Throne of Vientiane Civilization

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

This will also be affected by various other factors.

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

At this moment, the moving efficiency of ordinary war horses has been completely defeated by steam locomotives.

From Black Moon City to the nearest grassland city, it used to take them about three hours, but today, they took the steam locomotive and arrived smoothly in less than an hour!

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 physical fitness, and after a long run, they need to eat, drink water and rest.

But steam locomotives don't need it. As long as the staff in shifts are arranged, it can run 24 hours a day with enough fuel, or even for several days and nights.

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

This advantage is enough to greatly 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 railway platform here, which provided further convenience for the individual transportation work from Black Moon City to Prairie City.

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

Even Ma Guotao couldn't help but run over to join in the fun.

With the sound of the whistle "Woo--", the people of the grassland, including Ma Guotao, were all refreshed. One by one, they stood on tiptoe and looked into the distance.

Soon, in the billowing smoke, the steam train that looked like a steel behemoth directly broke into everyone's field of vision!

"Roar. Roar, roar, roar!!!"

At this moment, Ma Guotao himself didn't know what was wrong with him. He couldn't help laughing on the spot, and his heart couldn't help but pounding wildly.

"How many years have passed? We are about to enter 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 be lucky enough to witness such a grand scene of the change of times!

The steel behemoth called the steam train was sweeping towards him with the wheels of the times! It brought Ma Guotao an unprecedented shock!

With enough distance reserved, the steam train had slowed down in advance before entering the station, and finally stopped steadily at the railway platform of the grassland station with considerable accuracy.

"We pay our respects to His Majesty!!"

The next moment, seeing Zhou Xu getting off the train, a group of grassland people saluted.

"No need to be polite!"

Although the steam train's operation this time was mostly for testing, considering that the terminal was set at the grassland station, Black Moon City had loaded all the materials that needed to be brought over into the carriages.

So considering the unloading work next, the steam train had to stay at the grassland station for a while.

There were a lot of people standing outside, so Zhou Xu naturally couldn't just sit in the train and not show up.

After showing his face and saying a few words, he saw Ma Guotao standing in the front row, and he 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 to ask if the breeding of exotic war horses this year is about to end?"

It takes time to unload the goods, and Ma Guotao happened to be here to join in the fun, so Zhou Xu grabbed him and asked about the business.

At this time, Ma Guotao felt like he met his leader outside during the holiday, and then he started working overtime inexplicably...

But he just complained about it in his heart.

Raising horses is his favorite career. Now that their majesty talked to him about the breeding of exotic war horses, Ma Guotao was also very enthusiastic.

"Yes, your majesty."

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

"When the breeding work is finished this year, the first batch of 100 exotic war horses can officially start serving. If nothing goes wrong, a batch can be put into service every year."

Now there are more than 100 exotic war horses in the grassland horse farm, and even far more than this number.

But as the owner of the horse farm, Ma Guotao has to ensure the stable breeding of the internal exotic war horses, so he can't put all the exotic war horses on hand into service at once.

In fact, keeping these 100 exotic war horses with him will make the subsequent breeding more efficient.

However, considering that it takes time for soldiers and exotic war horses to run in, he will provide some of them first so that the relevant troops can start running-in training as soon as possible.

Although 100 exotic war horses are not enough to arm an entire trap camp, it is good news for Zhou Xu.

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

Now is a peaceful period. If everything goes well, after a few years, the trap camp will have one horse for each person.

Perhaps seeing Zhou Xu's thoughts, 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 so easy to subdue them."

Zhou Xu raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this.

Ma Guotao meant that although he provided 100 exotic war horses, the Xianzhen Camp might not be able to produce 100 exotic knights...

This time, Zhou Xu was really interested.

"It's interesting. I'll come and see when the time comes."

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

This round trip, plus the time for unloading in the middle, did not even exceed two hours.

This efficiency was unimaginable to the people of this era before.

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

Regarding steam locomotives and railways, their workload is not small at all.

They even need to arrange patrols and sentry booths near each section of the railway.

Because in this era, large sections of railways are laid in the wild, and wild animals often appear in the wild, which may even cause damage to the railway.

Therefore, the daily workload of patrolling the railway is not small.

At the same time, as 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.