Chapter Ninety-Five: The Twin-Engine Plane Successfully Flew The Navy Fleet Wants to Sail Away

Seeing the plane rushing towards the runway, Zhang Zhimu's heart also lifted, and he couldn't help but stand up with everyone.

The plane roared along the runway, and soon the rear wheels left the ground, then the front wheels lightly off the ground, and the nose tilted after leaving the ground, and the plane quickly climbed up and flew into the distance. Zhang Zhimu, Emperor Chongzhen and others watched the plane go away, and then they remembered to applaud.

After a while, with a roar, the plane flew back and passed over the runway. Everyone burst into applause again, and even Chen Yufeng, who usually doesn't smile, talked to Yan Boju and laughed and talked non-stop.

The plane flew several times over the airport in a row, talking to the tower and asking to land. The tower informs the aircraft that the runway has been cleared and it is ready to land.

The plane slowly descended from the air, the front wheels were gently grounded on the runway, and then the rear wheels were also grounded, gradually decelerated and finally stopped, turned around on the runway and taxied back, and before the plane could stop, people had already begun to walk towards the plane. When the propellers stopped turning, people circled the plane.

When Zhang Zhimu and Emperor Chongzhen came to the front of the plane, the pilot had already got off the plane and was lifted up by several technicians. I don't know how many days and nights of aircraft development personnel have paid, and the joy is not exactly the same as these people who visited the test flight. Many of them wept with joy.

Seeing Zhang Zhimu coming, everyone put down the pilot. The pilot saluted Zhang Zhimu and said, "Report to Mr. Zhang!" The first test flight of the twin-engine aircraft was a complete success! The aircraft maneuvers very well and flies very smoothly in the sky! ”

"Congratulations! Congratulations to all the brothers who participated in the development and test flight of the aircraft! Your success today is another big step forward for us humans to conquer the blue sky! Zhang Zhimu held the pilot's hand and said, "Your test flight task is still very heavy in the future, and I hope you will seize the time and complete the next test flight task strictly and meticulously." Strive for our aircraft to be put into production as soon as possible! ”

Zhang Zhimu knows that it will take a lot of time for the plane to test flight. There are also aircraft that are transformed into various practical aircraft, which also take time to conduct test flights.

Everyone surrounded the plane, looking inside and out, Zhang Zhimu pulled Li Yunhe and asked: "The structure of this kind of aircraft can be used as a transport plane and a passenger plane, but it can't be used as a bomber!" ”

"Huh! It's okay for people to sit inside and cast down. But if you can do the kind of targeted bombing you said, it's not okay. We have two ideas about the bomber, one is that the shape of the plane will not change anything. It's just that the inside of the cabin has been changed to a magazine magazine, and the lower part of the aircraft has been made into an openable magazine cover. Another option is to make the aircraft smaller and the wings stronger. Because of the same weight load, ** does not need such a large space, we do not want such a large chassis at all. There is also dive bombing, when the plane is pulled up, the strength of the wing is very demanding, and it needs to be strengthened. ”

"You have to see the results as soon as possible, and after the test flight, you must immediately come up with an aircraft suitable for personnel. There are also planes that can be used to complete the bombing mission as soon as possible. As for the fact that you want to change the shell of the plane, it is the next thing to do! "Zhang Zhimu now really wants to put the plane into service, so that a lot of the development process of the whole country will be affected.

"Don't worry! In the process of developing this twin-engine aircraft, we can say that our understanding of the aircraft has improved by a big step. The next step of the test flight work is basically to test the work we do. We have freed up a large workshop for assembling twin-engine aircraft. And our 17-cylinder engine is in life testing, if that engine is successful. Our new aircraft will be more powerful. At that time, we built seaplanes on the basis of this aircraft. We're all preparing for these things. Li Yunhe said.

"Yang Chang, they have prepared a computer for your side of the plane. But they have no one for you! Zhang Zhimu said.

