When they set foot on the land of California, Song Tiecheng, Wu Zhiyuan, Wu Cheng, and Zhao Xin, carrying two large suitcases, felt that everything was very novel. There were many things on the streets that they could not see in China, especially the cars running all over the streets.
"Boss Gao, there are a lot of cars here. Look, there is a long-tail tram over there. Shall we take it and go in a while? That flashing light over there is so strange. Why do those cars stop when they see a red light? Already?"
Song Tiecheng had no feelings for the blue-eyed, yellow-haired foreigners on the streets. After all, he had fought with Smith for more than a year, and he had seen all kinds of black, white, and strange races in the Allied Forces. Quite a few.
But with so many cars and cars running on the street, flashing red and green lights are needed to control them. Song Tiecheng saw this for the first time.
This kind of prosperity has never been seen in China before.
"That's a traffic light. When the light is red, stop and wait for the other car to leave. The same is true for people. You can leave when the light turns green." Gao Jianwu explained with a smile. "When you get here, don't run around. If you don't understand the language, you can easily be arrested as stowaways. If you really get separated, go find (Chinatown) and read it after me."
Gao Jianwu demonstrated the English pronunciation of Chinatown to Song Tiecheng and the others, but it was obvious that the four bodyguards, who had no basic knowledge at all, spent a long time learning the word in confusion without pronouncing the word.
"Forget it, let's not worry about it. Remember to bring a map with you when you go out. Let's look at the map to find the way to Chinatown.
If that doesn't work, I'll write another note for you to take with you. When you get really lost and can't find your way back, you can take the note out and ask someone for directions, and then I'll take you to Chinatown. "Seeing that these four guys were so suffocated that they were blushing and had thick necks, and couldn't do anything about it, Gao Jianwu gave up his struggle.
"But this kind of thing should rarely happen. Our first stop today is to go to Chinatown. After meeting up with the comrades working here, you will either follow me or come with comrades working there when you go out to do business. You don't have to worry about getting lost. .”
Relying on Smith's relationship, Gao Jianwu and the others applied for passports and visas for the Americas. As Allied officers, they flew on a B-29 Super Fortress bomber from Bay Island to Guam, then transferred to Hawaii and then to the Los Angeles base, where they were sent to Los Angeles streets.
In order not to attract attention, after getting off the plane, Gao Jianwu and the others changed into suits to make it easier to walk in America.
At the same time, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Gao Jianwu marked his business status on his passport and visa, and brought several people to America to do business.
Although the two sides are now allies, Gao Jianwu has to do a lot of things this time. He wants to take advantage of the fact that the relationship between the two parties is still good to take away all the talents who can be taken away.
Once Gao Jianwu accomplishes this, it will no longer be a trivial matter.
Before coming, Gao Jianwu also used 5,000 oceans to exchange for 2,000 U.S. dollars, which was considered as funds for activities here. After all, they would be here for several months. This amount of money was not much, but it was still a lot. Even if There is a connection point here, so Gao Jianwu and the others still carry some swords with them in case of emergencies.
After all, American knives are really valuable at this time. 1 knife is 1 gram of gold and can buy more than 170 kilograms of rice, which is enough to feed a family of three for a month.
Their first target was Chinatown, where they wanted to find the activity base of the American working group sent by the Nanyang working group and obtain first-hand information on the distribution of overseas students.
Although Gao Jianwu has no special requirements for the nationality of the talents recruited this time, under the current circumstances, except for the personnel sent by his own country to study abroad, which are relatively easy to mobilize, it is difficult for top talents from Europe to the Americas to be deceived by Gao Jianwu into going to China. .
After all, in the eyes of the world's top experts, China is still a technological desert, and it is impossible to carry out world-class top scientific research activities.
Perhaps only overseas students from China would not dislike it. Since the establishment of the Americas Working Group, their work has been very effective. They have mobilized hundreds of scientific and technical personnel to return to China and play a mainstay role in various factories in Jinyang.
