Section 112 arrives in San Francisco

"Mr. Yang, Mr. Yang, may I ask—"

"Mr. Yang, may I ask—"

"Excuse me—"

One by one, the reporters gathered around Yang Chao, holding notebooks and pens, shouting various questions, with eager expressions on their faces. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The National Guard can stop the civilians, but it can't stop the pervasive journalists.

Yang Chao smiled and nodded, but he didn't answer any questions.

Yelena stood aside with a cold face: "Ask one by one, raise your hand and ask again, don't you Americans even know the minimum politeness?" ”

She made a cameo appearance as Yang Chao's press officer, and she was familiar with this meeting, because she was also one of the rude people who rushed to ask questions.

Well, the reporters finally calmed down and raised their hands.

Yelena was in a position of power, and casually pointed to a person: "You ask." ”

The man hurriedly asked, "May I ask Mr. Yang, did you really set sail yesterday?" ”

Yang Chao smiled and nodded: "I don't think it's a problem, the whole world knows it." ”

The reporter was puzzled: "But according to the calculation of time, it is only 30 hours now, and it is impossible to cross the Pacific Ocean in 30 hours!" ”

Before Yang Chao could answer, Yelena interrupted him: "Sir, this is the second question, please allow other reporters to ask questions." ”

Then she pointed to another person, and in the unwilling eyes of the first reporter, the second reporter asked proudly:

"May I ask Mr. Yang, your airship crossed the Pacific Ocean in 30 hours, which must have set a record. Did you set a record on purpose? And how is your airship different from Zeppelin's? Can you tell us about it? Of course, I wonder why you were able to cross the United States in 30 hours, Mr. Zeppelin's airship could not even cross the Atlantic, and in the same amount of time, Mr. Zeppelin would probably only be able to cross the English Channel. ”

This reporter was cunning and took advantage of the opportunity to ask questions and asked three questions in one go.

Yelena secretly wondered if she should change the rules.

Yang Chao has already begun to answer: "First of all, I don't know about the record, I just want to make a round-the-world voyage, of course, the purpose is not to set any records, but to open up international air transportation, in this purpose I am the same as Mr. Zeppelin." But what is the difference between our airship, you can see, the structure of my airship is somewhat different from that of Mr. Zeppelin, the popular line is better, and the concave grooves on both sides of the airship are not decorations, but deflector grooves. With its long and narrow body and streamlined structure, my airship can reach a maximum speed of 150 kilometers per hour. ”

Yang Chao's speed caused a burst of exclamations, which was much faster than all the means of transportation in the world, even the airplane just invented by the Americans could not be compared.

After everyone calmed down, Yang Chao continued: "Of course, this is not the reason why I crossed the Pacific Ocean in such a short time, because 150 kilometers per hour is only the maximum speed, and the cruising speed is often only about 120 kilometers per hour. But coincidentally, we found an airsphere at an altitude of 9,000 to 10,000 meters, which happened to be blown from Japan to the United States. This airflow helped us and allowed us to cruise at speeds of more than five hundred kilometers. I don't know if this airflow is perennial or just for a short period of time, but luckily it helped us. ”

The northern hemisphere is located in the westerly wind belt, and anyone who knows a little bit of geography knows it, but the airflow in the westerly wind belt is not stable, but once it flies to an altitude of 9,000 to 11,000 kilometers, the airflow will be stable, and future international flights will fly at this altitude.

During World War II, the Japanese took advantage of this climatic characteristic to release balloons from Japan to bomb the United States, and the Japanese paper-breaking balloons could even fly at a speed of one or two hundred kilometers per hour, while Yang Chao's pneumatic airship was not a problem to increase the speed by two or three times.

"As for Mr. Zeppelin, I personally have a lot of respect for him, because he is the inventor of the airship and the founder of airship transportation, and what I have done, to a certain extent, can be seen as a tribute to Mr. Zeppelin!"

No one is interested in Yang Chao's final tribute, which airspher everyone is interested in, these reporters are also all kinds of people, and there are even those who understand geography. But this reporter knows that the US military may not know, and the US president may not know, and even if he did, he would never have imagined that airships could use this air current.

The third reporter asked: "If that air flow is perennial, do you think this means that it will be of great help to open up air transportation between the United States and Asia?" Or do you think it is possible to apply it to the military field? ”

Yang Chao said: "Of course, there will be great convenience. As for the military issue, I'm sorry that it hasn't been thought about yet. ”

Seeing that the smart ones had directly raised military issues, Yang Chao didn't say much.

The crowd outside was getting bigger and bigger, and the National Guard was a little unable to stop it.

Seeing this situation, Yang Chao immediately waved his hand: "I'm sorry, the people in the United States are too enthusiastic, I think this is no longer suitable for us to visit, if you are interested, we can go to the hotel in San Francisco to continue chatting." ”

handed over the scene to the American Guard, and at the same time told the crew on the airship to close the door and wait for the crowd to calm down before opening the door, and then Yang Chao got into a car under the protection of the Americans and drove towards downtown San Francisco.

Along the way, you can see people rushing to the suburbs, as well as people driving cars, horse-drawn carriages, and even horseback riding.

Because Yang Chao unexpectedly arrived in the United States ahead of schedule, there were not too many people gathered there just now, and there were only about a dozen reporters, and these were just the ones who came to explore the way in advance, and they were lucky to meet the airship that was landing. As for the National Guard, they came to drill in advance, and the Americans had long judged that Yang Chao's airship would cause a crowd.

