June 20, the 33rd year of Guangxu's reign, 1907 AD, Neijiang, Sichuan.
"Look, there is a monster in the sky" "Oh my God, what is that?"
This morning, people in Neijiang County suddenly discovered a monster flying from the sky.
The monster was round and round, like a huge olive, with several small wings on its tail.
People suddenly panicked, many people ran home, and some people knelt on the ground and worshiped the monster.
Some of the brave ones kept observing the monster.
These people watched for a while and found that this thing did not show any hostility, and they became bolder.
"Could it be that this is Kunpeng?"
a scholar pretended to say.
Someone retorted: "Tsk, there is no such thing as Kunpeng.
I think this is the chaos in the Classic of Mountains and Seas."
"Hey, a bunch of bumpkins, what Kunpeng, Chaos, this is clearly Airshi, a spaceship."
A fake foreign devil in a suit looked at this group of people with disdain, and laughed unceremoniously: "Hmph, this is the most advanced thing in the world.
Son, only foreigners can make it, you bumpkins have never heard of it."
In the Neijiang County government office, there was also chaos.
Several government officials stared at the airship in horror, constantly making unintelligible sounds like oh oh ah ah.
"What are you doing?"
A majestic voice sounded.
The officials looked back and saw that it was their immediate superior, the new Neijiang County Magistrate Xie Zhihui.
They quickly called a thousand and pointed to the sky: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, there is a monster in the sky."
Xie Zhihui looked up, straightened his face, and scolded: "What kind of monster?
This is an airship from Xingke Company.
Didn't you see the Xingke logo on the airship?"
The officials quickly took a closer look and found that, as the county magistrate said, there was a huge rotating galaxy logo on both sides of the airship's airbag.
"Oh, there really is the symbol of Xingke, the rotating galaxy" "Your Excellency, the county magistrate, is really knowledgeable and knowledgeable, I admire you."
"The county magistrate is so powerful, you can recognize what this is at a glance."
The government officials immediately began to pour in flattery and flattery.
"Go and do your own thing.
Don't hang around here.
Since it's an airship from Xingke Company, there will be plenty of time to see it in the future.
By the way, you go call some more people and go to the city to explain that this is an airship and let people Don't panic, go quickly."
Xie Zhihui waved his hand, and the officials immediately dispersed.
Xie Zhihui took over in March this year.
Although the previous magistrate Zhang had only been in office for more than a year, he was reportedly promoted to Chungju Prefecture Tong by the court because of his excellent performance in the evaluation.
From the seventh grade to the sixth grade, this was indeed a promotion, but when County Magistrate Zhang was handed over, he was so frustrated that he almost cried.
One is the magistrate of a rich place, and the other is a fellow magistrate of a poor place.
Even fools know what to choose.
However, Magistrate Zhang's backstage was no match for Qingna Company, so he had no choice but to leave with resentment.
Magistrate Zhang didn’t know yet, but his suffering had just begun.
Chungju, that’s the Daebasan area As for the newly arrived magistrate Xie Zhihui, the information on the official resume is as follows: His ancestral home is Jinjiang, Fujian.
He studied in Europe as a boy.
He graduated from a certain school in France.
After returning to China last year, he donated a tribute student.
Now the court advocates new learning and has experienced Recommended by Mr.
So-and-so, he took office as Magistrate of Neijiang County in March this year.
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Well, the new county magistrate's resume is not surprising.
He is just an ordinary donor.
As for going abroad for gold plating, it is also very common in recent years.
However, he also has an identity that only the top executives of Xingke know, that of a spy-type advanced biochemical man.
In fact, there was definitely more than one Xie Zhihui inside the Neijiang County government office where Wen Desi was buried, and the director and Dianshi were also assigned this time.
The four court officials in the county government, except for one county magistrate, were all Wen Zong's biochemicals. .
As for the heads of the following departments who hold real power and do specific work, such as the inspections of the Inspection Department of Chumu Town, the clerks of the sixth office of the county government, and the head catchers and class leaders of the third class of government officials, they have also been replaced by Xingke Company Become a cyborg or a hardcore person in this time and space.
