The horse's hooves stepped on the frost-covered grass and trees, making a creaking sound. Cui Dutian arched his hand and blew, saying, "What the hell is this weather? It's just August, it's so cold. In winter, can people still survive!"

Chen Xizhi laughed and said, "General, this is the Northland, the summer is short and the winter is long and the bitter and cold. How can I compare to the Central Plains? I heard that the climate there is warm, and the plants and trees still do not wither in winter. The people in the Central Plains naturally cannot adapt to the weather here."

Cui Dutian said: "The Central Plains is naturally much warmer than here, but it will be colder in winter. The southerly, the warmer the weather. When you arrive in Lingnan, there will be no winter all year round, and there will be so hot that it will be."

Chen Xizhi said: "We have been in the Western Regions since we were young. I just heard about the Central Plains that Lingnan is not known where it is."

Cui Dutian smiled: "As long as you sincerely submit to the court, you can go to the Central Plains to check in the future, or even to Lingnan, it will be a trivial matter."

Chen Xizhi shook his head: "I heard that the most prosperous Tokyo city in the Central Plains is thousands of miles away. How many years will it take to walk on the road? Where can I go?"

Cui Dutian said: "That was the past. Now it's different. As long as you arrive in Shengzhou and take the train, you can get to the capital in two or three days. It's very convenient."

Chen Xizhi thought for a while and said, "I often hear people going to Shengzhou say that there is a train there, as fast as a galloping horse, and you don't need to eat grass, you can drive day and night. You can run thousands of miles a day and night, and you can only get there for a few days. I heard it many times, but I can't figure out what a magical thing this is."

Cui Dutian said: "Don't worry, I saw it before. This year the train was connected to Hezhou. Now it is being built from Hezhou to Heishui City. We will meet it on the road. This time we go to Shengzhou, you will not only see the train, but also how to build the road-"

While the two were chatting, they suddenly heard a horse neighing sound from behind. Cui Dutian's face changed drastically. He picked up the rifle beside the saddle and whispered: "Warning! Who is coming from behind? Why don't the detective cavalry be warned?"

The personal soldiers on one side plucked their horses and ran back like flying. Soon after, they rushed back from behind and crossed their hands at Cui Dutian: "General, we are our people. Commander Qin protected Gaochang's envoy. They walked fast on the road and caught up."

After hearing this, Chen Xiliang's expression changed drastically: "General, are the Uighurs and the envoys of Beiting Khan from behind? They are our rivals in Yizhou, so we can't travel with each other! We rushed faster and arrived in Shengzhou earlier."

Cui Dutian said: "Aren't you all from Gaochang? The envoys of Yizhou, Xizhou, are all envoys, so why not go to see the commander of the Jieshou together!"

Chen Xiliang looked bad and shook his head, not knowing what to say. After thinking about it, he said, "Although they are all Gaochang countries, they are different. We are Han people, and the city lords guarded Yizhou since the Tang Dynasty. How come they are like Uighurs!"

Cui Dutian ignored him and just waited for the team behind to come up. If the two groups of people could not walk with each other, Zhao Zi would definitely stop the envoys behind him in Heishui City. No matter how fast they walked, they would not catch up with him. Being able to catch up with him means that Zhao Zi thought he could walk with him.

I couldn't wait much, but I saw Qin Xianpeng coming with several envoys. Cui Dutian greeted him and greeted Qin Xianpeng.

After the ceremony, Qin Xianpeng pointed to the people around him and said, "This is the envoy of King Khan of the Northern Ting. You will arrive in Heishui City a few days later. The Grand Marshal told me to walk more anxiously on the road, catch up with you, and go to Shengzhou to see the commander of Jie."

The envoy saluted and bowed to Cui Dutian, and could speak fluent Chinese: "At the lower Liancheng, he was ordered by the king to go to the upper country. He heard that Taiwei Du, Shengzhou, led a large army to the north and defeated the Khitan Dangxiang and Weiga North. My king specially ordered us to go to the envoy to meet the Taiwei."

Cui Dutian said: "There are envoys from Yizhou over there. I am about to come to Shengzhou to meet Jishang. Let's go with you."

After saying that, before Lian Cheng answered, he sent his horses to return to his original formation. Originally, the Song army thought that Gaochang was a country, and looked at it as a whole. The Song army occupied Heishui City, but Gaochang sent envoys, and everyone thought they were unfair. Unexpectedly, a group of people came to the first ten days ago, not saying that they were sent by Gaochang, but only saying that they were envoys of Yizhou. Envoys from the Western Regions to the Central Plains often used place names but not the country names, so everyone no longer wanted to. Halfway through the journey, they were caught up with envoys sent by the King of Beiting Khan of Gaochang. Cui Dutian didn't need to guess that there must be something strange between the two groups of people. He escorted them to Shengzhou, just to seek peace all the way, and to be in the mood to listen to them tell stories.

The two teams merged into one team, and Chen Xiliang glared at the envoys coming from behind, as if he was going to get angry with him at any time. Cui Dutian and Qin Xianpeng met, but just shook their heads and tried to separate the two groups of people on the way so as not to win the state, and they became angry with him first.

After walking for two days, looking at the tall mountains in front of him, Cui Dutian breathed a sigh of relief and said, "There is Langshan in front. After passing Langshan, you will arrive in Hezhou. We will take the train to Hezhou and we will arrive in Shengzhou day and night."

