.It took nearly six hours to fly before the transport plane slowly lowered its flight altitude.

Because at night, Mu Haoyang could only see two rows of landing indicator lights on the runway and the tower with lights on. Judging from the location and size of the tower, as well as the brightly lit cities in the distance, it should be a small civil airport near a prefecture-level city in the northwest.

It is still a two-hour drive from the airport to the experimental base.

When he arrived at the experimental base, Mu Haoyang first met not the legendary Professor Qian Zhongtai, but Major General Yang Yufang in military uniform.

"Old Yang, why are you here?"

"Why can't I be here?" Yang Yufang smiled at Mu Haoyang, and then said to Lu Wen, "Mr. Lu, Professor Qian is looking for you."

"Okay, I'll go there first, you guys will chat slowly."

When Lu Wen walked away, Yang Yu called Mu Haoyang. "Let's go, I'll take you around and wait and see them later."

"Are you the person in charge here?"

"It's not considered a matter of being responsible for some management."

After saying this, Yang Yufang didn't say more, and Mu Haoyang didn't ask more.

When he entered the experimental base, Mu Haoyang suddenly remembered that this was the "National High Energy Physics Laboratory" which was completed last year.

Judging from the name alone, this laboratory has nothing to do with the military.

Since the advent of relativity and quantum theory, modern physics has never made any major breakthroughs in theory. In the final analysis, experimental physics has not made any major breakthroughs.

The so-called "high-energy physics" refers to "particle physics" or "essential particle physics".

In this field, Europe and the United States have always been at the forefront of the world.

As early as the last century, the United States built the world's largest particle accelerator, and then the European Center for Physics built a larger particle accelerator in Switzerland. Over the past 20 years, all the major progress made by human beings in the field of high-energy physics are almost the results of European and American scientists.

From the early 1990s to 2015, one-third of the Nobel Prize winners in physics were engaged in high-energy physics research, and they were all European and American scientists.

It can be said that if humans want to make a leap in science and technology, they must make major breakthroughs in the field of high-energy physics.

At the beginning of this century, China officially joined the field of high-energy physics research and built the first large particle accelerator. It is just that compared with Europe and the United States, it is much smaller in scale.

At the end of 2011, the European Center for Physics made major breakthroughs in research.

After repeated verification, European scientists found that in some cases, the speed of neutrinos exceeded the speed of light, tearing a corner on the iron curtain of relativity.

This discovery greatly stimulated physicists in other countries.

Within the next year, the United States first announced the construction of the world's largest particle accelerator in Nevada, followed by China also announced the construction of the world's largest particle accelerator in the northwest, and then Russia and Japan also joined in, both announcing the construction of the world's largest particle accelerator.

It doesn’t matter who is the biggest, but what’s important is that all major countries have joined in.

For a moment, building particle accelerators became the most fashionable thing.

However, particle accelerator is not an instrument, but a huge project.

Take the European Large Hadron Collider as an example. Its ring tunnel is three meters in diameter and a total length of 27 kilometers. It is buried deep in 50 to 150 meters underground. The initial construction cost is as high as 6 billion euros, and the system hardware upgrade will cost nearly 10 billion euros, and the annual scientific research investment will cost hundreds of millions of euros.

Money is still a secondary issue. Such a huge project requires the most time.

Take the European Large Hadron Collider as an example. The construction period from start to completion is as long as thirteen years.

Technical difficulties are also an insurmountable obstacle.

During the construction of the European Large Hadron Collider, we encountered endless problems, and even after it was put into use, there were constant troubles. For example, it was completely stopped in 2012 and system maintenance inspections were carried out, and before that, it only lasted for less than three years.

In the words of scientists, high-energy physics is a bottomless pit, and no matter how much money you spend, you may not necessarily receive results.

When building the European Large Hadron Collider, France had to join hands with more than 30 other countries, hundreds of colleges and research institutions, to jointly bear the construction costs and technological development. Research institutions and institutions such as the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Science and Technology of China, Shandong University, Nanjing University, Peking University, Central China Normal University, and Tsinghua University participated in four major experimental projects.

As a cutting-edge science, and it is very likely that it is a cutting-edge science that can make human civilization leap, no matter how much money you spend, you have to do it.

Last year, the State Council of China officially announced that it had built the world's largest particle accelerator in the northwest, even Mu Haoyang was extremely surprised.

You know, there has been no official news related to it in the past few years.

In the eyes of many people, it seems that China has built this super collider that covers an area of ​​hundreds of square kilometers overnight and has a total length of more than 36 kilometers. The incident energy is as high as 1tev, and can crush electrons and positrons with 500 billion electron volts.

Of course, this is definitely not done overnight.

Because the tunnel was too long and took six hours to walk, the two of them walked for a short time and then went to Yang Yufang's office.

