Chapter 568 The ignorant are fearless

Federal, Albany, New York.

Today, a mysterious figure visited Governor Cleveland.

"Governor, please introduce yourself. My name is Gustav."

"I admire your achievements in governing the Empire State. I believe that with your abilities, you are fully qualified to rule the entire Federation."

Cleveland was no country bumpkin. He knew who Gustav was and waved his hand politely. "Harrison is the legitimate successor to the great Garfield. I have no hope of competing with him. I know myself well."

"Besides, the people of the Federation hate you. If I have any connection with you, I will have even less hope. Come on, show them away."

Gustav was not a gentleman at all and refused to leave. "Sir, please take a look at our strength before making a decision."

Gustav clapped his hands, and several gentlemen in suits came in.

"You know these big guys, right? They are our media elites. They have nothing to do with us bankers and won't cause you any trouble."

Huh? Pulitzer, Hearst? Aren't The New York Times and The New York World sworn enemies? They usually attack each other, using every possible means. How come their bosses have such a good personal relationship?

These gentlemen - "Excuse me, what do these gentlemen do?"

Gustav chuckled, "You underestimate our strength. These bosses control more than 600 radio stations, and we are the investors behind them."

“There are now 60 million radios and more than 800 radio stations in the federation.”

"I have to thank Daxia's high technology for this. With the popularity of tube radios, ordinary people can now tune in to channels at will. Harrison can no longer fully control the broadcasting like he did in the era of crystal radios."

"Ordinary people think they can hear different voices, but in fact, once the election begins, you will get one-sided support from all the media."

Cleveland was immediately tempted, however——

"How can I defeat Harrison? Is it possible for me to shake his position as Garfield's successor?"

Gustav shook his index finger and said, "No, the great Garfield is a great man of the Federation, not just Harrison. We can put Garfield on the altar, but when the mediocre Harrison is compared with him, the people will not like him."

"We have assembled a team of experts to plan specifically for you how to attack Harrison's weaknesses and make you the legitimate successor to Garfield."

Cleveland's index finger twitched. "Then - let's try it?"

"We still have one year and seven months, which is enough time. I think you need to change your image first. We also have a professional team in this regard..."

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Suzhou, Jiuquan base.

On the tall tower, a 32.5-meter-high missile was erected again.

There were no extra people waiting around the missile, and two kilometers away there were many federally imported jeeps parked.

Tan Yaoxun had a serious look on his face as he accompanied Shao Quanzhong, who was personally inspecting the launch. Both of them were holding telescopes ready to observe the missile launch.

"Because of the last explosion, we have implemented stricter security regulations. This distance is a safe distance, please rest assured, Marshal."

"In fact, before inviting you to inspect, we conducted three more test launches in this year."

"The first two launches were canceled due to temporary failures. The third launch was successful, but it only flew 500 kilometers before crashing."

"After those three experiences, I have completely solved the problem of the swimming engine this time. I am sure that this launch can be successful."

Shao Quanzhong sighed deeply, the development of this intercontinental missile was really ill-fated.

Obviously, the current technology is very limited to build intercontinental missiles. However, this is a national security requirement, and we have to do it despite the difficulties and sacrifices.

"Xiao Tan, it doesn't matter if you fail this time. I will spare no effort to support you to continue. If this thing succeeds, we won't have to sacrifice many young lives of soldiers to achieve our goal."

"This is a great nation's most important weapon, it's worth our efforts regardless of cost. We'd like to ask you, the scientific researchers, to work harder and take risks." Shao Quanzhong was never so polite when chatting with his military subordinates. He had a bad temper and would easily say things like "Oh my god!"

But we treat these scientific researchers with respect like our ancestors.

Those scientists and engineers didn't know the Marshal's catchphrase at all. In their minds, the Marshal was a kind and amiable old man who always protected them and could make gold coins pop out of him just by tapping.

