After the unification of the Daheng Empire, the empire integrated all the official shipping companies and focused on supporting three ocean shipping companies, but to be honest, the development was not very good.

Moreover, these three shipping companies are biased towards freight, because with the increase in the amount of import and export trade of the Daheng Empire, the demand for ocean freight has also increased significantly, and the development of freight can allow the three major shipping companies to obtain stable transportation orders and support the development of the shipping industry.

Relatively speaking, the investment in the field of ocean passenger transport is relatively small!

Before the Royal Princess was put into operation, the three major shipping companies in the Daheng Empire, plus the Endless Sea Shipping Company owned by the royal family, operated not many large-tonnage ocean liners.

Moreover, these ocean-going passenger ships are actually mainly operating local routes, and there are not many passenger ships operating international routes.

The largest ocean liner is just over 5,000 tons, and it's not fast enough and not comfortable enough.

In the early years, some of the official delegations of the empire had to take foreign passenger ships when they visited abroad.

It's okay for a normal visit, but what if the royals travel later? Is it possible to take a foreign passenger ferry as well? Or is it simply on a small wrecked ship of several thousand tons?

This is definitely not going to work!

The empire needs a cruise ship that can keep up with the world's first-class level, demonstrate the strength of the empire, and maintain the dignity of the royal family.

Originally, the official actually built a special royal cruise ship for the royal family at the beginning.

However, it is a bit unreasonable to spend a huge amount of money to build a private yacht for the royal family, for fear that it will affect the reputation of the royal family, and finally decided to let the shipping company build a high-end luxury passenger ship, which will be used for commercial operations on weekdays, and act as a royal ship when the royal family travels, and act as a delegation ship when the imperial delegation visits.

However, the three major ocean shipping companies of the State Assets Management Commission are still biased towards freight, and the amount of international trade in the empire has recently increased year by year, and the freight market has developed rapidly, in order to keep up with the pace of market development, they have also carried out large-scale expansion and invested a lot of money in the field of freight.

In addition, the top management of the National Asset Management Commission also has concerns about luxury cruise projects.

This thing costs a lot of money, and the three major shipping companies, not to mention luxury passenger ships, even the passenger transport field is not much involved, this rashly entered the high-end luxury cruise market, one is afraid that it will be lost to grandma's house!

The National Assets Management Commission had concerns, and in the end, it was the Royal Assets Division that took over his hot potato!

At that time, the endless sea shipping company, although the name was loud, but in fact it was only a medium-sized shipping company running the country's coastal routes and inland waterways, but this was already the best shipping company in the field of passenger transportation in the Daheng Empire at that time, with a number of thousands of tons of passenger ships.

They first ordered two 7,000-ton ocean-going luxury passenger liners, and after accumulating enough experience in the operation of ocean-going luxury passenger liners, they began to order the 11,000-ton Royal Princess.

In this process, the Endless Sea Shipping Company is also very nervous, if it weren't for the fact that this is a political task, they won't play any luxury passenger ships.

Daheng people don't like to go abroad, and foreigners don't like to come to Daheng very much, and each other's international exchanges are all people who study business diplomacy, etc., and there are no immigrants, nor are they simply visiting relatives and other tourists.

How to say it, the three major shipping companies are not high in international ocean passenger transport, just because there is no source of passengers, they do not make money, otherwise they would have done it a long time ago.

The Royal Princess was successfully built and put into operation, but its operation was surprisingly a huge success!

Because of the smooth operation of the Royal Princess, it also means that the Daheng Empire has become the fourth country on the Blue Star to be able to build a 10,000-ton luxury cruise ship on its own.

This brings a huge sense of national honor!

When the ship made its maiden voyage last year, the expensive tickets were almost swept away, and people didn't care where the ship's maiden voyage was going, they just wanted to take a ride to experience the top 10,000-ton luxury cruise ship of the Daheng Empire.

Subsequently, the ship was officially put into operation on the east-west route.

Yes, the Royal Princess, built for international ocean passenger transport, when it was really operating, it was not an international route, it was still a domestic route, crossing the endless strait to and from the east and west coasts of the empire.

Although there were as many as three east-west railways in the empire, many people still preferred to take passenger ships between the east and west banks.

The speed of luxury passenger ships is generally fast, or running day and night, you can also see the scenery on the way, and you can also play in the entertainment facilities on the ship during the sailing, and the whole journey is the same as traveling, and you can play happily for a few days.

