Chapter 159: The Airship Era In April 3043, when spring came, the battle of the Beast Blood Fortress known as the Battle of Ice City did not have much impact on humanity, and although the Supreme Council paid more and more attention to the defense of the northwest, for a kingdom with a population of 300 million, the death of hundreds of thousands of soldiers was just an after-dinner conversation for ordinary people in distant places.
In the months since the end of the war, except for the occasional orc riding a beast dragon in the sky above the Beast Blood Fortress, it has been largely peaceful, but everyone knows that the orcs are now taking the time to lick their wounds, and are constantly watching the humans with their eyes that glitter in the cave, ready to strike again.
Compared with the rich war atmosphere in the northwest region, the royal capital of the human kingdom is a song and dance, human beings are always forgetful, the zombie attack a few years ago has long become a distant memory, the royal capital has become prosperous and peaceful again, especially in recent years, the kingdom's commerce has become more and more prosperous, as the nobles around the country began to increase investment in the road, as the royal capital on the transfer node, a large number of merchants from all over the country have gathered.
It is precisely because of this that the popular things in the royal capital aristocratic circle have become the popular vane of the entire human world, whether it is food or clothing, businessmen will spread these things called trends to all corners of the world, and recently the Jasmine Chamber of Commerce has launched several new underwear, pajamas and cosmetics are causing a new wave of craze among the wives of nobles and wealthy merchants.
Underwear don't talk about him, the latest style is just the use of new materials and new patterns, for women even if you just sew an extra button on it, then she will want to buy it back and collect it, so the underwear sales do not need any explanation at all, and cosmetics are the ultimate topic that causes ladies to compare recently, you must know that cosmetics as an ordinary commodity on the shelves in this world is the first time.
Although it is not that there are no female mages and alchemists who have studied this kind of thing, but the selfishness of women makes most of them cover their recipes to death, or only pass them on among their relatives and girlfriends, even the great nobles who can support their private magicians almost never order their magicians to carry out this kind of inappropriate research, so the potion that can make themselves more beautiful has always been a legendary treasure for noble ladies, It seems that only in the palace and in the hands of a few foreign nobles can grasp the mysterious formula, and if they want to get this kind of treasure from those hands, even if their husbands have this strength, I am afraid they will not open this mouth for them.
But now it's different, when the Jasmine Chamber of Commerce came in the spring, it actually put those legendary treasures on the shelves at a not too expensive price, at first, when the ladies who shopped in the Chamber of Commerce found it, they thought they were dreaming, until they bought those small bottles of milky liquid home, and then watched those small nasty wrinkles in the corners of their eyes gradually calm away, and finally the skin seemed to return to the girlhood.
Only then did they realize that this was not a dream, and all the noblewomen made a decision almost at the same time, that is, to take out all their private money and go to the Chamber of Commerce to snap it up.
The batch of trial items that Jasmine had allocated to the royal capital branch was snatched up under this wave of frenzy, and the branch president of the chamber of commerce, who underestimated the enthusiasm of the noble ladies, was suffering from hellish questioning, coercion and temptation.
However, with the arrival of the follow-up supply from the Rodnik factory, the ladies finally realized that the goods that appeared this time were not just a little bit, but could be mass-produced like those beautiful clothes.
The Jasmine Chamber of Commerce easily left the hearts of all women in the entire human world through the mass production of cosmetics, not only the noble ladies often lingered here, but all kinds of female professionals began to appear in the store, and various large and small chambers of commerce also tried to get some supplies from the Jasmine Chamber of Commerce to meet the needs of those cities without the Jasmine Chamber of Commerce.
However, the great nobles and merchants who had recently gathered in the royal capital did not care much about these knick-knacks, as they were all now waiting for a more important commodity to start selling.
Since the beginning of the year, there has been a rumor in the high-level circles of the nobility and businessmen about the bill proposed by Count Rodnik to open up the use of airships by civilians, and this bill is accompanied by a new organization on how to manage civilian airships, as well as a military purchase bill to purchase airship materials from businessmen.
