Shengsheng

"Go! Get the crane up for me! What is such a big man planning to do here! This is not the Tathagata Buddha, what are you afraid of doing! Move! Move to the side quickly!"

In Hangzhou Port, the taste of salty seawater is permeating the modern port.

The seagulls hovered over the sea, drawing black and white arcs, and also showing the whole picture of this huge and prosperous material harbor.

Inside the industrial command center of Sanbao Wharf, which is surrounded by glass on all sides.

A tall middle-aged man with a flat head and a navy casual uniform was loudly commanding the heavy-duty fishing platform at the downwind of the sea ahead through the walkie-talkie at the command office.

What can be seen with the naked eye is that the interior of Hangzhou Port today is indeed filled with a serious and tense atmosphere that is very different from the past.

Today is the day when "Dragon Palace" is a national key military project, and the bottom cabin structure is tested in Hangzhou Port for the fourth time.

The person in front of me is Senior Colonel Deng Lingfeng, the official person in charge of the Hangzhou Port 'Dragon Palace Project'.

Standing behind him was vaguely the technicians responsible for the on-site testing this time. Although some of them were not present due to work reasons, there were almost 20 people in total.

As the overall person in charge of this project, Colonel Deng's entire heart today was almost hanging outside the simulated cabin that was still hanging in the air at the moment, and even his tone was rarely tense.

"Yes, yes! That's it! Don't shake the hand of the person in the driver's seat now! Move it to the side! Hey! Be careful! Let things enter the water to see the depth! Hey, don't be afraid! Xiao Zhang! Yes! Let go boldly!"

Looking at it this way, this is indeed a Chinese soldier who has spent most of his life in the barracks at first sight.

About forty years old, with dark skin, not only a very tough and tall figure, but also an extremely brave and serious posture.

In addition, the voice was very loud, and he was slapping the table and roaring, which made the technicians behind him plug their ears helplessly and have a headache, listening to him yelling on the walkie-talkie.

And as we all know, the last water test of this heavy ship was about four months ago.

At that time, due to the imbalance of the actual water-entry pressure, the moment the simulated cabin finally entered the seawater, there was a serious problem that the metal cover on the left side was squeezed and deformed.

In the past six months, all technicians at Hangzhou Port have devoted countless efforts to another technical improvement of the "Dragon Palace".

The design drawings that had been miscarried hundreds of times from the earliest days were finally lucky enough to be born in the capital.

It took too much manpower and material resources to select the cabin design and test site, and then to actually arrange personnel to actually enter the water entry test stage here.

In fact, everyone is nervously and anxiously waiting for a clear result.

That is whether the "Dragon Palace", which once existed only on the blueprints, will have the opportunity to get out of the pale blueprints through technology and become a big ship sailing in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, carrying Chinese soldiers on long-distance voyages.

At this moment, the bottom is faintly visible, and the blue sea water at the port is looming. In front of the warehouse where all the trucks in the venue have quickly cleared all obstacles, there are faintly a few soldiers below assisting.

Not far away, there is a ton-level lifting crane like a beast in the sea, and it is gradually putting a metal bilge that is not fully assembled into the experimental waters for testing.

"Om-"

The sound of the lifting platform was muffled, as if the actual operation was not smooth.

The heavy object on the hanging platform was tightly strangled by the steel wire, and it began to sway back and forth from a high place, which made the hearts of the people present also tugged.

However, the calculated data of all aspects of this experiment have been carefully calculated.

Including the quality, volume, and pressure of the cabin material in the previous experiment, these are all calculated by experts time and time again. In principle, everything in front of you is perfect, and there should be no errors.

But when the small lead hanging from the bottom submerged into the water, the rapid ripples on the surface of the sea still made people tremble with fear.

Seeing this, all the technicians in the command center, including the grumpy Colonel Deng, stared nervously at the distance and held their breath.

However, after a visual error of one second, the yellow light symbolizing the failure of the fourth water entry technical test of the cabin was still on after the upper experimental red light "Di-Di-Di" lit up three times.

"drop--"

This brightening undoubtedly shows that everyone's efforts in the past four months have once again come to naught.

The professional testing instruments on the water platform showed that there was a very small but strange calculation error in the water depth again.

But it was this error, which was even difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, but could cause the underwater pressure to destroy the hull in an instant, which caused another failure of the present experiment.

And for a moment, everyone's faces were inevitably filled with great disappointment that their hopes had once again been dashed.

Colonel Deng, who had been standing here all morning and was so nervous that he didn't dare to go anywhere, his face turned red, he shook his hand, gritted his teeth, and slapped the table in front of him heavily.

"bump--!"

This time, everyone in the command room was shocked.

Suffocating tension, anxiety and uneasiness filled this small room, and increased the breakdown and stress of everyone day and night for a year to a terrible critical point.

