Chapter 534: Space Test Field (Part I)
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At a time when tensions in Europe are on the verge of breaking out, China is farming at home with peace of mind.
This is also a very normal thing, China has made unprecedented achievements under the efforts of Wen Dehei, and now it has truly become the world's number one industrial country, with industrial production capacity accounting for about 40% of the world, which is still a situation where many small and medium-sized private enterprises do not include statistics.
The most important thing is that China now has an international environment that is beyond the reach of time and space, and its current neighbors are either allies or countries that do not pose a threat. For example, the former old enemy Japan was blown up, not to mention, but also played an export revolution, successfully changed its color, and became its own little brother, and the new Japanese government is now ready to move to Africa because it has a more promising African territory. The part of Asia that remains will only develop agriculture and tourism, and will no longer pose any threat to China. For China, Japan has completely changed from a vicious dog that will go crazy from time to time to a well-behaved pug.
The only threat that can be talked about is the Soviet Union, but the red woolly bear has a white hairy bear beside it, not to mention that with the current state of affairs, even if the red hairy bear drinks vodka, he will not be stupid to come to China to make trouble.
Although the Third International and the People's Revolutionary Union often exchanged words and accused each other of heresy. Well, in the socialist camp, heresy is not called "heresy", but "revisionism". Although there are constant verbal cannons on both sides, they are limited to mouth cannons, and Wen Desi and Stalin are not middle two, so naturally they will not have to fight each other for the so-called theoretical problems. Wen Deji will not, and Stalin will not.
China has developed to the present, just like a giant beast in the wilderness, no one with a normal IQ will provoke such an opponent, the tiger's butt is still not touchable, and it dares to swatt flies on the head of the giant beast? Looking for death? What's more, the situation around the red-haired bear is not good, and there are enemies all around, if Stalin really makes a mistake with China, then I don't know how many people will wake up laughing when they fall asleep.
Who was Stalin? This is one of the best people in Russian history, and he would never have made such a mistake.
Since the surrounding situation is so good, then China's attitude is obvious, and it is natural to farm at home with peace of mind. As for the outside affairs, as long as you don't mess with Lao Tzu, I don't care if your brains are beaten into dog brains, and I'm not an internationalist, so I don't care about my business?
What do you say, what are those humanitarian relief supplies? Ahem, didn't you say everything, that's just the minimum humanitarian care.
Well, now the foreign powers seem to see that China is the kind of virtue that guards the boss, the kind that stays in the nest and doesn't go out, as long as you don't mess with him, just treat him as if he doesn't exist. Of course, this impression is also painstakingly created by Wen Desi over the years, and China's propaganda departments, film and television circles, and major media have all intentionally or unintentionally created this kind of information under his intervention, whether it is true or false, anyway, it has been brainwashed and bombarded by the outside world.
Anyway, all kinds of film and television dramas, novels, animations, card games, and video games produced in China in recent years have repeatedly instilled such a concept in the outside world: "Our China is super home, which is caused by historical and cultural traditions and national traditional habits, and is deeply rooted! We are a restrained nation, and we have always loved peace! We have never invaded others! We have never been able to defend ourselves and fight back!"
Of course, this kind of talk can fool the ordinary people, but there are still smart people, and these people are not easy to fool. They will certainly ask: "You say that you love peace and never invade, but how did you get such a large territory? ”
Here's how the Chinese side replied: Ahem, don't you know that you use virtue to convince people? We are using virtue to convince people, yes, we are to convince people with virtue. Our family's territory is all about convincing people with virtue, and if we influence others, we will automatically give it to us. There is also a situation where others come to bully us, and we fight back in self-defense and fly his car, and their territory will of course be used as compensation. You say, "Isn't that the truth?"
Hey, it's a similar message anyway, desperately instilling it in foreigners, whether they believe it or not, they can fool one by one anyway.
