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Although the time has entered December, the island of Taiwan, which is crossed by the Tropic of Cancer from the center, is still full of birds and flowers. The pen "fun" pavilion www.biquge.info and located in Alishan Sun Moon Lake near the Dragon's Nest base inside is also lush with vegetation, the wind and the sun are beautiful, plus the periphery is responsible for the defense of the first division of the guard to isolate the outside worldly hustle and bustle, the Dragon's Den is not an exaggeration to call the paradise.

Looking at the surrounding Gothic, Baroque, and occasionally Chinese-style single-family villas, Huo Shan's eyes couldn't help but flash a trace of satisfaction. "Mr. Zhonghu has done a good job! The environment here is indeed very good, which makes me a little envious!"

"The young master praised it falsely, these scientists in our Academy of Sciences and the Dragon's Den are all our great efforts, and it was not easy to invite them back, since we can't provide them with a good scientific research environment and atmosphere like Europe, as well as many research assistants, if we want to keep their hearts, we naturally have to work food, clothing, housing and transportation, and these are all handed over to me by the young master, in addition, if it weren't for the research materials provided by the young master, I'm afraid the Dragon's Den would not have reached today's scale." Xu Jianyin said with a hint of admiration on his face.

As the leader of Huo Jiajun's internal scientific and technological research and development and management, he was one of the few people who knew that the high-level technical drawings that could often shock those top scientists inside the Dragon's Lair and were eager to have were from this young man who had just turned sixteen!

Look at the expression on his face. Huo Shan couldn't help but smile faintly, and didn't explain, sometimes he kept a proper mystery in front of his subordinates. It is also able to deepen its dominance.

"Mr. Zhonghu, how many people are there in Mr. Maybach's Institute of Internal Combustion Engines and Motor Vehicles now?" Huo Shan asked.

"There are already three hundred and eighty-six people, including one academician, Mr. Wilhelm Maybach, five senior researchers, twenty-four researchers, and eighty-six associate researchers. There are 270 research assistants!" Huo Jiajun's internal research staff's rating system, Huo Shan also used it according to the system used by all countries in later generations.

"There are already so many people?" Huo Shan couldn't help but ask with some surprise. You must know that as long as you can be rated as an associate researcher, you must at least graduate from the Department of Mechanical Engineering for at least four years. It is also required to have five years of work experience, or have independent technical inventions in hand, even if it is a researcher assistant, it is also required to be very rigorous assessment, if there is no solid theoretical foundation or technical strength. It is not possible to pass the initial selection. As for higher-ranking researchers, senior researchers, and academicians, the requirements are naturally higher.

And in order to put an end to the appearance of the 'brick family called the beast' in later generations, Huo Shan has always been very strict with academic fraud and the review of scientific researchers, and he understands Xu Jianyin's character and understands that he will not make any mistakes in this matter, if it were not for this, Huo Shan would not have handed over the vital Ministry of Science and Technology to Xu Jianyin at the beginning of the establishment of the Huo Family Military Administration.

"Yes, young master, although Mr. Wilhelm Maybach's Institute for Internal Combustion Engines and Motor Vehicles has only been established for two years. But during this period, we took advantage of the economic crisis and the war to get a large number of qualified researchers from Europe and the United States. It solves the dilemma of the lack of basic research talents within our dragon's lair, which is why Mr. William's research institute can develop so fast!" Xu Jianyin replied quickly.

Hearing this, Huo Shan nodded, and after being silent for a while, he continued to ask: "Is there still no results in Mr. Rudolf Diesel's Institute of Diesel Engines and Motor Vehicles?"

"Not yet?" replied Xu Jianyin with a bitter look on his face. As the earliest research institute established within the Dragon's Den to study internal combustion engines and motor vehicles, now Rudolph Diesel has gathered more than a thousand researchers under his command, and has been researching for more than four years, nearly five years, but until now there is still no relatively mature, and can be put into industrial production of diesel engines, in the face of almost every month to swallow up a large amount of research and development funds of the Diesel Research Institute, Xu Jianyin said that it is not heartache that is false, if it is not for Huo Shan has always insisted on large-scale investment in the Dragon's Den, I am afraid that the monthly research and development funds have reached 3.5 million silver dollars of the Dragon's Den base, it has long been unsustainable！

Looking at the look on Xu Jianyin's face, Huo Shan couldn't help but shake his head secretly in his heart, the reason why the R&D team within the Dragon's Lair is getting bigger and bigger, and the R&D funds are becoming more and more, but the reason why there are very few research results is actually a large part of the reason is on him. Because at that time, in order to tempt those real scientific talents and allow them to work for Huo Jiajun with peace of mind, Huo Shan would often lure them with the technical drawings stored in his laptop that were more than ten years more advanced than the best technology of this era.

