SWDnovel #120 - The idea of tapping talents
#120 - The idea of tapping talents
The meeting was basically over, and Ren Zhong dismissed everyone without going into further details. Then, he invited the division commander and brigade commander to his residence, where the three began a private discussion.
This matter wasn't a whim on Ren Zhong's part; he had his own reasons.
The establishment of the Military Industry Special Branch seemed somewhat like a joke to outsiders.
Lacking both personnel and a suitable environment.
It seemed more like a task specifically tailored to bind Ren Zhong, keeping him in the base to continue shouldering the responsibility of military industry.
However, Ren Zhong didn't see it that way; he wasn't just interested in running a small business.
He genuinely wanted to make a significant impact on this world.
The tragedy at Dabeigou deeply impressed upon Ren Zhong that, although this world was a parallel universe, it was still a living, breathing world.
Moreover, it seemed that due to his influence, this world had already undergone some changes compared to the timeline he knew, like a butterfly flapping its wings.
Ren Zhong sincerely wanted to do something for the people connected to him by blood in this world.
His trans-dimensional work had reached a bottleneck.
No matter how hard Ren Zhong tried, his ability to promote goods and spread knowledge had begun to reach its limit.
Ren Zhong urgently needed the elites of this world to work with him, providing sparks of inspiration to ignite the directionless confusion deep within their minds.
Only by allowing this world to undergo a rebirth alongside him could the pace of national rejuvenation be accelerated.
Currently, some of the country's elites were in the rear, a small number were in the border region, and some were in Pingbei.
Most of the tech giants Ren Zhong was familiar with were currently in Kuncheng.
If he could persuade some of them to join him in his endeavors, then his Military Industry Special Branch could truly live up to its name.
However, persuading these people through ordinary means would be useless.
Only by using his knowledge of the future to inspire their ambition for scientific development could he convince them to follow him north and build the Military Industry Special Branch from the ground up.
Who could compare to him, a cheater, when it came to the future direction of technological development?
Ren Zhong had only obtained a space-time portal; he hadn't become a technology expert himself.
Moreover, it seemed the system had no intention of turning him into one.
The more advanced the technology, the less he could master it himself.
Unlike other protagonists who could easily create a justice-from-the-sky weapon like a mushroom cloud, even though he understood the general principles of fission, he couldn't even find the direction to start!
Tanks, fighter jets, ships, and even missiles, these real trump cards were difficult for Ren Zhong to even get his hands on, which was his embarrassing predicament.
New weapons at this level couldn't be acquired even with money!
Besides, even if he had the money, it wouldn't be enough for even a fraction of the research and development costs; each one started at the level of tens of billions.
Moreover, many were now top-secret and inaccessible.
Otherwise, why couldn't countries or even individuals in the main world who could spend tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars still create a mushroom cloud?
Out of nearly 200 countries worldwide, no more than a handful had truly detonated a nuclear weapon.
This showed that it wasn't something that could be achieved by looking at a few picture books and reading some explanatory manuals.
These major undertakings required the concentrated efforts of the entire nation's elite talent.
In that distant place, Ren Zhong knew that some masters possessed these extraordinary abilities; you could just mention a concept, and it might trigger them to quickly iterate their research direction.
In Kuncheng, there were physics masters who would reach the pinnacle of technology, such as Li Zhendao and Yang Zhenning, mushroom cloud masters Deng Jiaxian and Zhu Guanya, semiconductor master Huang Kun, and welding master... In just eight years, more than 100 academicians from the two academies were produced.
Such a gathering of technological stars was a one-time event in history!
Even if they were just freshmen who hadn't even graduated from undergraduate studies, they possessed intelligence and wisdom, coupled with the knowledge Ren Zhong could bring from the main world, and a better environment than they had in their historical growth.
Ren Zhong believed that even if they no longer went abroad to study, they could still quickly grow into technological giants.
Ren Zhong couldn't complete the task of technological revival on his own, but he could find a large number of big shots who could help him complete this task.
Establishing the Bright Sword world's own military industry research and development system was now imperative, and Ren Zhong had already built the initial foundation.
Whether it was the sulfuric acid manufacturing process and high-performance explosive formulas in the chemical industry, or iron and steel smelting, or radio, power generation systems, and machine tool industrial mother machine manufacturing, Yangcun had reached a very high level in the country.
The next step was electrification, with new generators, transformers, and other power transmission and transformation equipment.
The industrial base needed for the entire military industry system required Ren Zhong to complete the initial step of primitive accumulation.
The next categories were more numerous, requiring not one or two, but hundreds or thousands of researchers!
Apart from the rear, Ren Zhong couldn't think of anywhere else to find such a group of technological elites!
Therefore, it had reached the point where he had to go.
The sooner he completed the construction of the Bright Sword world's scientific research system, the sooner he could advance the extremely weak industry of this plane.
Ultimately, warfare was about logistics and the industrial base!
Although Ren Zhong wasn't a strategically gifted genius, he had come from another time and space, where these things had long been summarized and were common knowledge.
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Facing the concern of the division commander and brigade commander, Ren Zhong slowly revealed some of his thoughts.
In the end, the division commander and brigade commander were silenced and shocked by Ren Zhong.
They hadn't expected Ren Zhong to consider things so deeply and have such a grand plan.
Whether it was the border region or the base headquarters, there was indeed a shortage of talent, and even fewer with strategic vision and planning ability.
Ren Zhong's talent-attraction plan was indeed extremely urgent, and more importantly, for the fledgling military industry of the base, the bottleneck of larger-scale development must be broken by talent.
Even if Ren Zhong had three heads and six arms, building the two military industry bases in Yangcun and Heyuan would be the limit.
"Boss Ren, if the talents you want to attract are students, that's fine, but what about professors?
They come with families, and our current border regions and bases are not very stable or wealthy.
How can we reassure these experts?"
The brigade commander was persuaded by Ren Zhong.
He was one of the few senior leaders in the base who valued technology.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been determined to establish the Military Industry Academy later on.
Ren Zhong's words had struck a chord in the brigade commander's heart!
If it weren't for the tight war situation that prevented him from leaving, the brigade commander would have wanted to work with Ren Zhong to get this done.
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