This was Feng Chengliang's first visit to St. Petersburg, so when he stood on the side of the not too cold side of Seryoyvd Street and watched the ornate horse-drawn carriages on the snow-covered street ring bells passing by, he still had a sense of amazement: because since the invention of the automobile at the end of the last century, especially ten years ago, a large number of cheap "Mustang" cars produced in China have been exported, and the subsequent competition from Ford cars has made the automobile a popular means of transportation all over the world.

Now in both European cities and Chinese cities, there are basically no traces of horse-drawn carriages, but now St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia, there are few horse-drawn carriages on the streets here, and most of the streets on the banks of the Neva River are still cars, although many cars have been dilapidated, but it can still be seen that most of those cars are Chinese-made Mustang cars, Ford cars may be extremely cheap, but Chinese Mustang is an authentic brand, and the ability to pass is by no means comparable to Ford cars. It is also for this reason that in Russia and Europe, where the roads are not perfect, Chinese mustangs are popular

However, just as he stood on the street of Seryoivd Street for only a few minutes, he saw at least four or five horse-drawn carriages running through the narrow street in front and behind, and listening to the sound of horses' hooves from time to time, he had a sense of time and space confusion, just like when he first came to Germany to study more than ten years ago

Seeing this Chinese guest looking at the carriages on the street in a daze, Serkov, the deputy director of the Russian Railway Engineering Agency who accompanied him to Moscow, a civil official of the sixth rank? Ivan? Ivanov's expression was a little unnatural and said to Feng Chengliang:

"The nobles here here still like to raise horses and use carriages, especially in winter......"

"No, when Director Ivanovich saw these beautiful carriages, I felt that I had arrived in a great and unique Russia, just like the Russia in the moving stories described by Count Tolstoy"

Feng Chengliang hurriedly flattered the Russians like this, before coming to Russia, the officials of the Ministry of Communications told him that the character of the Russians is very similar to the Chinese: although they themselves talk about how backward their country is and how ignorant the people are, as long as you praise a few words of the so-called greatness of Russian culture, they will purr in satisfaction like the cat by the fireplace

Sure enough, 50-year-old Ivanovich had a proud expression on his face, and he patted Feng Chengliang's arm affectionately and said:

"Dear Dr. Feng, you can call me Ivan from now on, I think before we officially work, we should go to the department store, where everything is available"

Looking at the deputy director, who seemed to be very enthusiastic, Feng Chengliang remembered that he had a side mission to Russia this time: to inspect the transportation potential of the Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia - although he did not like to visit shops the most, so he turned his face depressedly and replied:

"Okay, I'm looking to buy some Russian crafts for my friends"

For every official who goes abroad on business, they always bring some gifts for colleagues and friends, but Feng Chengliang does not have this hobby, in fact, as a doctor of railway engineering, he rarely wastes his time on this kind of "interpersonal communication", but now, he has to waste his time

Only Feng Chengliang himself knows that the reason why the Chinese railway delegation came to St. Petersburg this time is to inspect the Russian railway system in order to develop an effective railway repair and railway transportation plan, which is their main task. China, on the other hand, invested 450 million rubles in the repair of Russian railways, which will eventually increase to 1.2 billion rubles, giving China a 6.5% stake in a railway company, which is the first time that Russia has opened its railways to other countries...,

If it were not forced to have no choice, perhaps Russia would not have been able to take out its own railways as collateral, but even if it is only 6.5% of the equity, there is also a provision in the contract, and the Russian Railways still maintains the "right of redemption" of the Russian railway shares held by the Chinese railway company, and it is a unilateral right of redemption

Nevertheless, through this cooperation, China still got what it needed - "to master all the railway transport systems of the entire Russian Empire", as at this time, hundreds of tons of materials and drawings of the Russian Railways had been handed over to the Chinese railway delegation for review and use to "develop repair and improvement plans"

While Feng Chengliang was standing on the street, the delegation was copying the complete set of materials on Russian railways that "some people" had dreamed of in the past, and it can be said that in a month at most, the entire Russian railway system was opened to China

However, compared to this, Feng Chengliang is concerned about the "Russian railway track change", of course, the Russian side is not clear, he received instructions is to fully study how to transform the Russian railway, and "reserve" the possibility of changing the track, as a railway expert who has participated in the reconstruction of the track of the Eastern Eastern Railway, he naturally has rich experience in the "rail width transformation", but the experience is experienced, Russia has tens of thousands of kilometers of railway lines, once the standard of the track is adopted, It is not only about moving the rails on one side inward, but also about too many renovation projects, not only the transformation of the tracks, but also the transformation of railway facilities, and all of this must be done in secret! Book*

What is the Cabinet going to do?

