An old woman's third son did not return home for 30 years, not even when his father and second brother died, and the other children thought he was a white-eyed wolf, until they received a special letter, and the magazine in it let the old woman know what the child had done for so many years. This third son is Huang Xuhua, the father of China's nuclear submarines and the chief designer of the first generation of nuclear submarines.
Huang Xuhua said goodbye to his parents when he was 14 years old and went to Shantou to study, and then in order to obtain a stable learning environment, he moved to Guilin, and after graduating from Guilin high school, he went to Chongqing to take the university entrance examination. In his middle school studies, he saw too much humiliation, the Japanese bombers could run wild on their heads, but they had no choice, every time the air defense alarm sounded, Huang Xuhua and his classmates could only run out in a hurry to take refuge, even in the rear of Guilin, still suffered from the invasion of Japanese aircraft. At that time, Huang Xuhua made up his mind that he must build more large equipment for the motherland, such as airplanes or ships, and he wanted the motherland to no longer be bullied by foreign countries, and all students could study with peace of mind.
After going to Chongqing, Huang Xuhua had two choices, one was to study in the aviation department of the university, and the other was to go to the shipbuilding department of the National Jiaotong University, and he finally chose the National Jiaotong University. During his university studies, he was hungry and thirsty, which laid a solid foundation for future research. When he first entered the National Chiao Tung University, Huang Xuhua was a little confused, because Jiaotong University is known as China's Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the professors are a large group of talents who have returned from studying abroad. On Huang Xuhua's first day of class, he was blindsided, the teacher often lectured in English, the board books were also in English, and the textbooks and test papers were all in English, and he felt a little struggling at first. However, his grades were not a fluke, in the course of his studies in the past few years, he encountered much more difficult difficulties than this, when he fell behind in class, he doubled down after class, worked hard to learn English and related terms, and soon kept up with his studies.
However, when Huang Xuhua recalled his study and life in college, what he talked about the most was not learning professional knowledge, but completing the underground work of our party in Jiaotong University. Here, he actively participated in the school protection movement and the three-anti movement, propagated progressive ideas in the progressive club Camellia Society, and helped progressives to ask for the search of spies. Whenever he talked about these deeds, he was full of energy, and the sense of mystery and thrill made him remember it deeply.
After the liberation of Shanghai, in July 1949, Huang Xuhua was sent to study at the Party School of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and graduated from the Party School in October. After that, he was sent to work in different places, first as a technician in the ship construction department of the Shanghai Military Management Commission, worked for almost a year, and was transferred to the Shanghai Shipping Bureau as the secretary of the director, and then went to the Shanghai Port Authority as the secretary of the Youth League Committee. This process is slowly developing towards politics, and he has done a good job in every post, and if he continues to do so, I believe that his political career will also be smooth. However, he has always had one idea in his heart, that is, to make a national weapon for the motherland, which is his ambition since middle school.
In 1954, the opportunity finally came, Huang Xuhua was sent to the Shanghai Shipbuilding Industry Administration, participated in the work of the ship, when the Soviet Union assisted the Chinese ship, Huang Xuhua was engaged in the transfer and imitation of the ship. China's foundation in this area is still weak, so this imitation is very important to lay the foundation for China's future ship construction. Huang Xuhua likes this job very much, he devotes himself to it and has accumulated a lot of experience.
After gaining experience, Huang Xuhua was selected as a representative to learn submarine-related technology from Soviet experts. From this time, Huang Xuhua came into contact with submarines and soon became an expert in this area in our country. Everything is interlocking, and if any study and work are not matched, Huang Xuhua will not be able to enter the nuclear submarine project in the future.
On New Year's Day in 1957, this is the day that Huang Xuhua remembers deeply, when he visited relatives in his hometown, stayed at home for two days and left, when he left, his parents asked him if he could go home more, he agreed, but he didn't expect that the next time he went home would be nearly 30 years later. Every time he talks about this, Huang Xuhua feels guilty, he thinks that he can't take care of both, he is not ashamed of the country, but he is ashamed of the family.
In August 1958, Huang Xuhua suddenly received a notice asking him to go to Beijing to attend a meeting, when he was the chief of the submarine section of the Shipbuilding Industry Administration, thinking that this was just an ordinary meeting to make some work arrangements, and he had some tasks at that time, and these tasks were also classified tasks, so he didn't ask too much, and he didn't prepare anything, so he set off directly to Beijing.
After going to Beijing, he found that this meeting was not simple, and when he went to the resettlement site, it was very secret, and on the day of the meeting, the person who presided over the meeting actually said the earth-shattering plan in a serious manner, that is, to build China's own nuclear submarine, and the participants were the main participants. At that time, the international situation was unpredictable, and the submarine as a weapon of mass destruction, four countries had already declared its possession, which was a mortal danger, because it could reach the place of surprise and bring a deadly attack to the enemy. Put the time back to the present, Russia once made a move to let nuclear submarines break the ice in the Arctic Ocean, although it was only a simple ascent, but it shocked Western countries, it is a deterrent that can strike you where you can't find it.
