Time passed quickly, and it seemed that it was the end of March, only a few days before April 5, 1948. April 5 is known as the Qingming Festival, a traditional festival of the Empire, and the Empire announced several months ago that it would carry out the Chang'e moon landing program on this day.

The media at home and abroad have long been excited, and the media, large and small, of the empire, without exception, believe that this moon landing will definitely succeed and will never fail.

"We've done miracles time and time again, and this time was no exception. We have the most powerful scientific and technological force in the world, we have the most intelligent team of scientists, we have the most advanced manufacturing technology, we even have knives. A giant intra-atmosphere spacecraft that is many meters long.

Of course, we trust the chairman more, because he has never deceived us, and he has never let us down. When the chairman of the committee tells us that he can, it means that the chairman is ready, and it has always been so. ”

However, the foreign media, especially the Americans, and some South American tabloids, and the European newspapers sourly believe that this is an impossible thing.

Child...... Although the Chinese have shown the world their extremely advanced missile technology, as well as more advanced transport ship manufacturing technology, I do not think they already have the strength to land on the moon.

You must know that breaking through the bow force of the planet and allowing the spacecraft to reach the moon smoothly will be a long process, an extremely long voyage of 300,000 kilometers, the huge gravitational force generated by the earth, and the extremely complex space environment, the mysterious and dangerous lunar surface.

They may not even have conducted a single space experiment before they rushed to announce a lunar landing. I think the Chinese are too risky this time. ”

"Verne once described to us in science fiction about some huge spacecraft that could easily fly into space, and one and even more bizarre way to land on the moon, which was to use a huge cannon and launch the equipment that people were on directly into space, and if they were lucky, they would land on the moon.

And the Chinese also once had a legend about the moon, they believe that thousands of years ago there was a fairy named Chang'e, after eating a magical elixir, successfully flew to the moon, this is a myth and legend.

So, thousands of years later, can their Chang'e still fly to the moon as she wishes? Let's wait and see......"

Contrary to the controversy and speculation of the media and the canonical circles, the citizens of the entire empire, and even many foreign citizens, began to eagerly await this event.

Enterprises and institutions, political axe departments, streets, villages and towns are cursing related activities, celebrations and other matters, everyone is arranging their own time, try to stagger the time, don't miss this, the great day.

"Our Chinese nation has a dream of going to the moon for several years, from generation to generation, and it will be our generation who have gone to the shit luck to be able to see the real moon landing, if you miss it, our ancestors will blame themselves."

This is what ordinary people think most truly.

Good guys and bad guys, businessmen and civil servants, and even prison inmates are all looking forward to this eventuality.

The cars on the streets are more careful, the crime rate has dropped significantly, small traders have begun to stock up on goods, so as not to sell out in those days, and even the logistics industry, which does not have a Qingming Festival holiday, has worked overtime to complete its tasks, taking April 5 as a day of rest, and even the prisoners in the prison have gathered you to report, hoping to see the majesty of the moon landing.

Hanjing newspaper has held an activity: what do you imagine a spaceship to look like?

This activity consists of a text part and a drawing part.

Those who have a good imagination can use their manuscripts to describe what their imaginary spaceship looks like, as well as some possible data inferences.

Those with good drawing skills can draw an imaginary picture of a spaceship, and the newspaper will publish a batch of the best works in each issue.

As a result, after several months of continuous work, Hanjing Yue Bao even published a science fiction issue and a fantasy atlas issue for this purpose, all of which were collected works.

Whether it is science fiction texts or pictures, they all concentrate the wisdom of many talented people, and many articles and drawings even Zhang Shusheng can't help but be amazed when he sees them.

Although most of them are just laymen and do not understand spacecraft design and spacecraft system engineering, their imagination and action still make Zhang Shusheng amazed.

The most surprising thing is that several of these excellent works are students, who are studying majors related to spaceship design, and the performance of several people is very eye-catching, and they actually work together to complete a good simple design drawing of the spaceship and simple data guessing and listing.

He also made up his mind to carry out more such big activities in the future, increase rewards, mobilize people to participate in science and technology, and imagine the positive surname of science and technology.

On April 5, 1948, the whole country rejoiced, because today would be the day when the moon landing program was officially launched.

