Daming 1805

Chapter 408

The short take-off and landing competition organized by Daming Airlines lasted for three days, and the top ten and top three rankings were determined.

Some are happy and some are sorry, but no one is too disappointed.

Originally, this kind of activity was their hobby.

Originally, I had to spend my own money to prepare, and I had to apply for venues and airspace, and the rewards were all symbolic.

But this time it's semi-official, so you don't have to think about all the expenses and affairs yourself, you just need to think about the competition.

As long as you participate, you will get a subsidy, which is equivalent to a free trip to an aviation mecca like Daming Airlines.

In any case, the trip was worthwhile.

Winning the top ten will have even better rewards than previous champions.

Needless to say, the top three.

Zhu Jingyuan met the final winners in person, and personally distributed championship flags, certificates and commemorative books to them.

The Ming Dynasty in this world completed its own industrialization, so although it cannot be said that it has not been influenced by the West at all, it has had very little influence on most levels.

Only a very few things that interested the people of Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, Ming Dynasty itself had no corresponding functions, gradually became popular with the continuous exchanges between the East and the West.

Most of the places where the Ming Dynasty already had traditional habits and plans, unless Emperor Shizu specially pushed for revisions, most of them still stubbornly retained the original traditions.

For example, for the symbolic rewards of competitions, Daming does not use Westerners' trophies.

The tradition left behind by many people drinking from one cup cannot be put on the table in the eyes of cultural people in Ming Dynasty.

Although Shenzhou was in the Zhou Dynasty, and in the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, there were also records of using silver cups and silver bowls as prizes.

However, prizes such as silver cups and silver bowls are usually prizes for various informal games in private occasions.

The scope and scale of its use, especially in its seriousness, cannot be compared with the official "champions".

Championships and flags are usually multi-person, outdoor large-scale events, including military activities, including competition flags.

"Capture the flag" has always been one of the most important honors in war.

The tradition of "winning the bid" in dragon boat racing has also existed since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

In the Tang Dynasty, championships had become the absolute mainstream of competition for symbols, and in the Song Dynasty it began to become an official method.

Emperor Shizu did not adjust it, so today's Ming Dynasty still maintains this habit.

The pennant itself is just a symbol of victory, the actual rewards are written in the booklet.

Zhu Jingyuan handed out awards to the third runner-up, runner-up and champion in turn, and said a few words of encouragement to them in turn.

In this kind of occasion, the content of the words is not important. Everyone is very excited, and words in ordinary scenes are very powerful at this time.

The champion of this competition is Wu Zhiyuan from Shanghai, a young man who just turned 20 this year.

Similar to other contestants, these people who often have outdoor activities have tanned faces and a rather solid body type.

Wu Zhiyuan received the championship pennant from Zhu Jingyuan, and his spirit was lifted to the extreme.

While Zhu Jingyuan handed over the certificate again, he began to chat with him casually:

"The craft of flying airplanes is really good. Have you ever considered joining the army to fly fighter jets?"

Wu Zhiyuan immediately said very excitedly:
"Of course I want to. Now the power of a single-engine fighter jet exceeds [-], and I guess the top speed can exceed [-]. Think about the excitement.

"But there are too many rules in the army, the key is that our Ming Dynasty does not fight wars now.

"It's a step-by-step training all day long, but it's not as interesting as continuing to play with the plane by yourself.

"When will our Ming Dynasty formally unify the world, I will immediately sign up to join the army and go to the battlefield!
"Our Ming Dynasty has two thirds of the world, and we have cultivated for almost ten years, and now we have completely recovered.

"The key is that now that we have these new inventions of His Highness, now we drive planes, chariots, and battleships to fight Taixi, it will definitely be like... definitely be able to go down in one go."

Zhu Jingyuan was just chatting casually, but he didn't expect the other party to directly engage in politics with him.

There was a sentence in his mouth that was stopped in the middle. According to the analysis of the context, it was probably the same as "the Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Wu".

But the Western Jin Dynasty has never been favored by Ming historians and politicians.

Of course it is not appropriate to compare the Western Jin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty.

So Wu Zhiyuan stuck this metaphor abruptly.

