In three years, the antimatter demonstration reactor was successfully ignited and can be connected to the grid to generate electricity, is this fast?

Soon, of course!

Even so fast that they couldn't react at all.

As for the matter of replacing the rocket engine with the antimatter engine proposed by Liu Feng at the last meeting, from a technical point of view, Zhou Jianping is of course willing to support it.

It's just that, in his imagination, this kind of engine that still exists in fantasy will not be able to succeed for decades, especially since there must be a premise to realize this kind of engine - a breakthrough in antimatter technology.

But the reality is that antimatter is just a concept, and the people of country M have spent half a century and invested 800 billion US dollars before and after, all of which are just scratching the surface.

Therefore, when they returned to the unit, they did not pay much attention to the matter of antimatter engines, and the entire Aerospace Science and Industry Group is still developing step by step according to their own pace.

After all, even the most optimistic people would never have imagined that antimatter technology could really succeed in just three years and advance to the stage of power generation.

However, the fact is that they have really done it! Professor Liu's scientific research talent is not only as simple as a demon, but it is not an exaggeration to call him a ghost!

From the moment he got the news, Zhou Jianping, who was stunned, no longer dared to treat the antimatter engine as a kind of science fiction, but took it seriously.

"Move your whole body, Professor Liu, you have completely disrupted our aerospace progress!"

Speaking of which, Zhou Jianping was full of emotion, in his lifetime, he had never met such a person who could affect a country's space program with his own strength, this time, he really met,

"Otherwise, you still give some advice, how should our Aerospace Science and Industry Group develop next?"

Liu Feng smiled embarrassedly, anyone with a discerning eye knows that if the antimatter engine can really be realized, the next space station plan and lunar exploration plan and the like can be done in one step, and there is no need to try step by step as carefully as now.

Therefore, what is not recommended, people are completely here to inquire about the news, and they want to give a criterion themselves.

"Academician Zhou, you're embarrassing me!" Liu Feng sighed, a little embarrassed, "You should know that until the last moment, no one dares to say that this kind of technology can be made!"

"It's not like the Professor Liu I know. Zhou Jianping smiled, he didn't believe anything, "Don't worry, this matter is not so simple, when it comes to making a decision, everyone needs to discuss it together, you just have to put the facts out, no matter what the result is, put it on the surface, no one can say anything." ”

Liu Feng couldn't cry or laugh, although he was very confident in himself, but having confidence is one thing, no one is sure that there will be no accidents here, right?

"In short, I can't really talk about suggestions, I just put forward my own views from the standpoint of a scholar. I firmly affirm that antimatter engines must be the general trend of the aerospace industry in the future. But after all, no one has used this thing, and at the moment, the technology is not mature,"

Speaking of this, he still hesitated,

"Actually, to be honest, if you didn't ask me, I would have planned to do this technology by our anti-matter engineering people, and at our own risk......

Zhou Jianping raised his eyebrows and joked: "Then it's good that we came over, otherwise we will have to be laid off in the future here of our Aerospace Science and Industry Group." ”

Liu Feng smiled and said: "That's not it, I'm not a professional in aerospace, do you have needs, can we still hide it?"

Zhou Jianping shook his head: "Maybe that's okay, the key is...... Alas, seriously, Professor Liu, why don't you just come to our side and preside over the overall situation. ”

Liu Feng hurriedly waved his hand: "What is the overall situation of presiding? Seriously, there is really no criterion for this technology, I can only say that if it goes well, maybe it will be done this year, and if it doesn't go well, I'm afraid it will have to wait for ten or eight years." Well, come back to me when you're sure you need to install an antimatter engine on your ship. ”

Zhou Jianping frowned, and he didn't know if this guy really had no criteria or if he still had some concerns in his heart, but he had to be clear about Liu Feng's attitude in this matter, because this was very important!

"No, no, then you can't ignore us like this now, right? Otherwise, let's organize a seminar on China's aerospace engineering, and the venue will be at the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and then not only our academic circles, but also high-level people from the industry will be invited to come together, how about it?"

"That's it......" Liu Feng thought about it, and it seemed that there was nothing to refuse, "It's okay, when exactly?"

