Chapter 263: The first voyage of the route
When the huge airship sailed through the fjord, Purficott saw for the first time this airship that was not made by her hands. .
As the inventor of this kind of transportation, the airships currently built by the Empire are all designed by Perficott. They use a streamlined cigar-shaped airbag to place the cabin in the airbag. Below, it relies on specially customized small steam engines and propellers to provide power to move forward.
On the whole, it still refers to the design of the airship in the original world, but it is combined with some technologies of alchemy to give it a larger load capacity.
The imperial military apparently followed this design structure. The several large airships they built were based on the design drawings left by Purficott, and no major changes were made.
This is not because the imperial military is unwilling to make progress and finds it useful, nor is it because the Royal Shipyard is not capable of changing Perfectcourt's design. It is just that for the empire at present, the most important thing is to be able to build airships quickly and in large quantities. Yes, as for other improvements, it is not something that needs to be done in a hurry right now.
And the military is different from other places. What the military wants is reliable. Things that are too advanced and unproven will have some negative effects on the military.
However, relatively speaking, the people do not have such restrictions. They prefer to use all the most advanced things, even though they know that this may bring certain risks.
Just like the airship in front of me, in Purficott's eyes, there are obviously some problems and hidden dangers.
Its main body is a huge cylindrical airbag, which looks similar to the airship designed by Purficott, but it is obvious that there are six spherical airbags arranged on both sides of the cylindrical airbag. This is to increase the airship's payload.
There is nothing wrong with this design, but in Purficott’s opinion, this style somewhat ignores wind resistance.
And its structure requires that the ropes and steel cables that restrain each airbag must be strong enough. Any problem may cause the entire airship to disintegrate.
Of course, to the extent that alchemy can do it, there is still no problem with the structure of this airship. At least if one builds such an airship at Perficott’s level, She might be able to do something more radical.
After all, alchemy is truly omnipotent! Especially since Perficott had such a heaven-defying fantasy creation as the Flying Sky Stone.
But even so, this airship is already bold and radical enough in Purficott's opinion. There are multiple pods hanging below it, and it can be seen that it is operating at the maximum load limit. The design does not leave enough safety redundancy.
Fortunately, the designer seems to know that his design is dangerous, so the pods under the six spherical airbags are individually detachable.
It seems that if the airship disintegrates, these six spherical airbags can land safely with their respective pods.
Perfect’s design is somewhat difficult to comment on.
You have to say it is safe. It is built with the load limit in mind. If it encounters extreme bad weather, it may fall apart on its own.
But you have to say that it is unsafe. It is also designed with a structure similar to an escape cabin, which may be able to save your life when you encounter danger.
However, although he finds it difficult to criticize the design of this airship, Purficott has no intention of criticizing anything. What the empire needs now is transportation capacity. One more airship means more transportation capacity, which is beneficial to everyone. Benefits. As for danger? Is there no danger in the airship she designed? Everything is relative, it just depends on whether the risk is worth taking.
"Miss, all the guests have arrived, it's your turn." Foster came to Perfectcott's side and reminded her.
Perfect nodded, then stood up and walked out. Everything had been prepared for today's celebration ceremony, and he was just waiting for the airship to dock and for her, the northern lord, to arrive. .
I have to say that money can indeed accomplish many things.
Just like this celebration ceremony, the original Northern Territory was obviously unable to afford all the consumption required for this luxurious celebration ceremony.
But after those businessmen sponsored a large sum of money, everything became much simpler.
The Behemoth made two trips to the New World and purchased a large amount of food and wine for the celebration, as well as other things that should be consumed. All that was left was to have people decorate Eagle Beak Cliff. .
In order to make the money seem more worthwhile, Perficott also pulled out the White Bear Knights and asked them to open two teams of steam knights, plus four teams of armored knights to serve as Guard of honor celebrating the ceremony.
Not only that, the knights have all put on brand-new armor specially made by Purficott. Not only do they look more powerful and majestic, but the mirror-finished armor is even more dazzling in the sun. , making their white cloaks with wolf fur collars look particularly majestic and solemn.
The armor plate of the Steam Knight also has the emblem of the Brandlis family and the Knights of the White Bear made of brass, as well as the knight's own emblem.
Among them, the coat of arms symbolizing the dragon-slaying achievements on the White Bear Knight, who followed Perfectikt in the dragon-slaying battle, has become the focus of everyone's attention.
You must know that this is slaying a dragon! Since St. George slayed the dragon hundreds of years ago, someone in the empire has successfully slain a dragon again!
Especially Purficott also cleaned out the dragon's skeleton. After the splicing was completed, he made a 1:1 replica of it and made it into a sculpture of a steam knight using a chain sword to cut off the dragon's head. It was placed in a conspicuous place on Eagle Beak Cliff to show off his dragon-slaying achievements.
Perfect is not a person who enjoys great achievements, but since some people spend money to hold celebrations, it is natural to promote the Northern Territory at this time, giving people the impression that the Northern Territory can make people make achievements and make money. The bowls are full, and those who have the guts will come quickly.
Although some knowledgeable people within the empire have already smelled some rumors, for Purficott, she cannot make things too obvious until the empire officially announces the doomsday disaster.
But all plans here in the north are inseparable from manpower. What should Perficott do if he wants people? Then we can only promote the goodness of the North as much as possible to enhance the attraction of the North.
This is true for promoting dragon slaying, this is true for holding this celebration ceremony, and it is also true for the five pioneer knight appointment documents that will be sold next.
Thinking of this, Purficott couldn't help but look at his loyal old butler and asked him: "Grandpa Afu, how much money do you think those guys can spend to bid for the development documents?"
(End of this chapter)