Chapter 1027 How old are you?

"Send someone to the Northeast Carbon Research Institute to see if they can make a lighter graphite lining." said a comrade.

Compared with iron-based alloy 591, graphite lining is much lighter, so it may be a solution.

"Okay, we'll send someone right away!"
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The comrades in the Mechanical Department acted quickly and delivered the connector kit and wiring that Gao Zhendong requested the next day.

This thing can actually be barely regarded as a special single-needle aviation plug, and the old masters in the mechanical department have rich experience in hand-rubbing.

What Gao Zhendong chose was not the network cable of later generations, but another type of cable that had been eliminated in network transmission.

——Coaxial cable!
This stuff is readily available in this era, and it is not difficult to make coaxial cable with suitable impedance.

Early network cards used coaxial cables, BNC plugs, and tees. This method could connect several computers into a small local area network in the form of a bus, omitting the hub or switch.

Considering the convenience of this method and the cost savings, Gao Zhendong temporarily chose this method.

Looking at a switch and several network cards with BNC connectors extracted from the system, Gao Zhendong was quite happy. The feeling of his previous life came back to him.

In addition to the instruction manual and the design drawing of the network card chip, the network card even comes with a driver floppy disk in the Loong operating system, which is very thoughtful.

Gao Zhendong looked at the instruction manual. The speed of this network card was incredibly slow in his previous life, but in this day and age, it is an absolutely high-speed network!
1Mbps.

Although this Internet speed seems slow, compared with the 1200bps or even the current maximum of 2400bps of the modem, it is simply the difference between a country road and a highway.

However, he cannot take these things out for the time being and cannot explain their origin.

He called the comrades from the Electronic Laboratory of the Technical Department of the Third Factory and handed them the mask design drawings of the network card chip, the network card circuit diagram, the hub design drawings and other materials.

There is a small chip production line in the electronics laboratory.

Gao Zhendong returned home from get off work. Today was the weekend, and his father-in-law and his wife missed their grandson again, so they sent a car to pick them up.

Lou Xiao'e and Gao Zhendong each held one child in their arms and got into the car and returned to Lou's house.

As soon as they entered the door, the old couple happily took the two children, one in each.

"Oh my, look, my eldest grandson is smiling at me." Lou's mother has been very happy in recent years. Now that her last concern, Lou Shouxing, has been taken care of, she is purely in the mood to enjoy a peaceful and carefree life.

After dinner, Father Lou called Gao Zhendong: "Zhendong, let's go to the study. I'll show you something."

Gao Zhendong and his father-in-law came to the study, and Father Lou handed a page of paper to Gao Zhendong.

Gao Zhendong took a closer look and was a little surprised.

"Are you sure? Have you decided? Does big brother know?"

Father Lou seemed to have let go of some burden, and smiled very relaxedly: "I've decided. To be honest, I don't rely on this to make a living now, so the sooner I let it go, the sooner it will be over. This thing has nothing to do with Shouxing, so there's no need to discuss it with him. I'll just let him know when the time comes."

Seeing that he was very determined, Gao Zhendong nodded and said, "Okay, it's up to you if you decide."

Father Lou was very happy to see that Gao Zhendong agreed with his approach.

It was a document about his voluntary abandonment of the fixed interest on all assets including the Third Steel Rolling Mill.

When the public-private partnership was established in 56, it was stipulated that a certain amount of fixed interest would be paid annually to the original factory shareholders for 7 years, which was later extended for another 3 years.

This is the seventh year, and the Lou family no longer relies on this to make a living. In Lou's father's opinion, there is no point in holding on to this thing, so it is better to donate it.

This is no small amount of money. The fixed interest rate stipulated by the state is 5%. Although Lou's father is not the only shareholder of these assets, he is a major shareholder in many of them. Take the third steel rolling mill as an example. A few points of assets are a lot of money.

But Mr. Lou was still willing to donate the money. He felt that it would be more comfortable to donate the money than to keep it in his hands.

"After all, I am a representative of the masses. I do have this awareness, hahaha." Father Lou laughed.

Gao Zhendong thought about it and made a suggestion: "In your case, you should not give up. Try another method: donate the money for education. This way, you will be able to explain it to your old friends more easily."

After listening to Gao Zhendong's words, Father Lou thought for a while and nodded: "Well, you are more thoughtful. If I give up, I will be relieved, but my old friends will have to wait. Right, right, right."

Speaking of this, he thought of the Qianshan specialty he had eaten today, Qianyang pickled cabbage pig's trotters, which were cooked with a special craftsmanship, first fried and then boiled. It was really crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, fat but not greasy, and what's rare is that it was not spicy. Even he, an old man, praised it highly.

This was sent to Gao Zhendong by a comrade from Qianshan during the Chinese New Year. Just now Gao Zhendong mentioned that he would donate it to education, and he remembered this.

