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Chapter 230: The turning point of the times: the milestone of Ming Technology

Li Tianxin's return made the whole factory look forward to it with great excitement.

They have been looking forward to the advent of the "Aeronautical Age" for ten years.

In the past ten years, Ming Dynasty has built airports, built oil depots, stored aviation fuel, developed electronic computer technology, launched communication satellites, selected pilots, etc., and various preparations have been made in full swing.

Only the aircraft, which is the core of the aviation age, has always been seen only in drawings and models. The only ones used for training are simulation devices, and no real objects have been produced.

Because Li Tianxin set the starting point very high from the beginning. In terms of passenger aircraft, he used the "Boeing 747" as the starting point, and fighter planes were built directly from third-generation fighters.

Although this made Ming lack the practical experience of upgrading from the original version to one step at a time, it saved Ming a huge amount of resources.

Li Tianxin does not think that raising the starting point will be a problem. Just like the aircraft during World War I and World War II, they themselves are to be eliminated.

They appeared because of the limitations of the times, and people at that time could only build that kind of aircraft.

But for Li Tianxin, the situation was completely different.

He understands the development in the following decades and the industrial foundation laid for Ming Dynasty is also very solid. There is no need to waste resources to manufacture backward models that are destined to be eliminated.

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"Please see the main stall."

Li Tianxin has resigned from the position of governor and has become the factory's general manager.

After Li Tianxin took over the phone, he turned it on and operated it skillfully, and everyone in the stalls couldn't help but admire him.

What's more, let alone hundreds of planes, every time a plane crashes, as long as it is not a problem with the pilot's operation, the crux can basically be found out and then made up for improvements.

After the meeting began, first of all, the heads of various fields reported to Li Tianxin the scientific and technological achievements over the years and the development progress in various fields.

Just like you can obviously make the AK47 directly, is it necessary to make the old sleeve made in Hanyang?

"Yes."

This mobile phone has just come out, and they are sure that this is the first time Li Tianxin has seen the real thing, but looking at his movements, he looks like he has been using it for many years, and he is extremely familiar with it.

"Student Cao Shaoqin, meet the teacher."

Just like when Ming Dynasty launched communication satellites before, it failed many times. No fewer than twenty rockets crashed or exploded. Didn't they succeed in the end?

To put it bluntly, even if a few hundred planes crash, it will still be a huge profit without breaking the bones.

Although they may not be able to play with it in a short period of time after the real airplane is built, it is still no problem to simply fly the airplane.

Half an hour later, more than 200 factory stallholders gathered in the auditorium. They were all technical talents related to the aerospace field.

Even the screen is already color and has camera functions.

The factory supervisor is equivalent to the president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the general manager is equivalent to the chief scientist and chief engineer.

"I would like to report to you, our Communications Research Institute. After several years of hard work and research, we have finally successfully developed a small 'mobile phone'. This is a sample. Please take a look at it."

The lack of experience can be made up for by simulated driving. Although real aircraft have not been built in recent years, there is no shortage of various simulation devices.

Regarding parachuting training, pilots have already used helicopters, hot air balloons, airships and other equipment to complete the training.

All in all, the accumulation of more than ten years in Ming Dynasty is enough to support the country's smooth entry into the aviation age, and then completely transition from the digital age to the information age.

As long as you can take off and land smoothly and drive smoothly, you are basically a qualified pilot.

In the short term, Ming Dynasty has higher technical requirements for civil aviation pilots than fighter pilots.

The pilots start from the most basic simulator training, gradually increase the difficulty of operation and accumulate experience.

And if it is a pilot's operational problem, is a pilot who can make consecutive operational errors and crash several planes in a row still qualified to be a pilot?

Therefore, Li Tianxin is not afraid of the lack of experience of pilots and engineers. Both he and Zhu Jianshen are mentally prepared to exchange resources for experience.

If there is a saint who is born with knowledge in this world, then Li Tianxin is undoubtedly that person.

The officially established number of researchers is more than 20,000, and the total number of other staff and interns is nearly 50,000, including a garrison of guards.

It has to be said that the Institute of Communications did give Li Tianxin a surprise. The mobile phone he got now was almost the same as the Lokia candy bar phone he remembered.

Today, the factory has a total of more than 740 employees, most of whom are at the Fenyang headquarters, and the rest are in branches scattered across the country.

Because if there is a problem with the fighter plane, it is nothing more than the loss of one plane, and the pilot can eject and parachute.

As long as the pilots are fine, even with resources, a group of qualified pilots can be produced.

In the early days of the advent of aircraft, there may be some training accidents and the loss of some aircraft, but Li Tianxin did not care.

At the Fenyang factory base, the current governor, Cao Shaoqin, brought Ma Jinliang, Tan Luzi, Ji Xueyong, Lu Xiaochuan, Jia Ting, Cao Tian, ​​Chang Yanxiao and other factory veterans to visit Li Tianxin.

