Compared with human history, in most cases, handicrafts from China are the top craftsmen in the world, and those from China are second to none in terms of quantity and craftsmanship. It is a pity that later generations of China should learn the craftsmanship from Germany and Japan, and the Japanese aristocrats even hoped to buy a seat from China (formerly known as Hangzhou).

After visiting his own exhibition area for an hour, Zhu Jinglun turned to other exhibition areas. Of course, the horse took Zhu Jinglun to the French exhibition area.
The French exhibition area is also full of crafts, but the French are more willing to show Zhu Jinglun their industrial achievements. For example, Schneider machine forging hammer is the company that made Krupp feel the pressure later. In the field of forging hammer, the technical competition continued to increase, and the strength of forging hammer increased from more than 2 tons to 100 tons. This benign competition was also the key factor for Europe to catch up with Britain in the technical field later.
Schneider forging hammer was also equipped, and a 25-ton forging hammer was purchased when the Guangdong armored ship was built.
France’s heavy equipment industry is underdeveloped, so it’s more about all kinds of textiles, mainly the silk industry. Some silk reeling machines are of interest to Zhu Jinglun. Their silk looms were developed more than six years ago by French Jaka. Compared with China Yunjin and other processes, they are still making manual flowers. Although some quality machines are still unable to catch up with manual work, they can’t be compared in terms of output.
If you want to make silk an industry, you must make machines.
With Zhu Jinglun visiting officials, the Ministry of Industry is a relatively large department, and Shang Chen Qiyuan personally led the team. Therefore, Zhu Jinglun directly instructed him that it is of great significance to promote steam silk weaving, and asked him not only to reel silk by machine, but also to weave silk into satin.
Chen Qiyuan readily promised, but his face was worried, which made people very puzzled.
Zhu Jinglun was about to ask when a group of people bowed and turned around, and a group of visitors led by the French came to the French exhibition area.
They are wearing wooden slippers, strange hair bun and big sleeves. Who else can dress like this if they are not Japanese?
When meeting Japanese people at the Paris World Expo, Zhu Jinglun suddenly felt a sense of time disorder in this era.
But in fact, in the history of the World Expo, Japanese people are frequent visitors, and they participate in exhibitions more frequently than in China.
It is said that the Japanese went to the first Expo, but like China, there is no official record of whether the second World Expo was held in London. At that World Expo, Japanese Fukuzawa Yukichi’s eyes were widened and his thoughts were deeply touched. After returning to China, he sorted out the influential Japanese history. The Emperor’s masterpiece "The First Part of Western Affairs" had more than 200,000 copies at sunrise, and before him, Wei Yuan’s national map was almost popular in China.
Ask the French people to know that it was the Japanese themselves who sent a delegation this time.
Zhu Jinglun’s face is dark, but his heart has become heavy. He forgot to ask about Chen Qiyuan just now.
Section four hundred and sixteen Krupp cannon
Zhu Jinglun’s knowledge of Japanese history is not very rich, but he does know that Japanese people’s mentality in facing the west is amazing, which is hard to imagine. It is hard for few Japanese people to accept the attitude that they can throw away their culture when they meet another culture and learn like primary school students.
China people’s cultural pride is too strong, which makes it difficult for them to bend over and learn from others’ observation of world history. Both the West and China have a cultural characteristic of being a good teacher. Europeans always think that they are the most literate, especially their religion, so they teach the world.
China, on the other hand, thinks that it is either China or barbarians, and finally despises those nations and countries that refuse to wear Chinese-style finery and make Chinese, while praising countries like North Korea, Vietnam and Ryukyu that are willing to accept Chinese laws and regulations. In broadcasting, China does not send priests, but sends people to various countries to teach themselves.
Perhaps it is because I have been used to being a student for a long time that I can sink my heart and learn from others.
