The train driver in the courtyard

It was two days later that all the high-precision photos taken secretly were developed and transcribed.

Li Aiguo was a little troubled when he saw the technical materials and drawings of the "Big Eyes V" radio proximity fuze.

Unlike the last Patriotic RPG rocket launcher, the electric proximity fuze is a brand new thing, and domestic research on it is still in the initial theoretical stage.

In other words, even if this thing is brought to a military research institute, it will have to be studied from scratch, and there is a great risk of leaks.

The most important thing is that although the technical requirements of the proximity fuze are not high, its structure is particularly complex.

Li Aiguo made a rough calculation and concluded that at least twelve research institutes would need to cooperate with each other to produce the samples.

Instead of handing this thing over to a military research institute, it is better to make it ourselves.

The steel mill's studio could not be used because its confidentiality level was too low.

Don’t we still have a meteorological station material preparation office?

After making up his mind, Li Aiguo knocked on the door of the farmer's office and told him his idea.

"Teacher, I have studied the relevant technical documents and understood the relevant process requirements. Although time is limited and my personal ability is insufficient, I don't have a thorough understanding, but I believe it is more appropriate for us to manufacture the proximity fuze than to hand it over directly to the Seventh Department."

Li Aiguo used a more euphemistic statement.

The farmer laughed: "Little rascal, why don't you just say that our military institute's confidentiality is lax."

Li Aiguo straightened his face and said, "No, no, I really think that our Meteorological Bureau is more suitable for the coordinated production of such complex equipment. Under limited objective conditions, we can make better use of the resources at hand."

The farmer lit a cigarette, took a puff and nodded. It was obvious that he shared the same opinion.

Li Aiguo continued to report: "When Xiaomeijia developed the proximity fuze, he worked with Xiaoou and brought together more than 20 research institutes and more than 100 factories. We don't have such conditions, but with this technical document, we can rely on the weather station and adopt the OEM method to develop the proximity fuze."

"OEM?" the farmer was surprised.

Li Aiguo explained: "Just like the materials needed to make chips last time, we can send people to hand over the technical documents of the parts to major military factories, and let them produce them. After production is completed, the technical documents will be collected and the relevant production personnel will receive confidentiality education."

The farmer was very satisfied with Li Aiguo's ideological awareness: "You are right. It is better to rely on yourself than on others. You must nip any leaks in the bud. Aiguo, you have a very high level of ideological awareness."

"Teacher, it's because of the foundation you and the weather station have laid that I can make some small achievements on this basis."

Li Aiguo said modestly and continued.

“It just so happened that when I was in the Qianmen Locomotive Depot studio, I studied relevant materials and taught myself.

I believe that relying on the capabilities of our weather station, we are able to produce samples of proximity fuses."

The farmer was very satisfied with Li Aiguo's positive and enterprising attitude and nodded: "Tell me about the difficulties."

“There are two main difficulties. One is the need to use micro batteries.

At present, this kind of battery is basically not available in our country, the technical materials are not complete, and the production is also relatively difficult, so relevant laboratories need to step up their research. "

The farmer was not clear about the development of domestic batteries, so he shook the phone and made a call.

After hanging up the phone, the farmer nodded and said: "The institute with the highest level of battery research technology in China is the Chemical Power Sources Research Institute of the First Ministry of Machine Building.

This task can be handed over to them. I still have the face to do this, and besides, this is also a contribution to the country."

"The other is the assembly process. I've studied it. The size of a proximity fuze is about the same as a bottle of Arctic Ocean. It needs to have more than 30 parts installed inside. And we have to ensure that these parts work stably under high temperature, high pressure, and high shock when the shell is fired. This requires excellent assembly technology."

The farmer was happy: "What a coincidence! The second team of our material department specializes in the manufacture of spy equipment. They once made a bug disguised as a pen. Their assembly process can be considered first-class. It's just right to transfer them to you."

Li Aiguo slapped his thigh and said, "That's great."

