Chapter 1341 Randy Railway
There are two railways from Kaga in Josh County to Myrtanos, the capital of the Ot Federation. These two railways are not state-owned railways, but private railways belonging to the Piro Railway Group.
Although Josh County is close to the federal capital county, the terrain difference between the two is as high as a kilometer, and the undulating mountains stand between them. This has resulted in the supply of materials between the federal capital and Josh County for a long time in the past.
People travel either by taking long detours to other provinces with plain terrain, or by relying on transport vehicles such as pack horses and taking winding mountain roads.
Later, after the steam train appeared, the federal government also thought about building a railway connecting the two places. However, after repeated discussions, it felt that the manpower and material resources required were too great, so the railway construction plan was not implemented, and the relevant documents of the plan were
Sealed it up and put it in the archives room.
It wasn't until more than fifty years ago that an archives clerk named Randy accidentally saw this archive document. After his analysis, he found that with the changes of the times, the improvement of technology, materials and capabilities, this road connecting the two places
The final construction cost of the railway will be much less than the estimated cost in the file. If all goes well, the railway can be built with only a quarter of the estimated cost.
So, the clerk reorganized the plan in the file, and then went to his boss with the plan he had sorted out, hoping to resubmit the plan through the hands of his boss. In this case, he would also
Being able to leave the archives with no future through this program.
However, the clerk's boss was content with the status quo. He not only rejected the clerk's request, but also ridiculed the clerk for his whims.
When the clerk was annoyed, he carefully considered the government's lengthy review system and felt that it might take more than ten years for the plan to finally be approved, so he decided to give up the government path and instead look for a private railway company to implement it.
This plan.
At that time, the Pillow Railway Group was not the largest private railway company in the Outer Federation. It was just a powerful company. The clerk chose this company because one of his classmates worked at the Pillow Railway Company.
The secretary of a certain director, and he arranged a dinner meeting with the director who had influence on the decision-making level of Pillow Company through his classmate.
Everything went very smoothly. After reading his plan, the director immediately decided to support his plan and took a copy of the plan with him, saying that he would discuss the plan at the board meeting the next day.
The clerk didn't know whether he was too happy and drank too much at dinner, or for other unknown reasons. When he went home that night, he accidentally slipped and fell into the Ponte Waterway that runs through the capital, and was washed away by the water outside the capital.
In the swamp, the body was not discovered until several months later by several fishermen.
Although the clerk died, his railway construction plan was not buried. It was approved by the Piro Group two days later, and the director became the supervisor of the entire railway plan because of this plan, and was then implemented.
The position of director can be regarded as entering the core level of Piro Group.
Two years later, the railway from Myrtanos, the federal capital, directly to Kaga in Josh County was successfully built. This railway later became one of the most important railway lines in the Ot Federation.
Because of the successful completion of this railway, Pillot Company also won the favor of the Federal Transportation Agency, and then received a lot of policy support. It also received some tilt in the bidding for the railway construction plan, and finally more than 20 years ago
, becoming the largest railway company in the Ote Federation.
On the contrary, the dead clerk was forgotten for a long time. It was not until a few years ago that someone discovered the original railway construction plan that the clerk had left in the archives, and this period of history was revealed.
Because of this incident, many people suspected that the clerk fell into the water not because he was drunk, but because he was pushed down deliberately. The person who pushed him was probably the director of the Piro Group who was the beneficiary of the final plan.
However, even if there is such suspicion, it will not shake the current status of the Pillow Company, but it will still hurt the image of the Pillow Company. For this reason, the Pillow Company specially built two railway lines at both ends of the railway connecting the capital and Josh County.
A statue of a clerk was built, and the railroad was named after the clerk, calling it the Landy Railroad in memory of the clerk.
The reason why Pillow Company chose to remedy this matter even though it knew that the rumors would not cause any actual losses to the company, is entirely because Randy Railway is the golden signboard of Pillow Company and cannot be tolerated on the signboard.
A little bit of stain.
Since the advent of steam trains, traveling by train has become a fashion for wealthy people. Whether it is state-owned or private railway companies, they will add several luxurious and comfortable traveling carriages to each train.
And those wealthy people who are keen on train travel like to discuss which railway line has the most beautiful scenery, and even created a related magazine specifically for this purpose. No matter how much they like the scenery of which railway line, once they have to make a selection
As the most beautiful railway line, maybe seven or eight out of ten will choose the Randy Railway. Therefore, the Randy Railway is called a railway line that federal people must ride once in their lifetime.
Because of the poor terrain, the Landi Railway line was built entirely along the mountainous terrain. The line is winding and winding. In some places, it even needs to go up to the top of the mountain. Snowy mountains, forests, grasslands, basins, lakes, swamps and other scenery seem to be here.
You can see all the routes, and the scenery changes so quickly that you feel like you are watching the transition of each scene in a theater. One moment it was high mountains, and the next moment after you have bypassed a very curved hill,
I found that the surrounding scenery turned into grassland. I was walking through a basin just now, and the next moment I climbed over the top of a mountain, and what came into view were the snow-capped mountains.
All in all, you can't relax at all when riding this line. As long as you close your eyes for a moment, there may be a beautiful scenery passing by your eyes.
Piro Company's annual income from Landi Line is one-fifth of the group's overall income. The income includes not only ticket income, freight income, but also commodity income at stations along the line. In short, Landi Line is Piro Company's
The most important railway line.
