Chapter 29 Madame Curie

  In the afternoon, Chen Shao accompanied Chen Shaokuan to Fangchenggang to watch the construction of China's first aircraft carrier. The scientist who designed this aircraft carrier was Chen Fu. Under Chen Shao's inspiration, with the dream of building a large ship, he finally came up with the design. Because Chen Shao had always disagreed with building battleships, but in order to deceive other countries, he reluctantly agreed to build two warships that were more powerful than the Nagato-class battleship. However, on one condition: Chen Fu must come up with an aircraft carrier that would satisfy Chen Shao. Before presenting the aircraft carrier, Chen Fu had already put the battleship in front of Chen Shao.

  Displacement: standard 38,000 tons, full load 51,000 tons; Length: 209.3 meters, beam: 33.9 meters, draft: 10.9 meters Propulsion: 8 boilers, 4 sets of geared turbines, main engine output power: 135,000 horsepower Designed speed: Full speed 28 knots; Endurance: 14,000 nautical miles/15 knots, 4400 nautical miles/25 knots Armament: 3 triple 420mm/45 caliber main guns; 5 dual 127mm/38 caliber dual-purpose guns, 20 dual 40mm anti-aircraft guns, 35 single 20mm anti-aircraft guns Armor: Waterline belt 307mm (19° inclination); Turret face 457mm, sides 229mm, top 184mm, turret base 439mm; Command tower 406mm; Armored deck 121-147mm Crew: Designed complement 2346

  According to intelligence from spies, the first Nagato-class battleship of Japan has been launched this year, with data similar to that of later Nagato-class ships. In response, Chen Shao sold the design drawings of his Nagato-class battleships in hand to Germany.

  And an aircraft carrier is a medium-sized aircraft carrier, basic parameters:

  Standard displacement: 27,200 tons; full load displacement: 34,880 tons. Length (overall): 265.79 meters; flight deck length: 262.13 meters; beam: 28.35 meters; flight deck width: 29.26 meters; average draft: 7 meters. Hangar dimensions: 174 meters long, 21 meters wide, and 5.4 meters high. Propulsion: 8 boilers, 4 geared steam turbines, main engine output power: 150,000 shaft horsepower, 4 propellers, speed: 32.7 knots. Fuel capacity: 6,300 tons; endurance: 15,000 nautical miles/15 knots.

  Armor

  Waterline armor belt 63-101 mm, turret armor 127 mm, turret barbette armor 28 mm, flight deck armor 38 mm, hangar deck armor 76 mm, main deck armor 38 mm.

  The ship was armed with twelve 127 mm (5 in) dual-purpose guns mounted in six twin turrets.

  The original design of Chen Fu was a straight-through deck, but it was vetoed by Chen Shao, who asked him to directly design an angled flight deck aircraft carrier, which eventually became this model. It is expected that the airframe capacity of this aircraft carrier can reach 120 aircraft.

  While the aircraft carrier and battleship were being built at the same time, Chen Shoujian had several floating platforms set up at sea to simulate the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, selecting a batch of more experienced pilots to conduct takeoff and landing training on it in preparation for future carrier-based aircraft pilots.

  In the evening when the sky was about to darken, Chen Shaocai returned to the rest room inside the base, took out a letter from his pocket, and slowly began to read it. The elegant handwriting showed that this was absolutely not written by an old man. After finishing reading the letter, Chen Shaocai's mood improved greatly, picked up pen and paper and started writing. After finishing writing, he carefully put the letter into an envelope with the words "Xie Yuxin personally opened" written on it.

  Actually, for the past four years, the two people have been in contact with each other at least once a week, regardless of wind or rain. The current Xie Yuxin has reached the age of marriage, and her family has urged her to get married quickly more than once. In this era, 22 years old is already considered an old maid. Fortunately, her family also knows that their daughter has someone she likes, otherwise they would have helped her find a husband. However, if they had known where Chen Shao was, Xie Yuxin's parents would have caught him and made him get married long ago.

  However, regarding Chen Shao's marriage, the entire People's Army and Longteng Group are all very tense, now he is also considered to be a big family with a large business, and he needs to find someone to take care of his daily life. There are also many people who want to introduce objects to Chen Shao, but they were all rejected by him, even Cai Yun thought of introducing his own daughter to Chen Shao, but Chen Shao disagreed, saying that without achieving success in his career, how can he start a family.

  After finishing the letter, Chen Shao came to the control panel and looked at the large green dots on the display screen. Chen Shao felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction in his heart. Having been in this world for seven years now, he finally had a stable base of operations. Now it seemed that he needed to speed up his pace, aiming to take down the entire GX province within at least one year, which was also part of Chen Shao's plan. According to Chen Shao's plan, before 1930, he wanted to conquer at least half of China. The three armies of sea, land, and air had been fully constructed, and his sphere of influence now extended to several surrounding counties, including Qinzhou, which was also within his control.

  "Chen Hong, can you build a radar?"

  "Report to the commander, it's not allowed yet."

  "When can it be built?"

  "Report to commander, conditions have not been met."

  "What conditions need to be met?"

  "Report to commander, conditions insufficient for solution."

  The same old answer, Chen Shao had already gotten used to it. For the past year, Chen Shao would ask every now and then. However, each time ended in disappointment. Although the base's map function was much more powerful than radar, its range was too small, and the base couldn't let others know about it. Although the Air Force Command Center had been established, unlike in games, there wasn't a built-in radar in reality. If everything were like in games, then when it came to building spy satellites, wouldn't that make oneself almost invincible? Everyone's moves would be under one's eyes. Therefore, Chen Shao was eager for the establishment of radar now.

