A nation's industrial development begins with junior engineers.

Chapter 672 is very similar to Little Ahoge's master.

"Teacher Fangzhou agreed!"

Jiang Xia, who was left behind, threw a powerful punch.

"Oh, right, we also need to include the project application. That's easy enough; we can just incorporate it into the defense system. Being able to resist nuclear contamination is a kind of defense, isn't it? I just don't know if this project will be approved..."

"It doesn't matter if it's not approved. It seems like Xiao Qiu's manuscript fee hasn't been used yet. We can borrow it to tide us over."

Hearing this young man, who was once again rambling on and on, eyeing his sister's royalties, Secretary Liu's lips twitched.

"It's just that people are hard to find, but brother, you have a wide network of connections, so you shouldn't let me down, right?"

Jiang Xia, who had dug another hole that he couldn't bury, turned to look at his secretary, Xiao Liu, behind him.

Secretary Liu took a deep breath and calmly nodded: "Go back and answer the phone... Someone is looking for you, it's important!"

"Oh! Then Professor Fangzhou's matter is also quite important, you mustn't mess it up..."

"Okay, don't worry!" Secretary Liu replied, watching Jiang Xia run away.

"You're quite a rare sight. Everyone else just waits for funding from above, but you're the opposite—you're spending your own money on research..." Secretary Liu shook his head, found a room with a phone, went inside, closed the door, and disappeared to contact someone.

……

Jiang Xia rushed to the conference room on the second floor of the command tower. There, he saw Lao Wang leading Teacher Xiaopeng out, which startled Jiang Xia.

"Didn't you go to see Teacher Fangzhou off? Where did you come from?"

Old Wang, however, waved his hand with unusual seriousness and pointed to the red telephone on the table: "Urgent! Go now!"

Jiang Xia's heart skipped a beat again.

Has the battle report from the front come back? Have the negotiations with the bald eagles been resolved? Or have they been unscrupulous, and our soldiers fought to the death in a suicidal attack?

Pick up the phone and speak carefully:

"This is Jiangxia. May I ask, how do you..."

"Oh? You're being so polite, I'm almost embarrassed to speak..."

The phone was filled with too much static, and Jiang Xia couldn't tell who it was for a moment, so he could only wait silently for the other end to continue.

"Kid, did you see the blueprints we sent back? It's a pity you didn't get to see the actual product. The craftsmanship of this Gallic chicken is truly remarkable, absolutely breathtaking!"

"Especially the nozzle assembly inside, it's so ingenious! Do you remember the M-1 gas turbine from the Alliance that I talked about in class? The design philosophy of this French engine is completely different from theirs!"

"Oh...it's Professor Zhemin! I thought it was someone else...what, are those two boxes the blueprints for the French multi-stage impulse steam turbine? The French seem to be in a good mood, they actually sent out the blueprints? Has the actual machine been installed and put into use?"

A barrage of questions caused a pause on the other end of the microphone, a hint of awkwardness inexplicably appearing on their face.

But the little guy on the other end of the phone was so happy that he completely ignored this and continued talking to himself:

"Also, to correct you on one point, the Gallic multi-stage impulse turbine should still be considered a type of steam turbine. It cannot directly burn fuel..."

"Hey! You little rascal, do you think I don't know the difference between them! I'm just describing them! Describing them, understand!"

Do you remember how the turbine factory near the Ice and Snow World makes its blades?

"Teacher Zhemin, I already told you, you didn't take me to play back then... Didn't you go to play Big Banglong?" Jiang Xia shook her head helplessly and sat down in the chair. Her self-excitement just now had made her blood pressure a little low.

Seeing that no one was around, Jiang Xia took out the remaining "Tai Sui" from his bag, brought it to his lips, and took a slurp.

Oh my, this is so delicious...

"However, you can't test me with this question. It's just something I made with a file."

Yes, that's right. They haven't even figured out steam turbines yet, and they're already trying to work with gas turbines? They're probably just going to have to grind them down slowly with a file...

Hearing the news that the multi-stage impulse steam turbine had arrived truly delighted Jiang Xia. With this excellent material boasting a thermal efficiency of 35%, coupled with the natural gas resources from the Tianshan Mountains, wouldn't the birth of the young lady be as rapid as sesame seeds bursting open?

Don't even look at the other side of the Tianshan Mountains; in later generations, its power generation ranked fifth in the country. Its total power generation of 5313 billion kilowatt-hours was enough to power Europe for a year.

I'm so proud of myself!

Jiang Xia said smugly, "Oh, Professor Zhemin, you're asking this question because you want to know if we can replicate it?"

"It's hard to say about the rest, but there's absolutely no problem with key forgings such as the main shaft and impeller! You forgot that the internal report says that our 10,000-ton hydraulic press has been erected at Jiangnan Shipyard!"

"Precision machining of blades and nozzles is no problem either! Just between you and me, I've upgraded the original three-axis machining center to a 3.5-axis one! The relevant precision can be controlled within 0.05mm!"

"And another thing, the rolling process for blade materials... Hongxing Machinery Factory has set up two cold rolling lines. As long as our big brother in Northeast China makes a breakthrough in material research..."

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Jiang Xia, who rarely shows off, gave his teacher a good opportunity to demonstrate his achievements.

Yes, currently, in terms of processing technology and equipment, it's hard to say about other aspects, but Hongxing Machinery Factory has no problem producing these components. Except for the main shaft, which requires a hydraulic press with a capacity of tens of thousands of tons, everything else can be produced by ourselves.

Well, okay, we can't be too certain. If I had to nitpick, it would be that the heat treatment and welding processes need some improvement...

It was just a casual remark when a muffled laugh came from the other end of the microphone.

Huh?

Little Dai Mao brought the microphone closer and carefully examined it.

"Old Zheng, huh... Is this kid really your student? You're still thinking about assembling it, while everyone else is already thinking about copying it..."

Then came a somewhat helpless voice from Teacher Zhemin: "I didn't say anything, I just listened to him babbling on and on..."

"Is Old Master Li here? Let him come and keep an eye on this 'disciple' who's getting too big for his britches..."

"Not assembled properly?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xia disregarded all etiquette, stood up straight, and wished he could crawl into the microphone.

"Professor Zhemin! You mean that the steam turbine was disassembled? Those damn French bastards, I knew those capitalist scumbags were no good!"

"In what state was it disassembled? Was even the nozzle removed?"

"When it arrives, even the multi-stage nozzles are exposed? This is troublesome!"

"Uh, no. We dismantled it ourselves..."

"what!"

"Hehehe... Since it's for measuring and drawing blueprints, it's natural to take it apart properly."

Jiang Xia's lips twitched. No one can escape the mechanical dog's bad habits...

"You're not going to tell me that you can't put it back together after you take it apart, are you?"

Jiang Xia suddenly remembered the look Fang Zhou had given him earlier and immediately tried to imitate it. Unfortunately, the phone didn't have a video function, so he couldn't send Fang Zhou's image over.

"That's impossible!"

Jiang Xia breathed a sigh of relief, thinking it made sense. That side was a gathering of elites; they couldn't possibly make such a basic mistake.

"What's that?"

"We dare not put the steam turbine online!"

"Or rather, your master forcibly forbade us from going online! Not even for testing..."

Wow, is my master that powerful?

Hey! Just like me!