Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 772: Chapter 418: Doesn’t This Amount to Losing a Prototype for Nothing!_3

If it involves no investment, and it’s merely about understanding the project, there’s nothing wrong with that.

Moving the engine prototype to the capital would complicate matters considerably. The project team would need to handle numerous related matters, thereby increasing their workloads.

It would also involve someone going to the capital, leading to irregular working hours.

The others refrained from voicing their opinions. Even if they disapproved, it wasn’t their place to say anything, as the other party was the renowned Zhao Yi, globally recognized as a top-class mathematician, computer expert, and theoretical physicist.

They weren’t on the same level. Perhaps Zhao Yi had other purposes for wanting the engine prototype?

It’s preferable to let higher-ups make the decision.

Zhang Gangchuan thought so too. He inclined more towards Zhao Yi, as Zhao Yi had indeed studied the information that was passed to him, even posing several key questions. Some of these required Zhang to consult with others before he could give accurate answers, and he couldn’t respond to some at all. Just asking those questions showed Zhao’s level of ability.

However, the issue of the engine prototype was significant, and he had no power to decide. So he simply filed a report to the higher-ups. ƒreewebɳovel.com

Clearly,

Zhao Yi’s influence was exceptional.

Zhang Gangchuan assumed that the higher-ups would carefully consider, at the very least, sending someone to question Zhao Yi and investigate the circumstances before making a decision. Yet, they rendered their approval in just two days.

Simultaneously, they had organized a destination.

The information Zhang Gangchuan received was to move the prototype to the Power Engineering Laboratory, which was now under the watch of an appointed person.

The Power Engineering Laboratory?

Such an earthy name for a laboratory confounded Zhang Gangchuan. There were many laboratories of a similar name, but he had no recollection of a ’Power Engineering Laboratory’ with seven characters.

Zhang Gangchuan carefully inquired and learned that the Power Engineering Laboratory was a laboratory of the Mechanical Engineering College, Yanhua University. It wasn’t national-level or provincial-level, but merely a ’city-level key’ laboratory.

"City-level?"

"Even... key?"

"Isn’t that the same as not being ranked?" Zhang Gangchuan couldn’t help but grimace, realizing the significance the higher-ups placed on Zhao Yi.

The highest rating for laboratories and research institutions is a national key, followed by provincial key. The provincial key serves as the threshold for participating in national projects. Anything below that won’t even qualify for participation and can only serve as a research or teaching institution within the universities.

Though the Provincial Key may seem high in stature, it is relatively easy for a university’s research institution to achieve this rank as long as it has a standard research environment, along with a few productive researchers.

For example, the Laboratory of Intelligence and Automation is a key laboratory of the provincial level.

The Power Engineering Laboratory was merely a city-level key Laboratory under Yanhua University, essentially an ordinary research organization within the university. The reason for selecting the Power Engineering Laboratory must be because Zhao Yi was in Yanhua University, solely for his convenience.

There certainly weren’t adequate research conditions there. Taking the Kunlun engine prototype there would likely mean it being left to gather dust...

Possibly molding over?

"Shouldn’t they at least find a place where the engine can operate normally?" Zhang Gangchuan pondered annoyingly. He felt sorry for the prototype that was about to be shipped there and thought it was a mistake to have filed the report.

"A direct refusal would’ve been better!"

"Isn’t this equivalent to losing a prototype for nothing!"