After completing all the procedures on the side of Tunghai University, Zhou Xuan rushed to Jindu non-stop, and in just two days, he made a handover with the Central University of Science and Technology.

As of Wednesday, all legal procedures, contract signing, and advance payment of funds were in place at a rapid pace.

There is no need to elaborate on the process. In a word, there is no need to worry about administrative matters anymore, and the rest is the work of scientists.

Dean Ding was also very diligent, and the day after the formalities were completed, he immediately convened a project meeting to recruit several backbones of the hospital involved to give an explanation.

Originally, a $3 million scientific research project could only be regarded as a moderately low project if it was placed in the Academy of Physical Sciences of the Central University of Science and Technology. Even if the dean doesn't ask in person and directly hands it over to the people below, there is no problem.

The annual scientific research funding of the Academy of Physical Sciences is billions of yuan, which is converted into three or four billion US dollars.

In terms of the scale of funds, this temporary project brought by Gu Wan only accounts for one percent of the annual scientific research funds of the whole college, so it can only occupy two or three professors and researcher teams for three months.

For this matter, Dean Ding found the person in charge of the Institute of Atomic Control under the Academy, Director Sun Mingyu, and several other backbones.

"Director Sun, although the scale of this project is not large, it is at least an entry point. It is an important attempt to commercialize the research results of our atomic control research institute. Therefore, you should pay attention to it and mobilize resources to cooperate in an all-round way. ”

Director Sun is about 50 years old, and as the director of the research institute under the college, his professional title level is roughly equivalent to the head of some majors in the university.

He has no teacher-student relationship with Dean Ding, so he doesn't have to give Dean Ding too much face.

Therefore, Sun Mingyu immediately raised his own difficulties: "Dean, I have read the research route requirements sent by the management side of this project. Are they interfering with academic freedom -- just a few capitalists, engaged in financial speculation, and they know the of atomic physics? Why do they ask us to give priority to the technical route of 'atomic fluorescence column-passive excited state detector'?"

Dean Ding earnestly helped to persuade: "Xiao Sun! This is to catch up with the schedule, we must come up with the results and send them to trial production in more than three months, otherwise we will not be able to catch up with the system integration and launch of the GPS No. 2 test satellite." In this case, it is not too much for the management to put forward a request to catch up with the schedule, right?"

Director Sun pouted: "If it's to catch up with the schedule, the foolproof way is to take two more money, we will mobilize more elite soldiers and strong generals, and the two technical routes will go hand in hand, and whichever one is made in the end will be counted as which, isn't it?"

Dean, you should also fight for us, for the scientific evidence. When Oppenheimer built the atomic bomb, wasn't it just 'exchanging money for time'? President Roosevelt demanded that the progress be accelerated, and the Manhattan Project would be a four-pronged trial and error, and in the end, whichever technical route was successful, it would be used. ”

It must be explained that the examples that Sun Mingyu said are all true.

Half a century ago, when the Oceanic people were engaged in the "Manhattan Project", if they were allowed to delay for a few more years, the authority estimated that they could save three-quarters of the scientific research budget. Because I was forced by the war at that time, I had to ignore the cost, and basically the argument was not completed, so I opened a line of four times the scale and directly tried and made mistakes, spending money like water.

According to Sun Mingyu's request, if you are in a hurry, then at least take more than 4 million US dollars, and we can do it with more resources.

But this is impossible, because Gu Play is to save money, he only wants to quote 3 million to Fengyun Fund, and he actually only spends 2 million to do it.

He just wants to play the hanging line of direct verification of the answers, and there is no need to try and make mistakes for other wrong routes, even if it is trial and error, don't use Lao Tzu's money to try and make mistakes.

Strict or not rigorous, the key is to get the first pot of gold for yourself.

Dean Ding listened to Sun Mingyu's very scientific and rigorous rhetoric, and it was difficult to refute it head-on, so he could only say: "I think the agreement also said that if you take the technical route specified by the capital, and the technical route is found to be wrong at that time, the employer will be responsible for the inability to get results, so don't worry." ”

Sun Mingyu: "Then I can't joke about my academic prestige, when the time comes, I can't make anything after spending money, even if people don't hold me accountable, it's just that I don't have to bear the economic responsibility, but the shame in the circle, can the capitalists help me carry it? It's not my face that I lose?"

Dean, this way, if you have to insist, you can directly ask Director Shi to be responsible for this matter, and you can directly command him by bypassing me, and I will not handle this matter. ”

The director he mentioned is the deputy director of the institute, who is in his 40s and returned to China after graduating from MIT.

In addition, when Deputy Director Shi was a graduate student at MIT, his mentor was Dean Ding, so he had a direct mentorship, and it was easier for Dean Ding to command.

Dean Ding sighed: "Director Sun...... Since you want to get rid of it and don't like it, then forget it, I'll tell Xiaoshi directly. Actually, I think you should have more trust in the technical route of Gu Play. Even I trust him, what are you afraid of?"

"Academic independence is not about seniority, and it doesn't matter if you trust me or not. Sun Mingyu dropped this sentence and left.

Dean Ding didn't embarrass him, if he is engaged in physics, emotional intelligence is sometimes not very important.

