Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 225 The Grievance of the Navy (Subscription Request)
"What a pity. According to Ms. Lin, it will take some time to successfully pull out a non-dislocated silicon single crystal. Otherwise, I could still design electronic watches and computers now. It seems that I have to wait a little longer."

"But if I succeed in making the first integrated circuit, I wonder if I will be awarded the Nobel Prize in a few decades."

However, Yang Ning only thought about it for a moment and then put this ridiculous idea behind his mind.

Historically, Jack Kilby would have developed the integrated circuit next year. Even though he was an American, he still had to wait nearly fifty years before winning the Nobel Prize for inventing the integrated circuit.

Given the nature of the Nobel Prize, it would be extremely difficult for a small individual like me to win the Nobel Prize, even if I have achieved the highest achievements.

Unless you can achieve scientific research achievements that can change the world, such as room-temperature superconductivity, controlled nuclear fusion, or anti-gravity, if you want to be awarded the Nobel Prize, you'd better forget it.

Just when Yang Ning thought that he could watch Miss Qiu get married with peace of mind, a call from Director Nie once again disrupted Yang Ning's daily routine.

"Comrade Yang Ning! Pack your things now and don't ask any questions. Someone will come to pick you up soon."

"Yes!"

Hearing Director Nie's solemn tone on the phone, Yang Ning realized that there was some major scientific research project that required his cooperation, so he spoke up immediately.

"Zhao Yang, pack my things immediately. I have to go out for something."

After hanging up the phone, Yang Ning said to Zhao Yang: "Also, tell her when the time comes so that she doesn't have to worry."

This was generally the case for all of us scientists involved in classified research during this period.

In order to protect these scientists, they may still be ordinary school teachers during the day, but suddenly they will mysteriously disappear for a period of time, and there are even many who disappear for decades.

Therefore, Yang Ning had already made sufficient preparations for this. In the data processing institute, he prepared a set of daily necessities for himself just to deal with today's situation.

Director Nie asked him to pack his things, so needless to say, he must be prepared for a long business trip.

Shortly after Yang Ning packed up his things, a military vehicle appeared downstairs of the data processing institute.

When a soldier saw Yang Ning, he ran over and saluted, then without saying anything, took Yang Ning's luggage and stuffed it directly into the car.

Yang Fengyu stood at the office window, silently watching the car drive away, wondering if he should consider retirement.

With the development of computer technology, Yang Fengyu now understood that Yang Ning would gradually become a key figure in our scientific research field. Whenever there was a need for a major project, Yang Ning would be sent there to put out the fire. Such situations would become more and more common in the future.

In this way, the status of the Data Processing Geography Institute will gradually be replaced by the Computing Center. Instead of wasting time here, it is better to retire early to avoid causing trouble to the organization.

Sitting in the car, looking at the destination on the ticket that the soldier had just handed him, Yang Ning roughly understood which project needed his support.

It has been almost ten years since liberation. With the development of our industrial technology and the rapid progress of science and technology, the field of national defense is naturally much stronger than at the same period in history.

But this is only the case for the Air Force and the Army. For the Navy, which is a big spender on money, because of a problem, in addition to spending a lot of money to buy some large surface ships of the grandfather level from the big brother, the Type 031 conventional submarine that we designed ourselves and which has just completed its trial run recently has given them some comfort.

But seeing that the army and air force have begun to equip themselves with advanced equipment in recent years, while their navy is still relying on the few old and dilapidated ships they bought to keep up appearances, they naturally have some thoughts in their minds.

It was fine that we didn't have the technology to build large surface ships before, but this time, thanks to the technology exchange with John Bull and Gallicus Gallicus, don't we already have the technology to build large surface ships?
Although this is only the technology for civilian 10,000-ton ship technology, who stipulates that the technology of civilian ships cannot be converted for military use?

And didn’t we also exchange anti-ship missile technology from Big Brother?
Now that we had the vehicles and the weapons, the navy could no longer suppress its restlessness and decided to study our own large surface ships.

