Accompanied by Chen Yunsheng, vice minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Zhang Shusheng focused on visiting the Rainbow Television Group, which mainly produces military and scientific research displays, military radios, military large and medium-sized communication equipment, civilian televisions and radios, and inspected the Southwest Transistor Research Institute jointly established by the Southwest Electronic Research Institute and the Southwest Dianzi University.

Immediately afterward, the plane departed for Xichang, where Zhang Shusheng made a special inspection of one of the two most important places on his trip to the southwest, China's No. 5 SS base -- the China Frontier Nuclear Physics Research Center and the China Nuclear Weapons Research Center, which was secretly codenamed 'Solar Project' in the military industrial system.

The research center is composed of more than 700 scientific researchers, and with the exception of a very small number of Chinese foreign experts like Albert Einstein who have thoroughly integrated into Chinese society, most of them are composed of patriotic overseas Chinese scientists and young scientists trained by the southwest in recent years. Xiong Heming is the main person in charge, and Einstein is a theoretical scientist, and it cannot be said that he will build a nuclear weapon, but it can only be said that he is one of the important scientists of the nuclear weapons center. At the end of the inspection, Zhang Shusheng told Xiong Heming that he should not be afraid of a shortage of money and personnel, and that the number of scientific research personnel will increase at a rate of 100 or more every year in the future, and more funds and more advanced equipment will arrive one after another.

This means that China's nuclear weapons program has officially entered a sprint period after a decade-long foundation has been laid.

Subsequently, Zhang Shusheng set off for another SS-class base in Xichang, the China Aerospace Center under construction. Here, Zhang Shusheng saw the aerospace launch site that had begun to take shape. Of course, before the rocket is officially produced for testing, there will be exercises to train and simulate launches.

Zhang Shusheng last went to Kunming, and in the mountains far away from Kunming, he once again walked into the SS-level base that is also related to the core competitiveness of China's national defense in the future: the China Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Murong Bo, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, excitedly guided the chairman and visited the two main parts of the propulsion laboratory: the conventional jet laboratory and the rocket research center.

After solving 80% of the more than 600 problems that limited the engine's sustainable working time and safety, the jet engine finally entered the final sprint period, and more than 300 researchers in the conventional jet laboratory gave up all their vacations to build ten prototypes in laboratory conditions, thus providing a platform for more and more extensive tests to follow. At the same time, Feng Ruhai, president of the China Aircraft Design Institute, also personally led the team, handing over the task of researching and improving propeller fighters to other scientists, and personally led the team to start researching jet aircraft from scratch six years ago.

During this period, Feng Ruhai often took the jet design team to eat and live in the regular jet test room of this base, the most important and critical place of the jet aircraft is the power, how to find out the special surname of the engine, so as to design the jet aircraft that meets the existing conditions in accordance with the preliminary design documents issued by the Supreme Science Committee, it will be a difficult process. It is expected that it will not be until the end of 1937 that two real prototypes will be produced, and when the time comes, the jet aircraft equipped with a more mature model of jet engine will be tested for flight, and Zhang Shusheng will be invited to watch the ceremony in person.

As for the rocket research center, the progress of this center is even slower, when Zhang Shusheng went to visit, the rocket engine project has just solved a small part of the problem, and it is still stuck in the problem of combustion chamber and nozzle manufacturing materials, and the corresponding research units are also working overtime all night, but rockets, like nuclear weapons and jet fighters, are particularly large system projects, and what is needed is not just a research center, but the entire scientific and technological strength. In the entire southwest, there have been more than 300 scientific research institutes in cooperation with these major research centers over the past 20 years, and more than 160 have been newly established since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Covering all research projects, from downstream components to materials.

Many Chinese scientists, even foreign scientists, have no idea what they are working on, and can only roughly guess what field it might be used for. Because, one big project after another has been completely disassembled, except for the most secret SS base, which has the final system design right and the right to know, many people, even after this weapon is really successfully developed and used in actual combat, will find that the parts and materials they produced back then were originally used in atomic bombs or rockets.

And in the rocket research center of more than 400 people, Zhang Shusheng also met another person surnamed Qian Wensen, the father of Chinese rockets in later history, although he is only 25 years old now, but he burst out with a brighter light than Qian Sanqiang of the nuclear weapons research center of the "Sun Project". He has already led a research group on Reading Power and is responsible for a very critical rocket power project. The moment he entered the school, he received special care from Zhang Shusheng, who asked the school to take the best care of his study and life, and let him have a more free learning space than other students.