After receiving this task, for Feng Liangcheng, he has been speculating about why the government will issue this "secret mission", Russia obviously will not agree to Russia's broad gauge to China's use of international standard rail, in fact, if it were not for the different railway standards of China and Russia, Russia would not face the current shortage of materials, every train of freight sent to Russia, need to change cars at the border, and in the "Sino-Russian Railway Transport Treaty", a very important one is that China invests in Manchuria, Kyakhta, The establishment of wheel change workshops in Alashankou to ensure the transportation of materials shows that Russia has considered changing railway standards in the future

But why did the government make this decision?

Obviously, they have their considerations, if it is changed to the right track, then for China, it is undoubtedly extremely beneficial for China's locomotives and wagons to operate directly in Russia, without the need to go through the complicated locks of vehicles or wheels, and the railway transportation volume can be increased by at least 50%, and the Russian side has demand, but for Russia, the important thing is probably their national security, and for the Russians, they are most worried about the invaders' army along the railway line, all the way to the interior of Russia

Just like this war, the German Army, guided by the "train schedule", encountered transportation problems when attacking the Russian mainland, and the impact of the railway system of different gauges on the army's operations was even no less than that of the destroyed railways, and the difference in gauge made it impossible for the German military, which had only captured a small number of locomotives and wagons, to directly use the Russian railway system and thus affect its army transportation and logistics support

For any modern army, they must rely on railways to fight on the mainland, even the Guards with many trucks need to rely on railways, after all, not every country has a complete road network, in fact, even in China, which claims to have "the most developed road transportation in the world", those national defense roads built by prisoners of "concentration camps", "national highways" connecting the capital with provinces, cities, economic centers, port hubs, and strategic locations, There are only 154,000 kilometers of asphalt roads built by the provinces, but only more than 200,000 kilometers, but even so, China is also the only country in the world with a complete road transportation system, even the United States, in addition to urban roads, there are only a few paved roads between states, although the United States has 3 million kilometers of roads, but those roads are unpaved roads...,

As for highways, it will take at least 20 years for real road traffic to be popularized throughout the world, and Russia does not need to be considered, after all, in the pre-war Nanjing-Paris off-road car race, the Mustang team that won the first place was only 20 kilometers on average after leaving China, while the average distance of the truck fleet was only 8 kilometers, and in Russia it was only a pitiful 5 kilometers

railway

For any country trying to attack Russia, the railroad is an indispensable means of transportation, even the most important

Thinking of these things, Feng Chengliang couldn't help but be a little in a daze, Ivanovich tugged Feng Chengliang's arm in a daze, and the doctor reacted, so he apologized to Ivan with a little apology

Suddenly, Feng Chengliang heard someone shouting something in Russian, listening to the somewhat excited words, he looked up as if he was startled, and saw that in the fluttering colorful leaflets, two men shouted and jumped out of a small shop behind the car, one of them shot the head of the strong man standing next to the car

Another man threw the sparkling wine bottle into the car with the door open, and then raised a ****, Feng Chengliang noticed that it was a bank truck, and the truck was a special truck transformed by a "Mustang medium-sized truck".

