Seattle is much smaller than Los Angeles and San Francisco. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoSeattle has only about 37,000 residents, the vast majority of whom are industrial and mining workers. In the mountainous area to the east, there are a large number of gold, copper and iron associated ores, which are of great value although they are difficult to mine. Miners go into the mountains to extract valuable ore, most of which is destined for production at San Francisco's heavy industry base. There are also some small-scale metallurgical factories and machinery factories in the local area, in order to facilitate the direct production of some needed tools by industrial and mining industries.

Compared with Vancouver, the northern city of the same state, the situation in Seattle is better, although Vancouver is called a city, but 90 percent of the local people are engaged in agricultural production, and Seattleites like to manage Vancouver farms to show their superiority as a working class. In fact, the land under the jurisdiction of Vancouver of the Tang Dynasty is much larger than that of Vancouver, which is another country in Canada. The entire lowland area at the mouth of the Fraser River was assigned to the city, and there was originally a national border that divided this land with great reclamation value in two, and now it all belongs to the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, Vancouver also has the potential to develop industry, but it is limited by population, so it is underdeveloped.

Today, a large number of immigrants are beginning to enter the Tang Dynasty, and the focus of Gang's development is Portland and Eugene, while the focus of B.C.'s development is Seattle and Vancouver.

Today, a group of 5,000 new immigrants arrived in Seattle by boat, and Seattle is no better than Los Angeles, so according to the immigration plan, the city government first bids, and the winning construction company takes a train from Jiazhou to build a new residential area from downtown Seattle. No doubt. The vast majority of the new immigrants become new miners and metallurgists. The land that was allotted to them was in the local area. But they are not allowed to engage in agricultural production.

The young engineer Li Yuanqi looked at the newcomers with a little fear and timidity. Lined up, carrying large bags and small bags to be placed in a brand-new residential building, and said to Huang Bin, a middle-aged engineer next to him, with a smile: "It's okay now, and we can be more angry in Seattle." How lively Los Angeles is, with many supermarkets, restaurants, theaters and movie theaters, it is really uncomfortable in Seattle. Why did we build our company in Seattle in the first place, and how good it was to build it in Los Angeles. ”

Huang Bin said indifferently: "This is an industrial layout plan. Los Angeles is good, but it can't put everything together, and every region should have some pillar industries. ”

Li Yuanqi said excitedly: "Mr. Huang, do you mean that our company is the pillar enterprise of Seattle in the future?" ”

Huang Bin said: "If we develop well, at least we are also an iconic enterprise. ”

Li Yuanqi was somewhat skeptical, and said: "Although we have made products now, everyone is basically in a wait-and-see state, and the military is even more straightforward, they hope that we will continue to develop it, but they are not in a hurry to equip our products." ”

Huang Bin still looks as indifferent as water. Said: "This is normal, now the Tang Army is fighting." In the face of an enemy who has basically not achieved full firearms, he will win casually with a single shot of his head and face. Even if it is a little more powerful European army, our mechanized troops rush forward and solve the battle. ”

Li Yuanqi said: "But with our plane, throwing some bombs down, isn't the deterrence of the enemy greater, and the attack effect should be better." ”

Huang Bin analyzed this matter, he explained: "Everything is a matter of cost and efficiency, and if the combat that can be solved with the existing army equipment is used, if the military aircraft produced by us are used, they have to repair the airfield in advance, carry out maintenance, pilot training, prepare a large amount of logistics, especially ammunition and fuel, and then throw much more expensive bombs on a group of enemies wielding knives and guns. ”

Huang Bin is a member of the Republic of China, but he sees these issues very thoroughly. On the other hand, in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, American GIs were full of enthusiasm, and when they saw two militants, they took the hellfire hanging on the helicopter to blow up the two barefoot militants, and the hellfire with a unit price of at least ten dollars was used to blow up the two barefoot militants.

Obviously, the Tang Army is the same now, and the Tang Army already enjoys full technological superiority over any army at this time, even if it does not have aircraft, it also has machine guns, armored vehicles, and various types of artillery, which is enough to deal with the enemy. However, if the previous air force could indeed provide better reconnaissance intelligence and ground fire support in the air, it would not be cost-effective to calculate the accounts.

However, the Datang military has obviously not given up on the development of the aviation industry. With Datang's current technical level, it is not too difficult to manufacture aircraft, so there is a company of Huang Bin and Li Yuanqi - Boeing.

Naturally, the name was plagiarized, and even moved all the way to Seattle to build such a company, and there is also a copycat of genuine Boeing whose headquarters is in Seattle. However, Huang Bin's understanding of the industrial layout is not wrong, if the aviation industry really grows in British Columbia, it can obviously pull the entire industrial chain of British Columbia.

