Chapter 67: The Far East Falling into Japan
Qinghai, the first nuclear reactor successfully generated electricity, on a small scale, using graphite pressurized water reactors, enriched uranium fuel rods. But enough for the Nuclear Power Research Institute.
Subsequently, the reactor did another shutdown safety experiment, and more problems were found. Fortunately, there was ample planning and no accidents occurred. The reactor took out the fuel rods and began to carry out the relevant modifications.
Einstein was satisfied with the whole process.
After reading the report, Zhang Chun specially called to congratulate him. Because the starting point of a reactor is already quite high, close to the practical level.
Another report submitted by the Xinmin Science Foundation believes that living organisms can withstand a certain amount of nuclear radiation. Because it is inevitable that microorganisms will ingest trace amounts of radioactive elements. Organisms produce some stress variations in response to intrinsic harm. Microorganisms and lower organisms are the fastest.
One idea is that the mutation of this basic microorganism causes a machine-by-machine strain of the entire biological chain. Eventually alter certain attributes of some higher creatures. The specific mechanism still needs to be studied. But environmentalists consider such a change very dangerous. Because this change is unpredictable.
For example, some processing plants store radioactive waste. Although the radioactivity is very low. But some lower creatures, such as earthworms and other animals, have mutated and become larger. The regeneration ability becomes stronger. Even some trees have absorbed radioactive elements through their roots. It can be stored in the fiber, but the stored tissue remains viable.
The older the tree, the more radioactive it is. Of course, this is all in very small amounts.
The Qinghai affair was kept strictly secret. This is because this is a technology that can directly derive nuclear weapons, and it is absolutely not allowed to be leaked.
Spring is coming.
Japan has again embarked on a large-scale spring offensive. This time Japanese artillery and planes also came up.
Soviet troops held positions on the line of the Lena River. But the direction of the main attack of the Japanese army was not on this side. Magadan, Kamchatka. Fell one after another. In order to avoid being encircled and annihilated, the Soviet Pacific Fleet, which was not strong, had to withdraw to the country.
The Far East completely fell into the hands of the Japanese. Japan's superiority in the Sea of Japan was gradually lost. But get an even larger Sea of Okhotsk.
Soviet control over Chukotka and Yakutia was inherently insufficient. Now it is being pushed all the way by Japan to the Verkhnyyansk Mountains and the Lena River, and there is no way.
Zhukov could only organize a defense with the help of the Lena River and prepare a possible counterattack.
However, this was also a kind of Soviet plan, and Stalin had already anticipated the impossibility of holding the Far East, where the climate was cold, the distance was long, and it was difficult to defend. Abandoning and returning to the Lena River is the established policy. This region, Yakuts, Chukotka. Kamchatka does not add up to more than two million people, how can it be a desperate fight of nearly 100 million Japanese? It was almost inevitable that Japan would take such a risk, given that it would not be possible to conquer China.
But Japan is so big a move. Shocked the world. In particular, the United States, Japan's sudden increase in territory and its neighboring country made Americans very nervous. In the midst of rising anti-Japanese sentiment in the country. The U.S. government halted the Japan-U.S. coal and rail agreement.
Hayashi began large-scale mining in the Far East to solve the resource problem. Emperor Hirohito and the people rallied to the government to build the Far East and make it a beautiful home for the Japanese people.
In the Soviet Union, the Second Five-Year Plan was completed with difficulty. Zhukov, who defended the Lena River, became a great contributor. Because he defended the economic construction program in the country. The Soviet model of education is significantly different from that of China. At the beginning of the founding of the Soviet Union, in response to the situation of domestic technological backwardness. Stalin once put forward the slogan "technology is everything". However, in the Second Five-Year Plan, when various sectors of the national economy were continuously equipped with new technologies, there was a shortage of specialized personnel who were proficient in the application of new technologies and specialized personnel for the management of modern enterprises, and some leaders despised qualified personnel. Stalin put forward the slogan "cadres decide everything".
Whether it is technology that decides some, or cadres who decide everything, it is almost all sporty. In 1928, there were only 90,000 specialists with higher education in the Soviet Union, but by 1937 there were 9.6 million intellectuals in the country, including more than 4 million technical cadres. In important industrial sectors, the relative number of specialists exceeds that of Germany. The number of students enrolled in colleges and universities reached 540,000, more than the number of students in Britain, France, Germany, Japan and Italy combined.
But this side effect is to determine the privileges of the cadres. Grassroots farmers and ordinary projects are deprived of their right to speak.
