Towards the end of the 19th century, the European and American powers seemed to want to draw a perfect end to this century, so they were very excited, and the whole world did not stop making trouble.

The capitalist powers, both old and new, are busy expanding their national interests and leaving their footprints in more parts of the world.

For China, Wang Chenhao and his Beiyang political axe did not take any plans for external expansion except to firmly control the existing overseas territories. Wang Chenhao's primary purpose is to maintain stability, because there is still an emperor on his head, and as long as this emperor exists for a day, Wang Chenhao always feels uncomfortable and uneasy.

The two hardcore Weng Tongyi and Li Hongzao, the two hardcore supporters of Guangxu, were isolated from the center, served as a deputy minister in the Ministry of Education, in charge of national culture and education, and mainly focused on the construction of schools in various places. Although the latter Li Hongzao served as a senator of the National Assembly, he had been seriously ill at home and had passed away half a month ago.

Guangxu lost these two arms, and he was even more isolated. Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, Tan Sitong, Liu Guangdi and other members of the reform faction who had been reused by Guangxu had joined Wang Chenhao's work in various departments of the Beiyang political axe, immersed in the great joy of various reforms of the country, and had long forgotten Guangxu.

However, this does not mean that Guangxu and the members of the imperial clan accept their fate, and the members of the royal clan headed by Zaiying and the children of the banner people are not willing to lose their rights, and they set up a royalist party to solicit people everywhere to support the abolition of the constitutional monarchy and the restoration of the emperor's rights.

As Wang Chenhao judged, China did not experience the fiasco of the First Sino-Japanese War, did not cede land, did not pay huge indemnities, and did not fall into the abyss of misery in a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, so that a considerable part of the Chinese people still supported the imperial power, especially some Manchu clothed slave forces, who were of the same mind as their masters, and were hostile to Wang Chenhao and his Beiyang political axe.

Guangxu and Cixi seem to have reached some kind of agreement, which led Guangxu to lift the ban on Cixi. In this way, Cixi's scope of activities was no longer limited to the Buddha Xiang Pavilion, and she could even return to the Forbidden City to summon officials.

But a coup d'état had caused Cixi's party to lose most of its power, and the whole of China was basically under Wang Chenhao's absolute control.

All the actions of Guangxu and Cixi were under the close surveillance of the Homeland Security Bureau and the Central Intelligence Agency, and any disturbance could not be hidden from the eyes of the two spy leaders around Wang Chenhao, Li Guodong and Li Bing.

In the luxurious office of the Prime Minister's Office, Wang Chenhao was lying on a chair enjoying the gentle massage of Linglong and Linglin, and seemed to fall asleep comfortably.

The phone rang, and the secretary on duty outside the door informed Director Li Guodong of the Department of Homeland Security that he wanted to see him.

Wang Chenhao patted Linglin and Linglang's two daughters' beautiful buttocks a few times, signaling the two daughters to step back.

There is a suite in the prime minister's office, and Linglin and Linglang's two daughters glanced at Wang Chenhao with disgust, and then reluctantly hid in the inner room.

A pair of goblins that are discharging all the time!

Wang Chenhao couldn't help but smile bitterly, he was now more and more inseparable from this pair of twin stunners who were fascinated by death.

In the middle of his thoughts, Li Bing had already come in.

After a procedural ceremony, Li Bing specially reported to Wang Chenhao on the movements of Guangxu and Cixi.

"My lord, recently Cixi has summoned some officials one after another, and it seems that she wants to return to power. And Guangxu seems to have given up seizing power, has been addicted to wine, selected fifty flag people from all over the country to enter the palace, singing and dancing all night every day, but very happy. ”

Cixi's actions were expected by Wang Chenhao, but Guangxu's behavior surprised him a little.

"Guangxu does not want to forge ahead, every day Yinle Palace, squanders the national tax money, openly extorts the people's daughters, and tramples on the laws of the country. Poke this matter to the newspaper office and let the people get to know their emperor again. ”

Li Bing immediately understood Wang Chenhao's intentions, and hurriedly said yes.

