Boston, North America.

An Ran hung up the phone, he actually didn't have anything special to call Luo Jia, but when he was resting on the plane, he suddenly remembered that the hardware department was doing a multi-link system experiment, and it seemed that a new algorithm could be enabled, so he asked Luo Jia's opinion.

There's no way, Enron is such a workaholic, he even sleeps and thinks about problems, since joining Xingchen Technology, Enron has been fighting with his life.

Luo Jia listened to An Ran's words and said that tonight, he would start to rebuild a mathematical model.

An Ran was relieved at this time, and as soon as he walked out of the airport, he saw two familiar faces in the crowd, one of which was his little sister Ping Yuying, and the other was his classmate, Qi Mengzhou, who is now a professor in Massachusetts.

Ping Yu Sakura is still dressed up as a cute little Lori, and Qi Mengzhou is twenty-eight years old, she is a mature royal sister, she is wearing a sexy dress and high heels, carrying a lemon-colored kun bag in her hand, her figure is convex and backward, and her long hair is in a shawl, obviously she has been dressed up seriously.

The winter in Boston was unusually cold, and Qi Mengzhou put a long trench coat over her dress, but in order to welcome Enron, a little cold was nothing.

An Ran smiled and walked towards the two of them.

In fact, he has never had a shortage of suitors, and the reason why he is single is not because no one wants it, but purely because of the personality of a workaholic, this Professor Qi Mengzhou is one of Enron's fanatical suitors.

"Why are you here?" An Ran asked.

"Of course I'm here to pick up my brother, it's so cold outside, let's get in the car quickly." Ping Yu Sakura said while covering her face that was frozen red.

Qi Mengzhou drove, and the three of them went to the hotel that Enron had booked.

To a certain extent, people with super high IQ will not have too low EQ, An Ran smiled and said to Ping Yuying, "Luo Jia is very good, although he has made a star date, he is still single." ”

Ping Yuying's face turned red again, and she came to pick up An Ran, just to inquire about Luo Jia.

And An Ran told her so bluntly that Luo Jia was still single, which made Ping Yuying shy at the same time, and it was inevitable that she would think about it in her heart.

"What about you? Also single? Qi Mengzhou, who was driving, asked.

"Me?" An Ran smiled, "I'm very busy at work, so I don't have time to think about anything else." ”

"By the way, what does the school board think, in previous years, there were always some undergraduate places reserved for the Huaxia region, but this year it was suddenly canceled, aren't they afraid of causing criticism?"

Qi Mengzhou pouted, An Ran is too smart, once it comes to questions about himself, he will immediately divert the topic, knowing that An Ran has been like this for all these years.

"What's the criticism? Massachusetts is a private university, it does not admit Chinese students, and more places are left in the country, except for the Chinese side is unhappy, the North American people are very happy. ”

"Besides, it's just that undergraduate students are not accepted, and there will still be places in Huaxia for master's and doctoral students."

An Ran looked out the window and said lightly, "Luo Jia and I both feel that this seemingly small incident may become a series of bad starts, before Massachusetts, it was Harvard that limited the number of Chinese Americans, and maybe in the future, there will be more similar incidents, which is what we are most worried about." ”

Qi Mengzhou nodded slightly, don't look at the very high proportion of Chinese people studying in North America, but behind this, is the huge population base of Huaxia, as well as the amazing quality and talent of Chinese students.

In North America, private college admissions look something like this.

If you want to study in Massachusetts, 400 points are enough for black students, 450 points for Latinos, 500 points for whites, and the worst is for East Asian ethnic groups led by Chinese, which need 600 points.

This is the racial balance policy of North American fucking, in order to ensure the balance of all races on campus, students of different colors have completely different admission standards.

Due to the high academic performance of the Chinese and the entire East Asian ethnic group, their admission standards have always been the highest, and there is no one.

Don't look at the many Chinese faces in Massachusetts, but each of them is squeezed in with their strength with much higher grades than others.

In Berkeley, California, where merit is based on equity, 40 percent of students are Asian, and very few are black.

The car stopped at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Boston, Enron is the vice president of Xingchen Technology, and the business trip naturally implements the highest standards, and the administration department booked him a presidential suite, and the accommodation fee is as high as 9,500 US dollars per night.

After putting down the luggage, An Ran went into the room to take a shower and change clothes, Qi Mengzhou leaned on the sofa, looked at the luxurious room, and couldn't help but sigh, the treatment of Xingchen Technology is really good, An Ran is now an out-and-out super gold-collar class, which is really not comparable to himself as a poor professor.

After a while, he walked out of the room safely, he changed into a neat suit, put on a tie, and the whole person looked heroic, like a business elite.

"Senior brother is so handsome!" Ping Yu Sakura's eyes lit up and said.

Qi Mengzhou felt her heart pounding, she walked over, helped An Ran straighten her tie, and asked curiously, "Why are you so formal today?" ”

"I hope to make a good impression on the principal." An Ran shrugged, "You may not know Luo Jia's character, if this matter is negotiated, it will be fine, if it can't be negotiated, Mr. Luo will probably have to attack Massachusetts." ”

"Massachusetts?" Qi Mengzhou was puzzled, "You are a company, and Massachusetts is a university, so you don't have a side at all." ”

An Ran said, "I don't know if I don't take sides, but I believe that Luo Jia will always have a way, if that's the case, I will have to persuade him at that time." ”

Qi Mengzhou laughed, "It turns out that you don't want Xingchen Technology and Massachusetts to fall out, so you came to solve the problem in person, let's go, no matter what, let's go to dinner first." ”

"Hmm." An Ran nodded.

......

