Cheng Hengsheng looked at the man in front of him who was smiling and always calm, and his heart was excited: "Holy King! See the Holy King! ”

Feng Yunshan hurriedly helped Cheng Hengsheng up, and when he saw his dark and thin appearance, he knew that in the past six months, Cheng Hengsheng had been busy with railway construction, and he was very tired, patted him on the shoulder, and praised: "Mr. Cheng has worked hard!" This king wants to thank you on behalf of the Holy Kingdom, and even more so on behalf of Huaxia! Without your efforts and dedication, the Quwubao Railway would not have been completed and opened to traffic so soon. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Cheng Hengsheng was a little embarrassed by Feng Yunshan's praise, and he resignedly said: "Saint King ......"

Feng Yunshan waved his hand: "A good job is a good job, this king doesn't like people who are too modest." Everyone is watching it! Mr. Cheng, from next month, this king will give you another burden and promote you to the vice minister of public works, who will be responsible for the construction of railways, wharves, cement roads and other transportation facilities in the Holy Kingdom. ”

Cheng Hengsheng was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly excused himself.

He was originally just a magistrate, and being able to serve as the director of the Ministry of Public Works can be regarded as a promotion. Now that he was only half a year away, the Holy King promoted him to deputy minister, which is no longer just a leapfrog promotion, it can be described as rocket speed.

Cheng Hengsheng has been tired in the past six months, but he feels unusually fulfilled in his heart, and he has never felt so much that he is needed by the people and everyone. Seeing that the barren mountains and wild mountains were slowly built into a railway with his own efforts, and now they are about to open to traffic, he is very satisfied.

As a former Manchu surrender officer who was captured by the captive army and voluntarily surrendered, what he thought in his heart was to do something for the people and not waste the furrow in his chest. He knew that he was a surrendered person, and he never thought that he would be promoted, let alone that the Holy King would value himself so much and give him the position of deputy minister of public works.

In the more than half a year since he surrendered, he has already understood very well that the power of the Holy Kingdom is all in the Holy King's Palace. Although the name is different, the essence of this Ministry of Public Works is the Ministry of Works of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the deputy minister, that is, the post of the squire, is a member of the court of Zheng Erpin, which is half a level higher than the governor of a province (from the second rank). Therefore, although he longed in his heart, he still had to refuse, he had never done it before, and he was afraid that he would be embarrassed by the big responsibility.

"Mr. Cheng, this king believes in you, you can do a good job! As long as your heart is full of people and you have worked steadily as you have done for the past six months, you will definitely be competent. It is so decided, this is the decree of this king, and it will never be changed! Feng Yunshan put down his words categorically.

Cheng Hengsheng had to hold tears in his eyes and thank Feng Yunshan for his attention. He secretly swore in his heart that he must make some achievements in order to repay the Holy King's kindness.

At this time, Wu Chongyao and Big John came over and said that the time had come, and asked the Holy King to move to the salute fort to light the cannons, and it was about to officially start opening to traffic.

Feng Yunshan nodded, and followed the two to the nine salutes that had been prepared next to the platform, the largest of which was a sixty-four-pound retreat breech smoothbore gun just produced by the Holy Krupp Iron and Steel Company, and the rest were thirty-two pound retreat smoothbore guns purchased from Prussia a while ago.

Outside the platform, thousands of onlookers saw Feng Yunshan come out, and shouted: "It's the Holy King, the Holy King!" ”

I don't know who took the lead in shouting "Long live the Holy King", more and more people shouted "Long live the Holy King", at first it was along the platform railway, this section of people shouted that section of people called, slowly, everyone unanimously unified, and the neat voice gradually sounded: "Long live the Holy King!" Long live the Holy King! And, from dozens of people shouting in unison, to hundreds, and finally thousands of people were all neatly and uniformly, and their voices became louder and louder, passing through the clouds, as if they could be heard by the entire land of China.

The mood of the onlookers was high, which was also unexpected by the organizer Cheng Hengsheng and others, just when they were worried about missing the salute time and looked nervous, they saw Feng Yunshan jump up, stand on the barrel of the giant cannon, stretch out his hands, and press down, and suddenly, the audience fell silent.

At this scene, Feng Yunshan knew that he had to say something, but looking at the anxious looks of Wu Chongyao, Cheng Hengsheng, Big John and others below, Feng Yunshan knew that it should be an auspicious time that was coming soon.

