A domestic optical production field, as a branch of the industrial field, is not supported at the national level, after all, such a tall field as steel, chemicals, electronic components, China has not completed the most basic self-sufficiency and production capacity matching, similar to optical manufacturing such a supporting supporting is naturally difficult to go to the desk of the industrial director.

However, no energy does not mean that no one pays attention to it, Bai Yi is the first person in the industrial field to pay attention to optical manufacturing technology, and not only put forward slogans, but also gradually promote the research and exploration of optics, especially military optical technology, within the scope of his authority.

As early as the beginning of the development of the Type 50 automatic rifle, he set up the first domestic firearm scope research group with the situation of supporting firearm accessories, and in 1950, when the fresh graduates were about to be assigned, he went to Shencheng to find the head of the general logistics department, and pulled down all the optical graduates of various colleges and universities this year.

If Bai Yi's move was placed in the previous life, it is estimated that Baiyun Factory would have been overcrowded, but in 1950, aside from the retention and directional allocation, Bai Yi recruited 8 people when he was full, and it was the number of people from Qinghua and Fudan together, as for other colleges and universities, there was no optical major at all.

Therefore, in 1950, this cutting-edge major, which will be indispensable in the future, can find such a little systematic learning talent among the 40,000 people in China, which is the epitome of the extreme weakness of China's scientific research field at that time!

In addition, leaders like the head of the General Logistics Department have always firmly believed in the principle of concentrating their efforts to do great things, and they often gather the top talents in the field to overcome a difficult problem, which is a good way to overcome it in an era when talents, materials, and funds are extremely scarce.

Although Bai Yi found fewer people, these 8 top students are all high-achieving students with excellent character and learning in the school's optical major, so Bai Yi took these 8 high-level students as the core and expanded the firearm sight research group to the military optical instrument research group, which was attributed to the leadership of the technical department of Baiyun Factory as a pre-research direction.

In October 1950, Bai Yi exchanged part of the military technology for the so-called Soviet "scrap steel" and arrived at the Baiyun Factory, and immediately established the Baiyun Factory Optical Instrument Branch based on the original optical production machine tools of the Austrian Swarovski Optical Factory obtained from Belarus.

It's just that the optical instrument branch at that time was really shabby, except for a bunch of machine tool parts and more than a dozen technicians, it was a drawing room of less than 50 square meters, and there was no minimum workshop.

However, under such humble conditions, the 8 high-achieving students majoring in optics did not say anything, wearing coats, holding reference books, braving the severe cold of dripping water into ice, and plunged into the dense pile of parts, starting from the most basic fixing screws, and then gears, until the transmission system, power distribution system and even the whole machine structure.

I just assembled the scalp-numbing optical machine parts one after another, and it didn't matter if my hands were frozen with chilblains, I applied a layer of lard and continued to work; The cold is sold at 40 degrees, and the delicious ginger syrup immediately beats the spirit by assembling.

In this way, they fought for more than three months, and when Bai Yi returned to Baiyun Factory from the Soviet Union for the second time, the optical instrument branch had already relied on its own ability to assemble four precision lathes, three grinding machines, two milling machines, and an optical materials laboratory.

Relying on these equipment, the optical instrument branch has begun to imitate the German Zeiss telescope, and the overall performance of its samples is not much worse than the original, so that the German experts who came to the Baiyun factory with Bai Yi couldn't help but marvel when they saw it, and bluntly said that the Chinese have created miracles!

It's just a miracle, but like other workshops and branches of Baiyun Factory, the cutting-edge grasp of related technical fields is not strong, and it still seems jerky and clumsy in terms of technology and technology, and it is extremely lacking the most core production experience.

The same is true of the optical instrument branch, although Bai Yi brought back no German experts specializing in military optical instruments, but there is a workshop technician who used to work for Swarovski Optics in Austria.

His name was Leo Elleg, to be precise, he was not German, but Austrian, but Austria was annexed by Germany during World War II, so his nationality was marked as German.

When the surging Soviet army rushed into Swarovski's optical manufacturing plant near Vienna to move machinery and equipment, everyone else chose to be silent, only Elleg stood up and accused the Soviet army of acting in connection with Na~~! ~~ It's no different!

Compare the Soviet Union of the victorious country to Na~~! ~~ Pure, it is no different from pointing at the nose of the Soviets and scolding the mother, so the fate of Ellegh can be imagined, and it was directly shipped to the Soviet Union with the disassembled optical equipment.

Only in the end, the equipment was left in Belarus, where the environment was good, and Ellegh himself was thrown directly into the Siberian concentration camps.

Originally, Bai Yi was not interested in Ellegh, a small technician at the workshop level, so he did not include Elleg's name in the planning list, but the far-sighted Dr. Karl strongly advocated bringing this person along, when Bai Yi asked the reason, Dr. Carr only said one sentence, Bai Yi did not say a word and directly dispelled the original idea:

"Although Leo Elleg is not a knowledgeable expert, but he is an experienced and good worker, the 'Sparrowhawk' infrared night vision system developed by Germany at the end of World War II, its process is not as simple as imagined, and Leo Elleger is one of the few people who can master the entire process of the 'Sparrowhawk' infrared night vision system......"

Although Bai Yi does not have much knowledge of optical equipment, he knows a lot about the "Sparrowhawk" infrared night vision system, you must know that this is the basic equipment that people who engaged in military equipment in the previous life must learn in the classroom, that is, at the end of World War II, the German army was equipped, which can be called the originator of night vision "Sparrowhawk" infrared night vision system.

It is precisely by virtue of this equipment that the German armored forces are invincible at night, killing the allied forces on the eastern and western fronts is miserable, and it is also a rare advanced equipment until the post-war period, so that after the war, the United States and the Soviet Union have copied it, thus forming the first generation of night vision system.

And now a person who can master the entire industrial process of this system is in front of him, Bai Yi intuition that Ellegh is more expensive than any expert, after all, the expert's theory is outstanding but not much help in production, but the process he understands is not the same as the production of Elleg, he can directly transform the things in his mind into productivity without hindrance, so in a sense, Ellegh is what Bai Yi needs most, because what China lacks at present is the improvement of production technology......