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    Shortly after the inspection of the northwest, news finally came that the U.S. Congress had officially passed the Philippine Independence Act, and there was now one more sovereign country in the South China Sea.  After sending Trotsky away, Wang Zhengting immediately entered into negotiations to establish diplomatic relations with the Philippines. Although the influence of the United States is still there, the Philippines also attaches great importance to relations with its close neighbors.

    Soon after Manuel Luis Quezon took office as President of the Philippines, he came to Beijing to personally preside over negotiations on the establishment of diplomatic relations to deepen relations between the two countries.  Yang Qiu gave his visit the highest level of reception and publicly stated that China has no intention of Philippine territory and will not allow any country to undermine the independence of the Philippines.  This promise relieved Quezon, who had been worried about being annexed by others after the United States withdrew. In return, he immediately approved seven Chinese companies' mining investment projects in the Philippines, and for the first time allowed Chinese banks, including Shanxi Bank, to invest in the Philippines.  Set up a branch in any city in the Philippines.

    The news of Philippine independence aroused great repercussions in the country. The newspapers had different opinions. Some said it was a good thing, while others believed that the Philippines was too weak to protect itself and would be invaded by others and ultimately harm the sovereignty of Taiwan and China's South China Sea.  rhetoric, but no matter what, the Philippines' independence still caused a strong sensation in countries around the world, especially in the colonies.

    Soon after, massive independence marches were held in Batavia, Borneo, Sumatra, Vietnam, India and other regions, demanding an end to colonial rule and the establishment of an independent country. The happiest person in this round of movement was the Indian country led by Chandra.  After the Democratic Party took the opportunity to absorb a large number of young people who demanded independence, the National Democratic Party of India instantly became the second largest party in the country that could threaten the status of the Congress Party, and truly pushed India to the brink of civil war.  Another happy person was Stalin. Taking advantage of this independence movement, GC International fanned the flames in Southeast Asia, India and other places. It also established a GC International Sports Center in Afghanistan for the first time, posing a posture of active intervention.

    ? Same.  The national society that went abroad was not to be left behind, accelerating the propaganda of national society ideas and promoting the Chinese model of the independence movement.

    The spring thunder stings, and all things begin to stir!

    The world's political structure is changing little by little under the influence of rapidly changing geopolitics, just waiting for the shocking lightning to strike.

    The August night was sultry and uncomfortable, and the reading hall of Wuhan National Defense University was crowded with cadets reading to cool off. But the strange thing was that when everyone was gathered under the ceiling fan, in a corner where the wind could not blow, there sat a tall figure.  Strong.  The twenty-six-year-old second lieutenant, with his collar widely open, was looking up information and writing and drawing with a focused expression.  As the highest institution of higher education in the military, the National Defense University has become the world's top military institution after 20 years of development since its official establishment in 1913. Here you can not only learn various military tactics and strategies, but also a lot of military knowledge." The chapter is updated the fastest  ¡± Scientific research projects exist, in the words of the older generation.  Astronomy and geography are all encompassing.

    But it¡¯s not easy to get into this place, because the National Defense University¡¯s admissions requirements are very strict. Students must have experience studying in other military academies across the country, and must have more than one year of grassroots experience in the military.  Then you must first obtain a letter of recommendation through internal selection, then obtain a letter of recommendation from Congress, and finally have the president sign the admissions list before you can enter here.  Of course, to attract new blood.  The National Defense University will also recruit talents from private universities, but most of them are talents in science and technology. Only a very small number of military or political strategy geniuses can enter here without recommendation.

    "Look, look, look. The latest news is that the US military is withdrawing from Little Luzon (Philippines)."

    A voice broke the tranquility of the library. Most of the people here were young people in their twenties and seventies, and they all studied military affairs, so any military trends would attract attention, so the shouting cadet was quickly  Several classmates were pushed down on the broad table, and the newspapers were also snatched away.  "Brothers, please don't grab it. There are still some here." The cadet stood up with a smile, and another identical newspaper appeared out of nowhere, but before he could be happy for long, someone snatched it away from behind.

    "Who is this, dares to steal my things?" The officer shouted and turned his head, but when he saw the other person's appearance clearly, he suddenly turned into a playful smile: "Brother Zhuo Fan, please analyze it for us."

