Chapter 418 of the text is money

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When Hu Wenhai got on the plane to the magic capital, it undoubtedly means that China's electronics industry is about to enter a new stage.

However, for China in this era, it seems that similar things are happening all the time. Compared with the previous 30 years of accumulation, this is an era of accumulation, which also means that this is a great era of drastic changes in history. Not only for the trendy and trendy frontier industries, but also in those industries that seem to be about to be abandoned by the times.

Since the 80s, with the pace of the country's reform and opening up, many key projects in the heavy industry have been forced to be suspended. said that it was a pause, but in fact, everyone knew in their hearts that it was almost equivalent to dismounting.

Among these projects that have been discontinued, the double 10,000-ton hydraulic press is one of them. The construction of hydraulic presses can be said to be a major event related to a country's industrial system, but in the face of the severe economic situation in the eighties, it also had to make way for reform.

The cooperation between Erzhong and Tsinghua University's Department of Mechanical Engineering has made quite good progress. However, solving the problem of 10,000 tons of hydraulic press is not only a technical problem, but also a problem of the industrial system.

Why are only two and a half countries in the world able to build hydraulic presses? The Soviet Union, the United States, and China have tirelessly invested in hydraulic presses, are not Britain, France, Germany, and Japan industrial countries, or are they self-degenerating industrial countries?

No, in addition to the technical problem, the hydraulic press is actually more of an industrial-scale problem. Without considerable national strength and industrial scale, the country is unable to invest in the field of hydraulic presses. Even if it is built, there are not so many industrial projects in the country to feed the 10,000-ton hydraulic press, and the result is that the follow-up development momentum is insufficient, the cost rises sharply, and finally the entire investment collapses and goes bankrupt.

Looking at the world, only the two poles of the Cold War have this spirit and industrial scale, and China, which once wanted to "stand tall among the nations of the world", must insist on taking the road of independence.

But in the 80s, China opened its door, and the difficult road of 10,000 tons of hydraulic press seemed to have come to an end. The 10,000-ton multi-directional die forging hydraulic press of Southwest Aluminum, which was finally put into production in 82 years in China, has also become a piece of chicken ribs under the squeeze of European and American industries.

Seeing that China's independent development of 10,000 tons of hydraulic presses seems to be coming to an end.

However, not everyone is willing to stop there.

"Team Leader Lin, Director Lin!" Yan Yongnian, deputy director of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Tsinghua University, ran up and had a greasy forehead on his forehead, but looking at his appearance, it was as if only the hot and poisonous sun in the sky did not exist: "What you said is true? Can our 35,000-ton hydraulic press project continue to be done? I said Lin Lao, you didn't lie to me, right? It was a 35,000-ton hydraulic press, it can't be taken out just by gritting your teeth with the revolutionary spirit, and the country has to invest real money in it!"

"Yan Yongnian, what's the benefit of me lying to you? Just the way you slammed the door, can you invite me to eat more meat at noon?" Lin Zongtang snorted twice: "You just invited me to eat in Tsinghua's cafeteria, I'm sorry, I don't have this time!"

As he spoke, he shook the suitcase in his hand: "The train at four o'clock this afternoon will go to Shengjing immediately." If you still want to do this project, come with me!"

"Go!" Yan Yongnian didn't think about it, and said neatly: "If I don't go, I'll be a mallet!"

As he spoke, Yan Yongnian stood up and turned around and walked towards his office.

Lin Zongtang and Yan Yongnian are more than 100 years old together. The train from the imperial capital to Shengjing took more than eight hours, but fortunately, August was not the peak period for the flow of people, but I got two sleeper tickets.

When it was almost a little more than a little bit in the second half of the night, they finally rushed to Shengjing exhausted. Dressed in a starry sky and walking on a quiet and uninhabited street, who would have thought of the origin of these two ordinary-looking people?

