area51novel #294 - New Developments at Dawn Institute
#294 - New Developments at Dawn Institute
A powerful navy was a plan Ren Zhong had in mind when he was exchanging technology with the rogue eagle.
At that time, he forced the rogue eagle to hand over a complete set of steam turbine technology, including materials, manufacturing process design, and key manufacturing equipment. Now, these things have been traded to Jin Province, and preliminary technical research, digestion, and absorption have begun. Among them, research on materials has been listed by Ren Zhong as the top priority, and various material research teams are working all-out to absorb the better technology brought by Ren Zhong from the main world for substitution.
You must know that this steam turbine is the 120,000-horsepower Parsons steam turbine used on the Enterprise aircraft carrier. Once this steam turbine is thoroughly understood, the technology on the thermal power generation side will also increase by leaps and bounds.
Of course, such a huge steam turbine may not be needed now. The destroyer initially built, in Ren Zhong's mind, was the "Charles F. Adams" class destroyer. This is a type of missile destroyer built by the rogue eagle navy between 1958 and 1967. It is also the last type of destroyer used by the rogue eagle navy that uses steam turbines for power.
Standard displacement of 3370 tons, full load displacement of 4500 tons; length 133.2 meters, width 14.3 meters, draft 7.3 meters; 4 boilers, 2 steam turbines, twin-shaft propulsion; maximum speed of 35 knots, endurance of 8000 nautical miles / 20 knots; crew of 354 people.
2 MK42 127mm naval guns; 1 MK11 twin-arm missile launcher (equipped on DDG2-14), 1 MK13 missile launcher (equipped on DDG15-24), firing "Tartar" or "Standard" anti-aircraft missiles, "Harpoon" anti-ship missiles.
1 MK112 eight-linked missile launcher, firing "Asroc" anti-submarine missiles; 2 triple-mounted MK32 324mm torpedo launchers.
The aircraft carrier system is too strong, and Ren Zhong does not have the confidence to create it in the short term.
However, the destroyer has a large number of early-stage technologies to back it up, such as transistor technology, radar technology, and the transistor computer technology that is being developed intensively. The breakthrough of these technologies, combined with the increasing maturity of Dongfeng Express, will make missiles the real trump card in Ren Zhong's hands in the future!
Whether it is in the sky, on the ground, or at sea, Ren Zhong's missile propulsion plan will undoubtedly realize his plan to achieve great things with small investments.
However, it is too early to tell these things to Staff Officer Ye. Let's talk about it after we take back Dalian and Lushunkou.
As for technical reserves, the things that should be done can now be done freely. Now that North China has been taken back, the talents in Pingjin area have given the Dawn Research Institute a new development opportunity.
The Dawn Research Institute in Beiping and the Dawn Research Institute in Jinmen, following the establishment of the North China Autonomous Committee, are completely the most important institutions in the first sequence, and have begun to recruit a large number of people to build new research teams.
Although the scale is now expanding, the quality of the people recruited is uneven, and some sand has been infiltrated, Ren Zhong also has a way to isolate each project horizontally to ensure that the tasks of each team are relatively simple, and to minimize the leakage of secret technology.
Hu Zi's guard team has now expanded to a brigade-level scale. After following Ren Zhong for so many years, Hu Zi has grown into a real senior security cadre without showing off his abilities. Compared with Li Yunlong's life-and-death battles, Hu Zi's work is more like analyzing by extracting silk from cocoons.
However, they have also experienced many thrilling moments, especially several interceptions against Ren Zhong, and several of Ren Zhong's personal guards have been sacrificed!
This is even under the circumstances that Ren Zhong prepared bulletproof vests for them, and they were directly sacrificed after being shot in important parts such as the head and neck.
The little devils, the KMT, and unknown forces now have a relatively good understanding of Ren Zhong.
Even though Ren Zhong rarely shows his face.
However, just the identity of the helmsman of the Dawn Research Institute makes Ren Zhong have a very strong value for planning.
Hu Zi has also been seriously injured twice. After all, at critical moments, these guards are really going to act as Ren Zhong's human shields!
The most dangerous time was under the machine gun fire arranged by the enemy. One guard after another pressed Ren Zhong at the bottom, and tightly wrapped Ren Zhong under the bulletproof vests on the guards' bodies before escaping.
The Dawn Research Institute is the place with the most intense counter-espionage and counter-assassination activities in the country.
Hu Zi's growth is very rapid. Not only has he improved his cultural lessons with Ren Zhong's help, but his current knowledge reserve is no less than that of a modern college student. In his professional work, Hu Zi has also received the personal teachings of the brigade commander, and receives very professional intelligence front work training every year.
