Xiaomi Heavy Industry, its first entrepreneurial venture!

Chapter 422 Unbeatable Efficiency! (Second Update!)
"Is it very difficult?" Gao Hai asked.

“Not difficult!” Lin Yi reached out and pulled back the photo, then casually stuffed it into the drawer. “The only difficulty is that this thing needs to withstand tens of thousands of sudden bursts of pressure from zero to hundreds or thousands of tons without deforming or cracking.”

"It's not difficult at all!"

After explaining, Lin Yi looked at Cao Bin, then pointed at Gao Hai with his right hand and said:

"I made a bet with Representative Gao. I bet we can install it successfully on the first try and also test it successfully!"

"He's no good at gambling!"

"The wager is eating all sorts of weird and strange foods."

"I don't want to eat it, so go find a few roosters and offer them a prayer to those parts. We'll officially install them tomorrow!"

Bet on some weird food?

Cao Bin immediately thought of the West Lake Vinegar Fish he had eaten at Taihu Tower. In that dish, West Lake was West Lake, vinegar was vinegar, and fish was fish.

The thought of that smell made him involuntarily shudder, take two steps back, and then nod his head vigorously.
"Don't worry, senior brother, I will definitely not let you eat those things."

Cao Bin patted his chest hard, turned around and went out. He called two people from the security office, walked out of the telecommunications company gate, and entered the urban village across the street.

"Shameless!" In the office, Gao Hai didn't give Lin Yi a thumbs up until about ten minutes after Cao Bin left. "To win, you, a Party member, actually led the way in promoting feudal superstition?"

"Bullshit!" Lin Yi glared. "Suzhou has always had the custom of sacrificial rites. What I'm doing is respecting traditional customs and promoting traditional culture. Don't just learn a word and use it indiscriminately. If you have time, contact President Tan right away."

Ask him if he wants to come over!

Unable to argue with Lin Yi, Gao Hai could only take his phone and go outside to call Tan Chuan.

Just a few minutes later, he returned to Lin Yi with a long face:

"Mr. Tan said he's leaving now, and if he's quick, he'll arrive around three or four in the morning."

Upon receiving this news, Lin Yi couldn't help but sigh. This elderly man, who was already in his fifties, was going through all this trouble; he wondered if his body could withstand it.

He shook his head, picked up the phone, and walked to the window: "Then I'll go arrange accommodation for him!"

…………

Suzhou Airport.

Yuan Minghui stood at the airport exit, staring blankly at this Jiangnan city that he had seen countless times in books but was seeing for the first time.

After staring blankly for a while, he walked to the roadside and hailed a taxi.

"Hanshan Temple District, Xiaomi Heavy Industry!"

An hour and a half later, Gao Hai stood in front of the special alloy company, glancing at both sides of the road from time to time.

The car's headlights shone from a distance and finally stopped in front of him. Yuan Minghui was about to take out his money to pay when he stepped forward, took out 100 yuan, and handed it to the driver: "Keep the change!"

The driver glared at him, about to speak, but Gao Hai immediately glared back:

"You need your change, right?"

"Give me back 40!"

Knowing the person in front of him was not easily fooled, the taxi driver turned his head, floored the gas pedal, and disappeared into the night.

After cursing at the departing taxi, Gao Hai turned around and looked at Yuan Minghui with a puzzled expression: "Director Yuan, what brings you here?"

"Come over and give me a call, I'll have someone pick you up from the airport!"

"No need!" Yuan Minghui dusted himself off, turned to look at the gate, saw the words "Xiaomi Heavy Industry," nodded in satisfaction, and then explained to Gao Hai:
"I came here this time to see the parts produced by Xiaomi Heavy Industry."

"I wonder if Representative Gao could speak to General Manager Lin? I just want to take a look, and I'll go back after I'm done!"

Hearing that his purpose in coming was simply to see the parts, Gao Hai pursed his lips and gently patted Yuan Minghui's shoulder twice: "I'll take you directly there; they have people on site."

After Gao Hai finished speaking, he walked forward, with Yuan Minghui following behind. Yuan Minghui carefully looked around and cautiously asked, "Don't we need Mr. Lin's permission?"

“He will agree!” Gao Hai stopped and stood there thinking for a moment, then added:

"Lin Yi isn't the kind of person to be petty. Besides, President Tan will be here later, and Director Zhu will be here too!"

"We'll arrive around 4 a.m.!"

Upon hearing that the two were coming, Yuan Minghui quickly straightened his clothes, but when he realized they wouldn't arrive until around 4 o'clock, he bent down again.

