On May 1, 1849, when the opening ceremony of the Universal Exposition became a festival for the whole of London, Lin Hong repeatedly used one word in his diary to express his excitement: glory, glory, endless glory. Yes, this is the supreme glory that belongs to this nation, maybe ordinary people will also feel glory, but there is definitely no mood like Lin Hong, the country and the nation that are in many disasters will achieve more and greater glory in his hands.

On this day, the whole of Beijing was bustling, and ladies dressed in satin dresses and scarves stood on either side of the warm orange carpet of the Imperial Square (*square) to welcome the great Emperor of China, Emperor Lin Hong and Empress. Men in their suits stood behind the ladies. Thousands of people had come from all over the country to attend the imperial extravaganza, and most of the crowd had waited outside the Crystal Palace, hoping to pour into the halls. It was the beginning of the most spectacular summer in the most powerful country of the East.

As nine horse-drawn carriages march from the Forbidden City to the Old Summer Palace, the procession in the streets waves wreaths in their hands. Lin Hong and his wife, Empress Liu Xiaoyu, rode together in the wide royal carriage, and the emperor waved his hands at his subjects, and the cheers of the people rose higher and higher. The entire royal convoy was escorted by the Praetorian Guards and slowly headed towards the Old Summer Palace. The Imperial Guards, mounted on tall horses, remained in line as they marched, their uniform white mounts raising their front legs high to the sound of drums, and stomping on the ground in unison, like a dance.

When the royal carriage stopped on the streets of the Old Summer Palace, the artillerymen of the Imperial Royal Honor Guard fired a salute. The sound of cannons shook the jubilant crowd, people's hearts couldn't help but shake together, an irrepressible pride spread in the crowd, and the crowd boiled to a new height. Facing the royal couple who got off the carriage. The Chinese present invariably shouted, "Long live the Chinese Empire!" Long live, long live His Majesty the Emperor of Thailand! This cry came from the pride of the citizens of a great country, and 1849 was a time of growing and prosperity for the empire, showing the world the fruits of industrialization. China is showing the world that China at this time is not the China of Asia. It's the China of the world.

It took nearly half an hour for the 41-fired salute to be fired, and Lin Hong and his wife also walked into the huge bronze iron gate. They walked along a red carpet towards the Crystal Palace.

The crystal clear crystal palace attracts everyone's attention. People can't take their eyes off the front of the glass house, in fact, in the eyes of modern people, this crystal palace is just ordinary, because modern buildings can be seen everywhere in this kind of high-rise buildings made of glass. But at that time, the pioneering work of this modern building gave an indescribable shock to people at that time, especially the Crystal Palace was built in the Old Summer Palace, the pinnacle of traditional Chinese architecture. Palmerston was also impressed, and the power of industry showed itself in this building. While Palmerston was carefully observing the sprawling and chic structure, the Chinese diplomat asked him and a group of foreign envoys to come up to the Emperor.

Among the more than 10 countries participating in the fair. All dressed in imperial costumes, the simple lines and chic collocation made the envoys of various countries wearing eastern costumes look radiant, on the other hand, Lin Hong wore the dragon robe when he sacrificed to the sky and wore the crown of heaven, but it made people feel a little bloated, but this can't be helped. The outfit was the result of Lin Hong's consultancy with universities across the country, and students, professors, and even newspapers demanded that the emperor wear the traditional costumes of the Chinese nation on this day.

Once inside the Crystal Palace, the new products here are refreshing. The China Room is located opposite the main gate of the Crystal Palace, with the British Room to the left and the French Room to the right. Compared with France, the United States, Austria and other countries, the area occupied by the Chinese exhibition room is quite large. It's filled with a wide variety of goods, the most striking of which is not the fine Chinese crafts. It's not an oriental gatehouse and two red lanterns hanging high in front of the exhibition area, but a permanent bicycle that is ridden in circles. Of course, if you want to seriously trace the designer of the bicycle, Lin Hong must have something to do with it. But that doesn't matter, without the rubber produced by Lanfang and the Philippines (nominally a Spanish colony, in fact the Chinese work better than the Spaniards), the permanent bike would still be a drawing. Now the bike, which is manufactured by Rongde, is surrounded by curious visitors. Xu Rongcun, chairman of Rongde Company, looked at the crowd of onlookers with a smile, and the general director in charge of the company's product sales next to him was full of sweat, he would not fail to understand the meaning of today, and he thought that maybe tomorrow there will be orders from all over the world to fly to him.

Compared with permanent brand bicycles, Phoenix sewing machines from Phoenix are also popular and sought-after. What surprised the Europeans the most. Judging by the quality of the sewing machine. The steel and machine tools produced by the Chinese have reached a certain level, which should be said to be completely comparable to the most advanced technology in Europe.

In addition to the above products. The cable telegraph produced in China also made a big splash at the fair, especially the cables that were wrapped in rubber, which could be buried in the ground for long-distance telegraphs. Some foreigners who have been to southern China have finally understood why there are telegraph offices in China in large and medium-sized cities. In addition, the exhibition of submarine cables has attracted the attention of all countries, and ocean-going exchanges will no longer rely on ships to deliver news, and perhaps what happened in Britain today will be known to China in a few days.

In addition, the exhibits of the imperial colonies also amazed the ambassadors of various countries, East Africa sent many animal specimens, among which the specimen of the East African elephant made Lin Hong feel novel, and the North American colonies exhibited antiquities of Indian civilization and industrial products produced in North America.

In the Chinese pavilion, not only industrial products are popular, but also a variety of time-honored handicrafts are also popular in Western countries.

Even the visiting King of Prussia came to the China Pavilion to see what he loved, and Xu Jiji took the opportunity to present Frederick William IV with a pastel manta peach 'Fushou' pattern lazy vase, a 40-centimeter-high porcelain with a white glaze, showing a shiny translucent feeling. Starting from the bottom of the bottle, a lifelike peach branch extends to the bottleneck, and a few longevity peaches hang heavily on the branches and green leaves at the belly of the bottle. The color of the whole picture is elegant and soft, and the peach seeds are properly distributed, which is both full and rhythmic, giving people a sense of vitality.

More appealing to the ceramics than the ceramics was the revolver in the Chinese pavilion, which was the standard gun for an active Imperial Army officer, and was made by the Chinese-American weapon inventor Samuel Colt. In 1836, Colt established his first weapons factory in Padson, New Jersey, USA, but under Lin Hong's arrangement, Colt's factory soon went bankrupt, and then Colt came to China, a powerful country in the East, with his own patents, where he had the best research and development conditions, and soon his company developed three new pistols for the Imperial Army. It is used for the equipment and use of the imperial * official and the police.

Although Prussia was not rich in this matter, and the domestic economy had been developing under the support of China, Wilhelm IV still came up with an order of 30,000 pieces-

Under the brilliance of China's exhibits, the exhibits of Britain, France and the United States have greatly stolen the limelight, but how to say that each country has its own characteristics and bright spots.

The three-month World Exposition allowed the world to see the strength of the Chinese Empire, and also ushered in a large number of industrial orders for the Empire, which entered a blowout period of industrial construction. The World Exposition has achieved the status of the Chinese Empire as a world power