"Hello folks, people of the Holy Kingdom. Today is a very memorable day, the king specially rushed from Guangzhou to Wushi Town, is to witness this great day with you: our holy country, our China, the first railway in history, to witness the industrial civilization of Quwubao Railway, opened to traffic today! ”

"Maybe some people already know what a railway is, and there are many folks who don't know about it. I just want to say that the railway can change the whole of China! The king announced that more railways would be built in the future, and in two or three years, perhaps through this railway, he would still be in Wushi in the morning and in Guangzhou in the afternoon. ”

"The auspicious time has come, and now this king has announced that the first railway in the Holy Kingdom, the Quwubao Railway, has been officially opened! Let this king join you in witnessing this great moment! ”

Along the railway, the onlookers and the soldiers of the garrison army heard or did not hear Feng Yunshan's shout, and at this moment they all shouted feverishly: "Long live the railway, long live the holy country, long live the holy king!" ”

Feng Yunshan jumped out of the artillery, he had already learned from Cheng Hengsheng that the two trains had already been going to Wushi Town from Quren Coal Mine and Dabaoshan Iron Mine respectively, and now they should be almost outside the town, and they would speed up when they heard the sound of cannons.

Several gunners were waiting aside, and an artillery platoon commander saluted Feng Yunshan, his fiery eyes were full of admiration, and he said respectfully: "Holy King, just light the torch on this fuse." ”

Feng Yunshan smiled at the artillery platoon commander, nodded, took the torch from his hand, and lit the fire immediately. Liu Shengbang on the side hurriedly took Feng Yunshan to a distance from the artillery.

As soon as he walked more than ten steps, he only heard a loud bang, followed by eight loud bangs in a row and neatly, and the salute had been fired.

The ears of the people along the railway line had not yet calmed down from the nine earth-shattering cannons, and suddenly they felt the ground shake a little. At first, everyone thought that the sound of artillery had shaken them dizzy and had delusions, but later, they found that it was becoming more and more obvious.

"Brother, why am I dizzy and feel like the ground is moving?"

"Oh, I thought it was my own delusion, so you also feel it, brother? Yes, the ground is moving harder. ”

"Don't panic, everyone, this sound, this beating of the ground, is the train that the Holy King said, coming over."

"I see! I can't imagine that this train can make such a big noise and have such a majesty! ”

There was a lot of talking.

At this time, the onlookers could clearly hear the slow and rhythmic sound of "click, click, click" from the railroad tracks next to them, which was still very slight at first, but slowly, getting louder and louder. Finally, on the railroad tracks on the ground, a steel house that looked like a beast appeared, and white smoke was still billowing from the roof of the house, and a series of countless houses were dragged behind it, heading towards everyone.

"The train is coming! It turns out that this is the train! ”

"Ah, this, oh my God, what kind of monster is this, how can it be so long?"

"This is the train?! It's so fast. What a majesty! When can I go up and sit once! ”

"It's scary!"

The onlookers began to point their fingers and start talking.

A big red cloth hung on the top of the black locomotive, and a five-star flag with a red background and yellow on the front of the locomotive was also inserted, waving in the wind. The locomotive rolled forward with thick smoke, and as the smoke rolled, dozens of rows of wheels, led by the steam engine, followed the locomotive's crank connecting rod, clattered and collided on the rails, making rhythmic and charming sounds.

Suddenly, a long, high-pitched, shrill whistle sounded: woo-woo-woo......, and the sound was deafeningly loud.

Everyone only felt that the ground was shaking, and the whistle had not stopped, and the sound of clanging was getting louder and louder, faster and faster, almost making people's hearts jump out.

As the sound got closer and closer, I saw a behemoth spitting white smoke and whistling towards me.

"Ahh Oh my god!"

"Oh my God, it scared the hell out of me!"

"Ah, run, this monster is coming."

“……”

The onlookers were directly frightened by the sound of the whistle and turned pale, and even hundreds of people did not stand firm on the spot and fell to the ground, and what is even more exaggerated is that hundreds of people actually screamed "run for their lives" and "get out of the way" in their mouths, and ran away on the spot.

And Feng Yunshan stood quietly in the middle of the platform, extremely uncalm in his heart!

Steam locomotives, he had only seen them when he was a child. I haven't seen a steam engine train since I was in college. Seeing this oncoming steam locomotive, he seemed to see the time of history going backwards.

Looking at the cheering crowd, he couldn't help but get excited: this is the first train to move on the land of China, the first railway to open to traffic! He has changed the history of this land, and the Songhu Railway, which originally appeared in the land of China in 1876, has now appeared in this hot land 22 years earlier because of his own reasons.

This is a wagon coming from the Quren Coal Mine, the whole train is black, a total of 25 cars, except for the locomotive, the remaining 24 cars are all filled with coal.

Another whistle whistle whistled, drawing the attention of the onlookers behind them, but it was another train full of iron ore coming from the Dabaoshan Iron Mine. The two cars came head-on, and in the exclamation of the crowd, they slowed down and slowly stopped at the innermost and outermost sides of the freight platform.

A foreign train driver and two train drivers dispatched by Nanyang Company jumped from the locomotive.

The Quwubao Railway has been successfully opened to traffic!