The two returned to the company and found that the vice president of the company ran out with a flower on his face.

"Oh, my Chief Master Huang, you can make it easy for me to find it."

Huang Bin, as the chief designer of Boeing, has a respected position in the company, and Huang Bin, who was born in the Republic of China, once built planes with Feng Ru in his early years, and later entered the national government, and as a consultant, he has repeatedly proposed to the chairman of the committee to build China's own aircraft, but the chairman is more willing to spend the money on things like winning over warlords or repairing the yard for Soong Meiling. Huang Bin repeatedly hit a wall, and finally became disheartened.

After the crossing, Huang Bin mastered a lot of modern aviation knowledge from the modern public, and Li Yuanqi beside him is a flying enthusiast in the modern public, and he is also a pilot who has obtained a real pilot license. Because of his outstanding ability, Huang Bin was appointed as the chief designer of Boeing, and even he himself holds a 7% stake in Boeing, although Boeing is not large now, but after future expansion, Huang Bin can immediately become a millionaire.

Huang Bin was neither humble nor arrogant in the face of the company's management, he said: "I just came back from the test flight institute, and I saw the new immigrants arriving in Seattle on the way, and I watched Xiao Li for a while. ”

The vice president hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's all a small matter." It's a great joy for me to find you. ”

Li Yuanqi interjected: "What's a good thing? It can't be that the military is preparing a tender for the purchase of new fighters, right? ”

The vice president smiled bitterly: "How is this possible, we don't have any enemies of the Air Force, so it doesn't make much sense to ask for fighter jets." This is an order from the Ministry of Agriculture, the biplane you built, the military doesn't look down on it, but the Ministry of Agriculture is interested, they hope that you can modify it, can add pesticide tanks, and help their farm spread pesticides. The Fire Department also wants you to develop an aircraft that can be used for firefighting, they have been plagued by forest fires, and they want to have some effective new equipment. ”

Before Huang Bin could speak, Li Yuanqi asked: "The fire department wants to develop a firefighting aircraft, so do you give pre-research funds?" ”

The deputy general manager said: "It's impossible to give this, the fire department doesn't have enough funds, and it will definitely not be able to come up with the money." Originally, the company's annual account was basically the development expense, which was used to develop new aircraft, and as long as it was done, it would definitely be able to sell it. ”

Huang Bin said: "This is not necessarily, the fire plane itself is a relatively unpopular type, even if the fire department orders, that is, three or four meaning, it is impossible to equip a large number of them like their fire trucks." However, firefighting planes are generally modified from seaplanes, and the prospects of seaplanes are broader, and the Ministry of Land and Resources can use them to monitor maritime affairs, the navy can use them for reconnaissance, and they can also be used to rescue people who have fallen into the water, transport supplies, and so on. ”

Li Yuanqi also said: "If the load is large enough, it can be used as a bomber." ”

The vice president said: "Since it is so promising, our company will do it." ”

Huang Bin really said: "When designing the flying fox, I used to do some designs, but considering the use, we may have to enlarge the size and design a little bigger, but the take-off and landing of the seaplane is not limited by the runway, so we can try more." ”

"We can try to convert the flying fox into a pesticide plane that the Ministry of Agriculture needs," Li said. ”

Huang Bin nodded: "You can give this a try." ”

There is a flying fox biplane parked in the company's square, this biplane with a maximum take-off weight of only 800 kilograms, is Huang Bin's own design work, referring to some successful biplanes such as camel and Fokker D. It was originally positioned as a reconnaissance-ready fighter with a maximum flight speed of 200 km/h, a maximum endurance of 2 hours, and the prototype was not equipped with a machine gun.

The military is obviously not satisfied with it, and the military, which has seen a lot of Niu Cha's planes, really looks down on the flying fox designed by Huang Bin. Not only did it fly slowly, but the endurance was too short, and even as a reconnaissance plane, it was not qualified, so the military did not even carry out experimental procurement.

Moreover, this small aircraft is actually made of aluminum alloy, which obviously causes a lot of dead weight in its design. Although there are some advantages over some World War I biplanes in terms of specific performance, they are not enough to make the military like. The military also hopes that Boeing will explore and test more often to gradually build better aircraft.

Although the military did not adopt it, it was Boeing's first aircraft after all, and it was given the title of Boeing 1 aircraft, otherwise it would not have been put on a show in the square in front of the company.

Of course, if the flying fox can be sold to the Ministry of Agriculture, selling a few planes can be regarded as recovering some of the research and development costs. Although Boeing, as a state-owned enterprise, has government grants every year, it is clear that only if it is profitable can it live a decent life. (To be continued.) )