No, Lao Maozi didn't move for a while, and the Japanese army was busy fighting for power and profit, and the entire Far East fell into a short period of tranquility. Japan and Russia are actively deploying, there will be no major moves for the time being, Outer Mongolia is also working hard to plan and convene various ministries to convene a conference in Inner and Outer Mongolia in April, and the territory south of the Yangtze River is also peaceful, or it should be said that southern Jiangsu is relatively peaceful, and there is some movement in Hunan, and the troops that are not directly related to it have poured over.

In general, Sunan is very quiet, Zhao Yun holds the pillow with peace of mind, and sleeps in the quilt every day until he wakes up naturally, and the life of an otaku is so comfortable.

But the comfortable days always pass quickly, which does not allow the deputy county magistrate to kill in a hurry.

"Build roads?" Zhao Yun bent his head and asked, this is not Zhao Yun pretending to be cute, but sleeping with a pillow and falling into a pillow.

"Yes! County Chief, you see that every time you hold an auction, businessmen from all walks of life come from all directions. But this road, they have complained about it once or twice, do you think the county government should allocate some money and let the people below repair it? "When it comes to attracting investment, the chubby deputy county magistrate Xu still has a good hand.

"Hmmm! Okay, you can find someone to draw up a charter first, see which sections you want to repair, and whether you want to build a bridge or something! ”

"Okay." Deputy County Magistrate Xu looked at Zhao Yun and asked him to draft the charter and knew that half of the matter was done, and half of the project money would go to his pocket.

Building roads, in fact, Zhao Yun has been thinking about it for a long time, but in the south of the Yangtze River in this time and space, it is not realistic to build roads.

Build a dirt road, then there is one, and it is not Zhao Yun's turn to worry about the county magistrate who only hears his voice, does not see his people, and does not do his job. Deputy County Magistrate Xu: What they want to build is a cement road.

Under the magic of money, even the deputy county magistrate Xu of the old-style officials showed a speed comparable to Liu Xiang. Soon, the Department of Architectural Engineering of Soochow University (the predecessor of Soochow University) sent people to inspect and made a preliminary plan for road construction.

"Building a road in a place like Gangnam is a nightmare for us." The inspection report was handed in, and Zhao Yun almost collapsed when he saw the first line of words!

Next, looking at the details of the report, Zhao Yun is not light. In the south of the Yangtze River, there has been a saying that people in the south have been boating since ancient times. On the road from the county to the outside world, there are countless streams, rivers, ponds, and other water conservancy facilities that need to be bridged.

This is in the early years of the Republic of China when there were no mechanical engineering vehicles, and these things needed to be carried by people and horses and camels to be placed in place. The labor required is tens of thousands, and the required building materials are even more astronomical.

Although Deputy County Magistrate Xu hugged his chest and assured, "The labor force is okay." But Zhao Yun thinks that with so much labor, it is better to go to the farm!

In this year, although there was the foundation of the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty. But in China, cement is almost used for national defense, used to pave the ground, except for Shanghai, Jixian, Nanjing and other important cities, no city dares to be so extravagant and wasteful. Otherwise, a group of old scholars and literati would jump out and point at Zhao Yun's nose and scold, arrogant and lascivious.

But we still need to pay attention to the communication with the outside world, and if we want to get rich, we must first build roads!

Zhao Yun said to Deputy County Magistrate Xu, who was bent on making Yixing better: "You don't have to stare at the land, you can also take the waterway to Shanghai and Nanjing." Don't forget the Yao family in Changshu, Jiangsu, they and I co-founded a steamship company, which is not running well now, and it can bring a lot of popularity every day! ”

"The ship is too slow! Some customers from the west can't get on the ship! Deputy county magistrate Xu pointed out the disadvantages of waterways.

The west of Yixing is all mountainous, and most of the goods to be transported by ship are on the Yangtze River, which is equivalent to a big detour. "Also, then please trouble Deputy County Magistrate Xu to find someone to explore the hydrological situation clearly, it is not a problem for ships of several hundred tons to walk in the Grand Canal, the road is far away, and you can only find a way in tonnage." Water transport is our forte, and we can't give it up. As for the speed, I think so, let's build an airfield here and connect with a few surrounding areas. In this way, open a few routes and do air transportation business. ”

"By air? This one? Deputy County Magistrate Xu's head almost crashed, thinking that he had never thought of getting an airport in the small county town of Yixing.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Yun saw Deputy County Magistrate Xu's deflated appearance and asked teasingly.

"This hasn't been tried in Huaxia yet! It seems that Jixian County has had a flight to Tianjin before, but that is also to transport mail, and it has never transported people! Deputy County Magistrate Xu's answer made Zhao Yun impressed, although this old-style official has a lot of problems, but his ears and eyes are still quite special, and he even knows the news that Jixian County has an air route.

