Chapter 33

Pan Muyang left, and the conference room fell into a brief silence; several department heads present secretly gave Qin Miao a thumbs-up, beautiful, nicely done!

"Professor Qin, I heard you belittled our most advanced date-core bomb as worthless?" Bu'er Boshi's words pulled everyone back!

This Bu'er Boshi is just here to cause trouble!

Bu'er Boshi came to the East to sell 155mm howitzers and their matching date-core bombs, but someone—who knows who—actually said the date-core bomb was no good! This angered Bu'er Boshi, so they hurriedly tried to shift the blame, claiming these words were spoken by Ha Gong Da's Qin Miao!

I thought that would be the end of it, but this guy is single-minded, he actually showed up, and without notifying anyone, he just requested a translator from the Foreign Affairs Department and rushed over!

When the people in the Capital heard about it, they were on their way here, but……that's like trying to quench immediate thirst with distant water—useless!

That Pan Muyang probably also noticed along the way that Bu'er Boshi and the others were angry, so after arriving he wanted to show off his authority.

Now Pan Muyang has left, but this matter hasn't been resolved yet.

Should Qin Miao back down and just brush this off?

"That's right, I said it—the so-called date-core bomb is just a useless thing, and the GC-45 howitzer is also useless! Bu'er Boshi, I'm not saying this about you, but a cannon isn't good just because it shoots far; it must also be accurate! Your system's dispersion is too poor—it's just trash!"

The whole venue was stunned.

Qin Miao, you're being too fierce, aren't you?

How are we going to wrap this up now!

President Liu took a deep breath; today, no matter how big a mess Qin Miao stirs up, we must protect him! Clearly it's foreigners coming to cause trouble, and we are just defending ourselves—our Ha Gong Da isn't so easy to bully!

At this moment, Qin Miao's thoughts were simple.

Bu'er Boshi, that's just a lunatic, single-minded—do you think apologizing would fix it? This guy doesn't understand worldly affairs; otherwise he wouldn't have ended up so poorly.

Since apologizing won't work, of course we have to stand firm to the end—your world-famous artillery genius, your 45-caliber revolution, none of that matters; your product is trash, plain and simple.

"Well, how interesting—you Eastern cannon technology is backward, so you invited me here to introduce our world's number-one howitzer, and here it's called trash?" Bu'er Boshi laughed in anger: "Range and precision are inherently mutually exclusive indicators; what do you, a youngster, know?"

"If you can't do it, you just say they can't be combined." Qin Miao gave him a sideways glance: "This is clearly just an excuse for your own trash product!"

Slap!

Someone opposite slammed the table: "You're saying this is too over the top—didn't your mother teach you to respect your elders?"

"In the world of artillery, I respect only truth!"

"Then tell me, how can they be balanced?"

"I won't say."

"You really don't understand anything."

"Of course I understand, and I can even propose a solution that balances both—but what's your attitude? Are you here to humbly seek advice?" Qin Miao glanced at them: "If you're just here to confirm that I said those words, you already have a definite answer; you may leave!"

"What, you're still not leaving? Then I'm going—I still have some students waiting for me! If you're not satisfied, go ahead and sue me for defamation in court!"

"That's misleading—in the East, who would go to court over defamation? Usually people just protest to their superiors."

Qin Miao finished speaking those bold words, turned around and left.

"Wait!"

"What now?"

"We're humbly seeking your advice—what solution can balance both?"

"This pushy foreigner actually changed his attitude!"

"This is simple."

Facing the expectant gazes of the artillery experts, Qin Miao simply and directly replied: "Lengthen the barrel."

Bu'er Boshi felt like a mouthful of old blood was about to burst out—lengthening the barrel, who doesn't know that!

"The longer the barrel, the harder it is to manufacture, and when using it, maneuverability also gets worse." Bu'er Boshi said: "We also carefully considered this before setting the barrel length at 45 calibers! I thought you might have some real insight, but……Fuck!"

"Well, whatever the difficulty, it's just because you haven't found the right method!" Qin Miao gave those people a glance: "Since you're not being humble in seeking advice, forget it—I'm leaving!"

"Wait!"

Bu'er Boshi took a deep breath: "I apologize for my earlier attitude; if you have a new manufacturing process, I hope you'll tell me—I'd really like to know."

"No more fuck?"

"Sorry!"

Qin Miao suddenly realized that when facing a lunatic, there's no need to be afraid—just find the obsession deep inside the lunatic's heart!

"Well, seeing how sincere you are, I'll briefly explain—first, manufacturing: currently, international barrel production is overly complicated; the steel ingot from electroslag remelting needs repeated forging and heat treatment to relieve internal stress, then stretching, grinding, deep-hole drilling, etc., to make a barrel blank, after which comes the autofrettage process to increase barrel strength and reduce wall thickness, and so on……"

Qin Miao looked at those artillery experts full of expectation: "We actually have a simple method that can produce the barrel blank in one go!"

"What method?"

"Build a 36,000-ton vertical metal extrusion press; we just need to feed the electroslag-remelted steel ingot into it, one extrusion forms it, coming out directly as a thick-walled steel tube—that's the barrel blank—and after this extrusion, compared to autofrettage it can further increase barrel strength, allowing the cannon's weight to be reduced even more!"

The foreigners were stunned, and the Ha Gong Da teachers were stunned too.

What did you say?

Qin Miao smiled; this is the advantage of being reborn! Taking those experiences from the future and bringing them here—that's the most shocking project!

In the future, the East will need to build high-performance supercritical power units, petrochemical industries, etc., all requiring P92-grade thick-walled pipe; domestically we can only make it by deep-drilling a steel rod from the middle, which is not only wasteful but also low-yield, and importing from abroad is too expensive.

So, the Grasslands Second Machinery Plant gritted its teeth, spent three years, and produced a 36,000-ton vertical extrusion press—thick-walled pipe for generators? Just extrude it! Thick-walled pipe for petrochemicals? Easy! Cannon barrels? However big we want, we can make them, and the quality comes out number one worldwide!

Qin Miao walked to the podium and began drawing on the conference room's blackboard; everyone present were experts, and they quickly understood.

Awesome, awesome! Making barrels this way, the East is definitely the first!

President Liu breathed a sigh of relief; Qin Miao finally managed to bluff those guys past—there's no vertical extrusion press at our Ha Gong Da, none in the country, none in the world!

"Professor Qin, this method is truly ingenious!" Bu'er Boshi said with a face full of admiration: "I don't know where this machine is—could we go see it?"

Instantly, President Liu's heart gave another jolt.