The steam trains of the Ming Dynasty have started running, which means that the transportation of the Ming Dynasty will reach a new level. And when transportation reaches a new level, the lives of the people will be greatly improved.

After all, the people have realized the benefits of convenient roads.

Since the Ming Dynasty built cement roads, its economy has taken off dramatically. Trade volumes across the country have increased dramatically, achieving a win-win situation.

If you want to improve your life, you should naturally combine the strengths of various sources.

Doing business can achieve this goal.

If your things are good, then sell them to me so I can live a good life.

If I have something you need, I can sell it to you. In this way, everyone gets what they like and want.

This can improve their standard of living, so that is the purpose of the transaction.

That is the purpose of economics.

Under these circumstances, the people are working hard to develop the economy and conduct trade.

Then the people's lives will get better and better, the country's development will get better and better, and the country's construction will get better and better.

Under such a premise, transportation needs to be very convenient.

After all, all of this requires transportation. Transportation is like the blood vessels in a person's body. In order for blood to reach the whole body and bring power and vitality, the roads must be well-built, wide, and spread throughout the body.

Today, cement roads have indeed been built in many places in the Ming Dynasty, almost connecting villages and towns.

However, in this situation, having a road is only basic transportation; it's not just about the road itself, but also about having the means of transportation.

For example, horse-drawn carriages, bicycles, and tricycles.

While horse-drawn carriages, bicycles, and tricycles are all convenient, they take too long to use and can only carry a limited amount of goods each time.

Now, with the advent of trains, those huge carriages, like rooms, can hold a lot of goods.

Not only can it carry a lot of goods, but it can also carry people. In this way, it will obviously elevate the economy to a new level.

This will make it more convenient, faster, and safer for merchants from all over the world to conduct transactions and transport goods.

Therefore, this is something that all people should be happy about.

And so, the train rattled along, covering the entire ten-kilometer railway line in a very short time. Then, after the locomotives switched places, it pulled the carriages back again.

The people were shocked. That was ten kilometers, twenty li (a Chinese unit of distance, approximately 5 kilometers). In just a short time, they had made a round trip. How far would they have to travel in a day?

This has greatly satisfied the travel needs of ordinary people.

Some merchants also saw hope in transporting goods in the future, and based on their understanding of the Ming Dynasty and Zhu Yunwen, they believed that the price of this thing would not be too high.

Because the imperial court even provides many things to the people for free.

For example, cheap coal, the roads that have been built, medical care, education, and so on...

Therefore, even if this train is extremely difficult to manufacture, the imperial court will never set the price too high.

As expected, Zhu Yunwen immediately set the price, stating that the price would be different for each station on the train, and that passengers would receive a ticket from the ticket seller with the boarding address written on it when boarding.

Then, you can get off at any of the stops along the way, and the fare will be calculated based on your location from the starting point to the stop.

Each stop is at least a route between county towns, and the minimum fare is ten coins.

So the price is indeed cheap. In addition, if you plan to transport goods, the fare will be calculated based on the number of carriages.

In short, the low price made the people very happy.

During this period, various places were actively building railways, fearing that their areas might not have railways, so they all acted very quickly. They rushed to build the railways.

They then reported to the imperial court, hoping that the court could provide them with railway access. Zhu Yunwen was very pleased to see that these local officials were so aware and proactive.

He immediately stated that every place would definitely have train service; it was just a matter of time.

Indeed, making a steam engine is not something that can be rushed or done quickly.

Fortunately, the Ministry of Industry has now been established, and factories manufacturing engines and trains have been set up on assembly lines.

They could produce several steam engines and a dozen trains within a week.

At this rate, it should take only a few months for all parts of the Ming Dynasty to have trains.

As the saying goes, some are happy while others are sad. Here, Zhu Yunwen created the train, a truly astonishing invention.

Meanwhile, in the Kingdom of Chechi, news finally arrived that the king and prince had been killed.

Since the two are quite far apart, it's normal for their messages to be delayed.

Only then did they receive news that the King and Prince of Chechi had died in the Ming Dynasty.

When this news reached Chechi Kingdom, the entire kingdom was immediately shocked.

They never imagined that their king would die in the Ming Dynasty, and that their prince would also die in the Ming Dynasty.

Along with this came the fact that the King and Prince of Chechi Kingdom had indeed ordered assassins to kill the grandson of the Ming Dynasty.

It turned out that it was the grandson of the Ming emperor who personally confirmed this matter.

This left the people of Chechi Kingdom feeling both ashamed and helpless, after all, their king and their prince had been killed in a foreign land, and despite their anger, there was nothing they could do.

Because the power of the Ming Dynasty was something that the Chechi Kingdom could not shake.

Therefore, they couldn't do anything to the Ming Dynasty. The key issue was that the Ming Dynasty was in the right, after all, they were the king and prince of their Chechi Kingdom. They repeatedly tried to kill the Ming Dynasty's crown prince.

Therefore, their deaths in the Ming Dynasty were entirely their own fault, and their own people felt no hatred towards the Ming Dynasty whatsoever.

As time went on, a more complete version of the story quickly spread to Chechi, China.

When the people of Chechi Kingdom learned that the King and Prince of Chechi Kingdom had repeatedly tried to kill Zhu Yunwen, the grandson of the Ming Dynasty's Crown Prince, they were shocked to discover that he and his prince had not only repeatedly attempted to kill him.

At the same time, they were equally ruthless towards those assassins they had trained in their own country, those who couldn't be brought to the light of day.

Even after they learned that they had killed their families after they thought they had completed their mission, they were still being investigated.

This shameful behavior made the people of Chechi Kingdom feel that the King and Prince of Chechi Kingdom were utterly disheartening.

Due to various factors, such a king and prince could not bring much sorrow to the people of Chechi Kingdom.

The reaction was completely opposite to the news of Zhu Yunwen's death.