Being able to realize this kind of problem immediately in a very excited state shows that the other party's brain is really flexible.

The key is that I must have the habit of "keying politics" every day, and I like to participate in discussions on political affairs.

Not a player who only likes to play with mechanics and weapons.

Of course, most "military enthusiasts" have this tendency.

Zhu Jingyuan also understood from these few words that in the minds of Wu Zhiyuan, the local "key government" of Ming Dynasty, the world of Ming Dynasty is now the whole world.

Then, according to the traditional political thinking of China, since there are already two thirds of the world, it is to take advantage of the trend to continue to win the remaining third.

The other party raised the topic, and Zhu Jingyuan, as the key administrator, of course couldn't back down:
"Your analogy is not accurate, the whole world now is not the world of China it used to be.

"Because all the people in Shenzhou are our Ming people, even the Yi people in the surrounding area are actually of the same ancestor.

"After the division of the dynasties in the past, there will be a latecomer to unify the world in the end, which depends on this foundation.

"However, the more than 3 million Western Yi people in Taixi have a completely different image from our Daming people, and also completely different from the images of the surrounding groups in Daming.

"It is easy for us to take this land now, but how to deal with these foreigners is a big trouble."

Zhu Jingyuan felt that what he said was very reasonable, and he only raised the existing problems without giving a solution.

So there is no possibility of being refuted to the corner.

As a result, Wu Zhiyuan, a young man, gave a solution without hesitation:

"I think it's very simple, we just killed all the men and gave the women to the Daming people as concubines and slaves.

"Thirty years later, the Xiyi woman will give birth to our Daming child and grow up, and there will be no Xiyi in the world."

Zhu Jingyuan was silent.

This simple and crude thinking...

This child is really too young. Although I am two years older than him physically in this life, my mental age has actually doubled.

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and patted Wu Zhiyuan's shoulder:

"It's good for young people to be aggressive, but they must also carefully consider practical affairs.

"If we make a gesture of exterminating the Xiyi clan, then the entire Xiyi clan will definitely resist desperately.

"We want to completely wipe out the Xiyi in this state, and the losses we Daming people will bear are incalculable.

"The key point is that the local resources of Taixi seem to be very poor at present.

"There is only some coal and steel, and very little oil is produced.

"Our Daming Yinzhou and Tiannan are mostly steel and coal, while Nanyang, Dashi, and Yinzhou are mostly oil.

"Our Ming Dynasty has already occupied the best land in the world, and the resources we have mastered are enough for us to use for generations.

"Under such circumstances, do you think it is necessary for us to completely wipe out the barbarians in Taixi land at the cost of losing millions or even tens of millions of Ming people?
"The emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the old gentlemen of the imperial court, are not the monarchs and ministers of the classical era.

"I will not waste the national power of Ming Dynasty or sacrifice the people of Ming Dynasty for the so-called meritorious service of unifying the world.

"The previous world wars were just self-defense counterattacks that had to be fought.

"World peace is the mainstream now, and the main thing that the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, the imperial court, and myself think about is development.

"In other words, they are thinking and researching how to make Daming people live better."

Zhu Jingyuan still asked questions, but he didn't give him a direct answer, and there was no way to answer him.

After all, I am an official member of the imperial court, and what I say now may be spread, causing incalculable impact.

Zhu Jingyuan felt that he had put forward an option that he could not decide on this time.

But the boy opposite made a decisive choice again:

"I think it is necessary, very necessary, and only by doing so can we truly remove obstacles for future generations.

"We are now at the peak of Ming Dynasty, and the loss of millions of people is not unbearable.

"By bearing these losses now, we will be able to completely eradicate the only enemy that currently appears to be a threat to Daming.

"Even if it's...even if the future generations are unworthy, it's at most just an internal struggle among our own people.

"It's like... just like after 800 years of the Zhou Dynasty, whether it is the great Qin that unified the world, or the victory of the Han Taizu in the Chu-Han dispute, that is Zhuxia's own business.

"We keep the Taixi people to continue to develop on their own. If someone like Maodun or Temujin appears among them, it will be a disaster for our future generations."

Several imperceptible smiles appeared on Zhu Jingyuan's face.

