lcionline Chapter 468 Good deeds are rewarded! A major reward from the system!
Chapter 468 Good deeds are rewarded! A major reward from the system!
East of Handong, Jingzhou.
Huilong Group Headquarters.
Zhao Xiaohui excitedly pushed open the door and entered.
"Ruilong! Good news!"
"What fantastic news!!"
With a big smile, Zhao Xiaohui rushed to Zhao Ruilong's side.
But she found her younger brother standing with his hands behind his back, calmly gazing into the distance by the window.
"You already know? Hey, I bet you already knew."
"Secretary Su is such a good friend of yours, he would definitely inform you of such a wonderful occasion as soon as possible!"
"Oh my, I really didn't expect this! Old Ge, who had always been prejudiced against our dad, actually gave him such a wonderful surprise!"
“Now he doesn’t have to go all the way to the Western Regions, and we don’t have to worry about whether we should move there, or how much money we need to invest to help him make quick progress so that he can improve again.”
"Moreover, the position of police chief is only the lowest in his latest job list. He is not only the deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, but he has also entered the Commission's Secretariat. He really has a bright future ahead of him!"
"Hey, why did Old Ge suddenly change his attitude? Is it because he's about to retire and wants to make some contributions to the country and the people, or did your sincere hospitality, which disregarded past grievances, move him?"
Zhao Xiaohui did not hear her brother's reply for a long time.
Turning my head, I saw that my younger brother was as still as a statue.
Quietly gazing into the distance.
His gaze was sharp and piercing, revealing composure, decisiveness, and perseverance.
This moment.
Zhao Xiaohui finally understood that sentence deeply.
A person who wants to win will not have a smile on their face!
"Do not be overjoyed in victory, nor be discouraged in defeat!"
"A man who has thunder in his heart but a calm face is worthy of being a general!"
After a moment of reflection, Zhao Xiaohui let out a long sigh.
Following my younger brother's gaze, I looked into the distance.
"Upon hearing such a joyous occasion, I was neither overjoyed nor carried away with pride!"
"No wonder Dad has so many high-ranking uncles and elders who admire you!"
"You're really good at keeping your composure, unlike me. As soon as I hear that Dad's been promoted, I just can't control myself!"
Zhao Xiaohui sighed with emotion, expressing her deep admiration for her younger brother.
As everyone knows...
Zhao Ruilong remained calm at this moment.
Not only because when he first received the news, he was so excited by this unexpected joy that he clenched his fist and almost laughed and shouted to the sky.
And because hard work pays off, plus Ge Junshan's unexpected help, the father finally took another big step forward and successfully activated the system reward.
Moreover, compared to the system rewards I received before for helping my two brothers-in-law escape disaster and helping the Zhao family relatives make progress, this reward is truly amazing.
As the pillar of the Zhao family, Zhao Lichun's father's advancement and control of greater power would not only be more conducive to the stability of the Zhao family, but also more conducive to defying fate.
Therefore, the system rewards are exceptionally generous this time!
This not only brought the task progress to 85% in one go.
They also obtained a comprehensive guide to top-tier industrial materials technologies!
As we all know, materials are an important foundation of modern industry.
Without suitable materials, even with blueprints and equipment, it is impossible to process and manufacture products.
It's like opening a restaurant: you have chefs, equipment, water, electricity, and gas, but you lack ingredients and seasonings.
Doesn't this mean that even a skilled cook can't cook without rice?
Without ingredients and seasonings, how can you cook and prepare meals to welcome guests?
Human civilization requires a vast array of materials for its production and daily life.
From people's basic needs like food, clothing, housing, transportation, healthcare, education, and entertainment, to the entire society's transportation, energy supply, network communications, and national defense.
It can be said that without the progress of materials science, there would be no modern scientific and technological civilization, and there would be no developed and convenient life, nor advanced and powerful weapons and equipment.
The more advanced and complex an industrial product is, the more it requires top-quality industrial materials.
Just as aerospace could not have developed well without various advanced alloy materials.
If we can't even develop materials that are resistant to high temperatures, corrosion, and temperature differences, and we don't even have an engine, how can we go into space?
From large offshore oil drilling platforms and massive oil tankers weighing hundreds of thousands of tons, to small items like the ball bearing in a ballpoint pen and stents inserted into blood vessels.
Top-tier industrial products require top-tier industrial materials.
However, materials science is an extremely profound and complex interdisciplinary subject.
Even with the steel that people often see and use, slight differences in element ratios and processing techniques can result in different material properties.
Therefore, the research and development of cutting-edge industrial materials requires a large number of researchers to repeatedly try, continuously optimize and improve, which is particularly time-consuming, labor-intensive and expensive.
This is why foreign companies with top-notch industrial material research and production capabilities often focus on a single field for a long time and cultivate it deeply for many years.
For example, those who work on medical materials focus on medical applications, while those who work on special alloys concentrate on researching special alloys.
They rely on their technological advantages to ensure that their products have sufficient sales and profits, and are able to continue to invest in research and development, thereby maintaining their technological leadership.
Only through such a continuous virtuous cycle can we strive for excellence, develop better and better materials, and consequently enable downstream companies to produce better and better industrial products.
Just like the chips that people are familiar with.
It is the availability of higher purity wafers, metallic materials and electronic specialty gases, better photoresists, reagents and ceramics, and many other high-performance materials that enable the fabrication of higher performance and lower energy consumption chips.
