As winter turned to spring, Luo Ji and Ye Qingxuan were not disappointed by the taxes collected by the Dwarf Province.

Looking at the gradually filling treasury, Luo Ji breathed a sigh of relief.

In this way, development will naturally continue while ensuring financial stability.

This year has been a busy and stable year for Luo Ji and Ye Qingxuan.

The development of civilization has made the two of them very busy, but at the same time, no unexpected events have occurred, which makes their lives quite stable.

At the same time, at the end of summer of this year, the development project in the Western Region, which had lasted for many years, was finally basically completed.

Although there is still a lot of follow-up work that needs to be dealt with, for those follow-up tasks, only some workers need to be left to take their time.

As for other workers, they were naturally transferred to work on the railway project.

In the Construction Engineering Department, the railway route map has been confirmed long ago, and a large number of rail parts have even been manufactured.

Now, as soon as the workers arrive, work will naturally start immediately.

According to Luo Ji's initial plan, railways and train stations were built in the border cities first to ensure improved support efficiency. As for the rear cities, just take your time.

Anyway, the inconvenience of moving between cities has not been a problem for a year or two.

In this way, the project was officially launched. After spending a large amount of money, Luo Ji felt that he was now much poorer again, but there was nothing he could do about it.

The next thing Luo Ji had to do was undoubtedly keep an eye on the development progress of the steam train.

The most troublesome steam engine problem has been solved from the beginning, and with the support of gold-level design drawings, although it is the first time to manufacture this new type of mechanical vehicle, as long as the technology is in place and the design drawings are OK, the efficiency will be high.

Basically not much lower.

System prompt: Congratulations to player ‘Luo Ji’ for successfully unlocking the technology project ‘Steam Train’

At the end of the summer of the following year, the first steam train of all civilizations was officially born. Its birth allowed Luo Ji to unlock a technological project without any surprise.

Luo Ji briefly took a look at the bonus effect of the technology project, which basically improved the production efficiency of steam trains. This project was surprisingly useful to him, at least he really needed it now, so he decisively upgraded it to three levels in a row.

After finishing the ascension, Luo Ji turned his attention to the steam train again. Looking at the big black guy in front of him, he couldn't help but have a look of amazement on his face.

In the real world, steam trains like this can basically only be seen in some museums, or they may appear in some movies and TV series.

But now, it just stopped quietly within reach.

The fingertips gently touched the slightly thick black metal, and finally the entire palm of his hand was completely attached to it. The cold touch returned gave Luo Ji a strange feeling.

It felt like he was pushing an entire era forward, and a strong sense of satisfaction constantly filled his body and mind. It was really incredible.

"call--"

After exhaling a long breath, Luo Ji first rewarded the staff of the Academy of Science and Technology, and then turned to Lu Yang and Ye Hua, who also came to observe and asked...

"How is the construction of the border railway project going?"

"Reporting to your Majesty, the railway project at Gaoling City in the west has been completed."

The person who answered at this time was Ye Hua. After all, Lu Yang still had to worry about several other major projects within the civilization of all realms. Therefore, Luo Ji asked Ye Hua to help keep an eye on the railway project.

It was the Western Region that was the first to lay railways.

The reasons are not complicated, there are basically two reasons.

The first reason is because the workers happened to be in the Western Region at that time, so we might as well lay the railway to the Western Region first, which would save them traveling back and forth and wasting time.

The second reason is a little more serious.

It has been said before that the laying of railways will greatly improve the efficiency of movement between cities.

The Western Region happens to be a relatively underdeveloped area among the civilizations of all realms.

Therefore, Luo Ji wanted to use the advantage of "convenient transportation" to see if he could stimulate the economic development of the Western Region and create more trade routes.

At the same time, it might be possible to further enhance his popularity among the dwarves.

In this way, the first steam train of civilization in all realms was naturally given priority to the Western Region.

This matter will undoubtedly become the headline news of the newspaper, and the report will be focused on it. Not only will the R&D personnel of the Institute of Science and Technology be interviewed, but two photos will also be taken back.

That's right, today's civilizations in all worlds already have cameras.

However, this thing was not the work of Luo Ji, but the work of Gawain, so naturally there was no need for Luo Ji to invest money.

According to what Gawain said, he originally wanted to get a camera for fun and see if he could make a small amount of money or something.

Facts have proved that he was half successful.

With the help of the technical power of Goblin Technology, he did successfully create a bulky early camera. The photos he took were in black and white and were not very clear, but there was no doubt that he successfully created it.

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However, the reason why he said he was half successful is because this thing is not easy to sell at all...

People are indeed interested in this rare thing, but it is obviously an expensive item.

Although everyone's life and income are generally good now, the price still dissuades a large number of people.

So far, apart from a few wealthy people who have bought one and played around with it, newspapers in various cities have purchased one each in order to improve the quality of their newspapers.

Let the newspaper of Wanjie Civilization successfully publish a photo that is not very clear.

The cameras developed by Goblin Technology have successfully demonstrated their value in newspapers. The sales of newspapers with photos have indeed become higher than before.

Of course, it is also possible that the people simply want to see through photos the new gadget that their Majesty has created, which is the so-called steam train.

At this moment, the benefits of publishing newspapers are undoubtedly further reflected.

You see, Luo Ji did basically nothing, but he easily let the people know about the existence of the steam train, a new type of vehicle, through the newspapers he bought with his own money.

Even the role of steam trains was clearly written in newspapers.

For a time, the topic of steam trains became a hot topic among the entire civilization of the world.

Everyone was very curious whether the so-called steam train could really travel between two cities as fast as the newspaper said!

As for the Western Region, which was given priority to be equipped with the first steam train, the mood of countless people in the Western Region at this moment is far more excited than other people!

The update is sent, and I would like to thank the book friend "This is a good book and very good" for the reward and the book friends "Li Hao", "Please call me Wang Tiedan", "Huang Yifan", "Shenwu Sunset", and "wats7410"

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