The guests on the plane walked out one after another. The first two side by side www.biquge.info are the leaders of the Chinese Empire and the United States.

Zhuang Bifan is really dressed like an alien now. It's not that he said he was wearing makeup, but he was wearing a military uniform studded with several pieces of light armor, and the helmet on his head completely enclosed his head. It looks like a robot.

He saw someone coming out of the plane through his brown helmet glasses and walked down the gangway to greet the guests.

Perhaps judging from the fact that he had some more accessories on his military uniform, he was different from other "aliens", and Minister Peng and Minister Smith of the Chinese Empire walked down the gangway side by side.

Of course, Zhuang Bifan couldn't use the etiquette of the earth, but covered his chest with his right hand indiscriminately and said, "Welcome the Earth Joint Visit Group to our Three-Eyed Civilization Aurora Space Trade Station." ”

Before he could finish his sentence, an android shouted a slogan that even he didn't understand. The salute that had been prepared at the airport began to be fired.

Zhuang Bifan deliberately let the salute go off twenty-one rounds. After the salute was over, he said, "I heard that there is a saying on the earth that the people follow the customs." We have found that the people of the earth will salute the visit of distinguished guests to show respect and welcome to the guests. ”

Minister Peng saw that this etiquette was a bit nondescript, but the other party was an alien, and it was normal to not understand the etiquette of the earth. What made him pay attention was that the alien's original language didn't know what it was, but what came out of the alien's helmet was Huaxia.

Although the apparently stiff and mechanical voice indicated that it was likely to be a direct translation technique that humans could not yet master, the fact that the other party could choose Huaxia as the language of communication with humans made him feel a sense of pleasure.

This joint human mission was headed by Minister Peng, so he was responsible for introducing the members of the joint mission to the "aliens". Of course, he only introduced the leaders of the delegations, and the others did not introduce them one by one.

Zhuang Bifan welcomed these people one by one. Since it is not a real 'state' visit, there is no such thing as a welcome speech. However, Zhuang Bifan did not cancel the link of reviewing the honor guard troops.

The members of the joint mission are all officials sent by countries with a certain level of strength in the world. They cooperate with each other and compete with each other. Seeing the army on this so-called artificial island of Aurora, it looks like the equipment of the future soldiers in the movie. There is no protection from dead ends all over the body, and the individual weapons equipped look a bit sci-fi.

I don't know what the actual combat power is, but I don't think it's worse than the best of humans. And this is only the equipment of the honor guard, as long as it looks good. I don't know what kind of equipment the field troops are equipped with.

Although the representatives of the countries on the mission had solemn faces, their hearts were heavy and uneasy.

After completing all the welcome processes, Zhuang Bifan originally planned to arrange for the delegation to rest first, but Minister Peng from the Huaxia Empire made a request: "Your Excellency, we humans are very curious about your Three-Eyes Civilization, can you take us to visit this Aurora Island." ”

The name of Aurora Island was actually set by Zhuang Bifan at will, and it was also convenient for future exchanges with human beings. And the sheer size of this artificial island, Minister Peng said that human curiosity is indeed a good reason.

And he had this plan in the first place, but not today. But since the other party brought it up, he didn't care. Everything that needs to be prepared is ready, and it is no problem to be early or late.

He nodded and said, "Of course!" ”

As he spoke, he specially called more than a dozen cars and asked these officials and reporters to get into the cars, and he got into the front one. These cars make the earthlings envious, but they are also a little more jealous.

Those cars had no wheels, and they turned out to be hovercars.

These cars are intelligent robots in their own right, so they don't need a driver. After Zhuang Bifan entered a number, the car started.

He said loudly to Minister Peng: "Let's go to the shipyard first. It is a place to show the technological level of our Three-Eyes civilization. ”

He saw that officials in some countries needed translators from people around him, and he said out loud that his purpose of living was achieved.

The hovercar is very fast, but also very smooth. Minister Peng seemed to be very interested in this, he looked at the car for a while, and then took a lot of pictures of the layout in the car: "Your Excellency, the car we are riding in now, except for the feeling when it starts, if we don't look out the window during the drive, we think that the car is parked. Don't know what power it is powered by? ”

Zhuang Bifan is not afraid of him asking, but he is afraid that no one will ask this. He's ready to show these guys something this time, it's to show his muscles. Lest some arrogant people think of attacking artificial islands. He is really not afraid of fighting, but it will be difficult to clean up as soon as the fight starts.

