Chapter 10: The Gentle Demolition of Quincy

Quincy, a small city in Massachusetts, United States.

Don't underestimate the city, though. The hometowns of the first vice president and the sixth president of the United States were both here, and it became famous for it.

One of the core key equipment of Shijie's largest wind tunnel group under construction in the Tang Empire is the need for a large number of high-power and high-quality air compressors.

In this regard, the American Quincy Compressor Company, founded in the early 20s, has become the industry leader with the world's most advanced compressed air jishu. They specialize in manufacturing and selling the highest quality air compressors, wall pumps and vacuum pumps for global manufacturing, medical, subsea mining, nuclear energy, electromagnetic laser particles and climate control systems in any industry that requires safe and reliable air sources.

Zhang Meng knew that this company's air compressor jishu not only played a key role in the construction quality of the wind tunnel group of the Tang Empire, but also the gas turbine engine engine and AIP submarine engine key jishu in the future advanced jet era, and even the large-scale climate control war between the two sides during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The famous Red Alert game in the future is not completely fictional, and the lightning storm in it is not groundless, it is indeed a thunderbolt climate control system developed by the US military and never abandoned, which is exactly the same as the tornado climate control system developed by the Soviet army.

Calling for wind and rain is not just a myth in books, Zhang Meng knows that it is a secret that all countries will never mention in the future, and like nuclear blackmail between major powers, climate control is also a killer weapon for the balance between major powers.

Zhang Meng also wants to have this jishu, which may not be used in the future, but it is necessary to prevent being blackmailed by the big countries to protect himself.

At the same time, among several important applications of pumping jishu, the atomic energy level transition jishu will be applied to the future uranium separation jishu, the Tang Empire has no onshore resources, but there are rich manganese nodule resources on the seabed, and the vacuum pumping jishu is applied to the seabed to collect ores, which will solve important resource problems for the Datang Empire. The application of pump jishu to electromagnetic laser particles jishu will become one of the core key jishu of electromagnetic orbital kinetic energy guns and laser weapons in the future.

It can be seen that the importance of Quincy Company is self-evident, so it has become Zhang Meng's ambition, so he will do everything he can, and he must take this company into his own hands.

Founded on July 20, 1920 by engineers George Waugh, John Carter, and George Spirit, along with entrepreneur and investor Lytton Erwin and his son Michael, Quincy was formed by the merger of the Wall Pump Jishu Company and the Compressor Jishu Company.

Zhang Meng likes joint ventures because he can divide and disintegrate their camp, and then achieve the goal of annexation.

Lytton Erwin and his son Mike are just investors, and as long as they are given enough benefits, they will hand over their 50% stake.

In the midst of an economic crisis, Lytton Erwin and his son Mike are well aware of the market and are happy to sell their shares to Madoff who visits them without seeing the light of day.

After Madoff's near-exaggerated deception, both Lytton Erwin and his son Mike were horrified by the gloomy future of the American market. Of course, Madoff was just repeating Zhang Meng's assertion that the U.S. economic crisis had lasted for a long time, and as businessmen, of course, they thought it was very reasonable, and they were worried that their stocks would continue to plummet, so they hurriedly transferred their shares to Madoff.

George Waugh, John Carter and George Ridge are all engineers, and they are more focused on jishu development and product development, and they don't know anything about economic and financial management.

Although the three of them were moved by Madoff's rhetoric, they did not want to transfer their shares in the company.

Zhang Meng quickly saw through the minds of the three of them, and it was impossible to impress the three of them with money, so he could only tempt them with more advanced scientific research equipment.

Zhang Meng had the attitude of giving it a try, and asked Madoff to promise to give them a generous stock transfer fee, provide them with the most advanced scientific research environment and equipment, and hoped that the three of them could work together with Tesla, and asked Tesla to immediately study the relevant information of the air compressor, and pointed out the key defects of Quincy air compressor products.

Tesla was naturally a genius, and soon found several jishu defects in the Quincy air compressor, and made theoretical arguments and improvements. When Madoff told George Waugh, John Carter, and George Spirite about this, it immediately touched the deep desire for scientific research in their souls, and Madoff offered to let them study and work with Tesla, and finally persuaded the three to hand over the other 50% of their shares.

