"Then what? Now your hard work has been almost ruined by that kid."
"I don't understand what you are planning."
As soon as he heard that this guy changed his title to you, Lu Zhou guessed that what he wanted to talk about was probably business, so he spoke.
"Lao Zhou, how have you been lately?"
Pan Changhong didn't explain anything. He took two glasses and poured wine into them.
"You are joking," Wang Peng coughed lightly, "I have been in the special brigade after all. You can't compete with me as a cook."
Seeing this name, Zhou Chengfu's mouth twitched slightly, but he still pressed the button to connect.
"Speaking of which, I have never asked you, what is your superior unit?"
Zhou Chengfu said with a smile: "What can't you understand?"
However, this nameless fire was still held in his chest, unable to vent.
Pan Changhong laughed.
Zhou Chengfu sneered and interrupted him.
The expressionless face froze slightly, and Zhou Chengfu's shoulders shook slightly.
Zhou Chengfu thought that Pan Changhong would be somewhat touched, but he didn't expect that he didn't react. He just smiled and took a sip of wine.
Wang Peng: "A bit different?"
"... A few decades ago, we were not good at all at that time. Mr. Qiao said that we should learn from the advanced experience of Western countries. The Americans made stellarator C devices, so we followed suit and built Tai Lingyun."
Of course, maybe he just can't see it.
"Hello?"
Hearing these four words, Zhou Chengfu's heart burned with an unknown fire.
"Security?" Lu Zhou said casually, chewing his elbow slowly, "What's going on?"
Zhou Chengfu stared at Pan Changhong expressionlessly.
Zhou Chengfu originally planned to refuse.
"If you have anything to do, just say it directly and don't beat around the bush."
Forget it if you don’t wear sunglasses, just wear a Chinese tunic suit.
"I'm already retired, and I still need to flatter you? Are you too old and confused, or am I?"
"Oh, what then?"
Although he is used to cooking for himself, he is not particularly picky. These days, like other researchers, he basically has three meals in the canteen of the base.
However, at this time, the person on the other end of the phone continued talking.
"Old Zhou, I only have one piece of advice for you."
Glancing at the meat-faced chef who was chopping vegetables in the back kitchen, Lu Zhou smiled and joked, "Then tell me, how many of those chopping guys can you beat?"
Zhou Chengfu snorted and smiled playfully.
I went to the restaurant that Lao Pan mentioned on the phone and sat down. After waiting for a while, I saw the familiar person walking in carrying a jar of Maotai.
Zhou Chengfu said expressionlessly: "You don't feel bad at all?"
"Do you feel sorry for Tokamak or ITER?" Pan Changhong said with a smile, "Ask yourself, are we pursuing Tokamak or the brand of ITER, or controllable nuclear fusion? Now, my hard work has become The STAR-2 demonstration reactor has been completed, and we have taken a big step towards the finish line. What can I feel bad about? Why don't I feel bad about it?"
"Boss, as usual, I'm going to fry two dishes to go with the wine."
Zhou Chengfu frowned and said nothing.
After staring at Zhou Chengfu's expressionless face for a long time, Pan Changhong suddenly sighed.
Pan Changhong took a sip of the wine in his glass, smacked it in his mouth with some unfinished content, and talked about the past as if he was nostalgic.
"What's the matter? Just tell me directly."
"you sure?"
After handling the matters at hand, he received a call just as he was about to go have a meal.
Pan Changhong said: "It's okay, I just came to buy you a drink today and catch up on old times. Why, you can't even spare time for a meal?"
…
Since China has withdrawn from ITER, the entire International Controlled Fusion Energy Program Execution Center is now in an awkward position.
This canteen is located inside the factory site. It was originally reserved for the construction unit of the third phase of the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant. However, it is now borrowed by Lu Zhou like the site of the third phase of the project.
Zhou Chengfu smiled coldly: "Haha, are you here to see my joke?"
Lu Zhou shook his head: "I don't know. I wasn't interested in knowing it before, but after hearing what you said today, I'm a little curious. Of course, if it's inconvenient, forget it."
Moreover, what was even more difficult for Zhou Chengfu to accept than disbanding on the spot was that the top management gave them only one instruction, which was to fully cooperate with the work of Chief Designer Lu and participate in the STAR-2 demonstration reactor project.
Wang Peng was stunned for a moment: "Don't you know?"
Wang Peng made a helpless expression: "Well... the nature of our work is somewhat different from the bodyguards in the movie."
Sitting opposite Zhou Chengfu, Pan Changhong smiled.
In fact, to be honest, the food here is quite good, and the chefs in charge are all cooks transferred from the army.
Lu Zhou nodded: "Yes."
"You came to me for a drink today, just to flatter me?"
"It's nothing," Lu Zhou coughed lightly, "I just feel..."
While chewing it in his mouth, Lu Zhou's thoughts were still on the previous drawing, when Wang Peng suddenly spoke.
