When the project was progressing in an orderly manner, Wang Qi turned to transforming the research system.
The Phoenix Kingdom's scientific research system has always been relatively simple, with each company basically managing its own business.
This is not impossible, but as all aspects of technology enter a bottleneck period, it will not work without integration.
In the existing research system, the proportion of invalid inventions has gradually increased in recent years. In fact, this is the inevitable result after Wang Qi, the parallel import "prophet", cannot help. On the road of combining magic and machinery, trial and error will become mainstream.
After reviewing the R&D reports of all government-owned enterprises, I feel that there is still a lack of direction.
Perhaps a parent organization is needed to coordinate.
I’m not talking about the Ministry of Industry. Although this department is in charge of production, most of them are laymen, and the proportion of those with technical backgrounds is very small.
The National Academy of Engineering Sciences is what our country needs.
The Academy of Sciences is an academic institution, a communication platform, and a resource integration center.
With the reference object in hand, the next step is how to implement each function.
The administrative level of factory directors of government-owned enterprises is not low. To mobilize their resources, it should be at least a little higher, so they should be at the department level.
The administrative levels of the Phoenix Kingdom, from high to low, are departments, departments, bureaus, and teams.
For example, the Railway Bureau and the Aviation Bureau are under the control of the Trade Department and the Taxation Department. The Aviation Bureau deals with the Border Agency on a daily basis, and the development of the two is arranged by the Ministry of Industry. Bureaus are also at the mayoral level outside the capital, while teams are lower-level municipal units such as police, urban defense, and fire protection.
This is a system specially adapted for small countries. Everyone is a municipality with fewer levels for easier management. If you want to add provinces and state capital divisions, you need to add another level.
The Phoenix Kingdom's economic system cannot support provincial and state government systems, but the problem is not big. The situation of the exile is special. There are no scattered farmers outside the city. As the city expands, it can manage hundreds of millions of people in the form of direct jurisdiction.
Return to the Academy of Sciences.
During the establishment of the Academy of Sciences, the director of the Xincheng Magical Weapons Research Institute had to be demoted one level, but no individual would be demoted, because the first director would definitely find the director of the institute to replace him.
The newly established Basic Research Institute is still managed by Xincheng Research Institute. This unit and the Weapons Manufacturing Bureau must be separated from the institute and split into three. It is natural for the director of the institute to change from the department level to the bureau level.
That’s it for the administrative rack.
Next comes the functions.
The first task of the Academy of Sciences is to coordinate various manufacturers to improve the utilization rate of inventions.
For example, the automobile factory recently came up with an invention that can fix carbon through the exhaust system. It not only absorbs unburned solid carbon particles, but also fixes part of the carbon dioxide.
However, this invention is not useful at all, because the original work of cleaning up carbon deposits on a yearly basis has to be calculated on a weekly basis after using this thing. The situation of heavy trucks in the logistics system is even more serious.
To improve this situation, technical leaders from various companies need to communicate more.
Based on the current scale of developers, if you choose one of about 300 engineering and technical personnel, including private enterprises, you can make up dozens of people.
These dozens of people serve as the scaffolding of the Academy of Engineering and are awarded the title of academician.
Since the National Academy of Engineering Sciences has an engineering academy, it naturally also has an academy of science. The Weapons Research Institute and the Aircraft Design Institute are a bit inferior. We can include universities. We can choose from professors from the three existing universities including the School of Magic. A few academicians are not needed in the liberal arts.
There is no need to worry about how many people to recruit in the early stage, as long as the two houses add up to a hundred or so to get things going.
Their task is to coordinate resources and knowledge from all walks of life and minimize the occurrence of repeated development and ineffective inventions.
When these people come together, they will have the second mission of the Academy of Sciences, to make full use of their talents.
Academicians must be people who have made outstanding contributions in technology and knowledge. It would be too wasteful to ask them to deal with corporate coordination all year round, and many of them may not have much interest themselves.
The Academy of Sciences should have a number of advanced laboratories to give full play to the talents of academicians. As for the team, we can find people wherever the academicians come from.
For example, the wind tunnel laboratory is currently built and iterated by Blue Sky Heavy Industries. It is better that this company is fully owned by the government. It is a private enterprise joint venture like the Aircraft Design Institute. It is okay to build a subsonic one, but it is also transonic and supersonic. The burden is too huge, and it may take decades to get it together.
With the Academy of Sciences, you don’t have to look for ways to hitch a ride with Blue Sky Heavy Industries. You can just take the model to the Academy for advice. Blue Sky Heavy Industries can also free up this part of R&D and construction strength to do serious work.
Finally, there is future development.
To create something of high enough complexity, we must move towards an interdisciplinary and cross-category resource integration route. Where the reasonable direction is and what kind of experimental equipment is missing, all can be solved under the mechanism of the Academy of Sciences.
Now that we have the tasks and implementation methods, the next step is to set it up.
The previous construction of the Sky Fortress also coordinated the research efforts of a series of manufacturers, and some of the administrative staff involved had experience in this area. Transfer them directly to the Academy of Sciences or do administrative work.
The initial venue is in Little Bear City.
Little Bear City is a living city. Wang Qi can create a special unit by just drawing some drawings, which can even be placed underwater.
But also because Little Bear City is alive and even magical, some experiments that require high precision cannot be set up here, and it is only used as an early office space.
As for the body of the Academy of Sciences, after the meeting, it was decided to throw it into the mountainous area between Yinghuo City and the Eastern Military Airport. The details will have to wait for the academicians to slowly communicate and build it step by step.
The construction preparation work is handled by the construction companies affiliated to the Railway Bureau. Anyway, they only have a little railway maintenance work now. Compared with the newly naturalized construction teams, the Railway Bureau's construction team is better at drilling holes. The mountain itself is a good interference shielder. It would be a pity not to drill holes.
In the process of preparing for the establishment of the Academy of Sciences, there was an unexpected surprise.
The institute's Level 4 Radiation Protection Laboratory has extracted two types of radiation, cesium and radium.
Radioactive elements are a shortcut to understanding the mysteries of the universe.
For example, there are dozens of isotopes of cesium, the most significant of which are 133 (stable state), 134, and 137. The half-life of 137 is so short that it is almost impossible to survive in nature and can only be produced through fission reactions.
By studying the proportion, half-life, and chemical properties of radioactive substances in nature, we can know how stable the universe is.
Although people nowadays don't know the basic physical state of Li Xiang's hometown, the difference is so obvious that even a layman like Wang Qi can understand it.
Using pure magic power filtered through the magic device to stimulate, after two months of long-term uninterrupted experiments, it was found that the target's radioactivity had slightly increased. It is not known exactly when balance will be reached, but it has been confirmed that the ratio of radioactive isotopes will be changed by magic.
This means that there may be so much radioactive material in the penal colony that a Geiger counter might beeping wildly.
So coming from Li Xiang’s hometown has to be renovated. Is it because the radiation dose is too high?
In short, we are researching it first. At this point, it is still in the category of basic research and is still far from practical use.
