Scholars in the courtyard.

Chapter 2465: Good? Still needs improvement

Back from the First Ministry of Machine Building.

Yang Xiaotao was alone in the office, designing a train engine.

He drank some wine at noon and still felt a little dizzy, but what gave him a bigger headache was the design drawing.

Originally, Yang Xiaotao thought that with the foundation of diesel engines, coupled with his advanced mechanical knowledge and the help of relevant information, the design of this engine should not be difficult.

But I didn’t expect that more than a month has passed and I still can’t hear any sound from the system.

This shows that everything I am doing now is not even up to the standard.

Compared to the design of gas turbines and helicopter engines, he was helpless.

However, Yang Xiaotao had no other choice. Right now he had no better solution than to continue to exploit the system bug.

The afternoon was almost over and Yang Xiaotao felt his head was heavy and his vision was a little blurry, so he closed his eyes and took a short nap in the office. Xiaowei saw him and flew in from the window, and gently pressed on Yang Xiaotao's head.

Just when Yang Xiaotao was about to fall asleep, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from the door.

Then came the sound of someone pushing the door open.

Yang Xiaotao slowly raised his head, opened his sleepy eyes, and looked at the person who came.

Then they saw Yang Youning, Chen Gong, Liu Lixue and others walking in dejectedly.

I understood what was going on instantly.

Putting down the pen, Yang Xiaotao kept a calm expression, but he had expected something in his heart.

Yang Youning and others walked in and sat on chairs, looking depressed.

Liu Lixue and Lou Xiao'e also returned to their respective seats, looking listless.

"What's going on? What's this?"

"Are the results out?"

Yang Xiaotao stretched himself and asked, and finally Chen Gong, smoking a cigarette, said, "It came out, but it has nothing to do with our Nine Departments."

Yang Youning sighed, and then said, "For this Olympics, only one event was selected from our nine departments, and the others..."

Before he finished speaking, Yang Xiaotao understood. He guessed that this was also to save face for the Ninth Department.

"Alas, all my hard work was in vain. I am just a runner-up."

Yang Youning leaned back in his chair, speechless.

But I was convinced.

Thinking back to the assessment, I realized that I was the most confident 100-meter runner, but when I took the field, I didn’t even make it into the top three.

this.
Yang Youning just felt really hurt.

At the same time, he also understood that everyone is not a fool, and athletes with real strength are valuable.

I thought I had found a great bargain, but I didn't expect that others would look down on it.

“Which project was selected?”

Yang Xiaotao was a little curious. Chen Gong shrugged and said, "Volleyball, women's volleyball."

Yang Xiaotao frowned, "Women's volleyball? So awesome?"

Yang Youning shook his head. "What's so great about that? There were only two participating teams, ours and a women's team from Yuedong University. They had just arrived a few days ago after a long journey, and we played one match, and that was it."

"If this is men's volleyball, there are thirteen teams, and they haven't been selected yet."

"We are just here to make up the numbers."

After saying that, Yang Youning sighed deeply and didn't want to take care of this business anymore.

It is better for the Ninth Department to focus on industry, technology and innovation.

As for sports, let others take care of it.

They have already brought enough glory to the country, so the other machine ministers should at least be given a chance to survive.

Thinking of this, I felt surprisingly better.

"By the way, our football team has also selected two people, so in this case, there should be two events."

Chen Gong suddenly interrupted and Yang Xiaotao raised his eyebrows, "What do you mean?"

"The football team leaders selected the athletes with outstanding performance and abilities from each team and asked them to form a team to participate in the competition."

"I think it's not bad. After all, everyone's abilities are there, so maybe we can get a good ranking."

Chen Gong continued to explain, and Yang Youning beside him nodded slowly.

He watched several games and found many promising players.

If they gathered all these people into their football team, maybe they could be selected this time.

"If we get a good ranking, at least we have people participating, which is a good thing."

Yang Youning comforted himself, but Yang Xiaotao just chuckled when he heard it.

Football is a team sport.

Do you really think that you can conquer the world by getting together with a few good football players? At the same time, I feel speechless.

Each team draws two. Is this for kicking the ball or for balance?
It seems that the problem of selecting people started from this time.

When they saw Yang Xiaotao's look, they suddenly lost interest in talking.

Especially Yang Youning, who had previously sworn that he could finish the eleven seconds. At that time, Yang Xiaotao even asked if he could finish under ten seconds. They still thought that Yang Xiaotao didn't understand sports.

But when I went to the scene today, I found that it really couldn't get under ten seconds and I wasn't even qualified to participate.

Now looking at Yang Xiaotao's expression, we know that he is not optimistic about this football team.

Several people looked at each other, then stood up and prepared to leave.

They still have some preparatory work to do. After all, the women's volleyball team is also participating in the Olympics, so the necessary publicity still needs to be given.

Yang Xiaotao looked at the sky and saw that there was still some time before dark.

I just closed my eyes and now I feel much better. The surrounding environment seems a lot fresher.

After a few people left, Liu Lixue and Lou Xiao'e were busy processing documents. When it was time to get off work, they said goodbye to Yang Xiaotao and left, then walked to Li Hongfeng's office with the processed documents.

