Chapter 159: Take off
Of course, Waldzer understood what Yang Feng meant by these words to him, which was to imply to him that there is still a target in Asia now, and if it is too late, it will not be your share, and it is conceivable that if the Americans make a move against the Philippines, then with Yang Feng's temper, he will definitely not miss such a good opportunity to take advantage of the fire, and there will be no resistance to his relationship with the Americans.
You must know that his Ambrera Security Company is registered in the United States, and when the time comes, it is nothing more than to change his army to a flag, the fox only found out at this time that this guy is a real fox, before he saw that he was buying territory and buying titles in the world and felt pure nouveau riche psychology, now it seems that he has been thinking about robbing everywhere since then, he was a Chinese during the Sino-Japanese War, and he became a Swede and a Turk during the Russo-Japanese War, By the time of the Spanish-American War, he must have become an American capitalist again, and being a shameless man to such a point can be regarded as the pinnacle.
This question must be told to the Kaiser, to be honest, with Germany's current military strength in Asia, even if it does not unite with Yang Feng, there is no big problem in taking the Philippines, of course, it will definitely not work without Yang Feng to play, the German army's logistics and supply are still mainly dependent on him, and the transportation of arms from thousands of miles from China is certainly not as convenient as the transportation from Taiwan and Fuzhou, which are less than 1,000 kilometers apart, not to mention that there are various other interests involved.
The fox who learned the news could no longer sit still, and immediately boarded the ship to return to his governor's palace in Kagoshima after a casual discussion here by Yang Feng, and on the way he sent a secret telegram to the country that the Americans were preparing to start a war with the Spaniards, and at the same time advised the Kaiser to attack the Philippines before the Americans made a move, otherwise it would be too late.
After he left, Governor Yang smiled happily. If the Germans rush ahead of them to face the Philippines, then the Americans will definitely take the opportunity to make a move against Cuba, and then Spain will face two choices, to protect the Philippines or Cuba, and there is no need to even think that it must be Cuba, and then they can be forced to cede Philippine interests in exchange for the support of Germany or their own behind-the-scenes, as long as they can go all out to bombard the coast of the United States. Then it can be described as a success for yourself.
In the days that followed. Yang Feng lived a very leisurely life, accompanying his fiancée, secretary, maid, and female slaves to live happily every day, and to guide the manufacture of the airship when he had leisure, in fact, those old craftsmen were much smarter than he imagined, the progress of this airship was fast, and the hull part of the ship was completed in less than half a month. Including the cockpit below, he was made out of bamboo baskets. However, they will not install the rest of the power system, but fortunately, there are those European employees who sent him the engine from Shanghai, welded a frame with angle iron in the bamboo basket and sat directly inside, and then installed the engine on the frame. Find a carpenter to install the propeller carved out of him on the shaft, and add an asbestos cover plate to the upper part of the engine in order to prevent fire, and after all this is done, he deliberately chose a windless day to start the test flight.
First of all, she took a cylinder filled with hydrogen to inflate the airbag, and Lin Luoke also took her two little apprentices to go over to watch the excitement. Let Yang Feng quickly drag it, and as the four European employees were busy, a huge airship gradually bulged. At this time, even the craftsmen who made it with their own hands were dumbfounded, staring dumbfounded at the behemoth that was gradually taking shape and leaving the ground.
Looking at this thing Yang Feng is also very accomplished, of course, let him ride is resolutely not done, as soon as he thinks of the full hydrogen, he can't help but sincerely admire the German airship troops in World War I, what courage it must be, to dare to take this thing to London to bomb it, but the four European employees will not think about this problem, in fact, it is useless Yang Feng said that they couldn't wait to climb into the cockpit.
Yang Feng waved his hand and four more soldiers climbed in, seeing that the airship seemed to be okay, but two more went up one after that, and the people below untied the cable, and the airship with ten passengers began to rise gradually, and a heartfelt exclamation immediately sounded around Yang Feng.
"Want to sit?" Yang Feng put his arm around Lin Luoke and asked.
Lin Luo nodded with force, his face full of infinite longing.
"Let's not sit on this, let's sit better." Yang Feng said that he decided to buy a batch of helium directly when he went back next time, and then specially build a large Zeppelin-level airship for himself, and take Lin Luoke and them to the sky to play without incident.
In addition, it seems that it is time to build an airplane.