"This is my temporary office place. I usually come here occasionally, but I can't stay for a few days. It's a bit messy, just sit there."

It wasn't a bit messy, but very messy. Mu Haoyang moved away the information files on the chair and found the place to put his butt.

"How is it, isn't it?"

"It's a first time I'm here."

"I heard that you majored in communications and electronics technology in the Naval Academy. Unexpectedly, you were still a good student. If you had not joined the army and entered the university, you would probably be a well-known young scientist now."

Mu Haoyang smiled and said nothing.

“How much do you know about this?”

"First time here."

"Actually, I don't know much about it. I just came here last year." Yang Yufang smiled and said, "Let's just talk about it briefly. Construction started seven years ago."

“2011?”

"It should be in the early 2012 that the total investment in the initial construction was not much, less than 30 billion yuan, which is nothing compared to those large projects that often cost hundreds of billions or even hundreds of billions of yuan."

Mu Haoyang smiled and knew that Yang Yufang was talking about the face-saving project carried out by certain departments and local governments.

"It is natural to make things easy to invest less. According to my understanding, the construction funds in the past few years were allocated from engineering projects of other departments, and the specific operations were carried out by the Second Department."

"Military Intelligence Agency?"

Yang Yufang nodded and said, "Only by letting the intelligence agency be responsible can we keep it absolutely confidential. Because the tunnel excavation requires transporting a large amount of earth and stone and a large amount of reinforced concrete, several major projects were carried out in the northwest region at the same time, including the already completed Aerospace City."

Mu Haoyang knew that the aerospace city that Yang Yufang mentioned was the manned space center in Jiuquan.

After the Tiangong-1 went to heaven, the country officially started the construction of the permanent space station. Although this project is even larger and the launch of the permanent space station will not begin until 2020, the initial infrastructure construction officially began in 2012. Jiuquan's manned space center is the first phase of the project, and after completion, it will become the main base for China to train astronauts.

"Initial investment is nothing, late investment is the key."

“How much did it cost?”

Yang Yufang smiled and said, "I don't know how much it cost, but it's a lot. Not to mention anything else, in order to solve the power supply of the experimental base, we have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in wind power networking in the northwest, and we also plan to build a nuclear power plant near Lanzhou, which has to invest hundreds of billions of dollars."

Mu Haoyang's brows jumped a few times, and in Yang Yufang's mouth, money seemed to be just a number.

"Of course, this is not something we should worry about." Yang Yufang paused for a moment and said, "I asked you to come over because I wanted to talk to you. When I came over, Mr. Lu told you all, right?"

"She said, let me take charge of tactical matters."

Yang Yufang smiled and shook his head, saying, "The one who recommended you is Lu Wen, but the one who actually sent you here is Mr. Huang."

Mu Haoyang was stunned and said, "Commander-in-Chief?"

"Now he is the Deputy Chief of Staff, and he will be the Chief of Staff in two years."

Mu Haoyang smiled, feeling that he was indeed the wrong name.

"During the Korean War, due to the heavy military expenditure burden, project investment was a bit lagging, which could only ensure the smooth progress of infrastructure construction. After the war, project construction began to accelerate." Yang Yufang paused for a moment and said, "You also know that what we can win the war is based on a technology, and Qian Zhongtai was the one who promoted this technology to practicality or turned the theory into reality."

"He is a mathematician and an astrophysicist, what does it have to do with electromagnetic weapons?"

"Of course it's relevant. You will know when you see him." Yang Yufang smiled and said, "After Mr. Huang came back, he visited Professor Qian Zhongtai and then decided to fully fund his scientific research project. To put it simply, starting from 2016, all funds for the project have been allocated through the Ministry of National Defense, just to cover up people's eyes and tricks, such as deducting the military expenses from the Army in the first two years and then re-bleaching them through the Second Department. Since last year, the Navy will bear the scientific research expenditure, and it will be the Air Force's turn next year."

“It’s fair.”

Yang Yufang smiled and shook his head, saying, "We can't control what Qian Zhongtai does. Mr. Huang also said hello. We are only responsible for supervising the whereabouts of funds."

"you mean……"

"According to Mr. Huang's arrangement, you will participate in the military usability research of new technologies, that is, the tactical use of new technologies, so as to determine which technologies need to be developed at a key level and which technologies can lag behind. After formally getting started, I want you to submit a detailed project report every week, especially the use of funds. We are not a mogul, and military construction also requires money, so we have to manage every amount of funds."

"Let me be a spy next to Qian Zhongtai?"

"It's not enough. Qian Zhongtai knows what you are doing. With his relationship with Mr. Huang, there is no need to target him. What you need to focus on are other scientific researchers, especially the person in charge of each sub-project. No one is perfect, and the amount of funds is so large, so you have to be careful not to happen."
Chapter completed!