The "Aircraft R&D Center" on the outskirts of Anqing is heavily guarded, the soldiers at the gate look grim, the gray-white high walls and dense high-voltage power grid, and the ubiquitous searchlights and watchtowers make this place particularly mysterious.

It is home to the world's largest wind tunnel laboratory, where low-speed wind tunnels emit powerful air currents that simulate airplanes encountering air currents in the air. The aircraft is mainly used in the wind tunnel for force measurement tests to test the lift, drag and other data acting on the surface of the model. The test section of this wind tunnel has reached 16 square meters, and the diameter of the test section is 1.2 meters, which is more than 30 times larger than the wind tunnel built by the Wright brothers in the United States more than 10 years ago, and the wind speed has also reached 200 meters per second, which is 18 times that of the simple wind tunnel built by the Wright brothers.

The huge amount of money invested by the Military Advisory Council is beyond the reach of flying enthusiasts like the Wright brothers, and it is also beyond Feng Ru's reach when he is in the United States. Feng Ru is very happy to do here, and many ideas that were just wild ideas in his mind can now be put into practice without worrying about the problem of funds.

At a time when the planes of the same era were only high-end toys flying at an altitude of twenty or thirty meters and a flight distance of no more than two kilometers, Feng Ru was already in the wind tunnel laboratory, trying to create a "Feng Ru V" aircraft with a speed of more than 150 kilometers per hour, a flight distance of 300 kilometers, and a load of one ton. The V-shaped twelve-cylinder Eagle engine provides strong power, and lifting the aircraft to 150 kilometers is just a piece of cake for it, with this technical support, Feng Ru is only thinking about how to improve some details.

However, he was stumped by the technical issues recently raised by the Military Advisory Office, and Chai Dongliang asked the aircraft research and development center to solve the problem of installing machine guns and carrying aerial bombs on airplanes. Aerial bomb pylons were quickly resolved, and the installation of machine guns encountered extremely difficult difficulties.

Feng Ru originally modified the caliber to the standard configuration of the Jianghuai Army's 7.92 mm Depp light machine gun and installed it on the plane, but the capacity of Depp ammunition as an infantry weapon was only 45 rounds, which was far from meeting the needs. Feng Ru and others tried to transform the Maxim machine gun, canceling the water-cooled sleeve and replacing it with an air-cooled one, and invented a lightweight Maxim machine gun. After many failures, the problem of the machine gun was finally solved, but how to fire it became an even greater problem. The speed of the propeller is 1,200 revolutions per minute, and the firing speed of the Maxim is 600 percent per minute, and the bullet will inevitably hit the propeller that is spinning at high speed. If you just let the plane take to the sky with a machine gun, the effect of hitting the enemy will definitely not be possible, and shooting yourself down will be inevitable.

This stumped Feng Ruhe and the experts at the aircraft research and development center, and someone had an idea to wrap the wooden propeller blades with steel plates in an attempt to protect the blades. But a new problem immediately arose, and it became clear that this was not a fundamental solution, because the bullet hit the blade of the wedge-shaped steel plate and caused damage to the engine shaft. And the ricocheting bullet doesn't necessarily hit the pilot, and it is likely to injure the pilot or destroy the aircraft.

Chai Dongliang inspected the aircraft research and development center several times, and wanted to remind them to use a continuous device to solve this problem, and when the blades were turned to the front of the muzzle, the machine gun was stopped firing through a mechanical device, but they were all held back??? There are already too many things to manage yourself, which will suppress the growth rate of your subordinates.

Anyway, there is still more than half a year before the outbreak of the First World War, and Chai Dongliang plans to participate in the war in the later stages of the war, and there are still several years to go, so there is no need to rush it.

Chai Dongliang has always had a hidden worry, he has done too many things, and his subordinates are extremely dependent on themselves in every aspect, the advantage is that they will not encounter the risk of being constrained when commanding, and the disadvantage is that they lose their creativity. Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms period is the most typical example, and the consequence of doing everything is that by the end of the Shu Han Dynasty, it was already a situation where Liao Hua, a general in Shu, had become a pioneer.

Looking at Feng Ru, who was at a loss, and looking at his face full of tiredness and exhaustion, Chai Dongliang almost couldn't help but remind him several times, and finally just patted him on the shoulder and comforted him, and then got into the car and left.

In any case, it is already a great step forward to be able to transform Makqin into a light air-cooled type suitable for air combat, and the aerial bombs and aircraft pylons have also been successfully designed ahead of schedule, and the Jianghuai Army is now much ahead of the world in aircraft. Of course, this has something to do with the fact that the whole world does not attach importance to the new type of weapon of the aircraft, and others are enthusiasts who have pooled some money to engage in research and development, while the Jianghuai Army has invested heavily in research because of its foresight. When no one else pays attention to it, it is the advantage of the national system to beat amateur players with professional players. Although it is not a long-term solution, it does have its necessary surname to concentrate on doing big things in the current China.

