Due to heavy snow, it was already the spring of the second year when I received this news in the Imperial Capital thousands of miles away.

Zhao Kuo was still very happy when he learned the news.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau control means that the last trouble of the Han Dynasty and the South Asian subcontinent has been completely solved.

Zhao Kuo is actually in his heart that he can't wait to conquer the South Asian subcontinent.

For Zhao Kuo, the priority of conquering the South Asian subcontinent is even above conquering Southeast Asia.

Why do you say so?

The answer is actually very simple.

The South Asian subcontinent is basically plains, and there are plateaus and mountains only in the southern part of the Indian Peninsula.

These plains in the northern part of the South Asian subcontinent are truly a land of fish and rice. As long as they can occupy this place, they can provide a new granary for the Han Dynasty.

Southeast Asia is different. These places are basically full of tropical rainforests, with a very stuffy climate, and there are forests everywhere and lack of arable land, which is not suitable for becoming a granary.

For the current Han Dynasty, if you want to develop more population, you need more granaries. Therefore, at this stage, the South Asian subcontinent has higher priority.

"It seems that it is indeed time to start the destruction of the Seleucid Empire."

Zhao Kuo made up his mind secretly.

It is true that three or four years have passed since the last war with the Seleucid Empire. In these three or four years, the caravans of the Han Kingdom have bloomed everywhere in the Seleucid Empire.

You should know that at the beginning, many of these caravans were actually Nightingale's spies. They were originally responsible for spying on intelligence, so after these years, the information of the Great Han Kingdom on the Seleucid Empire was very detailed.

When the war had not started a few years ago, the Han Dynasty knew almost nothing about the country except the name of the Seleucid Empire. However, now, almost any decent nobles or officials in the Seleucid Empire were recorded in detail and sent back to the imperial capital.

Nowadays, the Han Dynasty's understanding of the Seleucid Empire may not be able to reach the level of knowing oneself and being victorious in a hundred battles, but it is also very impressive.

What's more, the Han Kingdom actually didn't need to understand the Seleucid Empire so thoroughly, because with the powerful military power of the Han Kingdom, it could easily push the Seleucid Empire down, just as the Mongol Empire easily defeated Khwarezm.

When the war on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau ends, the situation in Yunnan should be almost the same.

In that case, like Li Mu, Sima Shang, Xiang Yan and Wang Jian, these four generals could free up their hands at the same time and follow the soldiers of the Han Kingdom to attack the Seleucid Empire.

By that time, the territory of the Great Han Kingdom will occur again, expanding rapidly, and extending the tentacles of the Great Han Kingdom directly to West Asia in one fell swoop.

Just thinking about all this made Zhao Kuo very happy.

But immediately, another problem came, which made Zhao Kuo start to have a headache.

This problem is actually very simple, that is, with the continuous expansion of the territory of the Han Dynasty, the speed of uploading messages from local governments to the Imperial Capital City has also significantly slowed down.

But now if you want to send a document from the Western Regions, it will take at least one month to come to the Imperial Capital.

Then, after reviewing the official document, Zhao Kuo returned to the Western Regions. It took another month, and this time was two months, and the loss of time could be said to be huge.

This is just a place close to Central Asia in the Western Regions. If the territory of the Han Kingdom is expanded to West Asia and even Europe in the future, this problem will be even more serious.

If you are in a modern world, this is actually not a big problem. The plane will arrive after flying. And all kinds of official documents can be directly passed through the fax network and other means. If you have any urgent matters, just call it and get it done.

However, in this ancient times, these things will become a huge problem. In the long run, it will weaken the Han Dynasty's control over various areas of the border and generate various centrifugal forces, which is definitely a very bad thing.

There is only one way to solve this problem, that is, to develop the social productivity of the Han Kingdom as soon as possible, so that the Han Kingdom can enter modern society as soon as possible, so that this problem can be solved.

Just when Zhao Kuo thought of this, the news of the eunuch's order suddenly rang out.

"Report to Your Majesty, the Minister of Science and Technology, Fu Zhen, sent another urgent memorial."

After hearing this report, Zhao Kuo's heart suddenly moved slightly.

Generally speaking, if you didn’t have something better invented, you wouldn’t have submitted such an emergency memorial.

Zhao Kuo didn't say nonsense, so he asked the eunuchsing to bring the memorial and read it separately.

This memorial is actually very short, with a few simple sentences written on it, but after reading these sentences, Zhao Kuo was overjoyed and immediately issued an order.

"Go and find the prince immediately and let him follow me to the Ministry of Science and Technology."

Half an hour later, Zhao Kuo took the prince Zhao Qian and left the palace in a carriage and went directly to the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The Ministry of Science and Technology is a newly established department. Unlike other departments, this Ministry of Science and Technology is not located around the palace, but is located in the suburbs of a wilderness for the Imperial Capital.

This is also the consciousness of Fuzhen. From the explanation of Fuzhen, it is mainly because he thinks that the Ministry of Science and Technology has to make many inventions, many of these inventions are dangerous, so it is better to be farther away from the city, and this is also conducive to confidentiality.

The carriage soon arrived at the Ministry of Science and Technology. It was obviously not the first time Zhao Kuo came, so he was familiar with the road and directly asked the imperial car to go to the factory inside.

After arriving at the factory, Ku Zhen immediately heard the news.

"I have met Your Majesty, and I have met the Prince."

Zhao Kuo nodded and smiled at Fu Zhen and said, "My dear, after hearing your words, he arrived immediately without stopping at 1 o'clock.

What do you want to show me?"

