Chapter 797: The 20th Year of the Celebration Calendar
The appearance of airplanes, perhaps in the history of aviation, is a beginning, this is a moment that is enough to be written into the history of aviation, but for the Ding Navy, this is nothing, everything is uneventful.
The flight of an airplane into the sky may represent the arrival of an era, but the airplane is different from any other means of transportation, even if it is a later generation, the safety factor of the aircraft is the first of all means of transportation, but in the eyes of many people, he is still unsafe, and even has the fear of taking a plane.
Why does this happen, the reason is very simple, the plane is flying in the sky, in the air, once there is a problem, it is the result of the plane crash and death, in most cases, it is a group of deaths and injuries, only a small number of lucky people can be rescued.
In the military, perhaps in some fields, you can ignore the danger, but for transportation, the danger is the first thing to control, that is to say, even if the aircraft has been generated, even if there is such a convenient and fast means of transportation, but the aircraft into the civilian field, it is still far away.
Not to mention, this first flight into the sky, compared to the Wright brothers, is much better, at least not just slightly off the ground, then landed, he flew into the air completely, and in the air, has been circling and flying for 1 hour, then slowly landed, in terms of completion, it is no longer a new product, but a very mature.
But the speed of such an airplane is still not fast, only about 110 kilometers per hour, which is much faster than the carriage on land, but in front of the train, it is still a younger brother.
Zhao Xin's hope for the aircraft, at least that is the future, at least within 5 years, will not consider the use of aircraft, in the 5 years, the investment in the aircraft laboratory will gradually increase, and even put into the engine, as well as the separation of the aircraft, so as to ensure that after 5 years, come up with a long-distance flight, and the speed of at least 350 kilometers or more of the aircraft, basically solve the problem of long-distance rapid transportation.
Such a long distance and high speed is a huge test for the aircraft, anyway, at present, the Dinghai Navy does not need a large number of high-speed vehicles, and the aircraft is hidden in countless technologies.
Compared with the aircraft, the miniaturization engine project, is the largest investment, but also the most rapid expansion, just 3 months later, it was expanded to the previous 20 times, at the same time, after the expansion to the extreme, and split, from the basis of the small engine, and split out of the gasoline, diesel version, at the same time, also from the smallest miniature, all the way to the large heavy load, so that the focus is different, the development direction is also different, the use of more manpower and material resources, the effect is very obvious.
About half a year later, five full-fledged and mass-produced engines appeared, and the first motor vehicle appeared in the Dinghai Navy, and then the era of motor vehicles began to come.
Although the horse-drawn carriage has become the most important means of transportation, the inconvenience of the horse-drawn carriage and the uncontrollable performance of the horse are the basis for restricting the development of a large number of horse-drawn carriages.
In the whole Shenyang, the urban framework is getting bigger and bigger, especially in terms of population, a large number of people are concentrated, which inevitably brings traffic pressure, and the simple carriage can not solve it at all.
However, in the short distance, in terms of freight, there are still problems, and this has been solved because of the emergence of motor vehicles.
The first batch of motor vehicles, most of which were public transportation, such as taxis, buses, and a small range of freight, and then when everything was more mature, the huge motor vehicle production plants began to appear, and then it was the moment of great development of motor vehicles.
With the advent of airplanes and motor vehicles, the navy has become more and more like a sign of later generations, the emergence of motor vehicles, to a certain extent, has accelerated the rhythm of the city, and increased efficiency in disguise, especially in some specific fields, construction, engineering, commerce, among these fields, with the emergence of motor vehicles, reducing costs and speeding up the progress of all aspects.
The development speed of the Dinghai Navy is already high, and the emergence of the internal combustion engine has taken a step forward, and this impact has not yet deepened, because the development time of the Dinghai Navy is still too short, and even the steam engine has not been developed in depth, let alone the internal combustion engine.
The current volume of the Dinghai Navy is already very huge, under the current volume, even a 1% increase, it will be an astronomical amount of wealth and income, not to mention a few percentage points, the pace of the industrial revolution is gradually accelerating, and the development speed has gradually slowed down, and on the original basis, it has taken a big step forward.
The days of peace were not easy to come by, and Zhao Xin had already laid the foundation for development in the first few years of the founding of the Dinghai Navy, and then rushed to this gradual development.
The development of military and artillery represents the military power of the Dinghai Navy, and the emergence of some unimaginable forces in this era, especially the 400 mm train cannon, which is not a great force that can be imagined by manpower, let alone the emergence of aircraft.
Even if the initial appearance of the aircraft is just a wooden aircraft, the power and load capacity are still very small, but it can't stand the rapid development of the navy, for example, the horsepower of the engine, quickly increased from 25 horsepower, to 40, 60, 80, and even 100, and after the study of the aircraft, especially the problems of flight signs, the shape of the aircraft, from the fuselage engine, to the wing, the mode of the two engines has been used, even if it is the current 125 horsepower engine of the navy, The total horsepower reached 250 horsepower, which is at least 10 times more than the original time.
The power of the engine and the horsepower of the engine have increased by 10 times, which does not mean that the performance of the aircraft in all aspects can be increased by 10 times, but compared with the original small aircraft, this has preliminary combat capability.
From cold weapons to hot weapons, this is an upgrade, which represents a huge generational gap, the mode of hanging and fighting began to appear, and the use of hot weapons, even under the premise of numerical inferiority, will end the battle with a huge casualty ratio, which is the development of the times and weapons.
So from army weapons to air force weapons, in the first time the air force appeared, the army was almost all passively beaten, even if there were air defense weapons later, such as anti-aircraft machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, and anti-aircraft missiles and the like, but these are all passive defense, once one side occupies air supremacy, it is easy to clean up these, after World War II, under the premise of not having air supremacy, the war will be very difficult to fight, and the possibility of failure is huge.
