Entering the Wangji of His Majesty the Emperor of the Holy Son of Heaven, it seems that all bad luck and accidents have been blocked out of the customs. The four-level and stable Silver Dragon crossed the Beijing-Shanghai line, and the cheap "inner cabin" made him unable to see anything, only the two in front of him.

Lu Huaiyang sat there straight, his back was not next to the cushion, and he closed his eyes there. Wen Yuan is hungry for knowledge from books - he didn't keep up with the comic updates when he went out, and he was smirking at the last issue of the comic book.

"Ahh I still can't catch up with the fashion of young people. ”

Yangzhou just has a bad thing - the exchange of information with Kinai is slow. Only a few national publications such as Yingtian Daily can catch up with the news in real time in Yangzhou. Only they would send the "emergency election" on the transoceanic telegraph line at different times every day.

As the name suggests, it is to extract the most important information and send it to the other side of the ocean in an expedited manner. Yingtian Daily is a morning newspaper, and Yangzhou can receive the "urgent evening newspaper" of the morning newspaper of the same day. Most of the press releases can be retained, but the serialized novels can only be sent in advance, half of which are airlifted a week in advance, and the advertisements are fixed columns.

This also only transmits text, not images. When it comes to comic books, it's even later, because comic books are sometimes tighter than newspapers, because the work of the cartoonists themselves is uncontrollable. The distribution in Yangzhou cannot be called "publishing", but just the joint issue is flown over.

In the entire empire, the only ones that can maintain the same tone as Kinai are the jurisdiction of the Lanfang Company, specifically the three cities of Pontianak, Sin Chau and Java. And Lan Fang is in tune with Guangzhou Mansion, not with Yujing.

Shang Luo remembered that he did have an interest in chasing comics when he was a child. But after moving to Yangzhou, I could only read the joint issue, and slowly I was too lazy to read it. Now that he's moved back, he's going to try to see it again in two days.

[By the way, I actually have a question I've been wanting to ask you. Before, the situation was urgent, and I didn't have time to ask. 】

Seeing Lu Huaiyang taking a nap, Apollonia popped up.

"What else do you want to ask me? Aren't you going to look it up? ”

[I can only check the information, but I can only ask the locals about my ideas and cognitions. I want to ask, what exactly does Yujing mean? What is the specific scope of Yujing? Because you don't have the administrative division of 'Yujing' in the Ming Kingdom at all, but many places are directly counted according to Yujing. Is Yujing Nanjing? Or Yingtian? 】

"Yujing refers to the Yujing super-urban agglomeration, because the function of the world's capital needs to be undertaken by more than one city. The specific scope is a large number of connected urban agglomerations radiating from Yingtianfu as the center, all the way to Songjiang Mansion by the sea, which is regarded as Yujing; As for Nanjing, it's a historical concept that doesn't use much now. Now the term "Nanjing" generally refers to the city of Nanjing, that is, the urban area within the city walls of Nanjing. After all, the imperial palace is not in the city of Nanjing. ”

[It turns out that the Son of Heaven does not live in the city of Nanjing? 】

"Have you forgotten that I said there is a 'Palace Museum'? The old palace has been converted into the Palace Museum, and it seems that it was in disrepair when the capital was moved back to the place, and there was ground subsidence, and the three major halls had all collapsed. The new palace was built at the southern foot of the Purple Mountain, and later the 108-meter-high Ziwei Hall was built on the top of the Purple Mountain with reference to the Vientiane Shrine in Luoyang. ”

[Yes, yes, I just wanted to ask this.] That's an exaggeration, why do you want to build such a big spectacle on the top of the mountain? 】

"Hmm... In fact, because of political reasons, it is difficult to see it in public publications, but we all know it ourselves - the reason is that all buildings are regulated, and the Fengtian Hall is the highest level building, which is 35 meters tall with the Sumeru Seat, and theoretically no other building can be taller than him. Although there are high-rise buildings such as Yueyang Tower and Yellow Crane Tower, they are not official buildings, and they are not in front of the imperial court, so they can be regarded as not being seen.

But with the development of the times, Ying Tianfu has become expensive, and it is imperative to build skyscrapers. Isn't it too much for a skyscraper to be taller than the Fengtian Temple? Therefore, after the six ministries deliberated, it was agreed that the imperial court would simply repair a big one first! So on the top of the Purple Mountain at an altitude of 449 meters, the 108-meter Ziwei Hall was built, and the Sumeru seat was nearly 600 meters. No one can be taller than the palace, and the skyscrapers are not overstepping. ”

【High.. That's a really high trick... Can I see it when I get out of the car? 】

"I can't really see it. In fact, it could have been seen on the train, but this is the inner cabin, and you can't see the outside at all. Arriving at the station is to transfer in the station, my home is in the city of Nanjing, there is no tram in the city, only the subway, so come out to my door. If you don't take a detour, I remember that you can't see it, and the surrounding buildings are very dense. But I'm going to meet Daozu soon, I always have to go to Jinyiwei, and I can watch it up close when the time comes. ”

Shang Luo took a sip of ice water. Although he didn't go to other places in the car, he really had to give a good review for bringing his own ice machine. When the Great Western Railway was built in Rome, he didn't mind taking this "land cruise" all the way to Constantinople.

As he spoke, he suddenly felt a thrust in his back—

"It's time to stop." Lu Huaiyang opened his eyes.

"Arrived? It's time for Yingtian? "Counting the time, it seems that it is indeed time to arrive," but don't you stop at another station in between? ”

"Of course it doesn't stop. The Beijing-Shanghai trunk line is directly from Songjiang to Yingtian, and the whole process does not stop in the middle. Because the operating speed of 200 kilometers per hour with a steam engine is still too hard, it takes at least half an hour just to accelerate to this fast. If you stop in the middle, it will average more than 100 kilometers per hour, which is no different from the general speed. I heard that the Railway Bureau is studying the use of high-speed internal combustion engines with electric drives to rush high, and it is estimated that it will be soon. Because they had already figured out the internal combustion engine for the submarine last year, they just needed to bring up the internal combustion engine of the submarine. ”

"I said... Lu Qianhu, will we run so fast? ”

"Time waits for no one, and it's a good thing that there are so many Qi practitioners who are willing to take risks and rush to the front. It's better than all Qi practitioners hiding in the mountains to cultivate immortals. We cultivate the truth, but we enter the world and do not avoid the world. Longevity and long-sightedness, immortality is for long-term vision, in order to see the world well-oh yes, speaking of which, did Captain Lin mention Lanfang's lunar cannon to you? It's Lan Fang's recent big move. ”

"So you know?"

"Of course we know, they cut down all the mountains of Borneo, who doesn't know. Moreover, the previous generation of national surnames actually came to the imperial court to report, and we only thought they were doing a feasibility study. As a result, after this generation of national surnames inherited the title of Marquis of Yanping, he seemed to be much more radical than the previous dynasties. Did he let you go to Nanyang to see it? I've heard that their plan didn't go well, and they blew up a hill two days ago. ”

"That's what he said."

Lu Huaiyang looked at the desktop and thought for a while: "Now I have a case at hand, and I'm busy these days, and you have to be busy with graduation in the past few months." When he was done, the brocade guard had to go and inspect them. Come with us if you're going. It is virtuous to explore frontier areas, and we should take a hand. ”