    The man grabbing the newspaper is the young man who was sitting in the corner writing just now. His name is Zhuo Fan. He is a graduate of the sixth batch of the Shenyang Army Armor School. He later served as the company commander of the armored regiment in the 103rd Central Guard Division. He was recommended to participate because of his outstanding performance.  Passed the National Defense University examination in one fell swoop.  After entering the National Defense University, he gradually showed his military talents and became the "Company Commander" for two consecutive years.

    This "Company Commander" is not a company commander in the army, but is elected by the students themselves, and is awarded to the best students after each assessment.  Due to fierce competition, the top spot often takes turns within a year.  And every company commander is also the target of competition by various troops. Now the famous Mesozoic officers in the army, such as Zhu Peide, Liu Mingzhao, Long Yun, Bai Chongxi, etc., have all received the title of company commander for one year.Excellent military talents.  The same is true for Zhuo Fan. Except for the first four months of joining the school, he has firmly held the position of "Company Commander" for the rest of the two years. It is said that he has one year left to graduate. He has been chased by several troops, even the number one, who is known as the trump card.  The division paid special attention to him, and the division commander Chu Nan personally went to the Ministry of National Defense to call his name.

    Military academies, like the army, believe in strength. The company commanders are chosen by the students themselves, so they are even more admired by everyone.  However, Zhuo Fan was obviously different from his predecessors. He never took this nickname seriously. Not only was he not well-dressed, but he was also not very good at talking, so he picked up the newspaper and sat back in the corner without saying a word.

    The students were unwilling to give in and gathered around him again, hoping to hear him comment on the withdrawal of the US military from the South China Sea.  Although Zhuo Fan was taciturn, he was not an unkind person. After reading the news, he returned the newspaper to his classmates and said calmly: "There is going to be a war."

    "War? I said Boss Zhuo, who here doesn't know that the probability of Japan going south is increasing." The cadet who brought the newspaper was obviously not an ordinary person, and he deliberately glared at Zhuo Fan.  Zhuo Fan didn't care about this kind of provocation. The military academy encouraged competition. As long as it was not malicious, no one would care about duels on the playground.

    But the war he was talking about was not in Nanyang. He raised his head and said, "Who told you that the war was in Nanyang? I was talking about the northwest."

    "What does the northwest have to do with the northwest? Yes, you can't hit it with eight poles. Can Japan fly to the northwest?" Everyone didn't believe it and asked him to explain.  Zhuo Fan felt it was a bit noisy, so he simply opened the newspaper and pointed to the other three news: "Look at these." Since everyone's attention was attracted by the withdrawal of US troops from the Philippines, no one really paid attention to the news in the corner of the newspaper.  It wasn't until his finger pointed that he saw clearly.  One is the news that Soviet Foreign Minister Motolov is visiting Tokyo, the other is the news that the Chief of General Staff of the Chinese National Defense Force, General Yue Peng, is about to visit Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and other countries, and the last one is that the British House of Commons supports the ban on the Soviet Union.  Good luck news.

    Three messages.  Each one contains a wealth of information.  Motolov's visit to Japan was definitely Stalin's intention to strengthen Soviet-Japanese relations and strategically attack the Republic of China. General Yue Peng's visit to Germany, Poland and Eastern European countries was to counterattack the Soviet Union and implement anti-encirclement.  The statement by the British House of Commons is undoubtedly equivalent to telling Moscow that China and Britain have come together again on the issue of dealing with the Soviet Union.

    Coupled with the fact that the U.S. military began to gradually withdraw from the Philippines, everyone felt a faint sense of the depressing atmosphere that a storm was about to come.

    "So, the Soviet Union will deal with us first in the northwest because they are afraid of being surrounded? Brother Zhuofan, when do you think they will show up? Why is there a power outage again! Damn, what is going on in the power plant these days? Seven days a week,  But there was a power outage for five nights. And no one was allowed to read."

    While the students were chattering endlessly, the lights in the library suddenly went out.  Without a fan, the spacious library became very hot.  Zhuo Fan was also puzzled. Because Hubei was the birthplace of the president and one of the most important industrial centers in the Midwest, its development rate has been leading the country for decades.  Not to mention that most of the province has been electrified. There are two thermal power plants and several small hydropower stations near Wuhan alone. The rich power can even support Jiangxi and Henan. Why are there always power outages recently?

