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Upon hearing what Carpenter Xu said, the whole place suddenly fell silent. Everyone was watching Carpenter Xu, quietly waiting for the next scene.

I saw Carpenter Xu approaching Emperor Chongzhen and bowed deeply. When he straightened up again, his face was full of confidence and he said: "I really appreciate this young master's help. Next, please take a look. My flying car has taken me more than ten years of hard work and continuous improvement. I believe there should be no problem this time!"

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he couldn't help but admire him very much. For more than ten years, Carpenter Xu has been doing this and constantly improving. He really has great perseverance and the spirit of a scientific researcher who specializes in solving problems. It's really good!

"Why did you want to do this flying car? It took you more than ten years!" Concubine Tian was also surprised and couldn't help but interjected.

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 in his flying car. Hearing this question, he was very interested and immediately answered with a smile: "Our Suzhou area is crisscrossed by rivers, has many harbors, and land transportation is inconvenient, so I thought about whether I could There is a kind of car that can fly, so you don’t have to worry about the inconvenience of going out. Just now I saw it mentioned on Baopuzi, so I wanted to come up with this!"

If he has an idea, if he can do it, it will be a great charity that will benefit future generations, far better than those so-called "art" masters. Emperor Chongzhen was even more fond of Carpenter Xu. When he was about to speak, the onlookers seemed impatient and began to boo.

"Xu, idiot, stop lying to outsiders, you can't fly at all!"

"That's right, idiot Xu, just go ahead and be your carpenter. Don't be embarrassed and not doing your job properly!"

"Carpenter Xu, if you can, fly up and take a look. Don't waste our time!"

"..."

After hearing this, Xu Zhengming couldn't help but glared at them and said: "Who said it can't fly? Just watch it!"

After saying that, he didn't even care about Emperor Chongzhen and the others and walked straight to the field.

His flying car looks like a chair (that is, an armchair) with a mechanism underneath and interlocking teeth. The person sits on the chair, then takes a deep breath, looks around at everyone around him, and holds his head high. Breasts, as if to perform a very sacred thing, the feet began to exert force, and became faster and faster. That is, a person sits in a chair and hits the board with his two feet. The movement of the up and down movement causes the wind to spin rapidly.

In Emperor Chongzhen's view, Carpenter Xu used his feet to step on the pedals and drive the bamboo dragonfly-like rotor to rotate through the speed-increasing gear, thereby generating lift and making the "speeding car" fly into the air.

Sure enough, as Carpenter Xu moved faster and faster, the rotors turned faster and faster, and under the spotlight, his flying car staggered off the ground and actually started to fly. Suddenly, this fact caused a cry of exclamation.

"Wow, you really have to get off the ground!"

"It's actually successful this time? It's incredible!"

"Yes, can we humans really fly in the air? Haha!"

"..."

When the flying car was about three feet above the ground, Carpenter Xu swung a mechanism connected to the chair, and the other tail began to rotate, but at the same time, the flying car dropped about two feet in vain, as if It was about to fall, and there was another burst of exclamations.

But at least it didn't land, and it was still hanging in the air for about a foot. As the tail turned faster and faster, the speeding car flew slowly towards the river on the side. This river is about two feet wide. It seems that Carpenter Xu wants to drive his flying car across this river.

The wind brought by the flying car was so strong that everyone's clothes were fluttering. There were even a few people wearing hats who had to reach out and hold down their hats to prevent them from blowing away. At this time, almost everyone forgot to speak and stared at Carpenter Xu's flying car, with incredible expressions on their faces.

Relatively speaking, Emperor Chongzhen was much less shocked by the flying car in front of him. After all, he came from a later generation. Not to mention meeting him, he had ridden in a plane flying at an altitude of tens of thousands of miles, countless times!

To be honest, although this flying car can fly and can be driven by human power, it obviously cannot have much future. Unlike these seventeenth-century aborigines, who thought that if a flying car could fly, would it be possible to really fly in the air in the future?

I saw Carpenter Xu stepping hard and the speeding car moving slowly. Slowly, slowly, the flying car finally flew over the river, and was still moving slowly towards the other side.

"Wow, you really can fly!" Finally, someone came back to his senses after the initial surprise and couldn't help but sigh.

After hearing what he said, the people around him also came to their senses and praised him one after another.

Even Concubine Tian became excited. She turned to look at Emperor Chongzhen and said, "Master, I also want to have a ride on this flying car?"

The dreamland of flying is what everyone wants. Emperor Chongzhen understood Concubine Tian's wish, and when he was about to speak, he suddenly heard a "pop" and saw that one of the rotors on Xu Carpenter's flying car suddenly broke off. Immediately, the flying car could no longer fly in the air and fell into the river with a "pop".

"Ah..." This time, everyone was dumbfounded, but they still didn't fly over!

As a result, the crowd of onlookers, who had been praising and astonishing just now, suddenly began to boo and laugh at him again.

"Haha, let me tell you, if people can fly in the sky, sows can climb trees!"

"Look, idiot Xu is messing around again!"

"It's over, it's over, the show is over..."

"..."

As he spoke, many people began to turn around and leave.

At this time, some people also noticed the situation in the river. Carpenter Xu was splashing in the water, seemingly unable to swim.

At this time, the weather is March. Here in Jiangnan, although it is not as cold as in the north, the temperature is still here after all. Several people who originally wanted to go rescue others hesitated.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw it, he waved his hand quickly, and immediately two plainclothes guards who knew how to swim jumped into the river to save people without hesitation. Seeing this, a few onlookers finally gave Emperor Chongzhen their thumbs up, and the system also sounded a prompt for achievement points.

After Xu Carpenter was rescued, he did not immediately thank Emperor Chongzhen. Instead, he pointed at the speeding car in the river and shouted hurriedly: "My car, my car..."

The two plainclothes guards turned their heads and glanced at Emperor Chongzhen's face, then went down to the river to retrieve his car.

Seeing this situation, Carpenter Xu felt relieved, and finally remembered something, and hurriedly went to Emperor Chongzhen to thank him.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw this, he looked at Carpenter Xu who was soaked all over with a smile and asked: "You are not good at flying, do you still want to continue?"

This is written based on the records in "Wu County Chronicles Xiangshan Xiaozhi". Its authenticity is unknown. Judging from the modern situation, there is a helicopter association in the United States that has set up the Sikorsky Award, requiring challengers to build a human-powered helicopter that can rise to 3 meters above the ground and can hover in the air for more than 60 seconds. $250,000. This one was eventually won by a Canadian team. There is a video on the Internet, and the strange shape is not a helicopter at all. Therefore, just take a look at this helicopter in the late Ming Dynasty and don’t pay attention to the details. After all, this is a novel, not a scientific paper.