In the private room, everyone sat down and waited for a few minutes. A pot of Biluochun was brought into the private room. As the housekeeper, Liu Wei poured the tea for the two of them, then turned and left, leaving a private space for the two of them.
"Butler... your family is really rich." Yu Hua sighed softly, picked up the teacup from the purple clay pot, brought it to his mouth, and took a sip of Biluochun.
The aroma of tea is overflowing and the aftertaste is endless.
In one word, delicious.
Yu Hua could clearly feel that this pot of Biluochun was much better than the 10-element tea at the small mahjong parlor in his hometown in later generations, even the Longjing tea he drank at Huangchenggen Bookstore was not as good.
Behind the delicious food is money.
Lin Wan rolled her eyes at Yu Hua, her face was quite serious, and she went straight to the topic: "Yu Hua, if the equipment you listed is available now, but one day it is no longer available, what should we do?"
With the power of the Northern Department in Tianjin, if nothing else, the related equipment in these industrial fields can basically be purchased, because Tianjin is a port city, domestic and foreign trade is extremely prosperous, and many American companies have representative offices in Tianjin.
However, what should we do if one day we can no longer buy it?
Maybe it's because of external factors, maybe it's because of the war.
"This is a very good question. My answer is - imitate it yourself." Yu Hua put down the purple clay teacup, his eyes narrowed, and his words were full of power.
"We copy it ourselves?! These foreign equipment are basically registered patents. If we copy them, it doesn't matter whether we have the ability or not. The key is that it is infringement." Lin Wan was a little confused.
"If you don't tell me, and I don't tell you, what kind of rights are you infringing on?" Yu Hua rolled his eyes at Lin Wan.
Lin Wan was speechless: "Isn't this... bad?"
Yu Hua's thoughts made her a little confused. In the past, she had always followed an aboveboard line and behaved like a gentleman. Such an operation of 'you don't tell, I won't tell' had never occurred to her.
"Young people, please be flexible. In the face of the life and death of the country, a patent is nothing. Survive first, and then talk about rules." Yu Hua taught like a master, instilling extremely important concepts into Lin Wan.
Foreign patent?
In the face of China's life and death, it is a hammer.
Moreover, the first patent law in the history of the Republic of China has not yet been born. The "Interim Regulations for Rewarding Handicrafts" currently in effect is half of the patent law. There are almost no manufacturers in the country that comply with the patent law.
This is also one of the reasons why foreigners strictly control technology outflow.
"Survive first, then talk about rules..." Lin Wan fell into deep thought and self-reflection as if she was enlightened.
"In the face of the country's life and death..."
Outside the door, Butler Liu was quietly listening to the conversation between the two, his eyes shone with wisdom, and he was silently thinking about Yu Hua's plain words that were easy to understand but contained great truths.
In the private room, Lin Wan thought for a while, looked at Yu Hua with clear and bright eyes, and nodded solemnly: "You are right, a patent is nothing."
"When the relevant equipment is bought back, we immediately dismantle the equipment, draw drawings, obtain technology, and finally realize self-imitation. This process is summarized as 'reverse engineering'. In reverse engineering, we can obtain valuable technology and reverse engineering
experience."
Yu Hua continued to explain, thinking from the perspective of later generations, explaining reverse engineering, which is extremely unfamiliar to the Republic of China today:
"Remember, experience is the most important. Its importance lies in - 'Knowing what is happening and knowing why it is happening' can improve our own R&D level. By reverse engineering again and again, we can catch up with the pace of the West.
Even beyond, this is the situation that foreign powers fear most. For example, Mr. Hou Debang of Wynn Company broke through foreign ammonia-alkali alkali production technology and built the first soda ash factory in Asia. The domestic soda ash price dropped significantly, and the soda ash market was transformed from a foreign monopoly.
Monopoly for Wynn."
Reverse engineering.
At this moment, Lin Wan and Butler Liu outside the door were all learning this new term that came out of Yu Hua's mouth, thinking like students.
"As for whether we have the ability to reverse engineer, Jin Yu, I can tell you clearly, yes!"
Yu Hua spoke clearly and solemnly, with a pair of deep and vast eyes, looking at Lin Wan completely, and said seriously: "You, me, and the other two classmates are all the best geniuses. I don't believe that we, the Chinese
Do you believe that genius groups are dumber than foreigners?"
The words were sonorous and powerful, deafening and full of momentum.
"I don't believe it."
Feeling the emotion in Yu Hua's words, Lin Wan took a deep breath, shook her head and answered, thinking inferences in her mind: "So, our goal this time is not only to develop the seven-tower device, but also to research the related equipment for manufacturing the seven-tower device.
Carry out reverse engineering, right?”
No one wants to admit that they are stupid, and Lin Wan will never admit that she is stupider than foreigners.
"That's so well said. He doesn't belittle himself, is not arrogant and complacent, clearly realizes the gap between reality, and proposes to catch up. He is really a great talent..." Butler Liu outside the door commented in his heart.
"Yes, essentially, the seven-tower device is a systematic project involving materials, mechanical engineering, and mechanical processing industries. We have to master every basic technology. Otherwise, how can we realize the millions of dollars we envisioned?
Annual ton-level output? The foundation is the most important.”
Yu Hua smiled and said: "Of course, in the early stage, we still need to buy equipment first to verify whether the seven-tower device technology meets the standards, and then solve the basic technology problems through reverse engineering."
The foundation is the most important!
It has to be said that the seven-tower device is a key technology that Yu Hua painstakingly conceived. The technical difficulty is not high, but it tests the basic industrial level of the technology developers themselves.
You know, essentially, the entire project is a systematic engineering project.
Once the seven-tower device is successfully developed, the organization represented by Lin Wan will have extremely valuable reverse engineering experience and basic technologies involving multiple industries, including the seven-tower device technology itself.
If you want to build a seven-tower device, you cannot do without a submerged arc welding machine for processing pressure vessels, and the submerged arc welding machine cannot do without flux.
In order to ensure continuous water supply to the reaction tower, a large-flow centrifugal pump is indispensable.
Centrifugal pump manufacturing is inseparable from motors, impeller processing technology and impeller materials. Motor and impeller manufacturing technology are born from high-precision machine tools and skilled workers, and impeller materials come from steel smelting.
In addition, there are pressure vessel materials, pressure gauges, pipelines...
There are so many, hundreds of species!
It is not difficult to build a seven-tower device through imported equipment. The most difficult thing is to build it yourself.
If you want to imitate yourself, you must solve these basic technologies involving major industrial fields.
Of course, some basic technologies are easy to solve, while some basic technologies are more difficult, such as metallurgy, which will need to be solved by oxygen top-blown converters in the future.
But no matter what, for the Eighth Route Army and the base area, once the seven-tower device project is completed, they will receive unprecedented R&D dividends - and gain a certain level of industrial foundation!