The International Lunar Hadron Collider Symposium was held three days later, and because it arrived in Beijing ahead of schedule, Lu Zhou had three full days to move freely.

However, because he had traveled all the way from Jiangling to Jiangcheng and then from Jiangcheng to Shangjing, Lu Zhou was already a little tired at this time.

After leaving his luggage in the collapsed hotel, he didn't go anywhere, took a shower and sat on the edge of the hotel's floor-to-ceiling window, quietly looking at the notebook in his hand, comparing Vera's paper that had been printed on paper by him, until he saw the dinner.

Called the waiter of the hotel to bring a light meal, Lu Zhou hurriedly finished eating, checked the documents of the meeting, and then took a shower and hurriedly went to bed, ending this busy day.

The next morning, when he got up early, Lu Zhou called Wang Peng and asked him to send him to the side of the Old Summer Palace.

When he was about to go straight to Yenching University, Lu Zhou happened to be on a whim for a while, so he walked towards the north gate of Mizuki University.

After looking at his ID card, the doorman didn't say anything and politely let him go.

Walking along the tree-lined path of Mizuki University, Lu Zhou walked in the direction of the West Gate while enjoying the scenery on both sides and feeling the rich academic atmosphere of Mizuki University.

But just as he walked to a lakeside, he happened to see two acquaintances.

These two are not small.

One is a top leader in the Chinese mathematics community, and the other is a leader in the Chinese physics community.

These two are none other than Mr. Qiu, the founder of the discipline of geometric analysis, and Mr. Yang, the top bull in the field of physics.

Lu Zhou was about to step forward to say hello, but he heard the two old men seem to be arguing about something, so he couldn't help but slow down and listen.

“…… Lao Yang, I don't agree with what you say, what does it mean to work hard and lose money? Where is the money spent and not spent? In my opinion, when you spend where you should spend, that's right. ”

"Hmph, what do you mean by flowers? Have you asked the people of the whole country for their opinions? ”

Just as he was talking about Xingtou, he suddenly noticed Lu Zhou coming this way, Mr. Yang frowned, stared at Lu Zhou with a little dizzy eyes for a while, and finally recognized this young face.

"Academician Lu?"

Hearing this, Academician Lu, Qiu Chengtong immediately turned his head, looked at Lu Zhou, who was walking towards him, and greeted him with a smile.

"Yo, it's really Academician Lu! Coincidentally, how did you have the time to sneak up on Mizuki University? Don't say a word to me in advance. ”

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I just came to Beijing for a meeting, I just came over and walked around, so I didn't bother you." ”

"International Lunar Hadron Collider Symposium?" As soon as he heard the word meeting, Mr. Qiu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said with a smile, "That's really a coincidence, I'm arguing with Lao Yang about this, and he is still unconvinced, or the chief designer of the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee will come to evaluate us?" ”

What do you mean by me?

And what's the point in that?

Seeing that Mr. Qiu seemed to be planning to pull himself into the battlefield, Lu Zhou had a crying and laughing expression on his face.

At the same time, when Qiu Chengtong said this, Yang Zhenning suddenly glanced at him unhappily.

"What do you mean by being unconvinced? Didn't you show off with me, I was just reasoning with you, not to mention that I was right! ”

"Our country is still in the initial stage, and now it is barely on the edge of the intermediate stage, and we have to work harder to cross this threshold, not the time for blind optimism and great success."

Qiu Chengtong said dissatisfiedly: "Lao Yang, I don't agree with what you said, we are not in the past now, 20 billion US dollars is a lot of money, but first, we don't need to bear all the money, and second, we can attract at least 5,000 international outstanding scientific research workers to work in our country and bring our culture to the international academic community." This is something that money can't buy! Is it because we are not in charge of physics today that we should give up tomorrow to others? ”

"I really recommend you to visit the symposium, don't you hope that one day, the center of world physics will be transferred from Switzerland to us?"

"Heh, you're a math person, but you're worried about our physics weirdness," Yang Zhenning snorted, didn't say anything, just looked at Lu Zhou.

"Does Chief Designer Lu think the same way?"

"The designer is just a position, it sounds too raw, just call me Professor Lu," coughing lightly, Lu Zhou paused and continued, "As for my opinion...... Mr. Qiu has already said that now is not the time to save money. What's more, money is just a number, and if you are reluctant to spend it, you will never make money. ”

After taking a deep look at Lu Zhou, Mr. Yang turned his gaze to the lake and paused for a while before speaking.

"I posted an article more than ten years ago, and I still remember clearly that the title was "China is not suitable to build a super-large collider today". Now, more than a decade has passed, but my opinion has not changed. However, now that the steering wheel is in your hands, it doesn't make sense for me to say more. ”

Lu Zhou opened his mouth and was about to say something, but the old gentleman changed his words and continued.

"I don't want to criticize your decision, to find a general solution to the Young Mills equation, to correlate the strong interaction force with the electromagnetic force, you are already at the apex of this era in theoretical physics, unless someone can reveal the mystery of gravity...... But I think it's probably impossible to do that this century. ”

As he spoke, retracting his gaze from the lake, Mr. Yang glanced at Lu Zhou deeply and continued.

"I'm almost 100 years old, and not all decisions are wise, I was rejected by PRL some time ago, and I thought about it calmly afterwards, maybe I'm really old. But this is not a bad thing, let alone having such a good successor. ”

"Now that you know where the right direction is, you'll be left to yourself."

Leaving this sentence of unknown meaning, Yang Lao glanced at the woman who was about forty years old beside him, nodded lightly to her, and then walked away in another direction slowly with her support.

"This old fellow...... It's so fast," Mr. Qiu shook his head with a smile, "If it were a normal time, he would have to fight with me for at least an hour or two before he stopped." ”

Although the media of good things always hype up the debate between two top Chinese scholars about whether the collider should be built or not, in fact, the personal friendship between the two men is still very good. In particular, Mr. Qiu's research on the Calaby-Qiu space is itself a very important theoretical tool in modern mathematical physics, and the two have frequent academic exchanges.

Otherwise, Qiu Chengtong's Institute of Mathematics would not have been built on the campus of Mizuki University.

Lu Zhou: "Mr. Yang is also concerned about the future of the nation, and his concerns are not unreasonable. ”

"yes. Otherwise, if the words are not speculative, I will not talk so much nonsense with him," Looking at the back of Mr. Yang leaving, Qiu Chengtong nodded with emotion, suddenly turned to look at Lu Zhou, and said with a smile, "Speaking of which, 20 billion US dollars is not a small number, can you bear such a heavy burden?" ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhou was slightly stunned for a moment, then smiled and said.

"Mr. Qiu, you're joking."

"Two billion dollars only."

"For me, it's probably the third and a half."