Back at home, Mo Xiaolian and Wu Meiqi, who were eager to wear it, pounced like birds, and Chai Dongliang walked into the inner hall with one in hand. The two of them talked about the trivial things that happened at home, and Chai Dongliang's head was as big as a bucket when he listened.

"You're both suffocated at home, you're going to suffocate." Chai Dongliang said lovingly.

The two shook their heads resolutely and said in unison: "No, that will make people laugh at our Chai family for having no rules." ”

Chai Dongliang said with a smile: "Because you are still students of a new-style girls' school, this brain is not much stronger than those countrymen who have never read a book for a day." ”

The two of them laughed and didn't say anything, but their expressions were a little lonely.

Chai Dongliang had an idea: "Now Anqing No. 5 Primary School is recruiting teachers, you two will go to the school to be gentlemen, right?" ”

Wu Meiqi and Mo Xiaolian's eyes lit up suddenly, and then they gloomy again, and muttered: "If we go out and show up, people will laugh at you." ”

Chai Dongliang scratched the noses of the two of them respectively and said, "What's the joke?" In the future, women will also have to work, and only if they are not financially dependent on men, can they speak with weight. ”

Mo Xiaolian smiled: "I'm afraid that our family is not short of two salaries for the two of us." ”

Chai Dongliang pretended to have a sad expression: "The child's milk powder is very expensive, you two want to exhaust me?" ”

Wu Meiqi snorted and said, "Who wants to give you a baby?" ”

Chai Dongliang said solemnly: "If you don't give birth, I will marry someone who is willing to have children!" ”

Wu Meiqi raised her eyebrows and said, "Which fox spirit dares?" ”

Mo Xiaolian couldn't help but say: "Silly girl, the governor is coaxing you to play." ”

Chai Dongliang glared at him: "Still called Dudu?" ”

Mo Xiaopian said with interest: "What is that called?" Patrol envoys? ”

Chai Dongliang slapped her on the buttocks: "Pretend to be stupid, right?" Call the husband! ”

Wu Meiqi suddenly sneered: "Husband? Yanjing people call eunuchs husbands! ”

Chai Dongliang stood up with a flick of his sleeves, and dragged Wu Meiqi's arm to the bed: "What a bold girl, dare to say that General Ben is a eunuch, look at how General Ben beat you with a military stick." ”

Mo Xiaolian covered her mouth and snickered, and Chai Dongliang dragged her over: "And you, you are also being punished!" ”

Of course, Wu Meiqi and Mo Xiaolian knew that Chai Dongliang was joking, and there was nothing right or wrong about the pleasure of the boudoir, but after all, Xuanyin in the day was still an unacceptable concept for the two of them.

"Good husband, you can spare us."

"General, the little one is wrong!"

Chai Dongliang also got off the donkey: "Since I know my mistake, this general will send this military stick for the time being??? Fight again in the evening! ”

The cheeks of the two little women who were new wives were flushed with shame, but they all had the same eyes like silk.

After a while, Wu Meiqi asked, "Husband, do you really agree with the two of us going out to do things?" Chai Dongliang glared and said: "This general's military orders are like a mountain, and he must follow his words, how can there be a fake?" Dare to question General Ben's general order, is this worth it? One more penalty in the evening! ”

Before the words fell, Wu Meiqi and Mo Xiaolian became excited, chattering about being teachers at school. Wu Meiqi took Mo Xiaolian's hand, ran back to her room with a snap, and closed the door with a snap, and heard the two of them laughing from time to time, talking extremely energetically, and locked Chai Dongliang out of the door to dry.

Chai Dongliang couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head: "Long Duo doesn't cure water, and the three monks have no water to eat!" ”

??? Dividing line ???

The Capitol is the place where Congress, the highest legislative body of the United States, meets and passes various laws and bills, and is an important corner of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers. It stands majestically on a hill called Jenkins, which has been called Capitol Hill since the Capitol was built on the hill.

The building is surrounded by lawns and trees. During the day, the building looks like a delicate ivory carving on a green velvet carpet. At night, the dark sky is used as the background, and the milky white edifice illuminated by the lights is set off, like a heavenly palace. It is the most striking place in Washington at any given time. The Ten Ton Columbus Gate, with a relief depicting Columbus's discovery of the New World. The interior of the rotunda is spacious and splendid. Eight huge paintings hang on the walls around it, showing the history of the United States. Looking up at the dome, you can see a romantic ceiling painting, with a portrait of Washington in the center, and on either side of the founding president, the goddess of victory and the goddess of liberty, and thirteen other goddesses, representing the thirteen founding states.

