You say you have an iron will, are you serious?

Chapter 257 I have no objection to transferring the funds to them.

Luzhou, Artificial Solar Engineering Research Institute.

After dinner, Xu Wei did not take his bag and go home for a vacation like other colleagues. Instead, he took a glass of hot water and returned to his office.

He planned to hold on until the very end, leaving no trace of the research at hand unfinished.

"Funds have been reduced and progress has been slowed down. I really don't know what the higher-ups are thinking~"

Xu Wei was thinking about the progress of the entire project again. It was visible to the naked eye that it was about half slower than last year.

"Xugong, the National Day holiday starts tomorrow, why don't you go home?"

Kuang Xiantao, deputy director, director of the Institute of Plasma Physics, and head of China's Artificial Sun Research Project, has not returned yet. When he just walked out of the office, he saw Xu Wei coming to work overtime, and he immediately started asking.

He was not surprised. After all, Xu Wei had been working hard since he joined the artificial sun research team. Especially after winning the Sloan Award, he became a desperate man.

It is normal for me to come back and work overtime now.

However, as a direct leader, it is within the scope of responsibility to care about the lives and physical and mental health of subordinates, so you still have to ask.

"Leader, haven't you gone back yet?"

Xu Wei said with a smile, and then replied: "There are still some unresolved problems at hand. I will go back after they are resolved. Otherwise, I will always be thinking about it when I go back, and I won't be able to take a vacation."

Kuang Xiantao nodded, pointed at him and said with a smile: "You, you are young and have the same bad habit as me. You can't always separate work and life. This is not good. You have to change it, otherwise you will suffer in the future. of."

"We can't change it. We've formed a habit. Just suffer the consequences. Who made us choose this profession?"

Xu Wei said with a smile on his face.

The leader's words may seem like criticism, but they are actually praise.

If you have the same style as your leader, you are your own person.

"Yeah, who made us choose this line of work."

Kuang Xiantao's face showed emotion, and then he laughed: "Fifty years forever~"

Xu Wei: "..."

Leader, that’s what you said~

These words are an eternal pain in the hearts of the artificial sun team and all researchers who study controllable nuclear fusion. It is okay if you don’t think about it at first, but it is particularly heartbreaking when you say it.

Especially these words reminded Xu Wei of what Zhao Mo said mocking him at the National Science and Technology Awards Conference at the beginning of the year. Originally, due to funding issues, he wanted to talk to Zhao Mo, but he didn't expect that Zhao Mo directly used "forever fifty years" to put him in a corner.

"Okay, let's get busy~"

Kuang Xiantao patted him on the shoulder, then turned around and went out for inspection.

"Hmm~"

Xu Wei responded and returned to his office.

Tomorrow is National Day.

During the National Day Golden Week, there is a long holiday, and the leader Kuang Xiantao is mainly responsible for the finishing work. As a scientific researcher who has always been on the front line, I still do this myself.

In fact, during the National Day Golden Week in the past two years, the institute did not take long holidays because the projects were heavy, the tasks were tight, and the superiors had to produce results, so the time was very tight. But this year is special because the funding was cut a lot by the authorities, and then the project suddenly slowed down.

It has slowed down a lot, so when it comes to holidays, I take a holiday when it’s time to give the members more rest.

According to Kuang Xiantao's thinking, the current funding cut by the state is only temporary. Sooner or later, the funding will have to be replenished, so he takes a vacation to recharge his batteries first, and he will be busy later.

The pursuit of energy, especially unlimited energy and clean energy, is mankind's eternal pursuit and a necessary condition for human civilization to move from low-level to high-level.

Without solving the problem of controllable nuclear fusion, there will be no bright future for mankind!

Kuang Xiantao has full confidence in this.

It’s just that I don’t know which generation will realize it.

After a round of inspection, it was found that all doors and windows that should be closed were closed, all power sources that should be unplugged were unplugged, and dangerous sources were sorted and isolated. Kuang Xiantao was quite satisfied.

The entire team is a R&D staff, and it is their habit to be meticulous and conscientious. They also do a good job in safety.

When returning to the office, I passed by Xu Wei's office. Under the light, Xu Wei was concentrating on his work and did not react to the movement of his walking.

"It's a good seedling~"

Kuang Xiantao nodded secretly and then returned to the office.

After working for a while, he raised his hand and looked at the time. It was almost seven o'clock. He turned on the TV in the office and watched the news directly.

This is a habit of his. Nothing else, he still wants to make progress.

Familiar host, familiar picture, Kuang Xiantao watched carefully.

