At the end of February, Baotou, the cold is pressing, the Spring Festival has already passed, even the first month of the lunar calendar, is almost over, but the cold of early spring has not completely dissipated. The whole city is still cold and cold, maybe the strong wind from Siberia will reduce the temperature by more than ten degrees, and it is not impossible to snow.

Fortunately, the weather was suitable, although it cooled and there was no snow. The plenary session has not yet really opened, but Baotou has ushered in a prosperous flow of people, and by the way, it has also ushered in a new chapter in Baotou, an emerging city.

In the huge, enough to become a landmark building of Baotou Railway Station Square, more than 100,000 square meters of huge square, is divided into three parts, one-third of which is a large bus to run, the whole Baotou, tens of millions of people, countless huge companies, enterprises and government departments, must be public transportation to be able to operate perfectly, not everyone has a car, public transportation is a necessary supplement to the huge city.

A total of hundreds of various buses, densely distributed in the bus station, the railway station is the most important transfer station for buses, countless lines intersect here, and people who go far away, or take their luggage on the train, or not far away, less than 800 meters of the large long-distance bus station.

Although the train in the northwest is convenient, but the short distance, it is not as convenient as the car, some sleeper cars, compared to the train, are more comfortable, radish and cabbage have their own love, at the same time as the train is developing, the car is also developing vigorously.

The bus station is the busiest place in a city, especially in tens of millions of large cities, and Yang Yuanzhao borrowed from the practice of station signs in later generations. In an integrated manner, more than 150 buses are arranged. Each one has its own place, a huge sign standing tall. The location of each bus is clearly marked, and there is a map of Baotou City in the small shop next to the square, which may be one of the best products near Baotou Railway Station.

After 6 years of development, Baotou is no longer the original, less than 50,000 people. A small city with only two streets, under the planning and development of Yang Yuanzhao, his development speed is extremely fast, at the beginning of the development of a super-large metropolis Baotou, has become an area of hundreds of square kilometers, huge and neat metropolis, outsiders come to Baotou, think of some places, if there is no map. It's really a smear, a huge city with a population of tens of millions, really fooling a few people and getting lost. There's nowhere to find it.

In the railway station square, the most common sight is passengers with all kinds of suitcases. After coming out, I went straight to all kinds of small shops, big and small. I always take a map and look through it, and then find my destination in the middle. Or get on the bus, or get into a taxi, and go straight to your destination.

In addition to the bus station, the other third is the green space and square landscape, which in the summer becomes a place for the surrounding citizens or tourists to enjoy the cool air, and the beautiful musical fountain brings comfort to people.

Only the last third remaining is the square in front of the station and the station, where countless people from the north and south will take the train to various places in China. Through the expansion of the city, the railway station has changed from the original suburban part to the city center, and the rice-shaped train line has become the core and central axis of the city, neatly dividing the whole city into 8 parts.

Completed at the end of last year, the Northwest Rapid Rail Line Station, separating the passenger cars from the train in order to obtain faster speed and transportation density, the maximum speed of this railway line reached 165 kilometers per hour, basically, reached the limit of the operating speed of the steam locomotive, of course, if you do not consider the economy, only the pursuit of speed, even more than 200 kilometers have, what is the use of this, before the diesel locomotive is not fully developed, before testing all the projects, this is probably the whole world, The fastest railway.

Because the maximum speed has increased by 30% per hour, the average speed has also increased by about 15%, and the connection between the northwest and the surrounding areas is even closer, even if it is thousands of miles away, Xinjiang, which is the farthest away from Baotou, once the passenger train is completed, it can be reduced by one-third, which may be compressed into a day, or a little more than a day.

The construction of passenger dedication is the result of many references, especially the railway bureau led by Mihai, after careful measurement, especially when the northwest gradually expanded, and the wage income of various industries increased rapidly, the railway naturally ushered in a continuous increase in the number of passengers.

At the beginning, only those who went out or had to go out to take the train were basically official business, and then developed to visit relatives and friends, some relatives and friends who moved to other places, to see each other, reminisce about the past, and then developed to, simply go out to play, with the help of the holiday, go to China's famous mountains and rivers, and go to the scenery that was once only written in the middle of the history book to have a look.

