Funding down?

Is it so efficient?

A surprised expression flashed from Lu Zhou's eyes, and he quickly continued to ask.

"How much is it?"

"Five hundred million!"

Is it only 500 million?

Lu Zhou's expression was slightly disappointed, but he quickly returned to normal.

Although the money is not much, it can be regarded as a temporary alleviation of the shortage of funds.

After all, the country now wants to go market-oriented in the aerospace field, and it is impossible to come up with too much money to subsidize his company. If you want to survive in this industry, you still have to rely on the manned lunar landing program led by the Science and Technology Commission, the Space Administration and other departments.

If you can win the bid in the plan, and then get some scientific research projects such as collecting lunar soil from the Space Administration or the Chinese Academy of Sciences, you basically don't have to worry about funding.

After listening to the secretary's report, Hou Guang frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "500 million yuan...... The preliminary project is probably enough, and the later funds can be found again. ”

"Well," Lu Zhou nodded, "I'll figure out a way to fund it, so you don't have to worry about it." ”

Speaking of this, Lu Zhou smiled and patted the technical director on the shoulder, and joked.

"Take 10,000 steps back, if the funds are really not enough in the back, I will take the villa on the Purple Mountain to the bank as a mortgage, and I will also ensure that our space shuttle can fly into space!"

Hearing Lu Zhou's words, Hou Guang was slightly stunned, and the whole person was suddenly moved speechless.

Sell a house and build an airplane......

In today's materialistic society, what kind of feelings is this?

He asked himself, even if he was alone, he definitely didn't have such courage.

With such a big guy to build an airplane, why worry about the impossible plane to go to space!

Thinking of this, Hou Guang straightened his waist in awe, and promised solemnly.

"I will not disappoint your expectations!"

I didn't expect his reaction to be so exaggerated, and Lu Zhou was also embarrassed for a while.

Take 10,000 steps back, and when it comes to getting a mortgage, he can't mortgage the house.

How can his house be worth the stock of East Asia Power or the patent of lithium-sulfur batteries?

If you take the latter two as collateral, you can obviously borrow more......

Lu Zhou coughed lightly, diverted the topic and continued.

"Anyway, you just have to do what you need to do and don't have to worry about the rest. At the year-end bidding meeting, we must strive as much as possible. If you can win the bid from the Science and Technology Commission and the Space Agency, there will be basically no problem with the follow-up funds! ”

Hou Guang nodded in high spirits.

"I see."

……

Virginia.

CIA headquarters.

Sitting at his desk, the director of the CIA was staring at the papers on his desk with a frown, poring over the information sent from Europe about the ITER project.

At this moment, there was a sudden knock at the door.

Stopping the pen in his hand, he casually closed the papers, looked at the door and said in a deep voice.

"Please come in."

The office door pushes open.

I saw a white agent in his early forties, holding a file bag, walking in from the outside.

"Mr. Director, our agents deployed in China have sent back the latest information, and the Huaguo Naval Equipment Research Institute is developing a more reliable power plant."

"Reliable power plant?" The director's eyebrows raised slightly, "More specific?" ”

The agent took a deep breath and spoke in an uncertain tone.

"It is said that ...... Probably a small controlled fusion device. ”

"Small controlled fusion?" The pupils instantly contracted into a point, and the director bounced up from the office chair, propped his hands on the table and continued to ask, "Is the news reliable?" And what about the detailed report? ”

"The accuracy of the message is still being verified...... Of course, the report is ready. ”

As he spoke, the detective who was not an easy identity stepped forward, placed a paper report on his desk, took two steps back, and stood still behind his hands.

Picking up the report on the table, the director sat back in his chair and looked at it carefully, line by line.

"The estimated power can reach 500-1000M...... The technical route is unknown, and it may be different from the traditional magnetic confinement route," put down the report in his hand, and the director looked at the agent, "Is this the only clue?" ”

The agent nodded: "That's all for now. ”

There was silence in the office.

After about five minutes, the director suddenly spoke.

"Could it be Professor Lu?"

The agent was slightly stunned, then frowned.

"There is such a possibility...... It's unlikely, though. According to our agents in China, Professor Lu resigned from his position after the completion of the STAR-2 stellarator project, and although he later engaged in the research of acoustic fusion, the project did not achieve significant results...... Even the project team was withdrawn last month. ”

Acoustic fusion is a way of thinking about cold fusion, and research related to cold fusion has been jointly proven to be a "scam" by the National Academy of Sciences and the Department of Energy in the 80s.

As it turned out, even Professor Lu, who was "undefeated" in the academic field, failed to capture this fortress in the end.

Although the CIA's Huaguo Regional Intelligence Office has not analyzed the fact that Huaguo may have used failure to cover up the success of the experiment, considering that Lu Zhou has been busy with the study of the Yang Mills equation some time ago, it is impossible to find time to take care of the research of acoustic fusion.

It is very likely that the so-called acoustic fusion is just a smoke bomb released by the Chinese authorities to cover for the top-secret research in the Naval Equipment Research Institute.

Apparently also with this in mind, the brooding director did not speak, but kept tapping his index finger on the table.

After about five minutes, he lowered his eyebrows and slowly leaned back in his chair.

"The likelihood of Professor Lu's participation is really low...... But I always felt that this matter had nothing to do with him. ”

The agent's heart moved slightly.

"What do you mean?"

Staring at the report on his desk, the director lowered his voice and said.

"It's not clear whether this is a deliberate decoy by the Chinese, or if they've really achieved some results."

"In any case, getting more intelligence is the key to solving the problem."

"Increase the allocation of intelligence personnel in the Jinling area, especially that space shuttle assembly center! I need to know what Lu Zhou is fiddling with in there. And the Naval Equipment Research Institute in Shangjing, if they are really engaged in research on the miniaturization of controlled fusion, we can always find some signs. If you find a new lead, no matter how big or small, report it to me! ”

The agent stood up straight.

"Yes, sir."