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Chapter 1326: On the road

When Cao Yun and others appeared at the boarding place, they found that the original eight-carriage had two more sections, and the two more sections were exactly what they were about to ride.

"The eight carriages in front are all taken by ordinary people." Xiao Hua has been traveling around the Ming Dynasty for his ideals in the past two years, and he has not been sitting in the railroad car. He knows very well these things." There are seats in each carriage. Should His Royal Highness take a look?"

"Of course I have to take a look." Cao Yun nodded. This time when he came to the Ming Dynasty, he already knew that he had fallen into a trap specially created for him. Since he had fallen, he certainly wanted to make more money. Seeing the truth in normal times, these inconspicuous things in ordinary people have other meanings in his eyes.

At this time, except for the staff and guards, ordinary passengers did not enter the station, and were still empty. A staff member opened an ordinary car for them and Cao Yun stepped in.

Rows of wood-made chairs were fixed in the carriage, and there was nothing extra. Cao Yun estimated that each carriage could sit about fifty people. Of course, if these chairs were removed, the number of people riding could double. If you squeezed it, even one hundred and fifty people could sit down.

Thinking of what Chen Ye said earlier, Cao Yun clearly got the answer. Eight carriages, each car could take 150 people, which means that within three days, the Ming people could transfer an army of 1,200 from their Shayang County to Wuling County. If they had ten trains a day to get here, it would be an army of 1,200, and there would be more than two entire battle camps.

Three days!

Cao Yun sighed in his heart. If it were Qi State, it would be impossible to transport tens of thousands of soldiers across thousands of miles away. This time would be calculated at least in months.

He sat on the long chair beside the window, reached out and opened the window to one side, looking at the long platform, outside, staff were leading horses to their fixed positions. These horses were obviously trained and cooperated with the staff's behavior very well.

Just now, he was in the room on the roof, and had long seen a huge horse corridor on one side of the station, with at least hundreds of horses raising.

"The chair is very hard. Can you stand it if you often sit in such a seat?" Cao Yun put aside the shock in his heart and looked at Xiao Hua and asked.

"No, no, no, there is a very good carriage in each train, specially prepared for officials or wealthy people. Of course, the tickets sold are quite expensive. Let's go and I'll take you to see them." Xiao Hua seemed particularly happy, as if a proud child was showing his beloved toy to outsiders.

When I walked into the third to last car, I opened the car door and walked in, the layout inside was particularly different. There were only eight seats, no longer the top long chairs, but large chairs covered with soft felt. There was also a small square table in front of each chair.

Xiao Hua walked over, sat on the chair, reached out and fumbled next to the chair for a few times, and the backrest of the big chair leaned back to an angle, which made people lie on it comfortably.

Xiao Hua stood up and said, "Look, if I usually travel, I just sit in such a car. The ticket in this car is ten times that of an ordinary car."

"Can officials all sit here?" Cao Yun asked.

"No, no, no! The old man also has some preferential treatment. Ordinary officials still cannot sit on this carriage. Of course, there are rich officials like Chen Ye." Xiao Hua shook his head repeatedly, "Officials at the level of the minister are qualified. Only the ministers and below can only sit on hard chairs, and the exception is to pay for their own money."

Chen, who was on the side, smiled and said, "So, it is still beneficial to have money at home, at least you don't have to suffer when traveling. His Highness the Prince, there were no two cars behind him. This time, it was specially prepared for His Highness the Prince. I hope he can satisfy His Highness. Please."

The two carriages in the back were prepared for Cao Yun's family, and the other was prepared for Xiao Hua, Cao Yun and his personal guards. When they stepped into the carriage, a luxurious atmosphere immediately came to their faces. The whole carriage was not much less decorated than the luxurious carriage that Cao Yun left in Wuling County.

"These two carriages were actually prepared by our Ming Dynasty when we traveled. This time the prince was coming and specially transported them from Shayang. It has been a few days since he left them here." Chen Ye said with a smile.

"How dare you take this?" Cao Yun's face changed slightly. "Since it is His Majesty's special carriage, Cao doesn't dare to do it. Sir, let's sit in the front carriage."

"This is not good!" Xiao Hua waved his hand: "The seats in the carriage in front have been sold for a long time, but there are no seats for us. Besides, the visitor is a guest. Since Your Majesty specially sent this carriage to welcome His Royal Highness, His Highness can naturally sit there. The old man has not been in this carriage, and there is nothing to hide from. Our Emperor and His Majesty does not pay so much attention to it. He is about to leave the car, and now it is too late to find other ones."

