Under the bitter cold wind, a team wearing special red winter suits is walking on an ice field.

I saw that they were hugged like zongzi, three layers inside and three layers outside, for fear of being frozen. More than two dozen Siberian husky sled dogs pulled five sleds full of salutes and food on the snow, and the Chinese dragon flag planted on the stand waved in the wind.

Every twenty kilometres or so, the team stopped to build a house that could accommodate ten people. It didn't take long for another team to bring more food, cotton clothes, coal and other winter supplies to the house and store them in the house.

It turned out that it was the last region to be conquered by humans on the seven continents of the earth, and her name was Antarctica. Freezing and cold all year round, the Chinese Imperial Scientific Expedition that came to conquer her adopted the tactics of step-by-step, approaching the South Pole step by step.

As early as 1768~1775, the explorer Captain Cook made an expedition around the Antarctic Circle for the British Admiralty, and broke the ice into the Antarctic Circle three times, but failed to see the Antarctic continent.

Since 1907, Dr. Chen Qian of the School of Natural Sciences of Peiyang University of the Chinese Empire led a Chinese polar expedition to conquer the Arctic Ocean and planted the flag of the Chinese Empire on the North Pole, and a year later, he led this expedition to conquer the South Pole.

However, the Antarctic is far more difficult to conquer than the Arctic, because the Antarctic continent has more than 4,000 meters of high mountains and an unknown number of meters of snow and ice.

Therefore, Chen Qian and his entourage have tried three times in the past two years, but they have failed to reach the extreme, and they have paid for it with the lives of three people.

By 1910, the news of Chen Qian's failure to conquer the South Pole was exposed by the media. By chance, Wang Chenhao, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, learned of this incident and greatly appreciated and supported Chen Qian and his party. At the same time, Wang Chenhao was very interested in Antarctica, a terra nullius, and asked the cabinet and the Ministry of Defense to plan to include Antarctica in the scope of the Chinese Empire's overseas territories.

Cabinet and Ministry of Defense officials are baffled by this, and no country wants to include Antarctica in its territory, because Antarctica is covered in snow and ice all year round, has no economic value, and is not suitable for human life.

But only Wang Chenhao understands in his heart that in the next 100 years, the large-scale industrial emission of carbon dioxide by human beings will lead to global warming, and the ice and snow in Antarctica will begin to melt, and sooner or later it will become a land suitable for human habitation. Moreover, Antarctica covers an area of more than 14 million square kilometers, and such a large land area is extremely important for the sustainable development of the Chinese Empire centuries later. By the time the League of Nations was formed and Antarctica had been declared the common heritage of mankind, it would have been too late.

Wang Chenhao hopes that at a time when European and American countries are not interested in Antarctica, it is the best time to include Antarctica in the overseas territory of the Chinese Empire.

However, to claim sovereignty over Antarctica, there must be people stationed there, people who have to travel all over Antarctica and conquer the South Pole.

As a result, Chen Qian and his expedition became the best choice for the Chinese Empire to swear sovereignty over Antarctica.

For this reason, Wang Chenhao made an exception to summon Chen Qian and his party to have a dialogue in front of the palace and handed over this burden to him.

Chen Qian and the others were extremely enthusiastic about this matter, and assured Wang Chenhao that they would complete the task.

Beginning in February 1910, Chen Qian and his Antarctic expedition were fully funded, and the Ministry of Defense sent an army of 200 men to join them, and the expedition was renamed the Expeditionary Force to prepare to occupy Antarctica.

The Navy's Pacific Fleet sent a supply fleet and naval hospital ships, and even sent naval aviation planes to reconnoiter the terrain of Antarctica from the air to find a suitable direction for the expeditionary force.

In March 1910, Chen Qian arrived at the magnetic pole of Antarctica and became the champion of mankind's conquest of Antarctica. Meanwhile, the Norwegian explorer Roaled? Amundsen and the British explorer Scott also arrived at the South Pole one after another, becoming the runner-up and third runner-up in the conquest of Antarctica.

