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During spn's inspection of southwest China, Zhang Shusheng's first stop was Yibin, where he inspected parts of the aviation, aerospace industry, and high-tech electronics industries. Accompanied by Chen Yunsheng, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, he focused on the production of military and scientific research displays, military

The Rainbow TV Group mainly focuses on radio stations, military large and medium-sized communication equipment, civilian televisions and radios, and inspected the Southwest Transistor Research Institute jointly established by the Southwest Electronics Research Institute and Southwest University of Electronic Science and Technology.

Immediately, the plane set off for Xichang." There, Zhang Shusheng specially inspected one of the two most important places on this southwest trip, "China" No. 5 SS Base "China" China Frontier Nuclear Physics Research Center and "China"

"China's Nuclear Weapons Research Center," its secret code name in the military industry system is "Sun Project."

This research center is composed of more than 700 scientific researchers. Except for a very small number of foreign experts with Chinese nationality like Einstein who have been thoroughly integrated into Chinese society, most of them are patriotic overseas Chinese scientists and Southwest scientists who have been working in the Southwest for many years.

It is composed of self-trained young scientists. Xiong Heming is the main person in charge." As for Einstein

He is a theoretical scientist. We cannot say that he will create nuclear weapons. We can only say that he is one of the important scientists at the Nuclear Weapons Center. At the end of the inspection, Zhang Shusheng told Xiong Heming not to be afraid of lack of money and people. From now on, scientific researchers will be

The number of employees is increasing at a rate of hundreds or more. More funds and more advanced equipment will also arrive one after another.

This means that China's nuclear weapons program has officially entered the sprint period after a decade-long foundation work.

Later, Zhang Shusheng set off for another SS-level base in Xichang, the China Aerospace Center under construction. Here, Zhang Shusheng saw the aerospace launch site that had begun to take shape. Of course, after the rocket was officially produced

Before the test, drills will be conducted here to train simulated launches.[

The last place Zhang Shusheng went to was Kunming. In the mountains far away from Kunming, he once again walked into the SS-level base that is also related to the core competitiveness of China's national defense in the future: China's Jet Into Laboratory.

Murong Bo, director of the JPL, excitedly served as the chairman's guide and visited the two main parts of the JPL: the conventional air listening laboratory and the rocket research center.

After solving 80% of the more than 600 problems that restricted the engine's sustainable working time and safety and reliability, the jet engine finally entered the final sprint period. More than 300 scientific researchers from the conventional jet laboratory

Gave up all vacations to manufacture in laboratory conditions

Ten prototypes were produced, thus providing a platform for more and more extensive tests in the future. At the same time, Feng Ruhai, the president of the China Aircraft Design Institute, also personally took the lead and handed over the task of researching and improving propeller fighters to other scientists, while he himself

I personally led the team and started researching from scratch six years ago.

During the study of jet aircraft, Feng Ruhai often led the jet design team to live and eat in the conventional jet laboratory at this base. The most important and critical aspect of a jet aircraft is how to understand the characteristics of the engine.

”, thus in accordance with the previous guidelines issued by the Supreme Scientific Council

It will be a difficult process to design a jet aircraft that meets the existing conditions based on the design documents of the current period. It is expected that two real prototypes will not be available until the end of 1937. By then, the jet aircraft will be equipped with a more mature jet engine.

aircraft test flight, Zhang Shusheng will be invited to attend the ceremony in person.

As for the Rocket Research Center, the progress of this center is even slower. When Zhang Shusheng visited, the rocket engine project had only solved half of the problems, and was still stuck on the materials for manufacturing the combustion chamber and nozzle. The corresponding research units were also working overtime day and night, but

Rockets, like nuclear weapons and jet fighters, are "a very large-scale system project that requires not just one research center" but the entire scientific and technological strength. The entire southwest "is just a scientific research institute that cooperates with these major research centers."

Over the past 20 years, there have been more than 300 projects, and more than 160 have been newly established since the founding of the People's Republic of China, covering all scientific research projects from downstream components to materials.

Many Chinese scientists and even foreign scientists "have no idea what they are studying" and can only roughly guess what fields it may be used in. Because each big project has been completely broken down and the most confidential SS bases have been completely dismantled.

In addition to having the final right to design the system and the right to know, many people will not even discover that a part or material they produced was originally used in atoms or rockets until this weapon is successfully developed and used in actual practice.

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At the rocket research center with more than 400 people, Zhang Shusheng also met another person named Qian, Qian Wensen, who later became the father of Chinese rocketry in history. Although he was only 25 years old, he burst out with extraordinary enthusiasm.

, Qian Sanqiang of the Nuclear Weapons Research Center of the "Solar Project" shines brighter. He has led an independent research group and is responsible for a very critical rocket power project. The moment he entered the school, he was influenced by Zhang Shusheng

He received special care and required the school to take the best care of his study and life, and to allow him to have a more free learning space compared to other students.