One is the deputy head of the leading group of heavy technology and equipment, the director of the electromechanical import and export office and the deputy director of the China Transportation Strategy Committee, Lin Zongtang's titles do not seem to be so shiny, but in the eyes of real insiders, any of these three names can blind their "kryptonite dog eyes".

One director and two deputy directors of the three institutions directly under the State Yuan, Lin Zongtang's actual rank is no different from those ministers of large ministries and commissions with names and surnames. When the country needs it, he can be parachuted into the ministry related to his field at any time with a perfect resume posture.

And Yan Yongnian's identity is relatively simple, the deputy director of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Tsinghua University, and a member of the Academic Committee of Tsinghua University, although the name is short, it is undeniable that his position in the academic world is even closer to the peak than Lin Zongtang.

A ministerial-level leader and an academic bull, how did they come together?

In fact, the reason is very simple, because they are all concerned about China's 10,000-ton hydraulic press industry.

China's first 12,000-ton die forging hydraulic press was jointly designed by Lin Zongtang and Mr. Shen Hong, who had already served as a servant. In the 80s, Lin Zongtang led and organized the construction of a 200-ton electroslag remelting furnace. After serving as the deputy head of the leading group of heavy technology and equipment, he also presided over the research and development and construction of the famous positron collider project.

Looking at Lin Zongtang's contributions to the country since graduating from Tsinghua University in 49 years, even Hu Wenhai's achievements will be bleak.

Although Yan Yongnian has always been a researcher at Tsinghua University, he is not an old scholar who only hides in an ivory tower and does not ask about the world, but always pays attention to the development of the field of heavy machinery.

The prestressed steel wire winding technology that he has been researching since 1978 is the key technology of the 10,000-ton hydraulic press developed in China.

Yan Yongnian's prestressed steel wire winding technology published a paper in 1979, which caused a very strong response in the world at that time. Neither the Soviet Union nor the United States was surprised to find that his technology was as advanced as his in this field.

With his technical support, the design, manufacture and production of the 12,000-ton multi-directional die forging hydraulic press of Southwest Aluminum undertaken by Erzhong that year were completed, and the performance was not weak compared with similar foreign products.

From 1982 to 1984, Yan Yongnian published five papers on the topic of 10,000-ton hydraulic wire winding frame of 10,000-ton hydraulic press. Every paper published aroused strong interest from foreign counterparts.

However, from '84 to the present, in three years, he has only produced a purely theoretical research result. With the finite element method, the scheme of engineering approximation calculation is optimized.

From high yield to low yield, it is not that Yan Yongnian's academic ability has declined, but that the state has reduced its investment in hydraulic presses. Without funding, there would be no technical research on this heavy machinery.

When an opportunity appeared in front of them, a ministerial-level leader and the deputy director of the mechanical department of a top Chinese university appeared alone on Shengjing Street in the middle of the night.

Their figures seem to be no different from those migrant workers who come to the city in a daze in the future.

I opened a room in a youth hostel, and although the long-distance train ride had exhausted the two of them, they still didn't feel sleepy in bed.

Looking at Yan Yongnian's pancakes tossing and turning on the bed, Lin Zongtang simply lit the bedside lamp on his side, put the pillow up against the wall, and sat up from the bed.

"Old Lin, I'm waking you up. Yan Yongnian is now in his forties, and he is in the prime of life. Seeing that he woke up Lin Zongtang, who was in his sixties, couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

"Come on, I never fell asleep. Lin Zongtang smiled bitterly: "Look at you like this, how can you look like the deputy director of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Tsinghua University!"