Zhou Jianping breathed a sigh of relief, although he didn't get a positive answer, as long as Liu Feng was willing to stand up, he would still be able to relax a lot on his side, "It's next Friday, what do you think?"

"Alright then, I'll take the time to make a trip. ”

Liu Feng thought about it for a while, and he probably didn't have any other arrangements at that time, so he agreed.

On the morning of January 24th.

Jingcheng University of Aeronautics and Astronautics ushered in a heavyweight conference, the Aerospace Engineering Seminar.

The organizers of this meeting are the Science and Technology Association and the Aerospace Science and Industry Group, and the participants include government leaders and heads of heavyweight central enterprises and state-owned enterprises, but most of them are decision-makers in the aerospace project.

There is only less than a week before the Spring Festival, and the undergraduates of the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics have basically been on vacation, so there are not many people in the school, but despite this, the security here is not the slightest slack, a police explosion-proof car parked on the side of the road, and the security personnel lined up directly from the school gate to the conference room, and everyone who wants to enter the conference room must be strictly investigated.

After handing over the meeting card in his hand to the reviewers, Liu Feng was allowed to enter the conference room, but just as he was about to find a place to sit down, someone suddenly shouted his name from behind.

Stopped, Liu Feng looked back, and saw a man in a suit with a capable look, walking towards this side with a smile on his face.

Less than、Than the secretary!

Liu Feng recognized him at a glance, although they hadn't seen each other for a long time, but as Zhang Qin's secretary, their relationship was still very good, although, now he is no longer a secretary, but the deputy secretary of the Association for Science and Technology.

"Secretary Yu!" smiled and shook his outstretched right hand, Liu Feng greeted, "It's been a long time, how are you doing?"

"Haha, yes, I haven't seen you for a long time," Secretary Yu shook Liu Feng's right hand enthusiastically, and after letting go, he said with a smile, "Thanks to your Hongfu, I am now appointed by the organization as the deputy secretary of the Association for Science and Technology." ”

It seems that the people who have a good relationship with him Liu Feng have developed very well in their careers?

"Yu Shu.Ji, you are not very interesting, you don't invite me to a drink even if you are promoted?" Liu Feng said with a smile.

"Then you have to be Professor Liu's face. Yu Shu Ji also smiled and said, "Okay, the meeting is about to start, this meeting Minister Zhang can't come to attend, there are some things he asked me to tell you personally, let's talk while walking." ”

So, at the invitation of the secretary, Liu Feng walked with him in the direction of the auditorium.

Along the way, Yu Shuji first gave him an analysis of the current situation facing the domestic aerospace industry.

"In fact, our current strategic focus is still on the construction of cross-regional power grids and antimatter power stations. The top management unanimously agreed that it is more important for us to be down-to-earth and focus on the interests of the present than the interests of distant space. ”

"After all, in this regard, it is not something that can be effective in the short term, and our time is too tight. ”

"In the case of the Beidou satellite, it is better to say, for the space station and the lunar landing project, many people have proposed to postpone it. ”

"After all, there is still a big gap between us and country M and Mao Xiong in terms of the carrying capacity of large rockets. In the case of the Long March series rockets, the carrying capacity of our Long March 5 is only 25 tons in low earth orbit, only 18 tons in geosynchronous earth orbit, and only about 8 tons in earth-moon transfer orbit. However, in the end, the entire lunar spacecraft will most likely weigh more than 20 tons, so with our current rocket technology, it is almost impossible to complete a manned landing on the moon. ”

"The space station is actually similar, and it needs the support of high-thrust rockets. ”

"Therefore, before the breakthrough of high-thrust rocket technology, focusing on the global satellite positioning system is the most economical choice, after all, our annual budget on aerospace engineering is only 2 billion US dollars, a drop in the bucket, but the leadership thinks your opinion is very important, especially now you are engaged in antimatter engine ......"

"I see!" Liu Feng nodded.

Regarding the intention of Chief Zhou Jianping to find him before, he thought that it was really for the matter of the antimatter engine, especially the intention of inviting him to take charge of the overall situation in the past, he also thought that he was joking or testing him, but now it seems that maybe people are serious!

