Longteng Group is now the world's first-class supplier of carbon fiber and new materials.

Many people find it hard to believe that this small business, which was on the verge of bankruptcy eight years ago, was on the verge of bankruptcy.

After a few years, it will become the first material supplier in China and the world's leading one.

When it was still called Factory 703, including employees who were on leave without pay, there were only a few hundred people.

Today, however, there are at least 30,000 workers at the large production sites in the east alone.

Counting all the administrative, R&D, and production personnel, there will be more than 50,000 people!

This is already the scale of a large enterprise in China.

However, due to various reasons, in the registration, Longteng Group is still a small and micro enterprise.

To a large extent, it is because the enterprise is developing too fast and the speed of expansion is too fast.

Many problems have arisen in this process.

First of all, there is the question of who is at the helm of the group.

Three years ago, it was suggested that Hu Deming was not suitable to be the general manager of such a group.

At that time, it was Zhang Xingyang who overrode public opinion and let Hu Deming continue to serve as general manager.

But up to now, Zhang Xingyang is also a little skeptical that Hu Deming, an old man, can still control such a behemoth as Longteng Group.

The second problem is corruption, which has existed before.

This is also a common problem that can occur in any large group.

In the process of rapid expansion, the layers of structure between different departments are easy to appear in places that cannot be supervised.

As a group with an annual revenue of 10 billion, any omission is a huge amount of money for individuals.

The third problem is also Zhang Xingyang's biggest headache.

The increase in the scale of production has brought about a decline in the quality of production!

And it is the core rocket engine material business of Longteng Group!

The group's quality supervision system has been a big problem.

Zhang Xingyang even doubted that they still insisted on the double zero system that they had been emphasizing before?!

Technology to zero and management to zero, since the accident many years ago, has been regarded by Zhang Xingyang as the two red lines of the aerospace industry, but also the lifeline!

For so many years, there has not been any space accidents, and it has largely relied on these two items.

If there was corruption before, to a certain extent, Zhang Xingyang would still be able to turn a blind eye.

Then the quality problem of the rocket engine has really touched Zhang Xingyang's bottom line!

Rocket Recycling and Overhaul Plant, Fifth Workshop.

"Dean Zhang, why are you here?"

In charge of the rocket recycling and overhaul plant is an old employee of the former 112 rocket engine factory, Yang Zongcheng.

He was still a little surprised when he saw Zhang Xingyang coming.

After all, there is nothing important about the recycling and maintenance plant, which is generally to do a test on the recovered rocket, and if there is a problem, it is generally to replace the parts directly.

There isn't much of a high-tech job.

So on weekdays, very few people come over.

Basically, it is a pension unit.

"Let's see how the rocket repair work goes." Zhang Xingyang looked up at the rocket in the factory and said.

"Is this a rocket that just came back from the South China Sea?"

Zhang Xingyang pointed to one of the rockets and said.

Although to outsiders, these rockets all look exactly the same, but in the eyes of professionals, you can still see the difference between them.

"Yes, it just arrived at the port two weeks ago."

Although Yang Zongcheng didn't know the reason why Zhang Xingyang asked this, he still hurriedly said.

Rocket recovery and overhaul plant, located in the seaside port area. It is also to be able to make good use of the sea to deliver rockets.

"Is the overhaul complete?" Zhang Xingyang then asked:

"Is the test report out?"

Previously, at the scene of rocket recovery, Zhang Xingyang found that there was a problem with one of the engines of the rocket propulsion platform.

However, in order to understand clearly what links in the entire system are problematic, Zhang Xingyang did not make a noise, but concealed this matter.

"Here's its maintenance report." Yang Zongcheng is still quite serious about his work, and after handing the report to Zhang Xingyang, he said:

"During the overhaul, we noticed that one of the engines seemed to have a problem and the fuel flow rate was a little too slow."

"We haven't found out the exact cause yet, but we've changed the engine."

Zhang Xingyang nodded, but didn't say anything, but looked at the test report.

Yang Zongcheng said that he actually had a rough idea of what the reason was.

When the engine is working, the temperature detection system detects that the temperature is too high, and the control system will naturally drop the flow to keep the temperature within a certain range to ensure the safety of the rocket.

Zhang Xingyang skipped most of the rocket testing and focused on the propulsion system.

Most of the components and the engine, there were no problems.

Only that engine had a problem with reduced flow.

"After you removed that engine, where did you put it?"

After reading the test report, Zhang Xingyang said calmly:

"Take me there."

I have to say that Yang Zongcheng has worked in the aerospace system for many years, and the degree of compliance with various regulations is still very high.

Even the rocket engines, which have been dismantled and entered the scrapping process, are still neatly arranged in a warehouse.

"This is the engine that was removed from that rocket." Yang Zongcheng checked the number to find the engine in question.

Lifting the wrapped tarpaulin, Zhang Xingyang squatted down and looked at the carbon fiber of the engine tail nozzle.

From time to time, he also stretched out his hand, poked and pinched.

Although Yang Zongcheng couldn't see any difference between this engine and other engines in the tail nozzle.

However, he thought that Zhang Xingyang naturally had his deep meaning in doing this.

So I got closer, wanting to take a look.

After watching it for a few minutes, Yang Zongcheng didn't see anything different.

"Dean Zhang, is there anything wrong with the tail nozzle?"

"No problem, this engine packed it for me, I'm going to take it with me today."

Zhang Xingyang stood up and said to Yang Zongcheng.

Yang Zongcheng didn't think there was anything strange about it, this kind of thing had happened before.

Most of them found that there were some possible changes to the engine, and pulled it back to study it.

"Need we arrange a vehicle?" Yang Zongcheng asked.

A single rocket engine is not huge compared to a rocket, and even a minivan can pull it.

"You can take care of the transportation to the airport, and then air it back to the research institute."

The dry weight of the YF-110 liquid oxygen kerosene engine is only more than 500 kilograms, and the aircraft does not take up much space by air.

In order not to waste time, Zhang Xingyang chose to let it fly back with him.

(End of chapter)