Chapter 510: When the Mushroom Cloud Rises
To be honest, the main officers led by Zhu Zhaoxie felt that the imperial court seemed to have paid too much attention to this project that lasted for thirteen years.
Although they already know that those radioactive metals are capable of causing great damage to all kinds of living things.
At the same time, they already knew that the ultimate goal of the project was to make a special new bomb from these radioactive materials.
They knew that the power of such a bomb was very powerful.
But they couldn't imagine how powerful the new bomb could be.
For people who have not known and seen this weapon, in their natural understanding and imagination, the power of a special new type of bomb can be increased by an order of magnitude compared with the original ordinary bomb, which is already very terrifying.
That is, from one ton to ten tons, the overall increase is tenfold.
If it is only a power increase of this level, then the power of these radioactive elements and new bombs is not worthy of such a high level of protection and secrecy.
It is not that Daming has not studied things like poison gas bombs, and the relevant agencies did not mention the management system to this standard at that time.
When chemical explosives were made, of course, they also had the effect of being born, but there was no special army to manage them.
There was no separate traditional emperor's army that was independent of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies to be directly responsible.
It wasn't until they saw the explosion with their own eyes that they finally fully understood.
His Majesty's request is not excessive at all......
As soon as the commander pressed the button, a bright light lit up first.
Its brightness was so intense that the sun in the sky was almost suppressed by it.
Then, the test bench seemed to turn into an overturned steelmaking furnace, and the bright light was like a surging molten steel.
At the same time, a shock wave that was almost visible to the naked eye appeared from the center of the test bench and swept over the entire test site in an instant.
Everywhere the shockwave went, the entire land seemed to be brushed over.
Everything within a kilometer of the test bench was destroyed.
Almost all the buildings were shattered, and all the animals were burned to ashes.
Within a radius of two kilometers, all the brick houses were turned into building materials and flew directly into the sky.
Ordinary concrete houses have also largely collapsed, and only concrete bunker buildings that are thick enough to remain in a largely intact state.
At the same time, all combustibles were directly ignited, and all animals were turned into roasted meat.
The car was all wrecked and flew away along with the building materials.
Within three kilometers, some brick houses collapsed, all the glass and other appurtenances of the building were shattered, and most of the combustibles were ignited.
Horrific fires broke out in all simulated human living quarters, and all vehicles were burned.
Within six kilometers, there was still a noticeable sense of oscillation, and both vehicles and machinery were blown away.
Ten kilometers away, around the bunker, there was still a very terrifying wind, and a large number of electronic devices suddenly stopped working.
A harsh high-frequency signal is emitted from various monitoring and sound equipment.
In the process, a huge mushroom cloud has slowly risen into the sky.
Like a huge pillar, it towers between heaven and earth, forming a man-made natural wonder.
Zhu Zhaoxie and all the military personnel were in a state of stupor, looking at the scene of the explosion outside through the television screen and the observation window.
At this time, the first thought in their hearts, the immortal descending to earth is probably just this kind of power!
With something of this level, one can directly destroy a base, directly destroy a small city and a fortress.
The weapon that directly forcibly destroyed the city now really appeared in front of his eyes.
With this weapon, the Ming army was really completely invincible.
A plane hanging a bomb of this kind, hundreds or thousands of planes on the battlefield, can really directly destroy a country!
It is not to slowly conquer the major cities of a country, and then exaggerate it at the linguistic level as "destroying a country".
Now this is the physical, de facto destruction of a country.
This is no longer a force at the tactical level, it is enough to think separately, plan and use separately at the strategic level.
It's really worth building the army specifically, specifically managing and using them.
It would be terrible if it was through the activities of ordinary troops, because of corruption or accidentally falling on the black market of arms.
The relevant craftsmen on the scene, looking at the detection readings on various equipment, were also staring at each other for a long time.
The bomb, which weighed only two tons, exploded with the power equivalent of 20,000 tons of standard explosives.
The unit energy is directly increased by 10,000 times.
Moreover, even if 20,000 tons of chemical explosives were piled up and exploded, it would not be able to achieve this level of effect.
Because the energy density is not enough.
The volume of 20,000 tons of chemical explosives is less than the size of an atomic bomb.
Although they had expected this level of data before the actual experiment, they already had basically accurate calculations on the data.
But when the data comes to life, it's just as shocking.
After a long time, the on-site personnel slowly recovered and began to quickly summarize and organize the data report.
Re-debugging the communication equipment and reporting the successful results of the experiment to the emperor of Ying Tianfu.
In the palace of Yingtianfu New Town, Zhu Jingyuan received a special telegram and a few fax photos attached.
Zhu Jingyuan glanced at it a few times, confirmed the news, and asked the Military Aircraft Department to send back the telegram of congratulations.
