Although his stay in Shanghai was not an official visit, Prince Heinrich decided to carry out some social activities in Shanghai, first, to express his friendship and goodwill to East China, and secondly, to let the members of the German delegation have a basic understanding of East China.

Because most of the members of the German delegation are the first time to come to China, there are only a handful of people who have come to East China, although they all know that East China won the Far East War and defeated the four major powers of Britain, France, Japan and Russia, but in the consciousness of the vast majority of the members of the German delegation, East China is still no different from Chunting, or poverty, backwardness, stupidity, and barbarism, and from the heart there is still a sense of civilizational superiority over China.

However, Prince Heinrich knew that East China was certainly not what these members of the German delegation imagined, and if this visit was carried out with such a mentality, it would probably be difficult to achieve success, let alone form an alliance with East China, so he also wanted to let the members of the German delegation have a new understanding of East China. This will be more helpful for the visit.

Of course, Li Songchen has no objection to this, he also hopes to fully show the German delegation the emerging appearance of East China, and is also willing to enter extensive exchanges with the German delegation, because East China also attaches great importance to this visit, although there is no intention to form an alliance with Germany, but also hopes to further strengthen the cooperation and exchanges between the two sides, and use Germany's mature technology and industry to accelerate the industrialization of East China. Since it is the development of Shanghai, to a large extent, it needs to cooperate with Germany.

At this time, East China ** occupied Shanghai for more than a year, the social economy has basically been fully recovered, and the confiscated assets of the original British and French in the Shanghai concession have also taken over, except for a small number of shutdowns, most of them have restarted business, the takeover of these assets is roughly divided into three parts, part of which is directly taken over by East China**, mainly banks and public service enterprises, such as parks, power plants, Of course, the prices of this part are low, and they are basically calculated at cost price, and some of them are subscribed by businessmen from the United States, Germany, Italy, Austria and other countries, after all, most of the industries in the Shanghai concession between Britain and France are excellent assets, and as long as they take over and operate well, they will definitely not lose money.

By its good foundation in Shanghai, and convenient waterway communication, coupled with the emotional factors of the old time and space, East China is also focused on building Shanghai into a modern industrial metropolis, so in the second five-year plan of East China, Shanghai has a very important position, a total of 6 141 projects, respectively, Jiangnan Shipyard, Jiangnan Machinery Factory, Shanghai Port, Iron and Steel Plant, Shanghai Highway Network and Huangpu River Bridge transformed by Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. It is also the single city that has received the most 141 projects.

Among them, Jiangnan Shipyard and Jiangnan Machinery Factory are the first gear projects in the 141 project, which are basically the largest factories of the same kind in East China, and the actual construction cycle has exceeded the scope of this five-year plan, but this kind of large-scale industrial construction is often divided into several stages, and after the completion of part of the construction, it can be partially put into operation, of course, the operation is within this five-year plan.

The Shanghai port, highway network and the Huangpu River Bridge are all infrastructure, although there is no profit point, but can promote the overall development of other industries in Shanghai, only the construction of steel plants, in East China ** It has caused a great controversy internally, although in the old time and space, Shanghai has China Baowu Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd., China's largest joint iron and steel enterprises, but the construction of Shanghai Baosteel, itself has great controversy, first of all, there is no large-scale iron ore and coal mines around Shanghai, which needs to be transported from other places, although Shanghai has the convenience of water transportation, but still makes the cost increase significantly, followed by the poor geological conditions in Shanghai, if the construction of iron and steel enterprises, the foundation needs to be reinforced, which increases the cost of building a factory.

However, the construction of Shanghai Baosteel also has many advantages, first of all, there was a large steel gap in Shanghai at that time, and a large number of finished steel products need to be purchased from other places every year, and if there are local steel mills, a large amount of money can be saved; secondly, when Shanghai Baosteel was built, China has begun to import iron ore from abroad, and the advantages of Shanghai's superior port conditions can be fully brought into play, and imported iron ore does not need to be transported to the inland, which virtually saves a lot of costs.

But in this era, the unfavorable conditions for building steel plants in Shanghai are still there, but the advantages are not obvious, although the steel in Shanghai is purchased from other places, but the overall demand is not large; and now East China will not buy iron ore from foreign countries in a short period of time. At this time, the opinions of Shanghai **, represented by Li Songchen, played a decisive role.

