Zhang Zhifang insisted on going to the Hanhua factory immediately, which made Xie Chunyan very embarrassed. The cars in the hall were all out, and she couldn't find a car to send Zhang Zhifang, and in the end, Zhang Zhifang squeezed on the American jeep driven by the Hanhua factory. Chang Qingbo and Yu Wenzheng were a little more sad, and could only sit in the bed of the truck, but they were very happy about it, because they wanted to study this special-shaped workpiece well.

"Boy, drive a little faster." Zhang Zhifang sat in the passenger seat of the jeep and said to Wang Baohu, who was driving. At this time, the car they were sitting in was speeding at 80 kilometers per hour, but Zhang Zhifang still felt that it was too slow.

"Manager Zhang, this speed is fast enough, no matter how fast it is, it will be dangerous." Zhu Tiejun kindly reminded.

Zhang Zhifang said nonchalantly: "No, Yankee's car, the surname can be fine." Back then, I drove this car and ran it for 100 yards. ”

"Manager Zhang can also drive?" Wang Baohu asked curiously.

Zhang Zhifang smiled and said: "Young man, when I was a little older than you, I drove this car and ran a few times on the 38th parallel." ”

"Thirty-eight lines?" The whole car was interested, "What, has Manager Zhang ever been a soldier?" ”

Zhang Zhifang nodded: "That's right, I was a soldier." During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, I was the head of the regiment and led the troops all the way into Seoul. ”

Zhu Tiejun said: "In this way, Manager Zhang is my old chief, and I was a new recruit when I resisted US aggression and aided Korea. ”

"Oh, Director Zhu is also a soldier?"

Zhu Tiejun tapped his finger a few times: "Xiao Wang, Xiao Lin, plus me, are all from being soldiers." By the way, there is only Lao Fan left here who has never been a soldier. ”

"In front of you, I'm a rookie egg." Lin Zhenhua said depressedly.

The little jeep picked up all the dust and returned to the Hanhua factory in less than an hour. Zhu Tiejun took Zhang Zhifang into his office, and then arranged for someone to go to Hu Yang immediately. As a result, Kong Haijiang searched for Populus euphratica but couldn't find it, so Suo ran to the radio room and shouted: "Master Populus euphratica in the sand turning workshop, please go to Director Zhu's office immediately, someone is looking for it!" ”

Before Hu Yang arrived, Chang Qingbo and Yu Wenzheng had already arrived, sitting in Zhu Tiejun's office together, waiting to see this magical wooden model worker. Kong Haijiang arranged for someone to quickly pour water for them, and informed the small canteen to prepare meals. He didn't know where Zhang Zhifang and his party came from, but when he heard Zhu Tiejun say that, it seemed that the Qinghua Hall also attached great importance to this group, so it was necessary to entertain a light meal.

Populus euphratica had just returned from sawing the boards from the lumber mill and was covered in sawdust. Hearing that Zhu Tiejun was looking for him, he didn't know what was going on, and he didn't bother to change his clothes, so he strode to Zhu Tiejun's office.

As soon as he entered the door, Hu Yang was stunned and stood motionless at the door. Zhang Zhifang was chatting with Zhu Tiejun about idle days, but when he saw Populus Hu, he stood up and looked at Populus Hu directly, with mixed feelings in his eyes.

"Lao Hu, you ...... Know? Lin Zhenhua stepped forward and asked Hu Yang in a low voice.

Hu Yang did not answer Lin Zhenhua's question, he bit his lip tightly, as if controlling the surging emotions.

"It's really you!" Zhang Zhifang said in a deep tone.

"You...... How did you find here? Hu Yang asked with suppressed excitement.

"I've been looking for you, but I didn't expect you to hide here. When Yan Yuanhe from Changhong Machinery Factory first told me, I didn't expect it to be you. Populus euphratica, Populus euphratica, how did you come up with such a name? ”

Hu Yang looked up at the ceiling to prevent his tears from falling, and he said slowly: "I thought that I would never see the sea again in my life." ”

"How did you get here?" Zhang Zhifang asked.

"In 1967, there was a martial arts fight in the hospital, and Director Mu arranged me to a third-tier factory in order to protect me. After I had been working there for a few months, the fight started there. The factory director was explained by Director Mu, and through his connections, I was transferred to the local government, and finally I went to Hanhua Machinery Factory. ”

Zhang Zhifang nodded: "No wonder, Lao Mu has passed away, and he didn't reveal your whereabouts before he died, so no one knows where you went." ”

"I heard that he was also killed." Hu Yang said gloomily.

"It's been five years since the unrest ended, why didn't you come back?" Zhang Zhifang asked.

