"Ladies and gentlemen, Yu Bowen of the European Consulate General has sent back a telegram saying that both the Dutch and the Spaniards are interested in the cooperation of steamships, and are willing to fund the exchange, and Spain has even proposed that the colonies can be used to replace the manufacturing technology, now tell me your opinion."

Although the Parliament of the Republic of Australia is not large, and there are currently only 31 members after several expansions, the venue is as noisy as a vegetable market before each meeting.

Speaking of steamship exports, in fact, there has been a very big controversy in Australia, as everyone knows that their arrival will definitely lead the technology of this era to a new field in advance, but many people have never thought that so quickly let the technology that would have appeared in hundreds of years flow out of Australia.

But as Australia became an indispensable part of the plane, and it became an indispensable part of the plane, they realized that it was not so easy for them to design a technology fortress.

In order to adapt to this time and space, the company is divided into two factions, one insists on maintaining the advantage of continuing to be a technological fortress, and the technology of hundreds of years and decades ahead of other countries in the same period can definitely bring benefits to Australia's future hegemony.

But at the same time, there is another group of divergent opinions that although the technology fortress can keep Australia in the leading position in all aspects, it will not prevent the leakage of technology. A lot can be seen from the technological fortress of China in Western countries in later generations.

There is an old saying that it is better to block than to sparse, since it cannot prevent technology leakage, why not let some technologies that have been relatively eliminated in Australia be imported into Europe. At the same time, it will drive the technological development of this time and space and provide the driving force for the future development of Australia.

The group of people who have this idea are more enlightened, and there is no shortage of technical bosses in them, while the relatively conservative people who can continue to lead the rest of the world by keeping the existing technology without leaking it, can be seen from their identities, basically belonging to the conservative faction.

As 1644 approached, the atmosphere of the quarrel between the two factions was somewhat relaxed. Now it's being ignited at once. The focus of the debate has also shifted from the original ban on exports or agreement to the current how to maximize benefits.

With the support of a group of technocrats, conservatives have no incentive to support even if they want to design a tech fortress, so they turn to how to maximize profits.

Exporting steam engine technology is indeed possible. However, Australia must be given the maximum benefits, such as royalties and the location of the shipbuilding for cooperative production in Australia, which are proposed by conservatives, and after careful consideration, these radicals feel that there is nothing wrong with it, after all, the starting point is for the interests of Australia.

Now the members of Congress are sitting together. Discussions began on cooperation matters on which initial progress had been made. It can be said that this group of people sitting together is a heated debate, you and me, you and me, you say the good reasons, and he says the bad.

"The Spaniards are willing to sell their colonies, and I think it's a very good quid pro quo, because Spain still has a big colony in the Americas, and there are islands like Luzon in Southeast Asia, and it would be very nice for us to have any of them."

This is the concept put forward by Wang Dongping, a conservative lawmaker. For him, who has expanded the survival circle of the Han nation, obtaining the most colonies is equivalent to expanding the survival circle of the Han nationality in the world. After all, only land can support a person. The ancient peoples did not lack people, on the contrary, they lacked land.

"I don't think it's appropriate to say that Spain's domestic economy is in a crisis, and they simply can't come up with enough funds to cooperate, so they can only exchange land, I don't think land is of much use, and it is not of much use to Australia at the moment." Hu Xijing raised her own objections, and as a female parliamentarian, she rarely speaks, but this time she rarely spoke up to make her own proposals, which shows that she is concerned about this matter.

However, one thing Hu Xijing said is right, land is indeed not of much use to Australia, for the time being, the crossing occupies the entire Australian continent, it can be said that the land is vast and sparsely populated, and what is lacking is not land but population, and there is not enough population size, and it is useless to occupy a large land.

This can be seen in several other second-rate colonial countries in Europe, because of the lack of a sufficient population base, even if they occupy a piece of land, it will eventually be snatched up by other colonial powers.

Therefore, in the current situation, too much land is not conducive to the development of Australia, on the contrary, it will become a burden to Australia, and in order to prevent these lands from being occupied by others, Australia must send troops to defend.

"Well, I agree with Councilor Hu's statement, land is indeed not of much use to Australia at present, but Spain, as an old colonial empire, is indeed no worse than the Netherlands in the accumulation of shipbuilding technology, and it is indeed qualified to cooperate with us on this basis." As the person in charge of the shipyard, You Nanzhe is the most vocal.

His recognition of Spain, on the other hand, does not rule out cooperation with Spain, at least in terms of technology he does not consider inferior to the Dutch.

It can be said that the best shipbuilding technology in this period belonged to the Netherlands and Spain, followed by Portugal, as for England and France, they have not yet fully entered the age of sailing, and shipbuilding technology is simply not comparable with these three countries.

"Congressman You said that he was in favor of cooperation with Spain." Wang Dongping asked.

"Yes, Spain's technology is no worse than that of the Netherlands, and my idea is that we can combine the technology that we have mastered to develop new ships. Another way is for us to build two shipyards and work with both of them to prevent the inconvenience of one side of the problem. ”

It can be said that You Nanzhe's proposal is based on the current Dutch moratorium policy, if there are two cooperative shipyards, the Dutch will not dare to easily implement the postponement policy, because Australia can raise the opportunity to cancel the opportunity to cooperate with it at any time to threaten.

"Well, I think the second option is more acceptable, but the more money will be invested, will this exceed our planned investment." Wang Dongping nodded in approval, and at the same time expressed concern about the money invested.

I don't think there is any need to worry about this, we can issue government bonds, according to the statistics of Manchester City, the current depositors in the country have relatively high funds in their hands, so that this part of the money can be invested in new shipyards. Hu Xijing gave her opinion.

"Are the people willing to invest," Speaker Yuan Kejun asked.

"This requires the coordination of various departments," Hu Xijing looked at everyone with a smile.

Everyone actually understood what she meant, but it still needs to be discussed how to coordinate it. (To be continued......)