Zheng Yang

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Zheng Yang (郑阳)
Affiliation	Military Research Institute
Occupation/Role	Director/Dean; coordinator of military research, technology deployment, and strategic projects
First Appearance	Chapter 183

Background / History

Zheng Yang leads a Capital delegation to Pioneer Technology to classify its artificial-intelligence project, procure AI-enabled drones, and investigate the company’s ongoing research. He brings Academician Tao to assess the suspected battery work, then treats the resulting 1600 Wh/kg battery data as a matter requiring exhaustive verification. 183

He becomes one of the principal officials responsible for translating Luo Yao’s inventions into deployable systems. After witnessing the Fire Qilin electromagnetic cannon, he arranges its evaluation, negotiates the Navy’s deployment rights, and brings Luo Yao to a munitions factory to prepare for mass production. 191

Personality

Zheng Yang is pragmatic, politically astute, and unusually patient with Luo Yao’s bluntness. He often interprets Luo Yao’s technical explanations for others, manages the consequences of Luo Yao’s impulsive actions, and protects him from institutional pressure. 197 278

He is also willing to maneuver Luo Yao toward strategically necessary work. Recognizing that Luo Yao is drawn to difficult problems, Zheng Yang uses the problem of mounting an electromagnetic cannon on an aerial platform to bring him into the Southern Sky Gate Plan. 206

Despite his caution, Zheng Yang repeatedly supports ambitious projects once Luo Yao provides a viable direction, including the White Emperor, energy shields, rare-earth development, and nuclear fusion. 277 307

Abilities & Skills

Strategic Project Coordination

Zheng Yang connects research teams, military branches, factories, experts, and state authorities to move experimental technology toward implementation.

• Secures the Navy’s agreement to pay three billion Hua currency for Fire Qilin deployment rights and begins arranging production support. 191
• Organizes technical personnel to learn electromagnetic-cannon operation and train naval staff. 192
• Convenes aerospace experts for the Xuan Nü project and secures Elder Sun’s participation as technical consultant. 221
• Leads a rare-earth mobilization meeting after China secures two mining areas with reserves of approximately 16 million and 18 million tons. 254

Talent Protection and Advocacy

Zheng Yang consistently treats Luo Yao as a strategic talent whose safety, resources, and recognition require active protection.

• Reinforces security around Pioneer Technology and Luo Yao’s family during the battery breakthrough. 183
• Defends Luo Yao’s right to enter a classified factory workshop by identifying him as Pioneer Technology’s CEO and the developer of quantum radar technology. 192
• Supports Luo Yao’s academician nomination by seeking backing from Director Kong and higher authorities despite entrenched academic factions. 288 289
• Adds a standing instruction to AI Xihe to prioritize Luo Yao’s protection after Luo Yao begins independently flying the White Emperor. 288

Crisis Management

Zheng Yang handles the administrative, security, and political fallout caused by Luo Yao’s unorthodox research methods.

• Takes responsibility after Luo Yao modifies a frigate’s fire-control algorithms without authorization, while arranging verification of the reported bugs. 192 193
• Intervenes when Luo Yao proposes dangerously high-power plasma and microwave experiments, directing him toward facilities capable of conducting them more safely. 273
• Investigates the unexplained writing and moving soil in Luo Yao’s room, eventually accepting that the anomalies may be linked to a meteorite. 291 292
• Helps conceal and later justify Luo Yao’s classified brain-computer-interface research until Old Zhou authorizes the work under supervision. 347 350

Relationships

• Luo Yao — Strategic collaborator and protective mentor figure. Zheng Yang funds, coordinates, and safeguards Luo Yao’s work, while also maneuvering him into difficult national projects. 191 206 279
• Dan Xing — Frequent partner in supporting Luo Yao’s projects, handling political fallout, and reporting major developments to higher authorities. 288 350
• Old Zhou — Senior authority to whom Zheng Yang reports on major breakthroughs, security risks, and sensitive research. 191 307 350
• Zheng Xiaoxiao — His daughter. Zheng Yang recommends her as Luo Yao’s external-liaison officer for work involving major foreign clients. 212
• Academician Tao — Accompanies Zheng Yang to evaluate Pioneer Technology’s battery project and verify its exceptional performance. 183
• Elder Sun — Zheng Yang recruits him as technical consultant for Luo Yao’s aerospace project. 220 221

Story Role / Major Arcs

Pioneer Technology Inspection and Battery Verification

Zheng Yang leads the initial official inspection of Pioneer Technology’s AI and battery work. When the Hydrogen Negative Ion Conductor Battery is measured at 1600 Wh/kg, he insists on reproducing and verifying the results rather than accepting the breakthrough at face value. 183

Fire Qilin and Military Deployment

After Luo Yao’s supposed firefighting equipment is revealed to be an electromagnetic cannon, Zheng Yang coordinates its testing, introduces it to the Navy, secures funding for deployment, and begins planning factory production and technical training. 191 192

Southern Sky Gate Plan

Zheng Yang deliberately guides Luo Yao toward the Southern Sky Gate Plan by presenting the unsolved problem of deploying an electromagnetic cannon on an aerial platform. He supports Luo Yao’s decision to use Little Moss-assisted research for the project’s preliminary technological development, even after experts object. 205 206

Aerospace, White Emperor, and Energy Shield

Zheng Yang convenes experts for the Xuan Nü aerospace project and helps obtain official support and personnel for it. He later supports the White Emperor’s energy-shield tests, accommodates Luo Yao’s insistence on immediate flight-speed testing, and struggles to balance Luo Yao’s desire to fly the aircraft with his responsibility for Luo Yao’s safety. 220 221 277 279

Rare-Earth Resource Development

When Luo Yao seeks rare-earth resources for battery commercialization and future research, Zheng Yang provides a foreign-company contact, coordinates negotiations, and organizes experts after China obtains major overseas mining areas. 247 250 254

Nuclear Fusion and Academic Recognition

Zheng Yang supports Luo Yao’s fusion work, assists his academician nomination despite factional resistance, and backs Luo Yao’s proposal to publicly broadcast the Qinshan demonstration reactor’s Lunar New Year’s Eve ignition. 288 307

Space Development and Brain-Computer Research

Zheng Yang remains a central organizer in space and human-augmentation projects. He protects Luo Yao during White Emperor operations, helps manage classified brain-computer-interface research, and supports further work after Old Zhou authorizes it under strict oversight. 285 288 347 350

Trivia

• Zheng Yang initially underestimates how much Luo Yao’s inventions will disrupt normal procedures, but gradually adopts the habit of treating seemingly impossible events as plausible whenever Luo Yao is involved. 284
• Luo Yao eventually realizes that Zheng Yang had deliberately “set a trap” to draw him into the Southern Sky Gate Plan. 206
• Zheng Yang repeatedly worries that Luo Yao will fly the White Emperor without authorization; this concern proves justified when Luo Yao takes off before informing air traffic control. 285