Genius is just the threshold for me!

Time flies, and before we know it, it's the Lunar New Year. The entire Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) residential community is already filled with the festive atmosphere of the New Year.

【Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group's Nine Top Stars in the New Century】

[Huang Qingyao]: Waaaaah, brothers and sisters, what is Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) up to lately? Not only are they directly mobilizing engineering troops, but the construction site is also starting work at 8 o'clock.

[Xia Ran]: Yao Yao, you're still working through the night, but you're not as noisy at night.

[Su Yue]: I heard you howling as soon as I got up to go to the bathroom. Now that I've finished listening, I'm going back to catch up on my sleep. The air back home is so fresh; I can sleep until 10 o'clock. @Huang Qingyao

[Huang Qingyao]: 15th month, my class monitor, there are only 23 days left until school starts, you need to keep an eye on the calendar for me! @Su Yue

[Su Yue]: La la la, I'm spending Chinese New Year at my hometown this year, so I can set off firecrackers freely. I'll take another nap and then wake up to blow up the dog bowl! So happy!

[Li Tao]: Do you believe me when I say I went to fry cow dung yesterday, and I tripped and fell while running away after lighting the firecrackers?

[Zhang Yihao]: Brother Tao is awesome!

[Su Yue]: Li Tao, you're so shameful!

[Xu Qingling]: Brothers and sisters, latest on-site news! The Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group's fireworks show will continue this Lunar New Year's Eve! The six million yuan approval has been granted! Uncle Wang is battling the audit department on the phone.jpg

[Su Yue]: Wow! Is Uncle Wang really that brave? Last year, when my uncle came to my house after the fireworks display, he even asked my mom if Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group had overspent its budget!

[Li Tao]: Xu Qingling, ask Uncle Wang if it's too late for me to go back home now to watch the fireworks during the Chinese New Year.

……

Wang Xingguo.

Wang Rui placed a plate of melon seeds in front of Lin Dong, then a bottle of cola, and said with a face full of reverence, "Master Dong, please enjoy..."

"..."

Lin Dong's lips twitched, and he looked at Wang Rui helplessly, saying, "Brother Rui, just call me Xiao Dong. Your attitude towards me is even worse; others will immediately know there's something wrong."

"Alright then..."

Hearing this, Wang Rui paused for two seconds to gather his emotions, then put his arm around Lin Dong's shoulder, adopting a nonchalant, "Come on, Xiao Dong, I'll take you to a bar. I know which bar near Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group has the most girls..."

Snapped--

Before Wang Rui could finish speaking, Wang Xingguo went into the study to finish his phone call. When he came out, he overheard the conversation and immediately slapped Wang Rui on the back: "You're taking Xiao Dong to a bar?"

"where……"

Wang Rui was completely stunned.

When she noticed that Su Ruohua was looking over from the restaurant, she hurriedly explained, "I was just rehearsing my attitude when I saw Xiao Dong outside."

"So, you go to bars often?"

Wang Xingguo's face darkened: "My spy daughter-in-law, you met her at a bar?"

"..."

Hearing this description, Wang Rui felt a little numb: "Dad, I didn't mean the ones I ran into at the Friendship Campus. Didn't you also tell me that they were watching my school gate?"

"It took two months for someone to discover the problem... After the New Year, on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, your mother has a project that's about to start. Get out of here to the Northwest and don't come back for three years."

Wang Xingguo, still with a dark expression, said, "Your two classmates will have to come along, and their girlfriends can come too if they'd like..."

"Their girlfriends are still pursuing their master's degrees, and they can go?" Wang Rui was taken aback.

Under normal circumstances, if the supervisor has resources, a master's student can indeed start working on projects.

However, projects that allow them to go to the closed base in the Northwest are never small projects. Even after graduating with a doctorate, they still have to go through a series of assessments and reviews to have a chance.

"What can I do if I don't go? Are you going to break up a couple because of your mess?"

There are six spots available. The three of you absolutely have to go. As for the remaining three, you can decide who goes. Just make sure you don't haven't finished your undergraduate studies yet...

Wang Xingguo scolded irritably, "Your mother and I have never done anything like this in our entire lives, but this year you made an exception by finding me a spy as a daughter-in-law."

When you get to a project, others might look at you differently if they know you got in through connections. Just keep a humble attitude, don't argue, and focus on improving your skills.

In our line of work, technical skills are both our foundation and our key to success. If your skills are lacking, arguing only makes you look bad. But if your skills are superior, even if you slam your fist on the table, they'll all agree and say "Good job!"

"Dad, that's not your daughter-in-law, I just found a girlfriend..." Wang Rui weakly defended himself.

"If you're dating without the intention of getting married, then you're just being a scoundrel."

"..."

Wang Rui was completely stunned. Before he could figure out how to answer, his phone rang in his pocket.

"Dad, your spy daughter-in-law is looking for..."

Wang Rui took out his phone, glanced at it, and immediately said, "I'm going out."

After watching Wang Xingguo and Wang Rui finish their conversation, and then watching Wang Rui leave in a state of youthful energy and excitement, Lin Dong couldn't help but laugh and say, "Godfather, Rui-ge is adapting quite well."

He originally thought that Wang Rui finding a spy girlfriend would be a blow to his mental health and make him unable to cooperate in completing the plan.

But now it seems that Wang Rui is more adapted than anyone else.

"Aside from being a little slow-witted, unlike me and your godmother, you're perfect."

Wang Xingguo sighed and looked at Lin Dong and Xu Qingling, saying, "Xiao Dong, you brought Qingling here so early in the morning, it wasn't because of the fireworks, was it?"

