The Ming Dynasty did not revolutionize

Chapter 455: Fusion Bomb Ready
Zhu Jianxuan had been working on this for nearly two years and had laid a solid foundation for the layout of the Ming Dynasty's cultural and artistic industries.

Due to Zhu Jianxuan's own huge influence, this tiny foundation quickly took root and sprouted as a seed, and has begun to affect the entire industry and even the entire society.

Private drama troupes and publishing houses are all imitating what Zhu Jianxuan planned.

Zhu Jianxuan himself continued to instruct the magazine that if the magazine sales exceeded one million, they should try to launch sub-issues in different categories.

If I still can't get over this not-so-high hurdle, I will come back to investigate and make adjustments.

The magazine market in Daming is now a blue ocean, and the potential readership is as high as hundreds of millions. If a new magazine that is a pioneering one still cannot sell one million copies despite its own influence, then there is definitely a problem.

Whether it is a misjudgment or a problem with the business model, careful analysis and readjustment are required.

But it shouldn't be a big problem.

If a branch publication is opened, the main publication will still maintain its existing operating model and still have several different categories within it, while the branch publication will only have one or two specialized categories.

Observe the sales data of different publications and make targeted adjustments to the printing quantity.

One year after all magazines have been officially published and readers have a basic understanding of the new novels, we can start soliciting submissions from the public.

Early private submissions may find it difficult to meet the magazine's requirements, but they can be cultivated slowly.

If the magazine wants to continue to expand, it cannot just rely on the existing regular authors, mainly because most of these authors are not the most talented.

They were originally engaged in novel writing and script writing, and these two industries are not popular industries.

The writers with the best literary talent and qualifications usually do not specialize in this for a long time.

The most talented literati may be found in various government offices at the imperial court, educational institutions, research institutes, and in the management levels of manufacturers.

Zhu Jianxuan has already made public the new regulations, which state that royalties can be used as legal additional income for these people, so they may be able to participate in creation privately.

The Ming Dynasty’s control over officials’ assets was similar to that in Zhu Jianxuan’s previous life; their assets must have a reasonable and legal source.

Otherwise, they can be directly punished for the crime of "huge amounts of property of unknown origin".

Of course, this crime is specifically aimed at state officials and does not apply to ordinary people.

It is impossible for all officials to just eat their salaries honestly, and it is obviously impossible to completely eliminate various gray or even illegal ways of earning money.

But giving them a legal source of extra income is certainly a great thing for them.

As new magazines and new stories continue to become more popular, they will surely have an impact on more and more people of status, allowing them to participate in creation out of interest and benefit.

If these people want to receive their royalties safely, they usually have no choice but to remain anonymous.

Their status can directly help to raise the status of this industry. The new generation of children growing up in this environment will no longer think that this industry is bad.

After Zhu Jianxuan made plans for the magazine, he adjusted his work focus again and went back to paying attention to the filming of film and television dramas.

The main purpose was to split up the two already mature crews again and bring a group of people to prepare to shoot Journey to the West.

Compared with Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin, the biggest problem of Journey to the West is that it involves various supernatural powers, creatures and abilities that do not exist in reality.

To use things that exist in reality to capture the effects of non-existent spells and props really requires a lot of ideas and experience.

If the screenwriters and directors of this world were left to explore on their own, they would probably be able to find a way slowly.

But it is obviously not as quick as Zhu Jianxuan giving a reference answer directly.

Zhu Jianxuan looked through the film and television footage from his previous life and wrote down all the shooting and editing techniques he knew.

Let the crew and the people from the School of Education slowly restore it, record it, archive it and write explanations, which will be used as guiding materials for compiling relevant majors in the school.

These experiences are obviously not only applicable to the filming of Journey to the West, but can also be used in the future filming of other film and television dramas involving supernatural themes such as mythology, fairy tales, etc.

Whether a design and operation is unique to a project and whether it can be used again in other places and other projects is also a typical feature of industrialization.

Zhu Jianxuan once again personally led the crew of Journey to the West to sort out the basic shooting ideas for the drama about gods and demons, and the shooting of Journey to the West gradually got on track.

By this time it was already the second half of the 33rd year of Tiangong, and Zhu Jianxuan's work focus had to temporarily shift away from the cultural and arts industry.

