Chapter Summaries

Jiang Miao reviewed Panshi Automobile’s first vehicle design and directed the team to make safety its defining feature, strengthening both crash and battery-fire protection while limiting the risks of connected systems. Panshi’s prototype plans remained under development, with the chapter ending after Jiang Miao set cybersecurity and mechanical backup requirements for the car.

• Jiang Miao reviewed reports on the Yongjia and Huangzhou factories, which Panshi Automobile had acquired and prepared for future production.
• Wang Muhua presented a prototype design using modified Soy Silk composite materials to reduce vehicle weight and improve crash protection, alongside a larger battery to improve stability and driving range.
• Jiang Miao consulted Lei Bo about safe battery research and chose the aluminum hydroxide plan over phosphate esters.
• Li Fei proposed reinforcing the battery compartment and adding Baking Soda fire-suppression measures, and Jiang Miao directed the team to adopt all three battery-fire protections.
• Qin Xingzu warned that an AI-trained hacking system could breach most domestic smart cars, so Jiang Miao ordered internet-connected systems isolated from vehicle controls, domestic chips used, and mechanical backup controls installed.

Hai Lu Feng expanded its Fairy Silk Soybean industrial zone in Minqin County while testing the lifting capacity of its massive Blue Whale 3 airship. After the test confirmed the airship’s expected buoyancy, Jiang Miao ordered research into using airships to transfer cargo ships and containers across canal barriers.

• Hai Lu Feng and local authorities built a large industrial zone in Minqin County, restricting other farming and planning high-tech industries around Fairy Silk Soybeans.
• Hai Lu Feng designed three Blue Whale airships and planned enormous shipyards built with lightweight soy silk fiber composites.
• Jiang Miao inspected the Experimental No. 1 airship test as Hou Xin’s team filled its gas bags with hydrogen and secured ballast beneath it.
• The test team raised the ballast above 2,000 tons and found the airship’s buoyancy threshold was broadly consistent with its 3,200-ton design.
• Hou Xin, Wan Gaofeng, and Yang Yuanzhen discussed using airships to transfer ships or containers across canals, and Jiang Miao ordered the Airship Company and Logistics Division to form a research group.

Jiang Miao reviewed an airship safety plan and considered Hai Lu Feng Company's agricultural and crop-breeding projects, especially the promising MuZhe sugar crop. Back home, Luo Yulin reported that his team had discovered a cancer-targeting mutated protein, and Jiang Miao ordered them to accelerate research and seek human-trial approval.

• Jiang Miao instructed Wan Gaofeng to carry out full safety tests at a desert testing center once the Minqin base was completed.
• On the drive home, Jiang Miao considered Hai Lu Feng Company's year-round fruit cultivation research and the MuZhe varieties that could produce sugar solution continuously.
• Luo Yulin told Jiang Miao that a byproduct from the new antibiotic research could target cancer cells and help mice survive tumors, including pancreatic cancer and diffuse glioma.
• Jiang Miao told Luo Yulin to accelerate the research and human-trial application, then named the mutated protein Yulin Protein.

Jiang Miao developed boron-free Diatom Soy Silk to protect modified soy silk production from rising borax prices, and his experiments also produced several unusual silicon-based materials. By September, he had traveled to the Minqin base, where Wan Gaofeng learned that the new soy silk components required the airship dome team to reassess its designs.

• Jiang Miao saw borax prices rising amid the iron ore trade war and concluded that imports could not reliably supply the Boric Acid needed for modified soy silk.
• Jiang Miao tested alternative acids and developed Diatom Soy Silk, along with hollow silicon tubes that could conduct electricity with liquid mercury, withstand extreme heat, or accelerate metal particles.
• Jiang Miao finished his research as September arrived and secretly traveled to the Minqin base to arrange technology upgrades and inspect the northwest.
• Wan Gaofeng left the desert testing site for the Minqin base after ordering Chen Baomu to organize the hydrogen explosion test reports.
• Wan Gaofeng learned from Ma Donghai that the soy silk component process and facilities were being modified to avoid Boric Acid, then sent the new specifications to the airship dome design team for reassessment.

Jiang Miao inspected Yulin Protein clinical trials in Chang'an, discussed lupus treatment and customized cancer therapy with doctors, then continued to Gan Province. At Minqin High-Tech Industrial Park, Panshi Automobile tested a lightweight Silicon Soy Silk vehicle frame that protected the cabin from battery fires.

