Technological power starts with upgrading lenses.

Chapter 434 Habitual Chicken Blood
Cai Yaobin didn’t know whether Belfshka really understood or was pretending to be ignorant, but the “pressure” had been exerted anyway, and the rest depended on whether they would buy into it or not.

Although we cannot engage in profit-seeking, we still have to use basic tactics, otherwise they will see at a glance that what we want is their space shuttle technology, and we will be in a passive position later on.

Therefore, to put it bluntly, the tasks on this technology list are bait wrapped around fish hooks. They are listed very carefully. For some technologies, you can imagine that the big Russians will not sell them even if they are bitten. They will definitely think that they are fish hooks. However, technology like the space shuttle looks like fat bait, and the possibility of being bitten is very high.

Little did they know that this was the real hook they had set…

Just as the Kremlin held a meeting immediately after receiving the secret report from Belfshka, Kang Chi also held an important technical conference at the Pangu base. In addition to the original technical backbones of the group such as Yan Hui and Fang Qiang, some new faces appeared at the venue.

"First of all, let me introduce these two to you. They are Academician Fu Zhong and Academician Liu Yunmei. Their research and development team will officially join our group from today and work with you on scientific research."

As soon as Kang Chi finished speaking, there was a burst of applause in the venue.
Everyone applauded while observing the two academicians in their fifties, and from Kang Chi's subsequent introduction, they learned that they were the big guys in the moon landing project.

So, the group is finally going to enter the aerospace field?

Thinking of this, Yan Hui couldn't help but become excited.

Although working in the military industry with Kang Chi before was quite challenging and full of mission, as an engineer, who can resist the scientific romance brought by space exploration?
【“Qingtian” Space Shuttle Technology Seminar】

After the brief welcome ceremony, Kang Chi directly announced the name of today's topic.

"space shuttle?"

When seeing this topic, everyone seemed very surprised except for the two big guys transferred from the space agency's moon landing program.

No one expected that Kang Chi would choose the space shuttle, a somewhat "non-mainstream" and even "anti-era" technology route...

However, after a brief moment of surprise, everyone quickly shifted their gaze from the screen to Kang Chi's face, as if waiting for orders, and no one raised any objections.

This scene surprised Fu Zhongxue and other researchers who had just come from the aerospace system...

After all, Kang Chi gave the general direction right away, without any intention of discussing it with everyone. If this happened to the national scientific research team, it would probably cause an uproar and all kinds of doubts would fly around.
However, this is the Pangu base, a team that Kang Chi has polished step by step.
No matter how outrageous the decision Kang Chi made was, they would at most be surprised for a moment, and then roll up their sleeves and fight him without hesitation.

What happened to non-mainstream?
What happened to the reverse era?
When Kang Chi was working on magnetized target nuclear fusion, many people thought, like Freehughes, that using outdated steam engine technology to achieve nuclear fusion was as ridiculous as using automobile engine technology to develop space rockets.

However, Kang Chi proved with his results that technology is not outdated at all.

Some technologies that originally seemed to have reached a dead end may be able to regain new vitality with the breakthroughs of other supporting technologies!
Kang Chi ignored the surprise of Fu Zhongxue and the others and continued, "Originally, such a major technical meeting should be arranged in advance to give everyone some time to look up materials and prepare."

“But to be honest, there is not much technical information available about the space shuttle. It is almost a completely new field for us, so I don’t think it is necessary to do any homework in advance. Everyone can express their own opinions on the spot and make bold speeches and arguments. Doing homework in advance may limit your thinking.”

"Today's meeting is mainly to discuss how the space shuttle should be built, finalize several major technical directions, and then assign the next task. Academician Fu Zhongxue will preside over the meeting. At the same time, Academician Fu will also be the main person in charge of the Qingtian Project in the future." After Kang Chi finished speaking, he nodded to Fu Zhongxue, indicating that it would be his turn next.

In the discussion before the meeting, Fu Zhongxue, who had just arrived and was "suppressed" by Kang Chi's long-standing reputation, actually didn't want to take up the topic.

However, Kang Chi's attitude was very firm and sincere. He also said that although Academician Fu would be the person in charge, if there were any problems or difficult decision-making situations, Kang Chi, as the "real boss", would help solve them. Only then did Fu Zhongxue reluctantly agree.

The main reason is that Kang Chi is very self-aware and knows that what he is really good at is actually tackling key points, difficulties and core technologies through cheating. In fact, his overall control ability of such large-scale scientific research projects is not strong.
As the "reserve" chief designer of the original manned lunar landing project, Academician Fu's ability to control large projects is his strong point. The Space Administration is willing to let them come over, so Kang Chi naturally wants to make full use of them and let go reasonably.

There is another point that Kang Chi absolutely refuses to admit, that is, he is completely clueless about something like the space shuttle, which has basically no technical reference, and he doesn't know how to start...

You can't really create a toy or a semi-finished product, and then upgrade the analysis along the way, right?

How much experience and mastery points does this big guy full of high technology have to absorb?

……

"...Well...To be honest, when I first heard from my superiors that Academician Kang was going to develop a space shuttle, I was as surprised as you were just now. Especially when the Space Administration suggested that we join this plan, I was confused and resisted."

"Let's not talk about whether the technology route of the space shuttle is feasible now. The cost and resource investment alone are enough to make people feel suffocated. In order to develop the space shuttle, the United States invested a total of nearly 1972 billion US dollars starting in 1700..."

"What was $1972 billion in 1700?"

"If it were put into today's market, it would have to be at least ten times higher, equivalent to at least 1.7 trillion US dollars, or 12 trillion RMB!"

"In addition to funds, they invested countless manpower and materials. In order to compete with the United States, Russia also invested at least 200 billion rubles and a large amount of social resources. The huge investment seriously affected their society and economy at the time, and even became one of the reasons for their eventual disintegration."

"Can we really build something like a space shuttle? Can Academician Kang really build it with just the Longteng Group?"

"I was very skeptical at the time, but in the end, like you just did, I chose to trust Academician Kang. I believe that what they can do, we in China can definitely do it, and we can do it better than them!"

"But even if we believe in it, we still have to put it into practice. We have almost no experience in building space shuttles, so we have to start from scratch. Especially since Mr. Kang's goal is to make it 100% recyclable, this project becomes unprecedentedly challenging."

"I am not saying so many off-topic things to you before the work officially starts to undermine your confidence, but to give you a clear idea of ​​how complex a systematic project we are about to face is, and to prepare you mentally for a long-term struggle in advance."

When Kang Chi heard the words "long-term struggle", his expression was complicated, and he almost couldn't hold back his laughter...

Probably due to his previous work habits, Academician Fu was quite adept at this kind of "pre-match mobilization". After all the preparations were made, the atmosphere on the scene really heated up.
I just wonder what kind of expression Academician Fu would have if Kang Chi told him that he expected the first flight to be completed within half a year...

(End of this chapter)