Siheyuan: I am Jia Dongxu's cousin

In the early morning, a cold wind blew.

As soon as Zhang Weiguo walked out of the house, he saw Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu running quickly past his door.

Zhang Weiguo said to Yan Bugui, "Third uncle, second uncle is teaching his son a lesson again."

"Yeah, your second uncle probably feels uncomfortable if he doesn't beat the child for a day." The third uncle said in a sarcastic tone. In his eyes, he looked down on this kind of educational method that only involves beating children.

A neighbor in the courtyard greeted Zhang Weiguo and said, "Weiguo, are you going to work?"

"Yes."

After saying hello to his neighbors in the yard, Zhou Weiguo got on his bicycle and slowly rode towards the steel mill.

When I arrived at the gate of the steel rolling mill, I happened to meet Xu Damao coming out carrying a lot of heavy equipment.

"Da Mao, what are you doing..."

"It's Weiguo. I'm going to the countryside to show movies to people. I'll bring you some local specialties later." Xu Damao said in a flattering tone. After all, Zhang Weiguo was the highest-ranking person around him, and he was considered a leader, so he should be flattered.

However, if he knew that Zhang Weiguo had already been eyeing his wife Lou Xiao'e, who would marry him next year, I wonder if he would still be so polite.

"Okay, thank you Damao."

As soon as Zhang Weiguo walked into the office prepared for engineers in the factory, he saw an old man with half-white hair walking towards him.

"Mr. Zhong, good morning." Zhang Weiguo greeted him.

Zhong Baoguo, the chief engineer of the factory. Director Yang had to be polite in front of him. He was a person of the same era as his teacher.

Zhong Baoguo patted Zhang Weiguo on the shoulder and said with concern: "It's Weiguo, I heard that you took a few days off. How are you doing with your family affairs? If you have any difficulties, please tell me. Your master specifically asked me to take care of you."

"We have taken care of the clockwork, don't worry."

"That's good."

As soon as Zhang Weiguo sat down, he heard his colleague next to him say to him, "Weiguo, you are awesome."

"What's wrong?" Zhang Weiguo was a little confused.

"You don't know how strict Mr. Zhong is usually. He only looks good when you are around. Otherwise, we dare not speak loudly when we see him."

Zhang Weiguo's colleague in the front row also said: "How can you compare with him? Weiguo has studied abroad."

At this time, a man behind Zhang Weiguo, who was about 163cm tall and liked to wear a gray Zhongshan suit, said in a jealous whisper: "Tsk, what's so great about that?"

Zhang Weiguo didn't say anything either. After all, where there are people, there are conflicts. They couldn't just fight over such a small matter.

At this time, a man with a flat head came over and said to Zhang Weiguo, "Weiguo, Engineer Zhong asked you to go to the meeting room."

"Brother Ping, do you know what happened?"

The man named Brother Ping said, "I don't know either. It seems to be some foreign technical discussion. I'm not sure either. It was Engineer Zhong who asked you to go."

"Okay, I'll be there right away."

When Zhang Weiguo arrived at the conference room, a group of people inside were already arguing fiercely.

Engineer Zhong, who was sitting in the first row on the left, said to Director Yang, who was in the middle, "Director, you know that our steel mill has not been doing well in the past two years because of the Great Leap Forward. Now we must introduce oxygen top-blown converter steelmaking technology."

"Mr. Zhong, I also know that we need to introduce technology, but we don't have foreign exchange." Director Yang was very distressed. He also wanted to introduce new technology, but the factory didn't have much foreign exchange reserves.

The leaders above also gave instructions that we can import technology, but we have to find a way to get the money. It would be fine if it was RMB, but there is really no US dollar.

At this time, the clock worker also noticed Zhang Weiguo coming in and hurriedly said to him: "Weiguo, come here quickly. You studied in America. Tell me about the steelmaking technology there."

"This must be Mr. Yang's favorite student." Deputy Director Li, who had been silent, spoke up.

