I opened a tavern in Datang/Datang: My peerless talent was exposed

You must know that the projects in these research institutes are all funded by Zhang Nuo, that is to say, the entire research institute is supported by Zhang Nuo, but he uses them to research these, which are of great benefit to the country, but not to himself. What is this project that is not concerned about the country and the people?

This is not Li Shimin's bragging, but that Zhang Nuo has never had much land under his name, and he does not rely on farming to earn that little hard money.

The land outside his Lantian City is basically used for farming various new crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn. More importantly, there are many opportunities to increase the fertile land under his name. But he didn't touch it, as if he didn't care at all.

This is completely different from those big families. In the eyes of those big families, even if workshops and businesses can earn unimaginable money, land is the most real after all. Therefore, almost all big families, especially those who followed Zhang Nuo made a fortune here in Pyongyang, and almost all of them used part of the money to buy land.

But even so, in the end it was Zhang Nuo, who had never paid much attention to the land, and spent his own money to study how to preserve food better and how to increase food production. This has to be said to be a very ironic thing.

At the same time, for Li Shimin, he was the majestic emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but he hadn't thought of the importance of this matter until now. Obviously, he was also a little bit incompetent as an emperor.

But Li Shimin is Li Shimin, worthy of his title of emperor through the ages, he broke free from the previous guilt and confusion almost instantly, and instead looked at Xingben and asked,

"Then what results have been produced by the Food Research Institute? Or what are they currently researching?"

Xingben blushed instinctively when he heard this question, and then said in a low voice,

"Previously, I used potatoes to make some snacks that King Qin liked to eat, and then used potatoes and sweet potatoes to make some foods that are suitable for long-term storage. They all taste delicious!"

After hearing this, Li Shimin immediately felt that the admiration for Zhang Nuo that had just arisen should simply disappear. It turned out that Zhang Nuo was still the same Zhang Nuo.

Don't look at Zhang Nuo's loud slogans, but the original goal of this guy's establishment of such a research institute must be to get himself some snacks or something.

Li Shimin knew it without even thinking about it. Don't look at it. In the future, this research institute will definitely produce some new planting techniques or new foods that can really benefit the people and the country, but this will never change Zhang Nuo. A research institute gave itself the original intention of researching snacks.

But what can Li Shimin say?

Is it because Zhang Nuo went to the research institute to study snacks first and blame him for not getting it right?

But it just happened that such a lazy guy did something that no one in the entire Tang Dynasty or even the previous dynasty of nearly a thousand years did. What can you blame him for?

Therefore, Li Shimin, who was thinking right and wrong, simply let out a foul breath, and didn't think about it anymore, the more he thought about it, the more depressed he became, so he might as well go and look at other things.

"Xingben, then I won't go to the food research institute. When I go back at night, I will ask someone to get some snacks they have researched. I believe that the snacks that even King Qin is satisfied with should be good."

"As for now, you should take me to see the ordnance first. I remember that a kid named Xu Bowen should be in charge here. That kid used to work in the Ministry of Industry!"

Xingben nodded. He has been in touch with this matter before, so he introduced the situation while leading the way.

"It is true that Xu Bowen used to work in the Ministry of Industry. His Royal Highness Qin Wang is more optimistic about that young man. After all, he is quite knowledgeable if he can read and write, and if he is not young and cultivated well, he will have a bright future."

"In addition, Xu Bowen has performed well since he followed His Highness here. The train was brought out by this kid. Although His Highness was tormenting him enough during that time, on the other hand, he also learned a lot. Now he We are working on a project with a high degree of confidentiality, and it seems that the degree of danger is also quite high!"

Hearing Xingben's introduction to Li Shimin, Li Shimin immediately became interested. The level of secrecy is high and it is dangerous. Isn't this the same as when he was studying artillery.

Could it be that there is another big killer coming out here?

As an emperor, Li Shimin has always had a dream of expanding the territory. He hopes that Zhang Nuo will come up with more powerful and fierce things, so that he can lead the army to expand the territory for the empire. soiled.

