Yanjing, Huaqing University.
In the office of the dean of the Department of Mechanical and Engineering, you can see the half-torn calendar from the wall. Today is May 16, 1982.
"Haha, Wang Ye, where have you finally decided to go?"
"Tell me, are you going to stay and continue your studies for a Ph.D.? Or are you going to go to a ministry? I've also reserved your publicly funded study abroad spot for you. Are you going to apply to MIT or Stanford?"
"Or are you planning to work in a foreign company?"
"I heard that the domestic branches of Siemens, Krupp, and Panasonic have offered you generous offers. There is a difference between scientific research and production. It's not bad to go to a company to get some training."
In the office, I saw a kind and honest-looking old man sitting behind the desk, holding an enamel tea jar and saying with a smile. This is Sun Canghai, the dean of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Huaqing, who specializes in the fields of mechanical engineering and mechatronics of Huaxia University. The top bull.
On the opposite side, there is a tall and handsome young man. He is wearing an old and slightly yellowed but cleanly starched white shirt. The sleeves are partially rolled up and paired with a pair of green trousers. The whole person looks... Neat and neat.
"No, teacher."
"I made a report to the National Small and Medium-sized Military Industrial Units' Military-to-Civilian Reform Office of the Fifth Ministry of Machinery."
"Apply to become the director of the Red Star Machinery Factory in Luqi Province."
When Dean Sun Canghai heard the words "Red Star Machinery Factory", the cheerful expression on his face instantly solidified. Then he changed from joy to shock, and then from shock to rage. He slapped the table and shouted:
"Nonsense! Play the piano randomly!"
"Wang Ye, are you crazy?"
"Red Star Machinery Factory? The Red Star Machinery Factory that ranks last among the more than 200 small and medium-sized military industrial units in the country?"
"What kind of good place do you think that is? Let me tell you! It's a hole that hasn't been dug out in twenty years. It's full of shit! Others avoid it, but you took the initiative to stick there!"
"You still volunteered? What kind of hero do you think you are? Everyone else looks at you as a fool! Waiting to see your jokes!"
"No, absolutely not! I don't agree!"
"Zhou Liejin and I are not done with him. How dare he cheat my students like this? I will go to him now and tell him clearly in person. I want to see what he thinks and how he became the deputy minister! "
"Why should a top student who graduated from Huaqing University be the director of a half-dead military factory?"
"This is a huge waste of talent!"
"It's the most ridiculous thing in the world!"
Facing his teacher's roar, Wang Ye lowered his head and remained silent. Finally, when Dean Sun Canghai who was sitting there was tired of scolding, Wang Ye raised his head with a smile and said:
"Teacher, I have already decided, please don't try to persuade me."
Hearing what Wang Ye said, Sun Canghai, who was sitting there, sighed helplessly.
Sun Canghai can say that he is extremely satisfied with his student. As one of the first batch of candidates after the resumption of the college entrance examination, Wang Ye's knowledge is extremely solid and he completed all his undergraduate and graduate studies in just five years.
During this period, he showed strong learning ability and scientific research talent, and participated in many national-level military projects. At the same time, he was flexible and not pedantic, and was practical and reliable. He originally trained Wang Ye as a close disciple, but he didn't I thought it would end like this in the end!
It is precisely because of this that Sun Canghai also knows very well that geniuses are proud. They have their own temperament and persistence, and it is difficult to change their decision-making ideas.
"Reason, I need a reason."
"If you can convince me, I will sign your transfer order and let you go. Otherwise, you can go find the principal to sign it!"
Finally, Dean Sun Canghai took a sip from the enamel jar, looked into Wang Ye's eyes and said this. Under the dean's sharp and oppressive gaze, Wang Ye actually smiled and said:
"Teacher, you agree that military factories need to be reformed.
"Since reform is needed, then someone needs to do it. Since it must be done by someone, why can't that person be me?"
"And I'm confident I can do it better than everyone else!"
As soon as these words came out, Dean Sun Canghai who was sitting there laughed angrily, looked at Wang Ye and sneered:
"Anyway, you are confident!"
"Anyway, you are already a bastard who is determined to take the weight. My advice to you is definitely useless."
"Since you must do it, then go ahead and do it!"
"But remember, no matter what the final result is, Huaqing will always welcome you back. This will always be your home. Failure is not shameful, but failure to accept failure is shameful."
"I guess you've already gotten the transfer order, right? Bring it over and I'll sign and seal it for you."
With the words of the old dean, Wang Ye, who was standing there, breathed a sigh of relief. He quickly took out a piece of white paper from his pocket and handed it over. The old dean took it and wrote a few words and stamped it. Then he folded it up and handed it to Wang Ye. Finally, he waved his hand impatiently and said:
"Go quickly, I'm afraid I'll regret it later!"
