The Ming Dynasty did not revolutionize

Chapter 444 Radiation Laboratory and Atomic Weapons Experiments
With not very strong expectations, the elite representatives from America took a train to Shanhaifu, located on the edge of the Great Bay in central Australia.

But after arriving in this city, their expectations for this city quickly increased.

Because the city itself is so special.

The scale of Shanhai Prefecture City is not large. If you count the population alone, there are only more than 200,000 people, which is the size of a county town in the Ming Dynasty, but it has the administrative level of a prefectural city.

Moreover, this new-age city, which was built after industrialization, has two layers of tall and thick reinforced concrete walls.

At the same time, the structure of this city is completely opposite to that of a regular city.

Most industrial cities, in accordance with Zhu Jianxuan’s requirements, should place industrial zones outside the city as much as possible.

The area within the old city walls should be used as administrative, educational and residential areas as much as possible.

The industrial zone of Shanhai Prefecture is within the inner city wall, which is the inner city area.

The official administrative facilities are located between the inner and outer city walls, that is, the outer city area.

Conventional residential areas and civilian commercial areas are outside the outer city walls, which is the Chengxiang area.

The few residential areas within the inner city walls are all factory dormitories and infrastructure.

Anyone who wants to enter the outer city needs to hold a certificate issued by the local garrison.

To enter the inner city, you also need a work permit from a factory in the city.

Even if you have a certificate, the number of times and time you can enter and exit the city walls each month will be strictly restricted.

You can only enter and exit the inner city at designated times and are subject to strict inspection.

The specific dates of these designated entry and exit times vary each month and are not directly stated publicly.

Only people in the inner city will be notified face to face through internal management agencies.

The fifteen Ming princes who returned from America, as well as the American elites they brought with them, were kept at the reception outside the Shanhaifu City and waited for five days.

The naval generals who accompanied the princes to Shanhaiwei, as well as the officials from the Ministry of Clan Affairs who accompanied them, completed the docking procedures with the local garrison officers, factory managers, and yamen officials in Shanhaiwei, and it took them three full days to complete the work.

Then the team arranged by the Shanhaifu government, the army, and the factory brought a large number of people to the reception desk, confirmed the identities of all members of the entire American visiting team one by one, and issued them a temporary identity on the spot.

Then we started distributing protective clothing to them and gave them basic explanations of radiation knowledge.

It mainly explains the possible consequences of exposure to radioactive materials and what you need to pay attention to when approaching and visiting.

It is specifically requested that no one should reach out and touch anything at will.

In order to enhance their understanding, the tour guide played specially recorded videos on the spot.

Video footage of observations of animals exposed to radioactive materials.

In fact, in the early history of mankind, there was almost no systematic awareness of prevention in the research of radiation.

Just like the early people who studied sulfuric acid, they were directly fumigate by the sulfuric acid vapor and died of vomiting blood.

Early radioactive substances were even believed to have the ability to treat diseases and were even added to cosmetics and made into children's toys.

However, as a time traveler, Zhu Jianxuan knew how dangerous these things were, so he made preparations in advance.

From the very beginning of the relevant research, all radioactive materials have been strictly controlled.

And let researchers conduct special animal experiments to confirm the dangers of radiation and strengthen the vigilance of scientific researchers themselves.

This will allow them to take the initiative to strengthen the management of radioactive materials.

This strict management method also creates a de facto deterrent, making those who come into contact with the person later be extra cautious.

Including the fifteen princes, this group of elites from America were all in extreme shock and confusion after listening to some introductions.

Now elites around the world have learned that the Ming Dynasty can control the plague, which is caused by bacteria and viruses.

However, bacteria and viruses do exist and can be observed through chemical means and microscopes. They are safe most of the time without contact.

However, the radiation from this radioactive substance can cause living things to gradually die in extremely painful circumstances without any direct contact.

Many people, after listening to these introductions, immediately think of things like black magic and witchcraft.

Watching those time-lapse videos, I saw the fur of the animals slowly rotting away and blood gushing out intermittently.

Many of the things that cause this phenomenon are extremely beautiful, with bright colors and crystal clearness, just like various gems, making people want to collect them at first sight.

This intuitive contrast made them feel a chill in their hearts.

Many people thought directly, if the Ming people did not introduce these things to them, but arranged for people to make handicrafts with these things and sell them to them...

Then they will continue to get sick and die, but they will not be able to know the cause of their death.