Then, Wang Chenhao continued: "Guangxu seems to have given up completely, so ignore him for now and focus on monitoring Cixi, this old woman is very deep in the city, I want to see how many old departments she can gather and how much storm she can set off." ”

Li Bing received the order, and then said: "In addition to the Manchu Eight Banners, the strength that Cixi can rely on is the Mongolian Eight Banners, the Manchu Eight Banners have not become a climate and have been eliminated, and the Mongolian Eight Banners have some strength, but they are not to be feared. However, there are really a lot of clothed minions of those banner people, and they have some power. It's just that we don't know how many of these coated minions were loyal to the Manchus. In addition, some non-governmental organizations in Shandong and Henan, such as the Boxer Rebellion, the Red Lantern Sect, and the White Lotus Sect, have been constantly harassing local foreign churches and Chinese congregations, and there is information that they have frequent contacts with royalists. ”

Wang Chenhao suddenly frowned. By this time, China had abolished all unequal treaties of the Great Powers in China, except for territorial disputes with Tsarist Russia and Great Britain. At the beginning, these non-governmental organizations were acquiesced in to make a fuss just to increase their bargaining chips, but now that these non-governmental organizations have fulfilled their mission, everything should return to normal.

But these organizations, for their own purposes, are now colluding with the royalists, and their surnames have changed.

Whether to ban these organizations, Wang Chenhao weighed for a while. He had planned to prevent the slightest step up and exterminate these organizations in the cradle before they embarked on the path of treason. But thinking about it again, once the royalists rebelled, Wang Chenhao could justifiably abolish Guangxu and end the Manchu surname.

After weighing the pros and cons, Wang Chenhao chose the latter.

"Closely monitor them, if there is direct evidence that their rebellion was instigated by Guangxu and the royalists......"

"Understood!"

Wang Chenhao nodded, there are some things that Li Bing will understand without saying much.

According to the new constitution, the National Assembly launched an investigation into Guangxu's solicitation of women's silver music from the people, and soon investigated a large number of local officials who donated women to Guangxu. The Supreme Court, the Supreme Procuratorate, and the Independent Commission Against Corruption prosecuted more than a dozen local officials and demanded an explanation from Guangxu.

Guangxu was quite depressed, and it was still illegal for an emperor to ask for a woman from a place, and he had to explain to the National Assembly and the prosecutor's office, which was unacceptable to Guangxu.

In fact, Guangxu got dozens of women into the palace, but it was just a strategy with Cixi. Guangxu pretended to be happy and asked Wang Chenhao to relax his vigilance, and then prepare for big things in secret. Now that the big thing has not been done, it has caused a lot of trouble, which makes Guangxu have the urge to find Wang Chenhao desperately immediately.

Fortunately, Cixi was more far-sighted than Guangxu, and she had already expected that Wang Chenhao would use the media and the law to make a big fuss. The women she summoned to the palace for Guangxu were all women from the banner family, and in front of the public prosecution, all these banner women claimed to be voluntary. Wang Chenhao saw that Guangxu could not be killed all of a sudden, so he asked the Supreme Court to withdraw the charges against Guangxu. Although Guangxu escaped this catastrophe, people all over the world knew that Guangxu was a desolate silver emperor, which dealt a major blow to Guangxu's prestige and disappointed some people who originally had a good impression of Guangxu.

On 24 June, the award ceremony of the China International Science Achievement Treasure Star Award was held in the Qianqing Palace of the Forbidden City in Yanjing. Originally, this was the place where the emperor met his ministers, but now that the emperor has been elevated, it has become a place for awards. Hundreds of scientists, professors, scholars, officials, and journalists from all over the world gathered here to participate in the award ceremony, which made the award ceremony quite grand and full of international significance.

As the prime minister of the cabinet, Wang Chenhao led a group of political axes to attend the award ceremony, which is enough to prove that China's political axe attaches great importance to science, and Li Youyi and Rothschild accompanied Wang Chenhao to attend, and they all appeared as first ladies and became the most beautiful scenery at the award ceremony.