"I ...... I do not know. Hu Yang replied timidly.

"You don't know?"

"Yes, I thought about going back, but I couldn't make up my mind every time. That place is Xiaoying's sad place, and it is also my sad place, I don't dare to go back and face everything there. ”

"Sadly? It turns out that you didn't go back to us because of this. Zhang Zhifang muttered. He suddenly changed the subject and asked Hu Yang: "In 1974, the Battle of Xisha Sea, did you read the news in the newspaper?" ”

"Looked." Hu Yang Road.

"What do you think?"

"We defeated the big ship with a small ship, which is the glory of our comrades in the navy. However, in the face of such a clown as South Vietnam, a big country can only fight a big ship with a small ship, which is a shame for our military workers. Hu Yang said hatefully.

"Smack!" Zhang Zhifang slammed the table: "You still know shame!" You also know you're a military worker! At present, the whole army is in a hurry to change its equipment, and the officers and men of the navy are anxious to get large warships to defend the coastal defense. The technicians and workers of the military industry are so busy that they don't even have time to eat every day, and they can't wait to use one as if they were two. And you! Can a sad sentence be an excuse for you to evade your responsibilities! The party and the state have spent so much money to train you, is it just for you to talk to the organization about sadness! ”

Hu Yang's psychological defense line was broken by Zhang Zhifang's broken drink, tears flowed down his cheeks, and he asked in a trembling voice: "I, I didn't want to escape, but I don't know if the organization can still accept me?" ”

Zhang Zhifang shouted angrily: "The organization has never abandoned you, it is you who are unwilling to return to the team. Our policy is that you can come and go freely, the revolution is not a dinner party, and we will not force you. If you don't want to return, you can go now! ”

Hu Yang gritted his teeth vigorously, wiped the tears from his face with his sleeve, walked up to Zhang Zhi, stood upright, and his chest was as straight as a javelin. He raised his hand, gave Zhang Zhifang a standard military salute, and then reported loudly:

"Comrade Minister, Liu Xianghai, Chief Engineer of the Propulsion System Engineering Institute of the Naval Ship Research Institute, requests to return to the team!"

This roar came out, and the whole room was shocked, what, navy! Chief engineer! Could this be the prosaic woodworking poplar?

Among all the people, the most shocked was Lin Zhenhua, who said loudly in his heart: This is Liu Xianghai! This is Liu Xianghai, the cow man among the cattle people, the god-like existence.

Lin Zhenhua clearly remembers that in the history of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Huaqing University, there was such a record:

Liu Xianghai, a 1956 graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Huaqing University, was sent to Leningrad University in the Soviet Union to study ship power. In 1960, he overturned the theory put forward by a famous Soviet thruster expert with a paper entitled "Noise Reduction Power Model of Large Blade Propulsion", which caused a sensation in the Soviet military industry and was hailed as a genius of naval engineering.

After obtaining a doctorate and returning to China, Liu Xianghai was assigned to work at the Naval Ship Research Institute. Because of his outstanding contributions to the research of several types of ship thrusters, he was exceptionally promoted to chief engineer of the Institute of Thruster Systems Engineering at the age of 29.

Unfortunately, the good times were short-lived. After the beginning of the ten years of turmoil, the Naval Research Institute was attacked by the rebels. Liu Xianghai's business leader and father-in-law, Professor Qin, was beaten to death, and Liu Xianghai disappeared in the chaos. Until Lin Zhenhua was a graduate student, Liu Xianghai's whereabouts were still a mystery.

Professor Yao Heliang, Lin Zhenhua's graduate supervisor, had a lot of contacts with Liu Xianghai in his early years, and occasionally talked about Liu Xianghai with his students, always full of emotion and complained about his jealousy of talents.

Who knows, Liu Xianghai, who everyone can't find, actually went incognito and became this wooden model worker named Populus euphratica. If it weren't for Lin Zhenhua's crossing, maybe he would have grown old as a wood molder, and then disappeared from people's sight.

I'm really confused, why didn't I think about it here, Lin Zhenhua kept complaining about himself in his heart. In fact, this kind of complaint is also unreasonable, before the mystery is revealed, who would have thought that there would be such a dramatic result?

