Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 67 Urea Steel is Out (Please collect and support!)
"Comrade Yang Ning, how are you? Do you feel a lot of pressure?"

After the meeting, President Guo asked Yang Ning to take his car and return to the Chinese Academy of Sciences together.

In the car, he looked at Yang Ning who was concerned and asked.

"Not bad." Yang Ning smiled and said, "The atomic energy industry will not start preparations until next year. We still have to look for uranium mines, organize preparations, and discuss technology. These will take at least one or two years to complete."

"As for steel, if the experiments of Mr. Ye and Professor Dong are successful, the rest will be the promotion of technology by the Ministry of Metallurgy."

"As for the rest, take your time!"

"Haha~" Dean Guo said, and also smiled: "You are right to think so. Even though there are so many projects established, we can't become fat all at once."

"By the way, speaking of Mr. Ye's project, what do you think is the probability of success?"

Speaking of the pure oxygen top blowing technology that Yang Ning and Mr. Ye had been tinkering with before, Dean Guo became excited and looked at Yang Ning with anticipation and asked.

"It should be about the same. Anyway, there is no problem in the theoretical design. Unfortunately, the cost of the electric furnace is too high. We can only use the converter for the time being."

Although Mr. Ye and Yang Ning considered using a more efficient electric slag furnace at the beginning, considering our current situation, they chose a more economical converter.

There's nothing we can do about it, it's because we are poor now.

"Why do you suddenly ask this?" Yang Ning was a little surprised. Dean Guo usually wouldn't care so much about any one project, but now he suddenly asked about this. There was obviously something going on.

"Alas, those experts from Big Brother got the news from somewhere that we were conducting an experiment on pure oxygen top blowing technology, and they also want to get involved."

Dean Guo said helplessly, after all, this is our current situation. There are Big Brothers in every industry and it is obviously unrealistic to completely hide it from them.

But they didn't object, which made Yang Ning even more curious: "Didn't they object or laugh at us for overestimating our capabilities?"

"Humph!" Dean Guo felt relieved when he talked about this. He said with a bit of gloating: "Of course not. At the beginning, those experts thought we were daydreaming and wasted our efforts.

It wasn't until Master Ye threw the design drawings in their faces that they shut up."

Unlike later generations where the navy would run away when they saw someone carrying a paint bucket, now the navy themselves are carrying paint buckets and looking eagerly at what good things the coast police have. The coast police are really afraid that the navy will steal their wooden boats equipped with engines.

So Big Brother had designs on us from the beginning. The breakdown of our relationship with Big Brother a few years later was actually foreshadowed.

"They actually wanted us to share this technology with them on the grounds of friendship." At this point, even Dean Guo was amused by the shamelessness of the big brother expert.

Why didn’t you mention friendship when four junky warships wanted 68 tons of gold from us last year? Now that they want our technology, you’re talking about friendship again.

"Then we didn't agree?" Yang Ning asked worriedly.

After all, we still need the help of Big Brother now. If they agree to this request under pressure, Yang Ning will really have to change his work pace.

After all, no matter what good things you have researched, you can't hide it from Big Brother's group of experts, but if you give it away for free, Yang Ning will feel like he is losing out.

After all, none of the technologies that Big Brother supports us are free.

"How can we give it to them for free?" Dean Guo looked at Yang Ning like he was a fool and said, "Of course we disagreed. In the end, Big Brother promised us that after the experiment was successful, he would help us transform all the steel plants for free and also promised to support us with a fertilizer plant for free. Only then did we agree to let them participate."

"So that means Big Brother's experts are now involved?"

"Well, we can't hide this from Big Brother, and we can't really reject them either. It's good enough to get a little more support now."

Dean Guo seemed to have let out a sigh of relief, and he was obviously in better spirits after he finished speaking. He must have been quite irritated by some of the experts at Big Brother during this period, and he must have been holding a lot of anger in his heart.

Haha, those experts of Big Brother are really enough to make the "talented rogue" in the eyes of the tree people so angry.

It is no wonder that when Big Brother and I withdrew our experts, our scientific researchers felt angry but also felt a sense of relief.

After returning to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yang Ning said goodbye to President Guo and went straight into the office.

Under the astonished looks of Hu Yinghong and Director Lu, he picked up a drawing and started writing.

Because just now, after a month of computational simulation, Yang Ning finally improved the previous formula of ultra-low carbon steel into qualified urea steel.

Urea steel is not only related to subsequent agricultural production, but also to our petrochemical industry.

Not only that, as long as qualified urea steel is produced, it can be exported to earn foreign exchange.

In the 50s, with the development of society, in order to meet the growing demand for food and energy, the world began to look for a new material with high corrosion resistance and strength that can maintain stable performance under high temperature, high pressure and strong corrosive environment to solve the problems encountered in urea and petrochemical production.

However, the formula process that Yang Ning is writing now can fully meet these requirements.

It can be said that the formula and process drawings in Yang Ning's hand will be a hen that lays golden eggs in the next one or two years.

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"Is this recipe really so useful that other countries don't have it yet?"

Dean Guo held the information in his hand, looked at Yang Ning and asked seriously.

After all, this time is different from the previous pure oxygen top blowing technology. Although the pure oxygen top blowing technology is already in the experimental stage, other countries have already had it.

