The next day, Zhu Tiejun and his entourage left the petrochemical machine and returned to Hanhua Machinery Factory in a Jiefang truck. Under the leadership of Wei Dongqi, Lin Zhenhua came to the precision machining workshop and began to work as a translator for foreign expert Ford.

Ford is Spischer's after-sales service manager in Asia, and although he is only twenty-five or sixteen years old, he is already a senior engineer in the company. In the early years, he has been responsible for the installation, commissioning and technical training of the company's products in Yuben, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other places, and this is his first time working in Chinese mainland.

Ford crossed the border from Hong Kong into Bao'an, Guangdong, and was immediately put on a bus, bumpy for several hours to Guangzhou, then took a train to Jiangnan Province, and then changed cars to a petrochemical machine. Along the way, the curtains were drawn in the vehicles he was in, and the accompanying Chinese very tactfully advised him not to open the curtains to look outside. Out of awe of the mysterious China, he accepted the suggestion and came to the petrified machine in a daze.

After entering the petrochemical machine, he was given the freedom to move around the plant, but he was still discouraged from leaving the plant. He knew that the owner of the place was reluctant to let him see the impoverished side of society, as some American journalists who had been to China had already revealed. In fact, there are many rumors about Red China in the United States, for example, some people believe that there are many intelligence agents in China, who will spy on foreigners on any occasion, and they will also listen to foreigners' phone calls. Fearful of this kind of thing, Ford consciously refrained from talking about anything confidential on the phone.

Ford has no complaints about his limitations, and he feels that the Chinese are understandable in this face-saving approach. He is the kind of very honest American, in his eyes, China is a very humane land, when he walks around the family area of the petrochemical machine, he chooses to ignore the simple life of the workers, but he appreciates the harmonious interpersonal relationship between people, he feels that this kind of harmony between people is lacking in the developed industrial countries. He even felt a little incomprehensible, why didn't this country retain this idyllic life of doing what it said and ending up, and why it had to engage in modernization.

The Jiangnan Provincial Department of Light Chemical Industry attaches great importance to him as a foreign guest, and the petrochemical machine also arranges the best accommodation conditions and the best food for him. Ford was not satisfied with the accommodation, at the very least, he wanted his room to have a bathroom and shower, but the best room in the petrochemical machine did not meet this requirement. In terms of food, Ford is full of praise, Chinese food is more exquisite than Western food, and the meat and vegetables used do not contain any hormones and chemical fertilizers, which makes Ford's taste buds greatly enjoyed. Sometimes, Ford thinks that China is the real developed country, and the United States is more like a developing country, because Chinese can eat this green and pollution-free vegetable every day, while Americans have to endure the taste of high-tech and chewing wax.

In these days of petrochemical machines, the only thing that made Ford unbearable was the broken English of the translators sent by the Chinese side. The female teacher who was arranged earlier had no problem coping with the usual conversation, but when the English came out of her mouth, there was always a taste of the Nandu dialect. In order to translate the English of mechanical professionals, the Chinese are said to have invited an expert surnamed He from a neighboring province. He had only studied English more than a decade ago when he was in college, and when he was working as a translator for Ford, he often had to stop and nervously flip through a dictionary in his hand, and Ford had to stop and wait, and the feeling was like listening to a constant cassette of music, which was painful.

Suddenly, a young man surnamed Lin appeared, fluent in American English and familiar with the obscure vocabulary of mechanical majors. With his help, Ford's work efficiency has been greatly improved, and the training effect has improved significantly. That's not all, Ford found that Mr. Lin seemed to have been in contact with the MK800 for a long time, and his demonstrations on machine tools were sometimes even more proficient than Ford himself.

"Lin, thank you very much for your work, after your help, I feel that work has become a very pleasant thing." At the end of the day's training, Ford thanked Lin Zhenhua in an American way. Chinese tend to speak more subtlely, while Americans are very straightforward, even exaggerated. For example, he obviously just wanted to say that Lin Zhenhua's translation was good, but when the words came out of his mouth, it made people feel that Lin Zhenhua was simply great.

At this time, they were walking on the boulevard of the petrochemical machine, and the workers coming and going on both sides did not dare to approach, but just watched them from a distance and whispered. This situation happens every time Ford appears, but in the past, everyone talked about Ford, and now the focus of discussion is more and more focused on Lin Zhenhua. Many people know that there is a very good young man in the Hanhua factory, who can be a translator for American experts, and his level is higher than that of a director invited from the Xiangping Provincial Department of Light Industry.