In all countries of the world, including the Northern Song Dynasty, which had the best development and absorbed the results from the Dinghai Navy, it was still in the era of cold weapons, and the Dinghai Navy developed air force weapons, even if they were relatively rudimentary, they were also hanging everything, and no firm fortifications could give them a sense of security, and even the emergence of decapitation operations and asymmetric strikes.
As long as you can transport a few thousand soldiers directly to the hinterland of the national capital, the degree of attack on a kingdom is absolutely unprecedented, which is a tactic beyond this era.
The Dinghai Navy, on the road of super-technology, has not looked back and moved forward, allowing the Dinghai Navy to maintain its own strong oppressive force at the same time, but also to make the military unification without any problems, but this is not the Dingjun, in these years, the development of the most rapid and the most terrifying, the real terrible is the civilian aspect.
If weapons can only kill people, the development of the economy and industry can strengthen itself, and when the economy and industry are crushed, even if they are a little backward in technology, there is no problem.
The most commendable thing here is the United States during World War II, whether it is in military equipment or military concepts, the United States has no advantages, but the United States has the world's first industry, when others are building three or five ships, the United States is more than ten or twenty ships at once.
For example, during the Pacific War, the United States was most famous for the three aircraft carriers that fled from Pearl Island, which made some people who did not have a deep understanding of military affairs think that the US military was at a disadvantage in the Pacific War because there were not many aircraft carriers.
But in fact, the US aircraft carriers are like dumplings, and the launch of more than a dozen or twenty ships is even too fast and too much, so that they are too lazy to come up with names and directly replace them with a certain level.
This is the inhumanity of the strong trench of industry, and this point is the clear embodiment of the Dinghai Navy, the Dinghai Navy in the 11th century, as early as more than ten years ago, when the country was just founded, can kill the Liao State in a short period of time, kill the Northern Song Dynasty, maybe it will be a little troublesome, but the problem is not big.
Steady development, especially from the Northern Song Dynasty to tens of millions of people, this completely laid the foundation of the navy, what is even more terrifying is that the development of civilian use is also advancing by leaps and bounds, all kinds of science and technology that should not appear in this era, so that this era, more and more prosperous, become modern.
Industrial production capacity, almost every three to five years, will rise to a higher level, especially the production capacity of heavy equipment, has risen year after year, and the ability of the navy to change the world has begun to strengthen.
In addition to the terrible industrial production, another even more terrible place is the population, the population of the navy, which has reached a very terrible level.
A stable and affluent life, in addition to allowing social wealth to begin to grow on a large scale, promoted the increase in population, and the population of Dinghai Sea rose rapidly, and by the 20th year of Qingli, it had reached 250 million people.
In the 20th year of Qingli, it was 1060 A.D. according to the calculation of AD, and the year name has not changed, because of the year name of Qingli, the Northern Song Dynasty has developed very well, all walks of life are relatively stable, and the fiscal revenue has increased continuously.
Under such a premise, especially when the government is no longer regarded as the key Renzong, the era name has not been changed, and even the prime minister has not been changed, it has always been Han Qi.
For the Northern Song Dynasty, in the recent period, it cannot be called peace of mind, but there are no major problems, all aspects of development are very good, and the economy and income continue to grow, which makes Renzong feel a little comfortable.
The government's income is generous, and with reserve funds, it is not afraid of some disasters, even if there is a national disaster, there is a way back for the navy, and at least there is no problem in buying food.
In fact, the Northern Song Dynasty did not suffer many disasters, especially the construction of farmland and water conservancy, which was quite perfect.
On the level of the whole history, for the biggest disasters of the nation, only floods and droughts and locust plagues, these are aimed at food production, only these have a huge impact on food, and the disasters that are often out of harvest will affect the development of the dynasty, and others, such as earthquakes and other disasters, have a lot of deaths, but have little impact on the dynasty.
Floods and droughts and locust plagues can be prevented, water conservancy projects can reduce the occurrence of flood and drought disasters, and without the premise of floods and droughts, locust plagues cannot appear, this is the current situation in the Northern Song Dynasty, after the large-scale improvement of planting technology, the overall grain output is increased.
Grain production increased, but the overall population declined, which actually increased the stability of the Northern Song Dynasty and reduced the root causes of social contradictions.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, the population was reduced on a large scale, it can be said that it was a series of blood loss, starting from the large-scale immigration of the Ding Navy, millions of people will be lost every year, after the life of the Northern Song Dynasty was better, the fertility rate still rose, the Northern Song Dynasty has maintained a similar population, has been around 50 million, there is no continued growth, as long as the population is relatively stable, more than half of the population is less than before, so that the pressure of the Northern Song Dynasty began to decrease, and social contradictions began to ease.
The Northern Song Dynasty had a better life, the social contradictions were reduced, and there were many fewer things to deal with, and Renzong also had a long period of comfortable life, and there were very few social contradictions, not to mention large-scale civil explosions and peasant uprisings, and even vicious cases were reduced very little.
In the past, there were vicious cases that drove people to a dead end, and the same is true of the civil explosions and peasant uprisings, but now, with such a road as the Dinghai Navy, those who can't survive have run away, those who have the ability and potential have also run away, and in the end, there are few contradictions, and of course there will be no problems.
In the 20 years of Qingli, and even in the previous five or six years, the only two big countries in East Asia have developed steadily, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the people have enough food and clothing, a peaceful scene, but in this auspicious situation, there are some differences, the Northern Song Dynasty is stable, much faster than in history, but the Dinghai Navy, but not fast, is rapid, the annual growth capacity is even faster than that of China after the reform and opening up, in a short period of time, it has reached the foundation of the country, not only developed into an industrialized country, And more and more developed.