Chapter 184: The Waves Ahead and the Waves Behind
"Xiao Liu, you haven't finished get off work yet?"

Just as Liu Siying packed up the drawings, looked at her watch and prepared to leave, a voice suddenly came from behind her.

"Hello, Chief Engineer Li! You haven't gotten off work yet?" Seeing that the person coming was Li Cunzhu, Liu Siying immediately greeted him with a smile.

"I'm not in a hurry. You've been working overtime for several nights in a row. You should go back and have a good rest." Li Cunzhu smiled and asked, "Although our research and development task this time is heavy, we can't rush for success. This is a taboo for the development of military products. Good products are polished bit by bit. It's not advisable to achieve them all at once."

"Thank you Chief Engineer Li for your advice." Liu Siying nodded and said, "I'm going back now. See you tomorrow."

"Is this the drawing of the shielding box you designed?" Li Cunzhu asked after seeing the drawing on the table.

"Yes, I just designed it today, and I will go to a workshop to find someone to process it tomorrow."

"Well, very good." Li Cunzhu nodded.

"Then I'll go back first."

"Go away." Li Cunzhu waved his hand, indicating that he could leave.

The next moment, Liu Siying picked up the bag behind the chair, turned around and left the office.

The research and development of this new product project is of vital importance to Li Cunzhu.

In fact, if Li Cunzhu worked in another small factory, with his ability and qualifications, he could have remained as chief engineer until retirement.

However, in a large factory like the provincial machinery factory with tens of thousands of employees, it would be very difficult for someone in his position to just lie down and do nothing.

After all, a factory's technical research and development capabilities are related to the jobs of tens of thousands of people in the factory. A small factory has only a few hundred people, or at most a thousand, and their superiors can feed them by giving them some orders. But if Shengli Machinery Factory does not have a flagship product and does not have enough orders, the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people will not be a trivial matter, and their superiors will be in great trouble.

It was precisely because of this that, at the celebration banquet for model workers at the guesthouse, Luo Tao, director of the Provincial Defense Science and Technology Office, set up such a trap for Li Cunzhu and Xu Qiang, requiring them to complete the research and development project of new military products for foreign trade within a short period of time.

With Li Cunzhu's intelligence, he could naturally see that Luo Tao was setting a trap for him, but there was nothing he could do. Luo Tao was playing an open conspiracy. After all, those who were present at the time were the main leaders of the factory, and there were so many model workers. If he did not accept the challenge at the time, it would naturally cause a great blow to his reputation in the factory.

Especially since his opponent is a newcomer who has just joined the factory for two months. If he shows weakness at this time, not only will his reputation in the factory be greatly damaged, but he will also have no chance of being reused by his superiors in the future. This will make all the plans Li Cunzhu has made over the years go down the drain!
So no matter what, Li Cunzhu couldn't lose this time. He just couldn't understand why he was forced to this point by a new young worker with only a junior high school education...

Seeing Liu Siying leave, Li Cunzhu turned his attention to her design drawing.

Soon, a look of surprise and solemnity appeared on his face.

With Li Cunzhu's technical attainments, he could see the exquisiteness of Liu Siying's design at a glance.

When China was developing this kind of high-frequency sensitivity shielding box for radio fuses, the design of the box has always been one of the biggest difficulties. Taking into account the space of the projectile body and the shielding of external interference signals, most people design the shielding box into a cylinder or square to completely wrap the circuit part.

However, Liu Siying's idea is quite clever. Her shielding box is designed to be polygonal. It is not intended to completely block these interference signals, but to use the principle of angle reflection of radio waves to reflect the interference waves. This has to be said to be a very clever design idea!

At this moment, Li Cunzhu found that he was really old. Whether it was innovation or the understanding of new technologies, he was indeed unable to keep up with the thinking of young people like Liu Siying.

The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and each wave is stronger than the last.

When Liu Siying successfully developed the third generation of electronic proximity fuze in China, Li Cunzhu actually felt that he was somewhat behind the development of technology.

Li Cunzhu sat on the chair for more than ten minutes, his eyes fixed on the drawing. Then, a gloomy look flashed across his face, and he stood up and left the office...

……

The next day at noon, when Xu Qiang was having lunch, Wang Yongsheng came to Xu Qiang's office with Xiao Gangpao and Lei Jun.

"You're just in time, come and have dinner with us!"

When Xu Qiang saw the three of them, he immediately stood up and moved a stool.

"What are you still eating? Do you have the money? Let's go look at the car now." Wang Yongsheng said.

"That's great!" Xu Qiang's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard that. He put down the lunch box in his hand and followed them out of the house.

More than ten minutes later, under the leadership of Wang Yongsheng, Xu Qiang and others arrived at the factory's security department.

The factory security department these days is actually a local police station. In addition to being responsible for the security of the factory, the local area within a radius of dozens of miles is under their jurisdiction. Generally, the security department has the authority to handle minor civil cases.

