At this time, Song Zhewu didn't know the envy of the people around him and sincerely blessed him and Li Rujuan! He was staring at the railway line in front of him from north to south.

This railway is the famous Pinghan Railway, also known as the Luhan Railway. On March 17, 1897, Qing Zhengaxe reached an agreement with the Belgians. And in June of the following year, the "Luhan Railway Belgian Loan Renewal Detailed Contract" and the "Luhan Railway Running Contract" were formally signed, and Qing Zhengaxe borrowed 4.5 million pounds from the Belgian company for a period of 30 years.

The contract stipulated that the construction of the road would be supervised by a Belgian company; Except for the materials that can be supplied by the Hanyang Iron Works, all the required materials are undertaken by the Belgian company and enjoy tax exemption treatment. During the 30-year term of the loan, all the management rights of the vehicle were in the hands of the Belgian company. This not only caused China to completely lose its railway sovereignty and suffer huge financial losses, but also set an extremely bad precedent for the imperialists to use the debt relationship to plunder China's railway rights in the future.

At the end of 1898, construction began on the railway from both the north and south ends. The starting point at the southern end is Yudaimen in Hankou, and the starting point at the northern end is from Yanjing Xibianmen to Zhengyangmen (Qianmen) West Station. On April 1, 1906, the Luhan Railway, a grand railway trunk line with a total length of 1214.49 kilometers connecting Yanjing and Hankou, was officially opened to traffic, and the Luhan Railway was changed to the Beijing-Hankou Railway.

Wuhan is no longer the Yangtze River basin only plays the role of horizontal transmission, and the longitudinal railway line has a carrying capacity of hundreds or thousands under the premise of shortening the time and distance, which has more effectively promoted the prosperity and development of Hankou's commercial trade. At that time, an Englishman who had visited Hankou lamented that "Chinese mainland merchants quickly took advantage of this improved transportation condition" and quickly distributed agricultural products from Hunan, Hubei, Henan and other provinces to all parts of the country through Hankow.

During this period, Hankow's indirect foreign trade basically ranked second in the country, second only to Shanghai, and the annual indirect import and export trade volume was roughly between 23 million taels and 42 million taels of silver. It can also be seen from this that Hankow's foreign trade is characterized by indirect trade through inter-port entrepots.

A loud and low whistle came from afar, interrupting Song Zhewu's thoughts. In the direction from which the whistle came, an old-fashioned steam locomotive pulled two dozen carriages, panting and snorting from the north, and finally slowly stopped in the station.

Before the train entered the station, the troops of the guard brigade guarding the station had already lined up in two columns, blocking in front of Song Zhewu. Although the muzzle of the gun is not pointed at the incoming train, everyone has their hands on the trigger. Song Zhewu knew that this must be Ye Changgui's arrangement, and he didn't even need to look back to think that the machine guns on the various commanding heights behind him were also on alert.

Although it is a little rude to do this, it is not a big mistake to be careful, he Song Zhewu doesn't want to hang up inexplicably. He was still very satisfied with Ye Changgui's arrangement.

After the train stopped, only the third carriage stopped in front of them, opened the door, and jumped out of it more than 30 capable soldiers with MP18 submachine guns and gray cloth uniforms of the Northwest Army, all of whom pulled the trigger with their hands and pointed their guns obliquely downward. Through the gaps in the walls of the guards brigade soldiers, Song Zhewu could see several other cars nearby that had not opened their doors, and the windows there were all in front of the curtains, only a trace of gaps were exposed. As long as there is something wrong, you can shoot outwards by breaking the glass.

Song Zhewu thought to himself, not only was he not at ease with Han Fuyu, but Han Fuyu was also not at ease with him. It is said that he really has to be careful with Han Fuyu, in the memory of his previous life, Zhang Zongchang tricked Han Fuyu into going to Shandong. It is said that Zhang Xueliang and Wu Peifu, who lived in seclusion in Tianjin at that time, both tried their best to dissuade Zhang Zongchang from going to Shandong.

Han Fuyu, dressed in military uniform, appeared at the door of the car, Ye Changgui waved his hand, and the company commander who led the team gave an order, and the several rows of soldiers who were blocking in front of Song Zhewu retreated to both sides.

Seeing Han Fuyu get out of the car, Song Zhewu hurriedly caught up. Han Fuyu shouted loudly with a smile on his face: "My brother Wenge, you really should be impressed!" In just a few days, your name will be resounding all over the country. Han Fuyu said as he stretched out his hands, grabbed Song Zhewu's hand and shook it again and again, the affection was like a brother.

Song Zhewu also said with a smile on his face: "The eldest brother said that he was joking, it is not thanks to the eldest brother who pressed the brother in the back that I have the confidence to drive straight into Hankou and take Hankou." If you want to talk about the first battle in Wuhan, the eldest brother has contributed a lot. ”

Han Fuyu smiled bitterly and said, "Okay, Wen Ge, don't put gold on your brother's face, this battle has nothing to do with my brother's fart." Come, Wengo, I'll introduce you. ”

Han Fuyu said, pulling over a tall young woman with fair skin and apricot eyes and willow eyebrows behind him. "This is your sister-in-law." Then he said to the woman: "This is what I told you, my good brother, Song Wenge, commander-in-chief of the Fourth Route Army." ”

Song Zhewu had already seen the woman behind Han Fuyu, and in the memory of his previous life, this woman should be Han Fuyu's newly married wife Ji Ganqing in Luohe. For Ji Ganqing's sake, Han Fuyu was scolded by Feng Yuxiang several times, and once in front of all the officers and soldiers of his 20th Division, he almost pointed at Han Fuyu's nose and scolded.

