Albert. Einstein gently put down the journal Nature in his hand and unconsciously tapped his fingers on his desk. His expression was a little playful, a little gloomy, a little excited, but more of a concern about the catastrophe that scientific discoveries might bring to the future of humanity.

Part of his concern stems from the fact that the British journal is the world's leading journal in the natural sciences. The hot topic in this issue of Nature is the nuclear fission phenomenon discovered by Chinese physicist Li Fuji. As early as January 1907, Li Fuji, who was still studying for a doctorate at the University of Bonn, once overturned the Nobel Prize winner Lerner's "flame center emission theory" with a paper on the "spectroscopic real research on Lerner's alkali metal spectroscopy", thus shocking the European physics community". However, compared with the occasional flash of light more than 20 years ago, Li Fuji's paper expounding the phenomenon of nuclear fission this time can definitely establish his status as a master in the international physics community, and it is only a matter of time before he wins the Nobel Prize in physics.

But Einstein's concern was not that a scientist from an ancient country in the East would win the Nobel Prize in physics, but that the military use of nuclear fission and the responsibility he would assume in the development of nuclear fission weapons. As a master physicist, as soon as Einstein saw Li Fuji's paper expounding on the phenomenon of nuclear fission, he immediately linked it to the explosion at the Strager factory half a month ago. The explosion in Strager was made up of a sufficient amount of radioactive uranium metal. A spontaneous fission reaction of a nucleus is formed, and fire and explosion are the result of this out-of-control reaction...... And the substance that produces this nuclear fission reaction is uranium-235, the isotope of uranium! Theoretically, as long as a sufficient amount of uranium-235 is stacked together. You can create a Strazh-style explosion again, and the power of the explosion can far exceed the Strazh explosion, and maybe you can create a super bomb equivalent to the power of 100,000 tons of TNT explosives! Just one can raze Berlin or Moscow to the ground!

And the biggest difficulty in making this super bomb, well, has actually been overcome by British and German scientists, is to separate uranium-235 from uranium, and the Chinese have long built a large-scale isotope separation plant. It is estimated that they have already discovered the secret of nuclear fission! Although Germany and Britain have not built large-scale isotope separation plants, the technology of separating uranium-235 by gas diffusion method was originally invented by scientists in these two countries, and the "gas diffusion machine" used by the Chinese is also ordered from the factories in Britain and Germany. I believe it won't be long. The isotope separation plant in Britain and Germany will be built as quickly as possible, as fast as three years, as slow as five years, and nuclear fission bombs will appear in the world. It's just not known who will turn into the first victim of this super-murder weapon......

The office door was suddenly pushed open. I saw my good friend Yoshio Nishina standing at the door with a sad face, he was still wearing a crumpled suit, his hair was messy, it seemed that he hadn't trimmed it for a long time, and his eyes were red like rabbits. Seeing the Nature magazine in Yoshio Nishina's hand, Einstein frowned slightly, raised his hand and said, "Mr. Nishina." Have a seat. ”

Yoshio Nishina sighed as he sat down, frowning at the magazines on the table. A photo of the Chinese physicist Li Fuji appeared on the cover of the magazine. This man's appearance is a bit eerie, and it seems that he is very suitable for the development of a super bomb that can be used in Japan. Yoshio Nishina sighed heavily, and slapped the Nature magazine he brought on the table: "Mr. Einstein, this Chinese has uncovered the mystery of the Stan Large explosion for us...... A Pandora's box has also been opened, and Mr. Hahn has already submitted to Chancellor Hitler a proposal for the development of nuclear fission weapons, and he has also proposed that you be the general person in charge of the research and development of nuclear fission weapons. ”

Einstein smiled bitterly and said lightly: "Mr. Nishina, don't you understand my thoughts?" I don't even want to think about this weapon of mass murder, and if Chancellor Hitler asked me to be the head of nuclear fission bomb research, I would definitely refuse. ”

Yoshio Nishina sneered, since he heard Hahn and Heydrich talking in Strage, he had been thinking about defecting back to Japan to join the revolution. However, he still heard about how efficient the Gestapo was, in fact, this is a timid scientist, who has been looking at everyone around him for the past two days and thinks that he is a secret agent of the Gestapo, and he can't sleep all night, for fear that someone will come and smash the door in the middle of the night and arrest him as a GCD person and take him to a concentration camp. After thinking about it, he also knew that he didn't have the ability to run back to Japan alone. And what if you run back to Japan? Britain, Germany, and China can still build nuclear fission bombs, and they will still pick up and slaughter the Japanese people...... And Japan's industrial base and scientific research strength are there, and no matter how hard it tries, it will not be able to help Japan build a nuclear fission bomb in a few years. So he has now given up his intention to abscond back to Japan, and is ready to think of some way inside the enemy, even if it is to delay the time when Britain and Germany have nuclear fission bombs.

