While Lin Yongming and his team were steadily advancing the arms sales plan, Chen Nian was carefully planning the next step for himself or the entire China.
It’s February, and NPU has ushered in a month-and-a-half winter break. For most students, this is a rare break.
Using this time, they can go back to spend time with their families and live a good year, but Chen Nian is the complete opposite.
He planned to use this period of time without any course schedule to finish all the basic introductory courses in materials science.
After that, he can truly step into the door of the extremely profound subject of "materials".
Once you truly enter a field where knowledge is highly enriched, you will enter a fast lane, whether in terms of accumulation of source points or improvement of your own level.
According to his discussion with Hu Xu, to achieve this, he must spend at least 6 hours studying every day.
Moreover, it must be 6 hours of full energy and high efficiency.
Fortunately, Chen Nian has become accustomed to the current intensity of study, so this pressure is nothing to him.
Compared with the simple matter of learning, it is more difficult to use the resources at hand to plan the next analysis plan.
Now he still has 2.25 source points in his hand, and the modular analysis of the F-22 has completed the three parts of power, fuel, and body. Among the remaining avionics, hydraulics, landing, and radar systems, hydraulic and landing technology It’s not difficult, China itself has accumulated experience.
The radar system mainly relies on the development of semiconductors. It is useless to analyze it now. It will still have to wait a few years when the semiconductor industry develops to become more mature before it can be manufactured.
The only thing that has analytical value is avionics.
But the problem is that China's avionics system is developing extremely fast and will reach the world's first-class level in a few years. There is no need to waste the source points here.
Therefore, in fact, the F-22's analysis action has been completed.
The next step is to wait for the previous technologies to continue to bear fruit, and for the Chinese aviation people to independently perfect this fighter step by step.
In this case, Chen Nian must set his goal in new areas.
The previous long-range fire and missiles were a good attempt, and they also gave him some ideas.
If airplanes can catch up quickly in a short time, what about ships?
In 2003, the warships we had were either 051 or modern-class warships with old technology and weak combat effectiveness. It was difficult to even defend the light blue, let alone move towards the dark blue.
Even at this time, the construction of aircraft carriers has become a sensitive topic and cannot be mentioned on many occasions.
Otherwise, why would the director burst into tears at a certain program later?
Isn't it because the navy is too weak?
So it seems that after opening a breakthrough for the Air Force, will the Navy also follow suit?
But if we start another naval project, we won’t have enough money.
For a moment, Chen Nian couldn't help but fell into deep thought.
Maybe quick success is not the best way.
I still have to find a way to lay the foundation for China.
Chen Nian frowned. For the first time, he felt the pressure of decision-making.
As your position rises, the more you see, the more difficult it becomes to make decisions that take into account the overall situation.
And if you want to trigger the maximum effect with the minimum consumption, you must break away from the idea of fighting alone and build your own team.
A team that can obtain comprehensive information, provide him with decision-making support, and can act as a technical executive to implement his own ideas when necessary.
Thinking of this, Chen Nian immediately picked up the phone and called Chen Guo directly.
The phone only rang twice before it was picked up. Chen Guo on the other side asked angrily:
"Xiao Nian, what's wrong? Is there any new progress?"
Chen Nian was a little embarrassed. In the past, every time he took the initiative to call Chen Guo, it was usually when he had completed the analysis and had a technical breakthrough. Now it gave him a conditioned reflex.
He smiled helplessly and replied:
"No, Professor Chen, this is not a new development. I have something I want to ask you for help with."
"Oh? Are you having difficulty? Or do you have any special needs?"
Chen Guo's tone didn't show any disappointment, but instead seemed more enthusiastic.
After all, judging from the current situation, every time he helps Chen Nian solve a problem, he will give back more results.
“I want to build a team.”
"Team? Tell me specifically?"
"I need a truly professional team of consultants. This team must bring together experts in economics, military, sociology and other fields, and be able to put forward constructive professional opinions in these areas."
"My consideration is this. In the future, the research and development direction I want to choose must be a technology that is currently in short supply in the country, and at the same time, it must be a technology that can maximize profits after a single breakthrough."
"But relying on my own strength alone, it is almost impossible to do such a complicated analysis. Therefore, I must rely on the power of the country."
Hearing this, Chen Guo on the other end of the phone slapped her thigh.
"You told me earlier! In fact, we had this idea before, but... in the end we didn't implement it."
"But now that you have raised this demand yourself, there is definitely no reason why we should not satisfy it."
"Don't worry, leave this matter to me. I will give you a list as soon as possible. Then you can choose according to your needs."
But Chen Guo didn't say the next words, but Chen Nian could vaguely guess it.
There are two reasons for not implementing it. The first is that the official is still unclear about where the boundaries of its capabilities are, and there is no way to confirm whether it makes sense to spend huge costs to configure such a "think tank" for itself.
The second one is probably because I am worried that this kind of external input will interfere with my research to some extent and be counterproductive.
However, their worries are naturally unnecessary. After all, their greatest "plug-in feature" happens to require the assistance of such a think tank.
Chen Nian thanked him twice. After a moment of pause, he seemed to have remembered something, so he continued:
"As for the candidates, I need to trouble you to help me do a preliminary election first, but I have a few additional requirements."
"Just tell me directly, as long as it can satisfy you, I will do everything possible to help you!"
Chen Guo answered decisively.
"Then I'll tell you straight."
"First, I require the members of this team to go through ideological investigation first. First of all, they must not mix with the banana people. But I don't want the kind of overly fanatical and extreme patriots, because they are generally fragile. What I want is people who can A comrade who can stand the test.”
"Second, the age of the team should be younger, preferably under 45 years old, with active thinking and good physical strength."
"Third, and most importantly, they absolutely cannot represent the interests of any party, not even the military. I must ensure that the decision-making advice they give me is completely neutral and only aims at the overall interests."
After listening to Chen Nian's words, Chen Guo nodded secretly.
These requirements basically avoid all possible "soft issues". Organizing the team according to such conditions will greatly reduce friction in later cooperation.
So he replied:
"No problem, I'll find it according to your standards!"
The two exchanged pleasantries for a few more words, and Chen Nian hung up the phone.
Then, he looked at the mind map he had drawn on the white paper and breathed a long sigh of relief.
The biggest problem of "limited personal energy" has finally been solved.
Soon, I won't have to fight alone anymore...