In general, in these high-tech fields, the proportions of "foreign scientists, Chinese scientists, and domestically trained scientists" are 1:3:6 respectively. The foreign ones are all those who have to work hard for various reasons.

"Scientists who are not taken seriously but who do have very high scientific research capabilities" and there are also a few Chinese scientists. There are countless geniuses among the flourishing Chinese people all over the world. In China, there are mainly a small number of scientists in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

Overseas students trained during this period, as well as most scientists trained in Southwest China.

"Be careful, it will be tiring going to the Southwest this time."

After five days of inspecting major scientific and technological projects in southwest China, Zhang Shusheng finally returned to Hanking. It happened to be a weekend rest day, and he also had a rare and simple but warm rest day with He Ning and Lu Yunyan, who was not on duty.

Both of them knew very well that Zhang Shusheng's biggest hobby was fishing in a large natural lake in Nanyuan, the official residence of the head of state in Hanking Mountain. He was accompanied by his two lovely wives and his favorite southwestern green tea was placed beside him.

It is served in an ordinary green porcelain cup, but it has a return to simplicity. You can enjoy the tea while enjoying the leisurely atmosphere of fishing.

"Where am I tired? It's all the scientific researchers who are tired. This time I went to inspect the southwest, and I felt more emotional than before." Zhang Shusheng told the truth. "I used to go to these scientific research bases to inspect and provide guidance on some key issues."

"During the scientific phase," because the project has not yet made huge progress, everything is still being explored and imitated, so it does not seem too busy. On the contrary, now, when the project begins to make significant progress, the staff are working even harder to find the solution.

Find your own strength.

Lu Yunyan nodded. As the confidential secretary-general of the Heads of State's Office Center, of course she knew these things, "Although the treatment of our scientific researchers has always been very good, the Ministry of Science and Technology still issued a series of regulations last month, which included the improvement of scientific research personnel."

The treatment and solving the work, education, and life problems of the family members of some special scientific research units have been included as key tasks. "Every time this family of three gets together, they always have leisurely entertainment and rest at the beginning.

But after a long time, it was time to return to the matter of New China. He Ning held Zhang Shusheng's left arm, chose a comfortable angle to lean on him, and said, "Be careful." Do you remember that German one?

The government’s delegation to China? They came to the Ministry of Education the day before yesterday and invited us to send a student delegation to Germany to visit this year’s Olympic Games. All expenses will be provided by them. After research within the ministry, it was finally decided to send 40 high school students to Berlin.”

"They are trying to show their goodwill to us. Things in Germany are very complicated. We don't have to worry. Just do what you need to do with some normal diplomatic etiquette. If it involves core interests, let people talk to them slowly.

." Zhang Shusheng knew very well that the 1936 Olympics would be the last attempt by the Germans to whitewash peace, and through this Olympics, the Nazis would also gain unprecedented prestige in Germany, thus laying the final foundation for a more comprehensive Nazi rule in the future.

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In fact, at this time, the Nazi Party was already exerting all its strength. For example, various armament plans began to accelerate, and military industrial enterprises fully expanded the Wehrmacht and the SS. Not to mention the crazy expansion of the German Wehrmacht and the SS, the SS would be expanded in a few years.

Later it expanded to the size of dozens of divisions, which was very terrifying.

Zhang Shusheng knew about this visiting group to China. It should be a diplomatic representative sent by Hitler to make a front-line visit. The real matter has not yet been put on the table.

Although China is far away from Europe, and although communications in this era are relatively backward, the huge combat effectiveness of Fengguo's army, navy and air force during the Anti-Japanese War still attracted the great attention of this short German man.

Not because of anything else, but because Hitler was once a member of the German Army. When he was an infantryman, he was fortunate enough to see with his own eyes the kind of tank that frightened the enemy. But when he later learned that the technology of this tank actually came from 〖

After China invaded China, he vowed to build more advanced tanks than the Chinese.

However, the actual situation is that according to the information from the German intelligence department, the Chinese main battle tanks still exceed the German main battle tanks by at least 4 years. And no matter how hard the tank experts work, this technical span has always been difficult to break through.

The reduction of "sex".

At the same time, the German intelligence agency also discovered that the Chinese surpassed Germany in terms of aircraft, aircraft carriers, individual weapons, and even the artillery that the Germans are most proud of.[

While the Germans were still painstakingly accumulating battleships to guard against the British enemy fleet, the British fleet was bombed and destroyed by the Chinese in Asia without any pressure. German military officials, including Hitler, all realized that

, it turns out that this is how the war should be fought, instead of being dragged along by the British for 30 years

In this era, the Germans canceled a total of seven battleship construction plans and launched eight aircraft carriers, one more than the British's six. It can be said that in terms of aircraft carriers, the Germans finally completely escaped the construction of battleships.

level, thus easily opening the era of aircraft carrier competition between Britain and Germany.