"Isn't it bottomless in my heart!" Yan Yongnian sighed: "The 35,000-ton hydraulic press! Although the Shengjing Heavy Machinery Factory is famous, I heard that the benefits in recent years have not been very good. Let's build 35,000 tons of hydraulic presses, and the investment in R&D and construction is less than 500 million. Now it's better to be in the past, talk about revolution and dedication, and grit your teeth without money. Now that there is no money, everything is closed, Sheng Zhong is willing to invest 500 million yuan in us to carry out projects? There are 500 million yuan, no matter how you think about it, it seems that it will not be the turn of the hydraulic press. ”

"That's right, the country really can't get this money. Lin Zongtang nodded, and then sighed: "But don't complain Yongnian, in our leading group for heavy technology and equipment, which project has been stopped over the years is not related to the sky? As for the investment of 35,000 tons of hydraulic presses in this grand event, I will tell you the bottom of it, you have rotted this in your stomach! Not only is the research and development cost of 500 million yuan less this time, but in fact, our real goal is to complete the construction of 75,000 to 80,000 tons of hydraulic presses in the next seven or eight years!"

"80,000 tons!" Yan Yongnian glared, and almost didn't jump out of bed: "Lin Lao, what about the money? What about the money! 80,000 tons, you really dare to say it! The Americans don't have 80,000 tons, and our country's industrial scale is 80,000 tons? This is a satellite!"

"Money, you don't have to worry! The country's determination of 80,000 tons, you don't have to worry!" Lin Zongtang glanced at him, thought for a while, and said: "I'll tell you the truth, your level can know some news, but don't spread it." ”

"Okay, I will never spread it!" Yan Yongnian held his breath and looked at Lin Zongtang with his eyes.

"Do you know that the 14 fighter jets of the United States have been introduced by our country?" Lin Zongtang did not wait for Yan Yongnian to answer, and simply continued: "This fighter belongs to the third generation aircraft in terms of division, which is one generation more advanced than China's J-8 and J-7 fighters, and is the only third-generation aircraft technology that the military can access at present. As soon as it was introduced, the state decided to completely copy this fighter. After more than two years of research, the imitation of now 14 is facing a big technical problem, and the country cannot use vacuum electron beam welding to avoid the molding problem of the main carrier of the aircraft like the Americans. So after comprehensive consideration, the current result is to take the route of 80,000 tons of hydraulic presses. ”

"What about the money?" Yan Yongnian cheered up: "Could it be that the Ministry of Aeronautics and Astronautics paid this money? By the way, I heard the rumors, Lin Lao, you will be the Minister of Aerospace next year, right? Oh, Lin Lao, you have already enjoyed the treatment of the Minister in advance!"

"What do you think!" Lin Zongtang was amused by Yan Yongnian: "Don't spread this kind of thing, and this money is not from the Ministry of Aerospace." Sheng Zhong has obtained a special loan from China Railway Construction Investment Bank, and behind China Railway Construction Investment and 14 Localization, there is a common investor, which is Xinke Group. ”

"Xinke" Yan Yongnian frowned and muttered twice: "This name sounds familiar, oh! is it Xinke?"

"Yes, that's the ST Group. So don't spread this news, after all, Xinke is a private company and is too sensitive. But from the perspective of asset investment, billions of yuan in ten years is not too much investment. ”

"Okay, I'll be relieved. I heard that the capital of ST Group is tens of billions of dollars, and our investment is indeed a drizzle. Yan Yongnian held back for a long time, but finally couldn't hold back and showed an uncontrollable smile.

"Hurry up and go to sleep, tomorrow we will go to Shengzhong to have a meeting to do research, and we have to meet with the people of China Railway Construction Investment, no spirit. ”

"Sleep! Sleep! But it's trapped me!" Yan Yongnian yawned, and it didn't take long for him to snore while lying on the bed.

"This Yan Yongnian"

Lin Zongtang himself was tossed by him like this, but he felt that he didn't feel sleepy.

Shengjing's Tiexi District was once the cradle of China's industry, the industrial engine that liberated the whole of China, the strong backing of the resistance to the union, and the "Chinese Ruhr" built by the great Chinese workers.

