The rejuvenation of a great nation: from educated youth to national treasure scientist

Chapter 187 Saving Luck 10
When Ono Jiro arrived in the capital of Longguo, the car from the Jiaoben Consulate was already waiting for him there.

Jiro Ono got in the car and soon arrived at the Jiaoben Consulate.

There, the consul of the Jiaoben Consulate, Murakami Shigemitsu, was already waiting for him.

"Mr. Ono, what's going on? You said something extremely urgent happened." Shigetoshi Murakami asked seriously.

Jiro Ono sighed and said, "They have already developed a large-scale fertilizer production facility in their own country!"

“This is really bad news for us!”

"They are improving their industrial system step by step."

"I have a very bad feeling."

Murakami Shigemin was shocked: "What? Could it be that they have built a large fertilizer plant in such a short time?"

Ono Jiro smiled bitterly: "Murakami-kun, I don't know if you noticed it."

"As long as we export any technology to them, they will soon be able to make breakthroughs in related areas."

"We had given them the worst chip production equipment before, but they relied on those outdated chip equipment to catch up in this field and become the world's number one!"

"This is incredible!"

“It’s a bit anxiety-provoking!”

"I think if we allow this situation to continue, we will most likely be defeated by them!"

Murakami Shigemitsu's expression became increasingly serious.

"What should I do?"

"Could it be that we can't sell them any equipment in the future?"

"But even if we don't sell it, those guys from Yosa and Oulu will sell it."

"The root of everything lies in one person: Wang Haoran!"

"This person is really too strong."

Ono Jiro sighed and said, "I'll call the headquarters to report the situation."

"A large fertilizer production facility. This is a strategic resource!"

"We have to stop them from continuing to achieve breakthroughs and production potential in this area."

Murakami Shigemitsu nodded and said, "Tell them about it to your side."

"Actually, my idea is: if the Dragon Kingdom is willing to listen to us and is willing to bow down to us, there is nothing wrong with us helping them rise."

"But the situation now is: that is simply impossible..."

Jiro Ono called their headquarters and reported the situation to them.

After listening to this, the person in charge of the headquarters also felt that this matter was of great importance.

Jiaoben is willing to sell large fertilizer equipment to Longguo. One reason is that their domestic market is small and has long been saturated. They need to export equipment to earn more profits.

Secondly, they always have an illusion that as long as the control is tighter, then Longguo will never have the opportunity to independently develop a large-scale fertilizer plant.

In the end, even if Longguo can produce urea with the equipment exported by the foot basin, it will not be a big deal, as the foot basin can strangle it at any time.

But what about now? Now the large fertilizer equipment for foot basins has just been put into production in Longguo, and their own domestic equipment has already been developed.

In time, it is estimated that Longguo will soon be able to fully control urea production capacity independently.

By that time, there will be no need for foot basins.

Therefore, the person in charge of the headquarters immediately ordered Jiro Ono to issue an ultimatum to the Sichuan Chemical Plant!

The main contents of the ultimatum include: Longguo must give up its large-scale fertilizer production equipment, otherwise Jiaoben will no longer continue to lend Longguo large amounts of Jiaoben yuan; in addition, Jiaoben will also refuse to provide Sichuan Chemical Plant with maintenance and spare parts for the large fertilizer equipment exported to them.

Jiro Ono was not optimistic about the content of this ultimatum.

This is what it means to be tough!

The key is, will a hard approach work?
If Foot Basin really uses this to threaten Long, it is estimated that Long will quickly stop importing Foot Basin products.

Moreover, the Dragon Kingdom may even retaliate.

Because Longguo now controls the most advanced chip production capabilities!

In fact, many companies in China now import chip products from Longguo Pangu Company.

They import chips from Longguo, which are low in price but much higher in quality.

This can enhance the selling point of their products and increase their profit margins.

Jiro Ono felt that the ultimatum might not have any effect.

But since the headquarters asked us to do so.

Then Jiro Ono could only do as the headquarters asked.