On the one hand, although the demand for steel in Shanghai is not large, with the full development of the Second Five-Year Plan and the gradual implementation of the 141 project, the demand for steel will definitely increase significantly; In addition, iron and steel enterprises can be regarded as high-tech industries in this era, and Shanghai is one of the regions with the highest level of education in China at present, and the establishment of iron and steel plants in Shanghai can also make full use of Shanghai's human advantages; as for whether the scale of iron and steel plants is also like the old time and space, and finally build a super-large-scale iron and steel enterprise and is the largest iron and steel enterprise in the country, it is regarded as East China** and the development of Shanghai, after all, a super-large-scale iron and steel enterprise can not be built in a short time.

In addition to the 141 project, Shanghai also plans to invest in the construction of 16 small projects during the Second Five-Year Plan period, which not only reconstruct and expand the original factories and enterprises in Shanghai, but also support the 6 141 projects; as well as the needs of Shanghai itself, of course, Shanghai's financial revenue is enough to ensure the construction of these 16 small projects in Shanghai.

In this five-year cycle, the successful completion of 6 141 projects, 16 small projects, or at least the completion of the five-year plan, is also inseparable from the support of Germany, after all, Germany is one of the most advanced countries in this era of industrialization and science and technology, if this visit, East China can reach an agreement with Germany on in-depth cooperation, Shanghai can introduce complete sets of machinery and equipment from Germany, mature technology, not only to speed up the completion of the five-year plan, but also to avoid many detours. Of course, not only Shanghai, but also other cities in East China can also benefit from the cooperation between East China and Germany. Therefore, it is also necessary for Shanghai to express to Germany the friendship and sincerity of East China, which has also been recognized by Qingdao.

At the same time, Li Songchen also selected 12 people from the veterans in Shanghai to accompany the activities of the German mission, including 6 staff members and 6 non-governmental personnel. On the one hand, this is to show that East China attaches great importance to the German mission; on the other hand, it is also that there is a great shortage of local naturalized people who can engage in foreign exchanges, at least there are very few naturalized people who can speak foreign languages, and foreign exchanges also require knowledge and experience, not only foreign languages, so it is really impossible to find a few suitable people, so they can only find from the veterans.

The patriarchs can basically deal with it in English, and there are a lot of German, basic communication is not a problem, and after 6 or 7 years of experience, most of the patriarchs have basically seen big scenes, and their communication skills have also made great progress, of course, they can cope with it easily. Originally, the traverser had a kind of self-confidence in coming and bound, and had the confidence of the victory in East China, and could also fully show the spiritual outlook of the patriarch to the Germans.

Shanghai is the largest city in East China after Qingdao in terms of the number of resident veterans, with a total of about 160 people, including 45 staff members and 12 military personnel; the number of other resident veterans is about 100 people, mainly engaged in education and business management; and about 300 veterans will live in Shanghai for at least three months in a year. So it was certainly not a hassle to find 12 people from among them.

However, the first stop of the German mission's social activities in Shanghai was to go to church. Germany regarded itself as the successor of the Holy Roman Empire and was very devout to the Catholic Church, and although theocracy had largely withdrawn from politics at this time and existed only as a pure religion, the German royal family and officials still maintained considerable respect for the Church. The mission sailed at sea for two and a half months, and although there were some worship services on board, Bi Jing was not in a church, so the first thing everyone did after going ashore was to find a church and do a service to make up for the missing lessons.

Of course, East China ** showed respect for the religious beliefs of the guests, and of course it was not difficult to find a church in Shanghai. So Li Songchen arranged to choose the Holy Trinity Church in Shanghai for the German guests to worship.

Trinity Church is located in the central area of the Shanghai Public Concession, just one street away from the Shanghai Public Concession Bureau Building, and is the earliest church built in the Shanghai Concession and by far the largest and most magnificent church in Shanghai. In fact, the Holy Trinity Church was originally a small church dedicated to serving the Anglican Communion in the British diaspora, and was later redesigned and upgraded to the Anglican Episcopal Cathedral of the Diocese of Beihua. In the old days, the church was most famous for the wedding of movie star Hu Die and Shanghai industrialist Pan Yousheng, but that took place in 1935.