Sorry for the late update today!

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As the scientists of the Tang Empire continue to obtain various advanced research results from the wreckage of alien spacecraft, the industrial construction of the Tang Empire has also benefited a lot, for example, in the electronic computer from transistors to large-scale integrated circuits, the alien oracle-like underlying computer language has been developed, which directly programs the machine language of the 01 base, making the computer develop in the direction of a more intelligent computer.

"Your Highness, now our national supercomputer can achieve a speed of 20 million operations per second, once we crack the computer program of the alien civilization, maybe soon we will develop an intelligent computer, up to a trillion times per second operation speed, to accurately calculate the trajectory of the outer galaxy celestial body, one day we will find the location of the alien civilization."

For Gu Kaifeng, the new director of the National Science Laboratory, his understanding of the benefits of extraterrestrial computers in Area 52 is still at a very rudimentary level.

However, Zhang Meng quickly reminded him that he said: "If I guess correctly, the computer system used by the alien spacecraft should be a quantum computer, so you still have a long way to go in the future!" ”

"Quantum computers?" Gu Kaifeng was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to have something to think about.

Quantum computers were proposed by scientists as early as 1920, but at that time, science fiction existed only in science fiction, and it was impossible to realize it with the industrial capabilities of that era.

However, with the continuous progress of humanity. A lot of science fiction stuff has become a reality.

As the Tang Empire entered the era of large-scale integrated circuits in the computer field, scientists led by Gu Kaifeng found that energy consumption would cause the chips in the computer to heat up, which greatly affected the integration of the chips. Thus limiting the speed at which the computer can run. After continuous research, they found that the energy consumption comes from irreversible operations in the calculation process.

Zhang Meng's theory of quantum computers only stays in a vague impression, but he knows that in his 21st century era, the United States has developed at that time, and their quantum computers can crack the encryption algorithms of all financial systems in the world in 10 seconds, and the world panics as soon as it comes out, and all financial institutions in various countries have been kidnapped by the United States. It is more ruthless and thorough than nuclear blackmail, and it is enough to change the world pattern, so he is particularly concerned. Remember the quantum computer.

Thinking of this, Zhang Meng's eyes suddenly lit up, he hoped that the Tang Empire could develop a quantum computer as soon as possible, in this way...... Hey......

He grinned. Seeing Gu Kaifeng looking at himself in amazement. So he said casually: "Have you thought about it?" Does the calculation process have to be irreversible to complete? All computers should be able to find a reversible counterpart without compromising computing power. Since every operation in a computer can be retrofitted to be reversible, in quantum mechanics it can be represented by a unitary transformation. ”

Gu Kaifeng was wondering why Zhang Meng was grinning, and after hearing Zhang Meng's words, he was stunned at first, and then fell into thought, and then said with great joy: "Sure enough, everyone said that if you encounter something you don't understand." Just talk to His Highness, and you will definitely benefit a lot. Today, I, an old man, have been taught again, and His Royal Highness's words are like an initiation, and the problem I have been entangled with for decades has suddenly figured it out! Your Highness Shengming! ”

Zhang Meng laughed a few times, he had done this kind of plagiarism of the theories of later generations tens of thousands of times, so at this moment, his face had already been trained to a thick black state where his face was not red and he was not panting.

Gu Kaifeng and others have also developed some quantum computers before, all of which are ordinary computers described in the language of quantum mechanics, and do not take into account the essential properties of quantum mechanics, such as the superposition and coherence of quantum states. A quantum computer transforms each superimposed component, all of which are done at the same time, and superimposed by a certain probability amplitude to give a result, which is called quantum parallel computing. In addition to parallel computing, another important use of quantum computers is to simulate quantum systems, a task that ordinary computers are not capable of.

To use an exact analogy, if we compare a semiconductor computer to a single instrument, a quantum computer is like a symphony orchestra that can handle many different situations in one operation, so a simple 40-bit quantum computer can solve a problem that a 1024-bit electronic computer has spent decades solving.

It can be seen that if a higher-level quantum computer is developed, the encryption algorithms of all financial systems in the world will be directly broken in seconds.

"Your Highness, the old man is no longer with you, you turn slowly, the old man has a whim, you have to go back to the laboratory quickly, you are out of company!" Gu Kaifeng directly forgot Zhang Meng's identity at this moment, and left after speaking.

Zhang Meng was stunned there, with a wry smile on his face, but he had long been accustomed to it, these scientists were all weirdos and could not be inferred by common sense.

"I hope you can develop a quantum computer as soon as possible, but traditional computers must also be promoted to the world as soon as possible, otherwise other countries will not use computers to manage the financial system, and even if we develop quantum computers, it will be useless!" By the way, you can't do it without the Internet, you can't carry a quantum computer to the door of someone's bank and tell them that I want to crack their bank encryption system! It seems that some technology export controls have to be properly liberalized! ”

Zhang Meng touched his chin, planning a new round of earth-shattering plans to rob the world.

At this time, the guard officer reported that the new Minister of National Defense Yang Ganglie had something to look for him, so Zhang Meng temporarily put aside his illusions, returned to reality, and the convoy returned to Afang Palace.

Afang Palace is a new palace built in the new capital of the Tang Empire, originally Zhang Meng wanted to move the Daming Palace to the new capital, but in the end found that it was better to build a new cost-effective than to relocate, but it was not possible to build two Daming Palaces, even if the people of the Tang Dynasty loved their leader the emperor again, they would not help but say that Zhang Meng was a loser.