However, now Pillow Company or all private railway companies have encountered a problem that makes them feel painful, that is, according to the latest wartime decree of the Ott Federation, during the war, both state-owned and private railways will
They were requisitioned and used uniformly for supplies and troop dispatch, and all civilian uses were stopped.
Although the government will pay part of the cost of this kind of expropriation, this cost is simply a drop in the bucket compared to the income. What's more important is that a special railway like the Landi Railway has been built for passengers to travel or travel between places.
Mainly personnel exchanges, cargo transportation is only a small part.
Now that the federal government has requisitioned it, the main transportation of the entire line is a series of extremely heavy-duty freight trains. This will undoubtedly accelerate the wear and tear of the rails. Piro Company even suspects that when the war is over, the federal government will return the railway to them.
At that time, there were still a few railway tracks on this line that were intact.
But even if they are dissatisfied, they have nothing to do. Even if they use their connections in the federal government and Congress, it will be of no use. It is obvious that everything in the current federation is focused on war, and all other matters must be sidelined.
Bob was a train dispatcher for Pillow Company. When the railroad was requisitioned, he was also requisitioned by the federal government to be responsible for train dispatching on the Randy Line.
Although he was not in charge of this line before, this type of dispatching work is similar, and he quickly got started. The only thing that needs to be paid attention to is that the load capacity of each train cannot exceed the endurance limit, otherwise it will not damage the rails.
The question is whether we can climb those mountains.
Although in the eyes of outsiders, he is just a competent dispatcher, he knows very well in his heart that he has another identity. He is a very devout believer in the Lord of Source. He is not a native of the Otter Federation.
In the first fifteen years of his life, he grew up in the Papal State of Nass. Later, he came to the Otter Federation and took over the identity of another Otter Federation man named Bob. He worked, got married, and had children here until some time ago.
Only then did a dark mark engraved in his blood appear, allowing him to remember his true identity again.
He did not struggle back and forth between the two identities. He was more concerned about the positive and negative impacts this incident would have on himself, and did not want his current stable life to be disrupted.
Obviously his superiors also knew that he couldn't do much in his current position, so they only asked him to do what he could, such as copying the cargo list of each supply train, and did not force him to do it.
Those dangerous things.
It was not until the past few days that he received another task. This task was not very difficult. It asked him to pay attention to the special trains and pay attention to whether there was a foreign couple among the people who arrived on the special trains. For this reason, he even got a
It was an extremely beautifully made portrait. The man in the portrait looked a bit ordinary, but his body seemed very strong. On the contrary, the woman was extremely eye-catching. He thought she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. He would be deeply impressed by just one glance.
It is deeply engraved in my mind.
What made Bob somewhat unexpected was that just two days after he received this mission, the couple mentioned in the mission appeared in front of him.
On this day, as usual, he started arranging train schedules and counting and comparing cargo lists. But just when he and his colleagues were about to finish counting the last train of goods, the station supervisor found his colleagues and took out a new
The goods on this list are obviously much less and must be reloaded.
This extra increase in workload naturally aroused everyone's disgust. When asking for the reason, the station manager only mentioned the order above. Asking too many questions would only be bad luck. Everyone then stopped asking and started following the list.
Contents to reload the goods.
During this time, they have become very clear about what they should ask and what they should not ask. Sometimes knowing too much can bring disaster. After all, more than one person has been imprisoned for knowing something they shouldn't know.
Even so, people like Bob who have access to the freight manifest and arrange train schedules can know what is going on from some small details. In his memory, only people with extremely special identities who need to use special trains will appear.
This situation.
Therefore, in the following time, he paid attention to the situation at the end of the train. It was not until he saw a special train hanging on the hook at the end that he was sure that his guess was correct.
At this time, the couple mentioned in the mission appeared. He recognized the lady at a glance, but he did not dare to step forward because there were many bodyguards with special identities around the couple. He
He had no doubt that if he approached, the bodyguards would pull out their weapons and execute him on the spot.
After discovering the mission target, Bob did not stop at the station anymore. He made an excuse, asked for leave, and left the station. Then he went to the market near the station alone and bought at a fruit and vegetable stall set up by a local farmer.
I bought some fruits and vegetables, but when I paid, there was a piece of paper folded under the money.
I don’t know whether it was because the successful completion of the extra task made him feel relaxed physically and mentally, or because of some other reason. When he left the market and walked towards his home, he did not realize that a new building was being installed on the building he passed.
When he walked past the window, the rope hanging the window above suddenly broke, and the entire large brass window fell directly, smashing him into a pulp instantly as he was walking below. It was terrible to see.
At the same time, the piece of paper that Bob submitted was also the first to be sent to the secret lair of spies from the nearby TEDA Empire. Then more than a dozen people left the lair one after another, each mounted their own horses and left the card.
Ga, rush towards the mountains in the distance.
About two hours later, the through train, which had loaded the last batch of goods into the carriages, slowly left the platform and headed towards the capital as the driver blew the whistle.
At the same time, in the special carriage at the end of the train, Leo took out a bottle of good wine from the wine cabinet inside the carriage, poured a glass for himself and Sylvia, made some ice, and drank,
While saying: "This train may not be too peaceful."
Sylvia looked at the special security guards who were closely guarding the outside of the carriage, and said: "If there is an attack, they may not be able to play any role. It is better for us to rely on ourselves."
Leo shook his head and disagreed: "You underestimate these people a little too much. They are different from Cady's special security guards."
Chapter completed!