"Mr. Einstein, you should not refuse such an appointment! Because there are very good scientists in Europe who can undertake such a mission, if you don't come out to be responsible for the development of nuclear fission bombs, others will come out to complete the work, maybe they will complete the development of nuclear fission bombs better and faster! Now that Pandora's box has been opened, if you don't want the devil inside to come out and devour people's lives, then you should take on the mission of leading the research on nuclear fission bombs! His voice was full of breath, buzzing through the office, causing Einstein to fall into a long silence, and after about a quarter of an hour, the great scientist muttered: "But now the country that is working on nuclear fission bombs is not only Germany, Chinese go further in this area, and the British also know how to separate isotopes of uranium...... Even if I can slow down the development of a nuclear fission bomb in Germany. China and Britain will still drop nuclear fission bombs on the Soviets and ...... On the head of the Japanese! ”

Speaking of this, Einstein looked at Yoshio Nishina quietly and shook his head with some pity. Nishina smiled bitterly, nodded, and said, "Mr. Einstein." Although we cannot stop the development of uranium bombs, I believe that we have a chance to prevent them from being used to slaughter innocent civilians in the Soviet Union and Japan...... After all, a world war will not go on forever, as long as we don't let this weapon appear before the end of the world war, and I believe that you are the only one who can do it. As for the development of uranium bombs in China and the UK, you don't have to worry. Because Mr. Hahn has built this super bomb jointly developed by Britain, Germany and China. ”

"Joint R&D? Why? Einstein asked, puzzled.

"Because the investigation team found extremely severe radioactive contamination around the Strazh factory, the inhabitants and crops there were not affected in the same way." Yoshio Nishina shrugged his shoulders and said:

"Mr. Hahn believes that the test base for a nuclear fission bomb cannot be placed on German territory. Only one base could be built in the British colonies and one in the desert region of northwest China for the development of nuclear fission bombs, for which Germany had to develop them together with China and Britain. In addition, there were not many uranium mines on the territory of Germany. There is only one place in Strage. If Germany were to create uranium bombs in sufficient quantities. It must rely on China and Britain to provide uranium ore. Therefore, joint research and development is the best way, and since the test base society is in China and the United Kingdom, the overall person in charge of joint research and development should be a German scientist, and you are really the most suitable person. ”

Yoshio Nishina suddenly stood up, bowed to Einstein, and said in a trembling voice: "For the sake of the 200 million innocent Soviet and Japanese people, please assume this responsibility." Please! ”

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"Welcome, Your Excellency. Dozens of hours of continuous flight have made you hard...... By the way, you didn't encounter any dangers during your journey, did you? You know that your plane is flying along the edge of the Indian theater of operations and the Middle East theater of operations, and it is very touching that you have taken such a risk to come to London. ”

It was Chang Ruiqing's "old friend" Qiu Fatzi who spoke, and the fat man's spirit now looks very good, and his eyes are full of confidence and conceit that can't be concealed. It seems that he has found a way to win the war from the explosion of Lastge. The place where they spoke was Blenheim House, a luxury estate in the town of Woodstock, Oxfordshire.

This is the ancestral home of Churchill, which was built in 1705 and was given to Winston by Queen Anne. Churchill's ancestor, Duke John of Malbert I. Winston Churchill, in recognition of his outstanding victory over France in the War of the Spanish Succession, is said to be a little more luxurious than Buckingham Palace, which seems to have not been overstepped in Britain (in fact, most of the money for the construction of Blenheim Palace was paid by the British government at the time).

But Winston. Churchill was not the Duke of Malbert of this generation, so he was not the owner of the place, but he still arranged for the visiting Chang Ruiqing couple to live in Blenheim Palace. At this time, Chang Ruiqing leaned on the windowsill pangbian, looking a little tired, Wang Ruonan sat on a single sofa next to him, holding a cup of coffee and smiling, and was talking in a low voice with the hostess here, Duchess Malbert, in fact, her English level was quite bad, and she didn't know how the two women communicated, and they actually pretended to be relishing.

As for this journey, although it was not easy to call it leisurely, it was not as dangerous as Churchill said. Although the route was close to the Soviet-controlled zone in India and the Middle East, it was outside the combat radius of the Soviet fighters, so there was not even a shadow of the Soviet fighters from beginning to end. However, in this era, the noise in the cabin of the aircraft is quite loud, and the flight is very turbulent, so the fatigue of the journey is inevitable. Fortunately, the British side did not immediately start negotiations with Chang Ruiqing, and German Chancellor Hitler also postponed his visit to Britain because of the onslaught launched by the Soviet army on the Balkan battlefield, so Chang Ruiqing arranged for Chang Ruiqing to stay at Blenheim Palace to recuperate for a few days.

