"In general, our economic figures for this year have been compiled, and it seems that this year's economic growth rate will be lowered to 8 percent." Miao Ruoxi looked at the report and was a little embarrassed. After all, under her construction, she took advantage of the US economic crisis to adjust the industrial structure, which caused part of China's real economy to be transferred overseas.

"It's nothing, if we keep growing at a rate of 13 percent or more, the economic crisis won't be too long. Therefore, it is a long-term move to reduce the growth rate to adjust the economic sector, focus on stimulating consumption, and cultivate new economic growth. ”

"Well, the general seat is far-sighted, and his subordinates admire him. Judging from last year's readjustment, many problems in our economic development have been exposed, and if we continue to be covered up by the high speed of economic development, it will inevitably lead to a serious crisis in the future. Miao Ruoxi looked at Wu Chenxuan and admired him very much, this uncle who started a business with his father had actually just passed the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, but his vision was accurate, so that many international economic people had to admire. Now our social welfare has exceeded the general level of Europe and the United States, but considering the base of our 900 million people, is it necessary to consider the operating costs of the whole society and appropriately increase the number of social security contributors and the base? ”

"It can be adjusted by increasing the range of people who pay social security, and in addition, a part of the subsidy will be brought in from the special fund for the first six years. The current demographic dividend has not yet come into effect, and the next decade will be an important stage for China's social welfare balance. "Wu Chenxuan closed the report, other economic issues have been repeatedly demonstrated, and the national economic matrix of the base to verify, there will be no major deviations, only the social security issue is too wide-ranging, and the secretariat has to carry out a global deduction to provide a feasibility study report to the head of state." Xiao Miao, tomorrow your father and I are going to the northwest, there is a serious matter waiting for us to go to the scene to observe, if you have time, you can also go with your father, just say that it was approved by your Uncle Wu. ”

"Well, okay, I'll tell my dad." Miao Ruoxi knew that the important things in the Führer's mouth were only afraid that they were all major events that could be recorded in the history of the empire, and it was natural not to miss the opportunity to experience it in person, and her father was also the most fond of this genius girl. What she didn't expect, though, was that what she would see was the most horrific destructive power ever seen in human history.

In the early morning of October 16, the eleventh year of the first year, the east gradually brightened. ←dǐng←diǎn←小←語,.□.↙os_(); This morning light rises in the nervous anticipation of people in the depths of the desert. They are expecting Xu Shaoguang and other experts from the Jinan Nuclear Weapons Research Institute to come up with the last set of calculations for the first atomic bomb.

Two afternoons ago, just when everything seemed to be ready and only the east wind was owed, Ma Rui, deputy director of the General Armament Department of Jinan, received an urgent telegram from the Malan base in Lop Nur. According to the report, there are two possible causes of the failure of the atomic bomb test explosion: one is that the neutrons produced by the spontaneous fission of uranium-8 in the atomic bomb cause "spontaneous combustion" and cause an early nuclear explosion; The second is that the chemical explosion failed to trigger a nuclear explosion.

100,000 urgent! Ma Rui immediately reported to Premier Zhou Zhongfu. That night, Premier Zhou Zhongfu called Ma Rui to the Prime Minister's Office in the Government Council and asked him what he thought. Ma Rui believes that a chemical explosion is unlikely, because there have been many polymeric detonation tests without problems; As for the probability of spontaneous fission of uranium materials, experts should be invited to study and calculate.

Zhou Zhongfu asked directly: "What might happen to the experiment?" Ma Rui thought for a while and replied: "There are three possibilities, the first is to be straightforward, the second is to drag the mud and water, and the third is to fail completely." Finally, he confidently said, "The first is the most likely." Premier Zhou Zhongfu, who was known for his meticulousness in everything, still told him: "Be prepared just in case." ”

Ma Rui did not dare to slack off, braved the wind and rain, and rushed to the Institute of Radiation Physics in Changqing District, Jinan overnight. Before the car stopped, Liu Jie jumped out of the car and ran upstairs, he found theoretical physicist Xu Shaoguang, neutron physicist Mo Hongwen and mathematician Yuan Jialiu, assigned a task, and said: "There is a new situation in the field, and the prime minister asks to recalculate the probability of success, and give me the result within 8 hours." ”

In the early morning of the 15th, the number finally came out: "After calculation, the failure rate of China's first atomic * bomb explosion test is less than 1 in 10,000. "Rigorous calculations and confidence in victory have once again activated the preparations for the "zero hour" of the 799 base.

