However, the foundation of China's aviation industry is still too thin after all, even if there is already a qualified jet engine, if you want to build a jet aircraft that meets the requirements and achieve mass production, it will definitely take much longer than the United States and the Soviet Union in history, not to mention that the gas turbine research institute is only a shiyan prototype, and it is still far from industrial mass production. Fortunately, Hu Weidong still has some classic designs of early jet fighters in his mind for reference, which can somewhat shorten the time required for research and development

It is also worth mentioning that the research and development progress of gas turbines is also very fast, so that Hu Weidong is even optimistic that a gas turbine with practical value can be trial-produced within three years. And it is worth mentioning that because many aspects have a common relationship with jet engines, Wu Zhonghua did not affect the research and development of jet engines, and even promoted them. There are many similar examples in China's major scientific research institutions, and under the guidance of concurrent engineering, the value of every scientist and senior engineer is maximized, which greatly compensates for China's lack of high-end scientific and technological talents.

Moreover, those scientific and technological talents, who are generally still very young, have grown up at an astonishing rate after being entrusted with important tasks, which once again confirms the fact that "in fact, the gap between scientists, especially applied scientists, is not so large, the difference is that a very small number of people have obtained suitable and important research topics, while most people do not have this opportunity." ”。 In history, when Lao Chiang fled to Taiwan, those who went abroad were not counted. Among the remaining Chinese scientific and technological talents, the mainland and Taiwan each have half of them, but the achievements of those scientists who have stayed in the mainland are far from comparable to those of Taiwan, in fact, the reason is the same

It is precisely because of this concern that the Red Party Central Committee did not hesitate to spend a huge price to bring in the millions of Czech workers, plus the experts and technical workers sent by the Soviet Union and Germany, and Hu Weidong managed to hire a total of 780,000 (Note 1) from the West before World War II. It is precisely because of so many highly qualified skilled workers that China's industrialization in this time and space is more than twice as fast as during the first five years of history. By 1941, China had built a comprehensive and complete modern industrial system. China has the ability to produce almost all types of industrial products, and the performance and quality are not much inferior to the advanced level of Shijie, and the difference is only the total scale of the industry.

But that's it. It has also made China's industry invisibly extremely dependent on these foreigners. For this hidden danger. Hu Weidong once thought that in order to quickly catch up with Shijie's advanced level and maintain its advantage in China's advantageous areas, it was entirely worth taking a risk, as long as it was a few more years. After the initial growth of the domestic jishu workers, they can be gradually replaced and the risk can be minimized, and after a few years on this basis, the country's efforts to popularize basic education and vigorously develop vocational education will begin to bear fruit, and then even if China releases all the foreigners, industrial production will not be fatally affected.

However, the Chinese army counterattacked the British, especially after the war was burned to India, and the Czechs in China (in fact, those technicians from the United States and Britain and other countries reacted more violently, but because the number was far from being comparable to that of the Czechs, it was relatively much easier to control. They began to worry that if China really fell to the side of the Axis powers, wouldn't they "just leave the tiger's den and enter the wolf's den." And the general uneasiness, coupled with the fact that some people secretly instigated, if Hu Weidong hadn't dispersed them as much as possible, I am afraid that there would have been a group incident with a bad impact.

But even so, it is inevitable that a large number of Czech workers will be distracted and can no longer work with peace of mind, which has greatly affected the related industrial production, not only the output has begun to decline, but the quality has also dropped significantly, including many military products, and with the victory of the Chinese army in the Indian battlefield again and again, the Czechs are becoming more and more uneasy, if this problem cannot be solved, China's rapid industrialization is likely to suffer a heavy setback

Because there are too many Czechs coming to China, and their role cannot be replaced, it is impossible to subdue them by coercive means, so they can only send people to try to persuade them, but the Czechs were betrayed and died in the country, and these Czech workers naturally did not just hear a few verbal assurances and firmly believe in them, and they said one after another that they wanted China to take concrete actions to show that they would at least adhere to a neutral attitude. Although Britain betrayed the Czech Republic during the "Munich Conspiracy", the biggest enemy in the eyes of the Czechs was always Germany, which had invaded their homeland, and Britain was at a fierce war with Germany, so it naturally became a friend that they recognized, and if the Chinese government wanted to prove that it did not want to join the Axis powers, it could no longer fight with the British and objectively help Germany. As for the slogan "Liberate the Colonies" propagated by the Chinese Red Party, most of them, except for a few Czechs with red tendencies, did not take it seriously and wanted them to work hard, even if China did not want to fight Germany directly, it could not help Germany to fight Germany's enemies

"It seems that this battle really can't go on," Hu Weidong sighed after learning about the situation in China. Not only did the Americans become more and more intransigent, but even the Soviet Union suddenly jumped out to criticize the Chinese Red Party as "adventurist, narrow-minded nationalist, and in danger of slipping into 'Trotskyism' (Trotsky's theory of continuing the revolution)." Obviously, they are worried that China will really eat India and become stronger, and even if China has no territorial ambitions for India, the liberation of hundreds of millions of people and millions of square kilometers of colonies from Britain, a first-class power, is enough to make the prestige of the Chinese Red Party in the international communist movement skyrocket, and may even snatch the leadership of the international communist movement from the hands of the big brother of the CPSU, which is also something Stalin did not want to see. Moreover, the mysterious and powerful new bombs of the Chinese also made him sleepless, after all, there is a long border between China and the Soviet Union, and there is a historical problem as the fuse, and it is impossible to say that the two countries will turn against each other on that day. For this reason, Stalin did not hesitate to temporarily cooperate with the Americans to exert pressure on China, and also to extinguish the dangerous flames in advance

Note 1: Among them, there were more than 30,000 Germans, plus the German Far East Fleet in China and a marine division that had recently come to China through the Soviet Union, plus some others (in addition to those sent by the German government, there were also some who came to work in China, including those who came to China before the liberation). By the end of 1941, there were no less than 100,000 Germans in China, making them second only to the Japanese and Koreans (referring to Koreans who were not born in China, not including Koreans who were born and raised in China). ) is the third largest alien group. (To be continued......)