Guo Shucheng said modestly: "Don't, Xu Lao, don't put a high hat on me, I still know that I am a few catties and a few taels, this project is also commanded by Qian Lao, I just came up with a few ideas to ensure their financial supply." Besides, the satellites needed for the Big Dipper network were made by other scientists with great painstaking efforts. ”

General Xu said with a smile: "Didn't you kid like to grab merit in the past? Now the credit is in front of you, you did it, and you have flinched. I don't know what you think. Forget it, I don't bother to mess around with you, it really doesn't matter if you don't take credit or not, as long as we have this kind of weapon. Xiao Guo, I don't care what method you use, you have to build us a hundred of these missiles, three hundred of these hydrogen bomb devices, with them, I can sleep. ”

Guo Zhuocheng frowned and said, "What do you want so many hydrogen bombs for?" There will be no real nuclear war, just make one or two of them. The country's economy is still in a difficult situation. ”

General Xu stared at him and said angrily: "Who dares to pat his chest and guarantee that there will be no nuclear war in the future?" Even if there is no nuclear war, it is better to have nuclear weapons than not to have them. ”

General Xu's rogue fury not only made the surrounding officers laugh, but even Guo Zhuocheng laughed, and finally General Xu himself laughed.

Compared with the happiness of the Chinese bigwigs, the top leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union are not so calm.

US President Ronald Reagan immediately received a report that China's ICBM had accurately hit a target more than 4,000 kilometers away, and then received a monitoring number of 300,000 tons of the ICBM's warhead carrying a hydrogen bomb. He frowned, handed the report to the national security assistant next to him, and said to several officials: "How much do you think their technology is different from ours?" What are they doing here? ”

Within an hour before the test in China, Mr. Reagan summoned officials to his office to study what might happen. At the same time, we will discuss how the United States should respond.

Although the United States has issued statements of condemnation and regret after China announced the test, it was only a general reaction and did not really integrate the test with its own situation. Because at that time they did not know at all what the results of China's tests were, whether it was a new weapon, and how much impact it would have on the United States.

Now that the results of China's experiment are out, the United States will have to make policy adjustments as a result.

The National Security Adviser had already read the reports, and he just glanced at the contents and forwarded them to the secretary of state next to him.

The secretary of state also did not look closely, as a senior senior official. It was enough to see the words on the summary, and seeing that the president's eyes fell on him, he said: "I think that although our ICBM technology cannot be said to lag behind China's technology, it can be said that China's technology has caught up, especially their terminal maneuvering technology and global positioning system guidance technology and nuclear warhead miniaturization." It's already the highest level in the world. Although we in the United States can do this, we are not sure enough to intercept their missiles, even if we are prepared. ”

Reagan asked, "You mean that our homeland is under the shadow of China's nuclear missiles?" More difficult to deal with than Soviet missiles? ”

"I'm sorry, though I'm very reluctant to say that," the secretary said. ”

"I don't think China's dealings with the Soviet Union are anything we see on the surface, they have been in much more dealings than we imagined, and without the help of the Soviets, their global positioning system and sub-warhead technology would not have advanced so rapidly," the national security adviser said. I think in the current difficult situation in the USSR. China's purpose in detonating the hydrogen bomb was, on the one hand, to warn us not to encourage India, Japan, the Philippines, and Australia to oppose them, and on the other hand, to support the Soviet Union.

This statement may seem a bit incredible, but it is certainly the case now. The last thing China wants is that the USSR will fall apart. Once the Soviet Union falls, they will come under even greater pressure in China, and all the people in the world will question the correctness of communism and whether the socialist road can be followed. Their legitimacy is being challenged. How can China reassure people's minds and how can it develop and move forward? This pressure from both internal and external sources will be greater than the military pressure of the Soviet Union. ”

The director of the intelligence bureau next to him said: "China has not announced the improvement of relations with the Soviet Union at present. Although they collaborated on many projects, these projects were carried out in secret and were not known to all Chinese, Soviets. In both countries, the people of both countries still regard each other as enemies. China's experimentation was not a support for the Soviets, but a huge pressure. China and the Soviet Union have been hostile to each other for many years, and the hostility between them has long been deeply ingrained, and if the Soviet Union really collapses, China will instead look at it as a joke. Therefore, I think that China's missile test this time is more likely to make the Soviet top brass lose confidence, thereby speeding up the collapse of the Soviet Union. ”

Seeing that the two subordinates had diametrically opposed analyses, Reagan was a little depressed and turned to the secretary of state.