Chen Qian learned from the lessons of his predecessors, and steadily advanced to the South Pole step by step. Whatever nature tried to deal with him, it all failed. In the face of Chen Qian and others' step-by-step operation, the establishment of transfer stations to the Antarctic pole was completed, and nature was completely helpless to Chen Qian and others, so the rest of the journey was also smooth, allowing them to come over safely.

On March 9, the sky was clear, and a cheer broke the silence of Antarctica.

Victory! After years of long-cherished wish fulfillment, Chen Qian became the champion of mankind's conquest of Antarctica, and he excitedly waved the flag of the Chinese Empire for his companions to take this precious shot.

Subsequently, the Chinese Empire successively sent a fleet of marines to set up an outpost on the south magnetic pole at 72°24′ south latitude and 155°18′ east longitude, on which the flag of the Chinese Empire was fluttered, and a monument of sovereignty of the Chinese Empire was erected nearby, stating that the Chinese Empire had sovereignty over Antarctica.

On the 13th and 17th days after Chen Qian and others arrived at the Antarctic Pole, the Norwegian explorer Amundsen and the British Royal Navy Captain and explorer Robert Amundsen. Falcon? Scott arrived at the Antarctic Pole one after another.

Amundsen was extremely frustrated and disappointed that the South Pole was conquered by the Chinese, and the North and South poles were conquered by the Chinese Empire, which made them Westerners really lose face.

However, when he saw that the Chinese Empire had erected a sovereignty monument on the Antarctic pole, he secretly lamented that the Chinese Empire was so hungry that it would even occupy such barren land, which he really couldn't understand.

In the ensuing period, the Marines of the Chinese Empire successively established dozens of posts in the surrounding areas of Antarctica, and set up a sovereignty monument nearby, declaring that Antarctica would become an overseas territory of the Chinese Empire.

On April 1, 1910, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire officially announced to all countries in the world that the Chinese Empire had occupied Antarctica, and Antarctica had been incorporated into the overseas territory of the Chinese Empire, and named it Queen's Island.

Regarding the Chinese Empire's announcement of the occupation of Antarctica, European and American countries have different attitudes. Most countries just protested, after all, Antarctica is a barren land, and they are not interested in fighting with the Chinese Empire, and besides, the Chinese Emperor [***] is powerful, and they dare not offend, so most countries choose to acquiesce.

However, Britain and the United States were not happy to see the Chinese Empire flaunting its might everywhere, and strongly protested against this, but they did not take it seriously because of this, after all, the interests of Antarctica were almost zero, and they only verbally disagreed with the Chinese Empire, protesting twice to show their existence, but only to protest, and did not entangle too much with the Chinese Empire, and soon they acquiesced in the fact that the Chinese Empire occupied Antarctica.

Since the Chinese Empire announced its occupation of Antarctica on April 1, which was April Fool's Day, people in Europe and the United States only thought that the Chinese Empire had played an international joke with other countries and did not take it to heart. They joked that it was the biggest joke of the century, and it wasn't until many years later, when they realized the abundance of mineral deposits beneath Antarctica, that they finally realized how stupid they had been.

The Chinese Empire's choice to claim sovereignty and occupation of Antarctica on April Fool's Day is naturally to dilute the attention of the international community on this matter as much as possible.

In this way, the Chinese Empire occupied Antarctica and gained 14 million square kilometers of overseas territory.

At the same time, the process of overseas colonies of the Chinese Empire was also advancing rapidly, in addition to seizing more than 30 overseas colonies of the United Kingdom, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire also purchased the Danish Virgin Islands from Denmark through peaceful redemption, and merged with the British Virgin Islands obtained by the Chinese Empire from Britain to form the territory of the Chinese Virgin Islands, for which the Chinese Empire spent 20 million dragon coins.

The Virgin Islands are located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, in the eastern part of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea and 64 kilometers west of Central Puerto Rico, and consists of three main islands, St. Thomas (215 square kilometers), St. John (80 square kilometers) and Santa Cruz (52 square kilometers) and about 50 smaller islands. The British Virgin Islands, on the other hand, were located in the western part of the Lesser Antilles, and the Danish Virgin Islands became an obstacle after the Chinese Empire took over the British Virgin Islands from the British.