But this is not enough. These scientific and technical personnel are engaged in relatively mature fields, such as the five small factories for which Gao Jianwu provided technical support, updates and iterations of hydraulic generators and thermal generators as well as various engines, metallurgical synthesis of special steels, communication products, machine tools, tanks and fighter jets production and improvement work.
Of course, these technologies are only relatively mature in Gao Jianwu's eyes, but they are actually top-notch domestically and considered first-class internationally. Without these returned scientific and technical personnel, the iterative improvements of many products would not be as fast as they are now.
Engines such as automobiles and motorcycles have benefited from the processing capabilities and new material properties of current machine tool products, and have quickly achieved second or even third-generation improvements. That is because these technicians understand the progress of new engine technologies in this industry, so New models coming soon.
The problem is that what Gao Jianwu wants to do now are new things that are unheard of in the world. Even the simplest-looking transistor computer would take at least ten years to be built in the original time and space. It is already top-notch. As for China, almost no one has the concept of what a computer is!
After all, von Neumann's computer system concept has not yet been proposed.
But now that Gao Jianwu has the transistor manufacturing technology and the complete design of a transistor computer, he is the person in the world who has the best chance of realizing this computer in advance.
It is with such an arduous mission that Gao Jianwu is particularly looking forward to this trip to the Americas.
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On Broadway Street, there is an ordinary red five-story building with a few golden traditional Chinese characters and a string of English words on it, "Nanyang Chamber of Commerce". This is the destination of Gao Jianwu and his party.
"Boss Gao, there, there!" Song Tiecheng had good eyesight and spotted the familiar words on the plaques from a distance.
Two middle-aged men were standing at the door. They were looking around at the passers-by. When they saw Song Tiecheng shouting, they couldn't help but their eyes lit up and they hurried over to greet him!
"Boss Gao, Boss Gao!" Song Qing shouted from afar.
Gao Jianwu raised his head and saw Song Qingyuan's familiar face. He couldn't help but smile and waved to him.
When the Americas became the most important overseas sector for the Nanyang Working Group to open up, Song Qingyuan personally went to the Americas to preside over the work. Whether it is raising funds, recruiting talents, or purchasing many electronic components that are in short supply, the Americas Working Group is now very busy.
Now they have thousands of people scattered throughout the Americas. Of course, the vast majority of these people are commercial employees and are engaged in normal business and trade.
There are less than 100 members who are actually responsible for intelligence work. There is no way. In the current domestic eight-way system, talents who can speak English are still relatively scarce, and it is difficult to dispatch qualified talents who can do this work.
Fortunately, Gao Jianwu's mission for the Americas Group strictly restricted them from touching sensitive intelligence. They were not allowed to take the initiative to contact anything related to the military. They were only limited to collecting public information from newspapers and periodicals. Therefore, the main task of the Americas Group was more like a corporate business activity.
This also gave the Americas Group a better space for development. In a short period of time, it became a mainstream new trade army in the Americas-Nanyang-Hong Kong-Kowloon base area. At the same time, the Americas Group also separated into a separate branch as a representative of the Eighth Route. activities in the Americas, but Gao Jianwu deliberately ordered the commercial section and the Eighth Route Representative Office to limit their interactions to ordinary cooperation, so that no one could tell that they were the same company.
This is to prevent others from catching them all in one go when something unexpected happens in the future.
For Song Qingyuan, this is of course a huge challenge, but so far, he has done a pretty good job, and his relationship with the representatives of the Eighth Route Army has been quite clean.
The name of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce is not yet on the Inter-American Intelligence Organization's focus list.
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"After our long-term field statistics in various universities in the Americas, there are currently more than 2,000 Chinese students studying in the Americas, distributed in 45 states in the United States. Many of them have only arrived in recent years. Students who have studied for a Ph.D. We have mobilized more than 200 people to return to China." Song Qingyuan was very clear about Gao Jianwu's mission. After entering the hall, he first reported on the work.
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This is the work style passed down from Dagushan, and meetings and communications are straightforward.