Even the third class of yamen and clerks below have been replaced.
More than half of them are either cyborgs or local aborigines who have completely surrendered to Xingke.
For example, the few yamen who watched the airship just now have family members working in the company. of.
The appointment and dismissal of these minor officials does not need to go through the Ministry of Personnel.
In name, they are appointed and dismissed by the state and county yamen themselves.
But in fact this is not the case.
These positions are often controlled by the powerful local gentry.
In many places, they are hereditary.
It is not uncommon to have families of subordinate officials that last for hundreds or even thousands of years.
State and county officials had nothing to do with them, so the grassroots political power during the Ming and Qing Dynasties was basically controlled by subordinate staff, and the officials were like personal seals.
Most of the state and county officials are scholars and have no management experience at all.
It would be strange if they are not ignored by these old fools.
But here, the subordinate officials near Neijiang are in bad luck.
Mr.
Wen is not a saint.
His moral integrity has never been high.
In addition, he has never liked these powerful gentry.
How can he be polite?
Those who are willing to cooperate and relinquish their positions will be fine, and they will receive generous compensation.
As for those who are unwilling to cooperate, they have encountered various "accidents", such as fires at home, slipping into the water, traffic accidents, or bandit attacks. , or they were confiscated and beheaded by the government for various crimes.
Anyway, every family was destroyed, and the houses and fields left behind were all owned by Xingke Company or non-existent people.
Even some of the factory shares that were originally divided could not be recovered. few.
This was not only the case for the Neijiang County government offices, but also for the entire government offices in Zizhou, Weiyuan and other neighboring counties.
Not only did he control the government offices in these areas, he also acquired more than 1.6 million acres of land.
Correspondingly, the number of wealthy and powerful Jin gentry in Zizhou and other places decreased by more than a quarter.
Baima Industrial Zone, airship factory.
Over the parking area of the factory, the airship that caused a sensation in the Neijiang River was slowly descending.
All the engineers and workers in the airship factory were watching with their heads raised, and they were all very happy.
As soon as the airship stopped, Lin Shenhe, wearing a flight suit, jumped out with a big smile: "Hahahaha, great, great, this airship is much better than Brother Zeppelin's.
Regardless of design, craftsmanship, performance, The operability is far beyond that.
Hey, let me go, ah."
"Oh oh oh, it worked, it worked."
The excited crowd rushed over, lifted Lin Shenhe and the other two test pilots and threw them into the sky.
It's no wonder they were excited.
This was a flying sky.
Humanity's dream for many years was now realized in their hands.
After the crowd had vented enough and calmed down, they ran to the airship and started checking it out.
Lin Shenhe was also freed from countless demonic hands.
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"Director Lin, congratulations on your successful test flight."
Wen Desi smiled and gave Lin Shenhe a hug.
After others came forward, Wen Desi and the others returned to the airship factory conference room.
"What do you think of this airship?"
Wen Desi asked.
Lin Shenhe opened a notebook and said: "Based on the performance of this test flight, our airship is completely successful.
According to the actual test, its ceiling is 2,700 meters, the maximum speed is 70 kilometers per hour, and the cruising speed is 50 kilometers per hour.
The maximum Battery life is 8 hours, and the maximum payload is 1,360 kg.”
This type of airship is a soft manned airship designed by a Chinese company in the early 21st century.
Wen Desi asked the biochemical engineer to slightly modify it, remove the equipment that was too advanced, and then copied it directly.
The main data of this airship named "Fuyun Type 1" are as follows: the length of the airship is 50 meters, the maximum diameter is 13 meters, the airbag volume is 3650 cubic meters, and the auxiliary airbag volume ratio is 25.
The pod is 7 meters long, the cabin is 5 meters long, 2.4 meters wide, and the cabin is 2 meters wide.
The main pod is 2.2 meters high excluding the landing gear, and the cabin is 1.8 meters high.
The engine pod is located on both sides of the rear of the main pod.
