The sun has turned west, and the birthday ceremony will also enter the most grand dinner session.

Bird's nest chicken soup, braised pork tendon with sea cucumber, shredded carrot soup with fresh razor clams, shredded pork belly soup with kelp, braised pearl cabbage with abalone, shrimp roe soup with mussels, shark fin and crab soup, simmered chicken with mushrooms, hammer, simmered ham with fish maw, chicken soup with shark skin, blood meal soup, braised bear paw with crucian carp tongue, scarlet lips with rice grains, pig brains, fake leopard fetus, steamed hump, steamed civet with pear slices, steamed deer tail......

The Manchu and Han Dynasty banquets are echoed by the world, but at the dinner banquet where the Empress Dowager Cixi invited envoys from various countries and important ministers of the court, all kinds of delicacies were absolutely dazzling.

At least Aliguo, as an Englishman, looks down on me in the Qing Dynasty, but in terms of eating, Aliguo, who has been in China for more than ten years, has already been conquered.

He looked up to the west, hating why the sun hadn't set so fast.

However, at this moment, he suddenly noticed that in the red sun in the distance, there seemed to be a small black dot that was slowly getting bigger.

……

an hour ago.

Xiangshan, Hongye Military Base.

In a mountain col that Yang Liu bought with three hundred taels of silver, a behemoth was gradually being assembled.

The first real air operation of the Ming Dynasty was about to begin.

Due to the high consumption of cultural values and the inability to carry out remote operations due to the lack of satellite guidance, the application range of Daming's UAV team is very leisurely, let alone a real air force.

More often than not, drones are just a miracle weapon used to make up for the lack of naval attack power.

A long time ago, Zhu Fugui took out funds to make [GHS] and Guozijian related majors jointly develop manned vehicles.

Of course, to say that it is research and development, it is just to explore along the glorious path guided by His Majesty Zhu Fugui, after all, all theories are ready-made, just how to achieve independent construction.

The reason why it has to be manufactured independently is because the manned vehicle is really a gold-swallowing monster.

The so-called manned aircraft, hot air balloons, which are of low practical value, are excluded.

And what is in front of Da Ming is nothing more than two technical routes: airships and airplanes.

At most, count a helicopter.

The experience of later generations has proved that airships are obviously misguided, and airplanes are king.

However, the wrong way is also the way, Zhu Fugui is a person who is good at compromise.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have become a good friend of Willy, Hardness and Principal Chang.

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Private jets have always been a sensitive commodity in China, coupled with high technical content, so a Beihang little bee worth 200,000 yuan, its cultural punishment coefficient is as high as 100, which is not at all something Zhu Fugui can afford.

From the perspective of independent research and development, it is much easier to build an airship than an airplane.

The [Royal Aircraft Factory] in New Caofeidian has worked hard for more than half a year, but has not successfully tested a single aircraft until now.

But a few engineers did it casually in their spare time, and they came up with the [Uchia Wave Power] airship.

The reason why it's so simple is that they don't have to worry about the most high-tech floating gas in the airship, they just need to make a reliable skin and cabin.

As early as 1850, the French tested a steam-powered airship outside Paris.

However, the operating performance of the airship is still relatively poor.

According to the original history, after Nasan was captured by the Prussians, the Prussian army besieged Paris, and the de facto leader of the Third Republic, Gambita, chose to escape from the city in a hot air balloon instead of using an airship.

Until World War I, airships were an important strategic force, performing military operations such as anti-submarine patrols, long-range bombing, and airlifting.

In 1937, the "Hindenburg" was killed in a hydrogen explosion caused by an electrostatic spark during landing, marking the complete abdication of the airship to the aircraft.

It wasn't until 1970 that safe and non-flammable helium became cheaper, and airships had a second spring, but they could no longer compete with jets.

What else is there to say about this?

Daming's airship naturally started with helium.

Buying helium from the platform alone is quite cheap, and a helium with a small cylinder costs a few hundred yuan, which is easy to carry and safe, and the cultural penalty value is not high.

At this time, Yang Liu and the others were trying to inflate.

And among the crowd, a woman wearing goggles stood out.

This woman was sweet and tall, but she didn't dare to look at her more.

Because this woman named Kitagawa Keiko is from the Fengdu Fugui Palace.

Although she has no reputation, the woman who walked out of the rich palace is the woman of the Long Live Lord by default.

One more glance is a big rebellion.

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Since His Majesty Nasan stayed in the Five Kingdoms City, Maori Jingqin has had a hobby, carrying a birdcage every day to find and play three games of chess.

This is the happiest time for him, a Ming Shaobao, every day.

Maori Jingqin has now become the Ming Shaobao and the national abbot, and his status is becoming more and more noble, but he really has nothing to do except go to the Guozi Prison to teach at the elementary school.

Originally the master of Ichiban, managing millions of people, but now he has become an elementary school teacher because he failed the intermediate teacher certificate exam, and the distress in Maorisan's heart can be imagined.

So he could only find a guy who was a hundred times more depressed than himself to have fun.

Maori Sandu is already like this, and the female ninja Kitagawa Keiko that he placed in the Fugui Palace back then has naturally made it public anyway.

As Zhu Fugui's representative, she joined Jinyiwei and became a female agent.

It's a pity that Kitagawa can't use his beauty, so the advantages of this female agent can't be brought into play.

However, the agility and dexterity of the ninja are still useful, and the light weight is better suited for this mission.

Because it was from Xiangshan, this operation not only required the use of dim skies, but also the use of smaller airships, which were not easy to detect during takeoff.

Unlike airplanes, airships have extremely long stay in the air and are very fuel-efficient, but because they are fixed buoyancy, their load is relatively limited.

The Uchi-Wave Power is 48 meters long, with a maximum diameter of 10.5 meters, an airbag volume of 2,753 cubic meters, and a maximum load of 750 kilograms.

If it is Beichuan, it can be loaded with 17, and Lao Li can only be equipped with 5.

Of course, in addition to carrying people, the pod also needs to carry many birthday gifts, so Kitagawa is the best person to fly.

In terms of power, the airship is equipped with 2 40 hp engines, has a cruising speed of 38 km/h, a maximum speed of 55 km/h, and a maximum altitude of 2,500 meters.

In terms of cruising, the airship has a maximum fuel load of 280 kilograms and a range of 730 kilometers, and can fly all the way from Xiangshan to North Korea.

Speaking of North Korea, the inspiration for throwing birthday gifts with balloons was also learned by Zhu Fugui from the North Korean side, to be precise, from the South Korean side.

Balloon propaganda campaigns have been a common tactic of South Korea.