Chapter 257: Peregrine Falcon
With the "mayor" of the store, the wind bird mail order company can also be opened to nomads, and the herders can keep up with the world business at any time in the no-man's land, and if you like, you can even buy European fashion. In such a vast Siberia, it is obviously not cost-effective to send an airship every mail order, and stimulated by demand, Downing is ready to develop a "drone".
Since Downing had a penchant for using radio remote control to develop high-risk flying vehicles from the beginning, he was uniquely positioned to develop drones. Moreover, his drone is only aimed at the "mayor", as long as it can go straight to the mayor's office from the starting point, it is OK, so it needs to be extremely simple, and there is no need for the drone to make any intelligent judgment by itself, with the positioning function and compass, the core technology is already available.
The design of the helicopter has certain performance flaws, and in order to conquer the vast Siberia, Downing has to create a new field this time, this drone will be a fixed-wing vertical take-off and landing aircraft, which can reach twice the speed of a helicopter at 400 kilometers per hour. When it takes off and lands, the two middle rotors and the two rotors of the wing extend a distance to the sides, and the tail is enlarged to become a frame supporting the fuselage, which looks a bit like a quadcopter helicopter. But after takeoff, the fuselage turns sideways and becomes an authentic fixed-wing aircraft, and the four rotors are slowly lined up after the fuselage is balanced to enhance aerodynamic efficiency.
It is so good at flying that it has a name to match: the "peregrine falcon", a magical bird of prey that can catch swallows in the air. It initially has a maximum load of 10 kilograms, and the package is hidden in its belly, which hatches like a raw egg when it lands on the platform.
This platform is exquisite, it undertakes the positioning function of the terminal, and it has an ultrasonic resonator, which can be passively searched without electricity, similar to slave bracelets and ninja bracelets. The platform that is searched by the ultrasound will send out a continuous navigation signal for the drone to land.
In order for the signal not to be blocked, and also for the safety of the package, it will be built at 4. On the 5-meter-high pillar, the pillar is slender and unclimbable, and only an authorized person can take the key to reduce the height of the platform to 1. 5 meters, then reach out and take it, if the height of the platform is not 4. 5 meters, the feedback signal is not the same, and the drone will refuse to land.
10 kg load capacity is not small, it is estimated that it can transport 95% of the express, so its range is also limited, the maximum round-trip distance is designed to be an hour, that is, about 400 kilometers, and then there must be a relay hydrogen refueling station, this thing depends on the future "big number jù" to show which place is the area with high frequency of use of drone express, but also to see if there is a Russian Empire's behind enemy lines of the special forces haunted. Although it is said that after the release of this kind of drone, the mystery of fixed-wing aircraft (the upper surface area of the wing is larger than the lower part makes it high air velocity, low density, and thus gain lift) is not expected to last long, and it can be kept for more than one day.
The emergence of drones will be a blessing for non-urban residents in Siberia, the western United States, the desolate provinces on the border of the Qing Dynasty, and the vast Brazil. The business of Wind Bird Mail Order will be stronger and unstoppable.
General Secretary Marx, who was cordially condolences to the common people at the herdsmen's homes, learned from the radio that Boss Tang had developed this unprecedented product specifically for the Soviet people, and was quite happy to invite Boss Tang to Novosibirsk, the capital of the Soviet Union, to open a factory, and said that the Soviet government would authorize Boss Tang to set up the first national wholly foreign-owned company. The current policy of the Soviet Union is that only state-owned enterprises can set up national companies, and private capital has not been completely attacked, but it is not so convenient to do business.
Boss Tang also hypocritically turned the wholly foreign-owned enterprise into a semi-national and semi-foreign enterprise with 50% of the government and his personal account like Soviet Telecom, and named it the Soviet Unmanned Aircraft Company. The general secretary is still using the Soviet Union as a social reality, and it is not good because he personally set a "bad" precedent. Of course, like Soviet Telecom, this new company is actually a Qiē Tang boss who has the final say.
