The third World Expo in this world was held in the Ming Dynasty. In front of the huge exhibition hall, an envoy from the West was waiting here. A 44-meter-long airship floated in the airbag with the word "Ming" printed on the airbag, and cast a small shadow below.

They were waiting for the arrival of one person - the emperor of the Ming Empire, who would personally cut the ribbon for the third World Expo.

In addition to the envoys, there are also ordinary people who come to visit.

The Ming Empire invested a lot of money to build an exhibition hall for the World Expo and collect goods from all over the world. These cost millions and tens of millions of square treasury silver.

Such a huge investment is mainly to recover funds through the income from exported goods and tickets.

Chu Qi was among the crowd waiting for the start of the World Expo. He just visited the World Expo as a tourist.

The World Expo was born in the Steam Age. This is the first time Chu Qi has experienced such a scene. Under the call of the Ming Empire, 37 countries participated in the World Expo, and more than 200,000 people were waiting outside the exhibition hall!

Waiting to enter the exhibition hall, the envoys from various countries were divided into three camps. The Eastern Shogunate, the Goryeo Lee Dynasty, the Nguyen tribes and other vassal states, the Sun-Down-Still Empire, the French Empire, the Tsarist Russian Empire, the Prussian Empire and other Western powers, as well as the Persian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Mexico, Argentina and other neutral countries.

Although Chu Qi was in the rear, he knew that the sun never set, Queen Victoria, Queen of the Empire, Crown Prince Frederick III, French Emperor Napoleon III, Tsar Alexander II and others were in front.

The managers of the vassal states such as the Li dynasty of the Goryeo Lee, Ando Nobumasa of the Oriental Shogunate, and Nguyen Phuc Shi, the king of Annan, were also waiting.

There may never be such a luxurious lineup that brings such a famous person to this place.

A cameraman from the Ming Dynasty carried a black and white camera to record this historic moment.

Even the previous two World Expo did not alarm so many big names to appear at the same time.

The East is really too mysterious for Western countries, and the Ming Dynasty was busy digesting the land of the East and reclaiming vassal states, and rarely appeared in front of Western countries. The only time it took action was considered the number one power by the countries, and it excluded the Empire from the Sun and the Sun. Prussia even imitated the Ming Dynasty and adopted a new type of combat method - railways, telegraphs, and guns and cannons.

This time, the great figures from all countries wanted to find out the mysterious Ming Empire, so that they would travel thousands of miles to come here.

The Suez Canal was launched not long ago because of the early arrival of industrial civilization. It only took half a year for the missions from various countries to travel to the East and then return to the West. This was something that was not possible in the previous sailing era.

Everyone was waiting for the arrival of the Ming Dynasty royal family, and the Ming Dynasty royal family still enjoyed great prestige.

A team of ancient and gorgeously dressed imperial guards escorted the Ming Emperor at this time, and a warm cheer erupted in the crowd!

These Eastern cavalry still wore ancient armor from more than two hundred years ago, equipped with bows and arrows and sabers, to guard the same ancient royal travel.

Almost all cavalry today use rifled rifles and swords, and have eliminated increasingly impractical armor, but their ancient outfits are still symbolic, and may be the oldest small team of cavalry preserved by the Ming Empire.

"Your Majesty the Emperor! Your Highness the Crown Prince!"

Six Cabinet Grand Secretary and Six Ministers of the Ministry of Justice came to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty and the Crown Prince to salute.

They don’t need to kneel three times and kowtow nine times, they just need to bow.

"Your dear is not a gift."

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty was in good spirits, and he didn't need to worry about the government. He had funds allocated from the cabinet every year, so his life was still sufficient.

However, the emperor's power to choose concubines was deprived, and there was no such thing as a harem.

This is also a problem based on the royal family's funding. If the emperor has too many descendants and the funds are limited, the funds distributed to each royal family member will be less, so the scale of the royal family can only be limited. This emperor has only three children.

The improvement in medical standards has reduced the royal family's death rate, and the emperor does not need to recruit concubines to continue the incense.

"Long live!"

Under the gaze of Napoleon III, Queen Victoria, Frederick III, Alexander II and others below, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty personally cut the red ribbon with scissors. At this time, the crowd seemed to be boiling.

The gate of the exhibition hall of the International Nations Expo was pushed open by several soldiers, and the envoys from various countries and the Ming Dynasty royal family took the lead in.

In the middle of the exhibition hall, there is not a gold gem, but a steel monster - an extremely huge steam engine!

The entire steam engine consists of hundreds of machines and parts, and everyone stands below and looks up!

The Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion said to the emperor: "This is the source of power for the entire exhibition hall. The 1,500 horsepower steam engine weighs 60,000 kilograms, that is, 60 tons, the twin cylinders are 14 meters high and the giant flywheel is 9 meters in diameter. Please pull the switch with His Majesty the Emperor."

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty nodded. He pulled the switch in front of many envoys and tourists. The machinery roared in unison, the paddle wheel flew, and the exhibition hall vibrated slightly!

Everyone present felt the slight shaking of the ground. They were a little uneasy at first, but later they found that it was the movement caused by the steam engine, so they settled down.

This big guy is too big!

Chu Qi looked up at the huge steam engine. Such a large steam engine is a perfect work of industrial art in itself.

In this exhibition hall, more than half are from the Ming Dynasty's own industrial products or specialties such as tea, porcelain, etc., which is completely the Ming Empire taking this opportunity to show its national strength to the Western powers.

In addition to the huge steam engine, there is also a behemoth weighing 125 tons, which is a steam hammer, such as trains, ships, and steel cannons, which are used to beat many parts.

All the envoys, tourists looked at the steam hammers of 125 tons, more than ten meters high, and in their eyes, this was a very majestic machine.

"This steam hammer is a heavy machinery built by the Imperial Machinery Supervision Bureau, used to make large engine long shafts, piston rods and cannon barrels. Forging can not only change the shape of the workpiece, but also improve the particle structure and mechanical properties of the metal." An official below is responsible for explaining.

As expected, only industry can strengthen the country.

After Chu Qi discovered that the Ming Empire in this world was on track, he played with these machines even better than Europeans.

"This is the latest invention of our Ming engineers - phone! What's more magical than telegram is that it can convey sounds. As early as in Chongzhen's manuscript, Emperor Chongzhen hand-drawn a sketch of a prophetic phone, and now we have transformed it into reality!"

Chu Qi saw an amazing thing in the exhibition hall, which turned out to be a telephone with a tube, and also had a sloppy sketch, a design drawing from two hundred years ago, but it was very sloppy.
Chapter completed!