In the eastern suburbs of Xiyang City, a railing carriage is slowly moving eastward. There are five carriages, and each carriage is exactly the same style, and the workmanship is much more refined than other rail carriages driving along the line.

In the first carriage, Huang Zhuang Shi Hao and Wu Bozheng sat with other officials to drink tea and experience the comfort of the "special train". If it weren't for the scenery that kept moving outside the window reminding everyone that they were riding a carriage, the smoothness of the special train was enough to make people think that they were in the inn room.

On the left side of the car is the aisle, which only accounts for about one-third of the space. The remaining two-thirds of the right space are compartments with doors, including seating, supporting, and lying couches.

Several maids carried teapots and poured tea for the officials sitting opposite each other in the compartment. Although the carriage was a little shaking, the trained maids still poured the tea into the teacup steadily.

Next, several other maids came forward with food boxes and placed the warm food on the officials' tables.

The food case is fixed to the floor of the carriage with a buckle and will not move due to some swaying. However, after all, it is a living carriage sitting on a moving carriage, and many people are not very adaptable at the beginning.

But the carriages driving on the rails are smoother than those driving on the dirt road, so gradually everyone can eat normally. After the meal is over, the maids take away the tableware and bring warm water basins and hand towels to let the passengers wash their hands.

Everything is similar to the inn and the inn. The process of receiving passers-by at the inn. Although the place is a little narrower, it also gives the officials the same feeling. Sitting on this "special train" is similar to being in the inn.

You can sit or lie down. After pulling up the sliding door of the compartment, even if you sleep in a bad state, you are not afraid of being seen by people coming and going. You can also eat, drink water, go to the toilet, and rest in the car. Taking the special train is the first choice for long distances.

Unfortunately, the special trains only operate from the section of Wuchang to Xiakou. Where there is no railway, of course there is no special train.

Generally speaking, officials take their families and salute and servants to other places, and the trip is only about 30 or 40 miles a day, because even if there are horses, the speed of the team will be dragged down by the walking staff.

Based on the distinction between high and low, even the four-wheeled carriage in Shannan is not likely to be able to carry many people in a car, so unless Maduo, those accompanying servants and maids are walking forward.

At noon, I had to eat and avoid the hot sun, so I didn’t have much time to travel in a day. In the past, it took an official at least four days to travel from Wuchang to Xiakou with his family, entourage, and luggage.

Now, we can arrive in the afternoon when we set off that day, because the track carriage is driving in front of changing horses. Members on the car can eat, go to the toilet, and rest without delaying the journey.

This is very important and saves the passengers from traveling. For officials in Xiyang, Huangzhou, in the future, you can take a boat to cross the river to Wuchang, take a rail carriage to Xiakou, and then take a boat to Jianshui to Anlu.

This way of travel is similar to the time required to ride a horse on the official road to Anlu, but it is not that tired. Today, Hao Wu Bo took everyone to experience the special train to make references to the specifications of the special train.

People are divided into high and low, officials are divided into high and low, and the track carriages that carry passengers must be divided into two types: official and civil, and officials must also be divided into levels. Officials travel according to their rank and different specifications of carriages, so the specifications of special trains must be clearly distinguished.

Not only those who have official positions, but also those who have dukes, the specifications of the special trains that are carried by those who have marquis must also be different. The specific classification is not yet determined, because the Zhou Dynasty's etiquette system did not stipulate the specifications of rail carriages, and the carriages of rail carriages are larger than ordinary carriages.

But one thing is certain, that is, the more comfortable and spacious the special train compartment, the more it reflects the status and status of the passengers.

The highest official positions in the territory of Shannan are the Daxingtai Shangshu Ling and his superiors, followed by the general managers and their superiors, and then the governors and their superiors, and military officers can also be divided into several levels. As for titles, the highest is the King of Xiyang, which is the rank of the county king.

Perhaps the people who take the special train are not only many officials and generals of the rank, but also the families of these people. Some families have imperial edicts, so they also have to consider the rank of female family members. It is impossible for a carriage to prepare corresponding special trains for these people one by one, so how to set the appropriate specifications is a headache.

A series of factors such as official positions, titles and scattered ranks combined together made Hao Wubo rack his brains and couldn't decide the best plan, so today I took my subordinates to take a special train to brainstorm.

The current special trains are mainly for officials from Wuchang to Xiakou. If you go from Xiakou to Wuchang/Xiyang, you can take a boat directly downstream, so in general, there is no need to prepare such trains.

Hao Wubo's preliminary idea was that first of all, the official car and the civil car should be separated, and the official car was divided into four specifications. The outer dimensions of the car were the same, but the interior layout was narrow at each step, and the decoration was also simplified at each step.

It is best to make a "universal" carriage. The layout of the carriage can be changed more conveniently to reduce costs as much as possible, but it is easier said than done. Hao Wu Bo feels that the situation is critical now, and Yuwen Wen still asks him to be responsible for such things, which makes him unable to tell the difference between urgency and importance.

The officials in the car expressed their views on the specifications of the special train. Hao Wu Bo heard it and felt a buzzing sound in his ears. He rubbed his temples and ordered everyone to write down the idea after going back and hand it over, and he read it one by one.

Hao Wu Bo was helpless for such a 200-mile-long railway, but he knew that this railway was of great significance because Yu Wen Wen had great ambitions and needed this railway to accumulate operation experience.

Hao Wu Bo has heard the bright prospects of orbital transportation described by Yuwen Wen, but he is not sure that it can be realized because it requires huge manpower and material resources, and the effect is doubtful.

Not to mention that it has spent a lot of money to build a 200-mile railway, and it is difficult to run. If he builds a longer railway, he feels that it may be a waste of money and waste so much iron and money and grain.

Perhaps, it is time to write to King Qi and ask him to let Yuwen Wen "calm down"?

Such a thought flashed through Hao Wu Bo's mind, and at this moment the train slowly stopped. He looked out the window and found that he had arrived at Bakou Port. He took out his pocket watch and looked at it. He found that the train arrived at his destination on time.

Walking off the special train and breathing the fishy air by the river, Hao Wu Bo was quite pleased to look at the familiar port. Bakou Port is becoming more and more prosperous like Xiyang City, and the emergence of the double-track railway has made the connection between these two places more and more closely.

Therefore, Hao Wubo's feelings about railways are very complicated, and at this moment, a large number of ships appeared on the river surface in the east of Bakou.

That was the Hulin Army, who had been out for nearly a year, came back. In addition to experiencing the feeling of riding the special train, Hao Wuwang came to Bakou this time, and also to welcome the powerful team under the command of the King of Xiyang.

Based on some considerations, Sima Yuwen Shiwu of Huangzhou was in charge of Xiyang and did not appear in Bakou at the same time with him.

Bakou Port has vacated a large pier to allow the ships that the Hulin Army soldiers are riding on to berth. Hao Wu Bo looked at the military families surrounding the pier, and then looked at the ships in the distance, and sighed.

The King of Xiyang didn't know what the consideration was, but he actually gave the Hulin Army soldiers a 30-day leave. Uncle Hao felt that this was really hard to tell the difference between the urgency and the urgency.

Even if you resist the Yuchi army in Yuzhou, isn’t the movements of the Chen army in Jiangnan really worth paying attention to? It’s not good to underestimate the enemy so much!

As Hao Wu Bo thought about it, he turned his gaze to the farther east. News of the strife in Zhou should now be spread to Jiankang, the capital of Chen. If Emperor Chen made peace with Yuchi Youqi, the commander of the Zhou army in Jiangbei, the situation would be a sharp turn for Yuwen.
Chapter completed!