On January 15, just after dawn, the Zhou family became lively.
Since today was the day when Li Youwei went to Ning City for a physical examination, the family got up early.
In addition, Zhou Yang was also going to the provincial capital, so he happened to take her to Ning City along the way.
In order to arrive at Ning City as early as possible and catch the return train in the afternoon after the physical examination, the couple had a simple bite after getting up.
Then he woke up Bao'er and Wen Hui, wrapped the two younger ones in quilts, and sent them to the Li family's old house together.
After doing this, Zhou Yang and Chen Beixuan set off with Li Youwei and Huang Rufeng!
It is only 80 kilometers from Babaoliang Village to Ningshi. In later generations, this distance could be reached in an hour.
However, the infrastructure is really poor these days. In addition, it just snowed in Ning City two days ago, making it extremely difficult to walk on the road.
Even with Chen Beixuan's driving skills, the 80-kilometer journey took more than two hours.
Fortunately, when they arrived at Ningshi Hospital, it was just half past eight and the physical examination had not yet started.
Zhou Yang did not stay longer in Ning City. After settling Li Youwei, he and Chen Beixuan continued to set off.
The car sped along and finally arrived at Qingcheng, the provincial capital, at around 11 o'clock in the morning!
The last time Zhou Yang came to Qingcheng was five months ago. At that time, Qingcheng was still in the height of summer, but this time he came here in the twelfth lunar month of winter.
The car continued to drive in the city for more than 20 minutes, and then stopped in front of the project department in the western suburbs.
After showing his ID to the guard at the door, Zhou Yang's car entered the project department smoothly.
He arrived at the office building with ease. After parking the car, Zhou Yang strode upstairs with Chen Beixuan.
In the office on the second floor, Nie Nansun was discussing things with Yang Donghai, but neither of them looked very good at this time.
"Old Yang, is there really nothing we can do? There are so many fewer items all of a sudden. How many projects will this affect?" Nie Nansun said with a frown.
Yang Donghai sighed and said: "This matter has been decided, and no one can change it. And we are not the only ones affected this time, most scientific research institutes have been affected!"
"What do you think they think? Cutting off the project budgets of so many units at once isn't this nonsense. How can we do research without money? Isn't this just watching these projects become obsolete?"
"Old Nie, be careful, there is nothing the higher-ups can do to make such a decision. As far as I know, there have been major problems in our economic operation in the past two years, and they have not been solved for a long time, and then..."
Before Yang Donghai finished speaking, at this moment, there was a clear and rhythmic knock on the door!
"Ding-deng-deng..."
Nie Nansun adjusted his thoughts for a moment, and then said: "Come in!"
"Squeak!"
As the door of the office was pushed open, Nie Nansun and Yang Donghai saw a familiar figure, and they stood up immediately.
"You're here so early, I guess you won't arrive until one or two o'clock at the earliest!" Nie Nansun said with a smile.
Zhou Yang immediately replied: "We set off before six o'clock in the morning, so we arrived a little early!"
"That's really hard work, come on, come on, sit down quickly!"
After the three of them sat down around a small coffee table, Zhou Yang immediately asked: "Mr. Nie, you called me over in such a hurry, what happened?"
Nie Nansun poured water for Zhou Yang and said, "It's a lot of trouble!"
"Then let's pick the most important thing. No matter how many troubles there are, we have to solve them one by one!" Zhou Yang said.
"Well, first of all, the project ran into trouble! Since having your guidance and help, many of our projects have been progressing smoothly, and scientific research progress has been much faster. Several projects have entered the trial production and experimental stages, far better than before. Expectations come quickly!”
Then Nie Nansun said again: "However, due to insufficient technical accumulation, problems have occurred frequently in projects entering the experimental stage. We have not found the root cause of the problem through multiple inspections and consultations, so we have to call you to help!"
"Although I don't know much about the situation, I believe there will always be a way!" Zhou Yang said.
"Well, although the things on the project are troublesome, we are still very confident about it, but there is another troublesome thing that we really can't do anything about!" Nie Nansun said.
"What's going on is so serious!"
"Funding!"
"What happened to the funds?" Zhou Yang asked in confusion.
"Two days ago, a special meeting was held specifically for this year's national defense scientific research funding. At the meeting, a decision was made to significantly reduce scientific research funding. Then we received a notice from our superiors that this year's scientific research funding for the project department will be reduced. Cut it by a third!"
"If you cut off so much, how much will be delayed?"
Zhou Yang said with an incredulous look on his face. He knew that the core projects of the Sky Eye Project were all gold-swallowing beasts!
In the past, the amount of money allocated to the Eye of the Sky Project Department each year was between 12 million and 15 million, but even so, life here was still tight.
Cutting off one-third at once will not only seriously affect the operation of the project department, but may even directly cause some projects to be shelved due to funding issues.
Nie Nansun sighed and said: "Who says it's not the case? Several of our studies have reached the most critical stage now. We have to conduct experiments every now and then. This all costs money. If there is no money, the project will not be able to test, and there will be no way. French breakthrough."
“Once the project fails, unfortunately, if we don’t tell it, the initial investment will be wasted!”
Zhou Yang nodded, he agreed with Nie Nansun's point of view.
It's just that the project Nie Nansun said was corrupted, this is not the most serious result.
The worst part is that projects drag on for several years and then continue to invest money in research and development.
Let’s not talk about whether scientific researchers will deteriorate in the past few years. The rapid changes in today’s world alone may cause the new technologies we are developing to become outdated!
At that time, we will find that we have invested a lot of money and wasted a lot of time, but what we got in the end is a series of outdated and useless technical achievements.
In fact, this kind of thing does not only happen in the field of scientific research, but also in all fields.
For example, a front-line factory wants to develop a product and put it on the market. After preliminary research, the market feedback is also very good, and the success rate is very high.
However, the factory leaders below did not have the say, and they had to apply to the higher-level departments, so they proposed plans and submitted them to each level, waiting for the approval of the leaders.
After the first-level leaders give the approval, it may have been more than a year. In addition to product research and development, etc., it may be two years before the product is actually launched.
But can the current market still be the market two years ago?
It may have been a best-selling product, but it has become unsaleable. In the end, after investing a large amount of money, all you get is a mess.
After a moment of silence, Zhou Yang looked at Nie Nansun and said, "Mr. Nie, how do you want me to help you?"
Nie Nansun looked at Yang Donghai, and then said: "I heard that your kid has made a lot of money this year..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhou Yang took the initiative to say: "Do you want us to support the project department with some funds?"
"That's not necessary. You also know that our project department is a bottomless pit. With your little wealth, you can't fill this hole!"
Then Nie Nansun said again: "Lao Yang and I know that you are a person with ideas. Can you help us design a way to make money? We want to solve the shortage of funds ourselves!"
Zhou Yang immediately understood what Nie Nansun meant. They all said that it is better to teach people how to fish than to teach them how to fish. Now Mr. Nie came to ask him how to fish.
He may not necessarily be able to help them with other things, but when it comes to this matter, Zhou Yang really has some ideas.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yang immediately said: "Okay, I will accept this, but I have to think carefully about how to operate!"
"Hahaha, I just told you that your boy will not die without mercy. With your words, we can rest assured!" Nie Nansun said happily.
Yang Donghai looked at his watch and said, "It's almost twelve o'clock. Let's go to the cafeteria to eat first and do the rest slowly!"
"OK..."
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PS: The first chapter has been delivered!
