Siheyuan: I eat melons while doing scientific research

Chapter 1117 Interesting Political Mission

I think for Liu Haizhong, Xu Damao, who was demoted to the lowest level by the factory and dealt with many times by the factory, the street and the police station, is a natural target for him to win over. He is a bad guy.

But there was one thing he was wrong about, or rather he could not have thought of, after all, human thoughts are difficult to predict.

In terms of conditions, Xu Damao is perfect, but he is also greedy, lustful, cowardly and treacherous. He does have a lot of hatred towards society and his unit, but he also has a problem with his initiative. Although Xu Damao is not honest, he does not have the courage to do this thing.

However, Liu Haizhong has not yet reached the stage of recruiting Xu Damao. Xu Damao is too close to him. If he succeeds, it will be fine. But if he fails, he will die almost immediately without any hesitation.

Liu Haizhong was also afraid that Xu Damao would verbally agree but turn around and sell himself out.

He was arrested while they were still trying to figure it out and before it reached the substantive stage.

Even so, Xu Damao was scared enough. He knew very well that although he was timid, the outcome would be unpredictable under the temptation of huge sums of money.

It was a close call. Now Xu Damao’s heart is filled with fear and relief.

Seeing his sick look, Pang Narcissus frowned, washed the dishes and went back to her room.
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Although this matter was a big one, generally speaking it was over and done with. Maybe there would be other gains through Liu Haizhong, but that is a story for the future. At least now this matter caused a stir in the Siheyuan, and then it quickly disappeared into thin air, and life went on as usual.

The only ones affected were the eldest uncle Yi Zhonghai and the second uncle Yan Bugui. One corner of the triangle was inverted. The power structure was somewhat unstable. Yi Zhonghai thought to himself that this situation must be changed as soon as possible. This ecology was unhealthy.

Not to mention, Yi Zhonghai’s current awareness and level are even higher.

Of course, these are all things that happened later. For Gao Zhendong, it’s time to go to work.

As soon as Gao Zhendong got to work, a small incident occurred.

The leader of the 17th Ministry of Machine Building called, and the situation was a bit strange.

"Comrade Zhendong, there is a political task that may require your help." The leader of the 17th Ministry of Machine Building said with a smile.

Political mission? Gao Zhendong found it a little strange, as he rarely got such missions.

It is probably for this reason that the person who called was not the chief engineer who was more closely involved in the technology, but the leader himself.

Gao Zhendong did not shirk it. After all, it was a political task, and he was directly named. So there must be a reason: "Okay, leader, what is the task? Let me know first so I can make relevant preparations."

"Okay, then I'll tell you first. In fact, maybe this matter can have some effect. If it is something that has no possibility at all, I won't do anything." The leader of the 17th Ministry of Machine Building is not stupid. It is a huge waste to come to Gao Zhendong for something completely meaningless. It is precisely because this matter has such a possibility that he called Gao Zhendong.

In other words, he needs Gao Zhendong to make a technical judgment, and as for whether to do it later, that will be decided based on the specific circumstances.

"Okay, I'm listening." Gao Zhendong said with a smile.

"The thing is, in recent years, we have made obvious breakthroughs in materials. This is a good thing and has inspired many other comrades on various fronts. Just now, an old comrade donated a Japanese general's command sword that he had captured on the battlefield and valued as a treasure after visiting our new materials." Oh, this is a good thing. Everyone has begun to pay attention to materials science.

"So what is this old comrade's idea? Should we use the latest materials to make a replica for him so that he can still remember it?" The enemy general's command sword was captured with his own hands. This thing has great commemorative significance. The old comrade donated it, and I think he must have missed it very much. Making a replica for him using the latest materials can be said to be the best of both worlds.

For Gao Zhendong, this job is easy. Not to mention that he has a group of senior technicians under him, even if he were to participate in some sword-forging competition decades later, he would definitely sweep the field and win dozens of championships in a row.

It’s not a big problem to make such a commemorative knife for an old comrade.

"No, no, the thing is, the old comrades hope that we can imitate the steel used in this knife, so that we can contribute to our material business. It is said that this general's command knife was handed down from a Japanese family, and it used an ancient and very powerful technology called 'Jade Steel', which is extremely good." The words of the leader of the 17th Ministry of Machine Building sounded quite strange.

Gao Zhendong was happy and understood. This was indeed a political task. It was estimated that this old comrade had worked very hard and made great contributions. It was not certain whether he held a high position, but he must have made significant contributions.

So even though the department thinks this matter is most likely unreliable, there must be someone with enough weight to make this judgment, whether it is feasible or not. For ordinary people to say this is not respectful to the old comrades.