    Since there is no electricity, I can¡¯t read a book.  So Zhuo Fan packed up his books and simply prepared to go back to the dormitory to sleep.  But as soon as I walked to the door, I saw several classmates bringing a large box of candles. As they walked, they shouted: "Brothers! I have a big news for you. The president is here!"

    "The Great Hero of Xinhai Chapter 720: Sprouting (5)" "Wow! Is it real or fake?"

    "Bullshit, I saw the presidential motorcade drive into the vice school with my own eyes, and the principal and Commander Qiu were still accompanying it. I also saw Mr. Hua Luogeng."

    "Wow. I haven't met the president yet, let's go check it out."

    "What are you looking at? The Central Guard Division must have cordoned off the deputy school. Forget it. I won't even look. Since the president is coming to the school, he will definitely come to inspect it tomorrow. I'd better go back and have a good sleep. Maybe he will be selected to guard after the inspection tomorrow.  Where is the teacher?"

    "As for you, it is possible for the newly formed 51st Infantry Division to become a platoon leader."

    "Ha ha."

    Amid the laughter of the students, Yang Qiu, accompanied by Jiang Fangzhen and Qiu Wenbin, arrived at the Vice-President of National Defense University.  Different from the main school, although the deputy school of the National Defense University is in the same small courtyard, it is far apart and separated by a thick wall. There is also a barbed wire fence on the wall. There are soldiers patrolling day and night. There are no special identification cards.  Don't even think about entering.

    The reason why the security is so tight is that the vice-president is actually a national defense technology and experiment center with a large number of high-secret laboratories and more than 2,000 national defense technicians, including tube computers that attracted Yang Qiulai to inspect.

    The electron tube computer is one of the core projects in the 3010 plan. It has been five years since the project was established at the end of 1929.  Electronic computer isWhat?  How does it work?  Issues such as how to write computing programs are still blank to the current scientific community, so after the project was established, Hua Luogeng and others were completely blind.  Yang Qiu didn't understand it himself, but at least he knew more principles than them, so after the project was established, he wrote down some binary calculation methods and other things, and then rummaged through the computer to find out the sparse and pitiful computer-related information in it.  , regardless of whether it is useful or not, just give it all to the project team.

    Genius is still a genius. He originally thought that he would not be able to solve it within seven or eight years. Unexpectedly, Hua Luogeng and others, who initiated the most important project at the age of only 24, just relied on their solid mathematical skills to piece things together in a disorderly manner.  The information was compiled into a volume, and a prototype was built in just five years. After learning that the test machine had recently begun, Yang Qiu immediately came from Beijing overnight to see what happened.

    The tube computer is huge, so a six-story, all-reinforced concrete building with a two-story basement was built to accommodate it and the technical team.  After entering the computer laboratory building located in the northwest corner, the first thing you see are the two characters "ÐÇÐÇ" painted in gold.  The name was coined by an experimenter after seeing the densely packed electron tubes on the design for the first time. He thought that after turning on the machine, the electron tubes would flash like stars. It was adopted because of its simplicity and similarity.

    The space inside the building is very spacious, and three domestic central air conditioners are installed on the roof, so as soon as you walk in, everyone immediately feels that the heat of the "hero of 1911" has completely disappeared.  The Xingchen No. 1 host is placed in the basement at the bottom, because the electronic tubes emit a lot of heat when they operate.  Therefore, there are two central air conditioners specifically responsible for dissipating heat for the host. In addition to the central air conditioner, there are several ventilators in the computer room to speed up the air circulation.

    Star 1 is similar to the famous Eniac computer, with a volume equivalent to 10 ordinary rooms, a weight of 30 tons, and an overall cost of approximately 1 million yuan.  There are more than thirty operating stations, nearly 20,000 vacuum tubes, thousands of crystal diodes and resistors, tens of thousands of capacitors, 132 kilometers of wires, and more than 600 main switches.  Using large magnetic tapes as storage, previous test runs have shown that the design computing capability has reached 5,000 additions and subtractions or 400 multiplications and divisions per second.

