Volume 50 Chapter 26 Reputation
The East Railway Station in Datang City is bustling with people passing by. From time to time, the whistle of the train sounds. Amidst the chirping sound, the front of the arriving train is exhaling white water vapor and releasing the pressure of the boiler. A white mist filled the tracks and platform.
After dawn, including this railway station, the entire Tang City has come to life and regained its vitality.
"Master Liu, go slowly!"
The purser on the train sent Zhang Tie to the exit of the private compartment of the train with a smile on his face. In the respectful delivery of the purser, Zhang Tie, who turned into Mr. Liu, just hummed, and then shook his hands and got off the train leisurely. out of the train station.
It was not until he got out of the train station and stood at the exit of the train station amidst the crowds that Zhang Tie let out a long breath, squinted his eyes, and looked at the city.
There are two floors of roads at the exit of the railway station. There are several steel structure overpasses on the upper road. Those overpasses are like huge centipedes. After passengers leave the station, if they want to take a taxi, they just need to walk on Overpass, follow the stairs of the overpass to the rows of special stations waiting for taxis. You only need to wait for a while, and you can leave in a taxi very conveniently. The queue of yellow-green taxis is longer than the train , divided into more than ten columns, are picking up and dropping off passengers who are about to leave the train station at the gate of the station in an orderly manner.
The lower road rides on the city's tracked underground railway system.
Everything on the upper and lower floors is in order.
Among all the super big cities in Taixia, the underground rail transit is a witness to the history and prosperity of a city. It is very expensive to build an underground transportation system. Generally, the newly built first-class big cities do not have an underground transportation system. Only in those cities that have been prosperous for more than a hundred years, At the same time, the commercial prosperity and population size in the city have reached a considerable level, and it is possible to see this kind of underground transportation network that makes full use of the city's underground space.
It is said that Tang City became more and more prosperous under the hands of the third prince Xuanyuan Wuji. At the same time, this city also became the proof of the ability of the third prince Xuanyuan Wuji, shining like a medal in front of the third prince.
The matter of killing the prince is of great importance and involves too much, the less people who know the better, so Zhang Tie did not inquire about the third prince Xuanyuan Wuji through the Golden Crow Merchant Group or other channels. Tangcheng’s East Railway Station, this city is still unfamiliar to Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie doesn’t even know Xuanyuan Wuji’s whereabouts, nor what he looks like. The only thing Zhang Tie knows is that Datang City is Xuanyuan Wuji According to the rules of the Taixia royal family, the princes have to seal the city, and after the adult princes leave Xuanyuan Hill, without the consent, recruitment or order of Xuanyuan Hill, those princes are not allowed to leave the county to which the city belongs. Yap.
As the prince of the royal family, although his status is honorable, his freedom of action is restricted.
Once the city is closed, many princes can only be active in their own closed city or the county to which the closed city belongs most of the time. Submerged, from this point of view, the prince's freedom of movement after adulthood is incomparable to that of ordinary people.
But this is also much better than those emperors in ancient times who couldn't even get out of the palace gate since childhood. The land of a county in Taixia can easily be millions or even tens of millions of square kilometers. For those princes, as long as they don't make too much trouble , even if they live in one county for a lifetime, it is enough for them to go shopping. Moreover, most of the closed cities of the princes are in the prosperous prefectures and counties, which will never make people feel bored. The closed cities are the private property of the princes, and they can let them run freely, no matter how much trouble they have.
For example, during the Taiping Festival, there are many national celebrations and activities in Xuanyuan Hill and the Emperor's Palace every year. During these activities, the princes can go to Xuanyuan Hill to gather. Even in normal times, many princes who are members of the royal family still They will receive some "official duties" from the royal family, such as visiting foreign countries, participating in various foreign affairs activities of Honglu Temple, and even inspecting places on behalf of the royal family, condolences to disaster-stricken areas, or being directly arranged by Emperor Xuanyuan to perform some special tasks, etc.
Only when the Holy War started these years, Emperor Xuanyuan disappeared again, the time and situation were more sensitive, so the scope of activities of Taixia's princes was strictly restricted to their own closed city and the county to which the closed city belonged.
Unlike other princes who are always sensual or playful, as a prince who is "famous" and "diligent and promising", Xuanyuan Wuji spends most of the year in Datang City, dealing with all kinds of problems in Datang City. Even if he is not in Datang City, his Prince's Mansion is also in Datang City, and his whereabouts can be known from the Prince's Mansion, which is why Zhang Tie came to Datang City.
After standing at the gate of the train station for a while, Zhang Tie walked up the overpass with the flow of people, then got off the overpass, went to the taxi stand, and boarded a steam taxi.
"Master, I've paid for your car today. There are no places of interest in this city. It's delicious and fun. Take me around and have a look. You don't need to change the money..." As soon as I got into the back seat of the taxi , Zhang Tie handed a gold coin directly to the taxi driver like a son-in-law.
"Ha, okay, young master, you have found the right person. I have been driving a taxi in this city for more than 20 years. It's not me. In the whole Tang Dynasty, there is no place I am not familiar with! "
When meeting customers like Zhang Tie who use gold coins as silver coins, the slightly bald taxi driver in his forties also suddenly became excited. He accepted the gold coins and drove the taxi out while talking. the train station.
"Is it the first time, young master, to come to Datang City?"
"Yes!"
The taxi driver looked at Zhang Tie with a smile on his face from the rearview mirror, "Haha, judging by your bearing, you must be full of knowledge and talent. There is a place in Tang City that you must visit!"
"where is it?"
"Famous Scholars Pavilion!" The taxi driver immediately introduced, "Don't you know about the Famous Scholars Pavilion in Datang City? In the entire Jinghe County, the entire Jiangzhou, and even other Chinese states, there are so many talents and scholars every year." Scholars came to Datang City just to take a tour of the Mingshi Pavilion in Datang City. Whether it is poetry, songs, economics or articles, or even an ordinary political policy in the city, as long as they can be found in the Mingshi Pavilion If you don't fall off the rankings in one month, you may be able to enter the family. If you can top the list within a year, you can meet the third prince and become a guest in the prince's mansion. You can reach the sky in one step. Prince, but the reincarnation of the stars in the sky, without the third prince, there would be no Tang City today..."
Zhang Tie didn't expect that in the Great Tang City, a small taxi driver would worship Xuanyuan Wuji so much...
(to be continued ~^~)