Chapter 676 Good Morning, Dongning (Second update, please subscribe)
"Hey..."
The rejection from an old friend made Li Yian sigh.
Some things cannot be stopped after all.
After Weiran let out a long sigh, Li Yian, who was standing by the window, slowly walked to the large teak desk, then looked at the report on the desk, opened it again, and then Browsed through it again.
"Okay, finally the moment has come."
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In the dead of night, outside a factory in the "Atomic City" in the hinterland of Southeast Asia, military police with live ammunition guarded the factory expressionlessly. , in a rest room in the factory, after drinking a glass of milk, Liang Yiyi took a deep breath and began to put on the bulky protective clothing with the help of his apprentice. Although the rest room was air-conditioned, he could wait until he put on the protective helmet. , he was still sweating.
After putting on his helmet, he walked out of the lounge.
As the company's senior technician, Liang Yiyi was selected into the factory at the beginning of the year along with twelve other senior technicians.
In order to process special parts, they started simulating practice operations as early as half a year ago, but at that time they used steel for practice. In the past six months, each of them has processed several tons of steel.
After half a year of hard work, everyone, including Liang Yiyi, can accurately and skillfully operate special lathes and other tools to process special parts while wearing protective clothing.
Although he is an ordinary worker, Liang Yiyi also knows that processing actual raw materials requires not only endurance and skills, but also courage, because radiation is fatal!
Even if you wear protective clothing, special masks, and special gloves, your body will still be exposed to a certain amount of radiation. In order to reduce physical harm as much as possible, the six best workers each undertake part of the processing.
But after the cast special parts were clamped on the fixture, Liang Yiyi began to process them carefully. What he wanted to process at this moment was an extremely deadly metal plutonium ball.
This is no ordinary steel ball, not because of its high cost, but because of its lethality.
The Geiger counter chirped.
Big beads of sweat dripped from his forehead. Seeing this scene, the person in charge, Sun Chenghai, walked up to them.
"Don't be so nervous. It will definitely be no problem for you to complete this work. Relax for a few minutes, drink a glass of milk, and then go back to continue working."
Liang was satisfied. Nodding, he entered the lounge again, drank a glass of milk, smoked a cigarette, put on his protective helmet again, and then returned to the lathe to start again. This time he was more careful than the last time, and occasionally paused to check the dimensions accurately. Process, measure, adjust step by step, and then process.
In the early morning of October 16, the 4.2-kilogram plutonium ball in the core of the atomic bomb was ready.
At the same time, in various manufacturing workshops in the Atomic City, all components of the atomic bomb, including explosive prism castings, neutron reflective layers, uranium cores, ignition devices and electrical accessories, have been transported under the command of engineers Assembly shop - In fact, in the past year, they have conducted hundreds of detonation tests with coreless atomic bombs. Now it's just assembling the parts of the atomic bomb.
Two days later, after all the preparations were completed and after receiving a positive answer from the engineer, Colonel Cheng Guoliang, the head of the Atomic City military, made a call to the official residence through the dedicated line. The content of the call Very simple.
"Your Excellency, good morning, Dongning."
The moment he received the call, Li Yian originally thought he would be very excited, but at this moment, he was indeed surprisingly calm. , calmly as if facing a small matter.
"Then let's get started!"
Then he hung up the phone.
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In the early morning of two days later, on October 20, the heavily guarded convoy drove out of Atomic City. After traveling 40 kilometers, it approached the river bank, and then the car drove into it. Two landing craft, escorted by escort boats, went straight down the river. At dusk, the fleet docked at the dock near the river mouth. The convoy once again sailed into a mechanized landing ship, escorted by two destroyers, and sailed After exiting the Makassar Strait, it reunited with the "Katsugi Air" and two other destroyers, and headed east toward Dongning.
In the early morning of the next day, the Navy Department issued a notice-the Navy planned to conduct military exercises in the waters around Truk in early November.
After this announcement was issued, there was no reaction from all walks of life. It seemed that for the diplomatic community in Chang'an, this was just a normal reaction.
“Is this a response to the incident on the peninsula?” Ambassador Kirk asked in the US Embassy.
"I am more inclined to believe that Nanyang is demonstrating with force, that is what they told me."
Frank said coldly.
"They are extremely dissatisfied with the Mindanao incident. Officials of the Manila authorities are harming everyone's career for their own personal interests. The corrupt behavior of the authorities will only lead to the intensification of the "Hook Movement."
"Are you sure they are really suppressing "Hook elements" in Mindanao?"
Kirk asked rhetorically.
Frank thought for a moment and then said:
“I don’t know what happened there, but from what my colleagues in Manila say, if the Manila authorities have half the capabilities of the Autonomous Council of Mindanao , even as long as they are as clean as they are, then the Philippines will definitely become the "Pig Window" of the United States in Asia, and will not be a joke."
He put the report away and said.
“The current naval exercises of the Nanyang Navy are mainly to demonstrate to the Philippines, and secondly, they may also be to join them on the peninsula. I guess they are very likely to send the navy.”
< br>"Navy, we don't need it..."
Grinning awkwardly, the black-rimmed glasses on Kirk's face reflected the lights above his head, and the two bony eyes behind the lenses were burning. Shiny. He pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose.
“However, it is better to send out the navy to participate than to say nothing.”
"Yes, there is finally some expression, more than one billion US dollars in aid, in exchange for returns."
At this point, Frank couldn't help laughing, as if he was talking about something ridiculous. matter. "No, more than one billion dollars, we have gained a powerful ally."
Seeing him like this, Kirk knew that this guy might not understand the deeper meaning:
"Nanyang, now It is our business card. In the past few years, Nanyang's economic success can prove to the world that with the support and help of the United States, a backward country can quickly grow into an economic power. , isn’t this the best proof?”
Kirk continued.
"Frank, in Washington, many senators said... If our aid targets are like Western Europe and Southeast Asia, then we will definitely win the competition with the Russians, but... don't forget, the Philippines gets more , but what happened? The money was said to have turned into their deposits in Swiss banks!”
He shrugged helplessly. Like many American officials, Kirk was also very helpless about the Philippines. Officials who are disgusted with the Philippines have turned a large amount of US aid into foreign deposits. On the one hand, they are afraid that the Philippines will turn red if the aid is stopped. In fact, this is also the biggest headache for U.S. foreign aid.
It is precisely because of this that the United States has a good impression of Nanyang, because the US aid it received has indeed been effective, which means that what they have gained is an economically powerful ally.
“Yes, it’s a pity that it is the Philippines. Otherwise, I would be more inclined to support the comprehensive autonomy of Mindanao. At least in terms of managing the country, the Tang people are indeed better than the Filipinos!”
After pondering for a moment, Kirk said.
"In other words, there is nothing worthy of attention in this military exercise?"
"Yes, Mr. Ambassador, except for one thing..."
Frank said directly.
“They are very dissatisfied with the Philippines!”
(End of this chapter)