Early September

Seattle Port

In the past two days, the highest countermeasures meeting on the situation in North America has just been completed. Prime Minister Zhang Li and a senior government official who visited Europe with the Emperor took the luxury cruise ship of the Pacific Rider to return to Australia first.

Marshal Li Shuanzhu, who had made great contributions in Europe, and some senior generals returned on the same boat. It has been more than three years since they left Australia. At this moment, they are eager to return home.

The new Army Marshal Lord Bian Chunsong was in charge of North America's command of the army, deterring the United States and Japan, which were hostile to each other in North America.

The commander-in-chief of the European Expeditionary Force was replaced by Marshal Duan Qixiang, who temporarily sits in Paris and coordinates military operations with the countries in the agreement, which is essentially a discussion with Marshal Foch, the commander of the French army.

Most of the remaining troops of the British Expeditionary Force have evacuated Western European countries, leaving only more than 3,000 military representatives in Germany. In Istanbul and its surrounding areas, the British army still retained tens of thousands of troops and implemented indirect rule on them.

The Pacific Stroller, with a displacement of more than 30,000 tons, sounded a long whistle, and the huge hull slowly left the Seattle Pier. The black smoke from the tall chimney quickly became thicker and accelerated toward the distance.

The maximum speed of this giant ship can reach 24 knots. It uses the most advanced ship power technology today, and can maintain a long-term high-speed driving state. It only takes 9 days and 9 nights to cross the vast Pacific Ocean.

Such giant ships are already the world's largest shipping company. Pacific shipping has as many as 6 ships, mainly used for intercontinental transocean transportation liners.

Set sail from Melbourne, passes Sydney, Songjiang, Brisbane, Qingdao to Tianshu City, then crosses the Pacific Ocean to the east and goes straight to Los Angeles, then heads north through San Francisco and Portland, and finally arrives in Seattle.

This is a golden route in the Pacific Ocean, which connects major coastal cities in the empire with North America. It is a bridge between super-large cruise ships and North America. It is comfortable to take and very convenient to travel, which greatly promotes the trans-Pacific passenger transportation business.

The Pacific Stroller that Prime Minister Zhang Li took this time was a chartered boat. He did not need to stop through the port along the way. He arrived directly at the Brisbane terminal port throughout the journey, which was faster.

In the royal palace

This is an English-style castle-style building built on the hillside, overlooking the beautiful landscape of Seattle City. In the southern new city of this city, there are many 20 to 30 stories high-rise buildings, showing the vitality and vitality of modern buildings, which complements the European-style buildings in the old city, and has a unique charm.

Li Fushou sat on a large and comfortable rocking chair. Through the dome-shaped Baroque doorway, he could see a blue seattle bay in the distance, and he could also see the huge "Pacific Stroller" cruise ship heading into the distance, gradually turning into a small black dot.

Since he has come out, he is not in a hurry to return to his hometown.

The four states under the Governor's Office of North America, walk around and take a look, deeply understand the people's conditions, understand the people's livelihood and sufferings, and the wishes of ordinary people, and relax.

By the end of this year, the population of North American territory will exceed 12 million, and the industrial economy exported to Europe will be getting better and better, and the overall development is satisfactory.

After so many years of being in power, Li Fushou has his own experience in inspecting the local area. It is nothing more than the four items of food, clothing, housing and transportation, plus public security and justice, which can consider the overall economic development level of a region.

Are urban buildings bright and beautiful, are street bus routes perfect, and how many popular cars are there?

Are there many restaurants and restaurants? Ordinary people have enough clothes to wear, are they safe to travel at night, are the night markets prosperous, and are there often happy smiles on their faces?

After browsing it roughly, it will be almost the same.

For decades

The empire has established a complete set of government mechanisms that provide mutual restraints on power institutions, and has been continuously improved in practice and has become the most advanced administrative system in the world today.

The biggest supervision mechanism among them is the feudal democratic system, which is now transitioning to a capitalist democratic system.

The landmark event was the constitutional agenda that Li Fushou personally took charge after returning to Australia.

After more than half a year of social discussion and mobilizing the participation of the whole people, the "Democratic Charter of the Ocean Empire" has been gradually improved. It has reached the point where the melons are ripe and can be promoted. The final national parliamentary voting process can be promoted and signed and implemented by the imperial emperor.

This is a major event in Li Fushou's mind. Only by promoting the true implementation of the "Democratic Charter" can the Ocean Empire enter a long-term, stable and orderly democratic development track, avoid the fatal flaws of rule of man, and start the process of democratic rule of law.

The price is to lose the right to dominate the empire. Although I feel a little regretful and disappointed, I am more relieved.

Although the Ocean Empire was a Chinese country founded by Li Fushou, it was not his private property, but a home shared by 110 million citizens of the entire empire. In addition to more than 96 million Chinese citizens, more than 14 million imperial citizens from more than 80 ethnic groups are all the masters of this country.

During this world war

The four traditional world powers of Tsarist Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman collapsed one after another, and showed the fatal flaws of the monarchy dictatorship very intuitively. One person is dictatorial and the whole country suffers.

