Chapter 488: The Great Eagle
The success of the test flight of the aircraft made everyone very excited, which represented a new page in the Tang Empire, and Ang Lee's research and development opened up a new era. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
With the fast means of transportation of airplanes, the time required for future travel will be greatly reduced, and the distance and frequency of travel can also be greatly increased, which is a national welfare.
At the beginning, when they saw a very ordinary plane, everyone couldn't see that the plane had much use, but after Ang Lee's longing explanation, everyone figured out that the behemoth they saw in front of them was just an experimental product, and the improved aircraft could fly on the scale of 100 people, and the flight was more stable and fast.
At this moment, the worship of Ang Lee by everyone present has risen to a new stage, and the eyes that look at Ang Lee are already looking up to God, in addition to worship or worship.
In the era of Datang, which regards the craftsman industry as a strange skill, it is not easy for everyone to recognize and worship Ang Lee, but the things invented by Ang Lee are too surprising, which breaks through the world's understanding of the craftsman's ingenuity, and all the practitioners in the craftsman industry have achieved a great social status improvement, and all of this is the credit of Ang Lee.
Li An was very satisfied with the admiring eyes cast by everyone, and then said: "It will take some time for the practical operation of the aircraft, but before that, it is necessary to build airports in advance throughout the country, and you have just seen that the take-off and landing of the aircraft need to taxi a large distance, and the requirements for the airport are still relatively high, and the construction of airports in various places requires the full support of the imperial court and your full assistance." ”
"Yes, yes, we will do our best to help."
Those who are officials are most fond of engaging in projects, and not only do they have the opportunity to be greedy for a sum of money, but they also have the opportunity to establish their political achievements; if they do not engage in any projects in their first term as an official, not only will they not be able to make money, but it will also be difficult to get the opportunity to show their strength, and it will definitely be a big loss.
The airport is not a big project, but the runway is thousands of steps away, there are a lot of supporting facilities, and it also needs to plant lawns and maintain it.
Ang Lee predicts that many local officials will choose to expand the scale of the airport for the sake of political achievements, build the airport beautifully, make more money and make more achievements, and quickly promote officials.
For these Li An don't want to care, the water is clear, there is no fish, so that the little greed of the official has little to do with it, and if you are greedy, you will open the knife, this is the best means of the royal family in China since ancient times, not only to get a sum of money, but also to maintain the people's will and the foundation of governance, and increase the prestige of the royal family, which can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone.
After the news reached the palace, Li Longji immediately issued an order to give a great credit to everyone in charge of research and development, and the titles and bonuses were very generous to commend these heroes.
As the leader, Ang Lee undoubtedly has the most rewards and titles, however, for more and more rewards, Ang Lee has long been numb and has no sense of excitement, and the commended talents who participated in research and development for the first time wept excitedly, as if a loved one had died at home.
This kind of uncontrollable excitement, Ang Lee has seen too much, when he won the first place in the competition and raised the national flag, he was all crying with excitement, like a child.
In a country that engages in a cult of personality, after the people see the leader, they also cry like children, and they are excited, don't want it, whenever they see this, Ang Lee vomits in his heart, crying your sister! Look how brightly your leaders smile, and don't want to hang up and cry a hammer.
"Congratulations to Li Shilang for winning the title of 'Aircraft Ancestor', congratulations!"
"Congratulations to Li Shilang......"
Li An'an was sweet, and hurriedly said: "Tongxi, Tongxi, Tongxi, hahaha!" ”
"Wait a long time to dry your tears, what to cry on the day of great joy."
Ang Lee can't stand these excited crying boys the most, and his ability to control his emotions is too poor.
The headline of Datang News the next day was the news of the successful test flight of Datang's first aircraft, and even the emperor's draft congratulating the plane on its successful launch was placed slightly lower to show the importance of this news.
In addition to the emperor's draft, all the princes and ministers also wrote a message to celebrate the successful launch of the plane, and all of them were published in the Datang Daily.
This directly led to the serious overload of the content of this issue of Datang Daily, and the amount of paper used was much higher than before, but the price remained the same, and it was still very close to the people.
