In 1932, because several large-scale steel projects were put into operation successively, China's steel output reached 3.6 million tons, which has steadily surpassed Japan and Italy, and jumped to the sixth place in the world! The five countries ahead of China are the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union. If we take into account that the four million-ton projects under construction, such as Sinosteel Anshan Iron and Steel Plant, Sinosteel Shijingshan Iron and Steel Plant, Krupp Ma'anshan Phase II, and Bethlehem Pukou Phase II, will be completed and put into operation in the next few years, China's steel output will exceed 8 million tons in 1938! It seems beyond the fact that the Soviet Union, mired in civil war, has gone beyond doubt.

Also in this year, the total amount of coal mining in China also exceeded 100 million tons, reaching 120 million tons, also ranking sixth in the world, the output of refined copper exceeded 100,000 tons, and the power generation capacity also reached 15 billion kWh. The output of electrolyzers is more than 100,000 tons, ranking second in the world after the United States!

In this context, Western newspapers have exclaimed, the ancient empire of the East in the context of the Great Depression in the world, still retained the rapid progress, has the era of industrialization in China come?

This can't help but make Luo Yaoguo sigh, this era, for the ancient country of China, was originally an era of deep disasters, but now it has become an era of great rejuvenation because of itself! And the Red Sè Empire, which was supposed to be at its peak, was mired in civil war and was declining step by step.

In the early summer of 1933, at the invitation of the Empress Anastasia I of the Russian Empire, Luo Yaoguo, Chief of the General Staff of the National Defense Forces of China, began a one-week visit to Russia. It is said to be a visit to Russia1

In fact, it was to go to the palace of Empress Anastasia I in Vladivostok for a few days, meet with the leading people in Vladivostok, and contact the relationship by the way. Then we will go around Vladivostok, inspect the Ussuriysk front, and discuss the battle plan with the generals of the Chinese and Japanese intervention forces.

On June 22, Luo Yaoguo flew to Vladivostok Airport on a Junkers J52 passenger plane, escorted by six F3A fighters. Then he rode with Empress Anastasia in her luxurious carriage to the Villa Nikolaev in St. Peter's district, where the Russian empress was in Vladivostok.

The Nikolaev Villa is a luxurious residence with strong Orthodox architecture, which originally belonged to the Orthodox Bishop of Vladivostok, and the whole villa is richly decorated, the walls are inlaid with white sèhuā stone, and there are many exquisite sculptures.

After the restoration of the Romanov dynasty in Vladivostok, the villa was decorated, and all the rooms were covered with soft plush carpets, beautifully crafted French furniture, and precious paintings hung in the long corridors of the villa. A high wall was erected around the villa, and an army of the Queen's Guard, composed of young White Russian nobles, stood guard around the palace day and night.

Before Luo Yaoguo came to Vladivostok, the city had been out of Bolshevik control for nearly two years, and Trotsky had been killed for nearly a year.

The mayor of Vladivostok or Vla-Vla, Duke Levov, was the eldest son of Duke Yeg Levov, the leader of the Provisional Government of Russia after the February Revolution, and a loyal supporter of the monarchy. By the way, the current Russian Empire is not a constitutional monarchy, but a monarchical dictatorship! The Empress Anastasia had shown her toughness and ruthlessness and political skill during these nine months, and she did not know how to bring a large number of Russian aristocrats or social revolutionaries from all over the world to order them to be submissive.

And now, the Russian empress, who is suspected of being a female tyrant, is wearing a long court dress with a white sè low xiōng, luǒlù with a large area of snow-white skin and a half-bōba and a half-giant rǔ, sitting in a somewhat narrow luxury carriage with Luo Yaoguo. This looks like he is seducing Luo Yaoguo! However, Luo Yaoguo was just looking at the same eye along the way, and he didn't seem to have any interest in the bō empress beside him.

The carriage suddenly slowed down, and Empress Anastasia's voice sounded in Luo Yaoguo's ears: "Your Excellency Marshal, we have arrived. ”

Only then did Luo Yaoguo open his eyes, bowed slightly to the empress, and said with a smile: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for reminding you." At this moment, a young Russian man in the uniform of the Guards opened the door of the carriage. According to the etiquette instructed by Natalie in advance, Luo Yaoguo stepped down from the carriage first, then stretched out his right hand, held the jade hand handed over by the empress, and helped her out of the carriage.

"Thank you." The empress owed herself very elegantly and thanked Luo Yaoguo for his hospitality. Then the two walked side by side into the hall of the villa.

"Your Excellency, may I invite you to sit in my study for a while? It's just us. Walking into the hall, the empress nodded to the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Russian Empire, who bowed to a vote, and invited him in a low voice just enough for Luo Yaoguo to hear.

"It's a great honor." A hint of surprise flashed in Luo Yaoguo's eyes, but he quickly reacted and replied in the same low voice.

