Chapter 895
Chapter 895: Returning to Fuhai City
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
After about one week of flight from Yunfeng City in the west of Yingzhou Province to Fuhai City, the public airship landed at the airport in the west of Fuhai City at dusk of May 16 .
Yunfeng City was an inland city of Yingzhou Province while Fuhai City was a coastal city . The two places produced very different specialties . Therefore, a lot of small traders traversed between the two cities by public airship .
As big business groups and commercial organizations had their private airships . Of course, they didn't need to take this kind of public airship .
This kind of public airship was not cheap . The flight of 6 days from Yunfeng City to Fuhai City plus supplies in the way would cost a common soft sleeper 2 gold coins and 20 silver coins .
Before landing, a slightly fat steward entered the soft sleepers cabin with a metal trumpet and shouted, "We've already arrived at Fuhai City . Please be ready to get off . Don't forget your belongings . After getting off the airship, passengers who have handled the consignment business please receive your commodities at the exit of the cargo hatch with your consignment voucher!"
The steward repeated it twice . The passengers in the soft sleeper cabin then started to get up .
After informing the passengers in the soft sleeper cabin, the steward went to inform the other cabins .
There were over 30 passengers on the 3-storey single beds in the cabin . It was very crowded . As over 30 men didn't take bath for a week, of course, it was filled with the stinking smell due to perspiration, plus tobacco flavor . After the airship landed, these smells might not be dispersed until being ventilated for over half an hour .
"The airline from Yunfeng City to Fuhai City is becoming more crowded . I remember that there was a breakfast when I came here two months ago . I've not imagined that this airship has accelerated a bit in mid-way supply and flight and arrives at Fuhai City before 8 am . As a result, we don't have free breakfast anymore!" A 40-odd year pedlar got up as he put things away . Shaking his head, he added, "Men are not what they were in the old times anymore . . . "
"According to my knowledge, in order to prepare for the holy war, not only the airships, even the railway networks across Taixia Country would speed up in an all-round manner . They are going to introduce new steam locomotives . It's said that the new steam locomotives could reach a speed of 180 km per hour, which is almost 1/3 faster than the highest speed of the current locomotives . When we come to Fuhai City next time, we could try the train, it's not slower than airship!" A passenger said as he was climbing out of his bed .
"Wow, this is a big business . It would cost hundreds of millions of gold coins to upgrade the entire railway network across Taixia Country!" Someone exclaimed, "I wonder which clan will produce the new steam engines!"
"Such a big business could never be undertaken by a clan or a business group . The technologies and standards of such a great business could only be presented by transportation ministry and the ministry of industry and information . After that, qualified clans and business groups across Taixia Country would bid for that and share the cake . Those powerful ones would share more; those weaker ones would share less . Everyone could share the business . " An experienced voice sounded . Closely after that, he shouted, "I was told that some huge ships' goods had been transported from Yinyue Subcontinent to Fuhai Harbor lately along with many border residents . Who wants to take a look with me over there?"
"I, I!" Someone replied at once .
After staying in a soft sleeper cabin for 6 days, they had been familiar with each other . After making exchanges with each other, they might find many business opportunities .
Not all of them in the soft sleeper cabin were pedlars . When the others prepared to get off the airship in a bustling way, one person in a trivial corner of the soft sleeper cabin also stretched out his limbs before standing up . After that, he flicked his clothes and followed the others away .
Watching this guy walking by, some pedlars instantly gave a way to him on the narrow passageway .
He was a tough guy as high as 2 . 3 m . The moment he stood up, all the people in the soft sleeper cabin were dwarfed . In front of such a tough guy, commoners would be at least 50 cm lower .
The tough guy was featured by a frightening bald head, curly mustache, sturdy bones . Although in a coarse cloth, his powerful muscles were still evident . His upper arms were as thick as the thighs of those common businessmen . A pair of hands as large as cattail fans could fully cover one's head . It was nothing extravagant to stand on his fist and run horses on his arms .
The tough guy looked dignified and vicious . The slim spirited eyes below his saber-sized dense eyebrows faintly revealed frightening red lights . Timid guys might be scared by this tough guy .
During the past 6 days, besides daily activities such as having food and pee, he did nothing but sleep . Due to his vicious look, the others in the cabin dared not talk to him . Therefore, nobody knew his name until then .
When the tough guy was going to get off the airship, a voice suddenly sounded on his back .
"Tough man, please hold on!"
"What?" The tough man stopped and turned around . The captain of the airship immediately felt a stress as he had to reveal a genial smile .
"I'm Liu Chuan, the captain of this airship . May I know your name?"
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