Now that he has opened the conversation, Li Kongrong will get to the end with all his thoughts, and he continued: "I hope that Professor Yan can look for talents in this area in China, this is the first project." www.biquge.info Although it would take a decade for the jet engine to be used on a large scale, the Admiralty was now confident that one of the engines would be put into practical use during the war, and a prototype had now been built, and the weapon could be used in Tokyo after improvement. ”

"Hit Tokyo?!" Yan Keats and He Zehui were all taken aback.

"Yes, to Tokyo. We have this confidence that we can do this, and the Japanese planes will not be able to defend against them, because the engines are different, they simply will not be able to catch up. Li Kongrong said confidently. This is a project, and the second is that we lack radio talent. ”

"Radio talent," Yan Kici also took out a notebook and said, "Can I remember it?" I'll just briefly mark it, and others can't understand it. ”

"Then it's better not to have the name and function appear." After all, there were too many things to say, and Li Kongrong was also worried that he wouldn't be able to remember, so he had to nod. "Now all countries are studying a kind of radio-to-air detector, that is, radio waves emitted to the sky, when it encounters obstacles, there will be part of the reflection back, according to the time and angle of the reflection, you can roughly judge the position, direction, and height of the reflector. With the existence of such a detector, it will be possible to discover the distance, height, and number of Japanese planes in advance, and our people can enter the air-raid shelters in advance, and our planes can hide in higher clouds in advance, and when the Japanese planes are approaching, they will swoop down from a high place, disrupt the formation of the Japanese planes, and then divide and annihilate them......

It is used in anti-aircraft combat is just one use of the detector, it has various other uses, and it can be used in the army. For example, the Japanese artillery bombarded our positions, and our artillery carried out counter-battery operations, that is, destroyed the Japanese artillery positions with artillery fire. Under normal circumstances, the artillery positions of the two sides are six or seven kilometers apart or even more than ten kilometers, and there are many obstacles on the ground, so it is difficult for us to find out the Japanese artillery positions. The first method at present is to listen, according to the sound of Japanese artillery to judge the distance and direction, this method is low precision, long time, if the Japanese army changes the artillery position, it will not work; Another way is to use planes to find in the sky, but the opponent's artillery can also provide cover, and planes can prevent our troops from detecting.

If there is a radio-to-air detector, based on the measurement and calculation of the flight trajectory of the Japanese artillery shells by radio, and then referring to other parameters such as wind speed and altitude, we can quickly know the location of the Japanese artillery positions and quickly counterattack. Therefore, the radio-to-air detector is clairvoyant, and it can foresee some things that cannot be seen with the naked eye in the military. I hope that there will be talents in this area in the country, and then research such detectors. At present, we are already preparing to acquire the key technology of radio-to-air detectors from other countries, and then quickly develop results on this technology and put them into the domestic battlefield. ”

He saw that Yan Keats was still writing with a pen, so he stopped and drank tea, and when he saw that he was almost finished, he said: "The third talent that the navy needs is the talent who can perfect the precision navigation instrument of the nautical compass." The sea is vast, in addition to relying on the sun and stars to determine their own position, you can only rely on the compass on the ship, this is a ship on the sea, if it is an underwater submarine, then you can only rely on the compass, and there is an unmanned aerial vehicle, he can not rely on people to determine his own position, can only rely on navigation instruments to fly, once the instrument goes wrong, then the whole voyage will go astray, so the navy needs precision navigation instruments to ensure that their ships and aircraft will not lose their way. ”

"The fourth type of talent is the need for talents in biochemistry." Some time ago, he politely wrote a letter to Huang Minglong, the person in charge of the penicillin project, and received a reply from him this month, telling him that the situation was due to the impact of the war, and the research laboratory was going to move to Chongqing, and he had no way to study Yunyun in a hurry. He regretted that he went back to China with Kong Xiangxi, the domestic research conditions and foreign countries are not comparable at all, the research equipment he ordered will take three months to arrive, and now the goods are on the way to change the location and be shipped to Chongqing, so I really don't know when I will see the equipment.

In view of this, Li Kongrong believes that Kong Xiangxi may not continue to invest in this project as always, he is at most gentle and gentle, time waits for no one, the sooner penicillin is developed, the sooner he can make money. According to his memory, the early price of penicillin, that is, the purchase price of the U.S. government, was twenty dollars a dose, which was in 1943, and by 1946, the price had dropped to one dollar [Note 48]. If you look at it this way, if you sell 100,000 doses a year, that's $2 million, and if you sell 1 million doses, that's $20 million, that's sales, and the amount of profit is unknown.

