When will I have a long tassel?

Ge Yafei's appearance is even duller than Tang Zifeng imagined. He is about 1.7 meters tall, with some early age on the top of his forehead. He wears a pair of thick myopia glasses and speaks very slowly, a bit like The sound card chip is overheating.

"Your name is Ge Yafei?"

"yes."

"Graduated from Tsinghua University's Department of Mechanical Engineering?"

"yes."

"Did you do a postdoc in Massachusetts?"

"yes."

"Have you ever worked in an American machine tool company?"

"yes."

"Mr. Ge, uh, how about I call you Senior Brother Ge, okay?"

"Can."

The conversation between Tang Zifeng and Ge Yafei was suffocating from the beginning. Of course Tang Zifeng could also see that the other party was not trying to show off in front of him. In fact, Ge Yafei's expression had always been very awkward, and he didn't know how to place his hands. The reason why he cherishes words like gold is entirely due to his personality, so much so that even if Tang Zifeng wants to trick him, he can't find an entry point.

"Did I hear that you worked on heavy-duty crankshaft machine tools when you were in the United States?"

After detouring for a long time, Tang Zifeng finally decided to go straight to the point and began to ask Ge Yafei about technical issues.

Hearing this topic, Ge Yafei relaxed a little. He nodded and said, "I have been in contact with it, but it is not particularly in-depth."

"Can you tell me the specific situation?" Tang Zifeng asked.

Ge Yafei thought for a while and said, "Actually, the thing is very simple. After I graduated with my Ph.D. in Massachusetts, I went to a large machine tool company in the United States. When I went there, the company happened to receive an order from the U.S. Navy, requiring the company to provide services to the Navy. The shipyard provided a heavy-duty crankshaft machining machine, and the company put me in charge of it.”

“What does it mean to be responsible?”

"Being responsible... means letting me be the chief engineer of the project."

"Is this what you mean by contact, but not particularly in-depth?" Tang Zi Feng sweated. They say modesty is a virtue, but you can't be so humble, right? The chief engineer of the project is still not in-depth enough. How do you want to get more in-depth?

Ge Yafei said seriously: "I did not have enough contact with it. This project has been in progress for two years, and we have just completed an initial design. Before many aspects could be optimized, the Navy canceled the project. Then we stopped doing it.”

"So that's it." Tang Zifeng understood. Tsinghua people have indeed very high requirements for technology. They only completed an initial design and did not have time to optimize it. In Ge Yafei's opinion, it is at a half-baked level. He can only say that he has been exposed to it, but he cannot say that he is very proficient.

But Tang Zifeng is not from Tsinghua University. For more than a month, he talked with many engineers about crankshaft machine tools, including Qin Zhongnian and Xiao Wenjun. Everyone said that they had never been exposed to heavy-duty crankshaft machine tools, but they had done ordinary crankshaft machine tools. The workpieces processed by ordinary crankshaft machine tools weigh only a few hundred kilograms at most, but the heavy-duty crankshaft machine tools required by the shipping company Kangzhi Chao are required to be able to process workpieces weighing 180 tons. These are two completely different things. .

Entrusted by Tang Zifeng, Xiao Wenjun has begun to collect and read documents about heavy-duty crankshaft machine tools. According to her, the number of documents in this area is very small, and when it comes to key technologies, they are often unclear and can only be obtained from some clues. To guess the other party’s design ideas. Xiao Wenjun said that if she were to be responsible for the design of heavy-duty crankshaft machine tools, she would have to be given at least two years to accumulate relevant knowledge. How long the subsequent design time will take is currently completely unpredictable.

And this idiot guy in front of me has actually developed a heavy-duty crankshaft machine tool as a chief engineer, and has reached the level of completing the initial design. This is at least five years ahead of other engineers in the country. Such a treasure, don't Talking about a three-bedroom house, even if a fixed parking space is added, Tang Zifeng will never be disappointed.

"Dr. Ge, what's the secret to the design of this CNC heavy-duty crankshaft machine tool?"

Guan Yong, an engineer from Canglong Research Institute who accompanied Tang Zifeng to meet with Ge Yafei, spoke. Tang Zifeng couldn't understand the technical aspects, so he entrusted Guan Yong with full authority to examine Ge Yafei. Guan Yong has never seen a heavy-duty crankshaft machine tool, but he has a background in machine tool design, so he can still understand some basic concepts.

"The secret?" Ge Yafei thought for three minutes with dull eyes, then shook his head and said: "There is no secret. In fact, this kind of machine tool is just a bit bigger, and the entire structure is nothing more than the bed, main spindle box, chuck, and tailstock. , turning tool holder, cyclone tool holder, hydraulic system, electrical and CNC system, they are no different from other machine tools. By the way, you also need a traveling lathe, which is used to adjust the workpiece and the center frame..., why, I Didn't you make it clear? Hmm, how about I draw a schematic diagram for you."

