At this time, Zhan Tianyou was still in Zhangjiakou, and he didn't expect that in Baotou, Yang Yuanzhao actually had such great courage, and directly opened a meeting closely related to him.

Inside the doorway, is a small square, at this time there are some signs, there are signs of a horse team, on the square, there are a lot of carriages parked where, Zhan Tianyou said to himself: "It seems that over the years, the whole Zhangjiakou has developed well, and even a horse team can be changed to a cement building!" ”

When I walked to the side of the carriage, I was about to ask, but I saw the coachman of the horse team wearing some strange uniforms, pointing to a small room not far away and saying, "Where to buy tickets!" ”

"Buy a ticket, what kind of ticket?" Yang Yuanzhao looked at the room, it was a very small room, and it said that the ticket office, and now there was a window open at the ticket office, and in front of the window, there was a long queue of exhausts.

"Ticket window, what is this." Zhan Tianyou looked at this with some surprise, to say that he is not an official sitting in the hall, since returning to China, he is a technical official, and the management is also the railway and related things, especially in the past 4 years, walking back and forth on the line of Beijing and Zhangzhou, taking the train, but more or taking the carriage, for these caravans are very familiar, the caravan in his impression, are a big courtyard, countless horses and carriages, all gathered together, stinking, similar to this place so clean, strange.

The coachman just said a word, closed his eyes, and said nothing, so that he wanted to ask but did not dare to ask, and walked almost in confusion towards the window on the other side.

Just walked a few steps, suddenly a voice sounded beside him: "Sir, are you coming to Zhangjiakou Long-distance Passenger Transport Company for the first time?" "A guy who looks like a roe deer rat came to Zhan Tianyou's side, and he was a little eager to get close to Zhan Tianyou.

Zhan Tianyou knew that there were similar bags in every city to inquire, or people who paid for errands, he was not familiar with the people here, left and right, and did not have much money, and said: "What is this ticket window for?" ”

The guy with the roe head rat looked at the gesture, meaning that Zhan Tianyou understood that he was here to ask for money, and he didn't say much, he lost a string of copper coins in the past, only forty or fifty, but it made the guy excited, and hurriedly said: "This ticket window is to buy tickets, some to Suiyuan, some to Datong, and some to Baotou, I don't know where the master wants to go!" ”

"Baotou!"

"Baotou is a good place, the price is also the most expensive, divided into upper, middle and lower grades, I don't know which one the lord wants to sit!"

"How's that to be?"

"The upper grade is 3 yuan, the middle is 1.5 yuan, and the inferior class is 0.5 yuan to 1 yuan!"

"The best is so expensive?"

It's no wonder that Zhan Tianyou was surprised, the first-class tickets are almost as good as the Beijing-Zhangjia's tickets, although the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway has just been completed, the speed is not slow, plus the comfort of the first-class tickets, and the first-class tickets are not tired at all for more than ten hours, and the first-class tickets are really not worried.

"Master, you don't know, the best ones are really fast, this is the passenger transport company in Baotou, the highway was built by the Chamber of Commerce, driving directly on it, and the one pulling the car is also a high-headed horse, it is so high."

The roe deer rat guy compared, so that Zhan Tianyou was slightly surprised, this height, more than two meters, I am afraid that only the British thoroughbred horse, there is such a height, Mongolian horses and Chinese horses, at most, that is, about one meter eight, compared with foreign thoroughbred horses, the difference is not a little bit and a half, it seems that this so-called long-distance passenger transport company, big enough, such a thoroughbred horse is expensive, far more expensive than Chinese horses.

"How do I buy a ticket, just buy the best one!"

"Wait, sir, I'll buy it for you!"

Zhan Tianyou sees people very accurately, it looks ordinary, but the management is also strict, such a bag to inquire, maybe show the way, make a little money or something like that, it's no problem, but it's difficult to cheat the money away, the endless place, the place where the door and carriage are concentrated, and the people in yellow vests patrol again, think it's a security guard or a guard, casually throw out 3 eagles, and by the way, he was rewarded with a small string of copper coins, not as much as before, the roe head rat is already very happy, and he bought it in the past.

I don't know if it's a superior privilege, or if this guy is familiar here, he has already bought a ticket in a short time, and he said like a treasure: "Master, it's the nearest ticket, and it will depart in 30 minutes!" ”

Zhan Tianyou looked at the pocket watch, it was exactly 9:30 in the morning, that is to say, it was 10 o'clock official departure, the roe head mouse guy has not left, Zhan Tianyou also tried to chat with him, mainly to talk about this passenger transport company, as well as the changes in Zhangjiakou, in the station, the market is densely populated, 369 and many other places are active people, to say that the news is extremely well-informed, for the sake of Zhan Tianyou's generosity, he can be regarded as knowing everything, saying everything, under the narration, Zhan Tianyou knows, This passenger transport company is not the only one in Zhangjiakou, but it is the largest to the west, with at least a dozen routes, and the one to Baotou is the farthest and the most expensive.