Of course, Denmark's Virgin Islands are also the focus of the game between China and the United States. As early as when China and the United States launched a war against Spain, the Chinese Empire in the Caribbean built a naval base in Puerto Rico to threaten the Danish Virgin Islands, while the United States controlled Cuba and American warships also threatened Denmark. However, Britain gave up competition with China and the United States and took the initiative to withdraw from the West Indies Fleet, so that Denmark was afraid of losing the islands and had to accept negotiations with the Chinese Empire and the United States.

As early as 1904, the United States began to negotiate with Denmark to purchase the Danish Virgin Islands, when Denmark was more optimistic about the strength of the United States, and Denmark did not pay attention to the demands of the Chinese Empire at first. However, with the end of the Sino-British War, the power of the Chinese Empire expanded dramatically, so that Denmark had to take into account the attitude of the Chinese Empire. After the Chinese Empire acquired the British Virgin Islands, it urgently needed to merge the Danish Virgin Islands, so Denmark weighed the pros and cons before finally selling the islands to the Chinese Empire.

However, the Virgin Islands in the hands of Denmark are worth the money, and the Chinese Empire's cost of 20 million dragon coins is not expensive, and it has benefited a lot.

The Danish government has built an extensive network of roads on the island, most of which are paved. Charlotte Amalia on St. Thomas, and Fredericstad and Limetreebay on St. Croix are deep-water ports that can be used as anchorages for the Imperial Chinese Atlantic Fleet. A new container port on the south coast of St. Croix handles most of the freight on the islands. Ferries run between the three main islands, and ferries also go to other islands.

Danish seaplanes imported from the Chinese Empire were deployed here at two airports, one on St. Thomas and one on St. Croix. There are sea planes that sail between the islands, as well as to Puerto Rico, Cuba and San Maarten.

After the Chinese Empire acquired the Danish Virgin Islands, it expanded its ports and airfields. Among them, the role of airfields is becoming more and more important in the Caribbean. As an emerging product, people are very interested in it, and the use of airplanes as a means of tourism and transportation has become a fashion at the moment.

In response to this situation, the Chinese Empire, as a major aviation country and power, many businessmen also value the huge profits in this area, so the development of civil aviation has become more and more urgent.

However, the Ministry of Defense of the Chinese Empire has always been very strict in the control of aviation technology for air aircraft. The Air Force was worried that the aviation technology of the Chinese Empire would be stolen by European and American countries, and then Europe and the United States developed aircraft that posed a threat to the Chinese Imperial Air Force.

However, after five or six years of development, the Chinese Empire found that European and American countries did not pay enough attention to aircraft, and the development of aircraft was very slow. This is mainly because the Chinese Empire can provide all kinds of advanced aircraft for the air forces of various countries to procure, and the development of the aircraft industry in various countries started late, and the competition with the major airlines of the Chinese Empire is not enough, so that the aviation field is almost monopolized by the Chinese Empire, and the few airlines in Europe and the United States are not viable enough, and their research and development capabilities are naturally weak.

After seeing this situation clearly, the Air Force of the Chinese Empire gradually relaxed its support for civilian aviation technology, so that the major airlines of the Chinese Empire received more advanced aircraft design and technical equipment.

However, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire has always attached great importance to some important technologies and equipment of the Air Force, and in order to prevent European and American countries from developing fighter and bomber projects prematurely, the General Staff has no choice but to keep secret a series of fighter fighters and bombers that the Chinese Empire has successfully developed, and the number of fighters and bombers equipped by the Air Force is limited, and the flight time is also restricted for the sake of secrecy.

In the face of the continuous upgrading of the equipment of the Imperial Chinese Navy and Army, the Air Force wanted to obtain more funds and the call for more funds became louder and louder, so the pressure on the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense doubled and had to find a way to solve it.