Song Zhewu hurriedly said: "Zhewu has seen my sister-in-law. Ji Ganqing said crisply with a smile: "This is General Song, Xiang Fang has repeatedly praised you, I didn't believe it at first, but now I see that it is really a talent!" ”

Song Zhewu smiled and said, "Sister-in-law praised it." ”

Han Fuyu pointed to Li Rujuan behind Song Zhewu, and asked hesitantly: "Is this ......?"

Song Zhewu's face flushed slightly, and he introduced: "This is my confidential secretary Li Rujuan." ”

Song Zhewu's face changed, and Han Fuyu and Ji Ganqing saw it in their eyes. "Confidential secretary? The ghost only believed that the guard brigade commander with the rank of major general surnamed Ye was still standing behind her. ”

Han Fuyu thought in his heart, but said on his lips: "Wen Ge, your sister-in-law is bored all the way, so let Miss Li accompany her to chat." Our brothers are also good to talk about. The next ten carriages are all for you, and your people should all go there, and if they are not enough, I will spare a few more for you. Let's hurry up, Chairman Chiang must be anxious to see you, the hero who has made the first contribution to him. ”

Han Fuyu's invitation to Song Zhewu was not easy to refuse, ignoring Li Rujuan's secret gesture to him, and said with a smile: "Okay, I also want to have a good chat with my eldest brother." I had only about forty people, and two carriages were enough. ”

"Only more than forty people? This Song Zhewu is really bold enough. He didn't ask Feng Yuxiang when he came to Hankou this time, except for the pistol team of more than 200 people, he couldn't move other troops at all, otherwise he really wanted to bring more people. But after thinking about it again, he was a little relieved, and said in his heart: "It's still Song Zhewu who is shrewd, when he arrives in Hankou, not to mention a pistol team of more than 200 people, even a few hundred more people, it will be easy for Lao Jiang Zhen to clean him up." It's better to be a single like Song Zhewu. ”

Because it was Han Fuyu's carriage, Ye Changgui couldn't bring too many people, so in desperation, he only brought eight people to follow, and the others went to the back carriage.

The carriage where Han Fuyu was was not a special car, it was just an ordinary passenger car with a box, Ji Ganqing smiled and pulled the somewhat unwilling Li Rujuan into the box, and Song Zhewu followed Han Fuyu into another room.

Han Fuyu's guards put tea on the table for the two of them and withdrew.

As soon as the two sat down, Han Fuyu put away his smile, looked at Song Zhewu with puzzled eyes and asked, "You really gave up Wuhan so easily?" In Han Fuyu's view, Lao Jiang must have given Song Zhewu some benefits or promises. Otherwise, Song Zhewu would never hand over Hankou and Hanyang so easily.

Song Zhewu nodded and said, "Yes, I told my eldest brother in Wushengguan, I am not interested in Wuhan." The vast majority of my troops are northerners, and here they will be unaccustomed to the water and soil, and even homesick and unstable. Song Zhewu knew that Han Fuyu would not believe his words, but he wanted something about Shanxi, and he couldn't tell him.

Han Fuyu said in disbelief: "Lao Jiang didn't give you some compensation, but I heard that you fought two big battles with Zhujiahe in Xiaogan?" ”

"At least not yet, I have incorporated the division of Li Sichi of Hu Zongduo's department, and I sent a telegram to Chairman Jiang on the evening of the 2nd, asking me to add a division number, but there is no news yet." Song Zhewu also felt strange about this matter, it is said that Chiang Kai-shek would not be unhappy because he wanted to take out one less division's military salary, so that he, the object of being tried to win over, would be unhappy!

Han Fuyu leaned forward, looked at Song Zhewu and said with a smile: "I said Wenge, you are just smart and confused for a while, although you have made a great contribution to Lao Jiang this time, you have very obediently handed over Hankou and Hanyang, and returned to Xiaogan." Of course, Lao Jiang is very happy, if you want money, goods, or even land, Lao Jiang will agree. But you don't want any of these, but you want to expand the troops, which is exactly the taboo of Lao Jiang. In the eyes of Lao Jiang, Li Zongren, our President Feng, Yan Xishan, Zhang Xueliang and others are big warlords; Chen Jitang in Guangdong, Long Yun in Yunnan, Wang Jialie in Guizhou, He Jian in Hunan, Tang Shengzhi in Hebei now, Liu Xiang, Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou, Yang Sen, Tian Songrao, Liu Cunhou in Sichuan, etc., and of course you Song Wenge, these are all small warlords. ”

Han Fuyu sighed and said: "Lao Jiang thinks that except for the Central Army, all warlord forces should not exist, and this disarmament is to put it bluntly, it is to cut off these warlord forces in Lao Jiang's eyes." It was only in order to hide people's eyes and ears that Lao Jiang played these many tricks and engaged in the current disarmament plan. If they were to be disarmed according to this plan, the final result would be that the combined forces of the Gui Army, the Northwest Army, and the Jin Sui Army would not be as large as the Central Army. Just brought down the Gui family, how could he still promise you to expand your army and cultivate a new warlord who can fight against him. If you don't hear back, you don't agree. But this can't help your brother Wenge, he doesn't agree, it's a big deal not to give you military salary. But you have money, you don't have to pay attention to him, strength in this world is the most important thing, and my brother will have to rely on you to help him a lot in the future. ”

(To be continued)