857 Speed
When he heard Carpenter Xu's words, the audience suddenly became quiet. Everyone was watching Carpenter Xu and quietly waited for the next scene.
When Carpenter Xu approached Emperor Chongzhen, bowed deeply. When he stood up again, his face was full of confidence: "I am really grateful to this young master for his kind help. Next, please take a look at my speed car. It took me more than ten years of hard work and continuous improvement. I believe that there should be no problem this time!"
When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he couldn't help but admire him. For more than ten years, Carpenter Xu has been doing this and constantly improving it. He has great perseverance and the spirit of professional research researchers. It's really good!
"Why did you think of doing this speed car? It took you more than ten years!" Concubine Tian was also surprised and couldn't help but interrupt and asked.
Hearing this voice, Carpenter Xu couldn't help but be stunned. Concubine Tian's voice was obviously a beautiful and pleasant female voice. However, his interest seemed to be only on his speed car. When he heard this question, he was very interested and immediately replied with a smile: "We have a river in Suzhou area, many ports, and land transportation is inconvenient, so I wondered if there was a kind of car that could fly so that I don't have to worry about inconvenience to go out. I saw that it was mentioned on Baopuzi just now, so I wanted to make this one!"
If he had an idea, if he could do it, it would be a great act of good to benefit future generations, which would be much better than those so-called "art" masters. Emperor Chongzhen had a greater likeness to this Carpenter Xu. Just as he was about to speak, the onlookers seemed to be impatient and began to stir up.
"Xu Daizi, don't deceive people from other places, you can't fly at all!"
"Yes, Xu Daizi, it's better to be your carpenter honestly. Don't be embarrassed and lose your job!"
"Marcery Xu, if you have the ability, fly up and take a look. Don't waste our time!"
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When Xu Zhengming heard this, he couldn't help but glared at them and said, "Who said he couldn't fly? You guys are optimistic!"
After saying that, he didn't even care about Emperor Chongzhen and the others and walked straight to the field.
His speed car, like a sling chair (i.e. a ring chair), had a mechanism underneath, and the teeth were mixed together. The person sat on the chair, then took a deep breath, looked around everyone around him, raised his head and chest, as if he was going to do a very sacred thing, his feet began to exert force, and it became faster and faster. That is, the person sat in the chair, and with both feet hit the plate, the wind was whirling up and down, and the wind was whirling rapidly.
In the view of Emperor Chongzhen, Carpenter Xu used his feet to move the pedal and used the speed-enhancing gear to drive the rotor like a bamboo dragonfly to rotate, thereby generating lift and causing the "speed" to rise into the air.
Sure enough, as Carpenter Xu's movements became faster and faster, his speed car swayed away from the ground under the attention of the crowd and actually flew up. Suddenly, this fact attracted a burst of exclamation.
"Wow, I really have to leave the ground!"
"It's incredible that this time I can succeed!"
"Yes, can we really fly in the air? Haha!"
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When the speed was about three feet above the ground, Carpenter Xu swung a mechanism connected to the chair, and the other tail wing began to rotate, but at the same time, the speed fell by about two feet, as if it was about to fall, and it immediately attracted another burst of exclamation.
But at least it didn't land. It was still about one foot of it and was hanging in the air. As the tail wing turned faster and faster, the speed truck slowly flew towards the river channel next to it. The river channel was about two feet wide. It seemed that Carpenter Xu wanted to drive his speed truck to fly over this river channel.
The wind brought by the speed truck was very strong, and everyone's clothes were floating. There were even a few people wearing hats who had to reach out and hold the hats to avoid being blown away. At this time, almost everyone forgot to speak and stared at the speed truck of Carpenter Xu, with incredible faces on their faces.
Relatively speaking, Emperor Chongzhen was much less impacted by the speed vehicle in front of him. After all, he came from later generations. Not to mention seeing him, he had been flying at altitudes of tens of thousands of miles. I don’t know how many times he has been!
To be honest, although the speed is flying, it is obviously impossible to have a great future. Unlike these indigenous people in the 17th century, who thought that if the speed is flying, would it be able to fly in the air in the future?
I saw Carpenter Xu stepping hard, and the speed car moved slowly. Slowly, slowly, the speed finally flew over the river and was slowly moving towards the other side.
"Wow, it's really possible to fly!" Finally, after the initial surprise, someone came to his senses and couldn't help but sigh.
After hearing what he said, the people around him came to their senses and praised them one after another.
Even Concubine Tian was excited and turned to look at Emperor Chongzhen and said, "Master, I want a car to play with it too?"
The dreamland of flying is what everyone wants. Emperor Chongzhen understood Concubine Tian’s wish. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly heard a "pop" sound, and saw a rotor on Carpenter Xu’s speed truck suddenly disconnect. Immediately, the speed truck could no longer fly in the air, and fell into the river with a "pop".
"Ah..." Everyone was stunned at this moment and still didn't fly over!
So, the crowd who was still praising and surprised just now started to mock and laugh.
"Haha, let me tell you, if a person can fly in the sky, a sow can climb a tree!"
"Look, Xu Daizi is messing around again!"
"It's gone, the show is over..."
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While talking, many people began to turn around and leave.
At this time, someone also noticed the situation in the river. Carpenter Xu was flapping in the water and seemed to be unable to swim.
At this time, it was March. Although it was not as cold as the north, the temperature was here. After all, a few people wanted to go down to save people, but they were hesitant.
When Emperor Chongzhen saw this, he waved his hand quickly, so two plainclothes who knew water immediately jumped into the river to save people without hesitation. Seeing this situation, several onlookers finally gave Emperor Chongzhen a thumbs up, and the system also sounded a reminder of the harvesting achievement value.
After being rescued, Carpenter Xu did not thank Emperor Chongzhen at the first time, but pointed to the speed vehicle in the river and shouted hurriedly: "My car, my car..."
The two plainclothes men turned their heads and looked at Emperor Chongzhen's face, then went down the river to fish for his car again.
Seeing this situation, Carpenter Xu felt much more relieved, and finally remembered something, so he hurried to Emperor Chongzhen to thank him.
When Emperor Chongzhen saw this, he smiled and looked at Carpenter Xu, who was soaked all over and asked, "You can't do this speeding car, are you still thinking about continuing?"
This is written according to the records of "Wu County Chronicles·Xiangshan Chronicles", and its authenticity is unknown. From the modern perspective, there is a helicopter association in the United States that set up the Sikorsky Award, requiring the challenger to build a manpower helicopter that can rise to 3 meters above the ground and hover in the air for more than 60 seconds, which can be obtained 250,000 US dollars. This was eventually won by a Canadian team. There are videos online, and the strange shape is not a helicopter at all. Therefore, just take a look at this helicopter in the late Ming Dynasty, don't pay attention to the details. After all, this is a novel, not a scientific paper.
Chapter completed!