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Fortunately, these two departments were not considered very important. The Imperial Household Department was responsible for managing the royal family's own expenses and the palace's expenses, while the Bureau of Works and Equipment was a lowly and unimportant department among the various government departments. It was normal for them to give up these two departments.

In contrast, the phrase "officials who report on hearsay must not criticize" was intended to take advantage of the situation and eliminate the powerful mouthpiece of the Censorate, which forced the Grand Secretaries to be fully alert. After get off work, they had to find ways to deal with the troublemakers in the Censorate one by one.

If the emperor were to reclaim the power of the Ministry of Revenue and the Supervisory Commission of Finance and Taxation, or even the less powerful Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel, then they would not yield unless Kazdel's cannons were pointed directly at their heads, let alone be threatened.

No, it should be said that even if Kazdel's cannons were pointed at their heads, they would not give in. This is quite normal for a feudal autocratic regime. On Earth, this has been the case since the Han Dynasty. It is commonplace for them to "trample the bones of nobles and officials on the streets" rather than spend money and grain on disaster relief and recruit soldiers.

A few days later, at the Celestial Master's Mansion, "The imperial edict has arrived, Your Excellency need not worry about it anymore." "What worries me is not the edict or the criticism from the court, but..." The old Celestial Master sighed, hesitating to finish his sentence, "Never mind, something is better than nothing. Issue the order to open the tomb!"

If the Great Yan wants to develop its aerospace industry, it cannot rely on its own technological strength. However, compared with other countries in Terra, they have a major advantage—their ancestors were wealthy and powerful.

This is no different from digging up graves, destroying mountains and demolishing temples, and it is highly controversial in the Great Yan Dynasty. However, now that the emperor has issued an edict of "no taboos," there is nothing more to say.

"Order the Bureau of Works and Machinery to deliver the machinery and equipment we need within ten days. Anyone who fails to do so will be executed. Order the Imperial Household Department to conscript people from the Imperial Estates for labor. You take the Black Guards with you. Anyone whose household registration or population does not match the records will have their superior executed."

"Anyone who dares to cause trouble during the opening of the Holy Tomb, attempts to damage the equipment, or incites disturbances will be executed along with their entire unit!"

At the same time, Kazdel exclaimed, "Wow, after all these years, the Great Yan has finally realized that some things should be used instead of being worshipped and offered incense. That's rare!" Ling suddenly stopped writing, revealing a surprised expression.

The Great Yan was one of the main crash sites and manufacturing areas for spacecraft, as well as a large number of refuges for early inhabitants. It is unlikely that usable early inhabitant spacecraft could be dug out from here, but it is possible to dig out engine models and spacecraft wreckage that are not completely rotten.

Even without using the technology of their ancestors, the ancient engine designs created by their own ancestors after they emerged from the shelter following the end of the Dark Ages can be reverse-engineered.

How confident do you think they are in their ability to restore it?

"About 80% of the first generation, 50/50 for the second generation, and the third generation... unless the Great Yan goes back 800 years, that's just wishful thinking." The first generation was a standard solid rocket, barely crossing the Carmen line, requiring a master craftsman to carve the medicinal pillars. With the Great Yan's current processing and technical level, it could barely be restored.

The second generation skipped several steps of liquid propulsion and went straight to liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen rockets. Considering the technological level required for pressure vessels and hydrogen-oxygen rockets in the Great Yan Dynasty, this was like digging up an old grave with added benefits, making it a 50/50 situation.

The third generation, the Originium-powered ion rocket, uses Originium as its power source and ionizes ion materials into high-temperature jet gas as its working propellant. With the current technology of the Great Yan Dynasty, this is just a pipe dream.

However, there was no fourth generation because after the Great Yan ancestors finally realized that it was almost impossible for them to break through the Originium meteorite cluster in orbit, they completely stopped developing new rockets and spaceships and instead began to develop a series of directed energy weapon technologies with the Divine Light Cannon as the core, attempting to destroy the Originium cluster in orbit with ground-based super lasers.

As for whether the plan was ultimately successful, we can tell by looking at the number of meteorites in orbit. But in any case, the Divine Light Cannon was indeed developed, and the Great Yan still holds the core of this technology.