In general, in these high-tech fields, the proportion of foreign scientists, Chinese scientists, and scientists born and bred in China is 1:3:6. The foreign side is a number of scientists who have not been taken seriously for various reasons, but they do have very high scientific research ability, and there are not a few Chinese scientists, and there are countless geniuses among the Chinese who have branched out all over the world. In China, it is mainly a small number of international students trained in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, as well as most of the scientists trained in the southwest.

"Be cautious, it's very tiring to go to the southwest this time."

After five days of inspection of major scientific and technological projects in the southwest, Zhang Shusheng finally returned to Hanjing, and that day coincided with the weekend's rest, and he rarely had a simple and warm rest with He Ning and Lu Yunyan, who was not on duty.

Both of them know very well that Zhang Shusheng's biggest hobby is fishing in a large natural lake in Nanyuan, the official residence of the head of state in Hanjing Mountain, accompanied by two beautiful wives, placing his favorite southwest green tea, which is packed in an ordinary blue and white porcelain cup, but there is a kind of return to simplicity and fun, while enjoying the fragrant tea, while enjoying the leisure of fishing.

"Where I'm tired, it's all those researchers who are tired. This time I went to the southwest to inspect it, and I felt more than I did before. Zhang Shusheng is telling the truth, when he went to these scientific research bases to inspect and guide some key scientific links, because the project has not yet made great progress, everything is still exploring and imitating, so it will not seem too busy, but now, when the project begins to make major progress, the staff are more and more desperate and find their own point of strength.

Lu Yunyan nodded, as the confidential secretary general of the head of state's office center, of course she knew these things, "Although the treatment of our scientific research personnel has always been very good, the Ministry of Science and Technology still issued a series of regulations last month, among which improving the treatment of scientific research personnel and solving the work, education, and life problems of the families of some special scientific research units have been included in the key work. ”

This family of three, every time they get together, they are entertained and rested at the beginning, but after a long time, they still have to return to the affairs of New China.

He Ning hugged Zhang Shusheng's left arm, chose a comfortable angle on him, and said, "Shen Xing, do you remember the German political axe's delegation to China?" They came to the Ministry of Education the day before yesterday and invited us to send a delegation of students to Germany to visit this year's Olympic Games, and they provided all the expenses. After a study by the ministry, it was decided to send 40 high school students to Berlin. ”

"They're courting us. Things in Germany are very complicated, we don't need to be in a hurry, some normal diplomatic etiquette, do what you have to do, and if it involves core interests, let people talk to them slowly. Zhang Shusheng knew very well that the 1936 Olympics would be the last attempt by the Germans to whitewash the peace, and through this Olympics, the Nazis would also gain unprecedented prestige in Germany, thus laying the final foundation for a more comprehensive Nazi rule in the future.

In fact, at this time, the Nazi Party was already in full swing, for example, various armament programs began to accelerate, the military-industrial complex was fully rolled out, the Wehrmacht was expanded, and the SS was expanded. Not to mention the crazy expansion of the Wehrmacht, even the SS will be expanded to the size of dozens of divisions in a few years, which is very terrifying.

Zhang Shusheng knew about this delegation to China, it should be a diplomatic representative sent by Hitler to fight the front station, and the real matter has not yet been put on the table.

Although China was far away from Europe, and although communications were relatively backward in this era, the huge combat effectiveness of the army, navy, and air force that broke out during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression still attracted the great attention of the short German man.

Not because of anything else. Just because Hitler used to be the German Army. When he was an infantryman, he had the privilege of seeing the kind of tank that terrified the enemy, but when he later learned that the technology of this tank actually came from China, he vowed to build a more advanced tank to surpass the Chinese.

However, the reality is that according to the intelligence of German intelligence, the main battle tanks of the Chinese still exceed the main battle tanks of Germany for at least 4 years, and no matter how hard tank experts try, this technological span is always difficult to break through.

At the same time, German intelligence also discovered that the Chinese surpassed Germany in aircraft, aircraft carriers, individual weapons, and even artillery, which the Germans were most proud of.

While the Germans were still painstakingly accumulating battleships and always defending the British armada, the British fleet was bombed and destroyed by the Chinese in Asia without pressure, and the German dignitaries, including Hitler, realized that the war should be fought like this, not dragged by the British all the time.

In the 30s, the Germans canceled the construction program of seven battleships and launched eight aircraft carriers, one more than the six of the British. It can be said that in terms of aircraft carriers, the Germans finally completely escaped the hurdle of building battleships, thus easily opening the era of aircraft carrier competition between Britain and Germany.

At the same time, Germany has never given up getting advanced weapons from China since the southwest period, but Zhang Shusheng has instructed the negotiating team to tighten its mouth every time, and it is difficult to let go once. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Germans also repeatedly put pressure to buy China's military technology, but Zhang Shusheng said "not to sell it for the time being". In the past three years, Germany has received very little military from China.

