Daming 1805

Chapter 509 The latest progress of the new element project

At the beginning of October in the 15th year of Daming Ankang, a special fleet from Daming Xintianfu crossed the Daming Ocean and rushed to Tiannan Dayu.

The Tiannan Great Domain of the Ming Dynasty consists of three major 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 Dayu.

The Inner Nanyang Islands refer to the Nanyang islands facing the mainland of Ming Dynasty across the sea.

Including Luzon is also the Philippine Islands, Old Port is also Sumatra, Borneo is Kalimantan and the surrounding small islands.

The Outer Nanyang Islands are mainly Java Island, Timor Island, Sulawesi Island, Spice Islands, New Guinea Island and its subsidiary 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, were established under the jurisdiction of the Province of Java.

The Sansi Yamen of Java Province was not placed in Yecheng, the largest city in the area, but on Bali Island in the middle of the entire region.

Because the location of Yecheng is too remote compared to the whole province.

Although the scale of Bali is not as large as Coconut City, the island itself is a relatively mature area developed earlier.

Sulawesi, the Spice Islands and the nearby small islands are under the jurisdiction of the Xiangdao Province.

For a long time in the past, the island of New Guinea did not have an official name within the Ming system.

The agency in charge of exploration and mapping temporarily took the name of Dongda Island.

Because it is the largest island in the Nanyang Islands, the second largest island in the world, and it is still the easternmost of the entire Nanyang Islands.

Dongda Island is basically tropical rainforest, sparsely populated and almost pure savages.

The private businessmen of the Ming Dynasty rarely came to this island to develop rubber plantations, and they mainly concentrated in the old port, Borneo and other places.

The residents on Dongda Island are relatively rare, and they are also a mixed race of Tiannan natives and Nandao people, very close to the Mozhou people in blood.

In Daming's management system, anyone who has Mo people's blood is a Mo people.

Therefore, in the process of migrating the Tiannan natives, a large number of natives who could manage the coastal area of ​​Dongda Island were also sent away.

As for the savages in the inland area of ​​the island, they really can't control them.

When Dayu was established, the name of Dongda Island was officially determined. Dongda Island and the surrounding small islands were added to establish a Dongdao Province under the jurisdiction.

The original meaning of Tiannan Zhudao is the many islands in the Tiannan area, and the islands in the South Daming Ocean outside the Guitar Islands.

It mainly includes New Zealand, Tasmania, Solomon Islands, New British Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Samoa and so on.

This area is divided into two Huangzhuang and one province.

New Zealand in later generations is now called Baiyun Islands, also known as Baiyun Huangzhuang, and Tasmania is now called Nantian Island, also known as Nantianfu Huangzhuang.

All other Nanyang Islands have been established under the jurisdiction of an archipelago province.

The Tiannan Continent is the later Australian continent, 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 in China.

Take the Fengtian Temple in the Forbidden City of Shuntian Prefecture as the prime meridian, which is the zero-degree meridian.

In the west of the central part of Tiannan Continent, west of the thirteenth meridian of east longitude, is Shuofang Province.

It is about between 139 degrees and 140 degrees east longitude of the later generations, slightly larger than the range of Western Australia in the later generations of Tuao.

To the east of the [-]th meridian of Tokyo and to the north of the [-]th latitude south is Langya Province.

Including the Northern Territory and Queensland of the later Tuao, plus the northern part of New South Wales and South Australia.

The south of [-] degrees south latitude is Kuaiji Province.

Including Victoria, New South Wales and the northern part of South Australia in later generations.

The large desert in the Australian inland is basically divided between Langya and Shuofang.

The jurisdiction of Kuaiji Province is basically the humid zone and grassland area in the southeast.

The total area of ​​the Tiannan Great Territory is more than 900 million square kilometers, but the total population is less than 2000 million.

These 2000 million people are relatively concentrated in two places.

One is Java Island and several nearby small islands, with a total population of nearly 800 million.

This is the earliest developed area in the Nanyang Islands, and Java Island also has fertile land covered with thick volcanic ash.

The Sunda Strait between Java Island and the Old Port is also the busiest waterway in the Southeast Asia region after the Strait of Malacca.

