The cranes on the Shanghai Wharf are the latest type of steam cranes.

Since the Italians invented the rotary crane in the 15th century of the Western calendar, until the 18th century, the various lifting machinery used by humans were still powered by human or animal power, and the lifting weight, use range and work efficiency were very limited.

After Zhao Liang successfully mass-produced the steam engine, he arranged a large number of "functions" for it, hoping to apply the power source of this industrial era to a broader world as soon as possible.

Cranes are one of them.

And it is one of the first and most popular "inventions" that have succeeded and become the most popular.

For import and export merchants, the benefits of this loading and unloading model are obvious: the goods of a large flatbed truck were loaded and unloaded in a few minutes, and there were less than ten people working up and down.

If it is manpower to transport, it will take an hour.

The labor used will also increase significantly.

And there will inevitably be collision damage or even casualties during the handling process.

But now this problem has been solved perfectly.

Shimazu Shigeo's deepest impression after he arrived in China was China's mechanization and livestock in all aspects and industries.

Take the dock as an example.

Japan's pier, whether it is Kagoshima, Edo, or Nagasaki, is mainly manpower.

Carrying a man's back on his shoulder.

Even if there is a vehicle, it is driven by manpower.

As for the Shanghai-Hong Kong in front of him, even the Xiamen Port he had visited before, it is really hard to use animal power and machinery, but it rarely uses human labor.

Comparing Japan with China, it feels like abusing human power no matter how you look at it.

The rail carriages here and the cranes here really save too much manpower.

Shimazu Shigeo didn't have any deep understanding of these, but now he frowned and asked Saigo Ritsuka.

Saigo Ritsuka pondered for a moment and said, "I have talked about this issue with Chinese officials. The explanation over there is that machinery is easy to use and can achieve value more. Although a machine always saves a lot of labor and invisibly takes away the jobs of these people, in today's China has places to resettle the passing of industries."

"In the future, China will continue to move forward in industrialization and mechanization, because China's future needs to be more optimized to play the role of each human force."

"What does this mean?"

Shimazu Shigeo frowned.

"What is China's future that needs to be more optimized to exert the role of each human force?"

Why does he sound strange?

China's future needs to be more optimized to exert the role of each human force, that is, China's future is equivalent to the way it will exert every human force to the extreme?

Is this possible?

Or in China today, can they hold on?

"Your Excellency, I have a feeling that China seems to be expressing a strong desire for external expansion."

"Yoxi." Shimazu Shigeo said, he thought so now.

At the same time, a chill that pierced from the tailbone made him unable to help but feel shocked.

As for China today, if they want to expand, can that country withstand it?

No wonder the North Korean king came so tactfully.

Shimazu Shigeo felt a sense of crisis in his heart.

Shigeo Shigeo, who had been thinking of watching the excitement and eyes, felt the importance of responsibility for the first time.

But despite this, Shimazu Shigeo was more concerned about machinery.

Is Shimazu Shigeo himself a daimyo?

I am very interested in Western knowledge and often ask Dutch merchants about this, order books and equipment, etc.

That itself will not exclude the actual use of the machine.

I am also happy to accept machinery and machinery.

So now he has a sense of national crisis and is more curious about equipment, which is natural.

Although understanding all this is different from truly applying it to reality.

Textile mills in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Songjiang itself is a cotton spinning heavy area in Jiangnan. Whether it is a new type of loom or spinning machine, it has spread here early. Now, using steam to drive cotton spinning has developed even more rapidly.

Especially in this textile factory, the self-built rail carriage made Shimazu Shigeo dumbfounded.

Whether it is the transportation of products and raw materials, or the commuting and commuting of textile workers, how efficient should this be so that a textile factory has built a carriage.

Trucks of loads of cloth and cotton yarn are transported out, and trucks of loads of cotton are transported in.

The workers in each group and workshop are all working on their own tasks in an orderly manner, and the entire factory is in an orderly manner and are busy with tension.

The Satsuma Phantaya also has its own factory workshop. Shimazu Shigeo has visited the front line more than once, but he has never felt this feeling.

After all, the levels of krypton gold on both sides are different.

How much money can only be paid by Japanese workers? Textile workers in Shanghai and Hong Kong have a conservative monthly income of more than twice that of Japan.

Even if the craftsmen in the factory workshop of Satsuma Phra has already become the high-income group in Japan, they all have a skill.

But it is far from comparable to the workers now.

With the huge salary gap, the prices of daily necessities such as grain, meat, salt and cloth are almost the same, and even Japan is higher than that of Shanghai and Hong Kong, and the gap in the actual living standards between the two sides will only be even greater, are you still counting on the workers under your own ability to have a sense of ownership?

How is that possible!

In addition to the steam spinning and textile in front of him, Shimazu Shigeo also visited the machinery factory, manufactured, canned factory, shipyard, etc., until the arsenal.

The scenes that shocked the Mongols before successfully defeated Shimazu Shigeo again.

This power of industry made him tremble all over.

But while trembling, he also clearly felt a certain existence - a steam engine.

The source of power for the first industrial revolution.

Even though it is far from being called universal power now, there is no doubt that steam engines are widely used in mining, metallurgy, grinding surfaces, manufacturing and other industries.

"Your Excellency wants to introduce a steam engine?" Saigo Ritsuka's face showed some dismay.

"Isn't it possible? Is it the Chinese who refuse to export?"

"It's not your Excellency. But the lord has clearly refused twice."

The lord mentioned by Saigo Ritsuka is Shimazu Shigeo's eldest son Shimazu Kiyoro.

The Shimazu clan was the 26th generation, and the Satsuma clan was the 9th generation.

"What?"

Shimazu Shige was furious.

Why didn't he know about this situation?

"Is it Karayama and Chichibu Kibo?"

As the first two samurai to follow Ichida Morito to the senior officials, these two play an increasingly important role in the increasingly close "communication" between the Satsuma clan and China.

If they were in trouble, it would be no wonder that they didn't know Saigo Ritsuka's proposal at all.
Chapter completed!