Chapter 727: No Rest for a Moment

After drinking with Lu Guangda, or more accurately, after untying Lu Guangda's knot.

Xu Yun quickly said goodbye to Li Jue and went to the next 'meal delivery point'.

In the next few hours.

Xu Yun met Wang Ganchang, Zhao Zhongyao, Zhou Guangzhao and others one after another - of course, he was also forced to drink.

You know.

The quality of wine these days is very average, with a typical high-proof taste of 0. After two sips, the figure in front of Xu Yun began to sway.

Finally, the dizzy Xu Yun was sent back to the hospital ward by Mou Fangdong, and slept peacefully like a dead donkey in the deafening sound of firecrackers outside.

The next morning.

"Consultant Xu, it's time to get up!"

Hearing Qiao Caihong's familiar voice, Xu Yun subconsciously smacked his lips twice and slowly opened his eyes.

Then he yawned, pressed his hands on the bed board and moved his body to the backrest:

"Good morning, Comrade Caihong."

Qiao Caihong shook her head when she heard it, stared at Xu Yun seriously and corrected:

"Advisor Xu, today is the first day of the Chinese New Year, you should say Happy New Year."

Xu Yun was stunned subconsciously, but soon realized something.

Yes.

Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year

In this era, the first day of the Chinese New Year is a very important day.

To say it is not an exaggeration.

In the future in 2023, if you say "Good morning" instead of "Happy New Year" on the first day of the Chinese New Year, not many people may care about the difference in this statement.

But in this era, if you make this mistake, some people will really turn their faces to you.

Thinking of this.

Xu Yun quickly bowed to Qiao Caihong:

"Happy New Year, Comrade Caihong."

Qiao Caihong hummed, took something out of her pocket and handed it to Xu Yun:

"Here, Consultant Xu, this is a New Year's gift for you."

Xu Yun took it and found that it was a very standard Chinese knot.

However

Xu Yun flipped the Chinese knot a few times and looked at Qiao Caihong in confusion:

"Comrade Caihong, why is this Chinese knot gray?"

Xu Yun was not unfamiliar with Chinese knots, but the Chinese knots in his impression were all dazzling red, but the Chinese knot Qiao Caihong gave him was gray.

Then, under Xu Yun's gaze, Qiao Caihong nodded decisively:

"Because I made it with the donkey hair you usually drink - I made it myself, does it look good?"

Xu Yun:

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Sure enough, pink hair is black-bellied when cut open, Xu Yun mourned for the young man named Zheng Tao for three seconds in his heart.

Then, with the help of Qiao Caihong and Mou Fangdong,

Xu Yun got out of bed as usual and left the ward soon - on the first day after the New Year, the base was going to prepare for a standing meeting.

However, unlike usual, on the way to the base, most of the employees Xu Yun met had a smile from the heart.

"Consultant Xu, Happy New Year!"

"Consultant Xu, good health in the New Year!"

"Consultant Xu, I wish you a prosperous New Year!"

"Consultant Xu"

Xu Yun kept greeting the employees on the way. After this New Year's Eve dinner, Xu Yun could clearly feel that everyone's pressure was relieved a lot.

You know.

The issue of psychological pressure has always been a potential hidden danger that Xu Yun was concerned about. He was very afraid that this bomb would suddenly explode at any time.

Fortunately, with the appearance of this New Year's Eve dinner, the original pressure of the base employees was not swept away, but at least most of it was relieved.

This is a good thing.

Then, amid the greetings of the employees, Xu Yun finally arrived at the general factory office.

Compared to the New Year's Eve dinner yesterday, there are not many tables in the open space around the factory office now, and the stoves and other things have been cleared away. However, the sound of firecrackers can still be heard everywhere - there is a second branch factory in the base that makes atomic bomb detonators. It is hard to say anything else, but there are really enough firecrackers during the New Year.

It is said that a comrade got drunk yesterday and almost blew up a landmine as a firecracker.

In order to facilitate Xu Yun, the injured, the meeting place today is still chosen on the first floor of the main factory, the conference room when Lou Zhicen, Tu Luming and others reported.

As soon as Xu Yun entered the conference room, a strong smell of dry tobacco came immediately.

"Wow!"

