Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 252: The design of the J- is completed (Subscription required)

After following Director Nie on a tour of the southwest region, Yang Ning finally realized how many things we had hidden in the southwest region.

The steel production in the southwest region alone exceeds 2000 million tons per year.

This output, when Yang Ning had just graduated and developed the pure oxygen top blowing technology a few years ago, was already almost the same as the national annual steel output.

What's more, the southwest region also gathers all our current high-end technology industries. From this point, it can be seen that Director Nie's main task in coming to the southwest this time is probably to prevent sudden changes in the international situation and to come and inspect our third-line construction work.

"Comrade Yang Ning, you have been following me around the southwest for so long. What do you think?"

On the train back to Sijiu City, Director Nie wanted to test Yang Ning.

"The Southwest is our rear base. We are now making arrangements in advance and our leaders are far-sighted!" Yang Ning said sincerely.

After all, in history, our Third Front construction project also made the Eagle Sauce and the Russian Bear very fearful, which is one of the reasons why we were able to survive that most dangerous period.

After all, the "foot basin chicken" has set an example for other countries before. As long as the southwest region is still there, we have a chance to make a comeback.

"The southwest region can only be the rear area?" Director Nie was obviously not satisfied with Yang Ning's answer, so he continued to ask further.

"Then what else?" Based on the information from his previous life, Yang Ning could only think of this, so he scratched his head and asked embarrassedly.

"Third brother has not been very well-behaved in recent years. The southwest may become our logistics base for the front line." Director Nie said solemnly.

After hearing what Director Nie said, Yang Ning showed a painful expression.

Some time ago, we had a small-scale conflict with India over border issues.

In that conflict, the Russian bear directly sided with India without asking right or wrong, which was also one of the reasons why our relationship with the Russian bear took a sharp turn for the worse.

As our relationship with the Russian bears deteriorated, the Russian bears transferred all their love for us to the third brother.

At this time, Sri Lanka always regarded itself as the leader of the Third World. In the 1930s, it had ambitious plans to establish an Indian federal state that would include us and Myanmar.

Now that they have the help and promise from Big Brother, their ambitions are growing even more.

Previously, because of San Ge's various self-promotions, we had seriously misjudged his strength.

However, Yang Ning never imagined that one of the reasons why the authorities were vigorously developing the southwest region was to prepare for a big war with the third brother.

Yang Ning wanted to tell Director Nie directly: "For an enemy like Third Brother, there is no need to prepare at all. Just charge directly when the time comes! Once you charge, they will collapse."

But Yang Ning couldn't say it directly. After all, the third brother's strength on paper was still very strong.

But who could have thought that the third brother at this time would be such a useless person. It was even more impossible for Yang Ning, who had never been abroad, to know this.

Although India has not had any impressive military achievements before, considering our situation, what if India becomes stronger after getting rid of colonial rule?
Director Nie did not notice Yang Ning's abnormality at this time, and continued: "So we must be prepared to fight a tough battle in the plateau area, so if we want to enhance the combat effectiveness of the plateau garrison, do you have any ideas?"

"What specific problems need to be solved?" Although Yang Ning knew that his third brother was useless, he was still willing to see it enhance the combat effectiveness of our plateau soldiers.

"Transportation problems and food problems." Director Nie said.

"Due to the geographical location and environmental reasons of the plateau, the roads there have not been built yet. We can only rely on human and animal power, which cannot meet the needs of the front line in wartime."

"Also, the water in the plateau area can't be boiled at all, and the rice can't be cooked. The soldiers have been eating half-cooked meals for a long time, which makes it difficult to ensure their combat effectiveness."

Speaking of this, Director Nie looked worried.

Hearing this, Yang Ning also had some ideas. To be honest, as for the logistical supply problem in the plateau areas, even in the future, it will mainly rely on helicopters and manpower. Unless an anti-gravity device is invented, the topography and environment of the plateau areas will make it impossible to completely solve the logistical supply problem there in a short period of time.

However, it is easy to solve the problem of letting the plateau soldiers eat cooked food.