Li Fushou was unwilling to repeat the same mistakes and put his hopes on the wise and magical martial arts of future generations of monarchs. That was too unreliable.

In his hand, there was a white letter. The envelope had been opened and Li Fushou had also read it;

This is a sincere thank-you letter written by Madame Marie Curie, an academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and the director of the Department of Physics at Imperial University.

In the letter

Madame Marie Curie, in the most humble and sincere language, thanked the empire for its support and helped Poland restore its country, helped the Polish provisional government train its army, establish a modern operating mechanism for the provisional government, and provided valuable financial assistance.

All of this made Madame Marie Curie cry. Even if there were thousands of words, she could not express her inner excitement.

"Master, the wind in September is cold in this corridor, and it cannot be blown for a long time. I take the initiative to advise you and ask the emperor to move it into the palace." Liang Ruhao, deputy director of the Royal Secretariat, reported with a respectful expression.

Li Fushou took back his deep eyes from a distance, handed him the letter in his hand, and ordered, "Reply a letter in my name to encourage you."

"There are my husbands who follow the order."

"Let's go in." Li Fushou lifted the cashmere blanket on his legs, stood up and walked towards the palace. He asked as he walked; "How many Chinese scientists are there in the Department of Physics of the Imperial University who are following Professor Marie Curie to do nuclear physics research?"

"If you go back to the emperor, Madame Curie trained 27 Chinese nuclear scientists, 19 of whom are physicists who can independently conduct cutting-edge scientific research, distributed among the various science universities in the empire. There are currently 11 scientific assistants and students who are still following Madame Curie for research, including 8 Chinese."

"Oh, let them learn well."

"There are my husbands who follow the order."

After explaining this matter, Li Fushou no longer cared about it.

Haste in science is not achieved, and it is not necessary to invest more money to obtain scientific research results in advance, but only increases the possibility of achieving scientific breakthroughs earlier.

The physics and mathematics disciplines of Imperial University are both key basic disciplines, with many projects and abundant scientific research funds. Its nuclear physics research and development strength is among the top in the world.

Heavy water is almost known with the discovery of deuterium. In 12 years, Chinese nuclear physicist Yang Zhiqian was the first to discover the hydrogen isotope deuterium in an experiment. Later, he won the Stella Chemistry Prize for 15 years.

Professor Yang Zhiqian was one of Madame Curie's early complimentary students. After hearing and witnessing it, he developed a rigorous and realistic scientific attitude, and became one of the top nuclear physicists in the empire with his outstanding scientific research results.

Today's era

The method of preparing heavy water is simple and rough, which is the electrolytic method. People have found that factory wastewater for producing chemical fertilizers is a good raw material for preparing heavy water.

The first generation of heavy water factory is a secret cooperation with fertilizer companies to use production wastewater and design special equipment to prepare heavy water, which is about to be put into use.

According to the design, it will have an annual capacity of 200 kilograms of heavy water.

If the above equipment is verified and feasible, the Imperial Academy of Sciences will design and build a heavy water factory with greater production capacity to meet the needs of further scientific experiments.

To create a powerful doomsday weapon, heavy water is needed to be used as a speed reducer in the nuclear fission reaction, as a speed reducer for neutrons, and as a material for making heavy hydrogen.

The concept of nuclear energy has been proposed in the frontier scientific fields of the world today, and heavy water is indispensable for manufacturing and operation of nuclear reactors, and heavy water is needed as a speed reducer for neutrons.

Later generations need at least 15 tons of heavy water to create a weapon-grade nuclear bomb.

It can be said that on this road, I have just taken the first step...

Madame Curie was able to deliver the thank-you letter directly to the desk of the imperial emperor Li Fushou, which shows from one aspect that top scientists are highly valued and have a very high social status.

Consider from an international geostrategic perspective;

The process of restoration of Poland led by the Ocean Empire and France was an important part of the new post-war order. Germany and Russia, two warlike countries, must have a buffer zone between them to avoid catastrophic consequences caused by the direct outbreak of war between the two major powers and affecting the whole of Europe.

Since the Ocean Empire has accepted the territory of the Republic of Crimea, it is one of the parties involved in Europe and it is impossible for it to not care about the situation in Eastern Europe.

The advancement of Poland's restoration process will greatly reduce the pressure faced by the Republic of Crimea, and the strategic situation has been greatly improved, which is very beneficial to the Ocean Empire.

Because Poland is located between Germany and Russia, it is in a sandwich biscuit state, it has to face the heavy pressure from two European powers.

If you relax a little, you will be finished.

Geographically, the Republic of Poland attracts firepower head-on, and the Republic of Crimea, located in the southern coastal area of ​​Ukraine, belongs to the flank.

The pressure from Germany was blocked to the west of Poland and could not directly threaten the Crimean Republic.

The Crimea Republic and Romania are back-to-back, with Poland attracting firepower head-on and jointly resisting pressure from the Soviet Union, which is much easier no matter how you look at it.

Poland, Romania and the Republic of Crimea naturally have common interests and can form a small regional alliance between the three countries back to back.
Chapter completed!