Chapter 74 Thermal Power Plants
Hu Xiaoyan is not so stupid, of course the goal will be given, but the direction in the plan is not given. He placed the position of the target a thousand meters away from the original target, and from the high altitude, there was not much distance in essence.
The observation post rubbed his eyes and looked down again, and finally he saw a coordinate point made of raging fire near the target. It was a fire point in the shape of a five-pointed star.
"Discover the target, in the southwest direction." The observation post replied after a rough observation.
Varner began to drive the airship around.
The observation post was helpless, he was a German technician, although he had undergone simple training, but unfortunately he did not learn to estimate the distance or the angle, and it was already good to be able to distinguish the direction.
The airship slowly changes direction and heads towards its target.
"Reach the target!" The observation post shouted.
"Start hovering, ready to drop the bomb." Varner Command.
"Start hovering." Hovering is a unique move of airships, which can only be done by helicopters of later generations, and cannot be done by advanced bomber fighters.
Because the airship was moving at a slow speed at the beginning, it hovered without any accidents and stopped over the target.
"Start throwing set-pieces!" Varner continued to give orders.
Locator bombs are in fact ordinary explosives, which can emit light and sound, and can be observed by airship observation posts in the dark of night in order to estimate the effect and the point of impact.
"Throw loccutor ready!"
"Bomb ready!"
"Bomb dropping!"
"Bomb dropping!"
A total of three positioning bombs. Although the wind speed was also considered for the first bomb drop, it was unfortunate that Hu Xiaoyan did not have any experts in this area at all, and he had already gone to the Beiyang Naval Division for help. The Beiyang Naval Division has replied before the holiday. But the personnel will not be in place until after the festival, a total of fifteen veteran gunners. The salary was double that of when they were in the Beiyang Naval Division. For this reason, Hu Xiaoyan paid 10,000 taels of "introduction fee" to the Beiyang Naval Division.
The landing point of the first wave of positioning missiles was at least a hundred meters away from the target.
Unfortunately, because of the first bomb drop, in order to prevent accidental bombing, there was no one within two kilometers of the target. It is estimated that the landing point of the bomb can only be operated by the airship itself. During the day the next day, Hu Xiaoyan would send someone to come to assess.
"The single point is east, and the airship is 200 meters to the west." The observation post that saw the single spot quickly estimated and reported.
Varner took it and began to turn again.
"The single point is south, and the airship is 100 meters to the north."
"The single point is ,...... to the west"
After 50 rounds of bombs and 500 training rounds were dropped, Varner regretfully returned to base.
The next morning, Hu Xiaoyan was very pleased to see that his airship was still suspended in the air, and there were no problems with it all night, so the airship was close to the time of actual combat in service.
Hu Xiaoyan finally participated in the summary meeting after the airship was pulled off the base. At the meeting, Varner and Charles, as well as bombardier Chen Chunyuan, each raised their own problems and proposed solutions. Hu Xiaoyan doesn't understand this. He boldly signed the proposal of Vana and others, and again allocated 5,000 taels for maintenance and training.
Chen Chunyuan was originally in the artillery unit, but in this test, he could not find the bombardier of the airship, so Hu Xiaoyan had to transfer Chen Chunyuan over. This kid was not happy at first, he was taught by the German gunners, and now he is able to ** very well. But when he saw the airship, he threw all his dissatisfaction out of the Nine Heavens Cloud. It's flying!
After the meeting, in the afternoon, Hu Xiaoyan took Chen Chunyuan to observe near the bombing site last night.
The results are not good. Only ten training shells hit the pyre, and about fifty of the others landed in the vicinity of the pyre, no more than fifty meters away. But the other 400 or so training shells were all dropped a few hundred meters away. However, considering that visibility is very low at night, it is actually quite good to be able to do this.
Even if there is hovering, the bomb throwing training of the airship cannot be stopped. His biggest problem now is that airship training can't be held during the day. There are many people talking during the day, who knows what it will be like?
For this training, Hu Xiaoyan burned down all the villages near the training point, in order to prevent accidental hunters from hiding in the broken village where no one was around.
Those bombardiers in Beiyang are still very important, Hu Xiaoyan secretly noted this in his heart.
After Hu Xiaoyan reviewed the experimental report, he came to the thermal power plant. The construction of the thermal power plant was undertaken by Tesla Power Company of the United States. Lieshan and Ma'anshan each have a coal-fired power plant. At present, only the thermal power plant here in Lieshan has been officially completed. Intense debugging is underway, and it is also waiting for Hu Xiaoyan to come to test.
Because Tesla is trying to make Warden Cliff Tower, for which to raise funds from American capitalists, but the process is not smooth, at this time Hu Xiaoyan's father-in-law Hans and his wife followed the Rockefeller staff to the United States, under the arrangement of the staff, Hans and his wife found Tesla to place an order for two thermal power plants to him, according to the agreement, the two thermal power plants can bring him a fortune of 200,000 pounds. Of course, 100,000 pounds of that belonged to Morgan. He didn't have the money to build a team and buy equipment for a coal-fired power plant, and Morgan supported him. For this reason, Morgan and Tesla will split the account fifty-fifty. Even so, Tesla received 100,000 pounds, which is almost equivalent to 400,000-500,000 dollars. That's enough money for him to complete his Walden Cliffta plan. So he agreed without even thinking about it. As for whether the thermal power plant is built in a scientific desert like China, the distance is far away, and the safety is not high, he ignored the problem. At this time, Tesla was already crazy about money.
When Tesla's team arrived in China, they quickly chose a location near Lieshan to build a coal-fired power plant. Because there is a good quality coal mine near Lieshan. The completion and commissioning of the first thermal power plant has been completed, and he is excitedly waiting for Hu Xiaoyan to accept it.
