On the first floor of the Institute of Physics of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study, in a spacious room not far from the staircase, there are exquisite sofas, coffee tables and cabinets, and there are several rows of bookshelves full of idle books and magazines by the wall and window.

When he first designed the institute, Lu Zhou's original intention was to hope that the researchers in the institute would be able to delve into interesting academic problems in a relaxed atmosphere, and that they would be able to spare one to two hours each afternoon to have a cup of coffee in the lounge and exchange academic questions or inspiration with other researchers, as he often does at Princeton.

However, the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is skinny.

Now it seems that only he can enjoy the "pleasure" of research.

Not only that, except for a few returnees, most of the researchers have no habit of drinking coffee in the afternoon, and they are basically too busy to spare time, and the research dogs of the Institute of Computational Materials are eager to work on the floor in the laboratory, so that this lounge is basically not visited.

As a result, the lounge was left unused and only used when guests came.

"Thank you."

Looking at the assistant of the research institute who helped him pour tea, Liu Wanshan, who was sitting on the sofa, politely thanked him, and then his eyes unconsciously drifted to the door, and then to the wall clock on the wall.

Just as he wondered how long it would take for the landing boat to come, steady footsteps could be heard in the corridor outside the lounge.

Hearing this voice, Liu Wanshan subconsciously sat up straight.

It was at this time that the door to the lounge opened.

Seeing Lu Zhou who appeared at the door, Liu Wanshan immediately stood up from the sofa, stretched out his right hand with a smile on his face, and greeted Lu Zhou.

"Professor Lu, it's been a long time!"

"Long time no see." Holding Boss Liu's hand and shaking it, Lu Zhou also greeted with a smile.

He still has a lot of good feelings about this Boss Liu.

After all, when he was in the most difficult time, it was the five million he funded that helped him complete the system task of that pit father.

And speaking of this, Lu Zhou was still a little embarrassed in his heart.

After all, although his campus assistant has raised a lot of money and has a lot of market share among college students, the user stickiness is too low, and he doesn't make much money.

Many people basically haven't clicked on it much after graduation, or they have deleted it when they clean up their memory, so that it is difficult to make the APP bigger, and they are currently relying on traffic to sell advertisements to maintain their lives.

So far, the operation team has changed several times, but he, the major shareholder, has not received a penny of dividends.

Although he didn't expect this thing to be......

The two sat down on the sofa, and the assistant standing next to them came over and brought Lu Zhou a cup of coffee.

Looking at Lu Zhou, who was sitting opposite, Liu Wanshan said with emotion.

"Time flies so fast, when we first met, you were still studying at Jinda, but I didn't expect that I hadn't seen you for five or six years, and you were already an academician."

Lu Zhou smiled and said: "It's still early for academicians or something, I'm just teaching here at Jinda now, doing some research that interests me, and I don't have much time to compete for that thing." ”

This is not entirely Lu Zhou's modesty, after all, there is indeed no inevitable connection between the selection of academicians and academic ability, and many times it depends on whether the academicians who vote are willing to raise their hands. As for Lu Zhou himself, he really wasn't very interested in this thing.

After all, he now does not need to rely on the title of academician to pull funds.

At least on the domestic side, a Lingyun medal is more useful than any title.

Liu Wanshan said with a smile: "It's not too early, next year is the year of academician selection, if you can't even be rated as an academician, I don't think this academician is worth rating." ”

Hearing this layman's speech, Lu Zhou smiled and didn't explain, just said modestly.

"It's over."

A cup of coffee, a cup of tea.

Liu Wanshan was not in a hurry to show his intentions, and Lu Zhou did not ask.

Although he is very busy at work, he is not so busy that he can't even spare time for a cup of coffee.

And in the small talk with this Boss Liu, he learned a lot of things that he didn't know.

For example, the operation team of the campus assistants he and several students of Jinda University has moved from Jinling to Shanghai, and the stage has expanded from universities in Suzhou Province to all universities in China.

Although the core members of the operation team have been shuffled several times, the position of CEO and CHO is still Yuan Liwei and Wu Fatzi. Technical director Rong Hai has already sold the stock at the time of the B round of financing, and it is said that he has become an executive in Penguin now, and he is doing well.