What they saw in the Ming fleet was a powerful force that made people unable to resist, and what was being displayed now was a strange power that was like magic.

The fifteen princes who also participated in the study actually had some predictions about these situations.

This reminded me of the fact that in the basic knowledge course that Zhu Jianxuan had arranged for them before, some similar warnings and basic knowledge of radioactive elements were specifically mentioned.

They know that there are some magical or strange elements that will produce effects similar to the various demonic abilities in the legends.

I have been told since I was a child to be particularly vigilant about these things, but not to be blindly afraid.

Don't be deceived by similar methods, and don't collect night-shining pearls of unknown origin or various unknown and brightly colored minerals.

Now, after listening to these detailed explanations, they were able to piece together the basic knowledge they had learned.

After seven days of explanation or warning, the commander of Shanhaiwei explained that the next itinerary was to take them into the factory to get close to those things.

Many representatives backed out on the spot.

Although the craftsmen who gave the explanation specifically explained under what circumstances radioactive elements are dangerous and under what circumstances radioactive elements are safe.

Breathing will be impaired at any time, and direct contact is fine at any time.

However, many times fear is out of control, especially with things that are filled with magical effects.

But the officials in charge of the event required them to go and see it.

They were also specifically reminded that contact with these radioactive minerals themselves was not the focus of the visit.

What is more important is the subsequent weapons experiments.

Finally, these American elites had to take action and followed the local officers and craftsmen into Shanhai City with trepidation.

Undergo two rounds of special inspections and pass through two tall and thick city walls.

They carefully put on the protective clothing they had been given and followed the craftsmen carefully into the factory's exhibition hall.

Go and observe the colorful uranium ores on site, and observe the refined uranium yellow cakes on site.

Visit the large-scale uranium refining plant, production line, ore warehouse, and yellowcake warehouse.

During this process, many of them had similar questions in their minds: Why did the Ming Dynasty do these things?
Is it just for "poisoning", "dark magic", "witchcraft"?

This number is too much.

Just a little bit of dust can cause a person to gradually become sick and die.

The output of these factories and warehouses in the Ming Dynasty is estimated to cause a city or even a country to collapse directly.

So is this actually an upgraded version of the plague tactic?

The factory's guides did not tell them about other uses of uranium, so they could only imagine it in a magical and weird way. As a result, the more they imagined, the more panic they felt.

Finally, they left the factory tremblingly, and when they returned to the reception office outside the city, many representatives were a little dazed.

The officials leading the tour had to rest for five days at the reception outside the city.

After they had basically recovered their spirits, they boarded the train again and headed for the test site in the Australian interior.

Along the way, America's elites once again began to imagine what this so-called weapon was.
Based on the information we have obtained so far, it is related to what they saw in the factory. Is that a weapon specially made for large-scale delivery?
This is a natural speculation, and most representatives had similar thoughts.

Only in the minds of the fifteen princes, based on the relevant knowledge they had learned in the past, they made a slightly different judgment.

It was a judgment that even the princes themselves could hardly believe.

Is it really possible to release the energy between "atoms" directly?
That would be very scary.

The prince and the American representatives took a train that traveled more than a thousand kilometers inland to the north and finally arrived at a remote town in the desert.

The structure of this city is highly similar to that of Shanhaifu, both of which are new cities surrounded by two layers of walls.

It’s just that the city in this desert is smaller, there are almost no facilities outside the city, and the control of entry and exit of the city is stricter.

The prince and the American elites changed to motor vehicles here and continued driving more than 200 kilometers deep into the desert, approaching a smaller town.

But they did not enter the town. Instead, they stopped five kilometers away from the city and entered a temporary military camp.

The military camp is surrounded by typical bunkers and fortifications built with reinforced concrete, just like a real military base on the front line of combat.

However, unlike ordinary military bases, this military camp has chemical defense and decontamination facilities, and there are many people wearing protective clothing.

They used special vehicles, carrying various animals, including cows, sheep, chickens, ducks, etc., and drove to the small town a few kilometers away.

Representatives from the Americas could all imagine that this military camp was responsible for conducting radioactive weapons experiments.

Many people speculated that in the small town a few kilometers away, the animals were used to simulate humans and were sent into buildings that could be seen from afar.

Many people have already started to imagine the experimental process.

