Professor Jiang and several assistants stood at the door of the Battery Research Institute. On the other side, Feng Yiping took Wu Qian and walked over while making a phone call.

"Yiping," Professor Jiang smiled and went up to meet him far away.

"Hello Professor Jiang," Feng Yiping smiled and held his hand and said to the other side of the phone, "Yes, in the camp halfway, you must also prepare medical forces and medicines in advance. Also, the key point is that doctors responsible for medical insurance must make plans based on the flight time of the helicopter to the various sections of the way. Everyone's safety is the most important."

"Okay, it's better if you take them to fly once to get to know each other,"

He finally hung up the phone and held Professor Jiang's hand and walked towards the research institute. "Sorry, it was Mr. Zhou who was in Dunhuang just now."

"I understand, is it for the subsequent activities?"

"right,"

"I'm quite looking forward to what you said,"

"I hope you don't scold me in your heart then," said Feng Yiping.

"How could it be?" Professor Jiang smiled, "If I want to scold, I must scold you in person."

At this time, his assistant handed over a few white coats, and everyone changed them one by one, swiped the card and passed a protective door, and entered the kind of laboratory that Feng Yiping had seen many times in film and television works.

Many people in white coats were busy in front of various instruments in the noble and clean laboratory, and even their arrival was indifferent.

Feng Yiping, who came here for the first time, listened carefully to Professor Jiang's introduction, but in his opinion, all this in front of him, whether it is people or equipment, is piles of money.

It was the first time he knew that scientific research was such a expensive thing. The total investment of this research institute has reached nearly 200 million US dollars.

This is not the final investment. Of course, there is no such thing as a research institute that integrates several laboratories like this, and you always have to continue to invest.

There are also annual maintenance, management and operation costs, which are naturally not small.

This research institute can be said to be the most expensive project in its industry at present.

What is the saying among the people that you are poor and play with cars and watches? In the face of such things, that is simply a joke. Those who think they are rich, come and play with scientific research?

"From the establishment to the present, we have obtained 195 patents," Professor Jiang naturally knew what Feng Yiping was most concerned about.

For corporate leaders like him, they actually don’t care how many papers the researchers at the institute have published. Their focus is on the main product here - patents.

"We have received calls from relevant institutions, hoping that we can participate in the national standard design of the domestic lithium battery industry,"

"This is a great achievement," Feng Yiping affirmed.

Third-rate companies make products, second-rate companies make brands, first-rate companies make standards, and first-rate companies make standards. This is not just a saying.

For practitioners like them, being able to participate in the formulation of national standards and relevant terms is naturally more beneficial to their own families.

"However, judging from our investment in this industry, it would be abnormal if we cannot participate in the formulation of relevant standards, what do you think?"

"Yiping, you're right," Professor Jiang said to himself. This guy is still as smart as ever.

He may not understand the specific operation, but his grasp of the general direction is always very accurate.

"Look, don't give me a specific report," Feng Yiping stopped the staff from preparing to make a demonstration in the conference room. "To be honest, I haven't remembered many nouns until now, so I just wanted to ask simply, is there any progress in improving the unit density of lithium batteries?"

This is actually the biggest bottleneck facing the development of lithium batteries, or all batteries.

The capacity and size of batteries are always proportional, but the energy density of existing batteries is still not large enough, which leads to their size always being relatively large. Whether it is the electric vehicles being developed now or the various portable devices that will appear now and in the future, the major development trend is that while the volume is getting smaller and smaller, the energy consumed by major components such as processors will become higher and higher.

This puts higher requirements on the battery.

"To be honest, we have not made much progress in improving energy density, and I can conclude that in the foreseeable future, there is room for improvement in this area, but it is certainly not as much as we expected," said Professor Jiang.

Feng Yiping knew that this was the truth, and the result was like this later, but such a truth was useless.

"So we have increased our research on sodium, mainly sodium, and magnesium, zinc, and aluminum metals with large charges, but you should also know the difficulty of studying new materials,"

Feng Yiping nodded. In terms of material research, we really can't expect to place a satellite at once, but there is no way to improve the process. "If we expand the scientific research team, such as recruiting the world's top experts, and then expanding the current researchers from hundreds to thousands, thousands, or even tens of thousands, is it possible to speed up this process?"

Professor Jiang was stunned and then excited. A researcher of tens of thousands of people? How could he have the courage of Feng Yiping? But if he could really be as brave as Feng Yiping said, then the research institute he is now leading is definitely at the top level in the world. Is there any better pursuit for a scholar who emphasizes effectiveness?

However, he still advised, "Yiping, we should be clear about one thing. In terms of efficiency, the R&D of batteries is not as effective as other hardware R&D, and the investment will be much greater than the output. Therefore, I think the scale of the research institute can be expanded, but not too radical."

"No, if there is a breakthrough in this regard and a complete patent barrier is set up, the benefits generated will be fully matched with the investment."