After the award ceremony, Wang Chenhao met with the winners of the Baoxing Award one by one, praised them a lot, highly praised their remarkable achievements in various fields, and then euphemistically extended the intention of soliciting, hoping that they could go to China to do research for the benefit of the world.

Previously, the Ministry of Education and Beiyang Science and Technology have arranged for these Baoxing Award winners and other well-known experts, professors and scholars from all over the world to visit Beiyang Technology. These scientists are all shocked by the huge software and hardware scientific research system of Beiyang Science and Technology, and no country or scientific research institution has ever been able to reach the huge scale of Beiyang Science and Technology. The 35-storey Beiyang Science and Technology Building, the 2.3 million square meters of science and technology park, the comprehensive science and technology library with a collection of 12 million books, and the villas, apartments, rest and entertainment venues for related facilities are all of the world's first-class level, and the high standard of treatment is unique in the world.

All the scientists, professors and scholars who have visited Beiyang Science and Technology have all praised Beiyang Science and Technology and gave a thumbs up to China's political axe science and technology policy.

These scientists who have won the Baoxing Award have the right to join the work of Beiyang Science and Technology first, and what awaits them will be the preferential treatment of national academicians. For these scientists, the scientific research environment, policy environment and living environment of Beiyang Science and Technology are very superior, and there is no better place than the working and living conditions of Beiyang Science and Technology, so a large number of scientists, professors and scholars who have visited Beiyang Science and Technology have chosen to stay and work in Beiyang Science and Technology.

However, there are also some scientists who are not moved by fame and fortune who politely refuse the invitation of Beiyang Science and Technology Heavy Industry, and the representative surname is Marie Curie of France.

Marie Curie is known as a great female scientist who is not moved by fame and fortune in France, and her scientific research has not applied for special funds from the French political axe, and is completely maintained by salary and living expenses, so her deeds have a strong influence in France and even the world, and many scientists use Marie Curie as a yardstick to restrain themselves.

Since 1896 the French physicist Henri . After Becquerel discovered that uranium has a natural radioactive surname, his discovery became the starting point in the history of the development of nuclear physics technology. Later, in 1898, Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium, and discovered and confirmed that the nucleus of uranium can spontaneously emit rays and energy, which opened the door to the era of nuclear physics.

Of course, whether it was Henry or Marie Curie, or other scientists who had begun to study radioactive elements, they did not know at this time that they were studying the science of nuclear physics, because no one had defined the science of nuclear physics.

Wang Chenhao will not wait until the end of World War II to start developing the atomic bomb, and it is not worth it to spend billions of dollars to develop the atomic bomb at once, as the United States did, and no country's financial department has the backing of the huge economic strength of the United States.

At the request of Wang Chenhao, Beiyang Science and Technology Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. established a nuclear physics engineering laboratory in October 1898, and planned to use 30 years and a total investment of 200 million dragon coins to gradually complete the entire national nuclear physics engineering system and improve all the facilities and technologies for manufacturing nuclear weapons.

Early project approval and early research can save the country a considerable amount of unnecessary expenses, and there is no need to rush the atomic bomb project like the United States, which is too expensive and has no security guarantee like a gambler.

The nuclear physics project is top secret, known only to Wang Chenhao and Xu Jianyin, the latter of whom is the top official of Beiyang Science and Technology and the project director in charge of the nuclear physics project.

The first batch of scientists involved in nuclear physics engineering included British physicists Rutherford and W. Remsay, French nationals H. Becquerel and A.C. Debierne, and Austro-Hungarian R. Fayangs, all of whom transferred to atomic physics after Rutherford's discovery of radioactive elements. He proposed that the mass of the atomic nucleus is almost concentrated in the nucleus, and found that the atomic nucleus is composed of neutrons and protons, which laid the foundation for the in-depth study of nuclear reactions. The theory was discovered by Rutherford in 1901 by chance, and the hypothesis was put forward the following year, but after Wang Chenhao gave him a hint of the atomic and electronic structure, Rutherford confirmed his theory two years in advance, so Rutherford became famous, and in turn he was very grateful to Wang Chenhao, because Wang Chenhao did not take credit from him, which made Rutherford work wholeheartedly for Beiyang Science and Technology, and soon became the leader of nuclear physics engineering.

