Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 787: Chapter 424: The Legendary Mobile Laboratory_2

Zhang Hongtao was well-known in the metal alloy circle, but that was the top-tier circle, and he only became famous in the last two years. Shen Binghe, as an ordinary associate professor of materials science who had not even been a doctorate graduate for five years, did not know some confidential information.

"Anyway, just write it normally. Write that you are in charge of the Metal Materials Laboratory and the main research personnel applying for it is me."

"...Okay."

Shen Binghe shook his head. He thought he shouldn’t think too much; after all, it was Zhao Yi’s request. With Zhao Yi’s support, there wouldn’t be any big problems. He continued to ask, "How much research and development funding should we apply for?"

Zhao Yi thought about it and made two fingers. "Let’s start with 20 million!"

Shen Binghe’s hand trembled as he heard this, "Twenty...twenty million, isn’t that too much? Are we considered scientific research fraud?"

"What scientific research fraud are you talking about!" Zhao Yi said displeasedly, "We are conducting legit research. You should know that it is a turbine blade, and I have discussed with Zhang Hongtao, the material it requires, definitely involves rhenium." ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

"You study materials, rhenium, you know, right? The price is similar to platinum and gold. If we don’t apply for more funding for research with gold, can we afford it? One kilogram costs hundreds of thousands!"

"...Alright!"

Shen Binghe had the urge to cry. Once he submitted the report, he felt like he was not far from jail.

...

Under Zhao Yi’s urging, Shen Binghe completed the application report. The only consolation was that the R&D ideas provided by Zhao Yi in the report seemed to have some value.

The proper application project report for the laboratory needs to outline the R&D ideas, which can be roughly understood as the ’project introduction’, that is, outlining the general R&D ideas.

Zhao Yi had already thought it through.

The turbine blade industry has been talking about DD5 and DD6, which they believe should be the research direction of single-crystal nickel alloy. However, doing R&D based on DD5 and DD6 is too troublesome. First of all, they have to apply for the use of related achievements, which will involve the Science Academy Metal Research Institute and the Capital’s Aviation Materials Research Institute.

Moreover, DD5 and DD6 are both considered half-finished products with only half of the research completed, and they have no experience in doing R&D on half-finished products, so it might as well start from scratch.

So Zhao Yi decided to take the direction of nickel-iron alloy.

The advantage of nickel-iron alloy is that there are already disassembled sample products as a basis.

The finished product can already be used on the turbine, and they only need to improve on its foundation.

Zhao Yi’s R&D idea was to improve on the foundation of nickel-iron alloy by adding rhenium and other rare metal elements to see if it could be further strengthened and enhance its high-temperature resistance and strength characteristics.

Soon.

Two project application reports were submitted.

Zhao Yi was one of the world’s top scholars, and he had made many scientific research contributions domestically. Top scientific researchers would definitely be given special attention. Every time he applied for a project, the leaders of the Technology Department would be notified, and there would be a special top-level leader in charge of the approval work.

So Zhao Yi’s application report first entered the Technology Department.

Zhang Hongtao’s application report went to the Aviation Project Group because the application for turbine blade R&D could not bypass the Aviation Project Group.

Similar project applications first needed the approval of the Aviation Project Group and then be submitted to the Technology Department for final approval. The Aviation Project Group acted as an auxiliary application unit, and related research would be helpful to them, while the Technology Department belonged to the final allocation and funding department.

As the saying goes, "Those who have money are bosses."

If a project did not require scientific research funding, or if it was self-funded for R&D, as long as it did not involve secrets or harm, the Technology Department would naturally not care about it, and whether it was approved or not would not matter at all.

The Aviation Project Group received Zhang Hongtao’s application, and because the project involved was significant, the report was handed over to the general manager of Aviation Group, Liu Jiankun.

Liu Jiankun skimmed through the project report, looked at the application content and the names of the R&D personnel, and thought with some surprise, "Zhang Hongtao, has this guy become arrogant? While working on the research of deck steel, he also wants to do turbine blades?"

"For such a project, even the Metal Composite Material Laboratory is not qualified, right? Does he think he is enough on his own? Is he stronger than the Science Academy Metal Research Institute?"

Liu Jiankun felt it was somewhat ridiculous. He did not read any further and threw the report into the trash bin.

On the other side.

The Technology Department received Zhao Yi’s application report. The report skipped the Materials Division and was handed over to the leadership level above.

Initially, the leadership team was responsible for the report. However, because the ’Metal Materials Laboratory’ in the report was very ’peculiar’, they checked and found no such laboratory. The person in charge of the laboratory, Shen Binghe, was just an ordinary materials science doctorate. The team held a discussion meeting and thought they might be trying to "defraud the project funding."

"Academician Zhao defrauding project funding? How is that possible? On what grounds can’t he get 20 million?"

"Did you guys call and verify it? Was it indeed Academician Zhao?"

"It is Academician Zhao. He confirmed it in person, and it was submitted by him himself. Otherwise, it would not have reached us so quickly."

"But there is no Metal Materials Laboratory at all!"

"Academician Zhao said that he was applying in the name of the school’s small laboratory, but in fact, he and Shuanghang’s Metal Composite Material Laboratory were working on R&D together. The person on the other side was Zhang Hongtao."