[88] Extravagant tractor trucks

On the way to Jinan Mansion, Xu Jianyin and Xue Fucheng praised the tractor card and called it a thousand miles a day.

In fact, the official road in the north of the Qing Dynasty is full of loess roads, and there are potholes, in order not to overturn the car safely, Yao Fan did not dare to ask the driver to run fast, strictly limited to about 2o kilometers. Even so, it is still very bumpy and difficult, a day from morning to night, but only ran less than 2oo kilometers, far from the normal time of the tractor card 4o-5o, and the highest time from 7o is far worse.

It's just that Qingdao Kou went to Weifang in one day, such a degree is really unheard of, except for running dead post fast horses, who has ever heard of such a thing in the Qing Kingdom? This couldn't help but make Xu Jianyin and Xue Fucheng praise continuously.

Xu Jianyin, Xue Fucheng and Yao Fan were in the same truck, and the back of the truck was covered with thick straw. That night, I rested at the official post station in Weifang, the conditions here are not bad, and I specially entertain officials and errand soldiers who travel on business, as for a platoon of 2o accompanying Xiangyong brought by Yao Fan, they stayed in a hotel in the city.

At dawn the next day, the convoy went out again, and arrived in Jinan at ten o'clock in the evening, only to see a burning cloud in the sky, and the red sign showed that the sun had not completely set.

Xu Jianyin and Xue Fucheng pointed out the way, so the convoy went straight to Luokou, on the Yellow River in the north of Jinan City, where the machine was located. Because the terrain here is high and not easy to be flooded, Ding Baozhen bought 300 acres of land here to open the Shandong Machinery Bureau.

Xu Jianyin and Xue Fucheng were busy looking for people everywhere, planning to build hangers to unload the goods, while Yao Fan took his men and all the drivers and drove two tractor trucks that unloaded the trailers behind them into Jinan City, and returned to the Jinan branch of Yuchun business to rest. Even in the evening, these two cars were followed by a large number of bored citizens, Yao Fan didn't know what was going on in their heads, was it interesting to follow behind?

The Jinan branch is already in the hands of the housekeeper Luo Guanqun and his partner Wang Chuannian, and He Wanyou has been ordered by his brother He Wannian to go back to Qingdaokou's house immediately. But He Wanyou was not stupid, he knew that there was no good fruit to eat when he went back, so he refused to leave in Jinan, and hid in the house he bought all day long, and mingled with the little widow he asked to be a concubine.

Early the next morning, Yao Fan was woken up from the business, saying that he was invited by the official and asked Yao Fan to drive a tractor truck to Yamen. Yao Fan had to hurriedly wash himself and come out, take the official sent by the governor Yamen to get on a tractor truck, and drive all the way along the main road in the city.

Along the way, hundreds of people rushed to watch, and the square the size of a football field and paved with large bluestone in front of the governor's yamen was crowded.

Yao Fan was depressed, "I knew that I would have walked, and it attracted such a crowd, wouldn't Lao Ding be angry?" ”

Yao Fan entered the back hall and saw Ding Baozhen sitting in the center in a green robe and black cloth shoes, still expressionless. Yao Fan has often dreamed of this scene in his dreams recently, but Ding Baozhen's first sentence in his dreams is always "Yao Fan, are you guilty?" ”

"Juniors meet your lords." Yao Fan bowed deeply, but still did not kneel, since he came to the Great Qing Kingdom, he had never knelt anyone.

I don't know if Ding Baozhen is annoyed or not, anyway, his image is old and elegant, and his anger will not be visible.

"Yao Fan, I heard that you pulled ten foreign cars to Jinan to deliver goods, and you left the morning before yesterday and arrived last night, but is it true?" Ding Baozhen asked.

