Allowing Boer refugees to enter the German colony was also done by Johen Jianyì, not because the Germans were kind enough to pity these Boers, but because of longer-term political considerations.

So far, there has been no public voice of sympathy or support for the Boers from the government, and although there are some small gestures secretly made, it is not open. Thus, in the face of a nationwide condemnation, Germany's position has become very delicate. Criticism of the government's inaction has also risen in Germany, and allowing Boer refugees to settle in German colonies has silenced many people.

Secondly, the British are about to suffer in Africa, and the three-light policy and concentration camps will inevitably become the focus of global condemnation, so the resettlement of a large number of Boer refugees to protect them from the brutality of the British can make Germany earn a lot of public opinion impression points, if it is not expected, the British will shamelessly attack Germany in public opinion in order to save face, and then Germany, which occupies the commanding heights of public opinion, will be able to fight back more powerfully.

Finally, of course, the entry of large numbers of Boers into the German colonies would greatly increase the Caucasian population in the colonies, and when these Boers learned that their compatriots were persecuted by the British, this hatred would become an important force in the defense of the German colonies in World War I. After the outbreak of World War I, a part of the Boers in South Africa also carried out anti-British and pro-German riots.

Under these circumstances, Jochen persuaded Frederick III and Mashal to intervene with the British, who agreed without seeing any conspiracy, on the grounds that Germany could not support the Boers in the war effort, but that humanitarian relief for the refugees would enhance Germany's international reputation.

Moreover, the war in Africa made the British begin to harden against the French, not only explicitly rejecting the French territorial claims to southern Sudan, but in turn putting pressure on the French side, and Russia, which did not reap any benefits in the Boxer Rebellion of the Qing Dynasty, took advantage of the opportunity of the Qing government to open up exploration and mining of minerals and the opening of factories, and began to increase the penetration and control of the three northeastern provinces, and did not mention the construction of Germany, France and Russia that demanded a truce from the British.

In this way, while the United States, Germany, and Russia basically did not express their support for France, France also believed that the Boer War would end in the final victory of the British, and continued to make trouble in the face of Britain, which had gathered 400,000 troops in Africa, and could not take advantage of it at all, so in the end it could only swallow its anger and give up its own actions.

The British can be said to have won a great diplomatic and military victory in the Boer War, and the Marquis of Salisbury thought that as the war drew to an end, his political crisis would be over.

Anyway, Jochen was waiting to see what the British were doing.

However, the good performances of the British will not be seen for a while, but Jochen still has other good things to watch.

"If today's experiment is successful, you'll be the fulfillment of a long-cherished wish you've had for years, and you'll go down in history, Otto. However, it is a pity that if it had been a few months earlier, it would have been possible to catch up with the Paris Expo. Once again, Jochen was standing in the factory area of Stuttgart's aeronautical technical room, but this time it was not Zeppelin who was with him.

"To tell you the truth, we have secretly tested it once before, although it has not been carried out to the last step, but based on the results of the last test, we can already ensure that today's test will be successful." Otto Lilinthal said a little embarrassed, and then immediately added: "Don't worry, because you didn't enter the final link, the last experiment was not a success, so today's experiment is still the first time."

As soon as I heard this, Yoheng was full of black lines, in order to ensure safety, you secretly experimented, and since you were a qiēshun lì, then you should directly carry out the final link, do you have to wait for me to come? Should I be happy about this, or should I say that you will succeed in the test sooner and go down in history sooner?!

This experiment attracted the entire Aeronautical Technology Research Laboratory, including the members of the airship team, who left their work behind and crowded into the concrete open space in front of the real room, waiting to see the first success of an inconspicuous research subject that had been constantly failing, improving, and failing again in the real room.

Yes, today is the first test flight of the aircraft research team of the Deutsche Aeronautical Technical Laboratory, ah, that's right, it's the first time, that's what Lilinthal said. Lilinthal would never admit that during the last test, his beloved wooden shelf was two seconds off the ground, and then the test pilot quickly let the thing fall back to the ground.

The wooden frame in front of Jochen is more like an airplane than the Wright Brothers' Flyer One, with the same wooden biplane structure, the fuselage is covered with canvas, and the wings are connected by steel wire to ensure structural strength.

However, unlike the Flyer One, it does not require the pilot to lie on the wings, it has a structure that can be called the fuselage, connecting to the vertical tail at the rear, while the horizontal tail of the Flyer 1 is also moved to the rear.