It's much better than riding a train that wobbles for days and makes the whole person irritable and depressed!

Therefore, in this year, Daheng people prefer to take ships when they travel to and from the east and west coasts, especially the middle and high-end passengers in coastal states and counties.

In fact, it can be seen that the overall economic development of the Daheng Empire is inclined to domestic demand.

The international market seems to be huge, but it is nothing for the Daheng Empire, and the most important thing for the empire is the internal market, not the international market.

The ship's outstanding commercial operation results have enabled Endless Sea Shipping Company to start construction of a new generation of luxury passenger ships with larger tonnage and more advanced technology at the expense of loans, and to expand its high-end market position in domestic routes, especially in the east-west routes.

Other shipping companies naturally followed suit, but in a short period of time, the empire's 10,000-ton luxury passenger ship was just that.

The Royal Princess led the mission eastward, eventually arriving at the Valia Empire.

After the arrival of the mission, the Walya Empire had a very high standard of hospitality, not only sending many of their cabinet members according to the principle of diplomatic reciprocity, but also their emperor personally received the mission!

Although the Walia Empire has undergone many changes and has adopted a constitutional monarchy, and the emperor has lost most of his power, the country's royal family still has great influence and a certain amount of actual power.

Such a high-level reception also means the goodwill of the Walya Empire, and it also means their desire to establish cooperation with the Great Heng Empire!

That's a good thing, it's good for both countries!

After two days of polite contact between the two sides, the atmosphere was quite harmonious, and when the personnel on both sides spoke in private, they could already joke with the Krull.

Under the harmonious atmosphere, the Walia Empire also invited the mission to visit a number of places, because there were more enterprises and factories to be inspected, and they were also more scattered, so the inspection was also divided into multiple routes.

Jiang Wanye, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Empire, personally led a team to Daryl Company for inspection!

Daryl is an important company in the Walya Empire!

Because the company is an important large-scale comprehensive enterprise in the Walya Empire, its machinery and equipment products are an important object of investigation in the empire, and the company is also quite a breakthrough in the field of chemical industry and national defense.

After all, the large-scale heavy industry enterprises in this year are generally closely related to national defense, and Jingzhou Machinery Company seems to be just an ordinary enterprise that produces machinery and equipment.

However, it has a naval artillery factory, which is the only factory in the Daheng Empire that can produce advanced large-caliber naval guns with a caliber of more than 300 millimeters and 30 times.

Among the three major naval artillery factories in the empire, the naval artillery factory of the Jingzhou Machinery Company is the largest, the most powerful, and the only factory that can mass-produce 300 mm 35 times the mouth and 350 mm and 350 times the caliber of the naval gun.

The Daryl company of the Walia Empire is similar to the Jingzhou Machinery Company, it seems that it does not have the name of a weapons company, and many of its products are also civilian products, but it is still the most important national defense supplier of the Walia Empire, providing a series of advanced products such as large-caliber naval guns and armor for the Valia Empire.

However, the envoy of the Great Heng Empire did not come to inspect their weapons and equipment, and although they also looked at them halfway, they failed to arouse any interest.

Their company's technology, in the field of large-caliber naval artillery and armor, is not as good as that of Jingzhou Machinery Company and Jingzhou Iron and Steel Plant.

The empire is interested in the large machinery and equipment in their company, such as super-large tonnage gantry cranes, hydraulic presses and other large equipment, and these large equipment has always been the most important import materials in the import trade of the Daheng Empire.

The Valya Empire also knew why they came, although when they took them to the defense industry halfway, they also had the intention of selling, but after seeing that the people of Daheng were not interested in the hardening technology of these large-caliber keyboards and composite armor, they also gave up.

And then the focus is on large machinery!

The members of the expert group in the Daheng Imperial Mission had already begun to understand the performance of the equipment in detail when they visited, but in the process of understanding, they kept frowning.

Although these advanced equipment will not be able to be produced by the Daheng Empire itself for a while, the experts of the empire still have a high vision, after all, they used to buy and use the first-class goods from the Krull Kingdom, and now they look at the same type of equipment from the Walya Empire, it is a little disdainful.

After a brief visit in the morning, during the break after lunch, a white-bearded professor in the expert group went to Jiang Wanye's side and whispered: "Although these things are better than our own production, they are much worse than those of the Krull people. ”

"In fact, even if they can bring out the best things, there is still a big gap between them and the equipment of the Krull, if possible, it is better to get the equipment of the Krull people as much as possible!"