Every day, steel monsters that belched dense smoke and made enormous noises stopped at this platform, and then countless goods were unloaded from the carriages trailing behind the beast.
Either it was live cattle and sheep, or a large amount of ironware, or snow-white smooth porcelain, or grains…
The Great Tang Kingdom seemed to possess an endless supply of resources. These steel monsters called trains continuously brought from afar what used to be exorbitantly priced oil, refined flour, and spices, then drove down their prices to unbelievably low levels—items once only affordable by the nobility.
Nowadays, if there's a man in the family who operates an excavator, having vegetable oil at home, or even sneakily hiding a couple of sausage links in the cupboard, is no longer something to boast about.