And how much does it cost to research? It is said that the researcher, Dr. Howard Flory, an Australian pathologist, spent only £250 in 1935, the first year of his research, for the purchase of additional equipment - this was on the premise that he had a university laboratory, and this money was spent in 1937, and he overdrew another five hundred pounds in the bank, and when it was impossible to spend it again, the Rockefeller Foundation provided a grant: five thousand dollars a year, for five years, which is probably all the research and development funds for penicillin. In 1942, penicillin was brought to the United States for production, and a series of investments were made to achieve industrial mass production, but this was already a production input. Such a cash cow with little investment and a high rate of return on cash must have found a way to take it earlier, and its value greatly exceeds the value of the Spanish shipwreck.

V1 rocket, radar, V1 missile flight control and navigation system, penicillin, this is the project that Li Kongrong needs Yan Keats to return to China to find talents to do, as for the bazooka, since this kind of small project can be invented by American officers, it can also be invented by himself.

Yan Keats roughly finished writing down all the projects that Li Kongrong said, and he said: "May I ask Colonel Li, these projects are all studied in Germany?" ”

"Of course not in Germany, which may soon have a war, and the research projects of the Navy will be in Switzerland and the United States, and Switzerland will be the research institute, and the United States or other American countries will be the production plants. Most of the domestic researchers are arranged in Switzerland, and the Navy's agency in Switzerland issues a job offer letter in order to obtain a visa. Li Kongrong said. Switzerland is located in the center of Europe, not far from Germany and France, and the country itself has a certain industrial base, because of the watch industry, high-precision machine tools are particularly advanced. ”

"Isn't it possible to do it in France?" Yan Keats received his doctorate from France in the first place, and he was particularly kind to France.

"Once the war breaks out in Europe, France will bear the brunt, and then the institute will have to move from France to Switzerland in a hurry, which is too risky." Li Kongrong said.

"French ......" listened to Li Kongrong's meaning, once the war started, France would actually be occupied by Germany, Yan Keats was puzzled: "Could it be that France will also fall?" During World War I, the Germans did not occupy Paris for four years. ”

"There are all kinds of factions in French politics, and the state has no way to make decisions, which is completely different from the First World War. Science and technology are advancing, military technology is also advancing, and once a war starts, France will definitely surrender. Li Kongrong prophesied history, only to let Yan Keats smack his tongue.

"When will Professor Yan return to China?" Tan Boyu's previous introduction was that Yan Keats would return to China soon, so Li Kongrong asked this question.

"Just recently." Yan Keats said. "Colonel Lee, how will the sonic probe research be arranged?"

"Let's write a project development document to determine the content of the study, the plan, the time, the number of researchers, the equipment and conditions required, and then I will submit it to the Admiralty for approval, and after the approval, it will be the project establishment, recruitment, and preparation of the laboratory." Li Kongrong is a person who has passed the PMP certification, although he is only a person who has taken the exam to eat, but he has passed the exam, and he is still confident in managing these high-tech projects.

"The navy has already set up a project and hopes that Professor Yan can help find some talents in China, these talents are recommended by Professor Yan, and then the Admiralty will conduct a preliminary review, and then arrange to come to Switzerland for probation, if the probation is not suitable, then it will not sign an employment contract with it, and the Navy will bear the salary and travel expenses during the probation period."

Li Kongrong's method of selection is not a funding model, but an employment model, Yan Keats is a little uncomfortable with this, he said: "This ...... Is it possible to study in Switzerland if the trial is not suitable? If you let the family go back, you will always be reluctant to go. ”

"During the war, everything was centered on the project, and the funds were limited, so we could only put aside the face for the time being, which was really not accommodating, but we will try our best to help them study abroad. In fact, they themselves should have a bottom about it, the project is this project, and they should know whether they can do it or not.

In fact, the Navy's biggest concern is that the investment will not bear fruit, or it will not be able to produce results in a short period of time. As a rule, if there is no hope for a project in three years, the Admiralty will stop working on it; In addition, even if the project can see hope, but because of the progress of technology, the enemy's weapon level has been improved, and if our project raises the requirements but there is no possibility of developing it, then the research will be stopped, because it is already backward when it is made, and what cannot be made has no advantage and no use. Therefore, the only guiding principle of the Admiralty for the project is 'no one has me, no one has me'. ”

Hearing that the Admiralty's guiding principle was 'no one has me, and no one has me', Yan Keats was a little uneasy, and the acoustic detector he proposed was actually 'people have me', not 'people have me'. He said: "But our country is backward in many aspects, can't we first solve the problem of 'have', and then solve the problem of 'better'?" ”

"We don't have the time, we don't have the resources." Li Kongrong said. "In the past, there were too many debts, and all the military funds of the Admiralty were put into research, and it could not solve the problem of 'have-not', for example, our country could not produce more than 150mm naval guns, and of course the Admiralty could not invest money in the research and development of 150mm naval guns, because it was useless to develop them, and the enemy already had 305mm naval guns. In war, this input amounts to waste. ”

"What about the acoustic detectors?" Yan Keats hesitated for a moment, but still mentioned this project of 'solving the problem of existence'.

