A nation's industrial development begins with junior engineers.

"It's a beautiful day today..."

After playing with the children all day, Jiang Xia hummed a song as he returned to his office at the Comprehensive Machinery Factory in the morning.

Indeed, people still need a proper embellishment in life. After talking with those little girls and boys, Jiang Xia's growing weariness was also severely suppressed after these children inadvertently revealed some unknown past stories of their parents.

Jiang Xia asked himself, if he were in the same situation as those predecessors, would he make the same choices?

The answer is not optimistic.

Yes, even if Jiang Xia knew about and even experienced that bright future, the enemy's madness and cruelty during the darkest days before dawn simply crossed the line.

In that environment, Jiang Xia didn't think he could be as resolute as his predecessors. They were truly seeking light in darkness where they couldn't see the future...

So, what to do?

The only way is to work yourself to the bone!

Only in this way can we live up to the sacrifices of our predecessors!

Upon arriving at the factory, Jiang Xia first greeted Yang Youning. Yang Erlengzi, busy as a bee with dark circles under his eyes, stared blankly at Jiang Xia and exclaimed, "I thought it was that old geezer coming back..."

"Hey, they've only been gone for two days and you're already missing them?"

"I didn't think much of it at first, but after taking over his job, I realized that it wasn't so bad that the bastard ate a lot..."

"Tsk tsk, red and blue have always been a perfect match. Didn't the higher-ups say they'd assign you a deputy or something?"

"What pairing?" Yang Erlengzi scratched his head: "They offered it, but I turned it down. I won't do something like that—they leave after the fact!"

"So we still don't have a Party Secretary?"

"Factory director responsibility system, what need is there for a Party secretary... Get out of here, go do your own thing. I'm thinking about what else I can give Old Gabadou..."

Hmm? You've thought this through so thoroughly?

Jiang Xia didn't know what Minister Xia was thinking. Perhaps he didn't want to break the strangely harmonious atmosphere at the Comprehensive Machinery Plant. After Li Huaide left, he didn't make any personnel adjustments here.

However, Xiao Dai Mao only had a vague understanding of this matter. After taking some candy coupons and a few packs of cigarettes from Yang Er Lengzi's "treasure trove," he left and went straight to his office to make a phone call.

First, he contacted a row of factories and research institutes in Northeast China, asking them to report on the latest progress of the "laser gyroscope." He had made a promise to Dean Qian about this project, and with more than half the time gone by, the progress on the project schedule hadn't increased, so Jiang Xia was getting anxious.

When Dean Qian criticizes people, he can be so scathing that you just want to crawl into the earth's crust.

When the experimental data from various research institutes and factories were compiled, Xiao Dai Mao's heart, which had been burning with inspiration from the deeds of his predecessors, suddenly turned somewhat cold.

Well, in other words, Little Ao Mao messed up this time! He took too big a step, and it really backfired!

Once the laser emitter is made, can the laser gyroscope be developed?

Innocent!

Leaving aside the design of the ring laser resonator, researchers are still struggling with finding a suitable gain medium for the ring resonator using helium-neon gas provided by Jiangxia.

Not to mention the high-reflectivity mirror coating required for the fabrication of the ring resonator. To put it simply, the blue light blocking glasses you're currently wearing and showing off use this technology. If you were to buy them directly from the manufacturer, you could get several pairs for a thousand yuan. Currently, China simply cannot produce such a product!

The thermos equipment factory in Northeast China was driven crazy by the requirement of a reflectivity of over 99.99%.

The factory manager, who used to be so confident and reliable, is now so frustrated he can't even cry.

"I was so focused on the fact that it couldn't be replaced, but I didn't realize how difficult the process was!"

But there's no way around it; it's difficult, but we have to do it. After all, you were the one who jumped around and took on this task.

Don't blame Jiang Xia for assigning this task to them in the first place. As for vacuum coating, the only company in China that can currently do it is this thermos factory in Northeast China.

The factory manager on the other end of the phone said with a pained expression, "Hey, Engineer Jiang, all I was thinking of at the beginning was coating. We have a vacuum coating machine from Russia in our factory. I thought completing the task you assigned would be a piece of cake with that machine..."

