Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 231 Photolithography Machine (Subscription Request)
"Yang Ning, Director Yang Shu has passed away!"

Sure enough, not long after he entered the office in 58 years, when Yang Ning was processing the data sent to him in the office, Zhao Yang ran in hurriedly and said with a heavy face.

Although he had expected it, Yang Ning still found it a little hard to accept when the moment really came.

Yang Fengyu can be said to be the first acquaintance of Yang Ning who passed away in the nearly ten years since he traveled through time.

As for Jia Zhang, let’s skip this part.

Thinking back to when Yang Ning had just traveled through time, in order to be able to bring out the power of his golden finger as quickly as possible, he foolishly went straight to the Military Control Commission, which had not yet been abolished, to confess.

If Yang Fengyu had not taken it very seriously and not treated the young boy's words as a joke, and after reporting Yang Ning's situation, he also took special care of their family, I am afraid that Yang Ning would not have been able to grow up so smoothly in his early years.

Not to mention anything else, if there hadn't been the deterrent effect of the Military Control Commission, just dealing with all the mess in the Siheyuan would have been enough to give Yang Ning a headache.

Unfortunately, nine years later, the young boy did not disappoint Uncle Yang's expectations and grew into a qualified pillar of society. Unfortunately, Uncle Yang, who had protected Yang Ning at the beginning, has left the world for which he had fought all his life.

"Prepare the car!"

Yang Ning suppressed the grief in his heart, put down the paper and pen in his hand, rubbed his face hard, and said in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

Although after Uncle Yang retired due to illness, Zhao Yang, Yang Ning's former secretary, took over as the director of the Data Processing Institute.

But he also understood who had the most influence in the entire data processing institute.

When Director Yang was around, he could still admonish Yang Ning as an elder, but he couldn't.

If he really didn't handle his relationship with Yang Ning well, he might be kicked out the next moment.

Besides, after Director Yang retired due to illness, although he became the director of the Data Processing Institute, Yang Ning also became the director of the Data Processing Institute.

He and others have only one responsibility, which is to protect Yang Ning with all their strength, cooperate with Yang Ning's work, and help him solve some trivial matters in life and work.

So Zhao Yang, who knew that Yang Ning and Director Yang had passed by, did not dare to delay and hurried out to prepare the car.

When Yang Ning calmed himself down and walked out, he found that the remaining staff members of the data processing institute were all standing at the door with solemn expressions.

Obviously, they also knew the news of Uncle Yang's death at this time. Although they could not attend Uncle Yang's funeral in person, they also wanted to see him off for the last time in this way.

No matter what, when Uncle Yang was the director of the Data Processing Institute, he was very caring towards the soldiers in the institute.

After seeing this situation, Yang Ning nodded to them solemnly, then walked out of the data processing institute with heavy steps.

"When did Uncle Yang leave?" Sitting in the car, Yang Ning asked Zhao Yang, who was also going to see Uncle Yang off for the last time.

"Early this morning!" Zhao Yang replied immediately.

"Then please ask for two days off for me!" Yang Ning leaned his head on the seat and said with a bleak expression. Zhao Yang understood that Yang Ning was going to help Director Yang deal with the aftermath, so he did not hesitate at all and asked with concern: "Are two days enough? How about I ask for a few more days off for you?"

"I'm not as fragile as you think. Two days are enough." Yang Ning shook his head slightly and rejected Zhao Yang's kindness.

Then he looked at Zhao Yang seriously and said, "But we will be busy in the future. So many ancestors are looking forward to the arrival of a prosperous era. We can't let them wait too long."

When Yang Ning thought of Uncle Yang's carefree look with a hint of unwillingness, he knew that he didn't have much time to waste.

Since our ancestors have built this country with their own hands, then what reason is there not to let them see with their own eyes the prosperous era in their hearts?
After dealing with Uncle Yang's funeral with a heavy heart, Yang Ning did not stop for a moment and immediately threw himself into work.

After asking about the Semiconductor Research Institute's research progress on silicon single crystals, and learning that they had developed semiconductor materials that could be used in computers and were working on the technology of dislocation-free silicon single crystals, Yang Ning immediately had a new research direction, which was to design our own lithography machine.

The reason for choosing this is that Yang Ning knows that he cannot solve all problems by himself. Only by developing more advanced computers can we accelerate our development.

In modern society, any scientific research project cannot be separated from the assistance of computers, because with the introduction of science and technology, future research will only become more and more complex, and more and more computing problems will be involved.

Otherwise, in the future, the strength of a country will not only be measured by its military and economy, but computing power will also be an important criterion for measuring a country's development potential.

"Yang Ning, what are you going to research this time? Why do you need to form a team to cooperate with the research? And this photolithography machine, why haven't I heard of it before? What is it used for?"

When Zhao Yang saw the project plan that Yang Ning handed to him, he was stunned.

In his impression, according to Yang Ning's usual practice, in areas that he is not familiar with, he would play an auxiliary role, deal with some calculation problems, or he would take care of everything by himself.

This is the first time Yang Ning has encountered something that requires teamwork in the few years he has been working.

That’s right, Yang Ning doesn’t plan to take on the entire lithography machine project this time.

Even though the technical requirements for lithography machines are not that high now, the manufacture of lithography machines involves knowledge in so many technical fields that he cannot solve it alone.

So this time he plans to form a team himself and try to lead the research of a project himself.

In the past, he had always been involved in assisting others in the projects he participated in, but this time Yang Ning planned to do it himself.

"Don't ask so many questions. You just need to hand in this plan. After it's approved, I will explain it to you in detail."

Although the world's first lithography machine for manufacturing integrated circuits was not produced until the early 60s, lithography machines for printing had been developed decades ago, so now the technology of lithography machines is not very difficult.

Historically, we were able to manufacture lithography machines in 66, and our current industrial technology level is much stronger than it was in 66.

So now, we already have all the technical conditions to manufacture lithography machines, but because integrated circuits have not yet been invented, no one has thought about this.

"Okay, I won't ask any more questions, but I believe that even you can't solve it by yourself. It requires the cooperation of research institutes in so many fields. I believe it must be very important."

Seeing that Yang Ning was unwilling to talk to him more, Zhao Yang stopped asking questions. After all, his main job was to ensure Yang Ning's logistics.

(End of this chapter)