The reason why he has never engaged in those things that are too high-tech is actually very simple, because at this stage he doesn't need it at all, and to deal with the Japanese or Galeries Lafayette, he has to rely on those things that have to belong to the black technology level at this time, so he can't help but look up to them, Japan's little strength will be pushed away with something casually, as for Lafayette, the problem is not whether she can be cleaned up, but in what way to destroy the country the lightest, and there is no need to worry about leaving hidden dangers, He can indeed drive to Beijing City now and reclaim those princes and ministers together, but what about in the future?
The country becomes a warlord and then picks up the pieces with a nationwide civil war, the deaths of hundreds, tens of millions? This is not good, for the time being, keep the Manchu Qing and let them slowly isolate themselves from the world, but at this time they use economic control to tie up all parties, and at that time to overthrow them is just a matter of lifting their feet, and when the domestic problem is solved, they can use those high-end products from modern times and then start real expansion.
He was thinking about the future there, and suddenly there was a louder exclamation from the crowd, because the members of the airship had already started the engine, and this behemoth floating at a height of several hundred meters was beginning to fly slowly, and the people and soldiers below had seen this kind of scene, and immediately ran to watch below, even Lin Luoke couldn't help screaming, but Yang Feng suddenly felt as if he had forgotten something.
But what have you forgotten?
At this time, one of the twins, Lori, said weakly, "Can't it turn in the sky?" ”
Governor Yang was dumbfounded for a moment, he finally wanted to forget something, the engine was fixed to the stand, and the airship did not have a steering device.
"Quick, call them down!" The creature hurriedly shouted at one of the bodyguards.
The bodyguards who were looking at the excitement were stunned for a moment, although their eyes were full of regret, but they still shouted to the sky while running to let them come down, but unfortunately those test pilots were hundreds of meters away, plus there was engine noise, and they couldn't hear the sound below at all.
Yang Feng hurriedly pulled out the bodyguard's pistol, opened the sleeve and fired a shot into the sky, the cheering crowd fell silent for a moment, and then the passengers above stuck their heads out from the side of the cockpit.
Yang Feng hurriedly beckoned down, fortunately, the other party was quite smart, and quickly understood what he meant, after turning off the engine, with the deflation of the airbag, the airship began to land slowly, and when it was only a few dozen meters above the ground, the cable was thrown down, and then the people on the ground pulled the airship down and then smashed down the stake and tied it up.
The problem of steering is not difficult to solve, it is enough to install a rudder behind the cockpit, simply put, it is to weld a shaft on the angle iron frame, and then install a wooden board that can be rotated on it, as for how to rotate this on the shaft to install a handle on the manual solution, these are not difficult, it is nothing more than subtracting the weight of a member, he is a landing ship has a machine tool dedicated to repairing weapons, and there is no need to think about the problem of steering when he flies again the next day.
Such a big scene, naturally it is impossible to hide it from the outside world, in fact, after the first day of the test flight, Cixi had already known that Yang Feng had made a big balloon that could fly, but unfortunately she couldn't have imagined that this thing was used to parachute into Yingtai, and then pick up the puppy to rebel against her, she didn't have seen a hot air balloon, the Beiyang Naval Division had already existed, at this time, even if someone said that this thing would subvert her decades of rule, she would only see it as a joke.
Not only her, but Zhirui, who was forced into the cockpit by Yang Feng ten days later, also felt that this must be a joke.
"Yang, Lord Yang, this is too child's play, isn't it?" He said with a sad face and a shudder.
"How can you do it if you don't take risks, don't worry, as long as you don't jump out, this thing will never fall off, and you must take the road well, my soldiers are blind to Beijing, although the moon is good today and the ground can be seen clearly, but if you take them to Shichahai, it will be troublesome." Yang Feng said with a smile, anyway, he didn't take the risk by himself.
"Gong Ying, be brave!" Zhang Yinhuan also cheered him on the side, this old guy probably knows what hydrogen is, so he excuses himself to be old, afraid of heights, and afraid of cold, anyway, he resolutely does not take an airship, there is Zhirui, a relative of the emperor, why do you still use yourself?
"I, I'm smoking a cigarette to suppress!" Zhirui shuddered and took out a pack of cigarettes, and as soon as he put it in his mouth, he let a soldier drag it down and throw it away.
"You don't want to die, it's filled with hydrogen, do you understand hydrogen, and when we see the fire, we will have no bones." The soldier described it maliciously.
"Huh?! Lord Yang, please, I can't go down! Zhirui's face turned green, crying and screaming about to struggle outside, but unfortunately, the airship rose higher and higher, and the people below became smaller and smaller.
"Lord Zhirui's courage is really admired by the lower officials!" Yang Feng also gave Zhang Yinhuan a thumbs up with emotion.
Zhang Yinhuan smiled and didn't say a word. (To be continued......)