Hearing Liu Xianghai's request to return to the team, Zhang Zhifang's eyes also flashed with tears, he raised his hand, returned a military salute to Liu Xianghai, and said solemnly: "Comrade Liu Xianghai, on behalf of the Navy Equipment Department, I welcome you back to the team!" ”

After saying this, he stepped forward, held Liu Xianghai's hand tightly, and said affectionately: "Xianghai, I know that you have been wronged. On behalf of the organization, I welcome you back! ”

Everyone present applauded excitedly, especially Chang Qingbo and Yu Wenzheng, who hurriedly stepped forward, saluted Liu Xianghai, and said respectfully: "Chief Engineer Liu, we have been looking forward to your return for a long time!" ”

These two people were only transferred to work in the research institute from other units later, and they had only admired Liu Xianghai for a long time and had never seen him. They are all middle-level cadres of the Propulsion Institute at present, and they know very well that if Liu Xianghai returns to the Propulsion Institute, he will at least be reinstated as the deputy director and chief engineer. This means that Liu Xianghai will be their immediate boss.

Liu Xianghai shook hands with Chang Qingbo and Yu Wenzheng respectively, and said: "I'm ashamed, I am a soldier who has fallen behind, and I will ask my comrades to help me more in the future." ”

At this moment, the door of the office was pushed open, and Qin Ying rushed in, she didn't look at the others, but went straight to Liu Xianghai, shouting Liu Xianghai's pseudonym: "Lao Hu, what's the matter, I heard ......"

Liu Xianghai grabbed his wife, pointed at Zhang Zhifang, and said, "Xiaoying, look who is coming." ”

Qin Ying turned her head and saw Zhang Zhifang at a glance, and her expression was as completely stunned as Liu Xianghai was at the beginning.

Zhang Zhifang looked at Qin Ying with loving eyes and shouted softly: "Xiao Ying, it's me." ”

"Uncle Zhang!" Qin Ying shouted out in a frenzy, and then threw herself into Zhang Zhifang's arms and cried wow. At this moment, she is no longer the quiet middle-aged female worker that everyone is familiar with, but has completely become a little girl who has been away from home for many days and has just met her relatives.

Zhang Zhifang gently patted Qin Ying's back and said emotionally: "Xiao Ying, I'm sorry, I'm late." I didn't protect Professor Qin, I didn't protect Xiang Hai, I'm sorry for you. ”

After everyone sighed to each other and finished complaining about their parting, Zhu Tiejun stepped forward and also gave a military salute to Zhang Zhifang, saying, "I'm sorry, Minister Zhang, I was neglected just now." ”

Zhang Zhifang hurriedly pressed Zhu Tiejun's hand and said, "Where is it, it's our fault, I shouldn't hide my identity." It is really our task, and there is a certain amount of confidentiality, please understand Director Zhu. ”

"Minister Zhang, what is the task?" Liu Xianghai asked anxiously, he had now quickly entered his role.

Chang Qingbo took out the drawing he had shown Lin Zhenhua before and handed it to Liu Xianghai. Liu Xianghai glanced at it, shook his head and said, "This design is no longer good, I have some new ideas recently......

Zhang Zhifang said with a smile: "Xianghai, this matter is not in a hurry. Just now, Xiao Chang and Xiao Xiao have already seen the model you made, what, is it a one-to-five model? ”

"Yes." Liu Xianghai replied, "Minister Zhang, this is just a conceptual design, and the real effect has to go through the dynamic model test, and I don't have such conditions here." ”

Zhang Zhifang said: "I know that no matter where you go to Xianghai, you will not give up your business." It's been so long since you've been out of the job, and you haven't lost anything in your profession, and it seems that you still have a lot of progress. ”

Liu Xianghai pulled Lin Zhenhua over, pushed him in front of Zhang Zhi, and said, "Minister Zhang, this is thanks to Xiaolin. I was able to do these calculations thanks to the finite element analysis that Kobayashi taught me. Kobayashi also used his connections with American merchants to buy me a large number of materials in English, which, although they were public publications, were very enlightening for our thruster design. In addition, I also learned from Kobayashi about machining, and we have been able to realize the problem of five-axis machining of propellers with ordinary machine tools. ”

Lin Zhenhua smiled embarrassedly: "Uh, Chief Engineer Liu, don't rub me, if you know that you are Liu Xianghai, I won't dare to play a big knife in front of you." ”

Isn't it, these people in front of him are all people Lin Zhenhua needs to look up. Zhang Zhifang, who previously claimed to be a business manager, is at least a general. Good guy, the regiment commander in the era of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, and the current minister of the armament department, what kind of gods are they.

Zhang Zhifang saw Lin Zhenhua's crampedness, he stepped forward, patted Lin Zhenhua on the shoulder, and said: "Xiaolin is good, I talked to you along the way just now, and I can feel that you are a very smart young man and very responsible." It's just that this economic consciousness is too strong, and our navy is very poor, maybe we really can't pay you for technology. ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "Minister Zhang, now you don't need to pay patent fees. Our patents are all in Chief Engineer Liu's mind, you bring him back, and all problems are solved. ”

(To be continued)