Soon after the inspection of the northwest, the news finally came that the US Congress had officially passed the Philippine Independence Act, and the South China Sea was now a sovereign state. After sending off Trotsky, Wang Zhengting immediately threw himself into negotiations on the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Philippines, and although the influence of the United States is still there, the Philippines also attaches great importance to its close neighbors.

Manuel Luis Quezon, who took office as president of the Philippines, came to Beijing shortly after his inauguration in the Manila Congress to personally preside over talks on the establishment of diplomatic relations and deepen relations between the two countries. Yang Qiu gave his visit the highest level of reception, and publicly stated that China has no intention of Philippine territory and will not allow any country to undermine the independence of the Philippines. The pledge came as a relief to Quezon, who had long feared that the United States would be annexed if it withdrew, and in return he immediately approved seven Chinese companies to invest in mining in the Philippines and, for the first time, allowed Chinese banks, including Shanxi Bank, to set up branches in any Philippine city.

The news of the independence of the Philippines has aroused great repercussions in China, and the newspapers have their own opinions, saying that this is a good thing, and there are also remarks that the Philippines is too weak to defend itself, which will lead to the invasion of others and ultimately harm the sovereignty of Taiwan and the South China Sea, but no matter what, the independence of the Philippines has caused a strong sensation in all countries in the world, especially in the colonies.

Soon after, Batavia, Borneo, Sumatra, Vietnam, India and other regions all held huge independence marches, demanding the end of colonial rule and the establishment of an independent country, the happiest in this round of movement was the Indian National Democratic Party led by Chandra, after taking the opportunity to absorb a large number of young people who wanted independence, the Indian National Democratic Party instantly became the second largest party in the country that could threaten the position of the Congress Party, and also pushed India into the brink of civil war. Another happy person was Stalin, who took advantage of this round of independence movement to fan the flames in Southeast Asia and India, and also established the GC International Movement Center in Afghanistan for the first time, posing as a posture to actively intervene.

Equally. Not far behind, the National Society that went abroad accelerated the propaganda of the ideas of the National Society and the independence movement of the Chinese model.

The spring thunder stings, and everything sprouts!

The pattern of world political plates is changing little by little under the influence of rapidly changing geopolitics, just waiting for the thunderbolt to fall.

The night of the month was unpleasantly hot, and the reading hall of the Wuhan National Defense University was crowded with non-commissioned officers and students who were reading books to cool off, but the strange thing was that when everyone was gathered under the ceiling fan, in the corner where the wind could not blow, there was a strong man. A lieutenant of about twenty-six, who had a large open neckline, was writing and drawing while checking the information, and his expression was focused. As the highest institution of learning in the whole army, the National Defense University has become the world's top military academy after 20 years of development since its formal establishment in 9 years, where not only can you learn all kinds of military tactics and strategies, but also there are a lot of military "chapters with the fastest update" scientific research projects, in the words of the older generation. Astronomy and geography are all-encompassing.

However, it is not easy to enter here, because the National Defense University is very strict in admissions, and students must have the experience of studying in other military schools in the country, and they must also have more than one year of experience in the grassroots level of the army. Then you have to get a letter of recommendation through internal selection, then get a letter of recommendation from Congress, and finally the president signs the admissions list before you can enter here. Of course, for the absorption of fresh blood. The National Defense University also recruits talents from private universities, but most of them are scientific and technological talents, and only a very small number of military or political and strategic talents do not need to be recommended to enter here.

"Hurry, hurry. The latest news, the US military is withdrawing from Little Luzon (Philippines). ”

A voice broke the silence of the library, most of the people present were twenty-six or seventeen-year-old young people, and they all studied military affairs, so any loud military movements would trigger a follow-up, so the shouting non-commissioned officer was quickly pressed down on the wide table by several classmates, and the newspaper was also snatched away. "I said brothers, don't rob it, there's still something here." The non-commissioned officer stood up with a grin, and out of nowhere he conjured up the same newspaper, but it was snatched from behind before he could be happy.