Southwest, Fushun No. 3 Middle School.

Early in the morning, the students of No. 3 Middle School held a flag-raising ceremony.

In the solemn national anthem, the students saluted the rising national flag, and the principal of the old southwest soldier walked onto the podium on the side of the field.

The old principal Yu Sannong is already very old, a veteran of the era, and now he is almost old, but his spirit is very good.

Today is the Qingming Festival, which is originally a holiday, and it is also the day of the spacecraft landing on the moon, which is naturally extremely important.

But Yu Sannong is still as usual, and the children who are willing to stay for the festival will stay.

Some of these dozens of children are parents who go out, some of whom have to be busy during the holidays, and some families are more difficult for the time being, so leaving them at school and arranging meals at their own homes can make the children eat well during the holidays, and they can also exercise and watch TV and movies together, which is a very good arrangement.

Yu Sannong has too many rests, and he has spent it in school, and he has never gone out to play for more than ten years.

Today, Yu Sannong's eldest son and youngest daughter, who is in her early twenties, stand in the front row of the student procession, the eldest son rushed back from other places to worship her ancestors, and the younger daughter is the school's music teacher.

Yu Sannong has a habit that even if the children stay in school during the holidays, they must also carry out the national flag-raising ceremony.

"Children, today is a special day.

As we all know, in addition to the Qingming Festival, which is a solemn festival to honor our ancestors, our great empire will also carry out a real flight to the moon.

The moon above your heads, which has existed for hundreds of millions of years, will be conquered by us today. This would be one of the greatest feats in the history of mankind on Earth, and it would open the real first steps of civilization in the exploration of space.

Do you want to see it? ”

"I want to see it!!"

Yu Sannong's simple words made the children very excited, in the eyes of these middle school students, these words are the most popular terms are transport ships, spaceships, spaceports.

Many middle school students have stacks of postcards in their hands that are either transports or imaginary spaceships. With both physical objects such as transport ships and the chairman's speech at the national wedding ceremony, the whole people have an unprecedentedly strong interest in space during this three-month warm-up period

So, Yu Sannong took twenty or thirty children to his home, and his home in the school was the only living room that was the largest, which was originally for the convenience of communicating with the children and education.

In order not to cause great pressure on some problem students, he often invites the child to his home, cooks a meal for him first, and then teaches him earnestly, which often has a very good effect.

The furnishings at home are very simple, except for the latest △-inch TV, which was when the eldest son was ready to honor the old man, and the old man took the initiative to ask for it. Every holiday, the old man's house is always full of students.

Yu Sannong asked the children to sit in the front, he sat in the corner, and the children accompanied him.

Looking at this group of excited children, his mood was even more excited, as if he had returned to the years of war and watched movies with his comrades.

He participated in the war on the Sino-Burmese border, carried a bayonet and the blood of British devils, but his age was unforgiving, and he retired after his health failed, and finally became an old principal. Now that the times have changed, Britain has become the territory of the empire, and he can be regarded as an old man, no longer regrets, and completely devotes his whole person to the lifelong cause of teaching youth.

"Audience friends in front of the TV, good morning, it's the special live broadcast of the Chang'e Project, our reporters are ready in front of Xichang, let's take a look at the report coming back from the front."

The show finally began, and everyone was looking forward to it, and Yu Sannong was even more staring intently with reading glasses.

As soon as the picture turns, a chain of mountains appears in the lens, surrounded by mountains, there is a place where a tall tower, countless buildings, and a large square stands. This is the famous Xichang Aerospace Center.

"Audience friends, now we are at the launch site of Xichang Aerospace Center, one kilometer in front of us is the launch site, and there are still two hours to launch the spacecraft......"

Not far from the picture, a huge golden dragon flag covered with an object, the host introduced that it was a spaceship, and the volume was not small, the length of 100 meters was not comparable to the earth's village-level transport ship, but it was also very large.

The spectator square where the reporters were located was already full of spectators, with flowers and flags everywhere, but the launch square was empty, two runways, a huge launch site, and not even a single car, not a single person.

"Audience friends, we guess that the length of this spacecraft will reach, four meters, since it will be used for lunar flights, so the volume will not be as large as the earth's village-level transport ship, but ......"

With the introduction of the host Jane, the students and Mr. Yu were full of interest.

