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Chapter 499 The Nanjing-Hangzhou Railway opens to traffic ([-])

"A lot of money to buy tickets for the second and third cars"

"Tickets for two or three cars are charged at a high price, as many as you need."

"Qingyuan Lu's family bought six tickets for the second car. If there are not so many, you can charge as much as you want."

"Siguan sells a three-car ticket!"

"What, someone sells three-car tickets? Where?"

With the sound of selling, a large number of people flocked to this guy.

Outside Jiangning Railway Station, there are various calls to buy tickets for the second and third cars. The second car refers to the ordinary non-air-conditioned train that departs from Jiangning Station half an hour after the departure of the Jiangnan. The third car departs in an hour. ordinary non-air-conditioned trains.

Today is the driving ceremony. There are only three trains running on the entire railway, from Jiangning to Hangzhou, and then from Hangzhou to Jiangning.

Tomorrow will be normal operation, and then there will be eight trains a day going back and forth between Jiangning and Hangzhou.

It's just that tomorrow is tomorrow's business, and today's three trips are the key.

It is an incomparable honor to be able to sit on the Jiangnan, but unfortunately, only famous or meritorious persons invited by the Qilin Army can enjoy this honor.

Although the second-class people cannot get on the Jiangnan train, they set their sights on the second train and the third train. This is also an honor, at least in the hearts of the people. The people with second- and third-car tickets are also either rich or expensive.

The price of the ticket from Jiangning to Hangzhou is very cheap, only [-] Xiaoping coins, and ordinary people can enjoy it.

Li Chu didn't plan to rely on the railway to make money. This thing was mainly used to transport military and various materials. As for transporting manpower, it was just casual in his spare time.

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The Xuanwu Lake at the train station is also very lively today, with many boats moored on the lake.

There are famous prostitutes from Lianghuai who come here here, as well as some wealthy businessmen and celebrities in the city.

The celebrities invited by Li Chu either entered the train station in advance, or rested and waited on the Xuanwu Lake. After all, there were too many people in front of the train station, and the mess could not be crowded when the time came. go in.

"Father, the tickets for these two cars have already been sold to seven tickets, and the tickets for these three cars have also reached four tickets."

Seven passes, four passes.

The middle-aged scribe in the building's boat turned dark.

Nor did they expect this to happen.

Zhang Ruoyun, a famous scholar in Jiangning.

His name is a clear name.

For the opening ceremony of Jiangning Railway Station, Zhang Ruojun was also invited. Besides himself, he could also bring three people to accompany him. Among the three, he chose a friend who was not invited, as well as the eldest son of the friend and his own eldest son. .

A good friend of his had a nephew who was in business. He saw the business opportunities here, so he provided information to the two of them, such as sending people to purchase in advance, buying a large number of tickets for second and third cars, and hoarding them until the end. Release it at the critical moment.

Zhang Ruoyun suffered from the innocence of his name, so he justly rejected this tricky businessman's behavior.

And the nephew who was in business hoarded a large number of second- and third-car tickets. Now that the price of this ticket has been fired so high, he is also quite embarrassed.

Qingming Qingming, it is precisely because of his love of Qingming that Zhang Ruoyun has also suffered.

Although it is not enough to wear patched clothes, it is not much better. The reason why my friend's nephew told Zhang Ruoyun this opportunity is to help him and get some money for Zhang Ruoyun's family. , The whole process does not require him to participate in person, as long as he nods, someone will take care of it for him, but Zhang Ruoyun scolded him.

Now that the price of the ticket is getting higher and higher, his face is a little embarrassed. If he had agreed to this at the beginning, then he could earn at least three times more money with one ticket, and he could also buy a set of four treasures of the study that he loves.

……

There were speculatively expensive train tickets everywhere outside the train station, and Li Chu didn't care about this.

Let's speculate, anyway, the ordinary people will definitely not have the chance to do the first three trips. It is more practical for them to exchange the tickets in their hands for a high sum of money.

At the same time, Li Chu didn't expect that all the people on the bus would have to rush to Hangzhou after the opening today. Most of them would be curious people who like to join in the fun and come to try this taste.Today, Li Chu followed him to fire.

When the official operation starts tomorrow, Li Chu will have various restrictions at that time.

After the opening ceremony of the railway station, Li Chu ordered everyone to enter the railway station.

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"Father, I greeted you over there, let everyone get ready, and now we are ready to enter the station."

Hearing this, Zhang Ruoyun patted the clothes on her body and tidied them up.

A group of Qilin soldiers entered the train station, and used long spears to separate a road between Xuanwu Lake and the entrance of the train station, forming two human walls, so that the invited celebrities and officials who were waiting at Xuanwu Lake We enter the train station.

They entered as the first batch.

Afterwards, the ticket check begins, and only those who have a ticket are allowed to enter from this passage.

Only after all the tickets here have been checked and the Jiangnan train is ready to depart will a small number of people be allowed in, otherwise there will be chaos.

The boat docked.

Zhang Ruoyun walked in front, enjoying the envious eyes of the common people.

The common people who were isolated by the Qilin army outside the human wall quickly recognized Zhang Ruoyun, and many people were shouting or discussing.

"Look, this is Mr. Ruoyun, but he is a famous person in our Jiangning Mansion."

Some officials have already entered the station, and those who are more famous and prestigious than Zhang Ruoyun are mostly old people. They rarely come to such occasions. After all, people are old and their bodies are not good enough. The ones who were invited to come this time were their backs, and these backs were not as famous as him, so he was the first one to walk ahead.

As for his good friend, he took advantage of him and entered with him.

The building of the railway station is very majestic.

During the construction, he once climbed the Zijin Mountain and overlooked it. The appearance alone gave him a lot of shock. How can this building be built like this?

The exterior is already so unique, I don't know what the interior will be like?
Moreover, for such a large house, one window can be opened to the outside, but for those houses inside, wouldn't the inside of the house be pitch black?
I have always heard that the Qilin Army has a thing called a light bulb, which can be as bright as day in the dark.

I wonder if such treasures have been installed in this train station?

Under the guidance of the Qilin Army, Zhang Ruoyun entered the waiting hall of the railway station.

Outside the waiting hall, there is a glass framed glass wall. Zhang Ruojun knows that this is a special product produced by the Qilin Army in the area of ​​Southwest Beijing Road. After it was transported to Jiangning, it was sold like crazy. Countless wealthy merchants were looking for it. these things.

Eighty or ninety percent of the exterior walls of the train station are made of glass.

(End of this chapter)