Entering the royal palace of His Majesty the Holy Emperor, it seems that all bad luck and accidents have been blocked out of the customs. The stable Silver Dragon crossed the stable Beijing-Shanghai Line. The cheap "inner cabin" allowed him to see nothing but the two people in front of him.
Lu Huaiyang sat there upright, with his back not even touching the cushion, closing his eyes and meditating. Wen Yuan was eagerly absorbing knowledge from books - he went out for a while and failed to keep up with the comics updates, and was giggling at the last issue of the comic book.
"Ah... I really can't keep up with the fashions of young people."
There is one bad thing about Yangzhou - the exchange of information with Kinei is slow. In Yangzhou, only a few national publications such as Yingtian Daily can catch up with the news in Jinei in real time. Only they would use the transoceanic telegraph line to send "emergency reports" at different times every day.
As the name suggests, it is to extract important information and then send it to the other side of the ocean in an expedited manner. Yingtian Daily is a morning newspaper, but Yangzhou can receive the "urgent evening newspaper" of that morning newspaper. Most of the press releases can be kept, but for serialized novels, only pre-saved manuscripts can be sent, half of which are flown in a week in advance, and advertisements are fixed columns.
In this way, only text can be passed, not images. When it comes to comic books, it's even later, because the schedule of comic publications is sometimes tighter than that of newspapers, because the work of the cartoonist himself is uncontrollable. The distribution in Yangzhou cannot be called "publishing", it is just airlifting the combined issues.
Within the entire empire, the only area under the jurisdiction of Lanfang Company that could keep pace with Kinei was the three cities of Pontianak, Sin Chau and Java. Moreover, Lanfang is in tune with Guangzhou Prefecture, not Yujing.
Shangluo remembers that he was indeed interested in pursuing comics when he was a child. But after moving to Yangzhou, I could only read the combined issues, and gradually I became too lazy to read them. Now that he has moved back, he plans to try to visit again in two days.
[By the way, I actually have a question I’ve been wanting to ask you. The situation was quite urgent before and I didn’t have time to ask. 】
Seeing Lu Huaiyang taking a nap, Apollonia appeared.
"Do you have anything else to ask me? Can't you go check it out?"
[I can only look up information, but I can only ask local people for their ideas and cognitions. I want to ask, what does Yujing mean? What is the specific scope of Yujing? Because your Ming Dynasty does not have the administrative division of "Yu Jing" at all, but many places are directly calculated according to Yu Jing. Is Yujing Nanjing? Or Ying Tian? 】
"Yujing refers to the Yujing super urban agglomeration, because the functions of the world capital require more than one city to bear it. The specific scope is a large number of connected urban agglomerations radiating from Yingtianfu as the center, all the way to Songjiangfu on the seaside They are all considered Jade Capital; as for Nanjing, this is a historical concept and is not used much now. Nowadays, Nanjing generally refers to Nanjing City, which is the city within the Nanjing city wall. After all, the imperial palace is not in Nanjing City."
[It turns out that the emperor doesn’t live in Nanjing? 】
"Did you forget that I said there was a 'Forbidden City Museum' before? The old palace has been converted into the Palace Museum. It seems that when the capital was moved back, it was in disrepair, and there was ground subsidence, and all three halls had collapsed. The new palace was built in At the southern foot of Purple Mountain, the 108-meter-high Ziwei Hall was later built on the top of Purple Mountain with reference to the Wanxiang Shrine in Luoyang."
[Yes, yes, that’s what I wanted to ask. That's too exaggerated. Why do you want to build such a huge spectacle on the top of the mountain? 】
"Well...Actually, it is because of political reasons that it is difficult to see you in public publications, but we all know it - the reason is that all buildings have regulations, and Fengtian Temple is the highest-level building. It and Xumizuo are 35 meters tall in total. In theory, no other building can be higher than it. Although there are tall buildings such as Yueyang Tower and Yellow Crane Tower, they are not government-built buildings and are not in front of the imperial court. You can pretend you haven't seen them.
"But with the development of the times, Yingtian Mansion has become more and more expensive, and it is imperative to build skyscrapers. Wouldn't it be excessive if a skyscraper is taller than Fengtian Palace? So after the six ministries discussed it, it was agreed that the imperial court should build it first. A big one! So the 108-meter Ziwei Palace was built on the top of Purple Mountain, which is 449 meters above sea level. Including the Xumizuo, it is nearly 600 meters tall. Now no one can be taller than the imperial palace, and skyscrapers are also It doesn’t count as exceeding the limit.”
[High... This move is really high... Can I see it if I get off the car? 】
"You really can't see this. In fact, you can see it on the train, but it's an inner cabin and you can't see the outside at all. When you get to the station, you need to transfer inside the station. My home is in Nanjing. There are no trams in the city, only the subway. , so I came to the door of my house. If I didn't take a detour, I remember that I couldn't see it. The surrounding buildings were very dense. But I was going to meet Daozu soon, so I had to go to Jinyiwei. Then I could watch it up close. "
Shangluo took a sip of ice water. Although he didn't go to other places in the car, the fact that it brought its own ice machine really made him have to give it a good review. When the Great Western Railway is completed in Rome, he wouldn't mind taking this "land cruise" all the way to Constantinople.
While he was talking, he suddenly felt a push coming from his back——
"We've arrived." Lu Huaiyang opened his eyes.
"Are you here? Are you arriving at Yingtian?" After calculating the time, it seems that it is indeed time to arrive, "But aren't there other stops in between?"
"Of course it won't stop. The Beijing-Shanghai main line runs directly from Songjiang to Yingtian, without stopping the whole way. Because the operating speed of 200 kilometers per hour with a steam engine is still too reluctant. Just accelerating so fast requires at least half the time. hours. If there are additional stops in the middle, the average speed will be more than 100 kilometers per hour, which is no different from the normal speed. I heard that the Railway Administration is studying the use of high-speed internal combustion engines with electric transmissions to reach higher speeds. It is estimated that it will be faster. Because they Last year, the ship's internal combustion engine was sorted out, and it's just a matter of moving the submarine's internal combustion engine up."
"I said... Lu Qianhu, are we going to get into something if we run so fast?"
"Time waits for no one, and it is a good thing that so many Qi practitioners are willing to take risks and rush forward one after another. It is better than all the Qi practitioners sitting in the mountains cultivating immortality. We cultivate, but we live in the world and do not avoid it. Long life and long sight, longevity is for long sight, to see the world well - Oh, by the way, speaking of this, did Captain Lin tell you about Lan Fang's lunar cannon? It is Lan Fang's nearest big gun action."
"So you know that?"
"Of course we know that they have cut down all the mountains in Borneo. Who doesn't know that? Moreover, the previous generation of Guoxing actually came to the court to report. At that time, we only thought they were doing a feasibility study. As a result, this generation of Guoxing After inheriting the title of Marquis of Yanping, he seems to be much more radical than the previous dynasties. Did he ask you to go to Nanyang? I heard that their plan did not go well, and they bombed a mountain two days ago. "
"That's what he said."
Lu Huaiyang looked at the table and thought for a while: "I have a case on hand now. I am quite busy these days. You have to be busy with graduation in the past few months. After the work is finished, Jin Yiwei will have to go to their place to inspect For a moment. If you want to go, come with us. It’s virtuous to explore frontiers, and we should help.”
