Chapter 216: The Discovery of Nuclear Fission
(Dingtian Novel Ju.dtxsj.) It is not only the military industry that has achieved leapfrog development, but also the civilian industry, agriculture and transportation in the Soviet region have also made many major achievements, not only the basic industrial system has gradually become complete, the production capacity has also increased rapidly, and the farmland and water conservancy infrastructure construction that is very important to Henan, a province with a high incidence of floods and droughts, is a thousand miles, according to the current progress, the grain-producing areas can achieve 100% irrigated arable land from 39 years ago, and completely bid farewell to the history of the harvest that depends on the eyes of God, coupled with the rapid increase in the production capacity of chemical fertilizers in the border areas. The cadres and masses in the Central Plains Border Region have full confidence in continuing to maintain the status of the largest granary in the liberated areas. (Souduwo.) However, Hu Weidong knew in his heart that Xinjiang was vast and sparsely populated, and the Construction Corps made this suggestion to Wang Zhen by popularizing the "drip irrigation" handed down by his ancestors (Hu Weidong made this suggestion to Wang Zhen when he returned to China after his visit to the Soviet Union. ), which has greatly alleviated the weakness of water scarcity in Xinjiang and more than doubled the area of arable wasteland. In addition, the northeast region, which has greater potential, will have to be recovered sooner or later, and compared with Henan, the population of this province is too large, and the status of the number one "granary" will not be maintained sooner or later
Although Hu Weidong was forced to temporarily abandon the construction of most of the railways due to the large shortage of steel, he still tried to squeeze out manpower and materials to build the two short-distance railways Luoyang-Xin'an (coal and iron) and Luoyang-Nanyang (oil). The construction of highways is even more rapid, and the government of the border region "wants to get rich, so build roads first." In 1938, the Central Plains border area has realized the village access road (dirt roads can be available, but the standard for passing is that 4-ton trucks can be driven in fine weather. ) and blackening of county-level roads (cement roads are also OK). This will naturally be of great benefit to the development of industry and agriculture in the border areas
During this period, the scientific and technological personnel of the Central Plains Border Region did not disappoint Hu Weidong's hopes, and made a number of scientific and technological achievements ahead of Shijie, among which the three major fields of geology, medicine and electromechanical were the most fruitful. The results of geology can be understood just by looking at the Soviet aid project, if those big mines had not been found, there would not have been a corresponding Soviet aid project. In terms of medicine, the first is to achieve 100% domestic production of all vitamins, hormone drugs, commonly used medical devices (such as X-ray machines) and mass production of medical materials such as medical alcohol and normal saline. Then there is the continued optimization of penicillin strains and the continuous improvement of the production process, but the greater significance is that in mid-1938, the research group led by Huang Minglong successfully synthesized Chapter 216 in the laboratory, which saved a lot of time, but if this mess formed a tradition, it would leave a great hidden danger for the development of pharmacy in post-New China. Therefore, Hu Weidong knew the general characteristics of those drugs, but he still asked Huang Minglong to go through the formal and rigorous process of new drugs, so as to try to eliminate the "residual poison" left by the direct arrival of penicillin and the direct interference of administrative power in scientific research
However, to say that the biggest achievement is actually the research on electromechanicals. Including generators, motors, power transmission and transformation lines, radios and even electronic jishu, among which the successful development of transistors made the development of electronic computers possible (the power consumption of transistor computers is much smaller than that of tube computers, and the Central Plains border area can afford it. ), which has a great value that goes far beyond its original value.
In just one and a half years, China's mechanical and electrical industry has reached the advanced level of shijie. Of course, this is thanks to the guidance of Tesla, an old monster, and the correct direction pointed out by Hu Weidong, a traverser, but the rapid growth of a group of young electromechanical experts represented by Cheng Mingsheng, Zhi Bingyi and others is even more indispensable, and Shu Xingbei, a veteran scientist who has gradually become modest and cautious after Tesla came to China, has also made far greater outstanding contributions than his previous achievements combined in this year or so...,
In addition, to Hu Weidong's surprise and surprise, Wu Chien-shiung discovered and confirmed the self-splitting phenomenon of uranium-235 before Hahn and Meitner without his prompting. Subsequently, Qian Sanqiang, who had already discovered that the atomic bomb of uranium-235 would split under the bombardment of slow neutrons, gave birth to the idea of a "chain reaction", which was quickly confirmed through experiments. But at this time, there was a fierce dispute between the two, because they both realized that according to this principle, they could be used to make a terrible bomb with unimaginable power, Wu Chien-shiung did not want his research results to be used in the war, so he planned not to disclose this result for the time being, while Qian Sanqiang also advocated not making it public, but his idea was very different from Wu Chien-shiung, he was just worried that if the powers, including Ben, knew about this achievement, they would have built this terrible weapon earlier than China, and Wu Chien-shiung's "naïve idea" He wouldn't have it, "If you can really make this kind of weapon, a few of them will blow the devil back to its original source, then it would be good!" ”
After Hu Weidong returned to China, he praised the two for their qualified sense of confidentiality, but the argument between the two caused him to think deeply. Originally, Hu Weidong planned to let Wu Chien-shiung preside over the research of nuclear weapons, but now that he seems to have taken it for granted, no matter how difficult it is for a woman to convince the public even if she has strong leadership, people themselves may not be willing to take on this burden. Although Qian Sanqiang came to the border region later, his attitude was much more upright than Wu Chien-hsiung, and for the person in charge of strategic science and technology projects, political correctness is crucial, after all, the border region is no better than the United States, and it can rely solely on material stimulation to make those scientists who actually hate the United States in their hearts work for them obediently. And after learning about the results of the scientific research team that the two of them were responsible for during his time abroad, Hu Weidong was pleasantly surprised to find that although Qian Sanqiang was a little younger, he had a better overall view than Wu Jianxiong, and his organizational leadership ability was not bad at all. Compared with Qian Sanqiang, it is obviously a little biased (you are welcome to come to your support, which is my biggest motivation.) )