Fujita Ryuji stayed in Hanzhong until June. After completing two MBP-110S, he was asked to join the construction of the Hanzhong branch of the "Holy Light Aerospace Complex" as a special consultant.
Fujita has no autonomy at all in this job, because his friends in Tokyo have advised him not to return to the country recently, because the Tokyo District Prosecutors' Special Investigation Department has listed him as an important suspect - he will definitely be arrested if he goes back.
After learning about the situation, Fujita vomited three liters of blood and was almost so angry that he wanted to hang himself. He didn't understand how he could be so unlucky. He was obviously a patriot of the Showa era, but he was suddenly labeled as a traitor.
This is really an injustice!
Zhou Qingfeng's 'Consortium' was recently approved by the Imperial Capital. Five major projects were divided into five different places to make full use of existing resources to avoid duplication of construction.
The large aircraft project was settled in Shaanxi Aircraft Company in Hanzhong.
Shaanxi Fei had previously built a medium-sized "Yunba", with very poor technical capabilities and very poor output. However, Shaanxi Fei's factory was very large, and it was said to be the number one in Asia at the time.
The formation of a 'consortium' means using enough foreign exchange as lubricant to integrate the domestic scattered scientific research and manufacturing systems.
'Holy Light' has no intention and impossibility to rebuild a new system, and must borrow the existing industrial and mining enterprises. To put it simply, it is called 'taking the essence and discarding the dross'.
In the Da Mao family, the Holy Light purchased four Tu-154s from the Kuibyshev Aircraft Manufacturing Plant last year, and successfully used the power of Minister Chuikov to request the purchase of aircraft overhaul lines and even manufacturing plants.
After the alliance disintegrated, the political system of the Mao family collapsed directly, and the economy also collapsed after April 1992. No one came to organize production anymore, and the original "cooperation" quickly turned into "relocation."
Since May, dozens of IL-76s have been taking off and landing at Hanzhong Airport. A large number of Maozi engineering personnel arrived in Hanzhong from Kuibyshev to make contact with Shaanxi Aircraft.
Zhou Qingfeng is not afraid of leaking secrets at all, and technical personnel from Japan are also involved in the planning and construction of the new production line. "Don't use people with suspicion, and don't use people with suspicion." People with real problems cannot avoid his "detection of lies."
Ryuji Fujita is from Toshiba's Machine Tool Division, but that doesn't mean he only knows machine tools. This kind of old devil has been working in the production line and office for 20 to 30 years, and he has extremely rich skills and experience.
The initial personnel of the large aircraft project exceeded 2,000, all of whom were hired from domestic and foreign countries with high salaries. Fujita was asked to consider the feasibility of manufacturing and the problems he would face from a Western perspective.
The standard for feasibility is simple—MIL-STD.
Fujita jumped up when he saw this standard, because MIL-STD is translated into Chinese as "U.S. Common Military Standard".
Tiankeng!
The flower grower actually used the standards of his own enemy to conduct feasibility analysis.
This set of standards covers all aspects of military equipment and is the culmination of the current U.S. industrial system. For example, MIL-STD-1534-1972, which is the technical requirements for the design of aviation turbine gas engines.
Given the current domestic level of materials, workmanship, technology, etc., applying this set of standards is too forward. But Zhou Qingfeng still requires that it be used as the standard—defective shortcomings are listed and efforts are made to make up for them.
Whether you spend money to develop it yourself, "introduce" it from Da Mao's family, or smuggle it from the West, the standard cannot be low, and you just need to find a way to solve it.
If there is really no way to solve it, hand the problem over to the president - Mr. Zhou will take action personally and there will always be a solution.
The country is quite looking forward to this. If it can really use US military standards without compromise, doesn't it mean that the industrial capabilities of flower growers must be on par with those of the United States?
Oh my gosh!
I dare not think about it.
The research team of more than 2,000 people has different origins and backgrounds. The first thing they do is to study the extremely rich MIL-STD technical standards.
