The first time Zhou Lang heard Trevisick's name was after sending diplomatic consuls to Europe, and he specifically told diplomats such as Lindi to pay special attention to collecting new technologies that appeared in the West.

When Trevisik's name appeared in the diplomatic report, it was already in the ninth year of the Great Zhou Dynasty (1808), when Trevisick was displaying his trains on the streets of London, and he built a circular track, and put his steam locomotive on the tracks for people to see, and each person charged an entrance fee.

This bustle and delicacy also attracted the attention of the Chinese consul, and he also spent a shilling to run to see the bustle, and when he came back, he wrote this time into the report, but he only reported it out of interest, and did not have a clear understanding of the significance of the train, in fact, most people, including Trevisick himself, did not have a clear understanding, otherwise he would not have used the train as a novel power toy, only displayed on the street, but would have built the railway as soon as possible and entered the transportation system.

After Zhou Lang heard about this person, he had no impression in his mind, and sighed that Britain is really talented, such an inventor is unknown, and the meaning of inventing the train is not much better than the steam engine, but Zhou Lang has no impression of this person's name at all, at least it means that this person's name may not be able to enter the textbook.

Zhou Lang told the diplomats to invite him to work in China as much as possible, and that the salary could be paid according to the salary of the most generous specialist. But Trevisick came from a wealthy family and was reluctant to work abroad.

But he was unlucky, and the following year he went bankrupt because of a tunnel contract, so he took the initiative to find the Chinese consulate, hoping to get the opportunity to work in China.

So at the end of 1810, Trevisick came to China, and after Zhou Lang personally talked to him for a long time, he found out that this guy actually belonged to the type of genius inventor, and he couldn't help but sigh and grab a treasure.

Born in 1771 into a family of mine owners in Cornwall, England, Trevisick was born into a mining family, and he was exposed to steam machinery in mines from an early age, accumulating a lot of knowledge about steam machinery. After receiving the necessary education, he worked as an engineer in his hometown mine and obtained the position of technical consultant at the age of 19.

The teenage Trevisick was well acquainted with the construction principles of the Watt steam engine, and he also found some shortcomings in it. Based on these realizations, Trevisick redesigned the steam engine, changing the Watt low-pressure steam engine to a high-pressure steam engine. The high-pressure steam engine he invented was able to generate more power than the low-pressure steam of watts.

If Trevisick was born decades earlier and invented the high-pressure steam engine before Watt, then there would be no Watt steam engine, just as if Tesla had been born before Edison and introduced alternating current, then Edison's direct current system might not have appeared. But Tesla became famous later than Edison, so he was suppressed by Edison, and the popularity of alternating current became full of twists and turns. The same goes for Trevisik, who was suppressed by Watt.

Watt's suppression of Trevisick and Edison's suppression of Tesla are the same way, Edison said that Tesla's alternating current is unsafe, Watt said that Trevisick's high-pressure steam engine is unsafe, when Tesla promoted alternating current, Edison was an authority in the power industry, and when Trevisick promoted the high-pressure steam engine, Watt was an authority in the steam engine industry, and the authority said that the impact was huge, resulting in Trevisick's high-pressure steam engine not being sold at all.

Of course, this kind of authoritative suppression of juniors is very marketable, but in fact, the high-pressure steam engine has not brought Trevisick a huge return, and the biggest possibility is the choice of the market. When he withdrew from the high-pressure steam engine, Watt's steam engine had already been promoted throughout the country, Watt steam engine has produced tens of thousands of units, has a complete industrial chain and standard technology, price, quality are guaranteed, and the high-pressure steam engine is a new invention, poor and white, challenging a monopoly technology from scratch, unless there are several times the technological progress, it is difficult to complete the counterattack.

The high-pressure steam engine does not have this overwhelming advantage over the low-pressure steam engine. But the technology is not bad, because the United States popularized the high-pressure steam engine, and the American inventor Oliver Evans became famous because of this, and lived a very wealthy life in his later years. Because the United States did not form a complete industrial chain of the Watt steam engine, the high-pressure steam engine was able to occupy the market first.

Trevisick did not succeed in the high-pressure steam engine, but he was still very young, only nineteen years old, he had the passion and energy to invent, and he was born into a wealthy family, so he continued to invent and create.