The simulation devices range from biplane propeller aircraft in World War I, to various fighter planes in World War II, to jet aircraft.

Now that there is no enemy country with which they can engage in air combat, the demand for aircraft piloting skills is not that urgent.

At the stall of the Communications Research Institute, a candy bar mobile phone was handed to Li Tianxin and he looked at Li Tianxin expectantly.

Li Tianxin smiled and raised his hand and said: "No need to be polite, call all relevant stalls immediately and go to the Great Hall for a meeting. We have waited too long. It is time for the aviation age to come."

This "yes" should make everyone feel elated and excited.

If you can drive smoothly and perform some technical maneuvers, you are already an excellent pilot.

After all, the resources he saved for Ming Dynasty were enough to manufacture thousands of various aircraft, and the fuel he saved was an astronomical amount.

He is truly worthy of being the head stall, the pioneer and founder of Daming Technology. Any technological product in his hands can be used instantly.

However, if there is a problem with a civil aviation passenger plane, there will be a large number of casualties, which Li Tianxin will never allow.

It had been forty years since he was reborn in this world, and he finally touched this thing again. Even with his current state, he couldn't help but be so excited that he had the urge to cry.

"Good, good, good."

Li Tianxin said hello three times in a row, which made the waiters at the Communications Research Institute elated and happy.

"This mobile phone is a milestone for Ming Communications. It will be put into mass production as soon as possible. From now on, people in our Ming Dynasty can truly reach the state of 'the world is as close as our neighbors'."

The head of the Communication Research Institute happily agreed: "Yes, my subordinates will set up a production line as soon as possible and put the mobile phone on the market as soon as possible."

Li Tianxin looked solemn and ordered in a deep voice: "Secretary records."

The clerk sitting in the back immediately opened his laptop and was ready to record.

"If the Institute of Communications has made great contributions, it will be recorded as a collective special merit. The top performers will be recorded as an individual, ranging from first-class to third-class merit, according to the size of their contribution."

"Even the cleaners responsible for sweeping the floors and the cooks responsible for cooking must have at least one third-class personal meritorious service."

As soon as Li Tianxin said these words, the stalls at the Communications Research Institute suddenly burst into excitement. The big stall owner clasped his fists deeply in excitement and said loudly: "Thank you, Mr. Stall Boss, for your kindness." Ming Dynasty's merit system is not just an honor. , as simple as a medal, but directly linked to promotion and salary increase.

Special merit can be promoted to third class, first class merit can be promoted to two classes, second class merit can be promoted to one class, and third class merit cannot be promoted, but there is also a considerable bonus.

When two third-class merits are accumulated, they are equivalent to one second-class merit and can be promoted to the first grade.

A collective special merit means that everyone affiliated with the Institute of Communications can all be promoted to the third level and receive a large monetary reward.

Personal merit can be stacked with collective merit.

For example, for the big stall of the Communications Research Institute, he can't get a first-class personal merit at one time. In other words, he can be promoted to a total of five ranks this time.

The titles of the Ming Dynasty are divided into five levels, eleven levels and thirty-three levels.

The five levels are: Gong, Hou, Bo, Zi, and Nan.

The eleven levels are: Duke of the country, Duke of the county, Duke of the county, Marquis of the country, Marquis of the county, County uncle, County uncle, Founding son of the country, County son, Founding male, and County male.

The thirty-third grade means that each level of title is divided into three grades, so there are thirty-three grades.

Li Tianxin, the Duke of Jin, is the first-class Duke, Zhu Yong, the Baoguo Duke, is the second-class Duke, and the other seven of the eight generals are all third-class Dukes.

The British prince Lianhua, who is far away in England, is also a third-class prince.

Zhu Wuwu was a first-class prince, and then he was a third-class county prince. There were three levels and nine grades away from the first-class prince.

If a person without a title can accumulate two third-class merits, he can directly obtain the title of third-class county boy.

Although he is only the smallest noble at the bottom, he has also completed the transition from common people to nobles.

In other words, with that collective special merit, the Factory Communications Research Institute became an all-aristocratic unit.

Even the sweeping lady is a first-class county man, a serious baron, a minor noble of the Ming Dynasty. She can receive a monthly national title allowance and a pension after retirement.

Following closely behind the Communications Research Institute was the Advanced Weapons Research Institute, which also received a collective special merit.

Because the Advanced Weapons Research Institute developed the missile half a year ago.

The third unit to receive collective special merit was the Aeronautical Research Institute. Their achievement was the creation of a "turbojet engine."

This is the soul and core of a jet aircraft. Without it, the Boeing 747 and third-generation fighters are just talk.

