In the first quarter of '57, a series of disturbing events took place.

First, the old rivals of the U.S. Air Force and the Luftwaffe opened fire on each other over Baffin Bay and fought to a draw, with many planes on both sides wounded, but miraculously all the planes returned to base along the way.

Immediately afterwards, the patrol boats of the Royal Canadian Navy and the Greenland patrol boat detachment of Denmark exchanged water cannon fire, and then the two sides also expelled each other's fishing boats and arrested some fishermen and so on.

At the same time as these events were happening, the fleets of the two military alliances were facing off in the North Atlantic, with the fleets of the Alliance for Human Innovation relying on shore-based air forces, and the fleets of the United States and Britain forming around their own aircraft carriers.

So at the end of the first quarter of '57, the famous American talk show host Stuart sighed: "I'm so glad that the world is still running well when the sunshine arrives in April." ”

In fact, the Americans have been beaten by World War II and the Persian Gulf War, and MacArthur, a hawk, has been old-fashioned, so the United States is relatively conservative in the Greenland crisis. There is no shortage of people in the US Congress and the military who are calling for troops to occupy Greenland by force, but they have not been able to form a joint force at the moment -- after all, no one is subordinate to the other, and they have not decided who will be the boss, so of course there can be no joint force with the outside world.

If MacArthur is here, then with the boss's hawks, it is estimated that they will be able to make a stronger voice, and maybe the US military will attack Greenland.

But now, the U.S. government has been squabbling over whether to take military action against Greenland. There is an opinion within the United States Government that small forces should be sent to attack Greenland and to steal and destroy material-related equipment and materials. But Greenland was garrisoned by a German goddess, and it is doubtful how successful such an operation would be. Although it is more difficult for Shenji to deal with such small-scale infiltration troops, because no matter how strong Shenji is, there is no way to exert it if he does not know where the enemy is, but the deterrent effect generated by Shenji's existence is enough to limit the movement of these small forces.

After all, the single combat power of Shenji is relatively rebellious, and if it happens to be bumped into by Shenji, the small force that infiltrates it will basically have to be donated.

It is still a trivial matter to donate a team of elites in vain, and it is a big deal to be caught by someone to guide the passivity of the entire international situation.

After several months of debate, the United States decided to go along with its original policy of sending observers to Greenland and, if possible, for some of the rights to exploit Element Zero.

For this reason, the United States has prepared quid pro quo conditions for Germany, including stopping support for India's sovereignty claim to Tibet, no longer restricting South American countries from purchasing German weapons and equipment, and so on.

These conditions are not bad, such as the clause of stopping the pressure on South American countries, it is estimated that Lin Youde will bring billions of German marks in orders - this is the 50s, billions of German marks or dollars are shocking huge amounts.

Moreover, the United States is also ready to pay for the mined element zero, and is also ready to be slaughtered by Germany.

However, this decision was blocked in the Diet, and the Democratic Party, which is currently in opposition, stirred up trouble in the Parliament, accusing the government of being too cowardly and licking the Germans on their knees. The mouthpiece of the Democratic Party accused the newly re-elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower of being Germany's henchman, Lin Youde's little brother, and drew cartoons to satirize it.

The solution that was finally unified with internal opinions was categorically rejected on the German side, and Germany's attitude was very tough, and the zero element is mine, you don't want it at all. In the midst of such fruitless diplomatic squabbles, the Germans themselves silently mined Element Zero for four or five months, and sent it back to the European continent one by one.

The Americans had no choice but to find the French, because France had obtained a certain quota of element zero from Germany to meet the demand for element zero in France, and the Americans were ready to buy element zero from the French to meet their own needs.

The French agreed very quickly, in fact, the French demand for element zero is not high, element zero is now mainly used in the new alchemy industry, and now in the entire European continent, only Germany has a complete new type of alchemy industry, the French get element zero for research, the amount is not too much, selling to the Americans is a good deal in the eyes of the French.

So in the second quarter of 1957, the United States finally bought back a shipload of Element Zero from the French at a sky-high price.

When the Americans bought the third ship of Element Zero, Lin Youde finally agreed that the Americans would send observers to Greenland to ensure that scientific practice in Greenland was not a military operation against the United States. However, observers from the United States are not allowed to enter the core of research facilities in Germany.

This seems to be a concession, but in fact it is not painful, but the Americans still sent an observer group composed of their best personnel, and the meaning is very obvious, that is, to steal German technology.