For the 300,000 industrial workers in Tiexi District, there is one enterprise that is so special. Shengjing Heavy Machinery Factory, since its establishment in 1937, has gone through half a century of ups and downs, witnessing the miracle of China's Ruhr from scratch.

If Tiexi District is the cradle of China's industry, then Shengjing Heavy Machinery Factory is the cradle of Tiexi District. In China's heavy equipment manufacturing enterprises, it is a well-deserved big brother.

The 30,000 workers of Shengzhong Machinery Factory will always be the proudest group of people in Tiexi District.

On the side of a tree-lined avenue in the Shengzhong factory, a band of workers dressed in oil-stained overalls is singing carefree.

"Watch three sets of cars rushing forward, on the banks of the Volga River in the cold winter. The driver lowered his head and sang softly and sorrowfully"

The low, soothing singing sounded in the accompaniment, and if you ignore the occasional roar of machinery and the whistling of metal crashing and grinding in the background, the performance of these workers is not inferior to that of a professional Soviet orchestra.

Who would have thought that these retired thieves, full-time gangsters and big brothers in the next ten years would have played "high art" one day when they were young?

However, the good things in the world often don't last. Betrayal and betrayal are often eternal.

"Eh, Chen Guilin, I'm still playing your accordion, Xiaoju is back from the United States!"

"What? Wang Kangmei, what are you talking about!"

Chen Guilin suddenly stood up and threw the accordion in his hand aside. Ignoring the workers around him who were still listening to him singing about the three sets of cars, he stepped forward and grabbed Wang Kangmei's hand in two steps.

"Xiaoju, Zhang Xiaoju, your ex-wife! She took your daughter Xiaoyuan out of school, and is now waiting for you at the factory gate. ”

"She still dares to come back!" Chen Guilin was furious, and ran towards the factory gate with his feet outstretched.

The grand factory gate is quite magnificent, and in order to allow 30,000 workers to pass through the guò when commuting to work, the gate is at least thirty or forty meters wide. As soon as you enter the door, you will find a three-story office building of the factory, and in front of the building is a commuter convoy composed of more than a dozen buses.

Standing on this spacious cement road into the factory, flanked by decades-old locust trees. When you step out of the shade of the trees and look out into the sky, you will see an endless forest of chimneys. From here to the distance of the limit of human gaze, there is no need to doubt that all the chimneys you see belong to Shengzhong Machinery Factory, which is the unexaggerated description of Shengjing Heavy Machinery Factory.

It is difficult to imagine any difficulty for a worker working in such a factory that would make them give up their dignity and dignity.

But when Chen Guilin rushed out of the factory door, his angry gaze was like a seriously injured and dying beast.

Between him and Zhang Xiaoju, it is a story that seems to be familiar in this era. A woman who strives to go abroad, a man who is content with the status quo. A year after the woman left the country, the man in the country received a divorce agreement in the mail.

No matter how unwilling he was, the man had no choice but to sign this agreement. But who would have thought that the woman he thought he would never see again would dare to come back to face him.

But just as Chen Guilin's gaze fell on the shade of the tree next to the gate, the moment on the figure in the blue and white school uniform, his anger and resentment seemed to suddenly disappear.

"Xiao Yuan!" Chen Guilin smiled and beckoned to Chen Xiaoyuan, and his daughter ran towards him obediently.

"Piano lessons?" asked Chen Guilin, touching her head.

"It's over, Mom took me to Lu Mingchun for dinner!"

Lu Mingchun Hotel is the birthplace of Liao cuisine, looking at the whole of Beijing, there is no more high-grade eating place than Lu Mingchun. Not only for Chen Xiaoyuan, but also for the 90-year-old people in Shengjing City, it is not a place that can be easily founded.

Chen Xiaoyuan enthusiastically described to Chen Guilin what she had seen and heard at the most famous Lumingchun Hotel in Shengjing, and if someone else listened to it, she would have to make her saliva flow into a waterfall.

