Chapter 812 Tianjin Wei Railway Station
There are more than a dozen ships moored at the Tianjin Wei wharf, and the steam iron-armored ship Yongchang is also parked here. The residents of Tianjin Wei wharf are no longer surprised by steam ships.
"We have arrived at Tianjin Wei, from here you can take the train to the capital." A Chinese businessman wore a thick fur coat and led Tadao Sakai and others off the sailing boat.
Shogunate envoys such as Sakai Tadaokaku and Aoyama Yukien looked at Tianjin Wei, a not-so-old city.
Tianjin Wei was originally established to protect the capital and manage the water and land terminals. Now Chu Yun will focus on maritime transportation, and the development of Tianjin Wei has been greatly accelerated, and there are street lights on the wharf. Moreover, after the main road of the Beijing-Liaoning Railway was opened to traffic, the Railway Bureau extended the railway to Tianjin Wei, becoming the actual Tianjin-Beijing-Liaoning Railway.
"This is the legendary electric light!" Sakai Tadao stood under the street lights on Tianjin Wei Wharf and looked up curiously. Even the Yokohama Concession did not have a generator and a thermal power station. "I heard that at night, this thing can be bright without ignition, and its light is even more dazzling than a candlelight!"
"Saki Kun, is this thing really that magical?"
"If you don't need fire, isn't that Night Pearl?"
A group of Japanese envoys discussed around the street lamps that were ten feet tall, which attracted the disgust of a group of residents in Tianjin Wei, and they thought to themselves that a bunch of local buns were secretly silly.
"Everyone is going to China this time. When we arrived in the capital, we will definitely be able to see street lights at night. I wonder if the military headquarters has sent someone to pick you up." said the Chinese businessman who sent Tadaokazu Sakai and others.
After a while, the Tianjin General of Guard brought people over. He received an order from the military headquarters to send the envoys sent by the shogunate to the capital. Although the military headquarters did not catch a lot of colds in the weak shogunate, this was still an envoy of a country.
"General Yu, why did you come here in person?" The Chinese businessman was a little surprised when he saw General Wei of Tianjin.
"It is the end of the year, not only Japan, but Goryeo also sent envoys to celebrate, so the military department arranged for me to send Goryeo and Japan's envoys to the capital safely." General Yu replied.
"Gali also sent an envoy group..." The Chinese businessman was a little surprised.
"The military leader met the prince of Goryeo when he was in southern Liaoning. The prince of Goryeo has been in the Academy of Sciences for several years and has always supported our military leader's theory. Therefore, in the eyes of the military headquarters, Goryeo has a higher status than Japan." General Yu said.
"When will the Goryeo envoys arrive?" the merchant asked.
"It's a coincidence that they arrived at Tianjin Wei just one step earlier than the Japanese envoys, and are waiting for the train near the train station. I heard that the shogunate envoys were also here, so I thought of sending two envoys to the capital by train at a time." General Yu said.
"Since General Yu takes over, I will return to Datong to celebrate the festival." This time, the Chinese merchants sent the envoys to Tianjin Wei, and it was just a way to go.
"Wait, is any of them able to speak Chinese?" General Yu asked, pointing at the envoys.
"They have the translator, the leader Tadao Sakai, who is half-baked in Chinese," replied the merchant.
Among the envoys of the Japanese Kingdom, except Tadao Sakai who often deals with the Kyushu army, others have very limited understanding of the Kyushu army. The Yokohama Concession already represents the highest technical level in Japan, but the Yokohama Concession generally does not allow non-Chinese people to enter and exit, and few shogunate officials can go to the Yokohama Concession to see the truth. Moreover, even the Yokohama Concession is not as prosperous as the Tianjin Guard.
"I will take you to the train station later. You will go to the capital through the train station." General Yu said to Sakai Tadaokazuki and the others.
"Train Station? What is that?" The Japanese envoys who had never seen the train station listened to the translator's words and talked all over again.
But Tadaokazu Sakai's eyes lit up, and he was finally able to see the legendary train!
"You come with me." General Yu was speechless. The Goryeo envoys would not be shocked by the train now, and the envoys of the Japanese shogunate, which were even more powerful than the Goryeo, were even less likely to have seen the world.
The envoys of the Japanese envoys wore Japanese clothes, which were very conspicuous in Tianjin Wei. However, the residents of Tianjin Wei were not surprised. Nowadays, Koreans, Japanese, Westerners, and South Americans all come and do business, and they have all kinds of strange costumes. They are used to the glory of the "Tian Khan" era.
Tianjin Wei’s railway station is located in the east of the city, not far from the wharf, and is a cement railway station far beyond the architectural level of this era!
This magical railway station is ten meters high, and there is also a bell tower, where the tracks extend out from it and stand here! Residents wearing cotton jackets enter and exit from Tianjin Wei Railway Station, and soldiers carrying muskets stand guard in front of the railway station.
"Awesome, is this the City Lord's Mansion?" The Japanese envoys exclaimed in surprise when they saw the towering Tianjin Wei Railway Station.
"What city lord's mansion?" General Yu looked confused.
When General Yu brought the Japanese envoys into the train station with the people from the Japanese envoys, the Japanese envoys were even more shocked, and the thick steel and cement inside made them unprecedented.
This newly built railway station uses the increasingly advanced civil engineering and smelting technology of the Jiuzhou Army, and uses a large amount of cement and steel frames, which already has a modern atmosphere.
Tadao Sakai looked up at the magnificent railway station, as if he had traveled to the future world and had completely lost himself.
"Monster! Black Steel Monster!" The screams of the shogunate envoy brought him back to reality.
The shogunate envoy saw the train lying on the iron cabinet. The hideous locomotive was behind the iron carriage made of steel, which was nearly a hundred meters long, like a black dragon!
"Train!" Tadao Sakai finally saw the train that he had never seen before. He excitedly squeezed out the queue, jumped off the platform, and then touched the cold iron body with his hands. Because it was the cold winter month, the biting chill came from the body, which was indeed the texture of metal.
Tadao Sakai suddenly shouted in a daze: "It's really made of steel! It's made of steel!"
"Crazy, this man is crazy. Why did he run on the railway tracks? Just pull him up. If a train comes from the capital, he will die!"
The residents of Tianjin Wei who were queuing up were going to condemn Tadao Sakai for his behavior of jumping into the line, but when they saw the old man wearing traditional Japanese clothes jumped off the platform, they quickly found the patrol soldiers from Tianjin Wei Railway Station.
"You go and bring him up." General Yu ordered his left and right men to go and raise Tadao Sakai up, feeling depressed. Could this person who should look very calm be a lunatic?
Chapter completed!