the world is at stake

Looking at his father's face, Xiao Ge himself was also emotional - he used to hate his parents for being too strict, but now he was suddenly let go, and he felt quite scared.

That night, the whole family did not sleep well, and their hearts were agitated.

After waking up the next day, Xiaoge followed his father's instructions to contact the recruiters of 'Shengguang', and went to Shenyang to apply for a visa according to the instructions.There is an offer from the Defense Logistics Agency, and the interview is one-time.

What follows is a two-week closed training, a crash course in the language, and at the same time strengthening the work discipline - bite a little bit, and when you arrive in the United States, you will be a 'Vietnamese' laborer.

Don't be afraid if something goes wrong, and don't mess around, 'Holy Light' will solve it.

But Xiaoge is 1.9 meters tall, so he doesn't look like a Vietnamese.The recruiter was very distressed by this, and could only tell him—that he had eaten too much hormone from snacks.

Half a month later, a flight flew from Shenyang to Seoul, and then from Seoul to Los Angeles.

The branch of 'Sacred Light' in Los Angeles distributed the young technicians who came by plane, and asked Xiaoge: "What job do you want to go to?"

"Is it still possible to choose?" Xiaoge asked in surprise, "I want someone with a high salary?"

"The salary is high and the requirements are high. Can you speak English?"

"No." Xiaoge was instantly discouraged.

"Then you have to study hard. Yankee training instructors are really fierce, completely paramilitary management, all the young workers who come here are complaining, can you bear it?"

When Xiao Ge heard that there was still room for play, he nodded quickly and said, "As long as I can earn more money, I can endure hardship."

"I hope you will do what you say, and don't embarrass the Chinese."

Boom... A big stamp was stamped on Xiaoge's dispatch contract.He hurriedly asked, "Where am I assigned?"

"Newport News Naval Shipyard, learn how Americans build aircraft carriers."

"What... let me build an aircraft carrier?" Xiaoge exclaimed, "God, if my father knows, he must be crazy!"

Chapter 42 The Furnace

Qin Qing asked Zhou Qingfeng why he recruited a group of young technicians to the United States like superfluous.Uncle Zhou only said one thing - I am willing.

It is always a joy to turn decay into magic.Young people from all walks of life in China are transformed in the melting pot of a foreign country, and watching them hone their abilities is an achievement.

Building a manufacturing industry is not easy.The most difficult thing is not the equipment and technology, but the operation of the equipment, and the people who use the technology cannot appear out of thin air.

While Zhou Qingfeng made a breakthrough in the semiconductor industry, he also had strong ambitions for the machinery manufacturing industry.He decided to take precautions to train corresponding technical talents.

Thousands or even tens of thousands are not too much.

You don’t have to spend your own money on the matter of borrowing chickens to lay eggs, so why not do it, isn’t it beautiful? !

But the young people who had just arrived in Newport News didn’t think so—they really underestimated the difficulty of this induction training, and also underestimated Zhou Qingfeng’s abnormality.

In order to turn scrap iron into steel, 'Holy Light' specially recruited a group of retired US military officers.They are all tall and big, bad-tempered, Yankees who can frighten people with staring eyes, and can curse to death with their mouths.

On the first day of training, a tear gas bomb was thrown into the dormitory of the training camp.The whole dormitory was like a fried ant nest. Everyone coughed and panted, covered their noses and mouths, and fled out in a frenzy.

The intense, irritating properties of tear gas are insane.

When we got outside the dormitory, it was still dark.

The Yankee sergeant began to swear in English, and took the trainees to start a morning run—Xiao Ge remembered many years later that he almost coughed up his lungs that day, and it was easy to learn how to swear in English.

Can scold for 10 minutes without repeating the same.

Fortunately, the Yankee non-commissioned officer is only responsible for running in the morning and evening, and the rest of the day is spent studying and practicing.There will be language teachers to teach simple spoken English, and there will be old craftsmen from the shipyard to train basic specifications and operations.

The young people who come to participate in the training are no strangers to the class.Whether it's elementary school, middle school or technical school, most people come here absent-mindedly.

