It was indeed a pity that Hou Guang could no longer fight alongside Lu Zhou in the aerospace field, but it was precisely during the time Chief Designer Lu had stepped away from the front lines that Hou Guang truly felt he had grown.
That growth was not limited to academic ability; it also included academic leadership and the ability to manage a research team.
Lu Zhou had personally handled all those matters in the past.
And as the chief designer who had led the nation's Controlled Fusion Project, Lu Zhou was indeed exceptionally capable in that regard.
However, such experience could not simply be passed on to others through training. One could only grow through practice.
Sometimes, Hou Guang could not help thinking that perhaps Lu Zhou had considered exactly this. Perhaps Lu Zhou had stepped back from the front lines in order to leave him room to grow.
Whenever he thought of that, Hou Guang nearly shed tears of gratitude.
In the murky cesspool of academia, someone with such noble sentiments, someone willing to voluntarily yield opportunities to those who needed them, was probably rarer than a giant panda.
However, if Wang Zengguang, the chief engineer of the Nuclear Industry Group and an academician who had once worked with Lu Zhou on the Controlled Nuclear Fusion project, had known what Hou Guang was thinking, he probably would have laughed himself breathless.
Did that guy have such noble sentiments?
Maybe he did.
But that definitely was not the main reason!
Aside from having no interest in power, the most fundamental reason was probably that he was lazy.
Everyone who knew Lu Zhou knew that he never stayed in one field for too long. Even in Mathematics, the field he loved most, once he had reached a point in a