The ups and downs of life in the Siheyuan

The whole venue was noisy. It was difficult for everyone to rationally agree with what Leader Xu said, but it was still a bit difficult for them to accept it immediately.

Those who knew the inside story did not explain it to those around them due to confidentiality regulations.

These people all looked at Li Yuan eagerly. They finally met the inventor today.

Leader Xu pulled Li Yuan to sit down, did not stop everyone from talking, and even winked at him.

After a few minutes, the sound gradually decreased, and a sudden sound reached everyone's ears.

"Comrade Li Yuan, where have you been these past ten years?"

When Leader Xu heard the question, his face was gloomy and he stared at the person who spoke.

Li Yuan glanced at Leader Xu and said with a smile: "Working at Jiaodaokou Scrap Collection Station."

"That means you haven't been engaged in semiconductor-related work for ten years?"

Li Yuan frowned, very disgusted with such aggressive questioning.

"You're right, I've been collecting scraps for ten years."

Looking at the performance of the people at the venue today, Li Yuan had already made up his mind to keep it a secret from them.

Just after being loosened, the performance of these people disappointed Li Yuan. They did not cherish it, but struggled more.

Could this be the sequelae of being persecuted and holding on to what has been lost more tightly?

Moreover, the main reason why Li Yuan did not participate in the chat when he first entered the venue was that most of what they talked about was the power of the West.

Hatred for the missing decade, yearning for the beacon of Western civilization.

Maybe this is a kind of technological pilgrimage mentality.

Not to mention, in order to fight the polar bears, America has been wooing China and secretly exporting values.

The country is also optimistic about its success, and public opinion is also promoting the importance of knowledge and scientific and technological inventions.

In the 60s, all countries basically started researching semiconductors, with a stronger awareness of reference, comparison and competition.

For ten years, scientific research in China stagnated while the West developed rapidly.

Nowadays, when I look up, there are all gaps.

This gap is disappointing. What everyone thinks about now is not to surpass, but to keep up.

Then the easiest and fastest way is to introduce it.

After my country returned to the United Nations in 1971, it developed normal relations with developed countries and began to introduce Western technology.

From 1972 to 1977, my country's actual foreign contract transactions reached US$39.6 billion, of which complete sets of equipment were approximately US$31.5 billion, accounting for 80%.

By far, the biggest problem facing China is eating and clothing.

The reason is also very simple. Due to the huge gap in the fertilizer industry, it is difficult for China's limited arable land to feed its 8 million people.

Everyone knows that without chemical fertilizers and improved seeds, no matter how hard farmers work and cultivate intensively, the harvest from one acre of land will be very pitiful.

At that time, if one acre of mature land in the north was planted with wheat, the harvest would be less than 100 kilograms. And this is the result of intensive farming and good weather.

Compared with the 21st century, the income from wheat per acre is only 21/1 of that in the 10st century.

With such a pitiful income, one can imagine why New China continued to build water conservancy projects and did its best to develop agriculture.

Even so, it still couldn't feed everyone.

And now, Huaxia and America are in the honeymoon period. As long as they give money, the most advanced technology can be purchased.

However, China's foreign exchange reserves have been negligibly low in recent years.

In 1973 it was negative.

In 1974 it was zero.

In 1975, it finally exceeded US$1 million.

In 1976, it was less than $6 million.

At that time, the latest version of the F4 Phantom 2 fighter was priced at more than 500 million U.S. dollars locally. When sold overseas, the premium started at 1.5 times, with no upper limit.

Now, what China hopes to introduce most is people's livelihood equipment, such as fertilizer, pesticide, chemical fiber and other related production lines.

As for the military, what they most hope to introduce are advanced technologies such as advanced turbofan engines and radars.

Therefore, US$6 million is really too little.

Therefore, being able to rebuild the National Semiconductor Laboratory with such investment shows that the country attaches great importance to it.

Since the 60s, Western semiconductor technology has been advancing rapidly, but ours has been stagnant for 10 years.

It’s not that policymakers don’t trust domestic experts, but they want to introduce technology as quickly as possible and then quickly digest and absorb it.

Li Yuan knows the future trend of the country, so he is unwilling to announce the accumulation of these 10 years.

The first is that they are afraid of alerting the West, and the second is that they are afraid that these people in China will provide it to the West for free.

There are too many examples to list here.

Only after 10 years of technological stagnation can the West put down its guard and dare to sell obsolete technologies to China at high prices.

As for America, they dared to be so generous because they saw that China had no money and knew that China's decision was to develop people's livelihood.

The purpose of developing technology is to win over China and confront polar bears.

If you can fight a polar bear, like Dongwu now, America dares to support you with the most advanced weapons.

In the end, everything in China will belong to America.

Therefore, the tone of this meeting has been set, which is why the two men in suits are so popular.

When everyone heard Li Yuan's answer, some people showed disdain, and some people showed regret.

"Well, now that everyone knows about Li Yuan's situation, he is qualified to sit here." Leader Xu was as supportive as ever.

Although others felt that Li Yuan might have fallen behind, they all accepted his position.

Past results only represent the past, whether it's a mule or a horse, it depends on the performance in the future.

After everyone stopped worrying about Li Yuan's position, the meeting went smoothly.

Everyone started discussions around the construction of the laboratory, with the main directions being wafer preparation and chip research.

The wafer was handed over to Tian Hao, a returning doctor, with Li Yuan as his deputy.

The chip was handed over to another returning doctor, Xie Xifang, and the target of imitation was Intar's 8086.

Li Yuan rarely spoke during the whole process, and everyone ignored Li Yuan, who only talked eloquently.

The main session ends and is then divided into three sessions.

Li Yuan participated in a special meeting on wafer preparation.

The theme of Tian Hao's first meeting was to improve the 4-inch manufacturing process and break through the 5-inch manufacturing technology in five years.

Throughout the meeting, there was not much focus on the domestic 4-inch manufacturing process, but much talk about America's technology.

Learning from the failure of introducing Japanese semiconductor production lines in 72, we are preparing to introduce America's full set of technologies.

Li Yuan has no memory of this period of history. It feels like semiconductor production lines were only introduced in the 90s.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan was completely defeated.

The other party, Li Yuan, did not express his opinion. He was secretly happy and deliberately ignored Li Yuan's existence.

Three days later, a perfect draft was drawn up and Li Yuan was ready to leave.

I met Secretary Wen at the door.

Follow him to the 4th floor and meet Leader Xu.

Secretary Wen helped pour the tea and exited the office wisely.

"How's it going? How do you feel?"

"The meeting was lively, everyone was in a high mood and wanted to get things done," Li Yuan gave a fair evaluation.

"Then what?".

Leader Xu looked at Li Yuan with a smile, and Li Yuan smiled bitterly when he was stared at.

"First, the proposed plan is too backward; second, America may not be willing to sell."

"Why didn't you stop it?!" Leader Xu's expression was extremely serious.