"It's an electric drive, and the electrical energy creates a repulsive energy field that allows the hovering car to fight against gravity, and the fan is driving the car off the ground, and the air flow is used to drive the car forward," he said. The energy comes from a high-performance battery. ”

When Minister Peng heard this, this is a different principle from the earth's suspension train technology. The earth's levitating train uses the magnetic field of permanent magnets on the ground to achieve its purpose by not generating force through superconductors. Here, however, the levitation is a direct anti-gravitational force.

In fact, what he didn't know was that this kind of car was just awesome, and it was actually useless. They can only be used in enclosed environments, are very safe outdoors, and are very unsafe in windy conditions - the wind can easily blow away cars that lose their gravitational pull and travel at high speeds. If it's in space, these cars can be like fish in water. But in space, these cars are too slow.

But Minister Peng sees the potential of this technology.

In this world, the land area of the Chinese Empire is more than 20 million square kilometers, and although the aviation industry is developed, land transportation is also indispensable.

It's just that there are already high-speed railways in operation in this world. It's just that in this world of complete private ownership, the monopoly of certain industries by multinational corporations is very serious.

In that world, countries like RB, Germany, and France have already started operating high-speed rail. But since then it has been stalled. On the contrary, before he came, there was a high-speed railway in China almost every year. In the year he came, a high-speed rail network had been formed in the eastern part of the republic. And even the United States wants to work with China to build their own high-speed rail.

Why have those developed countries been unable to develop high-speed rail? It is because their domestic railways are privately operated, and they are reluctant to invest in improving the railway network. Reluctant to invest in research, reluctant to improve railroad tracks, etc.

The Republic's high-speed rail network has been able to take shape in more than a decade, thanks to its centralized planning.

And in the Chinese Empire of this world, the railways were also privately operated. It's not that they haven't studied high-speed rail, but the investment in building a high-speed rail network is too great, so they would rather endure the continuous decline in turnover every year, the number of passengers taking the railway is decreasing year by year, and they would rather endure being scolded by freight customers because more than 90% of the trains are delayed. I just don't want to invest money in research.

But the Chinese Empire now needed a faster rail network. Let the logistics circulate in the country faster, so that the logistics cost will be reduced. If this could be achieved, the annual economic output of the Chinese Empire would increase by at least 2 percentage points. It will create at least 30 million jobs.

That's why Minister Peng wanted to test the technology of this hovering car. If there is a fast and comfortable train, maybe some tourists will return to rail traffic. It can also speed up the Empire's rail network.

He heard Zhuang Bifan say that it was electrically driven, he smiled and said, "Your Excellency, will the scope of your Three-Eyed Civilization's foreign trade include some technology?" ”

Zhuang Bifan nodded and said, "Of course. There are some techniques that are not suitable for your current level of science. Because we find that you humans do not have that theoretical basis for the time being. We, the Three-Eyes Civilization, hope to provide some useful help to other civilizations in their development. But we also believe that every civilization has its own development process, and only then can it truly become a mature civilization. So that kind of technology, we wouldn't consider selling. But some of the technologies that are not serious with the earth's level of technology are not serious, and we can consider selling those technologies for trading. For example, this kind of hovering car, the repulsion field theory, with the level of science and technology of the earth, it is incomprehensible in a hundred years. So we don't trade. However, battery technology and electric energy conversion technology can be sold. If humans on Earth want to develop hovercars, we can also provide an alternative technology with a lower level of technology. ”

Minister Peng didn't expect him to say it in such detail, originally he should have said such things when the two of them were alone. But now that the representatives of other countries have heard it, he has to ask the next question: "Then I don't know these technologies, what do we need to exchange them for?" ”

"Our dealings with other civilizations, just like trade between the nations of the planet, will be settled in currencies mutually agreeable."

Minister Peng was silent when he heard this. Now there are two relatively strong settlement currencies in the world, one is the Chinese dollar and the other is the US dollar. The euro of the European Union also means that it has come to the forefront. If Aurora Island only accepts one settlement currency. Those three currencies will be contested. It's just that at this time he can't say anything.

However, after listening to the translation, Smith said to Zhuang Bifan with a smile: "Your Excellency, our American dollar is the most widely used currency on the earth. A total of 112 countries use it for international trade. I think it would be the best currency for settlement of trade with Aurora Island. ”

The number of countries on this earth is a little smaller than the other one, for example, the territory of the Huaxia Empire is equivalent to more than a dozen countries in the world, and there are only about 20 countries in Europe. The total number of countries, of course, is much less.

And Zhuang Bifan proposed to trade with money, just to let them compete like this. One is that he needs to be involved, and the other is that the trade between the so-called Three-Eyes civilization and humans will take some time to begin. For half a year, it was easy for them to pass the noisy struggle for currency rights.