In Gongzhou at the beginning of February, it was still cold in spring.

The willow trees along the river showed no sign of budding, and the snow on the distant hills was still blindingly white.

When Han Cheng jumped off the horse, his beard was already a snow-white with condensed water vapor.

Walking into the warm room, there were already three people waiting inside, an old man in his fifties, and the other two were in their thirties and forties, one had a face like a horse and was described as strict, and the other was much more upright, with tanned skin and a smile, which was more kind.

Han Cheng took off his cloak, wiped his face directly with his hands, cleaned it up a little, and saluted the three of them, "I'm sorry everyone, Han Cheng is late." ”

"It's not that Ziping came late, it's that we came early." The old man smiled and waved his hand.

He is the president of the natural society's branch in Gongzhou, the horse-faced man is the accountant, and the last one is the vice president.

The president and vice president, the accountant, plus Han Cheng, the secretary, and the four leaders of the Gongzhou branch of the Imperial Song Nature Society, are all here.

"Okay, don't be polite, sit down and roast the fire first." The dark-skinned man pulled Han Cheng to sit down with a smile and asked, "Ordinary Ziping came the earliest, but he came late today, is something wrong?" ”

Han Cheng said: "It's nothing, the younger brother just went to the house outside the east gate to take a look, and it looks like it's ready." ”

When the old man heard this, he smiled and said to the dark-skinned man, "But it's hard to uncle." ”

Shujie shook his head, "This time, the expedition team organized by the General Association will put the base in Gongzhou, which is our honor, of course, we have to be attentive, and we can't let the comrades in Beijing look down on us." ”

"But the best time to investigate the source of the Yellow River is early summer, and it's still too early to come." The horse-faced man spoke for the first time today.

To investigate the source of the Yellow River, you have to walk through the Jishi Mountain, and then go back from the Xingzhu Sea, where the climate is ice and snow for at least half a year, and now you have to face several feet of snow on the road.

Han Cheng said: "The first team is to go to the source of the Yellow River, and the remaining two teams are to investigate the geography of the entire Xihe Road. Come early, and by the way, you can help Gongzhou re-measure the zoning map. ”

The old man suddenly sat closer and asked Han Cheng, "Are you really going to build a road today?" ”

Hearing the old man's inquiry, the other two cheered up.

In addition to building roads, who would go to great lengths to survey the geography along the way.

As long as you can get involved, there are countless benefits

Han Cheng shook his head, "Then you have to make sure that Gongzhou can indeed cultivate here." ”

Han Cheng's words were like a scoop of cold water, waking the three of them up from their fantasies.

"According to the younger brother, don't think so much." Han Cheng said, "There are only seventeen members in Gongzhou, and two more people can choose to follow them in the geography group, and if you are lucky, you will have one more paper." ”

"If you really want to have one more, you can't ask for it." Shusuke's eyes turned around Han Cheng a few times, "But how can this sponsor be counted?" ”

Han Cheng said: "It's better to publicize it and let people fight for it themselves." ”

Shusuke laughed, "That's going to be messy for a while." ”

"Let's go to chaos, just be on guard and don't have an accident."

"There are only seventeen out of 1,300 people, and of course we have to fight. It's just that something happens, and it's time to fight or have to fight. ”

The Nature Society is a very open organization. It's easy to become a probationary member, have the qualifications to show talent, register with the county chapter, and attend a registered seminar once a month. Xiucai is not valuable, and the personal files are all in the state and county, so the number will be a lot. In Gongzhou alone, there are more than 1,000 probationary members, which is too large compared to the full members of 17 people.

And the management of probationary members is also very lenient. Many of them don't know much about Gewu, or even show much interest. But there is an organization, and there is also an extra guarantee. Not to mention, the seminars that are often held, some of which are serious, and some of which are just pure fun, feasts, and gatherings, can be registered at the club, and prospective members only need to attend this kind of registered meeting once a month to meet the requirements.

However, if you want to change from a probationary member to a regular member, you need to give people more than ten times more trouble.

If he can successfully publish a paper in Nature or in various sub-journals and get verified, then he will naturally become a member of the Emperor Song Nature Society.

If you don't have that talent, that's okay. As long as you can independently fund three papers that have been successfully published in Nature or in various sub-journals, you can become a full member of the society.

On the authorship column of the paper, there is the position of the author of the paper, and there is also a place reserved for the sponsor. Gewu Zhizhi is not sitting at home and patting his head, but requires a lot of real yàn, long-term observation, traveling thousands of miles, just for two or three days of measurement, spending a lot of money, just for one or two rare specimens, and naturally needs the support of funders.

