Chapter 158: Airship
"Surprised? Don't be too surprised, this is not a difficult thing for me, how to do this is high-tech, you won't understand, in short, you can rest assured, at most a month later, you can see the sky here, and go back to tell Zhang Yinhuan and Zhirui, when the time comes, you need the two of them to follow, you also know that the soldiers under my command are not light or heavy, in case you are shocked by the holy drive, it will not be good. Yang Feng said to Kang Youwei quite proudly.
He thought of a very simple way, just get an airship to be airborne at night, there is no technical difficulty in making this kind of thing for him, it is nothing more than using aluminum alloy to make a skeleton, and then adding silk cloth, even to make Zeppelin is also very easy, but he doesn't need to be so high-end now. It's nothing more than a big toy that goes back and forth for more than 100 kilometers, and there is no need for even a hard airship, just a semi-hard one, a thirty or forty-meter-long fish-shaped super balloon, at most an air room is added to it, and a tank of hydrogen is brought with you, and it is enough to make up some hydrogen when you return. Equipped with a small gasoline engine and wooden propellers, it only takes a few hours to take off from Luanxian to Beiping, and there is no need to navigate on a windless full moon day.
Yingtai is connected to the shore by a stone bridge, and only two submachine guns are needed to do it, as for the guards who guard Guangxu, they have read too many martial arts novels to take those people into account!
In this way, with the addition of Zhirui or Zhang Yinhuan, four soldiers are responsible for cleaning up the Ouchi guards, and then greet the holy car, and one pilot is waiting in the sky, a total of seven passengers are needed, thirty or forty meters long, ten meters in diameter airship is enough, as for the danger of loading hydrogen. No matter what those people do, they don't sit by themselves, if the saint is so unlucky, it can only be said that the wild boar skin can't open his eyes.
Kang Youwei doesn't know that he is going to play airborne Zhongnanhai! However, he had no say in this matter, so he had to be taken down to rest.
Yang Feng was going to find a beautiful woman's avatar to make at first, because the depth of the Bohai Sea was too shallow, and a behemoth like her would become an island if she didn't get it, so she could only stop under the Yellow Sea, but after thinking about it, this guy thought about it. I don't think there is any need to alarm her old man for this little project, she can find a group of folk artists to do it herself, this is not a high-tech, foreigners can make things decades ago with the enthusiasm of junior high school students to engage in scientific and technological inventions, anyway, if you are idle, you should have some fun for yourself.
He didn't even bother to find people from Fujian and Zhejiang, and directly in the area controlled by him in eastern Hebei, he collected all the decent tailors and craftsmen who made kites and lanterns to Qinhuangdao, and now he is a figure like a Buddha in this area. As soon as they heard that Governor Yang needed help, they didn't all hurry over and wait.
However, these craftsmen were stunned when they looked at the pictures drawn by Yang Feng.
"Don't you understand? To put it simply, it is a double-layered oversized balloon, but the shape is a little not round, and the back will be a little special. There will be a basket for people hanging at the bottom, this balloon is made of silk, and the outside will be coated with a layer of glue to prevent air leakage, anyway, the specific requirements are here. Let's discuss it together and see if we can make it, and if not, say quickly, this thing must be done in twenty days. Don't delay me using it. Yang Feng looked at the old and young craftsmen and said.
"Of course, if it is made within twenty days, then each person will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver, and the greatest contribution will be doubled or even more." The thing added as he drank his tea.
A group of craftsmen watched for a long time, and the eldest of the most Lu Hougong stepped forward and was about to kneel down to speak, so Yang Feng stretched out his hand to stop him: "This official is not happy to bow down here, you are twice as old as me, kneel for me to kneel and lose my life." ”
The old man wiped away his tears and said, "Dare to ask if you want to be a balloon for burning the stove used by the sailor?" ”
"Huh?" Yang Feng didn't expect him to know about hot air balloons.
Looking at his expression, the old man hurriedly smiled and said: "My lord, the balloons of the sailor used to wander around Tianjin, and it is said that they are used to train the generals' courage, and the little old man has also been fortunate to see it a few times. ”
"Then you understand the purpose, this is similar to something, but you don't need to burn the stove, you can directly rise up with hydrogen in it, and the bottom is loaded with people, and you can release it when you need to land." After Yang Feng finished speaking, he took the drawings and began to explain to him in detail the role of various structures, this thing is not complicated at all, and a paste lantern next to him didn't wait for him to finish speaking, to put it bluntly, this is a fish-shaped super-large Kong Ming lantern that does not need to be burned, so everyone understands this explanation, the old man immediately patted his chest and told him that he couldn't do it in twenty days, and Lord Yang asked him to stand in the cage.
