Steel Dynasty - Chapter 337

[Chapter 337 Shortcomings]

The hot air balloon is still floating in the sky over Qingzhou.

Lin Wentao and others were chasing after them. Just when they were tired and panting, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came.

“Come up.” Xiao Ming rode up to Lin Wentao.

Lin Wentao was stunned, suddenly at a loss.

“Why are you still standing there? If the hot air balloon disappears, I will not build another one for you.” Xiao Ming glared at him and said.

When Lin Wentao heard this, he became anxious and immediately climbed onto Zhao Long’s horse.

Looking at the hot air balloon, Xiao Ming and Lin Wentao chased it out, followed closely by Zhao Long and Zhao Hu.

The hot air balloon kept flying west, and the rope under the hot air balloon hung down. Xiao Ming felt lucky that at least this time Lin Wentao made the rope longer.

Maybe this guy flew the hot air balloon like a kite.

Following the hot air balloon, everyone quickly chased it out of the city. The hot air balloon flew lower and lower outside Qingzhou City.

Immediately Lin Wentao and Xiao Ming told him that there was only a small amount of tung oil on the hot air balloon. They were just heating it underneath and did not expect the hot air balloon to fly away.

Seeing the hot air balloon flying lower and lower, Xiao Ming was relieved. If tung oil was added, there is no telling where the hot air balloon would fly.

Moreover, this hot air balloon can easily injure people when it falls from the sky. Now that it has landed on the farmland outside the city, Xiao Ming is relieved.

“Your Highness, I’ve caught it.”

The hot air balloon could no longer fly. Lin Wentao jumped off his horse and ran over. Someone pulled the rope of the hot air balloon.

Xiao Ming nodded, “Now you know how a hot air balloon flies.”

Lin Wentao nodded seriously, “This hot air balloon flies according to the direction of the wind. If we ride in a hot air balloon, we can only follow the direction of the wind. “

Well, it’s good to understand this. Although you have created a hot air balloon, it is only the most basic hot air balloon. Really practical hot air balloons need to continue to be explored. I hope that one day you can make hot air balloons.” Balloons have been put into practical use.”

What Xiao Ming said was basically an endorsement of Lin Wentao. Hot air balloons are only the first step.

He continued: “Now the ability of hot air balloons to fly is only the most basic. The next problem you have to study is how to let people ride in hot air balloons and find different wind directions in the air to control the flight of hot air balloons.” At

different heights in the air The direction of the wind is different. Hot air balloons can only fly according to the direction of the wind, and the speed is the same as the wind speed. This knowledge is included in the textbook written by Xiao Ming.

Lin Wentao nodded. He also knew that he had only achieved the first step. He said: “Your Highness, after a while, I will definitely take a hot air balloon to the sky and circle Qingzhou City.”

“Hahaha, I am really looking forward to this. One day, this hot air balloon will become a scenery in Qingzhou.” Xiao Ming laughed.

For Xiao Ming, he really hopes that the hot air balloon can function as a bomber, but unfortunately it is not possible with the current level of hot air balloons.

First of all, the current hot air balloons are not hydrogen balloons, their flying height is not high, and their flexibility is too poor.

Because it is driven by the wind, the hot air balloon cannot hover at a certain location and can only follow the wind.

If you really want to throw something down, unless there is a suitable wind direction to blow the hot air balloon away from the enemy’s camp.

Secondly, you have to throw it accurately. After all, once the place has passed, the hot air balloon may need to travel a long way to find the right wind direction to return, not to mention that there can only be a few people on a hot air balloon.

Therefore, instead of the extremely inefficient sneak attack on the enemy, Xiao Ming still focused on high-altitude reconnaissance, tourism in Qingzhou City, and advertising.

Just imagine how many people’s attention would be attracted if a large advertisement was hung on a hot air balloon and paraded through the city.

Xiao Ming can already think of businessmen competing to place advertisements on hot air balloons.

The last role of the hot air balloon was to deliver news and rescue key figures when the city was besieged. Of course, he did not hope that this method would be used one day.

In any case, he still appreciated Lin Wentao’s courage to try a hot air balloon.

It just takes a while to wait for the flight.

Zhao Long and Zhao Hu were asked to cooperate with Lin Wentao to put away the hot air balloon. Not long after, students from the School of Physics also arrived.

After saluting Xiao Ming, they all stepped forward to help Lin Wentao put away the hot air balloon.

Xiao Ming looked at the busy students with satisfaction. He finally saw a change in them.

And this shift is only getting more pronounced.

While the students here are busy, Qingzhou City has already exploded, and the people coming and going and the merchants coming in and out are all rushing towards the city gate.

There were more and more people around the hot air balloon, and soon the area where the hot air balloon landed was surrounded.

There was a strong sense of curiosity on their faces.

Looking at the large number of people watching, Xiao Ming thought that he might be able to use this hot air balloon time to popularize scientific knowledge among the people, which would also enlighten the people’s wisdom.

In the crowd, Xiao Ming also saw Cao Zhengyang, who was looking at the busy students with a look of shock on his face, his mouth wide open.

Since ancient times, people have been in awe of the sky. Flying is an unattainable dream. You can imagine the shock to them when a hot air balloon floats through space.

For foreign merchants, hot air balloons made them feel that Qingzhou became more mysterious and the King of Qi became more unpredictable. From their hearts, they gradually became full of awe of Qingzhou.

King Qi could even fly into the sky, but there was nothing he couldn’t do.

The local merchants were surprised and looked at the foreign merchants with faces full of pride, as if to say, look, this is our Qingzhou, look at how many of you dare to say that our Qingzhou is shabby.

Seeing more and more people surrounding him, the soldiers guarding the city suddenly rushed over. They sent some of them to surround Xiao Ming, while others dispersed the people.

The situation in Qingzhou is complicated now, and Xiao Ming’s safety is the most sensitive thing on everyone’s mind.

After Lin Wentao arranged the hot air balloon and let the carriage pull it back, Xiao Ming returned to the city.

Speaking of which, this was his first time seeing a hot air balloon. Although he knew the structure of a hot air balloon very well, it was his first time seeing a real one, so he was full of curiosity.

On the way back, Xiao Ming kept chatting with Lin Wentao.

Lin Wentao initially talked about the next step of realizing a hot-air balloon for people to ride on, while Xiao Ming talked about using hot-air balloons for high-altitude reconnaissance, and also talked about the functions of other hot-air balloons.

Especially when it was said that hot air balloons could be used to make money, Lin Wentao became even more excited, because he felt that the hot air balloons he made were at least not frivolous, and the money was not wasted.

And Xiao Ming also promised him that if the hot air balloon could bring in income, he would invest all the money in Bowen College.

(End of chapter)