"With the current technology, we must start from the acousto-electric conversion medium, otherwise the detection efficiency cannot be improved." Li Kongrong said.

The introduction of sound and electricity conversion is crystal, Yan Keats studied crystal, Li Kongrong said that he wanted to change the medium, he immediately mentioned it in his heart, and said: "Isn't it okay to crystal?" ”

"Crystal has been eliminated by tartar, not because of performance, but by price." Li Kongrong said. "At present, the detection distance of the acoustic detector is only a little more than a kilometer, and if you want to get a larger distance, you need to replace the acousto-electric conversion medium to make the detector more sensitive, or optimize the entire detection system to make it respond faster and more complete." Li Kongrong said. "My suggestion is that this kind of research can be carried out in China, but the direction of research should be these two."

"The sensitivity of the crystal can be improved. The key is that the electrical oscillation of the hollow crystal cylinder is closely related to the ratio of the inner diameter and the outer diameter of the cylinder, as long as the appropriate ratio of the inner and outer diameters is found, then its sensitivity will be greatly improved, which is the law of crystal torsion......"

Yan Keats studied crystals and completely believed that crystals could solve the problem of sensitivity, but Li Kongrong knew that World War II sonar was at that level from beginning to end, and there was no progress in research before there was no breakthrough in materials and transistors. He originally wanted to reiterate the theory that crystal is useless again, but he thought that he would have to rely on this person to go to China to attract people, and his annual research fund was less than 50,000 yuan, so he had to say: "Then please ask Professor Yan to write a report first." If the report proves that crystals can indeed greatly increase the detection range, then the Navy will invest in the project. ”

Since he is a physics master and goes abroad to participate in important international academic conferences, Yan Keats naturally has some style, but this project was recommended by him on his own initiative, and he suppressed his unhappiness and said: "You have a lot of rules in the navy. There is also a preliminary review after finding someone, and a trial after the preliminary review, and a return if the trial fails, which does not respect knowledge and talent at all. ”

Taking a deep breath, Li Kongrongqiang said with a smile: "This is also something that cannot be helped, people in the navy may not understand technology, let alone the specific knowledge of various specialties, so they have to look at the project application report." There is no way to do the initial review and trial, the resources are limited, and these resources must be given to the best people and the most likely to succeed in those projects. If not, both people and projects should be eliminated and the money saved will be invested in promising projects. The Navy's approach will indeed offend people, so we have to invite everyone to Haihan, after all, it is a wartime, and everything is centered on winning the war. ”

"Does the Navy restrict partisanship on personnel?" Yan Keats suddenly asked a question. "Can the Communist Party come?"

"The Navy has never intervened in partisan disputes, but considering that the funds are allocated by the government, in order to avoid disputes, it is better to use people from the party and people without party affiliation." Li Kongrong said.

"But now that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have jointly resisted Japan, can't the Navy allow the Kuomintang and Communist Party personnel to study together?" Yan Keats studied carefully.

"Professor Yan, the Navy does not want to get involved in partisan disputes, and when all the funds are allocated by the Nationalist Government and the Kuomintang has a superior number of people, it can only choose the Kuomintang and avoid other political parties from appearing in the research institute. It is better to have no political parties in the institute, and all non-partisan people. Li Kongrong patiently explained, "Besides, I am only the person in charge of the Intelligence Section, and this Intelligence Section has to listen to the Ordnance Department, the Ordnance Department has to listen to the Admiralty, and the Admiralty Department has to listen to the State Government. ”

"It seems that the Kuomintang still does not sincerely unite to resist Japan." Seeing Li Kongrong's bitter words, and thinking that this technical intelligence section was indeed a subordinate structure of the Kuomintang, Yan Keats could only sigh. He just said goodbye to Wu Yuzhang, a communist who came to France to do anti-Japanese propaganda, just a few days ago; the Communist Party was bent on resisting Japan, but the Kuomintang heard that it was still trying to make peace with the Japanese invaders, or even surrender, and this was something that every Chinese could not tolerate.

"Colonel Li, although there are some things that should not be said, I still hope that you can see clearly who is really resisting Japan, and who is passively resisting Japan or even preparing to surrender. Although you are a navy, and although the navy does not want to get involved in the dispute between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, you should still stand on the side of justice and the broad masses of the people......" Yan Keats said his advice, sincerely. (To be continued.) )