When Fu Zhen heard this, he smiled and said to Zhao Kuo: "Your Majesty and the Prince, please follow the minister here, that thing is right in front of you."

Zhao Qian looked at Zhao Kuo curiously, and then looked at Fu Zhen curiously. He actually didn't know what he was going to see this time.

But soon, Zhao Qian learned the answer.

Just in the Ministry of Science and Technology's factory, there is a large open space, which is about the same area as the playground in the future. At this moment, there is something made of a very huge steel lying there.

The moment Zhao Kuo saw this thing, he couldn't help but subconsciously compared it with the things he had seen in later generations and modern times.

Although this thing looks quite rough and cannot be compared with those modern similarities in later generations, there is no doubt that it is indeed a steam locomotive.

Yes, the reason why Zhao Kuo rushed here so quickly was because Fu Zhen said in this memorial that he had created the first steam locomotive in the world.

As we all know, trains need to be driven by the front of the car, so as long as the front of the car can be built, all we have to do next is to add the car to build a train.

Zhao Kuo's expression was a little fascinated, and he stared at the first steam engine locomotive in front of him.

Below this locomotive, there is the first railway track of the Han Dynasty, and this railway track is an oval, similar to the closed loop of the playground runway in later generations.

Zhao Kuo said, "It should be able to start, right?"

After listening to Zhao Kuo's words, Ku Zhen also laughed and said with great certainty: "Please rest assured, your Majesty, it can certainly be activated."

As he spoke, Zhao Kuo walked into the only car behind the front of the car.

This carriage is not so much a carriage, but a simple transformation is made by simply taking the body of a carriage.

But Zhao Kuo didn't care about this at this moment. He just urged to Ku Zhen: "Hurry up and start it and let him run and take a look."

Zhao Qian, who was behind Zhao Kuo, was shocked when he heard this sentence.

For Zhao Qian, he himself did not know the concept of trains, and he had never been exposed to similar things, so he was actually very confused at this time.

If Zhao Qian was asked to understand Zhao Kuo literally, it means that Zhao Kuo hoped that the very weird-looking big iron lump in front of him would run away.

But the problem is that Zhao Qian did not see horses and cows nearby, or other things that could pull this big iron lump.

So the question is, how should this big iron lump run by itself?

Soon, Kuzhen gave Zhao Qian an answer with practical actions.

I only saw that I started the engine inside carefully and then started adding coal to the engine's furnace.

When a sufficient amount of coal was added, a certain switch was pressed, and the next thing happened completely beyond Zhao Qian's imagination.

The big iron chimney above the steam locomotive suddenly burst out with smoke. Then, amid the deafening roar of the steam engine, the train began to slowly move on the rails.

To be honest, the speed of the train is actually not fast, it is almost the same as the speed of a human walking. However, when Zhao Kuo watched the steam engine train running, the joy in his heart was beyond words, and he even had the urge to whistle to the sky.

Finally the train was built.

The significance of trains to industrial society is incomparable to any other means of transportation.

It is precisely because of the existence of trains that people can connect with any corner of the world, so that a large amount of goods produced can be continuously transported and exported.

At this point, the convenience of boarding a train is even far greater than that of a steamer. After all, ships can be transported by the sea, while the place where humans move is on land.

When the train appears, the industrial society of the Han Dynasty will become very rapid. Not only that, as long as the railway is constantly being built, the Han Dynasty's control over the territory will be further improved.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the future, as long as the train can pass, it will be the place where the army of the Han Kingdom can reach. Then no one can launch a successful rebellion in such a place.

Simply put, the benefits of trains are so many that Zhao Kuo thought about it for a while, and finally couldn't help but laugh out loud.

After the laughter, Zhao Kuo patted his belly and said very seriously: "My dear, you will be destined to be recorded in history and praised and worshipped by all descendants of future generations!"

At this moment, Zhao Kuo's tone was extremely certain.

Fu Zhen was still nervously helping the train forward. After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, he turned around and smiled, and said to Zhao Kuo: "To be honest, Your Majesty, this train may also be the most fulfilling thing that I have created in my life."

The sentence "Bai Zhen" is also a voice. You must know that for so many years, human beings have been relying on livestock like cows and horses, and occasionally they will use the power of flowing water. However, this is the first time that the power of steam engines that directly transforms out of thin air is really.

And Fu Zhen himself is the person who has truly realized this for the first time. How could he not be proud of it?

Then Ku Zhen said quickly: "But what I want to say is that without His Majesty's guidance, I'm afraid I will never be able to build this steam engine and train in this life."

What Fu Zheng said is also true. Whether it is a steam engine or a train, the concepts of these things are provided by generalization, and the specific principle is also proposed by Zhao Kuo to give the truth.

What Bai Zhen has to do is actually to find various suitable materials and methods in the framework of these principles and implement them.

To describe this relationship in a simple way, that is, Zhao Kuo is the actual leader, while Fu Zhen is responsible for walking along the path pointed out by Zhao Kuo and getting the right end.

So Fu Zhen feels that the contribution of finding goods in this matter is actually not inferior to the true nature of the abdomen, and it can even be said that it is superior to the true nature of the abdomen.

After all, you can walk by yourself. As long as you organize enough manpower, you will be able to overcome these scientific research difficulties sooner or later. However, if you want to know which path is truly correct, that is valuable.

Zhao Qian was shocked after listening to Fu Zhen's sincere words.

Originally, Zhao Qian was deeply impressed by the appearance of this train and the inventor's true true nature, but now after listening to the words of Fuzheng, Zhao Qian realized that the father from home was actually the leader of the passerby.

Father, isn’t this too strong?
Chapter completed!