"Who is this, dare to rob me of something." The non-commissioned officer shouted and turned his head, but when he saw the appearance of the other party, he suddenly turned into a hippie smile: "Brother Zhuofan, you can analyze and analyze it for us." ”

The man who grabbed the newspaper was the young man who was sitting in the corner writing just now, his name was Zhuo Fan, a graduate of the sixth phase of the Shenyang Army Armored Forces School, and later served as the commander of the armored regiment in the 0 Central Guard Division. After entering the National Defense University, he gradually showed his military talent, and became a "company commander" for two consecutive years.

This "company commander" is not a company commander in the army, but is elected by the cadets themselves, and is obtained by the best cadets after each assessment. Due to the fierce competition, it is not uncommon for the chairs to be rotated over the course of a year. At present, the famous Mesozoic officers in the army, such as Zhu Peide, Liu Mingzhao, Long Yun, and Bai Chongxi, are all outstanding military talents who have won the title of company commander for one year. Zhuo Fan is the same, in the past two years since entering the school, except for the first four months, the rest of the time has steadily dominated the "company commander" throne, it is said that he has been chased by several troops before he can graduate in one year, and even the first division, which is known as the trump card, pays special attention to him, and the division commander Chu Nan also personally went to the Ministry of Defense to name him.

Military schools, like the army, believe in strength, and the company commander is selected by the cadets themselves, so everyone admires it even more. However, Zhuo Fan is obviously different from his predecessors, he never takes this nickname seriously, not only is he not usually dressed well, but he is not very good at words, so he picked up the newspaper and sat back in the corner without saying a word.

The trainees were not reconciled, and hula gathered around again, hoping to hear him comment on the withdrawal of US troops from the South China Sea. Although Zhuo Fan said little, he was not an unkind person, and after finishing the news, he returned the newspaper to his classmates and said lightly: "It's going to be a war." ”

"War? I said Boss Zhuo, who here doesn't know that the probability of Japan going south is increasing. The non-commissioned officers and students who came with the newspaper were obviously not ordinary people, and they deliberately glared at Zhuo Fan. Zhuo Fan doesn't care about this kind of provocation, the military academy encourages competition, as long as it is not malicious, no one cares about the heads-up on the playground.

However, the war he said was not Nanyang, he raised his head and said, "Who told you that Nanyang was fighting?" I'm talking about the Northwest. ”

"Northwest, what does this have to do with Northwest? yes, you can't hit it with eight poles. Can Japan fly to the northwest? The people did not believe him and demanded an explanation. Zhuo Fan felt a little noisy, so he simply opened the newspaper and pointed to the other three pieces of news: "These." "Since everyone's attention was drawn to the withdrawal of US troops from the Philippines, no one really paid attention to the news in the corner of the newspaper. It wasn't clear until his finger clicked. One is the news of Soviet Foreign Minister Motolov's visit to Tokyo, the other is the news that General Yue Peng, chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Defense Forces, is about to visit Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and other countries, and the last is the news that the British House of Commons supports the embargo against the Soviet Union.

Three messages. Each one contains a lot of information. Motolov's visit to Japan was definitely Stalin's desire to strengthen Soviet-Japanese relations and strategically flank the Republic of China, while General Yue Peng's visit to Germany, Poland, and Eastern European countries was to counter the Soviet Union and implement counter-entrapment. And the statement of the British House of Commons is undoubtedly tantamount to telling Moscow that China and Britain have come together again on the issue of dealing with the Soviet Union.

Coupled with the gradual withdrawal of US troops from the Philippines, everyone faintly felt the oppressive atmosphere of the coming rain for a while.

"So, the Soviet Union will deal with us first in the northwest for fear of being surrounded? Brother Zhuo Fan, when did you say they would come out, why is there a power outage again! Damn, what's going on at the power plant these days? Seven days a week, there were five nights without power. I don't want people to read. ”

While the students were chatting and chatting, the lights in the library suddenly went out. Without fans, the spacious library became hot. Zhuo Fan also wondered that because Hubei was the birthplace of the president and one of the most important industrial centers in the central and western regions, its development speed has been leading the country for decades. Not to mention that most of the province has been electrified, there are two thermal power plants and several small hydropower plants around Wuhan alone, and the power is rich and can even support Jiangxi and Henan.

