Double-Cut During the War of Resistance: My Wife Came from 1937

"OK!"

Ma Hongwei put down his phone and said to Xia Weiwei, "It's all settled. He said he'll take the high-speed train tonight, and if nothing unexpected happens, the money will arrive tomorrow."

"High-speed rail?"

Xia Weiwei asked curiously, "Is that a train?"

"Yes, it's a type of train!"

Ma Hongwei nodded and said, "Just like cars have highways, railways also have high-speed railways, which are designed for speeds of 250 kilometers per hour or more."

"I once took the high-speed train to Beijing, and the top speed reached about 330 kilometers per hour."

"I heard that my country's fastest bullet train, the Fuxing, can reach speeds of 453 kilometers per hour, but it doesn't usually run that fast; it's usually around 350 kilometers per hour!"

"Can you run 453 kilometers in an hour?"

Upon hearing this, Xia Weiwei couldn't help but exclaim in astonishment, "Wouldn't that be faster than the airplanes in our time?"

She remembered that her sister's fiancé was a pilot.

The other party once proudly said that the Hawk III fighter jet he was flying was the best biplane fighter jet in the world, with a maximum level flight speed of 360 km/h.

At the time, Xia Weiwei lamented that the speed difference between trains and airplanes was nearly ten times, making it virtually impossible to catch up.

I never imagined that in later generations, the speed of high-speed rail would be so terrifying.

"Here, let me show you a video!"

Ma Hongwei opened Bilibili and played a video of an Irish guy taking the high-speed rail in China.

The video begins with just two sentences, accompanied by two lines of subtitles.

Is China's high-speed rail really as good as people say online?

Are they really that fast? That stable? That efficient?

The Irish guy in the video said, "It turned out to be true! This is definitely the best mode of transportation I've ever taken in my life!"

"I'm truly shocked, and also a little skeptical that the West has fallen so far behind. Come experience riding China's high-speed rail for the first time with me!"

Xia Weiwei asked, "Why are all the videos filmed by foreigners?"

Ma Hongwei said with a smile, "Foreigners nowadays all like to come to China to experience high-speed rail because our high-speed rail is the fastest now."

"Only 21 countries in the world have high-speed rail, and the technology we have is undoubtedly the most advanced at present. You should know that the United States only has one high-speed rail line, which is less than 500 kilometers long, and the maximum operating speed is only 240-260 kilometers per hour."

"my country's high-speed rail mileage has exceeded 5 kilometers, ranking first in the world and surpassing the total high-speed rail mileage of other countries."

Xia Weiwei couldn't help but exclaim, "This is truly unbelievable!"

According to her understanding, by 37, the total length of railways in the country had reached more than 21000 kilometers.

However, 45% of this area is located in Northeast China and was built by Zhang Zuolin and the Japanese.

These railways also greatly facilitated the invasion of Japanese chickens.

The mileage of high-speed rail in the new China is twice that of the Republic of China era; the mileage of ordinary railways must be even more terrifying.

The video continues, showing the Irish guy at the train station in Jianghan City, heading to Hong Kong by high-speed rail.

"This train station is huge, and there are so many people!"

Xia Weiwei saw in the video an incredibly tall and spacious train station, which looked like a plaza.

After passing through security, we entered the building. The floor was also tiled and looked spotless.

Many pedestrians carried a suitcase and walked briskly inside it, seemingly without any effort.

"Those suitcases are great!"

Xia Weiwei said, "There are wheels underneath, so you can drag it along the ground, which looks very effortless."

"This is a product from decades ago!"

Ma Hongwei said, "Nowadays, most suitcases are electric and quite small; you can just sit on them and they'll move."

"In modern society, people do whatever is easiest. If they can ride an electric bike, they won't walk a few extra steps."

"what?"

Xia Weiwei exclaimed in surprise, "A suitcase can move like an electric scooter?"

She had spent a few days in the village and naturally saw villagers riding electric bikes.

Just like a motorcycle, you don't even need to start it; just insert the key and turn the handlebars to start it.

As the Irish guy approached the ticket gate, he only needed to swipe his passport to pass through.

Xia Weiwei couldn't help but exclaim, "It's so convenient to get around here!"

"It's quite convenient."

Ma Hongwei nodded and said, "Nowadays, train tickets are mostly bought online, and you can choose the train number and seat."

"I remember when I was a child, I had to go to the train station several days in advance to buy tickets. If there were no tickets, I had to queue up again the next day. In some big cities, there were ticket agencies where you could buy tickets for a little more money."

"Now everything is linked to your ID card; you can enter and exit the station by swiping your ID, but..."

At this point, he said with a helpless expression, "However, precisely because of this, you can't take trains or high-speed trains without an ID card, and you can't even go to many tourist attractions. Otherwise, I was thinking of taking you to experience the high-speed rail!"

"It's okay, you can just look online."

Xia Weiwei said, "Could you please transfer this video to my phone, along with those videos of solar and wind power generation from last time? I'd like to bring them over so the leaders can see them too."

"Oh, right!"

Upon hearing this, Ma Hongwei couldn't help but say, "I think we could equip each of those leaders with a mobile phone as well."

"There's no internet over there, will they be able to use it?"

Xia Weiwei asked in confusion.

"Other functions don't work, but I can watch some videos and pictures!"

Ma Hongwei said, "Moreover, doesn't it also have a photo-taking function? It can record some photos of them and their lives, and it can even be used when scouting enemy positions."

Ma Hongwei recalled that the phone's built-in camera seemed to be able to zoom in up to ten times, and the photos were quite clear.

"If you want to take photos and videos, you can buy a dedicated camcorder!"

Ma Hongwei suddenly realized that some video bloggers were using handheld cameras to film footage of North Korea.

Many foreign bloggers, especially from South Korea, like to come to Dandong or Tumen City in China to film North Korea along the border.

Ma Hongwei thought to himself, "I'll look at those later!"

The video continues playing as the Irish man takes the escalator down to prepare to catch his ride.

Xia Weiwei noticed that this train station had an unusually large number of platforms.

A fleet of high-tech bullet trains was parked at the edge of the platform, and people were pulling their suitcases and hurrying towards their respective carriages.

"Are these the high-speed trains?"

Xia Weiwei looked at the train on the platform, feeling quite longing for it.

She really wanted to experience the high-speed rail of the new China!

In the video, the Irish man says, "The journey from Jianghan City to Xiangjiang is over 1000 kilometers, but it only takes 4 hours and 13 minutes, and the ticket price is just over 90 euros!"

"What? Over a thousand kilometers, and it only takes four hours?"

Xia Weiwei couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

At first, she didn't really grasp the concept when they only talked about numbers, but once they mentioned time, she understood the difference.

She had taken many train journeys during the Republican era, and it took her more than 40 hours to travel from Beiping to Shanghai.