Ye Zhou had just rested in the office for a while, when Chen Hao came with his superior's order. He came over to notify Ye Zhou to attend the emergency meeting, and the theme of the meeting was the response strategy for the Navigator project.

"Is it open now? Who are the participants?"

Ye Zhou asked with a frown.

It was already 9 pm. It seemed too hasty to hold this type of meeting.

After all, actions against the pilot cannot be completed overnight. If you pursue speed too much, it may cause unnecessary trouble.

Hearing his words, Chen Hao explained:

"Now, there are only you, me, the heads of the intelligence department, and a leader above. Today is not a detailed discussion meeting, but a direction discussion meeting. We will determine which direction to start from later to facilitate the formation of a task order and issue it to each specific department for details."

"It won't take a long time, it's only about half an hour."

Ye Zhou nodded and continued to ask while standing up:

"Is there an agenda? How to discuss it?"

“No, internal meetings, free play.”

“…Okay, let’s go first.”

The two left Ye Zhou's office one after another, and under Chen Hao's leadership, they entered a hidden video conference room inside the Liming Factory. As soon as they walked into the door, Ye Zhou saw a man wearing a military uniform and star badge on Changliang's screen.

He was stunned for a moment and did not call out the other party's name in the end.

But the other party spoke first before him.

"Hello Ye Zhou."

"Hello, leader."

Ye Zhou responded calmly.

This is the first time he has come into contact with a high-level leader directly. It is impossible to say that he is not nervous at all, but now he is much more mature than when he just got Yinglongeda, so he will no longer expose his emotions to his face.

The man on the screen smiled and continued:

"We have actually been in contact more than once through various methods, but it is the first time we have met directly like this. How about it? Do you have any special feeling?"

Ye Zhou pondered for a moment and replied:

"Actually, I don't feel much. The main thing is on TV this time. If I can see you in person one day, maybe the feeling will be stronger."

"Hahahaha, your answer was a bit unexpected to me, but it was pretty good, and I had a young heart. In fact, I have read a lot of your information and learned a lot of things you did from the side. However, I have been looking forward to this day when I contact you directly because I want to see what kind of person you are."

"Ye Zhou, let me tell you that we old men have been worried about you because you have been worried about you being unfaithful and not being firm. But gradually, these worries have been reduced, and we began to worry about your health."

"Look, we have recently developed a fitness plan for you. Did Chen Hao tell you?"

Ye Zhou was stunned and replied:

"To be honest, I hope he will never tell me... Leader, it's not right, I'm only 23."

"The body is the capital of the revolution. Not to mention 23, I am 63, so don't you still need to exercise? Forget it, today I won't go too far. I'll end it early and let you go back and rest early. Let's get to the point."

After the man Xinghui finished speaking, the greetings of the two of them for the first time also came to an abrupt end. Ye Zhou sat in his seat and asked directly:

"Do we have a clear judgment on the background of the Navigator now?"

Hearing Ye Zhou’s question, an intelligence system supervisor sitting next to Chen Hao replied:

"We have basically figured out their background. We are backed by Nasa and the National Strategic Analysis Office. The main strategic intention is to consume the basic strength of domestic aviation and aerospace research and development through talent competition and scientific research resources."

"Their plan has only reached one stage and has not really shown its fangs, but at this stage they have actually achieved considerable gains."

"At least now, they have indeed absorbed a large number of cutting-edge talents from us. Once these talents have entered the Pioneer project, they will be a difficult decision for us whether they are used or not in the future."

"In addition, 60% of their current R&D projects focus on the upstream fields of aircraft engines, including high-temperature resistant materials, finishing processes, thermal power structure optimization, aerodynamic structure optimization, etc. These fields will generate a large number of patents, and if participants want to obtain patent ownership, they must meet their conditions."

"So, we can make a preliminary judgment that their binding to talents is based on strong interests. Unless we can offer a price several times higher, it will be basically difficult to attract talents that have turned to them."

"To summarize it in a simple concept, what they implemented this time was a 'paper clip' plan in subdivided fields. They had great ambitions and had already had successful practices, so it was not easy to deal with it."

After hearing the other party's words, Ye Zhou frowned.

The so-called paper clip plan refers to a special action implemented by the Ugly Kingdom after World War II to absorb 1,600 scientists, engineers and technicians. This action accelerated the transfer of the World Science Center to the Ugly Kingdom. In the following decades, in order to dig out talents from all over the world, Ugly Kingdom did not hesitate to amend the immigration law many times, giving priority to allowing professional "elites" to enter Ugly Kingdom.

Huaxia is also one of the victims of the paperclip program. In recent years, due to the increase in scientific research investment and the gradual reversal of the public opinion environment, the loss of talents has eased, but the other party's methods have also become more refined.

The Navigator project is a typical representative.

For subdivided fields, formulate separate strategies to maximize the attractiveness to talents, and then change the butts of those professionals who were attracted by the past through interests, so that they can be completely bound to the Ugly Kingdom.