I can't understand the content of the course at all, so it's not bad if I don't doze off.

But in the classroom of the "Holy Light" training camp, if anyone is distracted and not serious, the Yankee instructor with bad breath will scold him and sneak him out for punishment.

It must have been until he urinated blood, cried bitterly, and regretted why he came to suffer.If anyone wants to quit, that's fine.But you have to complete a week of training first.

When Xiaoge came to the United States, he was full of confidence. He felt that as long as he could earn an annual salary of 15 yuan, he would be able to grit his teeth and persevere no matter what hardships-but on the first day of training, he was 1.9 meters tall and cried the most in the team.

The gap between ideal and reality is too great.

Who would have thought that tear gas would be thrown into the dormitory?

Who would have thought that the Yankee instructor was two meters tall, with a swollen face and a vicious look.

Who would have thought that the most hated English has become an unavoidable difficulty and must be learned.

In the training camp, there are 50 people in one class. On the first day, the whole class was punished for running until they collapsed.Half of the people were sent to the medical room, and the other half cried in the dormitory.

But the next day continued, the alarm clock rang at 5 o'clock, and the tear gas came again if they did not leave the dormitory within [-] minutes.Lectures require full concentration and occasional questions.

Once the absent-minded reaction is half a beat slow, it is fine to run.

The third day, the fourth day, the fifth day...for seven consecutive days.

Xiaoge was timid on the first day, feeling that he was going to embarrass the Chinese.But he couldn't leave even if he wanted to. The training camp had a seven-day cycle, and he could only leave when it was due.

After finally getting through the weekend and being able to get out, the bully Yankee instructor came out again to praise the whole class, praising the rookies for their determination to survive a hellish week.

Although I still don't understand English very well, the tone of the Yankee instructor makes you feel that he is praising you-Xiao Ge Mingming is desperate to leave, but after listening to a few words of 'you-are-good, very-good', Tears flowed down without disappointment.

Obviously he was crying and screaming because he was abused, but he seemed to be enjoying himself, like a masochist.

This is more than that... In order to motivate the trainees to continue to persevere, the generous salary promised by the 'Holy Light' must also be fulfilled.I have been paid for this week's suffering.

Based on the basic annual salary of RMB 15, the salary during the training period is halved, and the income for these seven days is close to RMB 500—but if you want to leave, please pay for the round-trip air ticket.

A group of young people found out dumbfoundingly that they had to suffer for three months before they could earn enough airfare to go home.They still can't go, they still have to continue to suffer.

If you really stay up for three months, the training is over again.

People are very adaptable.Starting from the second week, I didn't feel tired from the five-kilometer running in the morning and evening.The trainees wake up automatically at six o'clock every day, and there is no need for Yankee instructors to throw tear gas.

Living in an English environment, language learning is progressing rapidly, and the teaching content of the old shipyard technicians can also be understood a little bit-if you don’t communicate in English in daily life, you will also be caught and punished by the instructor.

After training for a month, Xiao Ge found that he had corrected many problems.

What is a cell phone?

In the past, I couldn’t live without a mobile phone. I chatted online or played games.Now throw away the phone and live a full day.

Yankee instructors can always think of ways to use up everyone's last bit of energy and stamina.

In the past, I also liked to find friends to have sex in the middle of the night, but now I promise to sleep on the bed and have no dreams all night.On the second day, I was full of energy and energetic to cope with the whole day of study and training.

What insomnia, forgetfulness, decadence, disappeared without a trace, every minute and every second is very meaningful.

In the past, I felt that studying was very difficult, I couldn't learn anything, and I felt sleepy while reading, and English was a bible.Now I am forced to concentrate, and gradually find that all this is not as difficult as I imagined.

When the knowledge mastered is rapidly improving, self-confidence will also increase.

Everyone finds that they are not as useless as they imagined, and all the insurmountable difficulties in the past can actually be dealt with.The wasted yesterday is like a big dream, and now I regret and feel lucky.

