I want to be emperor

Chapter 1132 More than a hundred princes and princesses

The fifty-second year of Chengshun was definitely a very important year for the aviation industry of the Chu Empire.

Although the aircraft was invented two or three years ago, last year the Royal Institute of Technology's flying laboratory developed an aircraft that can fly and control stably.

However, most of the previous research and development conducted by the flying laboratory was still biased towards theoretical research and early experimental aircraft research, with the focus being on developing and proving the feasibility of controllable aircraft under lift theory.

However, the development and production of truly practical aircraft still rely heavily on the following five major aircraft companies.

After all, only these five major aircraft companies, relying on the parent company automobile company behind them, have enough funds and technical conditions to move the aircraft from the laboratory to industrial mass production, and finally realize the practical application of the aircraft.

After the five major aircraft companies invested heavily in research and development, a variety of practical aircraft finally emerged and entered the practical application stage.

Specifically, they include Tangshan Aircraft Company's Heiyan trainer/reconnaissance aircraft; Liaodong Aircraft Company's Liaodong twin-engine long-range reconnaissance aircraft; Songhe Aircraft Company's Song 6 four-engine transport aircraft/bomber; and the 'Lee II' developed by Lee Aircraft Company Seaplane'; the Americas 1 small/agricultural aircraft developed by the American Aircraft Company.

Based on their own technical characteristics, as well as current market demand and future market predictions, each of the five major aircraft companies has its own research and development focus and has successively developed its own representative aircraft models.

Of course, the R&D projects of these five major aircraft companies are not limited to their respective representative models. In fact, they are also involved in the research and development of models in other fields.

After all, the technical gap between different types of aircraft these days is not big... Fighters and transport aircraft are actually similar. They are far less mature than later generations of aircraft. The technical differences between different types of aircraft are huge.

Especially for the five major aircraft companies, such as Songhe Aircraft Company, which can build four-engine aircraft, it is not a big problem if you ask them to build a two- or three-ton twin-engine transport aircraft. They can build four-engine aircraft.

There is also Liaodong Aircraft Company. The twin-engine aircraft they have built are good, but they can also build single-engine aircraft. Taking advantage of their own advantages in airframe design and reduced engine fuel consumption, they can also build very good single-engine long-range aircraft.

As for Lee Aircraft Company, they can operate seaplanes as well as land planes... Even their Lee II seaplane originally had a ground take-off and landing version with landing gear.

After all, airplanes these days are still relatively primitive, and the requirements are not that high. The only requirements for the airplane are that it can fly and ensure basic flight safety. You can't expect too much else.

Otherwise, according to the technical standards of later generations, especially safety standards, all the aircraft developed and produced by the five major aircraft companies will be substandard products.

These are still the five major aircraft companies. As for the small independent aircraft manufacturers, the aircraft they produce are even less good.

And it was under such a situation that the Dachu Empire launched the large-scale production and application of aircraft in the fifty-second year of Chengshun.

The first to be put into large-scale actual production and practical application was the Black Swallow series trainer aircraft of Tangshan Aircraft Company... In fact, the other performance of this aircraft can only be said to be average. It uses the most technologically advanced V-6 aero engine, but its speed is It is not outstanding among the aircraft of the five major aircraft companies, and its range is not great, with only a mere 300 kilometers of range.

Why is it so?

It is precisely because they use a large amount of the aircraft's weight on the flight control system that this aircraft has better flight stability and easier control performance than other aircraft.

And this point gives this aircraft very good newcomer-friendly performance... That's why the military chooses this aircraft to be used as a training aircraft to train pilots.

After the purchase by the Army Air Force, the Naval Air Force, the Guards Air Force and even the Armed Tax Police Air Force and the Coast Guard Air Force have successively purchased Black Swallow trainer aircraft, bringing the total order for this aircraft to nearly three Hundreds of aircraft were built, and dozens were delivered in just a few months.

The dozens of Black Yan training aircraft delivered to the five major military services officially became the first large-scale mass production and application of aircraft in the Chu Empire, and began to train a large number of pilots for the empire.

There is no way. Although this aircraft is not very good in terms of speed and range, it is very friendly to newcomers and has great advantages in training novice pilots.

In addition to this reconnaissance aircraft, the second mass-produced and used aircraft is not the representative aircraft of the other three local aircraft companies, such as the super-long-range Liao-type bilateral long-range reconnaissance aircraft, the four-engine Song 6-type The transport aircraft, the Lee Aircraft Company's Lee Seaplane, was the American Aircraft Company's America One small/agricultural aircraft.