It is powered by two 15-horsepower liquid-cooled gasoline engines driven by twin propellers.
In addition to 2 drivers, it can also carry 10 passengers or carry 1,200 kg of cargo.
The generation difference of more than 100 years cannot be concealed.
Although excluding the ultra-era equipment, this airship is still far superior to the original similar ones at this stage, and the design concept is completely different.
The most important difference is that this airship is filled with helium instead of the current mainstream hydrogen, which avoids the biggest danger of airships.
A helium airship like this is definitely the safest aircraft in the world.
Even if there is an accident, unless all the airbags are exploded, it will only fall slowly, rather than free-falling like an airplane.
Of course, compared with its hydrogen counterparts, the only disadvantage of helium airships is that the amount of helium is too small, which is much more difficult to obtain than commercially available hydrogen.
In fact, if placed in the entire universe, helium is quite abundant, accounting for 23% of the total mass, second only to hydrogen.
However, it is rare on earth and is a rare gas.
Anyone who has studied high school chemistry knows that hydrogen is a very easy gas to obtain, and there are at least dozens of methods for mass production.
Helium is different.
This thing is an inert gas, and it is difficult to produce compounds.
Its content in the atmosphere is very low, only about 5 parts per million, and the output is quite pitiful.
At this time, the only place that could produce helium on a large scale was the United States.
There is no way, their territory is so good, the average helium content in natural gas is 1.5, many can reach 7, the highest even reaches 17, which is an incredible number, making other countries so jealous that they can't even cry. .
Most of the helium content in China's gas fields is below 0.2, and the highest does not exceed 5.
Of course, since Mr.
Wen wants to play airships, he must ensure the supply of helium resources.
After Zenith Star Company established a foothold in the United States, it began to acquire several gas wells with the highest helium content in Kansas and Texas.
In this era, except for some universities, laboratories and other research institutions, helium is almost useless, no one pays attention to it at all, and the price is unbelievably cheap.
At the same time, the use of natural gas in this era is also very limited.
It is basically used for street lights and household fuel.
So Balnazar bought it without any thought, and transferred a set of patents and processes for oil refining equipment from the 1920s to Mr.
Rockefeller, and everyone was happy.
Among them is the super gas field located in Amarillo in northern Texas, with a helium content of more than 15%.
At this time, this gas field that Wen Desi coveted has not yet been discovered.
After Balnazar bought it, he directly A liquefied natural gas processing plant was built to supply helium to the headquarters.
As for the rest of the natural gas, if we are not lucky enough to come back now, we will sell it in the United States.
From the end of February this year, Banazar began to transport helium to China.
In order to facilitate transportation, it adopted low-temperature liquefaction technology that was ahead of its time.
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One cubic meter of liquid helium is equal to 763 cubic meters of helium at room temperature.
Using this compression ratio , which makes transportation much easier.
Wen Desi also established a group of cryogenic storage tanks near the airship factory specifically to store liquid helium.
As of today, 330 cubic meters of liquid helium have been purchased and mined, equivalent to more than 250,000 cubic meters of helium, which is enough for airships.
After listening to Lin Shenhe's report, Wen Desi nodded and said: "Director Lin, the Fuyun Type 1 is successful, which is worth celebrating.
However, you still have more important tasks.
I hope you will continue your efforts and complete the Qingyun Type as soon as possible.
The finalization of the large cargo airship, what we need most now is this large cargo airship.”
The Fuyun Type 1 is just a toy used by the airship factory to practice, while the Qingyun series of large cargo airships are their real products.
The 30-ton Cloud Ray Type 1 that Lin Shenhe first saw was one of the Qingyun series, but it was not that big in this series.
Mr.
Wen has always felt that for China at present, things like airships are the best means of transportation.
China's terrain is quite ugly.
Two-thirds of it is mountainous and hilly.
Half of the remaining area is either dense forest or water network.
There are not many decent plains.
The transportation construction is so poor that it makes people cry.
Railways are good, but they are expensive and take a long time to build, and they cannot be built everywhere.
The roads are not much better.