Feng Yiping is very clear about future development. Not to mention the smartphone industry, the reason why wearable devices that were once hotly hyped failed to develop rapidly was mainly due to batteries.

If your family can make breakthroughs in this regard, then the market returns should not be too high!

Besides, is the research institute with a scale of tens of thousands of people too radical? It is not at all.

For example, when Huawei later became more and more labor costs were gradually in line with developed Western countries, it was also very common for one study to have tens of thousands of people.

What's more, the labor cost in China is far lower than that in developed Western countries, and what's more, Feng Yiping can be said to have too much money to spend in the local area.

Professor Jiang decided not to argue with Feng Yiping, "In addition to working on the two directions of materials and structure, another focus of our research is to start from the existing process. We hope to reform the current production process and process, so as to effectively reduce costs," he said.

This is naturally also a correct direction. There are two major bottlenecks in the development of batteries. One is the slow increase in unit energy density, and the other is the decrease in costs.

"This aspect, including environmental friendliness - you know, we have to consider recycling issues. We have already had some insights. Of course, we have also started related research and developments in the fast charging and adapting to the temperature range."

"Very good," as we all know, fast charging is also a very realistic demand for smart devices such as electric cars and mobile phones.

Feng Yiping also felt that for a newly established research institute, it should not be too demanding. "Of course, Professor Jiang, you are more proficient in specific research. Since you mentioned the process," Feng Yiping thought about it, "Can we completely abandon the existing production process and start thinking from a blank piece of paper again?"

Professor Jiang was stunned for a moment, and then became interested again, "Yiping's idea is always unexpected. Since you have such great courage, then there is no problem. I will form such a team immediately,"

He finally understood why the young man in front of him was so successful.

Yes, he may not know the specific problems, but he has a clear understanding of the current problems.

We all know that many times, being able to ask the right questions is a great achievement.

What's more, because he doesn't understand technology, he can't be shackled by specific technologies and propose directions that seem to be very breakthrough...

In short, this is a rich man who has his own methodology, is always good at grasping the key to all problems, and can come up with big solutions.

The reason why Professor Jiang brought the title of rich man is because some of his solutions are that only rich people dare to think, and only rich people can think.

However, the reason why he is rich seems to be mainly because of the previous reasons? When he sent Feng Yiping away, Professor Jiang kept thinking about this question of whether there is a chicken or an egg first.

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After the Battery Research Institute, Feng Yiping also went to the Electric Vehicle Research Institute, the Magic Workshop Research Center, the Jiasheng Design Institute, the Logistics Research Center, the newly established AI Research Center... and the Information Center of the Frontier Magazine.

Overall, the last one, whether it is now or in the future, has the least investment or annual funding, and can even be said to be less than the previous few.

In addition to management expenses, the most important annual expenditure of this information center is to prepare a business forum covering politics and economy. Feng Yiping’s idea is to make this forum a century-old project.

These institutes that made him feel very accomplished were mocked by Jin Ling, who took Fang Yingzhi to the capital the next day.

"You are just rich, do you know that because of your willfulness, except for the two listed companies, the overall benefits of other domestic companies in the group this year may be incurred?"

"Do you know how much is the total cost of your research institutions, software and hardware, as a result? More than 2 billion!"

"Isn't it just 2 billion? That's definitely not a loss," Feng Yiping even felt a little enjoyable when he saw Jin Ling get angry when he came.

Well, why do I feel this way? Am I a masochist?

"Hmph, isn't it just 2 billion? Look at this," Jin Ling threw him a folder. "I just received it. Professor Jiang hopes to withdraw at least $10 million to use it for experts in global battery research. He also said that this is a proposal from some people,"

"Haha," Feng Yiping smiled unnaturally. Some people naturally meant themselves. "I think this is worth it. Top talents will definitely bring us top returns in the future."

"Is there anything I told you, Microsoft and Google can spend a lot of money to set up an office in the hometown of that researcher and equip him with a team of dozens of people because a prominent researcher refused to leave his hometown."

“I think this is the way to attract talent with vision,”

"How many companies have the profits that can compare with Microsoft and Google?"

"Please, can't we compare with Microsoft and Google for the expenses we spend now?"

Feng Yiping lay lazily on the sofa, "Don't force me anymore. If you force me again, I will learn from Bezos and Musk. Do you believe it if you spend money on research and development? Or learn from Google and others, and are also ready to invest huge amounts of money in life technology," he said.

Jin Ling was furious. Compared with the research institutes that Feng Yiping has set up now, those two directions are projects that are likely to not see any results in their lifetime.

"Then look at this, it's just a team building. In terms of logistics support, in addition to your private plane, you have prepared two helicopters, plus 50 cars and more than 150 staff. Are you building a team building? Are you going to have fun again? Is it a show of your wealth?"

She was very upset when she looked at Feng Yiping lying on the sofa like that. I worked so hard and tried every means to save money for you. Is there anything wrong with me?

But Feng Yiping can treat her all kinds of upsets, "Don't you want to participate too? I don't want you to have any problems," he said.
Chapter completed!