As for why Wen Deji did this? It's not so that they can open their minds without distractions. If you know that there is an aggressive big guy sipping melon seeds on the side to watch the excitement, I'm afraid no one will really fight, and even if it does, it will save some strength.
As for the effect of this information, of course, it can't fool smart people, but in this world, smart people are a minority after all. Besides, Wen Deji is not prepared to fool everyone, as long as he fools the majority and makes the majority of foreigners form this opinion, then it will be considered a success. Because if the majority of people in a country approve of one thing, then even if a few people do not approve of it, it will not change the overall situation, unless he can do what he says, and there are few such people throughout history. At least for now, this deception plan is still very successful, at least most foreigners believe it, so it has a direct impact on their foreign policy.
Of course, just this kind of flickering in public opinion is not enough, Wen Deji also used a lot of shadows that had been buried before, openly and secretly to high-ranking officials and bigwigs in various countries, The powerful and powerful exerted their influence and came up with a lot of true and false information, making them believe that China is currently busy digesting new territories and making up for the backward places in the past, such as infrastructure construction or something, anyway, China will not easily intervene in external conflicts, they are like the British Empire after the Boer War, they have already exhausted themselves and can no longer take care of the outside world.
So now there is a hot atmosphere among European countries.
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On January 1, Republic 2780 (1939), Tiangong-1 space station.
With the development of science and technology, when the earth has become a global village, it is time to move towards the sea of stars.
Wen Deji is from the 23rd century, he originally came from this era of stars and seas, and his yearning for this era is naturally the strongest. Therefore, at present, China's farming is mainly divided into two parts, one is to continue to lay the foundation on the earth. The other part is the space business.
Under the leadership of Wen Desi, China, the original plane, preemptively occupied the commanding heights of the sea of stars. Completed the "bridge to the sky", that is, the mass projector, which appeared on Earth very late in the original space-time. With this bridge, the cost of space development is greatly reduced, and the progress of development can far exceed the level of the original time and space, because this starting point is very high, and there is no need to start with the rocket step by step.
The construction of the bridge itself has not received much attention from abroad. First, this is a secret project, and although the amount of work is very large, the main body of this project is mainly carried out more than 100 meters underground. Second, China has been carrying out all kinds of large-scale infrastructure construction, and the manpower, material resources, and resource mobilization required for this project itself have been overshadowed by the multitude of projects, and have become inconspicuous.
After the completion of the whole system of the bridge, Wen Deji began to conduct space research and experiments in a big way. It includes human life in space, space agriculture, space industrial manufacturing, space mining and metallurgy, space chemical industry, etc., and its progress is very fast. Because relying on this open-and-hanging bridge, China can launch new modules for experiments at a very low cost at any time whenever needed, and even dock with Tiangong-1 and assemble them together to become part of the permanent space station. Therefore, the size of Tiangong-1 is not fixed, but gradually growing.
In contrast to this, the Chinese military, naturally, will not let go of such a good tool. So he immediately used the bridge to start the development and research of space forces - of course, there was a cost, and Wen Deji doubled the cost as the freight and ticket price according to the original plan. But even so, such a transportation cost is only 1/200 of the previous rocket, and considering the low launch acceleration and easy maintenance conditions, the instrument specifications and astronaut training can be lowered, greatly reducing the production and manufacturing costs, and the overall cost is reduced to about 1/400 of the rocket. In addition, compared with the maximum size and weight of satellites launched by rockets, which can only be made of 20 tons, and there are strict volume and weight restrictions, the Tongtianqiao can now project a giant satellite weighing 660 tons at a time (and the protective shell has 60 tons), and it can also be manned, so the Chinese military is eager to do this.
In the initial stage of China's aerospace industry, the Chinese military tasted the sweetness of satellites, so many staff officers and experts of the General Staff Department became excited and came up with many, many brain-opening plans.