Just use the pressure cooker. With our current industrial scale and level, it won’t take long to distribute a pressure cooker to each soldier in the plateau area.

"How about it, do you have any ideas?" Seeing Yang Ning's expression, Director Nie asked seriously.

"As for the transportation problems in the plateau area, we can only speed up the construction of infrastructure there, and then we will be able to solve most of the problems."

"As for the last section of the supply line, unless there is a huge technological breakthrough in the field of aviation, this problem will never be completely solved."

Thinking of the strong winds and heavy snow in the plateau area, this would be a difficult problem even when Yang Ning traveled through time in the future, let alone now.

"As for solving the soldiers' food problem, that's not difficult."

"Oh, what do you think?" Director Nie was not disappointed that Yang Ning was unable to completely solve the transportation problem in the plateau area.

After all, even the United States and Russia today would be helpless when faced with the geographical environment of the plateau.

It is already a pleasant surprise that Yang Ning can now solve the food problem of the soldiers in the plateau areas.

The pressure cooker is not a difficult technology. On the way back to the city, Yang Ning used his free time to design the pressure cooker.

After handing the drawings to Director Nie, the rest was no longer his business.

Just when Yang Ning returned to Sijiu City, the Lou family in Hong Kong was in trouble.

With the development of our industrial technology, Hong Kong has become an important window for us to showcase ourselves to the outside world, serving as a bridge between us and the Western world.

Especially in recent years, it has become a distribution center for our foreign trade.

This has allowed Hong Kong to reap the biggest benefits of our development. In just five years, it has already taken shape as a modern city.

On the top floor of the bustling Lou Building in Central, Lou Sichang stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking at the prosperous night view of Hong Kong, his brows deeply furrowed.

"Manager Chen, has the approval for the land in Kowloon not come down yet?"

In the office, a middle-aged man in his thirties stood nervously behind him.

"Boss Lou, not yet. They said there's something wrong with the use of our land."

Manager Chen answered cautiously facing the new heir to the Lou family.

Ever since Lou Shouxing came to Hong Kong, relying on the relationship with the north and the connections they had accumulated before, the Lou family has finally gained a foothold in Hong Kong.

After Lou Sichang got married and had a child last year, Lou Shouxing began to retreat behind the scenes to enjoy family happiness and handed the company over to his son Lou Sichang for management. Recently, as we established diplomatic relations with Gallicus, John Bull felt that his interests were damaged, so he started to make trouble in Hong Kong and began to suppress some businessmen who were inclined to our side.

After all, in John Bull's view, they previously occupied the vast majority of our trade cooperation with the Western world, earning hundreds of millions of pounds in profits every year.

But now the Gallic rooster suddenly came over to get a piece of the pie, which made the always greedy John Bull unable to bear it.

In addition, due to historical reasons, John Bull and Gaul have always disliked each other, not to mention that John Bull is now involved in isolating Gaul.

We are now on close terms with the Gallic chickens, which makes John Bull feel that we are deliberately going against them.

"Is that so? You just urge us a little more. If there are any problems, we will fix them. I will figure out the rest."

"Yes!"

After Lou Sichang returned home, Lou Shouxing saw that his son looked exhausted, so he put his grandson down and asked curiously, "What happened to the company?"

In response to his father's question, Lou Sichang did not hide the fact: "The Hong Kong government seems to be targeting us during this period. Several of our projects have been blocked."

In Lou Sichang's opinion, although his father Lou Shouxing has retreated to the second line, he is still the mainstay of the entire Lou family, so he also wants to ask his father's opinion on the current situation.

"Do you have any idea to break the impasse?" Lou Shouxing asked curiously.

"No, now we can only communicate with the Hong Kong government first."

"Idiot!" Lou Shouxing couldn't help but scold his son after hearing his solution.

Lou Sichang was confused by his father's sudden action and didn't understand where he had gone wrong.

After all, in his opinion, Hong Kong is now under the control of John Bull. Faced with this situation, of course he must communicate with the Hong Kong government first.

"Is there something wrong with doing this?" Although he didn't know what he did wrong, he was indeed obedient, so he carefully asked his father for advice.

