Material Empire

As Qin Hai himself said, if he wants to research high-temperature austenitic alloy materials, he is definitely not Shubnikov's opponent. Qin Hai's regiment was destroyed. Qin Hai's advantage is that he possesses knowledge 20 years ahead of Shubnikov's. Showing this knowledge falsely is enough to completely defeat Shubnikov's psychological advantages.

Liu Hang didn't know Qin Hai's background. In his mind, Qin Hai was just a businessman. Of course, he was a businessman with patriotism and a certain degree of scientific literacy. Generally speaking, he was worthy of respect. But talking to a top expert like Shubnikov is a bit ignorant. He said: "Xiao Qin, Shubnikov is an authority on high-temperature austenitic alloy materials. Do you know what austenitic alloy is?"

"Austenite, of course I understand, Olympic." Qin Hai replied with a grin.

"What are the Olympics? Austenite is not sports!" Liu Hang almost choked Qin Hai to death. He regarded Austenite as the Olympics, and you still went to destroy Shubnikov's prestige. You call it sending face to the countryside, okay? , Wrong, it should be sending face abroad.

"Old Liu, calm down and let him go." Xiao Weihao patted Liu Hang on the shoulder and said, "Maybe Xiaoqin really convinced this Shu by talking about the Olympics."

"Xiao Chushengming." Qin Hai smiled triumphantly, ran to the side of the car, took a piece of food from the car, followed by a few bottles of wine, and walked towards Shubnikov's house. Liu Hang wanted to step forward to pull him, but Xiao Weihao stopped him.

"Old Xiao!" Liu Hang stomped his feet violently, "He doesn't even know what austenite is, so why should he lose someone? He can afford to lose this person, but I can't afford to lose him!"

Xiao Weihao said with a smile: "Old Liu, you were really smart for a while, and you were a fool for the rest of your life. Is this Qin Hai such an ignorant person? Even if he doesn't understand, he won't think that austenite is Olympic sports, right? Why are you so ignorant? .”

"Is he kidding me?" Liu Hang seemed to understand a little bit, yes, Qin Hai doesn't seem like such an ignorant person.

Xiao Weihao said: "Don't you know that Qin Hai is the patent owner of the thermal spraying machine, can he have a little knowledge in materials science? He must have some confidence if he dares to speak like this. Let's just wait and see. Let's see how he behaves."

"But... Shubnikov is an expert after all, it's not something that can be fooled by just making up a few words." Liu Hang still muttered with lingering fear.

Qin Hai knew what Xiao Weihao and Liu Hang were thinking, and he didn't bother to explain these things, let alone some things that couldn't be explained in the first place. He came to Shubnikov's house with a pile of food and knocked on the door again.

"What's your business?" Shubnikov opened the door and asked with a sullen face when he saw Qin Hai was knocking on the door.

"I'm here to give you some gifts." Qin Hai said in English, "Regardless of whether you will cooperate with us in the end, please be sure to accept these gifts."

"Then...then thank you, Mr. Xiao and Mr. Liu." Shubnikov looked at the dazzling array of items in Qin Hai's hands, especially the hard liquor that the Soviets loved most, and finally he was not willing to refuse, but With a smile on his face, he also replied in English.

"Can I help you deliver these things?" Qin Hai asked.

"Of course, I'll get some too." Shubnikov took the wine from Qin Hai's hand, and moved the things into the house together with Qin Hai.

Hearing the movement outside, Shubnikov's wife also ran out, looked at the food lying on the ground, she smiled happily: "Thank you so much, I saw these things in the Chinese store in the city, It's all very expensive."

With short hands, Shubnikov couldn't show Qin Hai's face. He nodded with a smile, and said politely, "Thank you, what's your name?"

"My surname is Qin." Qin Hai replied.

"Oh, Mr. Qin... Do you need to sit down for a while?" Shubnikov was a little surprised when he saw that Qin Hai didn't seem to want to say goodbye. When he thought about it, since Qin Hai came to deliver things, he should leave when the things were delivered. There was no reason for him to stand there and not move. If someone refuses to leave, of course I can only invite the other person to sit down, which is the minimum etiquette for hospitality.

Qin Hai pretended to be embarrassed, and mumbled, "Mr. Shubnikov, if you allow me, I have some academic questions and I would like to ask you for advice. I don't know if it's too impolite. .”

"Academic questions?" Shubnikov was taken aback. No, didn't this young man follow the two men from the military to hire him to work in China? Why did he start asking academic questions as soon as he turned around?

Despite his doubts, Shubnikov pointed to the sofa and said, "Since you have any questions to ask, please sit down."