The north wing of the northern extension is the office of the Senate, and the south wing of the southern extension is the office of the House of Deputies. The Chamber of Deputies is a medium-sized auditorium. A large American flag hangs on the front wall of the venue. In front of the flag is the Speaker's seat, and in front of it are the record seats and the speakers' seats.

Dr. Goodnow, who has just returned to the United States from China, is giving an impassioned speech on the relationship between the United States and Asia, especially the relationship between China and the United States. Although the isolationist sentiment in the United States is serious, it does not mean that the United States does not pay attention to the changes in the world, and the imminent outbreak of a major war on the European continent has become the consensus of almost all elites, and whether the war will spread to the United States, and the status of the United States after the war has become one of the most interesting topics among lawmakers.

"The awakening of Chinese intellectuals is amazing. In 1905, a month after the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth, the Qing Dynasty issued a decree abolishing the old imperial examination system and adopting a new Western style of education. For 2,000 years, Chinese intellectuals have focused only on the glorious days of the past, and although they can memorize the classics of the ancient sages, they do not know that the earth is round, nor do they understand what gravity and the real world are. Now, the Chinese are hungry for new knowledge. Temples in many towns were requisitioned and converted into new schools. Schools are being built faster than ordinary people can build their own houses. The walls of the Imperial Examination Courtyard were torn down to make way for the new University and Council Building.

In the past decade, the number of new schools in China has increased from less than 100 to more than 50,000, and the number of students in Yanjing's new public schools has increased from 300 to 87,000. The number of students enrolled in new schools in the provinces has increased from 2,000 to more than 2 million. A survey of more than a dozen cities in China found that there were about 6,000 to 16,000 students in each city. In many cities, large normal schools have been set up in beautiful buildings, and some have thousands of teachers being trained. Once China's new education system is built, it will need about a million teachers. When you see some seventy or eighty-year-old gentlemen studying hard to prepare for class exams, you will find that the Chinese are so eager for new education, and education for women is also rapidly developing in China.

Of course, there are still large numbers of people in China who do not have access to education. About four out of five children in the country do not go to school. The peasants in the outlying villages still don't know that they had defeated China in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, but what's so strange about that? In fact, during the European Renaissance, there were also many people who did not receive education and did not know that there was a Renaissance.

Newspapers spread much faster during the Eastern Renaissance than during the Western Renaissance. Although movable type printing was first invented in China, five centuries before Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany, it was a man named Robert. Morrison's missionaries brought the modern printing press to China for the first time. The Beijing Newspaper was allowed to be published by officials under the Manchu government, and its circulation had increased by 200 times by the time of the fall of the Qing Dynasty??? A church publishing house in Shanghai now has a circulation of 100 million sheets a year. ”

100 million? This figure stunned everyone, even a newspaper, which publishes eight pages a day, needs to sell 50,000 copies a day!

Goodnow paused deliberately, and the four hundred and forty-seven members of the House of Representatives present were in an uproar, in their impression, China is a rigid and inflexible country, and they never dreamed that the Chinese's desire for new culture and knowledge would reach such a level.

Seeing the expressions of the parliamentarians, Goodnow took the hot railroad and said: "Gentlemen, economically and morally, the Chinese have also made great progress. More than a decade ago, the Chinese were collecting scrap horseshoes on the streets of London and using them to make third-rate iron plows to sell to farmers in central China. Today, the Chinese have discovered large coal mines in central China. According to the calculations of the German geologist Baron Richthofen, the coal mines in Shanxi Province alone are enough to supply the world for a thousand years. Iron ore has also been found in central China that is easier to mine than in Pittsburgh, USA. The prosperity of Hankou has earned her the nickname "Chicago of China". The Hanyang Iron Works is huge, home to 4,000 skilled Chinese workers who are paid $1.25 a week but operate 13,000 horsepower electric motors to make high-quality rails for China's new railroad. China's new railway will run from Shanghai in the east to India in the west; From Guangzhou in the south, it goes directly to Siberia in the north. In the last two years, the world has been amazed by several factories that are much larger than the Hanyang Iron Works. Three large steel mills in Ma'anshan, Baotou and Shanghai are smelting state-of-the-art alloy steels, and their output is several times larger than that of the Hanyang Iron Works.

Gentlemen, Bethlehem Steel said in the Senate last year that they could not afford to compete with the Chinese in the steel industry on the east coast of the Pacific, and that San Francisco was already cheaper to buy pig iron from China than Pittsburgh. In terms of high-quality alloys and mining grinding equipment, the Chinese have undoubtedly the most advanced technology, which I believe Bethlehem has more say. Because Bethlehem is one of the shareholders of Shanghai Guanghua Group, they have introduced these latest technologies and have obtained huge benefits. The invention of sulfonamides has brought good news to the whole world, thank God, let us applaud these great inventions that have changed the world!

