A nation's industrial development begins with junior engineers.

Chapter 1033 Hmph, this is called not putting all your eggs in one basket!

Old Wang was a little confused and subconsciously scratched his head.

The gas turbine project is a new direction that Jiangxia has only recently started to focus on, and it has just begun to show some promise. Now they want to move the core personnel and assets to the southwest?

Isn't that a bit too much?

And the reason? Just because you think this place is "not peaceful"?

The definition of "not clean" is too broad. He opened his mouth, unsure how to respond.

Dude, your train of thought jumps around a bit too fast, how am I supposed to keep up?

Fortunately, before Old Wang could dwell on it too much, Secretary Liu, who had already organized the meeting minutes from last night, caught up with her notebook and took over the conversation.

With obvious worry on his face, he looked at Jiang Xia's face, which appeared even paler in the cold morning light, and the bloodshot eyes. He couldn't help but ask, "Brother, what's wrong with you lately? It feels like... you're trying to cover a year's worth of travel in a single day."

You've always worked incredibly hard, but this time... it's different. Could you tell us about it? Perhaps we can help analyze it.

Urgent?

It's really urgent!

Even Lao Wang noticed Jiang Xia's unusual behavior.

Although I used to work myself to the bone to finish blueprints, it was always a steady and gradual process.

But this time, Jiang Xia seemed possessed, wanting to cram all the technology and ideas in his head into other people's heads and push them into various factories...

They completely disregard whether other people's heads are about to explode.

“I’m getting impatient again,” Jiang Xia said with a self-deprecating laugh, stretching his stiff neck. “I always feel like there’s not enough time.”

Seeing that Jiang Xia was trying to gloss over the issue again, Secretary Liu gritted her teeth and decided to make things clear.

He opened his notebook, pointing to the densely packed entries marked with "urgent," "as soon as possible," and "priority" in red pen by Jiang Xia, his tone sincere yet tinged with a hint of admonition:

"We all know that there isn't enough time. The country needs to develop, and technology needs to make breakthroughs; neither can wait. But some things can't be rushed, nor can they be done quickly."

"The things in your mind, those blueprints, need to be transformed into machines that can run in the workshop and temperatures that can be controlled in the furnace. Every step requires people to try, modify, and encounter setbacks, and then find ways to remove or bypass the setbacks."

Take that 'high-temperature resistant probe' you discussed with the factory managers last night, for example. The idea is good, but how many companies in China can stably mass-produce it and withstand the splashing of slag next to molten steel at over 1,000 degrees Celsius?

Your design for 'interference-resistant signal transmission' is advanced, but can our cable and connector factories, with their current technological capabilities, produce something that is so stable and reliable? It's not something you can just connect by drawing a line.

Each question was like a needle, gently puncturing the balloon of anxiety that had been inflated in Jiang Xia.

He himself was well aware of these issues.

He understood better than anyone the shortcomings in the industrial foundation behind every technical detail.

Recently, however, an increasingly strong sense of urgency has been pushing him forward, like a whip lashing from behind, pushing him to keep drawing forward, as if he wanted to cram the vision of ten years from now into the current framework. As for how to build the steps in between, he almost avoids thinking about it in detail.

Indeed, this incident has made this "naive kid" who is used to roaming freely in the world of technology truly feel the chill.

It's not that I'm afraid I'll be blown over by this wind.

He was confident, and also had a bit of the stubbornness of someone who "has nothing to lose".

To his alarm, the "safe zone" he had thought was secure enough for him to focus on his research seemed to be becoming less safe.

Those developments that were originally methodical, slow but steady, may stagnate or even be led astray due to some unseen power struggles, some sudden "rules" or "adjustments".

Therefore, Jiang Xia, like a squirrel sensing the approaching danger, couldn't wait to disperse and hide his hoarded pine cones in more "tree holes" that he felt were safer.

He was eager to ignite more technological sparks in different places at the same time, and to open up more possible production line research and development fronts.

Honestly, Jiang Xia just felt that the navy now had such brilliant minds, especially those who were parachuted in.

If the navy is in such a state, how can other places possibly be any better?

Don't call him sensitive. The latest news from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences early yesterday morning became the last straw that broke his composure.

The operating system project he had high hopes for was inexplicably delayed, and some people were even trying to lobby him to divert the special funds in his project that were originally intended for the next generation of research and development to expand the production capacity of "Big Yellow Generation" under the guise of "responding to the strong demand in the international market and creating more foreign exchange".

Yes, his original plan to use the relatively mature "Big Yellow Generation 1" for exploratory export and foreign exchange earnings, while focusing on incubating the more advanced "Big Yellow Generation 2" and its supporting system, was completely disrupted.

The emerging trend of "focusing only on immediate gains and neglecting long-term foundations," along with the potential risks of resource misallocation and research and development disruptions, sent chills down his spine.

This gave Jiang Xia a strong sense of crisis:

If even the Academy of Sciences and the core projects he directly promoted are beginning to experience this kind of abnormal interference and obstruction, then what about those other future seeds he has planned but which have not yet been fully implemented, or which require even more sustained investment and protection...

For example, wouldn't the nascent gas turbine, more advanced materials and processes, and complex industrial simulations based on "Dahuang II" be even more vulnerable?

A slightly stronger gust of wind could blow them apart or break them.

Therefore, Jiangxia became anxious.

He was eager to open up more "battlefields" and to sow the seeds of projects that he considered crucial and capable of strengthening the country's industrial strength as quickly and as widely as possible, so that they could take root and sprout in different places and under different protections.

In his simple and straightforward understanding: once a project is launched, real money is invested, personnel and equipment are in place, and a fait accompli and the ability to continuously produce are formed, then even if there are any disturbances, it will be much more difficult to stop or cut it off.

"If I can't afford to fight, can't I at least avoid it?" This is probably the most helpless state of mind Jiang Xia is in right now.

I'll put the eggs in different baskets, is that alright?

This idea carries the persistence unique to technical geniuses, but also a touch of naive haste forced by reality.

Yes, that's the downside of not studying history well.

Jiang Xia was unaware that the winged tiger's schemes had begun with the navy. Instead of dodging and weaving, he had run headfirst into the lion's den.

It's like fleeing a disaster by hiding in someone else's base camp.

Fortunately, that person was new and his position wasn't yet secure. Plus, Jiang Xia had a powerful patron, Wang, who was self-sufficient and didn't have to worry about anyone else; otherwise, those big shots wouldn't even know if they'd been completely taken advantage of…

But I can't say these things out loud!

Should I tell Secretary Liu what will happen in a few years?

He's probably just confused.

Therefore, Jiang Xia could only talk about Da Huang.

"You mean the operating system is very important?"

"OK!"

"Okay! I'll report it right away!"

Jiang Xia shrank back onto her bed in the dormitory, looking rather dejected: "What's the use of reporting it? Let's discuss it some more, deliberate on it some more?"

"will not!"

Secretary Liu confidently helped Jiang Xia cover herself with the blanket.

"I'm not like those people who make clay figurines and sugar figures to coax children!"

Ok?

Secretary Liu, it's been more than half a year since we last met, and you seem a bit arrogant!