Agriculture is developed on Java Island, and industry and commerce are also very developed, so it is a matter of course that the population is large.

Another place is Kuaiji Province in the southeastern part of Tiannan Continent, with a total population of nearly 400 million.

It is the area with the best environment in the entire Tiannan Continent, the most suitable for human life and the development of agriculture and animal husbandry.

The two provinces of Java and Accounting account for two-thirds of the entire Dayu.

Among the seven provinces in Tiannan Dayu, only the lower-level yamen in Java and Kuaiji provinces are barely complete.

There are prefectures under the provinces, counties under the prefectures, and towns and streets under the counties.

Of course, the number of prefectures is not many.

Because although these two provinces are the provinces with the largest population in Tiannan Dayu, they add up to only 1000 to [-] million.

Putting it in the mainland of Daming is the establishment of three or four prefectures.

The other five provinces do not have normal prefectures and counties directly, and the provincial governors and governors are all Zhili prefectures.

The area of ​​these Zhili prefectures is still very large, and there may not be counties under Zhili prefecture, and they may be directly towns.

In these sparsely populated provinces, the status of Zhili Prefecture is similar to the "region" of later generations.

Zhili Prefecture itself is directly under the governor's yamen, and at the same time directly governs the local people, which is equivalent to merging the government 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 the capital of Australia, the largest port in the southeast.

Instead, after simple replenishment, they continued to sail southwest along the coastline.

Bypassing the southeastern corner of the Tiannan Continent, it sailed into the Tiannan Bay in the southern part of the Tiannan Continent, which is later known as Spencer Bay in Australia.

In the deepest part of the bay, Nan'an State port docked.

The population of Nan'an State is less than [-], but it is 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 soldiers guarding the port carried the banner of "Jinwu Youwei", which is the designation of the pro-military guard directly under the Ming emperor.

The fleet from Xintianfu carried the banner of "Habayashi Right Guard", which was also the title of the Ming emperor's pro-military guard.

They are not under the jurisdiction of the Dudufu of the Five Armies, and the emperor himself directly arranges personnel to command them.

They do not eat the budget of the Ministry of War, and the emperor himself allocates funds from the proceeds of the Huangzhuang and the imperial consortium.

Jinwu Zuowei is stationed in Xintianfu, responsible for the security and confidentiality of the relevant personnel and engineering facilities of the New Element Project.

The Jinwu Right Guard is stationed in Tiannan Continent, responsible for the security and confidentiality of the personnel and engineering facilities required for the mining of raw materials for the New Element Project.

Habayashi Zuowei is stationed in Tiannan Continent and is responsible for the security and confidentiality of the experimental base for finished products of the New Element Engineering.

Yubayashi Youwei travels between Tiannan Continent and Xintianfu, 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 in fact become a completely independent special force, but there is no official independent service name yet.

In other words, they cannot be regarded as a branch of the military, because they are on the same level as the five military governors' mansions in terms of hierarchy.

They used the name of the most honorable Ming emperor's personal military guard in the designation.

More than half of the generals of these troops were members of the clan, and nearly a quarter of the soldiers were members of the clan.

More than half of these generals and soldiers were from Xintianfu.

The two armies are similar to the three armies under the five-army governor's mansion. There is usually no commander-in-chief in charge of all personnel, but there is a governor-general.

The current Governor-General is Zhu Zhaoxie who once met Zhu Jingyuan.

The New Element Project is a highly confidential project. In order to avoid the spread of relevant information and affect the effect of secrecy, the relevant responsible persons are basically exchanged 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: New Tianfu and Tiannan Continent.

Therefore, the emperor set up multiple guards to be responsible for related security work.

Zhu Zhaoxie first entered this system as an overseer 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 finally became the governor of the armed forces of this system.

When Zhu Jingyuan had just succeeded to the throne, in July of the 15th year of Ankang, Zhu Zhaoxie was added 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 last minute.

The final product of the project, the so-called "elemental fission bomb", is about to be produced in its official form.

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, as well as several other finished bombs, to Ying Tianfu when he took office, and presented them to Zhu Jingyuan.

