Chapter Seventy-Three Worth Discussing

  In the vast universe, there is a blue planet, which is the only home for human survival, called Earth. In the vast Milky Way, there is a brilliant star, which is the only source of light and heat that shines on the Earth, called the Sun. The sun gives the earth light and heat, and the earth gives humanity beautiful nature.

  Humans have thrived on the blue planet, creating their own civilizations, with each major nation having its own culture, language, customs and habits. The magical nature created all this, everything on earth should respect and coexist harmoniously, but in fact, the most practical and eternal truth on earth is the law of the jungle, survival of the fittest, the strong prey on the weak, the winner becomes king and the loser becomes a prisoner, etc., humans and other species can only adapt to this law to survive, rather than change it.

  The jungle law of the human world is even more cruel and ruthless, with limited living space and few material conditions, billions of people live on this small planet, unable to control their own lives, let alone freedom. For various kinds of freedom, humans have no choice but to wage war against their own kind while oppressing other species, plundering from others, exploiting others, and oppressing other nations... Humans have too many things they cannot help but do in order to realize themselves.

  Unfortunately, the German nation encountered unprecedented twists and turns on the road to realizing itself. They suffered heavy blows on their path of pursuit, and after accepting these blows, they were met with ruthless lashes. They watched as others gathered together in a lively and noisy manner, discussing how to carve up their own flesh and drink their own blood, like haggling over prices in a market. But isn't this precisely the ruthlessness of the jungle law? Is there any other choice for them but to accept it?

  On May 16, 1920, the Council of Ten, which dominated the Paris Peace Conference, was reduced to the Big Three of the United States, Great Britain and France. These three powers claimed a "general interest" in all territorial questions, while other countries such as China and Belgium were only allowed to participate in discussions that directly concerned them.

  When the so-called general interest of the warring nations was in serious disarray, the heads of state of Italy and Japan, two small countries, were unable to sway the conference's decisions. As a result, the United States, Britain, and France naturally took control of the entire conference. However, there were also contradictions between the three countries that could not be resolved or reconciled, causing the conference to drag on indefinitely. Except for the representatives of the United States, Britain, and France, all other country representatives went on extended vacations. During this period, China's delegation, due to its complex composition, had no intention of gathering together even before the conference discussed Chinese issues.

  "Some of those on the list have been found and several have already responded to China..."

  Just as Cao Guichuan and others were busy preparing to enter the German auto industry, one day everyone was busy with planning, when suddenly a piece of good news made everyone stop what they were doing. "Who did you find? Where are they now?"

  "Only two people were found, and the rest are nowhere to be heard! They are Henry Kondra and Igor Sikorsky." Wu Donglin was visibly excited, his words were clear, but his whole body was shaking uncontrollably, showing extreme excitement.

  "Are... are you okay?" Deng Hualin asked with concern, looking at Wu Donglin who was excited and surprised that this usually calm guy was acting like this today. "You just found two people, no need to get so worked up, right?"

  "You don't know, Koenig and Sikorsky are both very famous and powerful big shots in the aviation industry..." Wu Donglin said, pulling over a chair to sit down before continuing to the crowd around him: "Koenig built the world's first jet aircraft as early as 1910. Even Director Wang and Commander-in-Chief Zhang say this man is an aviation genius, a true genius. And Sikorsky is one of Russia's most renowned aviation talents. The Russian Knight he designed and supervised quickly broke multiple world records. The Tsar's first batch of bombers were also modified from his aircraft..."

  "Where are they now?" Cao Guichuan immediately grabbed Wu Donglin's hand and asked, he was more excited than Wu Donglin at this time.

  "Outside the door!"

  Wu Donglin was shocked by the crowd's words, but he didn't expect that these three words would shock everyone even more. The planning case was completely ignored, and the crowd rushed downstairs to welcome the arrival of the two geniuses.

