Professor Yuan Ye brought a group of Chinese technical talents to Shixiang Island. Professor Yuan Ye's trip to the United States was extremely successful, and Su Zizi's concert toured the United States, recruiting a large number of Chinese youths everywhere he went, either to join the army or to participate in Li Guang's shipyard or the enterprises of the Naval Resistance Army.

In less than three months, more than 1,000 young recruits were recruited for the Naval Resistance Army and more than 2,000 young workers were recruited for the factory. And the most important thing is that today Professor Yuan Ye has brought a full three planes of high-level talents to Shixiang Island, a total of sixty-four people.

Looking at the list, Li Guang was amazed that there was a famous scientist among them. Although these people are still small, their potential is amazing.

Li Guang felt a heavy pressure for the arrival of these people, when Professor Yuan Ye brought 100 talents from China, Li Guang's comment at that time was that it was impossible for a medium-sized city to collect so many talents. And the sixty-four people brought by Professor Yuan Ye are no longer high-level talents in a city in Li Guang's eyes, but can be equivalent to scientific and technological talents in a province. Moreover, many of these people are no longer considered engineering and technical talents, but study theories, and have stood at the forefront of science and technology in this era.

These talents were treated at the highest level on Stone Statue Island, and Li Guang talked to these Chinese elites one by one. After more than 10 days of ideological struggle, Li Guang sent all the others back to the United States, except for more than 10 engineering and technical personnel.

It's not that Li Guang doesn't look down on these talents, but because these talents, if they are well cultivated, will be the seeds of China's rise in the future. The bachelor's literacy of these people has not yet reached that level of mastery, and the environment in the stone statue island does not make these people improve too much, but it delays the academic career of these people.

Li Guangwei provided $2,000 per year for each of these Chinese elites who returned to the United States, so that these people could live a middle-class life in the United States, avoid worries, and devote themselves to their studies. According to the direction of scientific and technological development, Li Guang also proposed more than a dozen research projects for these people. Some of these projects are large projects, and it is difficult to really transform them into power without financial support, but it is definitely not wrong to make technical reserves as soon as possible.

There are two projects that Li Guang urgently needs to solve. The first is the artillery shells of antiaircraft artillery, and the topic given by Li Guang is not the current timed fuse shells, but the proximity fuses that appeared in World War II. Now this anti-aircraft artillery fuse is also groping for the Americans. And this fuse is not one or two times more effective than the current artillery shell fuse for air defense. Another topic is radar, but the topic of radar is too big, and Li Guang's request is to integrate the current navigation antennas of the Maritime Resistance Force and design a small electronic navigation device that can be installed on fighter planes.

Among all the talents, there are eight people that Li Guang pays special attention to. For these people, Li Guang specially formulated a plan A, and made a five-year covenant before leaving. Yuan Chou, who was far away in Tonga, was arranged by Li Guang to buy a small steel mill in Australia to fully serve this plan. This A plan is the atomic bomb project.

In fact, these eight people didn't even know the term atomic bomb at this time, but they were all physics experts, and the research direction assigned to them by Li Guang was nuclear physics. And Yuan Chou, a talent who could have made great achievements in the civil affairs and diplomacy of the Naval Resistance Army, was arranged by Li Guang to be a small boss of a steel factory in Australia. This is definitely not overkill, but the real people make the most of their talents. The reason why it's Australia is simple. Li Guang, as a Chinese, did not know where China's uranium mines were. But he knew that there were two countries in the world with the richest uranium mines, one was Australia, and the other was the golden rod country in later generations. The uranium mines of the Golden Stick Country are also the most depressing, just off the border between China and North Korea. As for Australia's uranium mine, Li Guang only knows a general location, and Yuan Chou's work is definitely not low, not only to secretly prospect for ore and mine secretly, but also to secretly transport it to the control area of the Maritime Resistance Army. To be able to do this, Li Guang could not find a person in the Naval Resistance Army, and this job belonged to Yuan Chou.

These people have been on the Stone Statue Island for less than half a month, but they have solved quite a lot of practical problems and provided solutions to many problems.