The job went super smoothly.
Everyone drank the health water provided by the 'Holy Light' headquarters every day, and sometimes had scientific dreams where their thoughts collided at night. It was as if they had mastered photographic memory, and they had finished reading the content they needed to master in half a month.
This is where the master plan begins.
Fujita found that this was an excellent opportunity to get a thorough understanding of the industrial capabilities of flower growers, because technologies that could not be developed domestically would inevitably be discussed. Once discussed, the relevant data could not be hidden.
For example, the performance of domestic aluminum alloy materials is not as good as that of the United States. However, in order to manufacture a light and strong body, the production and processing of high-grade aluminum alloys are necessary. This is reflected in the Yunshi project.
"Your aluminum alloy only meets the LC4 standard. It has poor toughness and is sensitive to notches. There is no way to use the 'US military standard.'" In an internal meeting, Fujita deliberately singled out this issue to find fault.
But the ministry official who presided over the meeting replied: "We can currently produce LC7 standard aluminum alloy to meet the application of large aircraft."
No, this is different from what Fujita remembered. He asked strangely: "When did you master the production and processing capabilities of high-grade aluminum alloys?"
"We are cooperating with McDonnell Douglas to produce the McDonnell Douglas 82 passenger aircraft. By introducing technology, the Americans have helped us improve our relevant capabilities. Don't worry, aluminum alloy is no problem."
Nani? American!
Fujita was so angry that he wanted to scream in the sky - he was indeed an evil rice beast, with no morals, no rules, and only looking for profit.
Toshiba exported two machine tools and did not make much money, but Mizuo fined him a large sum of money, forced Toshiba's top executives to resign, and published humiliating "apology advertisements" in more than 50 newspapers and periodicals in the United States.
But Miwu itself took the initiative to export sensitive aluminum alloy manufacturing technology. This thing can be used on passenger planes and bombers!
Every reduction in bomber weight means an increase in bomb load and range.
"Okay, now that the aluminum alloy material is solved, what about the processing capabilities? The large frame of the machine body requires a large die forging press."
According to Fujita's understanding, the flower planter's die forging press currently only has a processing capacity of 30,000 tons, and the minimum requirement for a machine body that can be processed is 40,000 tons.
There are only a handful of countries in the world that can produce heavy-duty die forging presses. There are only three countries: Russia, the United States, and France. Not even Japan can produce them, and they need to import them from abroad.
"Oh, that's not a problem. Holy Light has completed the full acquisition of the Kuibyshev Aluminum Plant and will start relocating it this month.
All equipment will be transferred to Plant 112 of the Ministry of Metallurgy, which is the Southwest Aluminum Plant. This includes a 75,000-ton die forging press. This 10,000-ton equipment will be relocated and reinstalled first.
The entire relocation and reconstruction work is estimated to be completed within two years, and by then our high-end aluminum alloy production capacity will no longer be in doubt.
By the way, the Upper Salda Titanium Factory has the same ‘King of Die Forging’, and ‘Holy Light’ has also acquired that factory. Our titanium alloy processing capabilities will also make leaps and bounds in two years’ time.
Everyone knows that titanium alloys have good performance, but the processing of titanium is difficult. In order to process titanium alloys, the alliance specially manufactured a closed processing chamber filled with argon gas.
This special equipment costs a lot of money and has limited uses. It really can't be done casually. But it's fine now. We can just move the ready-made equipment back.
We will also manufacture a batch of new 10,000-ton die forging presses for the manufacture of high-horsepower diesel engine crankshafts and other workpieces. The group is formulating a "two-year plan" that requires the completion of hundreds of manufacturing projects within two years."
Ministry personnel made a briefing on the situation. This was all public information. The Americans also knew it and wanted to interfere, but they could not. The conference room where the exchange was held was filled with cheerful laughter.
Flower growers will have super die forging equipment twenty years ahead of schedule, and ‘Holy Light’ also plans to complete a leap-forward technological upgrade in two years.