Chapter 408: Public Opinion

News of the short-distance take-off and landing activities quickly spread around the world with radio waves.

This includes the dynamics of the event itself, as well as the official decisions of the Aviation Industry Association, as well as the decisions of Daming Airlines.

Private manufacturers that produce light aircraft immediately began to worry about the impact of Daming Airlines' entry on their industries.

They immediately found someone to inquire about the news, and soon got the news that Daming Airlines deliberately leaked that Daming Airlines' small plane would limit the price to not less than 5,000 silver bills, and the probability would be higher than 10,000.

Then most of them relaxed.

Prince Dashi really made money on his own as always, and he was willing to let others make money.

In fact, even if Daming Airlines restricts its selling price, it will still attract some of their customers.

Some customers could have bought higher-end products, but Daming Airlines did not sell similar products before.

So in the past, I had to buy products from ordinary manufacturers.

Now Daming Airlines is going to design similar products, and this group of customers will definitely leave them.

But at the same time, Zhu Jingyuan and Daming Airlines themselves are a weather vane, in the words of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, they "bring their own traffic".

And it is directly "out of the circle" level of traffic.

Daming Aviation has entered the category and market of portable aircraft, which will definitely cause a boom in the aviation industry and aviation customer groups.

The whole market is hot, that is, new opportunities have arrived.

There may be a small number of old customers leaving, but many more new customers will arrive.

In fact, the relevant news and wind direction are brewing very quickly.

Folk flight enthusiasts are beginning to look forward to when Daming Air's light aircraft will be launched.

More ordinary people, as well as those interested in private jets, are starting to follow the latest news and learn about the market.

Many of the original light aircraft manufacturers soon began to receive a large number of inquiries from new customers.

After all, an airplane is an airplane, even if the price can be reduced to the level of a car, but needless to say, at least several times the fuel consumption, and more importantly, the maintenance and management costs, just like the car is never an order of magnitude.

Those who can really take an interest in aircraft and can afford to use the aircraft at the lowest level must be at least middle class and above in the whole society.

Therefore, even if it is a "small" manufacturer, they are all decent people of Daming, and all kinds of consultation and reception levels are very high.

This kind of person is also accustomed to consulting the corresponding manufacturer directly if they are interested, rather than going to the private sector to inquire about it.

The craze for small planes has already begun to brew.

However, if you look at the whole world, the content that has a wider impact is still the words of Zhu Jingyuan and Wu Zhiyuan.

Zhu Jingyuan knew that this aviation event was a public event, and the people at the scene at that time were not only official personnel, but also a large number of ordinary workers, as well as civilian aviation enthusiasts who participated in the competition.

Zhu Jingyuan realized at that time that the conversations between himself and Wu Zhiyuan would definitely be leaked, and he also realized what impact these conversations would have.

Zhu Jingyuan, who has experience in his previous life, can also imagine how serious the consequences will be if someone takes it out of context.

Therefore, I took the initiative to ask my entourage and selectively excerpted the content of the conversation according to my own requirements.

He voluntarily made his manifesto public to the major newspapers in a relatively official capacity.

Let these newspapers selectively report and guide public opinion before the folk gossip circulates.

"Prince Da Shi once again reiterated that the Ming Dynasty would not annex the Taixi countries".

"Prince Da Shi said that the existence of the Taixi countries is the external driving force for the continuous progress of the Ming Dynasty".

"The Prince of Great Food believes that under the current level of science and technology, the Taixi countries can no longer pose a substantial threat to the Ming Dynasty".

Similar headlines of official propaganda have directly dominated the headlines of various newspapers.

Therefore, the vast majority of ordinary people who pay attention to newspapers and media have no deviation in their perception of this matter.

Of course, there were also some tabloids who privately approached people at the time to inquire about the news, and added fuel to the fire and came up with all kinds of sensational headlines.

"Prince Dashi discusses the plan for the complete extermination of the Tessie people at the Daming Air Event Awards Ceremony".

"Only by completely eliminating all Xiyi can the final obstacle to the future development of the Ming Dynasty be completely removed".

"His Royal Highness the Prince of Great Food invites the countries of Taixi to become vassals of the Ming Dynasty".

"I, Daming, is about to completely unify the world!" 》

The Great Eater is a coward! 》

However, the credibility of various tabloids is inherently questionable, and only a few circles will enshrine this claim as Guigao.

However, there are some contents in it that the official media will not take the initiative to say.

