Chapter 101 It is better to let people wait for equipment than equipment waits for people (4k chapter)
Everyone is busy. Explosive reactive armor is different from composite armor. Every time, everyone has to hide well, especially in the direction of the incoming projectile, because they are facing the opposite direction. And every time a shot is tested, the explosive reactive armor on the main armor block has to be replaced.

After several cycles, the artillery on the platform roared "boom boom boom" again. Everyone looked at the composite main armor block, which was not unharmed, but at least remained motionless. There were obvious signs of burning and explosion on the main armor block, but apart from these signs, there were no obvious scars on the armor surface itself.

However, the performance of current capped armor-piercing projectiles and discarding sabot armor-piercing projectiles is still average. Arranging two projectile armor plates in a "V" shape inside the explosive reactive armor can have a very good effect. This is also the way the Russian "Contact-5" will penetrate the double-defense reactive armor in the future.

If we switch to the future APFSDS bullet, it will be much more difficult. Note that it is difficult, not impossible to defend against.

Mr. He joked to Mr. Guan: "Your explosive reactive armor is not good."

Mr. Guan looked at him askance: "Why not?"

Hey, you old man, you just won’t admit defeat, right?
"It's very harmful to the accompanying infantry."

"But it's light."

"Light armored vehicles cannot be used."

"But it's light."

"Use it once and replace it once."

"But it's light."

"Could you please stop talking about it being light?"

"You didn't penetrate my main armor!"

"Well, you better say it's light."

After venting his joy with jokes, Mr. Guan said to Mr. He, "Go to Beijing when you have time. That young man is really talented. I have a feeling that he might turn things around after you go there. Haha."

He did not feel ashamed at all for asking for advice from a young man who was much younger than him.

In his opinion, it would be shameful if one failed to produce anything because of being arrogant.

At the end, Mr. Guan couldn't help but teasing Mr. He, "It feels so good. It's been a long time since I felt so proud in front of this old guy."

Mr. He listened but didn't respond. He turned his head and said, "So, check when we have free time recently, buy train tickets, and we'll go to Beijing."

After saying that, he turned to Mr. Guan and said, "You wait, old man!"

The two looked at each other and laughed.
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The director and chief engineer of the 12th Ministry of Machine Building's Computing Institute, as well as a group of key researchers, were surrounding Gao Zhendong's transistor computer, holding materials in their hands, studying it carefully and marveling at it.

Although Gao Zhendong would not start work until Saturday, they did not think of "waiting, relying on, and asking for". Instead, they organized personnel first and familiarized themselves with the equipment and explanatory materials. In this way, when Gao Zhendong arrived, they could keep up with Gao Zhendong's ideas and pace as quickly as possible and realize the mass production and use of the equipment more quickly.

If the equipment is introduced through special channels, I'm afraid they have already started testing and drawing.

But this is not necessary. The design information is complete and detailed, and its creator will come to cooperate with the work soon, so there is no need to take the risk of disassembling the machine. Just familiarize yourself with the equipment first.

Although they are called explanatory materials, in fact a large part of them are design materials. A group of the first generation of computer researchers since the founding of the People's Republic of China got together and read them with fascination. Although there is still a considerable part that needs to be learned and digested and they don't quite understand it now, the part that they understood alone makes them exclaim that it is wonderful.

But everyone just looked and didn't reach out to help. They waited for the designer to come over. This kind of prototype usually has many strange little tricks in use. If you don't understand these little tricks, it's easy to go wrong. They understand that more haste makes waste.

Just when everyone was watching, some people came, and the leader of the 12th Ministry of Machine Building came with his people.

I saw a lot of people gathered in the room, but I didn't see anything. I was wondering, didn't they report that the computers had been moved here?

This was the inherent impression he formed due to the huge size of the vacuum tube computer. He had no idea that Gao Zhendong's transistor computer was just a few small cabinets half a person's height.

He called Director Li of the Operation Institute, and Director Li and Chief Engineer Chi turned around together, asked everyone to stop, and went to greet them.

After everyone separated, the leaders of the 12th Ministry of Machine Building saw the small cabinets in the crowd.

Before Director Li and the others could speak, he spoke first. Fortunately, he had experienced the storms of war and his expression was calm: "Is this the computer?"

Director Li and Chief Engineer Chi nodded: "Yes, that's it."