"Xiaoru, look how beautiful this spaceship is." Old man Yu said intoxicated.

Yu Xiaoru said angrily, "Dad, this is still covered with a cloth, what can you see?" ”

"Nonsense, I can't see it, I've dreamed of it many times."

Yu Xiaoru couldn't cry or laugh, nodded again and again, what the old man said was right, he dreamed of it once, saying that he was on a spaceship and landed on the moon, how is this possible, completely impossible.

"You said that if I could sit once, it would be worth dying."

Old man Yu was in a very good mood, he read the newspaper a few days ago, and it was an authoritative report from the Imperial Newspaper, saying that this lunar flight, many people will board the ship as passengers and fly to the moon with the ship.

Moreover, the newspaper also mentioned that it will surprise the audience watching live TV across the country when the time comes.

He didn't know what the surprise was, but he envied those who could board the ship for a long time. In this regard, he often chatted with an old comrade-in-arms on the phone, ridiculing him for having the opportunity to take a spaceship.

"Dad, you want to take a spaceship every day, this, this is unrealistic. Later, I'll take you on a tour of the spaceship. The eldest son stammered on the side, and no one dared to refute the old man's words.

"Alas! If the old man hadn't been discharged from the army back then, he would have been at least a regiment commander later, maybe he could be like Old Man Mao, and now he is a famous general. It's a pity that although I was never afraid of death in battle, my age was not forgiving, and I was discharged from the army to support local construction. ”

Old man Yu couldn't help but think of an old comrade-in-arms back then, not to mention that he later became the commander of the regiment, but was also awarded an honorary general, and it is said that he has a son who is also very good, but he doesn't know what to do.

"Dad, the chairman of the committee has said that the level of status is not determined by position, haven't you also gone to Hanjing to hold a conference and participated in the National Day ceremony? You are one of the thousands of outstanding veterans...... You are also a super-excellent teacher, an excellent principal in the southwest, and your contribution to this country is no worse than Uncle Mao. ”

Che Buru reassured.

"Yes, yes, you're right, it's the old man, I'm not at peace." Yu Sannong said with a smile, spoke in a low voice, and signaled not to disturb the students.

On television, soon a ceremony took place, and an official stepped up to the podium.

"It's actually a lieutenant general!"

Yu Sannong suddenly shifted his attention and became more serious.

On the TV, the lieutenant general said: "Viewers in front of the TV, we announced to you earlier through the Imperial Newspaper that there will be a surprise on the day of the launch of the spacecraft.

Now, I will announce this surprise.

According to the chairman's instructions, the mission will invite an additional 20 viewers in front of the television set to board the ship and fly to the moon as temporary crew members.

These twenty, because the quota is a surprise quota, we will directly locate it through the TV signal, as long as you are sitting in front of the TV now, you may be invited by us.

We will send twenty state-of-the-art spaceplanes that utilize spacecraft technology to meet these lucky ones. No matter where you are in the Empire, you will be here in an hour's time as long as you are chosen.

If you hear a knock on your door after 10 minutes, be sure to open it because it can be a huge surprise.

As for the safety of the spaceship, the chairman of the committee specifically instructed me that he himself would also board the ship, so there must be no problem with the safety issue. ”

As soon as the announcement of the lieutenant general was completed, the audience in front of the TV set was a little incredible, the temporary selection, and it was also a nationwide net-style selection, is it too late?

Of course it's in time!

As soon as the TV screen turned, it suddenly switched to an airport, on which twenty very sci-fi fighters were parked, and they did not need to taxi, and took off directly vertically.

This is exactly the most elite Shenlong fighter in the Empire.

At the end of World War II, Shenlong fighters, which used some of the planet's internal fighter technology, participated in secret air raids on German nuclear facilities, and were also deployed for emergency response.

The twenty Shenlong SL-2 fighters in front of him have fully possessed the surname of intraplanetary fighters, and they are the existence of the bottom of the standing arsenal of the Imperial Air Force, and they are used to carry out temporary emergency missions.

A few seconds later, twenty Shenlong S-2 fighters had already received the address signal from the command headquarters, took off directly vertically, disappeared into the TV screen at a fleeting speed, and flew in all directions of the empire.

Such a speed has exceeded the imagination of ordinary people.