Since there is no electricity, you can't read the book. So Zhuo Fan discredited and packed up his books, and simply prepared to go back to the dormitory to sleep. But when I walked to the door, I saw a few classmates carrying a large box of candles, and shouted as they walked: "Brothers! I'll tell you a big piece of news. Here comes the president! ""Xinhai Heroes Chapter 720 Sprouting (5)" "Wow! Really? ”

", I saw the president's motorcade drive into the vice school, the principal and Commander Qiu are still with me, and I also arrived at Mr. Hua Luogeng."

"Wow. I haven't met the president yet, go. ”

"What, the Central Guard Division must have blocked the lieutenant. Never mind. Not anymore. Since the president has come to school, he will definitely come to inspect tomorrow, so I'd better go back and get a good night's sleep, and maybe I'll be selected for the guard division after the review tomorrow. ”

"As for you, it's possible for the new 5th Infantry Division to mix with a platoon commander."

"Haha."

Amid the frolicking of the cadets, Yang Qiu had already arrived at the vice colonel of the National Defense University accompanied by Jiang Fangzhen and Qiu Wenbin. Unlike the main school, although the deputy colonels of the National Defense University are in the same small courtyard, they are far apart, and they are separated by a thick fence with iron wires, and soldiers patrol day and night, so they don't even want to enter without a special identification card.

The reason why it is so tightly guarded is that the vice colonel is actually a national defense technology and experimental center, with a large number of high-secret laboratories and more than 2,000 national defense technicians, including the electric tube computer that attracted Yang Qiu to inspect it.

The electric tube computer is one of the core projects in the 00 plan, and it has been five years since the project was established at the end of 929. What is an electric computer? How does it work? The question of how to write a calculation program and so on is still blank for the current scientific community, so after the project was established, Hua Luogeng and others were completely blinded. Yang Qiu himself didn't understand, but at least he knew more principles than them, so after the project was established, he wrote out what binary calculations and other things, and turned over the data machine to find out the scarce and pitiful computer-related information in it, and it didn't matter whether it was useful or not, he stuffed the whole brain into the project team.

To say that a genius is still a genius, originally he thought that he would not be able to do it in seven or eight years, but he did not expect that Hua Luogeng and others, who were only 24 years old and provoked the most important projects, relied on solid mathematical skills, and sorted out the messy and disorderly information into a book, and made a prototype in just five years.

The tube computer was huge, so a six-story all-reinforced concrete building with a two-story basement was built to house it and the technical team. After entering the computer experiment building located in the northwest corner, the first thing you will come to is the two large characters "Xingchen". This name is a researcher's first time when he saw the dense electric tubes on the design drawing, and thought that after the machine was turned on, the flashes of the electric tubes would be like stars for many times, and he was adopted because of its simplicity.

The space in the building is very spacious, and three domestic central air conditioners are installed on the roof, so as soon as you walk in, you immediately feel that the "Xinhai Hero" is completely empty. The main unit of Xingchen One is located in the basement of the lowest level, because the power pipe emits a large amount of heat when it operates. Therefore, there are two central air conditioners that are specifically responsible for cooling the heat for the main engine, and in addition to the central air conditioner, there are several ventilators in the computer room to speed up the air circulation.

Xingchen-1 is similar to the famous Eniac computer, the volume is equivalent to 0 ordinary rooms, the weight is 30 tons, and the overall cost is about 000000 yuan. There are more than 30 operating stations, nearly 20,000 vacuum tubes, thousands of crystal diodes and resistors, tens of thousands of capacitors, wires spread out for up to 2 kilometers, and more than 600 total switches. The use of large tape as a storage has reached the design calculation capacity of 5,000 additions and subtractions or 400 multiplication and division per second from the previous trial operation.

