Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

However, the moment Luo Peilin saw the lithography machine design drawing on Zhou Tian’s desk, he knew that he had greatly underestimated the young man in front of him.

Indeed, in the past two years, Zhou Tian has caused a stir in the Ministry of Industry and the military, and even demonstrated amazing talent in agricultural machinery. The 39-year-old Luo Peilin suddenly felt a strong impact of the Yangtze River's back waves pushing the front waves.

"Mr. Luo, you are too kind!"

Zhou Tian responded modestly.

"Okay, tell me, what are your specific plans?" Luo Peilin looked at Zhou Tian with interest and asked.

From that design drawing, he had already seen Zhou Tian’s grand ambition - he planned to bypass vacuum tubes and move directly to the research and development of transistors.

Especially the design of the lithography machine amazed Luo Peilin.

Although he could not see clearly some parts, it did not affect his ability to see the excellence of the design. Even compared with the latest lithography machine that Bell Labs was working hard on, it was not inferior.

This made Luo Peilin marvel at Zhou Tian's design talent to the extreme. In his life, he had never seen such a brilliant person.

"Mr. Luo, this is what I think."

Zhou Tian slowly explained his plan. After listening to Zhou Tian's plan, Luo Peilin, a top scholar in the electronics industry, couldn't help but applaud Zhou Tian's bold innovation.

It must be said that Zhou Tian's approach has undoubtedly created a new precedent in the world today. The concept of integrated R&D and production he proposed was completely unheard of for Luo Peilin. But it is undeniable that Zhou Tian's explanation makes a lot of sense. However, the key to realizing this grand concept is to rely on a top university.

"Have you ever thought about what kind of help you need to realize this plan?"

After hearing this, Zhou Tian fell into deep thought for a moment.

"A university, a top university, and one that excels in the field of electronics!"

"Yes, the university is indeed the key. To achieve your groundbreaking goal, the first foundation is to establish in-depth cooperation with a top university, and this is also the most difficult part."

Luo Peilin was filled with emotion. Although the country has begun to integrate domestic university resources this year, due to time constraints, it is facing the dilemma of insufficient students and severe shortage of teachers.

In universities, it is not difficult to teach science and engineering or literature, but the electronics major is like a barren land in my country. It takes a long time to train qualified college students in the electronics industry.

Afterwards, the two of them had an in-depth discussion on this highly innovative concept of industry-university-research integration. The more they talked, the more fascinated Luo Peilin became by Zhou Tian's imaginative ideas. It was not until the lunch bell rang that the two of them stopped their heated discussion.

"Xiaotian, I will call you that from now on. Xiaotian, I am genuinely interested in the industry-university-research integration model you proposed. I wonder if I will be lucky enough to join it?"

"Of course you are welcome! If you take the lead in participating, the feasibility of our project plan will be greatly enhanced!"

What Zhou Tian said was true. Although he has now entered the vision of senior leaders, he is still a newcomer in the academic world.

Seniority is an objective principle in any era, but Luo Peilin is completely different. His joining will undoubtedly bring many benefits to this innovative project.

"Okay! It's settled then!"

Luo Peilin smiled and patted Zhou Tian on the shoulder and said.

Seeing that it was getting late, Zhou Tian led Luo Peilin to the canteen of the machinery factory. In order to entertain Luo Peilin, even though Zhou Tian never liked to go to the canteen for special meals, he made an exception today and asked the canteen to carefully prepare several hard dishes. Luo Peilin was full of praise for this meal.

After the meal, the two chatted for a while before Luo Peilin stood up and said goodbye, "Xiaotian, you can start preparing for this project first. I will report to the leader when I return and try my best to make this project a success!"

"Okay, Mr. Luo, I'll be waiting for your good news!"

Zhou Tian nodded in response. After watching Luo Peilin leave, he turned to look at Song Weiguo, who had been invisible from beginning to end, and said, "Weiguo, Engineer Luo is here, why didn't you notify me?"

"Director, it's not that I don't want to inform you, it's just that Engineer Luo won't let me!"

Song Weiguo smiled bitterly with helplessness on his face.

You know, although he is the deputy director of the Bayi Red Star Machinery Factory, he is insignificant in front of the leader.

More importantly, Luo Peilin, as the chief engineer of the military factory, was much higher than him in terms of level and rank. Even if he wanted to remind the director, he really didn't dare to disobey Luo's order.

"Humph, forget it this time, but if something like this happens again, just wait for me to deal with you!"

When Zhou Tian heard this, the resentful look on his face gradually disappeared. After glaring at Song Weiguo, he turned back to the office and continued to work on drawing.

The passage of time will never stop because of personal will.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

Three days later, as Luo Peilin's report came out, experts and scholars across the country were instantly excited. Countless experts and scholars were summoned to the wall.

Then, just two days later, the returning experts and scholars expressed their opinions in the newspapers regarding Luo Peilin’s report.

In particular, the new model that integrates production, education and research can be said to have opened up a new way of thinking for domestic factories.

As the initiator of this highly innovative plan, Zhou Tian naturally became the focus of everyone's attention. Many experts and scholars came to the Bayi Red Star Machinery Factory to find Zhou Tian and strongly expressed their desire to participate.

This made Zhou Tian very anxious. After all, this was a research project for the electronics industry, but even mechanical experts came to join in, which was really laughable.

Fortunately, among the endless stream of experts and scholars, Zhou Tian also received several future big names in the field of electronics in the past few days.

Finally, after in-depth research by Zhou Tian and Luo Peilin, Tsinghua University was selected.

This is not only because Tsinghua University is one of the two top universities in New Taipei City, but more importantly, during the national departmental adjustment last month, Tsinghua University established the Department of Radio Engineering.

This major is formed by the merger of the Telecommunications Group of the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tsinghua University and the Telecommunications Group of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the School of Engineering of Peking University.

In the early days of its establishment, the Radio Engineering Department, under the leadership of Professor Meng Zhaoying, clearly established the policy of serving the development of China's electronic telecommunications industry, which perfectly matched the concept of industry-university-research integration that they were about to fully promote.

After the partner school was determined, advanced equipment was soon delivered to Tsinghua University laboratories.

A month later, as Zhou Tian successfully completed the design of the lithography machine, the lithography machine officially entered the research and development stage. In addition to checking the research progress every day in the initial stage, Zhou Tian continued to draw the design of the etching machine without stopping.

At the same time, the night school of the Bayi Red Star Machinery Factory was successfully established. Due to the research needs of transistors, Zhou Tian did not look for teachers from other schools, but directly contacted the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Tsinghua University. Soon, the news of the night school literacy spread rapidly throughout the machinery factory.

"Xiao Li, I heard that the factory has started a night school. Do you want to go?"

"Go? Why go? I'm so tired from work every day. If I had that much time, I might as well just rest at home." Two workers were talking in a low voice in the workshop.

"But I heard from others that the factory director has promised that anyone who gets a night school diploma will be rewarded!"

"Is there a reward? Is it the same reward as the first workshop?"

Hearing about the reward, the worker immediately perked up and asked with anticipation in his eyes.