With the opening of the Flying Fish Bay shipyard, the popularity of Christmas Island has also been sawed to a new high in a short period of time, and both the Dutch and the British are rushing to see the novelty of shipbuilding.

It's just that when they arrived at Flying Fish Bay, all they saw was a dusty scene, and construction workers pushed back and forth the cart transporting materials, and they didn't see the steam engine as they imagined.

The Steam Engine is not only interested in the Spaniards and the Dutch, as long as anyone who understands it can see its great influence, and the steam engine will inevitably change the world. For this reason, the British and French have more than once proposed to establish other steam companies through cooperation, but they have all been rejected on the grounds that the technology is not for sale for the time being.

One of these two countries will be the hegemon of the European continent in the future, and the other will be the hegemon of the sea, and if Australia wants to maintain the current stability and consolidate its power, it must suppress these two countries that may enter the sequence of great powers in the future.

It is absolutely not possible to rely on Australia's unilateral means alone, so it is necessary to unite other forces, Spain is still the hegemon of the European continent, at least France does not have enough forces alone to confront him, as for Britain, it has not fully grown into a naval power, although it has now shown some fangs, but there are Dutch, and it is impossible to rise so quickly.

In order to keep them in check, Australia has implemented a bilateral funding scheme, and for them to cooperate in different fields, it is always guaranteed that neither side will have much strength to defeat the other.

The purpose of cooperating with the Dutch was to keep the British at bay, the future empire on which the sun never sets, which had shown its fangs and awaited its conquests, and whose position as supremacy of the seas would have been replaced by the British, if the course of history had not changed.

Therefore, the Dutch are very strategic to see the importance of the technology of the steamship, and do not hesitate to pay liquidated damages to negotiate cooperation with Australia, the British can see its importance even if they are stupid, if they can't even see this. In the future, the sun never sets, and the empire will be truly finished.

At this time, several countries rushed to visit to see how the steamship was made, but they obviously came too early, and the dock of the Flying Fish Shipyard had not been built at this time, so what could be seen.

It is said that it is the manufacturing base of the steam ship, but it is better to say that it is the assembly base, because the most important component of the steam ship, the production of the steam engine is Australia, and the restrictions on steam technology can be said to be very strict, not to mention the cooperation with the Spaniards and the Netherlands. However, the actual production of steam engines was exported from Australia, and most of the parts were assembled here.

The main role of these two factories was shipbuilding, and as for the installation of steam engines, and the workers were sent from Australia, and the cooperation between the two sides was very deep in the eyes of outsiders, but not in the eyes of the Spaniards and the Dutch themselves. Australians are still unusually strict about their technical reservations, and they are not as cooperative as they imagined.

For example, they have set up some non-foreign technical positions, which can only be employed by Australian workers, and it is even more impossible to train any Spaniards.

But it's nothing to them. The Spaniards knew very well that their position could not be compared with that of the Dutch, and that Spain had nothing practical to allow Australia to cooperate fairly with them, as for the Dutch they did.

"Mr. Harry, you are looking at the Flying Fish Bay Shipyard under construction. After the completion of this place, it can produce more than 50 ships per year, I don't know if you have any plans to invest in Christmas Island. Xiao Baitu took a pot-bellied Englishman and walked to the dock. Pointing to the introduction of the shipbuilding base where he had just finished cutting a few days ago.

It can be said that Xiao Baitu has fallen into a state of madness in order to make people invest now, as long as he thinks he has this ability, he will take the initiative to come forward to meet in person.

This is the case with this Harry, who is a British businessman. In addition to visiting Christmas Island, he also came to see the shipyard and find a way to contact the Australians to see if they were interested in building a shipyard.

However, it is frustrating that Australia has rejected the cooperation on the grounds that the annual production of steam engines is insufficient, and in his opinion, the Australians do not want to have too much cooperation with the United Kingdom.

Accompanied by Xiao Baitu, Harry also visited the entire urban area of Christmas Island, and was very satisfied with the construction of the urban area and the construction of entertainment venues on the island.

"Mr. Harry, you don't see the land to the west of the factory, it's still a terra nullius, I wonder if you're interested in investing in a large fresh fruit and vegetable market here."

Large fresh vegetable and fruit trading market, although the entire Christmas Island has a population of several thousand, but there is really no such market, with the recent increase in population, Xiao Baitu has realized that the original small market is probably no longer good and should build one.

After all, the economy of Christmas Island City is declining, the future prospects are not good, and the return on investment that can be brought back is not high, and there is almost no need to get a big profit.

The travelers in China were not willing to invest their money here, so they naturally had to look elsewhere, and the British who came to visit became the objects of his attention.

Harry was a little interested in Xiao Baitu's introduction, and looked at the land not far away, just west of the shipyard, and it would be very nice to open a restaurant or store here. And the most important thing is that later Britain can observe the situation inside the shipyard here.

What a perfect plan, Harry has already smiled inside, proud of his ingenuity, it seems that the Australians' precautions are not so strict.

Xiao Baitu didn't know what was going on in the other party's mind, but one thing he was sure of was that it was basically impossible for Harry to get the secrets inside the shipyard from here, and at most he could only hear something from the mouths of the workers.

It is impossible for those professional production data and drawings, as well as samples, to be known to outsiders, because there is a very strict management system inside the shipyard, which is a unanimous agreement with Spain. Neither side wants to cause trouble for themselves by leaking secrets, so it's a mutual agreement.

Of course, Harry didn't know about this, and after a moment of false hesitation, Harry squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "Of course I do, I am very optimistic about the market environment here." (To be continued......)