    In the eyes of Jiang Fangzhen and others, the dense circuits and switches are almost like a heavenly book, but in the eyes of mathematicians such as Hua Luogeng, this computer is the most precious treasure.  "We use a series of metal-base vacuum tubes developed by Global Communications Company." Hua Luogeng, who was quietly involved in the epoch-making technology, took out a few electron tubes and handed them to Yang Qiu, speaking excitedly: "Compared with ordinary glass vacuum electron tubes, this kind of electron tube has a metal base on the base.  With wrinkles, it dissipates heat better and is much smaller.¡±

    Hua Luogeng and the technicians explained computer principles while introducing.  Yang Qiu also shook hands with every technician he met and thanked them for their efforts.  To be honest, the appearance of Xingchen No. 1 made him very excited. Although it was still very primitive, its appearance could solve problems such as aviation design.  The complex and time-consuming calculation work encountered in research such as fluid mechanics has a greater and more important role in promoting national defense and high-precision technology than atomic bombs and rockets.

    The only pity is that this thing consumes too much power.  Jiang Fangzhen thought of the power outage just now and asked, "Teacher Hua. Every time you turn on the phone, is there a city-wide power outage?"

    Hua Luogeng chuckled: "Don't worry, Principal Jiang. Although Xingchen No. 1 consumes a lot of power, it is not to the extent that the city needs to make concessions. The main reason for doing this now is that the voltage instability will burn out the components inside. The power plant's dedicated line is already under construction.  It can be repaired in half a month at most.¡±

    Yang Qiucai doesn¡¯t care how much electricity he consumes. The worst he can do is allocate money to build a power plant to supply it.  He now wanted to see the actual capabilities of Xingchen No. 1 and asked, "Wen Bin, have you brought the things I asked you to prepare?"

    Qiu Wenbin immediately asked someone to bring the latest artillery list.  Because the ballistics of each type of artillery are different, a detailed ballistic firepower table, also called a gun table, needs to be calculated before equipping it.  Don't underestimate these artillery tables. They require very precise calculations. Each one requires at least 200 calculators working overtime on hand-operated computers for several months to complete.  This is still peacetime. If there is an emergency, weapons manufacturers and the military need to jointly use several times or even dozens of times the number of computers to shorten the time, so the artillery list has always been regarded as one of the army's top secrets.  Of course, the main reason why Yang chose the artillery watch in autumn was because he remembered that Eniak also used the artillery watch for testing during the experiment.

    Hua Luogeng took over the artillery and shell data from Hou Hou, dismissed the irrelevant personnel to make room and ordered to start the machine.

    When Xingchen No. 1 was turned on, the temperature in the room increased significantly. Tens of thousands of electronic tubes arranged neatly in proportions emitted a bright and dazzling light. Female soldiers transferred from the communications corps after review carefully monitored each group of electronic tubes.  As the calculation instructions are input on the console, the flashing light of the electronic tube is really like the twinkling stars in the night sky.

    The high-power ventilator made a low whine, and everyone?All holding their breath.  Even Yang Qiu didn't care about sweating, silently watching every step and waiting for the result.

    After just thirty minutes, the calculation results were stored in the tape cassette.  The engineer took out the tape cassette and loaded it into a specially designed tape reader. A moment later, a gun list that required hundreds of computers and several months to complete was handed over to Yang Qiu.

    "Quick, give me the original watch."

    At this time, Yang Qiu was as excited as a child. He took out the calculated original table from Qiu Wenbin's hand and carefully checked it line by line. When he checked again and again and found that the results were completely consistent, he couldn't help waving his arms excitedly:  "Yes, completely accurate!"

    "Very good!"

    "Ha ha."

    "Thank you! Thank you for your efforts. You have created the era of electronic computers for our motherland and nation!"

    Everyone jumped up excitedly, and Yang Qiu shook hands with every technician again. Even the female soldiers responsible for checking the operation of the electronic tubes shook hands and thanked them one by one.  There are no words to describe his excitement. He knows much better than Hua Luogeng and others that the success of Star-1 will officially lay the foundation for China to become a world power.

    Computer!

    Transistors have also been included in the 3010 plan, and preliminary products were launched not long ago.  Perhaps it won¡¯t take long before we can see more advanced and faster transistor computers. When they are gradually applied to the field of scientific research, what else can¡¯t be imagined?  !

    The door to the electronic age has finally been opened!  ¡­(To be continued.)
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