Chapter 1200 Northbound
The winter sun shines quietly into the carriage, with little temperature, and the heat emitted by popularity is stronger, making the surroundings warmer, and the sound is also noisy, carrying various smells.
As the train was running rapidly, the entire car was vibrating with a steady rhythm. A young man sat next to the window, quietly listening to the noisy conversations in the car, occasionally saying a few words to the girl in the colorful skirt next to him, and more often looked out the window.
The withered grassland retreated in his sight, and the cold wind made the glass windows cold. This was the breath of winter.
In terms of the plan, after the initial short section of railway, there are thousands of miles to the Shanbei area of Lingzhou. The road is over, and you have to take ordinary dirt roads. There is no official road developed by the court in Shanbei. The Wei State cannot take care of it.
After three months, the railway had just been paved to the north of Lingzhou. At the end of this is a small station, and the platform is also a small earth platform.
The car window, I heard a pastoral song, which was ancient and desolate, and was very leisurely against the background of blue sky and white clouds. The young man's ears were very sharp. At this time, he listened quietly to the songs from afar, comparing the rumbling sound of the wheels rolling, and there was a subtle illusion of time and space intertwining.
"Beep—"
The whistle sounded in the carriages, accompanied by the voice of the train attendant: "The terminal is coming, and the passengers packed their luggage and prepared to get off the train..."
Unlike the girl flight attendant on the Yingzhou train, the grassland trains are arranged by soldiers. If you can't suppress the matter, things on the grassland will be unsafe.
As soon as the railway was built, dozens of incidents of horse bandits attacking trains, but the result was the thunderous wrath of Yingzhou and the Northern Wei Dynasty.
"Kill all the horse bandits without leaving any left"
"Everyone, young and old, all women are beheaded and buried into the foundation of the platform."
These two cruel orders were joined by the Han army, the Northern Wei Dao soldiers and the magicians to strangle. I don’t know how many small tribes just took in the horse thieves and then destroyed the clan.
"The interests are there, and the enemy will become friends." The young man whispered, his smile slightly sarcastic.
As the railway was completed and transported northward, the Northern Wei Dynasty quickly discovered its potential and now it has attached great importance to it.
When the train slowed down and slowly stopped on the platform, passengers rushed out, and merchants were waiting to get off the bus later. The young man followed the crowd, neither early nor late. The girl in the colorful skirt turned around in front of him, as if she was afraid that he would be lost, and looked like a loyal servant.
This made the young man speechless, and he sent a message: "Li Niang, don't be nervous."
"Yeah." Li Niang responded obediently, muttering to herself... It's not that she was nervous, she was afraid that anyone would recognize her.
When she wouldn't admit that she had never taken such a long-distance train, she was not used to the sequelae of being unaccustomed to it.
The master and servant were originally Ye Qing and the disciples of the Qingmu Sect whom he called temporarily. In fact, no one recognized him when he got off the car. The appearance of the clone was very different than that of the original body, and he specially put on makeup to modify it. The aura of the Qingmai Taoist body and the natal Yuanchen Taoist body was also completely different, and it was even more different from the aura after the reshaping of the immortal body.
Even if the inspector frowned and looked at him for a while, he didn't realize who he was. He glanced at him and waved his hand and let him go: "Go away, you're pretty good-looking."
Ye Qing put away the ticket, smiled slightly and went over. In fact, he happened to know this team leader. He used to be a timid boy, but now he is a majestic master. The taste of this world always makes people confused and unable to control themselves.
Before we knew it, these are far away.
Some merchants who took a long-distance train for the first time came down, and their feet were a little weak, their faces turned pale and looked back at the long dark steel beast behind them. Then they quickly retracted their gaze and went to the truck carriage hanging behind to collect goods - using a numbered voucher, and usually they were able to book a carriage with others, which was very convenient for large-scale caravans.
The two masters and servants pretended that they had no goods to bring, so they pretended to be rushing to go out of the temporary station quickly.
I heard the horn of "Hey Hey You". The sound was thick and complicated, and the sun was filled with heat in this winter noon.
To the east, a large area of industrial areas was seen, and thousands of people were busy digging, moving soil, burying roadbeds, laying rails, and making a hustle and bustle of heat.
A small hill further away suddenly sounded a rumbling explosion. It was the Han army's road construction team using the small leaf fire thunder to open the mountains and level the road.
With the help of Taoism, it can indeed speed up infrastructure construction greatly, but it is also subject to the power of nature.
Although the temperature is cold in early winter, the soil layer has not yet frozen. I have to rush to dig the soil with a shovel. Then the soil layer is as cold as steel. Leaf fire and thunder can only burst out a small hole, and only magicians can add it to melt the soil, and the project progress will be much slower.
In order to promote the efficiency of workers, we can see that there are large pots of soup on the construction site, and the mutton is cut into pieces and thrown in. A simple addition of salt and green onion and ginger is a pot of good soup to warm people in winter, and assigned to the workers in line.
These were originally herdsmen, but some herdsmen picked them up and drank them, regardless of the heat, and drank them with tears: "I can still drink broth every day in this life. I really couldn't imagine... Heaven of immortality bless Han Hou..."
As they got farther away, Li Niang still looked back at her two steps, staring at her and said in a daze: "Does the people in Middle Earth live so hard?"
