The first platform of Berlin Railway Station, which was supposed to be a crowded platform, was now in a state of chaos. All the passengers were driven to other platforms. Only the heavily armed passengers were left on the first platform. Soldier.
A special train stopped next to the first platform. There were only five carriages, all of which were luxuriously decorated boxes. The train blocked the view of the people on other platforms. Countless Prussian passengers were looking at January with their toes raised. They didn't know what kind of distinguished guests were about to travel.
Soldiers lined up densely across the platform, blocking everyone's sight like a human wall. Among the officers running back and forth, some even held the rank of major.
Normally, senior officers of this level can already give orders, but today they were all so busy that they were as out of breath as the third grandson.
"Oh God! Isn't it His Majesty the King who is traveling today? Even the Prime Minister's trip will not be so grand!"
Just when people were talking about it, the sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded from outside the train station. The iron gate of the originally closed exit suddenly opened. A group of cavalry soldiers protected a group of carriages and hurried in from the street. First platform.
The carriage stopped in front of the special train, and groups of senior Chinese officers jumped out from it. Some sharp-eyed Prussian citizens in the distance shouted in surprise, "Look! It's the Chinese! It's the Chinese army!"
Suddenly thunderous applause sounded from other platforms, and people paid their highest respect to the distinguished guests in the distance!
Xiao Letian also jumped off the carriage. He was planning to travel to a secret place today, but he was blocked by sharp-eyed citizens. He could only wave to the citizens who welcomed him across the railway tracks.
At this time, the train conductor trotted all the way to the head of state and said respectfully, "Dear head of state, the special train is ready and can leave at any time. Please get on the train!"
Xiao Letian nodded and stepped forward to board the carriage. At this moment, a fast horse suddenly rushed in from outside the train station, and a messenger rushed towards the head of state.
"Report to the head of state, there is an urgent telegram!"
Taking the telegram from the messenger, Xiao Letian opened it and saw that it was all garbled characters! He handed it to Wang Huaiyuan casually. He said, "Translate now!" After that, he lifted his legs and boarded the carriage.
The train was puffing out white smoke and slowly left the platform. At this time, Xiao Letian, who was sitting in the carriage, was waiting for Wang Huaiyuan and his men to urgently translate the coded telegram.
Ten minutes later, Wang Ju brought the latest news: "The head of state, this is from Fangguan. His mission in Brussels has failed. Blanqui rejected our proposal!"
Xiao Letian took the telegraph newspaper, read it carefully, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and lit a cigarette for himself.
He took the half-burned match and lit the telegraph newspaper. There was a burst of thick smoke in the carriage.
"Inform Fangguan and let her come back. Don't blame yourself. It's reasonable for the mission to fail. But it's good to test it like this. At least I can find out the details of these people."
"In the final analysis, they are still a group of nationalists at heart, and their class ideas are not pure. If this is the case, we will have room to display them."
"I can be sure that Blanqui and the others will try their best to pass this information to the French Emperor. In this way, the French high-level officials will only despise us more and more, and they will go further and further in their wrong judgments until fail!"
Wang Huaiyuan asked, "Should we suspend this trip and return to Berlin to talk to Prime Minister Bismarck about the next plan?"
"No! This trip to the Ruhr is part of our plan. Don't change it. Mr. Alfred Kluber is waiting for us in Essen. We can't keep this gentleman waiting for a long time!"
Xiao Letian's special train headed west, and its destination was Essen, the core city of the Ruhr Industrial Zone, the most important industrial area in Prussia.
Steam trains speed across Europe. Outside the window, farmland, farms, villages, towns, cities, and various industrial areas flashed by.
Without seeing these scenes in person, people will not understand the power of industry. The closer you get to the Ruhr Industrial Area, the more factories and workshops you see, and the density of chimneys increases.
The railways are full of trains making way for special trains, and those carriages are piled high with coal, iron ore and some copper ore and other non-ferrous metals.
These are the core strategic resources of the first industrial revolution. Millions of tons of materials are being continuously transported to the Ruhr, where these mineral deposits will be refined in flames into rifles and cannons, becoming the military weapons of this era.
Along the way, Xiao Letian even saw four or five recruit training camps, which were reserve training camps for various local governments. The playground is full of queue slogans, and you can see groups of recruits undergoing rigorous training.
The whole of Prussia has become a super factory and a super military camp. The whole nation entered into a tense atmosphere of preparation for war.
After arriving in Essen, the core of the Ruhr Industrial Zone, Xiao Letian was hit by the choking smell of coal smoke as soon as he got off the car and sneezed three times in a row.
Mr. Alfred Krupp, who had been waiting on the platform for a long time, smiled and walked over and stretched out his hand, "Dear Führer, you don't seem to be used to the climate here. This is the heart of Prussian industry, and its sky is so gray. Even more than London, England!”
Xiao Letian was happy at the time. He found that when Mr. Krupp said this, he was full of pride, as if it was glorious to have the environment polluted like this.
Sure enough, Krupp proudly said, "In our eyes, this color represents power. This sour smell of burning coal is more mellow than the top-grade cigars!"
Xiao Letian wore white gloves on his hands and lightly wiped his nose. The result was black, he sighed in his heart.
When other people travel through time, they always look for places with beautiful mountains and clear waters to return to rural scenery without pollution. Why am I so unlucky? I lived in smog in my previous life, and after time travel, I still have to wallow in industrial pollution.
What a bitter life! If your life is really miserable, you can’t blame the government, and you can’t blame society! An unlucky time traveler like me is unprecedented!
Shaking his head and throwing away the random thoughts in his mind, Xiao Letian took off his gloves, stretched out his hand and held it tightly with Mr. Alfred Krupp.
"I have long admired your name, Mr. Krupp. Your factory is now the largest military-industrial group in Prussia. I hope I can hear some good news from you this time."
"Please rest assured, respected head of state! I will definitely display the latest weapons. After all, you are the biggest god of wealth in Asia. As long as you relax a little and buy hundreds or thousands of my artillery, then I will You’re getting rich, aren’t you?”
The two smiled at each other and walked out of the train station side by side.