For example, Zhu Jingyuan and Wu Zhiyuan's dialogue focused on several key issues, including the question of whether to unify the world and whether to eliminate all Tessies.

And if these tabloids get the news, they will spread everywhere regardless of whether they can verify it or not.

"Allegedly", "according to reliable sources", "according to an informed source who did not want to be identified"......

In fact, this kind of beginning is the same meaning, I just spread a rumor that cannot be verified, and you readers love to believe it or not.

The Tessie countries had diplomatic staff in the Ming Dynasty, and they would collect official newspapers as well as non-governmental tabloids.

The politicians of the Taixi countries are very attentive in trying to fully understand every move of the Ming Dynasty from all aspects.

Prussian Berlin.

Two days later, Prussian Prime Minister Hardenberg found his own king, Wilhelm III, with a stack of newspaper information summarizing the information in China.

While Wilhelm III was reading the report, Hadberg specifically addressed the topics in the folk tabloids:

"Your Majesty, we need to pay special attention to those contents that are not reported by the official media of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the discussion of the topic of whether the Ming Dynasty wants to unify the world......"

William III had already seen the relevant instructions, and when he heard this, he immediately looked up:

"Isn't this some second- or third-rate tabloid news? It's completely impossible to verify......"

Hardenberg immediately said:

"It doesn't really matter whether the specific news in the newspaper can be verified, the important thing is that the second- and third-rate non-governmental tabloid newspapers that sell such news can continue to exist, which shows that this kind of news has an audience.

This also shows that this kind of issues and goals already have a certain public opinion basis in the local people of the Ming Dynasty.

"It is not a good thing that it is not a good thing that it is not a good thing that the world war, which has also caused extremely bad damage to Daming and Taixi, and now that it has just passed, this kind of public opinion has begun to rise among the people of Daming.

"In particular, there is another type of media, because Prince Da Shi publicly reiterated that Da Ming will not annex Europa, he pointed out that Prince Da Shi was a coward, and implied that the compromise and surrender faction of Da Shi Prince and Da Ming was setting up the emperor.

"They are even advocating and suggesting that the people should do something, and they claim that the Ming Emperor certainly did not think so.

They declared that they should not have negotiated peace in the first place, and as long as they continued to fight, the Ming Dynasty would have unified the world seven years ago.

"It's all about the fact that the surrender faction in the Ming Dynasty, including the Prince of Dashi, has cowered and led to the current situation.

"So I think the question we should really worry about is what will happen if the Ming Emperor and the imperial court are coerced or even influenced by these extreme trends of thought among the people......

William III's expression became very ugly:

"But...... After all, these are just tabloids that don't make it to the table, and the non-governmental newspapers that have a wider impact and a wider audience don't discuss the relevant topics......

"Even if the Ming Emperor is influenced by public opinion, it will not be the turn of these third-rate tabloids to influence ......"

Hardenberg immediately said:

"Judgment is such a judgment, but we cannot rely on judgment alone, and we cannot rely entirely on others for our fate.

"We should aim for the worst-case scenario and make plans and preparations that we can deal with."

Wilhelm III directed the newspaper information report and asked Hardenberg directly:

"What exactly is Your Excellency Hardenberg trying to say?"

Hardenberg immediately said:

"Your Majesty, I think that compulsory primary education for all, including military training, should be officially implemented.

"According to the tradition of China, ten years of life and ten years of lessons are a total of twenty years, a generation.

"If the world war were to break out twenty years after the end of the war, the schoolchildren of today would be the main members of the army at that time.

"Even if the world war does not come again, we will always fight Austria and make a final effort to unify Germany.

"Then we also have to rely on the strength of the current generation!

"This generation has been shooting since childhood, all of them are literate, and the impact on the war will be very significant."

This council was seen several times by William III, and several times by Hardenberg and other cabinet members.

They are fully aware of the benefits of compulsory education, including military training, but they have concerns about the cost.

Now, Hardenberg has once again come to speak to William III with the news of the Ming Dynasty.

As the king of Prussia, Wilhelm III has always been the monarch with the strongest sense of crisis on the continent of Tessie.

He did feel a possible threat to the future.

Friedrich Wilhelm III was silent for a long time, and finally accepted Hardenberg's words:

"Okay, I've approved it, and it's going to start next school year."

These official or unofficial news of the Ming Dynasty directly prompted the Prussian king to make a decision that he had hesitated for a long time.

London.

British Prime Minister William Pitt has been sick since last year.

In order to deal with various things in Britain, from the beginning of the world war to the present, there has been no good rest for more than ten years.