Because according to a special report submitted by the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering, the experimental fusion bomb has been produced in a domestic factory and the test site has been prepared.

Now I would like to ask Zhu Jianxuan whether to officially transport the fusion bomb to the Australian test site for test explosion and start the formal test explosion experiment.

Ming Dynasty's research on fusion bombs began before the successful explosion of fission bombs, which lasted at least five years in total.

But if we count from the explosion of the fission bomb, it has been less than three years.

However, even if calculated based on five years, the speed of Ming Dynasty's nuclear industry-related research and development can be considered extremely rapid.

Much faster than Americans who have studied alone in history.

The first fusion bomb made by Daming is already a very mature dry fusion bomb, and the total weight of the entire experimental device is only more than two tons.

In other words, it can be directly airdropped using existing aircraft or thrown using existing ballistic missiles, which gives it direct practical value.

The first fusion bomb experiment in American history used a primitive wet fusion bomb.

The entire explosive device weighs as much as 68 tons because it requires a large amount of refrigeration equipment to maintain the stability of the most important fusion fuel tritium.

That thing can't even be considered a bomb, it can only be considered an explosion test device, a principle experiment device.

Later, through research, it was discovered that solid lithium deuteride 6 could be used as explosives, and lithium deuteride could produce tritium when a violent reaction occurred.

The tritium produced at that time can be used as fuel for fusion reactions, thus eliminating the need for bulky and heavy maintenance equipment.

This is a problem of thinking and engineering. Once you know that you can do it, it is only a matter of time to produce the corresponding things.

Since Zhu Jianxuan knew this, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty did not need to take a detour and could go straight in the right direction to maturity.

According to the report, the weight of the experimental device now made is 2,560 kilograms, and the expected explosion power is about 300,000 to 600,000 tons of chemical explosives.

This data does not seem large. The equivalent of the first fusion experiment in the United States was 10 million tons.

But after the fusion bomb matures, increasing the explosion equivalent to millions or even tens of millions of tons will be a relatively simple engineering problem.

On the contrary, in the early stages of research and development, how to reduce the explosion equivalent is a very troublesome problem.

An explosive device weighing dozens of tons has very limited practical value.

At the same time, in history, the United States and the Soviet Union, after the maturity of fusion weapons, both made many super bombs with huge explosive power.

Especially the Soviet Tsar Bomb Big Ivan, which had an explosive equivalent of 50 million tons. However, as technology continues to mature and nuclear strike ideas and tactics continue to be innovated, both countries no longer develop and maintain super-large-yield bombs.

The main reason is that the bombs are too powerful and the actual strike effect is not ideal.

Because the pure energy generated by the explosion will spread evenly in all directions up, down, left, right, with the explosion point as the center, the affected range is a sphere in three-dimensional space.

Therefore, the radius of the explosion's killing range is proportional to the cube root of the explosion equivalent.

In other words, if the bomb's killing radius is to be increased to twice its original value, the equivalent of the explosive must be increased to eight times its original value.

The people and assets of human society are usually concentrated near the ground, which is generally a flat surface.

A large part of the energy dispersed by the explosive in three-dimensional space will be wasted.

The United States and the Soviet Union conducted a large number of experiments during the Cold War and developed a relatively simple evaluation method for the specific killing effects of high-yield explosives.

The most important performance indicator is "effective killing range".

In an urban environment, within a certain distance from the explosion point, taking into account the secondary casualties caused by the collapse of buildings, the probability of death is more than 50%.

Then this distance is the effective killing range of the explosive.

If it is in an open area or basement, the death rate of humans and animals in the same range will drop directly to an extremely low level.

There is also a simple way to estimate the approximate number of this killing range.

First, take the cube root of the equivalent of the explosive, and then multiply it by the explosion proportional constant 1.493885. The result is the radius of the effective killing range.

The equivalent unit is 10,000 tons and the radius unit is kilometer.

The 10-ton equivalent warhead has an effective killing radius of about 3.2 kilometers and an effective killing area of ​​about 32 square kilometers.

The 100-ton equivalent warhead has an effective killing radius of about 6.9 kilometers and an effective killing area of ​​about 150 square kilometers.

The 1000-ton equivalent warhead has an effective killing radius of about 14.9 kilometers and an effective killing area of ​​about 700 square kilometers.

