In early October of the fifteenth year of Ankang in the Ming Dynasty, a special fleet from Xintianfu of the Ming Dynasty crossed the Ming Dynasty and arrived in the Tiannan region.
The Tiannan domain of the Ming Dynasty consists of three parts: the Outer Nanyang Islands, the Tiannan Islands, and the Tiannan Continent.
"Outer Nanyang Islands" is relative to the Inner Nanyang Islands. This concept was formed when the administrative division reform of the Ming Dynasty established large regions.
The Inner Nanyang Islands refer to the Nanyang islands across the sea from the mainland of the Ming Dynasty.
Including Luzon, which is the Philippine Islands, Old Port, which is Sumatra Island, Borneo, which is Kalimantan Island, and the surrounding small islands.
The Outer Nanyang Islands are mainly Java Island, Timor Island, Sulawesi Island, Spice Islands, New Guinea Island and its affiliated islands.
The islands were divided into three provinces after the Great Domain Reform.
The islands of Java and Timor, as well as a string of small islands in between, are governed by the Province of Java.
The Sansi Yamen of Java Province was not placed in Coconut City, the largest city in the area, but on the island of Bali in the middle of the entire region.
Because the location of Coconut City is too remote compared to the entire province.
Although the city size of Bali is not as large as Coconut City, the island itself is also a relatively mature area that was developed earlier.
Sulawesi, the Spice Islands and nearby islands are under the jurisdiction of Xiang Island Province.
For a long time in the past, the island of New Guinea did not have a formal official name within the Ming system.
The agency responsible for exploration and mapping temporarily named Dongdashima Island.
Because it is the largest island in the Nanyang Islands and the second largest island in the world. It is also located in the easternmost part of the entire Nanyang Islands.
Dongda Island is basically covered with tropical rain forests, and the population is sparse and almost pure savages.
Private merchants in the Ming Dynasty rarely came to this island to develop rubber gardens, and they were mainly concentrated in Old Port, Borneo and other places.
The residents of Dongda Island are relatively rare to begin with, and they are a mixture of Tiannan natives and Austronesian people, and are very close to the Mozhou people in blood.
Within the Ming Dynasty's management system, anyone with Mohist ancestry is a Mohist.
Therefore, in the process of migrating the Tiannan indigenous people, a large number of indigenous people who could be managed in the coastal area of Dongda Island were also sent away.
As for the savages in the inland areas of the island, they really can't be controlled.
When the territory was established, the name of Dongda Island was officially determined. Dongda Island plus the surrounding small islands were established to govern Dongdao Province.
The original meaning of the Tiannan Islands is the many islands in the Tiannan region, including the islands in the Southern Ocean other than the Southern Ocean Islands.
Mainly including later New Zealand, Tasmania, Solomon Islands, New Britain Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Samoa, etc.
This area was divided into two imperial villages and one province.
In later generations, New Zealand is now called Baiyun Islands, which is Baiyun Huangzhuang, and Tasmania is now called Nantian Island, which is Nantianfu Huangzhuang.
Apart from this, all Nanyang Islands are under the jurisdiction of an Archipelago Province.
Tiannan continent is the Australian continent in later generations, so named because it is completely south of the equator.
There are three provinces in the administrative division, Shuofang, Langya, and Kuaiji, all of which are ancient place names native to China.
Take the Fengtian Hall of the Forbidden City in Shuntian Prefecture as the prime meridian, which is the zero-degree longitude.
To the west of the central part of Tiannan Continent, to the west of the 13th meridian east, is Shuofang Province.
It was approximately between 139 degrees and 140 degrees east longitude in later generations, slightly larger than the scope of Western Australia in later Tu'ao.
To the east of the 13th longitude of Tokyo and to the north of the 30th latitude south is Langya Province.
Including the Northern Territory and Queensland, which later became Tu'ao, plus the northern parts of New South Wales and South Australia.
South of 30 degrees south latitude is Kuaiji Province.
Including the northern regions of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia in later Tu'ao.
The vast deserts in the interior of Australia are basically allocated to Langya and Shuofang.
The jurisdiction of Kuaiji Province is basically the humid zone and grassland area in the southeast.
The entire Tiannan region has a total area of more than nine million square kilometers, but its total population is less than 20 million people.
The 20 million people are relatively concentrated in two places.
One is Java Island and several nearby small islands, with a total population of nearly 8 million.
This is the earliest developed area in the Nanyang Islands. There is also fertile land covered with thick volcanic ash on Java Island.
The Sunda Strait between Java Island and Old Port is also the busiest waterway in Southeast Asia after the Strait of Malacca.
The island of Java has developed agriculture, industry and commerce, so it is natural that it has a large population.
Another place is Kuaiji Province in the southeast of Tiannan Continent, with a total population of nearly four million.
