To be honest, the main military officers headed by Zhu Zhaoxie felt that the court seemed to pay too much attention to this project that lasted for thirteen years.
Although they already know that those radioactive metals can cause huge damage to various living things.
They also already know that the ultimate goal of this project is to use these radioactive materials to create a special new type of bomb.
They knew the bomb was very powerful.
But they could not imagine how powerful this new bomb would be.
For people who have not understood and experienced this kind of weapon, in their natural understanding and imagination, it is already very terrifying that the power of a special new bomb can be an order of magnitude higher than the original ordinary bomb.
That is to say, from one ton to ten tons, the overall increase is ten times.
If it were just this level of power increase, then the power of these radioactive elements and new bombs would not be worthy of such a high level of security and confidentiality requirements.
It is not that the Ming Dynasty had never studied things like poison gas bombs, and the relevant agencies at that time did not mention such standards in the management system.
When chemical explosives were created, they certainly had a revolutionary effect, but no special forces were established to manage them.
There is no separate traditional emperor's personal army independent of the Five Army Governor's Office to be directly responsible.
It wasn't until they saw the explosion with their own eyes that they finally fully understood.
Your Majesty's request is not excessive at all...
After the commander presses the button, a bright light first lights up.
It was so bright that the sun in the sky was almost suppressed by it.
Then, the test bench seemed to turn into an overturned steel-making furnace, and the bright light looked like a surging mass of molten steel.
At the same time, a shock wave that was almost visible to the naked eye appeared from the center of the test platform and swept across the entire test site in an instant.
Wherever this shock wave went, the entire land seemed to have been brushed.
Everything within a kilometer of the test stand was destroyed.
Almost all the buildings were shattered and all the animals were burned to ashes.
Within a two-kilometer radius, all brick and tile houses were transformed into building materials and flew directly into the sky.
Ordinary concrete houses have basically collapsed, and only thick enough concrete bunker buildings can remain basically intact.
At the same time, all combustible materials were directly ignited, and all animals were turned into barbecue.
The cars were all reduced to wreckage, flying away along with the building materials.
Within a three-kilometer radius, some brick buildings collapsed, all glass and other accessories of the buildings were shattered, and most of the combustible materials were ignited.
Horrible fires broke out in all simulated human living areas, and all vehicles were burned down.
Within a range of six kilometers, there was still an obvious sense of oscillation, and vehicles and machinery were blown away.
There was still a very scary wind noise around the bunker ten kilometers away, and a large number of electronic equipment suddenly stopped working.
Blazing high-frequency signals were emitted from various monitoring and audio equipment.
During this process, a huge mushroom cloud slowly rose into the sky.
Like a huge pillar, it stands between heaven and earth, forming a man-made natural wonder.
Zhu Zhaoxie and all the military personnel fell into a sluggish state as they watched the scene of the explosion outside through the TV screen and observation window.
At this time, the first thought in their minds was that the power of gods descending to earth must be this kind!
One piece of something of this level can directly destroy a base, a small city and a fortress.
The weapon that directly forcibly destroyed the city now really appeared in front of him.
With this kind of weapon, the Ming army is truly invincible.
One such bomb on an airplane, and hundreds of thousands of airplanes on the battlefield, can really directly destroy a country!
It is not about slowly conquering a country's major cities and then exaggerating it in language as "destroying a country."
Now this is the physical, de facto destruction of a country.
This is no longer a tactical level force, it is enough to be considered, planned and used separately at the strategic level.
It's really worth building armies specifically, managing and using them.
It would be really terrifying if this happened through the activities of ordinary troops and ended up on the arms black market due to corruption or accident.
The relevant craftsmen at the scene stared at the test readings on various equipment and remained silent for a long time.
This bomb, which weighed only two tons, exploded with a power equivalent to 20,000 tons of standard explosives.
The unit energy is directly increased by ten thousand times.
Moreover, even if 20,000 tons of chemical explosives were piled together and exploded, this level of effect would not be achieved.
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 already anticipated this level of data before the actual experiment, they already had basically accurate calculation results on the data.
But when the data becomes reality, it feels equally shocking.
After a long time, the personnel on site slowly recovered and began to quickly summarize and organize data reports.
Re-debug the communication equipment and report the successful results of the experiment to the emperor of Yingtian Mansion.
In the palace of Yingtianfu New City, Zhu Jingyuan received a special telegram and several attached fax photos.
Zhu Jingyuan took a few glances, confirmed the news, and asked the Military Aircraft Department to send back a congratulatory telegram.