At the same time, Germany has never given up on acquiring advanced weapons from China since the Southwest period, but Zhang Shusheng always instructs the negotiating team to tighten their lips and find it difficult to let go. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Germans also repeatedly put pressure on them and wanted to purchase them.

Zhang Shusheng said that China’s military technology was “not for sale for the time being.” In recent years, Germany has received very little military technology from China.

In Zhang Shusheng’s words, “To make the imperialists fight more severely, of course the weapons must be more advanced, but now is not the time. The difference between giving them the same technology three years in advance and giving it to them a few years later is huge.

If you give it to them a few years later, they can only use it honestly, but if you give it to them in advance, it can help them create a small-scale technological revolution, which will lead to more fatal progress. We must give it to them when they need it most.

, providing them with "military technologies that can be suppressed by our advanced weapons and equipment." In exchange for huge benefits."

The German visiting delegation conducted an in-depth inspection of China and invited Chinese delegations from several industries to attend the Olympic Games and visit. Finally, on February 4, 1936, the German Ambassador to China Riemel secretly

Visit the [Chinese] Ministry of Foreign Affairs, hoping that the [Chinese] government can take the opportunity of the Olympics to send a secret "government" delegation, including military and economic fields, to Germany.

Riemel hinted that if Sino-German relations can achieve further and significant development, "Germany can stand on the side of China on the Sino-Russian issue, the Sino-Japanese issue, the Sino-British French issue, and even all Asian issues in the foreseeable future."

This side of the "government".

Under the instruction of Zhang Shusheng, Foreign Minister Li Zongren was very happy to give the Germans a positive reply. Although he did not promise more about "the intention to further strengthen Sino-German relations", he was happy to send a secret "government" delegation to Germany.

"Consolidate the current Sino-German relations.

In fact, Zhang Shusheng did not have complicated feelings about Hitler, a great ambition, the Third Reich, the Nazi Party, and Germany as a whole, and he never thought that he must make friends with them or suppress them. As the Supreme Power Council of China

The Chairman can say that Zhang Shusheng's power at this time was even greater than that of Hitler a few years later.

Therefore, Zhang Shusheng's starting point for considering the problem was long past the era of pleasing, currying favor with, or blocking the Germans. During the economic crisis, he also arranged a considerable number of manpower to attack the German economy. The gold and German marks earned from Germany were no better than in London.

Less. Some of this capital will secretly enter countries around the world as reinvestment capital, some will be returned to the country as special financial allocations, and some will be used as China's reserves to prepare in advance for a super-large-scale world war in a few years. In short,

What Zhang Shusheng did was for the sake of the entire nation. He would never take his policy toward Germany to any unnecessary extreme just because of his preference for Hitler or the Third Reich.

Head of State Office Center.

"Chairman, do you think this trip to Germany has set a tone?" Foreign Minister Li Zongren and Defense Minister Cai E gathered at the Head of State Office Center, hoping to get a conclusion from the highest level.

"Minister Li is right. The Germans are interested in our weapons. When I go to Germany this time, it is very likely that they will propose a package of military and economic cooperation plans." Cai Guo also said with some worry. As the Minister of Defense, he has already

Having experienced the transformation from a leading general to a strategic thinker, I certainly know that "whether to help the Germans or not" is not a simple yes or no question.

Zhang Shusheng smiled, walked to the huge world map behind him, pointed at the location of Germany and clicked lightly: "Maruno Country intends to leverage the entire Europe. Judging from the current situation, they are in a weak position.

. Even if the situation of the Germans is estimated higher, they will still face many problems in the future. This is the conclusion of the Supreme Operations Department and the General Staff.

Therefore, it is still necessary to give the local Germans the illusion that the [Chinese] people will firmly stand with them and conduct some appropriate cooperation. For example..."

For example, we can provide some military technologies, such as first-generation semi-armor technology for tanks and some non-critical construction technologies for aircraft carriers. Of course, the premise is that they have to pay enough to purchase them.

As for economic cooperation, of course, German businessmen are welcome to invest and establish more Sino-German joint venture trading companies. Others will be put aside for the time being.

The two types of technologies Zhang Shusheng gave the Germans, the first-generation semi-armored technology for tanks, only allowed their tanks to have the same defensive power as the French tanks at the same thickness. Because at this time, the French Renault tanks were actually more powerful than the German tanks.

The tanks were much stronger. You know, historically, the French tanks before the start of World War II, although they were relatively advanced, were by no means as strong as they are now, which put pressure on the Germans who were proud of their tanks.
To be continued...