Gao Zhendong mainly plays the role of a mascot here.

And there is another possibility, that is, if this kind of "jade steel" is really a good material, then if you want to imitate this material and fulfill the wish of the old comrade, Gao Zhendong is really the most suitable person for this matter.

But Gao Zhendong is willing to be this mascot!

Regardless of the possibility, Gao Zhendong believed that the old comrade would be happy to receive the news, and he was the one who wrote the good news to the old comrade. "No problem, send the things over, I'll take care of it."

Gao Zhendong agreed so readily that even the leaders were a little surprised. Technically speaking, this matter might not have much significance, but Comrade Zhendong agreed very readily.

Comrade Zhendong is always nice to people.

"Okay, I'll send someone to deliver it to you right away. Also, I hope the damage to the knife during the work can be kept as small as possible. If possible, we would like to send the knife to a museum."

"Okay!" How could the Japanese's broken thing "Yamagang" be damaged during the working process?
The next day, two comrades from the 17th Machine Ministry returned to the old comrade with a knife.

The old comrade was a little surprised: "What? It was sent back so soon? It was copied so quickly? It's impossible?" Although he was a rough guy, it was difficult to copy. The college students who were assigned to the unit often had trouble copying advanced technologies, so how could it be possible to copy them so quickly?

The comrade from the Seventeenth Machine Department smiled and said, "Old comrade, it's not that the imitation is finished. We came here this time to report a good news to you!"

"Good news? That's it?" He pointed to the carefully wrapped command knife.

"Yes, it has been appraised by the top material experts of the 17th Ministry of Machine Building and the scientific committee members of the National Academy of Science and Technology. We don't need to copy the material of this knife. The material we use now is much better than it! The steel of this knife is not even as good as our lowest grade high carbon steel."

This thing was useless, but the old comrade was happy instead: "Really? That's great! Can you tell me in detail, please?"

Our steel is much better than that? And the best experts say so?

The comrades from the 17th Ministry of Machine Building nodded happily. The two of them came here just for this matter, and they had to report the good news in full.

"Well, according to our expert, this knife is indeed passed down from the other party's ancestors, and it is made of something called 'jade steel'."

"Ah, the steel looks like jade. Is the quality still not good?" asked the old comrade.

Jade, what a wonderful thing.

"This jade steel is actually just a nice name, and the word jade means round in Japanese language, which has nothing to do with real jade. Our experts said that this kind of thing is that the Japanese in ancient times did not have steelmaking technology, and the furnace temperature could not be reached, so they had to pick out the barely usable iron balls in the ironmaking furnace and continue to process and use them, calling it 'jade steel'. In fact, the raw material should be called sponge iron. Let alone steel, this thing is considered to be of poor quality among irons, and the quality of the final processed product is not very good either."

Bragging is an old tradition of the Japanese, and there are "XX immortals" crawling all over the ground.

Even decades later, it is still the same. The quality of steel is not up to standard and the test data is systematically falsified, and this has been going on for decades.

"Then how come this knife can take advantage of our big knife?" The old comrade was puzzled. It was so inferior to ours, but how could it still take advantage?

"Because, our steel quality was worse back then. But now our steel quality has improved and is much better than this!" said a comrade from the 17th Ministry of Machine Building with a smile.

The old comrade smiled happily: "That's great, that's great!"

The comrade from the 17th Machine Department held the knife to the old comrade with both hands and said: "Old comrade, we have sent the trophy you donated to the museum, but in order to prove to you that we have better steel, our comrades have specially copied the knife for you using our latest and best materials. The materials don't need to be copied, but we have copied the knife for you to keep as a memory and let you feel our new materials."

After hearing this, the old comrade became full of energy. He took the knife with one hand and pulled out the shining knife with a "clang". He made a few knife flowers on his hand, and a ball of silver light shone.

He danced with great enthusiasm, and with one swipe of his sword, he easily chopped off a corner of the hardwood desk in front of him.

"Good material! It's really good material!" The old comrade's eyes were full of excitement.

He swung the knife a few more times, and unexpectedly, he handed the knife back to the comrade from the 17th Machine Department: "I don't want this knife, you can take it back."

"Old comrade, this..."

"You have misunderstood. This material is so good. It is a bit insulting to use it to make the Japanese swords. Maybe others think that the Japanese swords are naturally so good. We can't let them take advantage of this. So, please ask your comrades to use this material to make me a red cherry sword that I used back then. That thing is still more powerful to wield!"

"Okay! We will definitely make you a good knife!"

(End of this chapter)