Chapter 784 The French Got Out of Control

Chapter 784 The French... have gone too far

After determining the basic response ideas, the development work on the boil-off gas reliquefaction technology also began.

The task was naturally undertaken by Lei Zhixing and Liu Fangping.

This is also a relatively common way of operation for a large research group-

As the big boss, Chang Haonan only provides basic ideas, some key technologies and resources for non-core projects, while the specific implementation is the responsibility of other researchers who are more familiar with the situation.

This ensures that the entire laboratory operates at a relatively high efficiency.

Otherwise, if Chang Haonan is asked to do any project himself, no matter how energetic he is, he will not be able to take care of it.

"Then Mr. Chang, after we go back, we will contact the comrades in charge of docking at the Hudong Factory and ask them to set up a horizontal project, and then we will apply for it?"

Lei Zhixing asked as usual.

When he was studying for his doctorate, he often followed Yan Yongnian to apply for the project. Now he has just changed schools and is already familiar with it.

"Okay."

Chang Haonan nodded first, but then lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and then continued to add:

"However, the opposite side is also a central enterprise that has just been reformed into a group for a few years. It is estimated that it will not be very efficient in spending money. We can't waste this time."

"In this way, I will allocate 30,000 yuan from the laboratory's public funds to you as project feasibility study and pre-research funds. After the project is officially reported, the money will be borrowed back."

He took out a stack of grant application forms from the drawer.

There is no online funding management system these days, and if you want to move money, you can only rely on this traditional method.

Chang Haonan simply wrote down the amount and purpose on it, signed his name in the lower right corner, and finally tore it off and put it on the table:

"Take this to find Secretary Liu to stamp it, and then report it to the school, that's it."

If different projects borrow funds from each other vertically, it is basically not feasible, but horizontal projects are much more relaxed in terms of review.

What's more, the investor is Torch Group.

"This...preliminary research funds?"

When Lei Zhixing saw Chang Haonan write "30,000 yuan", his pupils trembled a little.

30,000 yuan, in 1999, was almost equivalent to the total funds of a small project.

According to the unspoken rule that the school would take a portion of the funds, it was even higher than the funds of many small projects.

Now it was just a feasibility study and preliminary research, and Chang Haonan signed it so happily.

He even took the initiative to propose it.

Obviously, the resources of this laboratory are unfathomable.

After a brief excitement, Lei Zhixing took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down, and then picked up the grant form from the table:

"Then Professor Chang, we will go to do the work first. If nothing unexpected happens, the specific feasibility analysis report should be available before the end of next month."

Chang Haonan did not speak, but put the pen back into the pen holder, then nodded, indicating that the two of them should get busy.

Under normal circumstances, a feasibility analysis, even if it is very detailed and involves some preliminary experimental verification, does not require particularly high costs.

Especially for the reliquefaction of boil-off gas, the main consideration is the technical route of the reliquefaction process. It is impossible to study such complex content as hull strength in the preliminary demonstration process.

Therefore, the 30,000 yuan fund is actually quite generous.

And this is also what Chang Haonan did deliberately.

There is no doubt that he wants to entrust Lei Zhixing and Liu Fangping with important tasks.

But everything must be done step by step.

Whether from the perspective of gradually increasing the amount and giving them enough space to adapt, or from the perspective of testing whether the two are reliable enough, it is a good choice to let them independently host a feasibility demonstration process first.

On the other hand, Lei Zhixing, who had just walked out of the office, took out the funding slip and read it over and over again at the stairs.

"What are you doing?"

Liu Fangping, who had already walked down half a flight of stairs, turned around with a puzzled look on his face:

"Nothing."

Lei Zhixing shook his head and followed his friend's footsteps:

"I was just thinking that we didn't choose to stay in school, but listened to Teacher Yan and came to Beijing Aviation University. This step should be the right one..."

Although Qinghua is still a much better platform than Beijing Aviation University at the school level.

But for the two little lecturers, the laboratory they are in and the boss they follow are the most important.

No matter how many school resources there are, if they are not tilted to one person, they are useless.

Liu Fangping usually doesn't talk much, but he definitely doesn't have a problem with expression. He just doesn't want to speak in most cases:

"Of course, Professor Yan won't cheat us. Besides, when we were working on the die forging press before, we had already contacted Mr. Chang. He is definitely a person of high level..."

...

At the same time.

France, Paris.

After lunch, Serge Dassault and Charles Edelsteiner were walking on the path inside the group.

"Charlie, has the news of our cooperation with the Chinese been released?"

Dassault looked at a sycamore tree beside the road and asked suddenly.

"According to your request, the cooperation is negotiated under the name of a civilian project. Two days ago, I leaked some inside information to a New York Times reporter through my acquaintances in the media."

Edelsteiner nodded and replied-

In fact, Wen Kangjian's previous concerns were justified.

Serge Dassault's wishful thinking was indeed to try to make General Electric feel a sense of crisis by releasing signals of cooperation with China, so as to restore the relationship between the two parties...

Ahem...

Cooperative relationship.

In fact, according to his initial deployment, he only needed to have some simple written exchanges with the Chinese side, and there was no need to enter the formal negotiation stage at all.

That is why he chose to use a corporate jet cooperation project as a cover-up method full of loopholes -

Because he had no intention of hiding it.

Dassault even wanted to do it in a big way so that the whole world would know.

It was just because he thought it was a bit too fake, so he was a little more subtle.

But the media reported the matter as soon as the two sides started to contact.

"So, what is the reaction of the United States? Has it expressed its intention to continue to cooperate with Snecma?"

Dassault asked with a confident look.

But the facts prove that the literature of the beautiful wife is not good.

If you don't really want to turn the table, don't use it to threaten the other party.

After hearing the question from his boss, Edelsteiner shook his head with a complicated expression.

Dassault frowned when he heard it.

But he obviously didn't realize the seriousness of the matter:

"They refused?"

Edelsteiner shook his head again, and then spoke with a slightly bitter tone:

"In fact... So far, we haven't received any feedback, and the United States seems to have directly ignored the news..."

Dassault's expression froze on his face.

"How could it be..."

Edelsteiner did not answer.

The air fell into silence for a while.

Obviously, this is not a question that can be answered.

For a moment, Serge Dassault felt that his mind was a little confused.

In his opinion, even if he couldn't make General Electric change its mind directly, at least he could bring the other party back to the negotiating table.

Or at least, he could open up the latest F414 engine for mass-produced Rafale.

Although Snecma would suffer a little, the impact on Dassault would be minimized-

Re-matching the new engine is bound to take some time, but it will always allow the Rafale fighter to be delivered to the French army on time in name.

Before the J-10 and EF2000.

But despite all his calculations, he didn't expect that the other side of the Atlantic would not even respond to him.

This was quite awkward.

"Mr. Dassault."

After the awkward atmosphere lasted for a long time, Edsteiner finally spoke:

"In fact, in order to prevent this from happening, I specifically asked Oliver Weiley to maintain contact with the Chinese side."

"So, if we go back now and really look for the Chinese, it should still be in time..."