One day in mid-December, it was also the last day of the year when Gu Biao held a banquet in Xiangjiang and distributed the interests of some real estate families.

At the same time as Gu Yuan's planning in Pak Ka Dao was staggered, Professor Yao, the head of the Department of Environmental Science, one of the three top universities in Hong Kong, also welcomed a broker from the Heung Kong Development Fund with a Brittan background.

(I won't say which university it is, just write about one of them, lest someone say that the traitor character is placed in their school.) Anyway, if you add up all Xiangjiang, it must be no problem to find one or two such scholars, and it will not be exaggerated, and the professor's surname is also made up casually. ）

Although Professor Yao took a Chinese surname, he was already Breton in terms of nationality, and Western sinologists have the habit of giving a Chinese name. Over time, other professional fields, anyone who deals with China, have become accustomed to doing this.

As for Professor Yao's original English name, there is nothing to corroborate.

It is enough to know that he is a well-known and influential figure in the academic community of environmental science in Hong Kong, and that he is often able to interact with the Governor and certain development funds.

Where the development funds want to develop, they can let Professor Yao demonstrate where the development does not damage the environment, and where the development funds do not want to develop, they can let Professor Yao demonstrate where the development will damage the environment, and finally the Planning Bureau and other units can follow up and cite their conclusions, and the combination of industry, academia and business is very perfect.

And today's visitor, the broker of the Development Fund, is Daniels Robben. That's an authentic Bretanian, anyway, he doesn't have to come forward to fool the people in Xiangjiang, so he doesn't even bother to pretend, and he doesn't need to be named.

"Professor Yao, congratulations on your recent academic status, and you seized the opportunity to be a reviewer in the last EST journal. ”

Daniels Robben sat down on the sofa in Professor Yao's office, and the first thing he said was not to get down to business, but to compliment the other party's recent achievements before moving on to the task.

THE EST JOURNAL, THE FULL NAME IS "ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY", WHICH IS TRANSLATED INTO Chinese IS "ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY", WHICH IS ONE OF THE TOP THREE JOURNALS IN THE FIELD OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE IN THE WORLD, LED BY AMERICANS. Among them, the published papers have the highest SCI impact factor in the field of environmental science.

The most important reason why Professor Yao was able to say what he said at various development EIA hearings on the acre of Xiangjiang and convincing people from all walks of life and not being able to resist is that he is the one who has published the most EST among the professors in this field in Xiangjiang, and he is naturally authoritative.

Moreover, Mr. Daniels Robben from a certain development fund can also be regarded as half of Professor Yao's nobles.

In order to make Professor Yao's card better, in recent years, they have spared no expense to make him friends with senior management, and tried to make him more visible to the EST editorial board and some permanent reviewers who have won top academic awards in their fields.

After showing his face a lot, Professor Yao also got one or two double-blind cross-review opportunities as a reviewer - theoretically, as long as a top academic journal has published your paper, it is possible to ask you to review and review whether other people's papers are qualified in the future, because the experts on the journal's editorial board do not know everything, and they have a specialization in the industry.

It's just that the number of authors who have published papers in journals is more than ten times less than that of those who have reviewed qualifications. Therefore, the identity of the reviewer is precious. And for those academic segments that are not market-oriented, it becomes easy to fake and form cliques - after all, your academic results are not directly turned into commercial value and products, and do not need to be tested by consumers.

All academics that can't be whipped by the market are.

In the three universities in Hong Kong, there may be several professors who have published papers on EST, and others just have fewer papers than Professor Yao. However, if you want to say that you have been an EST reviewer, Professor Yao is the only one at present.

Daniels Robben mentioned this verse in front of him as a reminder to Professor Yao not to be ungrateful.

Of course, Professor Yao is very nice and knowledgeable: "Mr. Robben, let's not talk secretly, EST reviewer opportunities, thanks to your help to attend the meeting and create opportunities, I am not ignorant." Isn't there anything you can help with lately?"

This is the way of God.

Mr. Robben pretended to clench his fists, put it to his lips and coughed lightly: "Recently, several large real estate developers and investors from the United States have bought large tracts of government-held terra nullius in Taguling and Shajiao.

After all, Xiangjiang also stresses the rule of law, whether it is the Planning Bureau or the Lands Department, it is not suitable to card them in the purchase process. ”

Professor Yao didn't know much about business news, not to mention that this happened within a week or two at most, and he naturally didn't know it when he hid in the ivory tower.

His first reaction, of course, was that it was not good for him to come directly to this matter.

Professor Yao suggested: "Then why not find a black ...... in the local countryside?" What about those societies? They can do it much cheaper than I do. ”

Under the land tenure system in Xiangjiang, all forces have professional nail households, and each village must always install a few households, some of which are associations of that nature, so as to prevent certain blocks from being developed by rivals in the business community. In this way, each other's nail households infiltrate the land plots that the other party wants to expropriate, and they can restrain each other.

Even if it is finally developed, in fact, it does not mean that these professional nail households have really stopped, but that several major real estate family forces have reached an exchange of interests. For example, if the nail I asked me to plant on a certain piece of the ground for you is soft, you also let the nail that I put on the ground for me to open be soft. The two sides felt that the two chips were about equal value, and the deal was struck.

