The reason Chen Jian wanted the Ring Chamber of Commerce to find rocket fuel instead of doing it himself was really because the task was too thankless.
In fact, rocket fuel is not as simple as imagined.
Although in his era, there were often videos of some genius elementary school students handcrafting candies going viral on a certain short video platform, that thing compared to real solid fuel was about the difference between scraping herbs from the walls of a latrine and hexogen.
If it weren't for considering preparation speed, a liquid-fuel rocket far surpasses a solid-fuel rocket in stability and storability by an unknown number of times.
The fact that he found a solid-fuel rocket himself made Chen Jian suspect that it might also be due to some reservation in the Rocket Army's decision-making process.
After all, when facing the situation at that time, no one was omniscient.
