Chapter 11 chapter Ten

On December 27, 1966, the person Wang Ganchang was looking for came.When Marshal Nie Rongzhen got off the plane and came to the tent of the headquarters, Wang Ganchang immediately asked: "Boss Nie, if Zhou Guangzhao is a 'reactionary bourgeois academic authority', then what is it that I am a teacher? You have to give me Make it clear." Nie Rongzhen was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed: "Mr. Wang, of course you are a great 'reactionary bourgeois academic authority'!" "What? I, I am a big 'reactionary bourgeois academic authority'? Me? How could I be?" Wang Ganchang looked at everyone and at his grass-green military uniform with a dazed expression.

"Hahaha..." Nie Rongzhen laughed, and then jokingly said, "Mr. Wang, do you believe that I am a 'big warlord'? They call me a 'big warlord', and they want to 'burn' me, 'thousands of cannonballs! "I, but I'm not afraid of them! I told them, Chairman Mao asked me to direct nuclear weapons tests such as atomic bombs, who of you dare to 'burn' and 'bombard' me? Then I will let who taste the 'mushroom eggs' is What is it like! You are like me. Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou asked you to come to the atomic bomb. If anyone wants to say that you are a "bourgeois reactionary academic authority", you should tell him that you are a revolutionary academic authority, so come to Lop Nur Make an atomic bomb!" Wang Ganchang was amused, and said to himself: "It's weird, why is politics more complicated than my making an atomic bomb?" The arrival of Nie Shuai brought the base back to intense and dedicated experimental work. Wang Ganchang's mind temporarily dispelled a cloud of suspicion.The overwhelming preparations before the explosion left him no time to take into account what was happening in Beijing and elsewhere.There is only a mysterious and tense battle scene on the nuclear test base on the Gobi Desert.

After consulting the central government, the first hydrogen bomb principle test was carried out on the second day after Nie Rongzhen's arrival. Scientists such as Wang Ganchang and Deng Jiaxian felt that this test seemed to be more nervous than the atomic bomb test two years ago, because everyone did not have much confidence this time. "I have been to Lop Nur no less than 10 times. Every time I do this kind of experiment, my heart is raised in my throat... I remember one experiment, the equivalent is known, and the specific results of the physical experiment can only be known the next day. Will there be no results? I couldn’t sleep that night, I was tossing so badly, I was so worried! I felt flustered, heartbeat, nervous, restless, very uncomfortable! I was lying on the bed, not daring to move, and I was too embarrassed to call someone. , I was in my 40s at that time, if it was a few years later, my heart would not be able to bear it, and I would have died there... I knew it was successful, and all the internal organs and pores of my body were very comfortable..." Yu Min said at ten A few years later, when I told the writer Peng Jichao how I felt back then, I was full of realism.

On December 28, 1966, Lop Nur in western China, which once shocked the whole world, rose again into the sky with a cloud of mushrooms... This is the "big sun" that made Wang Ganchang proud all his life-the hydrogen bomb exploded successfully! "Dean Wang, how do you feel?" At the moment when the "big sun" was slowly rising, Marshal Nie Rongzhen held Wang Ganchang's hand and asked with concern. Wang Ganchang uttered a mantra: "It's not easy, it's not easy!" After hearing this, Nie Shuai nodded silently, because this is just the beginning, and there is still a long way to go before a hydrogen bomb explosion in the true sense.But at this moment, Nie Shuai couldn't help feeling an indescribable melancholy: Alas, although the "big sun" in Lop Nur has risen, there is still a long way to go for equivalent thermonuclear fusion.But what Nie Shuai is most worried about is not only these, what he is worried about is a catastrophe that has already begun to hit the land of Shenzhou...

"'Cultural Revolution'?" "Intellectuals are called 'stinky old nine'?" "A meritorious official has become a reactionary academic authority?" Nie Shuai looked at the back of Wang Ganchang, who was wearing a green army coat and his forehead was already bald, and felt a pain in his heart: such a good old scientist, who is loyal to the motherland, why should he treat them like this? Pushed into the ranks of "bourgeois reactionary academic authorities" and "monsters and ghosts"?Can I keep them?A person who was "fired" and "bombarded" by others?