The leader wiped his face to cover up the action of rubbing his eyes.

Suddenly, he rushed over and looked at the pile of treasures.

He stretched out his hand: "Explanatory materials?"

Director Li quickly handed the materials to him.

Of course, there was no time to look at the specific technical details, so the leader just looked at the most basic technical parameters.

After reading it, he smiled and waved the materials in his hand: "Have you verified all the basic parameters above?"

Chief Engineer Chi said: "Time is limited. We have verified the parts that have been verified. There is no problem, especially the calculation speed."

"What is the cost?" There was no such thing in the confidential bulletin of the 17th Ministry of Machine Building, and Director Li and his team would not mention such a thing in an oral report.

Director Li: "According to the researchers' estimates, the cost of the components is between 15 and 17 yuan."

"How much?" The leader's first reaction was to think that they did not hear it but read the written materials, which was why they saw one zero missing.

"The cost of components is between 15 and 17 yuan," Chief Engineer Chi repeated.

The leader turned around and said, "What are you waiting for? Hurry up, transfer all the researchers here and start mass production! Mass production! We must mass produce!"

As for whether there are any other defects? He doesn't care. Where are there any defects? None!

With this performance, this size, and this price, it would be a crime not to go into mass production immediately!

Don't worry about the invisible benefits in the confidential notice. These three points are enough. Director Li looked embarrassed: "I can't transfer it, and the researchers are resting today. They can only come the day after tomorrow."

The leader looked at Director Li and said, "Are you kidding? I'll go find Old X from the Seventeenth Machine Department. I won't take over his lair. It should be no problem if I ask half of the people to come over."

Director Li looked bitter and said, "Leader, I can't take half of it. This thing was made by Comrade Gao Zhendong from the Third Steel Rolling Plant. They treat it like a treasure and keep a close eye on it. I was almost kicked out by the leader of the Seventeenth Machinery Department before I could finish asking for it."

The leader was stunned. He thought that Comrade Gao Zhendong and a group of people had come up with the confidential report, but he didn't expect it was just one person. "How is this possible?"

"Leader, seriously, this was not even funded by the Third Steel Rolling Mill. It was Gao Zhendong's personal interest and he paid for it himself. This thing is in Gao Zhendong's own home."

"Hmm? That's even more impossible. I believe Comrade Gao Zhendong is selfless, but no matter how selfless he is, even though this thing is already very cheap, he can't afford it personally."

Hearing this, Director Li and Chief Engineer Chi couldn't help but burst out laughing.

The leader was a little puzzled: "What are you two laughing at?"

The two looked at each other. This was a question asked by the leader. Reporting work to the leader should not be considered as talking about Gao Zhendong's personal affairs behind his back, right?
Director Li thought for a moment, and then whispered to the leader how Lou's father lost his daughter and his army. The leader couldn't help laughing when he heard it, "Comrade Zhendong is amazing! He is a talent, an absolute talent! It's also thanks to the Lou family's willingness to selflessly support national construction, otherwise we won't be able to see this kind of thing in a short time."

After thinking for a while, the leader said, "Can he come over tomorrow? The sooner the better."

Chief Engineer Chi shook his head. "Not too early. He is in charge of a major scientific research project in the factory. The 17th Machinery Department has already cooperated with us and asked him to put aside the scientific research project there and support us first. The 17th Machinery Department even postponed a training he was responsible for, which was the one they notified about the Project Management System."

Director Li added: "He sacrificed his personal time to make this stuff. Considering that he has too much work to do, the 17th Ministry of Machinery forced him to rest today and asked his partner to keep an eye on him. Tomorrow he has to deal with the major scientific research project he is in charge of. The day after tomorrow is indeed his limit. Comrade Zhendong, you are very tired!"

The leader was speechless for a long time after hearing this, and finally instructed: "Comrade Zhendong, come here, you must do a good job of logistics."

Director Li and Chief Engineer Chi quickly agreed, and then the three of them continued to study the transistor computer system with great interest.

While everyone was busy, an employee from the confidential office walked in and said, "Director Li, it's time to give me the materials. I have already organized the staff here. You will need them the day after tomorrow. If you don't do it now, it will be too late."

