No technology could ever be invented out of thin air. While genius scientists might speed up the pace of technological development, genius scientists needed funding too.
It could be said that all of humanity's technological progress had been bought with money. Jiang Yan Hai's research seemed to advance quickly, as though it did not cost much.
But was that really the case? It was not.
Take the previous incident, for example. Jiang Yan Hai had needed to video conference with Professor Liu, Professor Hu, and the others at a research institute near Yangcheng. At the time, the entire institute had been placed under lockdown. All research activities had been suspended; those who were supposed to take leave took leave, those who were supposed to rest rested, and anything that could be delayed was delayed.
All of that cost money! If some research projects were halted for even a single day, the electricity costs for the computers alone would be no small sum.
Jiang Yan Hai could call upon any supercomputer he wanted, even directly drawing on strategic reserves. Did strategic reserves not cost money? All of that was money.
So, there was no such thing as cheap scientific research. Jiang Yan Hai was simply more efficient. Others might need ten thousand yuan to produce a certain result, while Jiang Yan Hai might only need a hundred.
But that hundred yuan still had to be spent.
Huawei had reached its current position not because its researchers were so overwhelmingly capable, but because it was willing to invest.
What did it mean to throw away a company worth a hundred billion every year? How many companies in the entire country even had a market value exceeding a hundred billion?
"Mm, those are easy enough to deal with. We can speed things up.