Siheyuan: I am different He Yuzhu

December 1959, 12, is a day of great significance for the Rabbit Country. The State Council of the Rabbit Country issued an exciting announcement: After the unremitting efforts and hard work of all personnel in the steel industry, the cumulative production of pig iron was 15 million tons and steel was 1400 million tons! This achievement is ecstatic because it means that the Rabbit Country has successfully completed the scheduled plan set last year and laid a solid foundation for the country's industrialization process. At the same time, the State Council, on behalf of all citizens, expressed deep respect and gratitude to all the workers fighting on the front line of the steel industry.

Although Rabbit Country's steel production in 1959 was successfully achieved, unfortunately, it did not achieve the grand goal of surpassing John Bull. After all, John Bull's steel production in 1959 exceeded 2000 million tons in one fell swoop. However, it is gratifying that the gap is gradually narrowing. Today, Rabbit Country's steel production has jumped from less than one-third of John Bull's to two-thirds of John Bull's steel production. Unfortunately, due to large-scale natural disasters across the country, Rabbit Country had to temporarily slow down its investment in the steel industry and focus all its energy on dealing with the severe food problem.

However, He Yuzhu believes that as long as the natural disasters of the past three years are overcome, relying on its huge population and vast territory, Rabbit Country can surpass John Bull in steel production in three years at most. Although John Bull has a large colony, after entering the 60s, due to the joint suppression of the Eagle Sauce and the Bear, its colonies are accelerating their independence. Limited by the impact of insufficient domestic market demand for steel, John Bull has significantly slowed down its investment in the steel industry since entering the 60s, which provides sufficient conditions for Rabbit Country to catch up and surpass.

Since the autumn of 1959, a large-scale drought has occurred in various parts of Rabbit Country, and agricultural production has been seriously affected. Faced with this situation, He Yuzhu realized that measures must be taken to deal with the problem of water shortage. So he instructed the Technical Department of Red Star Machinery Manufacturing Plant to transfer some personnel to carry out the research and development of centrifugal pumps, drilling machines and diesel engines without affecting the original research and development tasks.

After nearly three months of hard work, the single-cylinder diesel engine developed by Red Star Steel Plant finally succeeded. This engine has the advantages of simple structure, easy maintenance, low fuel consumption, and a maximum horsepower of 10, which can be widely used in agricultural irrigation, industrial production and other fields. At the same time, it also laid the foundation for the subsequent development of small multi-cylinder diesel engines.

After hearing that the R&D personnel had completed the final test of the diesel engine, Section Chief Zhang of the Technical Department immediately rushed to He Yuzhu's office excitedly. He wanted to report this good news to He Yuzhu as soon as possible.

"Knock knock knock..." Section Chief Zhang knocked gently on He Yuzhu's open office door.

"Please come in."

After saying that, He Yuzhu raised his head and saw that it was Section Chief Zhang of the Technical Department who looked very happy. He couldn't help but ask curiously, "Section Chief Zhang, you look so happy. Is there any major progress in any project?"

Section Chief Zhang replied excitedly: "Director He, you guessed right. Just now you asked our technical department to successfully develop a single-cylinder small diesel engine! After the technicians' test, the horsepower of this engine has reached 10, which has fully met the power requirements of our previous production of centrifugal pumps!"

He Yuzhu excitedly stood up from his seat, walked quickly to Section Chief Zhang, held his hands tightly, and said ecstatically: "That's great! Now the centrifugal pumps produced by our factory can finally be put to use!"

When He Yuzhu gave the technical department an order to develop a centrifugal pump, the technical department successfully manufactured a prototype of the centrifugal pump in less than three days. They then made a series of adjustments and improvements, and finally made the centrifugal pump reach the final standard in just eight days. Unfortunately, when He Yuzhu was about to apply to the organization for large-scale production, he was surprised to find that there was no power device matching the centrifugal pump in the country. This forced him to temporarily postpone the production plan of the centrifugal pump, because even if the centrifugal pump could be produced, if the matching power problem could not be solved, then these centrifugal pumps would be useless.

Now that the supporting power problem has been solved, it means that the centrifugal pumps produced before can finally start mass production. Excited, He Yuzhu quickly picked up the phone and said, "Hello, please transfer me to the office of Li Ze, deputy director of the First Industrial Machinery Department."

After a short wait, a voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hello, I'm Lei Xiaojun, who are you?"

"Secretary Lei, I'm He Yuzhu, and I need to report something to Vice Minister Li."

"It's Deputy Director He! Please wait a moment, I will transfer you to Deputy Minister Li." Secretary Lei replied politely.

"Then it's Secretary Lao Lei." He Yuzhu said politely.