Chen Xiliang asked, "General, don't you know how far Hezhou is from Shengzhou? Isn't it very close to you after a day or night?"

Cui Dutian laughed at the ear: "It's very close? It's not close anymore! Heishui City to Hezhou is not much farther from Hezhou to Shengzhou. There is already a train connected to Hezhou before Hezhou, so it's convenient. We get on the bus and drink some wine, have a good sleep, and listen to the song and arrive in Shengzhou."

Chen Xiliang looked confused when he heard this. He really couldn't think of what the train looked like, running fast and feeling so comfortable.

As he got closer and closer to Langshan, Cui Duyama suddenly found a figure in front of him. He hurriedly recruited his personal soldiers and asked him to go to the front to observe.

Soon after, he came back and crossed his hands and said, "General, there are people who built the roads in this dynasty in front of me, and the train has been built here."

Cui Dutian was happy when he heard this: "Have you reached this point? I wonder if they will keep practicing in winter. If they work hard like this, the train may lead to Heishui City next year. At that time, we don't know how convenient it is!"

After saying that, he said to Chen Xiliang: "You haven't seen a train before? Let's take you to see how the railway is built!"

After urging the horse to move forward, the group soon arrived at the place where the railway was built.

This is the front end of the railway to Heishuicheng, with only two or three hundred people here to repair the foundation. Next to it is their camp, and a small officer led the team to greet him hurriedly.

After the ceremony, Cui Dutian asked, "Don't tens of thousands of people build roads here? Why are there so few people here?"

The little officer crossed his hands: "Go back to General, we are at the front, but we are just paving the roadbed. There are rammed earth behind, some people laying gravel, and behind are paving sleepers and railroad tracks. The team stretches for a hundred miles. The railway is narrow, so it doesn't take many people to pave the roadbed."

Cui Dutian nodded and realized that this was the case. He used to think that if tens of thousands of people paved a railway, the scene would be warm, and the paving places would be crowded with people. In fact, the railway was so narrow and the work surface was limited. How could so many people work? They were divided into several processes and each was done. The entire team stretched for a long distance. Tens of thousands of people were scattered on the road more than a hundred miles long, and it seemed that there were not many people.

After asking for a drink, Cui Dutian asked: "Where has the paved railway been? Can you take the train to Hezhou?"

The little officer shook his head: "Go back to the general, the road he built has reached the mountains of Langshan Road. There is a train there, but I don't know when to come or when to drive back, I'm afraid the general can't wait."

Cui Dutian shook his head and was a little disappointed when he heard this. The train following behind the construction team was mainly tasked with transporting supplies and facilitating construction workers. If there was no time, ordinary passengers could afford it.

Chen Xiliang followed Cui Dutian, riding a horse forward while looking back from time to time. He couldn't help but ask, "General, I see that the road building there is just a roadbed, nothing special. Moreover, the road is very narrow, I'm afraid that the car will not be able to pass."

I heard that I still have to go to Hezhou before I can get on the train. Cui Dutian was unhappy and said, "This is the front, so it's naturally. As you go all the way, you will see how the railway is paved."

Everyone walked forward and saw the construction team from time to time. After a night, they entered Langshan the next day, and the paved road was behind them.

Cui Dutian did not stop the team. Chen Xiliang rode on the horse and kept watching the built railway next to him. After walking for half a day, he couldn't help but ask Cui Dutian: "General, you all say this is a railway. Is this road really paved with iron?"

Cui Dutian looked at the sun in the sky and said, "Of course it was made of iron. Not so, what's so strange! It was almost noon, so we got off the horse and took a break, drank two sips of water. After leaving Langshan, we would arrive in Hezhou in two days. We would go back ten days and go back for another ten days. It was too inconvenient. Since I went to Heishui City to guard, I have returned to Hezhou for the second time."

Chen Xiliang said: "General, the Western Regions are not as large as the Central Plains. They are sparsely populated. They travel for ten days and half a month, but they are not far away."

Cui Dutian shook his head: "That's you, we are used to taking trains. No matter how far the road is, the train is only a few days old, so how can we bear such a long time to rush? It's best to build roads faster. Just wait a few months before the train arrives at Hei Shui City."

Chen Xiliang had no idea what it meant to build a railway to Heishui City, but just echoed Cui Dutian.

Yizhou connects Hexiguazhou in the east, which is the gateway to the Hexi Corridor into the Western Regions, and it is also the place where Heishui City enters the Western Regions next to Heishui City. Once the railway is opened, Yizhou will be the first to be affected. No matter what the relationship between the two parties is, Yizhou is destined to be unable to maintain its former appearance.

The current Yizhou is the Hami area in later generations. It was the first place to establish the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty and was called Yiwu County. A large number of immigrants and farming were immigrated here in the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the Han people were mainly Han people. In the late Tang and Five Dynasties, Tubo captured Yizhou, and the Tubo people left the Uighurs moved westward, and there were fewer Han people. When Zhang Chengfeng built the Jinshan Kingdom, he sent a thousand troops to recover Yizhou, but ultimately failed.

Although Zhang Chengfeng failed, he dared to attack Yizhou with just a thousand soldiers. You can imagine how large it is there.
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