Chapter 162 Mother Machine
“Chief Engineer Tang, how come you have time to come here today?”

As soon as the two entered the aerospace department, they immediately attracted the attention of everyone inside, and a middle-aged man wearing glasses took the initiative to greet them.

The middle-aged man is very thin. Although he is not as skinny as a stick, he is thinner than the normal people of this era.

However, his eyes were bright and seemed to radiate wisdom, and coupled with his temperament, he looked like a high-level intellectual.

“No one comes to visit you for no reason, Chief Engineer Jiang, let me introduce you.”

Tang Qingyu responded with a smile, then pointed at Yu Wenzheng and said, “This, Comrade Yu Wenzheng, is the inventor of the soil tiller, ‘Huagong No. 1, No. 2’, and the solar seed drill.”

Yu Wenzhen was looking at Chief Engineer Jiang, and Chief Engineer Jiang was also looking at Yu Wenzhen.

It was not until Tang Qingyu introduced Yu Wenzhen that Jiang Zhihe’s eyes suddenly lit up and a smile immediately appeared on his face.

He extended his right hand towards Yu Wenzheng and said, “Hello, Comrade Yu Wenzheng. I am a chief engineer of the Aerospace Department of the Academy of Sciences. My name is Jiang Zhihe.”

Maybe at the beginning Jiang Zhihe didn’t take Yu Wenzhen seriously and thought that Yu Wenzhen was just a junior of Tang Qingyu.

But when Tang Qingyu introduced Yu Wenzhen, Jiang Zhihe’s attitude changed.

Yu Wenzhen also stretched out his hand, clasped his hands together, shook them up and down, and then separated.

Yu Wenzheng then said modestly: “Hello, Chief Engineer Jiang.”

The three of them exchanged greetings for a moment, and then went to an office together.

After everyone was seated, Tang Qingyu said to Yu Wenzheng, “Don’t you want to find someone to look at your design? Chief Engineer Jiang is the most suitable person.”

Yu Wenzheng heard this and continued Tang Qingyu’s words, saying, “Chief Engineer Jiang, please help me take a look at this design.”

Yu Wenzhen said this as he handed the design drawing in his hand to Jiang Zhihe.

Jiang Zhihe had curiosity in his eyes. After taking the design drawing, he did not unfold it directly. Instead, he took off his glasses and wiped them with a cloth.

After putting on his glasses again, Jiang Zhihe unfolded the drawing.

This is……

When Jiang Zhihe saw the content, he looked up at Yu Wenzhen in surprise, then quickly lowered his head.

Half an hour later.

Jiang Zhihe took off his glasses again, rubbed his sore eyes, put on his glasses, and looked at Yu Wenzhen.

“Did you design this yourself?”

There was some disbelief in his tone.

He didn’t understand why Yu Wenzhen, who majored in mechanics, had such in-depth research on engines.

Although this design drawing is only a part of the engine, it is the most core part.

From this part, we can see that this engine is very excellent. Although it may be slightly worse than overseas car engines, it is not much worse.

Overall it looks a bit flawed, but the merits outweigh the flaws.

To put it bluntly, if the entire engine design is completed and the production line is set up, it will definitely be a large factory with tens of thousands of employees.

Yu Wenzheng nodded and said, “In my spare time, I always learn something that interests me. I recently drew this design. But my ability is limited, and I can’t see any problems, so I can’t make up my mind.”

Hearing this, Jiang Zhihe suddenly felt that he had grown old.

It is true that their aerospace department also studies old engines, but if they were asked to design an engine, they might not necessarily do better than Yu Wenzhen.

“You are too modest.” Jiang Zhihe waved his hand and said, “Compared to you, I even feel inferior to you.”

Yu Wenzheng and Tang Qingyu looked at each other, and Tang Qingyu asked in confusion: “Chief Engineer Jiang, what do you mean by this?”

Jiang Zhihe smiled and explained, “I think there is no problem with the engine designed by Comrade Yu Wenzheng. I will not hide it from you. Some of the technologies in the design drawings may even give you some inspiration. Comrade Yu Wenzheng, I wonder if you can temporarily leave this drawing with us so that we can study it?”

After hearing this, Tang Qingyu’s eyes widened.

When he turned to look at Yu Wenzhen, his eyes were as if he was looking at a monster.

That look seemed to be saying: What kind of pervert are you?
It’s fine that the mechanics are awesome, but how come the engine is also so awesome?
Yu Wenzhen felt a little embarrassed by Tang Qingyu’s gaze.

He touched his nose and said awkwardly, “Chief Engineer Jiang, there is no problem with putting the drawings here. I have learned about the most advanced engines overseas, and my engine is still too poor compared to theirs. I think I will design a new one after I learn more knowledge.”

Jiang Zhihe looked at Yu Wenzheng with admiration and said, “What a great ambition! What our country lacks is talents like you.”

……

When Yu Wenzhen came out of the Academy of Sciences, it was almost time to get off work.

By the time he returned to the steel mill, packed his things and went home, it was dark.

Coming home so late, Yu Wenzhen couldn’t avoid being scolded by Lu Shuqin again.

As Lu Shuqin kept talking to him, he ate and laughed at the same time. His happy expression made Lu Shuqin feel embarrassed to blame him.

Time flies, and two months have passed in the blink of an eye.

After two months of unremitting efforts, Yu Wenzhen’s knowledge of the automotive industry has finally reached a higher level.

From expert-level skills, he has been promoted to master-level, and he already has better ideas about engine design.

But this time he didn’t plan to draw the design again.

After all, if the basic industries cannot keep up, no matter how advanced the engine design is, it will be useless. It is better to calm down and develop basic industries.

He has now turned his attention to machine tools, the legendary mother machines of industry.

Many people may not know what an industrial mother machine is?
Industrial mother machines actually refer to metal processing machine tools, or in layman’s terms, machines that manufacture machines.

Metal processing machine tools can be divided into forming machine tools and cutting machine tools according to whether metal material separation occurs during the operation process.

If classified by control method, machine tools can also be divided into CNC machine tools and ordinary machine tools. CNC is the general trend of the development of machine tools for advanced manufacturing.

Machine tools are one of the most important tools for industrial production. They are located in the middle reaches of the manufacturing industry chain. Their downstream application terminals are mainly in machinery and equipment, new energy, aerospace and other industries.

Yu Wenzhen’s main focus now is ordinary machine tools.

To be honest, he actually wanted to achieve his goal in one step and directly get CNC machine tools, which are so advanced that they will not be caught up by overseas countries for another ten or twenty years.

But there is no other way. I don’t even have a computer now. How can I do CNC?
Do not make jokes.

Now it is better to stick to ordinary machine tools. If you want to do numerical control, you must at least make computers first, and then communication satellites…

In short, it is simply impossible to achieve in a short period of time.

Fortunately, industrial machinery is a major in mechanics, which happens to be Yu Wenzhen’s major.

So, during this period, Yu Wenzhen has started dealing with industrial machine tools.

(End of this chapter)