Section 113 Crossing the United States
Section 113 crosses the United States
"Of course, I am of course against the Chinese Exclusion Act, and I can even say that I hate it. Pen ~ fun ~ Cabinet www.biquge.info but I don't represent the official attitude, but my personal attitude is that this bill is not only against the US Constitution, but even against the justice of the world. This is an insult to all Chinese people. ”
"But before we have the ability to solve this problem, I hope that all Chinese Americans will not stay in this unfriendly excesse, go back to China, go to Shandong, go to Yantai, I promise, where can you find investment opportunities, find channels to get rich, you can marry a wife and have children, you will not worry that your wife will never be able to return home after returning to her parents' home, your children can go to school and study, and you don't have to worry about being beaten and discriminated against by your Caucasian classmates."
"Yes, that's right. This is my attitude, and you can convey it to all the Chinese people on my behalf. ”
These big brothers were most concerned about the attitude of the United States towards the Chinese, asked Yang Chao, and even faintly expressed their hope that Yang Chao would come forward to communicate with the US government.
Not only Yang Chao, in fact, many overseas Chinese are looking forward to the imperial court to support them, but unfortunately the Qing Dynasty is like that, they can't see any hope, so they pin their hopes on various organizations, gangs, and even Brother Pao.
Yang Chao was very emotional, the Chinese are too bad at fighting, too peace-loving, but also too looking forward to the motherland strong, in the future Chinese warships everywhere they go, will be heartily welcomed by the local Chinese, they through the motherland's armed forces, you can personally feel that the motherland is really strong, although that will not bring them even a dime of benefits.
This is a great country culture that has been inherited for thousands of years, and this is a nation with a great power complex that has been inherited for thousands of years.
Yang Chao believes that this great power complex will help China become a big country and a strong country sooner or later, and in the time and space before Yang Chao came, the Chinese are realizing it, and in this time and space, Yang Chao hopes that he can help the Chinese people realize it.
Although they felt a little lost after knowing that they could not get Yang Chao's help, these Chinese still agreed to consider Yang Chao's suggestion, because Yang Chao gave them a very beautiful homeland, a home that could develop like the United States, and respected them very much, and encouraged them to return to China to invest in factories, enterprises, and trade.
After the Chinese representatives, there were American bankers, and the Williams family was naturally among them, and they welcomed Yang Chao as the masters, but their attention was different from that of the Chinese, who were more concerned about the opportunity to invest in China, believing that they San Francisco was the closest to China and had more advantages in exploring the Chinese market.
In addition to investment, they only cared about Yang Chao's airship, and after getting Yang Chao's invitation, they said that they would definitely visit.
After the bankers, there were entrepreneurs, some engaged in oil, transportation, and most of them were engaged in trade, and even those who had trade dealings with Yang Chao, such as Mobil Oil, the manager of Rockefeller's branch in San Francisco.
Yang Chao only broadly expressed some welcome to these people, but did not make any guarantees, including the guarantee that they would make a profit, and Yang Chao, the American capital, was not very welcome.
Then there are some people who run farms, and these people Yang Chao is more welcome, saying that there is a bright and brilliant future for the grain trade between China and the United States.
Representatives from various associations, those engaged in charity, education, and those who fought for the rights and interests of women and children also expressed their support for these people.
Finally, the official personnel of the United States, the mayor of San Francisco, appeared in the finale, expressing his welcome and hoping for high-sounding words such as friendship between San Francisco and China.
Nine days had passed since the meeting with these people.
In the past nine days, Yang Chao's airship has become a tourist attraction, and more than 100,000 Americans have seen the transpacific airship, not only from San Francisco, but also from Berkeley, Oakland, and even from Los Angeles by train.
However, there are only 10,000 people who board the airship to visit, because there is a fee for getting on the airship, and it is a ten-dollar ticket to board the airship to visit, and they go from beginning to end, under the leadership of the staff, it cannot exceed ten minutes, and the cockpit and first class are not allowed to visit.
But if you're willing to pay a hundred dollars, you'll get a steak and a glass of local wine in the airship's restaurant, and if enough people are willing to pay a thousand dollars, the airship will take them for a ride.
Of the 10,000 people who received 200,000 tickets, only 10 of them paid $1,000 for lunch in the sky.