"Now insert a piece of news~"

When the broadcast reached the tenth minute, the host suddenly lowered his head and looked at the manuscript in his hand, then showed a happy smile on his face, and reported to the screen in a straight voice: "Today at 1000 o'clock at noon, in Tongchuan, Qin Dynasty. At the Aerospace New Power Test Center, my country’s 100-ton high-thrust rocket engine was successfully tested for the first time, and after an interval of seconds, the second test was successful, lasting as long as seconds..."

"???"

Kuang Xiantao was confused. What happened?

Am I having a hard time today or am I just dreaming now?

A thousand-ton thrust rocket engine?

Are you sure you're not bragging?

He suddenly stood up from his position, then rubbed his eyes desperately a few times, and dug his ears, trying to confirm whether his eyes were dazzled or whether he was hearing hallucinations.

After doing all this, he looked at the TV screen again.

On the screen, the host disappeared, replaced by many coded images flashed in the mountains, and then the tail of a huge rocket engine appeared. As the "ignition" command sounded, it immediately ejected A powerful flame of light, a dreamlike blue color, rushed straight into the reservoir at the foot of the mountain.

Boom~

When the deafening sound sounded, billowing white smoke shot straight into the sky, shrouding the entire test center and filling the entire live broadcast screen.

Kuang Xiantao stared at this scene blankly, and subconsciously shouted: "Xu Wei, Xu Wei, come here and take a look~"

When Xu Wei, who was busy, heard the sound, he was startled for a moment, and then he didn't dare to neglect, and quickly walked out of the office and came to Kuang Xiantao.

"What's wrong, leader?"

Xu Wei asked when he came in.

Kuang Xiantao pointed to the TV screen and said: "Look at the news, our country has developed a rocket engine with a thrust of 1,000 tons!"

Xu Wei: "???"

Good guy, a thousand tons of thrust?

Who is so awesome?

Although he was a little dazed for a moment and couldn't believe the thrust data, he immediately looked at the TV screen.

On the TV screen, billowing white smoke occupies most of the screen, and the rest is the building of the Aerospace New Power Test Center and the rocket engine that is emitting a blue flame.

In an extremely noisy environment, a journalist girl wearing white clothes appeared on the screen. She introduced to the screen: "...As you can see, there was a loud noise just now. I was standing very far away, but I can still feel the air wave ejected when the engine starts, which is very strong. Especially the huge white mist just rushed towards me. It is understood that the pressure of this air wave exceeds thousands of atmospheres, which is equivalent to holding a demon. The water in the Huangpu River reaches the height of Mount Everest..."

After the girl finished her introduction, the screen changed and the scene of ignition and rocket engine eruption appeared again.

"It turned out to be true!"

Xu Wei muttered to himself in disbelief.

The broadcast continued, and after a while, a familiar face appeared in Xu Wei's sight. He was very young, dark-skinned, and ordinary-looking. Next to him were two lines of words introducing "Head of the High Thrust Rocket Engine Team" and " Professor Zhao Mo from Wudaokou".

Xu Wei: "..."

He was completely stunned!

Good guy, are you serious?

Moreover, shouldn't your "large" rocket engine be two to three hundred tons? Why is it suddenly a thousand tons? This enlargement ratio is a bit foul.

When he came to his senses, Xu Wei suddenly felt some pain on both sides of his cheeks, burning.

Maybe it’s because of the hot pepper~

On the TV, Zhao Mo was being interviewed and talked with a smile: "... is in a leading position in the world. This marks that our country has made breakthrough progress in the development of liquid rocket engines and has initially entered the status of a space power. The ranks will effectively guarantee the smooth implementation of major projects such as my country's heavy-duty launch vehicles, manned moon landings, deep space exploration, space-to-earth travel, and space infrastructure construction, and provide strong support for accelerating the construction of a space power..."

Seeing this young man who was younger than himself and recently talked about his dazzling achievements in an interview in front of more than one billion people across the country, Xu Wei was speechless and quite uninterested.

It's too far!

This interview lasted for three minutes before it ended.

When the report switched to other events, Kuang Xiantao came back to his senses and said in amazement: "This young man is incredible, he released a big satellite!"

Then, before Xu Wei could speak, he continued: "I heard you say before that our research funds were misappropriated to his high-thrust rocket engine project, and I was very unhappy. But now looking at the facts, he His rocket engine project is indeed much more important and urgent than our artificial sun project. The funds were transferred to him, and I have no objection now."

Xu Wei: "..."

I feel tired and don’t want to talk.

However, compared to their reaction here, the reaction from other places was much more intense.

When the news was broadcast, it was already very late. Some places that had received the news in advance were either full of surprises or in a panic.

And when it was broadcast, more places exploded, such as on the domestic Internet, such as America, such as Da Mao Zi, Xiao Benzi, Xiao Bai Xiang...

(End of this chapter)