Lin Zhenhua ignored the surrounding gazes, nor was he overwhelmed by Ford's exaggerated words, he replied with a smile: "Mr. Ford, this is what I should do." ”

"Mr. Lin, our training these days is very efficient, I think, in three more days, my work can be completed, and when the time comes, I can go back to Hong Kong." Ford said.

Lin Zhenhua pretended to be surprised and said, "Really? What a pity, Mr. Ford, I've been so busy translating for you these days, and I have some questions that I would have liked to ask you, but I haven't had time to ask. ”

"Oh? What is the problem? ”

"Of course, there are some questions about the operation of the MK800."

"Didn't you already talk about the problem of how to do it during the training? You're working as a translator, is there anything you don't understand? Ford asked curiously.

Lin Zhenhua's face was flushed with a harmless smile, he took out a piece of paper, handed it to Ford, and said: "That's the case, in fact, my problem is very small, I used MK800, according to this set of parameters when processing 27-tooth gears, I found that the distribution of each tooth is not uniform, can you tell me, where is there a mistake in my work?" ”

Ford was still smiling at first, but when he heard Lin Zhenhua talk about 27 teeth, his smile froze. He took the parameters handed over by Lin Zhenhua and glanced at them, and couldn't help but ask in a trembling voice: "Mr. Lin, how did you know that the MK800 has this defect?" ”

Lin Zhenhua smiled secretly in his heart, as early as when he heard that the CNC machine tool bought by Petrochemical Machinery was MK800, he knew that his opportunity had come. The control chip of MK800 is the famous Z80, which can be called a milestone in the industrial control chip, and many CNC machine tools use this chip. However, when Spischer launched the MK800, there were several serious bugs in the control program written by the programmer, and when the parameters were set to a few special values, the program would make errors, resulting in deviations in the size of the machined parts. The machining of 27-tooth gears with specific parameters is one of the cases where errors can be made.

Due to the special combination of this set of parameters, many enterprises do not necessarily encounter such a situation, so the mk800 incognito bug has not been concerned for a long time, even if there is an error in some enterprises, it is often attributed to the mistakes of the operator, and rarely think that this is a defect of the machine itself. After a lapse of several years, someone finally discovered this problem and stabbed it in Acta Mechanica, causing an uproar for a while. Spischer had to spend a huge amount of money to recall a large batch of MK800s, and at the same time suffered huge reputational losses.

As an in-house engineer at Spischer, Ford himself knew that the machine was flawed, because it had already occurred during a chance internal test. Spischer treated the matter as a core secret, forbidding anyone in the know to leak it, and secretly organized people to study the cause of the error, trying to solve the problem internally before it was exposed, and then in the name of system upgrades, replace the program chips on the sold MK800 machines, so as to avoid a scandal.

Ford never imagined that the young man who was giggling with him in Pingyu would have such a secret information and bring it up to him in such a way. Of course, he wouldn't believe that Lin Zhenhua just accidentally discovered this secret, the parameter settings on that piece of paper were exactly the same as those set by Spischer's internal tests, how could there be such a coincidence in the world? What's more, from Lin Zhenhua's face, he couldn't see the meaning of asking for advice, more of a gloating expression.

"Mr. Lin, have you revealed this matter to anyone?" Ford asked worriedly.

"Mr. Ford, we are friends, how could I have told someone else such a thing first?" Lin Zhenhua behaved quite righteously.

Ford breathed a sigh of relief: "Oh, that's great, I don't want more people to know about this thing." ”

"But ......," Lin continued, "I heard that the International Machine Tool Society has a journal called "CNC Machine Tools", if I write a paper to discuss the design flaws of the MK800 and provide detailed data, do you think they will be interested? ”

"No! You can't do this! Ford blurted out, causing several workers passing by to look sideways, wondering what dispute had happened between this foreigner and the young man from the factory. After Ford finished shouting, he realized that he was too reckless, and hurriedly lowered his voice and said: "Mr. Lin, you should know what kind of losses our company will suffer if such an article is published in a magazine." ”

"I guess the loss isn't too big, is it?" Lin Zhenhua pretended to be stupid and said, "I remember you said that the MK800 has sold less than 1,000 units so far, that is, about 13 million US dollars, and your company should be able to bear all the recalls." ”

"13 million is not a big deal?" Ford said with a bitter face, "What's more, this is not only a matter of recalling the MK800, all of our company's products will be questioned, and the company's brand loss will be far more than 13 million." ”

"So what do you say?" Lin Zhenhua had an innocent expression.