But most people who have been engaged in this kind of technical research for many years understand this feeling.

That is, sometimes in the face of all kinds of difficult technical research, the effort is really not equal to the reward. Failure, failure after failure can really drive normal people crazy.

After finally breaking free from the bad mood of another tragic failure and even more difficult to explain to his superiors, Senior Colonel Deng Lingfeng wiped his face and lowered his head to ask the technicians around him word by word,

"...This time, what is the reason?"

"It's still a matter of draft. We have adjusted the formula for calculating the pressure at the bottom of the cabin so many times, but there are still errors."

"..."

"Before this error figure, we have tried to reduce it to [-] decimal places with the most accurate computer calculations, but once we enter the ocean environment with completely different pressures, the pressure tens of thousands of times will still make the volume itself larger than that of ordinary ships." Dragon Palace' was squeezed into a pile of scrap metal..."

"So, the fucking error is all in sixteen decimal places or not?"

Senior Colonel Deng forced himself to suppress his anger and asked again.

"...Yes, at present, it may not be possible. As long as there is an error, no matter how small, it will generate relative pressure and affect the underwater pressure. This is an unsolvable proposition, and even the most accurate computer may not be able to solve it... ..."

This answer, I have to say, was really within everyone's expectations.

Because of the last few on-site experiments in the ship simulation cabin, if there is any key technical problem that cannot be solved, it is the "unlucky" draft problem.

But it has been almost a year now, and this pressure problem, which is difficult to achieve accurate errors even with computer calculations, still seems to be backlogged in the hearts of all Hangzhou Port Military Departments and cannot be substantively resolved.

But at this moment when the atmosphere was particularly irritated and tense, there was a light knock on the door of the command room outside, and then the voice of a soldier standing guard outside rang faintly.

"Colonel, are you free now? A guest you know is here...he's downstairs now."

This sentence barely broke the silence in the room.

Senior Colonel Deng, who was standing inside, was already in an annoyed mood today, but when he heard that there were still people coming here at such a time to find trouble, he yelled irritably in a rough voice.

"Who? Who knows me! It's such a time to come here to make trouble!"

But when he was yelled at, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to make a sound. After a long time, the brave little soldier finally dared to stammer and continue to speak,

"...Yes, it's Mr. Liang. He said he brought something and wanted to find you. He's waiting for you in the cafeteria right now."

Mr. Liang would be fine if he didn't say these three words, but Colonel Deng's face would turn even darker when he said these three words.

Waiting like a firecracker that hits at one o'clock, he blurted out the sentence, "What is this bastard running here at this time!"You go to eat first!Come back for a meeting after dinner', slammed the door and ran down immediately, as if about to fight someone.

The other technicians in the command center were also relieved when they saw this, and then they each watched their superiors with a clear face and went to catch up with his 'old enemy'.

……

Downstairs, the factory canteen inside Hangzhou Port.

At this moment, the Mr. Liang who came from afar, our boss Liang Feilong came all the way from Xiaoshan Airport, just in time for dinner here.

Because the 'Dragon Palace' has continued to carry out test experiments here for more than a year.

There are still young soldiers running around here with lunch boxes everywhere.

From a distance, seeing such a man who seemed a little out of tune with the environment here suddenly appeared here, there was inevitably some curiosity in his eyes.

In this regard, Boss Liang, who hadn't been here for almost half a year, didn't think there was anything wrong with coming here at noon to grab a meal.

Like an iron rooster, he reported the name of the biggest official to the aunt at the cafeteria window without spending a dime, and then made a full meal with peace of mind.

Right now, in front of him is a small portion of braised radish, a plate of yellow croaker, two taels of rice, and a large bowl of stewed eggs with conch.

The appearance is not bad, it is worthy of the basic treatment of our navy, and it is located in the rich Zhejiang Province, the combination of meat and vegetables is quite reasonable.

It just so happened that there weren't many people in the cafeteria right now, so Liang Sheng found a random place to sit down while thinking about it, and wondered in his heart when a certain cannon with a temper bigger than a donkey would know that others had come here.

And just as soon as he sat down here, there was a noise from the door of the cafeteria from a long distance away.

When our Boss Liang noticed something and looked in the direction of the people coming and going slowly, a pair of cold iron hands holding a big rice bowl hit him in front of him with a 'touch', and said in a thick and threatening voice. mouthed.

"Liang Feilong, what are you running here to show off, you flirt? You really think that Hangzhou Port is a vegetable garden, and you can come here as long as you have money, don't you?"

"..."

"Let me tell you solemnly again, this is a place dedicated to national technological research! There is nothing you guys have been thinking about all day long! You will set foot in the United States sooner or later! Don't worry about being kind all day long If you are looking for trouble, get out of here as soon as possible!"

"..."

This sounds like an old acquaintance.