The dispute over the pure technical route is still tolerable, after all, it is not the right thing.

After some tossing, Fengyun Fund finally landed in the Academy of Physical Sciences of the University of Science and Technology and formed a project team through the subcontracted project of the new shell company.

The final person in charge is Shi Jingqianshi, deputy director of the Institute of Atomic Control, and there is also a professor, a researcher, two associate researchers, three assistant researchers, and a number of graduate students.

In universities, professors and researchers are equal titles, but researchers are full-time researchers and do not undertake teaching tasks.

An associate researcher is equivalent to an associate professor, but a research assistant is more senior than a teaching assistant and should be compared with a lecturer.

The thorns in the technical route arrangement required by the investor have been eliminated at this stage, and the people who remain are at least willing to follow this route.

I have to admit that this is also a great convenience brought by capital dominance - if it is not Gu Play who asks the investor to pay for it today, but takes the state's publicly-funded scientific research funds, then the technical route demonstration alone can turn the world upside down, and in the end, maybe no one will dare to make a decision.

After all, if you make a mistake in making a decision, and it is a radical decision, it is not a stable decision, then you are involved in academic fraud, waste of national scientific research funds, suspicion that you have related party transactions, and benefit transfer......

Therefore, in state-owned scientific research, only by going hand in hand with the technical route arrangement can we ensure that we will not be held accountable. It's nothing more than a little slower, and the average spending efficiency is low, but there will be no leaks.

……

Friday, October 16.

After the formation of the scientific research team is completed, the official start of construction.

In order to rush for time, the start date was set on Friday, which is obviously to tell everyone that all the work will start on the weekend in the future, and there will be no time for leisure.

Gu Yu also went modestly and got to know other project team members.

He had been very low-key before.

Although there are many project participants, they already know that he promoted this matter, and they also know that one of the theoretical bases for the competition for this sub-project is based on Gu Wan's paper in the "Chinese Journal of Oriental Physics".

However, no one knows what role Gu Play will play in the project team in the future, because Gu Play does not have any title.

Gu arrived relatively early, and he came just after lunch, and the start of the short meeting was originally scheduled to end after the lunch break, so when he arrived, there was no one in the laboratory.

Gu Wan walked around the visitor area very well, and saw a middle-aged man in his 30s wearing a white lab coat, walking out with experimental data.

Gu Yu nodded politely and whispered, "Hello teacher".

And the other party lifted his glasses, looked at him carefully, and asked tentatively: "Are you that freshman Gu Play?"

"It's me. ”

The other party smiled and stretched out his hand to shake hands: "My name is Wang Yifang, assistant researcher, don't call me a teacher, I haven't taught, and I entered the research institute of the academy after graduating from the doctorate." I was also a doctor led by Dean Ding back then, you can just call me senior. ”

Gu Wan was also slightly surprised when he heard that the other party reported to his home.

This prince is on the earth, 20 years later, but he has a war of words with Yang Zhenning, debating whether China should build a super-large collider.

However, it seems that on the Blue Hole Star, even his mentor, Dean Ding, failed to win the Nobel Prize by relying on the collider, and this Senior Wang is even worse than on Earth.

This is a plane that is universally suppressed by experimental physicists.

Who makes "physical things cost money, and physical things cost paper".

(This paragraph originally had a third sentence, called "physical plus physical matter Fermi", which was a joke about the American scientist Fermi.) Of course, the third sentence of this paragraph is only circulated among Chinese physicists, because only in Chinese can the name 'Fermi' be homophonic into it. The original English version has only the first two sentences. ）

"Then you're welcome, Senior Wang. Gu Yu changed his words with kindness.

Wang Yifang took advantage of the fact that Director Shi and the genuine researchers had not yet arrived, and asked casually: "Classmate Gu, you brought in the investment this time, right? What kind of role are you in the project team? You won't have a conflict with Director Shi, right?"

Wang Yifang's problem actually represents the concern of many people, who are afraid that Gu will play more than he can do.

However, Gu Play's generosity exceeded their expectations: "I was only sent by the management to verify the progress and contact the needs, in terms of scientific research, as long as you do not delay the progress of the management, everything that should be done has been done, and the results are yours." ”

Wang Yifang was slightly surprised: "Aren't you also a student of this university? I heard that you still want to compete for the exchange student quota to go to Stanford in the future, so you should need results, right?"

Gu Yu said so generously just now, he was embarrassed.

Gu Play: "I have two years, and I'm afraid it's too late?

Wang Yifang asked tentatively: "Then you...... Do you want to hang a second author behind the article by Director Shi and other researchers?"

Gu Yu restrained his relaxed expression, and said: "If Director Shi can look up to me, divide some independent small modules, let me study alone, and produce results alone, then of course I will sign my own name."

As for the second author of something made by someone else, I'm not interested at all. A person with a background from the capital, even if there are more second authors, it is not an honor, and in the future, it will be regarded by peers as spending money to buy honor. ”

It turns out that this kid is so tough and so confident in his true strength.

Wang Yifang breathed a sigh of relief and was a little more optimistic about cooperation.

Then it will not be easy to fight, and Director Shi should know the severity.