This set of materials is like a scorpion's shit - one-of-a-kind, and it definitely cannot be given to ordinary administrative staff to print. It can only be given to people in the confidential system. The materials are thick and they are needed the day after tomorrow. The confidential office has already organized all the qualified and available personnel, and they are ready to work hard all night, otherwise everyone will have nothing to do the day after tomorrow.

The leader quickly handed over the materials in his hand, looking unsatisfied.

The people in the waiting room signed the formalities with Director Li and took the materials away. The leader said to Director Li: "When you organize the learning venue, think bigger and don't just limit it to the few people in your institute. I will go back and notify other departments that may use it to send people over to learn while putting it into production. It is better to have people wait for the equipment than to let the equipment wait for people. Try to produce one machine and make the most of it."

It is our old tradition that people wait for equipment.

Director Li nodded repeatedly: "The leaders are indeed very thoughtful. Not only us, but also many users from all walks of life need to be trained."

After discussing the matter, the people from the 12th Ministry of Machine Building also took decisive action.

Let's talk about Gao Zhendong. That day, Lou Xiao'e, who was extremely serious about the tasks assigned by the leader, really didn't let him do anything. He just sat there and waited for everything to be provided for him.

Listening leisurely to the music on the gramophone and watching Lou Xiao'e busying around, Gao Zhendong felt that even if a god came, he would not change it for this kind of life.

After dinner, Gao Zhendong, who had been "guarded" by Lou Xiaoe for a day, rode his bike to take Lou Xiaoe home.

As usual, she stamped Gao Zhendong's face, then Lou Xiao'e swung her lunch box and skipped into the house.

Seeing her father, she walked over and said to him cheerfully, "Dad, Zhendong asked me to tell you that what you did is basically accomplished."

Now, she already knew what her father and Gao Zhendong were doing. Things had been done, so Gao Zhendong no longer hid it from her.

Father Lou was overjoyed when he heard this: "So soon?"

Lou Xiao'e nodded: "Well, their leaders' leaders all went to his house today, just for this thing you did, I heard it's very important, the leaders felt that Zhendong worked hard, and forced him to take a day off, and also gave me a task, asking me to keep an eye on him and not to work."

Father Lou got the hint: "Did their leader's leader assign you a task?"

The fact that her superiors assigned her a task was a recognition in itself. It didn't matter what the task was.

"Yes, yes, yes. You don't know. Today Zhendong listened to me. I told him to go east, but he didn't go west. I told him to chase a dog, but he didn't chase a chicken. Hahaha."

If Gao Zhendong saw her so proud, he would probably ask her, when you are so proud, have you ever thought that you are the one doing all the housework?
Father Lou asked again: "Did he introduce you to the leader?"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Many of them know you. They should be doing this for your sake. They are very enthusiastic towards me."

Now Mr. Lou is completely relieved. Gao Zhendong is very good at doing things. They are not doing that for my sake, but for Gao Zhendong's sake.

Of course, Lou Xiao'e's personality and performance are also the reasons why a group of old men treat her very well.

Father Lou lay back on the sofa and hummed a Peking Opera selection.

Lou Xiao'e suddenly remembered something: "Dad, I'll send the new TV in my room to Zhendong someday. He has the one there to support construction."

When Lou's mother heard this, she quickly chimed in: "Ah? Zhendong doesn't have TV to watch? Send it to him quickly, send it to him quickly."

Father Lou stared at the ceiling, choking with sobs, and waved his hands feebly: "Just do whatever you want."

No, I have to marry this girl off quickly. The destructive power of a thief hiding in the house and the thief leaving the house are completely different. What's more, the thief has a top-level helper. We can't live like this.

On Friday morning, Gao Zhendong, in high spirits, rode his bike out and met a few boys from Liu Haizhong's family who were going to school at the door. Strangely enough, these boys didn't care at all that Gao Zhendong had broken their father's leg again. When they greeted Gao Zhendong, they were as happy as usual.

Gao Zhendong rode his bike to the office, put down his things, and went straight to the ESR test workshop.

In the ESR test workshop, except for Director Yang, all the people from the ESR project came, including Deputy Director Li and General Manager Chen.

There are two things to do today. The first is that Gao Zhendong will arrange for him to support the ESR research work of the Computing Institute during this period.

The second thing is the test of ESR's continuous sliding crystallizer control system.

(End of this chapter)