Xu Yun waved his hand vigorously, and after dispersing the smoke in front of him, he could barely see the situation inside:

At this time, there were only about half of the people sitting on dozens of seats, but at least 80% of them were smoking a cigarette, and the smoke in the room was like the Lingxiao Palace.

There is no way, who made today the first day of the new year?

Then, in the smoke, Xu Yun found the table with his name on it and pushed his wheelchair into position.

Lu Guangda and Lao Guo were still sitting on both sides of him today. They had already talked about everything they needed to talk about at the dinner table yesterday, so when Lu Guangda saw Xu Yun, he just patted Xu Yun on the shoulder as a greeting.

About ten minutes later.

Li Jue walked in from outside wearing a Zhongshan suit, holding a stack of documents in his hand.

"Huh?"

Xu Yun subconsciously looked at Li Jue for a few times, and curiously nudged Lao Guo next to him with his elbow:

"Mr. Guo, did the factory director change his glasses?"

Xu Yun remembered that Li Jue was wearing a pair of brown thick-framed glasses before, but today, Li Jue was wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, which made him look much more gentle.

"Yes."

Faced with Xu Yun's question, Lao Guo nodded quickly:

"The factory director asked someone at the Mao Yuanchang Glasses Factory in Shanghai to help him get glasses before the New Year. This kind of gold-rimmed glasses requires special material tickets. The factory director spent almost all of last year's half-year salary on it."

"Hiss"

Xu Yun grinned when he heard this:

"Good guy, I remember the factory director's original pair of glasses didn't break even after half a year's salary."

Lao Guo glanced at Li Jue on the stage and smiled:

"Of course, it's to better become a 'technical leader'. After all, our Lao Li has published papers in top international journals."

"I heard that when reporting on the base situation before the New Year, a comrade in the capital also highly affirmed the factory director's contribution to research and production."

"It is said that as soon as he was praised, the factory director went to show off to his old comrades."

Xu Yun:

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Okay, factory director, you're happy.

But let's be honest.

If we only talk about the level of the journals in which the papers are published, there are really few people in China who can compete with Li Jue - "Physical Review Letters" is a future international top journal.

While Lao Guo and Xu Yun were talking in a low voice.

Li Jue on the stage also coughed lightly and said:

"Okay, comrades, please be quiet for a while, we are ready to start the meeting."

Hearing this.

Many participants hurriedly twisted their cigarette butts into the ashtray, opened their notebooks, sat up straight and looked at Li Jue.

Then Li Jue looked around the scene, and his eyes softened a lot when he swept over Xu Yun, and continued to speak:

"Comrades, today is the first day of the new year. Here, I first say to everyone as the general manager of the 221 base."

"Comrades, happy new year!"

Papapapa——

There was a burst of applause from the audience.

According to Chinese customs, the first day of the new year has always been a relatively relaxing day.

On this day, people can go out to visit their elders and friends to greet the New Year, or they can hug their wives or husbands at home to exchange feelings.

You can also beat your children to relax, or say Happy New Year to your neighbors.

But in order to complete a mission, more than 10,000 people in the base came to the northwest to hide their identities and cut off almost all interpersonal contacts.

Many of them only know that there is a country, not a home.

But what comforts them is that.

In this grassland that is almost forgotten by the world, they are not alone in their struggle.

At least

At the beginning of the new year, there are still people who can say Happy New Year to them.

Then Li Jue paused, and after the applause subsided, he continued:

"Of course, we have a heavy burden, so after saying Happy New Year, the concept of New Year has nothing to do with us."

"Next, we still have to pull our energy back to the original project and start the final task sprint!"

Li Jue's voice just fell.

Swish--

The atmosphere of the whole scene suddenly became a little subtle.

The subtlety here is not a derogatory word, but an inexplicable excitement and amplitude, as if it were a crossbow that was pulled to perfection and ready to fire at any time.

As for the core reason for this atmosphere, it is naturally what Li Jue said about the "task sprint".

Before today or yesterday's New Year's Eve dinner, the base still maintained the trend of advancing the project, and did not start the holiday until the New Year's Eve.

But it is undeniable.

At that stage, the people in the base were a little restless. When there was something to do, the efficiency was high, and sometimes the efficiency was low.