Ang Lee has published a number of articles, ranging from a vision of the future of large-scale popularization of aircraft, to articles related to aircraft, such as the basic knowledge of aircraft technology and theory.
As the deputy editor-in-chief of Datang Daily, Li Bai was not only responsible for compiling the news of the plane going into the sky, but also put the poems he made on the spot on the Datang Daily, which were naturally poems related to airplanes.
In this issue of Datang Daily, more than half of the content is related to aircraft, and the first content that readers watch is almost all about aircraft-related news, and even, many die-hard fans of Shendor have temporarily put down the reading of Shendiao, as if reading news about airplanes.
Ang Lee's concise text combined with simple drawings of the shape of the plane fills the reader with great curiosity, and they are eager to know how such a huge guy can fly.
"Did you see that? This is what an airplane looks like, and it really has two wings. ”
"Yes! It looks a bit like a bird! However, it is much larger than the average bird. ”
"The wings of the birds are soft, but the wings of this plane are hard, and they really fly?"
"The Datang Newspaper has been published, so there can still be a mistake."
"You read it, the congratulatory speech written by His Majesty himself, it is said that you have no jokes, and even Your Majesty has said that this is true, and you dare to doubt that this is disrespectful to Your Majesty."
In a teahouse, a group of tea drinkers talked together.
"Machines can fly into the sky, Datang is terrible."
"Only when I came to Datang did I know what a real big country is, and compared with Datang, our big food country is a small country."
"Hey, I really wish I was a citizen of Datang! Look at these Tang people, they are all showing off their might! ”
"What I said is, I hate the people of the Tang Dynasty, I have become a citizen of a small country in Chang'an, and I am looked down upon by the people of the Tang Dynasty!"
Several Persian businessmen were eager to change their nationality, just like the greedy people of many countries in later generations, who wanted to obtain green cards from rich countries, so as to become citizens of rich countries and enjoy higher and better treatment.
"Send this newspaper back to the country at once, and the king must be made aware of it."
After receiving the news of the success of the test flight of the aircraft, many envoys of small countries sent their subordinates to send this newspaper recording the success of the test flight of the Datang aircraft back to China and handed it over to their king, so that their king could understand this magical Datang technology.
Of course, there are also envoys from some small countries who subscribe to multiple Datang newspapers every time, and one of them is sent back to China to provide some intelligence sources for their country, and they are basically sent back once within a few days.
"This kid is good! Machines can fly into the sky, and it seems that Datang is getting more and more difficult to deal with. ”
"Yes! Datang is getting stronger and stronger, and our hope of recovering the country is getting slimmer and slimmer. ”
"If Datang's planes can really transport 100 people to distant places at a time in the future, the speed of the Tang Army's dispatch will be greatly enhanced, so where will we still have room for resistance."
"Hey, there's no hope of recovering the country! It's better to give up. ”
Some small countries destroyed by the Tang Dynasty are increasingly feeling the slim hope of recovering the country, and in the face of the powerful state apparatus of the Tang Empire, their strength can no longer be weaker, which is completely a vulnerable standard.
The hope of trying to restore the country by force was basically stifled, and the people's hearts gradually began to return to the Tang Dynasty, and the people were not fools, so they would not be loyal to the so-called king, they only knew that after being the people of the Tang Dynasty, their lives were better, from a poor life, to the level of food and clothing, and they no longer had to go hungry.
The restoration of the country is to shed blood and sacrifice, it is to fight with the Tang army, not to mention the benefits, and it will lose the national welfare that the people of the Tang Dynasty deserve, so that the people will not stand up against the Tang Dynasty stupidly?
And those who are bent on opposing the Tang Dynasty are the aristocratic groups that have been destroyed and lost a lot of interests, they could have been powerful in the country and have huge vested interests, but after the Tang army destroyed the country, they distributed the benefits they deserved to the ordinary people, so their interests were damaged, and they naturally hoped to restore the country, so as to vainly try to obtain some benefits again.
