In the past, the Terrans only had the Eagle Knight this kind of flight altitude is not high, the combat distance is not far from the air units, the combat effectiveness of these air units is really good to be honest, but in the combat distance and height is really too bad, almost can only exist as a defensive force or support force, long-range bombing is almost not to think about, but bombing is the main output method of the aerospace forces, and it is difficult to find a third type of riding unit in Middle-earth, in fact, there is, that is, the dragon, but this is obviously not very reliable for the current Middle-earth。

So Lelouch finally hit the idea on the airship, although the speed of the airship is not fast, but his inspiring time and combat distance can fully make up for this little speed deficiency, and this slow speed is only relative, in fact, the speed of the airship is much higher than the speed of the horses on the ground, if you add the advantage of no terrain restrictions, in fact, the speed of the airship is still very good.

Now that there are airships, it can be regarded as having real aerospace forces, and the first batch of airship troops in the initial stage is maintained at the scale of ten capital ships, thirty frigates, and two supply ships, which is already a very large scale, and the entire construction cycle is about one year, and if you add run-in training and practical tests, the whole cycle will take one and a half years at the earliest.

Lelouch is not in a hurry about this, anyway, there are not many times when the air and space forces need to be used, and Mordor will not be able to carry out the final decisive battle until two years later, two years is absolutely enough, and Lelouch also suggested that in addition to artillery, the airship should be directly equipped with shells that can be dropped downward, and bombed in the form of dropped shells.

This form is very simple, but the previous engineers have not reacted, after switching to the vertical throwing method, the bombing ability has been further improved, the formation of the airship force has become imperative, Lelouch handed over these things to Frank to be responsible, and he himself is more concerned about civilian airships than combat airships, the price of 50 million is too expensive for Lelouch, so Lelouch must find a way to make more money, and the main way is to further stimulate the development of commercial trade。

Now agriculture, light industry, and heavy industry have made great progress, but commerce is not very good because of the problem of transportation, in fact, it is not bad, but it is still much worse than Lelouch imagined, and it is impossible to build a railway to every village, and now even the city has not been fully popularized, let alone the township, and the village will have to wait even further, unless the village just happens to be on a certain railway can get a little light, and other villages are basically still relying on the road system.

But the airship is different, the cost of the airship is undoubtedly much cheaper than building a railway, and the airship can easily move anywhere, and the landing conditions are extremely versatile, he can land on almost any terrain, which also brings the best mode of transportation for those villages, since the bus is not very realistic, then relying on a large number of airships to build an airbus system, there is no problem at all.

Whether it is transporting people or goods, the civilian airship has the convenience that other means of transportation cannot match, and the only disadvantage compared with modern aircraft may be only one safety problem and speed in Lelouch's view, but this kind of airship is cheap to build, adaptable, and can cover a large area, and there is no problem at all to make him an airbus, so Lelouch paid attention to the civilian airship for the first time after watching the combat airship.

After all, the case of the big brother of the Soviet Union is in front, there is no sufficiently developed private economy and developed light industry and commerce, blindly pursuing high precision will inevitably fall into a terrible economic crisis, and finally end up in a state of collapse, and to be honest, Leluxiu, as a farming party, in his eyes anything can be divided into farming, and the strength of military strength must be based on the strength of economic power, and farming is the king.

The early civil airship is divided into two kinds of differences: manned and cargo, the difference between them is not big, but there are some differences in the internal cabin, an airship full of stools, and a kind of empty large space cabin, to be honest, Lu Luxiu did not come to the beginning to prepare to build that kind of bed compartment, but found that the carrying capacity will be greatly reduced, although the comfort of the seat for the passenger will definitely drop significantly, but now is not the time to pay attention to these.

The research and development speed of civilian airships is very fast, in fact, almost after Lelouch put forward his own proposal, the design drawings have been completed the next day, and then half a month later, a prototype was produced, their volume is larger than the volume of the anti-aircraft gunboat, but much smaller than the capital ship, they are simple in structure, and do not have to worry about the impact of the battle, so many things have been simplified, simplified processing means that the cost becomes cheaper, and the construction speed is increased, which is also one of the original intentions of the design of this civilian airship。

Lelouch didn't go to watch the test flight ceremony of the civilian airship, but just asked for a detailed information report to come over, and through the report, Lelouch probably learned the basic properties of this kind of civilian airship:

The cost is about one million silver coins, and the production cycle can be done once a week after mass production, which is actually a good speed, Lelouch plans to come to five production lines in the early stage to mass produce this kind of civilian airship, and after having an airship, Lelouch feels that a new state-owned enterprise should also be established: the Imperial Space Agency!

This department is specifically responsible for the operation of the airship, the private airship will exist as an airbus on several specific routes, giving priority to meeting the most difficult areas of access, and the price is completely the cost price, the air ticket is very cheap, after all, the airship in addition to the construction cost, there is almost no maintenance cost, the production of helium with the help of magic is actually very easy, if you want to hand over to the industrial civilization to do this according to the matter, then the cost and time of producing helium is still very high, which is also a kind of civilization complementarity.

The low cost of operation and maintenance allows the collected air tickets to be reduced to the lowest level, and Lelouch operates******** The fundamental reason is to strengthen the flow of personnel, only when the flow of personnel is up, the empire can be more integrated together, the real transfer of money to Lelouch is those cargo airships, cargo airships have been sought after by countless merchants at the first time they appeared, they have long wanted to extend their tentacles to the remote areas of the empire, but the distance of the road and the sparse population make the cost of them run a business is too high, and the benefits received are too small.

