Chapter 47

it won't change the other person's personality.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhao Xuebin heard Lin Yi's invitation, he said almost without any hesitation:

"That's great, it's my honor to join Mr. Lin's company!"

Hearing this, Lin Yi's face was happy, and he said:

"I think Dr. Zhao should call me Boss from now on!"

"Haha, that's right. Then Boss, when can I work!?"

Zhao Xuebin asked.

"Anytime is fine, but Dr. Zhao, don't you want to ask about the treatment?"

Lin Yi asked.

"I trust you, Boss, you won't treat me badly!" Dr. Zhao said confidently.

"An annual salary of two million, and I have already rented a four-bedroom apartment for you, Dr. Zhao, in Songjiang District...."

Lin Yi said with a smile.

The reason he gave such an annual salary was because of the system.

Zhao Xuebin

Age: 42

PhD in Materials Science from MIT.

Specializes in lithium battery research.

Research talent: Three stars.

Suggested annual salary: 2 million Dragon Nation Yuan.

This means the system's recognition of his 2 million annual salary,

and the three-star research talent represents that he belongs to top-tier talent.

(One star: ordinary talent, two stars: senior talent, three stars: top-tier talent, four stars: academician-level national scholar)

Basically, being able to reach three stars in the scientific research field already counts as being in the top ten of the industry.

Four stars are generally the top few in the world.

Speaking of which, Zhao Xuebin used to be the R&D director of the Ugly Nation Applied Materials Company, with an annual salary of no less than one million US dollars.

An annual salary of about 300,000 US dollars now is actually condescending for him.

This is also thanks to the system's mercenary skill; otherwise, such a technical expert

wouldn't have been something Lin Yi's newly established company could have invited.

Now giving the other party an annual salary of about 2 million Dragon Nation Yuan, Lin Yi doesn't feel it's a loss at all.

Because the benefits the other party will bring him will definitely be in the hundreds of millions.

After arranging for Dr. Zhao Xuebin in the rented apartment,

finally, two days later, Dr. Wen Xiang came to Modu from the Imperial City.

Both were authorities in new energy batteries.

Lin Yi didn't favor one over the other and gave Dr. Wen Xiang the same salary.

And with the help of the two, Fengyi Tech in the Songjiang Startup Center was finally listed and established.

On the opening day, Lin Yi just set off a string of firecrackers with Dr. Zhao and the others.

He placed a few money trees by the factory,

and didn't celebrate lavishly otherwise. After all, Fengyi Tech was still just an inconspicuous new startup company in China.

There was really no need, and no need to conduct extravagant celebrations.

Director Lin Jian of the startup center came to the factory area and sent a handicraft wishing for wealth.

At this time, Lin Jian didn't know at all that this factory, which was just a small company in his eyes, would achieve such achievements in the future.

And as the company was listed, for a period of time, Fengyi Tech first purchased equipment from outside, and then built a research center.

Of course, Lin Yi also handed over all the technology about the new cobalt-free solid-state battery in his mind to the two doctors.

Relying on the cluster effect driven by the two experts, many domestic talents came here by name and joined the now-unknown Fengyi Tech.

In just over half a month.

Fengyi Tech expanded from a boss who was only Lin Yi to a research team of more than 30 people.

Among them, there was no lack of top students from Tsinghua and Peking University.

In fact, the reason these students came to Fengyi Tech

was that they valued the reputation of Dr. Zhao and Dr. Wen.

Thinking that Zhao Xuebin was willing to resign from his million-dollar annual salary job at the Ugly Nation Applied Materials Company to return to the country,

these Tsinghua and Peking University top students were naturally very interested.

And during this period, Lin Yi was also busy, not even attending many professional courses at school.

Sometimes he was so busy that he stayed at the factory for several days in a row.

On one hand, it was ordering equipment, and on the other, it was transforming the factory.

After all, producing batteries is not like producing canned drinks; safety and fire protection all need to be accepted as qualified.

Naturally, during this period, Lin Yi also spent money like water, spending nearly 30 million just on introducing equipment.

Fortunately, many devices have already been localized.

Mixers, laminators, coaters, liquid injection machines, cutting machines, mixing equipment, winding machines, etc.

At the same time, in the laboratory.

Dr. Zhao and Dr. Wen were like Crouching Dragon and Young Phoenix.

Each led a team responsible for different projects.

Zhao Xuebin led a ten-person team to develop new positive electrode materials.

And Wen Xiang led the remaining team to study new negative electrode materials and solid-state electrolytes.

Because there was quite detailed technical information, the research speed was very fast.

Originally, for such cutting-edge technology, even Panasonic, LG Chem, and Samsung would need to gather a research team of hundreds of people to study day and night.

Then, spending hundreds of millions of US dollars, and it might not necessarily be successful in the end.

However, adding additives to the electrolyte to develop a solid-state electrolyte,

and solid-state batteries have higher energy density, faster charging speed, higher safety (diaphragm), no battery jump in low temperature (electrolyte), longer cycle life, etc., compared to lithium-ion batteries using liquid electrolyte solutions.

But what exactly is this additive, and which material is suitable, this is not something that can be solved overnight.

Some problems even need to trap researchers for years or even more than ten years.

However, if there is a detailed technical document in front of you now.

It directly marks what additives to add to the electrolyte to get a solid-state electrolyte.

Then, the research speed will increase geometrically.

According to the existing research progress, Zhao Xuebin and Wen Xiang's team estimated that they could produce samples in at most half a month.

However, because they were too busy recently,

Lin Yi also inevitably ignored Beauty Han.

Often Han Yajing sent him messages, and he only saw them after half a day.

"Are you there?"

"Are you not there?"

"Alright, if you see it, reply to me!"

Often Lin Yi could see such WeChat messages.

Lin Yi could only say afterward that he had something to do and would chat later.

To be honest, after getting along for this period, he still had a good impression of Beauty Han.

Not to mention that she was pretty, the main thing was that she didn't dislike his birth in the mountains,

which could be understood from chatting with her.

Lin Yi would sometimes chat with her about the mountains of Gui Province,

the green mountains there, the crystal-clear streams there, various mushrooms on the mountains, etc.

Although Han Yajing's hometown was Yun Province, she was born in the provincial capital, Kunming.

She herself hadn't actually been to the deep mountains of Yun Province.

Instead, she was very interested in what Lin Yi said.