Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 813: Chapter 433: Zhang Gangchuan: Today is not April Fool’s Day!_1

Zhao Yi had left.

In the office, only Li Rongmao and Shen Binghe remained, contemplating the research and development method that Zhao Yi had just discussed. A rush of feeling trusted to an extreme degree washed over them.

Each of them had to devise ’a plan to add the rare metal element rhenium to K03A,’ which meant creating a detailed experimental design plan. Zhao Yi had made it very clear: as long as the theory had no major issues, they’d go straight to experimenting to verify it.

That’s what trust is!

"You say..."

Li Rongmao hesitated for quite a while before asking, "Why did Zhao Yue let us do the designing instead of himself?"

Could Academician Zhao be incapable of designing?

Is that possible?

Shen Binghe also quickly dismissed the option of ’incapability’ and, after a long deliberation, said earnestly, "Academician Zhao wants to cultivate us!"

"I think so too." Li Rongmao immediately nodded in agreement. That was the only reason there could be.

Shen Binghe continued, "Look, the undergraduate materials science program at our university has just started and is only beginning to develop. As for high-end talent..." he shrugged, "that’s us."

Li Rongmao added, "We don’t even have a full professor."

"Exactly!"

In most disciplines, there would be a professor to lead; the absence of one in materials science suggested there wasn’t any noteworthy talent to speak of.

Shen Binghe continued, "That’s why Academician Zhao took the project funds to establish the metal materials laboratory. Now we have the two of us. Once we achieve results, we can be promoted to professors. He wants to give us opportunities, the best research environment, in hopes that we will make progress..."

He spoke at length.

Li Rongmao kept nodding. When he had previously called Zhao Yi ’great,’ it was merely flattery, with maybe three parts truth to seven parts pretense. Given Zhao Yi’s reputation and status, he surely wouldn’t care much about achievements in materials science, but that didn’t make him incredibly great. Just like a billionaire wouldn’t care about a few hundred or a few thousand dollars, can you say he doesn’t care about money?

Now, Li Rongmao truly thought Zhao Yi was great. To cultivate them, he spared no expense, allowing them to start designing experiments and then directly validating the results through experimentation.

This was exceedingly rare!

When with Peng Engui’s team, he had also done experimental designs, but after designing, the whole team had to evaluate it. Often, the actual experiments conducted later differed greatly from the initial design. Having a small part of his design adopted was already a good outcome. To carry out experiments exactly according to his design, especially the lavish ones involving the addition of rhenium, was unthinkable.

Li Rongmao and Shen Binghe discussed and suddenly felt immense pressure.

Trust and mentorship also bring pressure.

They thought about the cost of the experiments. Not counting the wear and tear on the equipment and collaboration with other institutions, just the value of the materials could reach hundreds of thousands of yuan, which might exceed their salaries for several years combined in just one experiment.

"We have to get the design right!"

"We can’t let down Academician Zhao’s trust. We need to create the most rational, most promising designs, striving to achieve results right away. At the very least, it should contribute to the project’s development..."

"Let’s do this!" freēwebnovel.com

Li Rongmao and Shen Binghe both gave each other a thumbs-up as a sign of encouragement and immediately immersed themselves in the research.

Meanwhile.

The research and development method Zhao Yi had communicated to the metal composite materials laboratory was also to produce two plans involving the addition of the rare metal rhenium.

Wang Zhifang and Zhang Hongtao took it very seriously.

Wang Zhifang had doubted whether the project could yield results, but after receiving news from Steel Plant 307 concerning improvements in K03A’s performance, he no longer had any doubts. He harbored two hundred percent confidence in Zhao Yi’s professional level. Just a visit and a few suggestions had significantly enhanced K03A’s performance—was there anyone more professional than Zhao Yi?

After communicating with Zhao Yi on R&D matters, Wang Zhifang and Zhang Hongtao seriously worked together on the experimental design. Their only concern was funding. The two sites had different funding levels; the Metal Materials Laboratory had been allocated twenty million yuan, much of which was reportedly spent on purchasing new equipment and setting up the lab, but there was definitely still an excess of ten million yuan left.

Zhang Hongtao had secured only five million yuan in funding. Both sides were indeed collaborating on the project, but that did not mean they shared funds. At a minimum, the experiments they designed here would have to be paid for out of their own budget.

Following Zhao Yi’s pace of R&D necessarily meant carefully considering the cost of experiments.

Thus, as they designed the plan to add rhenium, they also had to consider the cost of experiments, while also aiming to outperform the Metal Materials Laboratory. After all, they were the ’veteran’ alloy materials laboratory. If their experimental designs were worse than the newcomer’s, it would be somewhat embarrassing. freewёbnoνel.com

Wang Zhifang and Zhang Hongtao delved into continuous research, painstakingly studying the manufacturing methods of K03A, repeatedly examining the details to justify their approach, and engaging in intensive discussions in hopes of producing the most likely successful and progressive outcome for the project.

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In actuality, Zhao Yi didn’t care about the quality of the plans.

For instance, a plan rated at 80 versus one rated at 60 held nearly the same significance to him. Perhaps the one rated at 60 was even better, because his initial goal was to ’eliminate wrong options’.

In the alloy manufacturing process, there are many ways to add rare elements. Many steps allow for inclusion, and the methods of addition vary, including temperature, technique, control methods, etc. A small difference might result in a huge disparity in the final product.