• Jiang Miao visited Professor He's ward and learned that a patient with diffuse glioma was responding to staged Yulin Protein treatment, though one trial patient had suffered a severe allergic reaction.
• Jiang Miao warned a patient's father that cheap engineered wood in their renovated home might have exposed the family to excessive formaldehyde and advised him to discard it.
• Jiang Miao visited all five trial patients and discussed Yulin Protein, Ankesu Hydrochloride, and the costs and practical limits of Hai Lu Feng Hospital's customized lupus treatment with doctors.
• Jiang Miao left Chang'an and took the high-speed rail to Gan Province while companies in Minqin studied Silicon Soy Silk from trial production.
• Researchers at Panshi Automobile built and tested a Silicon Soy Silk vehicle frame with a Silicon Carbide Tube chassis, which kept the cabin below 40 degrees Celsius for about fifteen minutes during a battery fire test.

Jiang Miao arrived in Minqin County and saw soy-silk clothing already being sold, while considering the vast industrial consequences of expanding Immortal Bean production. The chapter leaves Hai Lu Feng Company quietly building strategic reserves of borax and cinnabar for future technologies.

• Jiang Miao’s convoy passed strict checkpoints and reached Minqin County, where officials barred all soybean material from leaving.
• Jiang Miao visited a clothing shop, tried on Minqin soy-silk garments, and bought several outfits.
• Jiang Miao assessed how expanding Immortal Bean cultivation would fuel artificial silk, biodiesel, feed, and other industries, while creating a need to manage soybean meal surpluses.
• Hai Lu Feng Company planned to use microbial fuel cells to turn Soybean Meal into electricity, biogas, and organic fertilizer, and to expand exports of related products.
• Hai Lu Feng Company increased strategic mineral stockpiles, including borax for lightweight materials and secretly sourced cinnabar for its room-temperature Mercury Silicon Tube technology.

Jiang Miao reviewed Minqin Group’s soy silk production and sales, then examined Airship Company’s new airship designs and identified a potential photovoltaic use for Silicon Carbide Tube. He left the group with plans for a photovoltaic research lab and trial production at the renovated soy silk factory.

• Jiang Miao learned that Minqin Group could produce 100,000 tons of Artificial Silk and 33 million square meters of soy silk fabric per month, while demand from clothing brands was growing rapidly.
• Li Xuemin described the affordable Minqin New Silk line and luxury Fairy Silk brand, and Jiang Miao urged Minqin Group to cooperate with Qiongzhou Textile Group’s abaca clothing brands.
• Bao Wenda confirmed that Minqin Group had labeled its product origins as Gan Province and the Western Region and disclosed its partner companies.
• Wan Gaofeng presented Airship Company’s aerodynamic airship design, which used Silicon Carbide Tube for a strong frame and improved payload performance at low altitudes.
• Jiang Miao proposed testing Silicon Carbide Tube fabric as a photovoltaic material and instructed Bao Wenda to establish a research lab and supply Airship Company if it reached about 20% conversion efficiency.
• Bao Wenda reported that two specialized soy silk factory workshops had been renovated and could begin trial production after one or two weeks of commissioning.

Researchers tested Silicon Carbide Tube photovoltaic panels and found them efficient and inexpensive, while Zhang Shuli’s team discovered a low-cost method of producing ultrapure water through ultra-low-temperature evaporation. Zhang ordered the team to prepare a report for the boss as construction of the airship dock continued.

• Huang Yuguan and Xie Ruilin tested Silicon Carbide Tube photovoltaic fabric and measured an average photoelectric conversion efficiency of about 21.7%.
• Huang Yuguan and Xie Ruilin calculated that 20,000 square meters of panels could meet much of an airship’s daily power needs, then discussed ways to improve the technology.
• Workers began installing the airship dock’s lightweight framework, securing it against strong winds and preparing its surfaces for protection.
• Zhang Shuli and his researchers found that vertically positioned Silicon Carbide Nanotubes could extract ultrapure water from wastewater, saltwater, and contaminated water without clogging easily.
• Zhang Shuli instructed the team to prepare its experimental report and data for a briefing to the boss, estimating that the method could produce ultrapure water for under 0.05 yuan per cubic meter.