On the surface, this is a welfare product that is very friendly to farmers and herdsmen, but in fact, the bigger reason why Boss Tang is very enthusiastic about it is because of his special reindeer milk coffee companion. From the Siberian taiga region to Munich, where he lives most often, about 6,000 kilometers, the 400 kilometers per hour drone non-stop relying on the hydrogen refueling interruption stations along the way can be delivered to the boss's house in about 15 hours, plus the special refrigerated box, it is still fresh and delicious. If it's not fresh, you can order milk from the reindeer herders in Sweden, 1400 km, 3. 5 hours flight, tsk, perfect special.
If Tang Xuanzong had this thing back then, it would not have ruined the noble concubine who loved lychees, and the 15-hour drone was just a little electricity, and it was still the unlimited supply of electricity from the wind power station on the road that benefited the country and the people.
Internationally, the Soviet Union has gradually gained a reputation for helping civilians at the bottom, and even the most difficult group of reindeer herders have been taken care of, and this Soviet-style state is really interesting. Not to mention the state-owned enterprises that mainly use minerals, oil and other energy, the profits are used to pay wages to a large number of redundant employees, which is in sharp contrast to the familiar model of capitalists taking away the lion's share.
The Soviet Union is more awesome because of the monopoly of state-owned enterprises, the Ministry of Environmental Protection launched a policy, as long as you find a giant to implement it is quite thorough, therefore, it is the world's first environmental protection to the extreme, almost to the point that the factory wastewater can be drunk directly after discharge, only the power of the general secretary can do such a ridiculous point, in this regard, Downing of course is quite applauded, its chemical companies have carried out considerable technical assistance to the sewage treatment of Soviet factories.
The general secretary also formulated the world's first direct tap water drinking plan, which has strict requirements for the quality of pipes, and maintenance is expensive. In order to salvage his reputation in the investment world, the general secretary, who is becoming more and more skilled in the art of governance, handed over 10% of the cities to the capitalists who have shares to operate independently, and this 10% is not the worst, but is randomly selected to ensure the profits of foreign capital.
Bouilon, the richest man in Luxembourg, who originally considered himself unlucky, actually drew the management of the road and bridge branch in the capital Novosibordea in the lottery, and he was so excited that he couldn't do it, and it seemed that there was great hope for turning losses into profits.
Adhere to the rule of law of the general secretary of the country to formulate a clear restriction on private capital law, business more than one city of private capital began to discriminate, the tax rate slowly rises, until the national market has business, up to 80% of the gross profit margin of the enterprise tax, or private capital can choose to let state-owned capital intervene, up to 50% of the shares of state-owned capital, if it is a private development of enterprises, at this time the autonomy of enterprise management in private, state-owned capital only send financial directors, do not participate in the operation, There is no such thing as shoehorning employees in.
The great ** practitioner of the Soviet Union even implemented the judiciary **, the general secretary nominated 9 Soviet ** officials, and the appointment was a lifelong system, avoiding the judicial system of obedience to the general secretary. Of course, there is only a separation of powers, and the general secretary is a combination of executive power and legislative power, which has been criticized by European and American political scientists. The democratic assemblies were only held at the level of the union republics (equivalent to the provinces of the Qing Dynasty), the local soviets (parliaments) could make laws that did not contradict the laws of the whole country, and the elected leaders of the localities could be vetoed by the general secretary, which was equivalent to the power of the emperor. In the provisional constitution, Marx made an excuse for his own government, saying that the political system of the Soviet Union was in the exploratory stage and was in the initial stage of transition to real democracy.
That's right, it seems that Mr. Marx has understood that the essence of communism is high taxation and high welfare, not formal public ownership, and if these laws are implemented well, private capital can still develop to a certain extent, of course, it is still not attractive enough for investment, and the capitalists will not regard it as a priority investment country.
As for democracy, don't think about it for the time being, Tang Ning is not happy that Italy and the Qing Dynasty have broken away from control. The problem is that after these two countries broke away from control, one revived Catholicism and the other revived Confucianism, which in the eyes of someone in Tang was a reverse development.
