Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1166

[Chapter 1153 Test Flight]

Xiao Ming stood on the left side of the airport runway and looked at the monoplane that was taxiing forward.

Whether it was the blitzkrieg against Tsarist Russia or the British, there were frontline generals commanding them. They were thousands of miles apart and the message transmission was lagging behind. As an emperor, he could only focus on production, technology, construction and logistics.

The monoplane currently undergoing test flights is one of the projects he has been staring at for more than half a year.

As the empire’s industrial system continues to improve, and chemical industry and materials science continue to develop, the empire’s current technological level has fully reached the level of the early twentieth century.

Because of this, the empire’s machinery factories were able to turn the tanks on the drawings into reality. Now, high-tech machinery such as monoplanes have once again achieved success within a period of time.

It can be said that the current explosion of science and technology in the empire is entirely due to the accumulation of more than two decades, in which the accumulation of talents plays the most important role.

At present, the majors of major universities in the empire are basically in line with the contemporary scientific research system. In addition to the traditional chemical engineering, materials, and physics majors, computer majors and atomic energy majors have been added in the past two years.

The reason why he has only now added these two majors to major colleges and universities is because only when technology has accumulated to a certain stage can the conditions for these two majors be met, and the development of science from simple to complex cannot be violated.

Of course, in addition to the new major, he also released a lot of new knowledge in the old majors, such as steam turbines, aerospace engines, etc.

“Old minister, I never thought that people could fly into the sky. Now it’s really an eye-opener.” Fiji said. As time goes by, this veteran of three dynasties has turned gray and his back is a little rickety.

Two days ago, he had submitted a formal resignation to Xiao Ming, and was retiring in Qingzhou. At nearly sixty-five years old, his body was increasingly unable to support the current intensity of government affairs.

In this regard, Xiao Ming did not hold back. In the past few years, the empire has been fighting in the east and west, and science and technology have been booming, but he has also been improving in government affairs.

And for the first time in the empire, it was required that officials could resign from the court and return to their fields at the age of fifty-five, and that they must resign at the age of sixty.

After all, at this age, both body and reaction are already a little slow, and it is not suitable to continue to hold positions in the court.

Moreover, Xiao Ming also intends to eliminate this group of old officials whose ideas have gradually failed to keep up with the times. In his opinion, only new-style officials can lead the empire to a more glorious future.

It stands to reason that Fiji should have resigned five years ago, but Xiao Ming thought that he was still relatively prestigious among the old officials, so he kept him for five years and made him responsible for supervising all officials and deposing those who had committed corruption, bribery, and inaction. The old officials can be regarded as making the best use of their talents and resources.

“Not only Fei Ge, we also never thought that we would see such a magical machine.” Pang Yukun said.

Suddenly Fiji was about to resign and return home, and he was suddenly reluctant to leave. Without such an opponent, the court felt much lonely.

However, he also understands that today is different from the past. Today’s empire is no longer prone to fighting and fighting. The atmosphere of the entire empire is unanimous and open to the outside world. Moreover, he is not young anymore. In a few years, he will be the same as Fiji. All I have some of the same feelings.

Xiao Ming glanced back and forth between the two of them, and couldn’t help but laugh: “You are making such a fuss. The blowout period of the empire’s technology has just begun. You will see it in the future.” “

Hahaha… In this way, the veteran must have Live longer.” Fiji laughed.

As the three of them talked, the monoplane began to take off at the end of the runway and soared into the sky like a bird.

In an instant, the entire machinery factory burst into thunderous cheers.

“It’s flying! It’s flying!”

The technicians in the machinery factory were dancing with joy, while the workers lifted the technicians of the aircraft and kept throwing them into the sky to express their excitement.

For people in the empire, the significance of airplanes is not comparable to that of tanks and cars, because throughout the long history of mankind, humans have always been in awe of the sky and considered it to be the abode of gods.

But now the success of monoplanes means that humans can fly freely in the sky, which is not comparable to hot air balloons that move with the wind.

When Xiao Ming saw this, he couldn’t help but be infected by this enthusiasm. This was his empire, a superpower that was growing day by day.

“Lin Wentao, you have done a good job. It can be said that you have completed the test flight of the aircraft ahead of schedule. But now is not the time to be proud. Next, the military production of aircraft must be put on the agenda, especially the development of bombers and transport aircraft.” Xiao Ming He said that currently no country in the world has an air force.

Therefore, fighters do not make much sense to Xiao Ming. What are really useful to the empire are bombers and transport aircraft. The former can carpet bomb enemy positions, and the latter can increase the speed of the empire’s army deployment.

“Don’t worry, Your Majesty, we have accumulated experience with this aircraft. The following is simple.” Lin Wentao nodded. He already had the design drawings of the bomber and transport aircraft. This monoplane is just to start the aircraft manufacturing industry.

The empire will soon be established in the Northern Aircraft Design and Manufacturing Center in Jinzhou, the Eastern Aircraft Design and Manufacturing Center in Qingzhou, the Southern Aircraft Manufacturing Center in Chengdu, and the Western Aircraft Manufacturing Center in Chang’an.

These manufacturing centers will design and manufacture all types of aircraft for the future of the Empire.

“Well, I hope to be able to fly between various cities in the empire on an airplane manufactured by the empire as soon as possible.” Xiao Ming looked expectant.

For him, the most important thing in this era is transportation and information transmission. Only by solving these two problems can the empire effectively control overseas colonies and avoid the gap between the colonies and the empire caused by distance.

The take-off aircraft flew ten times around Qingzhou City and then slowly landed at the airport. This test flight ended perfectly.

After commending the technicians and workers involved in aircraft manufacturing, Xiao Ming led the ministers back by car.

On the way back, Xiao Ming asked Pang Yukun to plan the construction of the empire’s airport from now on, and don’t wait until the plane comes out.

At the same time, he also requested that in addition to retaining some valuable city walls, all other meaningless city walls should be demolished so as not to affect the construction of transportation roads.

In addition, the two also discussed the empire’s welfare system.

In the past twenty years of industrialization, the biggest change in the empire has actually been the living standards of the people. From the past, there was no shortage of food and clothing, to now there is no shortage of fish and meat in every household in the empire, and there is no shortage of new clothes every year. The empire as a whole has Living standards have already surpassed Europe, even leading by a hundred years.

After all, in addition to military industry and heavy industry, Xiao Ming also brought the contemporary food industry and various light industries here.

(End of chapter)