While Ye Tian was suppressing other countries, Great Qin was also frantically building railways.
Although the railways were winding, bypassing many mountains and rivers, they were built at a very fast pace.
Soon, Great Qin's tracks extended beyond its borders, heading straight for the Peacock Kingdom.
In the Peacock Kingdom, a large number of slaves were also building railways.
However, the slaves did not know what these railways were.
"What are the people of Great Qin building here?"
"I can't understand it, but it looks like a road!!"
"This Great Qin is truly powerful, the roads they build are made of metal!!"
"If we had so much metal, how many weapons could we make, how much wealth could we amass!!"
The slaves were unaware of the existence of railways.
They also did not know that the appearance of these railways would give Great Qin stronger control over this region.
All they knew was that as slaves, they had to build these railways well.
Knowing this, many of them diligently built the railway.
They were also intimidated by the Great Qin army and dared not resist in any way.
With their efforts, in just a few months, Great Qin's railways were connected to those of the Peacock Kingdom.
At the same time, the power of the train was further optimized, making it faster.
It only took three days to reach the Peacock Kingdom.
Such speed was truly unbelievable.
When Ying Zheng learned of the train's speed, his heart was greatly moved.
"I, I want to see the Peacock Kingdom with my own eyes!!"
Although the Peacock Kingdom had already been conquered by Great Qin and was now its territory, Ying Zheng had never seen what it looked like.
Now, being able to reach the Peacock Kingdom in three days indeed gave Ying Zheng a strong urge to visit it.
Lin Tian did not object to this.
Even he himself wanted to experience what it was like to travel to the Peacock Kingdom by train.
Because of this, Lin Tian and Ying Zheng, along with some ministers and a detachment of troops, boarded the train.
After boarding the train, Ying Zheng and the others discovered that the train had undergone a great transformation.
It not only had comfortable seats but also very transparent glass, and even lights had appeared.
Seeing the presence of lights, both Ying Zheng and the ministers were astonished.
And when they saw the headlights on the locomotive, they could not believe their eyes.
"This, is this really a lamp? Is there such a lamp in this world??"
"Incredible, truly incredible, I thought the train would still use candlelight for illumination, but I didn't expect their lamps to have no fire at all!!"
"How was this achieved? Not only can it illuminate, but it can also be so bright, shining so far?!"
The appearance of lights was a closely guarded secret, and even Ying Zheng did not know about it beforehand.
At this time, it was not easy to produce electricity.
Even in later generations, many power plants relied on burning to generate electricity.
Only by constantly burning on the train could such electricity be generated.
As for other places to build a burning station, the consumption was too great.
With the current technology, it was not possible to achieve such a large kinetic energy conversion.
However, it was still possible to have electricity in the imperial palace.
This depended on Ying Zheng's wishes.
However, Ying Zheng was not concerned with this matter at the moment; his attention was all on the train.
There were too many things on this train that he was curious about.
Especially when he discovered that the lights on the train could illuminate a long distance, his curiosity about the existence of these lights intensified.
"If our army's city walls had such lights to illuminate the distance, even in the middle of the night, we wouldn't have to fear enemy ambushes!!"
"With such bright lights, it can indeed illuminate all directions, giving the enemy no chance to ambush!!"
"Yes, if that were the case, our enemies would have no chance to ambush!!"
Not only did the ministers agree, but even Lin Tian wholeheartedly agreed.
Because such lights did exist in later generations.
However, when they learned that it was too costly to achieve this with current technology, they abandoned the idea.
The current technology was not sufficient; it would have to wait for the future.
Of course, Great Qin did not have powerful enemies attacking its cities at the moment, so they did not need to guard against such things.
Afterward, everyone's attention once again fell on the speed of the train.
"I feel that the train's speed has increased a lot now!!"
"I have the same feeling; even the warhorses outside might not be as fast as us!!"
"What's important is not just speed, but endurance. Those warhorses get tired after running for a while, but this train can run for three days and three nights without getting tired!!"
"Not only that, but we are also very comfortable inside this carriage, with no sense of fatigue at all. We can go into battle as soon as we get off!!"
Upon hearing this, countless people agreed.
At the same time, they also excitedly thought about transporting large quantities of goods from the Peacock Kingdom back to Great Qin.
"With this train, Great Qin will have an endless source of wealth!!"
"Indeed, with large quantities of goods transported to our Great Qin, it will be enough to make countless people in Great Qin wealthy!!"
"In that case, the people of Great Qin will no longer have to worry about not having enough to eat; in fact, everyone will have a lot of wealth!!"
"Even as His Highness the Crown Prince said, we can completely distribute money to those citizens who cannot take care of themselves!"
Although many officials desired more wealth for themselves,
they did not have much compassion for the common people.
However, when they possessed sufficient wealth, they were still willing to distribute some benefits to the common people.
These benefits were considered a pang of conscience.
Lin Tian did not say much about this.
The officials of Great Qin were already much better than before.
Those corrupt officials had long since been executed by Lin Tian.
Those who remained were relatively outstanding.
Of course, in the future, Great Qin's officials would only get better and better, and more and more talented individuals would be discovered.
Moreover, when their lives were met, they would not be so greedy.
Of course, even if they became greedy, it would not matter. As long as Lin Tian's sword remained sharp, he would not hesitate to kill all corrupt officials.
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