"As for the students who have stayed and worked in the Americas after studying abroad over the years, it is currently impossible to make accurate statistics. Among them, we can find out that there are about 200 people with doctorates and above who stay and work. Most of these people stay and work in well-known universities in the Americas. A few We have compiled a list of some of the people who have entered well-known American companies and stayed in colleges and universities, and most of them have been contacted once and invited to return to work in China. However, so far, only a few of these people have accepted our request to return to China. Some people are still waiting and watching.”
"As for those who have entered well-known companies in the Americas, we know from the side that they may be involved in the military industry, but we have not sent anyone to contact them."
Song Qingyuan's work has been very effective. It can be said that in addition to Alaska and Hawaii, which are isolated overseas, they have visited various well-known universities throughout the Americas.
"Old Song, your work is very meaningful, and it has also played an important role in promoting the development of domestic industry and science and technology. The group of people who have been mobilized back now have basically become our mainstay." After listening to this, Gao Jianwu said to Song Qingyuan and the others I am very satisfied with my work. Being able to do this shows that I have worked hard.
"Now, we need more and more advanced talents to conduct cutting-edge scientific and technological research. This time I came here in person because I want to mobilize the top batch of talents among the talents we surveyed, and I will personally come to convince them. This It is crucial to our work. Now the Chamber of Commerce must mobilize resources to make this matter the most important thing in the near future, further select top talents in various fields, and conduct preliminary communication. I will visit them one by one as planned. .”
Although Gao Jianwu had some impressions of the names of well-known top experts in his mind, these big names were already very far away before he traveled through time. Gao Jianwu had not deliberately studied them, and of course he did not know where they were.
However, Gao Jianwu knew that if these people were here, they would basically be in the top ten universities in the Americas. Therefore, Gao Jianwu's request for Song Qingyuan and the others was to reorganize and confirm the contact list of the top ten universities in the Americas for overseas students and retained personnel. Way.
In Gao Jianwu's plan, these schools are the places he is most concerned about this round.
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Caltech, Red Door Café.
Within the agreed time, a handsome and elegant young professor strode towards where Gao Jianwu was waiting.
Gao Jianwu looked at that somewhat familiar face, and even though he was prepared, he felt a little excited now. After all, this was a real great man. Now that he saw him in his youth, a kind of confusion of time and space between the past and present life made Gao Jianwu a little distracted.
When he came to his senses, Professor Qian had already walked up to him. Gao Jianwu stood up in a hurry and said, "Hello, Professor Qian. I have long admired your name. I am Gao Jianwu!"
Next to them, Song Tiecheng and others were spread out and sitting at the table around Gao Jianwu, each of them drinking bitter coffee that they had never tasted before, their faces looking a little distorted.
"He's an associate professor, Mr. Gao! I've admired your name for a long time, but I didn't expect that Mr. Gao is much younger than the legend says. Mr. Qian really admires him, I admire him!" Professor Qian corrected him seriously.
There are no bad officialdom habits in the country, which makes Gao Jianwu somewhat embarrassed.
"Then I'll call you Mr. Qian, okay? Please sit down. What would you like to drink, Mr. Qian?" Gao Jianwu concealed.
"No problem, Mr. Gao, just give me a cup of coffee." Professor Qian pulled out his chair and sat across from Gao Jianwu.
"Frankly speaking, Mr. Gao, your people have contacted me about my return to the service. However, the country is currently in chaos, the people are in dire straits, and the people are still hungry. Scientific research requires a large investment. I don't think it is a good idea to do it now." A good time to research.
Here, I can still have access to the world's top technological levels. When the motherland is completely restored, I will naturally return. "
Professor Qian said straight to the point.
It's not that he doesn't want to return, but now is really not the time. Everyone is still hungry, and there is no room for scientific research. There is no use for it if he goes back.
"Mr. Qian, perhaps the latest developments in the current situation have not been conveyed to the Americas yet. I will have a brief exchange with you." Gao Jianwu explained patiently.
"Our Eighth Route Army has captured Manchukuo, regained Northeast China, and also captured Pingjin. We have recovered all Shanxi-Suiyuan, Northeast China, North China, Central Plains, Central China, the Huaihe River Basin, South China, Wanwan Island, and Nanhai Island. Now only a small corner of the Yangtze River is left for the Japs. In the next six months, our Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army will drive the Japs out of China completely, and the recovery of the whole territory is just around the corner!"
