Chapter 258 Sir Tesla and Nuclear Engineering(1/2)
This is a great era when human technological progress suddenly accelerates. The cradle period of modern industry. All new technologies and modern industry that affect the 20th and 21st century appeared in this period. The Chinese Empire was lucky enough to seize this great era.
, make progress with it, and do your best to leap forward, becoming one of the pioneers of this era.
If the United States did not really suffer a heavy blow in the early days of the Great Depression in 1930 and 1931, then in 1932, the United States finally ushered in the biggest decline in history. In the previous two years, at least in the data, the United States' total economic output was not seen.
In the first quarter of 1932, the U.S. financial industry and industry ushered in the worst month. In March 1932, more than 3,000 banks in the United States went bankrupt, and the second round was larger and deeper.
The financial bankruptcy swept the entire United States. So far, 5,500 banks have been closed across the United States, more than 86,000 companies have gone bankrupt, and the industrial unemployed population alone has exceeded 15 million.
In the actual economic model, the data of housewives and service industry practitioners superimpose the scale of unemployment in the United States has reached an unprecedented level, which is something that has never happened in the entire American history.
Also in this year, China's total economic output completely surpassed the United States, and it is possible that the gap between the two countries' total economic output exceeded 20 that year.
The advantages and disadvantages of democratic countries are both debated. The best answer is actually right in front of you. To adopt it, you need a truly epoch-making leader. For the United States, this person is definitely not President Hoover.
In the United States, the Far East Consortium took the opportunity to merge the US Steel Company, merging Bethlehem and US Steel Company into a new US Steel Company. Although the merger was completed, the more American companies were merged by the entire US economic recession, the more American companies it merged in the Far East under the drag of the recession of the entire US economy, the more American companies it merged in the Far East Group
, the greater the financial pressure, the more losses you lose in the United States every day.
The reason why the Far East Consortium surpassed the Vanderbilt Consortium and the Morgan Consortium in 1932 to become the most powerful consortium in the United States is that the foundation of the Far East Consortium is in China, and China's economy is still in rapid growth.
In order to further expand domestic demand, the Empire passed the new Labor Protection Act Minimum Wage Reorganization Charter in March 1932, increasing the minimum wage for workers from 7 to 10 points. In the agricultural field, the Empire further adopted agricultural export subsidies.
Policies have promoted the universal growth of industrial and agricultural income.
In the field of foreign demand, the Empire provided more loans to Latin America, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and other countries, and supported these countries to adopt loose monetary policies. As a restriction, the Empire has also signed strategic mutual trading with major countries in South America one after another.
Agreement.
The empire always adopts a one-to-one approach, forcing the other party to sign an exclusive most-favored-nation trade agreement through credit support.
In the overseas provinces of China and France, the community market of the protection countries, the empire adopted a larger credit support quota and actively promoted the general internationalization of China.
This is a truly powerful and prosperous era.
The empire that broke through this watershed in 1930 has obviously become more abundant in talent and technology reserves, and the entire empire has gradually entered a new era. A new generation of young and middle-aged people have begun to become the new pillar of the empire, promoting the empire to continue to grow rapidly.
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In this process, the Empire's machinery exports to the Soviet Union also reached a higher level. Although this was a huge threat, for the Empire, even if the Empire did not sell mechanical machine tools, the Soviet Union could still purchase them from Britain, France, the United States and Germany.
Similarly, Japan finally cut military spending significantly in the short term, and more expenditures were spent on state-owned factories and infrastructure. Although Japan has been weaker than China in the long-term economic and trade war, as Asian countries began to get rid of the economic crisis around China,
Under the dual effect, Japan's industry also began to recover.
A new era that is no longer controlled by European and American powers is gradually coming.
By the end of 1932, the US economy inevitably experienced a more serious decline again. The gap between the total economic volume of China and the United States almost widened to an incredible scale of 30 in a year, but at this time, a
His Excellency Franklin Roosevelt, who can lead the United States out of the recession, is about to appear in the White House.
In this year, the total national output value of the Chinese Empire exceeded 150 billion yuan, the national fiscal revenue exceeded 28 billion yuan, the national infrastructure and fixed assets in the national fiscal, and the scale of scientific research investment reached 11 billion yuan, which is a very amazing
The total investment in Liujiaxia Hydropower Station is only 70 million yuan.
In 1933, the total amount of national finance used for infrastructure and fixed assets will continue to maintain this level, and foreign credit expenditure and national investment will surge from 2.7 billion yuan to 5.5 billion yuan.
This is a great era of accumulation and development.