There are also two wheels installed under the frame of the fuselage, but there are no wheels on the tail, but only a short skid to support the tail off the ground, at least in appearance, this thing is more like an airplane.

Although there is everything that should be there, but this thing is still simple and amazing in Jochen's eyes, the pilot's seat has nothing but the joystick in front of him, and the pilot doesn't know the direction or speed when he goes to the sky, well, he doesn't even know how much fuel is left in his plane.

But in any case, this is also the first step from scratch, the real technical core of the whole aircraft is the aluminum alloy gasoline engine provided by BMW, although the engine horsepower has not been improved, it is still only 60 horsepower, but the change of materials and the simplified structure that Maybach racked his brains to, the weight is only 47 of an ordinary nickel steel engine.

Since the horizontal rudder was moved to the tail, the aircraft used a towed propeller instead of the propulsion type of the Flyer 1, because there was a landing gear to support the fuselage, so a wooden two-bladed propeller was not small in diameter, and there was no need to worry about the tip of the propeller scraping to the ground.

Due to Jochen's bad taste, the results of the airship research team were named Zeppelin by Jochen after the leader of the team, so the plane in front of him was naturally called the Lilinthal by Jochen, although Lichenthal tried every possible way to refuse, but in the end it still failed to change Jochen's decision.

"Otto, you said before that you did a real yàn? You can't have gone up by yourself, right? Joechen suddenly thought of something, and turned back to ask.

"No, Your Highness, please rest assured, since Your Highness, you strictly forbade Mr. Lilinthal to try it in person, no one has dared to let him get on the plane." A technician on the side immediately replied.

"That's good." Jochen nodded, ignoring Otto's bitter face.

Otto Lilinthal was a famous engineer and gliding aviator, a pioneer in world aviation, the inventor of the earliest practical glider, and the "father of gliders". Lirinthal had died in an accident during a gliding flight, so he was strictly forbidden to go to the sky after being recruited into the research laboratory by Jochen, in Jochen's words, as the head of the research team, he ran to do the work of a test pilot, which is not a priority!

So now Lilinthal could only stand next to Jochen and watch a group of technicians gather around the plane to inspect it, while the pilot listened to the technicians explain the precautions.

However, the current Lilinthal was just a simple wooden shelf, so the inspection was quickly completed, and the test pilot climbed into the cockpit, put on a simple windbreaker, and gave a thumbs up to indicate that it was ready.

Jochen nodded, and then also stretched out his thumb, the technician standing next to the nose began to rotate the propeller blades, the engine started, the exhaust pipe under the nose immediately spewed out a cloud of black smoke, the propeller immediately rotated at high speed, in order to ensure safety, the red paint painted on the tip of the propeller blade to mark the range of propeller rotation immediately turned into a red circle, and the plane began to move forward slightly under the traction of the propeller, but it could only vibrate gently because of the blocking of the triangular wooden block in front of the landing gear tires.

Seeing that the engine was starting smoothly, the technician immediately lowered his body and dragged away the wooden block in front of the wheels, and the plane that had lost its block began to slowly slide forward.

Everyone was watching the Lelinthal as it was getting faster and faster, and everyone held their breath as they taxied longer and longer, and the rear fuselage of the Lee plane was the first to leave the ground, and only the two nose landing gears were still taxiing on the ground.

It may be that the runway is uneven, the plane suddenly bounced on the ground, this bounce made everyone's hearts pinch up, the current landing gear has no hydraulic buffer, the rigidly connected landing gear turned the plane upside down again at the moment of landing, and this time, the landing gear did not fall back to the ground, it, flying!

"It's flying!" "It's really flying!" "We made it!" In an instant, it changed from quiet to enthusiastic, and everyone shouted excitedly.

"Congratulations, Otto, you have opened a new era of human flight, you are not only the father of gliders, but also the father of aircraft, and the history of human aviation will forever record your name!" Jochen turned around and took Lilinthal's hand in congratulations.

"Thank you, Your Highness, I don't think I would be where I am today without your support." Lilinthal shook the hands they were holding together.

As he spoke, the plane had flown to a height of 30 meters, and Lilinthal's plane had far better performance than the Flyer 1, so it naturally would not just fly into the sky for more than ten seconds and come down, the plane climbed to 50 meters in the air and then slowly adjusted its direction to make a circle, turned around and flew straight back.

Able to climb, although not very high; Able to hover, although the large diameter of the hovering is scary, but it is still much more perfect than the Flyer 1, which has a time of 12 seconds in the air and a flight distance of 36 meters, and the Lilinthal can already be called a practical flying vehicle. R1152