The good things that the richest people want to do are basically to give priority to their hometown, Nobel and Yataro Iwaki have found a good job to help the reindeer herders, others don't have this good luck for the time being, and some people are unwilling to do too ordinary things, especially the "small" Qi Taiyu, he said to Tang Ning: "Boss Tang, you have made Guangdong a leader in all provinces, and the limelight is about to surpass Jiangsu." I know that Boss Xu has a good relationship with the governor of Guangdong, but my relationship with the governor of Shanxi is not bad, when he campaigned, I paid for the advertising, and the charity I wanted to do should be put in our Shanxi, what does Boss Tang think? Can we do a global project like Guangdong? What's that called?? ”
Tang Ning really doesn't know much about Shanxi, remember that it can produce coal, but it seems that the coal-producing provinces are not rich, the original Jin merchants to Rishengchang led by the ticket number can also make Shanxi become the financial center of the Qing Dynasty, but soon the Bank of Zurich's wire transfer system made the exchange business of the ticket number plummet, only a few ticket numbers such as Taiyu Qianzhuang kept up with the pace of the times, and Rishengchang heard that they were about to go out of business.
In order to understand Shanxi, Tang Ning decided to go with Qi Taiyu to his hometown of Pingyao County, which was known as the "Great Qinghuaer Street" when the Bank of Zurich did not enter the Qing Dynasty.
After a period of aerial reconnaissance and ground visits, Tang Ning had a preliminary but unique understanding of the entire northwest. He felt that Shanxi was a bit similar to the Netherlands, both were once pioneers in financial innovation, the world's first joint-stock company was the Dutch East India Company, after the golden age of the sea coachman, the urbanization rate of the Netherlands is still higher than that of the United Kingdom, but the Dutch are destined to be unlucky in the first wave of the industrial revolution, because its land is low-lying, it is difficult to build railways, without railways, industrial development is impossible.
There is one of the world's natural wonders in Shanxi: the Loess Plateau, the world's thickest loess landform, alkaline barren soil, if you let wild animals and plants multiply, it is okay, at least there will be a wild world like the Cerrado Wasteland in Brazil, but it is the edge of the big "few words" of the Yellow River, one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation, it has been full of human activities since ancient times, the Loess Plateau is roughly between Taiyuan, Xi'an, Lanzhou and Yinchuan, from the geomorphological point of view, it is at the junction of dry and wet landformsAs a result, agricultural production will be in a state of flux, sometimes with good harvests and sometimes poor harvests. Coupled with the excessive cultivation and grazing by humans, agriculture in Shanxi Province is like a broken flower and a willow.
The Jin merchants were able to rise magically, thanks to the fact that Shanxi was the border when they were at war with the ethnic minorities, and the imperial court, which monopolized the salt industry, encouraged the merchants to transport military supplies to the border in order to support the war, and then they could be exchanged for salt tickets. (http://.)。 In those days, salt was a strategic resource, which, in addition to seasoning, kept food in good shape for a long time (sacrificing a little taste), was therefore at the heart of the food trade, a bit like Downing's monopoly of preservatives to help wholesale supermarkets almost monopolize the large wholesale industry.
Therefore, the Jin merchants became richer and richer, and later gave birth to the financial industry that often had the need for non-local exchange due to the development of commerce, that is, the founder of the financial genius Rishengchang invented the cryptography method, which can safely carry out non-local exchange. Its core business is the same as that of the Rothschild family.
However, the "financial center" only fattened the pockets of a few people, and in an agrarian society, Shanxi, where soil erosion is strict, is still a poor township, and it has no money to study because of poverty, and it actually holds the "world record" of not having a single champion in the imperial examination for hundreds of years. Rich people basically send their babies to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to study. Especially because of the huge ravines on the Loess Plateau, which has brought great inconvenience to traffic, Tang Ning looked at it from the airship, those sheep intestine trails are really curved to a very visual shock, if you are not a poor peasant who has to run on the trail every day, you must think this scene is very beautiful. Beechcraft Tip: How to quickly search for the books you're looking for
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