  Henry Coand? was born in 1887 into a military family in Bucharest, with high expectations as the son of a general. He received his education in France and Belgium before training at the Military School in Paris. During his travels he gradually became fascinated by aviation. While the Wright brothers' "Flyer" and subsequent aircraft used piston engines for propulsion, Coand? had different ideas and was convinced that it would be possible to use the reaction from a jet of gas to propel an aircraft.

  In 1910, he exhibited his work at an exhibition held by the Paris Aviation Salon. His flying machine was very simple and had a special double wing design with the upper wing being much longer than the lower one to reduce wind resistance. The fuselage was made very slender and long, the air intake was located inside the streamlined cowl of the engine, the landing gear used the popular rear three-point layout, and the tail wheel was larger in size to lift the tail for better exhaust.

  In terms of power, he used a Kreisler piston engine to drive the compressor, and then used an exhaust gas from another piston engine to drive a turbine, which in turn produced a reaction force from the fan exhaust and a reaction force from the turbine exhaust, achieving a very impressive 200 kg thrust.

  In 1912 he was hired by the "Colonial Development Company" in Britain as a consultant, but after an accident caused by a beautiful small plane he designed for the company resulted in loss of life, he stopped working on aircraft design. After the outbreak of war, instead of designing aircraft with all his might, he researched a tool to assist pilots, namely the bomb sight. This series of achievements shows that he was an extremely talented aviation talent and a precious pioneering figure in aviation.

  When the American Group threw an olive branch to him, he who couldn't stay in the Colonial Development Company anymore gladly agreed to jump ship and soon made preparations to report here. He very much hoped that under the banner of the American Group he could continue his aviation dream, which was certainly a great piece of good news for America.

  Unlike Henry Koerner's encounter, Igor Sikorsky's experiences and achievements are all colorful.

  Igor Sikorsky was born in 1889 in Kiev, Ukraine to a family of doctors. His parents were both highly respected physicians and his father was also a professor at the university. They had a high level of cultural sophistication which enabled them to provide their children with a good education. As a result, Sikorsky was exposed to aviation from an early age. At 14, he entered the Naval Academy in St Petersburg, later transferring to the Kiev Industrial Institute. Upon graduation, he set off for Paris, then the centre of world aviation, with dreams of flight.

  Sikorsky met many aviation enthusiasts in Paris, and like many geniuses, he and Coand? both questioned traditional airplane ideas. Unlike Coand?'s propulsion concept, Sikorsky was interested in helicopters.

  Dreams are beautiful, but reality is cruel. Korda's first work was a great success, but he later encountered an air disaster that almost changed his life. If he hadn't met Amy, his life would have been ruined. Sikorsky's dreams failed one after another from the beginning, and he had to return to the old road of fixed-wing aircraft. But unexpectedly, he became famous with just one machine.

  In 1912, Sikorsky was appointed as the chief engineer of the Russian Baltic Railroad car factory where he designed and built the world's first four-engine large bomber "The Grand", from design to flight in just six months. The aircraft had a length of 19 meters, a wingspan of 28 meters, takeoff weight reached 4100 kg, maximum speed was 95 km/h, and endurance up to 7 hours and 45 minutes. Based on this plane he built an even larger one, "Ilya Muromets", named after the Russian hero, with a wingspan of over 31 meters, takeoff weight of 5600 kg, and ceiling reached three thousand meters, once carrying 16 passengers in flight, after the outbreak of war it was converted to a bomber, several aircraft were manufactured successively to participate in the war. Although the plane shone brightly in the war, it did not change Sikorsky's fate.

  The October Revolution broke out in Russia, and the Bolsheviks, who represented the interests of the underprivileged, came to power. The traditional forces and many intellectuals had to flee abroad, including Sikorsky, who was pitied because he fled in a hurry with little cash on him. After escaping to France, he no longer had enough money to buy a ticket to continue his escape or survive.

  "Sikorsky had always thought of going to America for development, he thought Europe was extremely unsafe, but did not think that the only one hundred pounds on his body was not enough to support him from Russia to France and then to the United States. Knowing that we are doing cars in Asia, maybe they will recruit such a senior engineer, but what he didn't expect was, no need for 'maybe'..."

