Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 1204: Chapter 583: Anti-Gravity Spacecraft_3

Zhao Yi took a walk around and soon understood that many schools had the same problem: they built nice soccer fields, but due to the high cost of maintaining the grass, they simply barred students from entering.

Although he hadn’t seen students during their physical education class, the soccer field’s iron gates were locked during the long break, which indicated they were definitely not open for usual use.

This way, building them was essentially meaningless.

With that one million in funding, it would have been enough to support the maintenance for several years at least.

On hearing this, Li Lisheng was so excited that he planned to organize a donation appreciation event, only for Zhao Yi to simply walk away.

His donation was sincere, and he was not doing it for any thanks.

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As Zhao Yi left the school gates, he saw Deputy Mayor Li who had been waiting for him.

It was evident that Deputy Mayor Li and his party had been waiting for a while. On seeing Zhao Yi emerge, they all let out a sigh of relief, and he immediately came forward to greet him, making small talk, "How does it feel to come back to your alma mater?"

"Blah blah blah!"

Zhao Yi said something in response.

Deputy Mayor Li wanted to invite Zhao Yi to dinner, but Zhao Yi flatly refused.

Zhao Yi asked bluntly, "Deputy Mayor Li, if you have something to say, just say it directly, you don’t need to discuss it over a meal. I will do what I can to help to the best of my ability."

Deputy Mayor Li hesitated for a moment, knowing he couldn’t treat Zhao Yi like other people, and said with a wry smile, "It’s about the industrial park. I’m in charge of the city’s economic problems, and the development of the industrial park is really urgent for us."

"These years, attracting investment has become much more difficult than before."

He continued with a sigh, "So, I wanted to ask Academician Zhao, do you have any plans to invest in your hometown, Zhengyang?"

"Invest? Me?"

Zhao Yi was quite surprised, as he hadn’t even reacted yet. Many people approached him for academic or technical reasons, but it was the first time someone had come to him about investing, and he felt somewhat out of his element.

Then it dawned on him.

He was a top scientist, but to his hometown Zhengyang, his research results were meaningless. Instead, his status as a ’top wealthy mogul’ was more significant because such a person could invest in the hometown and support its construction and development.

Zhao Yi wasn’t sure how to respond. He really had no investment plans and didn’t want to bother with the development of any company.

However, he thought of a project by the Aviation Group which was planning to spin off a team within the aerospace department specifically to research anti-gravity space ships for future planetary and cosmic exploration.

This project conflicted with the original exploration plans.

The original exploration plans were to use conventional technology to build space stations for scientific research and to explore the Moon, Mars, and other celestial bodies.

If they formed a separate team dedicated to anti-gravity spaceship research, using anti-gravity technology as the core propulsion, the investment in cosmic exploration projects would inevitably increase.

Therefore, anti-gravity space exploration had always been just a plan, and the common belief was that with current human technology, exploration within the solar system could only lay the foundation for further exploration in the future and would not yield practical benefits.

With many projects and plans that needed development, funding was a major issue for the Aviation Group. Allocating resources to a new team wasn’t the problem, but constructing anti-gravity spacecraft would definitely require substantial investment.

"Or, what if I were to do it myself?"

"Operating under the umbrella of the Aviation Group, establish a future technology company in Zhengyang with the goal of building anti-gravity space ships..."

"That would be one of the goals."

"Focusing on the development of cutting-edge technology, mastering core technologies in related fields, building academic and patent centers, and striving to become the most upstream enterprise in the field of space exploration..."

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While pondering, Zhao Yi said to Deputy Mayor Li, "Let me think it over and get back to you once I’ve made a decision."