"It's a little better than I thought it would be, but it's still too hard."

Zhang Shusheng stood at the door of the entire base group, and could see that there were many stone houses in the outermost circle, not that the base did not have steel and aluminum alloy to build better buildings, but this kind of large-scale construction of buildings must be heat-proof, in comparison, stone houses and reinforced concrete houses are more suitable for living. However, due to the large construction of the base, some of the outermost guard units can only live in stone houses temporarily.

The important buildings in the base still have priority guarantees, such as the largest main laboratory, which is built to a high standard, and a huge amount of money is spent in order to make the expensive instruments run normally for a long time in a high-temperature environment.

"Chairman of the committee, everyone's life is still guaranteed, and the remaining stone houses will all be transformed into steel-concrete structures within half a year." Major General Bo Boshan, commander of Base No. 12, was an officer at a base in his early years, and now he has been promoted to the rank of major general and transferred to the commander of Base No. 12. "Our plan is to be able to air all the main buildings within five years."

Air conditioning is not a rare thing, China currently has several brands of air conditioners, although energy consumption is a problem, but still sell very well, and Haihong TV, Haier washing machine these domestic household appliances ace are exported to Europe and the United States, even if the war comes, it has not affected their sales.

"Let's go, let's go to the main lab."

Although it is not a scientific research base for the Solar Project, it is a base for nuclear testing, and it is also important to see if the test site 200 kilometers away can work properly.

Unlike Xiong Heming, Albert Einstein, and Oppenheimer, who have just arrived at Base 12, there are also resident scientists here. They have been conducting scientific research at the base for a long time in order to ensure that the experiment can be carried out smoothly.

Now that the Solar Project has entered its final experimental phase, it is even busier, with more than 2,000 scientists at Base 12 and the Nuclear Weapons Research Center in the laboratory complex making final preparations for the nuclear test in two days.

"Professor Xiong, how are all the preparations?"

Standing in the side room of the main laboratory of the base, through the glass, you can see the main laboratory Hall B, where several Chinese-made computers are placed, and it is surrounded by many staff members who use it to conduct some data analysis.

Xiong Heming is the person in charge of the Sun Project, and although the usual nuclear weapons research is carried out in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, on the eve of the experiment, all the work is left with the matter of Base 12.

"Since our project started very early, the research work was actually completed by 95% of the work in the research center three years ago. At present, the production of several uranium refining and enrichment plants is on the right track, and the scientific research preparations at Base 12 have also entered the final sprint stage, and there are no problems in the two-day test. ”

The reason why Xiong Heming is so confident is that China's solar program has been started for 15 years, and in the past 15 years, for the sake of absolute secrecy, China has never carried out even a single nuclear test to verify the surname, but the research direction given by the Supreme Science and Technology Committee has continuously overcome difficult problems, and it is not until the solar program has obtained Zhang Shusheng's approval that the nuclear explosion experiment will be carried out.

Zhang Shusheng nodded, China's nuclear weapons scientific research team is very strong, in addition to the scientists from all over the world attracted by various means, the nuclear weapons scientists of their own nation have also grown up completely in the past 15 years, and a large number of nuclear science and technology experts, including Qian Sanqiang, have emerged.

At the same time, the Germans' nuclear test was only secretly launched in 1937, and the Americans had not even set up a team for the nuclear project, so as long as the news of China's nuclear test did not leak out, they would still start the Manhattan project around 1942 under the nuclear threat of the Germans.

However, Zhang Shusheng also knows how great the energy of the Americans is, that is, they can easily invest billions of dollars to recruit tens of thousands of outstanding scientists from various countries to participate in the Manhattan Project, even if they have grabbed many high-end nuclear physics experts with their foresight, they will still set up a team, Americans, there is never a shortage of talents, and the whole world is their treasure trove of talents. It is only because of China's rapid rise, the previous ultra-high salary, the attraction of cutting-edge science and technology to outstanding scientists around the world, or some shady means, that China has the posture of the Americans, and has accumulated talents since the southwest period, and has many foreign scientists.

However, Zhang Shusheng also knows that the reason why the Manhattan project of the Americans is huge is entirely because they can't figure out the direction, and they don't even know which of the three methods for splitting uranium-235 is the best, so they have to use the three methods to carry out fission work at the same time, which is extremely energy-consuming and time-consuming.

