Upper Beijing.

Ministry.

The man sitting behind the desk, with slightly thinning hair and a slightly older face, finished reading the report in his hand, shook his head and gently dropped it on the desk.

"It's not quite right."

Yesterday at noon, the bidding meeting for the moon landing project came to an end, and the relevant information of the meeting was quickly sent to his desk.

Although the moon landing project is mainly in charge of the subordinate secondary bureaus, the central government attaches great importance to the moon landing project, and the House of Elders has personally inquired about this matter many times, so as the leader of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, he has to mention the spirit of 12 percent to deal with this matter cautiously.

However, who would have thought that this moon landing project had just begun, and there would be such a big disagreement.

Electric or chemical propulsion?

If you can, of course, it is better if the two go hand in hand, but unfortunately the funding for the moon landing project is not unlimited, and although the country's investment in scientific research is large enough, it is not unlimited.

How to make a trade-off between them is indeed a difficult proposition.

Looking at the leader who fell silent, the middle-aged secretary who stood at the desk and looked a little young did not speak, but he was thinking about the intention of the minister's previous words in his heart.

Are you dissatisfied with the way Director Li handled it?

Still struggling?

After a moment's hesitation, he asked tentatively.

"There is no contract in black and white, just a verbal agreement in the minutes of the meeting...... Why don't I go and discuss with both sides, take a step back, and cancel this gamble? ”

Hearing the secretary's suggestion, the minister smiled and shook his head.

"It doesn't have to be."

Don't have to?

Didn't you say you did it wrong?

The secretary was a little confused.

But although he didn't know what to do at this time, his experience in the department for so long told him that if he couldn't figure out what the leader was thinking, it was best to keep his mouth shut and not speak.

Glancing at the secretary who had fallen silent, the minister continued.

"Xiao Li didn't do it right, but it's not wrong, it's enough to leave the academic debate to these experts to argue, and when the reason for the argument comes out, we can choose the best from it."

"You mean leave them alone?"

"That's not either," the minister shook his head, pondered for a moment, and continued, "Compared to the size of the Space Group, Star Technology is still too weak, and for the sake of fairness, we still have to pull Professor Lu a hand." ”

With Professor Lu's influence, he is not worried about the space group's cleverness.

Fair competition between the two sides in the field of technology can promote each other.

The most important thing is that no matter who wins, they don't lose......

Thinking of this, the corners of the minister's mouth couldn't help but curl up with a smile.

The comfortable life of this aerospace group has been too long, and it is good to put a little pressure on them.

The secretary instantly understood and immediately asked, "How are you going to help?" ”

After thinking for a moment, the minister continued.

"Let's contact the Air Force Armament Department and ask them if they're interested."

"I don't know much about the space shuttle and electric propulsion systems, and you don't know very much either."

"The value has to be developed ......"

"It's up to the experts to decide!"

……

Regarding Lu Zhou's proposal for cooperative research and development, Academician Zou naturally welcomed it with both hands.

The Institute of Computational Materials of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study is well-known in the field of materials science. Regardless of the condition level of experimental facilities and equipment, or the professionalism of researchers, it can be ranked first-class in the world.

Not to mention the outstanding achievements in the controllable fusion project, there is no reason for Harbin Institute of Technology and Aurora University to refuse.

And these hardware conditions aside, being able to have a Nobel Prize boss participate in the project, whether it is from the enterprise level or the national level, will be much stronger than a single academician serving as an academic leader.

With the cooperative R&D agreement signed with Harbin Institute of Technology, Lu Zhou got on the plane back to Jinling the next day. On the way back, he sent back information about the project and assigned tasks to each research team.

In general, the project involved in the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study can be divided into two parts, one is "neural interface" and the other is "biomimetic skeleton".

The former, which is jointly led by the Institute of Computational Materials and the Institute of Information Engineering, which was established at the beginning of the year, is on a par with the "carbon-based chips" project that started a year ago. The latter is a joint project with Harbin Institute of Technology, mainly on the side of the Institute of Computational Materials, which is in charge of contact, and the priority is ranked after "lithium air battery".

As for projects such as servo motors and neural electrical signal processing used in robotic arms, the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study has no talent reserves engaged in research in related fields for the time being, and Lu Zhou has not been foolish.

These techniques, while equally important, were not enough to pique his interest.

With so many topics, you can't do everything yourself, right?

Even if the others didn't have an opinion, he would have to die of exhaustion.

Of course, no matter how interested he is in these projects, his energy at this stage will have to be mainly focused on astronautics.

After the flight landed at Jinling City Airport, Lu Zhou didn't even go home, so he rushed to the Space Shuttle Assembly Center non-stop and found Hou Guang, the person in charge here.

After seeing the skinny chief engineer and factory director, Lu Zhou was about to speak, and he took the first step to speak.

"I've already heard Mr. Chen talk about that gambling contract."

“…… It's good to know it already now, then I will explain it," Glancing at him in a slightly surprised light, Lu Zhou silently thanked the senior sister in his heart, paused for a moment, and continued, "Time is pressing, I know this task is difficult, but it is related to whether our project can continue." I hope you'll work hard to complete the prototype by January next year. ”

"Before January next year?" Hou Guang's face was embarrassed, but he still nodded reluctantly, "I'll try my best." ”

It's a daunting task, but it's not impossible.

After all, he had seen the processing capacity of that set of production equipment.

And now the most critical engine and functional equipment have been solved, and the rest of the technology also has the technical reserves of the 863 plan for reference, as long as a few key problems are solved, it is not a big problem to build a prototype.

At the most......

This time has been laid in this office!

Hou Guang gritted his teeth, made up his mind, and said at the same time.

"One more thing."

Lu Zhou: "What's the matter?" ”

"We still lack an astronaut to test the prototype," Hou Guang continued to add, after a pause, "of course...... There are a lot of things that need to be manipulated, and two is even better. ”

As soon as he heard the astronaut, Lu Zhou suddenly patted his head.

"I almost forgot about it...... Okay, I'll find a way to solve this matter, shouldn't it be in a hurry? ”

Hou Guang thought for a while and said, "It's not urgent, but try to do it within a month." ”

Within a month?

Lu Zhou touched his chin.

It's definitely too late to train yourself.

Space shuttle pilots are much more demanding than pilots of ordinary civil aircraft, and this requirement is not only reflected in physical fitness, but also in mind. Selecting and cultivating a talent who can be qualified for this kind of flight mission, whether it is time cost or economic cost, is a difficult task for Star Technology, which is in a dilemma of time and money.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhou's face couldn't help but show a trace of embarrassment.

Although I don't really want to trouble others......

But now it seems that we can only find a way to find the relevant departments to accommodate.