At noon the next day, in the office of the dean of the School of Physics of CUHK, Lu Yi came to ask for someone.

"Student Lu, young people should be vigorous, it's not good to be too low-key."

Dean Wang stood up and poured Lu Yi a cup of tea and sighed.

"I'm not a star, I don't need too much exposure, it's better to keep a low profile."

Lu Yi took the tea and took a sip gently, he knew that this was saying that he refused all media interviews.

For the school, this is a good opportunity for Yang Ming, but the research in the biological laboratory is about to start, and the research project is a bit sensitive, and Lu Yi doesn't want too many people to pay attention to it now, so as to notice the situation in the biological laboratory.

"Dean, I'm here to ask for someone."

After drinking a cup of tea, Lu Yi went straight to the topic, yesterday afternoon he had already asked an international headhunter to start contact with the engineers of Max Planck Labs.

Because of the time difference, the headhunter worked hard for a day, and I got up this morning to see the feedback news, and the initial contact was not bad.

"Are you really planning to work on stellarstellars? How much money do you have on board? ”

Dean Wang refilled a cup of tea for Lu Yi, whether it was the other party's worth and social status, or the admirable behavior of investing in controlled nuclear fusion research regardless of returns, it was worth making him an academician truly treat him as an equal, and even in terms of social status, Lu Yi may be higher than him now.

"The initial plan is to invest $1.5 billion."

Lu Yi calmly reported a number, which made Dean Wang's hands tremble.

He had $2.9 billion left in his personal funds, and he spent almost $360 million on the mathematical model of plasma turbulence, excluding the cost of various equipment components for the prototype and acceleration components.

In Lu Yi's plan, except for the biology laboratory, which plans 1 billion and tens of millions of dollars as headhunters, the rest will be given to the stellarizer in the physics laboratory.

As for the materials laboratory, this itself is in the service of the controlled nuclear fusion project, which studies superconducting materials with higher thermal conductivity and superconducting critical temperatures.

"Do you know how much money the EAST project has cost so far?" Dean Wang smiled bitterly and asked.

"I don't know, probably not more than $2 billion."

Lu Yi probably thought about it, and he vaguely remembered that the research cost of the first tokmak device to achieve nuclear fusion discharge in the domestic EAST project, including the cost, seemed to have spent more than 300 million yuan, and as for how many billions of funds the entire project has cost so far, it is estimated that it will be 10 billion yuan at most.

"Not that much, less than $1.2 billion at the current exchange rate."

Dean Wang remembered his experience of slapping the table and scolding the street with the bigwigs in the scientific research community for research funds, and compared with the current Lu Yi's understatement of 1.5 billion US dollars, he suddenly felt a little sour in his nose and felt the urge to cry.

"So little?" Lu Yi was stunned for a moment, but then he also reacted.

The tokmak itself is not expensive, and the characteristics of China also determine that a project like this may not be possible to do several times what can be done with $1.2 billion.

If nothing else, the land in the lab alone can scare you to death, and the various materials are about the same price from left to right.

In addition, the research and control of nuclear fusion is important, but the talent is more important, and for the country, the cost of talent is not a high salary and a few awards.

"Dean Wang, I need some people besides the physics major, are you familiar with the materials major on the East Campus?"

"Materials?"

Dean Wang was stunned for a moment and said: "You don't need to be familiar with this, you can say that they can't wait to come over, but I don't recommend looking for doctoral students in our school, you can consider Qingda or Beijing Aerospace." ”

"Can our school still be our school."

Lu Yi shook his head, CUHK's materials major is a bit watery, but he recruits people without looking at the professional rankings or grades, and the scientist has high potential and has a good attitude, so it is undoubtedly easier to recruit people from CUHK's own alma mater.

"No, I still suggest that you open recruitment to all colleges and universities, the mathematical model of plasma turbulence has been constructed, and now all the problems of the stellar can be regarded as material problems, which is not sloppy."

Dean Wang, who didn't know Lu Yi's recruitment criteria, still disagreed, and said: "You can openly recruit resumes, and then let them come for an interview after passing the preliminary screening."

Even researchers in physics and mathematics should not be limited to CUHK, and with your current reputation in the academic community, it is no problem to recruit high-quality talents. ”

Dean Wang has a certain understanding of controlled nuclear fusion, even if his major is different, and knows that after the mathematical model of plasma turbulence is constructed, the engineering problem of the stellar simulator is essentially a material problem.

The better the thermal conductivity of the superconducting material and the higher the critical temperature of superconductivity, the lower the corresponding engineering difficulty and the closer it is to commercialization.

A stellar simulator project invested by the students of his own college and developed by the students of his own college, whether it is for the public or private, he can have better conditions to realize this project.

"Okay, let's give priority to our school under the same conditions."

Lu Yi nodded, and suddenly changed his words and said, "But Dean Wang, Zhang Qing and I are still students of CUHK, so it seems that you still owe us a professor and a doctor." ”

As a plasma turbulence problem of controllable nuclear fusion, to solve this problem, Zhang Qing, who was already a doctorate, is qualified to be a professor, and Lu Yi, who is still an undergraduate, can also be promoted to a doctorate by virtue of participation.

"Zhang Qing's professor's title is being discussed by the school, and there will be a result almost there, and your doctoral degree will be processed directly after a while."

The first time a student approached him and asked him to be promoted to professor or doctorate, Dean Wang was a little embarrassed, but Zhang Qing's professor still couldn't reply directly.

Because every time a professor is selected, it needs to be applied by the school and approved by the above.

Of course, Zhang Qing, who has completed a major problem of controlled nuclear fusion, has that qualification, and now the problem is more about the redistribution of interests within CUHK.

After all, the plate is so big, one more professor is equivalent to one less point of his own interests, although maybe Zhang Qing disdains, even if he takes the professor, it is estimated that he will not go back to school all day like Lin Meng.

"Thank you Dean, it's a bit weird to be called Mr. Lu, it's better to call Dr. Lu."

Lu Yi picked up the teacup and drank the tea inside, stood up and said goodbye: "The dean is busy first, and I have to go to the airport to pick up people." ”

Walking out of the dean's office, Lu Yi drove to Baiyun Airport, and sent a WeChat message to Xu Ying on the way, signaling that he was preparing to recruit researchers in the laboratory.