In the open-air hot spring pool.

"Oh, so you like mature people..." Li Chengen suddenly realized something and patted Zhao Hao on the shoulder and said, "We are the same in this respect."

"Who is like you?" Zhao Hao distanced himself from the idiot and said, "I don't like any of them."

"So, you treat that little girl Jiang the same way?" Li Chengen asked with mixed feelings.

How he wished Zhao Hao could be a couple with Jiang Xueying, so that no one would snatch his sister from him.

But I'm afraid Mingyue will get hurt...

Being entangled is the fate of a sister-con.

"Of course, Xueying is the same age as Mingyue." Zhao Hao said as a matter of course.

"What about a few years later?" Li Chengen asked again.

"Need I say more?" Zhao Hao glanced at him as if he were an idiot, stood up and walked out of the hot spring.

In the hot spring pool, Zhao Shizhen was still holding his breath and blowing bubbles, while Zhao Shixi was clapping and cheering for him.

I wonder if I will be infected if I take a bath with a bunch of idiots. Mr. Zhao thought so and quickly wiped the water off his body.

"How would I know if you don't tell me?" Li Chengen asked in the hot spring.

"You'll know when the time comes." Young Master Zhao wrapped himself in a bathrobe and leisurely went back to the house.

childish.

~~

The next morning, after soaking in the hot spring and fully replenishing his energy, the young master clamored to go hunting.

He even insisted on dragging the young county lady along...at least that's what it seemed like.

Zhang Xiaojing naturally had to be with Li Mingyue.

However, Zhao Hao had no interest in hunting, mainly because he knew nothing about it and certainly did not want to embarrass himself in front of the girls.

He said to Zhao Shizhen, who was concentrating on eating, "Do I have to go to the institute today?"

"Ah?" Zhao Shizhen looked at Zhao Hao blankly with half a bun in his mouth.

"Didn't you ask me to come over yesterday?" Zhao Hao gave him a wink.

"Oh, look at my brain." Zhao Shizhen had been Zhao Hao's book boy for a long time, so he immediately understood what he meant and said, "The research has encountered a big problem, and my uncle must step in."

"Can't it be a few days later?"

“Experiments don’t wait.”

"Alas..." Zhao Hao sighed helplessly and spread his hands apologetically towards Li Mingyue.

"Brother, just keep busy if you have something to do." Li Mingyue nodded obediently, then put her arm around Jiang Xueying's shoulders and said with a smile, "It's OK as long as Xueying is with us."

"..." Jiang Xueying twitched her lips. She was just about to say that she also had something to do.

"You guys should go too, it will be more fun with more people." Zhao Hao said to Sister Ma and Qiaoqiao.

Ma Xianglan knew that Zhao Hao was going to Chenjiawu, so she nodded and agreed with a smile.

~~

After breakfast, Macron brought a small team of security guards to escort Li Mingyue and others to Mingyue Bay by boat.

Zhao Hao and Zhao Shizhen rode their horses to Xishan Island.

Xishan Island is divided into three parts by Zhengjing Port and Jinduo River, but the combined area of ​​the South Island and the North Island is not as large as the main island in the middle.

The group walked north for four or five miles and arrived at Zhengjing Port.

In summer, the river was more than a mile wide, but now it is less than a hundred feet wide.

On both sides of the river, there is a sentry tower every one mile, and there are security guards on duty.

There was no bridge across the river, only a ferry connected to the watchtower with two boats docked there.

The security team member responsible for protecting Zhao Shizhen shouted a few times from the sentry tower, and a boatman came down and rowed the group to the main island.

The group walked forward another four or five miles and entered the mountains. After turning left and right along the winding mountain path, they saw a high concrete wall stretching before them.

The guarding here is much stricter than at the ferry. Everyone, including Zhao Hao, needs a pass to enter, and the entry and exit times must be strictly recorded.

The access pass of the Chenjiawu Research Center is more strictly managed than the bank notes. First of all, the number of passes issued is extremely limited. Only about thirty "special passes" that allow people to enter and exit directly without approval have been issued.

Half of them were issued to Zhao Hao's entourage and must be used together with his No. 1 certificate to be valid.

The other half was awarded to a few trusted senior members of the research institute, such as Zhao Shizhen, Zhang Jian, and Gao Tiejiang, as well as Zhao Hao's confidants, such as Jiang Xueying, Hua Bozhen, and Jin Ke.

Moreover, the pass will be changed regularly and used in conjunction with the password, which of course will also be changed regularly.

The layers of security measures have only one purpose, which is to keep the secrets in the research center.

By the way, the research center is now uniformly referred to as the "Summer Resort" to the outside world, so the special pass also says "Summer Resort VIP Card", and Zhao Hao is number 001.

As for the center's executive deputy director Gao Tiejiang, his external position is the villa manager; the center's deputy director Zhang Jian's external position is the villa's guest room department manager.

Zhao Shizhen, the director and chief researcher of the Firearms Research Institute, is also the manager of the recreation department of the villa. The other directors also hold the position of villa managers...but the good thing is that they get an extra salary.

~~

After entering the first wall, Zhao Hao finally saw the chimneys of the research institute in the distance, two more than last time.

That was the Iron and Steel Research Institute and the Mineral Research Institute. They both built their own blast furnaces and finally no longer had to compete with the Ordnance Research Institute for the use of furnaces.

After passing the second gate, you will see a row of bare concrete buildings scattered on the hillside, as many as a hundred of them. This is the main area of ​​the research center.

At this time, the center had not yet started to be greened, and most of the houses were still empty. Only the two rows of houses near the main road had people moving around.

There is no unit number outside each house, only a scientific number that looks like a guest room number.

Each number has its meaning. The first digit represents the laboratory's affiliation, and the last two digits represent the laboratory number.

For example, Room 101 is the first laboratory of the Iron and Steel Research Institute, so the Iron and Steel Research Institute is also called Institute 01.

Room 201 is the first laboratory of the Institute of Minerals, and Room 202 is the second laboratory of the Institute of Minerals. The Institute of Minerals is naturally Institute 02.

In addition, there are 03 Mechanical Research Institute; 04 Chemical Research Institute; 05 Building Materials Research Institute; 06 Textile Research Institute; and 07 Printing Research Institute.

There are only seven research institutes between the second and third gates, but there are three more institutes listed in the research center's address book. One is the 00 Armaments Research Institute inside the third gate, the other is the 08 Medical Research Institute in Jiangnan Hospital, and the 09 Ship Research Institute is still under construction.

But it just looks quite intimidating. Take these seven research institutes for example, there are only more than a hundred researchers in total, and most of them are craftsmen recruited by Zhao Hao from various places.

That’s why they need colleagues like Gao Tiejiang to manage them.

There are only four or five people like Zhang Jian and Zhao Shizhen who are both scholars and talented inventors.

There is a serious shortage of scientific research talents, and high-end scientific research talents with independent research and development capabilities are even more scarce.

No matter how rich Mr. Zhao is, or how good the scientific research conditions are, he cannot produce any talents!

I can only put up the framework first, and then slowly look for and cultivate...

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