After so many years, even if he and Colonel Deng do not like each other, the cooperation between Longjiang Feiteng and the government for many years is really an old friendship.

It's just that this old friendship is mostly based on the fact that Liang Sheng is more seeking business and personal interests, while the person in front of him is focused on the interests of the government and the country, so no one can look down on anyone. Up.

So Liang Sheng took off his suit, rolled up his shirt cuffs and sat down to eat. When he saw the loud voice in front of him and saw himself yelling here, he didn't get angry. He smiled amiably and said,

"Senior Colonel Deng, if you have something to say, you can sit down and talk about it. The 'Dragon Palace' project itself is also related to Longjiang Feiteng and my own personal interests. How could I not care about it at all?"

"..."

"Besides, I think you may have misunderstood me. When I came out of my mother's womb, I was a Chinese. My hometown is City Y. At the most unlucky moment in my life, it was also the government of this country, the hospital, I tried to save my life as an ordinary Chinese, so I always understand that the place where I stand is the hometown where I was born and raised.

"..."

"In the first half of my life, it is impossible for me to change the fact that I am a Chinese. In the next half of my life, I don't think I will shake this at all."

"..."

It was rare for Liang Sheng, who suppressed the smile on his lips, to say these words in a serious manner.

At his age, there are quite a few people in the top business circles who have been thinking about overseas immigration while eating the bonuses given by the country with peace of mind.

In the past ten years, after he made his fortune, he has been asked more than once whether he will immigrate in the future or choose to immigrate for the consideration of future children. He has never given any positive answer. This is the first time that he has been so formally answered.

And that Colonel Deng, who has always had a bad temper but is not a bad person, was at a loss for words, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

But fortunately, the two of them have always been polite and impolite, so after a moment of embarrassment, Liang Sheng, who originally only wanted to choke him in person, consciously changed the subject and said,

"I heard that the fourth water entry simulation test of the 'Dragon Palace' failed again?"

This topic is so far the only normal topic that the two of them can sit down and discuss peacefully.

As soon as Colonel Deng heard it, he remembered what happened in the command room earlier, and his face was not very good for a while, but when he saw this scene, he immediately understood what was going on. He came all the way here just to solve it. Liang Sheng thought about this question, he should first ask him to sit down and then said,

"So, it's still a matter of draft?"

"……Um."

Thinking of this, Senior Colonel Deng, who stared at the rice bowl in front of him but had no appetite at all, was so worried that he could hardly eat anymore.

"What about the newly installed assembly parts, didn't you say last time that the pressure error has been reduced to a very small and almost negligible level after the experiment was installed?"

Also very clear about the seriousness of this matter, Liang Sheng asked again.

"No, it still won't work. In the current situation, the error must continue to be reduced. The improvement of components is one thing, but the error of the actual water inlet pressure cannot be limited to sixteen decimal places, and more precise error calculation is required. "

"..."

"Everyone knows that the ship is not only used for experiments in our factory for the rest of its life. It will be loaded with naval supplies and our people to officially sail. As long as there are errors, it means that the safety problem is still there. It has not been fundamentally solved. Even if the current experiment is successful, the country cannot irresponsibly let a ship that does not have safety go to sea. Therefore, only we continue to work on this technical problem, and now we have to solve it. It is also a problem of calculation errors, and nothing else will work.”

This remark can be regarded as exhausting the many problems faced by the Hangzhou Port Armament Factory over the past year.

In terms of funding and pressure from superiors, many problems have been brought together. People with high military ranks like Deng Lingfeng are faced with the problem that it is difficult to hand over a satisfactory answer to the country, let alone other ordinary technicians who are in charge of various links. of.

Before coming here, he had already been mentally prepared, and he knew that this would be a tough battle. Liang Sheng pondered for a while, and asked a question after thinking about it.

"The problem of technically solving the mathematical error needs to be solved, but if I remember correctly, besides Hangzhou Port, there should still be many experienced private shipyards near the Zhoushan Islands. Have you considered sending some hull measurement personnel from the surrounding area?" ?”

"A private shipyard?"

"Correct."

"This way..."

"How about it?"

Deng Lingfeng had never considered this method before.

All along, the people in his hands are the researchers of the Academy of Engineering who are directly equipped by the capital.

Because the calculation problem is not the core of the technology, but a problem in the testing process, they rely more on modern computer calculations, while the actual manual calculation process is directly ignored.

Seeing him showing a thoughtful expression, Liang Sheng, who is used to saying that as soon as he has a plan, he will immediately find a solution, did not procrastinate. ,

"If you believe me, leave this matter to me. There are not many shipping yards near Zhoushan, and you can find a way to search through it in a week. No matter how difficult it is to solve such things as errors and numbers, they are dead. But people are alive, I don't believe in the errors that some people's brains can't figure out in this world, even if there are, I have to wait until we really see it and give up before I believe it."