The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 164 Confusion and Ambition

Zhao Guoping looked thoughtful.

An experimental unit?

This is the true meaning of the combined forces battalion! ?

If it works, that would be great, but if it doesn't, it's also the experience of failure.

He only saw that the army could not afford to invest so much in a combined battalion. Even if the army did not need to leave much profit for the state-owned factories in its purchases, the army could not build many combined battalions with its annual military expenditure.

However, they did not see the true significance of this combined battalion.

Liu Tao saw that Zhao Guoping looked thoughtful and nodded slightly. He thought that Zhao Guoping was a young man who was good at thinking. He came from an extraordinary family and was a top student at Tsinghua University. He was also good at thinking. He was indeed a talent that could be cultivated.

People are indeed different.

Some people, no matter how much you train them, have a ceiling. Even if you promote them reluctantly, they will be ostracized, and then they will show various bad performances and eventually end up in a miserable situation.

But some people have a very high ceiling and can keep moving forward. All they need is often just an opportunity.

There is no doubt that Zhao Guoping is the kind of person who can be trained.

Liu Tao still admired Zhao Guoping very much.

"Reform and opening up, with economic construction as the center, is the country's current national policy. First, the external environment has improved greatly compared to before, and it is difficult for major countries to go to war. The possibility of a world-class war is impossible in the short term. Secondly, the focus is shifted to economic construction, which can improve people's lives. At the same time, we can also learn advanced technology and advanced concepts from Europe and the United States, import advanced equipment and production lines from Europe and the United States, and also import resources. When the economy improves, the country will have money, and it will be much easier to increase military spending." Liu Tao said slowly: "For example, the automobile industry, our automobile industry is still very weak, and it can't support the semi-motorization and motorization of the troops, let alone mechanization."

Zhao Guoping seemed to be thinking about something and wrote it down in his notebook.

This was not the first time Liu Tao had said something similar to him, but it was from the perspective of military construction.

The construction of the military is actually closely related to a country's industrialization level and comprehensive national strength.

Both the Soviet Army and the American Army have achieved mechanization because they represent the highest level of industry in the world and have the best economy. The bipolar rivalry is a joke. China is still far behind.

Not to mention China at that time, traditional European powers such as Britain, France and Germany were far inferior to the Soviet Union and the United States.

This can be seen from the fact that the Soviet Union and the United States joined forces to dismember the British and French colonial system. No matter how unwilling Britain and France were, they had to accept the loss of the Suez Canal and various colonies.

The world independence movement after World War II was due to the fact that the strength of traditional Western powers was greatly weakened during World War II and the awakening of national independence consciousness, but it was also secretly supported by the Soviet Union and the United States. From a certain perspective, this was the real main reason.

"Poverty is not socialism. Only a rich country and a strong people can be considered socialism," Liu Tao said.

Zhao Guoping's body shook, and he looked surprised.

This shocked him greatly.

After returning home and taking a shower, Liu Tao went to the study.

His study can be said to be a big secret.

Those two computers alone contain huge secrets.

Each computer has a computing power that even surpasses the supercomputers of this era. The most advanced supercomputer in the world is the Cray-1, which has been the most advanced supercomputer in the world since its birth in 1975. It costs more than 1000 million US dollars and has a power of 115 kilowatts, which is enough to run about 10 homes. It uses Freon cooling, a 64-bit system, an operating frequency of 80MHz, and only 8MB of memory. If vector instructions are used properly, the peak speed can reach 250 megaflops/s, and the weight reaches 5.5 tons.

In terms of running speed, it is far inferior to his computer.

The value of these two computers alone is priceless, not to mention the information stored in them.

The design data of various firearms, Type 80 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and Type 80 tanks are all included here.

He connected the computer to the printer and printed information in batches, saving a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources.

Even the design data of the machine tools are stored in the computer instead of being drawn manually as before.

In order to facilitate the storage of information, he even took the trouble to create a storage device.

Because of the importance of this place, the security level here is very high. There are at least 24 guards here 4 hours a day. His second sister and her family moved out of here and lived in the house allocated to them.

In this huge house, Liu Tao is the only one living there.

Turn on the computer, enter the password, and enter the desktop.

Afterwards, Liu Tao uploaded the design data of several CNC machine tools to the storage device.

Sitting in the chair, Liu Tao closed his eyes slightly and took a short rest.

Before, he had thought that China's foundation was no different from his.

He once had an ambition to complete his plan in a short period of time and enable China to reach the level of the Soviet and American armies in a few years.

When he actually did it, he found himself being very stupid and naive.

Things were not as simple as he imagined.

China at this time cannot produce even with detailed drawings, because China has only just achieved initial industrialization, and the level of industrialization is very rudimentary, making it difficult to process parts and components to meet the requirements.

The more advanced the weapons, the higher the processing accuracy required and the more high-precision machine tools they require. However, China is in great shortage of both high-precision machine tools and the talent to operate them.

In other words, he had to start from the basics and develop CNC machine tools by himself. After developing them, he had to build and use them himself because he needed more advanced CNC machine tools.

He developed advanced self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and tanks, but tank manufacturers were unable to produce them because they did not have advanced machine tools to process the parts. Even if they bought machine tools, others would not export high-end machine tools to China. Even if they bought high-end machine tools, it would take more than half a year to transport and install them, and there were no workers who could operate them, so they had to hire foreigners to teach them, and it would take at least another year to teach them.

We have to do everything ourselves, and even have to cultivate supporting industries and production units.

He was confused and had thought more than once that if he went into business on his own with the help of the system, he could easily become a tycoon, a world-class super tycoon, making money easily and lying down to count money until his hands cramped. Why bother working so hard?

It’s just that every time I think about the past 80 years, after the founding of New China, all our industries were blank. Chiang Kai-shek brought most of the good things to Taiwan, but the Party and the country were indomitable and paid huge sacrifices and blood to finally build a preliminary industrial system. Even though this industrial system is very rudimentary, it is already better than at least % of the countries in the world.

In the next thirty or forty years, China will still have to endure a lot of hardships, pay a heavy price, and suffer a lot of humiliation before it can build a complete industrial system, complete China's industrialization, and win one so-called industrial pearl after another.

He couldn't bear to give up and enjoy it alone. He wanted to be a trend-setter in this era of courageous progress and make China industrialize faster and take fewer detours.

(End of this chapter)