Although these people are only a very insignificant number among all the citizens and citizens, this small number is a huge and immeasurable number compared to China's huge population, even if it is only in the northwest, which exceeds 350 million people, not to mention the traditional Chinese Spring Festival.

Mihai also came to China, after arriving in the northwest, he felt the unique charm of Chinese civilization, especially the Spring Festival, even if most of the people in the northwest have settled in the northwest, but in the Spring Festival, most of them will return to his ancestral home, or pay tribute to the ancestors, or visit the parents at home, the developed railway network in the northwest, so that the farthest distance in the whole of China, is only about 30 hours, in this case, a delay of four or five days back and forth, for any worker in the northwest, is nothing, the railway fare, Compared with the wages of senior workers in the northwest, that is not a thing, in the era when the monthly salary of fifth-level workers is as high as 680 yuan, a train ticket of less than 8 yuan, this is nothing at all, and a family goes out and comes back, it is only one or two hundred yuan.

Huge income, in advance created the trend of tourism to visit relatives, but also created China's unique Spring Festival, more than 200 million people migrated, concentrated in the 10th of the lunar month, to the first month of the Spring Festival about 20 days in 40 days, the accumulation of almost 500 million people, such a scale of migration, in the beginning, let Mihai busy, but the huge population volume, also represents a huge turnover, but also brought a huge profit of the railway system, this is the best era.

Mihai said that in the great era of American railways, from the prosperity to the decline of the time came over, saw the huge railway network in the northwest and the perfect operation map, this is the root of the old man, who is over sixty years old, almost put most of the energy in the second half of his life, are invested in the construction of China's railways, China's huge capacity and population, let him go all out for China's railways to improve and cultivate talents, for China's railways to create huge benefits, but also to promote the improvement of China's railways, It laid the foundation for the construction and improvement of the world's largest railway network.

It is also he who saw the outstanding role of passenger transport, considered in terms of safety and capacity, and put forward a unique plan for passenger dedicated lines, which was put forward at the beginning of the plan and was valued by Yang Yuanzhao, this approach, perhaps for other countries, is considered a waste, but for a large population, its own huge land area of China, this is the best choice, the unique Spring Festival and hometown plot, will make China's railways, has not lacked capacity, and a huge number of goods transported, It will also allow you to temporarily specialize in freight transportation in your spare time, increasing the amount of transportation.

It is clear that Yang Yuanzhao personally began to arrange funds, under the promotion of huge funds, China's railway construction, on the basis of the original trunk railway and freight railway, set off another peak, passenger dedicated line construction, from 1913 to the end of 1918, 5 years, the length of railway construction, more than double the previous 6 years, but the total mileage, the improvement is limited.

The vast majority of passenger dedicated, are built on the basis of the original railway line, although it is impossible to be completely overlapped, but the general context is still the same, which to some extent, can not be regarded as an increase in mileage, but for China's change is huge, faster speed, greater density of passenger cars, and even comfort and other arrangements, because it is a passenger train, not like a freight car with a small margin, unless it is the Spring Festival, otherwise other periods, the approved speed of passenger cars is higher than the railway of passenger and freight transport, Therefore, it has many advantages, which can bring passengers more excellent riding enjoyment and arrive at the destination more conveniently and quickly.

The passenger special specification is higher, especially Yang Yuanzhao also requires that at the same time of high specifications, there must be a margin, after all, this passenger special is still the passenger train in the era of steam engine, Yang Yuanzhao is very clear about the future development process, from steam locomotives, to diesel locomotives, to electric locomotives, and even later, segmented power bullet trains and high-speed rail. It is impossible to do it in one step, but there must be a margin for the next series of reforms, at least for diesel locomotives.

The research work of diesel locomotives has been carried out, although it has not been completely successful, but the basic data is available, under the basic data, it is feasible to maintain the margin for passenger dedicated, and even Yang Yuanzhao has reserved some future power transformation margin according to his recollection.

Today, the special train of the delegation from Shaanxi Province, Xi'an, which had just been completely renovated last year, will arrive at about 8 o'clock in the morning, which is the first to arrive in the northwest. (To be continued......)