After waiting for about 20 minutes, a strong man in front of him held a loudspeaker and shouted loudly: "The luxury carriage K3 going to Baotou is about to start, please check the tickets and get on the bus!" ”

“K3！” Zhan Tianyou remembered that the ticket was this English and Arabic numerals, associating the time, it should be this, asked the guy, and got a positive answer, sure enough, in the carriage not far away, a carriage came out of the middle and stopped in the middle of the yard, a huge heavy horse, Zhan Tianyou was surprised to find that what the roe deer rat guy said was not right, this horse is at least two meters and three meters high, and he stood in the middle of the horse's body.

Zhan Tianyou has seen such a horse, when he was in the United States, he has seen it in some horse farms, a kind of heavy-duty horse, a kind of cold-blooded horse, which is a British specialty, can be used as a logistics heavy horse, its load capacity is huge, a horse is probably stronger than three or four batches of Chinese horses, but in the back, what makes him pay more attention is a giant carriage, at least 12 rows, a row of four people, enough to accommodate nearly 50 people, it is simply a small train car, such a big thing, how to turn.

Zhan Tianyou is very clear about the traffic outside the mouth, back then, for the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, he had been to the mouth, and even wanted, on the basis of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, to build Zhangbao and Baotai Railway, but the complex environment outside the mouth, the huge investment required, but how he thought about it, he couldn't understand how this giant carriage was going on the road, was it deceived, they didn't go outside the mouth, just a day trip in Zhangjiakou, so the price of 3 silver dollars is not generally expensive.

When Zhan Tianyou was puzzled, other people had already gotten on the bus here, unlike Zhan Tianyou, they had traveled back and forth to Baotou many times, it can be said that from Zhangjiakou to Baotou, basically, they were all like this, with money, or flying ticket businessmen, they wanted to rush to Baotou to buy the products produced in Baotou, in their opinion, these products are money, and it is a bastard to make money, this fast No. 1 is the fastest means of transportation in Baotou, with an average speed of about 40 kilometers per hour, and it has not stopped, Baotou to Zhangjiakou, a distance of more than 300 kilometers, it takes a maximum of eight hours to arrive, and even in the middle, there is a free meal.

"Master, hurry up and get on the car, otherwise when the time comes, the carriage will depart!" Under the urging of the roe deer and rat guys, Zhan Tianyou's seat in the carriage, from the internal feeling, the carriage of this carriage is quite wide, compared with the outside, the environment is also quite good, each seat does not look spacious, but the design is reasonable, once sitting, there is quite a lot of space for activities, especially the feeling of the seat, and the usual hard wooden seats, there is a huge difference.

Each row of seats has a window, which is very small, about a foot square, Zhan Tianyou happened to sit on the window, and he also saw the roe head rat-eyed guy, waving to him, obviously, Zhan Tianyou's tip made him very satisfied.

Zhan Tianyou waved his hand to him, and then observed the people in the carriage, to be honest, there were quite a lot of people who went to Baotou, on this wide carriage, almost done, almost no vacant seats, a conductor who looked very comfortable, asked everyone in detail if they were seated, and after checking the tickets, he gave instructions to the driver in front, the driver waved his whip, and the carriage slowly left from the other exit, and walked straight forward.

The carriage was stable, after coming out of the gate over there, he almost didn't feel the bumps, Zhan Tianyou was slightly surprised at the same time, through the window, he looked out and noticed that the carriage was walking towards a straight cement road, when he took the rickshaw before, he didn't pay attention to the environment of Zhangjiakou, maybe there was no there, but it was obvious here, there were cement roads everywhere, this kind of high-priced thing, even if the government could afford it, it was very terrible, not to mention a Zhangjiakou, Beijing didn't have it, Zhangjiakou, there was actually it, no wonder it was so stableIt's still so fast.

The speed of the carriage is very fast, when crossing a road of about a kilometer or more, the surrounding houses and houses gradually disappear, no need to ask, Zhan Tianyou knows that the urban area of Zhangjiakou should be so big, so to the west, has been separated from the urban area, but the speed is still improving, obviously, the road under the foot is still a cement road, a cement road of more than a kilometer, the required investment is a common thing abroad, in China, even if it can't catch up with the railway, it's almost, Especially when the speed of the carriage stabilized, Zhan Tianyou, who was familiar with the speed, knew that it was more than 40 kilometers, even faster than the speed of the train on the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway. R1152