Phone calls are not allowed in the training camp. If you want to contact the outside world, you have to take time out of your busy schedule to write letters, and send one letter a week.The moment of writing is often the moment of thinking and summarizing.

All letters will be collected and mailed by the branch of 'Holy Light' in Los Angeles, sent to the headquarters of 'Holy Light' in the imperial capital for inspection, and then forwarded to everyone's home.

Letters must be written in English, otherwise they will not be sent. At the beginning, many people had to use English-Chinese dictionaries to write inexplicable Chinglish.

The letters in the first week were basically all complaints.

Xiaoge wrote a letter to his mother, and the first sentence was crying——"Mom, the training in the United States is too hard. I have to run every day, and I ran to pee blood. The instructor is very fierce, really fierce.

The knowledge taught in the training camp is so difficult that I can't even understand it.But I had to listen, otherwise I would be caught by the instructor and punished to run away.I wanted to go home but didn't earn the airfare money. "

Because of insufficient English vocabulary, there were not a few lines in the letter.Xiaoge's mother cried after reading it, but his father was quite happy, feeling that his son had finally found the right place, and he would definitely grow if he persisted.

After the four weeks of the first month were over, the complaints in the letters basically disappeared.

Xiaoge wrote a lot more content, and the spirit he expressed was completely different.

"Mom, we didn't get a running penalty this week. It's strange, it seems that the people in the class have adapted to the hard life here, and I can understand some simple English.

The food in the training camp is very good, there is more than enough chicken, duck and fish every day, and the cooking skills are also superb.A lot of people are not used to American food, but I think it's okay, and I've gained a few pounds.

The Yankee instructor said that we performed very well, better than the American soldiers he had trained in the past, and praised us for our strong learning ability, superior obedience and discipline.

I'm close to earning money for a one-way ticket, but I don't want to go home right now. "

This letter made Xiaoge's mother laugh, but his father wanted to cry - his son grew up very fast.

By the end of the three months, the trainees can basically speak simple spoken English.As long as they pass the professional skills assessment, they can go to their assigned positions for internship.

When the last letter was sent, Xiao Ge revealed a bit of reluctance in the words.

"I can't believe it, the three-month training camp is coming to an end. I still have the day in my mind and I can still smell the tear gas in my nose.

Everyone in the class went to thank the Yankee instructor.Everyone hated him before.But his strictness has benefited us a lot during these three months, and our lives will definitely change because of it.

But the instructor was not too happy.He said he was just being hired and doing a job.

The Yankee instructor regretted that he was not training American youths, and expressed his annoyance in front of us, saying that he despised us at first, but now he is a little afraid of us.

I am also very touched by this experience and regret the time wasted in the past.If I could wake up earlier and work harder, I could be more successful.

There are also girls at the camp, and I like one of them.Although I've only met her a few times and never spoken to her.But I'm going to ask her for a phone number when I'm done training. "

'Sacred Light' has organized several training camps in the United States, and each camp can train thousands of people.Huge expenses bring good returns, and a batch of usable talents can be tempered every time.

After completing the training, Xiao Ge and the first batch of fifty 'Vietnamese' technicians were sent to Newport News Shipyard for internship.They will fill a much-needed staffing gap at the shipyards -- the U.S. shipbuilding industry is seriously understaffed right now.

Wearing helmets and sitting in a factory car, a group of young people looked up at the huge warship being built in the dock with excitement.They will work here for three to five years and return to China after becoming skilled workers.

When these young people were being trained, a delegation composed of the top experts in the domestic ship design and construction industry had already visited Newport News.

This inspection team of only a dozen people failed to openly enter the heavily guarded shipyard spare parts warehouse.But it doesn't matter, they lived in a villa outside the factory area, and then a large confidential safe deposit box was transported by truck.

The expedition was not told what they would see until the boxes were opened.They are also rather strange, and equally more inexplicable.Everything seems mysterious, and the mystery will not be revealed until the last moment.

First came the appetizers.

"This is... the Seawolf class?"