Because although the former three aircraft have also received orders from the military and have begun actual delivery, the orders are not large, and they are basically single-digit orders... It is said that they are for service use, let alone for various preliminary tests. , if you really want to finalize the model for large-scale mass production, you still need to make various improvements. Among them, the Songhe 6 transport aircraft is relatively slow in progress and technically complex. It is estimated that there will be no possibility of formalized mass production in two or three years!

First flight and small-scale trial production testing are two different things from large-scale mass production and service.

Currently, the only ones that can do this are the Black Yan training aircraft and the America-1 small aircraft.

The reason why the America No. 1 small aircraft was able to enter the mass production stage... is not because the technology of American Aircraft Company is stronger, on the contrary... it is because their technology is more backward, so their choices in aircraft type and performance are more conservative. .

The aircraft they built was a small aircraft that the other four aircraft companies were unwilling to build...the maximum takeoff weight was only a mere 600 kilograms.

At the same time, the speed is also slow, only 95 kilometers per hour, which is the slowest among all major aircraft among the five major aircraft companies.

The range is not that good either, only a mere two hundred kilometers.

However, it is precisely because of relatively low technical indicators and lagging performance that the difficulty of research and development has been greatly reduced, allowing this aircraft to complete various preliminary research and development and testing work in a short period of time, and then quickly entered the mass production stage.

The mass production of these two types of aircraft also means that the aviation industry of the Dachu Empire has officially entered the practical stage. The aircraft developed are not just laboratory products, but have the ability to be truly practical and have the ability to stimulate the economy. Ability.

Aircraft are also an industrial product. Although they are not personal consumer goods, the development of the aircraft industry can still drive a certain degree of economic development, provide employment and tax revenue.

At the same time, when the aviation industry matures in the future and can provide passenger and freight transportation on a large scale, it will also have great advantages in the transportation of people and high-value goods, and it can also promote economic development to a certain extent.

Needless to say, even the agricultural aircraft of American Aircraft Company have played a certain role in stimulating the economy. Even if they only have the function of spraying pesticides, they still have a certain role, which is beneficial to the development of large-scale concentrated agriculture. Of huge benefit.

What are the benefits? It can effectively increase per capita grain production and effectively reduce grain production costs!

The final feedback into people's daily lives is that they can eat more and cheaper food... although this magnitude is very small. But people's cost of living is gradually reduced by a little bit here, a little bit there, and then aggregated together.

A piece of science and technology is indeed of little use. At best it can only improve people's lives a little bit, but a hundred items? What about ten thousand items?

The results of many technological improvements were put together...to create the people of the contemporary Chu Empire who had no worries about food and clothing!

The annual per capita grain consumption level of 400 kilograms... is not supported by one or two technologies, but by a full range of technologies, even a lot of technological progress that has nothing to do with the grain industry. It can also play a certain role.

For example, many national defense technologies have nothing to do with agriculture... However, the progress of national defense technology is an indispensable part of the Chu Empire's overseas expansion and maintenance of global domination. Without a strong defense industry, there would be no strong army. , and without a strong army, there would not be many food producing areas around the world.

There are also advancements in various transportation technologies, whether it is ships, trains or today's cars... On the surface, these things have nothing to do with food production, but in fact they have a lot to do with it... It is precisely because of the Only ships in the sea can transport food from all over the world back to East Asia to supply the huge population in East Asia.

Only with trains can grains from inland areas such as Central Asia, North and Northeast China be transported to densely populated areas such as Central China and South China. Only grains from overseas regions can be transported to ports by trains and then transported by ships to various ports in East Asia.

Cars are also gradually replacing the role of horse-drawn carriages to complete the task of short-distance transportation of food.

Behind the national defense industry, shipbuilding industry, train and automobile industry...it needs a huge industrial system to support it, which involves mining, metallurgy, machinery, precision manufacturing, optics, chemistry, petrochemicals, textiles and countless other industries.

These industrial systems are interconnected, interdependent and mutually reinforcing.

The progress of one link can promote the progress of other links, and the progress of many links brings progress at the level of the entire industrial system, which ultimately feeds back into people's lives, that is, more and cheaper industrial consumer goods, such as textiles , housing, transportation; and more importantly, abundant and cheap food.

Today's high-level life of the people of the Dachu Empire is combined through many technological advancements.

