Early the next morning, Lin Ying got up very early. After a hasty breakfast, she made an appointment with Saranova and Anastasia through text messages, called a car from the Blackwater Security Company, and went out together to find Gu Kun.
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The cross-sea highway bridge between the main island of Lanfang and the satellite city of Sematan in Kuching on the other side has not yet been built, so it is not possible to drive directly across the sea.
However, more than half of the cross-sea bridge has been repaired, and the lower seawall-type railway bridge has been repaired and is currently in the rail-rolling test stage. Although it has not been officially opened to traffic, there are special trains going back and forth for engineering tests every day, and the track is compacted and fine-tuned.
Gauge (newly repaired railways must be tested repeatedly with rail rolling cars to forcibly correct the areas where the gauge is not accurate)
The construction unit was people from China Railway/China Construction, and Gu Kun paid for it, so his people could use it anytime they wanted. Lin Ying and her party called in advance to confirm what time the construction train would leave that day, and then went
Waiting at the train station for them to take him across the sea.
"This train station is quite impressive, even more impressive than the ones I saw when I was studying in Hujiang. I haven't been back for a few months, it's really a big change."
When the three girls arrived at the train station, there was still a little time before the construction train departed, so they got off the train in the square in front of the station to get some fresh air and take a stroll for some sightseeing.
The main construction of this train station was completed just last month, and the interior is actually still being renovated. Gu Kun required very high design standards, so the front of the train station is very wide and spans a lot, making it look very impressive.
In the late 1990s, there was no high-speed rail in China. The best railway stations at that time were the Beijing West Railway Station and the old Shanghai-Jiangnan Railway Station. It was actually not difficult to surpass the magnificence of those railway stations in terms of infrastructure madness.
, spending a few hundred million yuan more is enough.
Lanfang Station is a typical flower stand. The building on the front is very broad and magnificent, but the depth is actually only four inbound lanes and three platforms, because the design flow of people and goods here is not large. Compared with Jingcheng Station and Hujiang Station, it is often ten
The scale of Taiwan's 20 railways in a few months is completely incomparable.
Because this year is the graduation season, Lin Ying and others left Lanfang and went to China in early May. In the end, they struggled for two or three months from the defense to completing the procedures for graduation and getting their degree certificates. They just returned to Lanfang recently, so they are not interested in these new
I'm a little curious about the ongoing construction projects.
Lin Ying and others were not the only ones who were curious, because today was a Saturday and there were many people on holiday. A quick glance at the square in front of the station showed that there were at least a thousand people watching and joining in the fun.
This poor island like Lanfang actually has a train station, which is really amazing.
In the eyes of people in China, trains are not a big deal at all, but if you are a Malaysian, especially an East Malaysian resident, you will definitely find it strange.
Because before this, not only did Lanzhou have no railways, but the entire East Malaysia, namely Sarawak and Sabah, did not have a systematic civilian railway network, and there were only a handful of unnetworked mining railways.
In the entire country of Malaysia, only West Malaysia, that part of the Malay Peninsula, has a civil railway network that connects the capital Kuala Lumpur to Johor Bahru, and crosses the Strait of Johor to Lee Kapo.
Among the three major cities in the Malay Peninsula, Penang, the northernmost one, does not have railways or is connected to neighboring Thailand.
Until the 2010s, China was frantically exporting and promoting high-speed rail to Southeast Asia. Malay talents half-heartedly expressed their willingness to join the high-speed rail plan across the Malay Peninsula, that is, starting from Lijiapo/Johor Bahru, passing through the capital Kuala Lumpur, and further north to Penang.
city, and finally connects from Penang to Phuket-Pattaya-Bangkok in Thailand along a long and narrow peninsula.
It can be seen from this that Gu Kun actually achieved a breakthrough in the civil railway network between East Malaysia and Penang in the era when there was no railway in Penang in West Malaysia. How shocking it was to the locals.
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Not to mention in Lanfang, even in Kuching on the other side, there were many people who set up memorial tablets to worship Gu Kun when he was still alive, so they just needed to build a shrine.
(Note: Historically, the establishment of living temples did not start with Wei Zhongxian. In the Han and Tang dynasties, civil servants established living temples while they were still alive. Wei Zhongxian was only the first eunuch to establish living temples, so he was specially written about it. So even if
There is nothing embarrassing about someone setting up a shrine for Gu Kun. It is similar to the way those heroes in the Han and Tang Dynasties set up shrines.
"Tang Lv Shu Yi" states, "Any official who has no political achievements and builds monuments and temples will be imprisoned for one year." That is to say, the law of the Tang Dynasty clearly stipulates that those who have no political achievements and erect monuments and temples will be imprisoned for one year.
If you have political achievements, you can legally establish it.)
This is Gu Dashan who has benefited the six million people of East Malaysia and the entire 20 million people of Borneo. He invested the money when the financial crisis broke out the year before last, when the financial crisis was at its most severe and the people were most desperate. What a righteous act that destroyed the family and rescued the people.
"It's so impressive. I didn't expect that we Lanfang people would one day have access to such modern facilities."
"Having a train station is much more difficult than having an airport. The airport only needs a handful of wealthy people to support it, but the train station must have at least hundreds of thousands of people to enjoy it."
"Who says it's not the case? No matter how poor the place is, if there are a few rich independents, they can build an airstrip. The only way to build a railway is to bring together the poor people along the route. I heard that there are more people investing in and setting up factories on the other side of the river this year.
Many of them are benefits brought by Master Gu."
The people of Lanfang in the square could not help but whisper and sing praises to each other while watching. These words made Lin Ying and others feel comfortable in their ears, and they felt a sense of pride.
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Soon it was time for the daily engineering train to depart. Lin Ying and others got on the train again. The driver sent by the security company also drove directly from the underground passage inside to the waiting platform, and then drove directly onto the train trailer.
A truck carriage.
Lin Ying and others got off the train and sat down in a VIP passenger car in front to enjoy the upcoming journey. The engineering train would also tow a passenger car every day in case of emergencies.
The arriving leaders inspected customers. However, there were no customers or friends today, so it was like a special train for Lin Ying and others.
Because of the beautiful tourists, the train also drove faster than usual, about 50 kilometers per hour. After the railway is officially opened in the future, the speed limit for each section will be between 80 and 120 kilometers, but the trains rolling the rails during the project will
It runs relatively slowly, usually only about 30 kilometers, because the track gauge is not very standard and the train needs to be forcibly twisted to smooth out the error. If it goes too fast, it is unsafe and the construction effect will not be achieved.
After driving only five kilometers, the car had already left the main island of Lanfang and reached the sea.
Lin Ying looked at the magical scene in front of her and felt a little unreal.
"Isn't this just like the sea train written in the script of "Spirited Away"? There is no land in sight before and after, it's just a train driving on the sea. It's so romantic. It will definitely become an Internet celebrity attraction in the future."