"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Chicago, the windy city of great weather and scenic scenery, where the annual Lake Michigan Air Race is taking place! This year marks the third event and the biggest to date! First of all, we would like to thank the organizers of this event, the Lincoln Consortium from Chicago, for their generous sponsorship that brought together the best flyers in the United States and around the world. At the same time, we would like to thank the City of Chicago for providing us with such excellent port facilities, Michigan Fishery Foods for providing our contestants with delicious meals free of charge, Northern Machinery Company for providing us with professional repair services, thank you for your presence, and finally, let us thank God for providing us with such a sunny and beautiful weather! Please remember our slogan: as long as there is a dream, we can fly faster, fly higher, fly farther! ”

Under the backdrop of the announcer's leaky opening remarks, the game scene, which gathered tens of thousands of spectators, became even more lively. As one of Chicago's most famous beaches, it has a comfortable white sand to step on barefoot, a sparkling lake, hotels, hostels, swimming pools, yachts and other facilities for visitors from all over the world. Although it is not yet summer, people are happy to come here from cold places and enjoy the refreshing feeling of late spring and early summer.

As a seaplane race that has risen rapidly in recent years, the Tour of Lake Michigan Flying Race attracts more and more participants due to the beautiful environment and attractive prize money of its host location.

"There is no astringency of the sea, there is no surging of the sea, the sun is shining, the air is fresh, and the water temperature is just right...... To be honest, I liked it very much! ”

When he said this. Juliana is enjoying a dip in the large swimming pool on the top of the four-storey building. Although she wears a blue swimsuit with short sleeves, a short skirt and a round neck, it cannot completely hide her youthful and graceful figure and white and delicate skin, and the vitality brought by youth is always the envy of others. Among the current queens of European countries, I am afraid that only Antoinette, the queen of the Kingdom of Britain next to her, can be compared in this regard.

"Your Highness is really discerning! There are not many places like this in the world where you can enjoy the sunshine and wind by the sea! ”

The beauty, who swam two meters away in the backstroke position, said with some envy that before 1921, she was a princess of a small Central European country, after that grand wedding. She became the wife of the former Crown Prince of Bavaria and the current King of Britain, although Britain is not as good as it used to be after the defeat in the war, but its citizens have the qualities that match the country's glorious history, and the return of skilled personnel in various industries in the decade after the war, coupled with the industrial base preserved from the war and German loans and aid, Britain's economic recovery has been good in recent years. Despite the loss of Northern Ireland and all of its overseas colonies, by 1930 Britain had surpassed Spain, Italy, and France in terms of economic aggregate, and was in second place in Europe after Germany, along with Turkey.

Since Kemal, the "father of Turkey", did not remarry after ending his first marriage, Antoinette naturally became the second most important woman in Europe after the German empress. As Rupresit's second wife, she has so far fathered four daughters and one son. But that apparently didn't distort her face and figure. On the contrary, a few years older than Juliana, she has a kind of maturity and charm that the former does not have.

"Where! I don't have much credit for being here! Juliana smiled and said, "Your Highness doesn't know. If it weren't for this flying competition, I'm afraid I would have known Chicago for the rest of my life, and I didn't know that Chicago was such a beautiful place! ”

"But what can be done? After all, we were born in a royal family, and we are all kings of a country. Since he is the king of a country, it is inevitable that he will be busy with government affairs every day, and His Royal Highness will never want his husband to be a fool who doesn't care about political affairs! ”

Antoinette, after all, she has been on the throne longer than Juliana, and she has seen it more profoundly. However, although she said so, there was no trace of dissatisfaction on her face.

Seeing that she was about to swim to the side of the pool, Juliana plunged into the water and quickly turned back, swimming at a speed that she could not say.

The posture is definitely both standard and graceful. When she resurfaced, she breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"Maybe it's called the poor having the pleasures of the poor, and the rich having the troubles of the rich!"

On the other side of the pool, two men, the most powerful men in Europe, to be exact, who are often called "traitors" by some, are also two old men who are not too old, but for their own reasons have never entered the pool. However, it is rare to see the two of them wearing such an extremely casual outfit as they are now.