"Great! People who don't need them are given. Mr. Lu Bingyi's students who are engaged in mechanics and mathematics are already very familiar with basic. Many problems can be programmed by themselves. With their own computer, it's easier for them to use it! ”

"How's your aviation academy going?" Zhang Zhimu knows that the training of aviation talents must start as soon as possible.

"I have an idea, can we run this academy with Li Wei and their aviation school?" Li Yunhe asked.

"Don't do this," Zhang Zhimu said, "Your academy has a different purpose from Li Wei's aviation school, they are mainly training pilots, and you are training to build airplanes!" ”

"We need a group of teachers engaged in basic education, and when it comes to the stage of professional learning, the technicians who participated in the development of aircraft can be replaced as teachers! In addition, we need to choose a larger place to rebuild the campus, which has not been chosen! However, this year's students can first take classes at our aircraft factory. Our training center classrooms are readily available. This year, six classes from three departments, two classes from the Department of Aviation, two classes from the Department of Mechanics, and two classes from the Department of Electronics. There are forty students in each class. ”

"Good! However, I suggest adding a computer science department and recruiting two classes as well. Also, this year, the students we have trained from elementary school are going to go to university, and you have to choose more people from them. Their foundation is really different from the previous students! Our Xiaoqing, they will be admitted to college this year! ”

"That's right! Don't pull down any of these students, I don't think they have to take the exam! ”

"Let's take the test! We want to treat everyone equally. In fact, they take exams, and students outside can't compare with them. Zhang Zhimu said.

Seeing that Zhang Zhimu and Li Yunhe were not finished, Chen Yufeng came over and asked, "Are you two going to finish talking here, or will you go back and talk again?" ”

"Oops! Sorry, you've read it too! Zhang Zhimu said, "After reading it, we will go back first, Li Yunhe here and they still have to summarize it, but don't forget, we will have a celebration banquet in the evening!" ”

Ouyang He came over and said, "Mr. Zhang, Commander Fan, their preparations are almost complete, should we discuss going to Quanzhou here, or will we go back and talk about it?" ”

"Let's go back!" Zhang Zhimu thought for a moment and said, "Let's all go to the command center and study this matter together!" ”

In the car, Emperor Chongzhen heard that he was going to study the matter of sending off the sailor fleet on the voyage, and he also followed him to the command center.

Several members of the kiln gang returned to the command center and had a simple meal in the restaurant. Emperor Chongzhen was also like everyone else, holding a tray and picking up some food. When we eat together, I can't stop praising the delicious food here.

Yan Boju smiled and asked, "Your Majesty, can the food here be better than what your imperial chef makes?" ”

"Hey! Can't be compared! Emperor Chongzhen said very seriously, "No matter how good things are, there are times when you get tired of eating too much." I suddenly changed my taste here, and I really think it's good. There are meat and vegetarian dishes here, and these side dishes are really delicious! ”

Everyone said that they were very happy, and after the waiter removed everyone's tableware, Zhang Zhimu said: "I think we will drink some tea here and talk about going to Quanzhou!" ”

Before everyone could speak, Emperor Chongzhen hurriedly said: "This is the first time that our fleet has sailed to the Atlantic. The place where they walked was much farther than that of the Three Treasure Eunuchs. And they are likely to have to go to war with those countries in the West, and we must send them! ”

"What the emperor said is very right!" Zhang Zhimu said, "This time, we are going to see them off, and when I want to come back, we will go to Hankou." They are building the Yangtze River Bridge at the same time, and the Han River Bridge, the Yangtze River Bridge will be opened to traffic at the end of the year, and the Han River Bridge is preparing to open to traffic. If we attend the opening ceremony of the Han River Bridge this time, we may not be able to go again at the end of the year! ”

Yan Xing said: "I see, there is no need to go to Hankou this time!" At the end of the year, not only the Yangtze River Bridge will be opened to traffic, but also the train from Zhengzhou to Hankou will also be opened. Why don't we go together at the end of the year! ”

Everyone basically supported Yan Xing's opinion, and Zhang Zhimu had no choice but to agree. However, the reason why Zhang Zhimu wanted to go to Hankou was to see Li Mao. They talked a lot through several phone calls, and Zhang Zhimu wanted to transfer Li Mao back after several important things were implemented on the Hankou side. Now that all aspects of the kiln gang have begun to move towards regularization, the matter of building the country needs to be raised. This matter must be presided over by Li Mao in person.