Ivan and Feng Chengliang were stunned by the scene in front of them, just when the two were stunned, Feng Chengliang heard a **** 2 gunshots across the street, a **** that can hold 16 bullets, is a "world famous brand", while being popular with soldiers, it is also sought after by criminals, using this ****, the firepower completely suppresses those policemen and compared with the submachine gun that is a characteristic equipment of the Chinese army, a **** is undoubtedly easy to get

The horses parked in the two carriages in front of them began to riot after hearing the gunshots, and the coachman of one of the carriages was holding on to the reins, but the coachman of the other carriage jumped out of the car after the gunshot, joined the panicked flow and ran away, and the horse that lost the driver's control neighed and began to jump wildly, and at this time, Feng Chengliang had already crawled and hid beside the pig iron mail barrel

It's a really embarrassing position

At the same time as this thought flashed in the mind of Feng Chengliang, who was dodging behind the pig iron mail barrel, he heard the sound of **** shooting from the back of his head, and then, he heard a crisp impact sound from the pig iron mail barrel behind him, obviously the bullet hit the mail barrel, he had never had this experience, he was frightened, and sat motionless behind the mail barrel with weak legs

At this time, the armored transport vehicle opened the door under the threat of gasoline bombs, after all, gasoline can detonate the car, the driver and the cashier were just shot to death as soon as they came out, and a policeman in the distance held a Nagan **** and two men to shoot, but his firepower was obviously not comparable with those robbers, and was quickly suppressed by the robbers' firepower on the street corner

The man with the double-barreled ****, when he saw a carriage passing by at the corner of the street, quickly fired a shot at the horse pulling the carriage, this shot accurately hit the horse's body, and the carriage was also lifted up while the horse was killed and fell, and the horse corpse and the carriage blocked the traffic at the street entrance

Ivan, who fell to the ground, instinctively crawled towards Feng Chengliang, his face was piled up with too much fat, because of the fright, the fat on his face trembled from time to time Finally, when he was still a few meters away from the mail barrel, Feng Chengliang hurriedly pulled him over

"Thank you...... Thank you ......."

Hiding behind the mail barrel, Ivan, who was frightened and lost his soul, kept saying thanks

"Don't move, just wait for them to go"

Ivan Feng Chengliang, who was trying to escape to a roadside shop, looked across the street again, but saw one of the robbers holding a cashier on the forehead with a ****...,

Suddenly, a gunshot rang out, and the cashier was executed

Feng Chengliang, who was only frightened by this scene in front of him, hurriedly shrank his head and hid behind the mail barrel, at this time a Mustang business car stopped sharply beside the robbers, and the two robbers jumped into the car with a cloth bag full of banknotes in their hands When the car drove away, the robber with a gasoline bomb still threw the gasoline bomb on the delivery vehicle, and the car was quickly swallowed by the sea of fire

Feng Chengliang, who was hiding behind the mail barrel, saw this scene and immediately realized that the burning car would soon explode, and he shouted loudly:

"Run, it's going to explode......"

As soon as they reached the edge of the street, the car exploded, and a piece of metal that had been blown away hit the street more than 1 meter away from them in smoke......

At this time, the siren sounded in the police car, and the two people looked at the messy street, Feng Chengliang could hardly believe that he would encounter a "bank robbery" in Russia that only existed in novels

"Damn it, it must be those chaotic parties"

And at this time, Ivanovic, who came back to his soul, shouted indignantly:

"Before they rushed to transport the car, they also threw leaflets, it must be those chaotic parties"

Then, Ivanovich said to Feng Chengliang again

"If it weren't for the fact that I didn't have a gun, I would have killed the robbers"

This will Ivan obviously forget his frightened pale face and trembling fat before, but Feng Guoliang immediately cooperated

"Yes, I'm sure you'll do that"

Seeing that the other party understood him so well, Ivan said to Feng Chengliang in a grateful tone:

"Feng, thank you so much just now"

When he spoke, Feng Chengliang looked towards a messy street, only to see a few policemen bending over with ****, followed by a dozen gendarmes with rifles, lining up in a straggler line and trembling along the street

A police officer shouted something to the military police in Russian, and at this time people were frantically grabbing the leaflets left by the robbers, and at this time, Feng Chengliang looked at the wreckage of the car that was still burning and smoking across the street, and listened to the loud noise in Russian, and the miserable neighing of the two injured horses

"Chaotic Party"

If these rebels can be so unscrupulous, then ...... Perhaps the situation in this country is not as optimistic as he imagined, and even not as optimistic as the people in the country imagined, in the eyes of all walks of life, as long as the Guards send fifty divisions to support Russia, then the war can be ended quickly

But what about these chaotic parties?

