Chapter 398 Boarding
"Good morning, sirs."
Sir Maxi had already changed his dress, holding his cherished sapphire cane in his hand, and a smile on his face.
Sir Edward looked at the pocket watch: "It was just seven o'clock. Their clocks were still so on time."
"Let's go." Sir Williams said with a blank expression: "The official's contemptuous expression yesterday made me not sleep well all night. I just wanted to see what I don't understand."
"Dear Sir Williams, you shouldn't be so angry. Perhaps their country is not big? Are Johann Chan's diary all fictional?"
"Hope so."
The guards came in: "The carriage of Xia Kingdom has arrived."
"Then let's go out." Sir Maxi said: "Are you all ready?"
The other people didn't say anything, walked through the corridor and left the inn, and ten carriages outside the door were already waiting. The face of the young official who made Sir Maxi and others very uncomfortable appeared in front of him again.
"I am ordered to send all the envoys to the north station in Chengbei." The official of the Ministry of Rites smiled slightly and reached out to inspire: "Please."
The number of missions in the five countries was not large, and the largest number of missions in Spain was only nine. The smallest of those in England was only five. With some gifts, ceremonies, etc., ten carriages were more than enough.
The young officials of the Ministry of Rites and the Five Kingdoms were seated on the first spacious carriage. The two horse-drawn carriage was spacious inside and had glass windows on both sides, which were clear and thorough, allowing you to clearly see everything outside the window.
"It's very prosperous here." Sir Edward, a bearded man, looked out the window and spoke: "It's very distinctive, and it's two different styles from London."
Of course there are two styles. At this time, Europa can be described in a dirty word. The city streets are narrow, with garbage, feces everywhere, no sewers, and no personnel who specially clean up garbage. The five messengers in the car have long been accustomed to the environment of the Europa city, but they are not used to it when they go to Guangzhou, and they find it very strange.
I have been in the toilet for a long time and don’t know how smelly it is.
The streets of Guangzhou are extremely spacious, at least the main street is extremely spacious. This has been transformed to a certain extent. The main roads inside the first-level city of the State Prefecture must meet the standard of five meters wide. When a carriage walks on such a street, the feeling of openness and spaciousness can be seen at a glance.
Busy crowds came and went on both sides of the street, and there were traffic in the streets. There were carriages of various types. Some were carrying people and some were transporting goods.
"After returning home, I may suggest to the leader of Cromwell to transform London." Edward said to several others.
I didn't talk much all the way out of the city, and the translator was happy. The carriage came out from the north gate and three miles away, and I saw a wide open building in my eyes. A 9-meter-wide road passed by the side.
"That's the station." A official from the Ministry of Rites smiled and said, "You will board the bus here and you can arrive in the capital at most tomorrow afternoon."
This is still considered that you have to stop and rest along the way. If you keep going, you can arrive before dark.
The carriage arrived at the station entrance, and the Tantu Avenue was blocked by the station. After Sir Maxi and others got off the car, they couldn't help but look there.
Sir Tangi also asked specifically, and the Ministry of Rites smiled but said nothing, which made him very angry and wanted to punch the smiling face.
"I will send it here." The official of the Ministry of Rites handed over the receptionist who had been waiting outside the station for a while, and then said to the mission: "Please follow him to the station and get on the bus early."
Finally, he gave a small gift: "Goodbye."
After the receptionist said goodbye to the officials of the Ministry of Rites, he smiled and said to the Thai mission: "Sir, please follow me."
Entering through the wide station gate that seemed like a city gate, following the officials, passing through the bustling crowds of people in the station, they came to a closed door.
Many people in the delegation even looked back frequently - because the stations were bustling with women.
Seeing this, the official smiled and said, "Those are all slaves, nothing is good. Please follow me here for a while."
"slave?"
Sir Edward couldn't help asking, "Are all slaves here?"
The officer stopped and said, "Yes, they are all slaves."
Translator translates in time.
When Edward heard this, he immediately looked angry: "I am a jazz from England and a nobleman. You actually asked me to come to this place where all slaves are?!"
The other envoys all recalled it, all of whom looked unpredictable. They stared at the officials, hoping to get an explanation.
The official lived up to everyone's expectations and said with a smile: "Dear messengers, please don't be angry."
He said: "The station is not exclusive to slaves. But recently many slaves were transported from Yingzhou. If they want to sell them to the inland prefectures, they need to be transported as soon as possible. There are not many people at the station at normal times. Moreover, if officials and nobles in Daxia want to travel far, they will also board the bus here."
This explanation made the group's anger fade.
Maxi asked, "This place called the station is very novel. It seems to be the purpose of centralized transportation?"
When the official heard the translation, he smiled and said, "This messenger said it well. The purpose of the station is to centralize transportation."
Sir Williams said: "Then the avenue I saw before, the very spacious one?"
"Yes." The official smiled and said, "What you see is the empire's Zongyi Avenue. It starts from Guangwu Mansion in the north in the south of the desert and ends at the Guangzhou freight terminal, which is thousands of miles away. The envoys did not land at the freight terminal the day before yesterday, so they have never seen it."
Several jazz had heard the translation and were surprised. Maxi said: "It's really ten thousand miles long? The road is very wide and seems to be built of stone. How many people should work together to build it?"
The official smiled and said, "Of course it is thousands of miles long. The road surface is indeed stone and three feet thick. There are six main road empires such as north and south, and three across the east and west, all of which are thousands of miles away. The emperor was wise and sent thousands of slaves to build the road, and it was completed in the past two years."
After listening to the translation, Maxi and others were dumbfounded and their minds were blank.
Of course, there are still doubts in my heart and I don’t believe it completely.
After a little came to his senses, several jazz exchanged their eyes, and Edward asked again: "Do you have many slaves in your country? I don't know where they were captured? Our country also arrests slaves for work."
The official said: "There are now more than 20 million slaves in Daxia. There are barbarians in the northern grasslands, Persians in the Western Regions, as well as the venomous people in southern Tibet, and the Yingzhou people who had just been destroyed by the empire."
In addition to what the officials said, the components of slaves in the Daxia Empire were also some stubborn people from other tribes on the land of Shenzhou, Daxia. The total number was not only more than 20 million, but it was even close to 30 million.
Yingzhou alone has 15 million slaves!
Chapter completed!