One of the most obvious improvements is the improvement of the P40 fighter. A young Chinese professor, amazingly young, twenty-three, a university professor.

This genius young man is called Huang Yushan (there is a prototype, here is a novel, don't take it seriously), and he solved a big problem for Li Guang in a short period of more than ten days.

The P40 fighter is the best fighter Li Guang can buy. Not to mention whether this kind of fighter can compete with the latest Zero fighter, the inability to take off and land on an aircraft carrier alone makes Li Guang helpless.

The aircraft carrier mainly carries three types of fighters, the first fighter, the second torpedo machine, and the third bomber. But for Li Guang, there was not even a fighter. In a short period of time, Li Guang could not purchase suitable carrier-based aircraft, let alone build fighter planes. For Li Guang's great cause of aircraft carriers, it is simply incomprehensible.

After studying the P40 fighter, Professor Huang gave Li Guang a comprehensive solution. This solution is not advanced in any way, but it is the most suitable solution at the moment. -- Backward this fighter a little bit. From a monoplane to a biplane.

It seems to be backward, but you must know that the torpedo bombers currently used by the British are now also bi-wing, and even if the P40 is equipped with a smaller upper wing, the maneuverability will not be too bad, and even due to the increase in wing area, the horizontal maneuverability will increase. Of course, the drag is also large, and the speed of the fighter will be reduced.

But this change allowed the P40 to hold up heavy torpedoes (even 455mm torpedoes weighed around 800 kilograms). Or aerial bombs. Moreover, it can take off from an aircraft carrier, so that the P40 fighter can be used, which is extremely important to Li Guang.

Professor Huang made calculations and designed a small ultra-thin wing for the fighter. The highlight is that the wings are made of wood and cloth and weigh very lightly, weighing only 50 kilograms. This makes the P40 fighter with a large increase in lift after the wings are installed, and it can easily take off from the deck. What's even more amazing is that after takeoff, the fighter pilot can throw off the auxiliary wing through a simple mechanism, and completely restore the original surname of the P40.

As for the tail hook and folding wings necessary for carrier-based aircraft, Professor Huang also gave the design structure, which needs to be verified and perfected by the technicians of the Maritime Resistance Force from practice.

Everyone knows that with the same power, biplanes are easier to take off, but it is not so easy to change a monoplane fighter to a biplane, just the shape and area of the wing and the installation position have to go through a series of precise calculations. People who are not extremely professional simply have no way to start.

Professor Huang was able to make such a change, but also because the American-made P40 fighter is strong and durable, if Xiao Yueben's Zero fighter would definitely not be able to withstand such a toss.

In any case, Professor Huang solved the problem of carrier-based aircraft, which was the most troublesome problem for Li Guang, and enabled the training of carrier-based aircraft to begin preliminarily.

And this genius Professor Huang even designed a wing for the C47 transport plane, a big guy like that, so that a transport plane that requires a runway of more than 1,000 meters to take off on land can also take off on an aircraft carrier of about 200 meters. However, Li Guangke did not plan to use the C47 transport aircraft on aircraft carriers.

However, Professor Huang's plan had a huge flaw, which Li Guang discovered later. It's not that Professor Huang made a mistake, it's that Professor Huang doesn't understand aircraft carriers. The P40 fighter jet uses liquid-cooled engines, which are too long compared to planetary engines, which limits the pilot's visual range, does not have much impact on takeoff, and makes it difficult to see the deck when landing. Not an absolute master, it is difficult to land on an aircraft carrier.

The few talents recruited by Professor Yuan Ye this time were quickly enriched by Li Guang to several important departments such as torpedoes, submarines, shells, artillery, tanks, ships, and fighter aircraft maintenance.

Several departments are now in a bottleneck period, and the development of torpedoes has accelerated after obtaining two German torpedoes, but the actual combat thermodynamic torpedoes are not yet truly finalized, and talents are urgently needed to join.

And the artillery plant, so far it can only produce grenades and mortar shells, and the much-needed armor-piercing shells and bombshells are still groping.

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