Chapter 43 Focus Shift

The 'Seawolf class' was the doomsday weapon planned by the United States during the height of the Cold War.It has pursued extreme performance from the very beginning in order to enter the heavily fortified Barents Sea to hunt down Soviet ballistic missile nuclear submarines.

Large diving depth, high speed, low noise, strong armament, these are the key points of the 'Seawolf' that has attracted worldwide attention.But the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the United States couldn't stand the high military expenditure. Only three such attack nuclear submarines were built.

However, because of the unprecedented performance of this top nuclear submarine in the United States, its influence has even broken through the circle of military fans and has become a symbol representing the Cold War, almost a household name.

The Newport News Shipyard did not manufacture the 'Sea Wolf class', but the nuclear submarine experts from Huludao were still very surprised when they opened the secret safe deposit box that Colonel Robert got.

"Here's an early blueprint for the 'Seawolf' from the 70s. Look... it has a time stamp, and it's stamped by General Electric Boat Design."

Information related to "nuclear" in China has always been kept strictly confidential, and technical experts basically do not go abroad.

It was also specially approved by the elders of the Standing Committee to let more than a dozen old experts who quit the front line arrive in the United States from different directions and at different times in the name of tourism, and then gathered one by one at the "safe house" villa near Newport News.

In order to ensure safety, surveillance personnel have been deployed on all roads within two kilometers of the villa.In order to prevent imaginary opponents from approaching suddenly by helicopter, there are professional audio monitoring devices at multiple commanding heights.

Once something is wrong, the people in the 'safe house' will escape.But when the colonel's "appetizer" was delivered, the experts and agents in charge of screening were greatly surprised.

The basement of the villa is full of cumbersome wooden boxes, and a few of them are top-secret design files sealed with plastic paper.These should have been sealed in the database of the design institute, but now they were shipped out by stealth.

'Seawolf class' is the first nuclear submarine designed by the United States using CAD software.Its drawings are all drawn with a large plotter.After three or forty years of spreading it out, the paper is still clear, clear, and full of science fiction.

"This is not the final finalized version, let alone an improved version. This is the structure diagram of the early conceptual design."

Strong lights were on in the basement, and the large square table was covered with blueprints.Secret agents gathered temporarily will act as office clerks and will be posed for photos.

Several gray-haired old experts spent about half a day carefully researching and judging, and came to a preliminary conclusion, "How these iteratively evolved design drafts are designed and thought by Yankees, their value is probably higher than the stereotyped drawings."

The stereotyped drawing is 'knowing what it is', and the design draft of iterative evolution is 'knowing why it is'.

Restricted by its economic strength and the backwardness of basic industries, China's road to building nuclear submarines was extremely bumpy, and it also stagnated halfway, and the team disbanded.

This does not rely on spirit and ambition to close the gap with the world's advanced level. It must continue to trial and error.The only way to do trial and error is to spend money and keep building.

The Soviet Union built more than 250 nuclear submarines, and the United States built nearly [-].In contrast, China is too poor and there are too few opportunities to practice.Street stall literature likes to use shocking style, but just relying on the word of mouth, don't think how high the level is.

"Oh...this 'appetizer' is quite refreshing." After two or three days of research and judgment, the experts who came to the United States were in a very good mood.

In addition to their judgment, the container-sized storage box should have all the concept pre-research drawings of the 'Sea Wolf Class', which can be used as a reference for the 096 being designed.

The next generation of domestic attack nuclear submarines is not to say compared with the most advanced "Virginia" class in the United States, at least it is still sure to become a "Red Sea Wolf"-after all, decades of technological progress have been very fast.

After confirming the value, more than a dozen old experts withdrew immediately.

The "National Security" personnel disassembled the data in the box according to the number, took pictures and classified them into electronic files, compressed and divided the files, and uploaded them back to China with a directional antenna via satellite.

Colonel Robert couldn't even get the real "Sea Wolf" stereotyped drawings.But the early design drawings before finalization he provided showed enough sincerity.

Zhou Qingfeng thought about doing some 'offset trade' to help save money, but the country is very generous - intelligence work is the most troublesome, as long as it is genuine, it is good to spend money to get 'worms' to solve the problem.