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Thomas pointed to the envoy and said, "I believe you have met him today. He is the permanent counselor of our embassy, ​​Alice Hixon."

Although Hixon acted contemptuously just now, he changed his previous behavior and extended his hand to Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan shook hands with him lightly. A person said: "His name is Billy Cindyke, and he is a railway design expert of our National Pacific Railway Company. He is fully responsible for the design and construction of this railway."

Cindyk looked down on the Chinese even more than Hixon, and he said rudely when shaking hands: "You Chinese don't know how to build railways, but most people in your country like to pretend that you don't know, so I hope we are building railways." During the process, we can not be hindered by any outside world, but you can rest assured that we all have professionalism, so as long as the contract you offer is suitable, we will do our best to complete all kinds of work."

Thomas heard the thorn in Xindike's words, and hurriedly came over to smooth things over, and said to Lin Yuan: "Master Lin, don't be surprised, our expert has this kind of temper. In your Chinese words, he is just a straight intestine, so he pretends to be a child in his stomach." Don't stop talking."

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "I will show weakness to you now, and I will settle accounts with you later." So Lin Yuan chuckled and said, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, we are building the railway with a learning attitude."

Hixon said with a smile at this time: "Talk slowly, I still have something to do, so I will take a step first." Saying goodbye to everyone, he walked out by himself, and Thomas led Lin Yuan and Xindike to the corner. On one seat, a maid brought a Western-style cream cake, several cups of colorful cocktails, and several cups of coffee.

Thomas pointed to the things on the table and said with a smile in Chinese: "These are local products of our country, please taste them." Lin Yuan smiled, and Thomas raised another glass of light blue wine and said, "The reason why I chose this place Talking in the environment is mainly because I want to make a friend with Mr. Lin, and there will be many exchanges between our two countries in the future."

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Thomas knows that Chinese people pay attention to human relations, so he made friends with him and established relationships." Lin Yuan also raised his glass and touched Thomas lightly. At this time, Xindike frowned and said, "Why? Today Don't you want to talk about work? Then I'll leave."

Thomas quickly smiled and said, "Say it, why don't you say it." So he looked at Lin Yuan and asked, "Aren't we going to build a railway? I don't know where to build it?"

Lin Yuan said: "I plan to build two main railways running north-south first, one starts from Beijing and goes straight to Kunming, Yunnan; the other starts from Beijing and arrives in Shanghai."

Xindike laughed loudly when he heard this, causing everyone to look at him from behind the screen. Lin Yuan asked curiously, "What are you laughing at?"

Xindike said: "I advise you Chinese to be more rational. It is impossible to build these two railways! Let's talk about the previous railway first. From Beijing to Yunnan, where do you plan to go?"

Lin Yuan replied: "Starting from Beijing, passing through Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, and then arriving in Yunnan."

Xindike took out a picture from the bag beside him, and said: "This is your Qing Dynasty's "Yi Tong Yu Cheng Tu Zhi", that is, a map. Although your Chinese map is incomparable with our American map, but ours Cartographers have not yet set foot in this wild land, so they will have to use this map for the time being."

Xindike spread the map on the table and said with a smile: "To enter Shanxi, you have to pass through the Taihang Mountains. How do you go through the Taihang Mountains? Do you want to build a tunnel? Do you have that technology? The mountains in Shanxi are better. It’s not very high, but the mountains in Yunnan are even higher, can you get through it?”

"Let's talk about the second point. From Beijing to Shanghai, it seems that there is no need to cross mountains and mountains, but to get to Shanghai, you must build a bridge on the Yangtze River. With the width of the Yangtze River and the flow of water, relying on the existing technology of you Chinese Don’t even think about building a bridge above.”

Thomas coughed lightly, and Syndicate said: "Well, as the construction party of the railway, we won't interfere in the line selection, but I want to make it clear in advance that the construction of these two lines is really too difficult. Now, you must spend a lot of money!"

Lin Yuan said: "We won't say much about the selection of the route. We will be responsible for it. You can only be responsible for the construction."

Xindike frowned and said, "Do you know how to build a railway?"

Lin Yuan smiled lightly and said, "Then please tell me something."

Xindike sighed helplessly, picked up a box on the table, poured the powdered sugar inside on the table, and said: "See? Railways cannot be built directly on the ground, we need roadbeds, so we put These powdered sugars serve as roadbeds."

As he spoke, Xindike took out two potato sticks from the snack plate, spread them on the powdered sugar, then took out two potato sticks, put them vertically on the potato sticks just now, and said: "The next one is Sleepers, placed on the roadbed, above the sleepers are steel rails, on which the train runs, this is the basic model of the railway, do you understand?"

Lin Yuan nodded, and Xindike said again: "You have no experience in building railways, so you can't know many things. For example, do you know what shape the rails should be built into? Do you know the distance between the rails and the train? How much should the coefficient of friction be designed for?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said nothing, Xin Dike said: "I know that you Chinese must not know, so when we build the railway, you don't care about anything, give us enough wages, and give us some rough work workers will do.”

Lin Yuan nodded, looked at Thomas and said, "Okay, let's talk about this today. The specifics of the contract will be discussed when we formally meet the day after tomorrow."

Lin Yuan returned to his residence and immediately contacted the Beijing ship. The Beijing ship is an aircraft carrier. A layman may think that there are no railway construction experts on it. The ground-penetrating radar on the ship-borne UAV analyzes the geological conditions of military projects in Japan, the United States, Australia and other countries, and prepares data for optimizing the air strike plan.

Therefore, there is a military engineering expert on the Beijing ship, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. His surname is Hou and his name is Hou Zhengfeng. They are closely related, and railways and roads are no exception.

Lin Yuan estimated the time, and found that when Hou Zhengfeng arrived, he happened to be going through the transfer of money at the household department, so he asked Shen Wanqing to pick up Hou Zhengfeng for him.

After Lin Yuan finished the matter, Shen Wanqing also came back with Hou Zhengfeng. When Shen Wanqing saw Lin Yuan, she had a bad face and said angrily: "I have brought that expert back, and I have arranged for him to stay at the embassy. gone."

Lin Yuan saw that her expression was wrong, so he asked, "What's wrong with you? Who made you unhappy?"

Shen Wanqing said angrily: "Isn't it just that old monkey! With his virtue, he can still be an academician!"