But Chen Guilin was really not in the mood to listen to her describe what he had never seen in Lu Mingchun, so he just looked at Zhang Xiaoju silently with his eyes.

"Why did you come back. Chen Guilin suppressed his anger and grievances, took a deep breath, and stared at Zhang Xiaoju's eyes.

"I came back to take Xiao Yuan to the United States. Zhang Xiaoju dodged Chen Guilin's gaze and lowered her head, but her tone was not affected in the slightest.

"Dave agreed with me to bring Xiao Yuan to the United States, where she can get a better education and become a naturalized citizen in the United States when she becomes an adult. This is good for Xiao Yuan, I am still Xiao Yuan's mother, of course I hope she can be happy in the future. ”

"Xiao Yuan is very happy now. Chen Guilin's strong hands were clenched tightly, and suppressing anger was really a difficult task for him.

"Is it called happiness if you can't even go to Lu Mingchun once?" Zhang Xiaoju finally had the courage to raise her head: "I don't know how many times the United States is more developed than China, only in the United States, is it best for Xiaoyuan." ”

"So you left our father and daughter behind in order to stay in the United States!" Chen Guilin's eyes widened angrily, and he finally couldn't suppress his feelings and roared loudly.

"I asked you to go abroad with me, but what about you? You are satisfied with earning a salary of more than 100 yuan in China, and you can't keep up with my footsteps when you either burn electric welding or play the accordion all day long. Zhang Xiaoju said justifiably.

Chen Guilin was silent, and after a while, he shook his head: "Xiao Yuan won't go with you, just go what kind of life you want to pursue, don't take Xiao Yuan away from me." ”

"Xiao Yuan must come with me. Zhang Xiaoju said categorically.

Chen Guilin took a deep breath, looked at Chen Xiaoyuan beside him, swallowed his saliva and asked, "Xiaoyuan, you decide for yourself." Do you want to go to the U.S. with your mom, or stay with me. ”

"Me"

Chen Xiaoyuan looked at Chen Guilin, and his eyes turned around Zhang Xiaoju's body with affection, which has to be said to be the most difficult question in the world to answer.

"Dad, Mom said she would buy me a piano. Chen Xiaoyuan bit his lip and said with difficulty: "The teacher said that I am very talented in playing the piano, I have studied the piano for ten years, and I want to have my own piano." If you give me a piano, I'll stay. ”

Chen Guilin breathed a sigh of relief, his daughter was still towards himself after all. Zhang Xiaoju's relationship with her is no less than his, her daughter just wants a piano, and she will choose herself under the same conditions, which is already the best situation.

Chen Xiaoyuan just asked for a piano, which was nothing compared to what she got when she went to the United States. Of course, family affection will not be a complete consideration of interests, Chen Guilin doesn't want to delve into the motives and logic behind Chen Xiaoyuan, he just needs to know that her daughter wants a piano. Even if it wasn't to get rid of Zhang Xiaoju, he would try his best to fulfill her wishes.

"Piano?" Chen Guilin nodded heavily: "Okay, Dad will buy you a piano, and you will be with Dad from now on!"

"Chen Guilin, you haven't woken up yet, have you?" Zhang Xiaoju snorted: "Do you know how much a piano costs? at least tens of thousands of yuan, can you afford that little money?"

"Isn't it just 10,000 yuan?" Chen Guilin gritted his teeth: "You don't have to worry about it." ”

"Okay, I'll give you a week, and if you can come up with the money, I'll go back to the United States myself. ”

After Zhang Xiaoju finished speaking, she turned around, took two steps into the distance, and suddenly stopped again.

She didn't turn back, just a little lonely silence for a moment, and then said a word.

"Don't blame me. ”

Perhaps in her opinion, asking Chen Guilin to scrape together 10,000 yuan is an almost impossible task. After all, two people are husband and wife, and they are ruthless but affectionate.

Is it wrong to pursue a better life? To be continued