Now the crowd rushing to the airship went to watch the excitement after receiving the news just now.

This is an era of great development of science and technology, there are many more people interested in science and technology than in later generations, this is an era of dreams, people in this era generally believe that science and technology can solve all problems, so there will be a crazy concept of science and technology in this era, such as using cannons to shoot people to the moon.

From time to time in these years, there are people who want to challenge the limits of technology, but even the craziest people just want to challenge the transatlantic, and the first airship to fly over the Atlantic will not appear in Britain until 1919, and the first transatlantic plane is also that year, it is a seaplane, also made by the British.

But no one even dared to think about crossing the Pacific Ocean, and the distance of more than 15,000 kilometers killed everyone's illusions, so after Yang Chao succeeded, it aroused people's interest.

In this era, there is no other media, everyone likes to read newspapers, newspapers are the only source of information for everyone, and literate people are also used to reading newspapers, so there are still many people who know that Yang Chao has crossed the ocean, only in the United States, I dare not say that there are 10 million people, at least 8 million.

Looking at the crazy crowd, Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh, fortunately, he saw the opportunity to withdraw early, otherwise he would not be able to get out of the crowd surrounded by them.

As for the airship, Yang Chao is not very worried, these people are not going to destroy it, and Yang Chao has absolute confidence in the solidity of the airship, let alone smash it when he closes the door, even if he uses artillery bombardment, it may not be bombarded.

San Francisco Palace Hotel, built in 1875 by American banker William, the hotel is divided into three floors, all-stone building, a total of 755 rooms, a sensation in Europe and the United States, is now the most luxurious hotel in California and even the United States.

The total investment in this hotel reached 5 million US dollars, which was definitely a huge amount of money in 1875, and only the countries that completed industrialization could have such a large amount of capital at their disposal, and only when they had completed industrialization and there was a huge surplus capital in society that the conditions for the construction of skyscrapers were possible.

The name of the hotel is the Palace Hotel, and it is indeed worthy of the name of the Imperial Palace, and when you enter the hall, you will see the marble floor, the crystal chandelier, and the marble columns set up in two rows, one by one, each of which is carved and painted, and each of which is finely carved.

The international students who came to the hotel with Yang Chao were also a little dumbfounded, they were still wearing traditional Confucian clothes at this time, wearing melon skin hats, and a black braid hanging down from the hat, and they all looked up at the big chandelier on the high ceiling.

"Kids, the best hotel in the United States, five hundred dollars for a night, well, that's six hundred taels of silver."

The teenagers couldn't help but open their mouths wide, six hundred taels of silver, a number that they couldn't even think of, but they could only stay for one night.

Of course, Yang Chao does not have to pay a penny, this is the preferential treatment of celebrities, and the hotel owner immediately expressed his willingness to provide accommodation for all casual people as soon as he heard that the Chinese were going to fly across the Pacific Ocean.

These international students will only stay for one night and will be on a train to New York tomorrow to go to college.

But Yang Chao will stay here for ten days and meet heroes from all walks of life.

Yang Chao came by car, but those reporters didn't abandon them, they crossed the sea to show their powers, some took carriages, some rode bicycles, and some even ran over.

Therefore, the hotel has just arranged accommodation for the students, and Yang Chao is in the golden hall of the hotel, waiting for the reporters, and an interview has begun again.

The reporters asked a variety of questions, and Yang Chao answered them one by one.

Yelena slowly felt uncomfortable on the side, because several reporters actually asked questions about her relationship with Yang Chao, of course, she immediately spoke out to clarify, but she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, but what really made her feel uncomfortable was that she also had a faint expectation in her heart.

It took a busy day to deal with it, and reporters from all walks of life kept coming.

Yang Chao finally rested in a large room with a large bathtub, pushed open the door, and the garden and swimming pool were behind it.

The next day, after a night of fermentation, the news that Yang Chao had crossed the Pacific Ocean in one day and one night had completely ignited the passion of the Americans, and the limelight for a while overtook the Japan-Russia negotiations that were being held in Portsmouth.

But today, Yang Chao is not going to be interviewed, but to be visited by various figures.

Bankers, entrepreneurs, factory owners, and representatives of the Chinese.

With the cooperation of the local government of the Americans, Elena helped with the screening.

The Chinese representatives were ranked first, and there were more than a dozen influential local Chinese.

San Francisco's Chinatown is the world's largest overseas Chinese settlement, a large part of the Chinese in the United States are concentrated here, although the Chinese suffer discrimination, but there are still many rich people who rely on hardships and hard work, but even if they are rich, the social status is not high, because they are not good at fighting.

These influential Chinese happen to be good at fighting, and their identities are generally gang members.

In other words, this is a bunch of gangster big brothers!

In fact, Yang Chao is still interested in seeing Chinatown in the United States, and Yang Chao is a little confused about the Chinese in the United States naming their own settlement area for a dynasty that has been extinct for hundreds or thousands of years, and I don't know what kind of psychology they have.

It's just that the time is limited, and ten days is not enough time for Yang Chao to engage in activities, so he can only do it in the hotel.

Soon, thirteen big brothers in suits and leather shoes, wearing American top hats, and a pigtail hanging from their heads walked into Yang Chao's room, as if they were afraid that people would not know that they were gangster brothers, and all of them had black suits.