The characteristics of the Soviet Union, which is large and rich in resources, are revealed. In a very short period of time, the Soviet Union allowed heavy industry to multiply by 1.3 times and light industry to double on the basis of the First Five-Year Plan. Although the USSR lost the Far East and did not complete the integration of Central Asia, there was still enough space and leeway to complete the required industrial layout. But as Zhang Chun expected. Agriculture has increased by only 0.5 times, and the output has not even reached before the First Five-Year Plan.
However, almost all of the country's economy is state-owned, and it is difficult to change this layout after it is formed.
Close to the first line of China, a large number of urban construction has sprung up. The whole city became a large construction site, which was quickly completed. From Kansk to Tyshebo to Severbaikal. High-rise buildings have risen from the ground, and factories have been built. Residential buildings and staff buildings occupy farmland and pastures on a large scale.
Compared with China, there are patches of forests stretching, and high-rise buildings are not absent, but very scattered. Especially in the mountainous areas, even in the cold areas of the Sayan Mountains, the forests extend rapidly, and what China can compare with the Soviet Union in terms of appearance is the road traffic system.
The heavy rail high-speed railway has been built to Irkutsk in the north, which is now called the city of South Baikal, and the city of Uliang, which was originally called Kizil. West has reached Karamay and Kulen. For the defense of the problem, the USSR also formed deep trenches and simple city walls. And the Chinese, who used to like to build city walls, actually even the shape of the city is scattered and completely open.
The Chinese army, fighters and cadres were once again intertwined, and under the banner of the iron-blooded banner, the People's Revolutionary Army advocated offense, not defense.
Kulen, an army aviation division and the 4th Air Division have been deployed.
Mao Shishan and Bai Chongxi believe that every army is now equipped with a rocket armored division, and only when the army aviation division is fully equipped can it be called a composite army. The current equipment is not enough. The Air Force and the 2nd Artillery are separately set up long-range strike forces.
In order to ensure the completion of the configuration of weapons and equipment, Lanzhou is also building a new aircraft manufacturing plant, and Karamamay is building a new helicopter plant and petrochemical industry. Xining is also building a firearms factory, nuclear power, and aerospace supporting industries.
If we want to talk about education, the Wuhan government wants to say second, and I'm afraid no one dares to say first. The number of students at the Xinmin Research Institute and Xinmin University alone, as well as the Xinmin universities in central and southwestern Hubei provinces, reached 500,000, which was the same as in the entire Soviet Union. Northwestern University reached 120,000 people. There are also 100,000 people in Wuhan City University. Dunhuang University also has nearly 10,000 people. Universities in other provinces add up to more than a million people. Combined, there are two million college students each year. This does not include technical jobs for graduates of vocational and technical colleges.
In recent years, nearly 10 million scientific and technological personnel have been accumulated in research institutes and military industrial enterprises, and this does not include technical cadres under government agencies.
This is the power of Education for All.
Due to the rapid expansion of the Wuhan government, there is still an illiteracy rate of nearly 20 percent in the entire district. But China's illiteracy rate is set at a very high standard, that is, at least a secondary school or technical level.
Because of this, literacy is not something that can be done in schools, and there are self-study schools in rural areas, forest farms, pastures, fishing grounds, etc. It's just that most of these self-study schools only test professional knowledge. Those who graduate from self-study are equivalent to the technical level.
The entire jurisdiction, not counting Taiwan Province, has reached 350 million people. This is the result of continuous and steady population growth.
In order to indicate ethnic equality, the ethnic column of the population register has been abolished.
In Taiyuan, Zhang Chun did not follow Liang Sicheng and them to inspect the ancient buildings, but went to Taiyuan University.
Because Zhu Annie, who was the first to come to Xinmin, died of a heart attack, she was the president of Taiyuan University at the age of 48. Her heart disease is congenital, her body has always been a little fat, and she has worked in the chemical research institute for a long time, and later considered her physical condition, which made her out of the scientific research position.
Zhu Anni has not been in Taiyuan University for a long time, but she has pulled Taiyuan University from the foundation little by little, and her prestige is very high.
Zhu Annie's husband is also the earliest student of Xinmin Agricultural College, named Sun Yi. Gave birth to two boys. A twenty-one-year-old who is not married, but has already been married, and his fiancée is a Japanese girl who went to the mainland from Ryukyu to study, and her Chinese name is Sun Qiu. One was only 12 years old and was studying at Taiyuan High School.
Many of the students who came to pay their respects were children of different ethnic groups.
The scene was solemn, they were all communicating in a low voice in standard Chinese, and no one felt awkward. On the contrary, Zhang Chun sighed a little about this phenomenon. (To be continued......)