Chapter 1380 Two-Level Reversal

Then Cao Jie took two craftsmen, Li Tiedan and Wang Gang, from the R&D center, and set off for Yizhou.

As a major buyer of steam engines from Hanzhong, many noble families in Yizhou also invested in soap workshops. There were nearly 20 soap workshops built in Yizhou alone.

So Cao Jie chose Yizhou as the first place to build a steam engine workshop and expand the soap workshop.

After arriving in Yizhou, Xiahou Dun personally greeted Cao Jie.

"Your Highness!"

"General Xiahou, no need to be polite."

After the two met and exchanged greetings, Cao Jie mentioned the matter of building a steam engine workshop in Yizhou, and made it clear that the noble families in Yizhou who invested in soap workshops could also invest in steam engine workshops.

This news surprised Xiahou Dun.

He had never thought that Bai Feng would actually build a steam engine workshop in a prefecture outside Hanzhong.

As Bai Feng's neighbor, no one could know the importance of steam engines to Hanzhong better than Xiahou Dun.

Steam locomotives are also the core of steam looms. You can tell at a glance that they are steam locomotives.

And if there are any problems with the steam locomotives that Bai Feng sold before, they were basically replaced without repair.

In Xiahou Dun's view, this approach is also to prevent the leakage of steam engine manufacturing technology.

Bai Feng promoted the method of only replacing without repair, and he did consider preventing the leakage of steam engine manufacturing technology.

But more importantly, he hoped that the gentry could use steam engines more for production activities.

And unqualified steam engines are much more dangerous than soaps made in small workshops.

Another point is that it is too troublesome to repair them on site. It is better to just replace a new one. Anyway, the profit of steam engines is enough, and it is not so easy to break under normal use.

"That's great. I think the gentry in Yizhou will be so excited that they can't sleep after hearing this news, hahaha!"

Xiahou Dun smiled at Cao Jie.

Then he asked Cao Jie about the manufacturing progress of the Hanzhong steam locomotive.

Because after using explosives for mining, the efficiency has been significantly improved.

As a result, the mines in Yizhou are now most in need of labor to transport ore.

So Xiahou Dun now wants to buy steam locomotives from Bai Feng even more.

"General Xiahou, don't worry. My husband said that steam locomotives will definitely be sold in the future."

"Yizhou has not yet started to build railways. General Xiahou can start with this matter first."

Cao Jie replied to Xiahou Dun according to what Bai Feng had said to her in advance.

After learning that Bai Feng planned to sell steam locomotives in the future, Xiahou Dun stopped asking about it.

As long as the steam locomotive can be sold, it doesn't matter if it's sold sooner or later.

Then Cao Jie arranged for people to spread the news that a steam engine workshop would be built in Yizhou.

One day later, all the Yizhou nobles who had invested in the soap workshop gathered outside the restaurant where Cao Jie was temporarily staying, waiting to see Cao Jie.

Seeing this, Cao Jie directly asked the maid to book the entire restaurant.

Later, in the lobby of the restaurant, Cao Jie explained the requirements for investing in the steam engine workshop to the Yizhou nobles who came forward.

The Yizhou nobles kept nodding, and Cao Jie said whatever they wanted.

As long as I can invest!

It only took one day to complete the investment in the steam engine workshop in Yizhou.

This speed surprised Cao Jie.

When he went back to his room to rest at night, Cao Jie was still thinking that the power of this steam engine was much greater than that of soap.

After the investment in the steam engine was settled, the remaining work was the expansion of the soap workshop and the construction of the steam engine workshop in Yizhou.

Cao Jie did not need to do these two parts of the work himself.

Diao Chan and Cai Wenji, as well as Li Tiedan and Wang Gang were responsible for implementation.

The soap workshop already had a lot of construction experience, Diao Chan and Cai Wenji handled it very well, and the nobles of Yizhou also cooperated very well.

The construction of the steam engine workshop was relatively not so smooth.

Because the use of various tools and the construction of the production line have very strict requirements.

This is also a requirement to ensure that the steam engine production lines built in other states and counties can be put into production as soon as possible.

Compared with Diao Chan and Cai Wenji, Li Tiedan and Wang Gang have to work harder.

However, all the things about steam engines are not hard for Li Tiedan and Wang Gang. They enjoy more from building steam engine workshops.

After half a month.

Yizhou has already built five steam engine workshops and expanded ten soap workshops.

At the same time, the news of Yizhou's construction of steam engine workshops has also spread to other states and counties.

Originally, the Liangzhou gentry and Yongzhou gentry invested in Youzhou's soap workshops and have started to make money. The Bingzhou and Jizhou gentry who have had contact with the Youzhou gentry have been prepared to invest in Youzhou's soap workshops.

However, after learning the news from Yizhou, these Bingzhou and Jizhou gentry decisively gave up the plan to invest in Youzhou's soap workshops.

Because with the news that the Yizhou gentry invested in the steam engine workshop and that Yizhou was building a steam engine workshop spread.

The news that only the nobles who invested in the Hanzhong Soap Workshop were eligible to invest in the Steam Engine Workshop had also spread.

This meant that Bai Feng's counterattack against the Youzhou nobles had begun again!

The gentry in Qingzhou and Xuzhou are the ones who reacted the most to this news.

Because apart from Yizhou, only the gentry in Qingzhou and Xuzhou have invested in the soap workshop.

The next steam engine workshop must be built in these two states.

Now, the gentry in Qingzhou and Xuzhou have begun to care about the progress of the steam engine workshop in Yizhou.

As for the soap workshop in Youzhou, how many other gentry have invested, they are no longer within their scope of concern.

When the gentry in Youzhou learned of this news, they felt bad from head to toe.

At this time, in Liu Yan's prefectural mansion, the gentry in Youzhou found him again, wanting a way to deal with it.

The faces of the gentry who came to the door this time no longer had the excitement and complacency they had a while ago.

Instead, they had a heavy face.

After hearing the news, Liu Yan's mood was not much better than these gentry.

After all, they could build a soap workshop by themselves, but they could not build a steam engine workshop.

It is too difficult to imitate the steam engine.

But in this situation, we must come up with a new solution.

Otherwise, the soap produced in Youzhou will still be difficult to sell.