industrial overlord

Chapter 645 Helium Turbine
"The civilian use of military technology will get returns from the civilian market, and then feed back to military scientific research, forming a virtuous circle. This is the idea you told me, Kobayashi, more than ten years ago. Now it seems that you have practiced it very well. "Liu Xianghai said to Lin Zhenhua with a smile.

Lin Zhenhua said: "Science and technology must be transformed into productivity. If scientific and technological achievements are limited to the laboratory or only to the military industry, it will definitely be unsustainable in the end. The military technology of the former Soviet Union is not weak, but it collapsed in the end. It is our lesson from the past.”

"Well said." Liu Xianghai said, "When I was still in Fenghua, I admired your business acumen. To be honest, I really felt sorry for you at that time. I felt that a capable person like you, You should concentrate on scientific research, and running around all day to make money is a waste of talent."

Lin Zhenhua said with emotion: "Actually, I was also forced to go to Liangshan. I am actually not a person who is good at management. My ideal is the same as your old Liu. I also sit in the laboratory and do some research. Who knows, by accident. and become an entrepreneur.”

If there is no such thing as time travel, Lin Zhenhua graduated as a graduate student of Huaqing University, and the most likely development direction is to become an engineer and devote himself to scientific research.But time travel changed his life choices. Under the social background of the late 70s, what China needed most was not scientists, but entrepreneurs.Lin Zhenhua can be regarded as conforming to the times, standing out from the crowd, and single-handedly creating a large-scale Hanhua Heavy Industry.

As a result, there is one outstanding engineer missing in the world, but the number of engineers called out because of the rise of Hanhua is more than a thousand?Liu Xianghai, Zhang Yihua, Wei Dongqi, He Chengshan, Wei Jingwen, etc., and even Lin Fanghua, Jiang Jie, Miao Xiaoqiong and other next-generation scientific and technological elites all have a broad stage because of Lin Zhenhua's existence, and can display their talents skill.In this sense, what Lin Zhenhua has done has promoted technology far beyond his own role as an engineer.

"Let's go, I'll take you to see our new aircraft carrier." Liu Xianghai said to Lin Zhenhua enthusiastically.

According to the tradition of China's military industry, the development and construction of new equipment has always been kept secret.Although the outside world has been overwhelming speculation about the new aircraft carrier, so far, no one has been able to obtain a piece of exact information about the new aircraft carrier.This is a person of Lin Zhenhua's level. If it were someone else, Liu Xianghai slowly said that he would take him to see the aircraft carrier.

Led by a guard soldier, Lin Zhenhua and Liu Xianghai walked into the aircraft carrier workshop located in the corner of the shipyard's military product port area.This is a gigantic workshop, more than 500 meters long, 150 meters wide, and nearly 80 meters high, which is equivalent to the height of a 20-storey building.Even so, the skeleton of a 10-ton aircraft carrier, as well as things like cranes and scaffolding, still fill up the entire workshop.

On the way Lin Zhenhua and the others walked into the workshop, technicians and workers came forward to salute Liu Xianghai from time to time, and occasionally a few people stood up and greeted "Boss Lin" affectionately. Lin Zhenhua couldn't name these people. , but I also know that they are all Hanhua employees borrowed by Liu Xianghai.The construction of an aircraft carrier needs to involve countless types of work. The military adopts the method of a group of heroes, and recruits excellent workers and technicians from various companies to assist. Everything leaks out.

"Xiao Lin, look, this is the 10-ton aircraft carrier we are building." Liu Xianghai pointed to the giant in the middle of the workshop and said to Lin Zhenhua.

"It's really shocking!" Lin Zhenhua sighed, and then commented pickily, "It seems that there is only a skeleton, and the skin and meat haven't been pasted yet? I said Lao Liu, your military It's too slow to do things, right?"

The aircraft carrier in front of me is indeed only a bunch of skeletons, and the steel plates, decks, bridges, etc. of the hull do not exist yet.Lin Zhenhua doesn't know how to build a ship, and he can't see the mystery of it, but just looking at the skeleton makes people feel dizzy.

Liu Xianghai said: "It's still early. We planned to launch in 08, and there are still 6 years left. It is already a major breakthrough to be able to determine the structure, which means that there is room for various equipment. And the location has been clearly defined and cannot be changed.

At present, we still have two major pieces of equipment that have not been finalized, one is the electromagnetic ejection device, and the other is the nuclear power system.These two major pieces of equipment have not been finalized, and other things cannot be built hastily.By the way, the research on the latter technology is mainly focused on by your old Zhang. "

Speaking of Cao Cao, when Cao Cao arrived, Liu Xianghai had just mentioned Lao Zhang when Zhang Yihua, chief engineer of Hanhua Steam Turbine Company heard the news and rushed over from the other side of the workshop.He was wearing a sky-blue overalls representing technicians and a hard hat, and he walked like flying, and he couldn't tell that he was already "Ben Qi" at his age.Walking in front of Liu Xianghai and Lin Zhenhua, he laughed and stretched out his hands to shake hands with them.

