Since Luo Ji had said that he could take his time, Pompeii Rand was naturally not in a hurry and slowly began to prepare for the next expedition.

During this period, of course Luo Ji continued to do his own thing.

"Well--"

After stretching his muscles vigorously, Luo Ji took a nap for an hour after lunch, and got up from the bed in the side hall with sleepy eyes.

Then while washing up, he asked aloud...

"Wang Kai, what are your plans for the afternoon?"

"Your Majesty, according to the plan, the next step is to go to the Ordnance Research Department to confirm their latest research results, and then attend the anniversary of the Alchemy Academy and give a speech on stage..."

Obviously, Wang Kai had already remembered Luo Ji's whole day's itinerary in his mind.

Among them, Luo Ji undoubtedly attached great importance to the development of the Alchemy Academy. The reason for arranging this speech was naturally to better promote the development of the "alchemist" industry in all civilizations.

Listening to Wang Kai's report, Luo Ji nodded, but also had a headache. This afternoon, there were a lot of schedules that almost completely filled up his time.

For example, the speech for the Alchemy Academy's anniversary was scheduled at the end of the anniversary.

Therefore, if there are no accidents, Luo Ji only needs to arrive ten minutes before the end of the school anniversary. In fact, the schedule is indeed arranged in this way. After the speech, he has to go to the next place immediately. He will be at most

Stay at the Alchemy Academy for thirty minutes, otherwise it will be too late to make the next arrangements.

In this state, helicopters have become his current main means of transportation.

After getting on the helicopter, they quickly flew towards the outskirts of the city. During this period, Luo Ji, who was sitting in the helicopter, looked out the window and subconsciously thought...

"Speaking of which, shouldn't this military helicopter need an upgrade?"

Weapons and equipment cannot be updated immediately as soon as technological capabilities are obtained. In addition to technological capabilities, you must also have the money and people in place.

After that, a large amount of research funds were invested to establish an upgraded and improved R&D project team. After the research and development was successful, it was put into military use, production, and a large number of upgrades, but still had to burn money like crazy.

Therefore, when funds are insufficient, we can only put it aside for now.

Due to the continuous wars in their civilization of all worlds in the past few years, the economy of the entire civilization has been depressed, and tax revenue has also dropped significantly.

Financial funds were stretched thin. At every quarter-end court meeting, the Minister of Finance would clamor to hang himself, and a group of ministers and officials below were all fighting over the limited financial funds.

For this matter, even the Ministry of Military Affairs, which has been the eldest brother for thousands of years, has been impeached several times.

When he thought of this, Luo Ji couldn't help but let out a long sigh. These poor days are really difficult...

And just as Luo Ji was sighing like this, the helicopter that was speeding all the way had already arrived at the place.

At the Ordnance Research Department's testing ground, headed by Ye Xuan, including Jiang Zhan and Bart Wildhammer, all three chief and deputy directors of the Ordnance Research Department were present.

In previous years, it would not have been easy to see three people appearing at the same time. After all, each of them has their own main project and a lot of side projects, and they are very busy on weekdays.

But now, the fact that the three of them can get together is inseparable from the financial constraints of their civilization.

That's right, with the current situation, even the Ordnance Research Department, which has hardly been short of funds for so many years, is beginning to be short of funds.

Currently, the funds of Luo Ji's Civilization of All Realms are mainly used in two places each quarter.

The first place is military expenditures, and the second place is the restoration work within civilization.

In addition to these two areas, the funds of other departments are all being reduced, even the Ordnance Research Department is no exception.

In order to save and control financial expenses, a large number of projects in the Ordnance Research Department have been temporarily suspended, and the funds for the remaining projects have also dropped significantly.

Those research projects, after lack of funds, first progressed slowly, and later, the research and development progress basically stagnated.

If this pace continues, it may be difficult for each project to produce results.

So Ye Xuan and the three of them put their heads together and simply concentrated all the funds of their Ordnance Research Department on one project.

That is, the research and development project of the ‘deformable mechanical leg’ in front of us!

In this entire research and development process, Prince, as an alchemist who specializes in ordnance research and development, can be said to have contributed a lot.

Those who engage in research have always emphasized that true knowledge comes from practice.

Under normal circumstances, you can tell at a glance whether a design or improvement suggestion you make is reliable or not, as long as you make the thing and take a look.

However, since this move also consumes a lot of time, cost and funds, the research progress of some research projects will inevitably be greatly slowed down, while the cost of funds continues to rise.

But now it's better. With Prince here, as long as he has enough raw materials and the design drawings, he can use alchemy to refine things with a little study.

Later, if necessary, he can break things down again.

Not only does it save manufacturing and disassembly costs, but it also saves a lot of time, clearly improving research efficiency.

It made Xuan Ye and the others clearly realize that alchemy is really useful.

For this reason, Xuan Ye took some time in the first two years to attend the adult class at the Alchemy Academy for a while, and then successfully mastered alchemy...

Facts have proved that as long as you have sufficient professional knowledge and a smart enough brain, it is not particularly difficult to learn alchemy, especially for geniuses.

I have to say, Xuan Ye got off to a good start.

Because there was no research funding, researchers who could not study the project at hand simply took advantage of this opportunity and went to learn alchemy.

Then, somehow, it seemed to have a chain reaction, and people from the medical school and the science and technology institute also went to class.

Then, basically everything is mastered successfully.

Think about it, those who can stay in these three places are all talents with truly high IQs. Those with at least four stars of intelligence, and those with three stars cannot cross their threshold.

Prince didn't mind this situation at all.

Not only did I not mind it, I even felt relieved.

The ministers and deputy ministers are so terrible. Sometimes they can come up with more than a dozen ideas in an afternoon, give him a dozen sets of design drawings, and then ask him to use alchemy to refine them.

This time twice was okay, but Prince couldn't bear it if he did this every day. His mental energy was severely exhausted, and he felt like his brain was about to be drained!
Chapter completed!