"How about this, I see you care a lot about Qianshan, and the comrades in Qianshan remember you. I will donate this money to Qianshan for education." Father Lou loved the people in Qianshan and thought this was a good idea. As a representative of the masses, he could easily pronounce the word "comrade".

Gao Zhendong thought it was a good idea: "Well, OK. I'll thank you on behalf of our comrades in Qianshan." The next day, the comrade in the financial department who was responsible for fixed-interest payments received the donation statement from Lou's father. He did not dare to neglect it and immediately took it to the leader.

Mr. Lou has a lot of assets, so this is a big deal.

"Leader, how do you think this matter should be handled? Do you agree?"

The leader took it, looked at it, and laughed.

He knew what the comrades in charge of fixed-interest payments were worried about. They were afraid that this would cause anxiety among shareholders in other public-private partnerships who were still receiving fixed-interest payments.

But Comrade Lou is quite special.

"Well, it's acceptable. This comrade is special. His actions are sincere. Don't worry."

This comrade did not know the relationship between Gao Zhendong and Lou's father, but the leader knew it well. After all, they had a lot of dealings with Lou Shouxing's Zhenxing Electric Industries.

Moreover, the Lou family's decision to give up the fixed interest by making a donation has a strong personal charitable color and will not cause too much anxiety to others.

After saying that, he laughed and said, "Qianshan is really lucky, hahaha."

This is a good thing that deserves celebration. With this money, Qianshan can build many more schools.

When the leaders of Qianshan received this news, they felt like pie in the sky while they were at home. We don’t even know this Comrade Lou, so why did he take a fancy to Qianshan?

I am happy, because this is a huge sum of money, and it can be allocated for 4 years, which adds up to a considerable amount.

I was worried that I would not have enough money to build a third-line electronic component base and set up vocational schools and technical colleges, so now I have the money.

He called Beijing to express his gratitude, and also wanted to find out what was going on.

The Finance Department did not hide it from him and told him the relationship between Gao Zhendong and the Lou family.

"Ah, this...thank you, thank you."

After hanging up the phone, the leader of Qianshan was a little emotional, Comrade Gao Zhendong, you really treat our Qianshan as your hometown.
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Compared with Teacher Gan and comrades from the Sichuan Provincial Department of Mining and Metallurgy who rushed from Rongcheng to Beijing, comrades from Damo rushed to the Northeast Carbon Research Institute much faster because they had special transportation services.

It is convenient, but it hurts my butt.

Even after arriving at the Carbon Research Institute, Comrade Da Mo still complained about the vibration of the flying tractor. Even though the aircraft serving them had been modified with seats, the vibration could not be eliminated.

There's no way, this thing is safe.

"You mean you want a graphite material for the lining of solid rocket engines?" asked the director of the Carbon Research Institute in the conference room.

"Yes, that's our idea. Let's see if there is any way. If there is no way, we will think of other ways." The comrades who are engaged in hair growth also know that this kind of thing cannot be guaranteed. Materials are something that can be existed if they exist, and cannot be produced if they are not.

“But have you ever considered one problem? Although graphite is resistant to ablation, it has very good thermal conductivity!” said the director of the Carbon Research Institute.

"The thermal conductivity is very good... it's a bit bad... but it's better than directly ablating the barrel." If the thermal conductivity is good, then a large amount of heat will be conducted to the rocket engine casing outside the graphite. The comrades who are working on missiles also feel that there are some problems, but they can no longer care about so many things. This is a matter of trade-offs.

The director of the Carbon Research Institute asked the comrades to take the list of graphite materials in their hands and hand it to the comrades who were working on hair solidification.

"Here, here is the current list of graphite materials. See if there is anything suitable."

The comrade who was working on hair loss took a look through it and frowned.

"The combination of anti-ablation performance and thermal conductivity is a bit mediocre." It is really difficult to make a choice, which makes him feel embarrassed. It seems that he has to think of other ways.

At this moment, Lao Duan, an old acquaintance of Gao Zhendong who was sitting next to him, spoke up after thinking for a while: "Dean, I vaguely remember that there seems to be a kind of graphite material that can achieve very good results."

The dean looked at him and asked, "What did you remember?"

Old Duan pondered and said, "I remember two years ago when we consulted Comrade Gao Zhendong in Beijing about graphite-related processes and technologies, he mentioned a graphite material whose thermal conductivity is anisotropic. It is a good thermal conductor in one direction, but a good thermal insulator in another direction!"

Gao Zhendong? How come I can hear his name here?

The comrades who are engaged in hair growth suddenly had a feeling of “How old are you?” Their happy troubles were caused by the GAP propellant he was working on. Didn’t he also do research on graphite materials?

Yes, I work in the field of materials, and graphite is also a material, right? That’s the only explanation.

But no matter what, this news from Duan Gong rekindled his hope.

(End of this chapter)