Siheyuan: I eat melons while doing scientific research

Chapter 1221 This potato is not normal! (4k, and 8k)

The minister was quite regretful when he talked about this matter. It was bureaucratic, too bureaucratic! He thought angrily in his heart.

What he didn't know was that the Russians have now begun to go downhill. Bureaucracy is one of their biggest problems besides the core problem of lack of faith.

If the Russians were only slightly tempted but did not take any action, then another country was extremely tempted.

The reason for being excited is that Lubyanka knows a lot of things, so the Gauls may also know them, not to mention the old relationship with South Jiaozhi.

——The Gaul intelligence agencies were not afraid to be called down by anyone, but only in front of Lubyanka, the Gauls could hold their heads high. After all, from a public perspective, the Lubyanka traitors who caused the greatest losses to Lubyanka betrayed the Gauls.

One really has to marvel at the magical matching mechanism between the old revolutionary areas.

"5 meters long, 30 kilometers range, ha, that's really good news." When the people from the Gaul Equipment General Administration received the news, they smiled widely.

"How much more do we have to continue buying from them?" A person who was also from the General Equipment Administration spread his hands and complained.

"You have to understand one thing, that is, they are also looking for us to buy things. At least compared to civilian products, at least the technological level of our military equipment is equal."

Thinking of the high-tech civilian sector that was exported in the opposite direction, the man from the General Equipment Administration couldn't help but laugh out loud.

After laughing, he straightened his face and said, "Okay, let's be serious. From a practical point of view, we have to consider both resisting the white bear on the European plains and ensuring our autonomy under the Citibank system. This is too difficult. Don't forget that our overseas colonies have fallen apart. Even if we still have a certain degree of control, the few overseas territories not only cannot bring us enough benefits, but even... we even need to support them. We need to use all resources and opportunities to exchange what we have for the capabilities we need."

For the Gauls, the existence of overseas big daddies is actually a rather troublesome problem. Of course, it is still slightly better than those more abstract and direct blood-sucking overseas big daddies in the Windmill Country.

So they are actually in a situation where they need to spend every penny carefully, especially since they do not have such a large population and sufficient potential.

This person's words brought the others back to reality.

The necessity and benefits of choosing Orientals as partners have been discussed many times within Gaul and do not need to be repeated. In fact, this is a good partner who values ​​integrity, has sufficient capabilities and is growing in capability.

"Then what do we exchange with them? Mashuka?"

Mashuka, a long-range air defense missile independently developed by the Gauls, has only some outlines now, but has not yet taken shape. However, its basic appearance has been determined.

This thing began to be tested in 1959, and in 1960 it shot down a target aircraft using radio remote control guidance, and then nothing happened.

Because the Gauls got a set of Citigroup's RIM-24 "Tatar" air defense missiles, then the Mashuka became like the Citigroup, and its appearance was almost completely changed.

It was not until 1967 that Mashuka began to be commissioned on board.

This missile has good hardware indicators. When it was finalized, its range was up to 55 kilometers and its altitude was close to 23 kilometers. Although it is not as good as the 1 kilometers of the Standard-74ER of the Citigroup, it can still be considered a long-range air defense missile in this day and age.

But this range comes at a huge cost.

——The Mashuka is 8.7 meters long, 0.41 meters in diameter, and weighs nearly 2.1 tons!
Figuratively speaking, this thing is almost three stories high when standing up.

这些指标远超射程比它高出接近20公里的标准-1ER那8米、0.34米、1.34吨的数据。

Even the Gauls themselves could not bear this weight. The number of Mashuka missiles installed on ships was extremely limited. It was difficult to install this thing on warships below 5000 tons. Only three ships were installed, and that was it.

In fact, after that, the Gauls' fleet area air defense relied on the American Standard-38MR with a range of 1 kilometers. It was not until the beginning of the 21st century that the Gauls developed their own ship-borne medium- and long-range air defense missiles, the "Aster-15/30".

