After arranging the follow-up study plan, Pang Xuelin sent Ai Ai and them away.

As for Meng Yao and Zhizi, Meng Yao worked with Li Changqing and them in the Carbon Nano Research Center, and his performance was very good, according to Li Changqing, this young man is extremely talented, self-disciplined and hard-working, and he is a good seedling worth cultivating.

Pang Xuelin is ready to let him stay in the carbon nano research center for another half a year, and then transfer to the lithium-air battery project team to continue tempering.

After a year or two, after Meng Yao graduates, he should be able to take charge on his own.

Although Zhizi is still nominally his student, he is now mainly responsible for the formation and management of Transwarp Technology Co., Ltd., a company that will develop in a direction similar to Qualcomm's in the future, responsible for the management and operation of patents under Pang Xuelin's name, and be a patent troll with peace of mind.

Therefore, the pressure on Pang Xuelin to lead students is not very great.

In the next few days, Pang Xuelin waited for a response from the leadership about the electromagnetic space launch system, but never sent back any news.

However, the upgrading and transformation of the flying blade material research center has begun to be officially launched.

After more than a month of trial operation, the experimental team verified Pang Xuelin's overall plan on the principle of flying blade materials and the process manufacturing process, and the next goal is naturally to further increase the output.

Reflecting the overall upgrade plan of the black box, Pang Xuelin did not directly hand it over to MOSS, but asked the Wanyi team to complete the design of the solution, and MOSS revised and improved it, and he himself was responsible for controlling the overall improvement direction.

The main purpose of this is to temper the team.

After the establishment of the Qiantang Laboratory, Pang Xuelin has reached an agreement with Jiang University that the Carbon Nano Research Center will be integrated into the Qiantang Laboratory as a whole, like Wan Yi and Li Changqing, in addition to working in the Carbon Nano Research Center, they will also serve as teachers of Jiang University.

In addition, the lithium-air battery project team of the School of Chemical Engineering of Jiangda University has not been directly disbanded, but continues to further upgrade the Jinlong battery, and the scientists led by Professor Kirton Walker will also become a member of the Qiantang Laboratory.

From a certain point of view, these two teams are the core team of Pang Xuelin in Qiantang Laboratory and the benchmark of the top research team of Qiantang Laboratory.

In the future, once the electromagnetic space launch system and aerospace aircraft projects are approved by the state, more and more experts and scholars will definitely join the Qiantang Laboratory.

The vast majority of these teams will be built to the standards of these two teams.

Therefore, Pang Xuelin has extremely high requirements for these two teams.

That afternoon, Pang Xuelin had just reached an agreement with Wanyi in the office on the next upgrade and transformation of the flying blade material reaction black box, when a knock on the door suddenly sounded.

"Please come in."

Zuo Yiqiu pushed the door in and said, "Professor Pang, President Shi Yi of Westlake University is here. ”

Pang Xuelin couldn't help but be stunned.

Shi Yi is an internationally renowned structural biologist who served as vice president of Tsinghua University, and later resigned from public office to try to build a university similar to the Princeton and Caltech models in China, uniting many top scholars, with the support of many entrepreneurs, to set up a Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, and in 2018, the Westlake Institute for Advanced Study began to change its name to Westlake University, and cooperated with Jiangxi University and Fudan University to recruit doctoral students.

To some extent, Shi Yi was one of the most well-known scientists in China before Pang Xuelin became famous.

For Professor Shi Yi, the outside world has mixed reviews for him.

Some people think that he poured water on the CNS through cryo-EM, squeezed his experimental dogs, and stifled the creativity of his students.

Some people also think that he can irrigate CNS-level journals is also a kind of ability, and Shi Yi returned to China that year, leading the trend of overseas Chinese scientists returning to China, and making great contributions to China.

Coupled with the fact that he later resigned from public office and co-founded the Westlake Institute for Advanced Study with many leading scientists, he is committed to the reform of China's higher education.

Pang Xuelin can't deny this.

Although there are many mountains in the domestic academic community, with Pang Xuelin's current academic status, no matter where he goes, he is the highest mountain.

It's just that Pang Xuelin is a little strange, Westlake University has only been established for four or five years, and the overall scale is very small, although there are also colleges of science and engineering, but the strongest is Shi Yi leading the field of biology.

He didn't understand what Shi Yi was trying to do when he came to find him at this time.