After years of hidden front work, Hu Zi is no longer the young boy Ren Zhong saw at the beginning.
Although only more than 4 years have passed, Hu Zi is still under 25 years old, but following Ren Zhong, Hu Zi already has the ability and prestige to be on his own.
This is one of the acquaintances Ren Zhong trusts the most in this world. Every time a new institution of the Dawn Research Institute is established, Hu Zi is Ren Zhong's first gatekeeper, and then the project leaders personally selected by the heads of each research center.
Under Ren Zhong's leadership, the Dawn Research Institute has become the undisputed Chinese Academy of Sciences of the Border Region and the Eighth Route Army, and it will be so in the future. No one can shake this point.
The larger the scale, Ren Zhong also began to make some changes to the Dawn Research Institute with reference to the structure of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the original space-time. Of course, it is not a direct copy. In terms of the use of talents, the principle of both ability and virtue is strictly followed to select the person in charge.
If there is only talent but no virtue, Ren Zhong can also employ him here, that is, put him on professional research, otherwise he will be involved in the use of materials and R\u0026D funds.
In the current situation, talents are scarce, and there are some shortcomings. Ren Zhong cannot see through everyone's hearts, so he will nip these seedlings in the bud under supervision.
Use the project's internal transparency mechanism and external supervision double insurance to ensure that everyone has no or very few opportunities to make mistakes.
A huge research team of tens of thousands of people is now burning money in the hundreds of millions of yuan.
Due to the strong base population, Ren Zhong's military-industrial technology has also made great progress in civilian use. Through the production and profits of military-civilian projects, it can now support the huge scientific research, and from the current point of view, it can still operate well.
Although transistor technology has not yet completed important technological breakthroughs such as computers, in the civilian field, the advent of transistor radios has begun to generate a lot of funds for transistor technology.
The radio that can achieve smaller size and lower cost with the help of transistors not only provides valuable funds for Ren Zhong's research team, but also expands the position of the public opinion war that Ren Zhong planned for Staff Officer Ye and others through the cheap and popularization of transistor radios.
You must know that this product in Ren Zhong's main world historical space-time will not be mass-produced until 1954, but now Ren Zhong has taken it out nearly ten years in advance. It was taken out in early 1944, and it killed most of the market for electron tube radios all at once.
Not only is it being sold on a large scale in China, but through Mr. Chen's overseas channels, Ren Zhong's patent system for transistor radios has successfully registered most of the core technology patents of transistors under the Allied system!
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Now both sides are still in the honeymoon period with the rogue eagle. According to Ren Zhong's plan, transistor technology-related products will be gradually launched to occupy the market. The radio is the first product, and then electronic products such as video recorders and movie projection equipment will be realized with transistors.
The market price of the first generation of transistor radios is 67 oceans for similar products such as crystal radios. Ren Zhong directly priced transistor radios at 60 oceans.
Old-fashioned crystal radio
Transistor radio
In terms of foreign sales, Ren Zhong's pricing is $49.95, after all, foreigners don't have any detailed concept of prices, as long as it is less than $50, they feel it is a cheap product. This foreign sales price and the small body, coupled with the sensitive listening effect and more pleasant speakers.
All of a sudden, Jin Di Hongdeng Radio became a hit.
Not only did it quickly break through 500,000 units in China, but it also sold more than one million units abroad!
This radio product alone has recovered all of Ren Zhong's investment in transistors, and also made a lot of money!
Having tasted the sweetness, Ren Zhong created a new type of portable radio in the main world, and soon let Hongdeng Radio produce the second generation of new radio prototypes! According to the production plan, the new portable radio will be sold on a large scale at the beginning of 1945.
Second generation portable transistor radio
Because the new model has unparalleled portability in this era, Ren Zhong set a high domestic price of 99 oceans and a high foreign sales price of 99 US dollars for this new product.
In order to popularize the use of radios, after the second generation of products came out, Ren Zhong decided to reduce the price of the first generation of products by 11 oceans, and continue to sell them at 49 oceans and 39.99 US dollars.
According to the new product strategy, when the third generation of transistor radios comes out, the price of the second generation of products will be reduced to fill the price space of 59 oceans and 49.95 US dollars for the first generation, and then the price of the first generation of products will continue to be reduced to a new low price of 29 oceans and 29.99 US dollars.
Gradually expand the market space for transistor radios to the extent of popularization.
Although it is not yet possible for every household to use it, the scale of more than one million radios in China alone is enough for Ren Zhong to plan for the 24-hour broadcast of the Border Region Radio Station.
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