After determining the aluminum-lithium 1040 alloy as the preferred material, Yang Weiping's time in the laboratory was significantly longer, so that even when Xiang Yang came back from the mainland, he just took a look at everyone and flashed, and Xiang Rong was responsible for the placement of people in the future.

By the time Yang Weiping successfully synthesized the ratio of aluminum-lithium 1040 alloy and perfected the mass production process, it was already the third day that Xiangyang had returned from the mainland.

Coming out of the laboratory, Yang Weiping did not have the joy of learning from the results of others, and the whole person seemed quite calm.

Compared with the third-generation aluminum-lithium alloy, this second-generation 1040 alloy is just a garbage material that is temporarily used to make up for the next time. If he hadn't wanted to take this as an opportunity to get on the line with the Soviets, Yang Weiping might have directly gone to the third generation of aluminum-lithium alloy.

Of course, 1040 alloy is a bit rubbish in Yang Weiping's eyes, but in this era, it is a high-end new composite metal that all major developed countries in the world are investing heavily in research!

With 1040 alloy as the foundation, it will be much easier to develop the third generation of 1460 aluminum-lithium alloy.

Huaxia's aluminum-lithium alloy research started in the early sixties, and the Northeast Light Alloy Processing Research Institute had imitated the 2020 alloy in the United States and trial-produced an aluminum-lithium alloy plate codenamed S141, but it failed to be industrially produced and applied.

In the 80s, the Chinese State Science and Technology Industry Commission took the research of aluminum-lithium alloy as a key research project, and during the "Seventh Five-Year Plan", it mainly carried out alloy casting and processing technology discussion, and successfully developed imitation 2091 medium-strength aluminum-lithium alloy, but did not enter the industrial scale production. During the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" period, China's aluminum-lithium alloy research has advanced to the stage of rapid development, and has developed medium-strong weldable 1420 alloy and high-strength 2090 alloy, and generated and produced small-sized plates and profiles.

As an aerospace application material, aluminum-lithium alloy is mainly used in the load compartment of large launch vehicles, the warhead shell of medium and long-range missiles, the outer storage tank of space shuttles, and the outer bulkhead of F16 fighter jets.

Yang Weiping can now conclude that once Tiangong Smelter declares a patent for 1040 aluminum-lithium alloy in the world, it will definitely make Tiangong Smelter an instant hit, and there is no need to spend money on advertising.

Of course, there are gains and losses. While coping with the close attention of the global news media, how to guard against agents and commercial espionage from various countries has also become a top priority that Yang Weiping must pay attention to.

"Boss, you haven't slept all night, don't look at your youth now, but you have to take it easy!" Xiang Rong, who had been in charge of the vigilance work outside the laboratory, couldn't help but persuade Yang Weiping when he saw Yang Weiping coming out of the laboratory with a haggard face.

The boss's magical powers are vast, and Xiang Rong now has a personal experience.

In less than a month after arriving in Hong Kong, such a huge foundation was created, and with only a few hand-drawn drawings, he was able to exchange five million dollars in cash and a batch of valuable machinery and equipment from the Germans. Sometimes, Xiang Rong can't help but overturn his atheistic ideological views, feeling that the boss is like an omnipotent god!

Witnessing Yang Weiping's miraculous ability, Xiang Rong was also secretly glad that the two brothers had made the original decision, feeling that it was the wisest decision he had made in his life.

Yang Weiping took out a box of Jianpai cigarettes with a slightly wrinkled shell from his trouser pocket, lit the lighter that Rong Jianji was playing, took two puffs hard, and smiled a little tiredly: "In the next period of time, I can relax a little." Ah Rong, thank you for your hard work. ”

"I just moved a chair to sit outside to show you the door, what's not hard, it's really hard to be the boss, your face has lost a lot of weight. Xiang Rong said sincerely and respectfully.

"The factory is spending money everywhere now, and if I don't hurry up and find a way to make something that can make money, even if we have a mountain of gold in our hands, we will have to toss it up sooner or later. Yang Weiping smoked a cigarette and said with a sigh: "Now it's finally a bit eyebrow-raising, and the hard work of these days is not in vain." ”…,

Speaking of this, Yang Weiping's face turned serious, and he solemnly confessed: "Ah Rong, from now on, no one is allowed to enter this laboratory except myself!

Xiang Rong understood that the stakes were high, and nodded with a solemn face and said, "Yes! If something goes wrong here, I'll see you!"

"How are your old comrades-in-arms doing? Are you still used to staying in Hong Kong?" asked Yang Weiping with a serious look of concern.