This new material was first researched by Rabbit. Not to mention its economic significance, just the enhancement of international reputation cannot allow President Guo to be careless.

After all, we have lagged behind for too long and we desperately need to make our own voice heard in scientific research and industry.

"Shouldn't there be any?" Yang Ning was not sure. After all, urea steel appeared during this period, and he didn't know if other countries had it. "But Dean Guo, this formula is not my credit. I just improved it based on Professor Hu's information."

Yang Ning pointed to the unopened document on the table and said.

He didn't dare to be careless about this, so he brought the original materials sent by Professor Hu with him when he came.

"Haha~ Whoever it belongs to should own it. I also know Professor Hu's information, but the ideas in his information cannot meet the requirements of your information!"

"If I didn't have Professor Hu's original information, I wouldn't be able to come up with this recipe!"

Yang Ning continued, he certainly knew that it would be impossible to produce urea steel if they still followed the materials provided by Professor Hu.

However, Professor Hu's original formula and some unique smelting methods also constitute the basic framework of urea steel.

Otherwise, with Yang Ning's half-baked skills, he would never be able to produce urea steel.

"Okay, I'll let the Metallurgical Department handle this material. As for Professor Hu, I'll explain it to them."

Normally, after Yang Ning finished processing the materials, he should return them to Professor Hu, but the formula was too important, so Yang Ning had to hand it over to Dean Guo.

If Professor Hu and his school do not attach importance to this formula, then this formula will be lost in obscurity.

Don't think that such a thing won't happen. When the Rabbit industry was thoroughly investigated in later generations, why didn't they say anything? It's because those products were buried before.

How many technologies are not taken seriously until decades after they were invented? Who can say that such a thing does not exist?

If we could achieve self-sufficiency in urea production ahead of time, coupled with Yang Ning's previous well-drilling equipment, I believe the great famine in a few years would be a little better.

Speaking of the previous well-drilling equipment, it was destroyed by the higher-ups due to the lack of steel at the time.

Yang Ning was thinking whether he should wait until the pure oxygen top-blowing technology was popularized before raising the issue with his superiors. After all, if a few more wells could be drilled, the losses would be less when faced with a disaster in a few years.

After handing the information over to Dean Guo, Yang Ning had nothing to do next. After all, he was just a ruthless calculating tool.

Back in his office, Yang Ning looked at the thick pile of documents waiting to be processed on his desk and sighed deeply.

"What's wrong?" Hu Yinghong, who was sitting at her desk, saw him like this and asked puzzledly.

"I don't know. After seeing this information, I suddenly felt annoyed for no reason."

Yang Ning knew that he had entered a period of boredom after working for a period of time.

No matter who you are, after doing this kind of work day after day, you will experience this kind of emotion after a period of time.

Even if someone is addicted to games, if you turn playing games into his job, he will become disgusted with playing games after a period of time.

"Hehe~" Hu Yinghong chuckled after hearing Yang Ning's words.

She knew that Yang Ning was entering a period of work fatigue, a stage that almost everyone who works will experience, including her.

She entered the front line with great enthusiasm, hoping that she could rely on her medical skills to help more comrades reduce their pain.

But after a while, the separation and death she saw every day made her fall into this inexplicable distress.

In this kind of situation, others can only give guidance and cannot help at all, but most people can get out of it on their own.

"Okay, if you don't want to do it, then don't do it. It's good to take a break. Do you want me to ask Director Lu for a leave for you?"

"Forget it!" Yang Ningqiang cheered himself up and shook his head. Thinking of those scientific researchers who were eagerly waiting for the results from him, he suppressed the irritation in his heart and refused.

Over the following period of time, Yang Ning discovered that Hu Yinghong's attitude towards him had changed while she was working.

How should I put it? He is no longer just doing his job as usual and occasionally chats with me about topics that are not related to work.

Director Lu came over every now and then to ask about his well-being, and from time to time he reminded him not to get too tired, and would take him to the military shooting range when he was free.

Yang Ning knew that Hu Yinghong must have told her superiors about her situation, which led to this change.

The higher-ups were also worried that Yang Ning would become depressed. With various major projects about to be launched, if something unexpected happened to Yang Ning's booster, the loss would be huge.

"If you're annoyed, just go out for a walk. We can't really treat this kid like a machine!"

With this instruction, Yang Ning found that not only did Hu Yinghong and Director Lu rarely work with a serious face, but they were also forced to rest on Sundays.

Yang Ning guessed that they were really afraid that something would happen to him and that the data processing institute would be completely closed down.

It’s just like those majors with only one candidate mentioned on the Internet in the previous life. If there is a problem with that one candidate, all the teachers and professors of the entire major will probably have to take a holiday.

After a period of adjustment, the feeling of irritability gradually disappeared.

"We succeeded! We succeeded! We are now number one in the world!"

That day, when Yang Ning was processing documents in the office, Dean Guo rushed in excitedly with a piece of paper in his hand.

"What's successful?" Yang Ning was a little confused at first, then he suddenly remembered the formula he gave to Dean Guo more than a month ago, raised his head and asked in surprise: "Urea steel was successfully produced?"

"Yes." Dean Guo nodded, slapped the paper in his hand on Yang Ning's desk, and said excitedly: "It's a success. All indicators have met the standards. Moreover, there are no similar products in the world. We also have a world first."

(End of this chapter)