The reason why Zhang Shusheng made this and advanced weapons appear in people's field of vision is just to emphasize the importance of scientific and technological development, indicating that the scientific and technological level of the empire has the potential to explore space.

Some things, the more you hide them, the more unclear the people are, after all, compared with firewood, rice, oil and salt, high-tech will always be obscure. But once you fully publish it, they will not only understand, but they will actively support it.

As soon as the screen turned, a black Shenlong-type fighter was flying at extreme speed outside the atmosphere, and the speed shown on the screen had reached several times the speed of sound. Although the speed of light is equal to nearly 10,000 times the speed of sound, this is after all a flight within the planet, and the speed of sound is already so fast that only equipment specially designed to capture and monitor it and provide the picture for the TV can see it clearly. Thousands of times the speed of sound, from Xichang, it only takes more than a minute to reach any place.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the picture just instantly appeared a fighter plane flying at a super high speed, and then it turned around again and actually stopped somewhere.

It's too fast! That's what all the audience thinks. Although the speed of the ship is much faster than this, it does not feel as straightforward as this.

"Xiaoru, if our family is invited, you must let me go."

Old man Yu was in a very good mood, as if he would definitely be invited, of course, the children knew that the old man was thinking nonsense again.

"What do you think of this, I'm really going, that's a good thing, force personally, maybe there is an old man and me. Don't look at how many bullets I dodged back then, when I was a teacher. ”

Yu Sannong was dissatisfied, he was just thinking about it.

"Okay, Dad, if you win the lottery, we'll let you go." The chairman of the committee has to board the ship, but Yu Xiaoru is not worried about safety.

The old man was happy now, and even his students all expressed their support for him and did not compete with him for a place, which made him feel very relieved.

A room of people continued to watch the TV screen where the host was still talking, and about seven minutes later, there was a knock on the door.

"I'll open the door."

Old Man Yu almost jumped up when he heard the knock on the door, but Yu Xiaoru hurriedly stopped it and went to open the door by herself.

"Comrade, is this Yu Sannong's home?"

Yu Xiaoru opened the door and saw three people in blue-black special military uniforms standing outside the door, she couldn't help but be stunned, "Yes, you, who are you looking for?" ”

"We looked for Mr. Yu Sannong, who was invited to participate in the moon landing program as one of the twenty special guests."

After the soldier saluted, he said solemnly.

"What? ……”

Yu Xiaoru was dumbfounded, she couldn't believe it, and she didn't react until the officer said it for the third time.

Subsequently, after reconfirming, she walked into the house and said carefully to Sannong, "Dad, tell you something, but you promise that you must not be excited...... "That's it, dreamy, twenty minutes later, Yu Sannong stood on the launch audience of Xichang Aerospace Center.

Looking at everything that was still on the TV just now, he still couldn't believe it, thinking about the feeling of flying in the blink of an eye and then walking off the plane without any misery.

"Old Yu!!"

"Huh? Lao Mao! ”

When Yu Sannong looked back, he saw an old man Mao in a military uniform, an old comrade-in-arms, and an honorary general. He is here, and Old Man Yu is not surprised. But now I'm standing here.

"You say, this, what's going on?" Yu Sannong was told by the staff to wait for the others, after all, Zigong where he was located was very close to Xichang, and the others were a little farther away.

"Let me tell you the truth, this is the credit of my son. You've been envious of me for the past few months, saying that I will have the opportunity to take a spaceship in the future, so I will run to find my family Yunxian......"

Many people knew that the Empire would select a group of people to board the ship and fly to the moon as the first batch of Earth-Moon passengers, and some people were inevitably particularly excited. In the eyes of Sannong, Old Man Mao is a person who has a chance, and it is inevitable that he often envies him.

"Your son? Speaking of which, I saw it when I was a child, and I didn't even know what it was called. Cloud first? Yu Sannong said strangely, what kind of son is so powerful for Old Man Mao.

"No, you see, that's Yun Xian."

"Yun Xian?" Old man Yu turned his head to look, but he saw a group of people coming over, the one in the middle was Chairman Zhang Shusheng, and the young man next to him was not his secretary Mao Yunxian.