The higher-ups also took into consideration that the current navy is under a lot of pressure and approved their research application.

But this is the first time we have developed our own large surface ship, so to be on the safe side, we decided to send Yang Ning over.

The design and manufacture of large warships is no less expensive than other ships.

If the performance is found to be substandard after the design is manufactured, the losses will be enormous.

In addition, our current ballistic missiles have been developed and the atomic bomb has entered the final stage of manufacturing. There is also a computing center that can handle the computing problems in other project research.

The higher-ups also decided to take advantage of this window period to make up for the shortcomings in the navy.

When Yang Ning arrived at his destination, Shanghai, someone immediately took him to the Shanghai Shipbuilding Factory.

This shipyard can be regarded as one of our earliest modern large-scale shipyards. It is said that ironclad warships could be manufactured here during the Qing Dynasty.

Unfortunately, after the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, the shipyard did not grow stronger, but its manufacturing capacity became weaker and weaker, until it finally lost its shipbuilding ability.

It was not until after liberation that the shipyard regained its vitality. In the early days, with the technical and equipment support of its big brother, it had the ability to manufacture small ships.

Then, with the rapid development of our industrial technology, this shipyard is now capable of manufacturing 10,000-ton ships.

"This is~"

Although we already know that we have exchanged the technology of 10,000-ton civilian ships with Gaul, I still don’t know what a 10,000-ton ship really is. As a person from an inland province in my previous life, although I have seen larger ships on the Internet than the ones currently docked in the dock, they were far less shocking than when I experienced them in person this time.

"Comrade Yang Ning, the bulk carrier that is currently being licensed in this dock is the one we built based on the technical drawings provided by Gallicus."

"The bulk carrier that Gallic Rooster gave us has a maximum displacement of 14 tons, is powered by two steam turbines, has a maximum horsepower of horsepower, and a speed of knots."

"Compared with the current technologies of other countries, they are relatively backward, but these technologies also fill the gaps in our steam turbines, so we came up with the idea of designing our own surface warships."

After a naval chief learned that Yang Ning was sent here, he came specially to receive Yang Ning to show the navy's attention.

"We will try our best to meet any needs you may have. Thank you for your hard work, Comrade Yang Ning!"

"We are all serving the construction, so it can't be called hard work!"

After hearing the leader's words, Yang Ning couldn't help but think of the scientific researchers working hard in the northwest. Compared with them, what was he?

But he was still a little confused: "Commander, I wonder how big a warship you are allowed to build this time. You can't build it to a scale that can defeat the Eagle Sauce, right?"

"You kid!" The chief laughed and scolded after hearing what Yang Ning said: "You really dare to think so?" "I am looking forward to seeing that day, but now our economic conditions and industrial technology are much better than before, but we still have a lot of lessons to make up, and there is not much funding for us to squander like this."

The chief said helplessly: "Because of our coastal defense strategy, the higher-ups only gave us 100 million this time."

Yang Ning was speechless when he heard that there was only 100 million yuan in funding this time.

One hundred million sounds like a lot, but if it is used to build warships, you can only build a few.

Take the now outdated North Carolina-class battleship from the Second World War for example. Its construction cost alone was more than 7000 million U.S. dollars.

Based on the current exchange rate between RMB and USD which is roughly 1:2, even this battleship cannot be built with million yuan of funding.

However, considering that we need money everywhere now, this 100 million yuan in funding was probably saved by the higher-ups by tightening their belts.

Fortunately, we can only do what we have with the budget, and there are no middlemen to make a profit from the price difference. Otherwise, with such a small amount of money, it would be difficult to build an outdated heavy cruiser of the World War II era.

"These funds do not include the cost of building submarines before, right?"

Yang Ning felt a little sympathetic towards the navy at this time. This little money was not as valuable as the gold they had spent on buying the four broken ships from Big Brother.

"What do you think? With this little budget, if it also includes the cost of manufacturing submarines, we might as well not bother at all!"