This is a combination of punches. If they are really allowed to finish the fight, China's aviation industry may really suffer a heavy blow.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou continued to ask:

“Do we have any strategies for coping now?”

The intelligence supervisor opened the document in his hand and handed it to Ye Zhou. There were a few key points written on it. Ye Zhou watched while listening to the other party's introduction.

"Currently, there are three main directions: public opinion, economy, and administration."

"In public opinion, we should strengthen publicity and expose the other party's intentions; economically, we should increase the treatment of existing scientific researchers; administratively, we will use some special means to suppress the other party's actions in our country."

"We still have one direction left now, that is, technical."

"Ye Gong, you know, for these scientific researchers, advanced technology is attractive. If we can disclose some advanced technology to the outside world, it can greatly attract a group of less determined scholars to return to our side."

Ye Zhou nodded and looked at the man with a star emblem on the screen and asked:

"Leader, how determined are we?"

The man from Xinghui pondered for a moment and answered:

“The cap is two five-year plans.”

Hearing the other party's answer, Ye Zhou knew it.

Two five-year plans mean that when they respond to the threat from the Pioneer Project, they can overdraw resources invested in the aviation field at most in the next two five-year plans.

It sounds quite a bit, but in fact, the range of things that can be moved is still limited.

Then, based on this situation, it is impossible for them to use cost-effective strategies anymore.

It must be refined like the enemy.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou spoke:

"Today we are discussing the overall direction issue, and there is no need to discuss the specific strategy details, so I will give some personal opinions here - in the general direction."

After a pause, Ye Zhou took the initiative to activate the talent of "decision maker" and began to output his decision-making opinions based on existing conditions.

"First of all, I think that their main offensive direction for us in public opinion will be the degree of preferential treatment and talent selection, so we must be prepared from this aspect."

"As far as I know, there was a personnel cleaning before the start of the flower carpet project. A large number of engineers with less clean backgrounds were idle. We need to be prepared for this issue."

"The second point is about economics. Now we are not bad at treating top-level engineers, but we don't invest enough in middle and grassroots fields, which is also a problem that my Sanchi Institute is trying to change."

"My suggestion is to keep the top level unchanged, overdraw the resources of the two five-year plan, significantly increase the treatment of middle-level researchers, and at least make them reach the international average. Moreover, this policy should be released as quickly as possible to support the battlefield of public opinion."

"The third point is that administrative. Navigators must not maintain physical organizations in our country. The research base in Hong Kong City must be revoked. At the same time, certain restrictions must be imposed on the convenience of domestic researchers participating in Navigator projects abroad. You will implement the specific strategies."

"The last point, technical. We need a successful project to boost technical confidence in the domestic aviation field. The deterrence of the flower carpet project is not enough, we need something more advanced."

"This thing must focus on the future, on the future fifty or even a hundred years later, and at the same time, it must allow researchers to clearly feel the hope of its success."

"I have two plans here."

"The first set of the working fluid-free plasma engine plans are mainly used in the aerospace field and will have an effect on retaining aviation talents, but may have limited effects. The advantage of this plan is that it takes faster results and has a relatively small span."

"The second set of plans, the Nantianmen Plan."

"The Nantianmen Plan is the aerospace carrier plan. It requires aerospace nuclear engines with super-large thrust, ultra-large-scale virtual testing and design systems, strong artificial intelligence assistance, and cross-age materials science technology. In this plan, countless derivative results will be generated and constantly attractive to talents."

"However, this plan also has its drawbacks, that is, it takes too long to form the final result. I conservatively estimate that it will take more than 40 years. In these 40 years, we must eliminate all rush to achieve success and maintain a balanced resource consumption. Otherwise, such a huge plan will drag us into the abyss."

Speaking of this, Ye Zhou stopped and took a sip of water. The man on the screen asked with some help:

"Do we have the possibility to start these two solutions? After all, if it is just theoretically focused, it will be very attractive to talents."

His eyes were full of expectations. From his previous experiences, he probably guessed that as long as it was said by Ye Zhou, he would definitely be sure.

As expected, Ye Zhou put down his cup and replied firmly:

“Yes. Can be started.”

The man from Xinghui nodded and continued to ask:

"If we decide to implement the Nantianmen Plan, how many of the startup conditions do you mentioned will we have?"

Ye Zhou smiled. Now his communication with the official has directly omitted the stage of digging through the bottom line, and has entered the simplest and most rough question-and-answer question-and-answer question-and-answer.

How many do we have, which means how many do you have?

No matter where you took it out, just have it.

Ye Zhou looked at the man with a star emblem on the screen and replied firmly:

"In addition to strong artificial intelligence, all other conditions are met. And with sufficient support, strong artificial intelligence will be released soon---of course, this is very soon, I mean about twenty years."

The strong artificial intelligence obtained by Ye Zhou is based on machine learning. It is currently just an initial program package and requires the input and analysis of super huge amounts of data to eventually become a complete artificial intelligence. Ye Zhou had estimated that such a process would take at least 10 years.
To be continued...