In a sense, it poses no threat for the Great Yan to search through their ancestors' treasure trove for space engines, but if they were to search through the "Sky-Piercing Sword Project," then we must be on high alert.

Although it's unclear why the project ultimately failed, it's better to be safe than sorry. If these guys had actually succeeded, then taking down the current space station with such a super ground-based laser reflector array would be a piece of cake.

Compared to the Great Yan, whose ancestors were wealthy and at least had ancestral graves to dig up, Columbia and Victoria are in a bit of a predicament. Victoria inherited the Victoria Valley Industrial City, which is the construction center for mobile cities and landships. While it can still be of some help in developing the aerospace industry, Columbia is starting from scratch.

Originating from Victorian separatists and pioneers, and having no ancestral legacy to follow, they have consistently presented themselves as ambitious and emerging nations within Terra. Furthermore, free from the constraints of old powers like the aristocracy, Colombia has invested heavily and aggressively in new technology research and development.

This has created Colombia's unique technological advantages, such as electromagnetic crossbows, city defense electromagnetic cannons, and being among the first to follow Kazdel's tank technology. Now they are also starting to develop their own aviation equipment. However, when faced with a dimensional reduction attack like the Specter-class spaceship, they really feel powerless.

At least we could follow the old ways, but with this thing, we don't even have a clue. We don't have any ancestral wisdom to draw on. If we rely entirely on ourselves, the major research institutions and industrial groups in Colombia still haven't figured out how to make something fly that high.

Based on their original helicopter-like aircraft, they added an Originium thermal jet engine, allowing it to barely fly to the height of Originium clouds. They then developed a large airship that could fly in the sky using airbags and Originium lift devices.

They finally managed to turn the tide in the air race. Although Kazdel's aircraft were larger and faster, they were expensive and few in number. Columbia's vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, however, were useless in air combat, but they were excellent at ground attack.

Kazdel has upgraded its air defense weapons because these things are too flexible and there are too many of them. Once they enter the firing range and are not intercepted in air combat, the pressure on the land-based ships will be enormous.

As a result, before they could rest for long, Kazdel started working on rockets. Not only that, but Columbia also began its own secret development in parallel. At first, things were fine, but Kazdel was failing to launch every day. It would either explode on the launch pad or explode again after going up.

Columbia is launching a massive attack on the other side's aerospace industry propaganda, while secretly developing related technologies themselves. Although they are using Vault-Tec technology, the prerequisite for Vault-Tec technology is that they can survive until the day of the disaster. If Kazdel really sends something like a divine light cannon into space, who can withstand it?

Later, Kazdel made a technological breakthrough and successfully launched satellites and capsules, which put even more pressure on Colombia. Although some small-scale cooperation began in the private sector, Colombia maintained its original suppressive attitude and accelerated the development of its own rockets.

If at this stage, Kazdel was simply leading because of its accumulated experience in aerospace and its first-mover advantage, while Columbia believed it could catch up by relying on its own strengths, then the next two years are completely incomprehensible.

What kind of diva is the Specter-class? What the hell is over 3,000 tons empty? What the hell is a fully armored structure? What the hell is a force field deflection shield? Apart from the insultingly low "no weapons" designation, it's basically a space destroyer. So how did Kazdel jump straight from the tank to this stage?

It's like when everyone was playing with bows and arrows, and you pulled out a matchlock gun; when everyone finally managed to bring out the enlarged musket, you pulled out a flintlock musket and Minié bullets. At this stage, although the gap was large, it was still understandable. But then, before they even got the flintlock musket sorted out, you pulled out an electromagnetic railgun...

"How did Kazdel manage to do that? You are all the smartest people in Colombia. Are you really not as good as a bunch of Kazdel farmers who have only been literate for a few years?"

"They've had universal education for almost 10 years," the supervisor said dryly, then shut up, because universal education in Colombia has been going on for over a century.

Although Columbia University follows a standard elite education model, it hasn't completely abandoned basic education. This Columbia isn't the aging United States, which has been at peace for a long time and focuses all its energy on domestic affairs. Rather, it's similar to the young United States that grew up under the pressure of Britain and the Soviet Union.