"So there's a problem with the manufacturing process?"

"It's not exactly a problem," the equipment factory manager stammered on the other end of the line.

"Speak boldly! Whatever the problem, I'll handle it!"

Hearing Xiao Jiang's confident tone, the factory manager felt reassured: "The coating material isn't pure enough! We're currently using aluminum, but the aluminum-coated film oxidizes and turns black easily. However, these are all easily solved. Recently, the technicians suggested using a combination of aluminum and silicon dioxide. The most difficult part is controlling the thickness of the coating during production. Even with our most experienced master craftsman, the yield rate is only 1%..."

"It's simple. You're making it sound so complicated when a film thickness measuring device could handle it. You also need high-purity aluminum, right? I'll contact Ansteel to see if they have the necessary preparation facilities. Anything else?"

"Hey, there's also the issue of film thickness gradient. Do you have any further suggestions?"

"Hey, is the base rotation mechanism of your coating machine manual?"

"How do you know?"

"Nonsense, the film thickness gradient problem can be solved by manual energy conversion. Wasn't the same problem already solved during silicon crystal production? Dr. Lan Ying's crystal stretching device just needs to be modified horizontally!"

"Huh? What Dr. Lan Ying, what crystal stretching..."

Well, Jiangxia was speechless. Research in China these days is sometimes really messed up; everyone's just doing their own thing behind closed doors.

"Alright, I'll send you a copy of those blueprints. Hey, do you have any big yellow ones?"

The factory manager of "Nothing" Equipment Factory was in tears. For the first time, he wondered if participating in the Jinjiang project had been too presumptuous... Crystal stretching, silicon crystals—it all sounded so high-tech. The only thing he understood was the name "Big Yellow" (a type of yellow crystal). After all, it had been reported in the newspapers for three consecutive days...

But, as a thermos factory, they are not qualified to use rhubarb at all!

"Jiang Gong, I have a technician here who's currently delivering goods to the department store. Should I have him come find you?" If they don't have Da Huang, they'll use someone else. The equipment factory manager's mind worked incredibly fast.

"Oh, that works too. What's your surname? I'll need to issue an entry pass to the security guards."

"His surname is Gao, and his given name is Bolong..."

"puff……"

"Jiang, what's wrong?"

Jiang Xia waved his hand, regardless of whether the other side could see him or not: "It's alright, it's alright, just ask him to come over as soon as he's done. The food at the machinery factory has been pretty good lately, we can even treat him to a couple of drinks..."

"Hehe, then I'll have to trouble you, Engineer Jiang. My nephew is quite eager to learn, so I'd appreciate it if you could explain things to him more..."

"I'll contact him right away. He should be delivering the goods at the department store right now, and it should be finished by noon!"

The factory manager was a shrewd man; he naturally understood why the department store was going to such lengths to purchase thermos flasks from them.

Isn't this a form of indirect support for their participation in the research at Jiangxi University of Science and Technology? You know, these days, department stores are state-owned enterprises!

Therefore, he was overjoyed that his nephew had been able to get into Jiangxi University of Science and Technology.

But little did he know that Little Doe was even happier than him, so happy he was almost shouting!

After hanging up the phone, Xiao Dai Mao was in tears. If it weren't for the same name, what would I have said to this laser expert? Everyone else's tech tree is all focused on laser research.

It's all settled, it's all settled. Not only the laser gyroscope, but maybe even the laser rangefinder that we were bragging about to the armored troops can be solved at the same time!

In high spirits, Jiang Xia used his privilege for the first time to greet Chef Nan Yi in the cafeteria, saying that he had an important guest and asked him to bring out his best cooking skills.

He then called the security department: "Old Wang, I have something..."

"Jiang Gong! The section chief isn't here! I'm Hong Jun!"

"Oh, a guy named Bolong might be coming to our factory. I'll get him an entry pass in a bit, could you please help me receive him?"

"Okay, Engineer Jiang, no problem, Engineer Jiang. But we're short-handed for the reception! The director just asked us to help him out!"

"what?"