"That's the reason!" Chen Ye smiled so hard.

A loud sound of trumpet sounds sounded from the station, and the gate to the place where the bus was getting on opened. One by one, one after another, came over with a bow, and Chen also bowed to Cao Yun with his fists, "Your Highness, Chen has sent it here. I wish Your Highness the Prince a happy life in the Ming Dynasty. When you come back, Chen will wait here, say goodbye, and say goodbye!"

He turned around, bowed to Xiao Hua again, turned around and walked out.

Cao Yun could only sit down with Xiao Hua. Anyway, there were too many lice and no worries about debt. He had done such things like meeting Zhou Shuguang. What was it like to sit in Qin Feng’s royal carriage?

An extremely long sound of the horn sound rang out from the station, and the experienced Xiao Hua introduced to Cao Yun: "It's about to set off."

The car body trembled slightly, and then began to slide forward. Originally, Cao Yun thought he would hear a huge noise, but unexpectedly found that the noise was not very loud.

"It wasn't so comfortable before." Xiao Hua introduced: "Since our Ming Dynasty Tiangong Office developed the bearing, the speed has been much faster and the sound has become much smaller. More importantly, it saves more horsepower. This bearing is really a good thing. Oh, some people call him a flywheel. Isn't this bearing also installed on the carriage where His Highness the Prince is sitting?"

"Is this thing installed on the railcar?" Cao Yun asked.

"Well, it's almost the same, but it's much bigger than the ones on the carriage. I heard that it's hard to build. Now, not every rail carriage in the Ming Dynasty has been installed and is still being modified slowly. But since this trip is to welcome His Royal Highness, we naturally have to use the best one." Xiao Hua said: "After using this thing, the speed can be more than doubled. In the past, if the horses had to slow down after running for fifty miles, they had to change horses. Now, they can run for hundreds of miles in one go. A small thing, the material and manpower saved is really uncountable, so everyone has no intention of giving the official body of the fifth-rank official of the craftsman who invented this bearing."

Cao Yun fell silent.

After all, Xiao Hua was a little older. After chatting with Cao Yun for a while, he was a little energy-saving. He put a flat chair and put a blanket on his body and fell asleep. However, Cao Yun felt a little sleepy. He widened his eyes and opened the window to look at the scene passing by quickly outside the window.

The car was really fast, which was quite similar to the feeling of riding on horseback. What made Cao Yun even more moved was the crops outside the window and the villages with the smoke curling from the cooking stove.

As Ben Kuan of Taoyuan County said, the more he went into Ming territory, the more prosperous he saw. The recovery speed of the Ming people made him feel a little scared. He knew very well that when the Qi people withdrew from these three counties, they completely destroyed these three counties, and he issued this order.

But now, there are almost no scars of war. Only a few years have passed! The Mingren not only cured the scars, but also took a few steps forward.

It seemed that not much time had passed, and the railcars began to slow down, and ahead of them, a building that was exactly the same as Wuling Station appeared in his sight.

The railcar drove into the station, and a large group of people in blue uniforms rushed in. They quickly untied the reins of the pulling horses, and took away the tired horses, and exchanged them for a group of new horses. They put the reins back in the station. In the station, some people got off the car and some got on the car. After a few incense sticks, the railcar embarked on a journey forward with the melodious sound of the horn.

One day later, they arrived in Yiyang County, where they would spend a night and set off again the next day. The governor of Yiyang County welcomed Cao Yun and his group into the inn, but Cao Yun couldn't sleep all night. As soon as he closed his eyes, what appeared in his mind was the Ming Dynasty's rail car, transporting a cart of Ming troops from the mainland of Ming to Taoyuan County, and putting them on the battlefield, forming an overwhelming advantage against the Qi army on the battlefield. At this time, the Qi army was still trekking hard on the road.

When they arrived at the battlefield, everything was over long ago. What awaited them was not the friendly troops they were going to support, but the Ming people who were waiting for them.

He shuddered.

He was not interested in seeing the night view of Yiyang. He went out to find out the news without hesitation. Unlike Qi State, there was no such thing as a curfew in the city of Ming Dynasty. At night, Yiyang County City was still very lively, with bright lights everywhere, laughter and joy. Standing on the post house, you can see the bright lights.
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