Tsinghua University and Peking University, in addition to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, should be the places with the highest Internet penetration rate in China. As the real vice president of SME, Zhao Chunjun is no stranger to the Internet, and opened an e-mail address two years ago to facilitate communication with scholars from all over the world.

Although Zhao Chunjun has not done specific research work for many years, he still maintains the habit of reading a top journal paper every week. From time to time, I will also write some review articles to maintain my professional acumen.

From last year to June this year, Zhao Chunjun was a visiting scholar in the United States. He knew before he went that this was a sign that he was going to improve. In today's China, if you don't have a foreign background, it is difficult for you to get out of the system.

During his stay in the United States, he communicated with his younger brother Qian Yingyi many times, persuading this junior who was in his prime to return to China as soon as possible. He promised Qian Yingyi that as long as Qian Ying returned to Tsinghua University, he would be a full professor and promoted to vice president within two years.

Qian Yingyi's hesitation made Zhao Chunjun choke, and now his old leader is a party and state leader, and in another year or two, he will be a proper leader at the national level. He will definitely be able to rise to the top, and at this time, if there is no person who can be trusted in terms of qualifications, ability, and character to help him, it will bring great difficulties to his work.

As soon as he arrived at the office, Zhao Chunjun habitually opened his e-mail, and the first unread email on his head was sent by Qian Yingyi, a good junior who made him miss in his heart.

The English-only email will not cause the slightest obstacle to Zhao Chunjun, in the email, Qian Yingyi recommended a paper to him, saying that it was written by a Chinese summer student at Stanford, and this student has also made a name for himself in the United States in the past few months, successfully started a business and invested in some projects, and is now an out-and-out multimillionaire, well, dollars.

Qian Yingyi briefly explained the views in Zhang Chen's paper in the email, hoping to discuss it with Zhao Chunjun. Zhang Chen's thesis is well-founded and well-founded, and no one will ignore it. Even if it's a reference meaning, it's good to refer to your seniors.

Zhao Chunjun knew that this junior was ambitious and arrogant. Although he didn't have much praise for this paper, it was enough to recommend it to him. Therefore, Zhao Chunjun looked at it seriously.

The whole paper is not long, about 30,000 words, but Zhao Chunjun read it for nearly two hours.

It's not that Zhang Chen's argument is unusual, although this kind of argument of singing about Southeast Asia is not the mainstream in the academic world, it is not uncommon every year or even every month.

Zhao Chunjun values the arguments in Zhang Chen's paper.

In most predictive economics papers, there is a common problem that is far-fetched, first have an argument, and then find an argument. It is inevitable to generalize and take things out of context.

Zhang Chen's paper is the same, but he writes it from a different angle, on the one hand, he cites detailed arguments to prove his point, and on the other hand, it demonstrates at an operational level how the collapse of Southeast Asia's monetary system led to the financial turmoil and financial crisis.

Zhao Chunjun's intuition cultivated by years of academic experience told him that this paper may not be alarmist, but it still needs to be further verified.

After pondering for a while, Zhao Chunjun excerpted several points in Zhang Chen's paper related to the economic problems of Southeast Asia. Tsinghua University's current research on Southeast Asian issues is not strong, but some scholars from Xiamen University and other southern universities have studied more deeply, and he needs to find these scholars to further verify the accuracy of Zhang Chen's arguments.

After getting it done, Zhao Chunjun landed on ICQ. He just downloaded this little software a few days ago and quickly became addicted to it. The immediacy of ICQ communication allows him to communicate with his online friends around the world as long as he turns on his computer.

As for friends in China, only a limited number of people know what it is to surf the Internet, let alone use ICQ.

At the beginning of 96, Yinghaiwei erected a large billboard on Baiyi Road, the south gate of Zhongguancun: How far are the Huaxia people from the information superhighway? 1,500 meters to the north. At this time, the Huaxia Internet was not even a start, but could only be talked about gestation.

Zhao Chunjun left a message for Qian Yingyi on ICQ, asking him to reply to him after seeing it.

Originally, ICQ did not have a message function, which meant that it could only talk to online netizens. If the other party is not online, there is no way to leave a message. This is because the original version was created by the Vigs without finding an investment, and in order to save operating costs, no information is stored on the server. But after Zhang Chen found out about this, he immediately asked the three-person team to improve this, so in the ICQ1.2 update, the message function was added.

At the same time, Byron Scholes had also finished reading Zhang Chen's paper. Byron took off his gold-rimmed glasses and rubbed his roots.

After he read this paper, he was far more surprised than Qian Yingyi and Zhao Chunjun. As a leading figure in the study of Asian financial markets, Byron has a deeper and more thorough understanding of the problems in Southeast Asia than Qian Yingyi. In addition, Byron is a senior advisor to the Quantum Fund, although he has not touched the core issues of the Quantum Fund, but through the seminars held by the Quantum Fund, Byron has felt that Soros, the old wolf, is planning the financial market in Southeast Asia. It's just that I don't know where Soros's first target is, initially he thought it was Indonesia, but now this paper directly proves from the operational level that it is Thailand!

The most incredible thing is that the person who wrote this paper was actually a summer student who had only studied at Stanford for less than two months! Byron couldn't help but feel funny, Soros's most cherished secret plan was inadvertently exposed by a middle school student who was less than 16 years old, what would Soros's expression be when he found out?

I guess I still don't have any expressions. Thinking of this old wolf, Byron couldn't help but sigh that even if someone had insight into his plans and methods, if he could not gain trust and support at the national level, Soros would still succeed. But does this ChenZhang have this energy? How is it possible?

Byron smiled, no longer took the matter to heart, annotated a few words on the printed paper, and asked the assistant to return it to Qian Yingyi.

And the future facts have proved that the carelessness of the future Nobel laureate in economics Byron Scholes not only made the quantum fund lose all its money, but also made Zhang Chen the first of the "50 business elites who saved the Asian financial crisis" selected by Time magazine in January 1999!