Therefore, after consulting with the ministers of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Zhang Meng decided to build a new palace in the new capital.

Although the historians and architects of the Tang Dynasty have found a lot of records and classics about Afang Palace. However, due to the long history and the loss of many key materials, experts can only rely on speculation to rebuild Afang Palace.

Even so. As the world's first superpower, the Tang Empire, the palace is naturally luxurious, majestic and domineering, so the scale of Afang Palace is huge, with the size of three Daming Palaces, and the degree of luxury far exceeds that of the Forbidden City.

Originally, it was paid by the Ministry of Finance at a cost of 500 million Tang Yuan, but in the end, the United States and the Soviet Union and other countries reported it significantly. accused Zhang Meng of working hard and hurting money, forcing Zhang Meng to have no choice but to pay out of his own pocket.

Fortunately, Zhang Meng has huge assets of hundreds of billions of Tang Yuan, and 500 million Tang Yuan is a drop in the bucket for him. So it only hurt for a while, and I quickly forgot about it.

Returning to Afang Palace, Zhang Meng summoned General Yang Ganglie.

When asked, he knew. It turned out to be a new round of fierce controversy within the Datang Navy.

Since the Tang Empire captured Britain, France and Germany, it is a super battleship equipped to the Tang Navy. Two factions were formed within the entire navy officers and men, one was to worship the giant ship cannon doctrine and wanted to restore the core position of battleships in the navy, and the internal name was BB Party. The other is to insist that aircraft carriers dominate the battlefield and maintain the core position of aircraft carriers as the core of the fleet.

Since the Datang Navy has not experienced cutting-edge naval battles after obtaining more than a dozen super battleships into service, all super battleships have not been able to exert the combat power of the main force of naval warfare. Since the founding of the country, the Datang Navy has always taken aircraft carriers as the combat center, which can be said to have made great contributions to the Tang Empire. For some time at first, the BB party was at a disadvantage, and the centrality of the aircraft carrier was unshakable.

However, as the Tang Empire's new weapon, the orbital kinetic energy gun, entered the stage of actual combat deployment, the naval officers and men of the CV Party of the aircraft carrier-centric theory have always believed that the aircraft carrier can use the carrier-based aircraft to destroy the battleship beyond the visual range, because the aircraft carrier is thin, and if it is close combat, it will obviously be destroyed by the battleship's one shot, so the BB Party has always had a headache that the range of the battleship's main gun is too short, and it cannot hit the aircraft carrier, so it can only passively fight with the aircraft carrier carrier, and it cannot give full play to the power of the battleship's main gun.

Today, the orbital kinetic energy cannon of the Tang Empire has entered the stage of actual combat deployment, the ground fire test has been approved by the Army Equipment Commission, and the TG1000 has been included in the procurement list of the army's native air defense forces.

This TG1000 orbital kinetic energy gun can destroy cruise missiles flying from 400 kilometers away in a few seconds, and in the national missile defense plan of the Tang Empire, although the Guardian 1, 2, and 3 air defense missiles were purchased to form a national missile defense system, but in actual combat testing, it was found that the interception success rate was too low, and a large number of air defense missiles were expensive to maintain, and with the United States and the Soviet Union developing long-range ballistic missiles with a speed of up to Mach 3, the Tang Army often only took more than ten minutes from early warning to air defense interception. If the nuclear submarines of the United States and the Soviet Union are close to the mainland of the Tang Empire and then launch ballistic missiles, the interception time will be shorter and the success rate will be lower.

However, with the orbital kinetic energy cannon in service with the army's air defense forces, under the monitoring of the advanced radar and space satellites of the Tang Empire, once an incoming missile is discovered, once the orbital kinetic energy cannon locks it, it will almost hit 100 shots, and the interception success rate is 100 percent. This is due to the fact that the speed of the orbital kinetic gun is much faster than that of an anti-aircraft missile, reaching Mach 9 (9 times the speed of sound), and the missiles of the United States and the Soviet Union will be destroyed before they have time to react. However, the speed of traditional air defense missiles is too slow, and the missiles specially developed by the United States and the Soviet Union to break through the Datang air defense system all have orbit change technology, so it is difficult for the Tang Army's Guardian air defense missiles to intercept successfully.

This is just one advantage of the orbital kinetic energy cannon, the Navy BB party has long aimed at the sea-based ship-based orbital kinetic cannon, planning to lead the orbital kinetic cannon to the battleship, and then equip it with nuclear reactor power supply and advanced radar system, so that the battleship can also launch an attack beyond the visual range, and the aircraft carrier hundreds of kilometers away will be destroyed in an instant.

Hearing Yang Ganglie's explanation, Zhang Meng's eyes suddenly lit up, he agreed with this idea, after all, the current way of naval warfare is no longer close combat, and the United States, Tang and the Soviet Union are all using missiles as their main weapons.

"Your Highness, if you agree, the Naval Armament Committee will approve a new round of modernization of the battleships in service!"

Zhang Meng thought for a while, and suddenly asked rhetorically: "You said that if we start building battleships again and equip them with orbital kinetic energy guns, will other countries follow suit and start a new round of battleship arms race with the Empire?" (To be continued......)