The farmer decided: "Just go ahead and do this. If you need anything, I, an old guy, will help you find it."

Then he thought about it and started to arrange specific work: "Well, you can hand over the work at the Red Star Computing Institute to others first. I will transfer you to the Meteorological Bureau for training in the name of confidentiality education."

Li Aiguo nodded: "This way I can focus on developing the proximity fuze."

The farmer shook the file and said, "You will take the lead in this matter. I will ask Director Shu to cooperate with you and get it out as soon as possible."

Li Aiguo shook his head: "Teacher, you have to be the boss, I will just do the specific work. To be honest, if there is no weather station and without your support, it would be impossible to build it even if we have the blueprints."

Li Aiguo did not refuse.

The drawings were obtained with the cooperation of the Meteorological Bureau, and the production and manufacturing were entirely dependent on the Meteorological Bureau. It was also reasonable for the farmer to take charge personally.

In addition, Li Aiguo also had the idea of ​​giving the teacher a generous gift.

Nongfu has worked on the special front all his life and made countless great contributions, but he has never achieved significant results in military research.

really.

When the farmer heard this, he also became interested: "When the organization assigned me work, that fool Old Chen laughed at me and said that my future job would be petty theft, while he was a great scientist in charge of a great country's military industry.

This time, our weather station has developed a proximity fuse, and we will show that fool that there will be a day when a petty thief can get involved in the military industry of a big country."

Lao Chen should be the Minister of the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building, which is responsible for military production. Li Aiguo couldn't afford to offend these bigwigs, so he could only smile.

The farmer was obviously very satisfied with Li Aiguo's proposal. He did not hide it and said with a smile: "Aiguo, you are my student. You have a teacher like me to personally support you. If anyone dares not to support the development of this important national weapon, you can come to me."

The meaning of this is very clear. Just go ahead and do it. If anything goes wrong, the teacher will be responsible.

Li Aiguo was no longer shy and nodded, saying, "Thank you first, teacher. How about this? You will be the leader of the project team and I will be the deputy leader?"

The farmer had the same idea: "Alright, that's it."

The farmer was particularly happy today and was very excited.

Nowadays the relationship between teachers and students is very close. Teachers are like parents. Who doesn’t want their children to have a bright future?

Of course, in return, students should also help their masters.

This is also the fundamental reason why the farmer accepted Li Aiguo's kindness.

They are no longer in a superior-subordinate relationship, but a true teacher-student relationship.

The farmer took out a pack of cigarettes from the drawer, handed one to Li Aiguo, and lit one for himself: "Don't tell your master's wife."

He took a puff of cigarette and leaned back in his chair: "Besides the technicians from the preparatory office, who else do you need to cooperate with?"

Li Aiguo thought for a moment and said, "It would be best if Team Leader Cat could be assigned to me. This is what I want. Team Leader Cat will personally go to other places to supervise the production of related accessories and also be responsible for the escort work."

"Well, you have a point."

As the head of the weather station, the farmer knows his subordinates very well: "Laomao was originally going to be sent to the south, so let him wait for a while. I will notify him to come here now."

"Thank you, Sensei. I'll just talk to Team Leader Cat in person later."

"Then it's decided."

The farmer put out his cigarette in the ashtray, picked up the phone and made a few calls to arrange the follow-up work.

****
When Li Aiguo returned to the office, Director Shu had already received a call from the farmer.

It was her first time participating in such an event, and she seemed a little excited, but she didn't show it.

"Aiguo, what project are we going to carry out this time? Why did even the farmer come out in person?"

Li Aiguo did not answer her question, but picked up the document and said, "Sister Shu, please notify the comrades in the Materials Department to hold a meeting."

"I'll go."

The advantage of a weather station compared to general units lies here. Tasks that are understood must be executed, and tasks that are not understood must be executed even more.

A moment later, three teams from the Materials Department and dozens of technical and administrative staff gathered in the small conference room.