Mentally exhausted, full of worries about the situation and future of England, and I have a habit of drinking.

This series of problems has actually seriously damaged his body a long time ago.

In fact, in the past few years, there have been various health problems from time to time, and various diseases have continued one after another.

By the beginning of last year, there seemed to have been a general outbreak.

From the second half of last year to the beginning of this year, the whole person's mental state was on the verge of collapse.

This year is the seventh year of Ankang, and it is already 1812 in the Western calendar.

In its original history, William Pitt died in 1806 at the age of forty-seven.

In those days, the normal life expectancy of the upper class people with excellent living conditions was no different from that of modern people if there were no diseases that were difficult to treat.

But once you get sick, you are likely to die at a young age.

In the twenty-first century, William Pitt died at the age of forty-seven, which must be regarded as an untimely death.

Pitt of this world was not so early as prime minister, and at the same time medical technology was more developed, allowing him to live a few more years.

But William Pitt himself of this world thinks otherwise.

He felt that he might have been "damned."

Although during the development of Yinzhou, Taixi merchants often deliberately sold the blankets used by smallpox patients to the Yin people, which were used to spread the smallpox virus to eliminate the Yin people.

But that was two hundred years ago, in 1812, the world's culture and ideology had undergone tremendous changes compared with Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.

The Tessie native had completed a relatively complete abolition of slavery.

The key is the influence of the Ming Dynasty, which has seriously lost the Taixi people's own sense of superiority, and the spiritual blessing of the Chosen One is gone.

There's no way to do evil without psychological pressure.

Doing something similar now, taking the initiative to exterminate the natives of a place, would already make them feel uneasy.

The point is that public opinion has begun to condemn this kind of thing.

Newspapers in Britain pointed out that the British court was ignoring the large-scale plague in Tianzhu.

Some newspapers even began to reveal that the plague may have been caused by the British court.

After all, there was a history of smallpox transmission in Yinzhou.

As the head of the British court, Pitt certainly felt the pressure.

Pressure from the people and the king and the regent.

This should also be one of the important reasons why Pete has been ill for a long time this time.

On this morning, the Prince of Wales, the British Regent, and Grenville, the British Foreign Secretary, Pitt's cousin, came to visit William Pitt.

At the same time, with the news from Daming, I asked Pitt, the British Prime Minister, about the situation.

Because Pete's mental state was too weak, neither side engaged in complicated formal etiquette.

For the Prince of Wales and Grenville, he went directly to Pitt's bedroom to meet Pitt.

Pete said hello to the bed very weakly, and then continued to be alone.

Grenville didn't show the document to Pete, but read it out to Pete directly.

After Grenville read the headlines and content of the previous articles in the official newspaper and the large private newspaper, Pete, lying on the bed, muttered to himself:

"I'm glad I don't need to go through war again before I go to Satan......"

Grenville also had a sad face, his cousin was really not in this state.

I feel that after I die, I will go to hell to see Satan, not to go to heaven to see God.

According to Dr. Daming, he has given up on his own now, how can this be treated?

The Prince of Wales was equally sad, he was an indecisive man.

Since participating in the peace talks with Pete and realizing Pete's reliability, he has basically obeyed Pitt's words.

This is not necessarily a bad thing for the Prince of Wales, at least not in a nutshell.

Although the key Pete is also dead-hearted, but by British standards, it can even be regarded as exhausting.

Pitt helped the Prince of Wales out all sorts of troubles over the years.

Now that Pete is dying, who should he listen to in the future?

Grenville stopped talking several times, but in the end he didn't make any comments, but continued to read the news.

The rest is mainly the content of the folk tabloids and the more extreme newspapers.

After listening to a few of them, Pete's eyes widened with a little excitement:

"Give me a map of Europe!"

The Prince of Wales and Grenville were taken aback, thinking that Pitt was planning for the future of Britain and Tessie, speculating about a serious situation that might arise.

Without hesitation, the two immediately urged Pete's servant to fetch a small and up-to-date map of Europe.

Several people unfolded the map and showed it to Pete, who was leaning on the bed, waiting to hear Pete's analysis.

As a result, Pete just stared at the map and muttered:

"I may not be able to see it in the future, but I have to take a good look now......"

Grenville listened and immediately asked:

"William, do you mean that the Ming will eventually annex Europa?"

The Prince of Wales also pricked up his ears and listened carefully.

As a result, the two never heard a response.

When Grenville realized something, he realized that his cousin had closed his eyes and was no longer breathing.