After walking for more than ten minutes, the group finally entered the installation workshop.

All the equipment and parts needed for the lifting system were labeled and arranged in order on the open ground of the installation workshop. In the middle of the open ground were several mobile scaffolding vehicles, and above these things was a huge overhead crane.

As soon as he entered the door, Yuan Minghui saw several people standing next to the parts.

The group consisted entirely of young people, and judging from their appearances, they were about the same age as his son.

But these same young people were methodically directing others to assemble the equipment according to the established procedures.

As his gaze swept over these young people, Yuan Minghui found the person he had only seen in photos but had never actually met—Lin Yi.

Knowing that his attention was on Lin Yi, Gao Hai walked over and casually glanced at him. He immediately understood and followed Gao Hai to appear in front of Lin Yi.

"Old Lin, this is Professor Yuan Minghui, the director of Jiangcheng Shipbuilding Machinery Research Institute. The lifting system you are working on now was taken from him."

As he introduced himself, Yuan Minghui extended his right hand to Lin Yi:

"Mr. Lin, seeing you in person is much better than hearing about you. You look younger, more handsome, and more charismatic than in the photos."

Lin Yi clasped his right hands together and declined with a smile, saying, "Professor Yuan, you flatter me!"

"Did Professor Yuan also receive a message from President Tan and come over overnight?"

"No!" Yuan Minghui withdrew his hand and waved it lightly. "I ran here by myself!"

"I received a message from Representative Gao this afternoon, and I convened a small meeting with my colleagues from our institute."

"After reviewing the progress from when I received the news to now, I found some shortcomings, so I decided to go all out and come here to learn from advanced experiences."

"I hope Mr. Lin won't take it personally!"

"No way!" Lin Yi turned around and waved to Cao Bin, who was not far away.

Cao Bin exchanged a few words with the person next to him, then quickly ran up to Lin Yi, his gaze naturally falling on Yuan Minghui.

Lin Yi explained for a moment and then pushed Cao Bin in front of Yuan Minghui: "Director Yuan, this is Cao Bin, our chief engineer of special alloys."

"If there's anything you don't understand, you can ask him!"

Knowing that his senior brother was using him as a shield, Cao Bin smiled gently, "Director Yuan, come on, let's talk over here!"

...On the plane from Yanjing to Suzhou, Tan Chuan once again took out the design drawings and stared at them intently. Seeing this, Zhu Jingyao reached out and blocked his gaze from the drawings.
"Stop looking, we'll be there in a few hours."

“I’m telling you, that whole set takes several days to complete. You can simply wait until dawn before taking a plane there.”

"There's no need to go there now!"

Tan Chuan put away the blueprints, folding them back along the creases one by one, and finally put them back into his briefcase. He zipped it up, then unzipped another zipper, took out a notebook from the briefcase, opened it, and looked at the notebook while quietly answering Zhu Jingyao's question:
"You said I was in a hurry, and I asked you to come with me tonight, and you didn't refuse, did you?"

"Actually, you're more anxious than I am, and of course, there are people even more anxious than the two of us!"

"If Gao Haibao's timing is correct, Xiaomi Heavy Industry should only need two months at most to produce this batch of parts. Their efficiency is too fast. Other sub-projects are a bit of a drag and need to be accelerated!"

"If all other work can be completed in time, the ship should be able to be launched around May next year."

Zhu Jingyao leaned over and noticed that Tan Chuan's notebook had dates and times written on it, so he asked again, "Really?"

"Look at you, getting impatient again!" With a snap, Tan Chuan closed the notebook and handed it to Zhu Jingyao with a smile. "Stop being stubborn, stubborn people are like dead ducks."

Taking the notebook and flipping to the page Tan Chuan had just looked at, Zhu Jingyao found that besides the date, this page contained various brief solutions for improving efficiency.

Below the new horizontal line, a time is clearly written.

[Late December]

This timeframe is three months faster than the recent acceleration in August.

He closed the notebook with satisfaction and handed it back to Tan Chuan:

"No hurry!"

Did you see that news from Türkiye?

"I've seen it!" Tan Chuan nodded vigorously, and when he thought of the news and internal documents he had seen, he felt a little thirsty.

As a pure researcher, he knew the international environment was bad, but he had no idea of ​​the specific level of severity. However, after the bombing in Turkey, the internal documents he saw clearly showed him just how bad the current international environment was.

In order to kill others, the Israelis were even willing to use nuclear weapons materials to make dirty bombs, and then dump these dirty bombs everywhere.

