Chapter 448: Interlocking

On the last page of the storyboard, a group of white peace doves spread their wings and flew into the blue sky and white clouds.

"This piece of blue sky is where they once flew."

Bang, bang, two tears fell on the storybook.

"Ouch~"

"Hey, hurry up..."

Run Run Shaw and Huang Zhan hurriedly took out paper towels and carefully wiped the storybook.

"Let's not talk about anything else."

Run Run Shaw picked it up again and looked at it carefully: "I like this storyboard very much."

Huang Zhan was stunned for a moment after hearing this.

Before that, he had long admired these two storyboards.

"Then which one are you going to keep, Uncle Six?"

Huang Zhan asked with a smile: "Is it this one or the other one called "Music and Peace"?"

"What about this...?"

This question happens to be what Run Run Shaw is struggling with.

It's clear he wants both.

But just before reading the script, Huang Zhan had already told him: Choose one of the two.

Therefore, when watching the two scripts later, Run Run Shaw was already comparing them in her mind at the same time.

I have to say that the Anglo-German World War II drama in "Music and Peace" is very dramatic in itself.

But this drama is actually adapted from real events.

What do these elements combined together mean?

It was the ratings that made his eyes shine.

By the way, it can also improve TVB’s overseas perspective.

As for the second book, let alone the Second World War that took place in China.

No matter how touching the history of other countries is, it is not as profound as our own.

This innate feeling of family and country can be fully embodied in just one picture.

What Run Run Shaw didn't expect was that the screenwriter named Jiang Shan actually presented the script directly in storyboards.

How could he withstand the combined impact of words and images?

What does it mean to be unable to put it down? He just won’t let go of the good stuff!

"I finally got a heart-stirring script, how could I let it go so easily,"

Run Run Shaw patted the script on her knees: "Shoot, we must shoot it."

"So, you're going to keep this pilot?"

It was just as he expected. Huang Zhan stretched out his hand to take back another one.

"do not move,"

It's a pity that Run Run Shaw didn't give him a chance:

"You can help me go back and ask the screenwriter if he can keep both scripts. As for the remuneration...you need to ask him what he means first."

…

The next morning, not long after he walked into the newspaper office, Jiang Shan received a call from Xiangjiang.

Huang Zhan on the other end of the phone, without saying anything else, thanked Jiangshan for a long time for the advertisement of China Southern Commercial Bank.

After that, the topic turned to anti-war public service announcements.

"They want both?"

"Jiang Sheng, you don't need to look at my face. If you have any requests, just ask. I'll go talk to the TV station."

"..."

Jiang Shan, who was holding the phone, was not in a hurry to talk.

It seems that the previously negotiated 200,000 royalties have been confirmed.

Then... After thinking back and forth for a while, Jiang Shan simply said:

"Since TVB liked it so much, I gave them both scripts."

"Give them both? Both?"

"Um!"

"If you do this, Uncle Six will definitely remember your favor!"

"But there is one thing you have to keep an eye on for me. You must ensure the shooting quality of the script."

"You can rest assured about this. Uncle Six will follow up personally. In addition, we at 'Huang Yulin' have prepared one for Jiang Shengqi..."

"Since we are all friends, we should take care of each other, so the red envelopes will be waived."

In Jiang Shan's opinion, if you lay down some worldly favors at the right time, they might come in handy one day.

…

"This piece of blue sky is where they once flew" is about the heroic deeds of Chinese pilots during the Anti-Japanese War.

Jiang Shan adopts the method of highlights and tells the story in a straightforward manner.

Coupled with the prototype characters' respective home letters, catchphrases, and pre-war messages...

The tragic history of "War has no mercy" is packaged and delivered to the audience.

We must ensure that people in peaceful times know that there once was such a group of people under the same blue sky and white clouds.

No one may remember their names, but their choices should always be remembered.

At the end of the script, Jiang Shan's brush brought all the lost lives back to life.

Speaking of which, this should be the ending that everyone wants to see.

But it is such a beautiful picture that makes the viewer even more heartbroken.

Because everyone knows that it will never be possible!

Unless... the war never came.

The purpose of the "anti-war public service announcement" is achieved here.

…

Film and television dramas about China Aviation School have been filmed in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China.

"Beauty on Fire" from Xiangjiang, "The Heroes of Jianqiao" from Taiwan, and "The Flying Eagle Away", "Wonderful West and East", "Leaning on the Railing"...

All of them are film and television dramas adapted from real-life prototypes of aviation school students.