Ordinary submarines do not have this kind of power, because they need to use ordinary fuel, their endurance is far from enough, and they often need to surface to absorb oxygen. Only nuclear power has the ability to lurk for a long time, and if you install nuclear bombs and long-range missiles, you can strike the first and second nuclear strikes from a long distance, and the enemy will not dare to start a nuclear war with you when you can't figure out your location. The great man was well aware of the power of this killing weapon, and in the midst of a declining voice abroad, he firmly stated that even if it takes 10,000 years to build a nuclear submarine. Therefore, there was this meeting, and 29 researchers were carefully selected to carry out the "09" project, and make every effort to tackle China's first-generation nuclear submarines and solve the problem from scratch.
Huang Xuhua was selected because of his rich experience in submarines. At the meeting, the ** commander made it very clear to the researchers involved in the meeting that this work is a top secret, and you have to pay for it for the rest of your life, and you may not be able to show your head outside in the future, and you won't be able to get out after you go in. Huang Xuhua did not hesitate at all, and immediately signed a confidentiality agreement, he knew that the country needed him, the people needed him, and this was also what he dreamed of, to dedicate himself to the motherland. Huang Xuhua is not for fame or profit, just for the country to be strong, he swore to the organization that if he did not get the nuclear submarine out, he would not turn a blind eye.
In this way, the 09 project was officially launched, and they devoted themselves to intense work, and the contact with their families was also interrupted. The average age of these 29 researchers is less than 30 years old, and no one has ever seen what a nuclear submarine looks like, and there is no information at all. In Huang Xuhua's words, let the craftsmen who make wooden houses make skyscrapers.
So Huang Xuhua: How did they do it? The first step is to rely on foreign magazines and **. Nuclear submarines, no matter how tightly they are tightened abroad, will reveal some sporadic information, which may be to show off force or to confuse others. Huang Xuhua's first job is to collect these magazines and extract some effective information from them, including **, structure, data, etc. However, much of the information obtained here is false, which requires researchers to identify it. Once they saw such a message in a **, if you want to improve the underwater hit rate, the stability of the nuclear submarine must be high, and the way adopted abroad is to install a large gyroscope, at least 60 tons.
At first, the researchers also thought that this was a necessary equipment, but there was no related technology, and there was a big problem, and they found that after installing this big gyroscope, it would occupy a lot of the volume of the nuclear submarine, which was unreasonable, they did a lot of experiments, thinking that this device could not be installed, but no one dared to make a decision, because if it was true, others already had technical experience and we didn't use it, then wouldn't there be a big problem. While everyone was arguing, Huang Xuhua stood up and told everyone to trust our own data, and finally decided not to install this big spinning top. As a result, everyone later learned that this big spinning top is useless abroad, but is only used to confuse others.
After getting a lot of data from the magazine, they carried out difficult calculations, at that time there were no advanced computing equipment, they could only rely on hand calculations and abacus, and when measuring, there were only simple measuring tapes and scales, and everyone needed to divide into several groups to calculate at the same time, if everyone's results were the same, then the conclusion was correct, and if there was a group with different results, then everyone started to calculate again. Once you have the data, what should the submarine do? They still don't have a clue. At this time, ** brought them two models, which were models of foreign nuclear submarines, and Huang Xuhua was keenly aware that he could find inspiration from the models. So we dismantled and reassembled the models, installed and dismantled, and made batch after batch of models, and after a lot of trial and error, we finally built our own nuclear submarine. In 1970, China's first nuclear submarine was officially launched, announcing that China had filled the gap in this field, and this day was the birthday of ***.
After the first nuclear submarine came out, Huang Xuhua and others still needed to remain incognito and continue to overcome technical problems, so he has not been able to return to his hometown. His wife is okay, because they work in the same unit, they can live together, in 1966, the whole family also went to the Huludao base together incognito, but he rarely goes home, every time he goes home, the family sacrifices him to go home as a guest or to the house on a business trip. Not to mention his hometown, in 1961, he received a letter from home, in which he learned that his father had died, and then the task at that time was in strict secrecy, and he could not even write a letter to his family, so he could only silently endure the grief in his heart. Later, his closest second brother was critically ill, and a letter came from home saying that the second brother wanted to see him for the last time, and he was able to reply at this time, but he still couldn't pull away, and finally did not go home.
The other siblings in the family have always thought that he is a white-eyed wolf, and he has not come back for so many years, and he does not even tell the family what work he does. Huang Xuhua was also bitter in his heart, but he still couldn't say it, he could only hold it in his heart. Until 1986, Huang Xuhua went to Shenzhen on a business trip and took time to go home, at this time his mother was 93 years old, and the mother and son did not meet again after nearly 30 years. When he went home this time, Huang Xuhua still didn't say anything about his work, and his mother also understood his distress, so she didn't ask, but took him to Qixingyan in Zhaoqing, where he took a precious **.
Huang Xuhua accompanied his mother for three days and left, and the brothers and sisters were still dissatisfied, until a year later, Huang Xuhua's deeds were published in the "Wenhui Monthly", and Huang Xuhua sent this magazine to his family, and everyone knew what a great thing he had done. The title of this article is "The Nameless Life", although Huang Xuhua's name is not mentioned in the article, but the mother still recognized this as his third son at a glance, and the family members who learned the truth burst into tears, and they have always blamed him.
Someone once asked Huang Xuhua if he regretted not accompanying his family, Huang Xuhua said that he would feel guilty, but he would never regret it, if the country is not strong, how can there be a small family, dedication to the country is the greatest filial piety to his parents, even if he is given another chance to choose, he is still willing to be unknown for 30 years.