Chapter 5
Dreams Become Reality!
"Hubby..."
Shen Luoyan called out softly, looking at Guo Hao with emotion.
"Ah! Call me that a few more times, let me hear it!"
Guo Hao's eyes immediately lit up, and he spoke hurriedly.
"Hehe! Let's talk about it after we get married!"
Shen Luoyan's face flushed red as she spoke to Guo Hao.
"Let's marry! We'll get married right now!"
Guo Hao said excitedly to Shen Luoyan.
"Oh, go away! You're already a National Treasure-level Scientist, yet you're still so indecent!"
Shen Luoyan said coquettishly to Guo Hao.
"Where did 'National Treasure-level Scientist' come from?"
Guo Hao's expression was slightly strange. "Why does it sound like I'm a National Treasure Giant Panda!"
"Pfft!"
Hearing Guo Hao's words, Shen Luoyan couldn't help but burst into laughter. "That's what everyone on the internet calls you! That's not important. Have you finished that Electric Propulsion System??"
Shen Luoyan's eyes were filled with curiosity as she looked at Guo Hao and asked.
"You could say that!"
Guo Hao nodded. "Currently, the underlying architecture of the Electric Propulsion System, along with its specific performance parameters, is basically complete, so it's considered done. Of course, the concrete application has not yet begun."
Guo Hao pondered for a moment, looking at Shen Luoyan. "However, we have achieved small-scale controlled nuclear fusion. Currently, regarding controlled nuclear fusion, we have made a spherical Tokamak with a diameter of five meters. In the future direction, electric propulsion is everything."
"Small-scale controlled nuclear fusion... you've succeeded?!"
Shen Luoyan's pupils contracted slightly, her eyes filled with disbelief as she looked at Guo Hao. This was small-scale controlled nuclear fusion! To think he had actually succeeded so quickly! This was truly hard to imagine! One must know, how long had controlled nuclear fusion been around? Less than three years! This was too absurd!
"No wonder people say you are an industry destroyer!"
After a long silence, Shen Luoyan sighed, looking at Guo Hao. "It feels like diesel generators and similar things are about to be completely phased out, and even battery application scenarios are rapidly shrinking. In a few years, I'm afraid controlled nuclear fusion cars will appear? That would be too terrifying! It's hard for me to imagine what human civilization will look like then! Truly hard to imagine!"
Shen Luoyan sighed, looking at Guo Hao. "But I know that our industry and our research will almost all be turned upside down by you. Now that you've made this, what else is there for us to research! Countless doctoral and master's graduation theses will be completely ruined! Even many engine-related courses will probably go completely cold!"
Shen Luoyan was slightly helpless. Just thinking about it, she could roughly picture that future.
Hearing Shen Luoyan's words, Guo Hao's expression did not change much. "It's very normal. Scientific and technological progress requires advanced productive forces to phase out backward productive forces; it has always been this way. We can't say, oh, this is the rice bowl of millions of workers, so we can't touch it? If so, this world would never progress. Ultimately, the steam engine was replaced by the internal combustion engine, causing a massive collapse of steam engine manufacturing companies, and the internal combustion engine is being replaced by electric motors. Oil transport companies will also start to go bankrupt one after another. This itself is the trend, the future! The future is about phasing out backward productive forces and embracing advanced ones! The distribution of these things is not for me to worry about! Nor will I think about it!"
Guo Hao's expression was very calm. Although he said this, in reality, the Haoyan Charity Foundation established by Deep Space Technology had already invested over a hundred billion in social charity. Not a single cent of these funds was used for the foundation's operations. Because the foundation's staff were employees of Deep Space Technology, their salaries and benefits were directly paid by Deep Space Technology. The hundred billion in funds was entirely used to help citizens who fell back into poverty due to illness, followed by children's education in impoverished areas, and children's nutrition plans.
Once money reaches a certain level, it really is just a number. With a slight calculation, Guo Hao's current net worth was absolutely over ten trillion! Terrifying! Of course, including his influence, it was more than a hundred trillion. To Guo Hao, what use was money, really? Not to mention his current monopolies, including the annual dividends from Jiuxiao Energy, which were astronomical figures. During the one or two years of Jiuxiao Energy's expansion, just from the construction funds and dividends collected from various countries, Guo Hao received over six hundred billion in a single year! Furthermore, this profit came every year! It could only increase, with no possibility of decreasing! Because Jiuxiao Energy itself held a fifty percent profit share in the controlled nuclear fusion power stations. Every year, fifty percent of the profits from the power stations would be distributed! As controlled nuclear fusion power stations spread globally, the annual profit brought in was extremely terrifying! By now, money to Guo Hao was truly just a number.
"Alright then!"
Shen Luoyan nodded. It had to be said that Guo Hao's words made perfect sense; scientific progress had always been this way.
"Your research project group should probably have those veteran Academicians join! I'm just a rookie. If I join your project group, others will say I got in through personal connections!"
Shen Luoyan looked at Guo Hao, her face full of helplessness.
"They won't. Our research project group is essentially our own engineering company. There's no need to seek out those Academicians for now. Besides, although the Electric Propulsion System is considered complete, the supporting facilities and experiments are currently practically non-existent. I need your help to at least build the supporting components. Moreover, my small-scale controlled nuclear fusion reactor cannot yet be considered the core of an aircraft like the JH-36. A five-meter diameter on an aircraft like that is still not considered small! Ultimately, this thing cannot be distributed like a fuel tank to save space; on the contrary, it takes up a huge amount of space! I plan to put it on a Space Shuttle!"
"A Space Shuttle!"
Hearing Guo Hao's words, Shen Luoyan's eyes instantly filled with excitement! One must know! When she applied to Yanhang University back then, majoring in Aerospace Propulsion Engineering, she was aiming for Space Shuttles! Aiming for Aerospace! It could be said that Aerospace itself was Shen Luoyan's dream! She had thought that to get in touch with Aerospace, it would take at least seven or eight years, or even longer, to have a slight chance. She never expected that now, she would take a single step to heaven, having the opportunity to directly work on humanity's first true Spacecraft?!
After all, an Electric Propulsion System plus a small-scale controlled nuclear fusion reactor! This was truly a configuration straight out of a science fiction movie!