In particular, Zhang Zhimu found that all the people in the kiln gang are strong and strong, but the entire organization and coordination work is not in the best state. This is not their strong point, and the overall planning of work must be strengthened. But everyone around me has their own strengths, but they are not comprehensive, and they need people like Li Mao to come back to help them. Besides, if Li Maolai wants to be the president of the Republic in the future, he must be in place from the beginning of the preparations. Since Li Mao has been working outside the kiln gang, many people still need a process to accept Li Mao.

In the end, it was decided that Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, Ouyang He, and Yan Boju would personally go to Quanzhou to see off the sailing fleet. Emperor Chongzhen also brought several elders of the Senate with him.

Originally, Mr. Lu Bingyi also wanted to go to Quanzhou in person, but this year's enrollment work may be extremely busy, so he had to give up.

Now it is much more convenient to go to Quanzhou. They boarded the train from Yaogang, first to Kaifeng, changed to a passenger boat, followed the canal to Zhenjiang, and then changed to a sea boat to reach Quanzhou.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen still brought Queen Zhou and Princess Chaoyang who had just taken a holiday.

On the train dining car, Zhang Zhimu took the opportunity of Queen Zhou and Princess Chaoyang to drink tea in the dining car, sat opposite Queen Zhou in the past, and said with a smile: "Queen Mother, I have always wanted to find an opportunity to compensate you!" That little green thing......."

"Zhang Dongjia is welcome! The emperor has already told me about this, don't worry about it! "Queen Zhou is also very polite.

"It's good that the mother doesn't blame me!"

Princess Chaoyang interjected: "What is there to blame for this! Originally, the child's lifelong event should be his own decision! ”

"Shut up! A girl's family, how can you be embarrassed to say this? Empress Zhou scolded.

"Oops! Queen Mother, you have been in Yaogang for so long, and you have not accepted the concept of Yaogang people at all, so you have a problem for Zhang Dongjia! "Princess Chaoyang is still young, and I don't know what his father wants to do with Zhang Zhimu.

"Alas! I can't learn these things from you! Empress Zhou said, "My family is peaceful and peaceful, and I can't stay in Yaogang for long this year." ”

"Yes! I haven't seen them in a long time! Zhang Zhimu said. Because Lu Chengxiang once thought of unifying the movie theaters across the country to set up a joint-stock company and go public together, because this is a very lucrative business, it is easy to be welcomed by those who want to buy shares when it is listed.

However, Xiao Hongyu has a different opinion on this matter, she thinks that the current movie theaters are profitable because they basically don't spend money on the films, and the movies are all made with money from the kiln, and they have the profits of the movies in their profits.

Lu Chengxiang also felt that Xiao Hongyu was right, but there has been no good way to divide the profits of movies and movie theaters, so this matter has been put on hold for the time being. Zhang Zhimu knew that he was facing a big problem, that is, how to divide the wealth of the kiln and the wealth of the country. Now the country's silver belongs to the kiln, and the kiln is also the state. In this case, it is better to distinguish between them before the establishment of a new State. Zhang Zhimu talked about this kind of thing, and Lu Chengxiang felt that it was inseparable, and said that if it was separated, it would take two sets of people to manage, and the efficiency would be very low. What Lu Chengxiang said is reasonable, there are often many things that are related to the state, and many of them want to benefit from everything. There are practical interests, there are reputations, there are political achievements, and so on. However, although the kiln company is a very efficient and very well-functioning company, a country cannot always be managed by a single company. State institutions must be formed as soon as possible in order to achieve ultimate stability. Now that Zhang Zhimu has enough land area in his heart, there is no need for too big expansion. We need to put some effort into building the country.

The fundamental solution is to establish a well-established state institution, and the state can function normally under the constraints of the law.

These things need someone to do, and Li Mao is the right person to do this.

