Section 274

This is the most dreamed goal of students like them when they decide to embark on such a scientific research path.

But obviously, this will inevitably be a road that tests patience.

However, when the three of them came to their senses, Chen Muhua suddenly asked: "Brother Xiao, how long did it take you to become a mathematician?"

Xiao Yi was stunned: "Me?"

He thought about it and said: "Maybe... just two years?"

Since he successfully proved the Elliott-Halberstam conjecture, he probably became a mathematician, right?

Of course, now he is more known as a master of mathematics.

However, this sentence does not need to be said to the three young people in front of him who are in a daze.

Lest it hit them too hard.

...

That night, Xiao Yi treated the three people to a meal to enhance their relationship, and then left time for the three of them.

The next day, they officially entered the life of graduate students.

Compared with undergraduates, graduate students have more freedom. Of course, this only refers to mathematics and theoretical physics graduate students like them. If they change to other majors...

It's hard to say.

Of course, the main point of such majors is that a master leads the way, and the practice is up to the individual.

Xiao Yi can provide guidance for their research and help them complete the project easily, but there is no improvement for them.

What Xiao Yi can do is to occasionally give them some questions, or recommend some papers that he thinks are good, assign some tasks, let them keep the time spent on learning, etc.

If you want to stand out in mathematics and theoretical physics, you must rely on your strength.

Those famous mathematicians or theoretical physicists are definitely not without achievements.

As for some other fields... well, for example, the Silicon Valley female star who claims that a drop of blood can detect various diseases, or the room temperature superconductivity, Alzheimer's disease, etc., there are too many to mention.

Life has returned to normal, and Xiao Yi has once again devoted his time to the research of MHT-7.

Probably the only difference is that I have to pay attention to what my students are doing occasionally.

Have you studied today?

Have you read papers?

Have you thought about problems?

And so on, until a day in mid-September.

…

At the door of the Institute of Plasma Physics.

Xiao Yi came here again.

“Hey, Professor Xiao, how come you have time to come to our institute again today?”

Zhao Zhanyou has come to the door to greet Xiao Yi.

“I heard that Professor Xiao has started teaching at the University of Science and Technology and has started to teach students? How do you feel about it?”

Xiao Yi smiled and said, “That’s it. It’s my first time to teach students anyway. Except for occasional guidance, there is no other difference.”

“That’s true. Teaching students is troublesome and simple. The most important thing is to see how the students themselves are.” Zhao Zhanyou nodded.

"Okay, Director Zhao, let's get down to business." Xiao Yi's expression became serious, "I came here today to tell you and Academician Li something important."

"So please prepare a safe enough room. Only the three of us know about this."

Hearing what Xiao Yi said, Zhao Zhanyou was stunned, and then he became serious, "I know, we will go find Academician Li now."

...

Not long after, they found Academician Li, and then came to a room that was confidential enough. By the way, Xiao Yi also asked Wang Li to check the room. After ensuring that there was no monitoring equipment, he closed the door and only the three of them were left in the room.

"I am going to officially open the nuclear fusion reactor plan."

Xiao Yi's first sentence was like this.

When he heard his words, Li Jiangan's eyes gradually shook.

Zhao Zhanyou hadn't reacted yet, and said, "So that's it! It's been prepared for a long time..."

"Pah!" Li Jiangan, who was standing next to him, slapped Zhao Zhanyou on the head, "I shouldn't have recommended you to be the director of this institute."

Then he turned his head and said to Xiao Yi in disbelief, "Do you mean... the demonstration reactor?"

Xiao Yi nodded.

"You got that material?"

Li Jiangan had not forgotten what Xiao Yi said at the induction ceremony of their plasma institute.

Xiao Yi did not answer directly, but took out several documents from his bag and handed them to Li Jiangan and Zhao Zhanyou, who was covering his head.

The two took it and looked at it for a while, and Li Jiangan stood up in disbelief.

And Zhao Zhanyou immediately stopped covering his head and looked at the test results listed in the documents in shock.

Such radiation resistance...

Completely beyond their imagination.

Li Jiangan: "This... can actually make such a material!"

Zhao Zhanyou: "Fuck!"

After being shocked, Li Jiangan looked at Xiao Yi again and said solemnly: "What is your plan? Our plasma institute will fully cooperate with you."

Zhao Zhanyou wanted to say that he was the director, but when he thought of the slap he had just received, he gave up struggling.

Xiao Yi said: "First apply for the project under other names, such as building a new experimental device facility, and then I will contact the higher-ups to inform them of the relevant news."

"Director Liu has already communicated with me before."

"The old leader will also provide me with support at any time."

"This time, nuclear fusion will not be far away from us!"

Chapter 235: The Sun-making Plan

Hearing what Xiao Yi said, Li Jiangan and Zhao Zhanyou took a deep breath again.

Even the old leader already knows?

In other words, the old leader probably also knows that they plan to build a new tokamak device?

"How did the old leader know?" Zhao Zhanyou couldn't help asking.

Xiao Yi shrugged and said: "At the National Science and Technology Awards Conference, when I went on stage to receive the award, didn't the old leader say a few words to me? At that time, many people were guessing what the old leader said to me, but in fact, he asked me about this matter."

At that time, the old leader also said that if he needed any support, he could contact him directly. It seems that this promise at the time can now be fulfilled.

At this time, Li Jiangan and Zhao Zhanyou looked at each other in bewilderment. They had also attended the award ceremony. Although they did not have the opportunity to win the prize, it was good to be able to take a look. The most important thing was to communicate with those friends and have a drink. This kind of social interaction was still necessary.

Therefore, they all saw with their own eyes that the old leader whispered a few words when he awarded Xiao Yi the award.

But no one knew what he said specifically, and no relevant information was leaked. In addition, there was no video of the National Science and Technology Award Conference, so people could only roughly guess that it was an encouragement to Xiao Yi.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Yi told them in person that he was talking about this matter.

For a while, the two of them shook their heads helplessly.

Obviously, they were the people of the Institute of Plasma Physics, but they did not know such key news.

Of course, the main reason was that the White House was concerned about Xiao Yi's research on nuclear fusion. It was normal for them not to know such news.

Xiao Yi did not explain much, and then said: "Okay, the next thing to do is to apply for the project from the higher authorities at the Institute of Plasma. When Director Liu comes, I will explain the details to him."

"The most important thing is to keep it confidential."

Afterwards, Xiao Yi continued to explain the details of the next plan to them, and Li Jiangan and Zhao Zhanyou also listened carefully.

Time passed quickly.

The next day, Li Jiangan and Zhao Zhanyou held a meeting at the Institute of Plasma, emphasizing that they would jointly apply for the project with the Science Island Laboratory to build a new nuclear fusion experimental device that is larger than EAST.

For this matter, the people at the Institute of Plasma did not have any doubts, because there had been relevant news about this matter before, and there was nothing strange about it.

And it was just an experimental device, just for experiments, so it was even less worth being surprised.

Of course, they were quite happy, because they finally had a new nuclear fusion device for them to use.

For a while, the researchers in the Institute of Plasma were also very happy.

Then, the project application was submitted to the higher authorities that day.

Some people may ask, how come the project application was completed so quickly?

In fact, such project applications are completely ready in the Institute of Plasma Physics, and you can pick any one you want.

After all, in the past, in order to apply for the construction of new equipment, they had a lot of versions of project applications, from the first version to the Nth version, and they kept reducing the budget, but they were never approved. Now they can just take out the first version of the application, or even double the original budget, or be bold and add a zero at the end, and there is no problem at all.

Anyway, the higher-ups will understand the purpose of their application at that time.