The Motun and Temujin of the Taixi people seem to have really appeared in history, but the time is too late.

In the era of Napoleon and Mustache, it was no longer possible to conquer a place by defeating the feudal lords of a place as in the era of classical dynasties.

Napoleon fell short in Lucia, and Mustache fell short in Lucia.

On the contrary, the Americans developed on their own in the brand new land of the New World, and established a new Rome of the Westerners.

Then, Wu Zhiyuan had this kind of thinking himself, but it was not as extreme as Wu Zhiyuan, a young man.

I also want to completely eliminate the threat of future generations, but I chose to limit the development space of the other party.

Drive all the Westerners back to the Western mainland, and control them within the Western mainland:

"After the industrial age, the gap in combat effectiveness caused by the gap in technological level and ethnic group size will become more and more obvious.

"After the first industrial revolution, with cannons, railways, and rifled guns, the grassland peoples were no longer a threat to the Central Plains.

"After this industrial revolution, regional powers can no longer threaten the status of world powers.

"Taixi's current resources determine their upper limit.

"Their existence is also an external driving force to urge our future generations not to be decadent and lie flat.

"So neither the Ming court nor I have the idea of ​​completely eradicating the Taixi people, nor do we have plans in this regard.

"Of course, if the countries of Thailand and the West ask to become vassals of Ming Dynasty, we will also consider accepting it."

Zhu Jingyuan gave the quasi-word this time, and this kind of quasi-word must also be given.

Today's conversation, it is impossible not to leak it completely, there will definitely be rumors leaking out.

If you always talk about him from left to right, then after it spreads to the society and the world, it will become "the prince of the big food is noncommittal about whether to eliminate and annex Western countries."

Considering their special identities, the Thai and Western countries will immediately panic after hearing the news.

The whole world situation is about to become tense.

Therefore, it is impossible for politicians to speak casually, especially those countries that can affect the world situation, but cannot determine the world situation. Every word must be carefully considered.

The higher the status and the stronger the country, the more casual you can be, but you can't just talk about it casually.

Even if he was actually in favor of the complete elimination of the Taixi people in his heart, he would absolutely say that he did not support it, and had no relevant plans.

What's more, I didn't support doing that in the first place. At most, I was trying to limit the population growth of Thais and Westerners.

When the Ming people are more than twice, preferably more than three to four times, the Taixi people, then consider completely conquering and absorbing them.

So Zhu Jingyuan left an additional explanation that if the other party is willing to become a vassal, we will also consider accepting it.

Wu Zhiyuan was obviously regretful, but he also felt that this was the natural choice of a political figure.

Wu Zhiyuan found out that Zhu Jingyuan's last words were in an official tone.

Then I sighed in my heart:

This is indeed the case in political matters, that is, to make trade-offs and compromises in various situations.

But for now, it is obviously more reasonable to compress the living space of the Taixi people, let them consume each other, and control their development, and it is also the method with the least loss...

However, considering the identity of His Royal Highness Prince Dashi, even at this level, it should be impossible to say.

This is originally at the award ceremony, it is impossible to continue chatting without restriction.

So the temporary confrontation between the two, which was not completely free, came to an end.

Zhu Jingyuan stepped back temporarily, leaving the middle of the field to the winners.

As the champion, Wu Zhiyuan picked up the pennant and waved it vigorously on the high platform to the people below.

Personnel from the newspaper office and the palace took photos and recorded videos during the process.

Then Zhu Jingyuan returned to the stage again and gave a short speech.

It is mainly to announce that related activities will become official activities in the future, which will be regularly organized by the Aviation Industry Association.

Daming Airlines will continue to sponsor and support, and invite other aviation industry manufacturers to participate.

This time the game and subsequent videos will be archived, and a version suitable for broadcast will be edited and broadcast publicly on appropriate occasions.

Subsequent games will be broadcast live through the latest broadcast system.

Finally, it was announced that Daming Airlines will launch a lighter and smaller aircraft in the future, so stay tuned.

On the second day after the awards ceremony, Zhu Jingyuan set off for Nantong Motor Vehicle Industrial Park.

(End of this chapter)