Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 767
Taichang was standing there frowning in thought, but the whole city of Xinma had already started to boil.

Because the hot air balloon had already flown into the sky and was circling at a height of less than fifty feet above the ground, people in the city could see it clearly with their naked eyes.

Originally, many young and strong North American Indian tribes who had no time to go to the port to watch the excitement, and people from the primitive tribes here couldn't help screaming.

It is incredible that such a huge thing can fly into the sky.

People who saw a hot air balloon launch for the first time were shocked and dumbfounded, but what Taichang thought about was how to use hot air balloons to explore the Amazon River Basin as soon as possible.

Obviously, to explore the Amazon Basin, there must be enough landing pads.

Because the voyage of the hot air balloon is only five or six hundred miles at the moment, but the length of the Amazon River is more than ten thousand miles, and the tributaries are even more numerous. If more landing platforms are not built, it is impossible to explore the entire Amazon River Basin Finish.

The take-off and landing platform must be built quickly. After all, it will take more than ten days for the cement to dry completely after construction, which is quite time-consuming.

He pondered for a while, and then said loudly: "Zi Ru, quickly send someone to recruit Xianglin."

This matter must be handed over to the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion. Even if other people are capable, they must not be as fast as others.

Immediately afterwards, he said to Liu Shiyou: "Decree, order the navy to send a fast boat to bring Wang Chong back, including more than a thousand Spike warships, all brought back."

Now there is no need to use the Spike Warship to explore, because thousands of Spike Warships have worked so hard to explore for half a day, it is better to go around the sky with a hot air balloon.

What else is there to prepare?
Taichang thought for a while, then said to Cao Huachun: "Send someone to fetch the latest map that Wang Chong sent back."

Before the map arrived, Ma Xianglin rushed over in a Spike warship.

They are leading people to work at the shipyard, just across the river, so it won't take long to get here.

Seeing Ma Xianglin coming, Taichang recruited Du Linzheng and asked, "Bozheng, what materials are needed to build a hot air balloon landing platform?"

Du Linzheng said without hesitation: "There are no special materials for this takeoff and landing platform, that is, cement, red brick, steel and wood."

Hearing this, Taichang asked again: "Is there any problem in collecting twenty sets of materials today?"

Du Linzheng estimated it carefully, and then said solemnly: "No problem."

Taichang nodded slightly, then waved his hand and said: "Okay, hurry up and prepare. In addition, take the map of the main road of the Amazon River and carve a simpler woodblock, and print a hundred copies first. This will be done today. "

The pharmaceutical factory originally had a paper-making workshop and a printing workshop attached to it. The factory buildings have been built long ago, as long as the personnel are in place.

The fleet from the Ming Dynasty naturally brought relevant craftsmen, and the paper workshop and printing workshop had already started work at the moment, so it would not be a problem to carve a simple woodblock and print a hundred copies.

Du Linzheng hurriedly bowed and left.

Taichang said to Ma Xianglin again: "Xianglin, estimate how many people are needed to build such a landing platform in one day."

He led people to build this takeoff and landing platform, so he naturally knew it.

Ma Xianglin pondered for a while, then estimated: "1000 people should be enough."

Hearing this, Taichang said without hesitation: "Then call 2 people, and let the leaders and generals at all levels come over, take a good look at this platform, and explain to them carefully what should be paid attention to when building it."

Ma Xianglin hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "I will understand in the end."

At this time, the map happened to be taken.

Taichang immediately let several guards cooperate to unfold the map in front of them.

Wang Chong has already explored for more than [-] miles along the main road of the Amazon River. The map is more than [-] feet long when it is unfolded. It is also very spectacular.

Taichang just glanced at the map for a while, then pointed to the Juma City Road next to the Sancha River mouth in the south: "This time we will build [-] takeoff and landing platforms at the same time, and the first takeoff and landing platform will be built outside Juma City.

The ports and piers there are all ready-made, you only need to send someone to bring the materials there.

The other nineteen will be built along the main trunk of the Amazon River, both on the south bank and the north bank, with an interval of about [-] miles.

The places on this map that are suitable for building ports and wharves have been marked, so you can take a closer look to see which places are suitable for building landing platforms.

At that time, a thousand soldiers will be sent to each place, and they will go there on two armed merchant ships and four spiked warships.

Every place should bring a Spike warship to build a temporary dock. After the temporary dock is built, you will use the Spike warship to transfer the materials and personnel on the merchant ship, and build landing platforms as soon as possible. "

Hearing this, Ma Xianglin nodded slightly, and then stared at the map carefully.

At this time, the huge hot air balloon has begun to land.

After all, this time it is just a test flight, roughly in the air for a couple of laps and try it out, if there is no problem.

Taichang watched the hot air balloon descending slowly, and suddenly an idea popped up in his mind.

Or, take a hot air balloon to the sky to see?

He hadn't actually flown in the sky in a hot air balloon yet.

In the past, it was fear that hot air balloons would be unsafe.

Right now, the hot air balloon didn't seem to have any problems, it even landed safely, so what's there to be afraid of?
In fact, the possibility of accidents in hot air balloons is very small.
Unless the weather is very bad or the hot air balloon is on fire, otherwise, it is really difficult to fall from the sky. Even if there is no fuel and the fire is turned off, the problem is not a big problem. The hot air balloon can still descend slowly.
Moreover, there are several feet long cables below, and everyone can slide off the cables before the hot air balloon falls to the ground without getting hurt at all.