As soon as you enter the empress's study, you are greeted by a huge map of the Russian Empire. The vast territory is divided into two parts, the red sè and the white sè, of which the white sè is only around Vladivostok, the coastal areas of the Far East, and the Magadan region in Eastern Siberia. And the red sè covered almost a vast territory from the Far East to Europe.

On the other wall hangs a 1/200,000 military map of the Far East, with a dense array of arrows and units in red and blue marked near Ussuriysk, as well as unit numbers in Russian and Arabic numerals. In addition, near Amursk-on-Amur River, there are also arrows and pins drawn in red and blue pencils, as well as a large number of troops. It is clear that this map has already laid out the situation in the entire Far Eastern theater.

Although he could not read Russian, Luo Yaoguo was very familiar with the battlefield situation in the Far East, and about 300,000 Chinese and Japanese allied troops confronted the Soviet Red Army near Ussuriysk.

On the Amursk side, the Russian army has a numerical advantage, about 150,000 Russian troops and less than 100,000 Soviet Red Army, and the Russian army also has the help of the German Condor Regiment and more than a dozen Japanese gunboats, which seems to have a greater chance of winning. It looks like the Ussuriysk front will continue to face off for the time being, and the decisive battle on the Amursk side should break out before the end of June! If the Russian army can win and successfully capture Amursk, then Boli will be in danger, and at that time, the main forces of the Soviet Red Army on the Ussuriysk line may have to retreat to Boli.

"Your Excellency, do you see something?" At this time, the Russian Empress walked up to Luo Yaoguo with two glasses of champagne and handed him one of them.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Luo Yaoguo took a sip of the wine glass, moistened his throat, and said with a smile: "Obviously, the key to the current situation in the Far East is the battle of Amursk, if the Russian army can win, then the battle situation will develop in the direction of Your Majesty." "Commander-in-Chief Denikin suggested that I mobilize a division of Japanese troops from Ussuriysk and transport them to Amursk by ship, but the marshal did not think it would be feasible?" Luo Yaoguo nodded noncommittally: "Your Majesty, do you know who is commanding the Red Army in Amursk?" "Yes, he said that Blyukhel, an old friend of the field marshal, was released from the labor camp by Stalin after the death of Trotsky and appointed deputy commander of the Far Eastern Front."

"What!" Luo Yaoguo was stunned, suddenly thought of something, and his face sank.

Blyukhel was shot by Stalin in history! And that Tukhachevsky was also killed by the purge launched by Stalin, and in 1937 and 1938, Stalin purged most of the commanders of the Soviet Red Army! And in this time and space, facing the pressure of civil war and Sino-German Bō and other countries, will Stalin still launch a rebellion? Besides, the biggest purge was already on Trotsky, and if there had been no purge, would the combat effectiveness of the Soviet Red Army ......

After a long silence, Empress Anastasia's voice seemed to be full of worry: "Marshal, do you think that General Denikin can't defeat Blyukher......" The empress's voice pulled Luo Yaogu out of his thoughts, and he smiled awkwardly: "It's not that much, General Denikin has the advantage of troops, and there are air and surface ships to help in the war... The military command talent cannot make up for the huge gap in strength. The best tactic of the Bolsheviks now is to withdraw their forces to Khabarovsk (Boly) and fight us there! Empress Anastasia sighed softly, her watery blue eyes flashed, and she stared at Luo Yaoguo: "Then speaking of which, most of the area south of the Amur River should be able to fall into our hands smoothly." Looking at the expectant eyes of the Russian empress, Luo Yaoguo nodded stiffly: "Yes, Your Majesty, at least until Stalin mobilizes more troops to reach the Far East, even Tukhachevsky can't do anything." "And then?" Anastasia hesitated for a moment and sneered: "And then another round of bloody killings, and the blood of the Russians will once again stain the Amur River, right?" That's probably why you asked me to be crowned in Vladivostok, right? Anastasia said the word "Vladivostok" here in blunt Chinese, not Vladivostok in Russian.

Luo Yaoguo nodded a little embarrassed. Anastasia laughed indifferently and said, "If my father Nicholas II were still alive, he would not have wanted the Russian people to shed their blood for the war between the Romanov dynasty and the Bolsheviks!" But I don't care! I just want those Bolsheviks to pay for everything that happened to me! I don't care if there are more people who die! It doesn't matter if you go to hell after you die! At this moment, Luo Yaoguo seemed to feel a crazy aura from Anatasya, this woman's elegance and nobility may be disguised, right? She may have gone crazy the moment the bullets of the Bolsheviks came over, right?