Li Aiguo walked into the conference room and saw everyone looking up at him. He raised the document in his hand and said, "The station has decided to launch a new military equipment project. Nongfu will be the team leader and I will be the deputy team leader. There are still fifteen vacancies."

Li Aiguo did not introduce the project. After a brief opening speech, he started to arrange the work.

"Old Chu, you are an old technician from a military factory, and you are mainly responsible for design and research work."

When Li Aiguo called his name, Team Leader Chu Zhi stood up excitedly.

The farmer himself is the team leader of this project.

The last time a farmer personally got involved in research work was when he made watermelon bombs before liberation.

It is an honor in itself to be able to work under the leadership of a farmer.

"Make sure to complete the mission."

Li Aiguo then called out the names: "Team leader of Group 2, Yu Zhixue, you are responsible for the assembly work."

"Yes!" Yu Zhixue stood up.

"Cheng Fang from Group 3, you and Team Leader Mao will be responsible for peripheral support work."

"Yes!"

With the golden signboard of farmer, technicians signed up enthusiastically.

Seeing that the selection was almost complete, Li Aiguo began to arrange the transformation work: "We are still short of three technicians to help me localize the equipment. This work is quite difficult. Is there anyone who would like to volunteer?"

Li Aiguo never introduced what kind of military equipment he was going to develop. Now that they heard that a highly difficult task was going to be carried out, the technicians became hesitant.

The reasons for the hesitation might be worry, distrust, or fear of making mistakes. In short, the scene fell silent.

At this time, two young technicians, a man and a woman, raised their hands and said at the same time: "Team Leader Li, I'll do it."

Li Aiguo recognized the two people, the man was called ** and the woman was called ***.

** and *** are both graduates of Qinghua University. They are married and both work at the meteorological station. They are a perfect couple.

At the same time, neither of them had children. They devoted all their energy to work and were good at research.

Seeing that the two of them volunteered, Li Aiguo immediately made the decision: "Okay, it's you two. There is still one spot available."

As soon as he finished speaking, an arm was raised in the corner.

"Team Leader Li, can I do this?"

Everyone turned their heads to look, and when they saw the person raising his hand, their expressions became strange.

The person who raised his hand was the great inventor of the Materials Department—Level 5 Engineer, Liang Xiaoming.

If a level 5 engineer were placed in a factory these days, he could at least be a chief engineer.

Liang Xiaoming graduated from a reputable university and worked as a researcher at a research institute in Beijing before liberation.

but.

He was not very popular in the logistics department and even in the entire weather station.

There's no other reason, his invention is just too weird.

For example, his first invention after entering the weather station was the rectal capsule.

The name of this equipment alone makes one's anus tighten.

It is equipment specially designed for spies to hide their tools and weapons.

Specifically, it is a large capsule that can hold mini tools such as pliers, files, and screwdrivers.

Swallowing the capsule can indeed help avoid searches since there are no security gates in those days.

The only problem is that it is hard to get into the stomach and even harder to get out.

Xiao Liu from the action team was a test subject. After taking the capsule, he was unable to get it out even after a week.

There was no choice but to send him to the hospital.

It took a bottle of glycerin to save his life.

Liang Xiaoming failed in his first attempt, but he did not give up. He soon continued to work hard and came up with his second invention - escape shoes.

Escape shoes are similar to ordinary leather shoes, except that they have ropes and hooks installed in the soles.

Spies can use these things to climb walls when escaping.

As a result, Xiao Liu from Group 5 was wearing escape leather shoes when carrying out the pursuit mission. The soles of his shoes fell off, so he had to chase the suspect barefoot.

After that, Liang Xiaoming's title of great inventor became known throughout the site.

Liang Xiaoming suffered a major crisis of trust, but he did not lose confidence and always wanted to find an opportunity to prove himself again.

Now that he heard about this project, he was very excited.

Liang Xiaoming never thought there was anything wrong with his inventions, it was just that the craftsmanship did not meet his requirements.

If the weather station had been willing to spend a lot of money to use PE plastic to make the capsules, the problem of not being able to defecate would never have happened.

