Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 1017: Chapter 506: Building the Core Team for Mathematical Physics_3

This was truly the most frustrating part.

If it had been a top theoretical physicist, he probably would have only needed an hour to complete a lecture on equation formulation and the effect would certainly have been better.

Of course, there was no helping it.

Confidentiality was more important.

Several senior academicians and Liu Zecheng also noticed the problem; Zhao Yi’s explanations were very troublesome, and it was equally troublesome for them to follow along. Understanding was extremely difficult, and after eighty-one formulations, their minds definitely couldn’t keep up. They were no longer young, and their ability to grasp new concepts had greatly diminished, not to mention that their bodies might not be able to cope either.

By the second day, when Zhao Yi had finished explaining the second formulation, Liu Zecheng and the senior academicians discussed the situation and simply decided to stop.

"Let’s just report it directly!"

Liu Zecheng thought of a solution, "If everyone agrees with Academician Zhao’s conclusions and believes these formulations have research potential, then let’s sign off on it."

He took out a document, which was essentially a statement that the expert group recognized Zhao Yi’s conclusions and agreed that the formulations were of great research value.

The senior academicians signed off without hesitation. Having stopped their two-day attempt to follow the explanations, they held nothing but admiration for Zhao Yi’s mathematical ability and also felt that the formulations were profoundly intricate, indeed worthy of ongoing research.

Moreover, Zhao Yi was a brand in himself.

Even in the eyes of the highest leaders, Zhao Yi was a golden brand. He had completed many world-class studies and made very significant contributions to the nation’s top-level technological development.

Zhao Yi’s greatest contributions were in the fields of materials and aerospace, where the potential value created by his research and its importance to the national foundation of science and technology, as well as military development, could not be measured by mere billions. If he applied for a project costing several billion, the possibility of leadership approval was very high.

Even if the project itself didn’t succeed, there would be no blame placed. The leaders might think, "Some projects succeed, others don’t—it’s all a matter of probability."

"It’s quite normal."

So their signing off on Zhao Yi’s research was really not a big deal.

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Once Liu Zecheng had made the decision, he reported the news very promptly.

Soon enough.

The highest level of leadership received the news and were very surprised. Several leaders from the Department of Science and Technology were called in to be questioned, a brief meeting was held for about ten minutes, and they directly decided to approve the project.

The reasons for such a quick decision were simple. First, because the project was proposed by Zhao Yi, a golden brand in scientific research. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

Second, the project’s funding was not even considered critical.

A few billion in funds, in the eyes of the top leaders, really amounted to nothing. Their focus was on the overall development of the country and the construction developments of various provinces, involving funds easily exceeding a hundred billion. What did it matter for a research project that required only a few billion?

During the leadership meeting, one commented, "I’m aware of the Warhawk fighter designed by Zhao Yi, it’s quite advanced. But the cost of building it isn’t a small sum. An F-35 from abroad costs two hundred million dollars each."

"If Academician Zhao seriously attends to the further improvement of Warhawk-1, I think he could easily save the country ten or twenty billion."

"High-end anti-gravity research is just a few billion in research funding. Compared to that, what does it really amount to?"

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The project was quickly approved.

The Department of Science and Technology, in dealing with the application for a major project exceeding a billion in funding, had never been so swift, even arranging the funds promptly.

Liu Zecheng even phoned to ask if Zhao Yi wanted the funds transferred to his personal account, as if they were offering him the money directly.

Zhao Yi immediately refused, "Project funds are meant for the project, not to be credited to my account—what are you thinking?"

What followed was a series of preparations.

A major project worth several billion was definitely not something Zhao Yi could complete alone; the primary beneficiaries would be the Yanhua University College of Science and the electron collision team of the Science Academy’s Institute of High Energy Physics.

The Department of Science and Technology directly allocated the construction work to the ’relatively idle’ electron collision team, while the team led by Zhao Yi at Yanhua University’s College of Science would be responsible for theoretical construction and design work.

Though it was referred to as ’Yanhua’s physics team’ led by Zhao Yi, in actuality, there was only Zhao Yi on the team at the moment, because the design involved confidentiality issues. Not everyone was eligible to join, and even someone at the level of Professor Gao Yihua wasn’t qualified. Even if they joined the team, they couldn’t access the most core formulations and theories, only contributing to minor peripheral tasks.

Zhao Yi then began to assemble his team.

He needed a mathematically skilled core team, each member ideally an international expert in particle mathematics.

This was difficult.

While there were indeed such talents within the country, some could not join the team.

For the time being, Zhao Yi only had one person in mind—Huang Zhong from Nancheng University.