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A three-masted galleon, full of vicissitudes, docked slowly, and the flag of the British East India Company on the mast indicated its identity.

Although this company has been expelled from India.

However, the East India Company still maintained a large number of Oriental operations, constantly shuttling between the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans every year, transporting spices, tea, coffee and other daily necessities from the East, as well as various increasingly popular industrial goods such as cotton cloth, rubber products, lamp oil, and clocks and watches back to Britain, and at the same time bringing boatloads of black slaves to the Ming Dynasty. It's just that it has no monopoly now, it's just one of many such trading companies, and it's even inferior to the Dutch East India Company, which is also in decline, let alone the French East India Company, which is about to surpass it.

In fact, the East India Company now relied mainly on business in the Americas.

"Sir, watch your step!"

The captain carefully helped an old man of about sixty years old out of the cabin, and then said respectfully.

"Captain Frank, I'm not old yet!"

The old man said with a smile.

Then he walked to the gangway with his cane in the shaking of the deck, and the two attendants behind him hurriedly followed, and after disembarking, the captain led the way directly to the customs clearance, but he didn't expect to be stopped by two staff wearing masks as soon as he got off the boat, and pointed to the side with his gloved hand.

"Frank, what do they mean?"

The old man asked.

"Sir, we have to take a bath first, this is their epidemic prevention personnel, in order to prevent us from carrying infectious diseases, all the outsiders who set foot on the Ming Dynasty need to take a bath, not only us, but even their subject country personnel also need to go through such a procedure."

The captain explained in a low voice.

"Disinfection?"

The old man said.

"Well, that's exactly what they do."

The captain weakly admitted.

"Okay!"

The old man didn't say anything, and then went to the big bathroom, or the official name disinfection room on the door number, and washed the shower mixed with disinfectant water under special supervision, including the clothes they were wearing, in fact, the same epidemic prevention personnel outside were carrying sprayers on their backs and even their boats were disinfecting. Of course, they must pay for the disinfection themselves, which is indispensable for all foreigners who come to Daming, who knows which of them has germs on them that Daming does not have? Although this kind of disinfection is just a matter of resignation, it is much better than completely opening the door to the great exchange of viruses around the world.

After taking a shower and putting on the clothes that had been dried, they walked to the customs clearance again, and then showed the Daming entry permit applied for in Zhennan Mansion, without which they have no right to enter the territory of Daming, after the customs officer checked that it was correct, he immediately raised the seal in his hand and stamped it hard.

Access.

Two bright red characters immediately appeared on the old man's entry card.

Underneath these two words is his name.

Isaac. Newton.

Sir Newton, Director of the Royal Mint and President of the Royal Society, set foot on the land of the Ming Dynasty, he walked out of the customs building with his entry pass, and looked into the distance with shocked eyes, where there were countless high-rise buildings, shining with the luster of porcelain in the sun, and clean black roads divided the blocks of the city, and there were all kinds of horse-drawn carriages and even steam cars spitting black smoke passing by on the roads. In the shade of the trees on both sides of the road were groups of passers-by on bicycles or on foot, each dressed in the most expensive fabric, with a well-nourished and cheerful look on their faces. Floating above the city are advertising balloons of different colors, with colorful writing cloth hanging underneath, and even some people riding under some larger balloons, propelled by spinning windmills, flying slowly.

"This is Da Ming?"

He took a deep breath and said with a wry smile.

With that, he walked towards a waiting carriage in front of him, and a white man next to the carriage immediately stepped forward.

"Newton?"

Emperor Yang said in amazement.

"Yes, Your Majesty, this man is the President of the Royal Society and the Director of the Mint, he is very famous in Europe, he is a very accomplished scientist, and it can even be said that he is very successful in the European scientific community."

Yang Zhong said.

