"Brother Xian, you always blamed me for being anxious in the past, why are you more anxious than me now? Not yet, right? It's not that you don't know that our artillery will be phased out, and the first army will also be withdrawn and reequipped, so why don't we have to wait for these to be completed before we can launch an attack, right? Luo Jian smiled.

"We have to do the preparation work in advance, I don't believe Xinghua you didn't arrange it." Shi Kefa glanced at Luo Jian dissatisfied.

"All preparations are underway, Brother Xian, don't worry, I will send you the relevant report as soon as possible. Let's not talk about this today, the railway from Nanjing to Zhenjiang is almost completed, you don't know, right? Luo Jian diverted the topic.

"I know this, haven't we seen it many times? I've heard from them that it will be officially opened next month, and you have to decide when it will be. ”

"As long as I can ensure safe driving, I don't care about one day, does Brother Xian still have to find someone to see the day?"

"Say what? Ordinary people have to look at the imperial calendar when they travel, we always have to be auspicious for such a big thing, and it is wrong to look at the day? Shi Kefa glared at Luo Jian.

"Okay, okay, okay, Brother Xian, you can find someone to watch the days, I have no opinion, this is always okay, right?" Luo Jian said with a smile.

Shi Kefa really looked for someone to see the date, saying that the sixth day of the seventh month was a good day, and the railway from Nanjing to Zhenjiang would start trial operation on this day.

In fact, the people on the front line of Nanjing and Zhenjiang are no longer curious about the railway, and they are all from the beginning of the puzzle to the later strange.

It's just that everyone is very puzzled that the road with two iron rods can be used as a road, after all, there are many people who have seen the railway, and only a few people have really seen the locomotive and the trunk.

Luo Jian personally inspected it before he determined that it could indeed be tested on the sixth day of the seventh month. Only then did he agree to the day when Shi Kefa was looking for someone to see.

The sixth day of the seventh month will soon arrive. The Nanjing Railway Station, located on the south side of Yuhuatai, is full of hot weather. Come and see the strange people of Nanjing.

Luo Jian arrived half an hour before the train departed, and it was certainly not uncommon for Luo Jian to see something in another time and space, but as long as Shi Kefa and Ren Minyu and other government officials could get out of the way, they had already arrived as soon as the sky was bright.

On the railroad tracks extending from the railway station, the first steam train of the Nanjing government stopped quietly, and the whole locomotive was not very different from the ancient locomotive that Luo Jian had seen in another time and space, but the ten carriages dragged behind it were almost all wooden. The wooden compartment brushed with tung oil glows softly in the reflection of the early morning sun.

Today's test run is a passenger car, with 40 seats installed in each carriage, which means that this train can transport 400 people to Zhenjiang at a time.

The first 300 people to buy tickets lined up to get on the train, got on the train, found their seats, and looked out of the open glass window.

The people watching from the outside of the car looked at the first batch of people to ride the train with envy, and some people thought that such a big guy must not be as fast as the carriage, and some people even began to drive the carriage and ride horses to compete with the train.

Shi Kefa strictly grasped the time, according to the day and time when he was looking for someone to see. This morning is the best time to leave at half past nine, even though everything is ready by nine o'clock. But Shi Kefa still asked everyone to wait another half hour.

Luo Jian smiled helplessly at Ren Minyu, Yuan Jixian, and Lu Zhenfei, the carriage was not very spacious, and it was a little hot now when there were many people.

Finally, after a difficult half hour, a long whistle came from the locomotive, and the huge train slowly moved.

Luo Jian knew that this train was designed to speed at 40 kilometers per hour, and it had been 60 kilometers per hour during the test, but today it was the first time that so many people were pulled, and Luo Jian asked them to only travel at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour.

"Xinghua, look! What are they doing? Shi Kefa asked curiously, pointing to the horses running with the train outside the window.

"Hehe, who are they going faster than the train?" Luo Jian said with a smile.

Luo Jian's words aroused everyone's curiosity, and they all looked out of the car window to see that several horses had already overtaken the train and ran to the front.

"Our trains are really not as fast as the horses?" Yuan Jixian asked with some disappointment.

"You'll know in a moment, the horses always have to rest, right? Let me tell you the truth, our train is designed to speed 40 kilometers per hour, and the maximum speed of an excellent war horse can reach 60 kilometers per hour, but war horses can only run at this speed for a few minutes, our train can be non-stop day and night, who do you say is faster? ”

Everyone understood what Luo Jian meant, and they all looked at the scenery outside the window and kept falling backwards, while watching the train slowly overtake the few horses running in front just now.

It is only more than 60 kilometers from Nanjing to Zhenjiang, and in less than two hours, the train slowly drove into the Zhenjiang Railway Station, and with a piercing brake sound, the train slowly stopped in front of the platform.

"This thing is really good, it's really fast and stable, it can pull so many people and goods at a time, we must build more railways and connect all our cities together." As soon as he stepped off the train, Lu Zhenfei exclaimed exaggeratedly.