"This is a big problem." Seeing that his son was willing to ask for advice, Lou Shouxing patiently explained to him, "Do you know why John Bull is targeting us this time?"

Lou Sichang nodded.

"Then tell me about it." Lou Shouxing said.

"It's simply because we have a good relationship with the North, and the North has established diplomatic relations with Gaul. John Bull feels that his interests have been infringed, so he uses this method to express his dissatisfaction."

"Not that stupid!" After hearing his son's answer, Lou Shouxing nodded with satisfaction.

"So if we want to solve this problem, the key is not to see what we do, but to see what the ancestral family in the north does."

"Please help me make an appointment with Mr. Huo and the others. I will treat them to morning tea tomorrow!"

The next day, after Lou Shouxing and Mr. Huo gathered together, the several families soon set off "secretly" to the north.

Shortly thereafter, we announced that for certain reasons, we would be reducing production of some of our products.

The products whose production was reduced were precisely those represented by John Bull merchants.

What made John Bull even more angry was that we only reduced their share. Not only did the shares of other agents not decrease at all, but the part of their share that was reduced was actually transferred to the Gallic merchant agent.

John Bull the businessman was so angry that he almost cursed, you guys don't even want to act anymore, right?

Although he knew that this was our counterattack, for the sake of hundreds of millions of pounds in annual profits, John Bull quickly lifted the business restrictions on the Lou family after making a hypocritical statement.

After all, we are just giving a warning now. If any other actions are taken, John Bull might be in danger of losing everything.

After all, we are one of the only four nuclear-armed countries in the world.

John Bull's concession has further deepened our influence in Hong Kong.

As time slowly passed, the last year of the fifties passed.

In this year, we said goodbye to Big Brother and welcomed new friends.

With the successful development of our thermonuclear weapons and medium-range ballistic missiles with a range of 5600 kilometers, this year we can finally hold our heads high and stand tall among the world.

And as our cooperation with the Gallic Chickens deepens, our development has not been affected by changes in the international situation.

Not only that, this year, with the introduction of Gallic chicken technology, we also completed the standardized transformation of the industrial system across the country.

These changes have also brought our industrial development into a new era.

Sijiucheng Aerospace Research Institute. Since returning to Sijiucheng, Yang Ning has plunged into the Aerospace Research Institute and concentrated on the research and development of the J-8.

"Director Yang, this is our design plan. Do you think there are any problems with it?"

Just as the 60th anniversary came, the aircraft engine research group finally came up with a preliminary design plan after encountering the last hurdle in the J- project.

Because of Yang Ning's suggestion, the J-8's turbofan engine adopted a small duct design from the very beginning.

Although the small duct design consumes more fuel and its thrust is not as good as the large duct design, the small duct design with a higher thrust-to-weight ratio is more suitable for use on the J-8 fighter.

Judging from the design drawings, the thrust-to-weight ratio of this engine reaches 7:1, the maximum outer diameter is 1300 mm, the bypass ratio is 0.65, the maximum boost thrust is 115 kN, and the intermediate thrust is 73 kN.

Although it is slightly inferior to the AL27 engine used in Su-31, the AL31 engine was produced by the Soviet Union in 73. Now we have advanced it by more than ten years, so it is understandable that it is a little inferior.

Looking at the design drawings in his hand, Yang Ning couldn't help but cheer and applaud for our scientists in his heart.

It seems that what limits the performance of our scientists is always the issue of national strength.

In the future, when we become the second largest economy, who will be worse off than us in the field of science and technology?
After reviewing the design drawings sent by the engine research group, Yang Ning found that there were no major problems overall, but there were always some unsatisfactory aspects in the handling of some details.

For example, the design of the air holes and the physical design can easily cause the fan blades to break and the engine to gasp.

After a long discussion with the engine research group, in March 60, after a year of research, the Aviation Research Institute completed the overall design of the J- fighter.

At this moment, Yang Ning thought of the eight-for-one exchange in later generations and the martyr's tragic words "I can't go back!" and couldn't help but let the sand into his eyes.

(End of this chapter)