Siheyuan: Game of Red Dust

Chapter 134 New Materials
"Okay, Chief." Captain Liu took the blueprint and handed it to several officers behind him, then followed Li Weidong and others into the mountains.

Li Weidong followed the same route he took last time, and while walking, he talked to Captain Liu and the others about building a road here, adding a sentry post at a certain location, and constructing a defensive building. After walking for five or six kilometers, they finally arrived at the location selected by Li Weidong.

"Captain Liu, this is it. We will build a power station on this flat location. We may also build an underground base in the future and build fortifications on the mountains on all sides. These are all drawn on the drawings. You can just follow the drawings to construct." Li Weidong said.

Captain Liu nodded, picked up the blueprint and compared it with the situation on site. After a moment, he said, "Captain, no problem. We will enter the site as soon as possible and start construction."

"Well, okay, feel free to contact me if you have any needs. You should first open the way in as soon as possible. Then we will pull in the defensive weapons and equipment and install them directly when building the defense facilities." Li Weidong said.

"I understand. We will bring people here tomorrow," said Captain Liu.

They chatted for a while, and then went to the mountains on all sides to take a look at the specific location and what kind of fortifications were to be built. Li Weidong also took the blueprint and introduced it to Captain Liu and the others.

After touring all the areas, the group returned to their original location. Returning to their parking spot, Li Weidong again instructed Team Leader Liu to follow the design drawings. If any materials didn't meet the standards, he should be notified and he would find a solution. Finally, he discussed the issue of the institute's housing building with Team Leader Liu.

Team leader Liu said that they would definitely carry out the construction according to the requirements of the drawings, but the matter of the institute's residential building needed to be reported to their superiors, and they could only start construction after obtaining their superiors' permission.

Li Weidong nodded, said goodbye to Captain Liu and the others, asked the guard to call back Squad Leader Wang, and then the group drove back to the Sijiucheng Research Institute.

After returning to the research institute, Li Weidong did not go back to the office, but went straight into the institute to check the progress of the defense weapons, defense radars and other equipment produced for the nuclear power plant. He told the engineers in charge of the project to speed up the progress while ensuring quality, as the construction of the power plant site was about to begin and defense facilities would need to be deployed soon.

Li Weidong chatted with the engineers of the institute for a while, then returned to his office to continue to deduce the materials for controlled nuclear fusion equipment.

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Half a month passed in a flash. During this time, Squad Leader Wang's wedding was also held at the institute. He was given four rooms, very close to Li Weidong's courtyard. Qin Jingru was also recruited to work as a kitchen helper in the institute's cafeteria.

The road to the power station has finally been opened. Starting today, the defense equipment developed by the research institute has begun to be shipped to the power station. Once the defenses are installed, Squad Leader Wang and his team, who are in charge of the research institute and security, will enter the power station to deploy defenses. Because the guard regiment cannot leave the city, the military has transferred a regiment from elsewhere. Once the power station's defenses are completed, they will enter the station and cooperate with Squad Leader Wang and his team to complete the deployment and protect the power station's safety.

On Li Weidong's side, after half a month of deduction, simulation, and experimentation in the small world, he finally developed and produced new high-temperature resistant materials, new superconducting materials, and mature technologies and supporting facilities for controlled nuclear fusion.

As soon as the work was completed, Li Weidong convened a meeting of all the personnel in the research institute who were involved in materials.

In the conference room, after everyone was seated, Li Weidong distributed the materials in his hand. "These are several new materials I've developed: new high-temperature resistant materials and new superconducting materials. They have detailed notes on them. These materials will be key for the next project. Everyone, please put aside all your current work and devote all your energy to the research and development of these materials. Test them and see if they meet the standards. Do they need further improvement?" Li Weidong said seriously.

Everyone present looked at the information about the new materials in their hands. After reading it, everyone was stunned. The indicators of some aspects of these new materials were frighteningly high. They were resistant to high temperatures of hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius. Can the materials withstand such temperatures?
"Director, are the indicators here true? Are they required to withstand temperatures of over 100 million degrees?" asked a technician from the institute.

"Yes, the next project is controlled nuclear fusion power generation, which uses nuclear energy just like our mushroom bomb.

"Controlled nuclear fusion works by fusing two lighter nuclei into a heavier nucleus. This process releases a large amount of energy, so our materials must meet these standards. Otherwise, they will be unqualified and will not meet the requirements for controlled nuclear fusion," said Li Weidong.

"I understand, Chief." Everyone said.

"Okay, let's get to work!" said Li Weidong.

Everyone in the conference room nodded, picked up the information about the new material, and walked towards the research institute to start making the new material.

Li Weidong also followed everyone into the research institute and started making new materials with the technicians.

Although we had Li Weidong's information and guidance, there were still some bumps and bruises. However, after a week of joint efforts by the entire institute, we finally produced a new material and verified it as qualified.

After the new material was verified to be qualified, Li Weidong handed the equipment drawings of controlled nuclear fusion to the technicians of the institute, asking them to use the new material and produce it according to the equipment drawings, and try to produce it before the construction of the power station is completed, and then pull it into the power station for assembly after the construction of the power station is completed.

In the following days, apart from occasionally visiting the power station site in Changping to check on the progress of construction, Li Weidong directed the production of controlled nuclear fusion equipment at the research institute.

The power station's defense equipment had been installed, and the security team had already entered the station and begun their work. Because there was no electricity in the mountains, Li Weidong urgently built a batch of photovoltaic power generation equipment to provide power for the defense radar and computers.

Li Weidong and Team Leader Liu estimated that the power station construction would be completed in about a month. The controlled nuclear fusion equipment produced by the institute would also be completed in about a month. This was a perfect time. Once the power station construction was complete, the institute could transport the controlled nuclear fusion equipment to the power station for assembly, and then begin the Golden Crow Project experiment.

Li Weidong continued to toil away from home. A month later, with the power plant site complete and the controlled nuclear fusion equipment two days away, Li Weidong announced the start of shipments of the completed equipment to the power plant. The research institute's controlled nuclear fusion project personnel began moving in and assembling the equipment. Once all the equipment was delivered and assembled, the Golden Crow Project experiments began.

(End of this chapter)