Gentlemen, on the road to civilization, the Chinese are undoubtedly the fastest paced countries in Asia. China was born a boiled country, and the people showed a strong demand for a republic. China's earth-shaking social reform is a clear proof of the continuous awakening of social consciousness. China's anti-opium campaign was a huge success, although it reduced taxes by about five million dollars a year. In contrast, alcohol bans in Western countries have had little effect and are embarrassing.

Gambling in Guangdong has also been eradicated, and political axes have lost more than $200,000 a year in tax revenues. The political axe also issued a ban on foot binding, and some women who bound their feet had to wear large shoes to make themselves look like they had normal feet. Judicial procedures have been improved and torture has been abolished.

Gentlemen, war in the Old Continent is unavoidable, and the United States will inevitably be dragged into the quagmire of war, so it will be the best option for the United States to obtain an ally with unlimited potential on the eastern coast of the Pacific Ocean! ”

Goodnow's voice echoed through the round hall and stopped abruptly in the middle of the **, shocking all the councillors.

As a candidate for the presidency, the ability to make an exciting speech is an essential quality that must be possessed, and Goodnow is no worse than anyone else in this regard.

Goodnow was the Republican presidential nominee, and lawmakers from the Myoke side opposed it, even though they thought he had some point.

"Doctor, are you exaggerating China's role? Does this have anything to do with your acceptance of the Chinese political axe? While the United States needs to find an ally on the eastern shore of the Pacific, it is clear that he is a more suitable candidate. The economic and military advantages of this book are incomparable to those of the Chinese! ”

Goodnow was accustomed to this kind of scene, and said with a cold smile: "The rapid progress of this society has adversely affected the people in some ways. Ben's success came too quickly. Despite its dazzling development, with its excellent soldiers and sailors, and successful manufacturing and commerce, the country's inner world lagged far behind the development of material civilization and could be said to still live in the Middle Ages.

The morality, morale, truth, and chastity of our society have not progressed as rapidly as they have been in other areas. Even in the economic sphere, it cannot be called prosperous. It is said that the industrial development of this industry is lame due to the lack of iron ore resources, the shortage of skilled workers, and the excessive proportion of female laborers.

The total debt amounted to $1.37 billion, an increase of $10.5 billion over before the Russian War. The tax levied on merchants and propertied persons amounted to $165 million, which had tripled since the war, and now averaged 30 percent.

He was still too poor to support himself, and he was unable to support the huge debt owed in the war against Russia. She is only about one-fourteenth as rich as the United States, but her debt is fourteen times that of the United States. It is said that the per capita annual income of Japan is only 30 US dollars, which is only one-fifth of that of the United States. The hydropower resources and the limited number of mine resources are the only untapped resources??? The country has exhausted its potential, and an alliance with the United States will not be of much help to the United States, but will become a burden to the United States. ”

"Doctor, then China won't be a burden to the United States? You know, China is poorer than Ben! ”

Goodnow laughed and said, "China is rich in natural resources, and China will build longer railways than any other country in the twentieth century." If China's total railroad profits were to be roughly equal to those of the United States, it would make more annual profits than China now has to deal with its external liabilities combined.

China has abundant coal resources, equivalent to 20 times that of the United Kingdom, and not far behind, if not as rich as the reserves of the United States. If China's mines of all kinds were to be developed, when the output level was roughly the same as that of the United States today, the revenue from the development of China's mine resources every three months would exceed China's total current external debt.

China has the world's largest labor resources and the cheapest and most skilled hardworking laborers. If the level of profit of China's manufacturing industry is equal to that of the United States today, then the profits of Chinese industry every three weeks will be equivalent to its total external debt.

Although in the short term, China's development will lag behind because of the political difficulties it faces, it will inevitably develop its resources gradually??? My dear gentlemen, this country has all the conditions for rapid prosperity and strength, and only China has enough population and resources to help the United States rebuild the order of the world after the destruction of the Old Continent, which is an innate condition that can never be replaced!"

"Doctor, potential does not mean ability, do you think the Chinese will convert these huge potentials into strength to help the United States rebuild the world order after the old continent withered?" Do you think the Chinese have the ability and courage? ”

In the face of the congressman's aggressive words, Goodnow couldn't help but think of Chai Dongliang's modest face that contained conceit, as well as the passionate young officers and civilians of the Jianghuai Army, and he smiled knowingly: "I firmly believe in this!" ”

(To be continued)