Newton is not an ordinary person, at this time in Europe is completely god-level, in fact, as soon as he boarded the merchant ship of the Ming Dynasty, the Jinyi Wei Intelligence Department was targeted, but now he entered the country and transferred to the tracking list of the Department of Internal Affairs, and this person is also necessary to report to the emperor at the level of the European scientific community, you must know that His Majesty the Emperor is most concerned about those European scientists, especially the development of various new technologies.

"Newton? Let's keep an eye on it! ”

Yang Feng said.

Niu Dashen can't afford to spend anything, just the things he studied, at this time, Daming belonged to the most basic knowledge, not to mention that the old cow at this time had already become a politician, studying and studying black technology alchemy, studying how to make money by speculating in stocks, uh, or losing money, by the way, studying how to suppress Hooke, Leibniz and the like, such people are not worth caring too much about. It is said that now Daming has formed an industrial system-style crushing, which is not something that two genius scientists can make up for at all, even if he gives the design of the steam engine to Newton now, Master Niu does not have the ability to get the Dingyuan out.

Well, he's going to have to get the steelmaking furnace out first.

He also had to get the big rolling mill out.

He also had to get all kinds of machine tools, alloy steel for casting guns, new boilers, and ......

Ah, life is so short!

What's more, his years are not even a few years away!

"Genius? Da Ming, any high school student, knows more than him! ”

Emperor Yang said disdainfully.

In fact, at this time, any high school student in Daming does know more things than Niu Dashen, for example, the results of his research on sound, to tell any Daming high school student, will be ruthlessly ridiculed by others, and there is no need to even use college students. Anyway, the modern education of the Ming Dynasty has been close to 20 years, and those scientific gods in Europe can't do it here, let alone a Newton who hasn't done much serious work since he was thirty years old, and it is estimated that it is a bit difficult to change Faraday, after all, the homes of the rich people of the Ming Dynasty have begun to popularize electric light telephones, and those who died before 1900 are difficult to settle here.

"Your Majesty, how can Guo Hong's bombing plan be restored?"

Feng Zhen, who was waiting on the side, asked.

"Agree, tell him, bomb wherever you want, in a word, bomb, don't stop!"

Yang Feng said.

"Honor!"

Feng Zhen hurriedly said.

"My lord, the General Staff approved the bombing plan."

Half an hour later, on the school field of the Tianfang Economic Strategy Envoy of the Ming Army in Dingyuan Gang, an officer reported to Guo Hong, the economic envoy.

"Let's get started!"

Guo Hong said.

"Take off!"

The officer next to him shouted.

After saying that, the officer rushed to a short distance as fast as he could, where was an airship full of hydrogen, tied to the wooden tower below with a rope, he rushed to the front in a few steps, grabbed the outstretched hand of a soldier, jumped in directly to open the cockpit of the door, and then another soldier took off the anchor hook that hooked the airship, and the behemoth with a length of more than 20 zhang immediately rose slowly, and at the same time as the ascent started, the gasoline engine on the airship started, and the propeller behind the cockpit gradually rotated and accelerated.

At the same time, the remaining nineteen airships on the school field were also taking off one after another.

"Target due north, full speed ahead!"

The officer stood in the cockpit, looking into the telescope at the gradually shrinking ground building, and said to the herald beside him.

The latter is followed by a light signal.

Twenty airships gradually formed two columns in the sky, flying along the coastline to the north at a speed of nearly two hundred miles per hour, this huge air fleet, in the fearful eyes of those conquered below, crossed the rural cities, soon flew out of the Ming army-controlled area, and then continued to move forward, after flying for four full hours, a dilapidated port appeared below, outside this port, more than a dozen Ming warships were lined up, pointing to the side of the harbor The muzzle flame continued to fly out, and then exploded in the port one after another.

"Turn due west!"

The officer said as he looked at the map.

The herald signals the lights again.

Led by this airship, all the airships turned right in turn, turned ninety degrees to fly due west, and less than half an hour later, a relatively prosperous city appeared below, and the most striking landmarks in the city also appeared in view, it was a large temple, surrounded by castle-like high walls, towering towers pointing to the sky, gold spires showing splendour, and in the middle of the temple, in the center of a huge and empty square, countless believers were worshipping around a building.