At this time, Wan Yi on the side said: "Professor Pang, since you have a guest here, then I will leave first, there is still a lot of work to be done by the project team." ”

Pang Xuelin nodded and said, "Professor Wan, then it's hard for you." ”

After Wan Yi left, Pang Xuelin came to the reception room and saw an elegant middle-aged man wearing glasses drinking tea with a teacup.

Seeing Pang Xuelin come in, the other party stood up, smiled and stretched out his hand, "Hello Professor Pang, I'm Shi Yi." ”

"Professor Shi, it's a pleasure to meet you."

The two exchanged pleasantries for a moment.

Pang Xuelin smiled and said, "Professor Shi, I didn't know if you came here today for ......."

Shi Yi smiled and said, "Professor Pang, I'm here to ask you for cooperation. ”

"Cooperation?"

Shi Yi smiled: "That's the case, Professor Pang, I heard that the Qiantang Laboratory and the Jiangcheng Institute for Advanced Study are recruiting top talents in the fields of science and engineering from all over the world to join, you see if there is a cooperation model between the Qiantang Laboratory, the Jiangcheng Institute for Advanced Study and the Westlake University: that is, some scholars from the Qiantang Laboratory and the Jiangcheng Institute for Advanced Study serve as adjunct professors of Westlake University at the same time, and as for our Westlake University, we can provide full support for the Qiantang Laboratory and the Jiangcheng Institute for Advanced Study in the field of biology and basic medicine." ”

Shi Yi looked at Pang Xuelin expectantly, and Shi Yi had great hopes for taking the initiative to seek cooperation with Pang Xuelin this time.

Westlake University has been established in 2018 for three years, and although it has attracted many top international scholars to join, it is not very strong in the fields of science and engineering.

Especially in the past two years, Pang Xuelin has led Jiang University to emerge and has achieved great success in the fields of mathematics, materials science, and electrochemistry.

And Pang Xuelin himself can be called a demon.

Needless to say, in the field of materials science, he and Li Changqing cooperated to develop high-purity electronic-grade single-walled carbon nanotubes and large-size single-layer graphene (the flying blade material project is still in the stage of secrecy), which have been industrialized.

Li Changqing, a first-class scholar who can only be regarded as a first-class scholar in China, has instantly become an authority in the field of international carbon nanomaterials because of his cooperation with Pang Xuelin.

The professors, associate professors and even the experimental dogs in the laboratory who participated in this project have become the sweets and sweets that major scientific research institutions compete for.

In the field of electrochemistry, Pang Xuelin is even more discerning, and cooperates with Cottonn Walker to help such an outdated bull who has long been abandoned by the industry to reach the top again.

It is said that because of the success of the lithium-air battery project, the Nobel Prize Committee has considered deciding to award this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Pang Xuelin and Kirton Walker.

It's already September, and it's just over a month before this year's Nobel Prize is announced.

Maybe in a month or two, the young man in front of him will become the second real Nobel Prize boss in China.

It is said that Pang Xuelin even generously distributed part of the shares of Transwarp Technology controlled by him to the scholars involved in this project.

Even if it's only a few tenths of a percent per person, that's in billions.

Because of this, when the news of the establishment of the Qiantang Laboratory and the Jiangcheng Institute for Advanced Study led by Pang Xuelin came out, and invited scholars from all over the world to join, the self-recommended resume almost filled the official mailbox of the Qiantang Laboratory.

Among them, there are even many Nobel Prize-level scholars, and those world-class scholars are like carp across the river.

You must know that Shi Yi has worked hard in Westlake University in the past few years, but he has just assembled a quasi-first-class team, and in terms of strength and heritage, it cannot be compared with Jiang University and Ben.

The Qiantang Laboratory and the Jiangcheng Institute for Advanced Study will continue to develop according to this trend, and it will only take one or two years for Pang Xuelin to pull up a team comparable to the world's top scientific research institutions.

Therefore, Shi Yi decided to come to the door to see if he could get some help from Pang Xuelin, as long as the Qiantang Laboratory and the Jiangcheng Institute for Advanced Study are willing to cooperate with Westlake University, then the future development of Westlake University is very promising.

Hearing Shi Yi say this, Pang Xuelin suddenly understood the other party's thoughts.

He pondered for a moment and said with a faint smile: "Professor Shi, it's not impossible to cooperate, but I have one condition. ”

"What conditions, please."

Shi Yi's eyes lit up.

Pang Xuelin said: "If Westlake University cooperates with us, I need to integrate Westlake University into the scientific research system of Jiangcheng Institute for Advanced Study and Qiantang Laboratory. ”

"This ......"

