"Your Majesty, are we really not studying steam locomotives? With the strength of the Mercedes-Benz four-wheeled carriage workshop and the level of the Steam Engine Research Institute of Guanshishan Academy, we can quickly produce our own steam locomotives."

In the Chu King's Mansion, Wang Fugui once again proposed to Li Kuan the idea of ​​building a steam locomotive.

Obviously, the performance of Laoniu Steam Locomotive Workshop on the Datang Stock Exchange today touched him.

"The Steam Engine Research Institute of Guanshishan Academy is just not listed. If it is also listed on the Datang Stock Exchange, it will be worth 50,000 jin, not to mention 500,000 jin, or 500,000 jin, it is not an exaggeration.

There is no need to focus on the market value of the Laoniu Steam Locomotive Workshop every day and worry about it."

The reason why Li Kuan firmly refused to enter the steam locomotive production industry was not only because of his long-term disapproval, but also because he hoped that several workshops outside the Chu King's Mansion would emerge and stimulate a group of businessmen to enter the emerging manufacturing industry.

Obviously, the Laoniu Steam Locomotive Workshop has played a good role in driving the market.

In this case, Li Kuan didn’t even have time to take care of him, so how could he ruin the situation?

The Chu Palace is not short of tens of thousands of chunks of money.

But Li Kuan really hopes to see that the pace of the industrial revolution is faster and the application of steam engines is faster.

This kind of promotion is definitely not something that Li Kuan can do to advertise tens of thousands of yuan or do anything to promote it.

Only by stimulating more people and letting more people feel the huge returns of investing in emerging industries can this cycle continue smoothly.

At that time, no one can resist the trend of the industrial revolution.

The social structure of the Tang Dynasty will also undergo earth-shaking changes.

"However, Laoniu Steam Locomotive Workshop now only sells one prototype car, and its market value is more than 50,000 guan.

If they wait for their large-scale mass-produced steam locomotives, their market value may reach more than 100,000, or even hundreds of thousands of yuan.

Although our palace is not short of money, hundreds of thousands of chunks of money are worth paying attention to, right?"

Wang Fugui is still a little unwilling to accept it.

I only sold one car, and the market value has reached more than 50,000 yuan.

Wang Fugui's current value is almost the same.

However, Li Kuan was obviously very open about this matter.

You know, in the later automotive industry, there are even more exaggerated things.

Look at Evergrande Auto, the market value has reached hundreds of billions of dollars before it has been officially sold.

What about other SAIC Group and GAC Group, the annual sales volume is many times that of Evergrande Auto, but the market value is not as good as that of other companies that have not officially started selling a car?

Where can you make sense?

I can only say that the changes in the times will always exceed your imagination.

If you look at the market value rankings of the automobile industry in the future, you will find that there are too many things you can't understand.

Just NIO has a higher market value than Daimler-Benz and BMW. What do you think?

"Fugui, if you really like steam locomotives so much, you don't have to set up your own steam locomotive workshop.

We can buy stocks of Laoniu Steam Locomotive from the stock exchange, or discuss the investment with others directly.

After being stimulated by the Laoniu Steam Locomotive, there are definitely many people in Chang'an City who want to enter this industry.

If you want to invest, there will be opportunities."

Seeing that Li Kuan's attitude was still so firm.

Wang Fugui had no choice but to say: "There are probably few of the other workshops that are comparable to those of Guanshishan Academy Steam Engine Research Institute and Laoniu Steam Locomotive Workshop. What are I investing in them for?

It’s better to develop the workshops under the Steam Engine Research Institute well and earn more money.”

"That's right! Nowadays, various workshops are purchasing steam engine equipment. Although some people have begun to study their own steam engine equipment, 80% of the equipment is still purchased from us.

This industry can be at least 100 years old. There are many equipment used for stamping parts, equipment used for casting parts, equipment used for machining parts, and equipment used for machining parts, so there is no need to worry about nothing to do."

Li Kuan attaches great importance to steam engine equipment.

To some extent, this is the source of the industrial revolution.

Only when various steam engine equipment enters the workshop can production efficiency be continuously improved.

The improvement of production efficiency means an increase in output and a decrease in price.

At this time, workshops that use new equipment can still obtain a lot of profits even if the product price is lowered.

Traditional workshops will become unable to continue under this impact.

Either reform or introduce new equipment, or there is only the path of bankruptcy.

Although it will definitely bring huge impact to some places in a short period of time, making people feel the pain of reform.

But for the Tang Dynasty, this pain was necessary and very meaningful.

"The steam engine train and steam engine equipment are indeed very popular now. However, the steam engine ship has no shadow at all.

Prince, are we considering drawing craftsmen to these two fields first, and then slowly researching steam engines?”

Seeing that there was no hope for building a steam locomotive, Wang Fugui thought of simply getting the steam engine train and steam engine equipment that Li Kuan mentioned.

After all, the profits brought to the Chu Prince's Mansion by these two fields are indeed worth looking forward to.

On the contrary, the steam engine ship has not earned a penny now.

On the contrary, in order to develop a steam engine suitable for use on ships, the Chu Prince's Mansion still needs to keep spending money inside.

"No, these three fields must go hand in hand! As for steam engines, the Dengzhou Shipbuilding Workshop in Donghai Fisheries has begun formal production. Although it may not be successful in one go, the future is still worth looking forward to."

Trains and ships are powerful tools to change the traffic conditions of this era.

How could Li Kuan stop investing in a shortsighted way just because the ship has not been successfully made?

But there was no output at all, and the Chu Palace also spent millions of chunks of money to the Steam Engine Research Institute of Guanshishan Academy.

The situation is much better now than before.

At least, the Steam Engine Research Institute of Shishan Academy no longer needs to allocate any funds to the King of Chu.

Relying solely on the money from selling steam engine equipment can keep Li Yan from organizing several research teams to burn money together.

Doing scientific research is really a burning money.

Especially for scientific research that leads the pace of the times, because there is no reference to compare, the cost of trial and error is very high.

This is why later industrial powers, whether in Germany, Japan, or China, took the path of imitation at the beginning.
Chapter completed!