"In terms of industrial development, we have focused on developing or acquired heavy industrial bases such as Jinyang, Luoyang, Hanyang, Shengjing, Xinjing, and Bingcheng. We are currently able to manufacture T-34 tanks, P-51 Mustang fighter jets, artillery, and automatic Assault rifles and other high-, mid-, and low-end weapons, as well as realizing the independence of basic industries such as wireless communication systems, automobile engines, aerospace engines, large thermal power station equipment, precision machine tools, various special steel smelting, and high-strength aluminum alloy production.
It can be said that in our base area on the Eighth Route, we have basically achieved a preliminary industrialization foundation. Especially in heavy industry, we have basically caught up with the world's advanced level. In particular, our aero engines have begun to realize the transformation from propellers to jets. Engine transformation. "
When Professor Qian heard Gao Jianwu's introduction, he couldn't help but feel relaxed and fascinated, but he was still a little worried.
"I have some understanding of the domestic situation and Mr. Gao's purpose of coming, but with all due respect, it seems that the major I studied is not used by your office now. Of course, if we talk about fighter jets, my major is barely used. It’s good, but it’s really not what I’m best at.”
In his opinion, although the military industry of the Eighth Route Army has made great progress compared with the original, and can produce advanced weapons such as T-34 tanks and Mustang fighter jets, which is of course a remarkable achievement in the country, but these majors are not the same as his ambition and professionalism. There is still a big difference.
He is engaged in rocketry, so if he comes to engage in aircrafts, he can be considered a suitable match. However, the span of this major is also a bit wider, and his strengths cannot be fully utilized. Professor Qian is confident that if he wants to go further on the basis of the Mustang fighter, he will have to It takes a lot of professional knowledge.
Of course, this is already infinitely better than the preserved fruit military industry, so Professor Qian has a strong impression of the Eighth Route Army. If he returns to China, he will choose the Eighth Route Army without hesitation.
It's just that Professor Qian is still a little unwilling to learn anything.
Seeing Professor Qian's relaxed tone, Gao Jianwu smiled and took out a few pieces of paper from his arms. "Mr. Qian, take a look, here are some things we designed. Although the information is not perfect yet, I believe Mr. Qian will know what it is at a glance. After reading it, Mr. Qian will tell me if I can use it to your advantage." expertise.”
Gao Jianwu excerpted the hq-1 main structure and main functional components description, as well as a brief introduction to performance parameters and uses.
Professor Qian didn't know why. He took it and took a look. He just glanced at the picture and couldn't help being shocked!
"What is this?!" Professor Qian asked in a slightly trembling voice.
"If you use it in English, it's a missile. If you use it in Chinese, I call it a missile. It can hit a designated target and the weapon is driven by a rocket!" Gao Jianwu explained softly.
Professor Qian did not speak, but quickly read several pieces of paper provided by Gao Jianwu. After reading it, he was still unsatisfied.
"Mr. Gao, you must have more detailed information, right?" Professor Qian looked at Gao Jianwu nervously and asked in a trembling voice.
I was afraid of giving a negative answer in Gao Jianwu's mouth.
"Of course, we already have a relatively complete schematic design drawing, and we are just waiting for someone to verify and implement it." Gao Jianwu said with a smile.
"And I think Mr. Qian is the most suitable person."
"Huh!" Professor Qian exhaled a long breath.
"How did you do it? As far as I know, the technology that Desan has made breakthroughs in V2 missiles and "Waterfall" missiles is currently only available in Europe except in the Americas. Did you obtain these technologies through Damao?
But obviously your research has reached a considerable level. Who else in the country can take on such cutting-edge work? From this performance index, you have made breakthrough progress in guidance and can target moving objects. "Professor Qian said excitedly. These words contained top-secret information of this era, but Gao Jianwu didn't care.