Jiang Miao oversaw tests of Silicon Carbide Nanotubes that demonstrated efficient water purification and long-distance transport, but their high cost made large projects uneconomical. Wang Anguo proposed manufacturing improvements to lower pipeline costs, while a wastewater plant test showed the technology could produce large volumes of ultrapure water with little energy.

• Jiang Miao asked Zhang Shuli's team to test how vacuum levels affected purification, and they found an optimal setting that produced about 87 cubic meters of ultrapure water per kilowatt-hour.
• Zhang Shuli's team extended the nanotubes to 150 meters and confirmed long-distance water transport, while identifying limits caused by gravity, cold, and condensation.
• Jiang Miao calculated that large-scale water pipelines remained too expensive, and he assigned Zhang Shuli's team to support mass production and reduce costs.
• Wang Anguo presented three production improvements using foamed filler, Diatom Soy Silk, and repeated sintering, which were projected to reduce pipeline costs from 50,000 to 22,000 yuan per cubic meter.
• Jiang Miao left for Beijing ahead of the academician selection announcement, while the research team tested a purifier at Minqin's wastewater plant.
• The wastewater plant's tests found that the purifier produced water with no detectable pollutants at about 80 cubic meters per hour while using roughly 1.4 kilowatt-hours per hour.

After arriving in Beijing, Jiang Miao discussed excess feed and plant protein capacity with Academician Li, explaining why Hai Lu Feng Company was diversifying rather than expanding production aggressively. The chapter left the industry facing uncertain domestic and overseas markets, with new uses for abundant soybean products emerging.

• Jiang Miao arrived in Beijing with his group, moved into Hai Lu Feng Company's compound, and met He Jintang and several elderly men that evening.
• Academician Li asked Jiang Miao whether falling feed costs and rising production capacity made future overcapacity likely, and Jiang Miao agreed.
• Jiang Miao told Academician Li that Hai Lu Feng Company would use Tea Seed Cake for microbial fuel cells, biogas, and organic fertilizer rather than feed.
• Jiang Miao and Academician Li agreed that feed producers should expand cautiously because overseas markets could restrict imports and domestic competition was intensifying.
• Jiang Miao said Hai Lu Feng Company would not yet expand Fairy Silk Soybean into inland regions because fragmented farmland could make its seeds and seedlings vulnerable to theft.
• Academician Li noted that Professor Lin's Sponge Battery would consume plant protein, while companies were developing new products to absorb excess soybean capacity.

Jiang Miao considered whether Hai Lu Feng Company should invest in Ye City and proposed a diatom cultivation industry to supply specialized raw materials for Silicon Soy Silk. He and Shu Ya planned a large artificial diatom cultivation base, while Jiang Miao asked company executives to prepare for an inspection of Ye City.

• He Jintang brought a former colleague to seek investment, and Jiang Miao assessed Ye City's existing industries as too commonplace to give it a competitive advantage.
• Jiang Miao identified specialized Silicon Soy Silk components and high-purity diatomaceous earth as potential industries for Ye City, then proposed indoor diatom cultivation using wastewater on tens of thousands of mu of land.
• He Jintang and his colleague agreed to discuss allocating wasteland near steel mills and chemical plants, and local banks were expected to approve a five-billion-yuan loan for Hai Lu Feng Company.
• Jiang Miao told Shu Ya that rapid, multilayer diatom cultivation could produce large quantities of high-purity diatomaceous earth and might also yield useful proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and novel materials.
• Jiang Miao emailed company executives to arrange an inspection of Ye City and prepare for a diatom cultivation base the following year.

Jiang Miao rejected Zhichun Technology’s request for exclusive rights to Silicon Carbide Nanotubes but offered a restricted procurement partnership. He then agreed with Chen Nanxian and Yang Shining to secretly research his Silver-Plated Silicon Nanotubes for semiconductor manufacturing in Minqin, with future production planned at Yangtze Memory’s base.

• Chen Nanxian told Jiang Miao that Zhichun Technology wanted to invest in Hai Lu Feng Company in exchange for exclusive rights to Silicon Carbide Nanotubes, but Jiang Miao refused and barred exports of water-purification equipment using the material.
• Jiang Miao explained that Silicon Carbide Nanotube purifiers could produce water at very low energy cost and that the material could last around forty years, surprising Chen Nanxian and Yang Shining.
• Jiang Miao described Silver-Plated Silicon Nanotubes that could attract and eject charged particles, prompting Chen Nanxian and Yang Shining to identify possible uses in nanoscale etching and memory-chip production.
• Jiang Miao and Chen Nanxian agreed to establish a confidential semiconductor research and development center in Minqin, with Yangtze Memory handling production if the technology matured.
• Chen Nanxian and Yang Shining returned to headquarters and began selecting researchers for the secret Minqin technical team.