As they talked and laughed, the rocket took off into the air and quickly disappeared into the northeast sky.

"The missile has a speed of Mach 20 and if everything goes well, it will reach the target point in 20 minutes."

Twenty minutes later, the radio call from the Rocket Force personnel on duty in the Kamchatka Peninsula came back, "The missile hit the target point accurately, 20 meters away from the center of the coordinates."

One hundred meters, Shao Quanzhong sighed. With a range of more than ten thousand kilometers, it is quite difficult to control such high precision.

It's a pity that three tons of TNT is a bit difficult to bomb a target one hundred meters away. It would be better if there were more powerful bombs.

We don’t have any now, but that doesn’t matter, we can make up the number.

Shao Quanzhong turned around and beckoned his adopted son, "Yongxian, arrange resources and formulate a plan to manufacture 6,000 intercontinental missiles."

"Damn it, I can fire a hundred missiles at a time, which is enough to eliminate a palace. Precision bombing of sixty strategic targets is enough to paralyze a big country."

In front of his adoptive father, Wang Yongxian had no right to speak and could only obey his orders. However, Tan Yaoxun hurriedly stopped him.

"Marshal, 6,000 missiles will consume too much national strength. We will continue to develop more advanced and more effective intercontinental missiles, and we can do it in batches."

"Well, what Xiao Tan said makes sense. We'll build 200 of this model first and deploy them to - bring us the world map."

Shao Quanzhong held a wooden scale with a distance of 10,000 kilometers on the map in his hand, and compared it on the map. Finally, his index finger pointed to the vicinity of the Suez Canal, "It will be deployed to the Sinai Peninsula."

Tan Yaoxun was a little confused. "I think it would be more convenient to deploy it in Vancouver."

Shao Quanzhong patted Xiao Tan on the shoulder and said, "You don't understand politics. The Qing Dynasty is our vassal state, not our direct territory. If we deploy missiles there, once a conflict with the enemy comes, Nie Shicheng will definitely suffer."

"Outsiders don't know how much control we have over the vassal states. If we really need to use this thing, we will face a war. The opponent may not have the energy to open up battlefields in British Columbia and Alaska."

"Over there, it's difficult for us to transport troops. Marshal Nie just needs to defend the territory and don't provoke them."

"Come here, award medals and bonuses to all the researchers in the P16 project. Give them now."

The photo of Tan Yaoxun wearing red and ribbons and receiving the medal personally awarded by the Marshal has been preserved and treasured, but unfortunately he cannot show it off.

This is the unfair treatment that military workers have to endure. Once Xiao Tan retires and the P16 intercontinental missile technology can be made public, he will be truly respected by the world.

Tan Yaoxun doesn't care, his real dream has not yet come true.

"Marshal, I have been focusing on the research and development of intercontinental missiles. Now that we have achieved some initial results, you must allow me to pursue my manned space flight."

"In fact, the accuracy of this missile has exceeded the requirements for manned space flight. Now the bottleneck for sending people to space is designing a sealed space capsule that can accommodate people and allow them to return."

In 1881, Auguste de Meritense of France and Nicola Bernardos of Lucia independently invented arc welding technology, so the sealed space capsule itself was no longer inherently difficult to manufacture.

"Oh, Marshal, let me remind you that the 100-meter accuracy of our missiles is premised on the guidance of the terminal radio radar."

"If the enemy has radio jamming technology, our attacks will not be accurate. If we rely solely on inertial navigation, the impact point of the P16 missile can only be controlled within a range of one kilometer at most."

Shao Quanzhong waved his hands and didn't care.

"There are no weapons that are never outdated. Our opponents don't have radio jamming technology right now, right? Once they have this technology, maybe we will have bombs with an explosive power of more than one kilometer."

Everyone shook their heads. How could there be such a powerful bomb? The Marshal, an amateur, was really imagining things. This was called ignorance and fearlessness.

(End of this chapter)

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