Chapter 325 Preparations before Launch
Todai netizens who have been paying attention to geopolitical news for many years will have the illusion that they are the great powers.

This illusion reached its peak in the first month after entering 2027.

Even netizens who don't pay attention to the news are starting to feel this way.

"Substantial cooperation between Dongda and high-speed railway can be expected"

"The French 18 billion euro rail technical review has added the University of East Architects as a new bidder that meets the technical requirements. The University of East Architects will compete for the project with the Eiffage-Captrain consortium and Colas Rail-TSO."

"Bulgarian Railways plans to change suppliers and transfer the original order for modern passenger carriages from Deutsche Bahn to Eastern Railways"

If you only read the news, you will find that the East Asian ambassadors who organized a whole delegation to go to Europe did not go to discuss technology sharing, but to grab the cake.

As usual, Lin Tianmin found an electronic hypnosis blogger he liked to listen to before going to bed, planned to turn on the voice-over, and fall asleep while listening.

After he opened Bilibili, he immediately saw the video pushed to his homepage titled "I Never Expected That the Boomerang Would Finally Come."

Lin Tianmin always watches these videos for fun and doesn't take them too seriously.

Lin Tianmin just clicked on it and saw that the number of views exceeded one million within two hours of being released. The up-loader Little John also had a guaranteed reputation. He then glanced at the comments and saw the whole screen full of comments. He thought that this should be good material for falling asleep.

"On August 2024, 8, I made a video detailing England's most relaxing project, and gave the honorary title to England's High Speed ​​Rail Line 5.

The whole project was so relaxed that it is unimaginable. Friends who want to know the specific details can jump to this video link to review it.

At the end of the video, I said that it might eventually be open to traffic, maybe next year, maybe in the next century.

I'm sorry, when I was writing the copy, I thought it was the next century, but I didn't expect that Daying would wake up, his leg was lame so he knew he had to use crutches, he was in the ICU so he knew he had to be put on a ventilator, and his brain was not working well so he knew he had to look for Dongda.

That's right, this time the British Empire plans to hand over the HS2 project to East China University. Why? Because more than ten years ago, when the project had not yet started, Cameron, then Prime Minister of England, planned to hand over the HS2 project to East China University.

After nine prime ministers and tens of billions of pounds of funding, England finally decided to hand over the project to the University of East London.

Because there have been so many big news recently, I don’t want to just talk about this one. I want to put all of these together in a bigger context, so let’s start today’s show.

First of all, it was the Nobel Prize in the second half of last year. It can be said that last year's Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to the God of Light and it was well deserved. Then, things started to get weird. First, the Swedish side tried every means to persuade the God of Light to go to the scene to receive the award.

Guangshen thought of a compromise, which was to receive the award remotely through a robot. This was enough to give Sweden face and also gave the Swedish side a hype gimmick out of thin air. However, it was still not enough. No one knew who was behind the operation, but they had to drag Xi’an University into it and turn it into a technological competition.

Musk represented Xi'an University and Guang Shen represented Dongda University, and they used the Nobel Prize ceremony to show the country's technological strength. On the day of the award ceremony, I watched it on a domestic live broadcast platform, but I switched back and forth between CNN, Fox and NBC.

When I was watching these TV channels, I could clearly hear the anchors of the Xida News Channel trying every possible way to convince the audience that Xida's technology in robots is better than that of East China University, and that it can be extended to most technical fields.

Just like the presidential debate, although CNN anchors tried their best to remain neutral, Western University audiences could still easily hear their positions.

They tried to tell the audience in the live broadcast that Eastern University's technological lead was only a temporary illusion, and that Western University only needed to make a slight move and Eastern University would fall.

The next day, foreign media news was hyping this up crazily, looking for all kinds of professionals to stand up for the strong technological reserves of Xi'an University. As a result, on this day, Guangshen announced the HBM technology, and all discussions had to give way to HBM technology.

Everything at the awards ceremony was quickly abandoned by the media. HBM is a topic that is ten or a hundred times more popular than the awards ceremony. Artificial intelligence, robots, and the human survival crisis, there are too many topics that can be extended.

No one cared about what happened at the award ceremony, and then we saw that the officials of the University of Tokyo first went to Europe. After arriving in Europe, various infrastructure projects began to give the green light to the University of Tokyo.