Especially in the words, whether it is the central province or the foggy gray province, and even the land itself that is too edible has this large number of convenient transportation, the populous area is not completely covered by the merchants, they can't pay too much for those areas, but now there is a cargo airship is different, although the price of the cargo airship is relatively high, but compared with their big car and a large group of people running for a long time to a small village to trade, this kind of cargo airship directly greatly reduces the cost of their running business, and the coverage area of a single running business is greatly improved, and even five or six villages can be run in one day, so that their interests can be reflected。

Although these areas are still far less easy to transfer money than the prosperous core area, there are too many merchants, and not every merchant can have their own place in the prosperous core area, so there is no remote area in Anxi to attract a large number of merchants, who are tolerant of waving money and renting a cargo airship full of goods to the remote area.

The population has been circulated, the capital has also been circulated, the areas that were originally unable to fully contribute to the construction of the empire are now completely incorporated into the capital system of the empire, the human beings in the remote areas are not poor, their real problem is that there is no place to spend money, after all, it is impossible for Lelouch to build a factory for these people, the current empire is still vast and sparsely populated, the transportation is not convenient and developed, and the agricultural base ensures that they cannot be too close to the agglomeration.

It's not like in the United States after the twentieth century, where every family had a car and could build a supermarket somewhere to radiate a huge area, so airships were what the current empire needed.

The popularity of the cargo airship directly led to Lelouch getting down twenty production lines in one breath, and the cargo airship almost sat on the output of three ships in two days, which is very amazing, but even this is completely unable to meet the huge demand within the empire, and the huge gap in civilian use makes Lelouch very happy, because the cargo airship can transfer money, the greater the demand, the greater the income, and the money will never be too little, the current empire is a completely state-owned enterprise, and almost all the big industries that make money are monopolized by the state, and the private sector is some light industry that has nothing to do with the lifeblood of the empire, although it is also very profitable, but compared with the hard demand, it is too far away。

"Your Majesty, this airship is really easy to use, even if there are twenty production lines now, it is still far from meeting the demand, this is only the demand of the heaven-sent land, and now it is said that even many merchants from the Central Province have ordered airships, just a deposit, and we have earned no less than five billion silver coins now!"

The figure of 5 billion is also beating wildly in Lelouch's heart, this kind of trust-like monopoly is really too good, with this 5 billion, what is the little money spent on military airships? And when the final payment is paid off, this number will be expanded again, and with the mastery of air trade, Lelouch will almost not have to worry about money at all in the future.

The efficiency of twenty production lines can not meet the huge demand in the empire at all, and Lu Luxiu also wants to expand it again in his heart, but deep down he still suppresses this and can only think, after all, these airships have not gone through a long period of research, and Lu Lu Xiu will have to wait at least three months before deciding whether to put into production in large quantities, originally Lu Lu Xiu wanted to wait for six months, but how to deal with this arrogant demand, Lu Lu Xiu still couldn't help compressing the time.

"Wait three months, and then decide whether to go straight to mass production or optimize it after three months. ”

Lelouch's conclusion is to suppress this crazy demand slightly, this wealth is too large, and it is almost directly waiting for you to get it, and the officials below are almost crazy, they are all waiting for Lelouch to announce a rapid expansion of the production line, and then take the money from the hands of some merchant holding the money aloft like wheat.

They may not dare to embezzle, but this money will become their direct political achievements, who doesn't want to get a good score at the end of the year, who doesn't want to enter the Augulis Shrine and become the minister of the Pillar Kingdom that His Majesty the Son of God directly meets? But Lelouch's conclusion has made many people lose this hope, even if it is only temporary, the crowd is disappointed, and they can only endure it for another three months, and only hope that these airships will not have major problems in these three months, and the feast of capital cannot be stopped.

This kind of fanaticism is very common under capitalism, Lelouch still remembers that he crossed to the earth before Middle-earth in China, how a thing called shared bicycles detonated the capital feast, at that time the shared bicycles had not yet taken shape, and even just had a prototype, even the issuer itself was not very enthusiastic, but when the first batch of bicycles was put out, just the first day of deposit income made the entire capital group crazy, how much money Lelouch did not know, but Lelouch knew that at least one million bicycles were put into the car at that time。

The statistics after the fact are that the number of users of each bicycle is between two or three people, that is to say, two to three people have paid a deposit of 100 yuan, which means that just the first day, 200 million yuan, and this is only the initial test results, and the number of users is still surging, it is an explosive surge, so just the second day, the crazy capital is almost uncontrolled large quantities of crazy production of small yellow cars, from the next day, the capital was officially detonated.

Now the situation of the cargo airship is very similar to the little yellow car of the earth, but the demand is different, but the frenzy for something is unstoppable, the deposit price of the cargo airship is undoubtedly more expensive, but it can't stop the expansion of this hard demand, countless businessmen wave banknotes and squeeze into the office hall, they are crazy to chase the cargo airship, but the sluggish output is far from meeting their needs even one percent, so this crazy capital feast is destined to be pressed on a strong pot lid, waiting for three months of depression is to break out of greater frenzy or due to the lack of practical use to be eliminated, all to be revealed in three months.

(End of chapter)