I'm in Terra, governing a weird little country.

Define probably won't have any problems staying here, because Prime Minister Ernst has the same or even more fanatical hobbies.

He is also a machine sex!

Chapter 52 The road to heaven does not have to be on the earth

Kjerag, Tukarim, Government Office Building (future version to be expected).

Ernst, Nasty and Lola sat around the table, pointing at Kjerag's simple map in front of them.

Nasty: "Honestly, the Kjerag people have been living in Kjerag for thousands of years, and they haven't even thought about drawing a detailed map?"

Ernst curled his lips and thought to himself, you really can talk. Looking at Kjerag, does it look like he can survey and map in detail?

During the Lighthouse Nation's westward movement, hundreds of thousands of lives were spent and countless expedition teams were sent out to survey and map the western frontier. This resulted in a large-scale wave of westward movement.Let’s not talk about it, even Colombia. Doesn’t it open up less territory and consume less lives every year for the purpose of pioneering?

This is still the case with professional equipment and technical talents.

This simple map provided by Ernst was also the one that the devout believers of Tiger Hunting and Manzhuyuan in the past generations of Kjerag spent their lives climbing out stone by stone, mountain by mountain, and it was sleeping in Yelagund. In those days, they were not as lucky as Cape Peak and Kent Windermere, who could be sent back to safety by a gust of breeze after falling off the cliff.

It is also the result of piles of corpses, and there is no distinction between high and low.

Moreover, Ernst also wanted to ask: Do you Sakaz have a map of your home?

Oh, your family is gone.

Seemingly sensing Ernst's displeasure, Nasty skipped the topic and simply assessed:

"Mr. Ernst, it is not an easy task to build a road in Kjelag that meets the standards of an ordinary town as you say."

"After my team's sampling in the past few days, most of the land in Kjerag is either frozen soil or heavily weathered boulders. Such a built environment is extremely unstable. If it is forcibly built, the maintenance cost of the road will expand to an unbearable level. Multiples of what you can imagine. Moreover, even if you maintain it for a long time, a small avalanche or a rock slide on the mountain may cause the entire road to collapse. It cannot be repaired."

She analyzed carefully,

"In addition, the environment in Kjerag makes it difficult to use large-scale construction machinery. There is no way for Rheinland Life's tower cranes and bulldozers to drive up the mountain, and there is no way to transport the required building materials and materials to the construction site. If you want to rely solely on Manpower is needed to transport it, which is another... huge cost.”

Because there are no roads, railways and roads need to be built, and because roads and railways need to be built, roads are needed to transport building materials into Kjerag.

It's all like a vicious cycle.Enxiodis worked hard for more than ten years based on his parents' work, and finally managed to build a railway leading beyond the mountains at the flat Tukarim, the most well-known exit of Kjerag.To this end, his contribution has been astronomical.

It is almost impossible to achieve what Ernst said was a smooth road and railway connection to every family territory and every large settlement in Kjerag.

It's impossible to reach, as if building a celestial road leading to the clouds on the top of the mountain.

But is it really impossible to build a road to heaven?

Ernst pondered and looked at Lola beside him. This Kjerag's only doctor represented Kjerag's next generation.

Their future is Kjerag's future. They are not unsmart, they just lack opportunities.

If they don't build this heavenly road, they will never have a chance.

Ernst took a deep breath and asked:

"Cost is something I need to consider. What I need you to tell me is that as long as the cost is high enough, this road can be connected!"

Nasty was stunned and looked at Ernst with a somewhat unreasonable look in her eyes.

She felt that the Prime Minister of Kjerag might not understand what he was talking about, nor did he understand the meaning of the idiom "retreating when faced with difficulties".

She replied:

"Mr. Ernst, you may not understand what I mean. The most important thing at the moment is that due to the backwardness of Kjerag's basic education, we can hardly recruit any local people for jobs such as building railways and roads. Manpower. This means that from professional geological survey technicians to railway laying workers, we can only hire them all from outside."

"Even if you search all over Terra, you can't find a construction company that can take on this kind of task."

This is a fact. Whether it is Colombia or Victoria, even during the Great Depression, construction companies cannot maintain a large number of basic workers.Most of the time, if there is any construction project, the construction company recruits people locally.

Where can I recruit Kjerag?

The workers here don’t even know how to apply glue!

Is it possible to expect them to use thatch and red bricks to pave the track for the train to run on it?

"In short, this is no longer a cost issue. Perhaps after construction technology develops for a few more years and new technologies mature, this project will become more feasible."

Waiting until the time comes is a polite way of saying stop dreaming.

Nasty said it politely, but Ernst heard it sincerely.

This is the reality. Behind the celestial road in Ernst's mind that can be built to the roof of the world is a country that is not inferior to any Terran hegemony. It has invested its entire nation and used organizations like the army as construction workers to risk huge It was a world miracle that was finally achieved despite risks and great sacrifices.

It is conceivable that Kjerag cannot invest such power.

Just when Ernst felt a sense of loss and unwillingness, Lola suddenly said:

"So...what if it's not railways and roads?"

The young Ursus girl tried to ask,

"When I was in school in Colombia, I heard that Ms. Christen, the general manager of Rheinland Life, has been working on developing a transportation method that spans the ages!"

Nasty frowned: "You mean the aircraft? No, this is also impossible, not to mention that the technology of the aircraft is still very immature and the accident rate is extremely high. The aircraft itself cannot be used in extreme weather. Kjelag The high-altitude environment is too dangerous for aircraft."