Rafaellov has been the president of MIT since 2012, and he is a leading figure in the electrical field and has a good reputation among students.

Enron is now considered a distinguished alumnus from Massachusetts, so his request was quickly granted, and President Raphael took time out of his busy schedule to meet Enron in person.

As soon as the two met, Principal Raphael enthusiastically asked about wireless charging of energy waves, supercapacitors, batteries, electronic controls, and all the other issues he cared about.

After all, Principal Raphael was born in electricity, and the wireless charging and supercapacitors of Xingchen Technology are his old profession.

Enron answered fluently, and at the same time paid attention to the company's confidentiality rules, saying what could be said and resolutely not saying what could not be said.

Soon after, Principal Raphael lifted his chin a little disappointed and said to An Ran, "Hey, I really wish I could go to your company and see the supercapacitor with my own eyes, after all, it is a major invention that will change the entire world in the field of energy." ”

An Ran smiled, "As far as I know, the deep-sea energy storage technology jointly researched by North America and Germany is also very good, and our advantages in energy storage are not too big." ”

Dean Raphael waved his hand again and again, "You Chinese people are too modest, deep-sea energy storage has a cost advantage, but the efficiency is much lower than yours, in short, I am strongly optimistic about your supercapacitor project, after all, what you are doing is a technological breakthrough, while the Germans are only engaged in engineering breakthroughs, and the two are not the same level of existence." ”

Unexpectedly, Dean Raphael was so optimistic about supercapacitors, and Enron was slightly surprised.

They talked for a long time, but An Ran really couldn't see that this old man with an electrical background had any intention of attacking Huaxia.

In fact, he liked Enron very much, and he also liked the smart Chinese students in the school, and he was full of praise for them.

An Ran frowned and decided to change the subject, so he talked about Xingchen Industrial Software.

Principal Raphael's eyebrows suddenly danced, and he was also full of praise for the computational fluid dynamics of Xingchen Technology.

In his opinion, in the near future, Xingchen Industry will definitely become the world's most powerful industrial software cluster, creating a new era of automated industrial design.

There was no tension at all in the whole meeting, and Dean Raphael kept praising Enron and Xingchen Technology.

Even he did not object to the publication of the Chinese version of the Star Journal, believing that since those scientific research results were made by Star Technology, Star Technology had the right to decide in which language to publish.

Of course, Principal Raphael also expressed regret that he was really troubled by the fact that he couldn't read the Star Periodical, but fortunately, there were many Chinese people among his students, and it was these lovely Chinese students who helped him.

After thinking about it for a while, Enron probably understood why Principal Rafael would look at the problem with such an attitude, he was born in Venezuela and only came to North America to study as an adult, so he is not the kind of southern redneck who wants to die patriotic, but more like an internationalist.

Whether Xingchen Technology is a company in China or a company in North America, it doesn't matter to President Raphael, as long as it can promote the continuous progress of mankind, he supports it all.

Thinking of this, An Ran couldn't help but sigh, "Mr. President, I'm afraid that from next year, the matter of no longer recruiting Chinese undergraduates has nothing to do with you, right?" ”

Principal Raphael was stunned, rarely with strong anger, and rebuked the ignorance of the school board in front of Enron, a lovely and respectable old gentleman who always firmly believed that science has no borders.

He even showed Enron his resignation letter, which turned out to be very angry because of the decision that the undergraduate department would no longer admit Chinese freshmen, and had already submitted his resignation to the school board.

MIT is the world's No. 1 science and engineering school, the mecca of science and engineering, and the choice of president must not be sloppy, so during the time when the new president has not been appointed, Mr. Raphael is still trying his best to manage the school for the unity and stability of the school.

The situation is completely clear, and the matter of not enrolling Chinese undergraduates has nothing to do with the school, but is the decision of the school board and those financiers behind the school board.

In North America and China, there is a kind of atmosphere, science and engineering graduates like to change careers to do finance, after all, finance is a thing that is largely related to mathematics, and it is very easy for science and engineering graduates with good mathematics to change careers in finance.

Behind MIT, there is the power of the North American financial community, and a large part of the financial power of private universities comes from alumni donations, and these generous alumni control the board of trustees, the school's personnel appointments, and admissions policies.

So, the so-called academic independence is a joke at all.

If a person wants to be independent, he first needs to be financially independent, and if a university wants to be academically independent, it also needs financial independence as a foundation.

A scholar like Rector Raphael, in fact, has many things that he can't decide.

An Ran walked out of Principal Raphael's office in great disappointment, stood on the familiar campus where he studied back then, and called Luo Jia.

There will be no negotiation at all, everything is decided by the school board and the financial forces behind the school board.

Wall Street suffered heavy blows in the duel between Google and Xingchen Technology, in the previous mobile phone war, and in the subsequent industrial software war, and they should hate Xingchen Technology very much.

An Ran told Luo Jia all about the situation in Massachusetts.

"I think it's better not to engage in Massachusetts, if we use those rogue lawyers to engage in Massachusetts, the entire academic community will be bored with us, and our Xingchen journal has not published an English version before, which has caused a lot of criticism in the academic community."

An Ran suggested to Luo Jia that he didn't want Xingchen Technology and the academic community to do it, after all, the company's front was already very long, and even Luo Jia himself said that he didn't want to get to the point of being besieged by the world.

"I understand that." Luo Jia said on the phone, "What did you say just now?" ”

"Which one?"

"About Dean Raphael, you say he's planning to resign from Massachusetts?"

An Ran was stunned for a moment, "I said, Principal Raphael is angry about the school board's decision and has already written his resignation. ”

"That's right," Luo Jia groaned on the other end of the phone.

"You... What are you going to do? An Ran frowned and asked curiously.