Ford said, "Mr. Lin, can you sell me this paper you are going to write?" And then pretended not to know that it had ever happened. In terms of price, you can drive it casually. ”

Lin Zhenhua asked: "What, you mean to say that your Spischer company plans to pay me to keep my mouth shut?" ”

"This ...... Of course not that's what it means. "However, we just want you to give us some time, and we are now organizing people to fix this problem, and I am sure that in the meantime, this problem will not cause any damage to your industry." Of course, we're sorry for keeping you silent, so I can ask the company to give you a very generous compensation, let's say, $2,000. ”

2,000 US dollars was a huge amount of money back then, and the US dollars on the black market have been sold at a price of 1 to 10, and if Lin Zhenhua gets 2,000 US dollars, he can exchange them for 20,000 yuan on the black market as soon as he changes hands, and suddenly become a 20,000 yuan household. Ford has some understanding of the income level of Chinese workers, and he believes that such a huge sum of money will definitely be able to make Lin Zhenhua's heart move.

It's a pity that Ford met a traverser, and by 2011, 2,000 US dollars was no longer a temptation for a Chinese white-collar worker, not to mention, Lin Zhenhua knew that the secret he had in his hands was worth far more than 2,000 US dollars, and if he sold it for 2,000 US dollars, wouldn't it be a fool?

"Mr. Ford, I am a principled person, and I will never do such a thing as collecting money and sealing my mouth." Lin Zhenhua said righteously.

"I know...... But ......" Ford was speechless, and he really couldn't think of any other way to silence Lin Zhenhua except for spending money. Ford had never done such a thing as killing people and killing people, and he didn't dare to think in this direction. In his impression, Chinese have all practiced kung fu and killed people in China...... Rusty brains?

Lin Zhenhua waved his hand: "For the sake of the friendship between the Chinese and American peoples, and also out of reverence for your company, I have decided not to accept a penny and not publish my paper for the time being." ”

"That's great!" Ford couldn't wait to hug Lin Zhenhua and kiss him, "Mr. Lin, we won't use money to insult your personality, but for the sake of our friendship, I can ask the company to provide you and your family with a certain amount of living assistance." ”

"I'm not done yet." Lin Zhenhua interrupted Ford and continued: "In fact, I not only found that there are defects in your company's products, but also conducted in-depth research on the causes of the defects and came up with some results. I've rewritten a program for your control system that perfectly solves the problems I've found so far. I'd love to know, would your company be interested in buying this program that I wrote? ”

"You're saying you found a bug in the program and gave you a patch to fix it?" Ford asked in surprise, and then he shook his head and said, "That's impossible, our program source code has never been released, and you can't know what kind of problems exist in the code." ”

Lin Zhenhua took out another piece of paper, handed it to Ford and said, "Mr. Ford, don't be too subjective. This is a bug that I found and a patch that I designed, you can send it to your software programmers, and if they think I'm right and the patch I designed works, then let's talk about the deal, how about it? ”

Ford took the piece of paper and asked hesitantly, "Mr. Lin, are you just relieved to hand over your results to me?" Aren't you afraid that I will break my promise? ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "I know that Americans are the most trustworthy, do I have anything to worry about doing business with Americans?" ”

Ford smiled with satisfaction: "Yes, yes, of course we are talking about credit." ”

Lin Zhenhua changed his words: "Of course, the heart of guarding against others is indispensable, and I will not let myself take risks." In fact, I found a total of four bugs in the control program of your MK800, involving four different parameter settings. What I'm submitting to you now is just one of them. The other three will be submitted to you after we have signed a contract between us. Of course, you can also refuse to cooperate with me, I think the editors of the International CNC Machine Tool Magazine still have some interest in working with me. ”

"No, no, Mr. Lin, this will not happen." Although it was January weather, Ford felt sweaty, and the young man in front of him was really terrifying, this was simply naked blackmail. Anyway, my sore feet have been pinched by others, and people can blackmail them as much as they want, and they have only one way to admit it.

"I'll give you three days, I guess, it shouldn't take that much time to test a patch, right?" Lin Zhenhua said.

"Thank you, Mr. Lin, I'll send this back to the company right away! Before that......"

"Don't worry, Mr. Ford, we're friends, and I'm not going to embarrass them." Lin Zhenhua said amiably.

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The third watch is over, 12,000 words, everyone give some encouragement?