As he spoke, he took out a notebook and a pen from his bag, and then drew a structural diagram on the notebook, explaining as he drew:

"You see, a heavy-duty crankshaft machine tool has two different lathes, one we call the workpiece bed and the other called the tool rest bed. The center frame and tailstock are mounted on the workpiece lathe and can move back and forth; The turning tool holder and cyclone tool holder are installed on the tool holder bed and can also be moved back and forth..."

Guan Yong stared at the picture drawn by Ge Yafei, nodding his head, and from time to time he pointed at something and asked one or two technical details. Tang Zifeng could understand it at first, but when there were more things piled on the picture, he couldn't understand it anymore. He simply didn't bother to think about it and just enjoyed Ge Yafei's performance.

He found that when talking about technical issues, Ge Yafei was no longer as dull as before, and his eyes were somewhat brighter. Of course, compared to liberal arts students like Li Kejia and Bao Nana, calling the expression in Ge Yafei's eyes "brilliant" is simply an insult. While other people's eyes were like a pool of spring water, Ge Yafei's eyes were like a heated asphalt pool, which would freeze if he wasn't careful.

Well, maybe this is also a state of being an engineer. Only such people can sit on the bench and spend ten years sharpening their efforts to develop machine tools with excellent performance.

"Director Tang, Dr. Ge's skills are really amazing. I think it is completely trustworthy to ask him to be our chief engineer of Chongqu Machine Tools."

After Guan Yong communicated with Ge Yafei for more than ten minutes, he heartily recommended it to Tang Zifeng. Experts will know if they have it if they stretch out their hands. Ge Yafei claims that there are no secrets in the design of Chongqu machine tools, but he casually said that they are all things that Guan Yong did not expect. In fact, they are the secrets in the design. The reason why he doesn't think these things are know-hows is probably because he knows too much about these technologies and always feels that others should also know that his own things are nothing.

"That's good." Tang Zifeng nodded, returned to the topic, and said to Ge Yafei: "Brother Ge, I must have told you what we meant when Teacher Huo asked you to come over, right? We have an institution called Canglong Research Institute. It was jointly established by the 20 largest machine tool companies in the country and is considered a joint-stock enterprise. We are now eager to recruit a group of talents to undertake the development of several important machine tools.

"We invited you here because we heard that you have made great achievements in heavy-duty crankshaft machine tools. I didn't quite understand what Guan Gong was talking to you just now, but I know that you must be very professional and in line with our requirements. Require.

"Then, now it's your turn. Are you willing to work at our Canglong Research Institute? If you are willing to come, what are your salary requirements?"

The teacher Huo he was talking about was Xiao Wenjun’s mentor, and of course Ge Yafei’s mentor. This man's name is Huo Ronghai, he is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Tsinghua University and a well-known machine tool expert in China. When Qin Zhongnian mentions him, he is respectful. This time, Tang Zifeng sent a message to Ge Yafei through Huo Ronghai, asking him to come and meet. In fact, it was somewhat like an interview. Now that the interview is over, Tang Zifeng initially plans to accept Ge Yafei, and of course he has to listen to what conditions Ge Yafei will offer.

Hearing Tang Zifeng's question, Ge Yafei suddenly felt a little embarrassed. He hesitated for a while and then said: "Actually, when I came back to China, I mainly wanted to find a university to teach students and do research. Is that research institute of yours considered an enterprise editor or a career editor?"

Tang Zifeng shrugged his shoulders and said: "There is definitely no business staff, and the enterprise staff is not a formal staff of a state-owned enterprise. Canglongyuan is a joint-stock enterprise and does not have a staff."

"Oh..." Ge Yafei responded. The asphalt began to freeze, and a biting cold air came out.

"However, if Dr. Ge is willing to join, we can provide a monthly salary of no less than 8,000 yuan."

"Huh?" Asphalt flows again, obviously this income still has some appeal.

"The headquarters of our institute is in Linhe City, Dongye Province. If Dr. Ge is willing to work in Linhe, he will be assigned a 160-square-meter house as soon as he arrives."

"Dong Ye?" Ge Yafei frowned, shook his head slightly, and said, "I still hope to work in the capital. I'm sorry, Tang..."

"My name is Tang Zifeng." Tang Zifeng introduced himself. In fact, they had already introduced each other when they met.

Guan Yong added on behalf of Tang Zifeng: "Director Tang is the executive deputy director of Linhe No. 1 Machine Tool Factory and is in charge of the work."

"Yeah, Director Tang." Ge Yafei found the correct way to address him and said, "As far as I am concerned, it doesn't matter whether I am in the capital or going to Dongye. But the reason why I returned to China is to take better care of my family. Parents, they are older and not in good health.

"My hometown is from Changhua Province. My parents are used to life in the north, so it's not a big problem to come to the capital. But if they go to Dongye, I'm worried that they won't adapt to the southern climate."

"So that's it." Tang Zifeng pretended to be embarrassed, thought for a while, and then said: "We do have a branch in the capital, and some research is done here. But if you want to stay in the capital and do it Research, there is no problem with salary and benefits, but housing..."