For Zhang Shusheng, not only does he have relevant information on nuclear weapons research, but he can also avoid taking many crooked paths. And the reason why the entire Sun Project took 15 years is because he hopes to train a large number of high-end scientists for China through this program. The entire solar program, involving nuclear physics, physics, materials science, aeronautics and astronautics, automatic engineering, computer science, and so on, is really huge.

In the past 15 years, the solar project, which has been divided into several parts, has left valuable wealth throughout the country, such as the core nuclear physics research centers in Sichuan and Yunnan, the high-energy physics research center in Yibin, the high-energy materials research center in Guangxi, and several uranium enrichment plants and refining bases, etc., all of which are huge wealth for China in the future. Even the hydrogen bomb project work, but as they grow up, they can play a huge role in more industries.

It can be said that Zhang Shusheng is following the path of the United States, where scientific research drives the overall development of science and technology and cultivates more scientists.

Consider that China's nuclear weapons research has not only come to the forefront of the world, but also that the conditions are much better than those of the Manhattan Project in the United States and the later use of hand-cranked computer-aided research in the Republic. This is also the most important reason why the Sun Project can blossom and bear fruit and successfully achieve Zhang Shusheng's expected goals.

There is input to produce output, and fifteen years of waiting from scratch is not a long time.

"At present, the output of several of our uranium refining and enrichment plants is gradually increasing, and as long as this nuclear test goes well, we will have five manufactured nuclear bombs in stock by this time next year. The power of these second batch of officially produced atomic bombs will be greater than that of this 30,000-ton TNT equivalent 'Dijun', reaching a yield of 50,000 tons. However, under the overall solar project, the production of atomic bombs will continue to increase, and the hydrogen bomb test early next year will determine whether to start building a hydrogen bomb with an even more impressive yield next year. ”

There were no outsiders in the observation room, so Xiong Heming simply reported the plan to Zhang Shusheng, although Zhang Shusheng was able to pay attention to these situations in time, but every time he heard it, it still made him have infinite reverie.

"It's really exciting to look forward to the day when China's nuclear arsenal will be built."

A little more than a year later, in 1940, World War II will begin in earnest, with the German invasion of France and the official outbreak of war between giants.

And at that time, after a year of lying on the back and trying the courage, China will have five atomic bombs.

As for the issue of yield, although the nuclear weapons of later generations were often in the megaton equivalent, the scale of cities today is not as large as that of later generations, and the demand for nuclear weapons with particularly large yields is not so urgent.

And the most critical reason is that the problem of miniaturization of nuclear bombs has not been solved, and it is already a problem for tens of thousands of tons of nuclear bombs to be dropped by bombers.

Of course, it is also feasible to put it on the ground and wait for the enemy to rush over before letting it explode on its own...... "The issue of miniaturization of nuclear bombs still needs to be grasped, and the relationship between the yield problem and the weight problem is the next work that you should focus on in addition to the hydrogen bomb project, nuclear bomb and rocket project." Zhang Shusheng emphatically emphasized.

"Chairman rest assured, these are all in the schedule of the Sun Plan, and the progress is very fast. The hydrogen bomb project will be officially tested next year, and the technology of the rocket on the nuclear bomb will have to wait for the propulsion laboratory to come up with a rocket that meets the high requirements, and there will be a big breakthrough in the balance between miniaturization and yield by the end of next year. Of course, if more people join the Sun Project, the project will go more smoothly. ”

Xiong Heming is all too familiar with the Sun Project, and the Sun Project, China's nuclear weapons project, is also his own child, who has poured all his heart and soul into it, and he is not only the general person in charge of the project, but also the chief engineer and chief scientist.

"Next month there will be a very good group of physics students and scientists from all over the world joining the project." Zhang Shusheng assured that after the subdivision of the huge solar program, those foreign scientists who have not yet fully returned to China, even if he leaves China later, will not be able to guess that they have worked for China's atomic bomb program, because the solar program involves too many projects.

Of course, with Zhang Shusheng's surname, since he is here, he will eat, drink, entertain and welfare, but if he wants to leave, he can't do it.