I counted carefully. The entire EU plus England, the traitor, gave us a total of 31 infrastructure projects. The infrastructure categories covered submarine optical cables, cross-sea bridges, high-speed railways, and even a large order of 919 C20 aircraft.

I know that many of these are just permits, and there is a difference between obtaining a permit and finally signing a contract. But for Dongda Enterprises, obtaining permission to participate in the bidding means winning the bid.

Taking the track replacement order for the railway sections in southern and central Sweden as an example, the order must undergo a professional technical review before it can be tendered. At the beginning, after the technical review, only one company, the New York Air Brake Company, was granted permission, and their bid was 1.4 million Swedish kronor.

Now that the Eastern Railway has also obtained the license, if Eastern can grit its teeth and pay 4000 million Swedish kronor to complete it, in the face of this offer, does New York Air Brake have any chance at all?

Not to mention the railway project in Bulgaria, which has always been Germany's private domain. Now the University of Tokyo can also come in and get a piece of the pie.

I found some historical data. Bulgaria previously purchased carriages from Deutsche Bahn, a total of 76 carriages, with a total order price of 1560 million euros, which is equivalent to 20 euros for a single carriage.

If you buy from Dongda, the price of the same level of carriages produced locally by Dongda is 50 RMB. Even if you take into account the prohibition of imports to protect local industries, it only costs 10 Euros to buy the carriages produced by Dongda in Germany.

In 19, CRRC acquired a factory from Vossloh, which can directly produce train carriages.

Before, Bulgaria could not buy Eastern European goods and had to buy expensive goods from Germany, so it is not an exaggeration to say that Eastern Europe is a colony of Western Europe.

It is highly symbolic that Bulgaria's railway carriage business allowed Dongda to compete. Originally, Dongda's infrastructure business in Europe could only do businesses that you could not do yourself, but now all businesses have the green light.

For Todai, this is definitely an unprecedented benefit in exporting excess production capacity. I would also like to give you another suggestion: it is best to have cash plus equity.

For example, they will keep some of the railway operating rights and highway operating rights, and then ask for some cash.

Then let's talk about HS2 again. After ten years of holding back, the University of East London finally had to help them clean up the mess. We can only say that the English are smart and have seized the opportunity of Europe's collective shift towards East London. It would not be too conspicuous to hand over HS2 to East London at this time.

Even if Xida wants to find fault, it won’t be Dongda’s turn. This project is so bad that no one else can take it over except Dongda.”

Lin Tianmin woke up the next day and checked his phone. The number of video views was almost reaching two million. It seems that the domestic demand for forensics is still strong. These videos that only scratch the surface of foreign current affairs have such a large audience.

Lin Tianmin packed up and went to the company. They have been working overtime a lot recently because according to the plan, they need to complete the launch of the composite-powered rocket before the Lunar New Year in 2027.

In the past year, they have launched a total of three times, and all three times failed. The three explosions did not arouse much doubt from the outside world, and were even considered normal. It would be abnormal if the research and development of new technologies did not fail.

Instead, it sparked a discussion within Guangjia Aerospace, with the focus on whether this technical route is feasible, whether they should continue on this path, or take the same path as SpaceX.

Under the personal supervision of Chen Yuanguang, the internal structure of the composite-powered rocket was re-optimized, and the launch must be completed before the Lunar New Year.

"Hey, have you heard about it?" Zhou Jin asked as he sat opposite Lin Tianmin in the Guangjia Aerospace Canteen.

Lin Tianmin looked confused: "What did you hear?" "If we succeed in this launch, we can return to Shenhai." Zhou Jin said.

Lin Tianmin shook his head: "No."

Zhou Jin said helplessly: "I hope this time it will be successful. Compared with Shenhai, life here is indeed much more boring.

At midnight yesterday, the participants of the HBM model spoke out. The participants are all young scholars from some colleges and universities, such as South China Agriculture, Institute of Zoology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Neuroscience of Chinese Academy of Sciences, etc.

After these young scholars were rejected for the Youth Fund, Guangshen selected them and brought them together to carry out this project. Then Guangshen also responded on Weibo.

Lin Tianmin took out his phone from his pocket, clicked on Weibo, and saw Chen Yuanguang’s latest Weibo post:

"I am very happy to complete the HBM project with all of you young friends. I believe you can see the many participants from the signatures on the paper. It is you who made my conjecture a reality."