"Actually, we don't have to ask what the Chinese did to the Soviets, what we should think about now is whether we want the Soviets to oppose us, or whether we want the Chinese to oppose us," the secretary said. With this in mind, we can determine where the policy will go forward. ”

Reagan asked, "Where is the policy going forward?" So what kind of opponent do you think we should choose? ”

Hearing Reagan's question, the secretary of state was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that the president in front of him and himself will soon leave office, and from next month, Bush will be the president, who has won the new election, and they should be thinking most about how to deal with the current situation rather than the future. Let Bush and others think about the future.

Thinking of this, he said: "If we think about history and the national characteristics of China and the Soviet Union, I think we would rather choose China as an enemy. Although China was in the Tang Dynasty, this dynasty is too long, although it was strong for a while during the Tang Dynasty, and during that time they used troops everywhere, but then they have been operating in their own territory. Some people may say that during the Yuan Dynasty, the Chinese fought all the way to Europe, eliminated Russia, and wiped out many European countries, but that was only a special case, in fact, at that time even China was destroyed by the barbarians of the Yuan Dynasty, how can it be said that the Yuan Dynasty was Chinese? At most, it can only be said that it is a yellow race, in fact, there are many other races in the army of the Yuan Dynasty, including Caucasians.

I'm not trying to show off how much I know history, I'm just trying to say that compared to the Soviets, both now and in the past, the Chinese are sheep, while the Russians are wolves, lions and tigers. Instead of choosing to be the enemy of the Soviets, we should choose to be the enemy of the Chinese, who, even if they rise, will run rampant in East Asia. And as long as the Soviets remain as they are and remain as they are, they have already posed a great threat to us, especially to our European friends. ”

Hearing that the Secretary of State did not listen to his own hints and talked about the past, history, and the future, but did not consider the present, President Reagan was already angry, but when he heard that the Secretary of State finally definitely chose to abandon the Soviet Union and choose China, he felt a little better and continued to listen to him patiently.

"I think it's not only historic but also relevant that we chose China over the Soviet Union, and I think China should be chosen more than the Soviet Union in order to reduce our current troubles," the secretary said. First, since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States in 1972, we have been supporting China to suppress the Soviet Union. Not only do we think so, but so do our people. In the past few years, we have encouraged Japan, the Philippines, India, and Australia to oppose China, and many superficial people have begun to fall into confusion when they think that our policy of supporting China has changed. If we were to suddenly abandon China now, condemn and sanction China, and support the Soviet Union, our people would be even more confused and would oppose us as a result, saying that our previous policy was completely wrong.

Second, the Soviet Union is now showing signs of decay, and the announcement of the secession of Lithuania, Estonia, and Armenia from the Soviet Union has already made us rejoice, and we have seen great hopes for the decline of the Soviet Union in the Western world. Now the Soviet Union is hesitating whether to send troops to suppress it, obviously because of their economic difficulties and many internal contradictions, and they are not only afraid that the United States will support these local independence, but also that China will fall into the ground. Now that China has launched such a powerful intercontinental missile, it is equivalent to eliminating most of the Soviet Union's military superiority, which is a fatal blow to the Soviet government and a huge encouragement to those who are demanding secession from the Soviet Union. It's like playing football, the ball has been kicked into the penalty area, and the last kick is missing, so why don't we shoot? Turn to fight with China and let the USSR breathe down? Even if we really want to deal with China, we should first beat the USSR to the ground.

Third, as I just said, China is a sheep, and even if they are strong, their armed forces will only be limited to China, and at most they will spread to Asia, and it is impossible for them to dominate the world like the Soviet Union. With so many people and so few resources, China is far from having the stamina of the Soviet Union, and it would be good if they could solve the problems of the people's livelihood, which is enough to make them anxious. China is not like the Soviet Union, which has a vast territory and endless resources. It is far easier for us to control China than it is for the Soviet Union. ”

The national security adviser asked, "So what statement do we make about this test of theirs?" ”

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