Chapter 520: The Space Race

The real situation in space is such a fierce information, which can be regarded as a serious out-of-stock of various publications of the Chinese Empire, including their foreign language editions, and even well-known publications of other countries have also reprinted them, and scientists from various countries are very clear about the problems foreshadowed by this news, which shows that it is not the first time that the Chinese Empire has carried out manned space flights, and perhaps their skills have already matured.

As for manned space flight, it is still a completely blank field in the entire world of Wangxiangxing, and no one knows what kind of benefits such a flight will bring, except for the people of the China Foundation, so all countries generally believe that manned space flight is just a gimmick to enhance the image of the country, and has no practical significance.

However, the government thinks it is useless, but it does not mean that the people think it is useless, and journalists from all over the world have published comments in newspapers and television, arguing that the Chinese empire can reach such technological heights, while the country is powerless, which shows that the Chinese empire has become the only super empire in the world, and other countries have fallen behind in an all-round way.

Such comments were quickly widely accepted, which did not have much of a sensational effect in backward countries, but were completely intolerable in the white world, especially in countries such as the Boston Empire and the great powers of the Western Continent.

The white world has always regarded itself as a superior race, and now there is such a big gap with the yellow race, which is unacceptable in their hearts, so the people of various countries have begun to donate spontaneously, hoping that the country can start research in this area to regain the glory of the white race.

The Boston Empire has always regarded the Chinese Empire as an imaginary enemy, and such a thing is certainly not far behind, so the Boston Empire was the first to announce the establishment of a project on space science and technology and invested a lot of money in research and development.

Originally, after the Chinese Empire used rocket artillery in the war to achieve a lot of results, all countries began to develop rocket artillery, but the rockets they developed only had a range of less than ten kilometers, and they were still far from manned spaceflight.

The spies of various countries came up with the idea of attacking Zhonghua Island, but they were doomed to be just wishful thinking, and the degree of protection of Zhonghua Island was already very high, but now it has been greatly improved compared with before. After a new round of adjustments, Zhonghua Island has been divided into inner and outer islands.

The inner islands refer to the mainland area of the entire island of China, while the outer islands include a series of islands such as New Guinea in the north, as well as the twin islands in the south.

There are only garrisons and sales personnel on these outer islands, all the products produced on the inner islands are transmitted to the outer islands through a small wind, and the personnel who buy goods from various countries can only trade on the outer islands, and the only people who can enter the inner islands every year except for Fang Xiaoyu are those who are recruited, plus there are new second-generation early warning aircraft and early warning airships in the air of China Island, the search distance has been greatly increased, the new radar on land has just been updated, and there are sonar arrays on the bottom of the sea, plus a large number of security personnel are tightly sealed, As a result, there are no examples of agents from various countries succeeding in disguised infiltration, submarine smuggling, or secret airdrops.

The Boston Imperial Government, which really had no way, shamelessly demanded that the Chinese Empire once again make its technology public in order to promote the scientific and technological development of all mankind. Now is not the time of the World War, the Chinese Empire no longer needs to look ahead, for the Boston Empire's shameless request, Wu Feng, the president of the Chinese Foundation, replied very simply, if you want the technology, you can, the manned space technology is sold in a complete package.

But the Chinese Foundation has invested 20 trillion Chinese dollars in research funding, and if the Boston Empire wants to share technology with the Chinese Empire, it only needs to pay half of the research funding. The sky-high asking price for Wu Feng frightened everyone in the world. What are you kidding, 20 trillion, even if the Chinese Empire, the world's largest economic power, has just exceeded one trillion yuan in GDP every year, and the Boston Empire, as the second most powerful country, is still making unremitting efforts towards the goal of 700 billion yuan per year, how can so much money be taken out.

Although they know that Wu Feng is pure nonsense, there is no precedent for relevant scientific and technological research in the whole world, and who knows how much money should be spent on Lu Dao, even if they want to blame the other party, it is not convincing, and who can say anything in the name of sharing the funds, so the Boston Empire had to give up and bury himself in research.

The continuous heating up of the topic of aerospace has opened up the sales of various astronomical magazines, and various types of astronomical telescopes have almost reached the point of being out of stock, but many people have gradually discovered that many strange new stars have appeared in the sky, these stars move very fast, and almost all of them move around the Wangxiang star, in addition to the blue moon they also saw a strange shadow, this shadow is hexagonal, very regular.

