Scholars in the courtyard.

Chapter 2610: -meter shield machine per hour
Papapa

Applause rang out in the empty field, and the surrounding roads and fields were filled with people.

In the crowd, Mr. Huang, Mr. Xia, Mr. Sun and others from the First Ministry of Machine Building were full of enthusiasm.

In the middle, Mr. Chen and the uncle surrounded Mr. Qing (as a substitute) and clapped their hands non-stop.

The smiles on the three of them never stopped.

Yang Xiaotao, Zhang Lao, Qin Lao and others were beside him, also working non-stop.

In front of everyone, a tunnel boring machine like a giant python was rumbling.

Truckloads of soil were transported out from behind the shield machine, then parked beside it and dumped to the side with a loud bang.

Everyone watched with their own eyes as the shield machine drilled deeper and deeper into the mountain. After being shocked, they were even more surprised.

Mr. Qing even ran to the shield machine to check the progress of the work in person. If Mr. Huang and others hadn't stopped him, he would probably have wanted to go in.

As the rumbling sound ended, the test run of the tunnel boring machine was successfully completed.

Then the crowd surrounded the three of them and came to a makeshift platform, which was full of people standing below.

"Reporting to the commander, the test run of the Qianjin shield machine of the First Machinery Department has been completed. Please review it."

Old Xia came to the front of the stage, his back straight, the air in his stomach gushed out, and his voice was loud.

Qing Lao stepped forward and said, "The review begins."

"Yes!"

Mr. Xia immediately came to the side and shouted, "R&D team, please come to the inspection."

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Applause broke out, and not far away, a group of people, in a row of four, walked forward in an orderly manner.

Among the four leaders, Pang Guo was in the middle, holding up a red flag with the word "Forward" written on it.

"Commander, this is our shield machine research team. The flag bearer is Pang Guo, an engineer."

Mr. Huang introduced it on the side and everyone nodded with satisfaction.

Yang Xiaotao stood in the crowd, and Mr. Wang beside him whispered, "Why don't you go down? You provided this blueprint."

Yang Xiaotao shook his head. "They said to the research team, I just provided the design drawings."

Mr. Wang smacked his lips twice, then lowered his head and said again, "Does what we said last time still count?"

Yang Xiaotao was stunned. "What's the matter?"

"It's about building a satellite base together. I'm thinking that maybe in the future it will just be our two families, so why not just work together?"

"What do you think?"

Seeing Mr. Wang's casual look, Yang Xiaotao immediately smiled with eight teeth, "Mr. Wang, you are absolutely right, I think so too."

"We are heroes who think alike."

Mr. Wang grinned when he heard this.

The two of them were talking in low voices, and Old Qin came over and said, "What are you two plotting? Tell the truth."

"Go away, why are you everywhere?"

Old Wang gets angry whenever he sees Old Qin now, and today he came here and ignored him.

Everything was going well, we were all brothers in distress.

As a result, this guy ran on another track, and most importantly, he overtook others on the curve and got the fat meat.

As for him, he could only continue to eat the steamed buns.

Who can feel good about this?

"Old Wang, you are boring now."

Old Qin naturally understood what was going on with Old Wang's expression, but he didn't indulge him. He said directly, "This man needs to know his own limitations. If you compete with Old Huang and Old Zhang, can you win over them?"

"And this kid, his butt is already sitting crooked, what good can you expect from him?"

Yang Xiaotao, who was listening from the side, felt that he had suffered an unexpected disaster.

You two were arguing, why did you come to me?

"Go away, I don't want to talk to you."

Mr. Wang crossed his arms over his chest, looking as if he didn't care.

However, Yang Xiaotao still explained on behalf of Mr. Wang, "Mr. Qin, Mr. Wang meant to blame you for not telling him in advance."

"If you tell him, the position in the Ministry of Health will be his."

Old Qin was stunned for a moment, then said disdainfully, "Dream on. Even if I tell him, he doesn't have the ability to do it."

