Xiao Wenjun was waiting for Tang Zifeng downstairs in the Department of Mechanics, and when he came in a hurry, Xiao Wenjun took two steps up and greeted with a smile: "Why are you free to come to me?"

"Look at what you said, I miss you, can't you?" Tang Zifeng's beautiful words came as soon as he opened his mouth.

Xiao Wenjun was already immune to Tang Zifeng's trash talk, she pursed her lips and said, "I don't believe it, you must be in trouble again, and you want me to help you." ”

"Am I such a person?"

"Yes!"

"You've really wronged me, this time I really came to invite you to dinner. ”

"Really?"

“...... By the way, please do me a favor. ”

"Or maybe you want to ask me for a favor, and treat me to a meal by the way. ”

"Don't worry about these details......"

The two walked side by side as they did every time they met, and came to the cafeteria. The two of them found a table by the window and sat down, ordered two dishes for dinner, and asked for three bowls of rice. While waiting for the waiter to deliver the food, Xiao Wenjun said, "Tell me, what trouble have you encountered again?"

"Actually, it's nothing. Tang Zifeng said, "It's just that I met a menopausal patient, and I was choked by him, and I was not happy." ”

"What do you compare with middle-aged women?" Xiao Wenjun said casually.

Tang Zifeng solemnly corrected: "The man's ......"

"Man?" Xiao Wenjun felt a little messy, what else are you talking about menopause, man!

However, thinking of Tang Zifeng's usual nonsense, she didn't bother to care, and just asked, "What did he choke on?" By the way, you haven't said who this person is. ”

"The deputy chief engineer of the shipbuilding industry company is called Kang Zhichao. Tang Zifeng said, and then, he told Xiao Wenjun what happened in the shipping company in the morning, including the bet he made with Kang Zhichao. Of course, it is indispensable to demean Kang Zhichao's character in and out of words.

Xiao Wenjun listened, filtered out the part where Tang Zifeng played tricks on Kang Zhichao, directly grasped the core of the question, and asked: "You mean, you really want to get out the heavy-duty crankshaft machine tool required by Chief Engineer Kang?"

Tang Zifeng didn't say anything, just nodded in approval.

Xiao Wenjun frowned and said, "I heard my mentor talk about the heavy-duty crankshaft machine tool. He was on one occasion to a meeting on ship systems, and a man from a shipbuilding industry company brought it up to him. Well, maybe this person is the Chief Engineer Kang you said. After my tutor came back, he asked me to help him check some information, but found that it was too difficult, so he didn't continue after that. ”

"Yes, an engineer from the Canglong Research Institute who went with me said the same thing. Tang Zifeng said, "If it weren't too difficult, the Germans wouldn't be the only ones in the world who could do it, and I heard that the Japanese didn't do it very well." ”

"Then you still want to do it?" Xiao Wenjun asked in surprise.

Tang Zifeng smiled and said, "Didn't I come to ask you for advice? I always feel that what others can't get is not a matter if you are here with your ability." No matter what kind of machine tool it is, after all, it is also man-made, and if the Germans can build it, why can't we build it?"

Xiao Wenjun said: "What kind of ability am I, you Director Tang is the great ability of Tang." At a young age, he became the executive deputy director of the work, and when I talked to my dad on the phone a few days ago, he still talked about you. ”

Tang Zifeng asked, "What did our dad say about me?"

"Cut!" Xiao Wenjun glanced at Tang Zifeng to show his dissatisfaction with the title he had just used. But that's all she can do. If you deal with Tang Zifeng on this issue, the final result can only be more and more black, Tang Zifeng's cheekiness and lack of discipline, she has a deep understanding. When Tang Zifeng chatted with her, a few words like this would pop out from time to time, Xiao Wenjun felt that Tang Zifeng seemed to be hinting at something to her, but there was no evidence......

"My dad said that the leaders of the mechanical department are too bold to dare to let such a hairy boy run such a big factory. Don't stare, the word hairy boy was said by my father, if you are not convinced, buy a train ticket to Wulang to reason with him. Xiao Wenjun said with a grin.

"Not necessarily. Tang Zifeng directly admitted it. He got down to business and asked, "How about it, you help me figure out whether it is possible for us to make this kind of machine tool." ”

Xiao Wenjun also put away his ridiculous expression, and said seriously: "What you said is right, no matter what machine tool, others can build it, and we will definitely be able to build it." The development process itself is very meaningful for a machine tool like this, which concentrates countless cutting-edge technologies, and many derivative technologies can be generated in the process, which is also helpful for the development of other machine tools.

"However, I estimate that the process will be long, ten or eight years is possible. Moreover, the investment required is also very considerable, and the investment of one or two million yuan may not be able to produce any obvious results. Do you think you can afford such a large investment?"

Tang Zifeng said: "If you can't afford it, you have to do it." On the way to Tsinghua University, I seriously thought about this question. The shipbuilding industry is a labor-intensive industry, and it has always shifted from a country with a shortage of labor to a country with a surplus of labor.