  Chen Shao walked to the Bio-Nest, this was something Chen Shao had to do every two days, that is, to welcome each new bio-personnel, and this matter couldn't be handed over to others to manage, some things still needed to be done personally. Looking at the glass nest that had sent countless talents for himself in the past 7 years, his heart was filled with curses: damn probability, 7 years and only two perfect levels, and those two were also made in the first half year of the beginning, had his own luck been used up? One year was 182, 7 years was over a thousand. This probability was one in hundreds, too damn depressing.

  Looking at the guy who came out of the cultivation nest, Chen Shao was stunned, this is the first woman he has seen in 7 years. Chen Shao couldn't help but rub his eyes, this time Chen Shao really didn't see wrong, it's indeed a woman, and it's a stark naked woman. His 30-year-old virgin life made his lower body involuntarily react, and a big tent stood up between his legs.

  "Can I wear this piece of clothing first?"

  Chen Shao finally reacted, picked up the clothes he had prepared and handed them to her: "They are all men's clothes, you can just wear them for now." After finishing speaking, he turned around.

  "Sir, I'm dressed."

  "Oh, what's your name?"

  "My name is Maria Sk?odowska."

  "Oh, you have your own name, that means you're a Perfect Grade one, huh?" Chen Shao thought to himself, it's not easy, another Perfect Grade has finally appeared, but this name seems somewhat familiar.

  Yes.

  "What are you studying?"

  "I am now studying how to separate radioactive elements."

  "Oh, radioactive elements, separation, ah!!!! Uranium enrichment."

  This time Chen Shao couldn't remain calm anymore. He finally remembered that familiar name, Mary Sklodowska wasn't she Marie Curie? But it didn't seem right, in 1921, Madame Curie was already 54 years old, how could she still look so young now, at most only about 30 years old.

  "Chen Hong, how did Madame Curie come out of the biochemical nest?" Chen Shao couldn't figure it out and directly asked the base to see if there was an answer. Although a James Bond and a Fukuda Keiichi had already appeared, this time even Madame Curie showed up.

  "Report to the commander, no mistake, that is Marie Curie, this is a welfare given by the base to the commander. Since three perfect grades have appeared, there is something that can be reported to the commander, which is that so-called perfect grades are all real people. However, there is some age difference, and they will only appear as people who do not exist in this world but originally existed in the commander's time and space."

  It was like this all along! No wonder the two of them turned over the whole of Europe and couldn't find Madame Curie's reason, even James started searching in America, thinking he had remembered it wrong. It turns out to be like this. So Einstein and Tesla also can't find it, does that mean later on Einstein will appear from a biochemical nest?

  "Is Chen Hong saying that all biochemical people are the same?"

  "Report to the commander, yes, it's better to say that he is a genetically cloned person rather than a biochemical person. It's just cloning some people from the original space-time of the commander."

  "What else is there that I don't know about you, Chen Hong?"

  "Report to commander, conditions insufficient, unable to resolve."

  It seems that certain conditions need to be met for the answer to appear. However, at least now there's hope of finding the scientists I've been looking for but couldn't find. Chen Shao had almost given up on Einstein and Tesla, those famous scientists, but it looks like things are taking a turn for the better. For future development, it seems that I'll also need to create more scientists.

  "Officer, I have a request, can you also bring my husband over?" Madame Curie looked at Chen Shao with a hopeful face.

  "Where is your husband?" Chen Shao was a bit confused and scratched his head, with a puzzled face.

  "My husband was with me before, but I came here to report first and he is right behind me. I hope the officer can let him come over as soon as possible."

  "You don't know how you got here?"

  I don't know, I just fell asleep and ended up here.

  Are you saying your husband has been with you all along?

  Yes.

  This time Chen Shao was a bit curious, could cells communicate with each other? However, to verify this, he ordered Chen Hong to create a scientist and see if it was Pierre Curie, the husband of Madame Curie, who was also a rare scientist. If it really worked out, he could be appointed as a professor at Qinghe University, which wouldn't be bad either.

  "Marie Curie, can you extract uranium now?"

  "Possible, but certain devices are required."

  "The equipment is completely fine and I also stored a lot of uranium ore."

  "We'd better hurry, let's go to the lab and take a look."

  Chen Shao said as he took Madame Curie to the combat laboratory. Chen Shao had long known that there was a complete set of nuclear physics research equipment inside the combat laboratory, and it was also the largest research room. Moreover, in the research room, there was an architectural drawing, but Chen Shao couldn't understand it, and many biochemical scientists were also puzzled, unable to explain it clearly.

  Madame Curie seemed very satisfied with the laboratory, nodding her head as she looked at the equipment inside. Chen Shao proactively handed over the architectural drawings for her to look at. After Madame Curie finished looking at them, she said directly: "This is an extraction device, and it looks quite advanced. The main facilities include a level connection system, electrical system, cooling water system, and material supply and removal system. Moreover, the entire building area is very large, and the uranium that the officer just mentioned also needs this equipment to be extracted. I hope the officer can arrange for its construction."

  After hearing that the blueprint was a uranium enrichment facility design, Chen Shao thought that even if he had to sell his pots and pans, he would still make it happen. However, the surrounding area of Qinghe Village was not suitable for construction, and if an accident were to occur, he would suffer a huge loss. It seemed that his own territory was too small after all.