Meanwhile, over in Great Zhou, ...
Zhou Xu still had no idea that, unbeknownst to anyone, a tremendous upheaval was brewing.
As for the Steam Engine, they had only just received the news from Copper Furnace Fortress.
To prove their innocence, the moment the Holy Roland Empire had come asking questions, Copper Furnace Fortress had basically notified Great Zhou.
Zhou Xu, for his part, did not really care.
The dwarves of Copper Furnace Fortress were no fools. They could also see the value of the Steam Engine.
At this stage, whichever country mastered the technology to manufacture Steam Engines would see its development efficiency rise dramatically!
From that angle, Copper Furnace Fortress naturally would not want more countries to possess Steam Engines like they did.
After all, when everyone had something, it was as good as having nothing!
Only when I had it and you didn't could the advantage in development efficiency truly show!
The dwarves might look big and burly, but could anyone claim that a race capable of creating super technology had stupid brains?
For the time being, Zhou Xu no longer needed to worry about the Steam Engine—and lately, he truly had not had the energy for it.
One had to understand that his government work had been extraordinarily busy of late.
There was no need to elaborate. At its root, the reason was that Great Zhou had gained another territory overseas, the Barton Islands, on top of Mithril Island, which they had occupied earlier.
The pressure of internal development was shooting upward.
On top of that, over the past few years they had to develop the southern region, upgrade their factories, build Steam Ironclad Ships, lay railway tracks, increase the number of Steam Trains, and undertake all kinds of new research projects...
Even though they were