Then I gave the telegram and fax of the report to my grandfather and father:
"The test explosion experiment has been successful. The current detected explosion yield is about 20,000 tons, which is not much different from the original assessment..."
Zhu Zhongliang held the photo, looked at the mushroom cloud above, and nodded vigorously one after another:
"Okay, okay, okay, great, I can finally see you in my lifetime..."
“With this thing, our Ming Dynasty will be truly invincible.
"Our Lao Zhu family is really as stable as a rock."
Zhu Zhongliang is interested in fission and fusion weapons, of course because of their immense power.
More importantly, this huge power can produce direct effects.
The first is, of course, the explosive increase in Ming's military power.
The Ming Dynasty's armed forces now lead the world in conventional weapons.
However, with the current level of technology, the enemy will eventually be able to fight against the Ming Dynasty's army.
Although there is a huge gap in quantity and quality between the two sides, they are still essentially on the same level.
As strategic weapons, fission and fusion weapons can increase the strike effect to a higher level.
From now on, Ming Dynasty will be able to make the enemy lose the ability to fight back without having to fight head-on.
Then, there is the significance of these things to the Ming royal family.
The royal family is not the head of state in future generations, but a ruling family on the surface.
No matter how powerful the royal family controls the country, it will eventually accumulate more and more forces of opposition and hatred.
If the Ming Emperor goes against the grain and if the Ming Dynasty really overthrows completely, the royal family may have a tragic ending.
Although this situation is difficult to actually happen.
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 something cannot be done.
Otherwise, you can choose to gradually give in, slowly decentralizing power and transforming it into a symbol of reputation.
However, there is no real guarantee for this so-called choice.
Nor can we take it for granted that all our descendants will be able to make concessions objectively.
According to the experience of the two worlds, even in a country with a strong commercial atmosphere like the United Kingdom, the king's head has been chopped off.
Needless to say, there are old revolutionary areas like France and Lucia.
Taking another ten thousand steps back, if the emperor has really succeeded in giving in and delegating power, how can the status of the emperor as a symbol of the country be guaranteed?
If the royal family had a small atomic bomb, the situation would immediately change.
By that time, even if the royal family was overthrown by rebellion or coup, they basically would not dare to do anything to the royal family.
Even if the emperor delegated power to himself, it became a symbol of honor for the Ming Dynasty.
Then regardless of his apparent status or the treatment he can actually enjoy, he should still be at the level of a true emperor.
The personal and property safety of members of the royal family can also be guaranteed to the highest possible extent.
The royal family is just a family. To protect their status, they don't even need to develop a fusion bomb, as long as they have a fission bomb.
The fission bomb can be made as small as possible and can be carried by one person.
With the emperor's energy, he can cultivate a group of real dead soldiers, and he can even choose to carry a suitcase with him.
So after Zhu Zhongliang got the news, he was very satisfied mentally.
Zhu Zhongliang knows his own situation, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to see a truly miniaturized fusion weapon.
But fission weapons have been realized, and the future is already foreseeable.
Zhu Jianyan, who was also the emperor, is now the advocate of the royal family, and now has similar thoughts.
Zhu Jianyan swallowed his saliva, then looked around. There were only three of him, his father and his son, and then he said to Zhu Jingyuan:
"This kind of weapon... has really been made. A two-ton bomb explodes with 20,000 tons of energy..."
Zhu Jingyuan took a long breath, nodded seriously and said with the same excitement:
"Yes, we have done it now, and a new era has arrived!"
Then the scene was silent for a while, and Zhu Jianyan suddenly said in a confirming manner:
"Is it still fifteen years of Ankang now?"
Zhu Jingyuan was stunned for a moment, then nodded honestly and said:
"really."
Zhu Zhongliang next to him smiled:
"It's true that we still have fifteen years of health, but it won't be next year..."
These two dialogues between the two people actually refer to future historical records. Ming's atomic energy weapons will be successfully tested in the Ankang era.
The reign name of the Ming Dynasty can refer to the emperor himself, so future generations will remember that the atomic bomb of the Ming Dynasty was successful when Zhu Jianyan was in power.
In fact, this is indeed the case. The entire project was completed in the Ankang era, from the second year of Ankang to the fifteenth year of Ankang.
Ming Dynasty 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 hesitated to speak. There were some things he wanted to say but did not say.
Theoretically speaking, according to the rules left by Emperor Shizu, Zhu Jingyuan has not yet passed the one-year "internship period".
The legacy of Shizu has not yet been officially handed over to Zhu Jingyuan.
