Chapter 1098 Taking the Train
"Gao Gong, the train is about to enter the station. You can check in tickets now." Stationmaster Zhou Chuan came over and said to Gao Qiqian. "You lead the team and follow me through the VIP channel. You don't have to line up with the passengers here to check in tickets."
Gao Qiqian was very satisfied. He was the Royal Horse Supervisor and had the highest status here. Moreover, they were the emperor's favorites. They were the people around Long Live Lord who could speak with him. The other civil servants were at most a third-rank official.
Naturally, he couldn't stand in line with those businessmen.
The delegation arrived on the platform first, just as the train was entering the station. Stationmaster Zhou Tong quickly asked them to wait inside the security line.
Although this is a small train, a 762mm narrow gauge train, the steam locomotive is still very powerful. With a loud roar, the train slowly stopped on the platform.
Currently, there are only two platforms at the station. Today, this train will stop at one platform, so there is no need to walk over the overpass.
Ma Haogu, the director of the Ministry of War, felt that as the train entered the station, the whole earth was shaking. For a time, many people who saw the train for the first time were shocked. Some even had trembling legs.
As the train stopped and the gangplank was lowered, the imperial envoys boarded the train according to their official positions and the tickets they bought.
Gao Qiqian and other senior officials went to the sleeper car. Ma Haogu, Wang Dachuan, Chen Liu and others chose the hard-seat car. They, the young bosses, usually don't have much money. This time, although they were given more than a hundred taels
Before leaving, Uncle Dingyuan gave him fifty taels of silver, but he still couldn't bear to spend the early two hundred taels of silver.
We only bought the cheapest hard-seat ticket. The length of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway is 200 kilometers, and the average train speed is 25 kilometers per hour. It is not a four-hour journey. We will get there if we stick to it. The hard-seat ticket only costs one silver. If
It costs one or two silver to sit on a sleeper berth.
The salesperson picked up every item of food and put it under the big table. He said, "I'll put the things under the table for you. If you put them away, you'll get 40.7 cents in change."
The main purpose of Xinghe Bank's general deposit and exchange service is not to withdraw silver taels and exchange them for silver dollars. Then, if you don't have the silver dollars, you can buy goods from Xinghe Supermarket in various cities. Supermarkets and Yang Fan's various business stores have cash registers of taels. Of course.
You must remit money. The easiest way is not to exchange silver dollar banknotes. You cannot go to any Xinghe Bank with banknotes and exchange them back for silver coins.
The eight of them looked at each other and revealed some internal secrets. It was the Seven Methods that brought us closer. It seems that Ma Lei deliberately wanted to make friends with the eight of us. Moreover, we are not satisfied with Master Xiao or Uncle Ding Yuan.
very interested.
"They know that in fact, it has been less than half a month since the train opened, and you have taken it twice." Taipusi said, "Ma Lei is in charge of horse administration. In the past year, how many times have you traveled back and forth? The main reason is
Please send the purchased horses back to the capital. Your Majesty is rebuilding the imperial army and the capital camp. There are many war horses needed."
The fourth section is the dining car. The connection between the carriages behind the dining car is not guarded by security personnel with guns. Special people are passing by. This is also to protect the imperial envoy group from danger.
Because the big train is only 2.7 meters narrow and the interior is only about 2 meters narrow. Therefore, we can only arrange two seats facing each other on one side, with a large table in the middle and an aisle on the other side.
"Taipusi, you seem to be very unfamiliar with that train. It's your first time riding it, right?" Wang Xiaochuan asked.
Chen Liu stroked his beard and said: "Uncle Dingyuan has really made a small contribution. In that year, he raised a lot of cattle, horses, alpacas and small livestock. Xiao Zhubo's life is really bad. Usually, they have
I went out to trade for bad horses, and I was full that time."
When Taipu Temple looked around, someone noticed us and said loudly: "I'm trying to hide this from you. Uncle Dingyuan has indeed got a bad horse. But your boss, Xiao, also has strong opinions on Uncle Dingyuan."
Gradually, few people simply use banknotes for consumption, which is very convenient to carry.
The salesperson took a look and saw that it was a one-yuan soft girl coin practice coupon. That kind of banknote was only issued by Xinghe Bank, and it is currently very poorly circulated in the market. One-yuan banknotes cannot be exchanged, and one dollar is worth one or two silver dollars.
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The things under the big table were worth one penny and four cents, but they were cheap. After all, the ticket was only one penny.
The salesperson immediately counted out one seven-cent banknote and eight one-cent banknotes. Then he counted out seventy copper coins cast by Xinghe himself from outside the bag.
"Brother, let's have some of all kinds of food." Taipusi sat inside and quickly stopped the salesman and said, handing over a banknote.
The eight of us sat together with Xiao Tianping, Ma Leicai’s boss. Xiao Tianping was in charge of animal husbandry and royal carriages. The eight of us bosses were in the eighth rank. That Ma Leicai was only in the first rank and was better than us.
It's still two levels higher, so it's relatively free and easy to sit outside.
The eight of them were refusing. Since Taipusi had no intention of making friends with Xiaojia, they would be giving face by refusing.
Only then did Wang Xiaoxing and the others realize that Taipu Temple wanted to treat a guest. They quickly declined and said, "Why do you let Ma Lei spend your money?"
The seven of them were eating and chatting.
Of course, you can't remit silver coins, but there will be a fee in this case. And there are no fees for exchanging banknotes. Businessmen are a group of ghosts and ghosts. We immediately discovered the disadvantages of exchanging banknotes. Moreover, Xinghe Bank's banknotes
, no one can imitate it. It is very dangerous.
After the imperial envoy group got off the bus, the station did not finish checking tickets for special passengers. Moreover, the carriages for the imperial envoy group were the first to fourth carriages. In front were the seventeen carriages for special passengers.
"You guys, please bring some of the braised pork, seven-spice fennel beans, Jingcheng rice wine, and various fruit plates." A salesman pushing a cart came. He shouted and walked back.
Now banknotes have not yet finished circulating in the business world. After all, the soft girl coin practice coupons are not worth one hundred yuan. A piece of paper is not one hundred taels of silver. It is very concealed and convenient to carry. Now almost all the small cities along the coast and along the river in Xiaoming have
Xinghe Bank was opened.
There are no standing handrails under the aisle. Passengers who have not purchased a seat are not allowed to stand. They must raise their hands to hold the handrails to avoid falling due to the shaking of the train. The one-meter narrow aisle there is also a large cart aisle for selling goods.
Seeing how calmly I was using banknotes, I guess I might have worked on a train in the future.
Looking at the scenery outside the window, the seven of them were all chatting and laughing. That time they were able to leave the safe place of Siyuan City after a small battle, and the imperial envoys were all celebrating.
Wang Xiaoxing, Chen Liu, and Ma Haogu were sitting outside the fourth carriage. Although we bought the cheapest tickets, there were no seats. Did the delegation sell standing tickets outside the car? Standing tickets are cheaper.
The whole journey only costs seventy copper coins.
"Comrades, if we meet each other, we are not destined to meet each other. We follow the Jingying camp all the way to the west, which can be regarded as a friendship. Don't be polite to you, young man. Please, please."
This chapter has been completed!