Picking up the transfer order signed and sealed from the table to represent Huaqing University's release, Wang Ye bowed seriously and said:
"Thank you, teacher, for your years of training in me. I'm leaving!"
After that, he left the office without looking back. When the office door closed, Wang Ye outside the door had already burst into tears!
They say fate plays tricks on people, but Wang Ye never imagined that he, who was already over seventy years old at that time, could actually cross the barrier of time and return to the era that he most dreamed about fifty years later!
In the past time and space, after Wang Ye graduated, he entered the Ministry of Ordnance Industry, which was renamed from the Fifth Ministry of Machinery. Later, in 1986, the Ministry of Ordnance Industry was abolished, and Wang Ye entered the Ministry of Aerospace Industry. Finally, he served the country incognito for more than thirty years and became " Chief engineer of the Nantianmen project.
But in this life, Wang Ye made a completely different choice than before.
Because Wang Ye, who has experienced this era, knows very well that in the next twenty years or so, this country will develop rapidly in a vigorous and brutal way until it completely takes off, heading towards the prosperity and strength that countless people have longed for for a hundred years, and realizing it. The rejuvenation of China that generations of people have sacrificed their lives and blood to pursue.
But such rapid development comes at a price!
From a domestic perspective.
Because of the existence of the dual-track economic system, the market is extremely chaotic. Problems such as the loss of state-owned assets, making something worse than buying it, trading the market for technology, exaggerating or even counterfeiting technological achievements occur frequently and repeatedly.
Under the influence of these factors, even forty years later, China is still weak in the field of high-end manufacturing. Precision machine tools, microelectronic chips, aerospace engines and many other high-end manufacturing fields are still subject to others!
Internationally speaking.
Although the United States and the Soviet Union have basically reached a consensus on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and trying not to engage in a nuclear war in recent years, the world seems to have fallen into a brief period of peace and stability.
But from a historical observer’s perspective, this is not the case!
Because the United States has already started the Star Wars plan, targeting the weak economy of the Soviet Union, and is preparing to use arms and space races to bring down this mortal enemy in a more "peaceful" way.
At the same time, the United States, with its fleet across the four oceans and countless military bases spread across six continents, vigorously promoted the dollar-oil economic system, trying to suppress the Soviet economy while harvesting global wealth for its own use and building a new world economic order.
Looking back at the Soviet Union, although the economy is empty and the people's livelihood is poor, the military is still extremely powerful. Millions of steel are on standby, and countless intercontinental nuclear weapons are ready to go. It is tit-for-tat with the United States on a global scale and never gives in.
So on a global scale.
The two major hegemons, the United States and the Soviet Union, are constantly competing for territory, openly or covertly supporting various agents and puppet governments. Various overt and covert struggles have never stopped. Countless wars have been ignited and extinguished, but they have never stopped.
As for China, it took advantage of the relatively stable international situation to focus on economic development and military defense. There was even a saying that making rockets was not as good as selling tea eggs. Countless scientists, engineers and senior technicians in the military industry system changed careers!
But no one can guess it.
On that day nine years later, the Soviet Union, the extremely powerful overlord, the former big brother, and one of the two poles of the world, will collapse on an ordinary night with the flag of the Kremlin landing!
Then China and four other small countries suddenly became aliens on this planet. As the largest of the five countries, they had to face crazy economic sanctions and military sanctions from Western countries led by the United States. threats and intimidation.
It can even be said that without the "assist" sent by the desert area around the new century, which greatly delayed the pace of Millikin, everything would have been unknown!
It was also at that time that everyone deeply understood how correct the teacher's words were. The barrel of the gun is the most important thing.
It is a pity that during the nearly two decades of the 1980s and 1990s, under the model of economic development as the core, military spending was seriously insufficient, which led to the cancellation of countless military projects and the stagnation of military technology.
The less time you use the weapon, the less you will regret it!
Thinking of this, Wang Ye raised his head with a smile on his face. After wiping away his tears, his eyes became firm again.
"You don't even know about my little stick."
"Can you leverage this era full of opportunities and challenges?"
This is also the fundamental reason why Wang Ye took the initiative to apply to be the director of Hongxing Machinery Factory.
After all, the country's development wave is vast and will not be diverted by one's own willpower. And judging from past history, it cannot be said that China's development method with economic construction as the core has problems, so Wang Ye stayed in Yanjing Meaningless.
But for me, who has memories of the past and masters technology beyond this era, time and freedom are the most important!
Thinking of this, Wang Ye opened the transfer order in his hand and saw the old dean's handwriting in the blank space:
"The long pass and the long road are really like iron. Now I'm going to cross them from the beginning. Let's encourage you together!"
At that moment, Wang Ye no longer had any doubts in his heart, only the excitement and longing to be involved in a great cause. He couldn't help but laugh heartily and left the corridor.