In fact, the Gauls themselves knew that this long-range air defense missile they had forced out had a lot of problems and extremely poor adaptability. However, there was no other way. You have to know that this size was the result of their "major technological breakthrough" in solid propellant in 1955. They really did not have the ability to further reduce the size of the missile.

At this time, a missile that is more than 4 meters long and has a range of 30 kilometers is like a timely help to them. What they are most interested in is the propellant technology of this missile. Missiles these days are all aimed upwards, and there is no habit of using scattered bombs to fill the gap. The propellant of our missile is quite attractive to the Gauls.

Because of this, the people in the General Equipment Administration scoffed at this suggestion: "Sir, you have to know that whether from a theoretical or actual combat perspective, we must admit that the Orientals' air defense missiles are more advanced than ours, which means that they have no interest in our air defense missiles."

This is embarrassing to say, but it is the fact. Not to mention the Gauls, in fact, after the S2, the air defense missiles of the entire old Europe have been very weak, only slightly better than nothing, including the "Sea Dart" that John Bull almost sold to us.

"what do you mean……"

"My idea is sonar..." said the person from the Equipment General Administration.

A slightly obscure piece of knowledge is that the first active sonar was developed by the Gauls and the Russians in 1915. The Gauls are indeed good at hydroacoustic equipment.

"You're crazy! Underwater equipment like sonar should be strictly controlled in principle."

The man from the Equipment General Administration laughed and said, "What about the L4 acoustic homing anti-submarine torpedo?"

Although it was traded with the Orientals in the name of anti-submarine missiles, and it looked like a flying weapon, any discerning person knew that the core of that thing was a relatively advanced underwater equipment.

As we all know, once you have done it for the first time, more will come quickly.

"But……"

"No buts. Giving the sonar equipment to the Orientals is at least better than revealing it to John Bull." A hundred years of friendship, that's not something to be taken lightly. "In the foreseeable future, our submarines will not come under the noses of the Orientals, and the Oriental submarines will not come to our activity area. There is no conflict between us. In contrast, as long as we can cause trouble to the Citigroups, it is something to be happy about." The person from the Equipment General Administration laughed.

Although the confusing Louis XVI is the founding father of the United States, the relationship between the Gauls and the American people is not very good, just like Fatso is half of the founding father of the Russians, but the relationship between the Russians and John Bull is not very good either.

This reason is exactly the same as when exporting L4 acoustic homing torpedo technology to the Orientals. Facts have proved that the reason why the classic method is classic is because it works!
This reason successfully convinced his colleagues: "Well... you have a point. In fact, this trouble is not only aimed at the Citibank guys, but also at our imaginary enemies. The relationship between them and the Orientals is not as good as imagined."

"That's better, isn't it?"

Gao Zhendong, who was struggling with the Octave source code, received a call from the National Defense Working Committee.

"The Gauls want to use their sonar technology to exchange for the propellant technology of the anti-aircraft missiles we just used in the North Gulf. What do you think?"

The leader of the Defense Work Committee laughed on the phone. He was used to listening to Gao Zhendong's opinions on this kind of military equipment technology exchange, because Comrade Zhendong always had good ideas and good judgments.

After hearing his words, Gao Zhendong slammed the table so hard that the leader of the Defense Work Committee on the other end of the phone could hear it.

"Okay! Change it! That propellant is nothing big." Only a fool would not change it. It's like a pillow when you're sleepy!

Forget about GAP, this propellant is not even HTPB propellant, but a tactical missile propellant derived from the early days of the Americans. Isn't it wonderful to exchange the Americans' generosity for the Gauls' technology?

And this technology is sonar. In this field, the Gauls are still trustworthy.

Feeling Gao Zhendong's reaction and hearing his words, the leader naturally knew how to deal with the matter. After all, there are not many people who can make Gao Zhendong so happy.

"Okay, I get it."

After hanging up the phone, Gao Zhendong rubbed his hands excitedly. The Gauls' sonar, plus the steel that had been in the works for a long time and the submarine silent technology that was already in progress, plus it seemed that the starting point for the next generation of submarines was not bad.
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Qianshan, Caohai County potato breeding base.

