Chapter 1287 The Spread of News

The treasure ship drawings that Bai Feng sent to Yamatai this time made Himihu, Li Cunxiao and Meng Jie feel that everything Bai Feng described would be realized in the near future.

What we need to do now is to seize the time to practice shipbuilding techniques and study the treasure ship's blueprints thoroughly.

Bai Feng will also harvest wood for Yamatai in Hanzhong that can be used to build treasure ships.

As for the wood that Himihu had harvested at Yamatai, it was just used for training.

After Bai Feng finished explaining to the three people, he returned to Hanzhong again.

News of the successful construction of steam trains also began to spread in Hanzhong.

The craftsmen of the R&D center who had witnessed the steam train operating that day told their families about the steam train after returning home from the holidays.

"Have you heard that Hanzhong built an iron chariot without horses?"

"I've heard about it a long time ago, and that's not called an iron train, that's called a steam train!"

"Yes, yes, what kind of steam engine is used instead of horses!"

"And the front of the steam train weighs tens of thousands of pounds! How does Guaiguai run with such a heavy weight?"

In Hanzhong City, steam trains have become the most fashionable topic among the streets and alleys.

People heard their relatives or friends who worked in the R&D center describe steam trains, and then they showed off to their neighbors.

It's just that people who have never actually seen a steam train added a lot of their own imagination when describing the steam train to their neighbors.

It's like a steam train that's ten feet high, and thunder rolls out as soon as it starts moving.

In addition, the steam engine in the steam train is made by the long-lost Mohist machine technology, etc.

Bai Feng naturally also heard the common people's discussion about steam trains.

And he also joked to Cao Jie:

"If we can really build the steam train that people talk about, then Wei will be invincible in this world, hahaha!"

When Cao Jie heard this, he also smiled at Bai Feng and said:

"Now that Wei has a steam train, he should be invincible, right?"

"Well, invincible, hahaha!"

Bai Feng laughed loudly again when he heard this.

All his arrangements and plans are progressing steadily, and Bai Feng is in a good mood recently.

When the nitroglycerin/oil workshop successfully manufactures explosives, Bai Feng can mine iron ore on a large scale in Hanzhong and then build railways.

It would be great if Yamatai could successfully establish an ore trading channel with Da Wei.

Xiahou Dun and the Yizhou nobles, who had been paying attention to the situation in Hanzhong, also learned that Bai Feng had built a steam train in Hanzhong.

At this time, most of the people in Yizhou did not understand what a steam train was.

But the gentry in Yizhou had already learned about the steam train test run from the craftsmen working at the Hanzhong R&D Center.

Steam looms have brought great benefits to the gentry in Yizhou.

Now the cloth produced in Yizhou has been sold all over the Wei Dynasty. In less than three months, the Zhouyu clan who own steam looms have occupied 30% of the entire cloth market share in the Wei Dynasty.

It's a pity that steam looms cannot imitate silk now, otherwise the nobles of Yizhou would really make a fortune.

Now they learned that steam engines were used in new places to create steam trains, and they became very interested in the role of steam trains.

If you can buy a steam train from Bai Feng, you will definitely make a lot of money!

The Yizhou gentry who had never seen a steam train with their own eyes only heard the craftsmen at the R&D center talk about steam trains, and intuitively believed that steam trains could definitely make money.

Bai Feng didn't care at all about the spread of steam train trial news.

There is no need to hide it now, and after the advent of the steam train, even if Bai Feng wants to continue to hide it, he can't hide it for long.

This time is different from the steam train manufacturing stage. In order to ensure that the drawings and processes of steam train manufacturing are not leaked, Bai Feng needs to manufacture the steam train secretly.

And whether we are building railways or continuing to manufacture steam trains in the future, more craftsmen will be needed.

It is certainly unrealistic to expect all craftsmen to be tight-lipped about steam trains.

Li Rufeng and other nobles from Yizhou were already planning to contact Bai Feng to discuss purchasing a steam train.

If they understood that steam trains could really produce economic benefits and that the length of railway required would be thousands of miles, they would not want to buy a steam train and come back.

Of course, the Yizhou nobles who are still unaware of this situation only think that Bai Feng's products must be high-quality products.

As long as you buy it, you will definitely make money!

After all, steam engines and steam looms had previously made the Yizhou nobles make a lot of money.

Now there are already some nobles in Yizhou who, after purchasing steam engines from Hanzhong, did not modify hydraulic looms.

Instead, he sold steam engines to other states and counties at high prices and guided them to transform steam looms.

Limited by the output of steam engines, Bai Feng's sales strategy for steam engines is 40% in Yizhou and 60% in Hanzhong.

Therefore, except for Yizhou and Hanzhong, other prefectures and counties in the Wei Dynasty had no channels at all if they wanted to purchase steam engines.

Seeing the Yizhou gentry making huge profits from reselling steam engines, they became second-rate dealers.

Although they sold steam engines to nobles from other states and counties, the price increased more than fifty times.

However, the gentry in other states and counties who had purchased steam engines and completed the improvement of water-powered looms into steam looms were still willing to pay a high price to buy steam engines.

With steam engines, after improving existing looms, they could occupy a larger share of the local cloth market in a short period of time.

As long as I bring down all other cloth shops, I will make money anyway.

The Yizhou gentry, who had tasted the sweetness, naturally became interested in steam trains.

In their eyes, any new thing that applied steam engines must represent a lot of silver.

So Li Rufeng and other Yizhou gentry began to write to Bai Feng, asking if they could buy or reserve steam trains now.

They had always heard about the steam train styles relayed by the craftsmen, and they also wanted to buy a real steam train to take a look.

Silver was not a problem, and now they had plenty of silver!

Compared with the gentry, Xiahou Dun of course learned about this news shortly after the R&D center completed the test run of the steam train.

His view on steam locomotives was certainly different from that of some nobles who only cared about money.

In Xiahou Dun's view, the emergence of steam locomotives meant that a new revolution was coming.

Of course, Xiahou Dun believed that the emergence of steam locomotives might just be the beginning of this revolution, and this beginning was everything represented by steam power.