When Hu Xiaoyan came to the thermal power plant, he met this 40-year-old electromagnetism expert and the greatest inventor in the history of the world.
Tesla introduced the power plant to Hu Xiaoyan as he walked. According to the plan, the power plant will have the entire town of Lieshan fully powered, and there will be a lot of surplus capacity. The supporting copper and insulated wire factories can also quickly complete the electrification of the entire Lieshan town.
Hu Xiaoyan nodded while listening, but in fact he didn't listen at all, he cared more about Tesla than the thermal power plant. China is not bad for money, nor is it bad for ordinary talents. What China lacks most is a genius with a flash of inspiration. As Thomas Edison said, "Genius is ninety-nine percent perspiration and one percent inspiration, and that one percent inspiration is particularly important." ”
There are 99 percent sweaty geniuses in China, and there will be more in the future. But there are very few geniuses in China who have a one-percent inspiration, and even to the extent of later generations, there are only a handful of such geniuses. But abroad there are many such geniuses.
There is no way, foreign science has been suppressed by the church for thousands of years, and as a result, in just two hundred years, the blockade of the church has been broken, and unimaginable magic has burst out, and countless geniuses have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and they have gathered the intelligence and resentment of all the geniuses of a thousand years ago to give birth to so many geniuses.
In China, on the other hand, science has been suppressed for thousands of years by the study of the sages, and although there is an occasional splash or two of genius in between, it is soon described as a scheming and then degraded. For example, China once invented a battlefield weapon such as the ring head knife, but the ring head knife declined. China also had various firearms in the Song Dynasty, but these firearms basically did not develop much from their development to the fall of the Song Dynasty. China also invented the first generation of machine guns "Five Thunder God Machine" a long time ago. But the Five Thunder God machines soon disappeared into the long river of history......
In modern times, China also has mathematics, physics and chemistry talents like Xu Yuanhua, who was imprisoned for treason. There are also smokeless gunpowder experts like Xu Jianyin, who were killed in the test site because of the test of gunpowder.
In fact, China is not without geniuses, but most of them are either denounced by the authentic sage school as evil demons and live in poverty, and a few are either caught in party disputes and die.
Confucius once said: "If you are a threesome, you must have my teacher!" ”
Han Feizi also said: "Teacher, so preach and teach to solve doubts!" ”
Confucius is to let future generations learn more from the strengths of others, not their weaknesses. Although some scholars are not good at reading, aren't their achievements in the field of ingenuity worthy of learning from others?
Preach and teach and solve doubts! It is the teacher's responsibility! If a student is out of the way, it is not that the student is bad, but that the teacher is wrong. A sentence of obscenity and evil tricks will knock the student's life's work into the dust. Aren't the teachers themselves ashamed?
Confucius only became a stain on his life because of his punishment of Shao Zhengmao. But the descendants of Confucius killed many more people than Confucius for no reason, not only did they not become stains, but they themselves were even complacent! It's shameless!
Since Confucius, Wang Yangming (the word Shouren. Mr. Yangming), can be like Confucius, both civil and military, can fight on the horse, strategize the army in China, and govern the country when dismounted. Being a man is based on no defects.
Chinese literati pay attention to self-cultivation, perhaps because most people are imperfect, so there are seven deadly sins such as greed, laziness, anger, pride, jealousy, and gluttony. Not only has it become the norm for literati to take each other lightly, but it has actually become a justification for literati to attack each other.
As long as you are a human being, as long as you still have a beating heart, it is difficult to get rid of these negative emotions.
In those years, Confucius had to learn from Lao Tzu Xiang Lu to learn from each other's strengths, but the later literati were in the daydream of the heavenly kingdom and the world of the sages for a long time and were reluctant to wake up, they rejected all learning that was different from the sage's learning, and even despised and trampled on it. Isn't this also contrary to the teachings and deeds of the saints? However, these people are biased and vibrate, and they have caused chaos in China several times without repentance.
The Huns came, and they worshipped the Huns as their fathers; When the Xianbei people came, they also bowed their heads and worshipped; The Khitan Jurchens came one after another, and they also bowed down with their faces open; When the Mongols came, some of the literati bowed down, and some jumped to their deaths. They would rather dive than fight with a knife! You must know that the total number of Mongols was less than one percent of the Han people at that time! In the end, the Manchurians came, and the literati were even worse, and they didn't do what they were good people for, but ran to kneel down and be dogs! Only a dog that shows loyalty can be a minion!
Such a literati! Such a scholar! If Sage Kong got up from the coffin, I don't know how he would feel?
It is indeed reasonable for a great man to destroy Confucianism and turn on religion, and such literati are not needed in China! What China needs is a new generation of literati who can learn anytime and anywhere, and turn everything that is beneficial to them into their own learning.
"Threesome! There will be my teacher! Every literati will memorize this sentence, but how many people have actually done it?
Hu Xiaoyan is not a rare clan! I can't talk to the scholars. So he would rather spend a fortune to build his own school. He would rather spend a lot of money to encourage students to study abroad. He doesn't need the existing old-style literati!
What he needs is a talent like Tesla, who does not know a single Chinese character, but can invent radio, alternating current, cassette recorder, vacuum tube, etc., which has an absolute role in Hu Xiaoyan's great cause.
Tesla is coming, don't think about leaving. Hu Xiaoyan would rather kidnap or even shoot than let Tesla step out of China again.
Thinking about it, Hu Xiaoyan held Tesla's hand with a smile on his face: "Mr. Tesla, let's start." ”