Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

"Chief, we're sorry!" The four of them hurriedly apologized to Zhou Tian.

"Okay, that's enough of this matter. Come on, I'll take you to the real laboratory!"

Zhou Tian's expression eased a little, and he stood up and walked forward while saying, "By the way, I'll let you see the real treasure."

"A real baby?"

The four of them breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the leader did not blame them. However, they were immediately curious about the treasure the leader mentioned and followed Zhou Tian closely.

The five of them walked towards Zhou Tian's office in the laboratory workshop. When they opened the door, a 30-square-meter office appeared in front of them.

Zhou Tian did not stay in the office. Under the curious gazes of the four people, he came to the bookshelf and picked up a book. A mechanism was revealed in front of them.

He stretched out his hand and pulled the ring of the mechanism. Suddenly, the whole bookshelf made a "clicking" sound, and the bookshelf slowly moved to both sides. A dark passage appeared in front of the five people.

"Is this a mechanism?" one of them couldn't help but exclaimed.

"How could there be such a mechanism here!" The other three soldiers looked at each other in bewilderment. They really didn't expect that such a sophisticated mechanism would be hidden in this office.

Zhou Tian seemed to be accustomed to all this. He walked into the passage with the four people calmly and said, "Don't make a fuss. You will know when you go in and take a look."

As soon as I walked down the dark stairs, the lights in the entire underground laboratory suddenly lit up, and the door behind the passage closed.

A basement three times the size of the experimental workshop above appeared in front of the four people. The machine tools here looked even more advanced than the ones above.

Among them are not only the machine tools that Zhou Tian had produced in the steel rolling mill, but also some precision machine tools that he had secretly built in the machinery factory.

It can be said that if the machine tools above represent the highest achievements of the domestic industry today, then the machine tools in the laboratory represent the highest level he can achieve at the moment. After all, although the domestic industry has improved under his promotion, it has not yet reached the level of the 1970s and 1980s in his previous life.

The machine tools he built were not considered backward even in the 1970s and 1980s.

"Okay, this is it. We are going to do our research here. Now let me take you to familiarize yourself with the machine tools here!" Zhou Tian said to the four people who were still immersed in shock.

"Yeah!" The four of them nodded dully. But they were soldiers after all, so they quickly came to their senses and began to familiarize themselves with these machine tools under Zhou Tian's introduction.

The more they listened, the more shocked they were. Originally, they thought the machine tools in the test workshop were quite good. Even in military factories, such advanced machine tools were rare.

But I didn't expect that the machine tools in this basement laboratory were at least one generation more advanced than those in the test workshop above, especially the CNC three-axis lathe introduced by Zhou Tian.

They had even only heard of it from some top experts, and according to the experts, it was just one direction of machine tool development, and even the bald eagle was only being researched in secret.

But now, what did they see? There was a CNC three-axis lathe here, which meant that Zhou Tian had actually developed a CNC three-axis lathe.

Then, they hesitated, and one of them muttered quietly, "Such a powerful device, I don't know whether I should report it to my superiors."

Especially when they heard about the specific performance of the CNC three-axis lathe, each of them showed a look of horror at the same time. They were really shocked by the performance of this CNC three-axis lathe in front of them.

The most important thing is that they saw with their own eyes that Zhou Tian picked up a rough workpiece and input a few sets of numbers into the lathe's electronic tube program, and the lathe actually started running automatically.

After a while, a piece of extremely precise parts was processed in an instant, and the whole process did not even take ten minutes. The efficiency was simply eye-opening for them.

Originally they thought that the machine tools in the underground laboratory had already shocked them, but they didn't expect that the performance of the CNC three-axis lathe was even more abnormal.

"Okay, don't be in a daze!"

Zhou Tian watched the parts being processed. Seeing the four people looking at the CNC three-axis lathe with horror, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "This is just the beginning. There will be more amazing things to come."

Even more amazing? They dare not think about it. Just the CNC three-axis lathe in front of them has made them feel like they are in a dream.

After all, even CNC machine tools abroad are still in their infancy, but here they have become a reality.

"Commander, is this the legendary CNC machine tool? But isn't this just one direction of machine tool development? You actually figured it out?" After waking up, an expert widened his eyes and asked in disbelief.

"Well, we have researched it, but it's a pity that it can't be mass-produced at all!"

As he spoke, Zhou Tian glanced at the CNC three-axis lathe in front of him with some disdain. Obviously, he was not satisfied with the CNC three-axis lathe in front of him. He frowned and said, "There are still many problems to be solved if we want to mass-produce it."

In his opinion, this CNC three-axis lathe was too simple, even though all its parts were made by him.

You know, now he has surpassed the eighth-level worker in parts processing, but he can only build such a simple three-axis lathe. To be honest, this is simply a shame for him.

Originally, he felt that he had a virtual space in his mind and could do whatever he wanted. As long as he had the raw materials, he could transform all the precision machine tools.

Little did he know that when the industrial base and materials did not meet the requirements, even if he had such a powerful plug-in, he would sometimes be powerless.

On the CNC three-axis lathe, both the materials and the current crude electronics industry taught him a very profound lesson.

This also made him completely understand why there was a saying in his previous life that materials are the basis of everything. At the beginning, he did not have a clear understanding of materials, but now he deeply understands the importance of materials.

This is why he did not start the machine tool project right away when he came to the machinery factory, but instead spent time on agricultural machinery. On the one hand, it was to cooperate with the country's rural reforms, and on the other hand, he wanted to wait and see whether the materials that met his requirements would be developed. If there were still no materials that met his requirements after one or two years, he would have to do it himself.

"What? You're still not satisfied with this?" One person couldn't help but said loudly.

"This is far beyond our imagination!" The four people couldn't help but complain in their hearts after listening to Zhou Tian's words, and looked at Zhou Tian with a slightly weird look.

Perhaps sensing the thoughts of the four people, Zhou Tian said with some regret: "Originally, I studied this CNC three-axis lathe to replace the role of the seventh-level lathe operator, but now it seems that the performance of this lathe can only replace the sixth-level lathe operator, and the seventh-level lathe operator cannot be replaced for the time being!"

"Replace the seventh-level lathe operator?" The four people heard the leader's words, and their eyes were filled with horror. How could this be possible? What was a seventh-level worker? They knew what it meant to be a seventh-level worker. It was because they knew what it meant to be a seventh-level worker.

They are the backbone of every factory. Even if their status is not as high as that of eighth-level workers, they still represent high-level talents.

As for the three-axis lathe in front of them, the chief actually wanted to replace the seventh-level workers. They couldn't imagine that result at all and couldn't help but shudder.

"Commander, this... this..." One of the experts pointed at the three-axis lathe and was speechless for a moment. He was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks.

“Commander, he asked the commander if this three-axis lathe can really replace the seventh-level worker?”

At this time, another expert stepped forward to help him out.

"Yeah, yeah!" The expert nodded repeatedly after hearing his companion's words.

"It was like this when I designed it, but it's too difficult!"

Zhou Tian first nodded, then shook his head and said.

This is true. The reason why he designed and assembled the three-axis lathe was because although there were many master craftsmen in the machinery factory, not many could reach the seventh or eighth level. This would definitely be a constraint for Zhou Tian's future research on weapons production, so he came up with this idea.

Although in the past life, even a five-axis lathe made with such a developed industry could not replace an eighth-level worker, a seventh-level worker could still be replaced.

But he had a golden finger after all, and he thought that with the ability of the virtual space in his mind, he should be able to achieve what he did in his previous life. However, reality gave him a loud slap in the face, waking him up completely.