"The 'Dijun' test this time is mainly to test the atomic bomb explosion, and five months later the bomber airdrop test will be carried out." Xiong Heming is not only a scientist, but also a fanatical nationalist, and he is more expectant than others for the nuclear test in two days, "I really look forward to it, in two days, we Chinese will burst out with unprecedented strength." With nuclear weapons, the living space of the Chinese nation will also be greatly improved, so as to become a world-class giant. ”

Two days later, Zhang Shusheng got up early in the morning, he has rarely lived outside in these years, but this time, he stayed in the base for two days, solved several scientific problems for the base, and participated in two base meetings, because of his extremely high scientific literacy, as well as some experience in later generations, he asked many final questions about the experiment.

Early in the morning, the weather was clear, but not too hot, and the sun was not so poisonous.

The scientific research personnel of the base, as well as some of the representatives of the guard force who were specially invited, and the representatives of the staff of the base were gathered in the auditorium of the base, Zhang Shusheng did not sit on the rostrum, but sat with the staff of the base, and the entire auditorium was filled with the staff of the base, and the entire No. 12 base, the people who could come to watch this grand event reached thousands, of course, most of them are scientific researchers.

On the high podium of the auditorium, a military-spec 21-inch monitor made by the Haihong Television Factory is placed, and through a special communication line, the display screen is clearly showing the appearance of a small town.

What's in the display is the experimental town.

"It's actually the experimental town we built."

Yao Zili and Wen Chang'an had just withdrawn from the experimental town, and the entire battalion was arranged to rest without being on duty, and the two of them, along with dozens of other members of the guard unit, were invited by the base and happened to be sitting in the audience.

The two of them, like all the base personnel, cast a look of admiration at the back of the person who was more than 20 meters away in front of them, that is, the chairman, and never imagined that they would one day be so close to the chairman.

Even until now, most of the base personnel present, except for the core base researchers, do not know the real inside story of the base, nor do they know what to see in the monitor next. Although they are the scientific research workers and defenders of the base, the builders, however, the secrecy regulations are so ruthless, although the 21-inch monitor is not big, at least not as big as the 40-inch LCD TV in Zhang Shu's previous life, but it is already a leading technology in this era. In Pingyue, He Ning likes to pull the little girl and eat melon seeds in front of the 21-inch TV.

The picture in the monitor is a small town filmed at an angle of overhead, and the scientific research camera records everything in the town at a height of about 30 meters.

In the monitor, the town exudes an eerie tranquility, empty of a real town, but there are dummies on the streets, some on bicycles, some in cars, and some people holding newspapers on the street as they walk and read. In the open window of the building, you can still see people standing in front of the window.

A seemingly peaceful town, but at this time it seems less peaceful.

"Chairman, according to the plan, the test will start at 7 o'clock in Hanjing time! Fifteen minutes before the start of the test. Xiong Heming reminded Zhang Shusheng next to him in a low voice.

"Well, you can make a brief announcement to everyone." Zhang Shusheng nodded and said, the people who can enter the No. 12 base have all passed the safety test 100 percent, and in today's nuclear test, there is no need to keep them too secret, and there is no possibility of secrecy. Therefore, under the premise of considering security and confidentiality, a small number of guards, builders, and most scientific researchers were invited to watch the live broadcast test.

Xiong Heming nodded, then got up and walked to the podium, spoke into the microphone, and said to the thousands of base personnel below, "Comrades, in the past five years, you have made great contributions to the completion of Base 12, and as an SS-level secret base, all of you involved are the most loyal members of the Republic.

On the instructions of the Chairman of the Committee, today you will have the privilege of watching here the testing of a new weapon of the Republic.

In the past five years, your base commander has always complained to me that everyone has suffered a lot, everyone is very tired, and how poor the scientific research conditions are. And today, what you see will be the reward of your hard work over the years, and it will become a kind of historical witness. And you, as representatives of the Republic, will observe this event.

This will be an era of prosperity belonging to the Chinese nation, and many years later, looking back at the present day, you will find that history began to change from this day.

As for the secrecy regulations, I won't say much about them, the regulations of the SS base are both external and internal, and everyone can know some secrets, but it doesn't mean that they can be passed on. It is a supreme honor for the chairman of the committee to give special orders for everyone to watch the live broadcast test, and I hope that everyone will put the republic first, live up to the chairman, and earnestly abide by all security and confidentiality regulations.