But before he opened his mouth to ask, Xingben said softly with a mysterious face,

"The research over there is not ordinary things, they are studying how to fly to the sky!"

Li Shimin was speechless, it turned out that he was really studying Feitian here!

Chapter 615 Progress of Feitian Project

Xu Bowen has been living a bit crazy recently. On the one hand, he has really built the two things of steam engine and train, and at the same time he has explored a relatively complete set of manufacturing methods for steam engines and trains that are suitable for today's production conditions. Xu Bowen has already gained both fame and fortune.

Zhang Nuo directly promised him a title. Although he is a viscount, it is enough for Xu Bowen to smile happily when he is not allowed to win a title these days without military merit.

As for other monetary rewards, needless to say, it was enough for Xu Bowen to change from penniless to rich overnight.

But what makes Xu Bowen most happy is not just these. He told Zhang Nuo when he was studying the train that he had an idea before, how to take people to the sky.

And at that time, he also said that Kongming lanterns can fly, so the idea of ​​whether a large Kongming lantern can take people to the sky.

At that time, Zhang Nuo promised him that as long as he could finish the train project on time and with high quality, he would not only approve Xu Bowen's flying plan, but also provide him with technical support.

As long as you are in the research institute, anyone with a bit of experience will know how amazing the technical support of Zhang Nuo, His Highness King Qin is.

It seems that no matter what you want to study, this Highness can take out the corresponding materials for you to study.

This is undoubtedly a gluttonous feast for those who really like research, and now more and more people hope to get such technical support.

The feeling of being able to turn the whimsical ideas in one's mind into reality, once experienced, will be addictive.

Therefore, Xu Bowen, who had just finished researching trains and steam engines and became a Viscount, only took a sea boat to visit relatives for ten days before returning immediately.

Moreover, with a shy face, he somehow managed to trick a group of people from the Lantian City Research Institute back to Pyongyang City with him.

This is not an easy job. You must know that both sides are actually scientific research institutes controlled by Zhang Nuo. However, if Zhang Nuo is currently in Pyongyang City, the technical support here will be a little more timely.

And similarly, Zhang Nuo in Lantian City had already arranged the corresponding materials, and kept them in a very safe secret room, which would only be opened if several people were present at the same time.

There is a lot of knowledge that is not suitable for the outside world at the moment, but if necessary, you can go in and watch it after applying.

So under such conditions, Xu Bowen can still fool others into following him to Pyongyang City. I have to say that Xu Bowen is really talented in this aspect.

When he returned to Pyongyang, he plunged into the new project team almost immediately.

This project team is the Feitian project team promised by Zhang Nuo. Some of the project team members joined him from the previous steam engine and train project team, and some were drawn from other teams. The newcomers who came here in a hurry formed the current project team.

The first thing they did was to calm down and start studying the pile of information given by Zhang Nuo.

There are many introductions of flying equipment, from hot air balloons to airships, from paper airplanes to gliders. Not only are there introductions, but also intimately released the flight principles and manufacturing drawings of these types of aircraft.

Perhaps this kind of cramming-style teaching would be like a lunatic's behavior in later generations. After all, it would be foolish for a group of people who have not received modern basic education to suddenly study aircraft.

But in fact, in this day and age, there is nothing wrong with it. On the contrary, everyone feels that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a chance to make their name in history.

After all, since the birth of human beings, we have been accustomed to the existence of the sky. Whenever we look up, we always have an idea from time to time, that is, what does it feel like to fly in the sky, what is above the white clouds, what is the sky above the nine heavens? Are there any gods on earth.

Endless daydreams gave people endless motivation, not to mention that once this magical tool was researched, it would be an unimaginable magical weapon for the entire Tang Dynasty.

After all, there are no weapons that can fight against aircraft these days. It means that once the aircraft is born, it is only us who fight others, but others can only watch.

This is simply invincible, not to mention that with a real aircraft that can be used, the sky can become smoother, which is too important for Datang.

The land of Sichuan and Shu has high mountains and a lot of water. Since ancient times, there have been few roads to enter and exit. If there is an aircraft, can it be said that no matter how high the mountains are or how deep the water is, they will not be able to stop our footsteps?