"You, you old man, you've been hiding from me so hard all these years." Yu Sannong suddenly realized that he was wiped out this time. Mao Yunxian, who was the secretary general of the committee for many years, is now also an important member of the empire.

"You are Comrade Yu Sannong."

When Sannong and Old Man Mao were talking, Zhang Shusheng actually walked over. Looking at the two people in front of him, he couldn't help but smile.

"Chairman, how do you know me?" Yu Sannong said strangely.

"Comrade Yu Sannong, do you remember when you were hungry and gave food to other children, just to recruit a few more children from other areas?"

Zhang Shusheng said with a smile, back then, in order to recruit a few students from Guangdong, Yu Sannong would rather not eat cattle rice and vacate the dormitory, but also recruit them. Later, Zhang Shusheng also went to see the situation, after all, there were not as many things as now, and found that this was indeed the case, so he revised the regulations and began to accept students from other regions on a large scale, and gave corresponding allocation of educational resources.

"How does the chairman know about this?" Yu Sannong was even more confused.

"Hahaha, it's all my fault, I wore a broken straw hat and said that it was a staff member of the militia, and I chatted with you for a long time, and I rubbed you with a bowl of sweet potato rice, hahaha...... As soon as Yun first told me this time, I specifically named you, but it wasn't him who went through the back door, haha......"

During the Southwest Period, when he made a fortune, Zhang Shusheng did many interesting things, which looked inconspicuous at the time, but later became a good memory. In particular, he has a superhuman memory and remembers everything clearly.

"So that's the case, you are the Xiao Zhang who liked to eat roasted sweet potatoes and sweet potato rice back then." Yu Sannong patted his thigh and realized that it was no wonder that after chatting with the young man back then, the policy of the militia group was changed. It was actually a private visit by the chairman of the committee, no, he was the head of the militia at that time.

"Let's go, we're old friends, this time, I'll sit next to you."

Zhang Shusheng and his entourage walked to the launch site, and the on-site commander removed the cloth covering the spacecraft.

He has a very good impression of Sannong, in fact, he saw him when he went to Hanjing to attend the National Day ceremony. This is a person who has dedicated himself on the battlefield and dedicated his life to the cause of education.

What's more, the old principal Yu is very similar to the principal of his middle school days in later generations, he loves students very much, and he is dedicated to the principal at that time, who asked him to open a meat meal every week, and bought him clothes twice, saying that he was too thin, which affected his learning, and took great care of him, and he insisted on contacting him for many years after graduation.

This and people are often the real models that students should learn, and they can influence dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of people over their lifetimes.

"Dad actually boarded the ship with the chairman, really boarded, one"

In Yu Sannong's house, the students and Yu Xiaoru's brothers and sisters were dumbfounded, while the students were even more happy, their beloved principal actually got such a big honor.

The TV continued to broadcast live, and the 100-meter-long, imposing spaceship in the picture showed its true face, and an anti-gravity magnetic ladder appeared, and everyone climbed the stairs. On Zhang Shusheng's right are Sun Changqing and Yu Sannong, as well as Mao Yunxian's father, Old Man Mao, and on the left are the three ladies, who got on the spaceship together.

"Don't worry, this is just an ordinary flight, you only need to watch it for a while, look at this big screen twilight, you can see the real-time picture when we leave the earth."

Zhang Shusheng stood up and comforted everyone, he tried to shape the Chang'e moon landing into the most successful and natural space flight, in order to give the people the greatest confidence, so that they burst out of the strongest confidence in this nation, this country has never been stronger.

And the best way to do that is for them to see, to see for themselves, and for a small number of people to be involved in it.

There were more than 200 passengers on the entire spacecraft, most of them were scientists, military officers, officials, people from all walks of life who were invited, and the lucky ones who were randomly selected by the old name Wanshe, some were farmers, some were road builders, and some were even Burmese, who would be lucky passengers as long as they were selected to sit in front of the TV and watch the live broadcast.

The two-hour countdown is over.

All eyes were on, the main engine of the Chang'e-class spacecraft began to start, the sound was not loud, but the heavy spaceship easily floated into the air, randomly, a streamer slashed, and the spacecraft shot directly into the depths of the sky and disappeared.

"Boom"

Such a picture that can only be seen in science fiction movies immediately stunned everyone in front of the TV. Yes, it's sci-fi.