Yang Ning could hear a strong resentment in the leader's tone.

Come to think of it, as the other side's air force launches new fighter jets one after another, the army's equipment is also being rapidly updated.

Only their navy, apart from some junk bought from the big brother in the beginning, has only one conventional-powered submarine to offer over the years.

Although he could understand the above difficulties, the navy felt very uncomfortable when he saw the other two brothers taking off one by one.

"One hundred million. I'll have to think about it carefully."

Yang Ning was also feeling a headache at this time. With such limited funds, although our navy does not need battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers at this moment, we still have to deploy anti-ship missiles.

We can't be entering the 1960s and still have to ask our naval soldiers to use cannons to fight the enemy, right?

"Commander, let me be frank. This amount of money cannot build many warships. Can you tell me where your navy plans to use these warships after they are built? Only then can I decide what kind of warships to design."

After hearing what Yang Ning said, the chief thought for a while and said, "The east and north are too close to Big Brother and Eagle Sauce, so it's not easy for us to get involved. In order not to provoke these two, after these warships are built, we plan to place them in the south!"

When Yang Ning heard that these warships were planned to be stationed in the south, his eyes suddenly lit up.

If we were to talk about the groups that caused the most trouble on the ocean in later generations, it would be those tiny countries in the south.

Each of them thinks they have the protection of their big daddy, so they keep doing things recklessly.

While our naval power was not yet developed, they occupied many of our islands and reefs and stole many of our marine resources.

However, these tiny countries do not dare to make trouble now, because most of the countries that are making trouble with us at this time are still colonies of others. Only the northern part of Jiaozhi is relatively independent, but they have not yet unified and still need our assistance, so they dare not make too much trouble now.

They haven't finished dealing with things on land yet, so how can they care about things in the sea?

If we can have a superior fleet in the south now, then the south should be able to be more peaceful in the future.

"Oh? If it's placed in the south, then I have to plan it carefully this time."

Apart from the principal's warships occasionally going there, the only other country in the south that has a base is the United States.

If these warships were placed there, they would not need to be very advanced, as long as they could defeat the principal's warships.

In this way, Yang Ning had a rough plan in his mind.

The combination of a 10,000-ton supply landing ship and a 1,000-2,000-ton light missile destroyer can already meet the navy's needs in the south. The key is that these two types of ships are not expensive. One hundred million yuan of funding can already build several formations.

With more warships, we will be more powerful and it will be much easier to protect our territorial waters.

So, after Yang Ning told the leader his idea, the leader thought for a while and said, "I have to go back and discuss this matter with other comrades before I can give you an answer."

"But no matter what, you must first find a way to refer to the technology of this bulk carrier and transfer its technology to military ships."

Then the chief patted Yang Ning on the shoulder and said earnestly: "We have suffered enough in the navy for hundreds of years. Now we can't continue to suffer, so it's up to you next!"

"Don't worry, Commander. I will do my best to cooperate and design advanced warships for our naval soldiers."

Yang Ning immediately straightened up and promised solemnly.

In order to conduct research on the naval warships, most of the country's ship experts were assembled.

The reason for doing this is, on the one hand, to ensure the smooth progress of the project, and on the other hand, to cultivate more talents in this area.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of the project, the leader of the Equipment Department personally took charge and served as the leader of this project team.

Because we already have experience in submarine manufacturing, and we also have Gallic's civilian ship technology as a reference, and we also have Yang Ning as a super assistant.

Although it was a civilian-to-military transition, the project team progressed very quickly. Even though it was necessary to redesign the missile launch system for the warship, it did not stump us, the best experts.

On this day, Yang Ning was discussing the problems encountered in the design with the leaders of other project teams.

Suddenly, the entire Shanghai Shipbuilding Factory seemed to explode.

Just when Yang Ning and the others thought that the principal was trying to sabotage things again, they faintly heard excited shouts from outside: "It exploded! Our atomic bomb exploded successfully today..."

(End of this chapter)