"Frankly speaking, we have made much more progress than you know, Mr. Qian. In fact, we have already completed the principle design of this missile. Mr. Qian, if you are willing to go back and preside over this work, all the information is available It will be opened to you immediately. I believe that through those materials, everything that Mr. Qian is confused about can be answered in those materials." Gao Jianwu told Mr. Qian a white lie.
In fact, he himself has not understood much of this complete set of process design drawings so far. These subjects are too far away from Gao Jianwu's major.
But having said that, with these design drawings, if you follow the drawings, it should be possible for Gao Jianwu to realize a prototype with these data. hq-1 was considered top level in the 1940s, but it is nothing compared to the world before Gao Jianwu No, there is no GPS navigation. The guidance principle is completely different from what we understand now. The core thing is a very simple mechanical gyroscope. This thing was invented by a French physicist in 1850. The v2 Guidance depends on this thing.
The guidance accuracy of the hq-1 missile is more than an order of magnitude higher than that of the v2. Of course, the manufacturing accuracy and methods of mechanical gyroscopes have been improved. These can be fully realized under the new machine tool system established by Gao Jianwu.
Faced with Gao Jianwu's somewhat contradictory explanation, Professor Qian did not question it. In fact, based on his academic attainments, after reading these materials, he was convinced that this was not a random and whimsical drawing to deceive him. What he simply saw was this The main design drawing is already a relatively rigorous industrial design, and the design even provides performance parameters, which are obviously mature features of the product.
Obviously, Gao Jianwu really has a piece of missile design information in his hands.
But what he doesn't understand is that the technology involved is much higher than the technology he is exposed to now, so where did he come from? Professor Qian didn't believe that Gao Jianwu designed it himself.
Gao Jianwu's reputation as a victorious general has been spread throughout America, and even Professor Qian is famous for it, but no one says that Gao Jianwu is a technical genius.
Therefore, the answer is somewhat self-evident. I am afraid that this thing has a wrong origin. Is it just that the missile design level of Mao Xiong has reached this level?
"So you already have the design of this thing, and then you can proceed with the prototype design and verification step by step. If this is the case, you can do it yourself, why do you let me preside over it?" Professor Qian asked.
"Because this is information we obtained through special channels. But in fact, Mr. Qian knows that this kind of thing is too advanced and not many of us can understand it." Gao Jianwu explained half-truthfully. In fact, many of the things he obtained later were even more unexplainable, so he simply ignored them.
Professor Qian was relieved to hear this explanation. It made sense.
It's just that Mao Xiong's missile level has now progressed to such an extent that it has surpassed the research progress level of the world's top experts Professor von Kármán and von Braun that he came into contact with.
This is very bad news for America, but it is not important now. Professor Qian has basically made his decision.
"This is not a job that can be completed by one person. Mr. Gao, is there anyone else in China involved?" Professor Qian asked after pondering for a while.
"Of course, fuel and rocket processing have already been studied by some people. In fact, I am also planning to open two new universities and ten new research institutes to recruit talents from all over the world to study these things.
If Mr. Qian agrees, you will be in charge of the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Aeronautics and Astronautics College of Dalian University of Technology. On the one hand, we will select talents to enrich the research and teaching staff, and on the other hand, we will select students to cultivate a reserve army! "Gao Jianwu told him his plan.
"As for the resources needed for testing, Mr. Qian will make the budget. We will now also start a computer project and develop a new generation of computers to support the implementation of this project as soon as possible."
computer? !
Professor Qian was slightly shocked by Gao Jianwu's words again. Suddenly, he became a little curious about Gao Jianwu. This young general was supposed to be fighting on the battlefield, but now he actually appeared in America, fighting for the development of science and technology. It was a bit strange in itself. the taste of.
"Mr. Gao, may I ask, what is your position on the Eighth Road now?" Professor Qian couldn't help but ask.
"In addition to my position in the military, I am now responsible for all military equipment and industrial departments in the base areas. I am responsible for all kinds of resource allocation in industrial production and scientific research. In addition, I can make it clear to Mr. Qian in advance that although our country is still poor and backward , but in terms of scientific research investment, in the next five years, I guarantee that the annual minimum investment will be no less than 10 million yuan!"
