Chapter 348: The Air Force Race Kicks Off (Part II)

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The British people were very excited to see the government's propaganda and the huge airship belonging to Britain floating in the sky, and they took to the streets to celebrate. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The news from the British side soon spread to France across the sea, France is also a country that has been bombed by the Chinese Imperial airship leaflets, and the French people are also very afraid of the Chinese Imperial airship, and now France's ally Britain has built such a powerful airship, which means that the Chinese Imperial airship is no longer a threat, and the haze on the head of the French people is also quickly dissipating.

Subsequently, the French government, in the capacity of France as an ally of Britain, wanted to obtain the technology of the hard airship from the British.

It is not a simple matter for France to obtain hard airship technology from Britain, even if the two countries are allies, in terms of national security, they also think about themselves first, and then consider allies, and hard airship technology and naval warship technology are obviously among them.

The confrontation between the two camps of Western countries has shown a hint of momentum, Britain needs France as an ally, although Britain will not tell France all the hard airship technology, but also tell the hard airship about the approximate construction method, and even promised France to wait until the British hard airship is built in batches, it can be sold to France, but these are not free, France needs to exchange certain benefits.

The French government eventually agreed to the British government's terms and obtained some of the construction technology of the hard airship, and France quickly began to build its own hard airship, although France still sent agents to steal more hard airship construction technology from the British.

And France to do the same thing as Germany, the United States, Italy and other Western countries, these countries also need hard airship technology, especially Germany, Germany has always had a bad relationship with Britain and France, once Britain and France have a large number of hard airships, and Germany does not, then Germany will be tragic.

The British government apparently also knew that countries would send agents to steal the technology, and was fully prepared for Barrett Jr. and some of the important workers at the Barrett airship manufacturing plant to be taken by the British. The military has protected it, and the hard airship technology has been strictly preserved, and it is not easy for other countries to obtain the hard airship technology.

After all, there is not only one country in the world that has hard airship technology, you must know that the first country to build a hard airship is the Chinese Empire, and the British technology and the technology of the Chinese Empire are quite different.

At the beginning, Germany asked the Chinese Empire to buy the technology of hard airships, although the Chinese Empire did not agree, but gave Germany a reply: once Britain, France and other countries built practical airships, the Chinese Empire would sell the airship technology to Germany.

Now that Britain has built a rigid airship, it is time for the Chinese Empire to fulfill its promise.

When the German government had not yet sent people to the Chinese Empire to purchase the technology of the hard airship, the Chinese Empire first sent people to communicate with the Imperial Government, and after negotiations between the two sides, the Chinese Empire sold the hard airship technology slightly more than the RD-1 airship to Germany.

The Chinese Empire was not an ally of Germany, or even a nominal partner, and it was already a great thing that the Chinese Empire was able to sell the hard-form airship technology slightly more than the RD-1 airship to Germany, and as for the more advanced hard-form airship technology, don't even think about it.

It is Yan Xueyi's decision to sell the hard airship technology to Germany, Yan Xueyi knows that sooner or later there will be a big war between the two camps in Western countries, what Yan Xueyi has to do is to balance the strength of the two camps, so that the strength of the two camps is as balanced as possible, when the time comes, this war is really interesting, Yan Xueyi wants to let the white people commit a collective suicide, and severely weaken the strength of the white people, so that the "China Travel Plan" can be completed more smoothly.

Germany got the hard airship technology that slightly surpassed the RD-1 airship and began to build the hard airship, the size of the airship built by the United Kingdom at this time was about the same as that of Germany, France got some of the British hard airship construction technology, and was building a hard airship similar to the RD-1 airship, and the rest of the world also roughly knew what the hard airship was all about, and began to explore the construction of a hard airship.

Most countries in the world have invested a lot of manpower and material resources to start building hard airships, and an air force race has begun that has spread all over the world, and the theme of the competition is airships.

The first echelon is the Chinese Empire, which has been developing for more than ten years, with more than 180 hard airships of all kinds, which far exceed the total number of hard airships in other countries in the world; The second echelon is the United Kingdom, which developed the hard airship technology on its own, and Germany, which purchased the hard airship technology from the Chinese Empire; The third echelon was France, which received part of the hard airship technology from the British; The fourth echelon is the United States, Italy, Austria-Hungary and other countries with sufficient national strength; The fifth echelon is the countries with insufficient financial resources.

If you want to build a hard airship, you must prepare sufficient financial resources in advance, taking the RD-1 airship as an example, the cost is more than 100,000 pounds, about 450,000 US dollars or 3 million Chinese dollars, which is comparable to the cost of a medium-sized warship, the RD-1 airship will have such a high cost, the main reason is that it will be built completely for the first time, and it will inevitably cost some more money, in fact, part of the funds is equivalent to the development of funds, if the RD-1 airship is built again, the cost will be greatly reduced.

During the construction of the RD-1 airship, Edmond, as an investor, even dried up the funds due to the withdrawal of a large amount of funds, and almost went bankrupt, and finally relieved himself, but after the successful construction of the RD-1 airship, Edmond obtained a lot of income, not only to make up for the previous losses, but also to make a lot of money, Edmond has become a celebrity in the British business community.

And Barrett Jr., the builder of the RD-1 airship, has also become a British celebrity, even a British hero, and Barrett Jr. not only fulfilled the last wish of the elder Barrit, but also received a large sum of money himself.

Even if it takes so much money to build an airship, several major powers are willing to invest money like crazy, especially when they see that their opponents have also invested huge amounts of money in building airships, and they themselves have added additional funds, and they can't be pulled down by their own opponents.

The air force race is another large-scale military race after the naval competition of various countries, and no one can give up lightly in this competition, because the naval warships cannot go to land, but the airships of the air force can easily attack the ground.

The Air Force Race has officially begun!