"wake up."
After returning from Europe, Zhou Chengfu basically stayed in Beijing to deal with the "aftermath" of the International Controlled Fusion Energy Program Execution Center.
"We are old friends. Although you probably don't want to see me, I will still think of you if anything good happens. By coincidence, I have a Maotai altar here, will you come?"
Lu Zhou also heard these anecdotes from Wang Peng.
"There was a traffic jam on the road, so I was delayed for a while. I didn't expect you, old guy, to come quite early."
"Of course I still have to ask for your opinion," Wang Peng said with a smile, "After all, we don't want to bring too much trouble to your life."
Seeing that he didn't speak, Academician Pan continued.
"After you came back, you told me with great excitement that you broke several tables with your hands before we finally talked about cooperation."
It’s “full cooperation” again.
It was already 12 o'clock, so he sent a text message to Wang Peng, then got up and changed clothes and went downstairs. He took Wang Peng's car to the canteen of the demonstration reactor construction base.
I took out my phone and saw it was Pan Changhong calling.
Like other researchers, Lu Zhou had only been here in Haizhou for a week, and he had not yet lit a fire at home or prepared any kitchen utensils for cooking.
"you've changed."
When Lu Zhou turned off his computer, he almost felt a little hungry.
ITER has withdrawn from the group, HL-2A has not been repaired yet, and the field of controllable fusion where 585 is located has gradually been marginalized... Although the latter is partly due to his unwillingness to cooperate, no matter how you think about it, the cause of all this The root cause is the man named Lu.
Wang Peng: "My superiors plan to strengthen the security around you."
Lu Zhou smiled, stretched out his chopsticks and picked up the other elbow, speaking in a casual tone.
After frying a plate of fish-flavored shredded pork, braised pork knuckle, and a dish of seasonal vegetables, Lu Zhou asked Wang Peng to go to another window to prepare some pigeon soup for him, and then returned to the cafeteria hall to sit down and eat together.
"Later, the Americans couldn't do it anymore and started to follow the Soviets in making tokamak. We thought that Lingyun's path was not going to work, so we also started to make tokamak. Later, inertial constraint replaced tokamak in the international arena. It became popular in the world, so we built the Shenguang, but unfortunately the NIF ignition failed by the Americans, and the inertial constraint failed, so Tokamak became popular again."
Lu Zhou said casually: "I don't have any problems here. You can figure out how to arrange it. I'm only responsible for research matters."
"Since then, domestic research on controllable fusion has entered the fast lane. More and more research institutes have devoted themselves to this field, and 585 Institute is no longer the only research institute engaged in controllable fusion. From Rongcheng to Luyang , we have built more than a dozen fusion devices. In less than twenty years, we have gradually transformed from a chaser to a leader... "
Zhou Chengfu said calmly: "If you have anything to do, just tell me."
Although it will not be disbanded in place, basically all cooperative research projects linked to ITER have been interrupted, and funds have been transferred to the STAR-2 demonstration reactor project. This is basically no different from disbanding in place.
Wang Peng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "What's so uncertain about this? Can I still lie to you?"
"By the way, there is something I want to discuss with you."
Wang Peng shook his head: "That's not true. It's mainly just in case."
Zhou Chengfu, who was holding the phone, narrowed his eyes slightly and was about to say something.
"I said at the time that this wouldn't work. If you just follow others in research, you will never get ahead. You agreed with me and believed that only by actively participating in the most cutting-edge international research can we develop our own technology. Later we I set my sights on ITER and thought that was the way out. I wrote to the central government, asking you to go to Europe to negotiate. After several years of hard work, you finally negotiated the status of ITER as a member state."
And with this physique, I don’t feel like I’m particularly capable of fighting.
"Talk about money, it's too tacky for you and me, I believe you don't care about it. Talk about fame, not to mention the students all over the world, you and I have students all over the world. It is no exaggeration to say that in this land of China, Among the scholars working in the field of controllable fusion, how many of them don’t recognize your name, Academician Zhou?”
Hearing these two words, Lu Zhou was slightly stunned and looked him up and down with suspicion.
"okay."
After all, compared to academic matters, he really doesn't know much about this aspect.
Pan Changhong took a deep look at his old friend and said seriously.
"It's not inconvenient. You're not an outsider." Wang Peng glanced to the side and said in a voice that only two people could hear: "Guoan."
It is said that in order to solve the food problem for the more than 2,000 scientific researchers, the nearby regiment-level unit specially expanded a cooking platoon.
The boss standing behind the counter responded and walked to the kitchen.
Zhou Chengfu frowned.
Pan Changhong: "What you said, do you think you have any jokes to watch?"
But somehow, I finally agreed.
Zhou Chengfu frowned, somewhat confused as to what kind of medicine this guy was selling in his gourd.
"I thought about it for a long time when I came back from your place that day. I have figured out many issues, but there are also some things that I can't figure out."