"It seems that he has returned from studying abroad. He is a real talent." Deputy Director Guo on the right of Deputy Director Li also spoke.

"Come, sit down and talk." At this time, Director Yang also spoke.

Zhang Weiguo then found an empty seat and sat down.

Then Director Yang asked Zhang Weiguo, "Weiguo, right? Since you studied in America, can you tell me how big the gap is between us and other countries?"

"Then I will tell you my opinion. If there is anything wrong, please correct me."

Zhong Gong said: "Weiguo, don't worry and speak boldly, I will support you."

"The school I studied in America was Stanford. And according to the information I found at Stanford."

"When my country was founded in 49, some developed industrialized countries in the West produced tens of millions of tons of steel, and America could even produce as much as 7000 million tons. At that time, my country's steel production was only about 16 tons, and even in 50, my country's steel production was only 61 tons.

At that time, America's production was 448 times ours."

At this time, everyone understood a little, and Mr. Zhong nodded at him, indicating that he should continue.

"By 57, America's steel output was 1.02 million tons, while my country's steel output reached 535 million tons, a gap of 19 times that of America."

"Although the gap has narrowed, there is still a big gap in terms of output."

"At the same time, my country is basically mobilizing the whole country to make steel, so from the data, there is still a big gap between my country's steelmaking technology and that of Western developed countries.

After listening to Zhang Weiguo's report, the leaders present were all shocked. They knew that there was a gap in steel production between China and foreign countries, but it was the first time they knew the gap was so big.

Director Yang had no idea what 1.02 million tons meant. In his eyes, a million tons was a lot. Even if the steel mill's fleet kept transporting the steel for a year, it was still unclear whether it could be transported. How many weapons could be made with so much steel?

Director Yang was somewhat tempted at this time. If the steel rolling mill had foreign technology, could it also produce several million tons? Even if it could produce 100 million tons, he would wake up laughing.

But when he thought about not having money, he could only say helplessly: "I know the importance of technology, but we don't have any foreign exchange at all."

"Oh..." Engineer Zhong also knew the difficulties of the factory, but what if he succeeded?

At this time, Zhang Weiguo spoke again, "Actually, I might have a solution."

Engineer Zhong quickly stood up and walked to Zhang Weiguo. "Tell me quickly, what is the solution? Apart from foreign exchange, I will definitely find a way to do it for you."

At this time, all the leaders' eyes were focused on Zhang Weiguo.

"Mr. Zhong, you also know that I went abroad to study mainly physics and materials, right?"

"Well, go on."

“In fact, although our factory’s current steel production cannot be significantly increased, we can improve the strength of the steel.”

"You mean you have new material technology."

Zhang Weiguo said confidently, "That's right."

“To what extent it can be achieved.”

“Under the same conditions, it can usually show higher strength than existing steels, while also having better toughness and processing performance.”

Zhang Weiguo went on to say: "At the same time, it does not require complicated heat treatment, which can effectively save coal consumption."

You have to know that at that time, my country had a huge gap in coal.

"Are you sure?" Engineer Zhong looked at Zhang Weiguo seriously. He knew that this matter was very serious. Maybe he needed to alert the higher-ups.

In fact, Zhang Weiguo was 100% sure, because this technology was one of the rewards of the system, called microalloying technology.

Compared with traditional steels in the 60s, micro-alloyed steels are much stronger than existing steels under the same conditions, and also have better toughness and processing performance.

In the future, steel produced by microalloying technology will play a vital role in oil and gas pipelines, ships, bridges, building structures, and other fields. It is no exaggeration to say that it has a wide range of uses.

But I can't be so sure. "I have basically done the research when I was abroad. I can get the approximate ratio after a few more experiments."

"Okay, okay." Engineer Zhong laughed and looked at Director Yang.

Director Yang immediately expressed his opinion, "Weiguo, if you need anything, just tell Xiao Zhou directly. I will ask him to cooperate with you unconditionally."

Xiao Zhou is the factory director's secretary who has been standing next to Director Yang.