"Coca-Cola...... This drink is not only strangely named. It tastes weird, but it feels very cool to drink! Well, it tastes no worse than the ice cream we eat in the summer! By the way, Your Majesty just said that this drink represents a culture? "The first monarch of the Kingdom of Britain, the former Crown Prince of Bavaria, and one of the best commanders of the German Army in the Great War, Ruprecht Liut Pod Ferdinand, held a black drink in his hand, and the transparent glass was full of small droplets of water, and most of the drink was still floating in the cup with several square ice cubes.

"Well, Coca-Cola culture! It's a very broad concept, and in general, it represents a culture of freedom, enjoyment, and boldness that is unique to Americans! ”

The wide white dressing gown, round black sunglasses, and Coca-Cola with ice cubes are what a familiar but very rusty feeling for Chen Tian.

Although this Coca-Cola has been concocted as early as 1886, it is far from reaching the point of becoming popular all over the world, especially the change of historical trajectory, so that the American GIs not only did not have the opportunity to travel all over the world, but were defeated in their own homeland, and the enjoyment culture represented by Coca-Cola is still only popular in this part of North America. It is not surprising that Rupresit, as King of Britain, had no idea of this.

Rupresit watched with some strange looks as Chentian drank all the Coke in the cup, and at the end asked the attendant to add a glass.

"Well, although the concept is very abstract, I have experienced some of it in the past few days in the United States!"

"Yes, take this air competition as an example, as far as I know, there have been accidents in the first two competitions, but the number of participants in this competition has not decreased, but has increased exponentially! If this trend continues, within a decade the flying competition here will surpass our seaplane racing! ”

As Chen Tian was speaking, a roar of an engine came from not far away.

"Looks like the game is about to start!" As soon as Chen Tian's words fell, a squire officer in charge of security appeared by the pool. Because there are no taller buildings than this house in the vicinity, Chen Tian and his party don't need to worry much about their safety before the start of the competition, but after the start of the competition, as long as one of the many participating planes is operated by a malicious person, the situation is very different.

"Alright, ladies, the game is about to begin, let's go downstairs and watch it!" Chen Tian stood up and said to the two people who were swimming in the pool.

"Hey, that's a disappointment!" The two ladies smiled at each other, swam to the edge of the pool in a hurry, took the bath towel from the attendant, wiped it and followed inside.

A few minutes later, to the cheers of the spectators, the first bright red seaplane slowly left the water, and then took off every five minutes. Since it is an open tournament for the whole world, as long as you can bring the plane, you can participate, so the planes that come to participate in the competition can be described as varied, and the livery is also varied, including white, black, red, green and several colors, in addition to a pair of pontoons, monoplanes, biplanes and triplanes, and the fuselage design is also different. Coupled with the airships that served as the competition overseers and judges, from antiques from twenty years ago to the latest civil aircraft, this can almost be said to be a major exhibition of international flying machines.

Four fabric sofas sit in front of the large floor-to-ceiling windows facing the beach, and a large coffee table holds a glass pot of black coffee, a glass pot of black tea, a small jar of cream, a large pot of Coke and a bucket of ice. It's not as lively as visiting the beach, but it has a unique perspective and a different kind of comfort.

"Well, the scene is lively and beautiful, but I don't know if it has entered His Majesty's vision! I remember when we watched the seaplane race in the Netherlands, His Majesty recruited a lot of talent! ”

Rupprecht picked up a small jar of cream and poured some into his fine porcelain teacup, which was a unique way of drinking tea in the British, and it seemed that more than ten years of life in England had changed the king's habits, and the traditional English milk tea was obviously more to his liking than Coca-Cola, an American drink.

"It looks the same every time you race, but every time you find something to discover! It can be said that the racing has kept our aviation industry alive and fresh in peacetime! Chen Tian said succinctly.

"What about this time? Your Majesty, do you think the Americans will be able to break our European water racing record this year? Antoinette, Queen of Britain, asked, holding a cup of tea without milk.

"720 km/h?" A smile appeared at the corner of Chen Tian's mouth, "Maybe!" (Full Text)