The winter sun shines quietly into the car, and there is not much temperature. The heat emitted by the crowd is more intense, making the surroundings warmer, and the sound is also very noisy, carrying various smells.
The train was running rapidly, and the entire carriage was vibrating with a steady rhythm. A young man was sitting near the window, quietly listening to the noisy conversations of the people in the carriage. Occasionally he would say a few words to the girl in a colorful dress next to him, and more often he would look out the window.
The yellow grassland receded from his field of vision, and the cold wind made the glazed windows become cold. This was the smell of winter.
From a planning point of view, after the initial short section of railway, there is still a thousand miles to the Shanbei area on the border of Lingzhou. The road ends below, and you have to take ordinary dirt roads - there will be no official roads developed by the imperial court using Taoism in Shanbei. Wei Guo
I can't care about this.
It took three full months for the railway to be laid to the north of Lingzhou. At the end of the line was a small station with a small earthen platform.
From the car window, I heard a burst of pastoral songs, ancient and desolate, very leisurely against the background of blue sky and white clouds. The young people's ears are very sharp. At this time, I quietly listened to the singing in the distance. Compared with the rumbling sound of the wheels rolling, I had a subtle illusion of time and space intertwined.
"Beep——"
The whistle sounded in each carriage, accompanied by the voice of the train conductor: "The terminal is almost here. Passengers pack their luggage and prepare to get off..."
Unlike the female stewards on the Yingzhou train, the people on the grassland special train are all soldiers. If we can't suppress the situation, things will not be safe on the grassland.
As soon as the railway was built, there were dozens of horse bandit attacks on trains, which resulted in the thunderous wrath of Yingzhou and the Northern Wei Dynasty.
"Kill all the horse bandits and leave no one behind"
"Women, old and young, were beheaded to form the foundation of the platform."
After these two cruel orders, the Han army and the Taoist soldiers and magicians of the Northern Wei Dynasty joined forces to strangle them. I don't know how many small tribes were exterminated just for taking in horse thieves.
"The good thing is that enemies will become friends." The young man whispered, with a slightly sarcastic smile.
With the completion of the railway for transportation northward, the Northern Wei Dynasty quickly realized its potential and now attaches great importance to it.
When the train slowed down and slowly stopped on the platform, passengers poured out one after another. Businessmen with large and small bags were waiting to get off later. Young people followed the crowd, not too early or too late. Girls in colorful skirts were waiting.
He took a step forward and turned back, as if he was afraid that he would get lost, acting like a loyal servant.
This left the young man speechless, and he sent a message: "Don't be nervous, Liniang."
"Yeah." Liniang responded obediently, muttering to herself... It's not because she's nervous because she's afraid that someone will recognize you.
She would not admit that she had never taken such a long-distance train before and was not used to it.
The two masters and servants were Ye Qing and the disciples of the Qingmu Sect he had temporarily summoned. In fact, no one recognized him when he got off the bus - the appearance of the clone was very different from that of the original body. He specially put on makeup to modify it. Qingmai said
The aura of the body is completely different from that of the original Yuanchen Dao body, and it is even more different from the aura of the immortal body after reshaping.
Even though the inspection team leader frowned and looked for a while, he didn't realize who he was facing. He glanced at it and waved to let him go: "Let's go, pretty boy."
Ye Qing put away the ticket, smiled slightly and went over. In fact, he happened to know this team leader. In the past, he was still a submissive young man, but now he is a majestic master. The experience of this world always makes people confused and unable to control themselves.
Before I knew it, these were far away.
Some businessmen who had taken a long-distance train for the first time were a little weak when they got off. Their faces turned pale and they looked back at the long, dark steel beast behind them. Then they quickly looked away and went to pick up their belongings from the truck carriage hanging at the back - using the number.
The voucher usually involves renting a carriage with someone else, which is very convenient for large-scale caravans.
Pretending that the master and servant had no goods to bring, they pretended to be in a hurry and quickly walked around the temporary station.
Then I heard the chanting of "Hey yo hey yo", the sound was deep and complicated, and the sunshine at noon in winter made me feel the heat.
To the east, a large construction area comes into view. Thousands of people are busy digging and moving soil, laying roadbeds, and laying rails. It is a bustling scene.
A rumbling explosion suddenly sounded from a hill further away. It was the Han army's road construction team who was using small leaf fire thunder to open up the mountain and level the road.
With the help of Taoism, infrastructure construction can be greatly accelerated, but it is also subject to the power of nature.
Although the temperature in early winter is cold now, the soil has not yet frozen, so we have to rush to work before the shovel can still dig into the soil. Then the soil is frozen as hard as steel. Ye Huolei alone can only make a small hole.
You can only use magicians to melt the soil, and the progress of the project will be much slower.
In order to promote the efficiency of workers, you can see that there are large pots of soup on the construction site. The mutton is cut into pieces and thrown in. Simply add some salt and green onion and ginger. It is a good pot of soup that warms people in winter. It is distributed to people waiting in line.
workers.
These were originally from herdsmen, but some herdsmen picked them up and drank them, regardless of how hot they were. They took big sips and shed tears while drinking: "I can drink broth every day in this life. I can't believe... The eternal God bless the Marquis of Han."
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As they got further and further away, Liniang still looked back from behind, looking at her blankly and saying, "Do the people in Middle-earth also live so hard?"