However, who understands that the few science fiction movies that Emperor Garden has released now are all involved in the production of special effects by the Science and Technology Committee, and the materials used, some of which are even played by the empire's spaceships themselves, are genuine, not special effects.

In Zhang Shusheng's era, it was very difficult for a spaceship to take off, but now this spaceship really has the characteristics of those spaceships that have the characteristics of starry sky civilization, fast, quiet, and safe.

The TV screen shows a spacecraft that has just broken through the atmosphere and is heading for the moon. Although the audience did not understand what exactly was filmed, the TV footage kept following the Chang'e spacecraft at a rapid pace.

Between the Earth and the Moon, a point of light moves rapidly, and a quarter of the screen is a real-time image of the spacecraft's flight.

Everything was so perfect.

"Earth, that's the !! Earth"

Yu Sannong kept staring at Ping Dusk, and he didn't dare to talk to Zhang Shusheng, and suddenly, a blue object on Ping Dusk became more and more obvious, smaller and smaller, and finally became a sphere.

The eyes of more than 200 people were all cast on the huge virtual video, and the footage inside the spacecraft was also transmitted back to Earth in real time and appeared on the TV screen.

A huge aqua-blue planet, a fast-flying spaceship, a moon that is getting closer and closer, is approaching.

Chang'e is the first of a small Chang'e-class spacecraft in the river system, and its maximum speed can reach 0.5 times the speed of light, that is, when reaching the maximum speed, it can reach the moon in an instant.

Of course, practically impossible.

First of all, the spacecraft takes off from the earth, there is an acceleration process, the earth's atmosphere is thick, the acceleration process is longer, and in order to achieve the best publicity effect, the speed of the Chang'e spacecraft is actually controlled to a very small value.

About ten minutes later, a small planet grew larger and larger on the live footage of the ship's outside the ship, and eventually, the spacecraft stopped.

"Now you see our destination, the Moon, and the flight time is 3 minutes, and we have successfully reached the Moon. We didn't turn on the spacecraft hull observation system just now, but if we do, you will see the starry sky and the planet, as if separated by a layer of glass. ”

After Qian Wensen finished speaking, the spacecraft activated the spacecraft real-time observation system, and the entire upper part of the spacecraft hull became seemingly transparent, but in fact, the screen was transmitted in real time, simulating a transparent hull.

What everyone saw was an ordinary small planet, and when they looked back, they could see the water-blue earth.

Zhang Shusheng was also interested at this time, got up and said, "Because of harmony and reasons, we have not arranged a moon walk for everyone, although it is very safe in the spacecraft, but with everyone's physical fitness, even if you wear equipment, it is likely that you will not be able to walk safely on the moon."

However, our spacecraft will land on the moon, astronauts will land on the moon, and we will just have to watch quietly. ”

Sure enough, Chang'e began to slowly descend to the moon, and finally landed next to a crater with extremely potholed ground, and the spacecraft dropped a small team of exploration teams and landed on the moon with the national flag.

Ten minutes later, the people on the spacecraft and the people next to the TV on the earth cheered, and many even hugged their heads and cried, because the dazzling golden dragon flag was planted on the moon at this time, and it was displayed by two astronaut workers.

An officer wearing space equipment, standing on the moon, pointed to the flag on the side, saluted, and said into the intercom: "Chang'e reports to the earth that we have occupied the moon, repeat, the Chang'e scientific research ship of the Chinese Empire has occupied the earth." ”

From time to time, Zhang Shusheng also put on his equipment and walked off the spaceship, although he didn't actually need to wear a space suit at all. These handy space suits are not cumbersome, and they are quite comfortable to wear.

The staff quickly prepared a table, shrine, and even a special electronic incense.

Zhang Shusheng put the incense on, and then said to this strange world: "Zhang Shusheng, the descendant of Yan and Huang, is now able to lead his troops to the moon successfully.

And tell thousands of Chinese Yan and Huang ancestors, my Yan and Huang descendants today said to worship their ancestors on the moon, in order to show the prosperity of the nation, he said, Zhang Shusheng will be conscientious, make persistent efforts to derive the Chinese civilization to a more distant starry sky, so that the footsteps of the Chinese sons and daughters, step all over the universe. ”

(To be continued)