay attention to the details of life.

The man said: "Just eat, let me introduce myself, my surname is Wang, I work in the Nanjing government, a small clerk." Excuse me, two of you? ”

Businessman: "Under the surname Liu, a businessman, specializing in foreign goods business." ”

Wen Hua said: "Mr. Wang, my surname is Wen, and I am a student. ”

Xiao Lu also introduced himself and said, "Mr. Wang seems to have come back from abroad?" ”

Mr. Wang said, "Yes. I am a Ph.D. graduate from Claydon University. ”

Xiao Lu said: "Amazing, I haven't even finished studying at a Chinese university, and I really can't compare with you." ”

Mr. Wang was very talkative and said, "Have you ever taken a train before?" ”

Xiaolu said: "I have sitting, but I have not done this line." ”

Mr. Wang said: "This train is really a great technology of modern civilization. You see, from Tianjin to Nanjing, you used to have to take a boat, so you have to go for half a month, and you have to go smoothly. However, you see, if you take the train, two or three days is enough. ”

Xiaolu said: "Yes, it's fast. He said this with some insincerity. Later generations of trains, not counting high-speed rail bullet trains, just say that ordinary trains, casually are 80 kilometers per hour, which is still slow.

Mr. Wang said: "I haven't sat on this line, so I can sit for a good time." Let's just say that this train crosses the river. In the past, trains could not cross the river, and Jinpu Road and Huning Road were separated. What if you're going to Shanghai? Get off at Pukou, take your luggage with your children, and take the ferry. After crossing the river, go to Xiaguan Railway Station, wait for the bus to get on again, and then go to Shanghai. Take the time not to talk about it, it's troublesome. But now? It's really modernized. ”

This piqued Xiao Lu's interest, and he said, "Then how is it solved now?" ”

Mr. Wang said, "By train ferry." A ferry is a big ship, a train car is pushed up, then crosses the river, and is pulled off the ferry. Soon. And that's not all. You think, this river is up and down, and besides, this carriage is very heavy, and if you press it, the ferry will have to sink and pull it out, and the ferry will have to float. However, the rails of the ferry must be properly connected to the rails on the shore. How's that, advanced, right? ”

Xiaolu said: "You haven't said how the sinking of the ferry was solved." "The trail is a joker now.

Mr. Wang said: "When the train presses up, it pumps out the water in the ferry and always keeps the balance. Wait for the train to leave and then pour water in. ”

A young man next to him sneered: "The train is good, but the history of the railway is humiliating!" ”

Mr. Wang, who had apparently become the protagonist of the conversation, said, "Well said. ”

The young man was encouraged and said, "In 1898, when the British and Germans met in London, they decided on the Jinpu Railway. ”

Mr. Wang said: "At that time, it was called Jinzhen Railway, but later it was changed to become what it is now. ”

The young man said: "This railway has been under construction since the beginning, and later opened to traffic in the first year of the Republic of China, and it has not stopped repaying the loan since then. The equipment is also only to buy them. Of course, this railway does not require a mortgage on the right of way, which is quite progressive. ”

Mr. Wang said: "At that time, China's railways were divided among several countries, which is a pity. ”

The young man said: "Therefore, only industry to save the country is the only way out for China." ”

Mr. Wang said: "However, in recent years, the construction of the Republic of China has been a rapid progress. You see, Tongguan opened to traffic five years ago, Xi'an opened to traffic two years ago, this Baoji train, it is said that there is no problem when it opens to traffic at the end of this year. ”

Wenhua said: "Actually, the best railway is our Kanto railway, but it's a pity. ”

Mr. Wang said to the young man: "This young man is committed to saving the country through industry, and he is respectable and respectable. ”

The young man said: "The surname of the contemptible person is Cong." ”

Mr. Wang said to the young man: "Mr. Cong is committed to saving the country through industry, is he the descendant of Mr. Cong Liangbi Cong of Qingdao?" ”

The young man said: "Exactly. ”

Mr. Wang said: "I heard that Zhenye matches have encountered some difficulties this year? ”

The young man surnamed Cong said: "Industry saves the country, where is it so easy." No matter how difficult it is, we must persevere. ”

Xiao Lu took out a box of matches from his pocket and said, "Although I don't smoke paper cigarettes, I bought a box of matches." Look, it's a match for Zhenye. ”

The young man surnamed Cong said: "Thank you, thank you for supporting domestic products." ”

The path is a bit trance-like. He knew that there were many people like Cong Liangbi, and most of their journeys were tragic, and their industry could not compete with foreign companies. Especially in recent years, the traitor government in North China has smuggled a large number of Japanese goods, one is to nourish Japan's military monsters well, and the other is to strike at Chinese industry.

Mr. Liu, a businessman, seemed unimpressed, and said, "What is wrong with people only selling cheap and good goods." Foreign goods are good. Looking at the following, the European goods are the most advanced, the American products are the most promising, and the Japanese products are good and cheap. ”

A few people here obviously heard that he was making foreign goods, so they didn't speculate and didn't say anything. Only Xiaolu said: "Mr. Liu, what is the best way to make foreign goods?" ”

Mr. Liu: "That's a lot. Rayon, sugar, cigarette paper, cloth, groceries, are all sought-after goods. ”

Xiaolu: "Isn't Chinese cloth very good?" ”

Mr. Liu: "Good is good, but it is too expensive, not as good as other Japanese fabrics of good quality and cheap." ”

Xiaolu: "I heard that with rayon, everyone doesn't buy silk anymore. ”

Mr. Liu: "That's it." ”

Xiaolu: "Where is the sugar in the foreign goods produced?" ”

Mr. Liu: "It's Taiwanese. Taiwan is a tropical island, and it is said that bananas and sugar cane are produced. Sugarcane makes sugar, and it has to be said that Japan's foreign machines are powerful, and the amount of sugar produced is large. Japan's chemistry is good, the same sugar, people's Japanese sugar is snow-white, and the cake can be sold at a good price. ”

The young man surnamed Cong looked at Mr. Liu with the wrong eyes, and seemed to be about to skin him alive. Mr. Liu saw that the eyes of the people around him were not good, and he stopped talking.

Xiaolu seemed to be unaware, and said: "Mr. Liu, I heard that the Japanese are buying cotton in North China, how much and how much, I am going to harvest a batch of lint in the autumn, can you find a way?" ”

Mr. Liu hesitated and stopped talking.

When Jinan arrived, Mr. Liu and the young man surnamed Cong got off the bus. Mr. Wang and he left each other's names and addresses, and made an appointment to contact each other later.

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1, although Cong Liangbi did not flee Qingdao, he just did not cooperate with the Japanese and was not the puppet mayor of Qingdao. There is an actor among the descendants of Cong Liangbi's family, named Cong Shan. Don't know about her? Then you're too young.

2, Claydon University, see Qian Zhongshu's "The Siege of the City", which is a university that specializes in selling fake academic qualifications.