Daniels Robben punctured Professor Yao's illusion in one sentence: "Haven't you ever been to Ta Kwu Ling and Sha Kok? It is not Yuen Long or Tai Po! It was a border area where there were once military considerations, and the original countryside was very sparse! Those who are interested in development can always be bypassed by them." So this time, the main force we used to obstruct it was the EIA!

The gentleman above said that no matter if the trees on Ta Gu Ling are only a few years old and whether there are any rare and solitary species of animals and plants, you must prove to him that they 'have irreplaceable and unique conservation value on a global scale and are ecologically unique primeval forests'. As long as you do it, the fund will naturally support you and make you a permanent reviewer of EST sooner or later. ”

Strictly speaking, academic journals do not have the term "permanent reviewers", but some reviewers have a good reputation, so over time, the editorial board has formed the inertia of "when encountering problems in this field, they will be sent to the expert reviewers by default".

That's what Daniels Robben was talking about.

"Permanent reviewer of EST!" This title suddenly stimulated Professor Yao, who has been a scholar for several years, and his pupils turned slightly red.

That's Environmental Science and Technology!

"It's on me! When will it come to fruition?" Professor Yao immediately agreed, and did not forget to ask and explain some details.

"The stakes are very high, and this is not something that can be solved by a few casual words at the hearing—because in the original World War II, a lot of tunnels and fortresses were dug to try to defend against Japanese attacks, and a lot of trees were cut down as building timber.

The forests there have grown naturally since they were abandoned and re-grown, and they are only thirty or forty years old, and it is very difficult to argue that they are 'unique primeval forests', and I have to lay out some authoritative papers in advance to be credible......"

Mr. Robben nodded: "Give you two to three months to lay out, they can't develop it for a while, and the Lands Department and the Planning Bureau can reasonably delay them for a while according to the procedure." ”

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At the same time that Mr. Robben of a development fund reached a dirty deal with Professor Yao.

The lights in Gu Garden gradually faded away.

At tonight's cocktail party, Gu Biao was purely here to show off his wealth and show his strength, and he didn't expect to negotiate any cooperation.

Therefore, the guests he invited were all the rich second generation of Xiangjiang and even Ao County, as well as the first generation of wealthy businessmen who were young and ambitious - because most of the rich people of the first generation were seventy or eighty years old, and many things could not be played. If you really give him a feast that is integrated with the sky and the sea, the old bones of others will not be blessed.

So if you want to show off your wealth, the best thing is to invite young people.

For example, like today, a little pool party can let everyone see how Gu Biao got to play diving and diving on the top of Taiping Mountain.

With a "poof", a Miss Yang jumped from the edge of the transparent empty pool on the top floor of Gu Yuan to the miniature waterfall formed by the overflowing pool water, and jumped into the ground pool with a drop of ten meters.

The swimming pool next to the ground is also more than 8 meters wide and nearly 20 meters long, so no matter how bad the skill of the person who jumps down, it is impossible to jump out of the pool and fall to his death. At the same time, the deepest point is 3.5 meters, which is exactly the same as a standard diving pool, and will not hit the bottom of the pool.

Of course, this Miss Yang is just here for business, she is 18 years old this year, she has just been admitted to an American university, she has only studied for a semester, and returned to Xiangjiang for a vacation during the Christmas vacation. Her father has already worked in Gu Yuan's record company, and the artists of Tiankun Music have been drinking and chatting with guests at Gu Yuan's drinking parties recently, so young people have also come to see the world.

Miss Yang had just jumped into the water, but her outstretched arms almost stuck into Miss He Si, who was wearing a scuba and diving underwater to watch the deep-sea tropical fish. Miss He Si is the young lady of the Wang family of Ao County whom Gu Biao met at the auction of Kong Shangzhong's estate last year.

The two women inevitably scolded and complained to each other twice, but they couldn't speak underwater, they just turned into two strings of crushed scuba bubbles.

It turned out that under the design of Master I.M. Pei, the transparent waterfall pool was flush with the top floor, and the water surface of the ground pool was just flush with the ground floor of the building, and the bottom of the ground pool was level with a café and cocktail bar on the underground garage floor.

There is a high-pressure glass box against the wall of the pool, similar to the one that Bill Gates later kept sharks in the basement wall of his mansion. Gu Biao was a little more restrained, and just raised some deep-sea tropical fish with beautiful colors - because they were deep-sea fish, this aquarium wall would naturally be pressurized.

While drinking coffee and wine in the house, you can sit and gaze at the tropical fish wall. When diving in the pool outside, you can also enjoy the fish close to the aquarium wall, and because the transparent glass is not easy to see underwater, it will give the diver a sense of immersion in one with the fish.

"The designer Gu Sheng is looking for is really ingenious, how could he think of making a pressurized aquarium wall? At the top of Taiping Mountain, the tropical fish in the deep sea are naturally stocked, and it is estimated that Gu Sheng will do this kind of thing in the world. ”

After Miss He Si went ashore, she took a bath towel and wiped it, and patted Gu Biao's shoulder with her shoulders on her back to show her convincing.

"Aren't I following the local customs-in fact, I'm an atheist, but after I came, I saw that you rich businessmen in Xiangjiang and Ao County are so superstitious, you have to burn incense to make movies, and you have to raise feng shui fish at home when you do business, so how many will I raise?"

"It's really ...... that you can spend money like this"

With the end of the PARTY, a group of young rich second generations lamented the gap and left Gu Yuan one after another with legends.