The train driver in the courtyard

Li Aiguo originally planned to leave directly. He had already walked out of the house, but turned back.

He packed all the drawings on the desk into the canvas bag and then followed Secretary Wang out of the courtyard.

Jia Zhang was squatting at the door as usual, looking around with her stealthy eyes.

Seeing two comrades in uniform following Li Aiguo, she clapped her hands and gloated.

"Huai Ru, come and see, Li Aiguo has been arrested."

Qin Huairu walked out holding Banggeng's arm and looked into the distance.

"Mom, stop talking nonsense. Have you forgotten that our whole family was arrested last time?"

Jia Zhang was just about to vent her excitement, but Qin Huairu's words were like a bucket of cold water poured over her head.

The rest of the words were stuck in her throat. It was not until Li Aiguo and his companions left the Crescent Moon Gate that Jia Zhang dared to snort coldly.

"Damn it, Li Aiguo is getting more and more outrageous. Isn't this trying to seduce my old lady to make a mistake?"

Qin Huairu: "."

She found it increasingly difficult to understand Jia Zhang's train of thought.

The capital city seems extremely empty at night.

The road is wide and bright, people and cars are not in a hurry, donkeys and horses are pulling carts leisurely on the road.

The poor people who run small businesses stay at home all day long, and then start walking along the streets when it gets dark.

"Red heart Robbe, green heart Robbe, crunchy!"

"To grind—scissors shavings,—kitchen knives."

The car was running on the street that was both deserted and noisy.

The car windows reflected the historic buildings, such as Daqianmen and the International Bookstore on Wangfujing Street.
Liu Guozhang had been waiting for a while when the car stopped steadily in front of the laboratory.

He walked up quickly, took Li Aiguo's hand and said seriously: "Aiguo, how many improvement plans do you have for the forward steam engine? Bring them all out."

Li Aiguo: "."

That’s right, Li Aiguo did save up more than a dozen improvement plans based on his memory from later generations.

But he still planned to fish for a while longer.

The food for the improvement project team is now very good. They have big white steamed buns in the morning, a few pieces of meat at noon, and noodles with soybean paste in the evening. Li Aiguo is really reluctant to see such a good life end so soon.

Liu Guozhang explained: "Mr. Liu from Datong Factory is here and will arrive in Beijing tomorrow morning. If you have any improvement plans, please bring them all to you."

"That's not right. Our email was just sent out two days ago, which means it should have just arrived at Datong Factory. Even if Mr. Liu came to Beijing, it would take him two days." Li Aiguo's detective skill was as high as 60 points, and he instantly discovered Liu Guozhang's flaw.

Liu Guozhang said quietly: "You may not know that there is a kind of transportation called a special plane."

"Special plane." Li Aiguo was silent.

He felt that he seemed to have underestimated Mr. Liu's status.

The next morning.

The Railway Research Institute sent a luxury convoy consisting of two jeeps directly to Beijing Nanyuan Airport.

It has now been converted into a dual-use military and civil airport, but most of the civil flights take off and land at Xijiao Airport (Capital Airport has not yet been built), so the airport seems particularly deserted.

In Li Aiguo's opinion, this airport is as simple as the four-line railway stations in later generations.

However, because its runway is longer than that of Xijiao Airport and more suitable for the takeoff and landing of large aircraft, it has undertaken many diplomatic activities.

Last year, several heads of state landed here. It is said that Master Yumi will come to China next year and will also land at Nanyuan Airport.

Therefore, the security at Nanyuan Airport is very strict.

Along the way, even though Liu Guozhang took out his credentials from the Railway Research Institute, the jeep still underwent several inspections.

The jeep drove into the airport and had just stopped when an An-2 flew over from a distance with a roar and dived towards the runway.

Liu Guozhang saw Li Aiguo staring at An-2 and said with a smile: "By the end of the year we will have our own An-2."

"Your own An-2 Yun-5?" Li Aiguo asked in surprise.