Yang Xiaotao continued to argue with the train engine.

The sun began to step over the threshold step by step until it completely disappeared and then went home.

The sky darkened and Yang Xiaotao felt that the room was a little dark.

He looked at the design drawings under his command, made one final modification, and then prepared to go home.

If you go back any later, dinner will be delayed.

But just when Yang Xiaotao was about to get up, a ding system sound came from his mind.

A moment later, Yang Xiaotao sat down on the chair and quickly checked the system message.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully designing a new type of diesel engine. Please name the engine."

A familiar page appeared, and Yang Xiaotao quickly named it "train diesel engine", and then two voices came as expected.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully designing a train diesel engine. System evaluation: good."

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for earning 300 credits."

Looking at the evaluation given by the system, Yang Xiaotao frowned slightly.

Good, just passing.

Yang Xiaotao even felt that this engine was probably not even as good as the ones we use now.

“It still needs to be improved!”

Thinking in his mind, Yang Xiaotao put the design drawing away. At least it was a success now, and he was awarded 300 credits.

Just keep improving it in the future.

He also has a direction for improvement, which is to refer to the thermal cycle technology of gas turbines, pressurize the exhaust gas generated by the engine and reuse it to improve the efficiency of the gas.

If it still doesn't work, then just do it like the turbojet ramjet and put a compressor on it. I don't believe that the power cannot be increased.

Yang Xiaotao felt that after doing these, the system's rating would never be good-bad again.

"The revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades, you still need to work hard."

With a sigh, Yang Xiaotao packed up the design drawings and went home for dinner.

When they went out, they saw Li Hongfeng coming out, so the two of them walked out together.

"Old Li, I have good news for you."

As soon as Yang Xiaotao finished speaking, Li Hongfeng immediately widened his eyes and asked, "What's the matter? The train has been designed?"

Yang Xiaotao shrugged, "How can it be so fast? I mean, our nine-division women's volleyball team has been selected and can directly participate in the Olympics in Mo City this time."

Li Hongfeng was a little disappointed after hearing this, but he quickly realized that only a few days had passed since the research began.

I was still too concerned and too anxious.

"This is a good thing. We are participating in the Olympics on behalf of the nine departments. We need to promote it well and ensure that all the benefits are given."

Li Hongfeng quickly adjusted himself and talked about the subsequent arrangements. Yang Xiaotao suddenly laughed and said casually, "I have already designed the train."

Li Hongfeng was stunned and couldn't react.

Then he looked at Yang Xiaotao's smug expression. He knew that he was fooled by this guy, but after his previous loss of composure, he was much calmer now and asked calmly, "Did you make it?"

Yang Xiaotao nodded.

The calmness on Li Hongfeng's face quickly disappeared, replaced by excitement in his heart.

"but."

Yang Xiaotao spoke again, which made Li Hongfeng suppress his excitement and listen carefully to what Yang Xiaotao said next.

"However, this newly designed engine is a bit crude and does not meet my expectations. It needs further improvement."

Hearing this, Li Hongfeng nodded, thinking that this is right.

If such a big thing could be made in ten days or half a month, then he would really doubt whether the thing could be used.

Hearing Yang Xiaotao say this, Li Hongfeng immediately spoke to comfort him, "Don't worry, don't worry, the shield machine hasn't been made yet."

"Take your time and try to do your best. I'll take care of the rest."

Yang Xiaotao nodded without saying anything. The two of them left the office building. Yang Xiaotao watched Li Hongfeng walk towards his residence and couldn't help but ask, "Old Li, isn't your sister-in-law here yet?"

Li Hongfeng stopped and turned back to smile, "She's busy, so she won't come over for now."

"It's getting dark, you should go home quickly."

Then he waved to Yang Xiaotao and walked towards his residence.

Yang Xiaotao watched Li Hongfeng walk away, then walked towards the carport.

"Yang Department!"

Wang Hao was waiting in front of the car. When he saw Yang Xiaotao coming, he quickly opened the door.

"Wang Hao, do you know about Secretary Li's lover?"

The two drove out of the gate and Yang Xiaotao asked casually.

Wang Hao nodded. "I heard from Director Liang that Secretary Li's wife cooks for the workers there."

"Then why don't you come to Sijiu City?"

"I'm not sure about that, but Secretary Li's salary for the past few months has basically been mailed out, and even our factory's benefits are gone."

Wang Hao said with some admiration, "Last time I went to help Secretary Li clean up his house, there was only one box in the house full of clothes for changing, one set for winter and one set for summer. If it weren't for our work clothes being distributed, he would have nothing to change into."

Wang Hao was talking to himself while Yang Xiaotao was sitting in the back watching the night gradually enveloping him.

The stars are twinkling, dotted the night sky.

They are not as bright as the moon, but they are hotter and brighter than the moon.

After returning to the courtyard, Yang Xiaotao came home, put down his things, and then went to the kitchen to take the shovel from Ran Qiuye.