Now I announce that the test of a new type of weapon will officially begin in thirteen minutes!! ”

Perhaps many years later, these viewers will know how unforgettable it was to be able to witness the nuclear explosion test of China's first atomic bomb, Dijun.

While Zhang Shusheng and others were waiting for the test to come in the base auditorium, a scene of drama took place in another place.

Five hours ago, around two o'clock in the morning, more than forty kilometers away from the test town.

"Poof!"

There was a soft thud from under a sand dune, and then a figure crept out cautiously in the moonlight.

"Jason, you coward can come out, there is not even a mouse outside, it's really strange, those damn Chinese, usually don't go to war, run to guard the desert to do."

The figure looked cautiously and shouted into the cave in the dunes behind him.

"Poof~ Poof, damn Rogel, you're just in charge of pathfinding, why call me a coward."

Another person crawled out of the cave, and the two looked at the silent night sky around them, and the location of the Chinese sentry behind them.

The two are explorers who entered China from India, and archaeologists, who have been honestly excavating the Silk Road culture since entering China, and have been trying to get closer to Loulan.

And when they arrived near Loulan, they finally tore off their disguised masks.

They are not so much archaeologists as tomb robbers.

They have been coveting China's ancient culture for a long time, especially in northwest China, a place where little attention is paid to but full of cultural relics. So, they chose to register from India to enter China, and then use the disguise they are good at to disguise themselves as archaeologists.

Chinese political axes are still more welcome to archaeologists, but they are suspicious of these Westerners, and they are accompanied by security personnel all the way to their work in China after they came to China, until the two finally seize an opportunity to use the methods they are familiar with and escape.

Of course, the two were soon put on a wanted list, and the police and security services wanted them throughout the province. What they didn't expect was that the two did not flee to any densely populated place at all, but went deep in the direction of Loulan.

However, they didn't expect that in the direction they were heading, they were actually set up under martial law by the Chinese [***] people.

This is a big problem, because on the desert, two people on camels can never run past the car, the Chinese block the desert with sentry posts as a unit, and there are fixed desert patrol cars patrolling every half hour, relying on two feet alone, even by camels, it is absolutely impossible to cross this seemingly sparse blockade line.

So, through their solid experience in tomb robbing and adventure, the two successfully found a desert crypt, through which they dug it again and successfully passed the blockade line.

"I hope I don't run into Chinese patrols."

There is no need to worry about the big night, the two are worried about whether they will encounter the Chinese patrol in the desert after dawn, after all, the Chinese desert car is very suitable for driving in the desert, much faster than people. Even if they had passed this sentry, the two of them would have to rely on luck to get through the blockade of the entire area.

However, the luck seemed to be somewhat unusual, and the two were unharmed until dawn.

"Rogel, if I can get rich this time, I don't mind giving you ten Scottish beauties, you damn pervert, haha."

"Jason, I might be able to buy you a manor, damn it, no tomb robber has ever set foot in Loulan in China, I don't know what special discoveries will be made."

The two tomb robbers were very professional, and they were also full of expectations for the next harvest, and they found a way to get to Loulan according to the book about Loulan written by the Englishman who discovered Loulan back then.

"It's really strange, it's all dawn, and no Chinese are found."

While the two were walking hard in the desert, they were talking quietly through the gauze covering their mouths, the sky was bright, there was not a trace of Chinese, and there was not even anyone at a sentry post that had just passed.

Soon, though, the two began to become cautious.

"There's a small town up ahead? Damn, a small town in the desert? ”

Just over a kilometer away, Jason spotted the town in the desert in the distance through the telescope in his hand, and a faintly audible radio sound was coming from the town.

"It's a song."

The Chinese of the two was learned by surprise, which was not good, but they could also be faintly heard, and the radio in the opposite town was playing a Chinese song, and the lyrics were all words about 'morning light, good morning', which should be a popular folk song.

"Look, Rogel, this town is weird." Jason couldn't see the town clearly, but his instincts as a tomb robber told him that there was something unusual about the town.