A leaflet with an ultimatum soon landed on Liu Changzheng's desk.

After Liu Changzheng finished reading the content, he frowned slightly: The foot basin guy is turning up the intensity!
Obviously, the other party wants to force me to surrender!

However, surrender is absolutely impossible.

At this time, Wang Haoran had already left Sichuan Province and returned to Beijing.

Liu Changzheng called Wang Haoran.

After Wang Haoran finished listening to Liu Changzheng's story, he said, "What do you think, Director Liu?"

Liu Changzheng said: "We definitely cannot compromise with the other party!"

"As you said, the 100-yuan loan and the products with the lowest technological level dumped on us are actually them taking advantage of us."

"The benefits we get are quite limited."

"In addition, we have already surpassed others in many fields, and our dependence on foot basins is decreasing year by year, so we should reject this so-called ultimatum."

Wang Haoran smiled and nodded, saying, "Well said!"

"However, I think some of the thieves that we have kept in our midst might jump out and cause trouble."

Liu Changzheng smiled and said, "Isn't it just right that they jump out? We can catch them all in one fell swoop."

Wang Haoran said: "Those with particularly serious circumstances must be severely punished!"

"But we have to paralyze the enemy and allow some thieves to jump around for a while."

"If we want to overthrow the current order, our strength is still a little weak, so let's just keep developing!"

After talking with Wang Haoran, Liu Changzheng felt more at ease!
He responded to Ono Jiro's ultimatum through the media.

The responses mainly include the following points:

First, the people of Longguo will not give up the right to develop independently! If the foot basin does not lend money to Longguo, it will only bring negative effects to themselves and will not affect the people of Longguo.

Secondly, the large fertilizer equipment sold to the Sichuan Provincial Chemical Plant was outdated and expensive, and various harsh conditions were attached. This was deceiving and fooling customers! They simply couldn't put themselves in the right position!
Even if they refuse to provide spare parts for Sichuan Chemical Plant, it will not have any impact on Sichuan Chemical Plant! Because Sichuan Chemical Plant can do it by itself!

Finally, the foot basin actually used the form of an ultimatum to try to curb the self-reliance of the people of Longguo in the large fertilizer production facility. This is a very ridiculous and rude move. To describe it in two lines of poetry: Your body and name will be destroyed, but the rivers and streams will flow forever!

This reply was published in a prominent position in the People's Daily.

For a time, the behavior of the Foot Basin Man caused an uproar among the people of Long Country, and they almost unanimously denounced the ugly behavior of Ono Jiro and the company behind him.

Of course, some dogs raised in the Jiaobenwaiwu Province also jumped out and planned to help their master wash the floor.

They said: The people of Long must respect intellectual property rights and the spirit of contract. Since they have chosen to import large-scale fertilizer equipment from Jiaoben, they must agree to the conditions proposed by the people of Jiaoben and stop developing their own large-scale fertilizer production equipment.

These dogs still have a say in some southern media.

They try to use their right to speak to clean up the mess.

Ordinary people have no say in the media.

Even if you are dissatisfied with the arguments of these dogs, you can only watch obediently.

This is the drawback when traditional media dominates the market: ordinary people lose the channel to express themselves.

Some media practitioners are not human. They shit and piss on the people, and yet they complacently think they can educate the people.

However, they met Wang Haoran.

Wang Haoran can't tolerate any sand in his eyes.

For this purpose, he accepted an interview with Wang Jianguo, a reporter from the national radio station.

During the interview, Wang Haoran scolded the shameless faces of some media reporters.

He asked sharply, "I just want to know whose buttocks those people are sitting on?"

"I just want to ask them, do the people of Longguo have the right to develop independently?"

"The people of Dragon Country will never and will never be content to be a vassal of the economy!"

"We will continue to make major breakthroughs in scientific and technological development!"

"We will do our utmost to lead the development of our country's industrial technology!"

"If someone is willing to be a slave to the foot basin for a little money, then such a person should be removed from the journalist team!"

