Great Power Technology

The meeting in the room lasted for more than two hours. Based on the preliminary conclusions formed, the leadership group made the decision to declassify the project and decided that the official media would release relevant reports on the successful test run of the Qilian engine on the same day.

The consideration of doing this is mainly based on the first idea put forward by the man in Mao suit, which is the idea of ​​the so-called Silk Road in the Sky.

If you want to commercially deploy the Qilian engine, you must ensure its influence around the world. Only when everyone realizes its advantages can this engine be sold, and only if it is truly sold. , establishing its own global air transportation system will become a reality.

Therefore, they must act as soon as possible.

Now that the Qilian engine has completed test runs and the project has entered the final stage, the confidentiality requirements have been reduced to a controllable level. If it is announced at this time, the benefits that can be obtained far outweigh the risk of leaks.

So that night, the whole world saw reports about the successful test run of the Qilian engine.

"The test run of the domestic high-thrust engine was successful, with a peak thrust of 121 tons, codenamed Qilian"

Ye Zhou was sitting in his office, with reports about the Qilian engine displayed on the screen in front of him. He didn't read the content of the interactive comments, but he didn't need to think about it to know what kind of boiling scene there was.

Because dozens of APPs on his personal mobile phone have repeatedly pushed this message to him hundreds of times, and even the takeout APP has pushed twice promotional offers related to Qilian engines.

No one will not understand the significance behind this era-changing high-thrust engine. Even if they can’t understand some of the slightly complicated data disclosed in it at first, when various analyzes begin to emerge, everyone will realize that, Those numbers are definitely more than simple numbers.

Ye Zhou looked away from the screen, and then said to Chen Hao as if he suddenly remembered something:

"I just answered a phone call. The person above called me and talked about some things. But from what he said, why do I feel that I am not going to continue to be responsible for the subsequent testing and optimization work of the sedan project? What, do you think my work is done?"

Chen Hao smiled and replied:

"You are quite perceptive, can you tell this?"

".It's not my first day joining the project team. Okay, let me tell you in detail what the plan is next."

Chen Hao coughed, first glanced at Ye Zhou, and then asked tentatively:

"If I say, there are no updated plans recently, what are you going to do?"

Ye Zhou was stunned for a moment, and then asked doubtfully:

"What's the meaning?"

".You have been put on forced leave. For two months, I plan to let you go to Hailan to stay. If you want to go somewhere else, you can mention it to me and we will make arrangements."

"Have they discussed this matter with you? Why didn't they notify me in advance?"

"If I told you in advance, would you agree? Anyway, the decision has been made, so you won't have to use your superior command authority on this kind of thing, right? Besides, you have been working too hard during this period. , have a good rest, come back and continue working."

Ye Zhou sighed helplessly. He knew in his heart that the organization's decision to let him rest was the right one, but now he was like a machine running at full speed. It was not that simple to stop. things.

After a moment of silence, he asked:

"This decision should have been voted on, right? You were not allowed to participate?"

"My vote was yes."

Chen Hao replied seriously.

".Then you are really my good big brother. Forget it, just take a rest, but two weeks is enough. If you really take two months off, the day lily will be cold."

"no problem!"

Chen Hao immediately nodded in agreement.

".You don't need to report to the superiors?"

"I've already guessed that you agreed to take a break of two weeks at most. I told you two months to deliberately deceive you."

"Okay, you guys are really good at it. I really haven't reached the point where my body can't bear it. If I do, I will tell myself."

Hearing this, Chen Hao shook his head resolutely and replied:

"No, you won't say it. You won't even know that your body has reached its limit. How do you think so many of our comrades fell at work? We have learned too many lessons in this regard, regardless of It won’t happen again, whether it’s you or anyone else.”

"I am very convinced by you. However, during the vacation, I asked to keep in touch with the project team. In particular, if the Qilian engine is to be commercialized in the near future, all details must be notified to me."

"Commercialization? So fast? Where did you get the news?"

Chen Hao asked doubtfully.

"Isn't this obvious? If it wasn't for commercialization, how could the higher-ups be so eager to build momentum for Qilian? What they want to do is to expand Qilian's influence as soon as possible and realize the domestic replacement of large commercial aircraft as soon as possible, and then Make purely domestically produced large aircraft, and then use these large aircraft to replace the passenger aircraft currently in service of domestic airlines.”

"According to my estimation, this action will be completed within a few years. By then, the whole world will be different."

As Ye Zhou spoke, he recalled a certain ending of Dragon's Heart in his mind. In that ending, China established an aerial Silk Road covering the whole world, and this huge plan also started from the beginning. Commercial use of thrust engines begins.

Now, the members of the sedan project leadership team have obviously made a decision, and even took this first step with super efficiency that even he did not expect.

It seems that the completion of this aerial silk road may be earlier than he expected.

"What will be the specific situation? Do you have a preliminary judgment now?"

