Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 224: I have another idea for my daily life (please subscribe)
"Our country has now built a supercomputer that belongs to the entire nation, the Son of Shenzhou No. 1, on this great day."

On National Day, this news was announced on radio stations across the country, and anyone with a radio could hear it.

There were originally three reference names for the new supercomputer: Galaxy, Son of Shenzhou and Lightyear, and Son of Shenzhou was finally chosen.

Supercomputers are also a measure of a country's cutting-edge national defense capabilities. The first generation of mushroom bombs could be dialed out with an abacus, but the abacus was no longer useful after that.

If you want to create more powerful nuclear weapons and more advanced satellites, you must use supercomputers.

Previously, the country wanted to buy large computers from France for research and manufacturing, but now they can no longer do so.

This news spread during the National Day, which was a great boost to the people of the country.

At the same time, it also made foreigners who received the news feel surprised and suspicious. They couldn't believe it. How could an agricultural country that had just been established for less than 20 years suddenly create a supercomputer?

Helped by the Russians?
Stop talking nonsense, the Russians' supercomputer is definitely not that fast. They may be researching it, but it certainly cannot be hidden from their surveillance.

And even if we research it, we can’t give it to rabbits;

Now the relationship between the Russians and the rabbits is becoming increasingly tense, and it doesn't seem like they are pretending to quarrel to confuse them.

However, if it is fake, the Bald Eagle would not believe it. Judging from the information collected in the past, it is unlikely that this group will deceive the public.

Rabbit, there is an 80% chance that they have really developed and manufactured a supercomputer.

So the personal computer last time was not exaggerated, the photo in the newspaper was real.

After reaching this conclusion, the Bald Eagle government was somewhat panicked;

They set up a coordinating committee and imposed the harshest sanctions on rabbits, so how come they were still allowed to develop?

Who can give them an explanation?
Although the Bald Eagle wanted to find out the news, now was obviously not the right time. Their people could not be placed in the area unless they could learn how to exercise from scratch.

After Zhou Fengnian returned from the computer factory, he has been busy making supercomputers.

The manufacturing of the second machine is nearing completion, and he is compiling the program system. Now only he and Yan Zhengzhi can do this.

Yan Zhengzhi had often discussed this with him before, and when Zhou Fengnian went to the northwest, he had mastered it by self-study.

Now that they are working together, it is much faster.

The third supercomputer has already started production. If this trend continues, the third supercomputer will definitely be built before the end of the year.

Now the higher-ups have issued a strict order requiring all electronics factories that can produce supporting electronic components to accept guidance from computer factories in production.

They were just short of announcing that they were a subsidiary factory of electronic computers!
But there is no way. There are five supercomputers that are in urgent need in the country, as well as missile mushroom bombs and hydrogen bombs, satellites and the Academy of Sciences. These are the five.

Although they could share one machine, that would be too slow; and the country had a lot of foreign exchange, so it was not poor at all.

So he decided to manufacture a total of five units, one of which has already been manufactured.

The others will be completed by mid-next year.

Some universities also want it, but they don't have an absolute need for it. They just want to join forces with several research institutes to apply for one for research and development and verification.

However, this requires orders from above for the production and manufacturing of supercomputers. Without orders, the electronic computer factory will not produce even a single part.

This kind of national important equipment is strictly controlled. Other electronics factories have also received relevant orders. Without a joint task list issued by several departments, they cannot manufacture related electronic components.

Zhou Fengnian and his team can take a break after producing five computers. If there are no more tasks mentioned above, they will continue to develop the next generation of computers.

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"Huh, the second supercomputer is finally built."

After testing, the second supercomputer also ran correctly, Zhou Fengnian announced with a smile.

The people around were about to celebrate, but Zhou Fengnian interrupted and said, "Don't be too happy yet. We still have one machine in production. Even if it can be completed before the end of the year, you can't relax.

Also, I have not taught you enough recently. Starting tomorrow, I will resume teaching you after work, but this time it will only be one hour."

It is a bit difficult for them to learn to compile programs by themselves, and the progress is hard, so Zhou Fengnian plans to take some time to teach them.

This way he can relax a little next year, as things like compiling programs won't have to be done by him and "old men" like Yan Zhengzhi.

We need to give young people more opportunities!
"Understood, Director!"

"Director, I will definitely be there by then, and I will notify the others later."

When others heard Zhou Fengnian’s announcement, they happily agreed immediately; it was a good thing that someone was willing to teach at this time, especially since this person was a member of the department and the number one computer expert in the country.

No one else has the opportunity to learn from Zhou Fengnian, except them, who are close to him and get the upper hand. If they were not in the same factory as Zhou Fengnian, they would not have such a good opportunity.

After everyone cheered and got busy again, Yan Zhengzhi came forward and asked, "Fengnian, I asked you to help me with the teaching material last time."