"Thank you boss for your concern!" Xiang Rong replied with a grateful face: "Except for not being able to understand Hong Kong dialect, they have basically begun to adapt to other aspects of life." Eat well, dress well, live well, and leave 10,000 yuan for settling-in before leaving, and they are all thinking about the boss. ”

"When the factory is on the right track, I will send 1,000 yuan to each family on time every month as living expenses. Yang Weiping sighed and said: "They are all soldiers who have contributed to the country, and now that our country is in turmoil, there are definitely some aspects that cannot be done in all aspects, and I believe they can understand this." When we make money in the future, I will definitely set up a special 'veterans' fund with some of the funds, so that all the veterans who have shed blood and sweat for our country and nation can have the most basic living security." ”

Xiang Rong's eyes couldn't help but have tears of excitement flashing, he took a deep breath, raised his head with his chest straight, saluted Yang Weiping with a standard military salute, and said in a slightly choked voice: "Boss, please accept me as a veteran to salute you!"

"Be polite with me. Yang Weiping stepped forward and stretched out his hand to put down Xiang Rong's right hand, and said, "I'm just doing my duty as a soldier's descendant." Veterans like you, there are still thousands of people in our country, and the world is not peaceful today, and war can happen at any time.

Although you are old, each of you is a precious asset of the country and the army, because your actual combat experience and awareness of battle are not comparable to ordinary soldiers. When the conditions are ripe in the future, we will not only set up a 'veterans' fund', but also organize the establishment of a 'veterans' association', so that those veterans who are lonely and helpless, especially disabled veterans, can have something to support and rely on. ”

"Boss, no matter whether your wish can be realized or not, just to what you just said, I Xiang Rong will give you my life in this life! Xie Lu, thank you, boss!" Xiang Rong once again saluted Yang Weiping.

"Boss, thank you!" a group of men's respectful voices sounded behind Yang Weiping.

I don't know when, a group of middle-aged men of different heights and wearing black security uniforms came to the corridor, and the leader was Xiang Yang.

In front of them, the group of middle-aged men who still exude an obvious peasant atmosphere on their bodies, although their faces have the vicissitudes left by the years of hardship, but the spirit hidden in their bones is still sufficient.

Seeing that more than a dozen people were saluting him, Yang Weiping subconsciously raised his hand to his right temple, but thinking that he had no experience in military service now, and was no longer the military expert who was also a civilian major general of the General Armament Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in the previous life, he couldn't help but slowly put down his raised right arm.

"Hehe, everyone is here, just right, I was going to visit you just now. Yang Weiping smiled and nodded, "It seems that everyone heard the conversation I had with Ah Rong just now, so let's work together for this goal!"

"But if you have to send something, you will never give up!" Xiang Rong saluted Yang Wei for the third time.

"But if you have to send something, you will not give up!" Xiang Yang and the other thirteen people saluted and shouted at Yang Weiping in unison.

It is better to choose a day than to hit the day, Yang Weiping saw that the opportunity was rare, so he asked Xiang Rong to invite everyone into the small conference room outside the laboratory. …,

Through conversation, Yang Weiping realized that Xiang Yang was preparing to arrange for the twelve veterans to be divided into two shifts, with him and Xiang Rong leading a team to take on the vigilance and safety work of the laboratory 24 hours a day. So I took these old comrades-in-arms to the periphery of the laboratory to familiarize themselves with the environment, and just came up from downstairs to enter this corridor leading to the laboratory, and overheard the conversation between Yang Weiping and Xiang Rong.

Obviously, Yang Weiping's topic just now resonated in the hearts of these veterans, and invisibly won their respect from the heart.

When Xiang Yang returned to the smelter with these twelve old comrades-in-arms, Yang Weiping only met with everyone and did not have in-depth exchanges, but he only knew that they were all comrades-in-arms of Xiang Rong and Xiang Yang in the same reconnaissance company on the Korean battlefield back then.

When Yang Weiping chatted with Xiang Rong Xiangyang, he talked about the lack of security in the factory, and Xiang Yang immediately said that he could go back to the mainland to find some old comrades-in-arms who had friends of life and death to come to Hong Kong.

Out of trust in the Xiangrong and Xiangyang brothers, Yang Weiping certainly agrees with this.

Those soldiers who participated in the War of Liberation, then participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, stayed in the front-line combat units, and can still survive to this day, are all veterans of a hundred battles who have been killed for a long time.

Although the youngest of them is now in their forties, forty years old is also considered the prime of life for men, at most a little less physical. If we can introduce the concept of special operations of the special forces of later generations, supplemented by the most advanced weapons and equipment in the world today, and use them to deal with the gangsters in Hong Kong, it will definitely be a knife to kill chickens.

For this group of veterans with a minimum age of 41 years old and a maximum age of 45 years old, Yang Weiping only needs them to help him wholeheartedly for five years, at most ten years, and then they must be able to help him train a crack factory guard, and then they will naturally enter the middle and senior leadership positions of the factory guard, and they do not need to charge into the front line in person with their old bodies.