In the imperial study, Wang Shizhen, Minister of National Defense, and Liu Xiang, Minister of the Air Force, had a dispute, so they came to the emperor Wang Chenhao and asked Wang Chenhao to arbitrate.

"Your Majesty, there are trains on land to transport materials and personnel, and there are ships in rivers, lakes and seas to transport materials and personnel, so why not create planes in the air to transport materials and personnel?"

Wang Chenhao asked with a little surprise: "You want to build a transport plane?" ”

"Your Majesty has a clear opinion, but Weichen has this idea." Liu Xiang nodded, and then said: "Our bomber can already load a ton of ammunition, if you remove the weapon load box, it can be easily transformed into an aircraft for transporting goods and personnel, which is the transport plane that Your Majesty said." ”

Wang Chenhao smiled and nodded, he still agreed with Liu Xiang's idea, at least this time Wang Chenhao did not first propose the transport aircraft project, but Liu Xiang thought of it, which shows that the talent system of the Chinese Empire has begun to bear fruit, and they have begun to think about the problem on their own, which is undoubtedly a huge progress, after all, Wang Chenhao himself cannot think about all aspects thoughtfully.

So, Wang Chenhao said: "Yes, it is completely feasible to change the bomber into a transport aircraft!" The speed of transporting supplies by air is much faster than that on land and at sea, and the sooner the combat units receive supplies, the more effective they will be and the more survivable they will be. ”

Liu Xiang said: "Your Majesty, if we build bombers on a large scale, it will inevitably attract the attention of the great powers, and then affect the future strategic plans of the empire. But if we produce a large number of transport planes and form a huge air service company to engage in the air transport service industry, we will not attract too much attention from the great powers. In this way, the Imperial Air Force can use the air service to conduct long-range mobility training, and pilots can fly transport planes to the skies to observe the situation around the world, and contribute to the future needs of the Empire's war needs. In the event of war, a large number of transport aircraft can be immediately changed back to bombers, saving the production and construction period, and allowing the Imperial Air Force to form a long-range strategic strike force in a short time. In addition, the Air Force could also raise funds by forming an air transport company to save the empire financial expenses. ”

"Great idea!" Wang Chenhao nodded happily and said: "Let the Air Force be hidden in the transportation company, which can not only achieve the purpose of training, but also make a profit, and the most important thing is that once there is a war, you can participate in the war at any time, this idea is very good!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your compliment!" Liu Xiang hurriedly humbled himself.

Wang Shizhen next to him suddenly said: "Your Majesty, this may not be able to hide from the European and American powers, although most of them are arrogant, but there are also many strategic military strategists. As far as Wei Chen knows, Kang Youwei published a book called "Future Air Combat" last year, which expounded his theory that in future air combat, airplanes will carry weapons, and large planes will replace airships with bombs. Moreover, this book has attracted the attention of some military experts in Europe and the United States, and the French Somens also put forward similar views on the basis of this book, which has caused quite a stir. If the empire changed the bomber into a transport plane and put it into market operation at this time, it would be easy for European and American military strategists to associate it with the bomber. ”

Wang Chenhao suddenly frowned and said, "How does this Kang Youwei have this opinion?" ”

Wang Chenhao really couldn't figure out how Kang Youwei, as a politician, could have profound insights in this regard. In fact, Wang Chenhao has not realized that he has seriously changed history. Since the historical environment is different, the thoughts and future of the people who live in this environment and are affected by this environment have also changed dramatically. For example, Lu Xun had served in the Atlantic Fleet of the Chinese Empire, and had risen from second lieutenant to lieutenant commander of a light cruiser. Without the turbulent era of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, without the darkness of the political axe, it would be impossible for him to become a thinker, but to be his naval officer honestly, and even after the Chinese Empire was defeated, it was impossible for him to go to the book to study and learn from the experience.

If Wang Chenhao thought of this, it would not be difficult to accept the fact that Kang Youwei had become a military theorist.

Of course, Kang Youwei is still a veteran of the Republican Party, and his political goals have not changed. Publishing a book and biography is just a means for him to increase his worth and popularity.

