Chapter 15: Premeditation
Liang Yuan thought about it, coughed lightly a few times, Ning Wanjia, who was lying in Li Yuanling's arms, really raised her head, looked at Liang Yuan staring at herself with a wicked smile, the crimson that had just retreated from her pink neck spread again, the little girl turned her moist eyes, wrinkled her delicate nose at Liang Yuan, sat up straight and stretched her waist a lot, still jumped up briskly, and ran to the kitchen to get coffee for Liang Yuan.
Liang Yuan watched the deer-like Ning Wanjia walk into the kitchen, and before he could turn his head, his head was hit by a soft object, he turned his head and looked at Li Yuanling with another sofa cushion in his hand and looked at him with a smile, and wiped the tip of his nose with his fingers a little embarrassed.
didn't dare to complain and ask the old lady why she beat herself, Liang Yuan picked up the sofa cushion that fell on the ground and said: "Mom, for scientific research, the most important thing is to walk on the right path. β
"It's still going around the bend," Li Yuanling smiled and shook the sofa cushion in her hand.
"It's foreshadowing. Liang Yuan protested dissatisfiedly.
"From the point of view of investment, since a large amount of investment has been made, the prototype has been successfully run, due to unplanned reasons, it is understandable to cause additional costs, in the absence of complete despair, for large investment projects, or will continue to invest funds to try to recover, generally speaking, considering the market capacity of the technology after maturity, the follow-up additional funds will have a safety threshold, if it is exceeded again. It is likely to cause investors to give up completely. β
Of course, this is not absolute. It mainly depends on the game ability of both parties, sometimes the project leader is firm and infectious, and the investor may also be fooled into repeatedly injecting capital. β
"It's like this is the case with my mom right now. Liang Yuan added.
"Don't pat yourself on the back, where did mom fool you. Li Yuanling said with a smile.
Liang Yuan smiled, reached out to take the coffee handed over by Ning Wanjia, took a sip but found that the coffee was already warm and palatable, and turned his head to look at Ning Wanjia, who was sitting on the armrest of his sofa.
"I've put ice cubes, and I've tried that the temperature is just right, so you don't have to scream from being hot. β
Generally, Liang Yuan is often thinking about problems when he drinks coffee, and often burns himself so much that his tongue sticks out in one gulp.
"Xiaoyuan. You and Aunt Liang continue to talk, I like to hear Xiaoyuan talk about things at work. Ning Wanjia bent her eyes and said with a smile.
Liang Yuan looked carefully at the coffee cup in his hand, but found nothing similar to lip prints. Alas, the little girl didn't wear a lipstick or anything, she turned her head to look at the little girl's charming lip line and pink and soft lip flaps, do you want to add a circle to the cup? Liang Yuan's obscene head suddenly burst into countless complicated thoughts.
"Xiaoyuan, you can continue to talk. Ning Wanjia pushed Liang Yuan, who was a little dazed.
Seeing his wife looking at himself and Ning Wanjia with interest, Liang Yuan's old face turned red and restrained his complicated thoughts, and asked curiously: "Mom, how does the project team plan to contact Luo Luo Company?"
"It's fairly simple. Li Yuanling said with a smile.
"Stan Ray Hooker was the former president of Rolls-Royce Asia Pacific, and it was in his hands that the introduction of the Spey project was executed, and Keles Keane was a diplomat in China when the country introduced the Spey project. In those negotiations, they used to play the role of threading the needle, and later served as the British foreign secretary, and these two people and your grandfather Wu had known each other as early as before the establishment of the republic, and their personal relations were quite good. β
"Although Rolls-Royce resumed privatization last year and the two have now retired, they still have influence on Rolls-Royce, and there is no difficulty in completing the work of threading the needle. β
"Now there is only one problem for the whole project team. Li Yuanling paused.
"Mom is talking about foreign exchange. Liang Yuan said knowingly.
There was no surprise that Liang Yuanling could guess Li Yuanling, nodded and said: "Due to the adjustment of the national economic structure, the Spey project was cut, and in desperation, we tore up the agreement signed with Rolls-Royce of the United Kingdom for the subsequent purchase of 50 blanks, materials and finished parts. In the end, Rolls-Royce was paid more than 2 million pounds in liquidated damages, which also brought a rift to the cooperation between the two parties. β
"This cooperation with Luo Luo is intended to be led in the name of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but what reason to use to cooperate with Luo Luo Hui has not been thought about for the time being," Li Yuanling said with some headaches.
In the name of the Air Force of the Republic and Rolls-Royce, it is proposed to resume cooperation on the FΓΉsby project. This price is the smallest, and it is naturally undesirable for Luo Luo, who covets the power market of the Chinese Air Force. The two parties just picked up the contract that was interrupted that year and continued to implement it.
The problem is that Li Yuanling knows that the real room of the gas turbine is basically her own home, and now she uses the gas turbine to generate electricity for civilian purposes, which can be regarded as a response to the country's call for power generation for all people (Note 1), and she will not care about playing the side ball, but if it really involves the military industry, it is difficult to say how the situation will develop.