They were even given away to terrorists at will.

This guy is the worst of the worst, even worse than a beast.

He couldn't imagine the world being full of filthy eggs, and he didn't want to see that scene, so he wanted to get the aircraft carrier out as soon as possible, and then use this experience to get the other ships in the carrier strike group out.

Only when you have enough weapons in hand will those blind fools learn to see clearly.

Putting the notebook he had just taken out into his briefcase, Tan Chuan crossed his arms and proposed a bold idea to Zhu Jingyao:

"What do you think? Once we finish building this aircraft carrier, we could take a ship and have Xiaomi Heavy Industry build it separately. Wouldn't that be even more efficient?"

"We can't take it!" Zhu Jingyao rejected Tan Chuan's idea, and then, under Tan Chuan's gaze, calmly said:
“We need to design it separately and make it more challenging. We can’t use the ships you’re currently designing, because the ships you’re currently designing pose no challenge to them.”

Zhu Jingyao increased the intensity, and then it was Tan Chuan's turn to struggle. He turned his gaze to the window, looking at the city below the plane, and said:
"we'll talk about it then!"

…………

At 4 a.m., the plane arrived in Suzhou. Under the control of the Security Bureau, the arrival of Zhu Jingyao and Tan Chuan caused almost no disturbance.

Upon arriving at the factory, there was no welcoming ceremony; they were greeted only by two people, Lin Yi and Gao Hai, along with two cups of hot tea.

After each person drank a cup of hot tea, washing away the fatigue of the long flight, Tan Chuan looked towards the workshop:

"Let's go straight into the workshop!"

"Okay!" Lin Yi turned to the side and led the way.

Upon entering the workshop, Tan Chuan and Zhu Jingyao's eyes immediately fell on the parts. After a moment, Tan Chuan grabbed his briefcase and ran to the parts, looking at the labels on them, and began to recall the blueprints and related design requirements from his memory.

Turning around, he found Yuan Minghui there, and pulled Yuan Minghui over to the parts:
"Look, you said this thing was hard to do, look at how efficient they are!"

"Don't give me that nonsense about someone taking your research data!"

"They haven't had your research materials for more than a month at most. Use your own brain and think about it, is a month enough time to digest that information?"

"Look at this part, look at the manufacturing process, look at the precision!"

"Durability? That's a big problem!"

"But it's okay, I trust Xiaomi Heavy Industry, I trust Lin Yi, they wouldn't do something like selling inferior goods as superior ones!"

"Once they install the lifting system and start testing it, it will be clear whether it's a mule or a horse."

"Old Yuan! You need to step up your game!"

Once all the main observers had arrived, Cao Bin checked the site again to make sure everything that needed to be done was completed before picking up the loudspeaker:
"Attention everyone, we are now officially beginning the assembly of the lifting system!"

"Remember, these are all heavy parts, so be sure to pay attention to safety during installation."

"If the parts aren't placed securely, they'll fall and smash down. No matter what you're doing, get out of the way!"

"If we run out of parts, we'll manufacture them again. Safety is the most important thing!"

"Now begin assembling the lifting system, according to the previously planned schedule!"

Once the order was given, the gantry crane, driven by the electric motor, began to move, lifting the base plate of the elevator to a fixed position.

With the help of a large forklift, the base plate was placed in a fixed position, and the installation engineers rushed over to secure it.

After the base plate, there are the elevator columns, which are also used to fix the elevator's sliding rails.

The pillar was hoisted up completely, reaching the height of a four-story building, but it was still a small fry compared to the overhead crane.

With the columns installed, the next step is the elevator.

The core of the lifting system is the elevator, and above the elevator is a huge lifting platform, which is 25 meters long and 16 meters wide.

Aircraft on the channel lift platform need to be transported from the lower hangar to the upper deck, or from the upper deck to the lower hangar.

The speed cannot be too fast, nor can it be too slow; most importantly, it must be stable.

It would be a huge joke if a plane worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars were destroyed by its own elevator before it even had a chance to take off!

Hydraulic rods, about the same size as the columns, were lifted one by one by the overhead crane and fixed to the bottom plate. The lifting platform was installed, bolted in place, and then welding was done.

The installation of the entire system was not fast; Tan Chuan started the stopwatch from the very first second of the installation.

The stopwatch was ticking away frantically. After a day and a night of installation, when the hydraulic oil indicator light on the hydraulic rod came on, Tan Chuan gently pressed the stopwatch to pause the timing.

The total time was 27 hours, 32 minutes and 16 seconds!
(End of this chapter)