Is a Russia in turmoil in any interest to China?

Thinking in his heart, Feng Chengliang has no interest in other things, and now his heart is occupied by those chaotic parties who rob banks, and the most surprising scene is that those people don't seem to be interested in the police interrogation, they care about those chaotic parties

After being interrogated by the police, Feng Chengliang returned to the wine, and when he had dinner in the small living room of the luxury suite of the hotel, Ivan who had just finished introducing the situation to Feng Chengliang had not had time to finish the vegetable soup on the plate, he received a phone call, and after answering the phone, he said to Feng Chengliang with a solemn expression:

"Recently, some university students have been inciting railway workers to go on strike, as if they were all planning to make a disturbance, and the chief asked me to go to the police station to discuss how to solve this problem. Is it forcing them to get to work? ……”

"It's easy to do,"

Feng Chengliang said with a smile:

"It is illegal for public institutions to go on strike in China, so under normal circumstances, it is impossible for public institutions to carry out a legal collective strike, and even if they are on strike, they must sign an agreement not to affect public services"...,

"Oh? And this kind of thing? ”

Ivan looked at Feng Chengliang curiously

"Strikes in the public transport system can be stopped because they affect people's lives"

After hesitating for a moment, Ivan said:

"China's methods are not necessarily effective in Russia, and the current tsar is not at all like your emperor, well, our tsar is now almost like abdication, or even in fact has abdicated at all, such a tsar......"

Ivan's sigh surprised Feng Chengliang, he was surprised to see that it was hard for Ivan to imagine that such words would come from such a high-ranking government official, wouldn't he have a sense of patriotism? Even if he was not patriotic, how could the Russian law allow him to accuse the Tsar like this?

"Feng, don't you think it's funny?"

Sighing, Ivanovich said helplessly

"In the past, I was a man who absolutely owned a tsar, and even now, but, you see, what has become of Russia since Nikolai became a tsar? The current Russian Empire is hopeless, and many people support the abolition of the tsar and the creation of a republic......"

Then Ivanovic's face showed a mocking look

"Those who make such proposals are simply idiots, Russia cannot leave the tsar, like ...... Well, China can't do without Confucius"

Although he didn't even know much about China, Ivanovich knew that the head printed on Chinese banknotes was not the emperor's head, but the head of Confucius, and Confucianism was also the state religion of China, and it was impossible for Chinese to leave Confucius

"Without Confucius, Chinese would have lost their way, and without the Tsar, Russia would have been lost, but ......"

smiled a little helplessly, but Ivanovic's overly fat face showed a little worry, and this scene made Feng Chengliang find a little bit of "official" in his body

"A lot of people don't realize it"

"Well, in China, there are also many people who are quite critical of Confucianism as the state religion, they ignore that China has no real religious foundation, so there is no moral foundation with religion as the core, and China's moral foundation is based on Confucianism.

At this time, Feng Guoliang quoted His Majesty's remarks in a speech delivered in the National Assembly when he established Confucianism as the state religion, but unfortunately, not everyone can understand His Majesty's good intentions

"Well, the Tsar, like the Orthodox Church, is a part of Russia, an indispensable part, and if the Tsar is overthrown today and the Russians are allowed to choose like Chinese, believe me, they will still choose a Tsar, and they will also choose a member of the Romanov family as Tsar, maybe ......"

Suddenly, Ivanovich laughed

"Perhaps, at that time, China's future crown princess may have the opportunity to become the tsar of Russia, haha......"

Listening to the laughter, Feng Chengliang was stunned by Ivanovich's words, he looked at Ivan in surprise, and thought carefully about his words in his heart - China's future crown princess, isn't that Princess Nasha who has just been engaged to the crown prince?

If there is civil strife in Russia and the tsar is overthrown, will the royal family also be able to claim that "the Chinese imperial concubine enjoys the right of succession to the Russian Empire?" Suddenly, at this moment, all the things that he couldn't figure out before instantly became a string in his mind, and in an instant, Feng Chengliang was stunned by what he thought in his heart, he didn't even dare to believe it, but ...... (To be continued)