Influenced by the "Duchamp Quotations 97 Enhanced Edition", among this year's freshmen, there are suddenly more and more people who apply to join the Civil Guidance Research Association.

Not only that, but even Mark, when the band practiced at night, took out an application for membership and handed it to Duchamp.

Duchamp glanced at Mark. "What are you going to do when you join the club, look at your idleness, you don't look like a hands-on person."

Mark's reasoning was unexpected.

"What can you do if you don't join the Civil Guidance Research Association, you guy doesn't notify me every time he gives a lecture, do you know how much of a waste of your spiritual wealth is? There is no one to record it, and those flashes of your inspiration quickly turn into the dust of time. ”

"Look at you, being a secretary is still addictive, okay, I'll officially hire you as a little secretary, responsible for recording my daily life, and after sixty or seventy years, you can help me write a memoir or something." Duchamp grinned, folding up the application and putting it in his pocket.

"Hey, Eisenberg, is it my delusion, I always think your piano sound tonight is particularly sad." Halfway through the practice, Calles said suddenly.

Eisenberg forced his composure. "That's because my mandolin skills have increased dramatically lately, and you feel ashamed of yourself."

"Look at what you said!" Calles pouted.

"Eisenberg was really wrong today." Mark whispered to Duchamp next to him: "It seems to have been influenced by the quarrel with Morgana." ”

"There must be a conflict between the two of them, you share a dormitory with him, do you know the inside story?" Duchamp also asked in a low voice.

"I don't know, our family is in the Lake District, Eisenberg's family is in the imperial capital, he never talks about family affairs, I don't know at all. Learmor might know, and you can ask him when you get back. Mark's mouth tilted toward Lealmuen.

Duchamp nodded, continuing to concentrate on rehearsal. He had the heart to learn another instrument, but except for the mandolin, the other instruments were miserable, and even changing the mandolin was not as handy as 'Moonlight'.

After the band finished practicing and returned to the dormitory, Duchamp closed the dormitory door, jumped up to Liermuel and asked, "Liermu, the content of the quarrel between Morgana and Eisenberg is very informative, do you have any inside information?" ”

Learmel fell on the bed, holding his head in his hands, and thought about it carefully, and said uncertainly:

"There are many nobles in the imperial capital, and Rikars is just an ordinary baronial surname. However, there is a bit of an impression about his father, who is said to be a high-ranking officer who fought unfavorably in the Hundred Days War, and was forcibly discharged after the war, and has not found an errand so far. So Eisenberg's family seems to be relatively poor. The rest seems to be gone. ”

Early on Saturday morning, an announcement was made in front of the White House: at 7 p.m., Stellary Duchamp will give a lecture on the topic of the day: the costs and opportunities of the civilian use of airships.

When eating in the cafeteria at noon, Duchamp hesitated for a moment, but still reported to a few good buddies.

"At 7 o'clock in the evening, I have a lecture at the Civilian Guidance Research Association, the topic is the civilian use of airships, do you want to listen?"

When Dietrie heard that it had something to do with airships, he immediately agreed, but Isaac, Mark, and Liermuel all agreed, and he went with the flow.

By the afternoon, the news spread throughout the class, and the members of Sword and Rose decided to go for a buddy show.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the eleven brothers came to the white house together, and they were startled by the lively scene in front of them.

The white house was crowded with hundreds of people, and the spacious warehouse was like dumplings. Not to mention that everyone has a chair in their hands, they can't even stand up quickly.

Has the Society grown so strongly? Duchamp was overjoyed, and when he looked closely, it seemed that there were a lot of first-year freshmen.

Of course, Duchamp didn't know how much work Professor Ashley, the head of the Department of Guidance, had done to promote him at this year's freshman entrance speech of the Department of Guidance, and that there was an almost full score list in the small courtyard of the Department of Guidance to advertise him, and he was simply popular among the freshmen of the Department of Guidance.

Almost all first-year freshmen come with the mentality of 'looking up to the monster with perfect scores on the entrance exam'.

In addition, in recent days, with the airship tour of the Lane Ford Club, the interest of all students in the airship has reached a boiling point, and Styry's lecture just caters to everyone's preferences, and it is inevitable that the attendance rate will burst.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Fang whistled and asked, "Why are there so many people?" ”

Duchamp glared at Mark: "All thanks to Mark for doing a good job of advertising." ”

Mark was proud and said happily: "Look, you have become a celebrity, thank me quickly." ”

Liermu scoffed: "Thank you big-headed ghost, look at now, we don't even have a stool." ”

Someone waved at them.