"Well, don't worry, Old Yan, I'm already writing it, and I'm only a quarter of the way to finishing it."

Zhou Fengnian said with a smile: "I'll let you take a look after I finish writing it, and you can give me some suggestions for revision." "How can I give you suggestions? You want me to help you correct the typos, right?"

Yan Zhengzhi immediately realized Zhou Fengnian's intention. To some extent, he was Zhou Fengnian's student, so he had the right to give him advice.

I must have wanted him to help correct the typos.

Zhou Fengnian quickly changed the subject and said, "Look, Old Yan, you're just overthinking. Just help me take a look when the time comes."

"Director!"

Pan Heng suddenly rushed over, came to Zhou Fengnian, and continued: "The leader called you."

"Which leader?"

Now that it is under the management of two departments, whenever Zhou Fengnian hears the leader, he will first ask who he is.

Pan Heng said, "Leader Li from the First Ministry of Machine Building."

"I understand, Old Yan, just keep an eye on this."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he walked towards the factory office building with Pan Heng.

After returning to the office, Zhou Fengnian called Leader Li again and asked, "Leader, what do you want to talk to me about?"

"It's indeed something important, Fengnian, is it convenient for you to come to the department now?"

After hearing what Leader Li said, Zhou Fengnian thought for a moment and said, "It's convenient. I'll go there in the afternoon?"

"Come over now and have lunch in the department cafeteria."

"Okay then. I'll be there now."

Zhou Fengnian didn’t know what important matter it was, but he still asked Pan Heng to help him arrange a car. Soon he went downstairs, got in the car, and rushed to the First Ministry of Machine Building.

After arriving at Leader Li's office, Zhou Fengnian suddenly spotted an acquaintance, Deputy Leader Bai from the Foreign Trade Department, and he immediately guessed what the matter was related to.

"Leader, Deputy Leader Bai."

Zhou Fengnian followed what Leader Li pointed out, sat on the sofa and asked with a smile: "Is there anyone who wants to buy a five-axis machine tool again?"

"Yes, but what they want to buy is not machine tools, but supercomputers."

Deputy Leader Bai spoke, and his words stunned Zhou Fengnian.

Less than two seconds later, Zhou Fengnian shouted, "Whose idea was this? Why do you want to sell everything? This is too much. The Shenzhou Son Unit 1 was manufactured less than a year ago."

"Don't get excited yet, Fengnian, have a cup of tea."

Leader Li brought over a cup of tea, then turned to Deputy Leader Bai and said, "I knew he would be angry. Fengnian seems generous, but in fact, he has a steel scale in his heart when selling things to foreign countries. Only garbage is sold.
It’s not a good idea to say that. Only a backward country would think of selling to foreign countries.”

Deputy Leader Bai laughed twice, turned around and said to Zhou Fengnian, "Don't worry, Director Zhou, this matter was proposed by Xiaorizi, and it's not a purchase, they will exchange other things with us.

The Ministry of Foreign Trade did not want to agree, but we have to say that many of the things that Xiaozi has produced are exactly what we need domestically. "

"Some leaders were quite interested, but many were against it. After all, we all know what a supercomputer means to us."

Deputy Leader Bai paused for a moment when he said this, and then asked, "I'm also going to take your opinion into consideration on this matter. I remember you asked me before, Director Zhou, if there is a way to earn some benefits while preventing our technology from leaking out."

"That's it, don't say that!"

Zhou Fengnian thought for a moment and quickly said, "Just downgrade it to the next level. Improving performance is a bit difficult, but reducing performance is definitely possible.

And we have to make Xiao Rizi agree to a few of our conditions. The construction of the supercomputer room must be in accordance with our requirements, and we will keep the keys. Every time the supercomputer is used, no matter what the purpose is, it must be approved by us before it can be used."

Zhou Fengnian mentioned a lot of conditions, which made Deputy Leader Bai and Leader Li secretly smack their lips in amazement after listening to them.

These conditions look so familiar, just like when they imported machine tools a few years ago and asked foreign engineers to repair them.

When the machine tool was being repaired, all their people were driven away and not allowed to watch.

Now all the previous amounts are returned, and it has increased tenfold.

You have to go through approval every time you use it, which is like spending a lot of money to marry a wife but not being able to touch her casually. You have to apply in advance. The days of a royal consort in ancient times were almost like this.

"And I can also tamper with the system program so that they can't disassemble it for research. Once they disassemble it, it will be locked."

The more Zhou Fengnian talked, the more ideas he came up with. As he spoke, he also felt that selling the supercomputer to Xiao Rizi would be a good idea, with only benefits and no harm.

"Etc., etc."

Deputy Leader Bai quickly advised: "Director Zhou, if you do what you said, Xiao Ri will definitely be scared away."

Zhou Fengnian shook his head and said, "If they don't want to buy it, forget it. Supercomputers are also important national defense equipment. I didn't want to sell them anyway."

(End of this chapter)