After this interview was broadcast, it caused a huge response across the country.

Many people even spontaneously went to those media outlets that turned against the government to express their strong protest and demanded that those journalists who had acted in the wrong way be punished.

After Ono Jiro issued the ultimatum, he was naturally observing the response from the Dragon Kingdom. What he didn't expect was that the response was so fierce.

The Sichuan Chemical Plant showed no sign of compromising on their ultimatum.

Jiro Ono was very disappointed by this.

He thought in confusion: It wasn't like this before...

In the past, if any dissatisfaction was expressed regarding the foot basin, a compromising response would be received quickly.

I can only say that times seem to have really changed.

What surprised Jiro Ono the most was that when his company saw that things were about to get out of hand, they simply made Jiro Ono a scapegoat.

The company published a notice in the media of Longguo, saying that because Jiro Ono had acted arbitrarily to hold clients hostage, he had angered the people of Longguo, caused a bad response, and affected the relationship between Jiaoben and Longguo, so Jiro Ono would be fired and transferred back to the country.

Moreover, the foot basin also stated that it would continue to provide maintenance and consumable parts to the Sichuan Chemical Plant.

Furthermore, Jiaoben people also offered a more favorable price to the Sichuan chemical plant, hoping to help them expand their production capacity.

The price they offered for the second large fertilizer unit was at least one-third cheaper than the previous one.

However, Liu Changzheng would naturally not agree to continue the cooperation.

Are you kidding me? As soon as you see that our domestic large-scale fertilizer equipment may be coming out, you immediately drastically reduce the price, hoping to kill Longguo's new equipment in the cradle?

Do you really think we are stupid?

As for the foot basin, Liu Changzheng refused it.

They immediately sent a female executive to negotiate with Liu Changzheng, trying to win him back with money and sex.

However, Liu Changzheng would naturally not let them succeed.

……

After Wang Haoran returned to the capital, he sorted out his thoughts.

He wants to apply for multiple major projects at the same time to improve Longguo's shortcomings in the air force as soon as possible.

Today, the third-generation fighter jets of the Dragon Kingdom Air Force have shown a little improvement with the successful development of the J-10.

But there are still many shortcomings.

For example: the lack of large transport aircraft.

The current transport aircraft used by Longguo is still the Y-8.

The Y-8 is a replica of the big bear Antonov AN-12 aircraft.

In 1969, Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation began reverse engineering AN12, and in 1972, Y-8 achieved its first flight.

This aircraft has undergone a lot of design modifications and its performance is still quite outstanding.

However, its maximum carrying capacity is only 20 tons, which is a bit too little.

Especially after entering the 1980s, the Air Force increasingly needed a larger aircraft with greater transport capacity.

Wang Haoran thought: Otherwise, just take out the Y-20 directly.

The maximum take-off weight of the Y-20 is 220 tons and its maximum payload is 66 tons, which is much more powerful than the Y-8.

Moreover, in terms of Longguo’s current industrial capabilities, after his unremitting efforts in recent years, it has made great progress in precision machinery.

Combined with the success of the 8-ton die forging hydraulic press, more large components can be produced.

There shouldn't be any major problems with the construction of the Y-20.

Then it’s decided, let’s start the Ma Yun-20 project right away.

The Y-8 transport aircraft has undergone many modifications in later generations.

In fact, it can continue to be used as an electronic warfare platform, equipped with electronic warfare equipment, allowing it to continue to shine.

However, the Y-8 will definitely undergo large-scale transformation.

Because Dragon Country's electronic technology is now at the forefront of the world, the avionics system of the new Y-8 must be redesigned and developed.

In addition to the above-mentioned topics such as large transport aircraft, electronic warfare equipment, and modified Y-8, there is another topic that cannot be ignored.

That is: save the Y-10!

The Y-10 aircraft was developed by Shanghai Aviation Industry Corporation. It completed its maiden flight last year and was a success.

However, during the test flight, the aircraft also encountered many problems.