These three bills, which touched the hearts of every aristocratic merchant in the kingdom who could get a piece of the pie from these bills, were almost universally expected, and were formally voted on by the Supreme Council last month, followed by the establishment of a new body to manage civil airships, the Royal Aviation Authority, and the discussion of steps on how to popularize airship technology.
The merchants who have been desperate for convenient transportation have always hoped to abandon those troublesome carriages and find a safe and fast mode of transportation, and the bill proposed by Zhao Yannian is exactly what the merchants are eager for.
In mid-April, after the end of spring ploughing in various places, Wang Du officially began to start the auction of the airship manufacturing qualification certificate and supporting materials, the auction information includes a complete set of information on the airship manufacturing in addition to the energy stone manufacturing technology, the data not only has Zhao Yannian for the businessman to design the design drawings of the cargo passenger dual-purpose cheap airship also includes the manufacturing process of the airship material, and there are several materials in this process The process is even the same as that used by the military.
Merchants are free to set up airship construction factories after obtaining the qualification certificate, and the airships they produce need to be tested by the Royal Aviation Administration before they can be lifted into the air, and they also need specially trained pilots to officially obtain the operating qualifications.
Although the construction of airships is very complex and troublesome, and the initial investment is much more than building an ordinary caravan, but businessmen are still eager for the first batch of only thirty qualifications, you must know that businessmen who have done their homework are very clear about the advantages of airships, in the foreseeable future, airships will become one of the most important means of transportation in the human world, how to seize the opportunity to become the leader of the airship industry is a problem that every businessman is thinking about, and even if he does not make money, Just becoming a supplier to the Kingdom's air force was enough for the big merchants to throw down countless gold coins without hesitation.
The status of businessmen in this world has not been high, even if you have gold coins as high as a mountain, you can't let high-level professionals look at you, and in front of the nobles who have the ultimate force in their hands, businessmen are like sheep can only be taken by the nobles, although the nobles have formed a relatively civilized means of exploitation for thousands of years, and the law will protect the interests of the vast majority of businessmen, but the law is formulated by the nobles after all, in the face of a strong group of nobles who can modify the law at will, Most large businessmen have a latent sense of crisis, and it is this sense of crisis that makes merchants rush to things that can be related to the aristocracy and the military.
And becoming a supplier to the kingdom's newly established powerful army, this is definitely a qualitative change for their status, and it can even be said that as long as they become a supplier to the air force, then they will be protected by the air force, as long as they don't break the law, then they don't have to fear anyone anymore.
As for the profit of the airship, in order to allow the world to develop according to his ideas, Zhao Yannian has considered the design of the civil airship very thoughtfully for the businessmen, and the materials used to build the airship in the previous life are very expensive, but in this world, the price of the construction materials of the airship is very low, the civilian airship is much smaller than the military, and there is no external armor defense, except for the supplement of helium and the price of those rechargeable artificial magic crystals called standard energy crystals, which are relatively expensive, All the rest of the airship needed was some leather and wood and a handful of metal parts, which were simply not worth money in a world full of forests and lush greenery.
The merchants, who had already been prepared to lose money, were overjoyed when they studied the information and found that the cost of building airships was not outrageous, and they all couldn't wait to gather people to build them as soon as they returned to their chambers of commerce, and at the same time, these merchants began to consider what trustworthy and stable young people among their nephews could serve as captains of these airships.
According to the tips on the qualification certificate they purchased, when they get the qualification for the production and use of airships, they need to send a certain number of personnel to the Royal Flight Academy of Rodnik Territory to learn about the piloting skills of airships.
The pilots of these airships not only have to learn how to operate the airships in school, but also learn how to fly according to the routes, and their airships are not able to fly freely over the human kingdom, but only open some fixed lanes for passage, and the unarmed airships can only be safely operated on these airways with air patrols.
Zhao Yannian's arrangement can be said to be extremely thoughtful and considerate, and all the things that need to be considered have been solved for the businessman, and it is foreseeable that soon when human beings look up at the sky, they will see the airship fleet that covers the sky and the sun.