Since the rest of this is simple, in Qinhuangdao directly surrounded them a factory, transferred a battalion of soldiers to encircle, because of the fear of rain and snow delaying work, but also deliberately used canvas to build a huge shed, set up a wooden shelf in it, put a few large stoves for heating, pull wires from a landing ship and install hundreds of watts of large light bulbs, Nautilus transported a large number of high-grade silk fabrics from Zhejiang, under the guidance of Yang Feng personally provided technical guidance, hundreds of folk artists began to build China's first airship for him.
As for the power, this is very simple, from the Shanghai Bofors company sent him a 30-horsepower gasoline engine used in a car, as for the gearbox or anything.
He is engaged in such a big project in Qinhuangdao, naturally it is impossible to hide it from the outside world, including Cixi in Beijing, who heard that Governor Yang is so idle that he is playing there with a group of ninth-rate craftsmen to make balloons!
"Childish!" Cixi Lafayette said with a look of disdain.
"Lafayette, judging from the current situation, this Yang Yi is still afraid of Tianwei after all, what he did before was nothing more than bluffing, if you want to say that he really attacks Beijing, he still doesn't dare, look at it this way, I'm afraid he won't be able to last long in eastern Hebei, as long as the imperial court persists, after the spring is warm, don't worry about him leaving." Yixuan said with a smile.
"Alas, I hope so, it's all over the New Year, and the mourning family doesn't want to have more troubles, you find someone to send him some rewards in the past, even if he doesn't dare to see us, let's let him know that the court has no ill will towards him, and he won't be too ignorant." Cixi said with a sigh.
"The Queen Mother is really a bodhisattva, I think that Yang Feng must be grateful for her kindness." Yixuan said with a smiling face.
The person sent to give the gift naturally couldn't see Yang Feng, and was intercepted by the defenders in Tangshan, and then left a gift and a decree to Yang Feng, and drove the person back, which was also expected, in Cixi's opinion, this should be regarded as a result, after all, he couldn't even send the will before, and now he can leave to show that Yang Feng is also willing to communicate.
"This old lady thinks well, thinking that after I retire from the army, she will send Deshou to prison for embezzlement, so simply send me away? Whatever sin Lao Tzu condemned him, he will be guilty. Yang Feng looked at Cixi's will and said with a sneer.
"Yang, why do you have to hold on to this matter?" Waldzer asked curiously, he finally cleaned up the Japanese resistance in Kyushu during this time, more than 200,000 Japanese died under his butcher's knife in the clean-up operation, and the rest of the people no longer dared to resist, one by one under the threat of the bayonets of German soldiers to build the Berlin Wall north of Kumamoto.
"It's nothing, I just want the court to know that what was given to me is mine, don't worry about making some small moves for me every day." Yang Feng said viciously.
"Let's not talk about these topics, let's talk about your gains in Japan, speaking of which, we started but finally fulfilled the Russians, it's really a bit depressing to think about, His Majesty Nikolai didn't say to give us more benefits, he dug up so many good things in Japan, and he actually swallowed them all, and it will be difficult to think of such a good business in the future." The thing then said with some ill will.
"Yes, the wild land that should be opened up in this world has been completely opened up, Germany rose too late and missed such a great colonial era, and now it can only acquiesce to such a result." Waldzer sighed and said, it can be seen that the mood is also quite lost, now there is really no goal to start in this world, speaking of which, being able to carve up a colony from Japan can already be said to be the biggest harvest of Germany in these years.
"By the way, I heard that Italy is preparing to go to war with Ethiopia?" Yang Feng said casually.
"How do you know about the Dao?" Waldzer was surprised to say that after the expiration of the protection agreement between Italy and Ethiopia, the Ethiopian emperor was no longer ready to renew it, which in the eyes of the colonists was a betrayal, and war was inevitable.
"It's very simple, they asked me to buy 500 tons of gas bombs, and now my factory is still producing them day and night, I guess those are going to be unlucky now, and the Italians are going to add another colony, if this is added, their colonies should be more than Germany, right?" Yang Feng said.
Waldzer smiled awkwardly.
"I also heard that the Americans are ready to attack Cuba." Yang Feng then threw out another bombshell news.
"How true is this news?" Waldzer suddenly became nervous, it is conceivable that if the Americans go to war with Spain, then the war will definitely affect the Philippines, and it is a very simple matter to defeat the Spaniards and seize the Philippines with the strength of the United States, where the Spanish army is so weak that even Yang Feng can easily solve it.
"It must be true, right? You also know that I have many friends in the US Congress, and according to them, the American business predators have become intolerable to the point of the Spanish bloody suppression of the rebels on the island of Cuba. Yang Feng said lightly. (To be continued......)