In fact, these strange stars are the various satellites launched by the Chinese Empire, and the strange shadow on the blue moon is the base for diamond mining under the Chinese Foundation, but the China Foundation does not clarify these situations to the public, so outsiders naturally cannot know. As a result, all sorts of strange rumors were scattered, which also provided a lot of material for later films and novels.

The reason why Fang Xiaoyu put aerospace science and technology on the table is because the first generation of impact armed satellites of the Chinese empire has been successfully developed, and he wants to attract countries to invest a lot of money in aerospace science and technology. Wait until their satellites go into the sky and then destroy them with armed satellites, so that these countries spend money in vain without results, anyway, they now have complete scientific and technological superiority, and they can play as much as they want for these technologically backward countries.

Fang Xiaoyu once again took advantage of the vanity of the white world to lead the governments of major countries into areas that they were not good at, as long as they threw money into the aerospace industry, they were doomed to lose all their money, because compared to the Chinese consortium with rich experience in aerospace, governments are not even toddlers.

But no matter what, when a goblin, a Chinese Imperial human, and a St. Martin Imperial man walked into the spaceship together, the scene was still very shocking. Then the Chinese Empire's Long March B three-stage rocket successfully sent the spacecraft into space, such a scene amazed the people of the whole world, and also made every Chinese Imperial person full of national pride, even the Emperor Abdul I of the St. Martin Empire excitedly declared that the Chinese Empire is the eternal friend of the St. Martin Empire.

In order to allow countries to invest more funds in this industry that is destined to produce no results, after the spacecraft was launched, Feng Jingru, chief engineer of the China Foundation Aerospace Company, also gave a detailed introduction to the necessity of weightlessness for various scientific research in front of the camera, and also broke the news that 100% pure metals can be smelted in weightlessness.

The general public may not be aware of the benefits of 100% purity metals, but it does not mean that scientists from all over the world are unaware of them. Although such a metal is almost completely unavailable on a gravitational planet, this does not mean that no one has studied and speculated about its existence.

After Feng Jingru's speech, the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Boston first sent a report to the government on 100 percent purity metals, and scientists proposed that completely pure materials can provide many unexpected properties, the most obvious of which is semiconductor components, if they can be made into fully pure silicon semiconductor components, the components will no longer emit any heat in use, and the reactive power consumption will be zero.

And with completely pure materials, even perpetual motion machines and superconductors can be manufactured, in addition, these metals can also greatly improve the country's material science, theoretically speaking, the overall scientific and technological level of the country can be greatly improved, and even weapons can be sharper.

In short, as long as there are materials of absolute purity, a series of objects that people dare not think of, such as room-temperature superconductors, perpetual motion machines, and super-strong alloys, will no longer be unattainable, but completely possible. The first one may not be of much concern, but the last sentence is one that speaks to the heart of the Imperial Government of Boston.

Now the Boston Empire is worried about the purification of semiconductor silicon for the production of transistors, and if it can be purified in weightlessness, it will be able to quickly break through this difficulty and create a transistor unique to the Chinese Empire. What's more, the government has always been distressed by the suppression of weapons performance by the Chinese Empire, and this news seems to give them hope of surpassing the Chinese Empire.

After hearing the news, the government immediately announced that government funds would be tilted towards aerospace scientific research, and the state treasury would go all out to invest in the aerospace industry, with a view to developing rockets into space more quickly.

Academies of science and technology have also submitted similar reports to various governments, so Feng Jingru's speech has set off a large investment and development of the aerospace industry within the scope of the whole world, of course, the popularity of aerospace is high, and investment in other areas, especially military scientific research investment, has naturally been greatly affected, which is also what Fang Xiaoyu is happy to see.

Unlike the brainless research of various countries, Fang Xiaoyu's spaceflight planning is carried out step by step. With the full investment of the China Foundation, rockets were launched almost every week from the four launch bases on the island, a large amount of material was transported to Huangyue, and the small bases were quickly built, and more than two dozen goblin astronauts were deployed there.

Goblins are not only excellent astronauts, but also excellent technicians, with sufficient equipment and raw materials to be transmitted, plus the 3D printing technology just invented by the China Foundation, the closed construction of the cave entrance is carried out quickly.

Since the gravity on the Yellow Moon is only one-tenth of that on Earth, the goblin astronauts have also become Hercules, they don't need equipment at all, as long as they are empty-handed, they can easily install the heavy metal skeleton in place, the skeleton of the hole closure was quickly built, and the rest is to use 3D printers to print metal plates of different shapes to completely seal the hole, leaving only three ten-meter square entrances and exits.