"President Liu, President Lin, what brought you here today?" Zhang Yihua asked.

Liu Xianghai pointed to Lin Zhenhua, and said, "Xiao Lin has just returned from abroad and has done a great favor to our navy. No, I'll take him to see the aircraft carrier as a reward."

With a black line on his forehead, Lin Zhenhua said to Liu Xianghai: "Old Liu, I found that you are an honest man, and your words are very slippery now. It is obvious that you want something from me, so why don't you say something about it. I am not those online Military fans, it’s not so necessary for me to see the aircraft carrier or not. Well, if you say that you brought me to the captain today to reward me, you are not allowed to talk about business matters, otherwise I will walk away.”

"Haha, you've already seen through this!" Liu Xianghai laughed out loud.Thinking about it carefully, he felt that he had really become a bit of a philistine these years. It is no wonder that the aircraft carrier project is a large system project that requires the coordination of various forces, which made him have to learn many times. Say a little politeness on the scene.However, to say such polite words to Lin Zhenhua is really a bit out of line.

"Okay, okay, I won't go around with you anymore. I really want to ask you Hanhua to invite you to the shipyard today. Let Lao Zhang tell you about this matter." Liu Xianghai said.

Lin Zhenhua looked at Zhang Yihua with a smile, and said: "Old Zhang, I remember that you are from our Hanhua, why are you turning your elbows out and digging a hole with Lao Liu to trap me? Is there anything we can't go back to Xunyang Say, do you have to say it on Lao Liu's three-acre land?"

Zhang Yihua was also a little embarrassed. Although he knew that Lin Zhenhua and Liu Xianghai had a very close relationship, Lin Zhenhua was his real leader after all.If Lin Zhenhua hadn't invited him to Hanhua back then and provided him with scientific research conditions, he would have been doing nothing in the past 10 years, and he couldn't even imagine the achievements he has today.Now, it is really inappropriate for him to ask Lin Zhenhua from Liu Xianghai's position for the sake of the navy.

"Mr. Lin, it's like this. In the group office meeting, I have talked about the helium turbine many times. Do you still remember?" Zhang Yihua finally plucked up the courage to speak out.

"I remember." Lin Zhenhua said, "However, I also remember that you mentioned that the investment in this project is too large and the technology is too cutting-edge, so the group has been shelved and dare not start it. I know that the team you lead has been Preliminary research, why, now you think the time is ripe?"

Zhang Yihua turned his head and pointed to the skeleton of the aircraft carrier, and said: "The 10-ton aircraft carrier that President Liu and the others are building is powered by nuclear power. The original design used two pressurized water reactors and four steam turbines. It imitates the layout of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in the United States. However, after discussing with Brees and Tuchinov, Dean Liu and I both believe that we can consider using high-temperature gas-cooled reactors with better safety and thermal efficiency as power source, using a helium turbine to do the work.

In this way, the safety of aircraft carrier operation can be greatly improved and maintenance costs can be reduced, which is very meaningful for aircraft carriers to cope with complex combat conditions. "

"I'm dizzy." Lin Zhenhua rubbed his forehead with his hand, looked at Zhang Yihua, then at Liu Xianghai, and asked, "Whose idea is this between you two? It couldn't be that Lao Zhang borrowed from the navy to build a helium turbine." Power to suppress me?"

Zhang Yihua and Liu Xianghai laughed together, of course they knew that Lin Zhenhua was joking.Given Zhang Yihua's position in Hanhua, Lin Zhenhua had absolutely no objection to proposing a reasonable plan.And if this plan was really unreasonable, Zhang Yihua couldn't bring it up, and Liu Xianghai couldn't intercede for him.

However, Zhang Yihua tentatively brought up the matter of the helium turbine because Zhang Yihua had always kept it in his mind.Unexpectedly, as soon as it was proposed, it was unanimously approved by experts from the military, nuclear industry companies, and the former Soviet Union. This is why he wanted to report to Lin Zhenhua.

"It's time for the technology of helium turbines to come to fruition. What Lao Zhang means is to take advantage of the opportunity of building a 10-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and use the power of the military to gather technicians from all over the country to break through the existing Technical obstacles. This is an opportunity that cannot be missed, so let’s not come again.” Liu Xianghai said, “Xiaolin, didn’t we just talk about the issue of military-civilian integration? If breakthroughs can be made in helium turbine technology, its civilian value will also be very considerable. .”

"Hey, it still has civilian value." Lin Zhenhua said with a smile, "Then I have to listen carefully. My ugly words are in front of me. If I can't see the 'Qian Jing' thing, I won't do it."

(End of this chapter)