Now people are needed to improve military equipment, and he doesn't have to worry about technological issues.

If we look at the fact that the farmer himself is the team leader and the deputy director is the deputy team leader, how can we not know that this project must have invested a lot of money.

Besides, Deputy Team Leader Li has produced a lot of good things over the years. How can we go wrong if we follow him?
However, Liang Xiaoming was too proud of his status as a great inventor to raise his hand.

Now that I see there is still one spot left, I can no longer care about being reserved.

When Li Aiguo saw someone raising his hand, he looked up and shouted, "Great inventor!"

Li Aiguo has a pretty good impression of this imaginative inventor.

But these people still need to be punished, otherwise the equipment they create might inexplicably have a pair of small wings.

"Engineer Liang, this project is pretty standard, nothing interesting."

Although Liang Xiaoming has a lot of creative ideas, he is also an experienced engineer, so how could he not understand what Li Aiguo meant.

"Deputy Team Leader Li, don't worry. I will do whatever you tell me to do at work. I will never mess around. In fact, I just want to help you."

Li Aiguo also knew that the project team was composed of young people and lacked an old comrade to keep things in check.

Besides, Liang Xiaoming was able to independently develop two unique devices, and his work ability is first-class. As long as such a person is honest, he can still be used.

Li Aiguo walked over with a smile and shook Liang Xiaoming's hand: "With a veteran like you, our project will be completed in no time."

Liang Xiaoming understood that Li Aiguo was giving him a sedan chair, and he immediately became excited: "Thank you, thank you."

The farmer had actually been standing outside for a while.

Although he is the team leader, he has decided to be only a nominal team leader and not interfere with Li Aiguo's work.

Seeing that Li Aiguo had selected the team members, he stepped in.

"Now that the project team has been officially established, everyone should work harder and seize the day!"

After saying that, he reached out and patted Li Aiguo on the shoulder: "Aiguo, don't lose face for the teacher."

This made the team members look different.

The farmer doesn't even pretend now.

Li Aiguo stood at attention and saluted: "I guarantee to complete the mission!"

****
evening.

Li Aiguo came to Lao Mao's single dormitory with a bottle of old wine and a bag of peanuts.

"Team Leader Mao, I'm sorry to bother you this time." Li Aiguo poured a glass of wine and handed it to Old Mao: "This mission is too important, otherwise I wouldn't beg you for help."

The old cat was feeling a little unhappy at this moment.

Li Aiguo used to be under his leadership, but later on in other tasks, the two of them were just cooperative partners.

This time, the farmer personally asked him to follow Li Aiguo's leadership.

Although the old cat agreed without hesitation, he was still feeling angry.

Now seeing Li Aiguo coming to him in person, his tense expression instantly relaxed.

"You underestimate me." The old cat took the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp: "I am patriotic. As long as it is good for the country, I will not hesitate even if I die."

The anger in Lao Mao's heart is real, and his current statement is also real.

Humans are such complex animals.

Now, because of a glass of wine, the gap between the two of them instantly melted away.

Early the next morning, Lao Mao, following Li Aiguo's instructions, took four meteorologists and drove a GAZ jeep to the Chemical Power Sources Research Institute of the First Ministry of Machine Building in Tianjin.

Li Aiguo also gathered the team members in the small courtyard behind the weather station and started the research and development plan.

The days passed one by one. Because Li Aiguo had a clear division of labor at the beginning and the drawings provided by the system, the project progressed smoothly.

"Deputy Team Leader Li, now we need to make a shell."

A week later, when Liang Xiaoming arrived at the weather station, he came over with a new drawing.

The main artillery in our country is the Type 54, which uses a 122mm howitzer.

The main air defense force, the Type 55 anti-aircraft gun, uses 37mm grenades.

The Type 59 anti-aircraft gun, which has not yet been put into service, uses 100mm large-caliber grenades.

The structure of these shells is similar to those of the Russians, and is completely different from those of Xiaomei.