But Lin Youde, who had already been arranged, would certainly not be so lightly defeated by them, so Greenland once again became the focus of the spy war between the two sides.

After all, Greenland is not Germany, there are still many people among the locals who can be bought, American spies feel that they have a lot of room to play, and the German side is very confident in the loyalty of its facility staff in Greenland, coupled with the close monitoring of the Fox's social welfare foundation and Germany's own secret service in Greenland, Lin Youde has full confidence that he can keep his secrets.

Of course, the best way to keep it a secret is to transfer it from Greenland back to mainland Germany.

Lin Youde did just that, and he ordered Sophie, who had already mastered the production of new superconducting materials in a certain process, to transfer all the personnel and materials related to the real yàn to Germany, while Sophie continued to stay in Greenland to confuse the Americans.

Sophie's series of real-life alloys have produced a fair amount of Sophie-A superconducting alloys, and these alloys have driven Lin Youde's applied physicists crazy, and almost all of them have come to apply to use this alloy to make what they need when they hear that there is an alloy in existence.

But Lin Youde ordered that all alloys be used to make tokamak devices.

Tokamaks can not only be manufactured with superconducting materials, but in order to make the device run smoothly, it requires considerable strength in various cutting-edge fields such as electromagnetism and automatic control, but correspondingly, if we go all out to study tokamaks, it can also effectively drive the progress of scientific research in other fields that are needed.

Lin Youde also ordered his scientists to continue to study the production of superconducting materials in accordance with the results already obtained by Sophie.

By June 1957, the Greenland crisis had been officially resolved, and the Americans had received a fairly acceptable result, and Lin Youde did not have any resentment about this result -- as predicted, he received arms orders from South American countries in June of that year, and the Americans' actions in the Persian Gulf were somewhat curtailed.

In September 1957, even Sophie was evacuated from Greenland, and the Americans felt that the taste was wrong, and they seemed to have been trapped.

But Eisenhower and his aides will never admit this, regardless of whether they have been cheated or not, the Eisenhower administration has indeed planted its own eyes on the enemy's key research institutions, so after weighing it, the Democratic Party feels that it is easy to be used by the other side to force it to be trapped, and the result is that the American political arena is pretending to be confused and not talking about the Greenland crisis.

In October 1957, Lin Youde launched a manned spacecraft again, this time with a docking hatch and a special independent return capsule. The first is to test the return capsule disengagement system, which will be used by the lunar spacecraft in the future, and the second is to prepare for the next docking operation.

It is expected that the spacecraft for the next launch mission will dock with the spacecraft remaining in orbit to test the docking related systems.

Docking in space is a very complex process, and if it is operated entirely by hand, it is very demanding for the operator and easy to fail due to human error. Of course, if Shenji is used to operate the docking, it is much less dangerous, but the aerospace industry cannot always rely on Shenji.

The return mission went very smoothly, and this time the German space control center accurately predicted the place where the spacecraft's return capsule fell, and only two warships were recovered in the Mediterranean.

At the end of the mission, Dr. von Kármán personally applied to Lin Youde to give his student Qian Xuesen a commendation.

Lin Youde heroically gave Qian Xuesen the highest honor he could award.

After the training ceremony, Qian Xuesen, who was much younger than another time and space, found Lin Youde.

"Mr. Lin, I have some questions and would like to consult your opinion."

"You want to go back to China, right?"

Lin Youde said sharply.

The Great Scientist of the other plane scratched his head and smiled a little shyly.

"Young man," Lin Youde patted him on the shoulder, "I have a lot of outstanding scientific talents here, although you are one of the top among them, it will be a pity for me to leave, but the progress of my scientific research will not be slowed down a lot, if you want to return to China to help develop your own space science in China, I support your decision." ”

"Really?"

"Of course it's true, I'm going to have a farewell party to see you off. After returning to China, I will work hard, there is still a blank in the aerospace field in China, but I think that in the future, aerospace will develop in the direction of internationalization, and as long as I am alive, China will not have to worry about suffering losses in aerospace, which I can guarantee you. ”

The future great scientist thought about it and finally made his own decision: "You are a man of great talent, I know that you stay in Europe because it is easier to realize your great talent here, and I am a mortal, I don't have that big ambition, I just want to return to China to serve the motherland." ”

"Good." Lin Youde patted him on the shoulder.

(Although the fifth is a little late, the fifth watch is still out, so it's not too much to ask for a monthly pass, right?) By the way, let me shout LGD! LGD！ Win C9 win is fantastic)