"You coward, what is more terrible than a tomb? This is not Egypt, there are no pyramids on the ground. Rogel took the telescope disappretently, looked at it, and then said, "It should be a small town of the Chinese, or a base, but it is empty, is the base abandoned by them?" Oh, and there are sheep. ”

From where they were, they couldn't see much of an anomaly in the town, they didn't see people walking around, but Roger found a few sheep.

"Let's go, let's go and see, if it's the base they gave up, or for some other reason, we could... Hey. Jason said quite imposingly, in fact, this town is just stuck on their way, and there are more barren deserts on both sides, and this one, the shallow Gobi, is better to walk. It would be nice to have a resupply in the past, but of course, it would be nice to loot and find a camel or a horse. Because they had to cross the Chinese cordon, they didn't bring camels.

When the two of them walked into the town, they finally felt the increasingly strong and eerie atmosphere.

"Damn it, Rogel, look, what are they doing with so many dummies?"

"Jason, you're so nervous, come on, drink some water, lo and behold, and apples, haha, that's great."

The two had very different attitudes, listening to the town radio and touching the dummies that were lying around, while eating the fruits and food they found.

"Jason, you see, there's still a tank there, oh damn it, the Chinese are such a waste, how can they abandon such a well-lived town."

Jason's face became worse and worse, and said, "Jason, you see, the buildings here are basically brand new, which proves that they have just been established, and these dummies, as well as all the living objects, are full of weirdness, and the most bizarre thing is that such a seemingly normal town, there are no real people, all dummies." And those damn tanks, planes, here, it's definitely not simple. ”

"Alright, Jason, let's look for anything of particular value, and if there's a lot of gold jewelry, maybe we don't have to go to Loulan. You can also have a big meal at noon, roast whole sheep, haha. ”

The feelings of the two are diametrically opposed, Jason thinks it is very strange, and Roger thinks that no matter how weird it is, can it be compared to the grave? No one is just right to see what is of value and there is not.

Soon, however, the two men, who had rummaged through the cabinets in the house and failed to find the gold, silver and jewelry, heard the song on the radio stop, replaced by the sound of a countdown, and both of them heard it clearly.

“10，9，8……”

"Damn, what is this?"

The two are still in doubt, and the countdown has reached "3,2,1......"

Immediately, the two of them only felt a violent explosion accompanied by a loud noise, and then they completely lost consciousness.

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

The audience in the auditorium finally stood up and applauded violently at the 12th SS-class base, which is China's Lop Nur nuclear test site, when they saw the scene of the monitor.

"Hooray!! Banzai!! Long live the republic. ”

"Hooray!! Banzai!! Long live the chairman. ”

"Hooray!! Banzai!! Long live the Baath Party. ”

I don't know if it's taking the lead, everyone is shouting, the scene they just saw will never be forgotten.

At first, it was a normal town, although it was weird, and then, people saw two Westerners walking into the town and walking around, but, five minutes later, under the countdown demonstration of the on-site staff, they saw the center of the town on the monitor, and suddenly there was a violent explosion, and then a white light came, and the monitor turned into darkness.

The back-up camera, which was switched in advance, gave the monitor more than five seconds of footage. I saw that on the screen, the faintly visible town, an earth-shattering explosion broke out, and then a violent firelight, like the light of the sun five or six times the brightness of the sun rose, and after a miserable white, a huge mushroom cloud rose from the original location of the town.

A perfect huge explosion!!

Everyone understood what a powerful new weapon it was, capable of producing such earth-shattering explosions that mushroom clouds seemed to cover the entire sky.

As for the two Britons who broke in by mistake, no one will investigate, and afterwards, maybe someone will investigate, but it doesn't matter, at least at this time, these two tomb robbers, at the location of the explosion center, have already turned into the flying smoke of the nuclear explosion.

Although there was still a lot of follow-up sampling and scientific analysis, the test was a success if the bomb was able to explode and demonstrate its power to the world for the first time.

Zhang Shusheng did not find Xiong Heming, he had already gone to take charge of the follow-up approach collection test, as well as the preparation for the analysis of the recovered observation instruments.

On October 25, 1939, China's first atomic bomb 'Dijun' was successfully exploded at the Lop Nur nuclear test base.

(To be continued)