Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1144 Roar
After excluding inferior horses in advance, taking the war horses used by their Great Zhou cavalry as an example, their average moving speed is about 20 to 30 kilometers per hour.

This will also be affected by various other factors.

And their Great Zhou's first steam locomotive, with the support of Qin Fen's extremely mature design concept, has easily reached a moving speed of 80 kilometers per hour.

At this moment, the mobility efficiency of ordinary war horses has been completely surpassed by that of steam locomotives.

In the past, it took them nearly three hours to travel from Black Moon City to the nearest Grassland City. But today, riding on a steam train, it only took them less than an hour to arrive safely!

And this is obviously not enough to reflect the value of steam locomotives.

Don't forget that horses are living creatures. They will be affected by their physical fitness. After running for a long time, they need to eat, drink water and rest.

But a steam locomotive does not need that. As long as the crew is arranged in shifts and there is enough fuel, it can run 24 hours a day, or even for several days and nights.

Their steam engine can withstand this intensity, and Qin Fen and his team had already done relevant tests long before.

This advantage is enough to significantly shorten the distance between cities.

At the same time, in Prairie City...

As the only way for steam trains to reach the northeastern border, they undoubtedly set up a train platform here to provide further convenience for the subsequent individual transportation work from Black Moon City to Grassland City.

On this day, a large number of people had gathered behind the train platform.

Even Ma Guotao couldn't help but come and join in the fun.

Accompanied by the sound of the whistle "Woo--", the people on the grassland, including Ma Guotao, were all cheered up. They all stood on tiptoe and looked into the distance.

Soon, amidst the billowing smoke, the steam locomotive that looked like a steel behemoth came into everyone's sight!

“Roar. Roar. Roar! Roar!!!”

At this moment, Ma Guotao himself didn't know what was happening to him. He couldn't help laughing out loud, and his heart couldn't help but pounding.

"How many years has it been? Are we entering the steam age?!"

From a certain perspective, the impact he endured was no less than that of the grassland people present.

He never thought that he would have the honor to witness such a grand scene of changing times!

The steel giant called the steam locomotive was sweeping towards him with the wheel of the times! It brought Ma Guotao an unprecedented shock!
Having left enough distance, the steam locomotive slowed down before entering the station, and finally stopped steadily and accurately at the platform of Caoyuan Station.

"We pay our respects to His Majesty!!"

The next moment, seeing Zhou Xu getting off the train, all the grassland people saluted.

"Everyone is free of charge!"

Although this steam train trip was mostly for testing purposes, considering that the final stop was at Grassland Station, Black Moon City had loaded all the supplies that needed to be brought over onto the carriages.

Therefore, considering the unloading work, the steam train will have to stay at the grassland station for a while.

There were a lot of people standing outside, so it was impossible for Zhou Xu to sit in the train and not show up.

After briefly showing up and saying a few words, he saw Ma Guotao standing in the front row and waved to him directly.

Seeing that the other party was about to come over to salute, Zhou Xu quickly raised his hand to stop him.

"Okay, I called you over here because I wanted to ask if this year's breeding of exotic war horses is almost finished?"

Unloading takes time, and there was nothing else to do anyway. Ma Guotao just happened to be here to join in the fun, so Zhou Xu just grabbed him and asked him about business.

At this moment, Ma Guotao felt like he met his boss outside during the holidays, and then started working overtime for no apparent reason... But he just complained about it in his mind.

Raising horses was his passion, and now that His Majesty was talking to him about the breeding of exotic war horses, Ma Guotao was also very enthusiastic.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

With the continuous breeding over the years, the output rate of exotic war horses has also increased year by year, and now it has formed a certain scale.

"Once this year's breeding work is finished, the first batch of exotic beast war horses, a total of 100 horses, will be ready to start service. If nothing goes wrong, we can put a batch of them into service every year."

There are certainly more than a hundred exotic war horses in the grassland horse farm now, and the number may even far exceed this number.

However, as the owner of a horse farm, Ma Guotao had to ensure the stable breeding of the exotic war horses in the farm, so he could not put all the exotic war horses in his hands into service at once.

In fact, leaving these one hundred exotic war horses with him would make subsequent breeding more efficient.

However, considering that it would take time for the soldiers and the exotic warhorses to get used to each other, he provided a part of them first so that the relevant troops could start the running-in training as soon as possible.

Although one hundred exotic war horses are not enough to arm an entire trap camp, it is still good news for Zhou Xu.

Not to mention that new exotic war horses will be added every year.

Now is a time of peace. If everything goes well, in a few years, everyone in the Xianzhen Camp will have a horse.

Perhaps he saw what Zhou Xu was thinking, Ma Guotao coughed twice...

"Your Majesty, when breeding the exotic war horses, although I have tried my best to select those with high obedience and close to humans for targeted breeding, they are still exotic beasts after all. It may not be that easy to subdue them."

Zhou Xu raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this.

Ma Guotao meant that although he provided a hundred exotic beast horses, the Xianzhen Camp might not be able to produce a hundred exotic beast knights...

At this moment, Zhou Xu really felt a little interested.

"That's interesting. I'll come and take a look when the time comes."

While the two were talking, the train had already been unloaded, and they got back on the train and returned to Black Moon City.

The whole trip, plus the time for unloading, did not even take more than two hours.

This level of efficiency was something that people of this era could not even imagine before.

Afterwards, Zhou Xu called Qin Fen again and held a small meeting with the people from the Railway Bureau, focusing on emphasizing the main work content of the Railway Bureau in the future.

Their workload surrounding steam locomotives and railways is not small at all.

They even need to arrange patrol personnel and sentry posts near every section of railway.

Because in this era, large sections of railways were laid in the wild, where wild animals often roamed and might even cause damage to the railways.

Therefore, the daily workload in the area of ​​railway inspection is not small.

At the same time, it is the only steam locomotive in their Great Zhou at this stage.

Zhou Xu obviously has no plans to open it to the public in the short term.

Currently it is mainly responsible for the transportation of resources required for military transportation and internal construction projects.

(End of this chapter)