While his method proved to be effective, it also posed a very big problem. Because since ancient times, all people who can become great scientists are almost always the kind of people who pursue perfection, are good at thinking, and maintain enough curiosity about any new things, so when they can see that their products can continue to be improved and improved, they will never come up with defective products, and excellence is the basic quality that any scientist has. Therefore, in the past four years since the establishment of the Dragon's Den base, although one new technology after another has been developed, there are very few truly mature products!

"Mr. Zhonghu doesn't have to mind, diesel engines are not like gasoline engines, there are already a large number of people in the world to study, and there are many technologies and mature products, diesel engines are a new thing, research and development from scratch always takes time, we have to give it enough space and time to grow!" Huo Shan said with a smile.

"What did the young master say?"

"By the way, how many graduates of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of National Taiwan University have met the assessment standards of the Dragon's Den Base this year?" Huo Shan suddenly asked.

"Back to the young master, there are fifty-six!" Xu Jianyin said directly. As the person in charge of the dragon's lair, every grass and tree inside the dragon's lair is imprinted in his brain, as for how many research institutes, how many researchers, and how many people are in the dragon's lair, Xu Jianyin remembers it clearly.

"Well, take these fifty-six people out, and then transfer some of them from the two research institutes of Diesel and Maybach to form a research institute of agricultural machinery and construction machinery!" Huo Shan said.

"This, the young master still has this must, now we have two research institutes of internal combustion engines and motor vehicles, if we divide again, will we disperse the research force. And according to the rules of the Dragon's Den, only academicians and senior researchers, or researchers who have reached a total of five new technologies and new products have the conditions to establish an independent research institute!" "In the Dragon's Den, to be able to establish a research institute independently, it also means the assistance of a large number of basic scientific research talents, as well as the support of almost unlimited scientific research funds every month, coupled with many superior conditions such as dedicated office space and advanced research and development equipment, it is natural that the conditions for the expression are also very high."

"There is a need for this, and it is very necessary! Of course, the management regulations of the Dragon's Lair cannot be changed indiscriminately! In this way, you can just transfer a senior researcher from Mr. Maybach's research institute!" Huo Shan said with a smile.

"I'm afraid Mr. William won't be able to get along with me again this time!" Xu Jianyin said with a wry smile. But anyone who has some ability will naturally have a little temper, and if a senior researcher is transferred, the research and development speed of Maybach's high-power gasoline engines and automobiles will naturally slow down, and William Maybach, as the director of the institute, is naturally unwilling.

Hearing this, Huo Shan couldn't help but smile, turned around and took a small box from Huo Lei's hand, opened it, and took out a thick dozen pieces of paper from it.

Looking at this familiar black suitcase, as well as the paper full of various lines and data, Xu Jianyin's eyes immediately lit up, because this action had been repeated countless times in front of him in the past, and almost every time, he was able to get a lot of new technology from Huo Shan's hands. I believe this time will be no exception.

"Let's take a look!" said Huo Shan, handing over part of the thick drawings in his hand. While these drawings are extremely important, there is also a danger of leaking secrets inside the well-guarded Dragon's Lair.

"Whoa, whoa!" As the sound of paper turning continued to sound, the puzzled color on Xu Jianyin's face became more and more intense. Looking at the planes, elevations, and sections of the mechanical equipment on it that were strangely shaped, simple or complex, and could not be used in the slightest, Xu Jianyin couldn't help but ask, "Young Master, what is this?"

"Hehe, Mr. Zhonghu, do you understand why I have always been responsive to the research funds of Wilhelm Maybach and Rudolf Diesel internal combustion engines, as well as Tesla's alternating currents and generators, and electric motors?" Huo Shan turned around and looked at the Sun Moon Lake, which was sparkling in the distance, shining with dazzling golden light in the winter sun, and replied to the question.

"In 1785, an improved steam engine made by the Englishman Watt was put into use, which provided more convenient power and was rapidly popularized, greatly promoting the popularization and development of the machine. As a result, human society has entered the "steam age". With the gradual replacement of manual operation by machine production in industrial production, a new form of production organization - the bourgeois factory - was born. Around 1840, the production of large machines in Britain had basically replaced the production of factory handicrafts, and the Industrial Revolution was basically completed. Britain became the world's first industrial nation. At the same time, it also laid the foundation for the strength of the British Empire today. However, if the invention and use of the steam engine is regarded as the beginning of the industrial revolution, and if the end of the eighteenth century is regarded as the first industrial revolution, then the use of internal combustion engines and electrical energy is the beginning of the second industrial revolution, and the world economic order will be fundamentally changed because of the beginning of the second industrial revolution. Huo Shan's words were silent for a while before continuing: "During the first industrial revolution, Britain seized the opportunity to become the world's first power. This is already a fact and history, and we cannot change it, but the second industrial revolution caused by the internal combustion engine and electric energy, I don't want our Chinese nation to fall behind the Western world again!" )