The west test site of the Ministry of Industry.

Under the gaze of different eyes, the biplane with a rather "advanced" form taxied for a distance of several tens of meters and flew up slowly.

Zhu Jingyuan's expression was very calm, and he didn't have the excitement of the first test at all, just like watching a model airplane take off.

The rest of the audience was different, and the crowd immediately erupted in cheers.

Even Wang Zhenyi, the female shopkeeper, couldn't hold back.

Then everyone craned their necks together and watched the plane hover over the test site.

After the plane turned around, Zhu Jingyuan vaguely found that the attention of the people around him had changed again.

From the plane in the sky, gradually transferred to himself.

Obviously, the excitement of taking off has passed, and I am beginning to look forward to my own evaluation.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't want to directly hit their enthusiasm, and he didn't want to make do with obviously perfunctory words, which might also hit their enthusiasm.

So he carefully observed the plane in the sky again, and then nodded lightly and judged:

"Yes, compared to the first test aircraft, the flight speed this time is significantly faster.

"Now this is still circling, if you fly in a straight line, it should be able to have seventy or eighty kilometers per hour, right?"

Li Rui and the craftsmen were obviously relieved, and they also assessed a little in their hearts:

"It should be able to reach 80 kilometers, and our next test is to fly in a straight line, test the maximum speed, and then fly a long distance to determine the theoretical range ......."

Zhu Jingyuan nodded lightly again:

"Okay, then test it like this, and after confirming the data, we will produce a few more planes as soon as possible and sell two to our company for display and testing machines.

"By the way, we have to prepare a few planes to evaluate the military functions of the five military governors, and we also have to send a few planes to the negotiation site, maybe they can be used."

Wang Zhenyi next to her also reacted:

"Our company also needs at least two, preferably four, which are also used for display and testing."

There is no appreciation more useful than a direct order, Li Rui and the surrounding craftsmen all agreed with a smile.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at Wang Zhenyi's reaction, and after thinking about it for a while, he reminded Li Rui again:

"After the overall evaluation, we have fixed any possible problems, so let's try to produce small batches.

"Let's make thirty or fifty planes out first, and by the way, explore the mass production plan.

"After the relevant news spreads, there should be a lot of interest from yamen and companies.

"Like me and Shopkeeper Wang, if you simply use it for display and testing, you should be able to sell almost it."

Li Rui immediately reacted, the ban on locomotives had been opened, flying machines were also machines, and the people could also operate them directly.

Once the news of the aircraft is made public in the public, a sample order from a company that simply wants to enter the industry for evaluation may need dozens of aircraft.

The Ministry of Industry has its own arsenal and shipyard, which the vast majority of officials work together to keep in order to avoid the monopoly of the royal family.

These factories were subordinate to the imperial court in nature, and were nominally not private business manufacturers, and were not affected by the royal monopoly.

In practice, however, it is possible to carry out production and sales operations, although the customers are mainly the Metropolitan Government and other government offices.

At this moment, including Li Rui, all the craftsmen were even more excited.

This is going to be mass-produced directly!

Although they are officials of the Ministry of Industry and Yamen, they are not managers of factories under the Yamen, and cannot directly participate in the operation and management affairs.

However, this aircraft was developed directly by himself, and it was inevitable that he would be excited when preparing for mass production.

Li Rui was a little incoherent:

"Okay, okay, let's prepare right away, prepare the factory and production line right away......"

Zhu Jingyuan let them directly mass-produce because the form of the aircraft itself is completely fine, and it can even be regarded as very good, and it is not outdated after more than ten years.

If there are problems in the future, they are all internal problems, and continuous repairs and upgrades are enough, so it is completely possible to try mass production.

Now Zhu Jingyuan heard Li Rui talk about "production line", a word left by Emperor Shizu, and thought of his plan again:

"By the way, I have already decided that the patent licensing fee for the aircraft will be returned to the dealer according to the annual sales order, up to 80% of the cost.

"So the more production and sales, the lower the licensing fee for a single flight, and I can only pay 4% of the total price of the aircraft."

At this moment, not only Li Rui and the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry, but also Wang Zhenyi and the craftsmen of the Royal Flying Machinery Company next to him, couldn't help but exclaim.

The minimum license fee of 4% is not very low in this day and age, but ridiculously low.

This is the whole of the flying machine, and the original 20% of this top-level monopoly patent is already a very reasonable cost.

Zhu Jingyuan gave up eighty percent of the licensing fee, which can reduce the cost of dealers and reduce the sales price.

Wang Zhenyi even reminded with some worry:

"Your Highness, this is not good, if the licensing fee is too low, where will your follow-up R&D expenses come from?"

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and waved his hand and said:

"You can't sell a lot of it at first, so the early licensing fees are pretty much the same, with only a small rebate.

"When the aircraft market opens up and your sales volume rises, the proportion of licensing fees may decrease, but the absolute licensing fees will increase.

"And the most important thing is that I told Zou Shangshu from the beginning that I care about the industry, not pure profit.

"I hope that the army can transport troops and weapons by airplane, and that it can directly attack the enemy's airships, warships, positions, and even enemy cities and factories.

"I hope that our people can air transport food for disaster relief and save people, carry water tanks to extinguish fires in the air, and spray pesticides in the air.

"I hope that our people in Daming can travel to distant places by plane, and even young people with conditions can go out on a plane to play.

"I hope that in the future, we can have tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of aircraft of all kinds, used in all walks of life and everywhere!"

The surrounding craftsmen were already a little excited, but now they were infected by the ideal target that Zhu Jingyuan said, and they all subconsciously applauded loudly.

Including Li Rui, a court official, and Wang Zhenyi, the female treasurer, they all have no image scruples.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at everyone excited, and his mood was also quite excited.

It is not easy to have hundreds of thousands of aircraft, and it was not until the seventies in the history of the United States that the number of civilian aircraft exceeded 200,000.

However, military aircraft soared to 200,000 at the end of World War II.

Correspondingly, the number of pilot's licenses in the United States reached 600,000 in the early 50s after the end of World War II, and peaked at 800,000 in the late 70s.

However, at the end of World War II, there were only 140 million people in the United States, and now the total population of the Ming Dynasty is more than 600 million, and the total number is uncertain because it is difficult to count the people of the domain.

However, even if only the total population of pure-blooded "Ming people" is counted, the number has reached 423 million, which is 27% higher than that of the Qing Kingdom in the same period.

That's nearly three times the population of the United States during World War II, and it will grow rapidly in the coming decades.

Daming also has a more extensive vassal state, and the terrain of the mainland and vassal kingdom is also more complex, which is more conducive to the development of the aircraft industry.

In addition, the old emperor will definitely vigorously promote, and Zhu Jingyuan will also give full assistance, and the number of planes and pilots in the future of the Ming Dynasty should be an order of magnitude higher than that of the United States.

Zhu Jingyuan's ideal goal is to have one million flight licenses within 30 years!