Chapter 238 Machinery is the romance of men

Author: September Sauce

Chapter 238 Machinery is the romance of men

Chen Nian's claim that nuclear fusion can be achieved in three years is of course pure bragging.

In fact, even if all the theoretical foundations are in place and all material problems are solved, just a Q value greater than 1 is enough to keep the country's already weak scientific research strength for several years.

This does not require professionals, even a layman like Li Xiang can actually understand this.

However, on the other hand, if the growth rate of source points can reach the expected standard, it is actually feasible to accumulate enough source points for nuclear fusion in three years.

This is what he really meant.

As for application, just go step by step.

After all, technology like this that can directly bring mankind into the next era will definitely not be built overnight.

No matter how radical the technical plan is, it will not deliberately break this most basic law.

If it had been a few hours ago, this realization might have made Chen Nian anxious.

But fortunately, now he has completely figured it out.

Therefore, the fact that "key technological leaps cannot be achieved immediately" only brings him more incentives.

After returning to his residence, he started a new round of learning non-stop. At the same time, the effects of the first live broadcast were also growing.

Things are gradually starting to develop in a good direction.

But, on the other side, there are people who are not very happy.

In the office of the May meeting.

"Stupid! Stupid!"

Houston shook his head while looking at the live broadcast on the screen.

He really couldn't understand how these so-called "media" could be so stupid.

A good high-speed rail project turned into a model reality show for you?

What kind of international joke is this?

Moreover, the operation process shown in the picture is also extremely ridiculous. In what age are there people still laying railway tracks manually?

Do you think this was the westward expansion movement of the last century?

The power of inherent impressions is so terrible that it even makes a group of highly educated media ignore objective facts.

On the other hand, the videos taken by Chinese people are much more professional.

Although there are no eye-catching shots, they at least show the basic state of an infrastructure project.

In the eyes of experienced people, one can tell the difference at a glance.

Those seemingly haphazardly piled earthworks actually mark the efficiency of the project's saturation operation, while the steel frame structures standing abruptly on both sides of the land base are the prototype of the gantry crane.

As you can imagine, what the other party is doing now is some pretty basic preliminary preparation work.

But even these preparations are already much more efficient than our own.

An average of 500 meters are laid every day. Obviously, they have introduced large-scale paving machines, and this machinery, which has never been reported on a large scale before, is the result of the Chinese people's so-called "moving mountains" project.

Their progress is rapid.

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As fast as all their key projects have been in recent years.

If this continues, once the other party really starts to reveal the true strength of the project, our Los Angeles-San Francisco project will completely lose its meaning.

After all, this is a "publicity project" in the first place. If the publicity effect is also lost, what is the need for it to exist?

Thinking of this, Houston sighed and said:

"We have to put restrictions on the media - or at least give them some guidance."

"The current reporting method is absolutely unacceptable. It can only serve as a topic that arouses interest. In the future, like China, we should turn to a rigorous reporting style."

"Only in this way can we truly show our strength, otherwise."

"I don't quite agree with this."

Before Houston could finish speaking, his assistant interrupted him.

He frowned and asked:

"Don't agree? Why don't you agree?"

The assistant took out a page from the thick stack of documents in his hand and handed it to Houston, then replied:

"Judging from data performance, we are obviously better than each other in terms of ratings and topic discussion."

"This proves that the angle of entry chosen by our media is correct."

"After all, to be honest, ordinary people are not interested in this project at all. What they need is a kind of 'nipple fun'-style entertainment."

"Both historical experience and economic theory tell us that during economic downturns, nipple music is an excellent means of maintaining stability."

"Our biggest goal should be to maintain the most basic social stability under the economic crisis. Now that our strategy has produced results, what reason is there to give up on it?"

Hearing the assistant's words, Houston's brows furrowed even more.

He shook his head slightly and said:

"Your theory is basically correct, but have you ever thought that to some extent, this is a kind of chronic suicide."

"Yes, we can indeed use the current method to please our people, but what will happen next? What will we do next?"

"Create one so-called 'American image' after another? When a rigorous engineering project is labeled like this, who will care about what it does?"

"This is extremely detrimental to the later progress of the high-speed rail project, us."

"But, who really cares about the later stages of the project?"

The assistant interrupted Houston again.

"Does the president care? Does Congress care? Do investors care?"

"Mr. Houston, I think you made a mistake."

"The people who invested in this project were not the so-called railroad tycoons, but the wolves of Wall Street."

"They don't care whether this railway line can be completed or whether it can be profitable."

"What they care about is to boost market confidence through this project, so that they can make back the money they lost in the financial market!"

Houston's eyes widened. He subconsciously wanted to refute, but suddenly found that he really had no room to refute.

Yes, the organizational form of this country has determined the fate of this project.

If you talk to profit-seeking, short-sighted financial speculators about forward returns, will they really care?

The construction period of several years is too long for them, and they cannot bear such a long wait.

The most likely outcome is that after the project is on track and the financial market becomes active again, they sell their shares to others at double or even higher prices.

Isn’t the “return on investment” that can be achieved by doing this much higher than foolishly waiting for the project to be completed?

Therefore, what the assistant said is correct.

The report itself is intended to arouse public opinion and create positive publicity.

Now that the goal has been achieved, why should I care about the so-called "form of achievement"?

In this case, let them continue to work. Maybe there will be unexpected surprises?

Not long after, the second live broadcast of the Los Angeles-San Francisco high-speed rail project started.

In the studio, the live broadcast director stared nervously at the screen. As the command to "start live broadcast" was given, Evans' iconic face instantly appeared on the screen.

The lighting is perfect, the expression is perfect, and even his movements when he appears are exactly as designed in the script.

The reporter waiting aside quickly walked forward and accurately handed the microphone to his mouth.

"Evans, how are you today?"

"Very good, it's still a smooth day. As you can see, we have more large machinery coming in and the efficiency has become higher."

There were no errors or omissions in the question and answer, and the director gently raised his hand and cut the screen to camera number two.

Then, the camera accurately panned the large machinery parked aside, with the close-up shot staying at a low position, making the already tall excavators and bulldozers look as majestic as cruisers on land.

After the camera stayed for a moment, the director pressed the button again, and the screen switched back to Evans.

It was this excellent scheduling that caused the ratings figures displayed in front of him to jump upward by 0.1 percentage points.

At this time, the ratings of the live broadcast had reached 2.3%. In contrast, the ratings of the live channel broadcasting the construction of the Beijing-Shijiazhuang High-speed Railway in China were only a pitiful 0.06%.

A satisfied smile appeared on the director's face.

Admittedly, the ratings here can only show the domestic situation, but so what?
To be continued...