Jiang Miao and Lin Shuya inspected Hai Lu Feng Company’s Beijing warehouse supermarket and automotive service center, where they saw new solar-powered refrigerated containers and a water system that recycled 97% of its water. The visit left Jiang Miao considering how Minqin Group’s purification technology could expand water recycling and household access to purified water.

• Jiang Miao and Lin Shuya toured Beijing before secretly inspecting Hai Lu Feng’s western-suburbs Warehouse Center.
• Li Keming showed Jiang Miao new containers fitted with photovoltaic panels and Sponge Batteries, explaining their power generation, storage, increased payload, and trial performance.
• Luo Man led Jiang Miao and Lin Shuya through the automotive service center and reported that its water system recycled 97% of its water.
• Luo Man explained the center’s separate water pipelines, storage tanks, and near self-sufficiency, while Jiang Miao discussed the potential for broader water recycling and household purification.
• Shu Ya asked whether households would eventually install water purifiers, and Jiang Miao said he expected them to become especially common in northern regions.

Jiang Miao toured the Warehouse Supermarket and saw that affordable silk products and fresh seafood were in high demand. The chapter ended with Hai Lu Feng Company's expanding network and shopping app posing a serious challenge to rival platforms.

• Jiang Miao and Shu Ya crossed the Pedestrian Overpass and saw customers wearing popular silk garments, whose strong word of mouth had left Minqin Group struggling to meet demand.
• At the Warehouse Supermarket, Gao Xinying told Jiang Miao that silk products were selling out quickly, while wool carpets and cheap Manila hemp goods also attracted customers.
• Jiang Miao spoke with a restaurant owner who bought inexpensive hemp-cotton clothes for kitchen work and said his business had improved with the economic recovery.
• Jiang Miao returned to the fresh food section and saw customers buying Chinese Mitten Crabs, Ornate Spiny Lobsters, and other seafood in high demand.
• Jiang Miao learned that Hai Lu Feng Company's APP had 134 million registered users and that its industrial network included 72,000 contracted individual businesses and 1,573 partner companies.

Zhang Xincheng inspected Hai Lu Feng Company's farms, paper mill, and desalination projects in Gan'en City, ordering expanded water infrastructure and confronting serious factory management and wastewater problems. The chapter ended with Jiang Miao and Lin Shuya officially announced as academicians, prompting intense discussion online at home and abroad.

• Lin Wenyi showed Zhang Xincheng the drought-stricken durian farm in Datian Town and reported that Hai Lu Feng Company had secured local approval and acquired five sites for desalination plants.
• Zhang Xincheng ordered the company to expand its plan to ten desalination plants and raise the annual capacity at Haiwei Town and Duntou Town to 100 million cubic meters each.
• At the Sanjia Town paper mill, Zhang Xincheng rebuked Miao Dongan over poor workplace safety, disorganized storage, inadequate wastewater ponds, and low water recycling, and decided the Supervision Department should investigate.
• Zhang Xincheng inspected the Duntou Town desalination plant and raised concerns about safely handling the enormous quantities of salt desalination would produce.
• Jiang Miao and Lin Shuya were officially announced as academicians on November 21, sparking widespread discussion online in China and abroad.

A livestream discussion of Jiang Miao’s academicianships linked his many achievements to a suspected, undisclosed biological theory for rapidly identifying genetic targets, then turned to the risks of human gene editing. The chapter ended by detailing Hai Lu Feng Company’s pheromone-based pest-control system and its expanding use across farms.

• Dong Gan Di and three scholars discussed why Jiang Miao had been selected for both the Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Sciences.
• Doctor Geng suggested Jiang Miao’s classified biological theories enabled rapid screening of genetic targets and explained how that could account for his many breeding achievements.
• Doctor Geng warned that genetically edited babies raised grave ethical dangers, and Dong Gan Di argued that international mistrust could drive countries to pursue human gene-editing research.
• Online debate about biotechnology and genetically modified organisms intensified, while concerns about potential foreign biological weapons led some people to support the technologies.
• Hai Lu Feng Company’s pheromone repellents were described as low-toxicity, targeted treatments used with isolation belts to control pests while limiting harm to beneficial insects and neighboring farms.