"I don't think it's too anxious, this railway is still only experimental, and when some problems are solved one after another, our steel production has also gone up, and we will build a large number of them." Luo Jian said with a smile.

Just when Luo Jian and Shi Kefa were chatting in front of the platform, Zhenjiang Station had already changed the locomotive, and the train was about to return to Nanjing.

The tickets back to Nanjing were still long gone, Luo Jian and his entourage waited for less than half an hour, and all the guests returning to Nanjing from Zhenjiang boarded the train, and the smoky train began to return to Nanjing from Zhenjiang.

Luo Jian was also extremely happy that the first train was successfully tested, which marked a new level of strength for the Nanjing government.

Song Yingxing, the designer of the steam locomotive, did not come to participate in this test run, which he had sat on many times before, and he felt that there was no problem at all, so he agreed to the test run of the station.

There are always endless topics to talk about in the city of Nanjing, and the talk of overseas founding has just stopped slightly, and now everyone has begun to talk about the train again.

The success of the train's trial run also brought some trouble to Luo Jian and Shi Kefa, and the train's extremely fast speed, smooth movement, and ability to transport a large amount of materials have been widely known, and the turmoil that had subsided that individuals were not allowed to participate in the railway once again appeared.

Luo Jian and Shi Kefa's attitudes were extremely resolute, and they did not agree to personally participate in the railway at all, although there were many people who interceded, but both of them resolutely did not let go.

The success of the trial operation of the first railway made Luo Jian and Shi Kefa breathe a sigh of relief, and the Hangzhou Qianzhuang, which had some competition with the government's central bank, also died down with the departure of Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, and the issuance of the Chinese yuan had been pushed all over the territory, and Shi Kefa's worst fears finally did not happen.

All large-scale construction is progressing steadily, the economy is developing in a good direction, in short, everything is going according to plan, and Luo Jian finally has some free time.

"Brother Xian, you take a look at this report first, I want to go to Shandong for a trip." In Shi Kefa's office, Luo Jian handed a report in his hand to Shi Kefa.

"Oh, I'll see, it's Hushan theirs?" Shi Kefa took it and saw that it was a report written by Huang Degong and Wang Qiang in Jinan.

"They want to march north?" Shi Kefa glanced at the report and asked in surprise.

"Yes, the Seventh Division has all been redressed, Lao Huang may feel that the combat effectiveness of the Seventh Division has exceeded the Qing soldiers too much, and he wants to use the Seventh Division as a sharp knife to start marching north. However, I'm still not very relieved, I want to see for myself, if it's really okay, let's start fighting! ”

"Xinghua, why are you saying it so easily? Soldiers, the great affairs of the country, why do I think you are like child's play? Shi Kefa glanced at Luo Jian dissatisfied.

"Hehe, I'm despising the enemy strategically and attaching importance to the enemy tactically, it's not child's play." Luo Jian, who was in a good mood, looked at Shi Kefa and said teasingly.

"Well, 'strategically despise the enemy, tactically value the enemy', that's a good saying, Xinghua, you said that?" Shi Kefa didn't believe that this was the first to be said by Luo Jian.

"A great man said, I don't have such a high realm, Brother Xian, do you think this makes sense?"

"You said that it was said by a great man, do I dare to say that it is unreasonable?" Shi Kefa glared at Luo Jian.

While Shi Kefa looked at the report, he chatted with Luo Jian without a word, and quickly finished reading the report.

"Xinghua, I think what they said in Hushan makes sense, with their current strength, they can fight a dozen." Shi Kefa straightened his face and said to Luo Jian.

"Yes, they are very good, I need to see for myself, I can't fight the same dangerous battle as last time. Now that I think about it, I am a little afraid, if the Seventh Division and the First Regiment fail to hold Jinan, I am afraid that we can only take a defensive position on the whole line. ”

"Xinghua, it's okay for you to take a trip, Hushan is still a little difficult to command the current troops, Xiao Wang is inexperienced, and he is not calm enough, if you can go to the town, I am relieved."

"Brother Xian, let's go, let's go to the General Staff, I still have some ideas these days, let's discuss it together?"

"Okay, let's go. Xinghua, what do you think? ”

"I think we had some problems with our previous thinking, and I think we have to adjust our strategic thinking, don't talk about it on the road, let's talk about it when we get there."

Luo Jian briefly mentioned it, then said no more, and the two hurried towards the General Staff.

Soon arrived at the war room of the General Staff, where Yi Bangcai and several senior staff officers were already waiting.

"Today's is not a meeting, let's just discuss and discuss, make some summaries of the previous strategic thinking, and make some thinking about the next step. Can we give him a straight smash Huanglong? After Luo Jian sat down, he thought for a while before speaking.

"Xinghua, are you saying that our previous strategies were all wrong?" Shi Kefa asked suspiciously.

"It's not, the previous forces and weapons decided that we could only fight like that, and the weapons based on black medicine still didn't have much to do with the fortified city, and our troops determined that we couldn't carry out a comprehensive blockade and siege of a city as before, and several of our divisions put on an offensive posture, in fact, everyone can see that this is just an offensive defense." (To be continued.) )