Zhang Zhimu and the others went to Zhenjiang and changed into sea boats, and they were accompanied by four escort boats. These are four frigates with diesel engines of more than one hundred and fifty tons. Since the diesel engine produced by the kiln is still not powerful enough, two engines are installed on each ship. Even so, the diesel engine occupies a lot less space than the steam engine, and the speed at which several frigates can run at sea is not comparable to those steamships in Yaogang now. However, because the technology is new, the trial commissioning took too much time. In the words of Mr. Lin Zongwei, "We paid too much tuition, and we just learned the introductory secrets of diesel engine shipbuilding." Building a big ship like a frigate is completely different from building a small runabout. ”

However, although the tonnage of this kind of frigate boat is not beaten, Lin Zongwei and his team equipped this kind of ship with four 65-mm guns, two six-wheeled 12.7-mm heavy machine guns in the front and rear. There are also radio detectors, hydroacoustic detectors, medium-wave short-wave radios. It's a frigate full of hedgehogs. This time, they escorted Zhang Zhimu and their passenger ship to Quanzhou, and they were also going to sail with the long-distance fleet.

When the sun rose high, the passenger ship sailed into Quanzhou Port, and Fan Chengkun and others were on the dock to greet him. As soon as the passenger ship came to help, Fan Chengkun and others boarded the ladder and came to the ship. On the deck, Fan Chengkun saluted Zhang Zhimu and others one by one and shook hands. Then, Fan Chengkun said to Zhang Zhimu: "Mr. Zhang, it's all ready!" Just wait for you to come, and the soldiers will set off! ”

"I've been looking forward to this day for a long time!" Zhang Zhimu said, "However, Li Wei and Li Jing are going very well on their side, and they are building a dock for you in the Assyrian Sea. I guess your fleet is in the Assyrian Sea, and our improvised dock should be able to use it. At home, heavy fuel oil is prepared for your big boat, and diesel fuel for speedboats is being transported over there! Coal, there's it there. Li Wei: They are also preparing. ”

"Great!" Fan Chengkun said, "Our ship has arrived on the other side of the Black Sea, and there is our base on the shore, and we are much more at ease!" Seeing that everyone was polite, Fan Chengkun said, "Let's go to the shore!" After our welcome banquet, I will report to you in detail on the preparations for our voyage! ”

"Good!" Zhang Zhimu politely asked the emperor and Empress Zhou to go first.

The officers and men on the shore lined up in snow-white sailors' uniforms to welcome everyone. Emperor Chongzhen had never seen such a beautiful and mighty military appearance, and he couldn't help waving to the officers and soldiers excitedly.

In Quanzhou, everyone enjoyed a sumptuous seafood meal, and most of them were arranged to rest in Quanzhou Hotel.

After everyone rested for a while, they were invited by Fan Chengkun to the command center of the Navy Headquarters.

After everyone sat down, Fan Chengkun came to the ** stage, saluted everyone, held the microphone and said, "I'm a little excited today!" Mr. Zhang once told me that the Western powers have relied on their advanced navigation technology and firearms advantages to crisscross the world. They came to our doorstep and traded with us with guns. They often bully us, and one day, we will also sail our warships to their doorsteps, with their goods, and if they do not agree to trade with us, we will bombard their doors with cannons, so that they can also taste what it is like to be beaten at the door! ”

"Whoa!" There was a round of applause below. Fan Chengkun's words were very sensational.

"After several years of careful preparation, now I can tell you that we are ready to march to the Atlantic!"

"Whoa!" There was another round of applause.

"Let me report to you on the composition of our fleet for this expedition!" After the applause, Fan Chengkun continued. Picked up a few prepared documents and read: "The flagship Taishan, two or five thousand tons; three 1,800-ton warships; four 1,500-ton warships; a 25,000-ton cargo ship; four 5,000-ton cargo ships; six 1,500-ton cargo ships; Four one hundred and fifty-ton frigates. ”

"Whoa!"

As soon as Fan Chengkun read this, he was immediately interrupted by a burst of applause below!