Lin Tianmin patted his head: "The God of Light is too modest."

Zhou Jin said helplessly: "This is the style of Guangshen. I saw that the comments from netizens under his Weibo are also quite funny.

Netizens are saying that it is precisely because everyone feels that the natural fund led by Guangshen is ineffective that Guangshen is determined to make a big move.

This time the job is a bit too big, and everyone is feeling scared. It is so big that everyone’s job may be replaced by robots.

Everyone unanimously called for an end to the supervision of the Light God's Nature Fund."

This time, HBM was so radical that even Chinese netizens felt it was radical, which shows how big of an impact it caused.

Lin Tianmin felt that netizens' concerns were groundless. The annual research and development budget of Guangjia Aerospace was more than five times of 20 billion, and there was no sign of Chen Yuanguang mismanaging it.

When they went to America to communicate with their counterparts at Blue Origin, the other party was even amazed that they had achieved such results as the Trailblazer series of rockets with such little money.

"Don't you think HBM is very much like the God of Light?" Lin Tianmin asked.

Zhou Jin didn't quite understand what the other person was talking about: "What style?"

Lin Tianmin said: "Just like room-temperature superconductivity, he just made it, and he found a feasible way with his unparalleled intuition.

The most important thing in the paper on room-temperature superconductivity is the parameters, and there are countless possibilities for the parameters.

Similarly, this time the model is set up, there are countless models, and the God of Light can find the model that can be used.

This kind of intuition leading the advancement of technology is, in my opinion, the most typical style of the God of Light."

Zhou Jin thought for a moment and said, "That makes sense."

When they walked into the conference room, Chen Yuanguang was already waiting inside and had a discussion with Yang Jiashan and other responsible persons:

"The last test provided valuable data on the propellant ignition point.

Our focus for this launch test is to achieve orbital turnaround, demonstrate return and repeat.”

“Well, we’ve done upgrades around software and hardware.

In the most critical secondary ignition, this time we will use people to implement operational changes, including if there is an accident after pushback, we will discard a part to ensure that the main part can be recovered smoothly. "Yang Jiashan said.

Chen Yuanguang asked: "What is the flight trajectory calculated in the computer?"

"The flight trajectory is similar to the trajectory of the previous flight test that was closest to success. The final recovery route of the composite-powered rocket does not require deorbit combustion. Our goal is to complete a smooth landing in the Yellow Sea." Lin Tianmin said quickly. This is the work he is responsible for.

"Okay, let's execute according to the plan."

The biggest problem with technology transfer is that you can’t achieve 100% replication.

Just like even if you know the process of synthesizing ammonia, you still won't be able to make ammonia if you go back to ancient times, because it requires high temperature and high pressure, and requires pipes and reaction towers that can withstand pressures of more than 10Mpa at temperatures of hundreds of degrees. Even if you know the process, you can't replicate it.

Back in ancient times, due to the backwardness of overall technology, the best we could do was to use the traditional composting method to utilize a small part of the ammonia.

Similarly, Chen Yuanguang knew the principle, but he had no way to guarantee that he would not make mistakes even if he replicated the successful path.

They have made relatively major changes to their overall plan.

So to be honest, the engineers present here are somewhat unsure whether they can succeed.

"Even if the launch is not successful this time, I will let everyone go back to Shenhai to work after the New Year, and they don't have to stay in Mianyang," said Chen Yuanguang.

He actually understands the feeling of being separated from his wife.

Now the situation has changed, the external pressure has been relieved instantly, and Shenhai has been screened countless times. There is no big problem with work safety for everyone returning to Shenhai.

Hearing Chen Yuanguang's words, all the Guangjia Aerospace employees present breathed a sigh of relief.

Staying here alone feels like being exiled to a remote frontier.

Everyone remembered that the God of Light still had to stay here, so they didn't dare to speak loudly.

Seeing that the atmosphere was somewhat silent, Yang Jiashan stood up and said:

"Zhou Jin, the flight control system and recovery landing system need to be checked. The rudder and landing legs of the latter need to be checked by the staff in Yantai to ensure that there are no problems."

As soon as we start talking about work, the atmosphere instantly thaws.

(End of this chapter)