"What if we can open up a stable and safe channel in the sky of Kjerag?" Ernst suddenly said.

Nasty looked at him with an "Are you kidding me?" expression written all over her face.

Weather, upper air currents, those are forces of nature.It is a power that is difficult for humans to reach and even more difficult to control.Wanting to control the weather and create a channel out of thin air, isn’t this a foolish dream?

"What if this is possible?" Ernst said firmly, "If the aircraft technology under Christen's jurisdiction matures, and we have a way to open a safe channel over Kjerag, is the method of aircraft transportation theoretically feasible? "

Nasty looked into Ernst's eyes, and she saw unexpected determination and confidence in them.

“Where does this confidence come from?”

Such questions flashed through her mind.Facing his seemingly impossible question, she finally thought about it seriously and then nodded:

"If you can actually do that, it's more likely with an aircraft than with a rail and road scheme."

Ernst breathed a long sigh of relief.

The road to heaven does not necessarily have to be limited to the earth.

Chapter 53 Not even for a moment mourning for my weak level of knowledge

Xierag, Manzhuyuan, Holy Maiden Hall.

As the Holy Son of Kalan, Ernst would go to the Holy Mountain every once in a while to pray to Jeragonde.

God Yeragond said that he actually didn't care about this kind of red tape. As long as he wanted, Ernst could appear by his side instantly no matter where he was in Kjerag.But rules are rules, and Ernst still adheres to this custom.

After all, although the leader of the conservatives, the Great Elder, is dead, it does not mean that the conservatives have disappeared with him.If anyone cares to observe the wrinkles on the faces of the so-called supporters of the Sons of God today, they will find that they are exactly the same as the elders of the presbytery in the past. Even the location of their age spots is exactly the same.

They didn't disappear, they just changed their appearance.

Ernst didn't intend to irritate their sensitive nerves. These old men could still speak out on some of Kjelag's affairs, big and small.No matter how bad it is, you can just throw them out and take the blame when something goes wrong.

"I always feel like you're thinking something rude."

Standing in front of the Yeragonde sacred stone enshrined in Manzhuyuan, Ya'er said thoughtfully.

Ernst opened his eyes: "Where is it? I am praying very devoutly."

Come on, you call me mother more often than you call me Lord Yeragond, and you're so pious.

Ya'er complained in her heart.But the strange thing is that even though he knew that Ernst's name was a bit strange, he never corrected this heretical name through the divine stone.

On the contrary, He seems to be quite satisfied with this title.

Because love is also a kind of piety.No less pious than any fanatical believer.

Ya'er paused and changed the topic:

"Enya is chanting, are you here to see her? Do you need me to call her for you?"

"No, I really came here to pray." Ernst shook his head and said, "It is said that Manzhuyuan is the closest place to the great God Yeragonde. If you pray here, he may be able to hear it more clearly. .”

Ya'er raised her eyebrows and reminded with a smile: "God has no age."

Ernst shrugged.He took out the sacred stone from his arms and placed it on the altar table in front of Ya'er. He also took out a piece of Orange Storm bought in Colombia, a pack of rose seeds bought in Victoria, and a knight's medal bought in Casimir. Souvenirs were placed on the offering table together.

Ya'er on the side looked blankly at Ernst supplying her supplies like a replenishment of goods, and she didn't react at all:

"What are you praying to me...the venerable Jeragond?"

Ernst replied seriously:

"Pray that He learns fluid mechanics."

Ya'er: "......?"

Not to mention what fluid mechanics is, does Yeragond need to learn that?What's the use of learning it?

Without even a moment to answer Ya'er's questions, Ernst had already clasped his hands together and started praying.

"Lord Yeragond, are you there?"

"Not there." Yeragond's voice came back instantly as if he was blocking the door next door.

Ernst was stunned for a moment, a little amused.Why don't you reply when I'm not here?Why, the gods also have automatic replies?

"Then I'll come back later?"

Yeragond was silent for a while, his voice softened, and he asked like a breeze blowing on his face: "...If you have anything to do, please tell me."

"I want to ask, you can change the weather in Kjerag, right?"

Ernst asked straight to the point,

"Then if you were asked to create a stable area of ​​airflow above Kjerag, would it be possible?"

Although Ernst boasted a lot to Nasti, he was not sure whether the aircraft method was actually feasible.

Because this involves a very important issue-the sky of Terra is different from the sky of Earth.

On Earth, airplanes can ascend to the stratosphere of the atmosphere. There, the atmosphere is dominated by advection and lacks water vapor. There are no factors such as wind, rain, snow, etc. that affect the flight of the airplane. The temperature is lower, and the relatively stable atmospheric environment is also conducive to the flight of the airplane. Steady sailing.

As for Terra, theoretically speaking, it should also have a stratosphere, and considering that the ecological environment between Terra and Earth is not very different, the structural difference in the atmosphere should not be too big.

There's just one small problem with this.

That is the stratosphere at a height of 10 kilometers above the earth, while the sky limit of Terra is only 6 kilometers.

6000 meters above the sky of Terra, there is an incomprehensible thing called the isolation layer.That thing seems to have existed since ancient times, and it has had many nicknames, such as "star pod", "canopy" and so on.At the location of the isolation layer, electromagnetic signals, Origin Stone creations, etc. will be affected, and they will either lose control or crash.It is not that the Terran people have no pioneers who have tried to study the isolation layer, but its operation method is still a blank to the Terran people.