Sun Bingfu, a senior engineer in explosives at the 799 base at that time, recalled: "On October 15, the nuclear test command issued a combat order to all participating units: October 16 is 'zero day', and all units should be ready from now on. ”

That morning, the C07 Group, which was responsible for the nuclear explosion test mission, took three trucks to the measurement line in charge of the explosion area for final commissioning and installation. Qi Zifang from Sun Bingfu's group stayed at the receiving station to be responsible for signal reception, and Yang Jielu and Sun Bingfu went to the three signal transmitters for on-site commissioning and installation.

"When it came to the launch 7 kilometers away from the heart of the explosion, Yang Jielu was responsible for commissioning and installation, and I was responsible for supervising and recording to prevent mistakes. He first communicated wirelessly with Tian Shuyuan, then adjusted the clock to the time of the first boot, then turned on the power switch, and finally packed the transmitter in an iron box buried in the ground to prevent it from being damaged by a nuclear explosion. Every time he operates, I have to make sure that it is correct before I put a check mark on the record sheet. After completing the installation and commissioning of the 14 km and 20 km signal transmission diǎn, they drove back to the base. ”

Li Ziming, who served as the secretary of Ma Rui, deputy director of the General Armament Department, told reporters after the declassification deadline had expired that the Nuclear Test Commission had preliminarily agreed that it would be October 14, the 11th year of the Taichu Dynasty, and that it was finally determined that 15 o'clock on the 16th would be "zero hour" in the early morning of the 15th, and that it had been reported to Premier Zhou Zhongfu for approval.

Earlier, the weather forecast department of the 799 base said that from October 15 to 20, there will be good weather that meets the requirements of the test conditions. At 10:10 a.m. on October 10, the report of General Zhang Zuoxiang, commander-in-chief of the first nuclear test, and Zuo Aimin, deputy commander-in-chief, was delivered to the Prime Minister's Office.

The next day, the Führer approved the report. Zhou Zhongfu's short note was written to Ma Rui, then deputy director of the General Assembly Department: "I hope to tell Zhang and Zuo, agree with the arrangement of the one qiē mentioned in their letter, from October 15 to 20, they will decide the date and time of the detonation according to the meteorological conditions on the spot, and report to us after the decision. ”

The next day, the meteorological department of the 799 base forecast again that there was a possibility of good weather around the 16th. The Nuclear Test Commission (CTC) has set the test date on that date.

On the 13th, the first Nuclear Test Commission held a meeting and unanimously agreed that the preparatory work before the test had been completed and that a formal test could be conducted, and determined: First, this test must be carried out in a sound manner, ensure safety, and basically guarantee the test. Second, we must do a good job of safety protection. Third, the key to choosing "zero" lies in the weather forecast. Fourth, be prepared for both success and failure.

In accordance with Premier Zhou Zhongfu's instructions, the Nuclear Test Commission also stipulated the "code words" for telephone and telegram exchanges, such as "203" as "first time", "pipeline" as "live ammunition", "spraying" as "assembly", "going down the river" as "assembly room", "mountaineering" as "iron tower", "incense candle" as "detonator", "burning incense" as "detonator", "body temperature" as "dose", "blood pressure" as "meteorology", "day zero" as "detonation time", and so on.

Li Ziming also told the reporter that at 18:25 on October 14, they received a report from the 799 base office: "According to the analysis of the blood pressure (meteorology) situation, after the study of the test committee, it was determined that the positive diǎn minus four (16th) was used as the zero day (atomic bomb date)".

Premier Zhou Zhongfu immediately instructed: "Vice Minister Ma Rui also told Zhang and Zuo's colleagues: agree that the 16th is the zero day, please use code language encryption to tell Zhang and Zuo, and hope to tell them after the zero hour is confirmed." Li Ziming immediately used a confidential telephone to convey the premier's instructions to the headquarters of the Lop Nur test site, and the test explosion work in the field was ready to go.

The long-awaited "zero hour" has finally been determined, and 14 hours and 30 minutes later, China's first atomic bomb on the iron tower in the depths of the desert is about to shake the world.

In the depths of Lop Nur near Base 799, a huge steel frame towers into the sky, pointing straight into the sky. At the end of the steel frame, which is more than a dozen stories high, a big guy is placed, which is the world's first atomic bomb, nicknamed "Thunderbolt". In the bunker 3 kilometers away, many nuclear scientists and officials of the Chinese Democratic Emperor are quietly watching the spire. Wu Chenxuan, a group of important ministers, and several young officials were all quietly waiting for the earth-shattering arrival in the radiation shelter eight kilometers away.

