serious man in the red chamber

Chapter 494 Southern Tour 1
  The sky was gray, and the drizzle fell like silk, lightly sprinkling on the railway tracks.

At a glance, the railway track has no end as far as the eye can see, just like a black dragon lying on the ground.

There were soldiers armed with guns and knives on both sides of the railway track. There was a very eye-catching stone tablet about half a person tall standing under the railway track. On the stone tablet, there were three large characters "Yangzhou Prefecture" engraved on it.

This is the boundary between Huai'an Prefecture and Yangzhou Prefecture.

Suddenly, a series of crisp whistles sounded, and a train came rushing over. The wheels rolled on the rails, making a low clicking sound, and then sped past under the gaze of the soldiers.

It was already the autumn of the seventh year of the empire, and this was Jia Hu's special train for his southern tour.

Jia Hu's special train consists of three parts: the vanguard car, the main train, and the rear guard car. The vanguard car is composed of three wagons, with fifty forbidden troops stationed on it; the rear guard car also has three wagons, and in addition to thirty forbidden soldiers serving as guards, there are also some experts from the Yiluan Division; the main train is composed of five wagons.

Jia Hu and Lin Daiyu used the middle room. Jia Mu, Jia Yuanchun, You Shi and Wang Xifeng shared the same room with their maids. Shi Xiangyun, Hu Bo, Xue Baochai, Xichun and others shared the same room. The princes and princesses and the female officials who took care of them shared the same room. They were in the same room, and both the ceremonial supervisor and the imperial hospital took crowded sleeping berths.

Jia Hu's bedroom has a separate bathroom and an office room, equipped with an imperial desk, a dragon chair, a soft couch and a large bookcase.

The special train is also equipped with a special conference room, where Jia Hu sometimes holds imperial meetings, meets with local officials and listens to reports.

In order to provide power for the special train, the train is equipped with two locomotives, one pulling at the front and one pushing at the rear.

In order to ensure Jia Hu's safety, not only did the local government send officers and soldiers to enforce martial law along the railway tracks, but there was also a train full of imperial cavalry running twenty miles in front and behind the special train, ready to support the special train at any time.

The rain gradually became heavier, and the rainwater pattered on the car window.

A big hand with a rosary opened and closed the curtain.

Lin Daiyu's full head of hair was scattered in Jia Hu's arms and on the thin quilt.

Jia Hu leaned on the big pillow at the head of the bed, holding Lin Daiyu in one hand, squeezing her little hand with the other and stroking it, and suddenly asked: "Hey, what do you think the brat is doing?"

Lin Daiyu quietly leaned against Jia Hu's chest and replied: "Practice martial arts."

Jia Hu asked again: "We have been out for more than a month, will he miss us?"

After hearing this, Lin Daiyu sneered and said, "Normally, you and your son are so big-eyed and glaring. Why do you think of him now?"

Jia Hu smiled: "As you said, he is our eldest son. I am satisfied with him."

Lin Daiyu smiled. During this southern tour, Jia Song did not go south with him, but stayed in the capital. Firstly, he wanted to study with Li Shouzhong and others. Secondly, the cabinet also opposed the emperor and the prince leaving the capital together.

Lin Daiyu was very satisfied with this eldest son. In just two years, he had thoroughly read the Four Books and Five Classics, and he also had good martial arts skills.

Looking at the fields flashing through the gap in the car curtains, Lin Daiyu asked: "How long does it take to get to Yangzhou?"

Jia Hu thought for a while and replied: "It will probably take five or six hours."

Lin Daiyu was startled, then smiled and said: "Back then, it took me more than two months to sail to Beijing on your official ship. Now we stop and go all the way, and we stayed in Xuzhou for two days, but it is only a month and a half."

"The Royal Academy has developed a more powerful steam engine, and trains will be faster and faster in the future."

After saying that, Jia Hu shook his head slightly. The speed of the special train was very slow. It could only travel ten kilometers per hour, and it had to stop frequently to replenish coal and water.

In the past two years, the empire's economy, science, technology, and culture have been changing with each passing day.

If you want to be rich, build roads first. If you want to get rich quickly, build roads. In the past two years, the imperial court has spent hundreds of millions of imperial silver coins to strengthen and widen official roads across the country. The railway has also been opened to the east gate of the northwest, Hami. It is expected that the railway will be laid to Urumqi by the end of this year.

As soon as a war breaks out in Central Asia, the empire can mass its troops to the northwest in the shortest possible time.

Before William and others returned to Europe, the Western countries imposed an economic blockade on the empire, both on the road and at sea. The British also plundered several imperial caravans at the Cape of Good Hope.

In response, the Nanyang Fleet annihilated the Dutch, British and French fleets in Australia, occupied Australia, sent all the British people on the island to the mines, and drove all other Westerners back to the west.

After cabinet deliberations, Australia was renamed the province of South Australia.

In more than a year, the empire migrated [-] people to Nan'ao Province. The first governor was Xingguo Gong Shi Nai, who eliminated Korea and Japan.

As Jia Hu expected, the Xiyi people swallowed their bad breath, and while preparing for war, they instigated the countries in West Asia to go to Central Asia to snatch wealth from the empire.

The countries in West Asia are not stupid. The power of the empire is obvious to all, and they do not dare to become enemies of the empire.

The empire wanted to digest the occupied land and did not continue to expand westward.

In this way, Central Asia maintained a strange peace for two years, without any war or even a little friction.

The past two years have not been without wars. In order to seize the granary of the Western Siberian Plain from the Rakshasa people, the main force of the Beiting Protectorate broke out a battle with the Rakshasa people in the middle reaches of the Ob River, and successfully drove the Rakshasa people to the Urals. The west side of the mountain.

However, the empire currently does not have the strength to control the entire Siberia, it is too big.

When it comes to Rakshasa Kingdom, I have to say Shui Rong. This boy is really good. He actually let Yeka give him a son and killed the rest of Yeka's concubines. Although there are not the legendary twenty-three, there are still astonishing ones. Seventeen.

Seeing that Jia Hu didn't speak for a long time, Lin Daiyu blinked and put a hand into his chest and moved slowly.

Jia Hu came back to his senses and looked at her with a smile: "This car is not soundproof. The old lady and the others will have breakfast outside in a while. If you are not afraid of embarrassment, I don't care."

As he said that, he turned over and pressed Lin Daiyu under him, "It's been four years, it's time for us to have another child." After that, he unbuttoned her underwear.

Lin Daiyu panicked, raised her hands and beat Jia Hu continuously: "You stupid king, let me go! If you dare to me, me, just strangle me to death with a rope."

Jia Hu was happy, and lay down with Lin Daiyu in his arms, and whispered: "We'll take care of you when we get to Yangzhou Palace!"

Lin Daiyu's face turned red, she glared at Jia Hu fiercely, and quickly tied up her underwear.

Suddenly, the sound of Snow Goose coughing came from outside!

Jia Hu glanced at the chiming clock in the corner and saw that the hour was almost over.

"come in."

Jia Hu lifted the quilt, walked out of bed, and asked, "Old lady, are they up?"

Xue Yan led Qingwen and Xiang Ling in and replied: "Back to the Emperor, the old lady and the others got up at the beginning of the morning and were playing dominoes in the conference room."

Lin Daiyu put on her coat and sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Jia Hu: "It's all your fault!"

Jia Hu smiled.
  (End of this chapter)