Great Power Technology.

Chapter 206 The goal is not just profit
The meeting in the room lasted for more than two hours. According to the final preliminary conclusions, the leading group made a 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 so is mainly based on the first idea put forward by the man in the tunic suit, which is the idea of ​​the so-called air silk road.

If the Qilian engine is to be deployed commercially, it must ensure its worldwide influence. Only when everyone recognizes its advantages can this engine be sold, and only if it is actually sold , the establishment of its own global air transport system may become a reality.

Therefore, they must act as soon as possible.

Now that the Qilian engine has completed the test run, the project has entered the final stage, and the need for confidentiality has been reduced to a controllable level. Announcing it at this time, the benefits that can be obtained are far greater than the risk of leakage.

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

"The domestically produced high-thrust engine was successfully tested, with a peak thrust of 121 tons, codenamed Qilian"

Ye Zhou was sitting in his office, and the screen in front of him displayed reports about the Qilian engine. He didn't read the content of those 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 own mobile phone have repeatedly pushed this message to him hundreds of times, and even the takeaway app has pushed two promotions related to Qilian engine.

No one would fail to understand the meaning behind this cross-age high-thrust engine. Even if they couldn't understand the slightly complicated data disclosed in it at first, when various analyzes began to emerge, everyone realized that, Those numbers are definitely not just simple numbers.

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

"I answered a call just now, and the person above called me and chatted about some things, but I heard what he said, why do I feel that I am not going to continue to be responsible for the follow-up testing and optimization of the sedan chair project? What, you think my work is done?"

Chen Hao smiled and replied:
"You're pretty sharp, you can see that?"

".It's not the first day I joined the project team. Well, let's talk about the plan in detail."

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

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

Ye Zhou was taken aback for a moment, then asked suspiciously:
"What do you mean?"

".You have been forced to take a vacation. For two months, I plan to let you stay in Hailan, or if you have other places you want to go, you can also mention it to me, and we will arrange it."

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

"If I tell you in advance, can you agree? Anyway, the decision has already been made, so you don't have to use your super command authority on this kind of matter, right? Besides, you have really worked too hard during this time , take 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 right, but now he is like a machine running at full speed. It is really 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?"

"I voted yes."

Chen Hao replied solemnly.

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

"no problem!"

Chen Hao immediately nodded in agreement.

".You don't have to report to the higher ups?"

"I've already guessed that you agreed to take a maximum of two weeks off. I told you that the two months was a deliberate deception."

"Okay, you can really do 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, and you won't even know that your body has reached its limit. How do you think so many of our comrades collapsed at work? We have learned too much about this, no matter what It cannot be repeated on you, or on anyone else."

"Well, I was persuaded by you. However, during the vacation, I asked to keep in touch with the project team, especially, if the Qilian engine is to be commercialized in the near future, I must be notified of all the details."

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

Chen Hao asked suspiciously.

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

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

While talking, Ye Zhou sighed and recalled a certain ending of the Dragon Heart in his mind. In that ending, Huaxia established an air silk road covering the whole world, and this huge plan was born from the great The commercial use of thrust engines began.

Now, the members of the leading group of the sedan chair project have obviously made a decision, and even took this first step with super high efficiency that even he didn't expect.

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

"What will be the specific situation? You have already made a preliminary judgment now?"

Chen Hao looked at Ye Zhou with unbelievable eyes. Of course, he could understand the significance of the commercial use of the engine, but he really didn't know what Ye Zhou meant by "the world will be different".

Hearing Chen Hao's question, Ye Zhou didn't answer immediately, but asked after pondering for a moment:
"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 timeliness is also poor, and air transportation is the opposite."

Ye Zhou nodded and continued:

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

Chen Hao frowned, and replied:

“I did know about this before, and from what I remember, the cost of air freight is about 13 to 15 times that of ocean freight. You mean, we will make the cost of air freight lower than the cost of ocean freight? Is that unlikely?”

Ye Zhou glanced at Chen Hao approvingly. He was able to answer the number 13 times, which showed that he really knew something about the international freight industry.

However, this understanding is actually far behind.

After a pause, he opened his mouth and replied:

"The answer you said is correct, but it is not entirely correct, because the data was three years ago. Now, due to certain factors, the cost of sea freight has risen to only 3-5% of the cost of air freight. [-] times, there is only one reason—don’t get me wrong, this factor is only a superficial reason, and the real reason is the serious aggravation of the imbalance of global imports and exports, or, in other words, the rapid gathering of manufacturing centers.”

"You should know that under the current circumstances, nearly half of all kinds of goods in the world have to be sent from certain manufacturing centers, and the capacity of these manufacturing centers is limited."

"Their ports cannot be expanded immediately, their container volume cannot be increased immediately, and their freighters cannot be launched immediately either."

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

"And this kind of mismatch will definitely not only happen now, and it will definitely not only be because of the factor I mentioned."

"In the future, with the further improvement of our country's productivity, the agglomeration effect of manufacturing centers will be further strengthened. By then, we will face a serious shortage of transportation capacity."

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

"However, there is a problem with such a solution, that is, the construction period is too long and the rate of return is slow."

"So, in fact, we have been trying to replace sea transportation with air 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 piece of land. An open space for planes to land on."

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

"Qilian engine, it brings higher thrust and higher capacity. A specially designed 4-engine cargo aircraft, with the support of Qilian 11.2 thrust-to-weight ratio, can carry 3000 tons of cargo in pure theory. , What is this concept? This means that the unit cost of air transportation will be reduced to less than twice the cost of sea transportation in a very short period of time. Taking into account the circulation income generated by timeliness, the overall income of air transportation will even be far Much more than shipping."

"Of course, this is just an extremely rough guess. In actual implementation, various factors such as cost, materials, and infrastructure must be considered, and even the way the aircraft takes off and land must 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 shipping will slowly decline, and those countries that hold economic power through shipping will all be severely impacted."

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

"So you can understand?"

"That's what I said, the world would be different."

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

He could fully imagine the future picture Ye Zhou depicted, and he could also imagine that one day, Huaxia's cargo planes would be all over the world.

It's a sight to see—but is it really possible?
Whether it is for him or for this country, this goal seems a bit too far away.

Thinking of this, he said:
"I can understand what you're saying, but I'm really a little...unable to believe it."

"This plan is too ambitious, and the strategic vision required is too advanced. Even if it can be thought of, it may be difficult to pass it internally."

Ye Zhou shook his head with a smile, and was about to refute Chen Hao, when suddenly, both of them received a message on their mobile phones at the same time.

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

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

"Closed Discussion on the Aerial Silk Road Project."

He raised his head and looked at Ye Zhou with unbelievable eyes, but the latter just smiled slightly, and then 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 infer our own strategic vision."

"Because, their eyes will only stare at the front, even if they are far away, the ultimate goal is only profit."

"But we are different."

"Our nation has existed for 5000 years. Since the establishment of the first country, our goal is not only profit."

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

(End of this chapter)