But no matter which drama it is, one key point is ignored - Zhonghang Aircraft Manufacturing Factory.

It is precisely this aircraft manufacturer that is the top priority.

Zhonghang Airport is just across the wall from the Central Aviation School.

The aircraft will be manufactured and assembled in the factory shed and pushed to the runway of the aviation school.

Then, after a successful test flight by instructors from the aviation school, it will be directly delivered to the Air Force for use.

The Hawk-3 fighter piloted by Gao Zhihang, one of the "Four Great Kings" of the Aviation School, was produced and assembled here.

In 1934, the Zhonghang Aircraft Manufacturing Plant was officially put into operation.

It was the largest and most technologically advanced aircraft manufacturing plant in China in the early days.

The internal facilities at that time were very fashionable in later generations.

There were not only multi-storey villas, swimming pools, and leisure clubs for employees to live in.

There were also hospitals, kindergartens, and primary schools.

All employee apartments were equipped with independent toilets, telephones, and heating.

Unfortunately, the Zhonghang Aircraft Factory only existed for 8 years.

The Zhonghang aircraft, which had been heavily bombed by Japanese aircraft,

even after it was moved to Yunnan on the Sino-Myanmar border, still could not withstand the crazy bombing of the Japanese army.

In desperation, it could only choose to self-destruct.

But there were quite a few senior engineers who came out of this manufacturing plant.

The most amazing one among them was Professor Wang Zhu, Qian Lao's mentor, known as the "Father of Boeing".

Today, who can imagine it.

Boeing, a century-old company that can handle civil, military aviation and aerospace, had a Chinese named Wang Zhu as its first chief engineer.

At the age of 16, Wang Zhu, who was extremely intelligent and had excellent grades since childhood, was sent to study in the UK at public expense.

After arriving in the UK, Wang Zhu studied at Armstrong Naval College.

There, he first came into contact with the profession of aircraft manufacturing, which opened his aviation career.

When World War I broke out, Wang Zhu transferred to MIT in the United States to study aerospace engineering.

At that time, there were very few Chinese who could study abroad.

This inevitably made Wang Zhu somewhat lonely and helpless.

The most terrifying thing was that the whole world was laughing at the Qing Dynasty at that time.

Words such as backwardness and ignorance became exclusive adjectives.

And Wang Zhu, who was in it, naturally suffered a lot of ridicule and contempt.

After learning from the pain, Wang Zhu forced himself to calm down.

He decided to ignore the outside world and focus on learning aviation knowledge.

He studied hard, just so that he could hold his head high one day.

On the road to study, he studied when others studied and studied when others rested.

When others went home on holidays, he went to the aircraft manufacturing factory for internship and research on aircraft parts.

He often stayed in the factory for a whole day.

After studying hard, Wang Zhu finally completed his studies at MIT and successfully obtained a master's degree in aviation.

This is also the first time that a Chinese has obtained a master's degree in aviation.

At this time, a space equipment company called Pacific appeared in front of Wang Zhu.

As World War I had already started, Westerf, one of the founders of the company, was ready to leave the company and go to the battlefield.

Before leaving, he recommended his classmate, Wang Zhu, a top student at MIT, to William Boeing, another founder of the company.

In this way, Wang Zhu became the first chief engineer of Boeing.

Unexpectedly, the company, which was already dying, was revived in Wang Zhu's hands.

After a detailed investigation, Wang Zhu made effective improvements and adjustments to the seaplane developed by the company in the early stage.

Developed a new type of seaplane with double floats and double wings.

The excellent performance of the new aircraft completely pushed the seaplane, which could only be used for performances, to the historical advancement of practical aircraft.

Soon, the new seaplane that passed the military test allowed Boeing to obtain an order for 50 aircraft from the US military.

It was this timely rain of 570,000 US dollars that made Boeing, which was ready to pack up its bedding roll, come back to life.

With only this single product on the shelves, Boeing became a leader in the aviation equipment industry.

Although Boeing, which was the only one in the world, has always engraved Wang Zhu's name on the homepage of its aerospace history.

But it did not hinder their prevention and isolation of Chief Engineer Wang.

Even though they were holding Wang Gong's design drawings in their hands, they still blocked him at the door of the laboratory at the last critical moment.

Faced with such oppression and injustice, Wang Zhu simply gave up and returned home.

After returning to his motherland, Wang Zhu quickly submitted an application to the Beiyang government to build an airport.