"Everyone lives a hard life, regardless of Middle Earth or overseas..." Ye Qing said simply, and took her around the construction site: "And the north side of Beimang Mountain is not actually considered the category of Jiuzhou, and it belongs to the eight wilderness just like yours."
Li Niang nodded when she heard it, knowing that her viewing was not obvious, and she couldn't help asking: "Don't these herdsmen raise sheep by themselves?"
"I raised a lot, most of them were for tribe leaders to exchange grain and spirits with the Southern Dynasties... and planting some dry wheat and barley on the southern desert of the grassland, which were very cheap, so the staple food was not meat." Ye Qing was clear about the matter on the grassland, and told the little girl as much as his treasures.
Li Niang was silent when she heard this. She could feel the dusty air on these herd slaves. She didn't understand such things very much. After a long time, she said it.
"In our Dongzhou, the villages and settlements are far apart, and there are many crises. Monks, nobles and people are all standing together, without much harsh exploitation, and everyone is afraid of people shooting cold arrows behind the war..."
"The bound together of fate can be considered to be living together, and dying together. Without such a condensation village, the wild beasts have long been destroyed by raging wild beasts or flattened by alien races."
"This is also a way of living." Ye Qing commented simply, his tone was flat, and he looked at the angle of his own energy. The train arrived here with a stream of red air and spread.
Li Niang was not satisfied with this perfunctory answer and wanted to ask if it could be better, but when she thought that she only brought a fairy clone back on this trip, she sighed and didn't hold much hope... Although this true lord is powerful, it is useless to not go there in person.
But what surprised her was that this man who seemed to be able to speak the grassland went to the tribe's tent area and found a few people. After a while, he contacted several caravans, chose one to join in, and paid a deposit. The head of the caravan vacated a carriage for the two of them, and then set off.
"Uh, can you ask, why did you choose this caravan?" Li Niang looked out the window. She didn't have the experience of long-distance travel in a carriage. She looked curious. Seeing hundreds of knight guards outside and hundreds of vehicles loaded with cargo, she couldn't help but wonder if this was a team that the True Lord had set up in advance... But it seemed that the guards were just a little martial arts, not an elite one.
"If you choose randomly, it will not be easy to be calculated." Ye Qing said casually.
The carriage was shaking, and Li Niang was so angry that she lowered her head and didn't say anything. She was almost desperate about the harvest of this trip... She was not completely desperate yet because the True Lord had promised her that half a year - in December, she would lead a large army to appear on the sea.
I shouldn't have lie to her like a mortal... there is no need.
Ye Qing's clone is in the fourth level of Qi Refining Great Perfection. He is expected to become a real person when he arrives in the East Wilderness. However, if his body does not improve, he will be a real person at most. He looked at her at this time, smiled and said nothing.
From the perspective of Zhenjun, this road is still very long, and there is no need to explain, just do it step by step.
The cold wind brought the fragrance of grass, the wheels were rumbling, and occasionally they collided and jumped on the soil and slag, which was a bit loud, which was nothing to the two people with deep cultivation. As they calmed down and stopped talking, their eyes gradually shifted to the car window.
On both sides of the horse team, the grass is yellow and some grasslands are still green, so there are herders grazing. So I heard the melodious pastoral songs, which made the surrounding cavalry calm down and listen to the singing.
For many people in this fleet, compared to the fearsome train just now, this is the familiar taste of their hometown.
In front of the convoy, the earthen road slowly spread forward in view, and the scene drifted backward as the cart swayed. There were also some roadbeds paved by local herders in parallel, waiting for the rails behind to extend.
Ye Qing was very satisfied with the view. Although these roadbeds were not qualified, it was good to do this before winter arrived. It saved the working hours of the paving team in winter. Wei State was still very sincere... Of course, it benefited greatly from the two bulk trades, otherwise there would be no funds and motivation to promote the development of railways.
Although Li Niang is a genius of the Qingmai generation, she finally became active and was very interested in lying on the window and watching the scene outside.
From time to time, knights ride over the horse. The girl with a beautiful and lively look is exactly in line with the aesthetics of the grassland people. She just lit up her eyes and whistle, and some even show off her equestrian skills. The people on the grassland are so unrestrained, enthusiastic and direct. If the grassland girls are most likely to be excited when they see it.
But as an indigenous girl in the East China Sea, Li Niang could not receive such a subtle signal and frowned: "It's inexplicably strange."
Ye Qing smiled and said, "They are showing their courage. The warriors on the grassland are all courting girls like this. How do they feel?"
"Dengtuzi." Li Niang spat lightly, very disdainful. It was considered brave to fight against wild beasts in the East China Sea. If she really fought with her, she would crush these warriors to death with just one finger.
The atmosphere in the carriage improved a lot. Li Niang occasionally commented on the new things she saw, her ears flashed, and she heard interesting talk about the man outside: "I heard that Han Hou was going to the East China Sea... The waterways of the long river were not open, how could she go thousands of miles away?"
"Can you walk with your legs? The Long March, haha... I can't do it anymore, let me laugh for a while before..." There was a loud laughing voice.
Li Niang frowned, feeling displeased, and felt... it was a bit like, now her clone with this Zhenjun, isn't she just going to the East China Sea for the Long March?
No, I still have to go to Beihai, and I have to change the road again.
Chapter completed!