The call was from Liang Xiaoping, general manager of Ascendas Group Space Exploration Company, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. However, with just one sentence, Zhuang Jianye's good mood disappeared without a trace.
"What's going on?" Zhuang Jianye asked on the phone.
"I don't know the specific situation. I just received a sudden notice from a Motorola representative asking us to postpone the launch. I pressed, but the other party rudely hung up the phone without giving me a reason."
Liang Xiaoping felt a little aggrieved in his words. Ascendas Group is able to achieve its current achievements in the field of commercial aerospace, and Liang Xiaoping is indispensable. You must know that this is the first batch of publicly funded international students after the reform, and was sent to Princeton University in the United States to study aerospace engineering.
Liang Xiaoping obtained a master's degree in this subject in the late 1980s. According to the normal plan for international students at that time, Liang Xiaoping should stay in the United States. After all, the salary and benefits in the United States are much higher than those in China. More importantly, the scientific research conditions in the United States are good. It is easy to produce results, and the attraction is naturally strong.
Liang Xiaoping is not a saint. He can earn 3,000 US dollars a month in the United States. Who is willing to go back and get a salary of 60 RMB?
What¡¯s more, the Lockheed Rocket Thrust Research Center at that time had already made him an offer with an annual salary of US$100,000, so Liang Xiaoping naturally joined Lockheed.
"If this were any other family, they would probably want to burn incense on their ancestral graves. With an annual salary of 10 US dollars, a green card, and top-notch benefits, they would definitely be smoking from their ancestral graves.
It¡¯s a pity that Liang Xiaoping didn¡¯t take the right reincarnation and found a stubborn father named Liang Guodong.
Yes, it was Liang Guodong, the office director of Yonghong Factory, who later served as the director of the Sixth Branch Factory. This old man was not good at business, but his children's education was first-class in the entire Yonghong Factory.
The eldest son Liang Xiaoping studied abroad at public expense and received a master's degree in aerospace engineering from Princeton University.
The second daughter, Liang Xiaohong, graduated from Beijing University of Foreign Studies and has already joined the diplomatic service as a Spanish translator.
The younger daughter Liang Xiaoqiu was admitted to Fudan University and is now a junior in college. Her grades are very good and it is said that she is very likely to be admitted to study abroad at public expense.
In the 1980s and 1990s, it was already a big deal to have one college student in the family. Not to mention three college students from the old Liang family.
All of them are top universities in the country, and one is even one of the top publicly funded international students.
By comparison, the old Ning family that Zhuang Jianye counted on was a bit underwhelming. They also had one son and two daughters, none of whom had a formal education beyond high school.
So after retirement, Liang Guodong often tried to push against Mr. Ning on this matter. Every time, Mr. Ning was so angry that he blew his beard and glared. Then he went back to gather his grandchildren and vowed to train a doctor and show it to the old man Liang Guodong. The Ning family is also a scholarly family!
However, no matter how he compares and how he tries, Liang Guodong is very persistent in one thing, that is, what he has learned must be taken back to build his own country. Otherwise, the country has finally trained you, but you go out to help others work. Don't you become a white-eyed wolf?
So when he learned that Liang Xiaoping was staying abroad and was not planning to come back, Liang Guodong became angry. He didn't care about the expensive cost of international long-distance calls. He would call Liang Xiaoping whenever he had something to do. He first persuaded, then yelled, and finally scolded. In this way, the father and son were in a stalemate. After a year and a half, Mr. Liang finally forced Liang Xiaoping back by threatening death.
To be honest, Liang Xiaoping was desperate at that time. It was not that there were no suitable positions in China. On the contrary, when he learned that he was going to return to China, several key aerospace research institutes and more than a dozen large aerospace companies in the country offered him Liang Xiaoping received an olive branch, and even a certain institution offered favorable conditions to build a separate laboratory for Liang Xiaoping and let him lead it.
"However, Liang Xiaoping still didn't bother to pay attention to it, for no other reason than that he felt that the conditions in the country were really unfulfilling, and he could see the ceiling as soon as he rolled his eyelids.
What is the goal of aerospace? The sea of ??stars! What is the Sea of ??Stars? Nature is boundless and boundless!
There is a ceiling, but it¡¯s still called the Sea of ??Stars?
Until he met Zhuang Jianye.
"Do you want to know more about Space Exploration Company?"
"What exactly do you do?"
"The short-term goal is commercial space launch, the mid-term goal is to build a round-trip freight system, and the long-term landing on the moon and Mars" Zhuang Jianye smiled slightly and explained to Liang Xiaoping in detail the space exploration company Hongda's interstellar conquest plan. .
"If other people heard this, they would definitely think that Zhuang Jianye was talking nonsense. Even science fiction novels would not dare to write like this. However, these things attracted Liang Xiaoping.
¡°I was even very surprised. I didn¡¯t expect that the overall technology in China is lagging behind.There is someone who is holding back such a huge space exploration plan. It is even more surprising that this person is already silently contributing and starting the implementation of the project in stages.
Suffocated by dreams!
Done!
Zhuang Jianye also didn't expect that a master's degree from Princeton University would be so easy to fool. He drank a meal of dream chicken soup and pulled him over. He thought it would take a lot of effort, but in the end he had to say to Mr. Liang: "Your son is too axis, so you should hire someone else!" "
"As a result I was worried that there was no knowledgeable leader in the aerospace field, so Liang Xiaoping came here in a fool's errand.
What else are you talking about?
? Roll up your sleeves and do it!
So the empty-shell Space Exploration Company immediately received heavy investment from Ascendas Group and got on the right track in a short period of time. Later, Liang Xiaoping played a vital role in the introduction of technology for the Long March 4 launch vehicle and supporting production.
If not, Ascendas Group would not have been able to possess a full set of commercial space launch service capabilities including rocket production, satellite launch, and on-orbit delivery in just a few years.
After working hard for so long, we finally took the first step to conquer the stars and the sea. As a result, the rocket has been assembled and the satellite and rocket have been integrated. Motorola actually said that it would postpone the launch without giving a reason. No one can feel better. ?
"Okay, I'll rush to the launch center and see if I can contact Motorola's management." Zhuang Jianye saw that he couldn't explain clearly on the phone and was about to get up and go to the launch center.
Of course, Huang Feng and Fang Yong knew that they could not intervene at this time, so they took the "Proposal" and said goodbye to Zhuang Jianye. Zhuang Jianye was not polite, and hurriedly said goodbye to the two of them and left the room, went downstairs and took the car all the way to the launch center. .
When I got out of the car and saw Liang Xiaoping, I realized that this aerospace expert, who was a few years older than me, had an ugly face and tremblingly handed over a new notice that had just been sent by Motorola.
Zhuang Jianye took it and took a look, his eyebrows suddenly knitted into a knot: "There is no launch window period, we are required to postpone the launch indefinitely!"
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