However, Zhu Jingyuan is in his current state, and it gives the impression that there is no need for Shizu's posthumous chapter at all.
He may even write a new notebook for himself and pass it on to his descendants in the future.
Zhu Jingyuan also got a little taste of the meaning from his grandfather's words:
"The new element project will continue to be implemented. We will develop atomic fusion bombs based on atomic fission energy bombs.
"Once successfully developed, the explosive yield of the new generation of fusion bombs can be increased hundreds to thousands of times again..."
Zhu Jianyan said with emotion:
"That's what happened in your first year..."
Zhu Zhongliang next to him also changed his mood:
"Let's get down to business now. Now that these weapons have been successful, how do you plan to manage and use them?"
Zhu Jingyuan certainly had a plan:
“The existing mineral development institutions, raw material refining and transportation institutions, technical research and production institutions will gradually be transformed into the Huangzhuang system.
“That is, from the direct jurisdiction of the military to gradually shifting to the jurisdiction of the factory and village system, maintaining relatively independent operation.
"Relevant military personnel will establish a new army in addition to the navy, army and air force, specifically responsible for the management and use of produced atomic weapons.
“The management system is the same as now, it is still directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor, and it is directly allocated by the imperial village and the imperial consortium.
“However, the vehicles responsible for delivering atomic weapons still fall under the jurisdiction of the original three services.
“The planes that drop bombs, the vehicles that transport bombs, and the ships that carry bombs are all operated by the original personnel of the three services.
“The New Army is only responsible for getting orders from the emperor and handing over the bombs obtained from the production institutions to the three armies.
“The three armies were transported to the designated place at the designated time in accordance with the emperor’s order.
“In the end, the New Army used its own system to detonate it.
“That is to achieve separate management of factories, guns, and ammunition to prevent any one military branch or agency from taking over the entire process.
“Without the cooperation of manufacturers, neither the New Army nor the three armed forces would be able to obtain bombs.
“Without the direct cooperation of the vehicle units of the three armed forces, these bombs would not be able to be delivered to the designated locations.
"Without special instructions from the New Army system, these bombs cannot be detonated."
Zhu Jianyan was a little surprised:
“The emperor’s direct control plan is appropriate, and this weapon must be in the hands of the royal family.
“But do not directly assign aircraft carriers, aircraft, submarines, and vehicles to the new army, and let them operate completely independently.
"Should we still rely on the original tri-service vehicle system?"
Zhu Jingyuan briefly explained his thoughts:
"Theoretically, those armies directly under the emperor's control may not actually be under the emperor's control at all times.
“The emperor has too many things to do, and theoretically there are too many institutions and people under the direct control of the emperor.
“A lot of things, except when it was first established, the emperor really cared about it and maintained enough control.
"But as time went by, the emperor had other important things to pay attention to, and the original things gradually let go.
“In fact, it is the relevant personnel of that agency who are responsible for daily jurisdiction.
“If a separate military branch were established, it would have complete control over the production, delivery and detonation of atomic weapons.
“Once the emperor’s actual control over this military branch is reduced, it will quickly become a very dangerous thing.
“It may become relatively difficult for the emperor to take over in the future.
“So like other institutional designs, a pattern of mutual constraints has been formed 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 an emperor, and he already understood it the moment Zhu Jingyuan started.
After hearing what Zhu Jingyuan said, he nodded directly:
"Indeed, your plan is in line with the consistent tradition. Although it will definitely reduce efficiency, efficiency is not what this kind of weapon wants.
"As a strategic deterrent, it is a relatively reasonable arrangement to prevent any agency from using it easily."
"If it is only used to protect the royal family, only a very small number of fission weapons will be enough.
"The imperial village and royal manufacturers responsible for production will always have some finished products and dangerous raw materials on their hands.
“The emperor can also directly extract a very small amount of warheads at any time and place them in places and in the hands of people who can directly control them at any time.
“Even the emperor himself carried it directly.
“Having such a small number of weapons as a deterrent to the royal family is enough.
"As long as we have these things in hand, even if the domestic situation is completely overturned, the rebels will not dare to kill the royal family."
In fact, Zhu Jingyuan did not immediately think in this direction. Zhu Jingyuan was more considering the use at the national level.
Now listening to my father's introduction, I immediately understood the effect of this thing on the royal family members.
Zhu Jingyuan immediately recalled that in his previous life, he completely controlled the orthodox royal family of a country, and also mastered fission weapons...
It seems like it doesn’t exist at all…
(End of chapter)