However, there is one thing that doesn’t make sense. Vietnamese and Koreans have also studied Central Plains culture for a long time. However, when western culture arrived, they didn’t study as crazy as Japan, and they still had various conflicts. This can’t be explained in a deeper way.
Zhu Jinglun can’t help but think of Japanese national characteristics. In any case, Japanese people all have marine national characteristics, mainly marine fish and various marine customs. Of course, in the national classification day, people are divided into farming languages. This can be said that Chinese is too strong, and this natural marine nation is turning the farming culture around in culture.
However, the maritime people are naturally curious about the outside world, which is much stronger in Japan than in China and other countries. After all, people who rely on the sea are more willing to go far away, and farmers who farm do not need to know things ten miles away. This is the reality that determines the cultural characteristics
Zhu Jinglun didn’t know that it was just one year after the confrontation with the dynasty in Korea (in 1613) that Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga, a military master, was sent by the vassal Data Masamune to sail across the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean to Europe. He passed through Mexico, Havana, Cuba and Spain in Yuan Heyuan (1615) and arrived in Rome, Italy, where he met the Spanish king and the Pope. He was also baptized by the Pope and was awarded a Roman citizen among the Roman nobles.
In order to build the St. John’s Baptist, Data Masamune spent a lot of effort to build it, including six big workers, forging and smelting workers and three handymen.
What is even more amazing is that Data Masamune sent people to Rome to meet the Pope, asking that Catholicism be allowed to broadcast in Japan in exchange for the Pope’s permission to trade in Spanish territory. Obviously, the attitude of Japanese people towards trade is absolutely different from that of China.
Unfortunately, after Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga returned to China, Tokugawa shogunate chose a closed country to ban Catholicism. Otherwise, it is hard to predict what changes will happen to East Asian history on the day of the country. Perhaps the promotion of this catfish in Japan will also make contemporary dynasties adopt different attitudes.
After the United States broke the Japanese blockade, the Japanese attitude quickly returned to the state before the Tokugawa shogunate locked the country, and they were full of curiosity about the outside world again. Soon after, Fukuzawa Yukichi visited the United States on behalf of Japan, and then almost every few years, he sent a delegation to western countries for activities.
I went to the United States in 16 years, went to Britain in 162 years, and came to France this year. These activities were all carried out before the Japanese Restoration. Compared with the history, the Manchu Dynasty didn’t know that the first official diplomatic mission visited until 195, which is really problematic.
Moreover, due to the historical Japanese’s active foreign exchange, there was a Japanese art craze in Europe in the 17th century. It can be said that the Japanese let the west know more about Japan from the beginning, and the Qing Dynasty finally brought a layer of mystery.
Now the situation is different. Zhu Jinglun will make great progress, but the degree is still not as good as that of Japan. This sudden appearance of Japanese people makes Zhu Jinglun worry. He thinks that those old people who are closed in China will show their characteristics as soon as they are Japanese. He feels as if his pace is not fast enough.
He is not afraid of Japan’s competition. If he takes the lead and loses to Japan several decades later, he will not have to be in power. He is worried that once the Japanese push the introduction of western technology, he will gradually be at a disadvantage in the competition with Japan. This unfavorable situation will form the Matthew effect. The stronger the strong, the more backward the so-called tribe will be.
Of course, all this has been done for a rainy day. At present, it has been ahead of the sun in all aspects. Too many huge arsenals have introduced technical capabilities, which has produced a continuous diffusion effect. There are dozens of iron workshops equipped with steam engines in Foshan, which are not available these days.
But what the rulers should do is to constantly strengthen the national advantages and make up for the national disadvantages, so that their country can finally be in an advantageous position?
Zhu Jinglun continued to visit with a heavy heart.
So is the French machine. What really depends on the machine is Britain. In addition, Europe can compete with the British machine. There is one country in Belgium, and other countries are one generation behind.
Adjacent to the French exhibition area is the neighboring Prussia exhibition area.
