The carriage continued to move forward. Yang Qian, who was ignored by Yang Yuanzhao and the others, looked out the window. A colorful bird flew past the side with a fan. She almost shouted excitedly: "What a beautiful bird!"

Girls seem to be attracted by beautiful things. This is a common problem for girls. Yang Yuanzhao glanced at it and seemed to be a golden pheasant and said, "Xian'er, do you want me to catch it for you!"

Yang Qian's face changed drastically and she said, "Don't want them, how good they are to be free!"

It was the playful girl who had a word that made Yang Yuanzhao helpless. At this time, Yang Qian turned around and asked, "Brother Yuanzhao, do you think we can fly in the sky like birds?"

"Of course, of course, there is a machine that can fly in the sky with people!"

"Really? Is there really a machine that can fly to the sky?" Yang Qian's eyes lit up and she asked with interest.

"Of course there is!" Before Yang Yuanzhao could speak, Yang Yue said: "Since the Wright brothers invented the aircraft in 1903 AD, hundreds of aircraft have now flown to high altitudes. They are not hot air balloons or something, but real aircraft that are heavier than air?"

"That's right, Xiao Qian, if you have the chance, I will let you try the plane yourself. This day will not be too far!"

"Really? Just a word is determined, you need to pull the hook!"

The little finger raised slightly, and there was expectation in his eyes. Yang Yuanzhao also laughed and pulled her hook. The plane was just a toy for some flight enthusiasts. Even if it developed the world's first-class aircraft, it was just a flight performance. From later generations, the plane has become the third largest armed force outside the navy. At the beginning of the 20th century, countries around the world had almost blank applications for aircraft, and only in the first world.

During the World War, aircraft were used in the military field, but only in reconnaissance. The first air battle was born here. The pilots took their own guns and fired at other aircrafts. However, the long distance in the air and the extremely short range of the pistols, such an attack was just a joke. It was not until World War II that aircraft could truly develop. In real history, aircraft have always been China's shortcomings, and even in the 21st century, they were extremely backward.

In this era, at the beginning of the 20th century, no country noticed the powerful role of aircraft. This gap in cognition became the key to China's catching up with the world powers. As an engine engineer in the 21st century, aircraft is unfamiliar to Yang Yuanzhao, but in this era when the aircraft was just beginning to develop, many of the engines of aircraft were used directly by gasoline engines. What is the thrust-to-weight ratio and vector ratio are not important. If it is slightly modified, any BMW 999 engine can become a qualified aircraft engine. If it is a more reasonable layout, such as the star engine and the thrust of the aircraft engine will continue to expand. The engine is the core of a power plant, whether it is a car, a train, or an aircraft.

From Taiping to Taiyuan, it is the old nest of Shanxi merchants. The official road is very beautiful. The carriages are on the way. It is about 10 o'clock in the morning and arrived in Taiyuan. As a prosperous big city, it is much more prosperous and developed than Baotou. There are endless hawking sounds along the streets. There are shops everywhere on the rows of streets, and there are obviously more people.

Yang Yuanzhao leaned beside the carriage and looked at the scenery outside the window. His eyes were inevitably attracted by the signs around him. In Taiyuan in the early 20th century, in some places, he could see shops with English letters. Obviously, the owners of these shops should be some foreigners. They began to open the country's door in 1840. In nearly half a century, the tentacles of the great powers have gradually deepened from the initial coastal coast to the mainland and the semi-colonial level of China.

In cities like Baotou, the great powers did not go deeper, and at most they were foreign companies receiving goods there. However, in Taiyuan, a city with railways already opened, the great powers would definitely attach great importance to it. Taiyuan and Xi'an, to a certain extent, were the stepping stones for the great powers to control the northwest and the entire western part of China. Britain and France were just an existence meaning for this place, but Japan and Russia both regarded this place as the focus. The two hungry wolves had already regarded the northwest as their belongings, especially Japan.

Along the way, there are almost 7 English brands, only 2 German brands, and almost 20 Russian brands. As for Japanese, there are at least 50 at least.

Japan, a country and population, is only one-small part of China. Even in the early 20th century, when China was in a semi-colonial situation with a severe disaster, Japan's income was not as strong as the end of the Qing Dynasty. Such a country, with the support of Britain, seized several critical time points. In 1895, it defeated China and obtained compensation from the Treaty of Taiwan and Shimonoseki. In 1905, the Russo-Japanese War defeated Russia among the great powers, allowing other countries to face up to the existence of Japan. Then, in the First World War, with the help of the European War, it made a fortune in the war, and finally completed the industrialization transformation, allowing Japan to embark on the road of rapid expansion. Finally, it was the War of Aggression and World War II. Japan's strength reached its peak and could once be wrestled with the United States in the broad and soft ocean of the Pacific Ocean.

Yang Yuanzhao felt a sudden sensation in his heart. Japan was probably the rise of China, an unavoidable obstacle. He knew very well that as a barren island country, the plot of Japan's mainland has never faded. Every part of land and resources will trigger bloodthirsty eyes. What's more, China, which is poor and backward, and unprepared, has extended its tentacles to China in the thirty or forty years before the invasion of China.

They are very concerned about everything about China. From politics and economy, people's livelihood, Taiyuan is a major city in the northwest and a relatively developed place for trade. It is normal for the Japanese to own many shops here. On the surface, these Japanese people are just ordinary businessmen who can do business in China. None of them are trained by Japanese intelligence departments. They try every means to investigate everything about China in all aspects, and then summarize them into intelligence, which becomes the basis for formulating Japan's national policy.

No wonder during the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese army was unstoppable, and military strength was only one aspect. China had no secrets in Japan. The nature and temperament of officers, even a small battalion-level officer, would be recorded in detail. Japan's maps were even more accurate and detailed than the maps of the Kuomintang army. Some paths that only local mountain people knew were known to most of the Chinese army, but the Japanese army knew.

The rise of a country will inevitably lead to war. In addition to the domestic forces, there are Russia and Japan. The two great powers with ambition, the Russo-Japanese War, and foreign troops fought in China, occupying China's land, enslaving the Chinese people, and ultimately fighting for China's interests. How sad this is, but all living beings, including some revolutionaries and leaders, did not see Japan's ambitions, and were even influenced by Japan's goodwill and co-prosperity between China and Japan, and believed that Japan was kind-hearted.
Chapter completed!