"Yes, at a meeting held in the ministry yesterday, it was revealed that Factory 320 has developed two Y-2 aircraft. One of them was sent to the static test laboratory of Factory 5 for static testing, and aircraft No. 112 began to prepare for subsequent test flights." Upon hearing this, Li Aiguo was shocked.

If there is one reason why Chinese people can stand at the top of the world in later generations, it is because they possess this fighting spirit.

Especially in this day and age, there is no such thing as "it's better to buy than to make".

Even during difficult times, the older generation of scientific researchers were not satisfied with purchasing advanced equipment from abroad, but instead tried every means to develop their own equipment.

This approach may seem thankless, but once the relationship breaks down, you will no longer be controlled by others.

For example, there was a country in later generations that was particularly fond of taking shortcuts, and as a result, it couldn’t even develop a helicopter.

To the point that the main characters had to ride in a foreign helicopter that was over 40 years old, which resulted in a tragic plane crash.

Therefore, without the determination to develop independently, the desire to rise will be nothing but empty talk.

[The older generation saw this long ago.

In January 1956, the "Report on the Problem of Intellectuals" emphasized that we "cannot rely on Russian experts indefinitely" and severely criticized the wrong idea of ​​some people that "the country's backwardness in science cannot be changed immediately and we need the assistance of the Russians anyway."

In June of the same year, the "Outline of the Report on the Ten Major Relationships Speech" pointed out that in learning from the Russians, "you must learn everything you don't understand or can't do, but you must think independently and not be superstitious."

In October of the same year, he further emphasized, "We must get rid of the mentality of dependence and strive for assistance from the Russians. If the Russians are in trouble or hold back in certain aspects, we must rely on ourselves to find solutions. The important thing is to be self-reliant and strive for foreign aid." "The help of the Russians is important, but it is the people who play a decisive role."

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"coming!"

At this time, after a period of taxiing, the An-2 landed steadily on the airport runway.

A staff member brought a ladder, ran over quickly and leaned against the door of the plane.

By the time Li Aiguo and his companions went up to meet them, Chief Engineer Liu and his assistant had already climbed down the ladder.

After continuous flights, Chief Engineer Liu, who is nearly 70 years old, did not show any sign of fatigue on his face.

"Brother Guozhang, we haven't seen each other for half a year, right?"

"Yes, the last time we met was at a conference, Mr. Liu."

Liu Guozhang, the famous black-faced leader, was as obedient as an elementary school student in front of Chief Engineer Liu.

Chief Engineer Liu looked over his shoulder and saw Li Aiguo standing in the distance, and waved to him.

"Little comrade, you are the train driver who came up with the improved plan, right? Why are you standing so far away? I am not a man-eating tiger."

Li Aiguo walked up quickly with a smile on his face and shook Chief Engineer Liu's hand tightly.

"Mr. Liu, I'm Li Aiguo, a train driver from the Qianmen Locomotive Depot, and also Director Liu's student."

Chief Engineer Liu had already looked through Li Aiguo's relevant information on the plane and looked at Liu Guozhang with some envy.

"Brother Guozhang, you have accepted a good student."

"This kid is okay, but a little proud. You must not praise him." Liu Guozhang spoke modestly, but the pride on his face was hard to conceal.

"This is not called pride, it's called high-spiritedness. We are old, and the times will eventually belong to young people like them."

Chief Engineer Liu was in a good mood and stood there chatting with Liu Guozhang until his assistant reminded him, then he got into the jeep.

Li Aiguo was supposed to sit in the front car and lead the way, but Chief Engineer Liu called him to the jeep at the back.

The jeep rushed towards the Railway Research Institute in the bright sunshine.

Inside the car, Chief Engineer Liu closed his eyes and rested for a while. Suddenly he stood up and looked at Li Aiguo and asked, "Comrade Aiguo, I heard from Comrade Liu Guozhang that you have eleven more improvement plans?"

"Eleven, indeed."

"Each one is like a rolling bearing replacing a plain bearing?"

"About the same. Some of them are issues of convenience design, which may not be that important."

Hearing this, Chief Engineer Liu was somewhat moved. He stared at Li Aiguo and said "good" three times in a row.

(End of this chapter)