Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 69 Big Brother’s Wrong Thoughts (Please collect and read)
In 1954, our own annual crude steel output had just exceeded two million tons, while our big brother's steel output was only more than million tons.

And in this age of confrontation, isn't it a competition about whose thing is harder?

Therefore, the breakthrough in steelmaking technology not only made us excited, but also led to the rare public recognition of our contribution by Big Brother.

You know, even when we were the first in the world to produce urea steel, Big Brother just gave us some things in exchange.

And according to estimates, if we switch to a 30t pure oxygen top-blown steelmaking furnace, only ten furnaces would be enough to exceed our national steel production this year.

“…The success of the pure oxygen top-blowing technology experiment announces that we will completely bid farewell to the era of steel shortage in the near future.

Here, let us express our heartfelt congratulations and gratitude to the scientific researchers working on the front line..."

Listening to the speech with Hunan accent on the radio, Yang Ning couldn't help but smile and finally felt relieved.

"In this way, the Great Steelmaking Movement in a few years will probably not happen again, right?" he couldn't help but think to himself.

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"Mr. Ye, you have been so popular recently!"

In the blink of an eye, it was the end of 54. Because the next day was New Year's Day, Yang Ning got off work a little earlier than usual.

As soon as the car arrived at the gate of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he met Mr. Ye who was rushing over.

The two haven't seen each other for several months since the last project was completed.

When they met this time, Yang Ning found that although Mr. Ye was dressed much better, his face still revealed fatigue.

"Yang Ning, are you off work?" Mr. Ye heard someone calling him, turned around and found Yang Ning sitting in the car next to him.

Yang Ning got out of the car and looked at Mr. Ye worriedly and said, "Since the experiment has been successful, you should rest for a while. Look at your face now."

"Alas!" Hearing Yang Ning's words, Mr. Ye couldn't help but sigh: "Do you think I don't want to rest?"

"The higher-ups have decided to fully promote pure oxygen top-blowing technology. I need to be fully responsible for the technology. How can I have time to rest? I just came back from the Northeast, and I need to go south again after the Chinese New Year."

"Ah!" Yang Ning was surprised when he heard what Mr. Ye said, "Are you alone?"

"How dare you think that? If I were alone, I would have collapsed from exhaustion. My old bones can't stand that kind of torture."

"In addition to the people who participated in the project before, even some of the technicians from the Shijingshan Iron and Steel Plant who followed me some time ago were sent."

"But these people are far from enough, because not only do we need people, but Big Brother also wants us to send people over."

"Hey! Doesn't that mean that you, Mr. Ye, have a chance to visit Big Brother?" Yang Ning said jokingly.

"Go away. I don't care. What's so good about them?" Old Ye glared at Yang Ning unhappily and said with disgust.

Only then did Yang Ning remember that Mr. Ye was not just a metallurgical expert.

Before liberation, this person was a serious UN official, and he had seen all the world! He really didn't want the opportunity to go to Big Brother.

"Okay, you go ahead and do your work. I'll leave first."

Seeing that Mr. Ye was already mad at himself, Yang Ning was afraid that he would continue pretending, so he just ran away in disgrace.

"Hehe~" Seeing Yang Ning's frustrated look, Hu Yinghong laughed. "What are you laughing at? I just forgot about Mr. Ye's past experiences."

Yang Ning glared and said unhappily.

"Are you going back to the special building now or going straight home?" Hu Yinghong also wanted to save some face for Yang Ning outside, so she stopped laughing at him.

"Let's go back to the special building first!"

Just as Yang Ning was preparing to go home for New Year's Day, in a mysterious place, two imposing men gathered around a table, both looking at the documents in their hands with serious expressions.

"How are we going to deal with Big Brother's request?"

One of the old men, who spoke with a Hunan accent, asked with a lighted cigarette in his hand and frowned.

"Alas! Big Brother's request is indeed a bit embarrassing! He actually asked Mr. Ye to personally lead a team to provide them with technical assistance.

Although this will help improve our reputation, but if we let Mr. Ye go out and something goes wrong, what will we do here?"

A voice with a Wu provincial accent said solemnly.

"Yes! We have just started promoting technology here. Who will handle all the things that we have to deal with, Mr. Ye?"

Actually, if someone else had made this request, we would have refused it. However, all our industrial technologies now depend on the support of Big Brother. If Big Brother gets upset because of this, then it would be a loss.

But it is better to be safe than sorry. Now not only is Big Brother in urgent need of solving the problem of steel shortage, we ourselves are also in great need.

Otherwise, we wouldn't have alarmed the two of them today because of Mr. Ye's matter. If something really happened, the people below wouldn't be able to bear the consequences.

"Then don't go. Just say that we can't do without Master Ye here, but we can ask them to send some experts to come here to learn from Master Ye."

The old man with a Hunan accent put out the cigarette in his hand, stood up and said, "After all, we are not as rich as Big Brother. If we answer them like this, I believe Big Brother will understand our difficulties."

"Hehe." The old man with Wu Sheng's accent smiled when he heard this and didn't say anything else.

He also agreed with his old friend's approach.

Firstly, doing so can protect Mr. Ye's safety to the greatest extent. Secondly, it can also be regarded as recruiting a group of free helpers for Mr. Ye and shutting up Big Brother.

So after getting our response, Big Brother was a little disappointed, but still agreed to our approach.

In fact, although the big brother encountered some minor problems when changing to pure oxygen top blowing technology, it was not to the point where Mr. Ye had to go there in person.

They just found that some of the technical techniques used by Mr. Ye in the top blowing technology seemed to be applicable to other special steels. This gave the big brother, who was worrying about the next generation of equipment materials, a glimmer of hope, so he thought about whether he could get the person over there first.

After all, as long as people are on their territory, do we dare to turn against them?
The reason why Big Brother doesn't care about his face so much is that he was frightened by the nuclear submarine launched by the Eagle Sauce not long ago.

My goodness, everyone was originally using missiles with a range of hundreds or thousands of kilometers, but none of them could threaten the other side's main areas.

The emergence of nuclear submarines directly broke the balance between the two sides. Do you think Big Brother would not be anxious?

　This chapter is a piece of shit, but please forgive me for the sake of intelligence. My son's fever hasn't gone away yet, so I don't have time to think about it.

　　There are too many monthly tickets today, so I can only say thank you collectively. I can only thank everyone for their monthly tickets here.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)