Chapter 179 The project encountered setbacks, but the bumper rice harvest shocked the whole country!
One group is in favor, and the other is against.
Needless to say, those who agree with her believe that Lu Chiyu has made so many scientific research achievements before, especially the development of unmanned submarines and torpedoes, which helped the Red Country win the Battle of Tailiang Island and added another important national weapon to the country's coastal defense. Her scientific research ability is unquestionable.
In the end, she is the daughter of the former scientific research genius Rong Feiyang, which makes them believe from the bottom of their hearts that she will succeed and bring miracles to the Red Country again like Rong Feiyang did back then.
Those who opposed it believed that Lu Chiyu was less than 19 years old, and it was a bit too hasty to appoint her as the person in charge of the most important weapon in national defense at this age.
After all, no matter how talented she is, she is still a teenage girl, and they are not very confident in her leading the team to develop such an important thing.
Because if the research fails, it will be a huge loss of funds and a huge waste of the research team's talent.
Therefore, the latter prefers to let Lu Chiyu continue to engage in research on improving various other weapons, to practice with them first, and then proceed with this project after a few years when she has accumulated enough knowledge.
This is the only way to ensure that Lu Chiyu's talent will not be wasted, and he can continue to contribute to national defense weapons research while growing at the same time.
Of course, Minister He also heard that the most fundamental reason for the latter's opposition was that he did not believe that Lu Chiyu could build such a ground effect vehicle.
Because no country in the world has yet been able to "cash in" on the wing-to-land effect, they don't quite believe that a little girl like Lu Chiyu can lead a team to accomplish something that so many countries have been unable to do.
Minister He called for a vote, and the result was that half supported and half opposed.
Then Minister He said that he would discuss the matter with Commander Xie.
"What? You don't support the development of this ground effect vehicle?" Commander Xie was immediately furious when he received a call from Minister He.
"No, no, thank you, calm down. We have no objection."
"If there's no objection, then who cast the other half of the votes against it?"
"They're not actually opposed. The main reason is that the country's finances are extremely tight right now. Our military budget is very limited, and there are many areas where money needs to be spent. Naturally, everyone has more concerns when deciding where to spend the money."
Hearing this, Commander Xie calmed down. "So, as long as the funding issue can be resolved, they won't object to Comrade Lu Chiyu developing a ground effect vehicle, right?"
Minister He nodded hurriedly: "Of course, this is something that will greatly benefit the country. We are all very surprised and happy that Comrade Lu Chiyu thought of developing this.
It’s just that we are too poor, Lao Xie!”
Hearing Minister He's sentiment, Commander Xie calmed down. After thinking for a moment, he sighed and said seriously:
"Old He, we must make this killer weapon to attack aircraft carriers, because besides being a coward, none of us knows whether Country B's aircraft carrier will launch a war against our Red Country the next time it comes in.
As for funding, I am willing to use all the gold mines our military district has on Tailiang Island for this project. Your military only needs to approve the project and then provide us with scientific researchers.
Minister He was shocked when he heard Commander Xie's decision. It seemed that Commander Xie was very confident in Lu Chiyu.
This time he nodded without hesitation: "Okay, I can approve this right now. As for the scientific researchers, I will find them right away."
While Minister He was busy recruiting talent for Lu Chiyu's ground effect vehicle project, the summer harvest in South Island also began.
This year's summer harvest, the members are much more active and excited than in previous years, because the rice grown with chemical fertilizers is growing better than in any previous year.
With the harvest, the members were naturally motivated to harvest, so during the half-month summer harvest, all the production teams were surprisingly full of laughter and joy.
The members are all looking forward to the summer harvest of grain so that they can fill their stomachs.
Finally the summer harvest was over, and the statistical results from various counties came out, and the entire South Island was shocked!
This year, their grain production in South Island has increased three times compared to previous years!
Because the soil in the South Island is relatively poor, the effect of applying fertilizer is extremely significant.
Then, in addition to South Island, good news came from other parts of the Red Country. The grain output of fields using chemical fertilizers also increased significantly.
Among them, rice increased by an average of 2 to 3 times, and the income of various crops also increased.
When the final data came out, it was found that the grain output of the Red Country this summer harvest had doubled.
When the news came out that it was the high-efficiency fertilizer invented by Lu Chiyu that increased grain production, Lu Chiyu immediately became famous again in the Red Country.
Countless newspapers, radio stations, television stations and other media were reporting the good news of increased grain production, and Lu Chiyu also mentioned it and praised it again and again.
At that time, the military factory of the Island Military Region had no idea that Lu Chiyu's fertilizers would be so effective. They thought that urea and other things were already available abroad, so when Lu Chiyu took out the recipe, they did not keep it secret.
Later, they discovered through experiments that these fertilizers increased production so much that it was impossible to retract the news.
Now that the bumper grain harvest in the Red Country has made Lu Chiyu famous again, they regret even more that they did not protect Lu Chiyu in developing fertilizers.
Because in addition to talents in military weapons research, talents who play a vital role in agricultural research and development also need to be protected.
Just as the South Island Military Region and the higher-ups were frowning on this matter, even bigger news came out!
Lu Chiyu was the inventor of the unmanned submarines and torpedoes used in the Battle of Tailiang Island. No one knew where this news came from.
After investigation, the Red Country found out that this news was deliberately leaked by enemy spies from Country B!
The other party had long known that the unmanned submarines and torpedoes were developed by Lu Chiyu based on their research and development. Later, in the Battle of Tailiang Island, their warships were defeated by the torpedoes of the unmanned submarines developed by Lu Chiyu. This made them hate her to the core.
Since several attempts to harm and assassinate him failed, they decided to make the news public and let all the enemy spies lurking in the Red Country to kill Lu Chiyu together, because no enemy country would like the Red Country to have such a scientific research genius.
Lu Chiyu was completely shocked when she received this news. So, she was actually regarded as such a thorn in the side by Country B?!
Gu Yuan was very worried about this. He had just felt sorry that Lu Chiyu's military contributions were not known to everyone, but now he saw that her reputation would bring danger, and he didn't want to see it anymore.
In the end, it was Lu Chiyu who came to terms with it first. After all, country B already knew her identity. As the saying goes, a person with too many lice is less afraid of itching. There was already an enemy spy from country B trying to assassinate her, so what if there were a few more?
The Red Country also responded to this matter at this time, that is, the number of guards in the military district’s family compound increased greatly.
Then Lu Chiyu will leave the military area and she will bring guards with her.
At this time, news finally came from Commander Xie about the ground effect vehicle project.
"How about it, Commander Xie? Have the higher-ups approved our development of ground effect vehicles?" Lu Chiyu couldn't help but ask.
Commander Xie nodded when he heard this, but then shook his head. This response confused Lu Chiyu.
So is this a success or a failure?!
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