Wang Shizhen said: "Your Majesty, Kang Youwei and his Republican Party have also won many seats in the parliament, and it is not unusual to know that the Imperial Air Force has developed some secret weapons. After all, there is no such thing as an impermeable wall. ”

Wang Chenhao couldn't help but smile bitterly, the Chinese characters he knew had basically changed. In fact, you can't change it if you want to, Wang Chenhao has to admit it.

At this time, Liu Xiang said: "Since Lord Wang also said that there is no impermeable wall, then we should no longer hide it, maybe the spies of European and American countries have learned that we have fighters and bombers." Rather than restricting the air force in this way, it is better to let go of the development space of our hands and feet and provoke an arms race in the world air force like the navy. ”

Wang Chenhao waved his hand and said: "The air force can't afford to start a competition, after all, there is not much actual combat, and the vast majority of military experts in Europe and the United States cannot think of the role of the air force. ”

Liu Xiang and Wang Shizhen hurriedly asked, "Then what does Your Majesty mean?" ”

Wang Chenhao thought for a while and said, "Just follow Liu Xiang's plan!" We use transport planes to cover the identity of Air Force bombers as a way to train our long-range bomber and fighter pilots. ”

Since Wang Chenhao has made a decision, Wang Shizhen has no opinion, so he had to formulate a specific implementation plan with Liu Xiang, and finally reported it to Wang Chenhao. Wang Chenhao was very satisfied with this plan, so he approved the implementation.

Three days later, Wang Chenhao issued an order to the Ministry of the Air Force to set up the Imperial Airlines, and work with the Cabinet General Staff to draw up the relevant implementation procedures to build the world's first air transport team for the Chinese Empire.

Subsequently, the Ministry of the Air Force modified the H1N1 bomber, and after removing the weapon load, the range and speed of the aircraft were increased, and the load also reached 3 tons, and the transportation routes of major cities in the Chinese Empire were opened to carry out air transportation services.

The General Staff of the Cabinet of Ministers called the transport ship of the modification of the H1N1 bomber the Pegasus. The Pegasus transport aircraft can carry 3 tons of cargo and can also be converted into an Airbus. The crew depends on the voyage, the short range is more manned, and the long range is less manned.

To this end, the Chinese Imperial Nanyuan Airlines has opened five Pegasus transport aircraft production lines, with an estimated annual output of 200 aircraft.

Subsequently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire assigned major domestic and foreign media to hype up the advanced and convenient surnames of the Chinese Empire's air transport companies to advertise the Pegasus transport plane. Some businessmen at home and abroad suddenly discovered this huge business opportunity and put forward their intention to negotiate and set up an air transport company. However, if they want to buy Pegasus transport planes, they must sign a confidentiality agreement with the Ministry of Defense of the Chinese Empire for technology and equipment, as well as for the use of personnel. Any company that buys a Pegasus transport plane is required to ensure that the aircraft and equipment are not accessible to outsiders, that the crew is provided entirely by the Imperial Chinese Air Force, and that the company is required to keep their military background secret. Only after these agreements have been signed can they be allowed to form airlines and receive Pegasus transport aircraft.

Of course, the Chinese Emperor [***] side only allows Chinese airlines to purchase Pegasus transport planes, and foreign companies are not allowed to obtain Pegasus transport planes for the time being. However, foreign businessmen also saw the huge profits and prospects of this air transportation industry, so they tried to cooperate with the airlines of the Chinese Empire so that they could introduce advanced aerial vehicles such as Pegasus transport planes.

With the news of the establishment of the China Air Tourism Transport Company in the Chinese media, the world's attention has once again been drawn to China.

Mankind dreams of flying in the sky, and although there are already planes, they are all small reconnaissance planes with short ranges and are not open to ordinary people. Now China has set up this air tourism and transportation company to serve the people, making people's wishes possible.

At the end of 1910, with the completion of the construction of the civil aviation airports in Yanjing and Shanghai, the first civil route in China was opened, and the route was from Yanjing to Shanghai.

Despite the cold weather, the vicinity of Yanjing and Shanghai airports is crowded with Chinese and foreign people coming here to watch the take-off and landing of Airbus.

