Imagination is wonderful, but reality is cruel!
Guo Yi had a profound understanding and feeling of this sentence at the moment.
Before coming here, Guo Yi thought that coming here would mean having unlimited material supplies for his experiments and production.
There would be a professional nutritionist team and chef team so he could eat without lifting a finger.
There would be a massive logistics team so he didn't need to tidy up or wash his clothes.
As it turned out, all of this was fake!
The greater the expectation, the greater the hurt when disappointment struck!
With a brain full of scientific knowledge, he had never studied management.
Besides, management belonged to the humanities, not mechanical science, so he didn't have the corresponding knowledge reserves in his head either...
If he wanted to learn, he could only huddle over a book and gnaw on it like an ordinary person...
Instead of like other mechanical sciences, where he could sleep for a millennium in a dream, studying intently in his dreams while sleeping.
After waking up, he would have mastered the knowledge of one or half a discipline.
Stifled, unhappy, irritable, anxious, and so on, various negative emotions began to attack Guo Yi.
Therefore, the more Guo Yi thought, the more stifled, frustrated, and even vaguely self-abandoning his expression became.
Gao Linlin looked at Guo Yi, who was about to fall into regret and blackening, and hurriedly exchanged glances with Elder Zhou and He Zhijun.
Then, Elder Zhou's gentle voice sounded, "Don't worry, we'll solve things one by one.
You'll be fine once you get used to it.
Just like when you study a new piece of knowledge, I believe you will learn it very quickly!"
"I..." Guo Yi said to Elder Zhou in a low tone, "This feeling is the first time I've experienced it.
Stifled, unhappy, irritable, anxious..."
"It's fine." Elder Zhou rubbed Guo Yi's head and said affectionately, "You've always had smooth sailing in scientific research, and you've been by yourself ever since you were a child.
Now that you suddenly have to lead a team, it's completely normal to feel unaccustomed and not know what to do.
You have plenty of time to experience and feel these things; there's no need to rush for a moment."
Guo Yi looked up at He Zhijun and the others, and gave a soft acknowledgment, "Yeah."
Guo Yi had always been alone, and with his brain full of scientific knowledge, he never worried about money at all.
Therefore, having been solitary and free for a long time, he unconsciously thought in his heart that he was omnipotent and that everyone else was scum unworthy of being with him.
Not to mention that beside Guo Yi, there had always been robots that felt nothing.
Facing them, Guo Yi didn't need to consider anything at all, nor could he perceive any of their emotions.
But in reality, no matter how much of a genius or freakish talent a person was, they were still human.
Being human, they couldn't shake off human nature.
Moreover, a person would not be someone completely without flaws.
Therefore, Guo Yi bursting into an unfamiliar field and suffering a heavy blow that led to low spirits was completely understandable.
At the same time, this situation was also one of the ways to tell a true genius from a fake genius.
True geniuses would pull themselves together again, learn in this unknown field, integrate all knowledge into one, and become the leader once more.
As for fake geniuses, they would only stay down, complain about heaven and earth, believing everything was the world's fault and not their own.
Guo Yi originally had the potential to slide toward being a fake genius; fortunately, he had a true giant of the nation like Elder Zhou by his side—someone who could give Guo Yi guidance and care, and who was also Guo Yi's idol.
Therefore, after hearing Elder Zhou's words, Guo Yi took a few deep breaths, calmed his mood, and earnestly said to He Zhijun and the others, "What should I do?"
He Zhijun looked at Guo Yi, who had calmed down and pulled himself together, and nodded with satisfaction, "Take it one step at a time.
First is funding; you need to understand how much money you have.
After all, you can't be like before, sneakily using hacker skills to loot the drug money of those drug lords when you have no money.
However, regarding this point, I personally support you quite a bit!"
Guo Yi nodded, and then shouted into the empty air, "Doggie!"
"Who is calling my name, who is waiting for my return..."
Doggie suddenly appeared out of thin air, accompanied by background music.
"..."
Guo Yi's previously calmed expression darkened once more, and he gritted his teeth as he instructed, "Pull up the factory material information table and asset table!"
"Slap~"
Doggie seemed to also sense Guo Yi's strange mood and instantly pulled up the materials he needed, displaying them in the air.
Guo Yi carefully glanced at the list, then furrowed his brows and looked at Gao Linlin, "Only 5 billion total in project research funds?
This is way too little!
Isn't our tradition fond of hoarding things?
I remember there are huge reserves of many materials!
How come when I use those reserves, I need money too?"
Gao Linlin nodded and explained, "That's right, although the higher-ups agreed that you can mobilize all stored supplies, that still costs money!
No limits are limits, but money is money.
Those are two different things!
Besides, it's not like you're the only one who needs research funds; there are plenty of places that need allocations..."
The DNA and experiences of the rabbit led to the rabbit being extremely fond of hoarding things.
Civilian and military, hoard!
Living and scientific research, hoard!
Things they had at home and things bought outside, hoard!
Inanimate and animate, hoard!
In short, it was one word: hoard!
But hoarding aside, when the time came to use them, they would still be used.
Therefore, no matter what supplies Guo Yi wanted or in what quantities, they could be provided.
The premise was to give the cost price!
This wasn't to make money off Guo Yi, but one of the rules that had to be followed to maintain social prosperity and operation.
Therefore, upon hearing this, Guo Yi could only nod helplessly and start pondering.
However, the more he pondered, the more wrong it felt!
"That's not right!
I remember handing over production data for many complete sets of high-tech products!" Guo Yi furrowed his brows, staring at Gao Linlin as he asked, "Although it can be considered my selfless contribution, those products are going to be sold!
How can the profits not have a portion allocated to supply my place here?
Under a monopoly business, we call the shots on the price.
Not to mention it's a monopoly business with a technological gap!
The profits should be frighteningly large..."
"Yeah." Gao Linlin smiled meaningfully, "But those are military-grade..."
Fine.
As soon as Guo Yi heard Gao Linlin's words, he reacted immediately: military-grade = our family needs to use it = not for sale.
And the materials handed over couldn't be trimmed down because no one had fully grasped them yet.
So there was nothing to sell, which meant there was no way to make money.
In the end, it was equivalent to Guo Yi having no money to invest in the factory, surviving entirely on budget allocations...
To put it bluntly, they were just waiting for Guo Yi to voluntarily provide trimmed-down versions...
Thinking of this, Guo Yi glanced at Elder Zhou.
The real meaning of Elder Zhou and the others appearing here: assisting him in research and production was part of it, but more importantly, letting Elder Zhou and the others master all the technology.
One aspect was letting Elder Zhou represent Guo Yi in taking on disciples.
After all, Guo Yi shouldn't waste his energy on cultivating the next generation; his main energy should still be focused on aerospace technology.
Another aspect was letting Elder Zhou and the others produce inferior goods.
These were the defective products from their practice sessions, to be taken out and used as foreign trade goods...
Well, very logical reasoning, very rabbit-like logic!
Especially when Guo Yi saw Elder Zhou and Gao Linlin sharing the exact same meaningful smile, it confirmed his conjecture even more.
Afterwards, Guo Yi speechlessly said to Elder Zhou, "You guys could have just said these things directly! Is it really that fun to make me guess back and forth?"
"This is the part you need to learn!" Elder Zhou said cheerfully, "Besides, your project is yours to call the shots on!"
Guo Yi helplessly rubbed his brow: as expected, routines are king!
This was practically flashing a sign telling Guo Yi that the path was chosen by him, and they certainly didn't force him!
And in reality, Guo Yi's other paths had long since been dug up by them...
Thanks to "Wenchen Wei Wo" for the tip!
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Thank you very much!