Then he handed the telegram and fax of the report to his grandfather and father:
"The test explosion test has been successful, and the current explosion yield has been detected, which is about 20,000 tons, which is not much different from the original assessment......
Zhu Zhongliang pinched the photo, looked at the mushroom cloud above, and nodded vigorously one after another:
"Okay, good, good, great, I'll finally see you in my lifetime......
"With this thing, our Ming Dynasty is really invincible in the world.
"Our old Zhu family itself is really as stable as a rock."
Zhu Zhongliang is interested in fission and fusion weapons, of course, because of the enormous power they possess.
More critically, this tremendous power is able to produce a direct effect.
First of all, of course, is the explosive increase in the military power of the Ming Dynasty.
The armed forces of the Ming Dynasty are now leading the world in conventional weapons.
However, under the current level of technology, the enemy has a fight in the face of the Ming army.
Although the quantitative and qualitative gap between the two sides is huge, it is still essentially the same level.
Fission and fusion weapons, on the other hand, are strategic weapons that can increase the effectiveness of strikes to a new level.
In the future, Da Ming does not need to fight head-on, so that the enemy can directly lose the power to fight back.
Then, it is the meaning of these things to the Ming royal family.
The royal family is not the head of state in later generations, but a family of rulers in the open.
Regardless of the power of the royal family to control the country, more and more opposition and hatred will eventually accumulate.
If the Ming Emperor goes against the grain, if the Ming Dynasty really overthrows completely, the end of the royal family may be tragic.
Although this situation has been difficult to really appear.
As long as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is not a fool, he will not continue to fight and squeeze when he knows that he can't do anything.
Otherwise, you can choose to gradually retreat and slowly decentralize power into a symbol of honor.
However, there is no real guarantee for this so-called choice.
It cannot be taken for granted that all of his descendants can objectively retreat.
According to the experience of the two worlds, even in a country with a strong commercial atmosphere like England, there have been cases of cutting off the king's head.
Not to mention the old revolutionary districts of France and Lucia.
If you take another 10,000 steps back, the emperor has really succeeded in retreating and delegating power, how can the status of the emperor as a national symbol be guaranteed?
If the royal family had a small atomic bomb in their hands, the situation would have changed immediately.
At that time, even if the royal family was overthrown by rebellion and coup, they basically did not dare to do anything to the royal family.
Even if the emperor himself delegated power, it became a symbol of honor for the Ming Dynasty.
Then no matter his status on the surface, or the treatment he can actually enjoy, he should still be at the level of a true emperor.
The personal and property safety of the members of the royal family can also be guaranteed as high as possible.
The royal family is just a family, and to protect their status, they don't even need to get a fusion bomb out, as long as there is a fission bomb, it is enough.
Fission bombs can be made as small as possible, so that one person can carry them.
With the emperor's energy, he can store a group of real dead soldiers, and even choose to carry a suitcase with him.
So after Zhu Zhongliang got the news, he was very mentally satisfied.
Zhu Zhongliang knew his state, and it was estimated that it would be difficult to see a truly miniaturized fusion weapon.
But fission weapons have already been realized, and the future is already foreseeable.
Zhu Jianyan, who also served as an emperor, is also the current advocate of the royal family, and now he has similar ideas.
Zhu Jianyan swallowed his saliva, then looked around, there were only three of them at the scene, father and son, and then said to Zhu Jingyuan:
"This weapon...... It was really made, and the two-ton bomb burst out with 20,000 tons of energy......"
Zhu Jingyuan let out a long breath, nodded seriously and said with the same excitement:
"Yes, we have made it now, a new era has arrived!"
Then the scene was silent for a while, and Zhu Jianyan suddenly said in a confirmed manner:
"Fifteen years of good health now?"
Zhu Jingyuan was stunned for a moment, then nodded honestly and said:
"Indeed."
Zhu Zhongliang next to him smiled:
"It's true that it's still 15 years of good health, but it's not next year......"
These two sentences of dialogue between the two actually refer to the historical records in the future, and the atomic weapons of the Ming Dynasty will be successfully experimented in the Ankang era.
The era name of the Ming Dynasty can refer to the emperor himself, so people in later generations will remember that the atomic bomb of the Ming Dynasty was successful during Zhu Jianyan's reign.
In fact, it is true that the entire project was completed in the Ankang years, from the second year of Ankang to the fifteenth year of Ankang.
Daming will definitely continue to study fusion weapons in the future, and fusion weapons will definitely be completed in the next year, which corresponds to Zhu Jingyuan.
Then Zhu Jianyan wanted to speak and stopped, some things he wanted to say but didn't say them.
Theoretically speaking, according to the rules left by Emperor Shizu, Zhu Jingyuan has not yet passed the one-year "internship period".
