Chapter 83 Expert Review
"Xiao Xu has been a very good student since he was young, but because his family lives in the countryside and there is a lot of farm work, he helped with housework after finishing junior high school." Liu Biao interrupted at this time and continued, "But he has always been motivated to study and likes chemistry. He has been working hard on his own over the years and is now a worker in our chemical workshop."

When Liu Biao was on the road, Xu Qiang told him about some of his past experiences. In order to convince the factory director of his skills, he deliberately created an image for himself as a farmer's student who was eager to learn.

"Is that so..." Gao Zhiguo nodded and said, "It's really rare to be a self-taught person. As long as you keep this eager-to-learn attitude, you will definitely become a pillar of the factory and the country in the future."

Facing Xu Qiang, Gao Zhiguo was a little unsure at this time. Although there are self-taught people, they are very few after all, and Gao Zhiguo himself does not understand the technology, so the final result depends on the subsequent expert discussion.

"Thank you for the encouragement, leader." Xu Qiang hurriedly expressed his gratitude.

"You're welcome. Have you eaten?" Gao Zhiguo asked.

"I just ate it before coming here." Liu Biao replied.

"Then I will arrange a place for you to stay. You definitely can't go back today, so you should rest first. Someone will call you to a meeting at 2 pm."

"Ok."

Liu Biao nodded.

Immediately, Gao Zhiguo called a staff member and took Liu Biao and Xu Qiang to the guesthouse.

The guesthouse of the Provincial Defense Industry Office is just behind the office building. It is shaded by green trees and feels very quiet.

After walking through a corridor and entering the guesthouse, the two were finally arranged in a standard double room.

The interior of the room is relatively simple, but it still has basic furniture, including two single beds, a wardrobe, a sofa, a chair, a desk, a washbasin rack, and an electric fan on the wooden table.

It was just twelve o'clock in the afternoon, time for lunch, so after Xu Qiang put down his luggage, he and the factory director Liu Biao each lay down on a bed.

Xu Qiang had been on the train all the way and felt a little tired, but he couldn't fall asleep even when he lay in bed.

Xu Qiang was still somewhat unsure about the afternoon meeting. Although he did have decades of experience in chemical research, nothing was absolute. If he failed to convince those experts, all the conditions he had proposed to the factory director would be in vain. Moreover, it would be even more difficult for him to make a name for himself in the factory in the future...

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At around 1:30 p.m., led by a staff member, Xu Qiang and Liu Biao came to the conference room of the Office of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.

At this time, several experts had come to the conference room. Liu Biao knew one of them. He was the chemical expert who came to the factory to participate in the evaluation last time.

"Hello, Director Liu." Seeing Liu Biao, the expert immediately smiled, stood up and greeted him.

"Ah, Lao Cao, you are here too." Liu Biao was also very happy to see the expert, and immediately stepped forward to shake his hand. The chemical expert was named Cao Liansheng, and his main job was a senior engineer at the JX Provincial Chemical Industry Design Institute. In his early years, he worked as a technician for three years at Jiangxi Ammonia Plant, the largest chemical plant in Jiangxi, and was later transferred to his current position. He can be said to be one of the best chemical experts in Jiangxi.

It was he who took a fancy to Xu Qiang's technical reform plan and brought it back to the provincial capital. If it weren't for him, Xu Qiang's plan would have been gathering dust in the factory's exhibition room. After all, Shengli Machinery Factory did not have a single chemical expert.

When the experts came to the factory, Liu Biao gave them an exceptional reception and paid for the meal out of his own pocket. One meal cost him nearly half a month's salary, which was a huge investment.

Liu Biao's original intention was to invite Gao Zhiguo to a banquet so that the Provincial Defense Industry Office would "show mercy" and temporarily postpone the reduction of the factory's military orders next year. The end result was that Gao Zhiguo promised to reduce the orders from half to one third, which was already the maximum scope of his authority.

As for Cao Liansheng, who came with them, he also knew Liu Biao through the people at the banquet, so when the two met again, they were particularly enthusiastic.

"Is this the technician who proposed the technical transformation plan for the chemical workshop in your factory?" Cao Liansheng asked in surprise when he saw Xu Qiang behind Liu Biao.

"Yes, he was the one who proposed the previous plan. His name is Xu Qiang." Liu Biao replied affirmatively, and then leaned close to him and whispered, "Please be merciful later..."

"Of course!" Cao Liansheng nodded.

Afterwards, Liu Biao and Xu Qiang found a seat and sat down, and Gao Zhiguo also appeared at this time and sat directly in the middle seat.

"The main reason why we invite you all here today is to jointly study a technical transformation plan for the chemical workshop. This plan is related to the development of the military-to-civilian transformation of our province's third-line enterprises, so I hope that you can speak freely and put forward your opinions and views." Gao Zhiguo made an opening statement first, and then he continued: "These two are representatives of our province's Shengli Machinery Factory. The one next to me is Liu Biao, the director of Shengli Machinery Factory, and sitting next to him is Comrade Xu Qiang, the proposer of this technical transformation plan..."

After hearing Gao Zhiguo's introduction, several experts present immediately focused their attention on Xu Qiang, all showing expressions of surprise.

In fact, a few days ago, these experts had already read Xu Qiang's technical transformation plan and gave it high praise. They generally believed that this plan was highly professional and highly feasible, and was a rare technical transformation plan.

But no one expected that the person who proposed this plan was just a young man who looked to be in his early twenties, which was somewhat unbelievable.

So after Gao Zhiguo introduced everyone's identities, an expert immediately began questioning Xu Qiang.

"Comrade Xu Qiang, can you briefly introduce the core content of your plan?" An old man sitting opposite Xu Qiang asked Xu Qiang first.

"In fact, my technical improvement plan is not complicated. The core part is to improve the equipment of the ammonia synthesis tower in our workshop." Facing many leaders and experts present, Xu Qiang did not show any stage fright. He just continued:

"I have observed the equipment in the workshop before and checked the original data drawings of the relevant equipment. I found that the ammonia synthesis tower currently used in our factory is a Kellolo bottle-type gas axial flow four-layer bed reactor with cold shock gas between layers to adjust the bed temperature. Due to the large pressure drop of the gas axial flow, the ammonia concentration drops sharply during the cold shock, resulting in large irreversible losses in the mixing process, so the energy consumption is very high..."

Once the expert takes action, we will know whether it is true or not.

Xu Qiang had just started to speak when several experts present immediately began to listen attentively, and the doubts on their faces also faded a little bit...

(End of this chapter)