The atmosphere of the whole dinner was very pleasant and relaxed, whether it was the after-dinner program or the communication with the Australian dignitaries.

At some point, it even occurred to Van Diemen that it would be nice to settle here.

Early the next morning, Van Dimen, who was on a foreign visit to Manchester City, an important industrial city in Australia, was picked up by a car waiting outside the hotel at 9 o'clock in the morning and went to the Manchester Industrial Park.

Manchester Industrial Park is not far from the city of Manchester, which is about five kilometres away, and with the expansion of the city, the middle ground between the two places has been ordered to stop the construction of polluting factories. Only office buildings for office purposes can be constructed.

Now this section of the land has basically been occupied by various companies, because everyone can see that this will be the center of Manchester City in the future, as the city expands, the factory continues to move, and the land price here will definitely rise several times.

"Mr. Governor, you rested last night," Zhao Shijie asked.

"Okay, good rest, your presidential suite bed is so comfortable to sleep in, I'm curious how that was done and why it's so soft."

Simmons' large soft bed is really comfortable to sleep on, so that Van Dimen, who has never been used to sleeping lazy, wakes up half an hour late, and he has decided to order such a bed in Australia to go back.

"We'll visit the factory later, but it's better to keep it a little mysterious," Zhao Shijie said with a slightly mysterious smile.

"Okay, Minister Zhao, can you tell me where our first stop was?"

"Of course, the first stop we visited was the Australian glass mirror production plant, from which almost 80% of the mirrors exported to Batavia and Europe are exported."

With Zhao Shijie's introduction, the steam car also drove into the Manchester City Glass Factory, and the factory leaders and relevant technicians also stood at the door to greet them after being notified in advance.

"Director Zhang, I'll leave the next introduction to you. Take us for a visit," Zhao Shijie said to Zhang Yun with a smile, and then explained what Fan Dimen meant behind him.

Zhang Yun is one of the deputy directors and shareholders of the glass factory, and is also the chief engineer of the factory, so it is most appropriate for him to introduce him.

When I walked into the factory, I saw that the workers were holding a pipe, constantly rotating and blowing air into it, and a glass bottle came out after a while.

This blowing technique is somewhat similar to that of Venice, Italy, although not many countries have mastered it during this period.

Fan Dimen is naturally excited, after all, the selling price of the glass cup is quite high.

"Minister Zhao. The place where the glass is made is so valuable, isn't your country afraid that there will be lawbreakers who come to steal the technology? ”

The entire perimeter of the glass factory, Fan Dimen has personally seen, it can be said that there is basically no one guarding, if once there are lawless people come to steal the technology, it will not be able to stop it at all, but he heard that the Venetian glass factory has heavy soldiers day and night guard and patrol, at least Australia should be the same.

"It's just a glass factory, and in the near future, if Dutch businessmen are interested, we can sit down and discuss expanding production."

Zhang Yun's words intentionally or unintentionally. To the surprise of the translator who followed Van Diemen, what the Australians said was true, and if so, it would not be less than buying directly from the Australians.

The security of the glass factory was not very rigorous. But at least it also shows one problem, Australians are very confident in their technology leakage, and they are not afraid that others will steal it.

Next, Fan Dimen visited Yang Wenwen's garment factory and other women's workers. It was an eye-opener for him, and in addition to the shock, he was impressed, and the Australians could be said to have used something called a machine to the extreme.

From all the factories visited, you can see the scene of machines and people working together. In particular, in the application of steam engines, in addition to driving cars and ships, it can also be used to lift items and equipment and transport items.

These are the conveniences of the steam engine, which Australians call the age of steam.

After a tour of the industrial park, Van Dimen then returned to the hotel for dinner, and after a lunch break, he will visit the Manchester City shipyard, which is the highlight of the visit.

The Dutch and Australian steamship renovation project can be said to have been unanimously agreed by the whole country, and it must be cautious in this cooperation related to the future national fortune of the Netherlands. Although the treaty has been signed, the cooperation between the two sides has not yet taken place, and the inspection is also conducive to further cooperation.

However, for Van Dimen's investigation, is there any concern that the Australian side will leak the technology, according to You Nanzhe, there is no such thing as a no-brainer, and it will take decades for the Dutch to figure out these technical principles at the earliest, not to mention that they can understand it by just looking at it.

For Van Diemen, the visit is only to deepen the cooperation between Australia, but also to know where Australia is and to understand the real strength of Australia.

According to what she observed, although the scale of Australia's industrial towns is not large, its manufacturing and production capacity is indeed very strong, and most of the equipment in the factory is driven by steam engines, which has changed the difficulty of insufficient manpower and improved production efficiency.

As for whether it is possible to attack the city from the sea, the possibility is too difficult, just the forts by the harbor, there are more than a dozen guns of different sizes and calibers, the power of these guns is clear, not to mention other ideas.

Australia's intelligence department is quite powerful, and it can be said that there is no possibility of transmitting information out of Australia at all, as can be seen from the several groups of personnel dispatched.

What's more, what is the situation of the Australian outback, Van Diemen is not clear, just a small town surprises him, and it is even more surprising if it is the capital.

Therefore, Van Dimen Huidao Hotel wrote in his diary that Australia is a strong country, and a small town reflects the role of the steam engine in the development of the country. It can be said that the steam engine was one of the driving forces for development, which was not only a change in the history of navigation, but also a change in the development of the whole world.

Van Diemen emphasized the role of the steam engine many times in his diary, which is also believed by later Dutch scholars to be the reason why the Netherlands continued to remain among the great powers in the 18th century is entirely due to the importance that Governor Van Diemen attached to the steam engine and the foresight of the government officials at the time.

As for this visit, it is called the arrival of the steam age of enlightenment by European historians. Because of the import of steam engine technology, European countries have undergone earth-shaking changes. It also changed the order of the European continent and reshuffled the forces of the European continent. (To be continued......)