Despite the pressure from Ursus and Victoria, even though Colombian capitalists are still inherently inhumane, the country's government remains firmly in the hands of a capitalist group led by Raytheon Industries, and the federal government is merely a figurehead.

However, in order to cope with external threats, capitalists in Colombia at this stage were still willing to give up some profits to consolidate their base. Therefore, although basic education was not as good as that of Kazdel, public community high schools could at least meet the needs of more than 75% of school-age children.

Of course, if you want to study at Columbia University, don't even dream about it if you don't have money. At least compared to the universities in the United States that are starting to set all sorts of low standards, Columbia's universities don't have as much political correctness now—you have to choose between money or talent to get in.

Students are either geniuses who receive full scholarships to enter university, or they come from wealthy families. Under this system, compared to other countries in Terra, such as Victoria's recommendation system and Da Yan's scientific research system, Columbia is considered very proactive in scientific research and academia.

After all, its backward system is only relative to other more advanced civilizations. As far as Terra is concerned, this country can be said to be full of adventurous spirit and youthful vitality.

Colombia's confidence in engaging in an arms race with Ursus and Vitória stems from its large skilled workforce and the fact that more than half of its citizens are educated. This means it possesses a profound scientific and technological foundation, enabling it to explore the unknown frontiers and turn fantasies into reality through its industrial capabilities.

However, this was before Kazdel appeared out of nowhere. They couldn't even imagine where these technologies came from. Even if that Mr. Xia was a versatile warrior, proficient in everything from scientific research and technology to business struggles, plus the evil spirits of Babel and Dr. Kal'tsit, the birth of a new technology was not so easy.

From preliminary theory, empirical data collection, preliminary research and development, technology integration, repeated testing, resource coordination, trial production, to the construction of mass production processes, it is a long and complex road, and any one of these steps may cause the entire project to be scrapped and have to start all over again.

But Kazdel seemed to have a cheat code for the game, without any prior theoretical research, mathematical proof, or development and publication of relevant physical and mathematical tools. He simply wrote his conclusions in a book and popularized them, as if he wasn't worried about any problems at all.

This left the researchers at Columbia University scratching their heads, completely baffled as to how they dared to write down conclusions and formulas on paper and expect you to follow them without any mathematical proof, data collection, experimental demonstration, or observation of phenomena.

Although Kazdel's theories are currently considered correct, most researchers still think they are utter nonsense and have invested enormous effort in studying these conclusions. After spending countless resources and energy, they have only come to one conclusion: Kazdel is right.

This has already angered many investors in Colombia. So, all you self-proclaimed smartest people at Terra are capable of is grading someone else's paper and saying, "His answer is correct," right?

However, the scholars in Colombia still had to do this because they couldn't figure out why, and simply using it was meaningless—which was already frustrating enough, so they could only console themselves that they probably copied from the databases of their ancestors.

However, the subsequent industrial mass production completely deviated from the laws of industrial development. There was no trial production, no breakthrough in each process step. The theory was developed on one side, and the applied technology was developed on the other. The applied technology was developed for less than two days before the factory was announced to start infrastructure construction. Before Colombia had even understood the theory, the factory was already in production at lightning speed.

That's fine, it can only be attributed to the other party being too daring, going all in on the fate of the nation every time and winning, but how the hell did you manage to put it into production at lightning speed, and then produce the finished product on the first try without any problems, the whole design is so mature that it seems like it has been tested in the workplace for eight hundred years.

"Kazdel should be related to the ancient ship we obtained from the Agor Sea."

"So what? The analysis of the ancient people's technology couldn't have been done so quickly. So how did Kazdel manage to do it?" The scholars in the conference room all looked worried.

"No matter how they did it, when will we be able to get our own spaceship out!" Ursus had given up and opted to rent Kazdel's spaceship directly, but Columbia was out of the question. Not only could they not bring themselves to do it, but their domestic investors also wouldn't agree.

