Chapter 14: The Challenge of the New Elite (part 1 of 2)
In the blue sky, more than a dozen large Boeing 247 passenger planes are flying to Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Empire.
Most of the passengers on the plane were from the pilots of the Northeast Army Air Force and the teachers and students of the Fengtian Aviation Academy, who were one of the most urgently needed talents and reserves in the Tang Empire, so they were arranged on the plane and sent directly to the Tang Empire.
In contrast, other refugees from the Northeast have to travel to the Datang or Fiji refugee camps by ship and transport boat.
"This is the legendary Tang Empire?"
"It should be! I heard that the islands in the Central Pacific Ocean are inhabited by uncivilized indigenous people, and you have so many high-rise buildings here, obviously only our skilled Chinese craftsmen can build them! ”
"I said you're really good at putting gold on your face! Shanghai, the most prosperous city in China, does not have so many high-rise buildings! ”
"Yes! I've been to Shanghai, and the highest is only a dozen floors, and there aren't many, only in the foreign concessions. If you're looking here, it's all on the thirty or forty layers of the web, one, two, three, four, five...... I'm afraid it's tens of thousands! ”
"It's so prosperous, are we in New York, USA?"
"It's certainly not New York! You see, the flagpole seems to be the flag of the Tang Empire. ”
"I'll go! What kind of flagpole is this? It has to be hundreds of meters high! ”
Chen Haihua, Gao Zhihang, Zhao Wenyi and other elite pilots of the Northeast Army looked out of the window curiously, and their incessant discussion soon attracted an answer from an air crew.
"That's the national flag and flagpole of our Tang Empire, we all call it Dinghaishen Needle!"
It was a young and beautiful flight attendant from the flight crew who spoke, and her soft voice immediately attracted this group of young men, especially those who were still married, and immediately began to talk.
"Beauty, what is the Dinghai God Needle?"
"You don't even know that? What a pig's head! The Dinghai God Needle is the golden hoop stick, the stick used by Sun Monkey when he made trouble in the Heavenly Palace! ”
"Go, go, go! I don't have any eyesight! Of course Lao Tzu knew that it was a golden hoop stick, didn't you see that Lao Tzu deliberately accosted a beautiful woman? ”
"Beauty, the national flagpole is the national flagpole, no matter how high it is, it can't be Dinghaishen Needle? It is said to be more than 100,000 meters tall. ”
The flight attendant suddenly smiled, showed a fascinated expression, and replied: "You don't know, our Datang is located on the international day line, and it is the first country in the whole Shijie to usher in a new day. In our Datang, we can see the sunrise of a new day at the earliest. What's even more amazing is that we will raise the national flag every morning, when our national flag is slowly raised, the rising sun in the east also rises, when our national anthem stops raising the ceremony is over, the rising sun just rises completely, standing in the imperial square xiangshang to see our national flag just fluttering above the rising sun, do you say that our Datang is very magical? ”
"Is this possible?"
Everyone shook their heads, they obviously didn't believe what the beautiful flight attendant said.
However, there are a few people who are very knowledgeable, they have all studied in France, and Zhao Wenyi, who has the best academic performance, suddenly smiled: "Of course it is possible!" Just calculate the sunrise time every day, and then arrange the national flag-raising ceremony according to the sunrise time! ”
The beautiful stewardess didn't know the scientific theory in this, but she still looked at Zhao Wenyi with great respect.
Chen Haihua nodded at this time and said: "The morning sun has completely risen from the sea level for a long time, no wonder they want to build a 100-meter-high national flag pole, just by virtue of this flag-raising ceremony, presumably the Tang people living here will be in awe of the national flag, which invisibly increases the national pride and sense of belonging of the Tang people, and the person who designed this must be a very scheming person!" ”
Gao Zhihang next to him also nodded: "Being able to accurately calculate the sunrise time every day shows that they have at least a team of extremely strong astronomical geographers and the most sophisticated measurement and calculation instrument in the whole Shijie." If the scientists of this country have nothing to do and can only calculate the sunrise and sunset every day to pass the time, it proves that the country's science and technology liliang has reached a very terrifying level. ”
Zhao Wenyi suddenly smiled and said: "From a small matter, you can judge the scientific and technological ability of the entire Datang, and it is not easy to see that you Gao Zhihang!" ”
The crowd burst into laughter.
Suddenly, someone shouted.
"Oh my god! Look! Look! Is that huge ancient palace complex a royal palace? ”
"It looks the size of the Forbidden City!"
"That's Daming Palace! The most sacred place in our Tang Empire is the size of four Forbidden Cities! ”
"Beauty, your Tang Emperor also lives in it!"
The beautiful stewardess smiled and nodded, and suddenly envied the dead again.
"It turned out to be Daming Palace! Wow! It's spectacular! ”
"If only I could live in it!"
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After circling over Chang'an for a week, the passengers on board immediately turned northeast and landed on the runway of Yanjing Air Base.
These elites of the Northeast Army couldn't wait to rush out of the plane, because they had just seen in the air that this was an air base, and it was huge. The tarmac was lined up and filled with fighter planes.
They were extremely excited, out of a thirst for strength.
The temperature in Datang is about 256 degrees all year round, neither too hot summer, nor too cold winter, the oceanic climate makes this Datang all year round like spring, the climate is pleasant.
When they came down, they were fascinated and shocked by the tall terminal and the endless airport.
"Obediently, this should be an air base, several times larger than our air base!"
Everyone was envious, and for them, the pilots, there was nothing more attractive to them than such a huge air base.
With a creak, a Humvee military jeep stopped beside Chen Haihua and the others.
Hummer is the latest product of the Hummer Automobile Company, a subsidiary of Datang Fourth Heavy Industry, although this automobile company took a year and a half to complete and put into production, and the international cars are monopolized by Ford, General Motors and Mercedes-Benz and other large companies, but the Hummer Automobile Company can find another way, under Zhang Meng's special prompting, specializing in the development and production of military vehicles.
When the first phase of Datang's super wind tunnel group was completed, the researchers of Hummer Motors couldn't wait to use the wind tunnel to test the new car they designed, but they couldn't get rid of the influence of the streamlined nature of international cars, until they suddenly had an inspiration when they saw the military vehicle that Zhang Meng was riding in when he came to inspect.
It turned out that Zhang Meng was very unhappy with the appearance of cars in this era, so he used the ready-made equipment of the automobile factory to modify several cars for his own use, all of which were modified according to some off-road models that Zhang Meng liked, including military Hummer models, and Zhang Meng also liked Hummer the most, only such models could match his fierce life.
Only then did the researchers of the Hummer company know that Zhang Meng named their car company Hummer, so they directly copied Zhang Meng's modified Humvee and officially designed a more reasonable model of the Tang Army's military Humvee.
As soon as the new Humvee came out, it was immediately loved by the officers and men of the Tang Army. Although the new Hummer has not yet received foreign orders, the Tang Army alone is already in short supply.
"This car is so domineering, I like it!"
Zhao Wenyi, who has always been unfazed, couldn't hide his affection when he saw the Humvee, if it wasn't for Chen Haihua pulling him, I'm afraid he would have gone up to touch the car.
Colonel Liu Guoliang was very depressed, he was ordered to come to receive the pilots and aviation cadets of the Northeast Army, and he wanted to take his subordinates to wear majestic military uniforms and uniforms, so that the Northeast Army could see the majestic appearance of the Tang Army, but he was unexpectedly robbed of the limelight by his own Humvee.
However, his goal was still achieved, at least he saw the pilots of the Northeast Army and the cadets of the Northeast Aviation Academy who got off the plane one after another staring at the Humvee's hot eyes.