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Chapter 813 Tianjin Wei Railway Station (Part [-])
There are more than a dozen ships moored at Tianjinwei's wharf, and the steam iron-clad ship Yongchang is also parked here.Residents of Tianjinwei Wharf are no strangers to steamships.

"We have arrived at Tianjin Wei, from here we can take the train to the capital." A Chinese businessman wearing a thick leather jacket led Tadakatsu Sakai and others off the galleon.

Sakai Tadakatsu, Aoyama Yukunari and other shogunate envoys looked curiously at Tianjin Wei, which was not an ancient city.

Tianjin Wei was originally established to defend the capital and manage water and land terminals. Now that Chu Yun has focused on shipping, the development of Tianjin Wei has been greatly accelerated, and there are already street lights on the terminals.Moreover, after the main road of the Beijing-Liaoning Railway was opened to traffic, the Railway Bureau extended the railway to Tianjin Wei, which became the actual Tianjin-Beijing-Liaoning Railway.

"This is the legendary electric light!" Tadakatsu Sakai stood under the street light on the Tianjin Wei Wharf and looked up curiously. Even the Yokohama Concession has no generators or thermal power stations. "I heard that at night, this thing It can be bright without lighting, and the light is more dazzling than candlelight!"

"Sakai-kun, is this thing really that magical?"

"If you don't use fire, isn't that the night pearl?"

A group of envoys from Japan chattered around a ten-foot-high street lamp, arousing the dislike of a group of residents in Tianjin Wei, who secretly thought they were a bunch of bumpkins.

"Everyone is going to Huaxia this time. When you arrive in the capital, you will definitely be able to see the street lights at night. I don't know if the military has sent someone to pick you up." Said the Huaxia businessman who sent Sakai Tadakatsu and others over.

After a while, Tianjin Wei Zongbing brought people over.He received an order from the military department to send the envoy sent by the shogunate to the capital.Although the military department is not very cold about the weak shogunate, it is still an envoy of a country after all.

"Yu Zongbing, why did you come here in person?" The Huaxia businessman was a little surprised when he saw Tianjin Wei Zongbing.

"It's the New Year's Eve, not only Dongying, but Korea also sent envoys to celebrate, so the military department arranged for me to send the Korean and Dongying envoys to the capital safely." Yu Zongbing replied.

"Korea also sent an envoy..." The Huaxia businessman was a little surprised.

"The military master met the prince of Korea when he was in southern Liaoning. The prince was still in the Academy of Sciences for several years, and he has always been the most supportive of our military master's theory. Therefore, in the eyes of the military department, compared to the Dongpu's status is even higher." Yu Zongbing said.

"When will the Korean envoy arrive?" the businessman asked.

"Coincidentally, they arrived in Tianjin Wei just one step earlier than the Japanese envoys, and they are now waiting near the train station. I heard that the shogunate envoys were also arriving, so I thought about sending two envoys to the capital at once by train. " Yu Zongbing said.

"Since Zongbing Yu has taken over, I'll return to Datong for the festival." The Huaxia merchants sent the envoys to Tianjin Wei this time, more just as a side trip.

"Wait, do any of them speak Chinese?" Zongbing Yu asked, pointing to the envoys.

"They have an interpreter, and the leader Tadakatsu Sakai can speak half-baked Chinese." The businessman replied.

Among the envoys of the Dongying Kingdom, apart from Tadakatsu Sakai who often dealt with the Kyushu Army, the others had very limited understanding of the Kyushu Army.The Yokohama Concession has already represented 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 what is going on.What's more, even the Yokohama Concession is not as prosperous as Tianjin Wei.

"I'll take you to the train station later, and you go to the capital through the train station." Yu Zongbing said to Sakai Tadakatsu and the others.

"Train station? What is that?" The Japanese envoys who had never seen the train station were confused after hearing what the translator said.

Tadakatsu Sakai's eyes lit up, and he was finally able to see the legendary train!
"You just come with me." Yu Zongbing was a little speechless. The envoys of Korea are not shocked by the train now, and the envoys of the Dongying Shogunate, which is more powerful than Korea, are even more ignorant of the world.

The envoys of the Dongying Mission Group are all dressed in Dongying costumes, which are very conspicuous in Tianjin Wei.However, the residents of Tianjin Wei were not surprised.Now Koreans, Dongying people, Westerners, and Nanyang people all come and go for business, and there are all kinds of exotic clothes. They have become accustomed 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 pier, and it is a concrete railway station far beyond the architectural level of this era!

This magical train station is ten meters high, and there is a clock tower, and the railroad tracks extend from it, standing here!Residents wearing padded jackets entered and exited Tianjin Wei Railway Station, and soldiers with muskets on their backs stood guard in front of the railway station.

"Excellent, is this the City Lord's Mansion?" The Dongying envoys exclaimed when they saw the towering Tianjin Wei Railway Station.

"What City Lord's Mansion?" Yu Zongbing looked blank.

When Yu Zongbing led the Dongying Mission into the train station, the Dongying Mission was even more shocked. The thick steel and cement inside made them unprecedented.

This newly built railway station used the increasingly advanced civil engineering and smelting technology of the Kyushu Army, and used a large amount of cement and steel frames, which already has a modern atmosphere.

Tadakatsu Sakai looked up at the magnificent interior of the train station, as if he had traveled to the future world and lost himself completely.

"Monster! Black steel monster!" The exclamation of the shogunate envoy he brought brought him back to reality.

The shogunate envoy saw the train lying on the iron cabinet.The ferocious locomotive, behind which is an iron wagon made of steel, is nearly a hundred meters long, like a black dragon!
"Train!" Tadakatsu Sakai finally saw the train he had never seen before. He excitedly squeezed through the crowd, jumped off the platform, and then touched the cold iron body with his hands.Because it is the twelfth lunar month of winter, the biting chill comes from the car body, which is undoubtedly the texture of metal.

Sakai Tadakatsu suddenly shouted in a dazed way: "It's really made of steel! It's completely made of steel!"

"Crazy, this person is crazy, why did he run onto the railway tracks, pull him up quickly, if a train comes from the capital later, he will die!"

The Tianjinwei residents queuing up wanted to condemn Tadakatsu Sakai for jumping the line, but when he saw this old man in traditional Japanese clothes jump off the platform, he quickly called for patrol soldiers from Tianjinwei Railway Station.

"Go and bring him up." Zong Bing Yu ordered his left and right men to go up and lift Sakai Tadakatsu up, feeling depressed. Could it be that this seemingly calm person is a lunatic?

(End of this chapter)