The animals were sent to a simulated, purpose-built city, where radioactive materials were dropped from airplanes and the city was filmed and observed from the airplanes.

See when those animals will develop symptoms and how many will die in the next few days.

The American elites lived in the military camp for three days, and the preparations for the formal experiment also lasted for three days.

On the morning of the third day, the reporters and photographers who came from America to accompany the group received special arrangements.

They were led to the rear of a special bunker and then asked to set up the filming equipment and aim it at the small city a few kilometers away.

After receiving the order to start the experiment, carefully photograph the changes in the small town itself.

These photographers had similar speculations as the American elites, thinking that this experiment should be similar to the release of a plague.

To see the results you should definitely go to the site, or at least use a plane to fly over the experimental subjects to see them.

If you take pictures of that small town a few kilometers away, you can only see the exterior shapes of the houses, but you can't tell whether the animals in the city are dead or not.

And why film from behind a bunker? Would that thing still affect them from a distance of several kilometers?
What happened next was even stranger.

These hundreds of elites in America were also arranged behind a large number of military bunkers.

Several people formed a group and gathered behind an observation post. They were asked to keep an eye on the small town in the distance and observe its changes.

At the same time, the officers in the barracks were divided into more than a dozen groups and took the soldiers to distribute sunglasses to them, requiring everyone to put them on after hearing the order to start the experiment.

Because this experiment will produce intense flash effects, direct viewing with the naked eye may cause vision damage.

The elites from America were puzzled by this arrangement.

This is mainly because the psychological expectations that were taken for granted based on the information I received previously are completely inconsistent with the arrangements I have received now.

This misalignment between psychology and reality did not disappear until the experiment officially began.

But by that time, they would not have the chance to think about why this misalignment occurred, and they would not consider anything in the short term.

When the experimental preparations were completed, it was already past eleven in the morning.

The officer in charge of the experiment issued a preparatory order, requiring everyone to hide in the bunker, wear sunglasses and adjust the filming and recording equipment.

Soldiers were arranged to patrol the scene to make sure everyone was hiding and wearing sunglasses.

Then the highest commander on the scene gave the order for the experiment to begin.

Not long after, everyone vaguely heard the sound of an airplane engine. Apparently, a jet was approaching a small town a few kilometers away from the side.

As the plane arrived over the town, it dropped a bomb with a parachute.

Everyone behind the bunker in the military camp was wearing sunglasses and staring at the plane, watching the bombs it dropped.

All the soldiers and craftsmen on the scene were very serious.

Instead, the American elites and photographers were somewhat confused, and they also vaguely felt that there might be something wrong with their previous considerations.

Then their thinking stopped.

Because they had seen that in the sky above the small town in the distance, an exceptionally bright object suddenly appeared.

It was like a ball of completely melted iron, fading its red color to a bright silver-white color.

However, this silver-white thing only existed for a short moment, and then immediately turned into an extremely bright huge ball of light.

Its light was so bright that it completely covered the light of the midday sun, making the sun seem a little dim.

The princes and American elites in the military camp couldn't help but open their mouths wide.

I watched in a trance and astonishment as the ball of light expanded rapidly, and the buildings of the small city on the ground were blown down like cardboard.

The smoke that swept across the entire town slowly rose up and turned into a huge column of smoke that could cover the town.

After rising for a long time, it expanded again, as if it was wearing a round hat.

The column of smoke turned into a giant mushroom standing between heaven and earth.

It was not until this time that many people finally realized that what the plane dropped was not poison or plague, but a pure huge bomb.

That huge mushroom is the smoke formed by the dust stirred up from the ground after the heavy bomb exploded.

However, they had never seen a column of smoke from such a huge explosion.

On their way to Australia, the planes on the accompanying aircraft carrier conducted training and dropped large four-ton bombs at sea.

The American elites at the time found the explosion caused by the bombs extremely terrifying.

But compared with this terrifying and weird guy in front of him, it is on a completely different level.

The gap is too huge and the scene before us is too exaggerated.

To the point that many people’s brains are unable to think, or they dare not think.

The gap between the two may be hundreds or even thousands of times.

But... this bomb was also dropped from an airplane, and it is impossible for an airplane to carry a bomb weighing thousands of tons.

So there is only one possibility, that is, the people of the Ming Dynasty invented a new explosive whose energy density is hundreds or thousands of times that of chemical explosives.

In the future, just one bomb can destroy a city?
(End of this chapter)