After accumulating twenty years of wealth, the empire finally seized this unprecedented opportunity and expanded into the world's largest economy, accounting for 1/4 of the global GDP, and quickly became the second largest in the world.
The capital exporting countries, national gold and silver reserves have both jumped to the world's first place.
In addition to the Commonwealth, the Chinese Empire is the largest country with the largest territory, the richest resources and the largest population in the world, and the arable land area is also ranked first. This determines China's strength, even if it is just a basic mining industry like Australia and
Agriculture and animal husbandry, its economic scale, will remain in the top seven in the world.
Such a foundation is unique in the world. Even now it has developed into the empire with the largest economic output in the world. Its huge population, vast territory, rich resources and gradually improving national education level have ensured the broad development of the empire.
Space. For the empire, the development of the empire has just entered a youth and there is a broader space for growth in the future. This is exactly what Britain, the United States and other countries are most afraid of.
On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became the German Chancellor, which seemed to announce the establishment of Nazi Germany. Two months later, on March 4, 1933, Franklin Roosevelt officially became the President of the United States, and there seemed to be a kind of
Fixed number.
When these two big figures finally surfaced and appeared on the world political stage, Emperor Song was also thinking about a question, which was who should be the next Prime Minister of the Empire's cabinet.
This cabinet prime minister is very important. If there is no problem with all aspects of ability, morality and character, he will take office from 1936 and be re-elected for two terms, just in 1946, and it happens to be the one who happened to be in World War II.
A special prime minister who led the empire through difficulties.
This is the most important question.
In the past few years, Song Biao has selected many suitable candidates to continue to exercise. As for the current situation, there are four best candidates, namely Gu Weijun, Chen Qimei, Song Jiaoren, and Yang Zhaolin. In addition, Ouyang Xi
,Lu Mengxiong, Wang Zhaoming, Gu Deling, Zhu Guangtao, Cheng Hongshu, Zhang Xuanxu, and Liao Zhongkai are also suitable choices, but they are not the best choice.
1933 was the worst year of the Great Depression crisis. Shortly after signing the Westminster Act, Australia voluntarily banned several anti-Chinese laws formulated during the British Empire's colonial period. In order to deal with the crisis, Australia
With the right of the Commonwealth Dominant, he signed the "China-Australia Strategic Reciprocal Trade Treaty" with the Chinese Empire, and opened up the internal market to the imperial capital in an all-round way to attract investment in imperial capital and exports to China.
This is regarded as the first link of the British Empire's failure in its strategy of suppressing China.
Although there are complex ethnic minority issues such as **, Xinjiang, etc., as well as the widening gap between the rich and the poor, the management of the Yellow River, and the prevention of sand, these things are still within the control of the central cabinet government, and the United Kingdom
The economic crisis has reached the point where it has been forced to depreciate the pound significantly, and even worse things are still going on.
With Adolf Hitler, Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt all had become national leaders of various countries, World War II was actually not far from mankind.
At the same time, shortly after Adolf Hitler came to power, the Imperial Central Academy of Sciences and the Nuclear Physics Institute had completed the development of the first nuclear split reactor in China ahead of schedule.
At the end of the Lushan Summer Palace Conference in 1933, at the end of August, Emperor Song, accompanied by Zhang Jun, director of the Central Secret Service, secretly went to the China Nuclear Physics Research Institute in Hanzhong Prefecture for inspection.
Twenty years of special attention has allowed the Empire to continue to cultivate the world's largest number of nuclear physicists and chemists in the past few decades. In this field, the Empire has trained a total of three Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and two physics.
The winner of the scholarship award, in the absence of top talents, the Empire also hired more than 40 world-class scientists from Europe and the United States in the name of studying nuclear power and energy.
Of course, the most important person here is still the first-class Viscount Nikola Tesla.
According to the Empire's Imperial Tail Act passed in 1927, it was formally determined that the Imperial Tail was inexhaustible. Even so, there were still very few people who were truly awarded the title. Usually only military generals and scientists with outstanding contributions were awarded the title.
Among scientists, Sir Nikola Tesla is the only and highest-level first-class viscount, commending his outstanding contributions to the fields of China's power industry, electronics industry, information industry and nuclear physics research.
He almost completed the research on high-voltage power transmission, power generation and protection systems with his own strength. In the field of radio and wireless energy transmission, his research level is also the best in the world.
In his later years, he devoted most of his energy to the research of nuclear power energy and designed the main part of the nuclear split heavy water reactor and its cooling system. Of course, even he did not know the empire's nuclear weapons plan.
On the morning of August 27, 1933, Song Biao took a special plane to Xicheng County, Hanzhong Prefecture.
