California in early spring is still very cold, especially cloudy.

Li Jiaming, who has been taught to respect teachers since he was a child, welcomed the teacher who drove more than an hour to his place into the living room with the fireplace, and took the coffee from the maid and handed it to the teacher with both hands, and specially added two pieces of firewood to make the fireplace bigger.

Although the professor's intention was not said on the phone, he could guess a few points. Although Mooney's paper was retracted by the MIT website at great speed, and only a few people in the academic community knew about it, sooner or later it would be known to many more people, because he was too famous for publishing the same paper. Now that Mooney is dead, the dust can settle down, and the ownership of the spin-offs brought about by this theory becomes important, who made him the dean of the business school?

Professor Spencer, who had come from afar, took the coffee, and when the students were making the stove up, he didn't say anything, but talked about his past. Born in the middle class, he repaid his student loans on his own, and went up step by step, and finally had a small achievement today, and he was nominated for the Nobel Prize. But the previous events are all brushed aside, and the focus is on how he mentored groups of students and praised their abilities and virtues.

Wrong!

Li Jiaming instinctively felt that something was wrong, and it was probably because Wharton or Tony did not do it well and was found to be a loophole.

"Ming, Mooney is my former student and I know him well. As a student who has struggled from the bottom of society, I will cherish my hard-won achievements, do you know what I mean?"

What do you mean?

Of course Li Jiaming understands, but it's hard to explain that he still doesn't understand. Anyone who is a teacher has a good impression of excellent students and is willing to cultivate more, Mooney's undergraduate is at Stanford, and even Professor Thomas's doctoral students are recommended by him. But it's not easy to take it, although he didn't do the dirty work, but he was the one who benefited.

After hesitating for a moment, Li Jiaming hesitated and said, "Professor, you make me very embarrassed. ”

Of course, it is a difficult choice to share the honor with others and change anyone.

Professor Spencer, who came on purpose, was secretly relieved, Li Jiaming's guess was not wrong, he believed that Mooney was not lying, and he also wanted to help the former students clear the suspicion of plagiarism, but the key to all this was in Li Jiaming's hands. If you have heard of an idea and published a paper to prove it, it is not plagiarism, but if you see something similar from the other party and steal it for processing, it is in fact plagiarism.

Mooney has a very close relationship with Li Jiaming, and he used to communicate with Li Jiaming and go on vacation, so who can prove that he has not seen anything with Li Jiaming? You know, Mooney is a researcher of reasonable expectations, not emerging economies, nor has he published any papers on the subject. Suddenly, he came up with a theory similar to Li Jiaming's, and the time was extremely similar, how can this not make people suspicious?

However, Professor Spencer needed Mooney's innocence, and Mooney's doctoral supervisor was Thomas, who had been Professor Thomas's assistant for three years. In other words, Professor Spencer needed the help of Professor Thomas.

Last year, Professor Thomas was awarded the Nobel Prize, a well-deserved prize, and Professor Spencer is also recognized as a future laureate, but he has not yet won it. Although Professor Thomas is not popular, and he founded the 'Reasonable Expectation School' nearly two decades later, he founded a school after all. Spencer would have won the prize in the coming years if he had the support of his own camp and the neighboring San Francisco School, not Thomas, who felt that it would be unacceptable not to give him any longer.

Li Jiaming, who accompanied the teacher to drink Blue Mountain coffee, secretly annoyed that Tony's work was not done carefully, and he did not understand the complex relationships in the academic circle.

, there are so many mountains in the academic circle, how can the founder of a school not protect the interests of his members? Not to mention that there is scrutiny in this matter, even if it is ironclad, Professor Thomas will do his best to save the reputation of his students! Professor Spencer must have been invited by him to be a lobbyist himself.

No, this can't be done the way Tony and Wharton did, and although they did it seamlessly, what if there was a loophole? Tony didn't even know Professor Spencer's true reaction, and the devil knows if he did his job well.

When the teacher said it openly and secretly, a statue in Li Jiaming's heart collapsed, and he felt that the professor he used to respect had become very strange. This is also a mortal, when it comes to matters of personal interests, he can also bow his proud head.