In the eyes of Jiang Fangzhen and others, the dense wiring and switches are similar to the book of heaven, but in the eyes of mathematicians such as Hua Luogeng, this computer is the most precious treasure. "We use a series of metal base tubes developed by Global Communication." Hua Luogeng, who was quiet in epoch-making technology, took out a few electric tubes and handed them to Yang Qiu, and said excitedly: "Compared with ordinary glass vacuum tubes, this kind of electric tube has metal folds on the base, which has better heat dissipation performance and much smaller volume. ”

Hua Luogeng and the technicians explained the computer principles while introducing. Yang Qiu also shook hands with each technician he met and thanked them for their efforts. To be honest, he was very excited about the appearance of Xingchen-1, although it was still very primitive, but its appearance could solve problems such as aeronautical design. The complex and time-consuming computational work encountered in the study of fluid mechanics and other research is greater and more important to the advancement of national defense and advanced technology than the promotion of atomic bombs and rockets.

The only pity is that this thing consumes too much power. Jiang Fangzhen thought of the power outage just now and asked, "Teacher Hua." Every time you turn on the power there is a city-wide blackout? ”

Hua Luogeng smiled: "Principal Jiang don't worry, although Xingchen No. 1 consumes a lot of electricity, it is not to the extent that the whole city needs to make concessions." Now this is mainly for fear of voltage instability and burning out the components inside. The special line of the power plant is already under construction, and it will be repaired in half a month at most. ”

Yang Qiucai doesn't care how much electricity is consumed, it's a big deal to allocate funds to build a power plant to supply it. He now thought about the actual ability of Xingchen No. 1 and asked, "Wen Bin, did you bring what you prepared?" ”

Qiu Wenbin immediately asked people to bring the latest artillery table. Because the ballistics of each type of artillery are different, a detailed ballistic fire table, also known as a gun table, needs to be calculated before it can be equipped. Don't underestimate these tables, they require very precise calculations, each of which requires at least 200 calculators and hand-cranked computers working overtime for months to complete. This is still peacetime, if it is placed in an emergency, weapons manufacturers and the military need to jointly use several times or even dozens of times the number of calculators to shorten the time, so the gun watch has always been regarded as one of the top secrets of the army. Of course, the main reason for Yang's "autumn selection of the cannon table" is because he remembers that Eniake also used the cannon table to test it during the experiment.

Hua Luogeng took over the thick artillery and shell data, dismissed unrelated personnel to make room for it, and ordered the machine to be turned on.

When Xingchen No. 1 was turned on, the temperature in the room rose significantly, tens of thousands of electric tubes neatly arranged in proportion emitted a dazzling light, and the female soldiers who were transferred from the communication corps carefully monitored the operation of each group of electric tubes.

The high-power ventilator let out a low whin, and everyone held their breath. Even Yang Qiu didn't care about sweating, silently waiting for the results at each step.

After just thirty minutes, the results were stored in the cartridge. The engineer took out the cassette and loaded it into a specially designed tape reader, and a few moments later, a gun sheet that required hundreds of calculators and took months to complete was handed to Yang Qiu.

"Quick, give me the original watch."

At this time, Yang Qiu was as excited as a child, took out the calculated original table from Qiu Wenbin's hand, carefully checked it line by line, and when he checked it again and again and found that the results were completely consistent, he couldn't help but wave his arm excitedly: "That's right, it's completely accurate!" ”

"Great!"

"Haha."

"Thank you! Thank you for your efforts, you have created an era of electronic computers for the motherland and the nation! ”

Everyone jumped up excitedly, and Yang Qiu shook hands with each technician again, even the female soldiers who were responsible for checking the operation of the electric pipes shook hands one by one and thanked them. It is impossible to describe his excitement in words, he knows much better than Hua Luogeng and others, the success of Xingchen-1 will officially lay the foundation for China to become a world power.

Computers!

Transistors have also been included in the 00 program, and not so long ago they came up with primary products. It may not be long before more advanced and faster transistor computers are available, but when they are gradually applied to scientific research, what is there that you can't imagine?!

The door of the electric era has finally been knocked open! …… (To be continued.) )