After hearing this, Mr. Wang put down his hands and looked fierce, "Old Qin, I don't like what you said."

"I'm not as good as the eldest brother, the third brother, and the ninth brother. Why should I be afraid of you, who is in charge of logistics?"

"Hey, Xiao Qi, don't disbelieve me, how about we go to the Ministry of Health and try it?"

"Cough cough~~"

Just as the two were arguing, a cough was heard from the side.

The three of them looked over and saw that Old Chen turned around and glared at them, "You three go to the back and wait."

Mr. Wang and Mr. Qin glanced at each other and then walked away.

Yang Xiaotao pointed at himself and then pointed behind him, wanting to explain, but when Mr. Chen looked at him, he had no choice but to follow him and walk back.

This is really an unexpected disaster for me.

"What are you two whispering about?"

When they got to the back, it was easier for the three of them to talk.

Old Qin took out a cigarette and handed it to Old Wang. Old Wang took it reluctantly, and then Old Qin lit it up.

"Nothing!"

Mr. Wang still didn't want to say.

"Lao Wang, you are ready now. I have given you the cigarettes and lit the fire. What else do you want?"

Yang Xiaotao stepped forward quickly, "Mr. Qin, this is not a big deal. Mr. Wang just said that he would cooperate with our nine departments to choose a place to build a satellite launch base."

After Yang Xiaotao finished speaking, Old Qin immediately opened his mouth wide.

"You, you guys, you guys are in collusion?"

"Can you talk?"

Old Wang stared at them, and Old Qin smiled and asked, "Well, you two should go with us and take our logistics department with you. We will provide people and supplies when we need them."

After hearing this, Mr. Wang and Yang Xiaotao looked at each other. Yang Xiaotao looked indifferent. After all, after the cooperation, he only wanted the convenience of launching the satellite, and the rest would be decided by the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building.

Mr. Wang quickly figured it out, and then asked contemptuously, "Old Qin, do you have money?"

Qin Ming pulled his neck back and said, "Old Wang, who are you looking down on? Just tell me the number."

After hearing this, Mr. Wang chuckled and stretched out five fingers.

"How much, five million?"

Old Qin asked indifferently.

"Five million? You're sending away beggars."

Old Wang said disdainfully, "I tell you, at least fifty million, and that's just the construction cost. There's also equipment maintenance, system upgrades, and so on and so forth."

"This is the result of cooperation with the nine departments. Otherwise, it would cost at least 100 million. If the base construction is not good, 200 million will not be enough."

Old Qin looked at Yang Xiaotao, who nodded slightly and then clasped his fists. "You two can have fun. Bye." Then he walked to the side and looked at the viewing stand.

Yang Xiaotao curiously asked Wang Lao, "Old Wang, do you really need so much money?"

Mr. Wang nodded and said, "This is still the minimum. If the location is not good, the money will be much higher."

“Is choosing a site so difficult?”

Yang Xiaotao asked doubtfully, crossing his arms.

Old Wang smoked a cigarette and nodded, "We can't just choose the site randomly. We have to consider weather changes, terrain, floods, volcanoes, earthquakes, etc. All of these need to be investigated."

"In addition, it is necessary to build a launch site, command center, data analysis center, etc. nearby, which requires the choice of terrain."

"You think you can just find a place to put the rocket up?"

"That's a missile, not a rocket."

“Rocket launches are very delicate”

While Mr. Wang was still talking, Yang Xiaotao was thinking quickly in his mind how to describe the future Sichuan Shizhou Satellite Launch Center.

After all, that was verified after many successful launches in later generations.

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Just as the two were discussing in a low voice, there was a burst of violent applause from the front.

The two of them quickly calmed their minds and concentrated.

Then I heard Master Qing speaking in front of the stage.

"Comrades, congratulations on independently completing my country's first shield machine."

"This is a shield machine. From design to assembly, every component is domestically produced. It is the result of your hard work and the crystallization of our industrial wisdom."

"At the same time, it also means that my country will become the seventh country in the world that can independently research shield machines."