"In the mid-50s, Japan surpassed Britain in terms of shipbuilding capacity and became the world's leader, with an annual shipbuilding capacity of 30 million deadweight tons at its peak. Since the 80s, South Korea's shipbuilding industry has risen rapidly, and it is expected that within 10 years, it will surpass Japan and become the new world leader.

"Our country is a country with an extremely rich labor force, and the development of shipbuilding industry is the trend of the times. Today, Chief Engineer Kang told me that the shipbuilding industry company's goal is to reach 2.5 million deadweight tons by 2000, but even if this figure is reached, it is only equivalent to 1/12 of the peak of Japan's shipbuilding volume, so the development potential of China's shipbuilding industry is very large.

"I predict that by the first 10 years of the next century, China's annual shipbuilding capacity is expected to exceed 30 million tons. The demand for crankshafts will be a big number. If, at that time, we have to wait for the Koreans to provide us with crankshafts for every boat we build, we will be putting our lifeblood in the hands of others, which is a very bad feeling. ”

When he said these words, Xiao Wenjun, who was sitting opposite him, kept holding his chin with one hand and listened to him with a smile. In Xiao Wenjun's opinion, Tang Zifeng still seems very knowledgeable when he is serious. He analyzes the problem in a large pattern, and can often start from the global economic history to predict the development trend of China in the next few years.

Xiao Wenjun once heard Tang Zifeng introduce his major in college, which was called "planned economics". Xiao Wenjun once had a little contempt for this profession, feeling that it was outdated and difficult to adapt to today's market economy.

But after being in contact with Tang Zifeng for a long time, she gradually realized that Tang Zifeng's profession does have some extraordinary. At the very least, this kind of far-sighted analysis is not something that she, a doctor of mechanical engineering, can do.

Tang Zifeng was able to say such a thing, of course, not entirely from his undergraduate major. In fact, purely according to theoretical deduction, no one dares to predict that China will replace Japan and South Korea as the world's largest shipbuilding power in 20 years. Tang Zifeng's confidence comes from his status as a traverser, and he knows that after entering the new century, China's various economic indicators will grow like a rocket, and it should not be a problem for the number of shipbuilding completions to exceed the 30 million tons that Japan once reached.

However, Tang Zifeng's imagination is still not enough after all. In real history, in 2010, China's shipbuilding completions reached 65.6 million deadweight tons, accounting for 43% of the world's total, ranking first in the world for the first time. At the end of 2010, China's shipyards held a total of nearly 200 million tons of shipbuilding orders. If Tang Zifeng dared to make such a prediction in front of Kang Zhichao, Lao Kang estimated that he would be sent to a psychiatric hospital as soon as possible.

"If a person has no foresight, he will have near-term worries. If we want to become a shipbuilding country, the problem of crankshafts cannot but be solved. Tang Zifeng ended his speech with a serious sentence, which won a few applause from Xiao Wenjun.

"Director Tang, I think you are becoming more and more like an official now. Xiao Wenjun said, "How can it be your turn to think about this kind of thing at the national level?

Tang Zifeng said: "Of course, the leaders of the bureau will consider such problems, but the specific work depends on each enterprise. If the enterprise does not have enthusiasm, it is in vain for the bureau leaders to be anxious. I didn't know about it before, so that's it, but now that I know, I can't sit idly by. ”

"You don't want to solve this problem because you made a bet with Chief Engineer Kang, right?" Xiao Wenjun asked worriedly.

Tang Zifeng smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "I made a bet with Lao Kang, but I just didn't want to admit it in front of him. But after listening to Lao Kang's introduction, I kind of wanted to solve this problem. Didn't you just say that it would take ten or eight years to develop this kind of machine tool. In that case, it is all the more important for us to hurry up and start as soon as possible. Otherwise, when all the conditions are ripe, we will start again, I am afraid that in addition to the ship and the machine, we will have to add a machine tool such as an axis. ”

"How many resources can you provide?" Xiao Wenjun asked.

Tang Zifeng said: "I strive to contact three or four machine tool companies to do it together, and all the experiments can be undertaken by our companies." In terms of funding, you just said that investing 10 million or 20 million may not have any effect, so let's invest 10 million or 20 million first. In terms of money, I'll take care of it. But how many people are needed, and how to design the entire technical route, I don't know, I have to ask for your help. ”

"Well, who made me owe you. Xiao Wenjun pretended to be helpless and responded.

While speaking, the waiter in the cafeteria had already delivered their meals, Tang Zifeng pointed to the two dishes with chopsticks, and said with a smile: "Let's eat first, let's say okay, I will pay for this meal, and it will be regarded as a deposit paid to you." ”

I recommend a book by an old author, East China Zhixiong's work "The Great Power Heavy Tan", which talks about those things in the tank factory, which is also the theme of our industrial party

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