The Red Dynasty in the original time and space was very fond of building roads.
It took more than 70 years to repair the roads in most towns and villages across the country.
In this context, airships stand out.
Although airships fly slower than airplanes, they are still flying anyway, and they can completely ignore the terrain.
Moreover, airships take off and land vertically, which requires very low take-off and landing sites, and their carrying capacity is unmatched by airplanes.
In the southwest region where the terrain is so complex that it makes people vomit, it is like an artifact.
As for safety, Wen Desi never worried.
In fact, from the analysis of world air accident records, even hydrogen airships are much safer than airplanes.
Such a miracle as the Hindenburg is only one in a million.
But even if the Hindenburg happened in the accident, about 36 of the 97 passengers and crew members died, but please note that it happened at an altitude of 100 meters.
If it were a plane, none of the 97 people would survive.
Moreover, Xingke Company's airships also adopted a large number of later safety designs, such as various fire and explosion prevention measures and increased meteorological observations.
If this is not as safe as an airplane, the airship experts of later generations can hang themselves.
The other thing is to use the airship to transport more cargo and less people, so that if there is a big accident that destroys the character, there won't be too many concerns about human life.
In addition, Wen Desi also considered using it for transportation construction.
Generally speaking, when building a road when the basic conditions are extremely poor, you can only start from one end and build it all the way through.
If the conditions at the end point are good, at most it will be two ends facing each other.
This is because the middle site has no materials for construction and can only be watched.
This is why the earlier and more desolate the roads are, the slower they are built.
But if there are airships to transport people and materials, the situation is completely different.
It is completely possible to start construction in multiple sections at the same time.
As long as there are sufficient manpower and materials, it is normal for the construction progress to be ten times faster.
If it's too slow, we'll start work at 30 o'clock at the same time.
If it's not enough, we can add more.
As for other uses, of course it is to deliver goods to Kyodo Society.
"Director Lin, the successful test flight of the airship deserves congratulations.
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How is the progress of the aircraft?"
Wen Desi asked again.
Xingke Aircraft Factory not only builds airships, but also aircrafts.
"The plane is almost ready.
Now we have to wait for the machine factory to produce the gasoline engine.
We have already produced more than 50 fuselages and prepared 200 propellers.
As soon as the engine is in place, it can be assembled," Lin Shenhe After a pause, he said seriously.
"Mr.
Wen, I think there is no need to produce too many toy-like things like airplanes.
Our company should still focus on airships.
Producing things like airplanes is a waste of resources."
Wen Desi frowned and said slowly: "Although airplanes are still just toys, they will develop.
Didn't airships also develop from hot air balloons?"
In fact, Lin Shenhe's idea was not strange at all at the time.
This was the mainstream view.
Not to mention the people at that time, even the descendants of Wen Desi from later generations were shocked by the shock after seeing several so-called "most advanced" aircraft imported from Europe and the United States for reference.
This is an airplane.
It's obviously a flying wooden box or flying frame.
Of course Mr.
Dongwen doesn't like this kind of thing, but due to the constraints of materials, equipment, etc., even if there is a complete set of blueprints for the 22nd century aircraft in the database, there is no way to monetize them.
Not to mention the 22nd century, even the aircraft after the mid-20th century cannot be built now.
Therefore, the biochemical engineers under Mr.
Wen could only lower their requirements again and again.
Finally, using the powerful computing power of the base's main control optical brain "Xiao Feifei", combined with the current conditions and production technology, they finally selected a model that can now The aircraft manufactured by the company is the flagship product at this stage.
The blueprint of this aircraft comes from the Soviet Union's Wave 2 biplane trainer aircraft in the original time and space.
This is the most produced biplane.
Although it is a product in the 1920s, its technology is at the standard World War I level.
After optimizing the design, it can be made with the current strength of Xingke.
Well, in fact, from Mr.
Wen's perspective, even this modified version of the Wave 2 aircraft can only be regarded as a "flying wooden box", but this wooden box is good as a practice and training tool. s: A big chapter of 5,000 words is sent to the new book list.
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