Shi Yi hesitated suddenly.

Pang Xuelin's approach is almost equivalent to asking Westlake University to be included in his command.

This is almost unacceptable in Shi Yigong's opinion.

Pang Xuelin smiled faintly and said: "In the next ten years, the average annual investment in scientific research funds of Qiantang Laboratory will not be less than 10 billion RMB, and the average annual funding of Jiangcheng Institute for Advanced Study will not be less than 1 billion RMB. In addition, Jiang University has agreed to join this system, all the instruments and equipment of the Qiantang Laboratory will be open to most of the disciplines and majors of Jiang University, and after passing the assessment, Jiang University professors can also become researchers of the Qiantang Laboratory or Jiangcheng Institute for Advanced Study, and Transwarp Technology Company will provide no less than 3 billion RMB of teaching funds for Jiang University every year in the future, if Westlake University is willing to join such an alliance, we will also give the same standard of financial support. You must know that Jiangcheng, as a metropolis with a population of nearly 10 million, can fully accommodate two top international universities. ”

Shi Yi opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything if he refused.

You must know that Shi Yi is fifty-four years old this year, and over the years, he has gradually withdrawn from front-line scientific research positions and gradually transformed into an educator.

He knows all too well how difficult it is to set up a top international university.

One of the most troublesome is the problem of funding.

Westlake University adopts the president responsibility system under the leadership of the Westlake Education Foundation to support the school board, and as the main fund-raising body of the Westlake University Fund, the Westlake Education Foundation has been facing fund-raising pressure over the years.

According to Shi Yi's estimates, when Westlake University hires 300 professors at full capacity, not counting scientific research funds, the administrative expenses required for a year will be 1 billion to 1.2 billion yuan.

According to the plan, in 8 to 10 years, the foundation needs to build a sustainable fund pool of 20 billion to 25 billion yuan, so that 5%-6% of the fund's operating investment can meet the annual operating expenses of Westlake University.

This is still the goal in 8 to 10 years, and now the Westlake Education Foundation is not even half of it.

And Pang Xuelin just opened his mouth to say that it is three billion a Chinese New Year's Eve!

This is exactly the difference between a normal player and a Krypton player.

As for whether Pang Xuelin can fulfill his promise, Shi Yi has no doubts at all.

With the bright future of King Long Battery, the dividends and patent fees handed over by King Long Group to Transwarp Technology every year alone are at least more than 20 billion RMB, which can easily support such expenses. 、

What made Shi Yi feel even more pressured was that Pang Xuelin gave Jiang University the same support.

In the past two years, because of the existence of Pang Xuelin, Jiang University has shown a straight rise in the university rankings, coupled with the financial support of 3 billion yuan per Chinese New Year's Eve, I am afraid that in a few years, the best university in China will not be Qingbei.

At that time, the development of Westlake University, which is also located in Jiangcheng, will only be more restricted.

Shi Yi was silent for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "Professor Pang, I am personally very interested in this plan, but I can't make this kind of major decision alone, and I must get the consent of the school board, can you give me a certain amount of time to discuss with the school board?" ”

Pang Xuelin nodded and said with a smile: "Of course you can." ”

Shi Yi said: "That's okay, Professor Pang, I won't bother you first, I'll leave first." ”

With that, Shi Yi stood up, Pang Xuelin also got up, shook hands with the other party, and sent him to the door, and then returned to the office.

Then, Pang Xuelin thought about it, took out his mobile phone and dialed Zhizi's number.

"Honey, why are you suddenly free to call me?"

On the other end of the phone came Tomoko's sweet voice.

Pang Xuelin coughed dryly and said, "Zhizi, help me evaluate the current overall strength and development prospects of Westlake University." ”

Zhizi was slightly stunned, and said with some doubts: "What's wrong?" ”

Pang Xuelin smiled and said: "It's a good thing, Shi Yi, the president of Westlake University, just came to me and asked me for cooperation, and I gave him a cooperation condition similar to that of Jiang University." ”

Zhizi said: "Okay, I'll take a look first, I'll give you news when there is a result." ”

Immediately, Tomoko's tone changed, and she said in a flattering manner: "Oh, by the way, dear, I'll go to your house at night." ”

Doodoo ——。

Without waiting for Pang Xuelin to refuse, Zhizi hung up the phone directly.

Pang Xuelin held his mobile phone, looking confused.