The total length of the Jinpu line is about 1000 kilometers, from Pingjin in the north, to the north of the Jinling River in the north, it took four years to complete, it is the main artery of the economy in the north and south, before the Jinpu line, the goods in the south want to be transported to the north, you have to go to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal or by sea, a one-way trip takes a long time, if you encounter a drought year, God does not rain, the canal water level is not enough, you have to transport by land, time-consuming and labor-intensive.

The old-style steam train emitted thick black smoke, slowly starting from Pingjin, and going south along the Jinpu line.

Sometimes, in the dead of night, He Qi will even wonder whether he is a person in the new era who has returned to a hundred years ago, or whether he is a person of this era, and the memory of the new era is just a dream of Nan Ke.

Whenever there is such doubts, He Qi will desperately find evidence to prove that he is indeed a person of the new era, and will pray that the warm morning sun will shine on his face to wake him up, stretch his waist and yawn, look out of the window, and unexpectedly find that the outside is actually a city of high-rise buildings, and the downstairs is full of figures the size of small ants.

It's a pity that after praying so many times and never succeeding once, He Qi woke up countless times in the morning, and the first thing he saw was the quaint roof, only the sunlight outside the window was always warm.

Gu Rushui was carefully looking at the chess game sent by Ju Chang, Brother Xun was addicted to cigarettes and went to the junction of the carriage, He Qi stared out the window and looked at it with frustration on his face, Qian Xuan stretched out his hand to wake He Qi up, puzzled: "As soon as the train started, you seemed to have lost your god, what's wrong?"

He Qi came back to his senses, shook his head, and reluctantly smiled: "This car is running too slowly, shaking, and easy to get sleepy."

Qian Xuan squeezed his eyes and exclaimed, "Is this still slow? It only takes one day to get from Pingjin to Jinling, so if you put it in the past, you wouldn't dare to think about it."

"Is the day fast?" He Qi raised his eyebrows, disagreed, looked at the carriage again, and couldn't look at it even more, the hard butt of the wooden chair hurts, and it is not soundproof, and it has a headache with a clang, not to mention the slow running, it is not smooth, it is far worse than the Harmony.

Qian Xuan was still energetic, and counted the time of water transportation and land transportation for He Qi with his fingers, and listed the railways of other countries in the world for this, and finally he was complacent: "Our railway is no less fast than that of Western countries, but you can tell me, how can it be faster than this?"

Patriotic young people like Qian Xuan, what they are proud of, it's best not to argue with them, because they will argue with you endlessly in line with the principle that their own things are the best, and they will exhaustively cite countless evidence to support their views, just like on YouTube, the third brother netizens always like to use the Vikrant to compare 005 nuclear power, Mumbai to compare Shanghai, and the netizens of the universe always like to use the plug-in kf-21 to compare j35, and the missing king to compare 055A, so the comparison is in the end, As soon as a comrade in a certain war broke out, the third brother and the universe country decisively pinched each other, and they both boasted that they were the first brother in Asia. ….

He Qi nodded, pursed his lips, and said perfunctorily, "Yes, yes, yes! You're right!"

Qian Xuan obviously didn't like it, and took out the posture of breaking the casserole and asking, and he had to ask what was going on.

He Qi: "You don't believe me either."

Qian Xuan: "You mean?"

He Qi: "Did I really say that?"

Qian Xuan: "Say!"

He Qi: "If I say that the train I have taken is 300k, do you believe it?"

After calculating that it would take less than 4 hours to get from Pingjin to Jinling, Qian Xuan was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a smile, waved his hand and said, "Impossible, absolutely impossible."

He Qi: "Look, I know you don't believe it, and if you say it, it's nothing."

Qian Xuanjing smiled and said, "Then tell me, all the countries of the world, where is there such a train?"

He Qi turned his head and smirked, "I dreamed about it."

Qian Xuan thought He Qi was joking, and immediately laughed.

In these years, to be honest, no one believed it, He Qi put his arm around and looked out the window again, very helpless.

On the North China Plain under the night, the breeze is quiet, the Milky Way summons the exhibition, under the starry sky, a train is galloping, all the way south, in the first half of the night to Jinan, after crossing the Yellow River Bridge, in the second half of the night, to Xuzhou, the northern city of Jiangsu, here is an important transportation hub in East China, the whole vehicle has been repaired for a while, set off again, to the west a little, in the early morning, into the territory of Huizhou Province.

On the afternoon of the 19th, the train slowly drove into the terminal Jiangbei Pukou, more than 20 hours of journey, in addition to dry sitting, is to eat big white steamed buns and drink cold water, so that He Qi has a sore back, miserable, and those who have sat in the green car for dozens of hours all understand, and when they get off the train, several people are near the station and eat some hot soup.

Originally, He Qi proposed to cross the river, visit the Qinhuai River and Confucius Temple, rest in Jinling for one night, and go to Shanghai tomorrow, anyway, there is still plenty of time, but Qian Xuan said that he had taken a message for his students in advance, and he was afraid that he would wait at the station at night.

After a few people finished eating, they hurriedly crossed the river by the small river ferry, and then rushed to the railway station, transferred to the Shanghai-Nanjing line to Shanghai, until it was dark, and at seven or eight o'clock in the evening, they arrived at Shanghai (the original North Railway Station).

At night, the Shanghai Railway Station is full of modern atmosphere, the lights are shining, and there are many passengers, especially the four-storey small western-style building, the red brick wall, decorated with light-colored strip inlays, with marble columns and arched doors and windows, the construction is exquisite, the momentum is majestic, it is the symbol of the Shanghai Station.

Standing on the platform, looking to the south, a brilliant light, endless, neon lights make people dizzy, the hustle and bustle of cars and horses as if in the ears, this is the famous ten-mile foreign field, the middle is distinguished by the "boundary road", the north is the Chinese boundary, the south is the concession.

On the platform, among the people looking around, there are about three emotions, or anger, or helplessness, or envy, for He Qi, after understanding the devastation of this era, there is no such thing as envy, just glance at it, and then stop looking.

Qian Xuan saw that He Qi's reaction was mediocre, and joked: "The ancients had a saying, wrap 100,000 yuan around your waist, ride a crane down to Yangzhou, and now Yangzhou is in front of you, don't you want to go and see it?"

He Qi laughed: "When you see Manhattan, Times Square, London, Paris, you will know that these are floating clouds."

Gu Rushui said: "What's the difference?"

Brother Xun has been to Tokyo, but he has never been to the West, and he also looked at it at this time.

He Qi said with a smile: "The prosperity raised by my stepfather is raised for others after all."

Qian Xuan: "What do you say?"

He Qi glanced at it and said, "What can we do that even Dolgon can't do? Dolgon has finally gotten the body of Da Yu'er, and we have been forced to marry several Western daughters-in-law, saying that they are three wives and four concubines, but we can't touch them, I'm afraid even Dolgon is not as good."

It was originally a bitter fact, but he was gaged by He Qi, and he lost his seriousness in an instant, and several people suddenly laughed, Qian Xuan pointed at He Qi, and said to Brother Xun with a smile: "He is a person who can always say witty things, if you don't know some wild history gossip, you really don't know what he says."

He also said: "What Yubai said is not a wild history, they already have a tradition of accepting step-marriages, and the three aunts and nephews marry the same person, Dolgon and Concubine Zhuang, it's not impossible!"

Brother Xun lit a cigarette and smiled without saying a word.

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Lingwan