Hanzhong Prefecture belongs to the southern Shaanxi region of Shaanxi. Xicheng County is located in the middle reaches of the Han River. It has the largest Xicheng Yinghu Hydropower Station in southern Shaanxi, with an installed capacity of 600,000 KW. The China Institute of Nuclear Physics is located in Yinghu Town on the north side of the reservoir.
In order to find a flat land for long-term use in the continuous mountainous areas, more than ten short mountains were directly used to blast, and underground tunnels and secret air defense bases were everywhere in the surrounding mountainous areas.
The local Yinghu Hydropower Station, Xicheng Shimei Thermal Power Station and the surrounding Danjiangkou Hydropower Station have a large amount of residual electricity, which is used to perform heavy water chemical electrolysis in Yinghu Town and extract heavy water for the development of nuclear split reactors. It can still be from the northwest and southwest at any time.
Draw water conservancy and electricity.
Taking a plane to fly over the mountains, Song Biao looked down at the land of the mediocre country here, and many of the thoughts in his mind were history.
The ancients said that mediocre people disturb themselves, and many people would think that "mediocre people seek troubles by themselves". In fact, this is not the case. "Mutual people" refer to the mediocre country. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the ancient mediocre country took advantage of the famine of Chu to attack Chu, but was eventually killed by Chu.
The country was destroyed, and Shangyong County was established here in the Han Dynasty.
In recent years, Song Biao often uses the word "mediocre people disturb themselves" to describe Japan, so when he really flew over the ancient Yong Kingdom, he really had more feelings in his heart.
After the special plane arrived at Xicheng Airport, Song Biao got off the plane and saw Chen Qicai waiting here, as well as Lao Youzhang, the director of the Central Nuclear Corporation, and Sir Tesla, the chief engineer of the top-secret nuclear power project.
Sir Tesla has worked in China for twenty-five years, which is a very lucky thing for him, and a more lucky thing for China. Song Biao stepped forward and shook hands with Sir Tesla first.
Thank you for your great contribution to China's science and technology undertakings over the past decade.
As one of the greatest geniuses in the world, Sir Nikola Tesla contributed more than 400 technical patents to the human world during his 25 years in China, and it can also be said to be Chinese radar and synchronization.
The father of motors.
As for the research on the field of wireless energy transmission that Sir Tesla himself prefers, although the temporary industrial foundation determines that there is a lack of large-scale application value, the Empire still provides Tesla Institute of Physics with a long-term and stable funding of 4 million yuan per year.
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After shaking hands with Sir Tesla, Song Biao continued to shake hands with Lao Youzhang and Chen Qicai, thanking them for their hard work, which made the empire finally get what it wants to take the most critical step towards the nuclear power era.
It's here, just this month of the year, the Empire built a simulated nuclear power plant in Yinghu Reservoir. This is the first step taken by the human world in the field of nuclear industry. The next step, about five years later, the Empire will
An experimental station closer to a commercial nuclear power plant is built in the deserted and populated Lake Lakotobu in the Altai Mountains, because the surrounding area is full of the rare Gobi Deserts for hundreds of kilometers. If it fails, the impact will be relatively small.
Next, around 1945, the Empire will build the first commercially significant nuclear power plant in Hepu County, Guangxi. In the fourth national mining census, uranium mines have been listed as the most important survey key project for greater
Promotion of amplitude.
Before this, Yinghu Nuclear Power Station will be the only place to provide weapons-grade plutonium raw materials in the empire, and the main research work on nuclear weapons will continue to be carried out in Hanzhong County.
Through the long-term nuclear radiation impact test on organisms and plants, the empire has basically determined some of the terrible influencing factors brought by nuclear radiation. Naturally, it is more cautious and careful in the advancement of these plans, but the refining of weapon-grade plutonium is still very important.
The work must be maintained for a long time.
There is a small airport in Yinghu. Due to the limited runway length, the FD-9 that Song Biao was riding on could not land there. He did not intend to continue to transfer to a small cargo plane, so he took the bus directly along the rambling road to enter Yinghu Mountain Area.
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This is a mountain that stretches for hundreds of miles. In the era of reconnaissance satellites, it is almost impossible for you to believe that there will be people living here, and it is even more impossible for you to believe that there is a huge research base here.
Because there is a lack of vast land here, and the institute has many branches, and the environment is closed, ten kilometers away from the county town, and the need for confidentiality work, the entire institute was split into six pieces and scattered among the mountains and rivers.
, each other can only pass by cars. From here to the nearest Xicheng County, the best way to get there is to take a boat and go all the way from Hanshui.
To be continued...