On the third day after the end of new year's day, the atmosphere of the festival has faded from the Jinling Aerospace Industrial Park. The workers who come back from the holiday have begun to work.

The gate of each factory has been opened. Large, medium and small logistics trucks are traveling on the spacious road of the park. The raw materials imported into the park and the parts exported from the park are just like the blood filled with nutrition, pumped into the limbs and trunk of China's aerospace industry by this energetic heart, which makes the rising giant stronger.

Located in the core area of the whole industrial park, Jinling Aerospace assembly center with high walls is located in a spacious factory building with four sides.

In the workshop, a three section metal hull is lying quietly on the scaffold like a skeleton.

This place seems to have become the pilgrimage site of the world's aerospace industry, and the lying hull, like the coffin of a saint, attracts the eyes of all Aerospace people around the world.

In particular, Boeing, space-x and Airbus, the world-famous aerospace enterprises that have emerged in their respective fields, are willing to give billions or even tens of billions of orders to cooperate with star technology, just to send engineers here for a look.

At this moment, a group of foreign experts are standing beside the magpie bridge's hull, whispering in surprise and pointing at the mechanical cantilever on both sides of the plant from time to time.

"God How are you going to get it into space? "

The Chinese engineers standing nearby did not respond, but stood behind their hands.

Nothing was asked. The foreign expert was obviously not willing, so he deliberately used a provocative tone and said.

"There is a fatal flaw in this cuboid shaped ship, so you haven't considered the possibility of being hit by a meteorite? There is also the effect of metal cold welding in ultra vacuum and low temperature environment. The increase of thrust will enlarge the risk of ship decomposition infinitely. "

Engineers in helmets were still standing by, with polite smiles on their faces, and indifferent to the complaints of these foreign experts.

After testing for a long time, the engineers here failed to find out the useful information, and the faces of foreign experts showed disappointment.

In particular, the white expert with a beard, who had previously proposed the cold welding effect, complained ruefully.

"Damn Are you not going to argue? "

This time, the engineer, who had been silent and smiling, finally spoke.

"There's nothing to argue about. Let's talk about it with strength. Unless you can create as like as two peas, I can totally fart.

“……”

Looking at the group of foreign experts expressing their dissatisfaction, director Li, who was also inspecting the factory, glanced at his secretary and asked.

"Who are those people? What are they doing? "

Compared with director Li, the Secretary's English is still very good, hesitated for a moment, explained.

"Those foreign experts It's like looking for something wrong. "

"Fault finding?" Director Li's eyebrows were picked up, his expression was strange, and he almost didn't laugh out loud. "Do they want to pick up our problems?"

If someone had told him that before, he could not believe it. After all, two years ago, China's aerospace industry was not strong enough to be proud, so we had to listen to the opinions of foreign experts.

But now, as the only country in the world that has mastered mature controllable nuclear fusion technology and applied controllable nuclear fusion and electric propulsion technology to spacecraft, there are still people who are qualified to come and teach them how to design spacecraft?

It's no joke.

"Fault finding is the second thing. They are afraid that their main idea is to find out something from us. However, their methods don't seem to be very clever. It's useless for us to be aggressive. "

Coming from the side, Hou Guang, director of the Aerospace Research Institute of Jinling Institute of higher learning, explained with a smile and extended his right hand to Director Li, "welcome director Li to the aerospace assembly center for guidance. You should tell me in advance, and I'll be ready to meet you in advance."

"What can I do to guide you? I just worried about disturbing your work, so I didn't tell you in advance. " Director Li smiled and shook Hou Guang's hand, or glanced at the foreign experts uneasily. "You know that they are here to search for information. What else do you want to let them in?"

"This is a request from the partners, because in order to ensure the safety of the goods, we can't keep them out because of this little thing," Hou Guang continued with a relaxed smile. "What's more, the technology that can be seen at a glance has no significance of confidentiality. Our real core technologies are all in higher research institutes, where they can't enter, even if they are doing experiments in front of them, they don't necessarily see what we are doing. "

In fact, this is also the place where competitors are most annoyed.They paid a lot of money and negotiated cooperation. They sent engineers here to visit in the name of "safety inspection", but what they saw was a pile of scrap iron with no technical content.

Yes, these things are also valuable and contain a lot of knowledge, but for them, they are no different from scrap iron.

After all, before they think about how to miniaturize and install controllable fusion on spacecraft, they don't have the preconditions for adopting such a "big fly brick" design route.

Looking at the envious expression on the faces of those foreign engineers, director Li sighed softly.

"I didn't expect that we also have this day, let others rack their brains to steal our technology."

Hou Guang smiled and said, "yes, sometimes I think it's like a dream."

Looking at the group of foreign experts who like to come to the tourist group and move from the scaffold to the next "scenic spot", they paused for a moment and continued.

"At present, we are bidding for NASA's 500 tons of earth to moon orbital transfer mission. Without any accident, our offer will be more than 20% cheaper than space-x. This is the most suitable bidding scheme after the research of our experts. If the bid is successful, at least 10 billion dollars of excess space capacity can be absorbed. Just... "

Director Li: "just what? You can tell me any difficulties outside of technology, and I will find a way to help you solve them. "

“…… No, you misunderstood. It's not that there is any difficulty. Everything is OK now. I just want to say that it's a pity that academician Lu now focuses on mathematics, "Hou Guang sighed softly and said with some nostalgia," to be honest, I really miss the feeling of standing on the first line of scientific research with Academician Lu. Many times when we exchange some data and ideas, he can quickly give me a feasible idea, and I will demonstrate it from a professional point of view, no matter what we do, we will get twice the result with half the effort. "

Hearing this, chief Li said with a sigh.

"This kind of thing can't be forced. Academician Lu has his own thing to do. We can't always force him to contribute to us. "

"What you said is that we really can't rely on him all the time," Hou Guang nodded, rallied his energy again, smiled and said, "it seems that I have to work harder. Now that we have established such a big advantage, we can't fail academician Lu's hard work."

Director Li smiled and nodded.

"You can do it. I'll go somewhere else later. If you meet Professor Lu, remember to say hello to him for me. "

"OK." Put a wave of hand, wait for light buckled safety helmet on the head, turned round to return to the job.

Looking at Hou Guang who turned away with his helmet on, another magpie bridge that was about to be completed and the busy factory that was not far away, director Li's face showed a sense of relief and ecstasy.

China's aerospace industry is heading for a more distant star, and everything is moving in a good direction.

You can see it in your lifetime.

I always feel that I have no regrets in my life.