Better chips are needed to manufacture more advanced and powerful electronic products; otherwise, the material technology level used to make old-fashioned keypad phones would never be sufficient to create smartphones.
And in the field of cutting-edge industrial materials...
China, a nation that started late, has a weak foundation, and little accumulation.
It is not possible to be among the world's leading countries in all materials fields by striving to catch up for decades.
In particular, Chinese people have never compared themselves to individual countries, but have always aimed to reach the world's top levels.
Even in many fields such as aviation, aerospace, automobiles, ships, communications, and power, it is already not too bad.
Upon hearing that even the ballpoint pen tip needs to be imported, and that imported heart stents, vascular stents, artificial teeth, and so on are still better, some people inevitably ridicule the domestic materials industry for being inadequate.
What is often overlooked is that some top-tier industrial materials are not developed not because of their high technical difficulty, but because the market size for these materials is too small. Given that they can be imported, there is absolutely no need to develop them ourselves.
Just like the ballpoint pen tip, to write smoothly and for a long time, the material properties of the pen tip steel used in the manufacturing process must be quite high, but for a steel-producing country, it is not actually difficult.
The reason why we haven't specifically researched and manufactured them is that even if we produce 30 to 40 billion ballpoint pens a year, it would only consume a little over 1,000 tons of pen tip steel, which is far too small for steel companies with an annual output of tens of millions of tons.
A steel plant of any moderate size can easily produce tens of tons of molten steel in a single batch!
This means that smelting just a few batches of pen nib steel would be enough to meet the world's demand for a year.
How can a steel mill's production line be shut down and switched to other products so easily after producing a few furnaces?
The cost of modifying the production line is considerable, and the cost of shutting down and restarting is also very high.
Therefore, once a steel plant's production line is started, it cannot be easily stopped.
This is why steel mills continue production even at a loss, despite falling steel prices.
So, to meet the market demand of just over a thousand tons of pen tip steel each year.
Is it necessary to invest human, material, and financial resources in research, and then modify a production line for production?
Unless someone uses this issue to attack and denigrate others every day, to the point of damaging the confidence of the Chinese people and the dignity of the nation.
To save face, a political task was assigned; otherwise, no steel company would be willing to do such a losing business.
Now, there is a top-tier industrial materials technology gift package as a system reward.
When developing various high-tech products, there's no need to worry about not having suitable materials!
Shorter R&D cycles, saved research funding, improved product performance...
With so many benefits, the value of this gift package is clearly difficult to measure in monetary terms!
from now on.
Huilong Group has made large-scale investments, acquisitions, and mergers with numerous companies engaged in the research and production of various materials.
Once you control the supply of top-tier industrial materials, wouldn't that be equivalent to controlling the lifeline of global high-end manufacturing?
Just like producing advanced weapons and cutting-edge technology products, a large amount of rare metal materials are required; without any one of them, they cannot be made.
The reason why metallic elements such as neodymium, samarium, gadolinium, dysprosium, ytterbium, lutetium, and yttrium are rare is because the rare earth minerals containing them have extremely limited global reserves.
Furthermore, rare earth minerals require a series of complex refining processes to obtain rare metals, which can then be further synthesized with other materials to create rare metal materials for different purposes.
This way.
China is already among the world's leading countries in terms of rare earth reserves.
With advanced refining and processing technologies, various rare metal materials can be manufactured at a lower cost.
So what will happen?
Zhao Ruilong will never allow the tragedy of exporting rare earth minerals at rock-bottom prices to happen again.
After processing and manufacturing various rare metal materials, they can be exported, which not only earns more profits than selling the ore directly, but also allows them to control the global supply of rare metal materials.
At that time, we'll need to determine whether exports are permitted, how much they can be sold for, who can apply to purchase them, and who will be prohibited from purchasing them...
Isn't this a powerful tool for trade warfare that can strangle others?
If relations deteriorate in the future, a large number of Chinese companies will suffer suppression, sanctions, and robbery.
Therefore, export controls on rare metal materials are a trump card for China to launch a fatal counterattack!
After all, China has the world's largest reserves of rare earth minerals.
Moreover, the rare earth minerals it contains are not only of good quality and high content, but also quite diverse in type.
If a conflict were to break out, even if other countries have the refining and processing technology, they would still need to have rare earth mines!
If there are no rare earth minerals, or the content of rare elements is low, how can they be refined and processed into rare metal materials?
of course.
Building this trump card is not an easy task.
At the very least, we must be united in purpose and have effective oversight to prevent certain compradors from betraying us.
Rare metal materials only constitute a portion of the top-tier industrial materials technology encyclopedia that the system rewards.
This comprehensive encyclopedia of materials technology also includes many other materials, covering a wide range of fields such as food, medicine, communications, power, aviation, and aerospace.
With such a great gift package, wouldn't I become the king of materials?
Wouldn't that help my father and make China a powerhouse in industrial materials?
Having received such an extravagant reward, Zhao Ruilong couldn't resist searching through his consciousness space to find out what amazing, top-tier industrial materials were included.
Because he stood by the window without moving an inch, his second sister, Zhao Xiaohui, mistakenly thought he had a good mindset and could remain calm in the face of such a joyous occasion.
Coming to his senses, Zhao Ruilong turned to look at his second sister, whose face was beaming with joy.
"When I saw Mr. Ge off that day, I gave him a model of a domestically produced large airplane."
"He said he would give me a gift in return, and that I would definitely like it. I was wondering what he would give me."