On the morning of December 3, the first Pegasus passenger plane of the Chinese Imperial Nanyuan Airlines took off and flew to Shanghai with 30 passengers on board. As a first-time passenger flight, many people are afraid to take it. Most of the 30 passengers were family members of Air Force officials, who were forced or semi-coerced to board the plane.

After several hours of flying, the first civil airliner landed safely at Shanghai Civil Aviation Airport. When the 30 Yanjing passengers got off the plane in shock, the people waiting for the plane at the entire airport cheered one after another, and thunderous applause rang out.

With the safe flight of the first passengers, the plane that took off from Shanghai Airport with 30 passengers arrived safely at Yanjing Airport. The welcome scene was huge, and people finally believed that they could fulfill their dream of sailing in the sky.

The first passengers were To, in order to dispel the worries and fears of the common people. In addition, the media has reported on the safety of the plane on a large scale, which slowly solves the worries in the hearts of the people.

Then, in order to solicit passengers, Nanyuan Airlines announced that it would experience the fun of flying for free for one week. As soon as the news was announced, the service halls of Yanjing and Shanghai airports were immediately overcrowded, with more than 1,000 people signing up on the first day and more than 30,000 people signing up in the following week. There are too many people, and Nanyuan Airlines only has twenty passenger planes, so it can't be busy. So I had to promise that after the test flight time was over, the single ticket price would be about 60 yuan dragon coin, so that people don't have to worry.

Sixty yuan dragon coins may sound like a lot, but for the purchasing power of today's Chinese Empire, sixty yuan can allow ordinary families to live a carefree life for a year. Therefore, taking a plane is still ridiculously expensive, and it is not something that ordinary people can afford. Of course, judging from the rate of continuous improvement of the national living standards of the Chinese Empire, it is not far off that civilians can afford to fly.

Airplanes are meant to serve business, especially businessmen who have strict requirements for the transportation time of goods, and although the cost of aircraft transportation is high, it is worth the money for them.

Soon, the airlines of the Chinese Empire that owned Pegasus transport planes received cooperation contracts from large businessmen at home and abroad, and they asked to consign goods for their companies, and some foreign businessmen even directly offered to buy China's Pegasus transport planes.

However, Chinese airlines, which see the huge commercial profits of the air transport industry, will naturally not give up the "machine" that lays eggs to others. In this era, everything has to be monopolized.

For this reason, the Chinese Imperial Political Axe Air Traffic Control Center said that China currently needs a large number of transport aircraft to protect China's transportation industry. At present, China's Pegasus transport aircraft production capacity is limited, and in the test stage, it is not exported.

Unable to buy airplanes, these big foreign businessmen did not give up, and asked China to open up overseas routes and undertake transportation services for the whole world.

In this regard, the political axe of the Chinese Empire is naturally very happy. Ordered airlines to open routes in all countries of the world and assume the responsibility of the world's air coachmen. At the same time, considering that the transport tonnage of Pegasus transport planes is still too small, aviation scientific research units were asked to speed up the pace of developing large aircraft, and ordered the aviation workshop to open a number of additional production lines to increase the output of Pegasus transport planes to 400 per year. At the same time, the Department of the Air Force was asked to recruit more pilots and train in flight techniques.

In this way, the Chinese Air Force not only controls the routes around the world and monopolizes huge profits in the air, but also can detect and understand the situation of various countries through transportation services, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

As the country with the largest land area, the largest population, the largest economy, the strongest military strength, and the most advanced science and technology in the world, the Chinese Empire has always been closely watched by the great powers.

Although the Chinese imperial government had always wanted to keep a low profile and not attract the attention of Europe and the United States to the East, after two Sino-Russian wars, two Sino-Japanese wars, and Sino-British wars, the great powers had put away their contempt for China.

In the eyes of European and American military strategists, the Chinese Empire has now become a country that likes to pretend to be pigs and eat tigers, and this impression has been deeply engraved in the hearts of the great powers. In particular, Britain, the United States, Russia and other countries, which were bullied and calculated by the Chinese Empire, were extremely vigilant.