Although Ding Baozhen has a green robe and cloth shoes, the Taiping Army, the Twist Army, and the so-called rebellious party are tens of thousands of people in his hands. In his life, the imperial examination was proud of thousands of scholars, commanding the army to kill people like hemp, and the rare dual illustrious experience of civil and military affairs in the government and the opposition made him speak with a kind of momentum of not being angry and arrogant, and his slitted triangular eyes were always trying to see through people's hearts.

Yao Fan saw that Ding Baozhen didn't let him sit down, so he had to stand up and reply: "It's ten tractor trucks, burning diesel, going back and forth between Jinan and Qingdao, and the ten cars will burn 4ooo liters of diesel fuel together." ”

Every time Yao Fan saw Ding Baozhen, he felt that he should pretend to be flattering, and he should learn the secret of being an official in the Qing Dynasty, "kowtow more and talk less." "He should kneel down and kowtow desperately, but he can't kneel.

Thinking back to the ** of those years, the sentence "The Chinese people have stood up since then" made hundreds of millions of Chinese compatriots at home and abroad burst into tears. The Chinese have finally stood up, but now they want to let him, a new Chinese, kneel here, and he must not do it lightly

"It's not easy for me to go further, if you want me to take a step back, there is no door! Want me to kneel? I want you to die first! "When Yao Fan used to study, whenever he encountered a problem, he would always encourage himself like this.

"Burning oil? Yao Fan, what is that diesel? How much does a liter need? Ding Baozhen narrowed his eyes and said expressionlessly.

"My lord, diesel is a light oil refined from petroleum, the process is very complicated, and it is already very expensive to refine kerosene from petroleum, and it costs one or two silver to refine diesel."

Anyway, no one in the world has refined diesel from oil in these years, it is used to refine kerosene, kerosene is used as an organic solvent, lubricant and lighting, and even doctors in Europe and the United States say that kerosene can be taken as medicine to treat epilepsy or various incurable diseases.

Ding Baozhen was speechless when he heard that this diesel was so expensive, thought about it for a while, and felt that Yao Fan was still quite loyal, but his braincase was damaged by foreigners, and he didn't learn Chinese etiquette.

"You've broken the bank, sit down."

Yao Fan sat down at this time.

"Now that the machine has arrived, when will it be installed?" Ding Baozhen is most concerned about this issue.

"Two months at the slowest, one month at the fastest." Yao Fan left room for himself, in fact, this set of equipment is really simple, in order to facilitate the quick installation, Yao Fan turned over the construction drawings. ”

Ding Baozhen nodded: "Take me to see your tractor card." ”

Ding Baozhen turned around and went into the back, changed into official clothes, and took Yao Fan out of the governor's yamen.

Lao Ding put on the line, this style was immediately different, outside the government eighteen leading cavalry and thirty-six soldiers with swords Ding Qi out, the square irrelevant people and so on to wait around, the middle of the field vacated, two messengers with apricot yellow Luo umbrella out of the palace, behind is two gongs and drummers brush brush to knock two gongs followed behind, a total of 13 knocks, behind the back ten palm row of messengers holding quiet, avoidance and so on to sign up for the row, two by two out of the government, ten hands holding the flying tiger flag, green fan, gold ring stick and other honor guard items followed behind, In the end, Ding Baozhen came out slowly in a sedan chair, and Yao Fan had to follow on foot, secretly scolding this old thing for being too big.

"This is a tractor truck?" Ding Baozhen got off the sedan chair and asked.

"Yes."

"You can show me."

Yao Fan was afraid that the new driver would be clumsy and nervous about bumping into people, so he personally went up and drove around, and the audience was suddenly full of surprises.

Facing Yao Fan, who came down after driving the car, Ding Baozhen said coldly: "This foreigner is really a strange skill, spending so much effort to build such a costly car, Jinan to Qingdao, it will take less than 600 taels to transport a hundred carts of goods, but this car will cost 4ooo taels, which is really useless." ”

Yao Fan knew that Ding Baozhen's words were meant to be heard by the people around him, and it was impossible for a person like him to openly say his true thoughts.

"That's what my lord said." Yao Fan echoed.

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