Without waiting for Ran Qiuye to ask, Yang Xiaotao told her that the women's volleyball team had advanced and would represent the nine departments in the Olympics. Ran Qiuye was very happy to hear that.

The only pity is that I can’t go to cheer for the women’s volleyball team.

As for TV broadcasts, maybe other countries will have them, but definitely not in China.

"It's okay. When the women's volleyball team comes back, we'll arrange an internal match and go watch it then."

Yang Xiaotao comforted him and continued to work.

Ran Qiuye didn't have to watch it, she just wanted to cheer for her female compatriots and show the elegance of Chinese women.

After a night's rest, I discussed the relationship between size and volume with my wife again, and then continued to work on improving the train engine the next day.

And time passed in this repetitive life until the end of August.

The Olympic teams have already set off.

Before leaving, Yang Xiaotao and Yang Youning, on behalf of the nine departments, personally saw off the women's volleyball team. In addition to words of encouragement, they also gave each person a down jacket, a towel, and a backpack.

These were previously exchanged by the Ninth Department from foreign trade, and were originally intended to be rewards for outstanding workers.

In addition, Yang Xiaotao specially took out some money from the nine departments' funds and gave each of them 200 US dollars as their "pocket money".

At the same time, he jokingly gave out a reward list, saying that if they could make it out of the group stage, each person would be rewarded with 100 yuan.

If you can make it to the quarterfinals, each person will get 200 yuan; if you make it to the semifinals, it will be 300 yuan.

If you can get a medal, you will get 500 for bronze, 600 for silver, and 1,000 directly for gold.

At that time, this operation surprised the athletes who were traveling with him, and then they became a little envious.

You know, this is equivalent to more than 500 yuan. In this era when the salary is less than 50 yuan, this is a year's income.

If you try harder, you'll get at least 600 yuan.

For a moment, everyone became envious and then looked towards the organization they belonged to.

Unfortunately, these organizations are not as rich as the Ninth Department, nor as decisive as Yang Xiaotao.

This also made many people regret why they didn’t join the nine departments in the first place?
The women's volleyball team members were very moved when they received the supplies and pocket money.

They know why they were selected this time, they were just runners-up.

Even they themselves don't have much confidence, they just don't say it.

But unexpectedly, there are still people who remember them and encourage them.

This not only moved the women's volleyball team, but also made them more determined.

We must give it our all in this Olympics.

After seeing off the participating teams, Yang Xiaotao continued to study train engines.

A sixteen-cylinder diesel engine had already been made, but it did not meet Yang Xiaotao's needs.

In particular, the evaluation given by the system was only slightly better than passing, which Yang Xiaotao could not accept.

So, during this period, Yang Xiaotao began to refer to the design of gas turbines and started to add gas pressurization recovery devices.

But the gas turbines of this train are different from those of ships.

There are differences between a diesel engine and an aircraft engine.

So after working on the gas turbine for a while, there was still no progress.

In desperation, Yang Xiaotao had to start from scratch, abandon the influence of gas turbines, and embark on a new research path.

The sun rises and sets, and in the blink of an eye another half moon has passed.

Time has come to September, and the autumn girl's steps are cheering and telling the hard-working people that the time for harvest has come.

Yang Xiaotao sent Ran Qiuye and the child back to Yangjiazhuang.

In September, students also started a new semester.

In the fields, yellow corn cobs with dark ears hanging down lie across the wheat stalks, like soldiers with swords, waiting to unsheathe them.

When Yang Xiaotao came back, Grandpa Yang was watching over the corn cobs that were drying in the threshing yard.

Today, Yangjiacun Farm is responsible for breeding hybrid varieties, so every step needs to be done carefully.

Fortunately, the villagers have formed the habit and are proceeding in an orderly manner guided by their experience.

After staying in Yangjiazhuang for one night, Yang Xiaotao returned to Sijiucheng and started his five-day "single life" for a week.

Night fell again, and Yang Xiaotao was completing the design drawings in the study.

Drawings were modified one after another, and soon the corner was filled with discarded manuscript paper.

Fortunately, these manuscript papers were exchanged by Yang Xiaotao from the system.

Otherwise, if such a large amount of waste was seen by the thrifty teacher Ran, he would be heartbroken.

Yang Xiaotao wrote and drew on the design drawing not without a purpose, but was making modifications based on his past experience.

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Yang Xiaotao made another design drawing. After waiting for a while and hearing no sound from the system, Yang Xiaotao continued.

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After modifying the parameters of several designs, he still didn't achieve the desired effect. Yang Xiaotao resisted the urge to give up and go to bed, and took out another piece of paper.

This time, Yang Xiaotao decided to change the direction of his research.

Success comes little by little, without missing any possibility.

As long as you don't miss it, you will succeed.

So, near midnight, the system's voice arrived as expected.

"Ding, congratulations to the host for successfully designing a train diesel engine. Evaluation level: Good—Up!"

"Ding, congratulations to the host, you got 2000 credits."

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"Two thousand credits is indeed an improvement from last time."

"but"

Yang Xiaotao looked at the finished design and shook his head again, "It's just a good design. It still needs to be improved."