The meaning is obvious, this thing is almost finished, and it can be used as a gift when His Majesty's enthronement ceremony is held.

Of course, this was just Zhu Zhaoxie's request for instructions, and it was Zhu Jingyuan's final decision.

If Zhu Jingyuan asked Zhu Zhaoxie to go to Beijing immediately, then he would hand over the task of actually testing the explosion to his successor, and he would go directly on the road.

Zhu Jingyuan has not paid attention to the progress of the new element project in the past two years.

At the later stage of this cutting-edge scientific research project, Zhu Jingyuan was basically unable to talk.

Zhu Jingyuan's greatest role as a traveler is to provide a correct direction and thinking in the early and middle stages of the project.

Zhu Jingyuan is not good at studying the actual details in the later period.

Zhu Jingyuan calculated the time a little bit. According to the news he learned in the past few years, this year should indeed reach the most critical moment.

It has been nearly 15 years since the preparation started at the end of Ankang Year 13, and now it is the second half of Ankang Year [-].

It was a little faster than Zhu Jingyuan's original estimate.

But compared with the Manhattan project of the Americans in history, it is several times slower.

The Manhattan Project started in 1942, and it took only three years to complete the project and make a finished product in 1945.

However, if you count from the time when Einstein proposed the general theory of relativity in 1915, that is a total of 30 years.

It has been 1929 years since Cockcroft used protons to realize nuclear transformation for the first time in 16.

Seven years have passed since Otto Hahn used a reactor to split uranium atoms in 1938.

As for the Manhattan project, it went directly to building the chain reactor from the beginning.

In other words, the Manhattan Project of the Americans already has a relatively mature theoretical basis and various experimental data from the 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 the same as the design of many new aircraft projects in the United States in later generations. It seems that the time from the start of the project to the 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 working hard from sixty to one hundred.

The world where Zhu Jingyuan lived was before Daming's new element project started.

Whether it is Taixi or Ming folk scholars, the research on atomic fission is still in the stage of hypothesis and imagination

According to the requirements of the emperor, the craftsmen of the Ming court secretly searched for radioactive elements and researched their properties.

However, Emperor Guangwu, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, only knew that the atomic bomb was made of radioactive elements, and he did not know the specific information on the level of atomic fission.

At the same time, limited by basic theory and industrial foundation, Daming's early research results on radioactive elements were also very limited.

When Daming's new element project started, the principle of atomic fission had not yet been clarified.

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 in his own country, 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 industries.

These early theoretical studies in the previous life, related early explorations and experimental designs were completed by a number of different research groups on the premise that there was no idea of ​​an atomic bomb.

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 elementary theory and industrial construction under the direct request of the Emperor Ming.

But Ming's goal from the very beginning was an atomic bomb and a new power source.

On the whole, under the guidance of Zhu Jingyuan, Daming compressed the research that those people in the previous life had completed intermittently for 30 years into 13 years.

In this way, Daming's new element project is actually very fast.

This is the acceleration effect promoted by the official power of the imperial court of a big country with the right direction.

The importance of new element engineering is self-evident.

Zhu Jingyuan knows the importance of elemental fission bombs better than anyone else in this world.

That would be the beginning of another new era.

Zhu Jingyuan himself did not want Ming officials and craftsmen to regard the results of such projects as gifts.

Zhu Jingyuan hopes that this project can be completed safely.

I don't want to create any variables at this last moment because of external factors.

Replacing the top person in charge at the last minute is a variable.

The relevant persons in charge are basically soldiers, and these soldiers are the most credible, and they will obey the emperor's will.

But work handover will definitely affect the progress of the project, and may even affect safety.

Originally, if I didn't intervene in this matter, I would definitely be able to complete the test explosion before my enthronement ceremony.

If he adjusts his manpower, the test explosion may have to be postponed for half a year, and he will not be able to catch up with his enthronement 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.

You should not forcefully adjust at this time.

So Zhu Jingyuan agreed to Zhu Zhaoxie's request and asked him to finish the experiment before taking up the post in the Military Aircraft Department.

(End of this chapter)