Nie Rongzhen sighed to Tianchang: "Oh, God, if you give me a few more years, China's nuclear weapons can have their own place in the forest of world powers, and the Chinese can no longer be bullied all the time." But suddenly The political turmoil brought about by the development of nuclear weapons in China began to fall into a terrible fate. At the beginning of 1967, when the central government decided to officially issue the "live bomb" test of a large-yield hydrogen bomb, some important departments and production bases turned like wheels with broken teeth. Do not move.The task of making the iron tower necessary for the experiment was handed over to a metal structure factory in North China for processing, but they didn't do it at all.

"Zhang Zhenhuan, go and solve this problem for me in 3 days!" Premier Zhou Enlai personally asked and appointed a general. As the commander-in-chief of the hydrogen bomb test base, Zhang Zhenhuan was so busy that Zhou Enlai sent another general to the metal structure factory. It took him 12 days and nights to finally mobilize the employees to work in the workshop. As for some parts that Wang Ganchang and the others urgently needed, Zhang San and Zhang San were urged to say that there was no time for "revolution", and Li Si and Li Si were not finished talking about "criticism". "Is it still possible to do things like this? Don't do anything, don't do anything!" Wang Ganchang burst out a few familiar words that others half-understood and half-understood.

"Everything can be sloppy, but scientific experiments can't be sloppy. When will we be able to complete a bigger nuclear test with this method!" Wang Ganchang complained to Premier Zhou Enlai and the marshals. So a "special official letter" in the name of the Central Military Commission was produced. "What Chairman Mao called for must not be delayed!" Wherever the "special official letter" went, they all "resolutely supported". "Contributing to the test and development of China's nuclear weapons is a supremely honorable thing", which became the clarion call for thousands of troops.However, the Chinese people who have been fascinated by the "revolution" and "rebellion" have found it difficult to control their fanaticism, and even people in state-level secret units have gone crazy and have high fever.

On the second and third days after the successful explosion of the first hydrogen bomb principle test, Marshal Nie Rongzhen presided over a high-level nuclear weapons test meeting at the "Malan Guest House" at the base. Ruo Gu and others, technical directors include Qian Xuesen who came from Beijing specially, and Wang Ganchang, Peng Huanwu, Zhu Guangya, Cheng Kaijia, Guo Huiying, Yu Min, Zhou Guangzhao, etc. who have been working at the base.Nie Shuai's topic for everyone is very clear: Summarize the experience of this nuclear explosion, and conduct an air-dropped hydrogen bomb nuclear test with a megaton equivalent in the coming year.

"Don't be too cautious when you talk, just be casual." Nie Shuai's words made the atmosphere of the meeting lively, especially when he heard that a large-scale air-drop hydrogen bomb test would be carried out in the coming year, the generals and scientists were in high spirits. "However, I would like to remind everyone: Big-character posters are being pasted everywhere and homes are being ransacked, but I will never allow this kind of wind to blow to the base, and I will not allow it to be aimed at the hard-working scientists here. Our place Where is it? What are we people doing? It is the top secret unit under the leadership and command of Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee. It will be rewarded for random approval! Don’t worry, everyone, with me here, you can do what you should do. Who wants to If you want to move you or want to make a decision on the base, I have told several old men and women, then we will fight with our lives!" After hearing Nie Rongzhen's words, Wang Ganchang and the others were extremely grateful.Especially Zhou Guangzhao, a scientist who has been hit hard and is sick. Only under the personal intervention and protection of Nie Shuai did he get rid of the unreasonable entanglement of the rebels and came to the base to participate in the exciting nuclear war again. test.

At this time, a series of absurd things happened in Lop Nur, which has always been regarded by the outside world as "flies can't fly in". One day, a heavily armed jeep drove rampantly into the restricted area of ​​the base. The guards tried to stop it, but they were disarmed instead.Who would dare to act so boldly?It turned out that upon inquiring, it was Mao Yuanxin, the celestial figure. "Whoever dares to attack the nuclear test base, I will arrest them all, and none will be released!" Nie Shuai was furious.An order was issued, and Mao Yuanxin, an important member sent by the "Central Cultural Revolution Group", was escorted into a small dark room by the officers and soldiers. "Who did it? Release him immediately!" Kang Sheng yelled at Nie Shuai.Nie Shuai replied sternly: "It is possible to release people, but it must be approved by Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee. The nuclear base is a state-secret place. Don't you people in the 'Central Cultural Revolution Group' even have the most basic knowledge?" The following thing It's even more frightening to hear.