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Chapter 301 Train Test Run Successful

North.

New Goose City.

Train station, station entrance.

The train station entrance was already crowded with people. Yesterday, the newspapers of the North had published news about the North inventing the train.

The common people didn't know much about trains and were hearing about them for the first time, but after reading about trains in the newspapers, they all developed a strong interest in them.

At this moment, the local people were discussing the contents of the newspaper published in Yancheng yesterday.

"Do you really think there are horse-drawn carriages that can run without horses?"

"It's said to have been invented by the Northern Prince's Mansion. I think it might be true. Look, even the Prince is here. If it's fake, wouldn't the Prince lose face?"

"The newspaper said this car can travel 200 kilometers a day without needing to rest. That's 200 kilometers a day! How can it travel 200 kilometers a day without a horse? I think that's a bit too unbelievable."

"We'll find out soon enough whether it's true or not."

……

Just as the people were discussing this, the whistle of a steam train could be heard in the distance.

"Beep!"

The people, who had never heard a train whistle before, instantly became agitated.

However, when the people discovered that the Northern King was standing motionless on the train platform, they quickly quieted down.

Even the Northern King wasn't flustered, so there must be nothing wrong.

Just then, the crowd suddenly became restless.

"Look, everyone!"

"Here it comes, here it comes! It really is a carriage without horses!"

"My goodness! This truck is so big and long, how much stuff will it be carrying!"

"If every city in the Northern Kingdom had carriages like these in the future, wouldn't we be able to travel to other cities with ease?"

"What carriage? Didn't you read the newspaper yesterday? This is a train!"

……

At this moment, the members of the various caravans in the crowd began to have their minds racing.

They made money mainly by exploiting geographical or time differences. Now that the North has such convenient transportation, their horse-drawn carts for hauling goods are destined to be phased out.

If the railway in the Northern Kingdom can be built to the major dynasties in the future, and if they cooperate with the Northern King's Mansion, their goods will no longer need to take several months to be transported to other places, but only a few days or at most ten days.

This mode of transportation, called "train," will surely lead to a transformation in the world.

only……

Will the Northern Prince's Mansion really agree to cooperate with them?

After all, this train looks so mysterious, has such a terrifying transport capacity, and is so fast. It is obviously used for military purposes. With this kind of train, the ability of the Northern Kingdom to transport troops to a certain place will be greatly improved in the future.

No matter what happens on the northern border, as long as there are railways, the northern army can reach that place in the shortest amount of time.

In this era, speed is of the essence in warfare.

Although it was uncertain whether the Northern King would use the trains for civilian transportation, the merchants from various caravans still planned to try to talk to the Northern King's palace, just in case the Northern King agreed.

At this moment.

In the crowd, a cool-looking woman dressed in white with black trim quietly watched the black train in the distance. Her pupils contracted slightly; she was clearly awestruck by the train from the northern country.

Murong Xue'er muttered to herself, "Who exactly is the Northern King? How could he create something like this?"

Trains are clearly not a product of this world, or rather, such things should not exist in this world. Coupled with the mysterious weapons of the Northern Kingdom mentioned in the intelligence, the Northern Kingdom obviously has many things that the people of this world have never seen before.

Murong Xue'er now feels that the rumors circulating among the people that the Northern King is a disciple of an immortal might be true, otherwise how could those things created by the Northern King's Mansion have appeared in this world?

The various dynasties had been developing for thousands, even tens of thousands of years, and had never produced anything like the things from the Northern King's Palace. Yet, not long after the Northern King arrived in the Northern Kingdom, the Northern King's Palace produced all sorts of things that had never existed in this world before.

At this moment, Murong Xue'er couldn't help but doubt whether she could complete the task assigned to her by the Empress. She had been in the Northern Kingdom for some time, almost a year, but she still couldn't get closer to the Northern King.

Given the current rate of development in the Northern Kingdom, it will probably not be long before its overall strength completely overwhelms the Dayue Dynasty. Although the Northern Kingdom still imports a large amount of grain from Dayue, Murong Xue'er has also heard that many high-yield grain crops have emerged in the Northern Kingdom.

Watching the steel behemoth slowly approach in the distance, Murong Xue'er made up her mind that she must seize the time to contact Lu Chen. She wanted to uncover all of Lu Chen's secrets. Lu Chen would be the Empress's greatest enemy in the future, and they had to figure out the secret of the Northern Kingdom's growing strength in order to find a way to deal with it.

Standing on the platform, Lu Chen gazed at the approaching train. He turned to his wives and concubines beside him and asked with a smile, "What do you think of my train?"

At this moment, Lu Chen's women were still in a daze. Although they had heard about trains that did not require horses, seeing them in person still shocked them greatly.

Mu Zixuan then came to her senses and looked at Lu Chen, saying, "Your Highness, will all cities have direct train lines built to Yancheng in the future?"

Lu Chen said, "Yes, in the future, if we want to go to a certain city in the North, it will only take a few hours by train, at most one or two days."

"Of course, the railway will not only be laid in the north. One day, the railway will cover the important cities of the Great Xia and the major dynasties."

Upon hearing this, the women were taken aback. It seemed to be the first time they had so clearly sensed Lu Chen's ambition.

Although they had long known that Lu Chen was very ambitious and would achieve great things in the future, Lu Chen rarely showed it in front of them. In front of them, Lu Chen only presented himself as a lecherous man.

Now that Lu Chen says he wants to lay railways to several major dynasties, does that mean he will one day unify all the dynasties?

In fact, Lu Chen's idea was that once the people of this world discovered the various uses of trains, they would inevitably try to cooperate with the Northern Kingdom, and then the major dynasties would follow suit and lay railways. His words just now did not reveal any ambition of his own; it was all just his wives and concubines overthinking things.

As the train gradually arrived at the station, some craftsmen from Dayu City got off the train, and the first one to get off was Mo Xing.

Upon seeing Lu Chen, Mo Xing excitedly approached him, saying, "This humble subject greets Your Majesty!"

Lu Chen said, "No need for formalities."

"Mo Xing, you have performed a great service; your name will be remembered for eternity!"

Upon hearing this, Mo Xing said, "This humble subject dares not claim credit; it is all thanks to Your Highness. Without Your Highness's blueprints, this humble subject would not have been able to create such a revolutionary means of transportation!"

Lu Chen said, "I plan to establish a Transportation Bureau, and you will be its director from now on. You will be in charge of all railway construction and train upgrades in the North."

Upon hearing this, Mo Xing was taken aback at first, but after recovering, he knelt on the ground again, saying, "This humble subject will certainly not let Your Highness down!"

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(End of this chapter)