After the fifteenth day of the first month of the sixth year of Xinghua (1894), the latest issue of the China Daily published the news that the empire was preparing to establish a reserve, which aroused widespread discussion among the people. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

For most ordinary people, it is not difficult to have a month of military training every year, especially for farmers who make a living from farming, there will be a lot of things idle every year, and the one-month military training is not long, not to mention that the royal family also gives a subsidy of 20 Chinese dollars, which is almost as high as a month's income of ordinary workers, and even a farmer is thinking that if military training is carried out for 12 months a year, then it is good, only by subsidy, the family can live a good life.

For wealthy families, they can also choose not to participate in military training, but they must pay 200 Chinese dollars per year, which can effectively relieve the pressure on the empire to establish reserves.

The people may have just discussed the reserve as a new topic, but when the top leaders of other countries around the world heard the news, they were shocked, and a panic grew from the depths of their hearts.

"What does the Chinese Empire want to do?"

The Chinese Empire has a population of 460 million, and can build a huge reserve force composed of tens of millions of people, even if the reserve force is only 10 million, all the military forces of Western countries together are not as large as this number, even if the reserve force is not strong in combat, this number alone can intimidate a large number of countries.

If it's a country. How terrible it is to have the same number of military forces as the total population of another country.

Many Caucasians think of "yellow. woe to the word, perhaps yellow. Woe will come again.

Just when the Caucasians were terrified of the reserves of the Chinese Empire, a piece of news came from Britain that stirred up the countries of the West.

"We no longer need to be afraid of the Chinese Empire's airship deterrence."

In England and France, white people took to the streets to celebrate, as if the gloom had completely lifted.

In the fourth year of Xinghua, the Englishman Barrett began to build a hard airship with the financial support of the businessman Edmond, and after learning of this information, the British branch of the Chinese Imperial Intelligence Department caused an accident, which caused the Barrett airship shipyard to be burned down, and even Barrett was burned to the sea.

A few months later, Barrett's son, Barrett Jr., came out of his grief over the loss of his father and was determined to fulfill his father's last wish to rebuild the airship conceived by Barrett Sr. so that he could fly above the blue sky and let the world remember the name Barrett.

Barrett Jr. found Edmund, a businessman who had previously funded his father, and the two hit it off, and Edmund also regretted the death of Barrett Sr., if the airship was really built, he and Barrett Sr. would become celebrities, and Barritt Airship would attract the attention of the world.

Now Barritt Jr. wants to fulfill Barrett Sr.'s last wish and build the airship, Edmond is thinking about his own interests on the one hand, and on the other hand, the friendship he and Barrett Sr. have accumulated over the years, although a fire also caused Edmund to suffer heavy losses, but Edmund still decided to cooperate with Barrett Jr.

At the end of the fourth year of Xinghua, the Barrett airship factory was re-established on the original site, and the workers of the original Barrett airship factory returned one after another at the invitation of Barrett Jr., these workers have participated in the construction of the airship, and have a certain amount of experience.

The British branch of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Chinese Empire also noticed the reconstruction of the Barrett airship factory, and thought about finding an opportunity to destroy the Barrett airship factory again, and assassinate all the people involved by the way.

Unexpectedly, before the Ministry of Intelligence had time to do it, the situation at the Barrett airship manufacturing plant was overturned by the British. The military noticed, and some people even thought, that the previous fire at the Barrett airship manufacturing plant may have been a man-made "accident",

United Kingdom. When the military learned of the idea of the new airship, they were very surprised, believing that if this airship was successfully built, Britain would have an existence comparable to that of the Chinese Empire.

So the UK. The military mobilized an army to protect the Barrett airship factory and ordered the Barit airship factory to speed up the construction of the airship.

In this case, it was difficult for the Ministry of Intelligence to attack the Barrett airship factory, and several attempts were made, and it was almost taken by the British. The military found that after the branch contacted the headquarters, the headquarters issued an order to stop the Barrett airship manufacturing plant, and if there was an opportunity, it could also destroy the Barrett airship manufacturing plant.

At the end of February of the sixth year of Xinghua, a period of one year and two months, during which various problems arose and even a shortage of funds, after overcoming various difficulties, the Barrett Airship Factory finally manufactured the RD-1 Barrett Airship.

RD-1, RD is the abbreviation of the English rigiddirigible, and the 1 represents the first one.

RD-1 Barrett airship, 118 meters long, 10.5 meters in diameter, the frame consists of a longitudinal keel, 24 wooden bridges, a large number of longitudinal and radial tension lines, the frame is covered with a tarp, divided into 2 compartments before and after, each equipped with a 14-horsepower engine, there are 16 airbags in the boat, the volume is 21500 cubic meters, filled with hydrogen, the airship has a load of 8100 kilograms, a total lift of 12 tons, and a ceiling of 2500 meters.

On 26 February, the RD-1 Barrit airship slowly rose from the Barrett airship factory under the watchful eyes of the British high-level officials, and the huge size of the RD-1 airship reminded everyone of the Chinese Imperial airship that once floated over London.

The RD-1 airship has been built, and there is still a certain gap between it and the Kunpeng-6 light airship, which is the smallest in service in the Chinese Empire, but Britain has mastered the manufacturing technology of hard airships, and with the investment of a large number of manpower and material resources in the United Kingdom, larger and more hard airships will soon be built, and perhaps that time is the time for British revenge.

Now that the rigid airship had been built, the British government began to carry out a large-scale propaganda about the RD-1 airship while adding large sums of money to start building a larger rigid airship.

Although it had been several years since the Chinese Imperial airship flew over London to bomb leaflets, the British were constantly in their minds, and they feared that it was not leaflets that the airships would drop down, but real bombs.

The British government wants to carry out large-scale propaganda on the RD-1 airship, which is to let the British people know that Britain already has a way to deal with the airships of the Chinese Empire, and that Britain no longer needs to be afraid of the deterrence of the airships of the Chinese Empire, and that Britain is the world hegemon and will not always be threatened by the once rotten country of the Chinese Empire.