After returning home, Zhao Yi carefully reflected on the meeting, and then called the machinery company in Shenyang and asked the people preparing the new project to wait for him to go over and start research on the new project.
Zhao Yi simply packed his luggage and took a plane to Shenyang. This time his new project was to develop highway construction machinery.
These machines are divided into eight categories: earthmoving machinery, compaction machinery, road machinery, bridge and culvert machinery, concrete machinery, hoisting and transportation machinery, maintenance machinery, and power and tunnel machinery.
These machines had no usage scenarios before, so Zhao Yi asked them not to do research and development for the time being. Now that he has proposed the expressway, he believes that there is a high probability that it will be passed, so he asked the machinery company to launch these research projects.
In the same routine, Zhao Yi provided design drawings of various mechanical equipment, and the machinery company selected some personnel with research experience from the original projects to participate in the training.
Other insufficient personnel are recruited from outside. The current employment situation is grim. Some young people have no jobs, and their parents let their children take their places. As a result, many older workers and technicians are unemployed, which provides great convenience for the recruitment of machinery companies.
After arranging the machinery company, Zhao Yi went to the power company and asked the power company to develop diesel engines to provide power for various construction machinery of the machinery company and heavy-duty trucks of the automobile company.
Then I went to Shenlong Automobile Company in Nanjing and asked them to come up with a load-bearing truck of more than ten tons as soon as possible, because the construction of the road would require a lot of earthwork and materials to be transported.
If there are not enough people, the company will recruit people at all costs. As long as they are talented people, the company will accept them.
In the same process, Zhao Yi provided the design drawings of engines and equipment to power companies and automobile companies, as well as the extraction formulas of related materials, and then provided technical training to researchers.
When everything is done, a month will pass. After returning to Beijing to rest at home for a few days, the car that took him to Ouchi arrived at Prince Gong's Mansion again and asked Zhao Yi to attend a seminar.
Zhao Yi knew that he was eventually "betrayed" by No. 1. In fact, he also knew that the topic was too big to be solved in a simple conversation, so he had already anticipated the arrival of this seminar.
When we arrived at the conference room, it was already packed with people. They were generally older, some had completely white hair, and they were all Zhao Yi's grandfather-level figures.
Find your seat, sit quietly, and wait for the leader to arrive. Not long after, several heavyweight leaders came in. After the leaders sat down, they announced the start of the seminar.
First, the leader explained the current problems, and then gave several plans, including the plan that Zhao Yi proposed last time. After the introduction, the following experts will speak.
Some are in favor, some are opposed, and some find shortcomings in the plan. Anyway, they all have their own reasons, and everyone discusses the matter in a matter-of-fact manner.
But the problem must be solved after all. Seeing that there was no unified result, the leader glanced below and saw Zhao sitting below with a glance at his nose, nose and heart, so he said: "Mr. Zhao, come and share your opinion. "
Zhao Yi knew that he couldn't hide today, so he simply stood up and prepared to speak. When the other experts saw the man who looked like a young man, they all looked surprised. When the leader saw this, before Zhao Yi could speak, he said: "I think some of the people who are doing this know about Mr. Zhao, some have heard about it, and some know nothing about Mr. Zhao, so I'll start with I’m here to introduce you to each other so that we can get to know each other.”
"Although Mr. Zhao is young, he is currently the youngest winner of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics. This is relatively well-known in academia, and in the industry, the CPU chips developed by Mr. Zhao's company far surpass those of international peers. Recently, and The program-controlled switchboard cooperated with the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications was also developed by Zhao Corporation. It can be said that Mr. Zhao has made great contributions to our country’s modernization construction, and he is a representative figure who has high ambitions but not young years.”
Everyone was even more surprised when they heard the leader's introduction. This achievement was not something that ordinary geniuses could achieve. Some people who had heard about it also showed expressions of sudden realization.
"The leader is so complimentary. The little work I have done is of no importance. If any of the experts I am working on have not dedicated their lives to the country, I have to learn from and ask for advice from all the experts." Zhao Yi said modestly.
"Don't be self-effacing and tell me your opinion." The leader said.
"Okay." Zhao Yi said to the leader.
"We need to know what is the purpose of the country's reform and opening up? The old man has already said that it is to 'liberate productive forces', 'catch up with the times' and 'revitalize China'. These three steps are in a gradual and progressive relationship. The former is the latter. Necessary conditions.”
"How to liberate productivity? What I want to do is to fully mobilize the subjective initiative of the masses. How to mobilize the subjective initiative? I think everyone has already got the answer from the rural land contracting to households, which is to make the masses feel profitable, then It is necessary to further open up the business scope of the masses and actively participate in economic construction."
"Of course, if too much is opened up at once, it will put huge pressure on the management of the national government, and problems may arise one after another, so we need to develop gradually. I think opening up self-employed businesses is both a practical need and a necessary first step. .”
"Then how dare we go up to the times? Liberating productivity is only a necessary condition but not a sufficient condition. To achieve this goal, we also need to emancipate our minds and make more useful attempts. We need the courage to cross the river by feeling the stones. Experiment first , and then summarize and open up again, this is the way I think of, and it is also the path with the lowest cost for reform and opening up.”
"How to achieve the revitalization of China? I feel that when we touch the stones in all fields, then the river will eventually pass. When we reach the river bank, then the revitalization of China will be completed naturally."
"The above is my point of view, thank you for listening." After Zhao Yi finished speaking, he returned the microphone to the host.
When Zhao Yi finished speaking, the leader took the lead in applauding him, and after a while, thunderous applause rang out in the conference room.
Due to Zhao Yi's excellent speech, the meeting finally made a resolution, and the plan compiled from Zhao Yi's previous opinions was passed.
The next day, the People's Daily published the spirit of the meeting, which caused a large-scale discussion in the country. It also made the domestic people know for the first time that there was a person like Zhao Yi, while Zhao Yi was hiding alone at home.
Sure enough, within a few days, the State Council invited Zhao Yi to discuss the construction of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway. Since the country had no money, Zhao Yi had to provide the money. After a final period of bargaining, Zhao Yi provided all the funds and accounted for 70% of the shares. The state will own 30% of the land and be responsible for the relocation and resettlement of residents along the road. Since it is expected that there will not be many vehicles in the next 10 years, it will be difficult to achieve profitability, so it is stipulated that Zhao Yi's shares will be donated to the country for free 20 years after the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway achieves profitability.
The Beijing-Shanghai Expressway has a total length of 1,262 kilometers and a total investment of 37.8 billion yuan. It has six lanes in both directions and a design speed of 120 kilometers per hour. (End of chapter)