The high-pressure steam engine invented by Trevisick uses a cylindrical boiler to not only carry high-pressure steam, but is much smaller than Watt's steam engine, and can be easily installed on vehicles. Based on these characteristics, Trivisick decided to experiment with a steam engine to drive a vehicle, and after a few years of experimentation, in 1801, Trivisick designed and built a four-wheeled steam locomotive.

However, unlike a real train, this steam locomotive does not run on tracks, but on ordinary roads. In fact, it is an enlarged version of the carriage, and the invention is Trivisik's hobby, and he is not interested in promotion, and probably has no commercial talents. So he used the steam carriage as a toy, and on Christmas Eve, he and his cousin drove this behemoth out for a ride, and after seven or eight kilometers, when crossing a trench, the locomotive broke down, the steering wheel broke, and he could not control the direction and plunged headlong into a house by the side of the road, and completely stopped eating. The accident didn't affect Trevisic's mood at all, and he took his cousin into a restaurant, where he had a great time eating and drinking, and had so much fun that he had forgotten about the steam locomotive that was paralyzed in the house. And the locomotive's boiler, which had been left unattended for a long time of burning, eventually set the house on fire and turned to ashes in the raging fire.

Two years later, Trevisick built a steam wagon, which is still used on ordinary roads. However, the fate of this locomotive was also more tragic, although this novelty machine aroused the interest of many people, but it crashed into a brick wall during a performance and was completely scrapped.

In 1804 Trevisick built a third steam locomotive, the New Castle, which was already running on fixed tracks, so it was in the right direction. To market his locomotive, Trevisick travelled to Pennedalen, South Wales, to take part in a bet on behalf of an ironsmith because it was insisted that a steam locomotive would not be able to pull 10 tonnes of iron over a track about 9 kilometres long. Practice was the only test of truth, and Trevisick personally drove the New Castle, pulling five cars, 10 tons of cargo and 70 passengers, and running at about 4 kilometers per hour, winning the ironsmith's bet of 500 gines.

But the fatal weakness is that the speed of this steam locomotive is too slow, let alone slower than a horse-drawn carriage, slower than a human walk, and it is completely uncompetitive. But technology has advanced to the point where it can carry loads steadily, and with time to improve, Trevisick could become the father of railroads.

In 1808, a spirited Trevisick built a fourth locomotive, this time finally making him a little money. He built a circular track in London, and drove his precious locomotive for juggling performances, a ticket for a shilling, which attracted many curious people to visit.

And then there was no such thing, and Trevisick still hadn't found a way to really popularize steam locomotives, and his business acumen made him think at most of the extent that he could use novel technology to collect tickets for exhibitions, and he didn't have the business acumen of the Stephensons who directly built railroads and engaged in the transportation industry.

Coming from a wealthy family, Trevisick is also a non-permanent person, inventing more as a hobby than a means of earning a living. He was constantly chasing his own interests, not commercial interests, so he soon put the steam locomotive aside and began to make other inventions.

He built steam-powered barges, designed new steam hammers, mobile room heating on wheels, steam rolling mills, steam-powered underwater dredging machines, mechanically cooled freezers, designed primitive turbines, and even planned to build an underwater tunnel across the River Thames.

By 1810, Trivisick had gone bankrupt due to a quality accident in the tunnel project he had contracted. Historically, he went to Peru to look for opportunities because he was too bad in England, and was imprisoned by the army of Bolívar, the leader of the South American independence movement. After his release, he wandered through the jungles of South America for ten years, returned to England in the 1830s, and died three years later in poverty and disease, penniless, even the funeral expenses paid by friends and, more importantly, unknown nationality.

But this era is different, because he was invited by the Chinese consul before, he promised a good salary, and invited him to China to work as a technical consultant, but before the bankruptcy, Trevisick was a rich man, unwilling to go abroad to take risks and suffer, preferring to stay in England to work on his invention.

After going bankrupt, because of the livelihood of the compulsion, thinking of the generous salary promised by the Chinese, I found the Chinese consulate and asked if the previous invitation was counted.

So this down-and-out inventor came to China in this way.

Historians have commented on Trevisik's creativity as a lack of perseverance and endurance for in-depth research and development, which is the main reason for his lack of success.

Now that he has come to China and is working under Zhou Lang, his fate has changed. Zhou Lang gave Trevisick the task of continuing to research and improve the steam locomotive until the performance reached practical level.

It took ten years for Trevisick to change, and it took 20 years for Zhou Lang to meet Zhou Lang's performance requirements for trains, and then he was allowed to build the first railway.