This precise time measurement ended after one hour, thirteen minutes and seven seconds, Lu Qiujian returned to the bedroom with Xia Xiao, who was paralyzed, and lay on the bed until she fell asleep with a smile on her face, then gently arranged the quilt for her, and went to the computer lightly to start working again.

The Xihe Project is undoubtedly the largest super scientific research project of China since the two bombs and one satellite, and even if it is put on a global scale, it can be compared with the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Project.

The so-called super scientific research program will inevitably consume a huge amount of funds, huge resources, hundreds of thousands of manpower, if you count indirect investment and personnel, it is even more, it is no exaggeration to say that only the United States and China have the ability to carry out such a plan with the power of one country in the world.

At the beginning, the two bombs and one satellite project was directly led by veterans at the level of marshals, and a highly authoritative organization was set up, including the leaders of the Council of Elders, the ******, and the Central Military Commission, which integrated command, finance, and personnel powers, and mobilized all forces in the country to carry out large-scale cooperation; at the high level, the coordination between the nuclear industry, the aerospace industry, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences was mainly embodied in close coordination and cooperation in scientific research and technology; and throughout the country, the national defense research institutes, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, industrial departments, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences were involved in tackling key problems. Institutions of higher learning and local research institutions, 26 ministries (institutes), including the Ministry of Metallurgy, the Ministry of Chemical Industry, the Ministry of Machinery, the Ministry of Aviation, the Ministry of Electronics, the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Petroleum, the Ministry of Geology, and the Ministry of Construction, as well as 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions (including more than 900 factories, scientific research institutions, and colleges and universities) participated in the battle.

The explosion of the first atomic bomb alone cost 2.8 billion yuan, and if you include the construction of the nuclear industry system and supporting expenses (such as uranium mining), this figure will increase to 8 billion yuan.

What is the concept of 8 billion yuan in 1964? The total expenditure of the three-year Goryeo War was 6.2 billion yuan, and the national defense expenditure in 1959 was 5.8 billion yuan, which was 30 percent more than the national defense expenditure in the whole of 59 years; if we put it back to the present, China's national defense expenditure last year was 297.938 billion yuan. Plus three achievements are close to 400 billion yuan!

At its peak, the Manhattan Project, which brought together scientists and engineers from around the world, employed 539,000 people and cost $2.5 billion, the equivalent of $22.5 billion today, when inflation is taken into account.

The Los Alamos laboratory has more than 9,000 employees, and the Oak Ridge uranium material production plant costs $900 million. With 36,000 employees, the Hanford plutonium materials production plant costs more than $300 million and employs more than 17,000 people.

Among the scientists who participated in the Manhattan Project, there were many Nobel laureates, such as Fermi, Feynman, Yuri, Lawrence, Compton, and so on; in Germany, which competed with the Americans, Nobel laureates such as Bonn, Frank, and Pauli left one after another, more than 150 physicists who were very literate in basic research were expelled, and more than 400,000 highly educated Jews fled; Hitler stubbornly believed that Germany could hold out for 100 years without physics and chemistry. However, he did not hold out for even ten years, and the influence of scientists on the country can be seen.

The Apollo program lasted about 11 years and cost $25.5 billion, and at its peak, 20,000 companies, more than 200 universities and more than 80 scientific research institutions participated in the project, with a total of more than 300,000 people.

At present, the Xihe project led by Lu Qiujian will cost 100 billion yuan, and it can be expected that for a long time, the state will spend at least tens of billions of yuan every year to support this work, which is almost the same as the total expenditure of the state treasury in science investment. You must know that last year, China's financial expenditure on science and technology was only 48.3 billion yuan.

But not all of this money can be spent on research on controlled nuclear fusion, because the Xihe program claims to be space exploration research. In any case, there is still work to be done in this regard.

Fortunately, there are many commonalities in the basic research in these two fields, such as the research of supercomputers, the research of materials science, the research of laser technology, and so on.

Similarly, such a large-scale project requires a complete industrial package and a comprehensive talent pool. At present, Huaguo is in the high-end field, whether it is industrial technology or talent reserve, there is a big gap with Miguo, but it can basically meet the needs of Lu Qiujian.

The scarcity of high-end talents is a good thing for Lu Qiujian in a way, if he goes to the United States. Surely it will not be taken so seriously, and it will take longer and face more resistance to lead the entire project as it is now.

Lu Qiujian reviewed the list of cooperative units on his computer, which listed for him more than 300 universities, nearly 200 research institutions, and thousands of enterprises, and their fields of expertise can be more or less related to controlled nuclear fusion.

For these cooperative units, Lu Qiujian does not need to tell them the true purpose of the Xihe project, but only needs to send them research tasks or product production tasks according to the needs of the plan, and their work may be to study a certain screw on the controllable nuclear fusion restraint device, or to develop a special material required for the experiment.

This can be kept a certain degree of secrecy, and the core research plan and progress are only known to the core team he leads and the Council of Elders.

Of course, each work will not only be issued to a certain cooperative unit, usually at the same time will be issued to several relevant units in the forefront of the technical level in China, who comes up with the right results first, who reaps the greatest fruits, which is similar to commercial bidding.

This kind of specific work of splitting the research plan and assigning the research task is completed by the relevant staff of the core team of the project, but Lu Qiujian also needs to understand the strength of these cooperative units in order to better manage the overall management.

After quickly flipping through the electronic documents with G as the unit, Lu Qiujian had already deeply engraved the information of these cooperative units in his mind; but these were only paper data! Some important cooperative units had to go and see for themselves, Lu Qiujian rubbed his temples and thought.

But this is far from the biggest difficulty he faces, and even the most important ignition and restraint issues of controlled nuclear fusion are not the most troublesome things for him, and what he is most worried about now is what kind of means the opposition forces within China will take to prevent him from successfully completing his plan. (To be continued.) )