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"Comrades, your achievements are remarkable."

"It took only two hours of trial operation to dig a nearly eight-meter cave. This is a very remarkable achievement and a day that all our workers should be proud of."

Papapa

Applause started again.

After Mr. Qing finished his speech, he ended the inspection and came to the side of the shield machine, tapping it from time to time and asking about the structure of the shield machines on both sides.

Pang Guo was arranged by Mr. Xia to accompany him so that he could talk to the leaders at close range. Pang Guo felt like his heart was about to beat out and he could not speak clearly.

Mr. Huang was even pulled aside by Mr. Wu, who kept asking how long it would take to produce one such tunnel boring machine.

Mr. Huang also understood Mr. Wu's thoughts, so he explained, "With our current technical strength and resources, it will take us one to one and a half years to complete one."

"But if we increase investment, we can shorten the time."

Mr. Wu thought the time Mr. Huang mentioned was acceptable.

A shield machine can dig four to five meters per hour. It works half of the day, or twelve hours, and digs forty to fifty meters.

Just calculate it as 50 meters, 50 meters a day.

It only takes ten days to pass a 500-meter-high hill.

If humans were to dig this out, it would take several months to complete.

This thing is really great.

"But it's not cheap."

Mr. Huang decided to give a warning: Don’t place an order just because it’s cheap. This model costs money.

"how much is it?"

Mr. Wu asked casually.

Mr. Huang also held up five fingers, and Mr. Wu asked tentatively, "Five hundred thousand?"

"No, it's five million."

Mr. Wu almost bit his tongue.

"Five million? Are you kidding?"

Mr. Huang nodded seriously, "Would I joke about this? If you don't believe me, you can check it out."

Mr. Wu opened his mouth, but finally gritted his teeth and said, "Let's order two first."

Now it was Mr. Huang's turn to be shocked. This railway was really rich.

"But he has to hurry up and give it to us after the New Year."

Mr. Huang thought about it and agreed.

This is fat meat right at your fingertips.

After the two of them finished discussing and finalized the cooperation matters, they returned to the team.

Everyone accompanied the three of them to look at the scene again before getting in the car and leaving.

After returning to Sijiu City, Yang Xiaotao separated from everyone else and returned to Jiubu alone.

As the news of the completion of the tunnel boring machine spread, pictures of the machine were published in newspapers the next day, along with Qing Lao's words: the seventh country to be able to successfully carry out independent research.

For a time, many people in the country were asking what this tunnel boring machine was.

However, the Ministry of First Machine Industry was in a state of cheering excitement, with its people jumping and cheering.

Some people even shouted that it was finally their turn.

In the past, every time I saw news reported in the newspaper, it was from the Ninth Ministry or the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building. Although they were the largest Ministry of Machine Building, they didn’t report very often.

As for the Red Star Machinery Factory and the place where Yang Xiaotao and his colleagues worked, they were all transferred to the Ninth Ministry of Machine Building.

But the happiest people were the railway workers who worked hard to dig the tunnel.

When a newspaper was circulated among the men who were resting, pairs of red eyes looked at the rough palms with bloody calluses, and tears fell.

Tunnel boring machine.

A machine that can dig caves very quickly.

People inside only need to operate the machine.

And it's safe.

Are they going to have such a good machine soon?

I suddenly felt touched.

They are not fighting alone, there is a group of people behind them who support them and try every possible way to help them.

In, thinking of them.

"Comrades, let's get to work!"

As a horn sounded, everyone wiped away their tears, picked up hammers and chisels again, and walked towards the cave.

Only this time, everyone was smiling at each other and talking about the future tunnel boring machines.

Yanzhou.

When Li Hongfeng saw the picture of the tunnel boring machine in the newspaper, he still couldn't believe it.

But after calling Yang Xiaotao, he stayed in the room alone for the whole afternoon.

When he came out again, the security personnel who followed him felt that Secretary Li had become a different person.

The whole person feels more energetic and vigorous.