This base was established last year. Its only task was to breed potatoes from the Qianshu No. 19 potato provided by Gao Zhendong to produce enough tubers for sowing, so as to facilitate the next step of provincial promotion. However, this variety could not be called Qianshu 19 like Gao Zhendong's previous life, but was called Qianyu-63.

As for the breeding of newer hybrids, that is the next step.

Lao Li and Lao Zhang, two potato experts from the Qianshan Academy of Agricultural Sciences who have been in charge of Qianyu-63 from the very beginning, are busy with breeding work. The successful planting of the first batch of seeds was accomplished by the two of them.

Breeding does not necessarily have to be carried out at the planting time. Some conditions can be tried to be artificially generated. For the two comrades, this is what they are mainly busy with. They are responsible for ensuring the breeding progress as much as possible under various conditions.

However, what they are most concerned about now is something else.

"Old Li, have you noticed that this kind of potato degenerates very slowly?" Old Zhang said to Old Li as he looked at the tuber that he had just dug out and was still covered in dirt.

Old Li nodded: "I've discovered this too. I don't know if it's due to genetics or something else, but the speed at which these potatoes degenerate is abnormal, very slow."

"It should be related to our strict isolation from other varieties, but I don't think it's just this one reason. We also adopted this isolation measure during the breeding process of other varieties, but the effect was not as good as this." Old Zhang touched his chin and thought carefully.

If we can really figure out what is going on, it might be a big gain. If it is due to the genetics of the population, then we can try to use this potato to breed new varieties, and perhaps we can get good anti-degeneration characteristics.

It would be even better if it wasn’t due to population genetics!

This means that there must be something behind this that supports the occurrence of this situation. As long as this set of things is summarized, it can play a significant role in delaying the degeneration of potato varieties, which is stronger than genetic characteristics.

After all, genes are a very limited thing, but the rules behind them may not be so limited.

It just so happened that there was no urgent matter at hand. Seed research was a very time-consuming job. To some extent, it was just like the busy and slack seasons in agriculture. Right now, they were in this alternative "slack season".

While they had nothing else to do, the two began to study with great interest what was affecting the degradation of Qianyu-63.

After a lot of comparative analysis, the two turned their attention to the four words on the blackboard with some surprise in their eyes.

——"Planting method"!
That’s right, after rigorous comparison and screening by the two, it is almost certain that the biggest difference between Qianyu-63 and other potatoes in the planting process is the planting method!
In other words, it is a seedling cultivation method.

This seedling raising method was part of a complete set of planting methods given by Commissioner Gao at the time. It was specifically used to use plants to cultivate seedlings. The tuber planting method was used in the earliest planting, but this seedling raising method was not used until there were enough tubers and the resulting young shoots.

The reason why it is so late is that this method is very cumbersome and will cause certain damage to the young shoots. Moreover, there is no theoretical support for such a cumbersome and destructive method. I have no idea why Commissioner Gao came up with such a method.

Until you are sure enough, you dare not move.

Now it seems that there is something profound behind Commissioner Gao's method.

First, select good potatoes for seedling cultivation. This step is no problem and everyone understands it.

After multiple surface disinfection procedures, the young shoots are peeled off using a dissecting microscope in a sterile environment, and a small point with a length of 0.1-0.3 mm and 1-2 leaf primordia is taken and cultured in a culture medium to obtain seedlings.

To be honest, I know about this. He is an agricultural scientist.

If you don’t know, you might think they are doing medical research, as they even brought out culture media and other things.

This complicated, sophisticated and novel method opened Li and Zhang's eyes, but they didn't understand why it was done this way.

They are just working strictly according to the seedling cultivation plan given by Commissioner Gao. It doesn't matter if they don't understand, but they are very solid and serious and strictly follow the procedures and requirements.

But now it seems that there are a lot of tricks involved.

(End of this chapter)