"Within five years..." He mustered his courage and announced a timeline. A five-year plan to develop a spaceship was already incredibly ambitious, but the Federation bureaucrats gasped upon hearing it. "Five years from now, Kazdel will be building castles on the moon, and you're only now producing spaceships?"

"It might take a little less time, but five years is a relatively reasonable timeframe." Absolutely unreasonable! Five years to get the engine working is already a stroke of luck.

"We must see our carrier rockets and spacecraft launch within two years!"

"..." This kind of thing completely defies the laws of science. "Kazdel only took two years to launch a destroyer into orbit, while you couldn't even launch the tank compartment in the same amount of time?"

"..."

So, what's the most annoying thing for a top student? It's having another academic genius in the class who compares you to them every time, and you still can't figure out how they did it.

The title of Chapter Eighty floats in space.

Chapter 80

The obstacle removal project is progressing steadily, and the fourth ship of the Ghost Shark has also rolled off the production line. This ship is a pure passenger ship. The internal cargo passage and independent cabins have been removed, and the cabins, which are divided into three levels, have four rows of seats arranged neatly like those in a passenger plane.

According to the agreement with Lungmen, the spaceship will be delivered to Lungmen for operation, and those wealthy people who bought expensive tickets a year ago can finally board the ship and go to space to complete their dream trip.

At the Longmen Aerospace Tourism City, in the launch bay, the Abbotton-class land-based ship reversed into the bay, slowly sending the spacecraft, fixed at its stern, into the recessed launch track. The fixing clips on the ship's belly locked the track in place, and then the lifting motors propelled the spacecraft from upright to lying flat along the curved track. It then turned 90 degrees and slid towards the launch pad, which was tilted at 30 degrees.

In the Lungmen departure hall, the previously empty sign finally displayed its first message: "The Specter Shark IV carrier ship has entered port. Aircrew are currently cleaning and preparing for launch. Estimated departure time: 30 minutes." The message read: "Lungmen → Space Port One, SSTO-S-1004, Launch Time: 17:20."

The ticket gates below finally turned green, and staff removed the alloy door panels blocking the entrance. Tourists proceeded to the three different gates according to the boarding gates indicated on their tickets. Most carried suitcases, but some had servants to carry them. These two groups blended together in the waiting area, but separated into distinct lines at the boarding gates.

One row was for regular tickets, and the other row was for VIP tickets. As for the last ticket gate, it was a staff-only lane for Kazdel and Lungmen staff. A young man wearing a baseball cap and a blue sports jacket, standing at the corner of the crowd, glanced down at his ticket and walked toward the regular ticket lane.

"I'm in position, nothing unusual for now." The young man flicked his dark blue ponytail and glanced at the crowd. He didn't find any dangerous individuals, but he couldn't let his guard down. Lungmen attached great importance to this first launch, and any accident would be a huge blow.

They felt that it was worthwhile to stir things up, not only to delay Kazdel, but also to delay Lungmen's profit-making cycle. However, this time, Lao Wei had really gone all in, even if he went bankrupt. If something really went wrong, both Lungmen's economy and Lao Wei's economy would be ruined.

"Be on high alert." The Lungmen Guard Bureau obtained four special tickets from Kazdel: one VIP ticket and three regular tickets. Security personnel will identify these four tickets and turn a blind eye to the weapons they bring in.

However, there is also the possibility that hostile forces may bribe or forge or obtain these special tickets from other channels. Therefore, the Lungmen Guard Bureau operators arranged this time must be absolutely trustworthy personnel, and it is necessary to repeatedly confirm the location and status of their companions.

Moreover, as everyone knows, in this mission, in addition to the Lungmen Guard Bureau, there are also personnel from the Xia Group's security department. Those guys who crawled out of the Lungmen slums are all well-informed and their vigilance is unmatched by the Guard Bureau.

Meanwhile, on the other side, a woman with dark purple-black hair handed over a receipt, saying, "It's a vacation trip arranged by the company." An Suo was only in her early twenties, and given the youthful appearance of Terrans, she was at the peak of her youth and beauty. Her casual attire was particularly eye-catching.