The most serious problem is that the materials used in this aircraft are of poor quality and the workmanship of the components is not up to standard, resulting in insufficient strength of the aircraft body.

The Y-10 aircraft is too heavy and not economical enough.

The aircraft is a reverse engineered Boeing 707.

When it was first developed, the goal was to make it a special plane for leaders.

Because the Dragon Kingdom doesn't have any domestically made large passenger aircraft! When leaders go on visits, they always use foreign brand aircraft.

This made the leaders at that time feel uncomfortable.

This was also the main reason why Longguo made up its mind to develop the Y-1970 in early 10.

However, by the end of the 70s, as the relationship between Longguo and Xifang eased, Longguo was able to purchase large passenger aircraft from Xifang.

These passenger planes have better performance, are safer, and are also very economical.

Naturally, there are some people who think that it is better to buy than to make!

Why build your own when you can buy something better and safer?

In addition, the Y-10 is indeed not up to standard.

So, by 1981, the calls to abandon the Y-10 were growing louder and louder.

If historical development had continued, the Y-10 would have been grounded in 1982.

By 1985, the project was discontinued.

Wang Haoran clenched his fists and thought to himself, I must save the Y-10!

The Y-10 must not be discontinued and mass production must begin immediately!
In the future, the domestic civil aviation travel industry will develop rapidly.

As long as the Y-10, an aircraft that can accommodate about 100 people, can be mass-produced, the aviation industry will be able to bring huge economic benefits to the Dragon Country.

After all, the market for civil aviation passenger aircraft alone is worth hundreds of billions of dollars every year!

Today, the world's civil aircraft manufacturing is mainly concentrated in North America and Europe.

Boeing is now far ahead of the competition.

Wang Haoran felt that the person who gave up on the decision to launch Y-10 was simply a sinner of the nation!

Because giving up the Y-10 is equivalent to giving up the country's civil aviation manufacturing industry!
If we had started manufacturing the Y-1980 in the 10s in our previous life, then after a few decades of development, Dragon Country's civil aviation industry would have surely captured a large market share.

Wang Haoran was wondering whether he should go talk to the designer first.

After discussing with the designer, I went to Shanghai to help Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Company reintegrate the structural design of the Y-10 and help them complete the new fuselage, engine, avionics system, etc.

……

What Wang Haoran didn't know was that the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Industry Corporation was now working hard to save the Y-10.

Last year, the successful maiden flight of the Y-10 greatly excited the entire Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Company. Everyone believed that the Y-10 would soon be able to start mass production.

However, after half a year of test flight, various problems arose with the Y-10.

Because of these problems, the relevant departments are very dissatisfied with the Y-10.

By the middle of 1981, bad news had already emerged: the higher-ups believed that the Y-10 was not safe enough and not economical or practical, so they wanted to stop the project.

When he heard the news, Lin Jianshe, general manager of Modu Aircraft Industrial Manufacturing Company, was dumbfounded.

Now, the plane has been built and its first flight has been a great success.

Then, you say the aircraft is poorly designed and manufactured, so let’s give up?

How could this be?

If you find a problem, can't we fix it?
How can you not even give me a chance to change it?
Lin Jianshe has been running around recently, calling for the continuation of the Y-10 project.

However, the higher-ups seem to be more determined...

It looks like the Y-10 is really going to be discontinued.

On this day, Lin Jianshe and Y-10 chief engineer Ma Fengshang sat together for a discussion.

Lin Jianshe sighed and said to Ma Fengshang, "Old Ma, I think we can't save this project at all."

"Or, you should transform yourself and do something else as soon as possible."

Ma Fengshang refused to give up.

He shook his head and said, "General Lin, if we give up at this time, it will be a heavy blow to our national aviation industry!"

"Let's try harder."

Lin Jianshe smiled bitterly and said, "Even the head of the civil aviation department has made it clear that he doesn't support us. Moreover, he also said that the designer agrees with him. There is no point in us insisting."

(End of this chapter)