In Zhang Shusheng's words, "To make the imperialists fight harder, of course, the weapons must be more advanced, but now is not the time." The same technology is too different from giving them three years in advance and giving them a few years later. Give them a few years later, they can only use it honestly, and give it to them in advance, but it can help them produce a small-scale technological revolution, which will lead to more deadly progress. We must provide them with military technology that can be suppressed by our advanced weaponry, when they need it most. In exchange for great benefits. ”

Finally, on February 4, 1936, German Ambassador to China Rimmel secretly visited the Chinese Foreign Ministry, hoping that the Chinese political axe could take the opportunity of the Olympic Games to send a secret political axe delegation to Germany, including in the military and economic fields.

Remel, on the other hand, hinted that if Sino-German relations can achieve further 'major developments', Germany could be on the side of China's political axe on the Sino-Russian issue, the Sino-Chinese issue, the Sino-British and French issue, and even all Asian issues for the foreseeable future.

At the behest of Zhang Shusheng, Foreign Minister Li Zongren was very pleased to give the Germans an affirmative reply, and although he did not promise more about 'the intention of further strengthening Sino-German relations,' he was happy to send a secret delegation to Germany to consolidate the current Sino-German relations.

In fact, Zhang Shusheng did not have very complicated feelings about Hitler, the great careerist, the Third Reich, the Nazi Party, and the whole of Germany, and never thought that he must befriend them or suppress them. As the chairman of the Supreme Power Committee of China, it can be said that Zhang Shusheng's power at this time was even greater than that of Hitler a few years later.

Therefore, Zhang Shusheng's starting point for considering the problem has long passed the era of currying favor, currying favor, or blocking the Germans. During the economic crisis, he also arranged for a considerable number of people to snipe at the German economy, and the gold and Deutsche mark earned from Germany were no less than in London. Some of this capital will be secretly reinvested in countries around the world, some will be returned to China as special financial allocations, and some will be used as reserves for China to prepare for a super-large-scale world war a few years later. In short, what Zhang Shusheng did was for the sake of the whole nation, and he would never make his policy toward Germany go to any extreme for the sake of his own preferences for Hitler or the Third Reich.

Führer's Office Center.

"Chairman, do you think you have set the tone for this trip to Germany?" Foreign Minister Li Zongren and Defense Minister Cai Ye gathered at the head of state's office center in order to get a verdict from the highest level.

"Minister Li is right, the Germans have taken a fancy to our weapons, and this time they will go to Germany, it is very likely that they will propose a package of military and economic cooperation plans." Cai Ye also said with some concern that as the Minister of Defense, he has already experienced the transformation from a leading general to a strategic thinker, and of course knows that helping the Germans or not is not a simple yes or no question.

Zhang Shusheng smiled, walked to the huge world map behind him, pointed to the location of Germany, and tapped: "The country of projectiles, but it intends to pry the whole of Europe." As things stand, they are at a disadvantage. Even if the situation of the Germans is estimated even higher, there will be many problems in the future. This is the conclusion of the Supreme War Department and the General Staff. Therefore, it is necessary to properly give the Germans the illusion that the Chinese will stand firmly with them, and at the same time carry out some appropriate cooperation. Like what...... For example, we can provide some military technology, for example, the technology of one and a half generations of armor for tanks, and some non-critical construction technologies for aircraft carriers, of course, provided that they pay enough to buy them.

As for economic cooperation, of course, German businessmen are welcome to invest and establish more Sino-German joint venture trading companies, and the rest will be put aside for the time being. ”

These two types of technologies that Zhang Shusheng gave to the Germans, the first generation and a half armor technology of the tank, only allowed their tanks to be able to surpass the French tanks in defense at the same thickness. Because at this time, the French Renault tank was actually much stronger than the German tank. You must know that in history, although the tanks of the French before the start of World War II were relatively advanced, they were by no means as strong as they are now, which put pressure on the Germans who were proud of their tanks.

In fact, the French also got inspiration from the tanks of World War I, and the advanced tanks that the Germans inexplicably took out made the British and French forces suffer several big losses. The French Army, which has always believed that it is the first in the world, of course, could not miss the opportunity to develop tanks, first sent agents to steal the tank technology of the Germans, and then its own tank scientists made unprecedented efforts, and finally made the new generation of Renault tanks put into production in 1935 completely superior to a certain type of No. 3 tank that the Germans were proud of in terms of various data.

In fact, he also knew that the Germans needed more of an attitude from China, after all, Hitler also understood that a rising China was behind the Red Soviet Russia, which in itself was a very satisfying thing.

As for wanting China to sell the most advanced military technology to Germany, it is better to send agents to steal it yourself.