However, Zhao Zhen, Jiang Baili, Li Fuji, and others, who accompanied Chang Ruiqing on his visit to Britain, were not idle, and in the past few days, they have been conducting a series of negotiations with relevant personnel from Britain and Germany, including joint research and development of nuclear fission bombs and coordinated operations against the Soviet Union. Scientists from the Chinese Institute of Physics, represented by Li Fuji, even came up with a plan for the research and development of a nuclear fission bomb and a nuclear reactor that had just been prepared to study and discuss with experts from Britain and Germany. At Chang Ruiqing's behest, Li Fuji also took out 30 tons of uranium-235 with an abundance of 3% and 30 kilograms of uranium-235 with an abundance of 91% as bait. To seduce Britain and Germany, as long as they agree to set up their main research base in Yan'an, China, these nuclear materials can be taken out for British and German scientists to study. In addition, Li Fuji also sued the German side. China has two large uranium mines in Mongolia and Suiyuan Province, with an annual output of about 3,000 tons of uranium ore, and the current uranium reserves owned by the Ministry of National Defense have exceeded 2,000 tons, which is enough to refine several tons of uranium-235 with an abundance of more than 90%. If Germany needs it, China could consider exporting uranium metal to Germany......

I don't know if they were tempted by the pies thrown by Jiang Baili and Li Fuji, but the officials in charge of the research and development of secret weapons in Britain and Germany have agreed in principle to place a major nuclear fission bomb research and development base in China, and the future bomb test site will also be in China. All research results will be shared between the UK, Germany and China, and all R&D funds will be shared equally among the three countries.

At the same time, the negotiations between the representatives of the Chinese side headed by Zhao Zhen and the British and German military have once again reached an impasse. Although with the uranium bomb as a potential big killer. But the British side still wanted to drag the United States into the war. In their view, the United States will not necessarily join the war against the Soviet Union, but they will certainly find ways to join the war against Japan in order to have a say in formulating a new post-war world order, and Britain, Germany, and China should not push the United States out now. So as not to push the United States over the side of the Soviet Union. Moreover, once Britain, Germany, and China become allies with the United States (against Japan), then the United States will inevitably have to help Britain, Germany, and China in the event that the war against the Soviet Union is unfavorable.

In addition, since the nuclear fission bomb is likely to be manufactured by Britain, Germany, and China in the near future, there seems to be little doubt about the final victory of the war. Therefore, if the question of rebuilding the post-war world order is finally brought out and discussed on the table. Today, Churchill rushed to Blenheim Palace in his busy schedule to discuss related topics with Chang Ruiqingtao.

For the post-war order. The British have not yet moved away from the colonial era, in short, they see the whole world as a big cake. Britain shared as much as Britain shared, China divided as much as Germany shared, and although France and the United States did not participate in the war, they should also have their share. In addition, the Russian Empire and the USSR should be treated differently, so it is also necessary to keep their share and not let the Russians lose too much......

In short, no matter how much the cake of this world is divided, it is impossible for everyone to be satisfied, and the distribution plan given by the British is very dissatisfied even with China and Germany, and if this problem is not solved, the strength of Britain, Germany and China will not be used in one place, and I really don't know what year and month it will take to defeat the Soviet Union?

“…… Your Excellency, we in the British Empire know the price that China will pay to restore justice and justice to the world, and I can assure you on behalf of the British Government that all the efforts made by China will not be in vain. China's territory and sphere of influence will expand significantly after the war...... The Japanese archipelago, the Korean Peninsula, Sakhalin, British Burma, and part of the Soviet Union's Central Asian territories could all be assigned to China. ”

After a few hours of testing each other with Chang Ruiqing, this fat man finally lost his patience and straightforwardly showed the hole cards of the British Empire.

"Mr. Prime Minister, I think you should understand that the strength of our three countries is not enough to destroy the entire Russian nation! If you want to include all of Eastern Siberia and Central Asia on the territory of China, then every Russian will become our enemy! That's a fighting nation of more than 100 million people! Even if we can defeat them, the huge losses will greatly damage the vitality of the three countries of Britain, Germany and China. So the best way is to treat the Soviet GCD and the Russian nation differently, our enemy is only the Soviet GCD, not the entire Russian nation, we are going to help the Russian nation overthrow the tyranny of the Soviet GCD, only in this way can we win the victory with the minimum cost! I think you know what I mean, right? ”

Chang Ruiqing nodded secretly in his heart, the British Empire's wrist in international politics is indeed not comparable to Hitler, if Hitler did not put on a posture to destroy the Russian nation, but used the restoration of the Russian Provisional Government or the Romanov Dynasty as the banner, the Soviet Union may be dead in 1942.

But Chang Ruiqing did not plan to follow the British train of thought, because he knew that the colonial era was gone. Moreover, he has always had his own vision of the future world order...... So he just looked at Churchill with a grin, and wondered how he could persuade the Victorian Britishman to accept his plan for a new world order in the future.

The era of colonization will eventually collapse, and the situation in which the United States dominates the world in the future is not what the future prime minister of the British Empire wants to see, right? (To be continued......