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Chapter 442 The advent of the Dalei Steam Train!

After listening to Liu Sheng's words, Yang Dagui finally understood the current situation of Yanchang Town and was not too panicked. After all, Liu Sheng had pointed out the way out for Yanchang Town.

He then said: "I understand, I will expand the caravan in Yanchang Town when I turn around."

The caravans in Yanchang Town are specifically responsible for doing business with various native tribes. To open up trade routes in North America, the caravans must be expanded.

Liu Sheng thought that some of the native tribes that the Yanchang Town caravan dealt with were located along the coast, so he asked: "Have you ever obtained news about the Western Yi from the coastal native tribes?"

Yang Dagui shook his head, "No."

Liu Sheng attaches great importance to the news about the Xiyi people. The first and second leaders in each town and camp know it well. If the caravan really gets such information, they will naturally report it as soon as possible. How can they hide it?

Liu Sheng just asked casually, and was not surprised when he heard Yang Dagui's answer.

Because even if both sides of the time and space gate are in the same time and space, Longshou Bay was discovered by Westerners relatively late in history. It is normal that there is no news from Xiyi for the time being.

After inspecting Yanchang Town, Liu Sheng, considering that he had plenty of time, took the boat up the Joaquin River with his guards and arrived at the first grassland camp in the Central Valley opened by Da'ei immigrants.

Today, Da'ei immigrants hunt bison here and graze horses, cattle, and sheep to develop animal husbandry.

However, with the rapid development of guns and other firearms, the proportion and status of cavalry in Da'ei's army must be getting lower and lower. In this way, the training of war horses is not so important.

Da'ei will definitely take back the Liao and even the Western Regions in the future. Compared with the Central Valley, the grasslands of the Liao and the Western Regions and even Central Asia are obviously better land for raising horses.

As for North America, unless Da'ei can open up access to the prairie, they can only raise some fine horses on a small scale in the alpine meadows east of the Central Valley to improve Da'ei's war horse breeds.

Liu Sheng is not a workaholic. Since he personally led the Northern Expedition last year, he has been separated from his wife and children for more than half a year, and even gave birth to two sons and a daughter during this period.

The same is true for the acquisition of bison meat, cowhide and other materials. The help they played in the development of Dawei was quickly reduced, and even became dispensable.

However, due to the short development time, the camp currently has less than 10,000 people and only a few hundred horses.

Therefore, after entering the Forbidden City in Nanjing, Liu Sheng first announced a five-day rest.

During these five days, in addition to resting, Liu Sheng mainly exchanged feelings with several harem beauties such as the Red Lady, and contributed to the inheritance of the bloodline of the Damei royal family.

In a large courtyard within the Academy of Sciences, Liu Sheng couldn't help but smile with satisfaction when he saw the steam engine driving the wheels of the locomotive behind him to rotate rapidly (the train was placed halfway in the air).

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Time entered July, and Liu Sheng returned to Nanjing with his bodyguard regiment and personal guards under the scorching sun.

Five days later, Liu Sheng came to Damei Academy of Sciences.

Then he looked at Wang Hui and said, "It's really hard work for Professor Wang to be able to make a steam engine and a locomotive so quickly."

During this period, the third son of the emperor visited the mausoleum of the full moon and was named "Liu Heng" by Liu Sheng.

Therefore, Liu Sheng came here for a casual inspection, stayed for a day, and then left in a hurry.

Compared with last year, Wang Hui seems to be a little younger, and his face is even brighter now.

It can be seen that a successful career can indeed delay the aging of men.

However, Wang Hui did not hesitate. After listening to Liu Sheng's words, he said humbly: "Wei Chen is just following the script - if some of the mechanical parts are not so precise, the slightest difference in the manufacturing process will make the difference. This steam engine and locomotive may not be the same." It could have appeared in Dawei a few months earlier." The steam engine and locomotive drawings Liu Sheng gave Wang Hui were not the original versions, but a more practical modern version with more parts and more precision. Therefore, Liu Sheng did not expect that the team led by Wang Hui could copy it so quickly.

After watching for a while, Liu Sheng asked: "When will Professor Wang plan to conduct the steam train and railway tests?"

"Weichen is preparing to apply to the dean for funding and space."

Liu Sheng smiled and said, "Professor Wang, please hurry up. I'm looking forward to getting on the train as soon as possible."

The president of Da'ei Academy of Sciences is Song Yingxing, who is also very concerned about the development of steam engines and trains. Coupled with Liu Sheng's will to "handle special matters," I believe Wang Hui's team will soon be able to complete the railway loop test of the steam train.

By then, Damei can start building its first railway.

This railway will not be too long. For publicity purposes and to facilitate scientific observation, it will only be built near Nanjing.

Although there are many mountains around Nanjing, it is not difficult to build a short railway.

As for where the second, third and other subsequent railways in Da'ei will be built in the future, Liu Sheng has not yet decided.

After watching the preliminary test results of the steam train, Liu Sheng, accompanied by Song Yingxing and other officials, inspected other places in the Academy of Sciences, as well as some ongoing research and experiments. Of course, the premise is that the experimental site is not dangerous.

Nowadays, the Dalei Academy of Sciences should strictly speaking be called the Dalei Academy of Natural Sciences, because its subordinate schools of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, and Astronomy, etc., all basically belong to the natural sciences.

As for the research conducted, there are currently very few, and at most they are at the junior high school and primary school level.

After all, the Dalian Academy of Sciences was only established last year and is still in the "recruitment" stage.

In fact, Dalian Academy of Sciences already has a lot of talents.

For example, the School of Physics has Fang Yizhi, the School of Medicine has Wu Youxing, and although the School of Mathematics and Astronomy do not seem to have many famous people in the future, they have more researchers and are full of real talents.

Because in ancient China, there were many scholars who liked to study mathematics and astronomy.

On the other hand, the School of Chemistry and the School of Biology are still almost empty - Chemistry and Biology are inherently niche. For example, those who study chemistry probably had to find Taoist priests who refined the elixir in the Ming Dynasty, but there were no such people in the late Ming Dynasty. Naturally, Liu Sheng could not recommend any celebrities. He could only rely on Song Yingxing and other leading officials of the Academy of Sciences to find and discover them themselves.

But Liu Sheng didn't want to really start the Da'ei Academy of Sciences from scratch.

When the Academy of Sciences recruits enough talents, he will pass on some relevant knowledge to future generations, so that natural science in Da'ei can develop rapidly...

When Liu Sheng returned to the Tianxin Palace in the Forbidden City from the Academy of Sciences, it was already dark, the weather was a bit sultry, and it seemed like it was going to rain.

At this time, Zou Runniang walked into Tianxin Palace with a telegram and said: "Your Majesty, a telegram came from Fujian about the Zheng family."

After speaking, he handed the telegram to the guards in the palace.

The leader of the Nanjing Telecommunications Team was originally Bai Yu, but Liu Sheng had previously promoted Bai Yu to the deputy director of the Telecommunications Department and transferred him to Tianmu Mountain to replace Zou Runniang in guarding the villa and concurrently serve as the leader of the telecommunications team there.

In this way, the leader of the Nanjing Telecommunications Group was Zou Runniang, who came to Nanjing with Liu Sheng.

(End of this chapter)