Qin Hai sat down sideways, and then said: "Let me introduce myself first. I am a technician engaged in the research of metal materials. My supervisor is Chen Heqian, a researcher from the China Iron and Steel Research Institute. This time, I am the Fang's dispatch to serve as assistants to Mr. Xiao and Mr. Liu."

"Chen Heqian?" Shubnikov nodded. He had heard of this name. Although the two parties were engaged in different directions, they were at least related to metal materials and were experts in the same field. Qin Hai claimed to be Chen Heqian's student, so it was not surprising that he had to ask him for advice if he had any questions.

Qin Hai continued: "I heard that Mr. Shubnikov is an authority on high-temperature austenitic alloy materials. The thesis I am doing is related to this issue, so this time I heard that I have the opportunity to visit Shubnikov. Mr. Kov, I am very excited. I have encountered several difficulties in my research, and I wonder if Mr. Shubnikov can give me some pointers."

"Are you also engaged in high-temperature austenitic alloy materials?" Shubnikov asked, "According to my impression, Mr. Chen Heqian is not engaged in this."

"Ms. Chen has been working on high-temperature alloy materials." Qin Hai said, "As for austenitic materials, he is also doing it at the request of the military. I am his assistant and focus on this direction. Because some research involves confidentiality. , so you may not know much about it."

These words combined fiction and reality, and Shubnikov was really involved. Chen Heqian did work on superalloy materials, but he didn't specialize in this direction. As for the austenitic material, it is Qin Hai's nonsense, but Shubnikov has no way of knowing that Qin Hai is nonsense, didn't they say that this is a confidential research conducted for the military, you don't know Is it normal?

"Tell me, what difficulties did you encounter in your research?" Shubnikov didn't want to dwell on this issue any longer, and asked Qin Hai directly.

Qin Haidao: "It's like this. A subject that Mr. Chen and I are currently studying is about the calculation of the valence electronic structure of the iron-carbon unit cell under the condition that the mass fraction of carbon is 0.4%. We found in the experiment that as the temperature increases, High, the lattice constant of the austenite valence electronic structure increases, and the iron atoms migrate to the lower order. We have constructed several curves of the phase structure factor at high temperature with the increase of carbon content. What bothers me now is, I don't know Mr. Shubnikov's suggestion on whether to use the exponential function, the Weber function, or the Gompertz function."

"..." Shubnikov was dumbfounded. What does the increase of the lattice constant mean, and the change curve of the phase structure factor with the increase of carbon content... I haven't played this before.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Qin, maybe my English is not very good. I didn't fully understand what you said just now. Can you explain in detail?" Shubnikov began to play tricks.

Qin Hai pretended to be terrified, and apologized repeatedly: "Oh, blame me, blame me, my English is too bad, and my expressions must be very irregular. How about this, Mr. Shubnikov, can you give me a little A piece of paper and a pencil, I will list the relevant issues, and with your professional level, you will definitely understand it at a glance."

Shubnikov brought Qin Hai a paper and a pen, and Qin Hai began to write on the paper in a rustling manner. There were lattice models and related functions. Cove's face became more and more ugly.

"It's just such a superficial question. How do you explain it?" Qin Hai put down his pen, looked at Shubnikov devoutly, and asked.

"Well, this is a problem we have solved in the past. Of course, it was a few years ago. I have to recall it again. This problem is very interesting, and it stumped many of us at the time. It’s really surprising that the research has reached this level.” Shubnikov smiled awkwardly, commented falteringly, but his eyes were fixed on those formulas, and his heart was full of waves. .

With his academic level, how can he fail to see that these things written by Qin Hai are indeed important theories related to the research of high-temperature austenite materials. He can even imagine that if these theories are broken through, the relevant high-temperature austenite The study of materials will produce a major breakthrough. But the problem is that he doesn't know anything about these contents. This is not a research paradigm he is familiar with at all, but a whole new set of things. Let alone asking him to answer it immediately, even if he is asked to understand the mystery, I am afraid it will be difficult. Take a few months.

Have the Chinese gone so far in the research of high-temperature austenitic materials? Since they have such an accumulation of knowledge, why should they come to him? By the way, the Chinese must have mistakenly thought that the technology he mastered was more profound than these, so they kept their own experts from using it and went to the Soviet Union to invite him to do research.

If this is the case, then his previous pretentiousness is very ridiculous, and it is also very dangerous. If the Chinese finally gave up the idea of ​​hiring him to go to China because he could not agree to the conditions he put forward, then he would be self-defeating, and the chicken would fly away.