It is the area with the best environment in the entire Tiannan Continent and is most suitable for human life and the development of agriculture and animal husbandry.
Java and Accountant provinces account for two-thirds of the population of the entire region.
Among the seven provinces in the Tiannan region, only two provinces, Java and Kuaiji, had lower-level yamen that were barely complete.
Below the province there are prefectures, below the prefectures there are counties, and below the counties there are towns and streets.
Of course, the number of government offices is not large.
Because although these two provinces have the largest population in the Tiannan region, their combined total is only 12 million.
If you put it in the Ming Dynasty, it would be three or four prefectures.
The other five provinces do not have normal prefectures and counties. The provincial chief envoys and yamen are all Zhili prefectures.
The area of these Zhili prefectures is still very large, and there may not necessarily be counties under Zhili prefectures, they may be directly townships.
In these vast and sparsely populated provinces, Zhili Prefecture's status was similar to that of "regions" in later generations.
Zhili Prefecture itself is directly under the Chief Envoy Si Yamen, and at the same time it directly governs the local people, which is equivalent to merging the prefecture and county Yamen.
In other words, the other five provinces are actually two-level administrative divisions.
The fleet from Xintianfu approached the coastline of Kuaiji Province, but did not stop at Aozhoufu, the largest port in the southeast.
Instead, after simply replenishing supplies, they continued sailing southwest along the coastline.
Around the southeast corner of Tiannan Continent, we sailed into Tiannan Bay in the southern part of Tiannan Continent, which was later known as Spencer Bay in Australia.
Docked at Nan'anzhou Port, the deepest part of the bay.
The population of Nan'an State was less than 100,000, but it was ten times larger than Port Augusta in a similar location in later generations.
This is a military port purpose-built around special military and industrial needs.
The guard soldiers at the port carried the banner of "Jinwu Right Guards", which was the designation of the personal guards directly belonging to the Ming Emperor.
The fleet coming from Xintianfu carried the flag of "Yu Lin Youwei", which was also the title of the Ming Emperor's personal guard.
They are not under the jurisdiction of the Five Army Governor's Office, and are directly commanded by the emperor himself.
They did not eat from the budget of the Ministry of War, and were funded by the emperor himself from the proceeds of the imperial estate and the imperial consortium.
Jinwu Zuowei is stationed in Xintianfu and is responsible for the security and confidentiality of personnel and engineering facilities related to the New Element Project.
Jinwu Youwei is stationed in Tiannan Continent and is responsible for the security and confidentiality of personnel and engineering facilities required for the mining of raw materials for the new element project.
Yulin Zuowei is stationed in Tiannan Continent and is responsible for the security and confidentiality of the experimental base for new element engineering products.
Habayashi Youwei travels between Tiannan Continent and New Tianfu, and is responsible for managing and protecting the transportation of raw materials and products for the New Element Project.
They are all garrisons and experimental troops established around the new element project in the past ten years.
They have actually become a completely independent special force, but they do not yet have a formal independent military name.
In other words, they cannot be regarded as a military branch because they are on the same level as the Fifth Army Commandery.
They used the most glorious names of the Ming Emperor's personal guards in their designations.
More than half of the generals in these troops were clan members, and nearly a quarter of the soldiers were clan members.
More than half of these generals and soldiers were from Xintianfu.
The two armies are similar to the three armies under the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion. There is no general governor in charge of all personnel, but there is a governor's army.
The current governor-general is Zhu Zhaoxie, who had a relationship with Zhu Jingyuan.
The New Element Project is a highly confidential project. In order to avoid the spread of relevant information and affect the confidentiality effect, the relevant persons in charge are basically replaced within the system.
In addition, the entire project is divided into multiple systems such as principle research, raw material mining, raw material concentration, production and manufacturing, and energy security, which are located in two large areas, Xintianfu and Tiannan Continent.
Therefore, the emperor set up multiple guards to take charge of related security work.
Zhu Zhaoxie first entered this system as the warden of the garrison of a uranium enrichment factory, holding the position of factory manager.
Later, he was transferred and promoted among several other parts, and eventually became the governor-general of the system's armed forces.
When Zhu Jingyuan first succeeded to the throne, in July of the fifteenth year of Ankang, he added Zhu Zhaoxie to the list of the Military Aircraft Department.
But Zhu Zhaoxie did not rush to hand over and report, but wrote a report to Zhu Jingyuan.
The new element project has reached its final moments.
The final product of the project, the so-called "element fission bomb", is about to be produced.
The final live ammunition detonation experiment can be carried out immediately.
Zhu Zhaoxie hoped to complete the actual explosion experiment, and then he took the final experimental data and several other finished bombs to Yingtian Mansion and presented them to Zhu Jingyuan when he took office.