The nobles who are bent on recovering the country are often for their own interests, and the common people cannot get their due benefits after the restoration of the country, but they get less, so the common people are naturally unwilling to cooperate with these nobles who have restored the country, even if it is a fallacy agitation, it will not play a big role, no one is a fool, why should you be a gunman, the common people are also people, and they are not a tool driven by you at will.
In the following days, the literati of the Tang Dynasty submitted a lot of articles praising virtues, most of which were related to airplanes, and the good ones were given the opportunity to be published.
In other words, in a row for a week, the news of the successful test flight of the aircraft has become the most concerned news, and the influence and attention have surpassed the Condor Heroes.
But as time went by, the news of the plane was slowly decreasing, and the Condor once again became the biggest topic on the streets.
Since the appearance of the Condor Heavy Sword, many gentlemen in the capital have begun to spend a lot of money to buy eagles, and the bigger they are, the more they like it, and the more willing they are to break the bank.
In addition to the merchants who sell eagles, the business of the blacksmith shop in the capital is also booming, and many Guizhou children are no longer accustomed to the horizontal sword in their hands, and ask to build a heavy sword, which is the kind described in the Condor, such a wide heavy sword on the body, that is called a domineering, as if others look at their eyes and respect and worship a lot.
In a short period of time, the gentlemen in the capital have all carried heavy swords on their backs, and their momentum is more arrogant than before, they have the style of Yang Daxia, but they do not have Yang Daxia's chivalrous heart, how to bully people and how to bully people.
Of course, not all of them have the physical strength to carry a heavy sword, and some of the weaker ones started the idea of a carpenter's shop.
They asked the carpenter to build a heavy sword in the shape of a heavy sword, which was even wider than the iron one, and looked even more awesome.
However, the fake is always fake, and the slenders who carry the iron heavy sword can not tolerate those who steal their limelight with the wooden heavy sword on their backs, and the brawls will naturally unfold.
The gentlemen all have followers, and the battle is not small, often a group battle, the battle is fierce and exciting, and the process and result of the battle also appear on the page of Datang Daily, so that the people of Datang can know.
These gentlemen have a lot of courage, they don't seem to care about their names appearing in the Datang Daily, but they are a little complacent, thinking that they are very awesome, but their elders don't think so, and this will inevitably lead to them being beaten badly.
For a while, the heavy sword and the big flat-haired beast became the standard for the gentlemen, and all the contending gentlemen would have these two kinds of equipment.
Fortunately, Li An changed the plot of the Condor and removed the humiliation of Xiaolongnu and Yang Guo's broken arm, otherwise, wouldn't these gentlemen hide an arm, in this way, Li An would definitely be scolded to death.
The bigger the flat-haired beast, the more expensive it is, but the largest flat-haired beast is definitely not as huge as described in the Condor, which makes many people regret it, and for this reason, they are looking for bigger flat-haired beasts everywhere.
However, the IQ of the people of the Tang Dynasty is still quite high, and soon, a gentleman came up with a good idea, he used the feathers of the flat-haired beast and various other materials to make a huge eagle model, the whole size is more than a human, absolutely powerful and domineering.
And this huge eagle model needs to be worn, and the dogleg himself wears this carved garment, and then goes to meet his master, and gets a few coveted bones.
The use of dog legs to pretend to be flat-haired beasts, this is the most in line with the plot of the giant eagle eagle, for this reason, soon gained popularity, the gentlemen learned one by one, all let their servants pretend to be eagles, follow themselves out to swagger cool, and learn to call their servants the eagle brother.
Originally, in the era of the Tang Dynasty, going out to bring a Kunlun slave was the most face-saving thing, and the advantages and disadvantages of Kunlun slaves could completely reflect the level of aristocratic status.
But after the influence of the novel of the Condor Heroes, the eagle pretended to be a servant began to become popular, and gradually replaced the Kunlun slave, which directly led to the price of Kunlun slave plummeted, and some merchants who hoarded Kunlun slaves sat on the ground and started to lose a lot of money, and it is estimated that these merchants who hoarded Kunlun slaves would hate Li An to death! I hate the servant who came up with the pretending to be an eagle owl in order to please his master.