  Looking at the only Russian translator in the company, muttering to Cao Guichuan and Sikorsky as an intermediary for communication, while Wen Zhenghua and others were chatting freely with Cohen, the scene in the hall was bustling, but Wu Donglin's poor French was useless, and he could only whisper to Xiao Naitian.

  "What I'm more interested in is that Sikorsky, who obviously speaks French, why is he still pretending to be stupid?" Xiao Naitian narrowed his eyes and carefully observed the scene of Cao Guichuan's emotional conversation.

  "What does it mean?"

  "You're a science student, you must be lacking in social skills." As he spoke, Xiao Naitian raised his chin towards the west, gesturing for Wu Donglin to take a look at that smiling and laughing traitor. "He clearly looks down on us, even after our country was destroyed, he's still so arrogant, thinking that just because he built some toy plane, he can fly up to heaven and become an immortal? What a joke!"

  "But others are just too arrogant, after all, he is a top student from Kiev Industrial Institute and the creator of a large aircraft..."

  Wu Donglin still insisted on respecting others, but he had already made up his mind in his heart. Kornada was a man who had suffered hardships and had experienced the pain of losing loved ones, so it was clear that he was not an arrogant person. As for Sikorsky, although he had encountered setbacks in helicopter design, he had achieved great success with fixed-wing aircraft, giving him reason to be proud, and also earning him Wu Donglin's respect as a junior.

  "Our domestic aircraft will also be test-flown soon, who knows where his nonsense has progressed to? What a joke, calling it the 'Brave Warrior', I know he's just being arrogant now, but when he enters our territory, he'll find out what real industrial strength is. But this kind of clumsy acting at this time really gets on people's nerves. Come on, let's go and see this genius!"

  Xiao Naitian, who had been eager to become a diplomat, immediately put on another expression, with a smile that was seriously inconsistent with his true thoughts, and greeted Wu Donglin with a laugh. He quickly started chatting with Sikorsky in fluent Russian, and soon became an interpreter for Wu Donglin and Sikorsky. As insiders, they naturally had many common understandings, and before long, Sikorsky began speaking directly to Wu Donglin in English. Only then did Xiao Naitian nod in satisfaction and leave.

  The people in the hall were still chatting happily, unaware that a special group of guests had arrived at the entrance. Many members of the Chinese delegation to the Paris Peace Conference had come here, and as long as they were Chinese, they were always welcome at any time, even if it was the luxurious branch office of the company on the Champs-élysées. The Fahua Gong has been free and open all along, so Gu Weijun and others walked in without hindrance until they saw many familiar faces in the hall, and their joyful smiles were replaced by surprised woodenness.

  "Director Lu, Ambassador Gu, Ambassador Shi, how are you..." Cao Guiquan hastily stood up and shook hands with the astonished Chinese representatives who had arrived at the meeting, gesturing for them to take their seats.

  "I heard that many of our Chinese laborers in Europe made significant contributions to the war effort, but didn't receive the treatment they deserved." Lu Zhengxiang smiled and nodded at the crowd before continuing, "It's said that the Asia-America Group, founded by Chinese people, takes special care of Chinese people from America to Europe. So I brought everyone here to take a look, but I didn't expect to find you all here too! Didn't we disturb you?"

  "This...this is nothing, this company was originally mine, Chinese people are welcome to come! " Cao Guichuan said, gesturing for everyone to drink tea. The staff brought up a lot of authentic Pu'er tea, which was steaming hot and fragrant, just right for drinking. "Wu Donglin, Xiao Naitian, you two bring Cohen over, go chat in the conference room!"

  After finishing, Cao Guichang gestured to the crowd to follow him to another conference room to discuss, after all, it's a delegation that has come from afar to France, and should be discussed, even if the general assembly doesn't know how long it will take to discuss the Chinese issue. Although weak countries have no diplomacy, they should also have dignity. Lu Zhengxiang can lead people to see the situation of the Chinese people everywhere, which makes everyone present have a good impression of them, and it's worth discussing.

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