When the air transport company of the Chinese Empire was established, people all over the world were surprised that the distance between them was reduced by the improvement of air transportation. But there are also many far-sighted military strategists in the political axes of the major powers who have raised their concerns about the air superiority of the Chinese air force.

More than ninety percent of the world's airlines are monopolized by the Chinese Empire, and the airlines of European and American countries have no way to compete with the airlines of the Chinese Empire, and the technological gap is too large. They themselves could not develop an aircraft that could rival the Pegasus transport aircraft of the Chinese Empire, so the Chinese Empire dominated the cake in the field of aviation.

Although the great powers did not care about the military objectives of the Chinese Empire in the air, they noticed the huge economic benefits of aircraft, so they began to support their own aviation industries and prepare to compete with the Chinese Empire for the air cake.

It can be said that the great powers of various countries had no intention of interfering in the willows, and they began to attach importance to aviation for economic purposes, but they helped them by mistake in future wars, and when the Chinese Imperial Air Force bullied them in the air, they were not without the slightest strength to fight back.

In France, the birthplace of the airplane, when the French political axe knew that his national Adel had become one of the founders of the aviation industry of the Chinese Empire, their bowels were repentant. The French political axe had tried to summon Adel back to China many times, but the prescient Chinese Imperial political axe used various means to keep Adel and let him continue to contribute to the aviation industry of the Chinese Empire.

However, after all, Adel is still French, and although the French political axe cannot get Adel back, they also use various means to find out some information from Adel and obtain some technology, which is extremely critical to the development of French aviation.

At the same time, France is not in vain, and the science and technology and talent reserves of the centuries-old capitalist power are still very strong. France's hundreds of years of education have made France's national quality generally stronger than China's, so although China's air power is ahead of the world, it does not mean that France will lag behind China much. The explosiveness with which they fought to catch up was still amazing.

The wisdom of the French, coupled with the determination of the French political axe, has made France emerge in the field of aviation and closely follow the pace of Chinese aviation.

The French aircraft manufacturing company Caudron is founded and operated by two brothers, Rene and Gaston. The two brothers were much better than the Wright brothers of the United States, and through the study of the Jian-1D reconnaissance plane from China, the two brothers painstakingly studied and then went to the Royal Aviation Academy of the Chinese Empire to study for further study, and finally developed the first generation of France's own aircraft, the high-rise aircraft.

Because the Gao brothers met Feng Ru while studying in China, they were extremely interested in Feng Ru's monoplane, so the two brothers originally developed a monoplane. However, the French aviation infrastructure is so poor that it can be said that there is almost none, and there is no wind tunnel test base in China, and there are no streamlined aerodynamic layout design drawings and data, and the aircraft they designed are either unable to fly, or unstable, and can easily crash. Later, they wanted to consult Feng Ru, but the Chinese Empire had strict control over this, and they failed to obtain the technology.

In the end, the two brothers had to give up imitating Feng Ru's monoplane layout and find another way to adopt the Jian-Yi biplane layout.

Although in the eyes of the Chinese, the biplanes of the French Gao brothers are too earthy and out of place. However, there must be a teacher in the threesome, and the wisdom of the French is beginning to be remarkable in some places. When they built the plane for a test flight, the aircraft experts on the Chinese Empire learned from their experience and got a lot of inspiration.

The planes designed by the Gao brothers are propeller-pulled, semi-wing biplanes without upper anti-angle and oblique covers, the upper wing adopts the trailing edge of the soft edge, which can be twisted and worked with the ailerons, the nacelle-type fuselage, the open beam frame, the connecting wing and the tail, the monolithic elevator and the variable rudder, the bottom of the tail end of the frame replaces the tail pry, the front end extends out under the nose engine to form a nose pry, and the left and right two-wheeled landing gear are mounted on the longitudinal beams at the bottom of the frame, and the whole machine is wooden and clothed. This aircraft is very popular because it is easy to fly, smooth to fly, slow and extremely safe.

