Bangs knew through the information that it was very expensive to do the collider test, but he didn't feel it intuitively.

"Is there very little money allocated by the Nine Great Divine Prefectures?"

Zhang Qiaoqing shook his head: "The funds for the broadcast of the Nine Great Divine Prefectures are really a lot, judging from the internal data of the laboratory, last year, the laboratory opened two colliders a total of ninety-six times, and the average consumption of each time was about 7.21 million spirit stones, that is, more than 692.16 million spirit stones were spent purely on the experiment, in addition to other test funds, as well as laboratory operation, equipment maintenance, and people chewed on it, every year the Nine Great Divine Prefectures allocated 100 million spirit stones to the laboratory, but the gap is still very large." ”

Liu Hai was also very surprised: "The annual operating capital of 900 million spirit stones is not enough?"

This is not counting the cost of the laboratory, but only the annual operating fund.

"Where is it, if you think about it, the two colliders are only turned on a total of 96 times a year, and if you calculate it, they will be distributed to each of them, and they will only be turned on once in seven and a half days, and the rest of the time will be idle, which is too wasteful. Zhang Qiaoqing longed: "According to the equipment maintenance and test preparation, the laboratory has calculated that the most efficient mode of the collider is to open it once every three to four days, and there is still a lot of potential to be tapped, but in this case, at least one billion spirit stones will be needed every year." ”

Liu Hai blinked his eyes and couldn't help but shake his head, one billion spirit stones, if converted into gold coins, would only be two billion gold coins.

However, the funds of the interstate joint laboratory of the Lingzi collider cannot be converted in this way, but it needs real spirit stones, because more than half of the consumption of the laboratory is the consumption of spirit stones, and many other precious consumables can only be exchanged and calculated with spirit stones.

"What happened after the lab opened?"

"Contracts were signed with 50 states, and after the senior management of the laboratory discussed, there was no division between upper and lower states, and the funds were shared equally, and each state gave two official researchers and two assistant researcher places. ”

In this way, each state has to submit 20 million spirit stones to the laboratory every year, and it is 200 million spirit stones in ten years.

If it's two billion gold coins, it's nothing.

But if it's a billion spirit stones, then Shangzhou is fine, Zhongzhou will frown a little, and Xiazhou will really hurt.

No matter which state it is, two hundred million spirit stones in ten years is not a small amount.

And once you join, it's not just ten years, but at least so much in each of the next ten years, and maybe even more in the future.

After all, there is no guarantee that the Interstate Joint Laboratory of the Lingzi Collider will not increase its budget in the future.

Moreover, this investment can only earn fame in the short term, and will not bring any actual economic benefits, at least for a hundred years.

With so many spirit stones invested, there are only two places for formal researchers.

So almost all the lower states are reluctant to join.

"Among the fifty states, thirty-six upper states have all joined, and there are thirteen middle states, and the lower states only have our Yangzhou and Qingzhou. Zhang Qiaoqing's emotions are very complicated: "At present, the Lingzi collider is indeed a pure theoretical research, and it will take many years to play a practical role, so Zhongzhou and Xiazhou generally believe that it is good to leave this kind of thing to Shenzhou and Shangzhou." ”

Liu Hai turned his head to look at him, and said with a smile: "This point of view doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong, if you look at the hundreds of states in the empire as a whole, indeed, this kind of cutting-edge theoretical work can only be handed over to Shenzhou and Shangzhou, but for a state like Yangzhou like us that has the heart to be promoted and strives to be promoted, in academics, in addition to paying close attention to basic academic research, cutting-edge academic research can't be too backward, otherwise it will always be backward, how can it be promoted?"

Seeing Liu Hai say this, Zhang Qiaoqing suddenly smiled: "Academician Liu's vision is still high, and Professor Zhong Tao also told me a similar view. ”

Zhang Qiaoqing said: "This is the living area of the Lingzi Collider Interstate Joint Laboratory, which is still 60 kilometers to the east. ”

Liu Hai carefully looked at this nameless small town and found that it was quite prosperous.

"There are a lot of people. ”

"There are more than 4,000 employees in the joint laboratory, plus contract workers, plus family members, there are more than 100,000 people, and various academic activities are often organized here, and there are many scholars who come and go, and there are also people who come to see the excitement and play, so all kinds of supporting facilities are relatively perfect. ”

The car stopped in front of a hotel, and as soon as Liu Hai got out of the car, he found an old man with a white beard coming out of the hotel.

"Professor Liu Hai, welcome to the Lingzi Collider Interstate Joint Laboratory, I'm Zhong Tao, let's talk about it again. ”

Liu Hai didn't expect that this white-bearded old man was the famous Professor Zhong Tao.

This is a two-time winner of the Spirit Source Pope Award, and the top bull in the entire empire.

I didn't expect him to greet him at the hotel in person.

"Professor Zhong, hello, I am a junior scholar, I am embarrassed to let you greet you in person, I am ashamed. According to the etiquette, Liu Hai said modestly.

"Haha, but I invited you, where can I not come to greet you. Professor Zhong Tao looked hearty: "You have experienced a long journey, you must be tired, I won't bother today, tomorrow I will ask the assistant to drive you up, then go to my office to have a good chat, by the way to visit the joint laboratory?"

Bangs are certainly fine.

After chatting for a while, Professor Zhong Tao and Zhang Qiaoqing greeted each other and left.

"You don't have a small face, even Professor Zhong came to greet you in person. Looking at Zhong Tao's distant back, Zhang Qiaoqing said with a smile.

Bangs smiled and didn't speak.

The room Zhang Qiaoqing booked early in the morning, and Zhang Qiaoqing was really happy about Liu Hai, a colleague who came from afar, and after checking in, he personally took him to familiarize himself with the environment.

On the way to wander around the town, I met many scholars and introduced them to Liu Hai one by one.

It can be seen that although Zhang Qiaoqing has not been here for a long time, he knows a lot of scholars.

After the stroll, they had another meal together, sent the bangs back to the hotel, and Zhang Qiaoqing left with his assistant.

Bangs washed up in the room and began to study, and after half an hour, suddenly someone knocked on the door.

When I opened it, I saw that it was a woman about thirty years old, who was not smiling, and introduced herself as Professor Zhong Tao's assistant.

"Professor Liu, we have an ad hoc meeting to discuss the relationship between the change in the high flow rate of Reiki and many other variables, Professor Zhong asked me to come over and ask you if you are interested in attending. ”

As soon as he heard the theme of the meeting, Liu Hai didn't think about it: "You wait for me for a while." ”

After returning to the room and putting on a coat, Liu Hai and Professor Zhong's assistant went out of the hotel together.