Chapter 1151 Judgment

"You will all stay here tonight. I hope you don't mind my humble abode."

The inn where Dasong entertains foreign envoys is called the State Guest House.

This newly built three-story building combines the styles of Dasong and modern architecture.

It can reflect both the cultural characteristics of Dasong and the progress of Dasong's civilization.

In addition to the appearance and structure, the decoration of the State Guest House is also very fashionable.

The floor of the lobby is covered with exquisite tiles.

Since the merchants learned from the Patent Office that in addition to firing porcelain, tiles can also be fired.

Tiles, a building decoration material, became popular in Dasong.

The State Guest House is no exception.

Hanging above the ground is a crystal lamp.

However, this is not real crystal, but a glass product, with a filament installed inside the glass.

Such a crystal lamp can both illuminate and look beautiful.

After it was launched, many families in Dasong with extra money replaced incandescent lamps with crystal lamps. .

"Vice Minister Su is too modest. If this is also a small humble abode, then our Winter Palace in Petersburg will be ashamed." Chester had to admit that the scene in front of him amazed him.

At this moment, he even felt inferior, subconsciously feeling that they were too rustic and out of place here.

Su Yuntang smiled, "In that case, you should go to bed early, and I will come again tomorrow."

The decoration of the State Guest Inn is definitely not to cater to foreign envoys.

Because this is the popular architectural decoration style in Dasong, which appeared with the technological progress of Dasong.

Many hotels in Yancheng are like this, and some old buildings are also undergoing similar renovations.

After Su Yuntang left, he left an official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to continue to lead Chester and his party.

Chester thought that the shock he brought to him today would end here.

But after being arranged to their respective rooms, they were dumbfounded again.

The floor of their room was covered with soft carpets, the bed had white bedding, and there was a special washroom with automatic faucets and a ceramic toilet.

Of course, they asked the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to find out what faucets and toilets are.

What shocked them even more was that they indirectly learned that the water in these two things was called tap water.

It was supplied by the Dasong tap water pipeline that had just been built.

With this thing, people no longer need to drink well water or go to the river to fetch water.

So many new things made Chester feel like a fool.

That night, he, like the nobles of Ross, looked at the outside world through the glass window of the room until midnight before falling asleep.

Some people also thought that this was Dasong deliberately showing them the best side.

But this speculation was shattered the next day.

As Su Yuntang said, he arrived on time the next day and continued to lead them to visit Yancheng.

When they entered other hotels, they realized that the place they lived was really ordinary.

"Deputy Minister Su, can we visit your factory?" After wandering around for a whole morning, Chester finally made his request nervously.

Whether it was street lights, bicycles, or things that had never been seen in the posthouse, they were all superficial.

The real support for these things is the factory of Dasong.

It is the factory that made all this.

"Okay." Su Yuntang was well prepared, as if he was waiting for Chester to say this.

In fact, Emperor Zhao Xu gave him this authority.

Chester was excited when he got a positive answer.

Then Su Yuntang led Chester and his party to take the light rail train directly to the workshop area.

The first stop, Su Yuntang chose to go to the textile factory.

Gu Fei

What the Westerners are most proud of at present is their textile industry.

Britain also relies on this industry to make high profits from overseas.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation, these four words are the basic needs of people, and naturally can generate a huge market.

In the spinning mill, Chester saw the real use of electricity.

Rows of spinning machines rotate under the power provided by the electric motor, and cotton turns into cotton yarn at an extremely fast speed.

They carefully observed these cotton yarns and found that these cotton yarns are much finer than those produced by Ross.

And the thickness of cotton yarn is one of the standards for measuring the level of the Western textile industry.

Since fine yarn breaks easily, industrial production requires more continuous and stable power, which is something that steam engines cannot provide.

This is why the fabrics of the Dasong people are so soft and fine.

Thinking that most of the Russians can only wear coarse cloth, Chester's mood is heavy again.

Obviously, the Dasong people have already crossed the steam power era and entered a new era that they cannot understand at present, called the electric era.

Then, he followed Su Yuntang to many factories and saw many industrial products he had never seen before.

But he was no longer interested in observing, because the textile industry alone was enough to explain a lot.

The rest was just a torture to their fragile self-esteem.

For a whole day, the group shuttled between various factories.

In the next few days, they went to visit other counties in Dasong with Su Yuntang.

This visit made them lose their last bit of luck.

They thought that only the capital of Dasong had entered the electric era.

Unexpectedly, many key county towns have thermal power plants.

At the same time, they also learned that Dasong had a wired telegraph.

Su Yuntang used this thing to ask for instructions directly from the Emperor of Dasong in the imperial capital.

After returning from other provinces, Chester saw the thing called a telephone in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs again.

This time, Su Yuntang directly talked to the Emperor of Dasong in the palace through the phone, which deeply shocked him.

After staying in Yancheng for another six days, Chester couldn't wait to return.

He wanted to report everything about Dasong to Emperor Nicholas.

Su Yuntang followed them and didn't keep them.

However, for strategic success, before Chester left, he took Chester and his party to take many photos in various places in Dasong.

After the photos were developed, they were given to Chester to take back.

In addition to the crowd, the photos showed the scenes of various places in the entire Dasong Imperial City, which helped Nicholas make the right judgment.

Carrying these photos close to him, Chester took a steam locomotive to Jincheng as he did when he came.

Looking at the scenery flashing outside the window, Chester and the nobles were all silent.

This short performance set off a huge wave in their hearts.

Even now, this wave has not subsided.

Most importantly, they have completely changed their views on Dasong.

It turns out that the conditions for Dasong people to promote Nicholas are really not to humiliate the Russian state.

They are really supported by strength.

After understanding the real Dasong, they can't imagine how to fight against Dasong in the Far East.

It is undoubtedly crazy to choose to go to war with Dasong for a huge barren snowfield.

On the contrary, if you agree to cooperate with Dasong, you may get rich rewards.

These rewards will allow the Russian state to have enough ability to gain benefits in the West and make up for the losses in the Far East.

Thinking of this, Chester strengthened his thoughts.

He believed that the nobles had made the same judgment as him at this moment.