On the tenth day, the yacht was closed, because today the yacht was going to take off, but it was not flying away, it was just a circle around San Francisco, and the airship was occupied by the rich people of the United States, the tycoons of San Francisco, and government officials, who would spend an hour on the airship, enjoy a hearty lunch, and visit the beautiful scenery of the West Coast of the United States.
The liftoff is also very simple, there is an air tank in the bottom compartment of the airship, open the valve and start inflating the airbag, after squeezing out enough air, you can get enough buoyancy, and then the airship turns along the coastline for an hour over San Francisco.
When those rich people got off the airship, they were full of praise, although Zeppelin is promoting the development of the airship industry, but there are very few people in the world who have sat in the airship, these rich people in the western United States have heard of it, have not seen much, and there is no one who has ever sat on it.
"I will open an airship company between China and the United States, and I welcome you to take it, and I believe that your airship crossing the Pacific Ocean will be a beautiful memory in your life."
Yang Chao openly said to these American tycoons.
"Safety! Of course, if you are interested in technology, you should know that since the birth of the airship, there has not been a single crash, let alone a casualty. However, the kind of crude and sad planes made by you Americans are really heart-wrenching, and I think that the US government should ban the testing of airplanes, which is simply irresponsible for life. ”
Yang Chao's argument has been agreed by many people, because it is true, airships were safer than airplanes in the first place, so airships were the first to start operating in the international shipping industry, and it is difficult to say that airplanes would have received the attention later without the last explosion of the Zeppelin.
If the whole world can be misled into developing airships, it will be perfect, and Yang Chao can quietly develop airplanes.
"Difficult? Absolutely. For example, the fuel consumption is too large. It consumes 30 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers, and oh my God, I flew from China to the United States, and I burned more than 30 barrels of gasoline, and you Mobil Oil Company have to give me a discount. Otherwise, I won't be able to fly in the future. ”
The manager of Mobil Oil immediately laughed and offered to fund Yang Chao with 100 barrels of gasoline for free.
This kind of standard barrel is 42 gallons, about 145 liters, Yang Chao's five four-cylinder engines burn more oil than the later generations of off-road, burning about 30 liters per 100 kilometers, flying 15,000 or 6,000 kilometers from China, Mobil Oil's 42-gallon oil drum, fully burned out 31 oil drums.
"That's enough for the world!"
Yang Chao smiled and thanked the manager of Mobil Oil.
Sponsoring Yang Chao's circumnavigation of the world is just like sponsoring a car race in later generations, but it is just an advertisement.
But the manager of Mobil had a new idea, and he felt that he should report back to Rockefeller.
After the San Francisco event, Yang Chao really set sail, this time with the goal of crossing the mainland of the United States.
When flying over the United States, you don't need to be at an altitude of 10,000 meters, as close to the ground as possible, 100 meters, 200 meters, unless you climb over mountains and the like, it will generally not exceed 500 meters.
But I really haven't encountered mountain ranges, between the east and west banks of the United States, there is a Rocky Mountains on the west coast, an Alabachian mountain range on the east coast, and the vast American Great Plains in the middle, that is to say, the territory of the Americans is a kind of Great Plains, plus two coastal strips, such a geographical location is indeed too suitable for development, and they can become world hegemons, which is not unrelated to geography.
Elena was more prepared to see the United States this time, taking a lot of pictures with her camera, until the airship crossed two mountains and finally landed in a small town on the eastern coast of the United States.
There were far more people coming to see the airship than in San Francisco, but the Americans were more prepared and sent more guards, which was not a difficult task, because the United States had deployed tens of thousands of soldiers in the city at this moment.
This is Portsmouth, where the Japanese and Russians are negotiating, and where the world's media, the focal point, has long been gathered.
Of course, it is also the focus of the United States now, because even the President of the United States, Roosevelt Sr., is here.
Originally, the Americans did not want Yang Chao to come here, because they were afraid that Yang Chao, a controversial figure in the Russo-Japanese War, suddenly appeared in Portsmouth and would cause some unnecessary trouble, but Yang Chao strongly demanded and repeatedly promised that he would not inappropriately intervene in the negotiations between Japan and Russia, and the Americans agreed.
But as soon as the airship landed, it was still controlled by the US military, and then Yang Chao was invited to a hotel to protect it.