Under the leadership of Wang Zhu, the Aircraft Research Institute successfully manufactured the first medium-sized bomber in Chinese history.

China, whose aerospace industry was in its infancy, had Wang Zhu, which was like having divine help.

Water does not compete for the first place, but for the endless flow.

Wang Zhu, who had seen all the ups and downs outside, not only studied aircraft manufacturing day and night,

but also suggested to the government to cultivate talents in aircraft manufacturing and develop the air force at the same time.

Make adequate preparations for possible wars in the future.

In 1934, Qian Lao and Wu Lao, the heroes of the "two bombs and one satellite", and Xu Shunshou, the "father of aircraft design in the Republic", came to Zhonghang Aircraft Manufacturing Plant for internships.

Wang Zhu, who was the first chief engineer of Zhonghang Factory at that time, taught them all kinds of aviation knowledge without reservation.

After the internship, Wang Zhu also wrote a letter in his personal name to recommend Qian Lao to his MIT mentor.

Later, when the other party was under house arrest in the United States and could not return to China.

The very anxious Chief Engineer Wang tried his best to help this "intern".

It solved a lot of problems for Mr. Qian to return to China smoothly.

When recalling in his later years, Mr. Qian was still grateful to his internship teacher.

He listed him as one of the 17 predecessors who had a profound influence on him.

Master of aviation, aircraft manufacturer, fighter plane, pilot, Chinese Air Force, father of missiles...

It was these indispensable interlocking links that led to the Chinese Air Force’s rapid growth.

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"Good luck today, catch two chickens alive, catch two chickens alive..."

Because this afternoon, Jiang Xiangnan will go to the city for a meeting and study on behalf of the Second Clothing Factory.

The task of picking up Xiaobai after school was given to activist Jiang Shan.

At this moment, in the Delica van, the third uncle was singing and laughing with Jiang Xiaobai behind him.

The little bun standing in the back row put his hands tightly on the third uncle's shoulders.

I was shaking my head and swaying my head, not to mention how happy I was singing.

"Go and find Old Bear, let's eat chicken together. The chicken is delicious and delicious. I'll make sure he's satisfied."

"What's that last sentence?"

At this point in the song, Uncle San and Xiao Bai paused for a moment:

"Hahahahahaha, keep it satisfied!"

"Yeah~"

"Uncle San," after singing the song, Little Baozi spent a lot of effort: "I want to eat chicken."

"Want to eat chicken?" Jiang Shan looked around:

"It's not ready-made for sale. Let's do this. When we arrive at the gate of your sister's school, my third uncle will buy you whatever you want to eat."

What can be found at the gate of a primary school in this era?

If it were summer, you would still see two bicycles pushing a refrigerator.

At this point, all I could see was a self-employed person selling syrup.

After picking up Jiang Xiaoyu, Jiang Shan, who was carrying a small schoolbag, led his two children and squeezed into the stall selling glutinous rice flour.

Not to mention, just smelling it is enough to make you greedy.

Don't look at Xiaoyu and Xiaobai. They often eat the good things brought back by their third uncle.

He would still stare expectantly at the wooden turntable on the stall.

I drew a circle with various patterns on the turntable, and it looked like something extraordinary.

Jiang Shan looked at the folk artists like himself and said, "How much does it cost to play once?"

"5 points." The boss, who was busy working, looked unusual.

"Here, two cents,"

The third uncle generously handed out two cents. Under the expectant eyes of Xiaoyu and Xiaobai, he rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'll go first."

After Jiang Shan neatly turned the axis, no matter whether the children around him knew him or not, they were all staring at the axis nervously.

"Peacock, peacock,"

Jiang Xiaoyu has long been interested in the peacock icon: "Peacock, peacock..."

"Sun Wukong, Sun Wukong..." Jiang Xiaobai wanted a Monkey King.

As a result, the third uncle transferred this one:

"Mouse~"

"Hahaha, it took me a long time to turn around and it turned out to be a mouse."

"Just move a little further and you'll see the dragon."

"You should turn softly."

The children watching the excitement around them began to point out the situation.

After the next two cents were transferred four times, neither child was transferred to their own Peacock and Monkey King.

"Comrade, I don't want to change anymore. How much does it cost to buy a peacock and the Monkey King?"

Finally, in full view.

Xiaoyu and Xiaobai, who were smiling, each held up a huge amber candy painting.

Even Jiang Shan's hand was holding an oversized mouse.

"Let's go with Third Uncle to the train station to pick up Grandpa Yongyu..."