"That's not what we said in our original agreement. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" The tip of Richard's nose was about to hit Principal Pang's face.

Principal Pang said very annoyedly: "I have explained to you, the school's policy has changed, it's not that I want to regret it, I have no choice, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's that I have no other choice." ”

"You can choose if you want to abide by the agreement. Richard sighed and said, "We have a contract, we have a message that your grant should last for more than a year, and during this period, you can't quit if you want to." ”

"The school's funding has stopped, and it's useless for you to force me. Principal Pang said extremely unhappily.

"The school is the subject of the contract, and if you break the contract, I will sue. Richard had no choice but to raise the last stick of the lawsuit.

As Richard expected, Principal Pang really hesitated, but after about two minutes of thinking, Principal Pang slowly shook his head and said: "This is not my decision, I can only express regret, although I don't want such a dispute, but just like you Europeans and Americans say, don't punish the person who sent the letter, I am just a messenger." ”

Richard didn't believe it: "You are the principal of the school, you have a lot of power, how can you not decide." ”

"Vice Chancellor, I'm Vice Chancellor. Principal Pang emphasized in English that this is a rare title he has described himself.

Threatening lawsuits didn't solve the problem, and Richard was out of options.

He doesn't actually want to litigate, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and although a lawyer can do most of the work, he still needs the participation of the litigant, and in addition, the lawyer's fee is also very high.

Although Richard is a well-known professor at the University of California, because he teaches in public schools, his salary is only tens of thousands of dollars, which is naturally richer than the Chinese in the 80s, but in American society, he is only a good middle class.

Of course, if Richard were willing to leave his teaching position and work for a pharmaceutical company or other similar private company, his annual salary could easily reach hundreds of thousands of dollars, or even more than a million dollars, just like TerleZeneca's Trapp.

But before that, Richard's private income was not high, and there was no soil for academic corruption.

At this point, Richard didn't even have the nourishment of a returnee who had returned to China to work.

However, Richard also has the University of California as a backer behind him, and after sending President Pang away in annoyance, Richard immediately informed the University of California of the matter.

After a few days of talking back and forth between the two schools, Richard received a call from the University of California: "Peking University will sponsor you according to 30% of the agreement, and the University of California will increase the funding equivalent to 20% of the agreement, but the remaining 50% is on your own." ”

Richard involuntarily began to scratch his hair, less than fifty percent of the funds, but not as simple as the language description, the funds are less than half, the experiments can not be less than half, the instruments cannot be reduced by half, and the reagents bought cannot be reduced by half......

Missing half of the funding almost means that a new lab can't sustain it.

Richard said angrily: "They signed the agreement, you should let them execute the agreement." ”

"You can hold them legally responsible, but you should understand that the reason why the Chinese side has lowered their spending is that you have not produced anything in the past six months. The head of the University of California also did not want to bear the reputation of incompetence and immediately put the blame on Richard.

Richard was speechless, he wasn't a particularly good talker.

The tone on the other side of the phone was a little better, and he said: "The only support we can give you is to give you funding in advance, so that you can maintain your research for the next period of time, and the remaining gaps, I suggest you find new investors, or seek support from public funds." ”

Tell the bad news first, then the good news, and then give a possible solution, which can indeed solve the severe heart congestion.

Richard regained his spirits and decided to do what the other party had suggested.

In the United States, finding support from investors or public funds has always been the main job of laboratory leaders, and some laboratory managers will spend a quarter or even a third of their time and energy on fundraising.

Richard has also tried to seek help from individuals or institutions more than once, and in most cases, the individuals and institutions that have invested in him have lost all their money, and in a few cases, the investors or institutions have received corresponding returns, although it sounds a bit unreliable, but in fact, Richard's record is quite good.

Biotechnology in the 70s and 80s, like the Internet in 2000, received a frenzy of investment in the United States and even around the world, and most of the investments were loss-making, and the losses were extremely serious, but the reason why venture capital is venture capital is that they can tolerate risk and focus on the proportion of success.

Even China has been affected by this, and the fact that Richard's laboratory has been built so smoothly is also due to his excellent track record.

Up to now, Richard's excellent record has not changed, he did frustrate Yang Rui's scientific research competition, but the Richard laboratory of Peking University has not been revoked, it is not a record of failure, not to mention, in the current state, his more failure record will not have much impact.

The only problem is that you have to be stared at more, slapped more sycophants, and wasted more time.