Chen Hao looked at Ye Zhou with disbelief. Of course he could understand the significance of the commercialization of engines, but he really didn't know what Ye Zhou meant by "the world will become different."

Upon hearing Chen Hao's question, Ye Zhou did not answer immediately. Instead, he pondered for a moment before asking:

"Let me ask you, what is the biggest difference between ocean transportation and air transportation? Do you know?"

"Capacity, cost and timeliness. Ocean transportation has large capacity and low cost, but its timeliness is also poor. The opposite is true for air transportation."

Ye Zhou nodded and continued:

"Then do you know that the current unit transportation cost of air transportation is approximately how many times that of ocean transportation?"

Chen Hao frowned and replied:

"I did learn about this before. According to my memory, the cost of air transportation is about 13 to 15 times that of ocean transportation. You mean, we will make the cost of air transportation lower than the cost of ocean transportation? Is this unlikely?"

Ye Zhou glanced at Chen Hao approvingly. His ability to answer the number 13 times showed that he indeed knew something about the international freight industry.

However, this understanding is actually far behind.

After a moment's pause, he answered:

"The answer you said is correct, but it is not entirely correct, because that was the data three years ago. But now, due to the influence of certain factors, the cost of sea transportation has risen to only 3-3 times the cost of air transportation. Five times the level, there is only one reason - don’t get me wrong, this factor is only a superficial reason, the real reason is the serious intensification of global import and export imbalance, or in other words, the rapid gathering of production and manufacturing centers."

"You should know that under the current circumstances, nearly half of the world's goods of all types have to be shipped from certain manufacturing centers, and the transportation capacity that these manufacturing centers can carry is limited."

"Their ports cannot be expanded immediately, their container volume cannot be increased immediately, and their cargo ships cannot be launched immediately."

"This is the crux of the problem. The mismatch between production capacity and freight capacity has caused the crazy rise in shipping prices and costs."

"And this mismatch definitely doesn't just happen now, and it's definitely not just because of the factor I mentioned."

"In the coming period, as our country's productivity further improves, the agglomeration effect of manufacturing centers will be further strengthened. By that time, we will face a serious shortage of transportation capacity."

"There are many solutions to this problem, including building bigger ports, building more cargo ships, etc. These are traditional solutions."

"However, there is a problem with such a solution, which is that the construction cycle is too long and the revenue is slow."

"So, in fact, we have been trying to use air transportation to replace sea transportation. Because air transportation is more flexible and requires fewer basic conditions - a country may not have a suitable port, but it is definitely not impossible to find a port. An open space for planes to land.”

"In the past, this plan was far away from us. But now, with the advent of the Qilian engine, this plan has suddenly become a reality."

"The Qilian engine brings higher thrust and higher transportation capacity. A specially designed 4-engine cargo aircraft, with the support of the Qilian 11.2 thrust-to-weight ratio, can carry up to 3,000 tons of cargo in pure theory. , what is this concept? This means that the unit cost of air transport will be reduced to less than twice the cost of sea transport in a very short period of time. Taking into account the circulation benefits generated by timeliness, the overall benefits of air transport will even be far lower. Much more than shipping.”

"Of course, this is just a very rough speculation. The actual implementation will also need to consider various factors such as cost, materials, infrastructure, etc., and even the take-off and landing methods of the aircraft will have to be redesigned. However, this goal is not impossible. accomplish."

"At that time, the advantages of our air transport system will expand like a snowball, traditional sea transport will slowly decline, and those countries that control economic power through sea transport will all be severely impacted."

"By that time, we will have mastered something far more than just transportation routes."

"Do you understand?"

"That's what I'm saying, the world is going to be different."

After listening to Ye Zhou's words, Chen Hao breathed a deep sigh of relief.

He could completely imagine the future picture painted by Ye Zhou, and he could also imagine that one day, China's cargo planes would be all over the world.

That would be a spectacular sight—but is it really possible?

Whether it is for him or for this country, this goal seems a bit too far.

Thinking of this, he said:

"I can understand what you are saying, but I really can't quite believe it."

"This plan is too ambitious and the strategic vision required is too far ahead. Even if it can be imagined, it may be difficult to pass it internally."

Ye Zhou smiled and shook his head, and was about to refute Chen Hao. Suddenly, they both received a message on their phones at the same time.

The content of the message is very simple, just a meeting notice.

But the content of this meeting notice made Chen Hao stunned.

“Closed Discussion on the Aerial Silk Road Project.”

He raised his head and looked at Ye Zhou with disbelief, but the latter just smiled and said:

"You see, at any time, I am confident in our strategic vision."

"Don't use the average level of the world, especially the average level of the West, to speculate on our own strategic vision."

"Because, their eyes will only focus on what is in front of them. Even if they look far away, their ultimate goal is only profit."

"But we are different."

"Our nation has existed for 5,000 years. From the founding of the first country, our goal has been more than just profit."

"Instead, aspire to conquer the Central Plains and then compete in the world."