If it is in the name of industrial gas turbines, Rolls-Royce will definitely promote its own complete set of gas turbines, the high cost of production licenses is a threshold that cannot be crossed, and it is impossible to expect to spend a small amount of money to let Rolls-Royce reach out to help the gas turbine room break through the key nodes, which is tantamount to pie in the sky.
Liang Yuan guessed the matter as soon as he groaned, thought about it and said: "Mom, you talk to Wu Lao first, don't contact Luo Luo for the time being, the one who is sent to the door on the pole will definitely not be taken seriously, I have a relatively large plan on the railway side, and there will be action in the first half of this year, when Luo Luo Company will take the initiative to ask us, at that time, it will be much simpler to consider the problem of Spey engine to continue to be localized." β
"Xiaoyuan, are you really determined to develop a gas turbine locomotive?" asked Li Yuanling.
The Northeast Locomotive Factory's plan to develop gas turbine locomotives was known to Li Yuanling for a long time.
"Well, the Ministry of Railways has been building momentum in the newspapers and magazines of the Ministry for several months, and if it weren't for the fact that the source of foreign exchange has not been resolved, it would have started to operate in earnest. Liang Yuan said.
The foreign exchange issue is only one of the reasons, and there is another reason that Liang Yuan did not say, that is, just next month, the "Battle of Nansha in 88", which shocked the world Although the Republic Navy sank two Vietnamese ships at the cost of slightly injuring one person, severely damaged one Vietnamese ship, captured more than 40 Vietnamese soldiers, and caused the Vietnamese military to lose more than 400 people, thus winning an overwhelming victory, the Chinese Navy after the victory was worried that the Vietnamese Air Force would dispatch its Su-22 fighter-bombers to launch an air attack on the fleet, and failed to continue to expand the results of the battle, so it hurriedly withdrew to the Zhanjiang Military Port.
After this battle, the weakness of the Chinese Navy's lack of long-range air defense forces was exposed, and because the short-legged Chinese Air Force could only provide air defense cover within a combat radius of 800 kilometers, the Chinese Navy was forced to give up the war of words with the Air Force and independently support the follow-up research and development of the J-7 aircraft with a long range.
Liang Yuan's calculation was to borrow the rigid demand of the Republic Navy for long-range fighter-bombers, and to occupy the power market of China's naval aviation in the future as a bait, and fool Rolls-Royce Company to continue to deepen the localization of Spey aero engines.
In the British Rolls-Royce's view, the level of Spey engines will be in service until the end of the nineties at most, when the replacement of more advanced aero engines is certain, on the basis of the British engine that has been used, for the sake of logistics maintenance including technical inheritance, as long as there is no explosive accident, it will definitely continue to choose Rolls-Royce's engine, for high-end arms dealers, ten years ahead of the layout is really not an uncommon thing.
As for China's reliance on its own strength to solve the problem of upgrading aero engines, for Rolls-Royce, who has a comprehensive understanding of the strength of the Republic's aviation research and development, a country that has just solved the basic industrialization and has not even figured out the first-generation twin-rotor aero engine wants to engage in aero-engine technology, and will develop it for 50 years first.
"Oh, Xiaoyuan has already chosen the gas turbine to be introduced?" asked Li Yuanling.
"Well, the power of the gas turbine locomotive is the turboshaft engine, as far as I am concerned, I tend to choose the jewel of the British Rolls-Royce company - 41 series turboshaft engine, so that there is continuity in the manufacturing equipment of the engine, after all, the equipment on my uncle's side was originally purchased in accordance with the workshop planning of Rolls-Royce, and one can be bundled with the in-depth localization of Spey engine, but this is only a plan, and I am afraid that there will be no rapid change at that time. Liang Yuan said with a smile.
As a quasi-NATO member of China in the 80s, the Ministry of Railways released the news that the Qinghai-Tibet Railway needed 200 gas turbine locomotives, which was an absolute shock to the turboshaft engine manufacturers who were qualified to participate in this competition...... Kilowatts, in terms of the technical level of the eighties, a machine head needs at least 2000 kilowatts of loading power, which will mean the demand for 400-800 turboshaft engines, which is definitely shocking news for the industry, and the situation will be chaotic that is certain.
"Oh, Xiaoyuan has even chosen the model of the turboshaft engine, has the funding problem been solved?" asked Li Yuanling with a smile.
"Where is it solved, it's just a little eyebrows, if my mother didn't ask me, I wouldn't have said, my uncle doesn't know now, where am I going to get a turboshaft engine." Liang Yuan said.
"Tens of millions of dollars, Xiao Yuan is so confident in the air purifier in the chip room?" Li Yuanling asked in surprise.
Liang Yuan smiled and said: "Lao Su's chip room is not only an air purifier, it is only convincing when things come out, now let me talk nonsense with empty teeth, I feel weak myself."
Note 1: In the 80s and 90s, there was an extreme shortage of electricity in China, and the state called on all the people to run power plants, which was similar to the large-scale steelmaking movement. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )RV