Lear was overjoyed and squeezed over: "Ella, can you still find a place for a few of us?" ”

Ella led a few of them to squeeze forward, until they squeezed in front of the whiteboard, and shouted, "Everyone, please be quiet, make room for the front, today's keynote speaker, Stellary Duchamp, is here." ”

Everyone made a way and let Duchamp and the others walk over.

Duchamp walked up to the whiteboard and looked at the unprecedented number of listeners, and he was a little frightened.

He was a little skeptical that the content of the lecture he prepared today was suitable for these little hairy people who had just entered the school.

"Young people still love to listen to hot things!" Duchamp thought to himself, and felt that some non-technical content should be added to it.

I have to say that the students of the seminar are very well prepared, and even have a loudspeaker. Duchamp grabbed the microphone stand, and suddenly he had an idea for what he would say.

"First of all, I never imagined that so many students would come to my informal lecture. Maybe that's the attraction of the airship. Duchamp waved the record in his hand. I have only prepared some data in advance, and I am ready to do some small introductions and explorations of the development of civilian airships, but because there are so many people today, I would like to expand the content of the explanation for you a little. ”

"First of all, let's briefly review the timeline for the development of the airship industry.

Many of you may not know that the civilian airship industry was already in use before the vast majority of us here today were born.

In 1175, the first civilian regular ship "Linde" was built and put into service, and at the same time, the kingdom of Liber established the world's first airship commune. Two years later, in 1177, the Kingdom of Liber built another regular ship, the Cecilia.

Up to now, these two regular ships have been flying on the circular route of six cities in Liber for 20 years.

In the Empire, to this day, there are still many people who say that airships are the playthings of the rich. However, in the Liber Kingdom, airships are the main means of transportation between the six cities of the Liber Kingdom, and the first choice for most citizens to travel.

The two airships fly clockwise and counterclockwise, respectively, and circle the kingdom once every 6 hours. I don't understand what the arguments of those who say that airships are the playthings of the rich. I remember the airship ticket of the Kingdom of Libel, which seemed to cost only 300 meters to pull one. ”

When he said this, even Duchamp himself was lamenting that it was a plane that did not burn gasoline, and this fare squeezed the bus business alive, so that there were no intercity buses in the kingdom of Liber.

Seeing the astonishment of the students below, Duchamp knew that they had probably never read the introduction. In some ways, the Reich's media is doing quite well, and if you just read the Imperial Daily, one would think that Erebonia is the only modern civilized country on the continent of Semria, and that other countries are living in primitive times or in dire straits.

He went on to say:

"There is a peculiar phenomenon in the Empire, we arrogantly call the Erebonian Empire the most powerful country on the continent, and naturally think that the most powerful country must be the best on the continent in all respects. Our media rarely reports on the aspects in which we are inferior to others, such as the latest technology in the Kingdom of Liberl, and the developments in other countries. This kind of self-intoxication and satisfaction, as well as the lack of progress, abounded from the aristocracy to the commoners.

And when the world is developing faster and faster, and suddenly one day we find that the airships of the Liber Kingdom are much faster than ours, and that the per capita income and living standards of the Lehman Autonomous Prefecture and the Crossbell Autonomous Prefecture are much higher than ours, we begin to look for a reason, a sufficient reason, that is, to blame society.

Many of us believe that it is the conservative aristocracy that hinders the development of society, and I personally think that there is a certain reason for this, but definitely not the biggest one. The truth is, we don't have a true powerhouse mentality.

Take, for example, the Kingdom of Liber.

About 5 years ago, we fought a war with the Kingdom of Liberl. There are many reasons for going to war, but at least one reason is real, and that is that our country needs the airship technology of the Liber Kingdom, and we need a lot of technology from the Chase Central Workshop.

I don't know what this is true of you, a student at Lulei University of Technology, but I think I should be ashamed.

How did the war end? It was the Kingdom of Liber that made peace with our country, agreed to deliver airships and other cutting-edge technology to both our country and the Republic of Calvard, and generously sent us samples of airship engines that we needed.

This was in the spring of 1193, and it's been 4 years now, do you know what the result was? As a result, we haven't been able to imitate it until now, imitation!

Aren't you ashamed to be an engineering student? ”

Many students did not expect that the empire still had such a weakness, they looked at each other and whispered below: "Is what he said true?" Is my country's technology really so much worse than the Liber Kingdom? ”

In one corner of the venue, Morgana held her hand impatiently. "Childish! The military attack is a major national event, how can it be considered from such a low-level perspective. ”