The Big Ivan has an equivalent of 5000 million tons, an effective killing radius of about 25.5 kilometers, and an effective killing area of ​​about 2000 square kilometers.

Therefore, if Big Ivan exploded thirty kilometers away from a person in an open rural area, there is a high probability that the person would be safe and sound.

Even if the explosive equivalent is increased tenfold, the killing radius can only be increased a little more than two times, and the killing area can only be increased less than five times.

The actual killing effect of a bomb with a yield of 10 million tons is far less than that of ten bombs with a yield of 1 million tons.

From this we can see that simply stacking the explosive equivalent of individual bombs is not cost-effective in actual combat.

Therefore, after fusion weapons were invented, the equivalence race only lasted for a short period of time.

The nuclear powers soon began to pursue miniaturization and multiple warhead technology.

Zhu Jianxuan seems to have led the Ming Dynasty onto the right track. All he needs to do in the future is to continue to delve deeper into the miniaturization of fusion bombs and missile warhead technology.

After reading the report, Zhu Jianxuan directly instructed that the experiment could be started.

At the same time, the scientific research and engineering project teams were required to take a short break after the experiment, and then split into two groups to start in-depth research in the two aspects.

A team is developing a universal warhead with smaller weight and size and more complete functions, with a conservative goal of achieving a yield of at least 500,000 tons within one ton.

One team is responsible for developing a fusion warhead with the greatest possible explosive power, which is required to reach at least 10 million tons, and preferably more than 100 million tons.

Warheads with too large a yield have little significance in actual combat.

In the history of Zhu Jianxuan's previous life, even strategic nuclear warheads would not reach an equivalent of over 100 million tons.

Usually it is several million tons of equivalent, which is the most cost-effective range for fusion bombs, and 10 million tons is basically the limit.

If the equivalent amount is larger, it will be very difficult to control and use, and it will be very uneconomical in production and use.

The vast majority of tactical nuclear weapons will remain in the range of hundreds of thousands of tons of equivalent, which is the most appropriate range for tactical strikes.

But whether it is for the nuclear powers in the previous life or for the Ming Dynasty in this world, those super-large-yield nuclear bombs still have practical uses.

Based on the atomic bomb, the new weapon has further increased its power by several orders of magnitude, and its deterrent effect on public opinion propaganda is much greater than its actual combat effect.

The explosive equivalent has increased to eight times the original amount, and although the killing radius has only increased to twice the original amount, the deterrent effect will increase by dozens of times.

The main reason is that ordinary people simply cannot imagine what something that is a thousand times more powerful than an atomic bomb would be like.

This "unimaginable" thing is a good deterrent effect.

When he can actually see it, the deterrent effect may be reduced.

The United States has conducted nuclear weapons experiments many times in history, and a large number of photographers participated in the experiments, mainly responsible for taking photos and videos.

Some photographers later said in a documentary that they actually participated in the explosion test of a nuclear weapon with a yield of tens of millions of tons. After taking a large number of photos and videos with their own hands, their fear of nuclear weapons was significantly reduced.

Mainly, there is no qualitative leap in the human visual effect between the images of nuclear bomb explosions with a yield of tens of millions of tons and those of nuclear bomb explosions with a yield of hundreds of thousands of tons.

Instead, it allowed them to determine the true safe range of these explosives, which sounded extremely terrifying.

They all knew from their own experience that if an explosive with a yield of tens of millions of tons exploded thirty kilometers away from them, both they and the camera would be safe.

It didn’t even affect their lifespan.

The area of ​​the United States is 9.4 million square kilometers, which requires 13,000 10 million ton super nuclear bombs to cover it.

The world's landmass would require 210,000.

This does not take into account the gaps between the circular killing ranges, nor does it take into account that most of the earth is open space, while this standard is the killing range of cities.

Even if there were more than 200,000 10 million ton nuclear bombs, they would not be able to truly strike the entire earth.

But this would destroy all the cities.

Zhu Jianxuan finally made another additional addition and request that irrelevant personnel should no longer be allowed to participate in the test explosion of fusion weapons.

If there are subsequent visits planned for personnel from vassal states, only fission bomb tests will be arranged.

Keep fusion a certain mystery to all ordinary people.

(End of this chapter)