Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 836: Chapter 441 High-Pressure Compressor_3

If there is a design, but without the corresponding manufacturing technology, it is impossible to produce the parts as designed, at least a certain performance gap will arise, and other components will have to be adjusted accordingly.

This step is actually the most time-consuming one.

However, no matter what, the R&D group led by him would not face problems in terms of technical development.

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The application for the new R&D group was approved.

Next, Zhao Yi began to expand his R&D group, which also meant recruiting people to join his research team. The first to be invited were Zhang Hongtao and Li Rongmao, "You will be in charge of the materials group."

Zhang Hongtao was somewhat okay with it as he had long known that Zhao Yi was researching engines, but was surprised that Zhao Yi was ’independently’ leading the team for R&D, virtually setting Kunlun engine group aside.

"Zhang Gangchuan probably won’t be too happy, right?" Zhang Hongtao thought of his own family and couldn’t help but feel a touch of schadenfreude.

Li Rongmao was a bit stunned.

Kunlun engine’s second group? I’m joining the materials group within it? Responsible for material issues related to aviation engines?

"That’s quite a bold move!" Li Rongmao suddenly felt the pressure - not that he hadn’t handled large materials projects before, but in the engine group’s materials group, it was just him and Zhang Hongtao, with no one leading above them. Was he essentially in charge of half a department?

The next to be invited by Zhao Yi was Yuan Haitao’s team.

Zhou Qing and Xue Fengge were also invited to join. They remained as technicians, not involved in design R&D, but responsible for liaising with the team sent over from the Aviation Group, directly supervising the manufacturing process of new components in relevant factories, and testing the future new components.

In fact, when Zhou Qing and Xue Fengge heard about Zhao Yi forming a new R&D group and inviting them to join, they both felt they should demonstrate their resolve and articulate their ’loyalty’ to the Kunlun engine group and Zhang Gangchuan. However, after they learned about their work responsibilities, including liaising with factories and managing workers, they immediately forgot about ’loyalty’ and decided to work with Zhao Yi.

"Only with Academician Zhao do we have a future!"

"I believe our second group can develop high-end engines the fastest, the original Kunlun group is too lame!"

"It was directly approved from the top, why? Everyone knows the difference between Zhang Gangchuan and Academician Zhao!"

"..."

The reason for Zhou Qing and Xue Fengge’s change of attitude was simple; their scope of work had expanded significantly, their positions had been raised accordingly, and naturally, their salary and benefits saw a substantial increase.

Being just an ordinary technician in the Kunlun engine group, only responsible for a single prototype, versus being in Kunlun’s second engine group, responsible for coordinating with factories and overseeing component manufacturing processes, managing a team of workers. The work was not even in the same ballpark - the latter moved them out of the rank and file into an important managerial level.

Yuan Haitao was assigned a very flexible role, responsible for the various affairs of the R&D group, essentially half in charge of the group or could be seen as a helpful assistant.

As the leader of the prototype group, he knew something about the performance and parameters of each component and could contribute to any discussion, proving to be of great help to Zhao Yi.

Besides, there was the powertrain group.

With only Wang Zhiguo in the powertrain group, Zhao Yi let Wang Zhiguo take charge of it on his own.

Wang Zhiguo was even more baffled than Li Rongmao. He came to the capital just on a business trip, hoping to see Zhao Yi and feeling that this would make his trip worthwhile. But then he was put in charge of the powertrain group?

"I’m in charge of a powertrain group?"

"Although it’s just me, but... at least there are turbine blades already capable of withstanding temperatures over 1700 Celsius degrees, the combustion chamber still needs to be re-evaluated..." Wang Zhiguo felt immense pressure and began to work overtime on the problems with the combustion chamber’s dynamic testing.

The R&D group definitely wasn’t large enough with just these people.

Zhao Yi also knew that many areas were understaffed; he didn’t need an enormous design team like the Kunlun engine group, but at the very least for each technology and every component, there had to be someone knowledgeable in the relevant field, instead of having a technical discussion with no one understanding it.

Therefore, recruitment was a necessity.

The development of a turbofan engine was a major project and definitely couldn’t just recruit anyone.

Zhao Yi simply delegated the recruitment task to Yuan Haitao, asking him to find reliable and technically capable talents, and then immediately began researching a new component—

The high-pressure compressor!

With the turbofan engine’s three core components - the combustion chamber, the high-pressure turbine, and the high-pressure compressor - once the technical hurdles of the high-pressure compressor were overcome, they could integrate them and move on to the next phase.