Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 788: Chapter 424 The Legendary Suitcase Laboratory_3

"Is that so?"

After the group meeting had gone on for a quite while, Deputy Minister Liu Zecheng from the Science and Technology division learned about it and directly asked, "Shouldn’t this project be attributed to the aviation team? Have you consulted them?"

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The turbine blade project is of grand scale, and the requested $20 million in funds isn’t a small sum either. Any other application would be flat out rejected, but Zhao Yi’s case was different; it required some consideration.

Since a direct decision couldn’t be reached, they should also consult the relevant aviation projects teams.

In fact, under normal circumstances, the application report should first enter the aviation project group. Once they approved it and added remarks, it would then be sent to the Science and Technology division.

That’s the proper procedure.

Soon enough.

Zhao Yi’s application report was forwarded to the aviation project team. Because the report was sent directly to Liu Jiankun as it came from the Science and Technology division.

This time Liu Jiankun’s attitude was completely different.

"What? Zhao Yi’s report? Sent by the Science and Technology division? They want to know our opinion..."

"Turbine blades? You must be kidding!"

"Let me have a careful look!"

Liu Jiankun seriously read through the report from beginning to end. He even ignored the question of whether the metallic materials laboratory existed, and instead focused on Zhao Yi’s research approach.

In the end, Liu Jiankun noticed that the report stated the collaboration was with the Metal Composite Materials Laboratory.

"The Metal Composite Materials Laboratory?"

"Isn’t that Aerospace... Zhang Hongtao! That’s right! He’s submitted a report once. He mentioned turbine blades!"

"So, he was collaborating with Zhao Yi. Why didn’t they put that at the front!"

Liu Jiankun complained unhappily. He quickly contacted Zhang Hongtao, asking him to submit another report. Then he started preparing remarks to approve the project application.

His approval was for a simple reason.

One, the development of turbine blades was beneficial to the aviation group, even if they didn’t produce any results, the funds would still be allocated by the Science and Technology division.

In addition, Zhao Yi’s involvement was not ordinary. It was equivalent to Zhao Yi’s dedication to the research of turbine material.

This certainly should be supported!

Moreover, the Metal Composite Materials Laboratory was a key national laboratory. Zhang Hongtao also had a certain level of capability.

Considering all these reasons, there was no reason for rejection.

...

When Zhang Hongtao nervously submitted his report, he received a message from the aviation team asking him to submit another one.

"Why?"

"Another one?"

Without understanding why, he sent another one. He soon received a message that his report had been sent to the Science and Technology division for review.

"It passed?"

Zhang Hongtao found this hard to believe. He initially thought that he wouldn’t even pass the aviation team’s review.

A few days later, something even more incredible happened.

The Materials Department of the Science and Technology division approved the report, agreeing to the turbine blade development project in Metal Composite Materials Laboratory. They also stated that they would fund the amount mentioned in the report.

"It passed?"

"This is too surreal!"

Zhang Hongtao felt like his worldview was being overturned. The report he thought would not pass had smoothly gone through. Their collaboration was only with a "shell laboratory."

"It must have something to do with Academician Zhao!"

He thought.

Zhang Hongtao immediately thought of another issue, "Right, I seem to have only applied for a $5 million fund. It appears to be a bit limited. I wonder how much Academician Zhao applied for?"

"Our laboratory is strong. We can apply for five million. I estimate there, the shell laboratory... maybe two million?"

When he called to ask about it, he was struck dumb, "What?"

"You applied for 20 million? And it’s only the initial funding?"

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Hongtao suddenly felt too upset to even be happy about it. He even wanted to cry as he murmured to himself, "We are a key national laboratory, a key national laboratory!"

"And you are just a shell laboratory copying others’ names... yet..."

"Five million? 20 million initial funding?"

"Bloody hell!"