Handong University faced renewed online mockery after Lin Shuya became an academician, while a secret American intelligence group investigated Hai Lu Feng Company’s biological theory and other technologies. Sean ordered efforts to disrupt the company’s mercury supply after learning of its advances in silicon silk and seawater desalination.

• Handong University shut down its social media comments, but netizens mocked the university and revived stories about Du Bolun and his son.
• Lin Shuya remained unconcerned because Du Bolun and his son had already been punished.
• At a secret base near San Francisco, Sean questioned Robert and Big Baldy about their failed efforts to locate Hai Lu Feng Company’s biological system.
• Joseph told Sean that Hai Lu Feng Company was likely secretly acquiring mercury ore, and Sean ordered efforts to disrupt its supply channels.
• Joseph presented a report showing that silicon silk could reduce Seres’s need for iron ore and bauxite, and he reported that the company’s desalination technology could ease water shortages.
• Sean lamented that Jiang Miao’s technological genius had not been born in America.

Jiang Miao expanded Hai Lu Feng Company's plans to secure rare minerals and considered investments in the Western Regions as soybeans became a major industrial resource. After Shu Ya described Wudaokou University's nanosensor breakthrough using the company's Silicon Carbide Nanotubes, Jiang Miao agreed to make a minority investment, leaving the project with the investment division.

• Jiang Miao directed the company to pursue mercury exploration rights in southeastern Gan Province and increase imports of rare elements.
• Jiang Miao assessed the growing value of soybeans and considered carefully planned Fairy Silk Soybean investments in the Western Regions.
• Shu Ya told Jiang Miao that Dr. Gao Shu Yuan's team had used Silicon Carbide Nanotubes to improve nanosensors for measuring fifteen blood indicators.
• Jiang Miao agreed to have the investment division contact the research team and take a 20-to-30-percent financial stake.

At the Hong Cao Town Freeze-Dried Food Factory, Huang Meiqin’s team discovered that Minqin Group’s water purifier core could dry fruits and vegetables at normal temperature with dramatically lower costs, then began adapting the process to prepared meals and other products. The chapter ended with the team considering new applications, including mushroom drying and a possible hemodialysis research project.

• Lin Lewen approved Huang Meiqin’s request to study whether the factory’s industrial water purifier could dry fruits and vegetables.
• Huang Meiqin’s team found that placing food in contact with the purifier’s Silicon Carbide nano-needles dried it in minutes while preserving flavor, cutting drying costs by around 97%.
• Lin Lewen ordered the team to prepare patent materials and had Deputy Factory Director Li contact Minqin Group about manufacturing Normal Temperature Drying Technology machines.
• Huang Meiqin’s team developed fruit and vegetable drink powder ideas, then joined Du Xiang’s canned food factory in testing dried prepared meals; vegetables rehydrated unevenly, while meat generally retained its flavor.
• During a late-night discussion, Huang Meiqin agreed to report a technician’s hemodialysis idea to the Scientific Research Department for a feasibility study.

The Airship Company completed the Blue Whale 1 Type 1001 and conducted its first long-distance cargo test flight from Minqin to Wei City. The remotely controlled airship returned to Minqin after exchanging its cargo, while sightings of the behemoth sparked discussion online.

• The Minqin Airship Factory analyzed nearly two hundred tests and added carbon dioxide airbags and emergency measures to reduce the risks of hydrogen leaks and fires.
• Hou Xin and Wan Gaofeng oversaw the Blue Whale 1 Type 1001's launch from the factory dock after its hydrogen cells were filled and the protective dome was opened.
• Remote operators flew Airship 1001 to Minqin Airport, where staff secured six containers of artificial silk beneath it and the airship lifted them into its cargo hold.
• Airship 1001 flew 820 kilometers to Wei City Airport, avoiding towns and mountains as people along its route watched and recorded it.
• At Wei City Airport, Airship 1001 unloaded the artificial silk, loaded six containers of tropical fruit, and returned to Minqin without ground convoy assistance.
• The airship's test flight and public sightings quickly sparked heated discussion online.