"No, if you want to see fireworks, I can just send an email."

Lin Dong smiled and said, "Qingling and I were originally planning to go to the lab, but then I remembered something and came up to find you, Godfather."

"What's wrong?" Wang Xingguo asked curiously.

"I assessed the project's progress, and based on the current pace, it should be completed between September and October 2015, which is three months ahead of my expected two and a half years and nine months ahead of the headquarters' three-year pledge."

However, with the current project model, the schedule is guaranteed.

However, the core team at Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) has made very little progress on the project, and since there is ample time available, I'd like to make some adjustments.

"Is the team making very little progress?"

Wang Xingguo's eyes widened: "I feel like they've improved so much they're practically flying... Before, Huang Weibing, Cai Feng, and the others couldn't stand on their own, but now, in just two years, they've all started to stand on their own."

"Godfather, from a time perspective, there's been a lot of progress, but from a project perspective, the progress is minimal..."

Lin Dong shook his head: "In the past two years, we have completed two major projects, and now we have completed half of the Red Ghost project."

"If you were the chief engineer back then, let alone two and a half large projects, even if one large project was less than halfway complete, their progress would have been much greater than it is now."

"This...it's incomparable."

Wang Xingguo said helplessly, "I can't do what you do."

In the past, when he was the chief engineer of projects, he encountered many difficult problems that required project members to discuss and find solutions together.

If the problem is complicated, it often takes three to five days, ten days to half a month, or even several months to work through it.

This process of discussing and tackling key problems naturally allows each member to make great progress.

Now it's Chief Engineer Lin Dong's turn to handle the project... What are the challenges? Where do the challenges lie? Aren't the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group's team just data collection tools?

Although Lin Dong had considered this issue from the beginning, he tried his best not to interfere with anything except the core problem.

At the same time, papers and materials will be provided for each arrangement and each problem to facilitate learning and mastery by core team members.

But it's clear that this progress still can't compare to the progress brought about by everyone discussing and tackling problems together in the past.

However, if we switch to the old model, the entire project's timeline would be doubled.

The WZ-8 took four months, which will take at least four years; the J-16D took seven months, which will take at least six or seven years.

As for large bombers, apart from companies like Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group that have been developing them for decades with a bunch of contingency plans, the normal development cycle for such aircraft is calculated in ten-year increments.

"Therefore, we need to adjust the project model."

Lin Dong said seriously, "If this continues, Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group's team will fall further and further behind my pace, and then they'll be useless."

As knowledge is acquired and learning progresses, so too does the learning pace.

His research and development capabilities are also getting stronger and stronger.

Last year, I would spend several minutes thinking about a difficult problem, but now, once I'm in a focused state, I can come up with a plan in a few seconds with just a glance.

In this situation, Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group's team was increasingly unable to keep up with his progress.

He went from basically acknowledging the core team of Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group to gradually becoming less attuned to their presence.

The problem is that Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group's core team is already one of the world's top teams. If even the support provided by such a team feels sluggish, then there's no point in continuing.

"How would you like to adjust it?"

Seeing Lin Dong's serious expression, Wang Xingguo replied without hesitation, "If I can cooperate, then there's no problem."

"I would like to add an online learning session."

Lin Dong shared his proposed plan: "Since there is ample time for the project, I will reduce the time everyone spends working overtime and increase the time for rest and study."

However, a learning task session has been added every Friday.

I will then provide them with a study list based on their individual circumstances.

They need to report their learning progress via email every Friday, and I then add to the next steps list based on their progress...

By shifting from prioritizing tackling key challenges while supplementing with learning and reflection, to now simultaneously engaging in practical challenges and learning/reflection, their abilities can improve more rapidly.

And your task, Godfather, is to do some motivational work offline for those who haven't been studying hard enough, are progressing slowly, or are unwilling to study...

"hiss--"

After hearing Lin Dong's plan, Wang Xingguo gasped sharply, his eyes widening. "Xiao Dong, have your dad, Engineer Jiao, and your godmother stopped asking you questions? Aren't you satisfied teaching these people enough? Are you too idle?"

Over the past few years, he had noticed Lin Dong's little quirk of being a teacher.

After all, Lin Dong would often check his emails first thing after school every day.

But there's a problem.

When tackling key projects, Lin Dong used the email address of Chief Engineer 001, not his own.

Lin Dong's own email address is only used by people like Lin Weiliang and Jiao You who have questions or cannot understand something.

"Cough cough—"

Lin Dong coughed twice and said righteously, "Godfather, I'm doing this for the sake of the project team as a whole, and for the future of Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group. After all, true progress comes when everyone makes progress together."

Furthermore, the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group's team is gradually falling behind my required pace, which is an objective fact...

"Xiao Dong, no problem, I have no objection!"

Wang Xingguo raised his hand and slapped the table, signaling Lin Dong to stop talking. He then said excitedly, "I strongly agree with the adjustment and improvement of the project's problem-solving model."

Before the New Year holiday starts, I'll hold a meeting tomorrow to explain this matter. Then you can send them a study list so they can study and catch up on their studies during the New Year.

Anyone who disobeys this weekly study session will be dealt with by me…”

"Godfather, why are you even more excited than me..." Lin Dong said speechlessly, looking at Wang Xingguo's expression.

"No, I'm just excited about the progress made by the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group team..."

Wang Xingguo answered righteously, but before he could finish, his smile crumbled, and he burst into gloating laughter: "Hahaha, Xiao Dong, you should have arranged it this way a long time ago! The suffering we've endured before will finally be shared by more people!"

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