The flight stabilizer developed by the Chinese Imperial Aviation Commission soon after was largely inspired by the Gao aircraft.

The aircraft is designated as the G1 type, with a flight speed of 112 kilometers per hour, because it is built by a private company, limited by funds, the aircraft has a load of only half a ton, and the engine is less than 60 horsepower, but it can surprisingly last up to 4 hours.

This surprised the Imperial Air Force Council of China. Because it is a well-known fact that the Chinese Imperial Air Force is far ahead of France in the technology of the aircraft, and the engine output horsepower is several times stronger than that of the G1 aircraft, but the thrust-to-weight ratio and endurance of the aircraft are inferior to the other party.

Soon, the Imperial Air Force Commission of China acquired a modified aircraft for study, and the engineers of the Empire soon discovered the reason for the long endurance of the French aircraft, their aircraft was propulsive, but the engine was a pull-in engine.

This discovery has made China's aeronautical engineers ecstatic, and the range problem that has plagued China's aviation aircraft for a long time has been greatly improved. For this reason, the Chinese Imperial Air Force Committee once tried to hire the Gao brothers to develop in China with high salaries, but they refused, on the grounds that the French political axe had learned the lessons of Adel and resolutely refused to let them go.

If you can't get talent, you have to destroy their company, so Chinese airlines naturally want to go all out to suppress the Gaudelon Aircraft Company, forcing the aircraft produced by the Gaudelon Company to not sell, and suppressing the development of French aviation.

However, at this time, the French political axe found a problem: why should Chinese airlines go all out to suppress a small private company? If an elephant has to trample an ant to death, it means that the ant is a threat to the elephant. As a result, the French political axe immediately funded and supported the Gao Aircraft Company, helped the Gao brothers get out of trouble, and supported the Gao Delon Aircraft Company to resist the global monopoly of Chinese aviation and revitalize the French aircraft industry.

In this way, the French biplane two-seater G1 aircraft survived because of the purchase of the French [***] side. Although the technology and comprehensive capabilities of the G1 aircraft are far inferior to those of several fighters in service in China, its low price is in line with the current needs of the Allied air forces. Since the great powers have not yet realized that their planes are only used for reconnaissance, there is no need to buy expensive Chinese high-speed planes.

Therefore, as soon as the G-1 reconnaissance plane came out, it snatched the market of China's Jian-1D reconnaissance plane in France and Russia, and became the priority reconnaissance plane of the French and Russian [***] teams.

In retaliation for China's monopoly in the field of aircraft, the Gao brothers announced that Gao aircraft were allowed to be imitated without royalties. As a result, in addition to Russia and France sharing G1 aircraft, Britain also began to produce G1 reconnaissance aircraft and trainer aircraft, and even Germany absorbed a lot of technology from modified aircraft.

Britain bought the G-1 plane purely because the Jian-1D reconnaissance planes that China had exported to Britain were too expensive and shrunk too severely, resulting in the British Navy failing to detect the approach of the Imperial Chinese Navy early in the Battle of Singapore, so that it failed.

Every time I think of this, Ying [***] Fang is angry with a toothache.

However, then the Chinese Empire relaxed the restrictions on the export of aircraft, and put the J-1B and C on the market, and the surname can naturally surpass the G1 aircraft, in order to suppress the development of French aviation, the price of the aircraft exported by the Chinese Empire has also dropped a lot, so that Britain can't help but be moved.

In particular, the relationship between Germany and the Chinese Empire was very good, for political purposes, the Luftwaffe imported J-1 BC aircraft from the Chinese Empire on a large scale, and Italy and Austria-Hungary were also very close to the Chinese Empire because of the relationship between Germany.

Although the surname of the G1 aircraft can surpass the J-1 foreign trade model that the Chinese Empire exported to foreign countries earlier, as more and more advanced aircraft appear in the Chinese Empire, the J-1 local version began to be exported, so that the G1 aircraft has no advantage.

In order to confront the Allies, Britain had to improve relations with the Chinese Empire, so it had to endure the pain of importing aircraft from China.

(To be continued)