Although the first batch of scientists in nuclear physics engineering was only five, the research progress was very fast. At this time, there was only one radioactive uranium mine, and that was the Domaskan uranium mine near Austria in the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The uranium mine is an asphalt uranium mine, the production is not very high, and it is only supplied to scientific research in various countries. With the confirmation of the radiation of uranium ore, a large number of scientists from various countries purchased uranium ore for research, which caused the price of uranium ore to soar to 55 US dollars per ton, not to mention the low content and short supply.

Wang Chenhao knew that there are not many uranium mines in the world, and that there are only more than 3 million tons of low-cost uranium mines, and that China is a uranium-depleted country.

China's massive stockpiling of nuclear raw materials naturally made it impossible for Austria-Hungary to purchase their low-content uranium ore at high prices. Wang then turned his attention to Australia, where uranium deposits had been discovered in late 1898 in the northwest. The uranium mine was discovered by Bella, a British explorer in Australia, who did not want to stay in the deserted Australia for a long time, and did not know that the uranium mine he discovered was only the tip of the iceberg, and there were huge uranium ore veins around.

Wang Chenhao knew that Australia's uranium ore reserves were the largest in the world, as high as more than 1 million tons, which was enough for China's future military and civilian development and innovation, so Wang Chenhao telegraphed the officials of the Chinese consulate in Australia to negotiate with Bella, and paid $1,000 to buy the uranium ore in Bella's hands, and then spent $30,000 to buy the ore mining rights of the entire Mount Els and an area of more than 300 kilometers. In this way, the world's largest Mount Els uranium mine fell into Chinese hands. Three months later, the Els open-pit uranium mine entered the mining process, and the mined uranium ore was shipped to China in a steady stream.

Due to the radiating surname of uranium ore, Wang Chenhao set up a uranium ore stone reserve center on the inner side of the Bohai Bay on the Liaodong Peninsula. The reserve is located on two uninhabited islands, Pig Island and Huping Island, outside Jinzhou Bay, although the islands are not large, but the surrounding area of less than half a meter deep sea area is more than 800 square kilometers, and a cement wall is built around the perimeter to fill in the uranium ore brought back.

The nuclear physics project and the nuclear material reserve project are progressing smoothly, but Marie Curie's refusal to work at Beiyang Science and Technology has caused a small episode in Wang Chenhao's overall strategic issue.

Wang Chenhao knew that Marie Curie would extract 0.1 grams of radium from eight tons of uranium ore in a few years, which was an outcome that Wang Chenhao did not want to see. It is not that Wang Chenhao calculated that Marie Curie first refined pure radium, but Wang Chenhao was worried that Marie Curie was too generous and selfless, so that she did not apply for a patent after purifying radium, but contributed to the scientific community around the world.

Of course, Wang Chenhao also admires Marie Curie's character, she is really a person who does not pursue money and engages in scientific research. What Wang Chenhao is really worried about is Marie Curie's technology of purifying radium, because her technology of purifying radium is the common purification method for most radioactive substances in the future, because Marie Curie's selflessness has made the world no longer restricted by patent rights in the research of radioactive elements, which has greatly promoted the research process in the direction of nuclear physics.

Obviously, Wang Chenhao does not want the progress of nuclear physics technology in other countries, and he hopes to use all means to obstruct the progress of nuclear physics in other countries, and Marie Curie's radium purification technology is one of the keys.

Wang Chenhao did not understand the technology of radium purification, and the scientists in the nuclear physics engineering laboratory such as Rutherford did not get any guidance from Wang Chenhao in this regard, so they could not achieve the kind of technology that Marie Curie had, after all, it took Marie Curie a few months to discover polonium again, and it can be said that no one is faster than Marie Curie in this regard. Wang Chenhao could not guarantee that his men would be the first to complete the plan to purify radium, so he could not risk letting Marie Curie return to China, he had to find a way to keep Marie Curie behind.

Well, Wang Chenhao decided again that he was going to be shameless.

(To be continued)