It is precisely because this group of researchers can clearly understand the importance of the aircraft that they have devoted almost all their energy and enthusiasm to this project.

Li Shimin finally came to the Feitian project team after going through many hurdles!

This is a large courtyard that has been heightened and sealed tightly. You can hear the noise of people inside from the outside, but you have to go inside to find out what is going on.

After Li Shimin walked in, he immediately saw a big tent in front of him!

He had never seen such a huge tent.

If the largest tent he had seen before was a house, then the tent he saw now could be regarded as a palace, and it was the biggest palace of its kind.

Zhang Nuo provided the raw materials for this thing, and these researchers and craftsmen built it by themselves. Although this tent looks simple, it actually solved a big problem at the institute.

That is, if it is built outside, the aircraft will be exposed to rain when it hits a rainy day, but if it is built indoors, how to get it out if the roof is not removed.

So in the end, Zhang Nuo chose to get such a big detachable tent. Only this thing can meet the needs of the research institute. After the construction is completed, the tent can be directly disassembled and released.

Li Shimin had already walked to the front of the tent at this time, looking at the huge monster inside, Li Shimin was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth.

He has never seen such a huge object, he has seen palaces under construction, and he has seen the trains that have been built by the research institute, but he has never seen a metal monster that is more than ten feet high and tens of feet long.

And looking at this posture, it seems that this thing is the aircraft they said is going to fly into the sky?

If such a behemoth flew into the sky, how great would it be?

Li Shimin looked at the thing in front of him, and he was completely insane!

Chapter 616 Li Shimin wants to fly into the sky

Xu Bowen's flying plan, after receiving Zhang Nuo's support, was divided into several steps. In fact, the "first-generation airship" under construction at this time is already the second step of the aircraft plan.

Don't look at how powerful and majestic the "first-generation airship" looks at this time, after all, it is a behemoth with a height of nearly a hundred feet, but in fact, in the eyes of many people such as Zhang Nuo and Xu Bowen, this thing is actually a semi-finished product.

That's right, the current monster that shocked Li Shimin can only be regarded as a semi-finished product. It's not about creating something and then starting construction in large quantities, but about exploring today's productivity conditions. Next, how to use existing materials and technologies to realize the flight of the "first-generation airship".

This is just a first-generation aircraft for technical verification.

There is no electrolytic aluminum, no pressurization equipment, and even no closed structure with sufficient precision. How could it be possible for this airship to fly to an altitude of several thousand meters?

You must know that Zhang Nuo had come to give these people a basic science class as early as when the Feitian project team was first established.

The content of Zhang Nuo's lectures was very simple. He didn't tell them what to do and how to get them by hand, and he didn't directly exchange the corresponding things for them, reducing them to an assembly worker.

Instead, tell them clearly what difficulties they will encounter when they want to explore the sky and what risks exist in the sky.

You don't have to fully understand the theory inside, but you must know these things.

For example, every 1000 meters you rise will drop six degrees Celsius.At the same time, the air in the sky is thinner, and in order to ensure flight safety, the flight altitude is generally around 3000 to [-] meters.

Then how to solve the problem of air and temperature inside.

At the same time, to put it bluntly, the airship actually uses the buoyancy of the airbags on the top to pull up the cargo warehouse below, so when it floats, how to manipulate this behemoth to run according to the route people want?

Finally, the only gas lighter than air that can be produced so far is hydrogen. This gas produced through chemical reactions in Zhang Nuo’s popular science class is an extremely flammable and explosive gas in Zhang Nuo’s demonstration. How to solve the safety problem of hydrogen?

Zhang Nuo even gave a detention assignment after the science popularization, that is, hydrogen will expand when the altitude rises, so how to solve this expansion problem?

Well, this popular science completely confused the researchers, but within a few days, these people slowly came to their senses.

Since His Royal Highness King Qin has raised so many questions.So, the first thing we need to verify and solve is whether these problems are true.

That's right, Zhang Nuo taught them a spirit very early on, that is, science doubts everything, and only knowledge obtained through scientific experiments is true and credible.

