Just after seeing off the two people from Longchuantang who were smiling, Stationmaster Lu ran in with sweat on his head and shouted, "Mr. Fang, are you here? Are you finished doing this?"

"What's going on?" Fang Bingsheng asked, seeing the other party's face was anxious, as if something big had happened.

Webmaster Lu pointed to the direction of his office and shouted: "Zhang Qijie and the others have all come here! He also brought reporters!"

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On the sofa in the stationmaster's office of Longchuan Railway Station, three people sat in a row: Zhang Qijie, Li Guangxi and a young reporter holding paper and pen to prepare a shorthand.

Wang Yujia and Qi Yunlu were arranged by Zhang Qijie to apply for the job at the factory for the exam: The Presbyterian Church is ready to start quickly getting rid of the blindness for workers. Moreover, they also like to recruit literacy workers because this type of workers is smart, disciplined, eye-catching, and quick to learn mechanical operations. If you find workers with a good cultural foundation, you will be able to get a literacy certificate soon;

Editor-in-chief Zheng was also specially invited to wait in the factory. Zhang Qijie was afraid that Fang Bingsheng would know Editor-in-chief Zheng, so he stayed in the factory on the pretext that the train station was close to the next door. Zhang Qijie believed that Fang Bingsheng's character had met once, and next time he would wait for him to climb along the pole to capture all the cities.

Stationmaster Lu held the handkerchief with a bitter face and pushed the door in. Zhang Qijie on the sofa immediately sat upright and pointed at him and shouted: "Sitemaster Lu, we are all your old customers! You have been shipping the goods since your railway was repaired. In the past, there were always a lot of car strips, and even sold car strips at discounts. Why are there no car strips now?"

Li Guangxi glanced at Zhang Qijie, sat up and shouted: "Yes! I asked, the goods of other people were not affected at all. What do you mean? I brought the reporter here!"

While wiping sweat, Stationmaster Lu secretly glanced at the strange reporter. Seeing that he was pressing his pencil head on the paper and was ready to start recording at any time, he smiled bitterly: "Mr. Zhang, Mr. Li, we are all old friends. Recently, the imperial court may want to requisition railways. Our company will practice in advance and obey the dispatch of the Beijing headquarters, so the transportation capacity is temporarily insufficient."

"You write it down!" Zhang Qijie turned his head and ordered the reporter.

While recording the shorthand, the reporter said, "The stationmaster Longchuanlu said that the court will requisition railways in the near future, and the railway company's transportation capacity is insufficient..."

Li Guangxi interrupted: "Website Manager Lu told me today that he wanted me to go to Heyun, so you can also write it down. Right, Webmaster Lu, I didn't say nonsense, right?"

The pen in the reporter rubbed the record book like a whirlwind, making a rustling sound, and said in his mouth: "Stationmaster Lu asked Longchuan merchants to temporarily use the river transportation instead of Tiehe..."

"Hey! You, don't record it first!" Webmaster Lu stood there stomped his feet and waved his hand to stop the reporter from writing crazy.

But Zhang Qijie stood up and pointed at the stationmaster Lu's nose and shouted, "Why don't you record it? What are you afraid of? This railway is not from your Song Zuo Tie-Director, but from the court! You are just managers, just like contractors! Which imperial decree in the court said that some people are not allowed to use the railway? Have you deliberately made things difficult for me?"

"If the railway station is not well operated and the supply of trucks cannot be continuous, then water transportation will be carried out! Anyway, water transportation is cheap, and it has been Dongjiang water transportation since ancient times! At least four fire ships can be hired at Longchuan Pier!" Li Guangxi also stood up and shouted.

"How can you deliberately make things difficult for you?! How do you say this?" The sweaty stationmaster Lu pressed the angry Zhang Qijie and Li Guangxi onto the sofa, and even took the cigar and handed it on.

"Anyway, you have to give us an explanation!" Zhang Qijie sneered: "Or I'll see you in the newspaper!"

He himself was suffering today:

As the stationmaster of Longchuan Railway Station, in addition to scheduling vehicles and maintaining railways, his important performance indicators are the transportation needs generated by Longchuan Station. This performance is not only directly related to his performance appraisal at the headquarters, but also to his own bonus. After all, Song Zuo Tel-Director is not the court, but the company, and everything aims to make profits.

In a word: The more people and goods are transported by Longchuan by railway, the better the performance and income of the Land stationmaster.

However, last night, Fang Bingsheng came to the train station again and passed him an order that was not like the order: the railway will not be used by a few bastards from the Longchuan Chamber of Commerce in the near future, and will not do their business!