For example, it is a global positioning system (GPS) in which a total of 24~32 large, high-orbit satellites transmit navigation signals for the navigation of troops, and a more ambitious and unrealistic project, that is, a group of 48 orbital combat platforms equipped with various reconnaissance systems and weapons to the upper layer of the low-orbit orbit for the purpose of global monitoring and strikes on the ground. That's right, that is, the Chinese version of the "Star Wars program".
If it were in the 23rd century, or even earlier, in the late 21st century, these options would work. But the time they proposed was in the twenties, twenties, because it was very important, so they said it twice. At that time, China was indeed able to launch satellites, but the brainstorming plans they came up with were too exaggerated, not that they could not do it at all, but that the cost would scare people to death.
Anyway, after they handed over the budgets of these programs to the Finance and Finance Federation, Chairman Liu Yangliu saw that he was not scared to death with his knowledge, but he was about to be angry. Chairman Liu went straight away, and he almost didn't rush to the General Staff to cut people. Later, Chairman Liu released his words, if the turtle eggs of the General Staff of Nai dare to hand over such a brain-opening and bullshit thing to tease Lao Tzu, don't want the military budget for the next year!
These solutions are too expensive and too much to be realistic, and some of them are close to the level of fantasy and delusion. However, the completion of the bridge made these delusions a reality. As a result, many "brain hole plans" that were originally only in the planning stage and could not be implemented due to budget and technical conditions have been re-proposed.
For example, it is indeed very difficult, and even delusional, to try to cram an effective weapon into a space with a diameter of 5 meters, a length of 12 meters, and a load of only 20 tons, but it is very simple to stuff it into a space with a diameter of 12 meters, a length of 66 meters, and a load of 720 tons.
In addition, after three months of operation of Tiangong-1, the task force found that because the track structure is too large and heavy, it falls quite seriously at an altitude of about 380~400 kilometers, and the track will fall down 2~3 kilometers in a month, and it is necessary to use the engine to push the lifting track from time to time. After everyone studied it, it was decided to raise the orbit of Tiangong-1 to a higher height. Therefore, after spending two days to send six sets of large engines and fuel tanks, Tiangong-1 carried out the operation of lifting the orbit, spending more than 1,000 tons of fuel to lift the orbit of Tiangong-1 to an altitude of 1,000 kilometers. The atmospheric drag and orbit descent at this altitude are much reduced, and there will be no more frequent falls.
Moreover, this distance will not affect the transshipment business of the bridge too much, and at the same time, after the distance is several times longer, the chance of being observed by the ground is also reduced a lot, and the concealment is increased. In fact, there is no need to worry too much at all, at this distance, even if you are seen, you can't see clearly that this is a magic thing.
Beginning in April 1938, China began testing the production of various products on Tiangong-1, as well as small-scale trial production of products.
For example, the simplest ball bearing production. According to the three-month experimental production confirmation, the bearing balls produced by the orbital gravity factory at a very low cost and at a very high speed are very high, far from being comparable to the ground products. What's more, the factory can easily control the size of the balls produced by controlling the amount of molten metal released, and there is no longer a need to design grinding machines according to different sizes of balls, only a set of solar furnaces to dissolve metal and several sets of metal droppers. Because the structure is very simple, the relevant machinery and tools were quickly designed, packed in a standard warehouse and hit on the track to become the No. 1 track bearing factory, and later successively hit several warehouses to form a track factory group.
The orbital altitude of this plant complex is arranged at 1,200 kilometers, which is higher than that of Tiangong-1. The reason for not being with Tiangong-1 is to avoid the impact of the vibration generated by the spacecraft or crane berthed at Tiangong-1 when docking with the cargo hold. And this orbital factory became the first set of space industries that could generate profits. As for the high-precision balls produced, they are transported to Tiangong-1 by a traffic spacecraft (return-type cargo crane), and then packed and returned to the ground by return-type cargo crane and passenger crane, and first supplied to the military industry to meet the manufacturing needs of its engines and other equipment.