If possible, Zaichun really wanted the train to take everyone straight to Tianjin and the Northern Industrial Special Zone. At this speed, go in the morning, have lunch, and come back in the evening.

But unfortunately, the Beijing-Tianjin Railway was started according to the stage law. Different construction sites are responsible for different areas, bridges, hills and depressions, which are relatively difficult projects, so they have to be built separately.

The railway is very simple to start from the flat ground, and it is carried out at the same time in each section!

Why do we have to send 100,000 civilians to build the railway? It is necessary to start the entire railway line at the same time. Now the Beijing-Tianjin Railway is less than four bridges that have not been completed. In more than half a year, the bridge will be fully completed!

Zaichun looked at the railway bridge connected by rivets on the Grand Canal and sighed, "Oh... there is more than 40 kilometers of railways that have been repaired across the river, but unfortunately the iron bridge has not been repaired yet..."

"I urge those British engineers that the progress of the bridges the Chinese are responsible for is faster than that of them. If I delay my time, I will deduct their money!"

The train drove a short distance along the canal, then turned directly to the northwest and headed straight to the Qinghe construction site!

Passing through countless villages and towns along the way, the train gradually approached the Qinghe construction site!

Prince Gong Yi? Although he had secretly contacted the outside world, the brother of Sanbao, Naduobao, had secretly defected to him, but the information he heard was completely different from what you saw with your own eyes.

No matter how people outside describe it, they cannot describe the huge scale of the Beijing Iron Factory. Outside the window, there is only a dark and headless complex that hits directly.

The edges are full of camps of garrisons and shacks for extremely poor workers. The naturally formed curved streets and alleys are muddy. Many people stared at the trains on the tracks in a daze. After all, this is an industrial area. People have seen many new things, so they have no fear of this train.

Yi? I saw with my own eyes that there were women and children in this shack. It seemed that some refugees were ready to stay!

Looking further away, many places with higher terrain and closer to the factory are densely packed with blue bricks and tiles. These are the places where wealthy supervisors live, and have formed relatively independent wealthy areas.

However, because everyone relies on the core industrial zone to make a living, the rich and extremely poor slums live together, and it is really hard to say that they are comfortable to live in.

Looking up, Zaichun's industrial zone has already grown to a large scale. Many of the chimneys are more than ten meters long, and some even reach the height of five floors.

The coking plant has been put into production, and coal is being sent in continuously. One furnace after another has turned into coke for steelmaking, which needs to be reserved in advance.

Many of the low-short chimneys are brick factories and newly built cement factories. The demand for these materials in the infrastructure of industrial areas is endless.

As long as you can produce it, it is as much as you need!

All of these Yi? I know him. He is not a free prince. When he was the Zongli Yamen, he also studied industry. He did his homework in Xiao Letian's northern industrial zone.

The uses and basic shapes of various factories are roughly the same!

"The coking plants have already started production. It seems that the first furnace of steel is about to be burned out? The blast furnace is there?"

That’s right, the Qinghe Iron Factory in the Qing Dynasty built four high-rise buildings in the first phase of the project, and the lowest one was fifteen meters high, with a feeding area, a slag output area, a steel pouring workshop... a series of supporting things have been built!

Yi?'s heart was shocked. He knew very well that such a complex iron factory industrial zone was actually more difficult than a railway!

Is it difficult to build a railway? In fact, the difficult things are locomotive manufacturing, rail forging, geological exploration and bridge construction... The rest of the work of smashing stones, laying rails and struding the foundation are all competent for ordinary people.

But steel plants are different, especially for blast furnace steelmaking, which requires the collaboration of multiple departments and the joint efforts of many technical personnel to complete the task!

The complexity is much greater than that of building a railway. Don’t laugh at the fact that the technologies here are all imitated. It is a miracle that it can be imitated in this era.

Yi? Silent, he was really shocked by the scene at this moment!

The train gradually stopped slowly at the station of the steel factory. Hundreds of officials on the platform knelt on the platform in unison. After seeing the train stop, they immediately shouted long live!

Zai Chun first helped Empress Dowager Ci'an get off the train, and then immediately carried a warm sedan chair over!

Zaichun helped Queen Mother Qin Dong go up to keep warm in the sedan chair, and then ran back to the car to help her mother Cixi get off the train. This was essential for a filial son to perform.

Cixi frowned as soon as she got off the train, "Oh... what does this taste like? It's sour..."

"Haha, Mother, please raise your legs high, be careful... This industrial area is like this. There is too much coal burning, and the smoke released by many inadequately burning coal is sour!"

"Everyone in the industrial area is good, but the smell is a little bit dirty... If my two mothers are really not used to it, they should just rest in the car, right?"

Cixi looked at Ci'an. The Empress Dowager Dong had no objection, and she felt embarrassed to fall behind!

"The Ai family also wants to see the world. This industrial area is so popular that you can do it from the sky. How can you do it without seeing it with your own eyes?"

Zaichun helped Cixi get onto the warm sedan chair. The warm sedan chairs carried by eighteen people were all delivered from the palace in advance. This is not a simple sedan chair but a moving house.

The space inside the sedan was about fifteen square meters, enough for the Queen Mother to move with two serving people. There was a silver charcoal stove burning inside and sprinkled with spices, and there was no scent of smoke.

When you get into the sedan chair, you will immediately isolate the cold wind outside. The warm inside all want to wear single clothes! There are huge glass windows on the left and right, bright and tidy, and the scenery of the entire industrial area is completely visible.

Cixi was watching when she suddenly saw three familiar figures coming from the rear of the carriage. Under the custody of a group of soldiers, she stood lonely and cut a distance from the ministers.

"Yi?...Yihuan...Yihuan..." Cixi was stunned for a moment, looking at the three acquaintances like young old men, not even a fur, wearing an ordinary old cotton jacket, and the blue-gray ones were washed a little white.

"This...this is a little too harsh...Lianying!"

Li Lianying, who was standing beside him, quickly lowered her head and said, "I'm here..."

"Look back...you give them three, each of them a good lamb fur. They are guilty, bear skin, fox fur... These are all over the place and cannot be worn!"

"But you have to give me a sheepskin robe! The old cotton jacket can keep the cold? Can you freeze people to death?"

"The old saying goes, ten layers of cotton are not as good as a layer of hair... After all, they are relatives, so cruel to freeze?"
Chapter completed!