These believers had been alarmed by the airship, and they were all looking up at the sky.

"Target confirmed, drop all bombs!"

The officer said.

At this time, the airship he was riding in had appeared above the temple, and the soldiers in the cockpit did not hesitate to pick up a bomb and quickly load it into the chute, and immediately after the officer's order was given, the bomb was pushed out, and at the same time the bombs on the other airships were also launched, and twenty bombs fell with a sharp whistling sound, like a boulder smashing on the surface of a calm pool, and suddenly stirred up fiery red waves.

There are too many people below.

It didn't matter if you aimed at it, as long as you threw it, it would always explode, and the twenty flames instantly engulfed countless believers, and the rest of the believers all ran towards the outside of the temple like crazy.

But it was too late.

"Keep throwing."

The officer said with satisfaction.

On all the airships, bombs were dropped one after another, and the life-devouring flames exploded one after another among the believers below, turning the entire temple into hell.

And that's just the beginning.

"It's called strategic bombing."

Emperor Yang said with his wine glass.

"We don't attack their cities, but we can still turn their cities into mountains of corpses and blood, no matter how far away their cities are, the geographical barriers are meaningless to us, and the traditional defensive lines are equally useless to us, we go straight through the sky and drop bombs over their heads. But our airships are still too small, and there are too few of them, we need airships that carry several tons or even tens of tons of bombs, and we need hundreds of thousands of airships, and we have the ability to wipe a city off the face of the face with bombing alone.

At that time, whoever we wanted to succumb to, we just went to blow up his hometown.

Throw tens of thousands of bombs at him.

The Ottomans did not give in.

Then our airship took off from Egypt and blew Istanbul into ruins.

The Persians do not give in.

Our airship took off from Basra to blow Isfahan to the ground.

Even if our airships were bigger, even if we wanted to destroy a city in Europe, for example, if we went to war with the British, our airships could fly directly over Europe and drop bombs on London. ”

Then he added.

"Your Majesty, it's just that the airship is too affected by the weather, and it must be flown in good weather and not too windy, so short-distance bombing is okay, and long-range bombing is probably easy to have problems halfway."

Feng Zhen reminded him.

"Then we need a better flying machine than an airship."

Yang Feng said.

"Better?"

Duke Feng was at a loss.

"Explain it to him."

Yang Feng said to a young man beside him.

"Learn, students work out a theory that can make something heavier than air fly into the sky."

The young man stammered.

Then he began to barabala a lot of professional terms, listening to Feng Zhen and a group of generals and cabinet officials look confused, this young man is said to be a student of Yingtian University, a very ordinary family background, published an article in the school's internal journal, not only attracted the attention of the emperor, but also was invited to the palace to attend this engagement dinner for the crown prince, which can be described as unbelievable, and they are now also curious about what is special about this person.

But they were so dizzy that they didn't understand.

"This theory is like a sail, the sail effect I believe you all know, this is a high school textbook, so what if the sail is down? Doesn't this effect become an upward force? Of course, a sail won't work, but what if we make wings that resemble the shape of a sail? For example, you can use wood to make a shelf, and cover the outside with canvas. Of course, we can't get enough wind speed, after all, the weight of this wing is certainly not light, and the wind is constantly changing, and we can't expect something to fly in the sky and rely on such an unstable thing. But the wind speed is also the speed of air flow, which is a relative speed, if we are not the air flowing, but our wings are moving by themselves, the train runs a hundred miles per hour, and it is already difficult to hold it up when standing outside, what is the difference between this and the most ferocious storm in summer? ”

Yang Feng said with a smile.

"Internal combustion engines and propellers?"

Feng Zhen said with a flash of inspiration.

"Yes, the internal combustion engine and the propellers, and then a pair of sail-like wings."

Yang Feng said.

Well, he's going to build planes. (To be continued.) )