Even, sometimes temporary experiments cannot represent permanent correctness, but can only represent correctness for a certain period of time.

Because of this, the first project of the Feitian project team is a hot air balloon, the simplest primitive aircraft with little complexity.

The purpose of building this aircraft is to explore and verify what Zhang Nuo said about the sky, and to provide technical support for the next airship manufacturing.

And I have to say that with Zhang Nuo's technical support and at the same time knowing a lot of knowledge that shouldn't be in this era, the creativity of these smart researchers is simply amazing.

At this time, what was piled up in front of Li Shimin's eyes seemed inconspicuous and even made Li Shimin feel a little unbelievable. Such a pile of junk is actually the first real loading of the Feitian project team that Xu Bowen is proud of. man flying equipment.

After Li Shimin had just listened to Xu Bowen's explanation, he was in a daze.

He played Kongming Lantern before, and even played with the young Empress Changsun when he was a child, but he never thought that enlarging the Kongming Lantern could take people into the sky.

He didn't even think about the reason why Kongming lanterns can fly into the sky.

However, Xu Bowen pointed to the big bamboo basket in front of him and a pile of cloth lying aside and told him that this pile of things could take people to the sky.

Logically speaking, under Zhang Nuo's teaching (hu) education (you), Li Shimin has accepted a lot of messy scientific knowledge, but he still can't accept this reality.

In his imagination, Feitian should be romantic and majestic, majestic and meandering, not to mention earth-shattering like Yijian Guanghan Fifty States, but no matter what, it must be the kind full of fairy spirit.

How did it become a simple broken basket and a big cloth bag?

Doesn't this make all the wonderful fantasies of immortals flying to the sky and hiding from the earth that he heard in his childhood all be lost?

Empress Changsun also has a bit of a bad face at this time, girls, what I like most is reverie, even a dignified and stable empress, isn't it when she is still young, hasn't she ever done her clothes fluttering in the wind? A dream that takes off and dances in the nine heavens?

But now all the beautiful dreams are shattered by this broken thing in front of him. It turns out that Feitian doesn't need the magic power of a fairy, let alone a chance, all he needs is a large Kongming lantern.

The originally illusory dream of flying into the sky has become a junk thing that one person can climb up and fly, and even one person may have a bit of an ugly expression at this time.

Xu Bowen may have stayed in the research institute for a long time, so he didn't notice that the emperor and queen's face was a little bit wrong. Instead, he continued to explain with great interest.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, although this little thing is simple, it is still easy to take four or five people to the sky once, but there are still problems in the control. Otherwise, it can be regarded as a relatively practical aircraft!"

"You have to know that it took us a lot of thought to make this thing. The main reason is that the Huanbu is hard to find, and the airbag on the top consumes a lot of silk. This thing is not cheap!"

"However, a group of us are already working on the second-generation hot air balloon. At that time, we will try to see if other materials can be made into a hot air balloon, and then see how to adjust it to make the hot air balloon more convenient to operate!"

Li Shimin listened to Xu Bowen beeping for a long time, finally couldn't help it, and said directly,

"Don't talk about it, since you said before that this thing has been successfully developed, there is no need for another time. Today you will take me and fly there once!"

Chapter 617

Li Shimin's decision was blurted out, but Xu Bowen hadn't spoken yet, but Empress Zhangsun and Xingben jumped out, earnestly asking Li Shimin to take back his order.

Although Xingben knew a little more than Li Shimin, he hadn't seen this thing much, and besides, he and Empress Changsun had the same idea.

That is, if something happens on the ground or in the water, if something happens, you have to get up or swim back, and you will be injured at most, but this hot air balloon is flying in the sky.

If something goes wrong, is it possible that His Majesty will fly back by himself?

Li Shimin is such a person, sometimes he is really stubborn when he is stubborn, but now he feels that his dream of becoming a fairy and flying into the sky has been shattered, he can't listen to anything, and he just wants to fly up to see it.

Empress Changsun persuaded him for a long time but it didn't work. She turned her head and looked at the "culprit" Xu Bowen who was standing aside pretending to be transparent. She turned her eyes and asked curiously,