However, because the membership of the Nature Society is so precious—so far, there are only seventeen full members of the Society in Gongzhou, and there is not a single silver emblem, let alone an even rarer gold emblem—a good researcher will attract too many hungry dogs who want to eat meat like a piece of fat.

Beside him, the rich man waving the high golden ticket of the Ping An is by no means one or two, and the researcher is like a new science and technology scholar under the gold list, and he also has the power to pick and choose the old Taishan who came to arrest his son-in-law.

There are many monks and few porridges, and in a paper, there are only three sponsors who can be accepted, and once it is funded by multiple people, when the final settlement is made, the due number of members will be divided according to the proportion of funding. Originally, if you funded a published paper, you could only get one-third of the membership, and if you split the account, it was even less. Without seven or eight articles, you can't get together a membership.

Moreover, the better the researcher, the more fierce the competition for funders, and the cost of investment will continue to increase due to competition, and after a certain limit, it will seem too worthless.

Therefore, not everyone will follow the red top white, and more people have the idea of betting on the unpopular.

But if you want to do this, you have to rely on your eyes to find pearls in the sand. Either that, they cast a wide net, hoping that among the piles of stones they bought, they would be lucky enough to have one or two pieces of beautiful jade.

Therefore, there is another way, which is to donate to the local chapter, calculate the total number of papers published by the members of the chapter once a year, and divide the corresponding membership according to the proportion of individual donations.

It's just that for the sake of fairness, everyone's annual donation is capped. No local tyrant will be allowed to spend a lot of money and snatch away all the qualifications.

Just like the younger brother of the president in front of Han Cheng, he has insisted on holding the upper limit of donations for three years, and has accumulated 1.32 articles, as long as he continues to accumulate at this rate, in another four to five years, he can get the membership after collecting three papers.

Han Cheng had heard more than one person complain, saying that they had never heard of it, and they didn't let people donate money.

Han Cheng could only resist with his father's words - the Natural Society did not need a high roller's spending, but persistent support. Even if you have billions of dollars, don't try to encroach on other people's power.

This approach seems a bit stupid and stubborn, but it is fair enough, and on the contrary, it has been supported by donations from more people. Donations, as well as grants from the General Association, are the main reasons why the local chapters have been able to operate steadily.

Conversely, it has also led to more fragmented memberships.

If the value of the first author is 100 percent, the value of the second author is only 20 percent. In other words, at least five published papers must be the second author in order to be eligible for membership - this rule is not friendly to the second author, if the first author can successfully publish five papers, he will already get a silver badge - this is similar to the situation of funders.

Tied first author, tied second author, then two first authors plus one second author, figuring out how many memberships you can split, and at the same time documenting them all at the same time, is a big problem.

The plural number of authors and sponsors of the plural number of papers always make the remuneration brought by the paper piecemeal. In a certain way, membership becomes a flood of coins, which must be accumulated little by little.

As an official member, Han Cheng could already watch the excitement of the people below, but he had no interest in doing such a thing.

"I don't need to mention those things, just wait and see." Han Cheng diverted the topic, "What are you talking about?" ”

When he came in just now, the three of them were talking with the freshly baked "Nature", and Han Cheng had already wanted to ask.

"I'm talking about this ......," the president said, pointing to one of the papers, "a new understanding of the laws of Mars' movement." ”

"Is that the orbit of Mars around the Sun is not circular, but elliptical, located on one of the focal points?"

"Ziping, have you seen it?"

"Of course." Han Cheng is always the most well-informed, "What do you guys think? ”

The horse-faced accountant picked up a few pieces of paper full of words from his side, "I just calculated it, and it still doesn't match the number of observations." ”

Han Cheng took it and looked at it for a while, then suddenly smiled, "What if Mars is not moving at a uniform speed in orbit?" ”

The horse-faced accountant's face changed greatly, "Isn't it a constant speed?!" ”

The premise of his calculations was all based on the fact that the speed of motion was uniform, and he thought for a moment and immediately retorted, "But in the void, where there is no force, if the speed of motion is constantly changing, doesn't it violate the law of inertia?" ”

"Gravity!" Han Cheng said.

The horse-faced accountant was stunned, "Ah! Yes......" Then he became distressed, his eyebrows knotted, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Looking at the appearance of this accountant, Han Cheng smiled slightly, and said, "Actually, these have been discussed at the general meeting, and there is no answer for a while." My father said that whoever can find the law of planetary motion and summarize the formula, he will nominate him for the next society award. ”