In fact, Zhang Meng could have continued to use the American society Liliang to force them to hand over the shares of Quincy Company, but Zhang Meng knew that the future growth of Quincy Company would depend on these three main engineers and their Jishu team, and if they were coerced, it would only kill the future development prospects of Quincy Company, which would not do Zhang Meng and the Tang Empire any benefit, but a huge loss.

Therefore, Zhang Meng treated them very gently this time, and took over the Quincy company for $8.3 million and put it under the name of Datang Heavy Industries, which was 10% higher than the market price, but Zhang Meng thought it was worth it because he got the complete Quincy company.

As is customary, Zhang Meng would immediately begin demolition work every time he acquired a company, transferring the company's Jishu employees and factory machinery and equipment to the Tang Empire.

But this time, Zhang Meng did not rush to demolish and relocate, but asked Quincy employees to immediately produce the large air compressors needed for the Tang Empire, and put them into use before the completion of the full-scale aviation wind tunnel of the first phase of the wind tunnel laboratory, so as not to affect the test work of the Raptor fighter.

The Quincy factory continued to produce air compressors, vacuum pumps and other products, and all the machinery and equipment Zhang Meng purchased in the United States and shipped back to Datang to build another factory, and then relocated the Quincy factory as a whole after the new factory was completed.

At the same time, George Wol, John Carter and George Qi Lie, as well as their Jishu team, will move to the Tang Empire National Laboratory as a whole, give them preferential treatment, and allow them to bring their families over and arrange work for the house and car.

The economic crisis has already affected their lives, and the conditions given to them by Zhang Meng are simply pie-in-the-sky, so they are very happy to take a special plane to Datang.

When they arrived at Datang National Laboratory, George Waugh, John Carter and George Lie met Tesla as they wished, and had an in-depth conversation, all of whom were shocked and admired by Tesla's erudition.

Subsequently, they carried out research and scientific research work in the national laboratory that had just been built one-third of the Haode, and they were very interested in learning that the Tang Empire had built a super wind tunnel group.

When they arrived in Datang, the construction of the super wind tunnel group had already begun.

According to Jihua, the aerodynamics research and development center of the Datang Imperial National Laboratory independently designed and built the Shijie super wind tunnel group with the largest and most complete functions, with more than 50 supporting low-speed, high-speed, ultra-high-speed aerodynamic and pneumatic thermal Shiyan equipment and special Shiyan equipment.

The first phase of the project is mainly a full-size super wind tunnel of 45.8m × 12.2m, which is enough to accommodate a variety of large, medium and small aircraft that will appear in the future for physical testing, with a wind speed of 230 meters per second, 3 standard atmospheres, and a power of 123,000 kilowatts, which can carry out a comprehensive study of the flight status of any aircraft in any airspace from low speed to 24 times the ultra-high sound speed, from underwater, ground, and then to an altitude of 120 kilometers, and can provide a full range of test data.

The tunnel was built as a top priority, and while it is now being built for testing the Raptor fighter, it is actually being built for testing all future models of all types of aircraft, even the future B29 Super Bomber.

In order to catch up with the schedule, the first phase of the project will only build a super wind tunnel. The second phase of the project has more than 40 wind tunnels× including 16m12m, 8m×6m, 4m×3m low-speed wind tunnels and Φ3.2m subsonic wind tunnels, Φ5m vertical wind tunnels, 2.4m×2.4m transonic wind tunnels, 1.2m×1.2m transsonic wind tunnels, and Φ0.5m hypersonic wind tunnels. The third phase of the project includes a Φ2m shock wave wind tunnel, a Φ1m hypersonic wind tunnel, a Φ0.3m hypersonic low-density wind tunnel, and a 200m free-flying ballistic target.

Finally, after the completion of the super wind tunnel group, the Tang Empire, whether military or civilian, includes all the facilities and parts involved in fluid mechanics, providing it with a full range of compression, heat, cold, air and water flow resistance Shiyan data, and minimizing unnecessary scientific research investment and losses.

Martin and Tesla took them to visit the super wind tunnel group that had already started construction, and they were stunned by such a huge project, which is no less than the visual impact of the Chinese building the Great Wall.

However, the larger the scale, the more proud these people felt in the Tang Empire, and being able to join such a huge century project was more exciting for them as scientific researchers than giving them a mountain of gold.

After the visit, the George brothers, John Carter and others immediately assured Zhang Meng that they would complete the development of the super-large air compressor on time and with quality and quantity.