The meaning is obvious. This thing is almost finished and can be used as a gift when His Majesty ascends the throne.
Of course, this was just Zhu Zhaoxie's request, and Zhu Jingyuan made the final decision.
If Zhu Jingyuan asked Zhu Zhaoxie to come to Beijing immediately, then he would hand over the actual test explosion task to his successor and go directly on his way.
Zhu Jingyuan has not paid attention to the progress of the new element project in the past two years.
When this cutting-edge scientific research project was in its later stages, Zhu Jingyuan was basically speechless.
Zhu Jingyuan's biggest role as a time traveler is to provide a correct direction and ideas in the early and middle stages of the project.
Later research on actual details was not what Zhu Jingyuan was good at.
Zhu Jingyuan calculated the time for a while, and based on the news he learned in the past few years, this year should indeed be the most critical moment.
The preparations started at the end of the second year of Ankang, and now it is the second half of the fifteenth year of Ankang. It has taken a total of nearly thirteen years.
It was slightly faster than Zhu Jingyuan's original expected speed.
But compared to the historical American Manhattan Project, it was several times slower.
From the start of the Manhattan Project in 1942 to the completion of the project and the finished product in 1945, it seemed that it only took a total of three years.
However, if we count from Einstein's general theory of relativity in 1915, it has been a total of thirty years.
It has been sixteen years since Cockcroft used protons to achieve the first nuclear transformation in 1929.
It has been seven years since Otto Hahn used a reactor to achieve uranium atom fission in 1938.
As for the Manhattan Project, it went straight to building chain reactors from the beginning.
In other words, the Americans' Manhattan Project already had a relatively mature theoretical foundation and various experimental data from their predecessors.
There is also the industrial base of the United States during World War II, which began under the national system of the world war.
This is similar to the design of many new aircraft projects in the United States in later generations. It seems that the time from start to completion of the project seems to be very short.
Because they are all integrated and upgraded designs based on mature principles and industrial foundations.
It is to work hard from sixty to one hundred.
The world Zhu Jingyuan lives in is before the start of Ming Dynasty's new element project.
Whether it is Western or Ming folk scholars, research on atomic fission is still in the stage of hypotheses and assumptions.
In accordance with the emperor's request, craftsmen in the Ming court secretly searched for and studied the properties of radioactive elements.
However, Emperor Guangwu, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, only knew that the atomic bomb used radioactive elements and had no specific information about atomic fission.
At the same time, limited by basic theory and industrial foundation, Ming's early research results on radioactive elements were also very limited.
When Ming Dynasty's new element project began, the principle of atomic fission had not yet been understood.
The industrial base of Ming Dynasty was only equivalent to that of Britain before World War I.
Daming's new element project, like many new projects in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, is a new research and development that is almost from scratch.
Basically starting from scratch.
It is necessary to explore and study relevant theories while building supporting industrial industries.
These early theoretical studies, related early explorations and experimental designs in previous lives were completed by multiple different research groups without the idea of atomic bombs.
When the Manhattan Project finally started, it was an engineering project based on relatively mature theories and aimed at manufacturing weapons.
On the Ming side, the New Element Project started from the most rudimentary theoretical and industrial construction at the direct request of the Ming Emperor.
But the Ming Dynasty's goal from the beginning was atomic bombs and new power sources.
Overall, under the guidance of Zhu Jingyuan, Ming Dynasty compressed the research that those in the previous life had completed intermittently over thirty years into thirteen years to complete it.
In this way, Daming's new element project was actually very fast.
This is the accelerating effect of the official power of the great power's court when there is a correct direction.
The importance of new element engineering is self-evident.
Zhu Jingyuan knows the importance of elemental fission bombs better than anyone in the world.
That will be the beginning of another new era.
Zhu Jingyuan himself did not want officials and craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty to regard the results of this kind of project as a gift.
Zhu Jingyuan hopes that this project can be completed safely.
We don’t want any variables to be created at this last moment due to external factors.
Changing the top person in charge at the last minute is a variable.
The relevant persons in charge are basically soldiers. These soldiers are the most trustworthy and will obey the emperor's will.
However, work handover will definitely affect the progress of the project and may even affect safety.
Originally, if he had not intervened in this matter, he would have definitely completed the test explosion before his enthronement ceremony.
If he adjusts his manpower, the test explosion may be delayed by half a year, and he will not be able to catch up with his coronation ceremony.
My grandfather has been waiting for this thing for more than ten years.
Soldiers and craftsmen like Zhu Zhaoxie have also been busy on this project for more than ten years.
I shouldn't force adjustments at this time.
So Zhu Jingyuan agreed to Zhu Zhaoxie's request and asked him to complete the experiment before taking up his post at the Military Aircraft Department.
(End of chapter)