It can be said that the main reason why Li Tianxin will embark on a journey of exploring the Pacific route and then return to China to start the advancement of the aviation age is that he received a telegram from the Aeronautical Research Institute to create a turbojet engine.

If this thing had not come out, Li Tianxin would not have started the aviation age.

In addition to these three units, other units have also achieved their own results. Although they have not won any special collective merit, there are still many first-class collective merits.

After this incident, the Ming Dynasty Factory became the unit with the highest proportion of nobles among all the imperial departments, and its status as an important weapon of the country became even more unshakable.

After this meeting, Li Tianxin ordered the formal establishment of an aircraft workshop and the establishment of an aircraft production assembly line.

Due to more than ten years of accumulation and preparation, he opened eight aircraft manufacturing workshops in one go, each with no less than ten production lines.

After the production line was set up, he requested that each type of aircraft be manufactured first and tested by him personally, and then decide whether to mass-produce it depending on the situation.

Now he is a cultivator in the golden elixir stage and has opened up his spiritual consciousness, which can be said to be more powerful than any scanning equipment.

During his test flight, he could completely cover the entire aircraft with his spiritual consciousness and closely monitor all details of the aircraft's operation.

Under the supervision of spiritual consciousness, he can observe the details of even the rotation of a small gear or the function of a small part and see it clearly.

In this way, if there is any problem with the aircraft, he can immediately discover it and make timely improvements and adjustments.

After he has tested all the aircraft models and confirmed that there are no problems, he can build a batch of training aircraft to provide the first batch of pilots with trial experience and to prepare for training more pilots in the future.

At the same time, the aircraft workshop can also be officially put into production, ushering in the aviation era.

So far, the total number of pilots in the Ming Dynasty is about 20,000, of which 3,200 are military pilots, with an average of 400 in each military region.

The remaining 16,000 people are all civil aviation pilots.

This is only the first batch. Ming Dynasty has never stopped training pilots.

According to Li Tianxin's assessment, Ming Dynasty needs at least 30,000 civil aviation pilots to meet its aviation needs.

As the population and territory of Ming Dynasty grow, the demand for the number of pilots will also increase accordingly.

As for fighter pilots, there is not much demand for numbers.

Because in the short term, Ming Dynasty will not launch a large-scale war with the outside world, and the first large-scale war with the outside world will not happen until at least twenty years later.

Once the Ming Dynasty launched a war, it was often accompanied by large-scale immigration to occupy land. Therefore, large-scale wars would not occur until the Ming Dynasty's population increased in stages.

Although Ming Dynasty has done a good job in technological blockade and confidentiality measures in recent years, and Xichang has contributed a lot in this regard, after all, there is no airtight wall in the world.

As the Ming Dynasty ushered in the Age of Discovery more than a decade ago, the nerves of Western countries were touched.

In order to develop the economy, increase productivity and absorb foreign resources, the Ming Dynasty naturally could not close the country, but had to open up trade.

Therefore, many Western countries traveled thousands of miles to send fleets and caravans to the Ming Dynasty to carry out trade with this country. Naturally, there would be no shortage of various espionage activities.

The Ming Dynasty's military technology was strictly guarded and it was difficult for foreigners to obtain technical information, but foreigners could easily obtain civilian technology.

There are also some national worms who will sell out their national interests. In addition, Western countries also have scientists who study science. This has led to the rapid development of Western countries' technology and weapons.

Western countries have also embarked on a raging industrial revolution, and their social development has progressed by leaps and bounds under the leadership of the Ming Dynasty.

They cannot develop automatic rifles, but they can develop weapons such as breech-loading rifles, shotguns, revolvers, and chain-loaded heavy machine guns on their own.

There are also things like breech-loading guns, steamships, and internal combustion engines. They can also get them through various means.

At present, the technological and weapons levels of major European countries such as France, the Ottoman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the French Valois Dynasty, and the Grand Duchy of Moscow, as well as the Ming Dynasty's die-hard brother the Kingdom of Korea, and the neighboring Japanese Fuso Kingdom, are basically close to those of World War I. level.

This is inevitable. Unless the Ming Dynasty closes itself off, it will be impossible to avoid leaking any technology.

But Li Tianxin didn't care. The gap between the Western countries and the Ming Dynasty was at least half a century, with a generation difference of two or three generations.

If a war really breaks out, the Western countries will only be crushed.

They can't hit the planes in the sky and can only be bombed. They can't even understand the missiles on the ground. They can only be bombed. How can they fight?

The most important thing is that once the war begins, the Asian and American parts of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the British Island, will exert their strength at the same time.

If we use the later pattern of another time and space to describe it, it would be equivalent to saying that the Lighthouse Country and the Huaxia Country in the 21st century joined forces to attack Europe at the level of World War I.

Just thinking about this comparison in strength, Li Tianxin couldn't help but want to laugh. He really didn't know how the European countries could resist the Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)