Of course, over the years, he has also found that the German agents have lost a lot, but the technology has not been stolen back as useful.

As a matter of fact, some of the new weapons that have appeared on the battlefield in China have already aroused the thinking of German weapons scientists, and they only need to give them time to develop weapons of the same type.

In addition to Germany, Britain and Ben, more people are unwilling to admit that the Chinese have advanced weapons. They have always believed that a new regime that has just completed the establishment of a revolutionary state cannot have world-leading weaponry.

In fact, in the weapons equipped by the [***] team, there are indeed not many dazzling things that can be seen, except for rockets, cloud burst shells and fully automatic rifles. The transmission of information is lagging behind, and only particularly dazzling weapons can attract their attention. As for advanced tanks and aircraft, radars, advanced submarines, and so on, which have become even more mysterious, are unknown.

It was only because of the direct outbreak of war that the British, the people themselves, and the Germans, who had been concerned about China for a long time, had a certain understanding of China's advanced weapons. It's just that they are underestimated to a certain extent. The Germans thought that the weapons might have been stolen by the Chinese from secret military laboratories in Britain or France, while the British and themselves believed that they might have been sold to the Chinese by the Germans or Americans. The premise is that they also admit that the Chinese, with their rapidly rising economy, can indeed produce some advanced weapons.

However, Britain, Germany, France, and Russia still focused their intelligence work on each other, rather than on the far east. The one who knows China best is himself.

In April 1936, a huge Chinese Olympic delegation set off for Germany on the 10,000-ton ocean-going transport ship Qinghai Lake, which had just been launched for half a year by the navy, accompanied by a navy visiting group on the surface, a huge Olympic delegation composed of 399 Olympic team members who would make countries around the world feel infinitely breathless, and a secret visiting delegation.

After more than a month and more than 40 days of sailing, the Chinese Navy's Qinghai Lake completed the new Chinese Navy's 10,000-mile voyage across the ocean for the first time. On the eve of the Olympic Games, the Qinghai Lake arrived at the port of Hamburg, Germany, with an unprecedentedly large Olympic delegation.

"Hooray, hooray......"

At the port, a large number of Chinese students and overseas Chinese in Germany, staff of the New China Political Axe in Germany, Chinese business personnel in Germany, and a huge welcoming procession of nearly 10,000 people brought great excitement to the Germans and Americans who had just arrived.

"John, I bet we, the United States, will be the country sending the most athletes this time." Calvin, the head of the U.S. Olympic delegation, stood on this luxurious merchant ship, looked at the American athletes who were packing their bags and walking out of the cabin, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Thank you to the rich and powerful United States, thank you to God Almighty." ”

With 330 athletes, Calvin is confident enough that the United States will surpass all other countries, even the host German Olympic team, to win the first place in numbers and the first medal in the two most eye-catching things.

The luxurious merchant ships, thousands of tons of ocean-going merchant ships, made him feel very comfortable all the way, and it was a very happy thing for him to be able to drink champagne and red wine and praise the arrival of the generous United States in Germany. Looking at the dilapidated and old ships that the small countries ride in or lease next to him, his pride is incomparably strong.

"Oh, damn it, are these Chinese crazy?"

John did not reply to his words, because at this time he was looking at the crazy Chinese on the shore, there were tens of thousands of people, and the momentum was too scary. People were holding red flags in their hands, and John could recognize them, and those red flags, like the flags flying on ships in major American ports, were China's very special national flags: the golden dragon flag, he knew Chinese, and knew that the shouts from these people's mouths were "Long live, warm welcome!" ”

"Haha, they're not welcoming the mighty America, the America has always been a weak and powerful Western friend, oh, they deserve to welcome it." Calvin teased with his American humor.

"No, the regiment commander, they are welcoming the big ship behind, that, it is the ocean-going transport warship Qinghai Lake on which the Chinese Olympic delegation is traveling."

Through the binoculars, John saw the warship already entering the harbor, and then inquired about the steamship liaison officer next to him, and immediately changed color.

"Head Calvin, it's unfortunate news that the Chinese have more Olympic delegations than us, a total of 399." John's face was ugly, and the Chinese were sitting on a nearly brand new warship, and although the name was a military visit, the reality was that the Chinese Olympic delegation was sent by their troops from their homeland all the way to Germany in Europe.

"Oh, damn it, they must have emptied their homes and turned out their newest warship. Damn, our Great White Fleet also visited all over the world! Damn, there is no use in the number of people, my children will beat them, and the medal will definitely belong to the United States!! ”

John, on the other hand, muttered in his accent unique to the western coast of the United States, "I have a hunch that the Chinese will definitely shock the world this time." ”

(To be continued)