The ancestor's testament has not yet been officially handed over to Zhu Jingyuan.
The Lord is only in Zhu Jingyuan's current state, which gives people the feeling that there is no need for the ancestors' relics at all.
He may even write a new little book to pass on to his future generations.
Zhu Jingyuan also tasted a little meaning from his grandfather's words:
"The new element project will continue to be carried out, and we will develop atomic fusion bombs on the basis of atomic fission energy bombs.
"Once successfully developed, the explosive yield of the new generation of fusion bombs can be increased by hundreds or thousands of times again......"
Zhu Jianyan said with emotion after hearing this:
"That's your Grand Duke's year......"
Zhu Zhongliang next to him also changed his mood:
"Let's get down to business, now that these weapons have been successful, how are you going to manage and use them?"
Of course, Zhu Jingyuan has a plan:
"The existing mineral development institutions, raw material refining and transportation institutions, technical research and production institutions have been gradually transformed into the Huangzhuang system.
That is, from the direct jurisdiction of the military, gradually to the jurisdiction of the manufacturer system, to maintain a relatively independent operation.
"The relevant military personnel shall be established in addition to the naval, army and air forces, and shall be responsible for the management and use of the produced atomic weapons.
"The management system, as it is now, is still directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor, and is directly funded by the imperial village and the imperial consortium.
"However, the vehicles responsible for the delivery of atomic weapons are still under the jurisdiction of the original three armed services.
"The planes that dropped the bombs, the vehicles that transported the bombs, and the ships that carried the bombs were all operated by the original personnel of the three armed services.
"The new army was only responsible for receiving orders from the emperor to hand over the bombs obtained from the production institutions to the three armies.
"The three armies were transported to the designated place at the appointed time in accordance with the emperor's order.
"In the end, the Forces nouvelles used their own system to detonate it.
That is, to achieve separate management of factories, guns, and ammunition, and to avoid any one branch of the military and organization from controlling the whole process.
"Without the cooperation of the manufacturers, neither the new army nor the three armed forces could get the bombs.
"Without the direct cooperation of the vehicle units of the three services, these bombs would not have been able to be delivered to the designated places.
"Without a special directive from the Forces nouvelles system, these bombs could not have been detonated."
Zhu Jianyan was a little surprised:
"The plan of the emperor's direct administration is appropriate, and this weapon must be in the hands of the imperial family.
"But the new forces are not directly assigned aircraft carriers, aircraft, submarines, vehicles, so that they can operate completely independently.
"Do you still want to continue to rely on the original tri-service vehicle system?"
Zhu Jingyuan explained his thoughts a little:
"Theoretically, those armies under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor may not really be under the control of the emperor at all times.
"There are too many things for the emperor, and theoretically there are too many institutions and personnel under the direct management of the emperor.
"A lot of things, except when it was just established, the emperor really cared about it all the time and maintained enough control.
"But as time went by, the emperor had other major priorities, and the original things were gradually let go.
"Actually, it's the people involved in that agency who are in charge of the day-to-day jurisdiction.
"If a separate branch of the military is established, it will have complete control over the production of atomic weapons to their delivery and detonation.
"Once the Emperor's actual control over this branch of the army is reduced, it will soon become a very dangerous thing.
"In the future, it may be relatively difficult for the emperor to take it over.
"So like other institutional designs, there is a pattern of mutual constraints from the beginning.
"Unless the entire military system betrays the royal family, these things will not become the opposite of the royal family."
Zhu Jianyan is also the emperor, and he already understood it at the beginning of Zhu Jingyuan.
After hearing what Zhu Jingyuan said, he nodded directly:
"Indeed, your plan is in line with the usual tradition, and although it will certainly reduce efficiency, this weapon does not want efficiency.
"As a strategic deterrent, it is also a relatively reasonable arrangement to prevent any agency from easily using it."
"If it's just to protect the royal family, as long as there are a handful of fission weapons.
"The Imperial Village and the Imperial Manufacturers, who are in charge of production, will leave behind more or less finished products and dangerous raw materials.
"The emperor can also directly extract a very small amount of warheads at any time and put them in the hands of places and people who can directly control them at any time.
"Even the emperor himself carried it directly.
"It is enough to have such a small number of weapons as a deterrent to the royal family.
"As long as we have these things in our hands, even if the domestic situation is completely overturned, the rebels will not dare to kill the royal family."
Zhu Jingyuan didn't think in this direction right away, Zhu Jingyuan was thinking more about the usefulness of the national level.
Now listening to Daddy's introduction, I immediately understand the effect of this thing on the members of the royal family.
Zhu Jingyuan immediately recalled that in his previous life, he completely controlled the orthodox royal family of a country, and at the same time he also had the ...... of fission weapons
It doesn't seem to exist at all......
(End of chapter)