Unfortunately, not only did she have a VIP ticket, but she also had a security guard badge from the Xia Group on her person, so no one around her came up to talk to her. After all, nobody wanted to deal with the head of security.

Many young people even imagined all sorts of shady deals based on An Suo's beautiful face and her position as the head of the security department. No matter how much they envied, jealous, or hated her, they couldn't change the fact that she was the first one to enter the boarding waiting room.

"I've arrived. Check the locations and status of the other team members." The smart bracelet on her fair wrist flashed, automatically sending a message to the other operators via neural link.

No one can trust the Lungmen Guard Bureau alone, especially since the boss's wife came from the Guard Bureau. This department is infiltrated by various forces and is as riddled as a sieve. It's hard to feel at ease relying on them.

Therefore, a whole security team was also arranged among the tourists. These personnel, who were eliminated from the Yeti Squad and Shield Guard training, underwent professional training and were no less professional than the special police of the Ministry of the Interior in terms of security and search, and were even more professional.

The vast majority of these people come from the slums of Ursus and Lungmen, and some from the slums of Kazimierz. They have risen through rigorous tests and selections and have a deep understanding of all sorts of underhanded tricks.

However, as a result, they do not gain the same level of trust as those recruited from wealthy families. This is not because they are prejudiced against the poor, but because these people who are afraid of poverty are much easier to bribe than those who have been rich and powerful.

However, the personnel who were able to participate in this operation were all selected and specially investigated, making them much more reliable than the few people sent in by the Guard Bureau.

"Beep!" The package passed safely through the security conveyor belt, and then the noble-looking man behind it was stopped. "Metal object, take it out and let me see it."

"You mean you want me to open the package and take everything out one by one?"

"Yes," the security guard replied without looking up, his hand already on the alarm button.

"You know who I am..."

“Yes, Sir Victoria, Lady Carola, if you refuse security checks, your ticket will be void.”

"I..." She wanted to argue, but the extremely unfriendly look from behind made her give up. It wasn't that she lacked the arrogance of nobility, but if the other party pointed to the video of the process filmed by the Old Sick Tiger family on the advertising screen, she would have nothing to say. The other party's noble status was much higher than hers, and they still obediently went through security.

Moreover, if even high-ranking nobles abide by the rules, then it is not an insult, but a necessary etiquette and courtesy. It must be said that using the first inspection video of the old sick tiger family as a safety demonstration video has indeed reduced a lot of trouble.

"Special tableware will be provided. Do you choose to put these tableware in the storage box or discard them?" The silver-plated cutlery was taken out separately from the package, along with other metal wine glasses and tableware. Of course, nobles have their own preferences when traveling.

For example, there were dedicated chefs, grooms, and servants who brought their own fancy tableware, all of which would be carefully stored in a special, expensive wooden box.

Let alone traveling, even when they were going to war, they would have large, special trunks to separately pack their wine glasses, tableware, jewelry, and even their usual toilets. In comparison, the things this knight brought were quite restrained.

"The safe deposit box, please." The Jazz finally gave in.

"Okay, take your number plate. When you return, ask the staff at the exit counter to return it." Since the other party chose to cooperate, we politely handed over the number plate and the checked ticket stub.

Upon entering the boarding waiting room, through the floor-to-ceiling windows, the docking bridge of the Ghost Shark spacecraft was approaching the entrance. After a few minutes of necessary checks, the lights at the boarding gate came on.

"Please proceed and take your seats in an orderly manner." The three-story passenger ship has 176 passengers on each floor, with 4 rows and 45 seats. The last row of 4 people are not passengers, but crew members.

The first group of tourists nervously and with a touch of curiosity crossed the pier and entered the sloping cabin. Guided by the flight crew, they found their seats, placed their luggage on the overhead bins, and put their smaller carry-on items in the storage bags by the window.

Next, just like when you're on an airplane, they check your seatbelts, personal belongings, etc., and ask you to take off your pocket watch, glasses, and other small items and put them in a storage bag and close the bag.

"There are five minutes left before takeoff. Passengers, please check that your belongings are in place, maintain a proper sitting posture, and if you need to use the restroom, please notify the nearest flight attendant as soon as possible."