The yard of the Security Department was very quiet at this time. It was estimated that everyone had gone to the cafeteria to eat, and there were not many people inside.

"Isn't this Xu Qiang? Come in and sit down!" At this time, a sturdy middle-aged man walked out of the house and greeted Xu Qiang immediately after seeing him. This middle-aged man was none other than Wu Zhijun, the deputy chief of the security department.

The two met for the first time at the village committee of Xu Qiang's village. At that time, the village chief Zhao Xigui called him in to question him, saying that Xu Qiang was speculating and selling fertilizers. However, Wu Zhijun did not convict Xu Qiang on the grounds of insufficient evidence.

Later, Xu Qiang found out that Wu Zhijun was the husband of Li Yuqin, Xu Qiang’s colleague at the scrap warehouse!
Xu Qiang had always been a good person in the waste storage. He would give soap and shampoo to several female colleagues in the storage room for trial use. Therefore, Li Yuqin was also very enthusiastic in helping Xu Qiang introduce a date, although Xu Qiang did not go on any blind dates...

Nowadays, Xu Qiang has the halo of a model worker and is also a well-known "celebrity" in front of the factory director. So because of these relationships, Wu Zhijun is very enthusiastic about Xu Qiang.

"Hello, Section Chief Wu..." Wang Yongsheng and others greeted Wu Zhijun respectfully after seeing him.

"You guys wait outside!" Wu Zhijun said unhappily when he saw these people.

Wang Yongsheng and others were notorious troublemakers in the factory. They had been taken to the security department for criticism and education many times for fighting and causing trouble, so Wu Zhijun naturally did not have a good impression of them.

"Okay, okay, we won't go in." Even a fearless man like Wang Yongsheng didn't dare to act rashly when he saw Wu Zhijun.

Afterwards, only Xu Qiang followed Wu Zhijun into his office.

"Chief Wu, I am here today to..."

"I know. You just want to buy those two cars." Wu Zhijun smiled and said, "Why? You just received an 800 yuan bonus this month, and you want to buy a car for a ride? You are young after all, and you only think about having fun."

"I bought these two cars for business purposes."

"By the way, are you still selling fertilizers? I'm telling you, don't do that business anymore. I think your village chief has a grudge against you. If he continues to report you to his superiors, I can't help you..."

"Our fertilizer factory has long been affiliated with Xiazhuang Village and is now operating legally."

"That's good." Wu Zhijun nodded and said, "Speaking of which, you are really a capable person. I have been in the factory for so many years, but I have never seen someone as capable as you. You became a model worker in less than two months of work, and you are also doing business outside. You are quite capable..."

"Actually, I'm working so hard just because I'm afraid of being poor. Chief Wu, if you have time, I would like to invite you for a drink." Xu Qiang said.

"We'll talk about this later." At this time, Wu Zhijun took out a key from the drawer and said to Xu Qiang: "Come on, I'll show you the car."

"That's great." Upon hearing this, Xu Qiang followed Wu Zhijun to a small warehouse nearby.

After opening the iron door of the warehouse, Xu Qiang saw two trucks parked inside at a glance.

To Xu Qiang's surprise, the two cars seemed to be well maintained and the exterior was wiped clean. Apart from a few spots of paint peeling, there seemed to be no other problems.

"These two sidecars can be regarded as the meritorious equipment of our department. When I first came to work in the department, I patrolled the factory area on this vehicle. Now more than ten years have passed..." Wu Zhijun said with some emotion.

"This car is well maintained. Can it still start?" Xu Qiang asked.

"Don't worry about that!" Wu Zhijun replied straightforwardly. "Don't be fooled by its age, but it's actually quite durable. When it was first put into storage, we cleaned the engine and replaced the carburetor. We occasionally took it out for a ride, so it should be fine for a few more years!"

"That's good!" Xu Qiang nodded and said, "Can I try it?"

"Sure, but you can only walk around the yard once."

"Okay." Xu Qiang said, and sat directly in one of the cars.

Wu Zhijun added some oil into the tank, then inserted the key and turned it, and quickly started the car.

Feeling the roar of the engine, Xu Qiang took another look at the faint white smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe, indicating that the fuel was still burning very fully.

However, this type of motorcycle is somewhat difficult to drive, the steering handle feels a bit heavy, and it is not as flexible in turning as later motorcycles.

But these are all normal things. You only need to ride for a while to fully adapt to the driving feeling.

Afterwards, Xu Qiang paid the money, signed, got the receipt, and got on the motorcycle again.

"Tu Tu Tu!"

Like a dog riding a rabbit, with bursts of engine roars, Xu Qiang drove the scooter he bought, and in the envious eyes of Wang Yongsheng and others, he rushed directly out of the security department's compound and sped along the avenue of the factory area...

(End of this chapter)