After venting, this Anatasya seemed to be back to normal, and her pretty face was full of the most elegant smiles of Western aristocratic women: "Marshal, don't you want a Russian empress who has been hated and lost her roots?" Luo Yaoguo glanced deeply at Empress Anatasya and nodded slowly. Empress Anatasya suddenly stepped forward two steps forward, hugged Luo Yaoguo's neck, and whispered on his mouth! "My dear marshal, my husband has left me to return to the United States because of some objections to my practices. If you don't mind having a lover who is a little crazy, then please come to my room tonight. ”

Luo Yaoguo was squeezed by Anatathea's haorǔ, and his blood flow accelerated, but a pair of thick and powerful arms hugged her tighter: "Why wait until night? My Majesty! I'm looking forward to having a beautiful queen lover, even if she's really a little crazy! With that, he picked up the Empress and walked towards the bedroom connected to the Empress's office......

In fact, our Chief of Staff Luo Yaoguo Luo derailment in Vladivostok this time is excusable! Because the **ōbō beauty who has been following him all along, Natalie Lesinskaya, didn't come to Vladivostok with him this time! And his big wife Lu Xiaobei was also busy designing the "cutest" fighter jet, so she didn't accompany him on a visit, as for the rest of the women, Luo Yaoguo would not take them on a visit, so this man who was strong and had a very good function was seduced by a Russian empress who was lonely, had a bit of posture, and a great figure! Of course, this Empress Anastasia didn't want to get anything other than men and money from Luo Yaoguo, and while her man was fooling around with the Russian Empress on the chuáng, Natalie's beautiful woman was smiling the sweetest in the world at a few Frankensteins who also looked a little crazy! She was at the time of the Sino-German Joint Polytechnic University, in the small teaching building belonging to the U Engineering Committee, attending a chaotic scientific conference.

"Gentlemen and ladies! Today I would like to announce an epoch-making great discovery! In a recent experiment, my colleagues and I finally used a very large mass spectrometer to determine and separate three isotopes, uranium-238, uranium-235, and uranium-234, from a small piece of sodium metal. Among them, the abundance of uranium-238 is about 0.72% of uranium-235, and the abundance of uranium-234 is only 0.006%.

The person who said this was none other than the president of the Sun Yat-sen Academy of Sciences, the Austrian Jewish scientist, Ms. Lì Zemetner. As soon as her words fell, there was a sparse applause in the conference room. At this time, Natalie, who was "xiōng big brainless", also clapped her hands, she knew that there was such a thing as sodium on the periodic table of chemical elements, and she also knew what isotopes meant. But I just don't understand, why spend so much money on this? There is also a lot of valuable foreign exchange among them? Seeing the excitement of these seemingly very smart scientists in front of her, Natalie guessed that the three isotopes of sodium should have some special effect, right? As soon as the applause stopped, she mustered up her courage and whispered,1 "Excuse me, Professor Meitner, can I ask what the three isotopes of uranium-238, uranium-235, and uranium-234 are for?" ”

Professor Lì Zemetner shook his head slightly and replied regretfully, "Dear Natalie, this question is honest, and I would like to figure it out, but unfortunately I don't know what they do now. But...... It is precisely because of the unknown that we need those of us to continue to explore and explore the unknown in order to make science develop. ”

Natalie frowned, nodded, and then turned her head to look at Professor Xi Bojian, the [master] of the U Engineering Committee, who also couldn't hide his excitement, and said with a smile: "Professor Wei, is the next research project of our U Engineering Committee the purpose of u235, u238 and U234?" ”

Zhang Baijian shrugged his shoulders and said: "Of course, this is to be studied, but at the same time, we have some other projects to study, such as the discovery of ultra-sodium atoms, which Professor Meitner started at the Royal William Institution, and there are also methods for separating these three isotopes that can also be studied............... as for the focus of research, I think it should be the use of these three isotopes, right?" After all, our U Engineering Committee is using military funds, maybe what military value do these three isotopes have? As he spoke, he glanced at Professor Meitner, an old man who was a pacifist and had little interest in exploring the military use of sodium, but he did not strongly oppose it, after all, nuclear fission had not yet been discovered!

"Well, who gave us money from the Dutch military!" Lì Zemetna said gently, she looked at Natalie and said, "Let's send a telegram to His Excellency the Marshal of Vladivostok first, and tell him what he has found here." Then we will make our recommendations to him and apply for the next stage of research funding. ”

Professor Leosillard, who was responsible for improving the design of the mass spectrometer in this experiment, interjected: "Perhaps we should explore ways to separate these three isotopes at the same time, and if His Excellency the Marshal approves this project, I hope that he can be specifically responsible." ”

"Well, if you don't have any suggestions, I'll send a telegram to the assistant commander and tell him about the progress made here." Natalie thought for a moment, and then said, "Professor Meitner, Professor Wei, Professor Szilard, you still want to write a report on the suggestions for the next stage of the research project, and I will take these reports to Vladivostok." ”！。