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Chapter 1773 Visiting the World Zoo and Botanical Garden
The Crystal Palace of the World Expo has been open for five consecutive days, receiving more than 50 tourists from all over the world!
The diplomatic missions from various countries basically read the 10000 pieces of agricultural and sideline products, handicrafts, and industrial products on display. They also placed a lot of orders, most of which were traditionally popular commodities such as tea, spices, silk, and porcelain.However, they also ordered a batch of new industrial products. As a trial, the French royal family bought 20 Model T cars in one go.

Some core industrial products, such as steam locomotives, steam engines for ships, generators, and telegraphs are only exhibits, not for sale, and the introductions only have uses, without detailed principles.

What the diplomatic missions of various countries value most is the technology behind the industrial products, but the other party is unwilling to sell the technology at the World Expo, which makes the countries very uncomfortable.The only thing that gave them hope was that Chu Yun seemed to be able to sell technology conditionally, but he asked the ambassadors of various countries to stay in the capital for a while.

"We have already seen almost everything. After seeing these exhibits in the Crystal Palace, I don't believe there are other novel technologies."

"We have learned a lot from our trip to the East this time. At least we know that this is not some kind of medieval witchcraft, so we can deal with the East in the future."

"They also have a detailed world map. I didn't expect that the outlines of Oceania and the Arctic were already on the map, and they allowed us to copy it. With such a map, we can save a lot of manpower in exploring unknown seas in the future."

The various missions gathered together, and they all thought that they had seen all the technical achievements after seeing the exhibits in the Crystal Palace.

But if you think this way, you are wrong. There are still some technologies that have not been exposed in the laboratory, especially military explosives and Mauser rifles.And what Chu Yun wanted them to see was not just the Crystal Palace.

The ambassadors of various countries were taken to the park behind the Crystal Palace, which has never been opened to the outside world.

"What are you going to take us to see?" Prince Kong Dai and others were puzzled.

The huge park has a gate, and there are guards on guard. The T-car convoy takes them into the park. There are all kinds of trees around, and the air is much better.

But will there be any new technology in this park?

"This is the International Zoological and Botanical Garden, with animals and plants from all over the world, from the Americas in the east, Africa in the west, Oceania in the south, and Siberia in the north." There are special staff in the park to receive them.

The International Zoo and Botanical Garden?The ambassadors looked at each other in blank dismay, not understanding the purpose of the other party collecting so many animals and plants here.

At this time, Europe is busy with wars, and countries are fighting for interests and conflicts. There is no leisure to protect animals and plants. At the same time, they don't understand why they want to build an animal and botanical garden here.

However, China has been at peace for nearly 20 years, and the wars that broke out were all on the frontiers or overseas. After industrial construction and global trade began, civilians may have spiritual demands.

In addition, many medical and biological advances are inseparable from animals and plants, such as quinine for the treatment of malaria and ephedrine for the treatment of asthma.Even more important is the diversity of the gene pool.

Although people in this era did not understand the necessity of the zoo and botanical garden, they were still shocked by the scale of the zoo and botanical garden of all countries.

"Araucaria, golden pine, eucalyptus...Many of them are our captains who came back with seeds, so you can see that some trees are not very tall." The staff of the International Zoological and Botanical Garden introduced them to the surrounding plants. All have wooden plaques indicating their origin and names.

Many envoys secretly marveled at the scale and ambition of the Zoo and Botanical Garden of All Nations.

The species here are almost all brought back by the captains who travel to and from various continents, and they have been carefully cared for and arranged.

"Next is the area for some animals, there are zebras, turkeys, cougars, two-horned rhinos, platypus..."

When the envoys from all nations arrived in the animal area, the princes and nobles who had felt a little boring at first came to their spirits.

Compared with plants that cannot move and are difficult to distinguish clearly, animals collected from all over the world are very interesting!
These princes and nobles may not even be able to see many species in Europe in their lives. They saw species in America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Oceania at the same time here, and they exclaimed amazingly.

"Is this a wolf or a dog?" Queen Christina of Sweden saw several canids with blue eyes and black and white hair.

"Siberian sled dogs, I have seen this kind of dog at fur traders. They said that some nomads in Siberia use this kind of dog to pull sleds. It is said that they are descendants of wolves." Princess Irina from Tsarist Russia reached out to stroke it A Siberian Husky is not afraid once.

Half of Siberia fell into the hands of the Chinese, and it is normal for Siberian Husky to appear here.

"They were bought from herders in Siberia and have been cultivated for several generations. They have already been domesticated. After coming here, they lost part of their wildness, but there is no way to do it." The staff of the zoo and botanical garden said.

"Siberian Husky, I think the climate in Sweden is suitable for them. Can I bring two of them back to Sweden?" Christina seems to have a soft spot for this kind of animal, and she also imitates Irina to pet them The hair of a Siberian Husky.

"The Siberian Husky is not a precious animal. We just want to enrich the species in the garden. In fact, they breed a lot of offspring every year. We are also a little troubled. We will send the extra offspring to the folk. If you want Two, there should be no problem, it is better to help these guys find a good home." The staff of the zoo and botanical garden said.

He didn't know that the Siberian Husky is still very rare now, but later this kind of dog was called Husky and became a pet of some families. The World Zoo and Botanical Garden never raised this common dog again. They are some rare animals...

"This is the Chinese rhinoceros, the Yizhou clouded leopard, and the Zhili macaque."

Animals that were extinct in Chu Yun's era can still be seen in the World Zoo and Botanical Garden, which can be regarded as making up for the regret in a sense.

"Father, what is that? It looks cute?" Portuguese Princess Cotrina pointed to a park and asked her father, King João IV of Portugal.

King Joao IV looked in the direction his daughter was pointing at, and found a big chubby guy with black and white coats gnawing on bamboo.

(End of this chapter)