"If he is on the same level as the captain, it should be Shaozuo's grade, although it is not high, but at his current age, he must have a great future in the future, so you can't underestimate him." Based on this idea, Sheng Haizhou paid Li Hailong a lot of attention, but now he didn't know that more than eighty percent of the young people in the Datong Party were in the Datong Party, and the proportion of probationary party members was even higher

The more he talked, the more Sheng Haizhou felt that China was extremely strange now, and even the destination of this trip was beyond his expectations, neither Tianjin nor Shanghai, "What? Going to Laizhou? ”

"Now that we have not officially established the country, naturally there is no capital, and the central government is in Laizhou most of the time, so naturally we want to take you there." , Li Hailong patiently explained.

Sheng Haizhou was still a little puzzled, "Didn't you defeat Beijing?" Why not stay there? Laizhou is just a small city, how can it be the capital of a big country? ”

"The party leader said that Beijing has been ruled by the Manchus for too long, and it has been deeply negatively affected, and it is a large city with a large population, and it is difficult to solve the problem through immigration. Li Hailong replied without hesitation, "Of course, Laizhou will not be our future national capital, but the central government will temporarily stay here." But Laizhou is not a small city now, you will know when you arrive. ”

Sheng Haizhou originally wanted to ask Laizhou Port if it could dock a big ship like the Xijing Maru, but when Li Hailong said this, he swallowed back the words that had already reached his lips, "Since Laizhou City has expanded, and it has been elected by this Datong Party to be in the line, it should be that Laizhou Port has also been expanded, and the draft of Xijing Maru is not deep."

However, what Sheng Haizhou didn't expect was that even if he had a certain amount of psychological preparation, he was still startled when the Xijing Maru sailed into Laizhou Port, "This, this is Laizhou Port?" ”

"The main channel with a water depth of more than 10 meters at low tide, 10 deep-water berths that can accommodate 10,000-ton giant ships, two 10,000-ton unloading docks, and two large docks that can repair 10,000-ton giant ships, such a large port was completely completed in just over a year, how did the Chinese do it? It's incredible, it's a miracle, it's a miracle! After learning the basic information of Laizhou Port, Katsu Haizhou was greatly shocked, and thus he was even more convinced that the only way out for Japan was to be friendly to China.

It is said that the ability to build is an important manifestation of a country's strength, and Sheng Haizhou's current mood is exactly the same as that of the Lombard king who was frightened by the "miracle" of his son-in-law Charlemagne to build a "majestic" chapel overnight in the early Middle Ages in Western Europe.

After disembarking at the wharf, Li Hailong went to the telegraph office in Laizhou Port to report the matter to the central authorities, but was told that Li Hui went to the Laizhou Pharmaceutical Factory, which had just been built not long ago, to personally participate in the clinical trial of the factory's first new drug, so the Japanese mission could only settle down in the guest house of the central provisional government, and then Sheng Haizhou and others soon discovered that the currency used by the Chinese in the guest house was neither silver taels nor even silver yuan

"So light, what is this made of?" , Sheng Haizhou picked up a "five-cent" coin that had just been exchanged for silver by the attaché, and found that it was extremely light, and immediately denied the idea that it was a silver coin at first, but what kind of metal it was, Sheng Haizhou, who had more outdated knowledge, did not know.

"I guess it's aluminum." , Fukushima Yasumasa, who is more well-informed and has a much newer knowledge structure, can be recognized at a glance, but his surprise is no less than that of Sheng Haizhou, "Aluminum used to be more expensive than gold, and was once used as a material for high-end tableware by the courts of European countries, and the price has only become cheaper in recent years, but that is only compared with the previous price, the new Chinese government actually uses this expensive metal to mint coins of the minimum amount, which is really wealthy."

As soon as the words came out, Fukushima Yasumasa shook his head and corrected, "No, it shouldn't be as simple as having money, Mr. Haizhou, you see, this five-cent coin is made of copper, although the size is larger, and the density of copper is very large, but in any case, it is not ten times the weight of a five-cent coin, not to mention, at least until I leave Germany, the price of aluminum is still higher than the price of copper." What does this mean? ”

"Does it mean that the Chinese government is losing money by minting three aluminum coins?" , Sheng Haizhou realized the problem as soon as he spoke, how could a regime that could rise strongly in a short period of time make such a low-level mistake?

"How can a modern government issue money at a loss?" , Fukushima Yasumasa unceremoniously pointed out the mistake of Katsu Haizhou, although the latter's status as deputy envoy is higher than him, but the status of the pro-China faction in Japan is very low, Katsu Haizhou himself is too old, basically there is no room for growth, Fukushima Yasumasa naturally does not respect him as much as he does for Ito Hirobumi, so he directly pointed out Katsu Haizhou's mistakes, and did not leave him any face.

Sheng Haizhou did not bother with the young man, but humbly asked for advice, and now Fukushima Yasumasa was embarrassed to sell Guan Zi again, and frankly said his analysis, "Earl, aluminum is different from copper, its high price is not because of limited reserves, but because the smelting cost is too high. It is likely that the Chinese have mastered a new production process with higher efficiency, and the production cost of aluminum is much lower than that of copper, so they will take aluminum to mint cheap coins and copper to mint expensive coins."

"It is indeed possible that there is no surprise that we can design and build the world's most advanced armored cruisers and master some advanced metallurgical processes that are ahead of the world." , Katsu Haizhou nodded, and praised Fukushima Yasuma's analytical ability, "Being able to see so much from the materials of the coin, Fukushima-kun is really a rare intelligence genius!" ”

After hearing this, Fukushima Yasumasa smiled slightly, picked up a coin and carefully studied the patterns on the front and back for a while, and then smiled at Sheng Haizhou with a confident face, "Earl, as the so-called 'seeing the subtle knows', don't look at this coin is light and small, but it can tell us a lot of information!" ”

"First of all, look at the workmanship of these coins, even the coins of the Omi ghost animals are not so delicate, what does this mean? You know what that means that China has now mastered machining technology that surpasses Omega, or more precisely, the Datong Party that overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty? Fukushima Yasumasa sighed solemnly as he examined the delicate and smooth pattern on the surface of the coin. (To be continued.) )