This is a technically complex implosion-type fission atom* bomb, with plutonium-9 installed inside and conventional high explosives on the outside. Among them, the plutonium core weighs only 6.1 kilograms and is shaped like an orange. According to the procedure, once detonated, the conventional explosive first explodes, and then creates a supersonic shock wave that causes the plutonium-9 nuclear fuel to reach and exceed a critical mass, creating a chain reaction that releases energy in a very short time. The release of this energy is so great that it can almost destroy the surrounding area. Theoretically, scientists know the profound meaning of atomic bombs, but no one has really seen its power. Therefore, everyone is eager to see the fruits of their efforts. However, scientists are concerned that atomic* bombs will not be able to detonate once the explosion of conventional high explosives is not powerful enough.

At 14:59:15 on October 16, 45 seconds before mankind entered the atomic age, Qi Yongyi, a physics professor at Shandong University, flipped the switch of the dominant teleporter, and each pre-collected electron entered the designated position within a predetermined extremely accurate time of several millionths of a second. In this way, the chain drives of the second and third stages are activated. 15 seconds later, Wu Chenxuan pressed the last button to release the safety under the guidance of Zhang Zuoxiang, and the 30-second countdown began, and the nuclear explosion was unstoppable.

At 15:00, a moment and a qiē all happened at the same time. Of course, it is impossible to distinguish time in millions of tenths of a second, so it can be said that no one saw the first flash of an atom* bomb. But they did see the dazzling reflection in the distant Gobi Desert. Some of the dim skies suddenly lit up. Just after the flash, a huge thunder exploded in the air. A fireball slammed into the air from the tower. Smoke billowed from the ground and heat surged. The fireball in the air soared higher and higher, reaching into the sky. As far as the eye could see, a huge pillar of fire dǐng smoke cloud surged upward, with a height of more than 10,000 meters. After a while, a huge mushroom cloud formed in the air. The world's first atom* bomb has finally been successfully tested! Since the atomic bomb exploded at the nuclear test site in Lop Nur, the entire explosion operation was codenamed "Operation Loulan." The nuclear yield of this atom* bomb is about 19,000 tons, which exceeded the expectations of Mr. Xu Shaoguang, a physicist who presided over the nuclear test project.

After the nuclear explosion, there was not much left of the 30-meter-high steel tower. Scientists say that at the center of the atomic bomb, the temperature exceeded 1 million degrees Celsius. After the explosion of the atomic* bomb, the huge heat has melted most of the steel tower. At the foot of the steel tower, a large crater was blown out.

When the mushroom cloud rose, the shock wave blew all the way to the viewing platform dozens of kilometers away, and it actually lifted off the steel helmets of the Wehrmacht soldiers who were patrolling on the periphery of the restricted area. Wu Chenxuan remained motionless in the bunker, in the telescope he was staring at, while the tanks and sampling armored vehicles in the base were rushing into the nuclear explosion zone, and the bomber-converted sampling planes in the sky were also burrowing into the mushroom cloud......

The Tokyo Seismological Observatory was the first to announce the news of another shallow earthquake in northwest China, and the Chinese* government later said that after investigation, there were no casualties and confirmed that the earthquake was harmless. China's secrecy kept the world-changing event hidden for eight years, and it was not announced by the General Assembly Department of the Ministry of National Defense until China's entry into World War II, when China's nuclear arsenal already had 200 nuclear warheads ready to wipe out more than 85 percent of the cities and industries of any major country in 24 hours. The impact of this "thunderbolt" was far from being understood by the cheering engineers and soldiers in Base 799 at this moment, but it did not prevent them from celebrating with their beloved Führer and many generals and high-ranking officials.

A few years later, in the wasteland deep in Lop Nur, the second-generation soldiers of the 799 base transported a piece of Jinan blue granite from the capital thousands of miles away, and a stone tablet stood in the center of the explosion, which was engraved with Wu Chenxuan's own cursive writing: "The first nuclear test exploded the heart." Fifty years later, the sand that had been burned by the nuclear fire had been covered in windblown sand. Unknown yellow flowers and camel grass are still tenaciously showing the rebirth of life, but the hydrogeological and soil samples here are still state secrets. History will always remember that at 15 o'clock on October 16, the eleventh year of the first year of the Taichu Dynasty, it was here that the first atomic bomb of mankind turned into a thunderbolt in the heavens and the earth.