Obviously, there is such a "deaf and clear-sighted" county magistrate, and Zhao Yun will have to ask for more in the future. "Hahaha, without the plane tree, where is the golden phoenix. Foreign countries have already begun to have air transportation, we just need to build the airport, demarcate the route, and I will find the pilot. ”

"But," Deputy County Magistrate Xu said worriedly, "Is the air transport too eye-catching?" If the plane flew directly to the provincial capital, I am afraid that it would cause a storm -- and if it was not done, it would even cause the whole province to shake. If you just fly to a few remote towns in our county, it will be about the same. Anyway, it was originally within the territory of our county, and it belonged to the area under our own jurisdiction. ”

"Hmmm! It's still the county magistrate Xu who is calm! It's that I didn't think it through. I think I will inform the Yao family in Changshu that if they are willing to join forces with us, then our air freight business can be more prosperous. ”

On the same day, Zhao Yun took a telegram to Yao Zhibi, the rich man, and the next day, the rich man came to the door. After staying for less than an hour and leaving in a hurry, Zhao Yun wanted to stay with him for dinner, but he didn't have time. Looking at Yao Zhibi's fat back, Zhao Yun couldn't help but sigh, "Su businessmen in this era really don't have a little wine table culture!" ”

Businessmen seek profit, this sentence is not false at all. Yao Zhibi's speed of action was beyond Zhao Yun's reach. After discussing with him, in just two days, the rich man had already negotiated more than 20 large, medium, and small cities in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, all of which were in the north and south of the Yangtze River, and asked the two chambers of commerce in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to come forward to guarantee it, and the county magistrates and garrisons in various places signed to ensure that the plane was safe in the territory.

Don't underestimate the merchants of this era, even if one of your provincial overseers is not to be polite when facing the merchant representatives of the whole province. The relationship between the two sides was a prosperous one, and if the merchants were to go out of business, the Overseers would have a headache.

The aircraft is an improved version of the Handley-Pedy 400 and can carry 6 people. Yixing is a transit station and a terminal station. The fare starts at 5 yuan, and the mode of the subway in the future is calculated as 5 yuan for one station and 10 yuan for two stations, accumulating station by station.

As for the pilots, Ba Yu and Wang Zhu, the bigwigs in the flying industry, introduced them, and their former students also came. After all, it is really difficult for pilots to find jobs in this era, and there are many fewer planes than pilots in China, although there are not many planes in the hands of various warlords in China. With these backbones, Zhao Yun recruited some foreign instructors from Europe and the United States and began to prepare for the establishment of a pilot training course.

If any of the bigwigs took a fancy to the plane and wanted to get one as his own special plane, Zhao Yun would also sell it at a high price. It was with the airlift and the sale of aircraft, these meager subsidies, that the growth of the expensive Chinese air cavalry finally began to improve.

But Zhao Yun listened carefully to the opinions of these two bigwigs in the flying industry and began to invest heavily in seaplanes.

Seaplanes are aircraft that can take off, land and berth on the water, referred to as water planes, and some of them can also take off and land at land airports, called amphibious aircraft. Seaplanes are divided into hull and pontoon types.

In the early days when airplanes were just getting started, seaplanes and land planes were developed at the same time. With the continuous development of science and technology, the development of seaplanes is very rapid.

It was the American Curtis, who really brought seaplanes to maturity. He was a aviator and a famous aircraft designer. In his early days, he designed an airplane that achieved great success. For example, a biplane made in June 1908 achieved a flight speed of 64 kilometers per hour and a flight distance of 1.61 kilometers, and won the "Scientific American" award established by the American Aero Club.

Curtis began research on seaplanes in the second half of 1908. He installed two pontoons on the made biplane in order to take off and land on the water, but the plane was unsuccessful in a test flight on the water and only taxied for a distance without taking off.

Curtis was not discouraged. In 1910, he had a lengthy discussion in Paris with Fabre, the maker of the "water machine", and learned from some successful experiences. In 1911, the seaplane he made was successful in flight. An important improvement of this type of aircraft was the use of ailerons for lateral maneuvering, which was a big step up from the Wright brothers' method of maneuvering with the wingtips curled. In 1913, Curtis's water flight was further improved, and the pontoon was changed to the shape of a boat, making the take-off and landing of the "water machine" safer and more convenient to maneuver. The pilot and occupants were more comfortable, so that the seaplane was further perfected and generally accepted by the United States and European countries. In 1911, the U.S. military ordered the first seaplane from Curtis. Curtiss continued to modify the seaplane to make the pontoons or hull more advanced, and the wheels were also installed on the seaplane, making the seaplane suitable for amphibious use. Since then, his NC-4 seaplane has been perfected, and in May 1919 it set a record for a phased transatlantic flight. Later, long-distance and intercontinental flights were almost monopolized by seaplanes, and regular passenger flights across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans were also opened.

For Zhao Yun, what attracted his attention was the characteristics of the seaplane. It can adapt to two different environments on the water and in the air, if it is a boat, but it has a fuselage, wings, tail, propellers and landing gear like an airplane; Let's say it's an airplane, but its fuselage is a huge hull in the shape of an axe. This unique feature makes it a true "all-rounder" in the sky and on the water.