As for why, in one word, money!

When it comes to aerospace engineering, most people's first impression is probably that they are definitely not bad at money.

After all, this is a space project, what Long March rockets, Beidou satellites, Chang'e probes, Shenzhou spacecraft, Tiangong, etc., such a tall project, such a project that is valued by the state, how can it be poor?

However, in fact, the annual budget of the entire space program is only 2 billion US dollars, which is still the budget of all the space programs combined!

You must know that the total cost of the Apollo program of the people of country M reached 22.5 billion US dollars, which was still the US dollar decades ago, and the budget of such a money-burning aerospace project in China was only 2 billion per year!

Therefore, Liu Feng could hardly believe his ears.

He still thought that all such big country projects were not bad for money, after all, just like their antimatter projects, they never worried about not having enough money or anything.

Now it seems that even if he did not study the progress of the antimatter engine, the space station and the lunar exploration project, I am afraid it will not be so satisfactory, Academician Zhou Jianping asked him to support the overall situation, I am afraid that he also saw his ability to ask for money from above.

"Actually, I also think that the space station program and the moon landing project can be slowed down ......"

"Really?" Yu Shu Ji was stunned, he thought that Liu Feng would definitely oppose it, after all, why did this guy go to research the antimatter engine, wasn't it because he was obsessed with the stars and the sea?

"That's right," Liu Feng nodded and said with a smile, "I don't think these two projects can even be carried out at all." ”

Yu Shu.Note: "???"

Why?

"As for the reason, because this is a waste at all, it is better to directly target the landing on Mars!"

Yu Shu.Note: "......"

……

Just as Yu Shuji wanted to continue to ask Liu Feng, the meeting began.

Standing in front of the rostrum, the moderator read out the main contents of the meeting.

In addition to the space station and the lunar landing project, there are also issues such as speeding up the construction of the Beidou satellite navigation system, and the country's preparations to open up the space industry, improve relevant policies as soon as possible, and allow domestic private capital to participate in them.

The latter two issues were the first to be unanimously adopted.

There is nothing to say about the global positioning system that is related to the security of the country.

As for the relaxation of restrictions on the participation of private capital in the aerospace industry, although there has been some debate, it has not caused too many storms.

At present, although private enterprises have also mastered certain space technology (most of which are commercial satellite technology), such as the high-thrust rockets used in the lunar landing project, even if the relevant policies have been liberalized, the general private enterprises do not have the capital and courage to play, and it is unlikely to work thanklessly to make that technical reserve.

It is for this reason that most of the people in the meeting were not interested in this topic.

Even in order to promote the development of the aerospace industry, the government will enjoy tax incentives for enterprises investing in the domestic aerospace industry in other domestic businesses, that is, if an enterprise spends 100 million yuan on satellites, as long as Party B undertakes the launch task is an enterprise in China, and the launch mission is also completed in China, then it can obtain the same tax reduction and exemption in other business operations of the parent company, which is not very attractive for them.

After all, the people present are either government officials, scientists and technicians, and the entrepreneurs are all central and state-owned enterprises, which have little to do with private capital.

However, among the people present, Liu Feng expressed strong concern about this.

This kind of indirect subsidy by the state has a lot of benefits for him, after all, the so-called private capital, isn't it just that he is a 'stupid person with a lot of money'?

Of course, the problem of money is better said, and there is another policy that he is more interested in:

That is, in the next 20 years, enterprises, research units or individuals that establish permanent or semi-permanent scientific research stations in space will enjoy the franchise right of 99 years or more for the space resources they have occupied, and at the same time enjoy tax exemptions and exemptions for space-related projects such as scientific research, tourism, and space resource exploitation, which will be guaranteed by the laws of China.

Although it seems that this is still a blank check now, after all, in 20 years, if you want to establish a scientific research station in space or farther to the moon or even Mars, in addition to the national strength can do it, what other individuals or enterprises can do?

In the world, I am afraid that there is only Musk alone.

But for Liu Feng, why can't he become the next Musk?