Li Jiaming, who had mixed tastes, sighed secretly, but still took the initiative to say: "Professor, I just heard about Mooney, I'm sorry." My sister is studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, and to celebrate her birthday, I bought a small island in the Aegean Sea for her birthday, so Tony and they didn't contact me.

Personally, I think it's a coincidence. After I finished my paper, I found the right chip just in time for the company to release the iPod 7 and iPhone, and handed it over to Tony to deal with. Before I went back to China for a vacation, I received a call from Mooney, but when I got back, something delayed and I forgot about it. ”

After a pause, Li Jiaming apologized: "Professor, my assistant will only follow my orders, and others will not be able to command her." I go back to China every year for vacation, and I can't be contacted by anyone else in the U.S., except for her, Kyle, and Jerry. ”

This explanation is reasonable, as the owner of a multinational company, it is impossible to let people disturb at will, especially when on vacation. After Li Jiaming finished explaining, Professor Spencer nodded again and again, and also explained: "No, no, it's not that I don't trust you. James, the editor-in-chief of TheamerieicRevie, was a college classmate of mine, and he received the email on December 18th, postmarked on December 15th, and the email was December 15th, which proves that your paper was given to ******** before Mooney.

I also received an email from Tony, but he was using neither your mailbox nor his original, using his new mailbox, and it was inundated with damn spam, which I found after the incident.

Ming, under California law, it's pretty clear that the postmark date is the beginning of your copyright protection. ”

As expected, Tony and Wharton worked together tacitly and did things without leaks. "TheamerieicRevie" is a quarterly magazine, and according to their convention, it will be postponed for Christmas and New Year's Day, which coincides with the time, and no one can find fault with it. As for email, there is no shortage of programmers in Silicon Valley, let alone high-level hackers.

"So, you?"

Li Jiaming pretended to suddenly realize and asked, "Professor, do you want to ask me what Mooney asked me about?" no, no, we didn't meet last year, and we didn't have much contact, let alone talk about this issue. Since I got my PhD, my energy has been focused on the company and I rarely contact my former friends. ”

"Great!"

The gray-haired Professor Spencer clapped his hands and rejoiced, "Ming, it's good that you're an honest person." ”

I'm really ashamed, Li Jiaming said secretly, but insisted: "Professor, I can only prove that I didn't mention this idea to him, and the rest can't do anything." ”

"No, no, other people's proofs don't matter. Anyone can come up with their own bold ideas, but how many people can write papers and come up with convincing theories?"

The implication is that as long as he has not mentioned his theory to Mooney, he can prove his innocence. That's right, that's fine, being a man is to have a bottom line, and if you monopolize this theory, you have to give people a clean slate.

Li Jiaming weighed it for a moment and immediately agreed to the professor's request.

After seeing off the professor, Li Jiaming immediately called his assistant to arrange a plane to prepare for a trip to Boston, but Wharton, who stayed upstairs, firmly objected.

"Boss, you can't go!"

“no”.

If there is no ghost in this matter, it is good to make an explanation, but there is a ghost in this matter, and Wharton does not want to cause trouble.

"You're a public figure, and MIT took the initiative to downplay it, so let's ignore it. If you were in Boston, the reporters would be hyping it up. ”

This?

Just now, he also taught Wharton that there must be a bottom line in life and work, but when it comes to vital interests, Li Jiaming hesitated.

When the new theory was proposed, Mooney only came up with the idea seventeen hours before himself, and he reasoned with the data, and the credit was shared by both sides. Now that all men have ascribed the creation of the new theory to themselves, it is a matter of principle that Mooney must be given a clean slate, and that he should also be given a share of the honor.

However, if the media are involved, how can we deal with the aftermath of this incident? I am not afraid of 10,000 in everything, but I am afraid of what happens, and if the media finds out something, how will I face the world?

After pondering for a while, Li Jiaming finally decided, and ordered: "Go and say hello to our related households, we will give them a news that everyone cares about, and in exchange, they will give us the promotion of the iPhone."

“boss?“

"I know it in my heart".