After careful consideration and discussion with old friends in the United States, Richard decided not to return to China first, but to make something and then look for new funds, but this is more risky, if it takes two months to find money, then he has to make something meaningful in three months, and the relevant research is done now, and it takes three months to do experiments, and the error tolerance rate is very low.

Richard was resolute.

He found President Pang again and put forward his request, saying: "If you hand over the remaining funds to me at one time, I will give up the lawsuit, and find a way to maintain Richard's laboratory, and the results will be signed with the name of Peking University in accordance with the original agreement." ”

Principal Pang naturally didn't dare to agree.

Richard added weights, threatening to evacuate directly, and exposed his behavior at the next International Medical Bioengineering Conference, and directly named President Pang.

At this moment, Principal Pang felt a pain in his skin and hesitated.

After a few days of struggle, Richard finally got the money for the next few months, and it was also the last money given to him by Peking University.

Richard used the money to order new equipment and reagents, most of the materials used in biological experiments were not made by himself, and some small biological companies specialized in providing them, which is also the foundation of small biological companies.

The average university professor can easily make a million-dollar annual profit if he can make one or two competitive biomaterials and use them to start a company.

In the 21st century, this trend has also spread to China, and many professors, researchers, and even graduate students have the research goal of applying for patents and opening small biological companies, which can create huge profits from precise pH test strips, bacterial culture media, immune cells, and as large as rats, rabbits, and even chimpanzees.

And in the 80s, there were fewer such biological companies, and the price of the biological materials sold was more expensive, but no matter how expensive, it was still cheaper and cheaper than the laboratory doing it itself.

Richard put his heart and soul into it.

It's not easy to make something for investors to see before the money runs out.

Richard has become busier than before, which also means that Xu Anqing, Zhu Jiahao and others are even busier.

If these two scientific research dogs were only squeezed out of the blood before, they are now about to be squeezed out of the bone marrow, not to mention that they still need to take the final exam from time to time.

After only three days of hard work, Zhu Jiahao couldn't stand it, and Xu Anqing persevered for half a day.

Sleeping only four hours a day, doing high-intensity precision experiments, reading literature and reviewing exams with a little free time, this situation is okay, but it is too painful to do, and people's bodily functions cannot be infinitely overdrawn.

After falling asleep during the exam the next day, Xu Anqing couldn't hold back anymore and found Richard to ask for a holiday.

Richard was furious: "You are freshmen in the same school, Yang Rui can insist, why can't you insist." ”

Xu Anqing listened to the bruises and said: "If you talk about working hours, Yang Rui doesn't insist on it. ”

Zhu Jiahao also nodded again and again, and said, "Yang Rui is going back for the New Year, what do you insist on?" ”

Richard's eyelids jumped: "What do you mean?"

Xu Anqing said angrily: "Yang Rui's working hours are ...... every day"

"It's not you. Richard interrupted Xu Anqing's words and asked Zhu Jiahao: "What do you mean when you say that Yang Rui went back for the New Year?"

"Chinese New Year is like Christmas for you......"

"I know about the Chinese New Year, I'm asking, has he gone back for the New Year?

"I haven't left yet, but I'm preparing, I heard from his fellow villagers that Yang Rui bought train tickets for them. Zhu Jiahao was very envious and asked: "There are only a few days left for the Spring Festival, when will we have a holiday?" ”

"We don't have a holiday!" Richard's eyes flashed, and he said, "Yang Rui is too naïve, now that he goes back for the New Year, do you expect me to let him go?" Hmm...... He may be setting off smoke bombs to let our guard down and leave him alone, the more moments like this, the more we should try to ......"

He has announced a holiday, and everyone in Sinovel Labs can go home if they want to go home, and those who are local or not going home will stay, and they will be paid overtime. Zhu Jiahao almost stuck out his tongue to speak.

"We can't dictate our actions because of the opponent's movements. Suddenly, Richard began to describe Sinovel Labs as an opponent.

Xu Anqing frowned, and asked Zhu Jiahao in Chinese: "How do you know so well the situation of Huarui Laboratory?"

"I'll just ask someone. Zhu Jiahao was a little weak-hearted.

Bang Bang Bang!

Richard's clapping interrupted Xu Anqing's inquiry, and he called the whole lab to start the pre-"victory" speech, the focus of which was to make persistent efforts to defeat Sinovel.

Zhu Jiahao let out a sad cry, thinking: I wouldn't have come to Richard's laboratory if I knew it earlier.

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