Therefore, Li Aiguo redesigned the proximity fuse.

This allows the new proximity fuze to be smaller and can be installed on more different types of artillery shells.

"Shell. Leave this job to me."

****
In the evening, Li Aiguo pushed his bicycle back to the courtyard.

As I walked, I thought about the shell.

The casing of the proximity fuze needs to be made of a special alloy.

Today he contacted several major steel mills including Anshan Iron and Steel, Baotou Iron and Steel, and Wuhan Iron and Steel through the weather station.

The other party said it was difficult to complete the task.

Firstly, the steel plant does not have the relevant technology, and even if it has a formula, it will have to conduct multiple experiments, which will take at least two months.

Secondly, if the steel needs to be refined again, a furnace will be wasted.

If there is enough time, Li Aiguo doesn't mind waiting for a while.

The key is that Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang have already been preparing for battle on the border.

The sooner we develop the proximity fuse, the sooner we can equip the frontier troops and gain more victories.

This is a bit troublesome.
"Aiguo, you're back." A voice sounded beside his ears, and Li Aiguo turned his head away.

I saw that Liu Haizhong had an iron ring in his left hand and a steel wire in his right hand. There was a hook at the front end of the steel wire. He was staring at him with a smile on his face.

Ever since Liu Haizhong failed in the promotion exam and did not become a seventh-level blacksmith, his relationship with Yi Zhonghai became distant.

On the contrary, in recent months, Liu Haizhong has brought his second aunt to visit Li Aiguo every now and then.

They were all neighbors living in the same compound, and considering the need to unite all the people who could be united, Li Aiguo did not refuse Liu Haizhong's request.

"It's the second uncle, what are you doing..." Li Aiguo stopped.

Liu Haizhong held up the iron ring and steel wire: "Aiguo, this is the iron ring I made for Hongsheng, take a look at it, how is the quality."

Iron rings are a common toy for kids these days, but Hongsheng has just learned to walk, so how can he play with them?

Li Aiguo was about to refuse, but suddenly remembered something, stared at the iron ring and asked: "Master Haizhong, is there anything particular about the quality of this iron ring?"

When Liu Haizhong heard Li Aiguo calling him "Master Haizhong", he immediately became excited.

"Patriotic, you don't know, I forged this iron ring with the 60000kN hydraulic forging press in our steel rolling mill. Even though it looks like an ordinary iron ring, it can bear at least one ton of weight."

Li Aiguo took the iron ring and rubbed it with his palm.

The surface of the iron ring is not smooth, and there are many faint particles, which should be the traces of forging.

"So, forging can increase the strength of objects?"

Seeing Li Aiguo say the word "intensity", Liu Haizhong was a little stunned: "You are an expert in this field, huh?

Patriotism, why do we blacksmiths become a profession as important as fitters?

This is because during the metal processing process, the grains are elongated and rearranged through plastic deformation, forming a more uniform microstructure, thereby enhancing the mechanical properties of the metal. It can enhance the strength, toughness, corrosion resistance and wear resistance of the metal. "

After hearing these flowery words, Li Aiguo felt that he had underestimated Liu Haizhong.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, how many people who can become senior workers these days are simple-minded?

Just because this guy is average as a person doesn't mean he has no technical ability.

After the explanation, Liu Haizhong came back to his senses and asked, "Aiguo, do you have any other ideas?"

He still remembered that Li Aiguo had asked him to deal with the issue of the gun barrel.

Li Aiguo handed the iron ring back: "It's not confirmed yet, Master Haizhong, thank you very much today."

"Oh, kid, you're too polite. We're all neighbors. If you have any ideas, just tell me. I don't have any other skills, but I'm good at cleaning metal."

After a few polite words, Li Aiguo turned around and went home.

Liu Haizhong raised the iron ring in his hand: "Patriotism, this iron ring."

Li Aiguo stopped and pointed at Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu not far away.

"Give it to the children."

Liu Guangtian: ^_^
Liu Guangfu: O(∩_∩)O
(End of this chapter)