Therefore, the leadership of the base did not customize some specific plans before the holiday, which was equivalent to running slowly with energy.

Now that the Spring Festival has passed, the restless people's hearts are gradually restrained, and the entire 221 base can start sprinting with all their strength.

This is like a later online writer who knows that he has to pick up his child in an hour. Then he will inevitably pay attention to the time when he is typing, which will cause his attention to be distracted.

When he picks up the child and has nothing to do, he can put all his energy into typing.

What?

You ask why some authors are slow to type without a wife or children?

Ahem

The sight returns to the original place.

After finishing his speech, Li Jue opened the file he brought and said:

"Comrades, in order to enable the 221 base to carry out the final stage of R&D sprint to the maximum extent, according to the instructions from the capital, we will reorganize and rebuild some departments of the base!"

"What?"

As soon as Li Jue finished speaking, a burst of discussion suddenly broke out from the audience:

"Director? What do you mean by reorganization?"

"Reorganization and reconstruction? Lao Wang, you are well-informed. Have you heard of this before?"

"I didn't."

The scene became noisy within a few seconds, but most of the participants looked confused, but they didn't have much worries.

After all, everyone knows the decision-making ability of the organization. It is impossible to suddenly cut off or transfer some tasks that are really at a critical moment. The reorganization and reconstruction here are mostly aimed at a specific group.

Some experts with more flexible thinking were already showing some thoughts at this time, and they vaguely guessed something.

Then under the gaze of everyone, Li Jue quickly continued to speak:

"Comrades, in October last year, we officially completed the design work related to the atomic bomb."

"At that time, we also transitioned the overall focus of the base from theoretical derivation to the application stage of weapons research and development."

"We have established multiple production project groups, such as neutron ignition sources, fuel layer ball fragments, etc., and each group also has a corresponding person in charge."

When Li Jue was speaking, many experts in the audience nodded subconsciously.

What Li Jue said is one of the most important milestones since the establishment of Base 221.

At that time, Lu Guangda and others completed the theoretical design of the atomic bomb, and Xu Yun came up with the Yu Min configuration with the pendant. Therefore, the organization decided to shift the base from theory to research and development.

For this purpose, the organization has also established multiple core project teams, and found corresponding bosses to lead the team for research and development.

Among them, there are seven in terms of atomic bombs:

The person in charge of the beryllium/polonium neutron source, also known as the ignition neutron source, is Wang Fangding.

The honeycomb cardboard spacer, also known as the air barrier layer, provides space for the critical collapse of the compressed uranium fuel after detonation. The person in charge, whose pseudonym is Wu Ke, is Wu Xuelin.

The person in charge of U235 fuel layer ball fragments is Wang Chengshu, a well-known female academician in the future.

Polonium protective layer, person in charge Feng Ji.

The person in charge of the explosive detonation drive mechanism, also known as the plane wave generator, was Qian Wushi (now Lu Guangda).

Finally, there is the free neutron generation layer and the neutron reflection layer, headed by Wu Ziliang.

There are two things that can be made public about hydrogen bombs:

Structure of soft X-ray compression secondary, person in charge Wang Daheng.

Preparation of hydrogen spheres, person in charge Leian.

The rest is all beep beep beep——

After reporting the corresponding projects and personnel, Li Jue said:

"Although the organization established an application research and development group at that time, there was no final decision on the placement of the original theoretical group members."

"Some members of the theoretical group continue to study related derivative theories, and some go to the application group to do collaborative work."

"Others were mobilized to the neutron bomb theory team to help, and there are still some people like Consultant Xu who are running around on several projects."

"The reason for this situation is that we had just launched the research and development project at that time, and we were somewhat unsure whether the entire project could proceed smoothly."

"But now our application research and development is on the right track, so in other words."

“It’s time to give those comrades in the original theory group a concrete and stable title.”

Say it.

Li Jue looked around the scene, and finally focused on Xu Yun:

"According to consultant Xu Yun's suggestion, after today's meeting, our base will usher in the most powerful complete state since its completion. Therefore, the organization adopted consultant Xu Yun's suggestion and finally named this reorganization and reconstruction project."

"221 Base Completion Plan."