For another example, the special cement developed by him and Professor Li Rongen has now been used in infrastructure projects in Pakistan, creating a value of more than one billion RMB.

The topic happened to be about business, Liu Wanshan put down the teacup in his hand, and suddenly asked with a smile.

"By the way, speaking of which, why did you suddenly plan to build a space shuttle? Is this thing making money? ”

Lu Zhou: "Whether or not you make money is secondary, it's just my personal interest. ”

"It's still Professor Lu's atmosphere," Liu Wanshan sighed with a smile and teased himself, "Maybe, this is the reason why my business has not been doing well." ”

Lu Zhou: "It's too modest, if the business of hundreds of millions of dollars is not big, then there is not much business to do in China." ”

"Hundreds of millions of dollars are too exaggerated, those of us who do material processing are sandwiched between the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and the profits are basically eaten away by both ends. Don't look at the sales of hundreds of millions of dollars, in fact, I can't make much money, or I wouldn't want to make batteries. After a pause, Liu Wanshan smiled and continued, "By the way, I don't know if Professor Lu has heard that China plans to open up the export of SG-1 superconducting magnets recently?" ”

Some time ago, the United States started construction of a large-scale controllable fusion experimental reactor in California, and because of economic and trade frictions, China imposed export controls on SG-1 superconducting materials, forcing the laying of magnetic rails of the experimental reactor in California to be suspended for a time, which made the Yankees hate them so much.

Now that the negotiations on controlled fusion technology have made some progress, and the domestic export of SG-1 superconducting materials has been liberalized again, orders from overseas are in short supply, and Star Technology, which holds the patent rights, and Baer Group, which has obtained the patent authorization, have made a lot of money.

Zhongshan New Materials also started as carbon materials, so it is naturally eyeing this piece of cake.

As soon as Lu Zhou heard him talk about this, he immediately understood his plan.

"You want to license the technology?"

Liu Wanshan smiled embarrassedly and said, "That's the case, I don't know if it's inconvenient on your side." ”

Lu Zhou: "There is no problem on my side, as long as you can get the production qualification and pass the site confidentiality inspection, we can send someone to help you solve the technical matters." But I don't want to worry about business matters, so it's better for you to go to my CEO for how to cooperate. ”

Seeing that Lu Zhou agreed, Liu Wanshan immediately nodded and said with a smile.

"That's for sure, disturbing your research with this kind of business matter, don't say that I don't want to go, I'm afraid that the people of the whole country won't agree!"

Lu Zhou, who was drinking coffee, almost choked on this sentence, put down his cup and coughed dryly twice.

"That's an exaggeration."

"It's not an exaggeration at all, it's all from the heart," Standing up from the sofa, Liu Wanshan smiled and arched his hand to Lu Zhou, "It's not too early, I'm sorry to disturb you here, I'll go back first." ”

Lu Zhou: "...... Well, walk slowly. ”

Anyway, where is the high-spirited Boss Liu back then.

Maybe time can really change a person completely......

After sending Liu Wanshan away, Lu Zhou returned to his office, sat down at the desk, took out a pen and paper, and wrote down the thoughts or inspirations in his mind while thinking about the content of the previous exchange with Senior Brother Luo.

At this time, a string of bubbles suddenly popped up in the lower right corner of the computer.

[Master, the seller has shipped the goods, and I have got the equipment on the list for you! ] (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧】

Seeing the message sent by Xiao Ai, the pen in Lu Zhou's hand paused suddenly.

Got it?!

Is this fast?

Seeing that Lu Zhou didn't move for a long time, he only heard a ding, and another string of bubbles floated out.

[Praise me!] Hurry up, hurry up! o(*≧▽≦)ツ】

Lu Zhou nodded a little confusedly.

“…… Well, that helps. ”

How the hell did this guy buy it......

If Lu Zhou is not mistaken, if he wants to import high-precision industrial equipment from abroad, especially the kind of equipment that meets its requirements, then the difficulty is not a little bit.

For example, what is the "right of end-user access", what is the EU's export control treaty with foreign countries, and a lot of messy review procedures, even if you want to go to a third country for transshipment, it is difficult to get it for ten days and half a month.

And what he didn't know was that just when he was confused, someone in the Naples area of Italy was also confused at this moment.

It's just another layer of confusion......