The steel system produced by Prussians has gradually emerged in Europe, and Krupp steel system has enjoyed a reputation of high quality and low price. Thirty years ago, they were laughed at by the British for all kinds of imitation of British inferior quality, which made the British Ministry of Commerce require Germans to distinguish between German-made products in export.
Zhu Jinglun saw the situation, and the Germans seemed to have turned their image around.
Did Zhu Jinglun see Nicholas, the German rich man? Otfa cycle four-stroke gasoline piston engine, which is the foundation of later automobile industry, has obviously not yet made its value, and it will take decades of improvement to realize it.
And Werner? Simon engine this is a prototype machine that Simon just released in January this year. The horse was sent to Paris to participate in the exhibition, hoping to promote it as soon as possible. It is different that there have been many kinds of designs for the engine, and Simon designed the first generation of practical technology, which is also the cornerstone of the rise of Simon Empire.
Zhu Jinglun had a long discussion with Simon and told Simon that if he was willing to invest in China, he would be willing to fund Simon’s half of the capital and be a partner in Simon’s business. Although Simon was very tempted, he had no confidence in this kind of production because the force was a huge problem. Without the factory and long-distance technical support, the motivation was a pool toy.
In addition to these novelty, the Prussian exhibition area mainly produces mechanical products such as steel tracks, Krupp train wheels and some machine tools. According to the classification of the Paris World Expo, they are classified into the fifth category "processed or unprocessed products such as mining, industry and forestry" and the fortieth category "mining and metallurgy"
But what attracted Zhu Jinglun most was a huge steel cannon Krupp cannon in the middle!
This giant gun also belongs to the classification of mining and metallurgy.
Compared with the future Simon motive Krupp cannon is obviously the star of this era.
Of course, Krupp is still unknown in Europe at this time. At most, he has a little reputation in metallurgical industry. It is known that his main production of high-quality steel is exquisite German knives and forks. Recently, Krupp cannon has made great achievements in the field of train parts. Before the German army defeated France, no one thought that cannon was bigger than rifle, and no one thought that Proust could be compared with France. Then German weapons were not famous. The main reason why Krupp cannon was noticed by the audience this time was his size.
This cannon is too big, more than three meters long, and the anti-aircraft gun tube is 5.6 meters long and weighs 50 tons, which makes Krupp produce forged iron. From the outside, it is made up of five layers of forged iron, and this steel monster can fire shells weighing 1000 pounds.
The largest naval gun in Britain is 11 pounds, and the largest naval gun that can be produced is also 11 pounds. It can stand side by side with the British warships in firepower, but the Krupp giant gun is ten times that of the British naval gun
"Cannons on the coast are very penetrating and can destroy ships’ armor."
Krupp, with a simple personality, wrote such a simple introduction in the declaration
After reading it, Zhu Jinglun smiled and said to Krupp’s salesman, "I just weighed an armored ship and you said that your cannon can sink an armored ship?"
Krupp bowed down and said, "I’m very sorry we offended you. This is an advertisement. You don’t take it seriously."
Krupp salesmen know that Zhu Jinglun is an emperor of the Eastern countries, although he doesn’t know much about the big place, the big history and the background. He is a professional engineer, and he doesn’t need to know so much. He just needs to know that he is an emperor and maintain some respect.
Zhu Jinglun laughed. "I’m serious. I wonder if you can produce naval guns with 1 pound breech?"
The salesman consciously thought about a "1 pound? Of course! "
There is confidence in his eyes, which is confidence in his own technology.
Zhu Jinglun laughed. "Good. Our armored ship is in Calais. I hope your company can send someone to visit it. I hope my warship can be replaced with Krupp cannons when I leave Europe."
Naval gun is a high-priced and profitable business. A warship naval gun often means hundreds of thousands of tons of sales and tens of thousands of tons of profits. The engineer Ma immediately took over the business and then asked Zhu Jinglun to sign a contract and then asked about the joint venture.