This order was extremely resistant to the webmaster Lu:

First of all, this will directly destroy his income. Zhang Qijie and Li Guangxi are both big railway owners in this small county town. If they are banned, the number of cars and freights will be transported less, the railway station will be profitable, and the number of bonuses will be reduced;

Secondly, this also reduces the transportation volume that I have lived in and affects my company's performance over the past few days. Song Zuo Tel-electric is not easy to mess with. The imperial court is responsible for road construction, but regardless of operation, the company's profit pressure is also very high; the burden of operation almost falls on train station masters such as mainland station masters; if Song Zuo Tel-electric Company is a large fleet, the station masters of each railway station are the captains of a warship, and they must survive and die with their own warships. Otherwise, with more and more Haiyoushi from the Yang Railway School and the related households from local railway internal schools, it is dangerous to wear the captain he squeezed out and snatched; even if it is just a county station, similar to a captain of a small gunboat!

Again, Fang Bingsheng, the vice president, is not the president in charge of operations or technology at all. These two are Americans and the other is British. Vice President Fang is secretly called the boss's "flattery king" and "the general manager of the East Factory" within the company. He is specialized in publicity, public relations and relationships. Although his position ranks below the vice president of foreigners, he is a veteran of the company and is deeply trusted by Weng Jianguang. Therefore, his position is high and powerful, just like the eunuch general manager around the emperor. As a Chinese, he is familiar with the national conditions and does not dare to offend such a guy, even if he is not his immediate boss;

To sum up, Webmaster Lu was caught between his responsibilities and Fang Bingsheng, just like the generals who went out to fight suddenly had a eunuch supervisor and sent some nonsense orders: You obey, you are unlucky; if you don’t obey, you may be unlucky either.

But Webmaster Lu still planned to try it, so he reluctantly found an excuse to push Zhang Qijie and Li Guangxi's car bag appointment. Therefore, when Zhang Qijie and the others came to the door with a reporter from Longchuan Business Daily, Webmaster Lu was terrified: If it was reported, who would know what would be written by these slander-scam reporters: either Longchuan Station revenges and use public tools for private use; or if it was not effective in management and could not guarantee sufficient smooth transportation capacity, it would be to support his own water transport competitors; no matter which webmaster Lu did not want to see it, if he was furious, could he expect Fang Bingsheng to relieve himself? Then wouldn't he become a scapegoat?

I have to suppress this matter!

Webmaster Lu had no choice but to go out to find Fang Bingsheng, who was provoking trouble.

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Fang Bingsheng, who was wearing a shirt and suspenders, came immediately. As soon as he entered the door, he smiled and threw the suit jacket on his arm to the stationmaster Lu behind him, and smiled and said, "Ha, isn't this Mr. Zhang, Mr. Li? Why is it so coincidental? What happened?"

Seeing this guy's appearance, Zhang Qijie and Li Guangxi unconsciously tightened their faces and sat backwards, and were all a little scared: because in their eyes - Fang Bingsheng was not the guest who was chatting and laughing a few days ago, but a terrifying giant python.

Zhang Qijie gritted his teeth and fostered his courage. He stood up and asked Fang Bingsheng loudly why he didn't give them a car.

Fang Bingsheng lowered his head and thought about it, laughing a few times, as if he heard not a stern questioning with threats, but just a misunderstanding of his friends. He explained with a smile: "That's right. The court may have to use railway exercises recently. Although the railway is indeed from the court, not from our Song Zuo Tie-Telephone, since it may be requisitioned, how dare we not prepare? So our company plans to practice internally first. Therefore, everyone's transportation has been affected. But everyone is loyal to the emperor and love God, and they are all devout Christians. This is allowed for small losses to the country, right? Haha."

Seeing that Zhang Qijie was a little speechless, Li Guangxi stood up and asked shoulder to shoulder with Zhang Qijie and said, "Exercise? Why haven't we heard of it? There have never been any of the big cities in Ganzhou and Huizhou. We are just small county towns? And why are the goods of our two families affected and the other people and cars still used? Please give me an explanation!"

Fang Bingsheng blinked, silent for three seconds, and then spoke: "Why is Longchuan's first exercise? That's certain. Since the exercise cannot start all the lines suddenly, the entire iron river will be paralyzed, because we may have carried out such an action before and have no experience! Since we also need experience, this exercise experience must not be at the railway station of a big city from the beginning. That's too complicated. This is to find a chicken to practice a knife before killing a tiger, and that's Longchuan; the small station has little information."

Speaking of this, Fang Bingsheng paused and took out a wooden box of cigars in his pocket to share them with everyone, looking honest, but several guests refused. Fang Bingsheng laughed and lit a cigar himself and took a sip, before continuing: "As for why the two transportations were affected, it is also related to the exercise. This exercise needs to be arranged. At that time, the trains are full of trains, some transport troops, and some transport logistics supplies; only logistics alone will definitely not fight, but only soldiers will not give food, and people will shoot you; so the soldiers and logistics must be transported at the same time, which means that some trains should be given priority, and some trains should be dragged back. It is just your turn to drag back."

No one believed the guy's rhetoric in front of him, but none of them had the ability to refute it.

They looked at each other, while Fang Bingsheng was silently smoking a cigar.
Chapter completed!