"Everyone lives a miserable life, regardless of whether it's in China or overseas..." Ye Qing said simply, leading her around the construction site: "And the north side of Beimang Mountain is actually not part of Kyushu, it's just like your side.
Bahuang."
Liniang nodded, knowing that her perception was biased, and couldn't help but ask: "Don't these herdsmen raise their own sheep?"
"They raise a lot, and most of them are given to tribal leaders in exchange for grain and spirits with the Southern Dynasty... and some dry wheat and highland barley are grown in the southern desert of the grassland. They are very cheap, so the staple food is not meat." Ye Qing said to the people on the grassland.
The matter was quite clear, and Jiazhen told the little girl everything.
Liniang was silent when she heard this. She could feel the despondency of these shepherd slaves and didn't quite understand this kind of thing. After a long time, she spoke.
"In our Dongzhou, the villages and settlements are far apart from each other, and there are many crises. The monks, nobles and people all stand together. There is not much harsh exploitation. Everyone is afraid of being shot behind the scenes to retaliate during the war..."
"We are bound together by destiny. We have to live together and die together. Without this kind of cohesion, a village would have been destroyed by wild beasts or trampled by alien races."
"This is also a way of living." Ye Qing simply commented, his tone flat, looking at the air, the train arrived here with waves of red air, spreading.
Liniang was dissatisfied with this perfunctory answer and wanted to ask if it could be better, but when she thought that she only brought one fairy clone back during this trip, and neither the army nor the refugees brought it back, she sighed and didn't hold much.
I hope... although this True Lord is powerful, it will be of no use unless he goes there in person.
But what surprised her was that this man who seemed to know the prairie dialect went to the tribe's tent area to find a few people. After chattering for a while, he contacted several caravans and chose one to join. He paid a deposit and the caravan leader
He vacated a carriage for the two of them, and then set off.
"Um, can I ask why you chose this caravan?" Liniang looked out the car window. She had no experience in traveling long distances in a carriage. She was curious when she saw hundreds of knights guarding them and loads of goods outside.
There were hundreds of vehicles, and I couldn't help but wonder if this was the team that the true king had arranged in advance... But it seemed that the guards were only slightly skilled in martial arts, not elite.
"Selected at random, this way it is not easy to be calculated." Ye Qing said casually.
The carriage shook for a while, and Liniang felt depressed and lowered her head without saying a word. She was now almost desperate for the harvest of this trip... She was not completely desperate because the true king had promised her that half a year - that is, ten
February will appear on the sea with an army.
You shouldn't lie to a mortal like her... There's no need.
Ye Qing's clone was at the fourth level of Qi Refining and expected to become a real person when he arrived in the East Wasteland. However, if his body did not progress, he would be a real person at best. At this time, he glanced at her, smiled and said nothing.
From Zhenjun's perspective, the road is still long, so there is no need to explain it, just do it step by step.
The cold wind brought the fragrance of green grass, and the wheels made a rattling sound. They occasionally bumped and jumped on the dirt. The vibration was a bit big, but it was nothing to the two people with profound cultivation. As they fell silent and did not speak, their eyes gradually shifted to the car.
window.
On both sides of the cavalry, the grass was withered and yellow, and some pastures were still green, where shepherds were grazing, so they heard melodious pastoral songs again, with a sense of original ecology, which made the surrounding cavalry calm down and listen to this singing.
For many people in this convoy, compared to the terrifying train just now, this is the familiar taste of their hometown.
In front of the convoy, the dirt road slowly spreads forward in the field of vision, and the scene drifts backwards due to the shaking of the carts. There are also roadbeds laid by local herdsmen in parallel, waiting for the railroad tracks to extend from behind.
Ye Qing was very satisfied with what he saw. Although these roadbeds were still not up to standard, it was good to be able to do this before winter came. It saved the paving team's working hours in winter. The Wei State was still very sincere... Of course, it was involved in two large-scale trades.
The benefits will be huge, otherwise there would be no funds and motivation to promote railway expansion.
Although Liniang was a monastic genius of Qingmai's generation, she was still a young girl. She soon regained her vitality and was very interested in lying at the window and looking at the scene outside.
From time to time, knights ride over and see this beautiful and lively little girl, which is exactly in line with the aesthetics of the prairie people. Her eyes light up, she whistles, and some even show off their equestrian skills. This is what people on the prairie do.
He is unrestrained, passionate and direct, and most prairie girls will be excited when they see him.
But as an indigenous girl from the East China Sea, Liniang could not receive such a subtle signal and frowned: "It's inexplicable."
Ye Qing smiled and said: "They are showing off their bravery. Warriors on the grassland woo girls like this. How do you feel?"
"You are a disciple." Liniang spat lightly, with great disdain. Only those who fight against wild beasts in the East China Sea are considered brave. If they really fight, she will crush these warriors to death with just one finger.
The atmosphere in the carriage improved a lot. Liniang occasionally commented on the new things she saw. Her ears flickered and she heard the interesting talk about this man outside: "I heard that the Marquis of Han is going to the East China Sea... The long rivers and waterways are all blocked.
, how to get there thousands of miles away?”
"Can I walk on two legs? The long march of thousands of miles, haha... I can't do it anymore. Let me laugh for a while..." There was a voice of laughter.
Liniang frowned, feeling unhappy, but also felt that...it was a bit similar. Now, the clones of herself and this senior Zhenjun were going on a long march to the East China Sea, right?
No, we still have to go to Beihai, and we have to divert once.