The weather is clear at this moment, with blue sky and dark clouds, so it is naturally impossible for the weather to suddenly become bad.

As for the problem of the hot air balloon catching fire, they have paid considerable attention at the beginning of the design. Where the flame can reach, it is all metal, and it is impossible to ignite at all. What is there to be afraid of?
Once this idea pops up, it cannot be contained.

He held back for a while, but still couldn't help asking: "Xianglin, why don't we fly to the sky in a hot air balloon to have a look?"

what?
Hearing this, Ma Xianglin couldn't help being taken aback.

Cao Huachun, Du Linzheng and others were so frightened that they quickly dissuaded them: "Your Majesty, you can't do it!"

But Taichang said without doubt: "What can't be done, can something happen if you fly a few tens of feet high?"

Uh, how do you say this?

The emperor was so angry, everyone really didn't dare to persuade him anymore, it is really unlikely that something will happen if he flies a few dozen feet high.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Taichang immediately raised his hand to ask for a hand-held telescope from a guard, and then led Ma Xianglin to the landing platform.

When they came to the hanging basket, the head of the Ministry of Works was ordering someone to check the lamp holder and fire shield there with a step ladder.

Taichang stepped forward and asked, "Let's take Zhen and Xianglin to fly up to see if there is any problem?"

what?
The head of the Ministry of Industry was stunned for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "No problem."

It seems that people are also very sure, so that's fine.

Taichang immediately took Ma Xianglin into the hanging basket on the ladder.

Seeing this, the head of the Ministry of Industry quickly ordered people to replace the original two kerosene lamps, and also ordered people to move out the two replacement lamps and the other two unused kerosene lamps. Close the ladder and get ready to take off.

Taichang looked at the kerosene lamp that had been moved down, and suddenly realized a problem.

Isn't the main purpose of building the landing platform just to replace kerosene lamps? If there is not enough kerosene lamps or kerosene, it will be troublesome.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help asking, "How many of these kerosene lamps do you bring?"

The head of the Ministry of Industry said without hesitation: "Master Cheng was afraid that this kind of kerosene lamps could not be made here, so he asked us to bring a thousand of them."

Uh, it seems that there is nothing that a genius like Cheng Jiashuo can't think of.

Taichang asked again: "What about kerosene, how much did you bring?"

The head of the Ministry of Industry still said without hesitation: "We have brought thousands of barrels of kerosene, which is hundreds of thousands of catties. In the words of Mr. Cheng, it is no problem to go around the yellow equator a few times."

Well, this kid really thought of everything.

Seeing that the hot air balloon was almost ready, Taichang waved his hand and said, "Ignite the fire and take off."

The head of the Ministry of Industry immediately shouted swiftly: "Light the fire, put the cable."

"Puff!" There were two more flames a few feet high, and the hot air balloon quickly rose slowly.

At this moment, the hot air balloon is inflated, so there is no need to wait.

Looking at the shrinking figure below, Taichang couldn't help feeling a little excited.

It feels really good to fly into the sky.

He was feeling secretly there, but the head of the Ministry of Industry suddenly asked: "Your Majesty, how high are we flying and in which direction are we flying?"

Taichang thought for a while, then slowly said: "Fly about fifty feet high, fly to the east, let's go to the mouth of the Amazon River to have a look."

At this moment, there are only five people on the hot air balloon, and it can fly about five hundred miles, and the mouth of the Amazon River is only a hundred miles away, so it doesn't take half of the kerosene to go back and forth, so there is naturally no problem.

Hearing this, the head of the Ministry of Industry hurriedly raised his binoculars and carefully measured the altitude. After a while, he waved his hand and said loudly: "Turn the rudder, the direction is due east."

The hot air balloon quickly turned around and flew straight to the east.

At this time, you can see the things below clearly without even using a telescope.

The astonishingly wide Amazon trunk, the tributaries, the planned areas, the rows of docks and waterways, etc., look like looking at a map.

It feels so good to look down at the world!
Taichang couldn't help but feel a feeling that the world is in my hands and I can travel freely.

The hot air balloon keeps flying to the east, and the whole Xinmacheng area can be seen in a panoramic view.
Taichang couldn't help but took out his binoculars to scan, and then checked the planning map of the new horse city in his mind.

At this time, he couldn't help feeling emotional again, this hot air balloon was designed for drawing maps!

It took them several days to detect the Xinma City area.

With a hot air balloon, it only takes a few quarters of an hour to detect the entire Xinmacheng area clearly!
This height, this field of vision, a scan of a circle is an area with a radius of tens of miles, and the scenery below is similar to a map.

They don't even do detailed mapping, just drawing based on what they see is more accurate than mapping below.

Of course, if you can find some reference objects on the ground and compare the specific size, then the drawn map will be more accurate.

The take-off and landing platform seems to be the best reference object. As long as the size is marked with white paint, and the corresponding scale is drawn on the telescope with light black paint, the accuracy of the drawn map will reach within one foot. There is no problem inside.

This is already a big improvement.

You know, at this moment, the errors in the maps drawn by European countries are hundreds of miles!
(End of this chapter)