This is also the fundamental reason why Luo Zhixue was unswervingly developing science and technology... He was not just fighting for hegemony, nor was he a pure technology enthusiast. He had great interest in all kinds of science and technology... His purpose Always the same thing: improve people’s living standards!

If you want to fight for global hegemony, you don't actually need to make so many technological advances. To put it bluntly, with Luo Zhixue's prestige and understanding of the world, as well as the huge population of China in the feudal era, even if it relies on pure coldness He can also conquer the world with weapons and armies, without any false pretense.

At most, there are only a few more casualties, but hundreds of thousands of deaths are just a simple number for a person who is determined to dominate the world. If he sacrifices tens of millions of casualties to compete for global hegemony, anyone with ambitions and ambitions will No powerful Chinese ruler would hesitate at all!

As for the rulers of other countries, that's terrible... It's not that they are not ruthless enough, but that their population base is too small and cannot support tens of millions of casualties.

But Luo Zhixue is different. He was somewhat interested in fighting for global hegemony in the early years, but now he is not interested... at least he is no longer interested in simply opening up territory and expanding the empire's territory.

In other words, I have passed that age...

When he was young, he was still very interested in these, just like he was interested in beautiful women.

When he was young, even when he was middle-aged, he was very keen on expanding his territory and collecting all kinds of beauties to enrich his harem. At its peak, the size of the Royal Dance Troupe reached more than 500 people...

This is just the Royal Dance Company!

But later on, Luo Zhixue had no interest in simple territorial expansion... It was not just him, in fact, most people in Chu had no interest in these simple territorial expansions.

How can I put it, the benefits are limited...especially since the population will be so large in the later period, and even the growth rate of the local population has slowed down significantly. It is unlikely that the population will increase significantly in the foreseeable future. Why do you need so much land... You can't even finish planting the land, it will just lie there uncultivated.

It would be better to retain the various indigenous countries and then plunder the labor value of the indigenous people... The Chu people found that this was more beneficial.

The same goes for women... As he gets older, Luo Zhixue is no longer so interested in pure female sex... It's not that he doesn't love beauties anymore, but he won't support the Royal Dance Troupe of more than 500 people like before. Be ready to teach them dance skills at any time.

Even if I want to do this, my body can't hold it anymore.

This can also be seen from the fact that after Luo Zhixue reached the age of fifty or sixty, the number of newly born princes and princesses dropped rapidly.

In the past, there were even more than a dozen princes and princesses born in many years...

Luo Zhixue has a very large number of children. Adding them up, not counting those who died just after birth, there are more than 100 children who are officially included in the family tree after the full moon... Luo Zhixue himself sometimes cannot remember his children clearly. The names are often confused.

This also allowed him to break Song Huizong's record as the emperor with the most children... Before him, Song Huizong had been the emperor with the most children for a long time with 80 children... and this man only reigned for twenty-six years.

Compared with Song Huizong, the speed and frequency of Luo Zhi's students are actually relatively low... because Luo Zhixue has been in power for more than fifty years, twice as long as Song Huizong, but the number of children is not as high as Song Huizong's. twice.

It can be seen that Luo Zhixue is relatively restrained!

But even so, the stallion protagonists in many online novels in later generations are simply not worth mentioning compared to Luo Zhixue... There are at most dozens or hundreds of stallion protagonists who are dying... but they have had skin relations with Luo Zhixue. There are more than a thousand women in the harem who are registered in the register and have been awarded the official concubine level... This only counts the women who are registered in the register and have the official concubine level, but there are even more women who have not been granted the official concubine level... ...I don’t know the exact number of Luo Zhixue.

why?

Because he is the emperor of the Chu Empire... and he is also a rather vulgar emperor.

Not only are there many women, but there are all kinds of women. Not to mention the women of Chu, there are also a lot of various European princesses.

So among Luo Zhixue's children, there are also some mixed-race children with blond hair and blue eyes...

Of course, although there are many women of all ethnic groups, Luo Zhixue's aesthetics are also very vulgar. The foreign women in the harem are limited to light-skinned women from Central Asia, West Asia and Europe, excluding dark-skinned women from India, Africa, etc.

Luo Zhixue's interest in beautiful women is the same as his attitude towards the simple expansion of territory. From a small fight at the beginning, to crazy... and finally slowly converged, and finally let nature take its course...

To a certain extent, the indigenous people of all countries have to be grateful for Luo Zhixue's change of mentality in the past ten or twenty years. Otherwise, if it were replaced by other ambitious emperors who wanted to expand their territories, many indigenous people on the earth would have died long ago. Got it!