People often say: "A penny beats a hero!"
This sentence is also applicable in the field of scientific research.
Whether it is materials with excellent performance or various structural designs.
Unless you are lucky and find the optimal solution all at once, or you are a real genius, otherwise you will need a huge investment of funds to get some output.
If your luck is worse, you may not be able to get enough scientific research output even if you spend money.
Every time at this time, Zhang Xingyang misses the Ring of Stars Intelligent Computing System that had not been completed before he traveled through time.
Countless material formulas and mechanism design solutions can be produced every year.
And because energy relies on the light and heat of stars and can be produced almost all year round, it can be called the most perfect research machine in the minds of all scientific researchers.
But in this era, let alone such galactic miracles and space giants.
Even the development of supercomputing is very difficult, so we can’t think of taking such shortcuts.
If you want to get high-performance materials, you almost have to spend money or let Zhang Xingyang take action.
However, the improvement of the entire aerospace technology system requires thousands of new materials and countless design solutions.
Even if these tasks exhaust Zhang Xingyang to death, he cannot do it alone.
Only by relying on the tens of thousands of scientific researchers in the entire scientific research system can such work be completed.
"Uncle Liang, how much money do we probably have at our disposal now?"
After Zhang Xingyang took a sip of Longjing tea, he asked Liang Yi, who was counting the current financial situation of the Rocket Research Institute next to him.
"Excluding some funds that must be set aside for backup, there are still about 250 million that can be used now."
After waiting for a few minutes, Liang Yi roughly came up with a number.
Although it is not very accurate, the difference is not huge.
"Uncle Liang, I want to spend some money to do a few things."
After getting the result that the current financial situation of the Rocket Research Institute is relatively healthy, Zhang Xingyang thought about it and said:
"The first thing is that we still need to increase investment in our materials laboratory."
"The lack of perfect success in rocket recovery before has a certain relationship with the strength of the supporting legs."
"Exploring high-strength alloy steel still requires a lot of investment. This part requires less, maybe 20 million or so."
Zhang Xingyang came up with this data based on the strength of the Rocket Research Institute's materials laboratory and the difficulty of developing higher-strength alloys.
Of course, this is the simplest of these things.
"The second thing, Uncle Liang, I think we should establish a closer cooperative relationship with the university."
If the first thing Zhang Xingyang said was still within Liang Yi's expectation, the second thing was somewhat beyond Liang Yi's idea.
After all, since the graduation allocation system for college students was abolished a few years ago, the best we can do in cooperating with universities is to recruit more people during the graduation season.
"Currently we have too little cooperation with universities. I plan to establish some cooperative projects with several aerospace universities."
"We provide money and they provide people to jointly conduct project research. After the research is completed, the results belong to us and the reputation belongs to them."
At this time, there are still relatively few cooperative relationships between universities and research institutes.
Because most scientific research institutes are not very wealthy at this time, they cannot digest any topic internally, let alone take it out to jointly develop it with others.
But the Rocketry Research Institute is now considered a rare outlier in China. It has more money but less money and more projects, and there are countless various tasks that need to be completed.
Therefore, only the Rocket Research Institute can have the financial resources to devote projects and money to joint development with universities.
"How much do you plan to spend on this part?"
As the logistics manager of the entire institute, Liang Yi is naturally most concerned about money.
After all, if you are not an entrepreneur, you don’t know how expensive firewood, rice, oil, and salt are. The Rocket Research Institute has nearly 10 million in various fixed expenses a month.
"In the early stage, let's start some small projects in a few universities to test the water. It doesn't cost much. I estimate that 10 million is enough."
“But it still requires a lot of investment in the later stages.”
"Uncle Liang, you also know that although our various departments have been recruiting people, the manpower is always insufficient, and the development progress of various projects is not very fast."
"If the cooperative development approach really works, then our project progress will be much faster than it is now."
The more Liang Yi listened, the more he felt that Zhang Xingyang seemed to want the lion to open his mouth and tell a big number.
Looking at Liang Yi who looked nervous, Zhang Xingyang smiled and spit out a number:
"One hundred million. My idea is to use 100 million every year for joint development."
Liang Yi stood up at this time, raised his voice and said:
"One hundred million?!"
“We didn’t even have 100 million in funding for the previous year!”
Zhang Xingyang pulled the slightly shocked Liang Yi back to the chair and said seriously:
"Uncle Liang, you should not focus on the past, but focus on the future."
"As we launch a series of space programs, our investment in aerospace systems will definitely increase. Don't be so petty!"
"Especially the investment in various aerospace technologies will be rewarded in the future. If you invest one piece now, you may be able to gain a hundred in the future!"
Although in Liang Yi's view, Zhang Xingyang was brainwashing himself at this time.
But technological cooperation in development is indeed a good thing, but the investment in this investment is too much.
As a financial officer, Liang Yi was naturally worried that the entire institute would be brought down by these huge investment projects.
“My suggestion is that it is best to wait until they have produced some results before investing, and be careful of being deceived.”
Liang Yi finally frowned and agreed to Zhang Xingyang's university cooperation plan, but only put forward his own suggestions.
In order to obtain scientific research funds, universities these days have done a lot of things that others think are outrageous.
For example, in order to obtain scientific research funds, it is not uncommon to fabricate results and deceive funds.
"Uncle Liang, do I seem to be that easily deceived?"
"I dare not say that in other aspects, there will be no one who can deceive me in terms of scientific research results in another hundred years!"
Zhang Xingyang may be deceived in other aspects, but as an existence that is nearly two hundred years ahead of this era, no one in the field of scientific research can deceive him.
"Just these two things? Is there nothing else?"
Liang Yi was a little curious. If there were only these two things, the current liquidity on the institute's books would be completely sufficient, and it could even be said to be more than enough.
"One more thing, I want to improve the treatment of everyone in the institute."
"Especially during this period, everyone basically has no time to rest. In addition to working, they are still working, and they have put in a lot of effort."
"I want to improve their treatment, give them more money, or give them more things. I don't know much about this, so Uncle Liang can figure it out."
I had a cold and a high fever yesterday. I couldn’t hold on while typing a chapter. I’m sorry everyone!
(End of chapter)
