Nothing was unexpected. Zhong Jinwei saw the legendary helicopter. Xu Zhengming sat in it and used his feet to rotate the wings, which could fly more than a foot high.
Xu Zhengming explained to Zhong Jinwei that he had been thinking about how to fly higher and farther these years. Unfortunately, progress was slow and did not achieve much results.
Zhong Jinwei knew that this was actually the reason why his motivation could no longer be improved, but it didn't matter, as long as he had this idea.
So, after watching Xu Zhengming's experiment, Zhong Jinwei said to Gu Baichuan in front of him: "Go and inform the Suzhou Prefecture Magistrate, and ask him to send Xu Carpenter to the capital in a great way. At least let Suzhou
The people in the city all know that Carpenter Xu is highly skilled and has been selected into the Capital Research Institute."
Gu Baichuan understood what the Duke meant, which was to spread the news so that such buried talents would no longer appear among the people of Jiangnan. Anyone with a skill can go to the local research institute and try it out, and maybe he will be able to do it.
Selected into the institute.
"Yes, my subordinates will do it right away." Gu Baichuan agreed, then turned around and called a sergeant. After whispering a few words, the sergeant left the team.
Seeing that what he was looking forward to was gradually becoming a reality, and the prefect of Suzhou City was required to handle the matter, and he was sent to Beijing in a glorious manner. Xu Zhengming didn't know what to say, but he understood.
The gentleman in front of me must be older than the prefect.
In fact, it’s not that Xu Zhengming doesn’t want to change the situation of his family, but his abilities are limited. He puts all his energy into his hobbies and can’t take care of his family.
Now he can balance his hobbies with his family, and he can still gain respect from others. He burst into tears of joy and immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Zhong Jinwei.
Zhong Jinwei helped him up with a smile, gave him a few words of encouragement, and then returned to Xu Zhengming's shop.
Not long after Zhong Jinwei arrived at Xu Zhengming's shop, the prefect of Suzhou Prefecture hurried over.
As soon as I entered the store, I took a brief look at the situation inside. Seeing that the leader was a young man sitting there drinking tea, he took a few steps forward, knelt down and bowed: "I am the magistrate of Suzhou Prefecture to pay my respects to the imperial envoy."
As Xu Zhengming's family looked on dumbfounded, Zhong Jinwei said with a smile: "Get up, don't publicize my coming here for the time being. But remember to handle Xu Carpenter's affairs in a graceful manner, so that the people in Jiangnan will hear about it.
As for burying talents."
"I understand," the magistrate replied respectfully.
After Zhong Jinwei arranged these things, there was nothing to do here. He turned down the prefect's reception banquet and immediately left Suzhou City.
The relevant memorial has been sent to the capital by Dongchang's squadron. I believe Emperor Chongzhen will be very happy when he sees it.
Zhong Jinwei plans to set up an aircraft research group within the Power Research Institute, led by Carpenter Xu and supplemented by scholars, to study various types of aircraft and their principles. Not only helicopters, but also airships and other flying things must be studied.
And they are required to accumulate their own theories in the process of experimental research. Even if their generation cannot develop a real aircraft, they must leave valuable wealth in this area to future generations. Establish an air force for the Ming Dynasty and soar into the blue sky.
Such a solid foundation helps this day arrive as soon as possible.
After Zhong Jinwei left Suzhou, he still followed the original plan and first took a boat to Hangzhou Prefecture, the southernmost end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and then traveled by land to the Shipping Department of Guangzhou.
The reason for this is that time is limited and it is impossible to inspect every shipping department.
Zhong Jinwei’s plan is to go directly to the Guangzhou Shipping Company, which is the closest to Southeast Asia and is also the largest. As long as the shipping company here is up, even if there is only such a shipping company, it can transport food from Southeast Asia, thereby playing a role in
It serves as a demonstration and drives other cities’ shipping companies to learn from Guangzhou’s shipping company model and develop.
What Zhong Jinwei didn't expect was that the official road from Hangzhou Prefecture to Jinhua Prefecture had already built a cement road and was in operation.
Jiangsu and Zhejiang are really prosperous. There are so many vehicles coming and going on the cement road. Zhong Jinwei is not very common on this road.
Every car means money. It seems that the road money collected here is quite a lot.
Zhong Jinwei was very satisfied, and while walking on the road between the sidewalk and the main vehicle road, he looked at the condition of the cement road.
The cement road was separated in the back and forth directions. Vehicles, horses and pedestrians went their own way without much interference with each other. Therefore, Zhong Jinwei and his party headed towards Jinhua Mansion at a very fast speed.
Due to the busyness of the road, many roadside stalls have appeared on both sides of the cement road, serving tourists and earning some household income.
A group of people were riding on horseback. One bad thing was that the sun was quite bright. Although Zhong Jinwei was used to such days when he was leading troops. But now he was not leading troops after all. After driving for a while, he saw a man on the roadside.
It was a big tea shop, so I asked him to go there and rest for a while before continuing on his way.
This tea shop is really big. When more than 30 people entered the tea shop, they only occupied about half of the seats. However, because there were other tourists, most of the seats in the tea shop were filled immediately.
When the original passengers saw a large group of knights in robes riding tall horses, they knew they couldn't be offended. Except for a few passengers who were originally sitting in twos and threes, except for a few who stood up and set off on their way, the others automatically gave up a large piece of open space to let them go.
Gave it to Zhong Jinwei and others.
Zhong Jinwei was not someone who thought he had to keep a distance from the common people after becoming an official and show off his official authority. Therefore, these travelers voluntarily gave up their place, and he kindly clasped his fists and saluted: "Thank you all."
According to the personalities of Zheng Zhilong and others, they just sit there. Sitting in these seats means looking up to them. Unexpectedly, the two brothers were surprised that the Duke would treat these ordinary people like this.
But Gu Baichuan and others didn't take it seriously because they had been following Zhong Jinwei for a long time.
Seeing that Zhong Jinwei was so polite, the tea shop owner felt relieved. He personally stepped forward to entertain him and introduced to Zhong Jinwei with a smile: "Sir, what kind of tea would you like? The shop also has watermelon soaked in well water.
It's cool, delicious, and super sweet. It's a good way to relieve the heat, although the price is a bit expensive..."
Before the boss finished nagging, Zhong Jinwei was already overjoyed when he heard that there was watermelon to eat, and immediately ordered: "Just bring some watermelon, and some more."
This was a big customer, so the boss quickly agreed and called for people to move the watermelons.
After a while, Zhong Jinwei and his party all held watermelon pulp in their hands, gnawing on the cool and delicious watermelon in the envious eyes of other people in the store.
Zhong Jinwei was eating while looking at the scenery outside. There was also a small stall under a tree not far from the tea shop. A young couple shouted from time to time, calling passers-by to come over and have a cup of tea.
There was also a child of about five or six years old helping out. It seemed that a family from a nearby village was setting up a stall to earn some money. The family of three were all busy with smiles, and the scene was very warm.
But after a while, Zhong Jinwei discovered that a group of people had arrived from the village in the distance, and they rushed straight to the small tea shop in a menacing manner.