Originally, Lu Zhou just felt that it was a pity to disband the STAR-2 demonstration reactor project team in this way, so he proposed to keep those talents with experience in large-scale scientific research project management, and establish a window connecting enterprises and research institutions after the operation model of the Helmholtz Federation.

What he didn't expect was that the higher-ups would actually assign this job to themselves.

What he didn't expect was that the remaining 2.7 billion scientific research funds from the demonstration reactor project were also retained in the name of "scientific research start-up funds".

According to the general situation, the unspent research funds should be recovered.

With this money, at least there is no need to worry about employee salaries, the location of new R&D centers, and other costs for the time being.

The day after the commendation ceremony.

Someone from the Ministry of Science and Technology took the initiative to contact Lu Zhou.

He was visited by a man in his early thirties, with glasses on the bridge of his nose, and a more elegant and easy-going appearance.

Based on his self-introduction, Lu Zhou learned that his name was Mapleki Kiyoshi and that he graduated from the Department of Life Sciences of Mizuki University. However, after graduating with a master's degree, he did not engage in this professional work, but entered the Strategic Planning Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology by national examination.

Before he was transferred to him, his rank was not low.

According to the arrangement of the ministry, Secretary Feng is mainly responsible for two things this time, one is to cooperate with other departments to complete the reorganization of the STAR-2 demonstration reactor project team, and the other is to serve as the secretary of the Eastern Industry and Research Consortium after the reorganization.

“…… The senior management attaches great importance to your comments and instructs our department to cooperate with your work. After a meeting and study, the leaders of our department decided to send me to you. Probably noticing the surprise on Lu Zhou's face, Mapletree smiled and asked, "Is there anything wrong with Director Lu?" ”

Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly: "There's no problem, I just feel that Secretary Feng is very young." ”

Mapletree smiled gently and said, "It may be that the senior management thinks that Director Lu and I are relatively close in age, which can reduce the gap in work communication." ”

Lu Zhou nodded: "It's troublesome for you to manage the work, there may be more things on my side, and I don't necessarily have to take care of it." ”

Mapleshu Qing said: "Don't worry, the ministry sent me here to assist you!" ”

Lu Zhou: "Well, I'll trouble you from then on...... Oh yes, one more thing. ”

Mapleshu: "What's the matter?" ”

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "In the future, you should call me Professor Lu, it sounds more customary." ”

Mapleshu Qing was slightly stunned, then smiled, and said kindly: "Since Professor Lu insists, then I will call you that in the future." ”

……

As the tail of the new year gradually passed, confirming that Lu Zhou's body was no longer in trouble, his father and mother also went back to Jiangling after repeatedly telling him to pay more attention to his body. And his sister Xiaotong also went back to Jinling one step ahead of him and began to go through the procedures for studying abroad.

As for Lu Zhou's side, because he still had some things to do in Shangjing, he stayed here for a few more days.

After being discharged from the 301 Hospital, he has been living in the renovated and sanatorium-like hotel next to the Old Summer Palace these days. Although he doesn't have a house in Shangjing, every time he comes here, he never seems to have to worry about where to stay.

On the third day after the commendation ceremony, Mapleki Kiyoshi went to Haizhou before him and began to work on the reorganization of the STAR-2 demonstration reactor.

Lu Zhou's affairs were almost done, so he bought a train ticket back to Jinling.

It's a shame to say that it's been almost a year since I became a professor at Jinda, but I haven't given a single class to the younger students of Jinda. Now that the burden of controlled fusion has finally been lifted, he can finally spend some time on what interests him.

At dusk, by the artificial lake in the backyard of the hotel.

Walking next to Lu Zhou, Chen Yushan, who came here to visit him, asked.

"Are you feeling better now?"

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I've been discharged from the hospital, what do you think?" ”

Chen Yushan sighed: "I know you like to stay in the laboratory, but don't be too reckless." ”

Lu Zhou said: "You can rest assured about this, the controllable fusion project has ended, at least for a while, I won't be so busy." ”

Chen Yushan: "What are you going to do next?" ”

Lu Zhou thought for a while: "At present, I plan to go back to Jinda to teach." ”

Chen Yushan teased: "You are the chief designer, and you still have time to go back to the university to teach." ”

Lu Zhou said with a smile: "The chief designer or anything is in the past, now that the controllable fusion has been completed, the rest of the work can be done by those technicians, and there is nothing I need to design." ”

Although he did something in the Eastern Industry and Research Consortium before leaving, Lu Zhou did not plan to involve too much energy outside of R&D, and the current layout was just to pave the way for future work.

If Mapleshuqing's ability is still passable, Lu Zhou plans to only plan a general direction at that time, and leave the specific work to him to do.

It's kind of interesting to say.

Lu Zhou found that his encounter was unexpectedly similar to someone on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

After the Manhattan Project was over, Oppenheimer also returned to Princeton as a dean, and no longer engaged in the research of the atomic bomb. However, unlike him, Oppenheimer was driven away because of his inner guilt and anti-war activities, while Lu Zhou had little interest in management and could be said to have retired.

And compared with Oppenheimer, who was "rehabilitated" for almost twenty years, the rewards he received can be said to be quite rich.

Whether it is the father of controlled fusion, or the aura of the Order of Lingyun.

With these two halos, let alone in the domestic academic world, he can walk sideways in places outside the academic world.

At least in China, this is something that no matter how much money you have, even if you become the richest man, you can't do it......

Gently kicked the stones on the side of the road, Chen Yushan, whose index finger was hooked behind him, sighed, looked at the rockery on the lake not far away, and said a little melancholy.

"It's nice that you know what you want to do and how you want to get there. It's not like I ......."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Aren't you the same?" An offer from the University of Pennsylvania is not so easy to get. ”

Seemingly dissatisfied with this comfort, Chen Yushan pouted a little unhappily.

"Is it hard to have an offer from Princeton? Professor Lu Zhou, who almost became the head of the mathematics department at Princeton. ”

Hearing this strange title, Lu Zhou almost didn't choke, coughed lightly and said, "When did I almost become the head of the mathematics department, why don't I remember such a thing." ”

Chen Yushan: "It's almost the same anyway, if you want to be it, you will definitely be able to do it." ”

Lu Zhou: "Don't talk about me, I'm curious what your troubles are?" ”

"That's it...... Actually, it's not a bother, maybe it's just my self-entanglement," the index finger was a little embarrassed to wrap around the hair strands around the sideburns, Chen Yushan hesitated for a moment and said, "My father wants me to work in the system, but I don't like the working environment in the system very much. And I studied finance and MBA, so isn't it too strange to go to the system to stamp people if I don't look for a multinational company with a market value of 100 billion yuan to realize the value of my life? ”

Sweat!

What does it mean to stamp someone specially?

It's a joke, but it's an exaggeration.

Looking at Lu Zhou's expression of powerlessness, Chen Yushan smiled and said, "Okay, thank you for taking so much time to listen to me and talk about so many things...... Well, since you're all right, I'll go back. ”

Looking at the senior sister who was about to leave, Lu Zhou suddenly thought of something and stopped her.

"Hmm...... That's right. ”

Stopped, Chen Yushan cast an inquiring gaze at him: "Is there anything else?" ”

Lu Zhou thought for a while: "Do you remember the question I asked you last year?" If I'm not mistaken, you should have promised me at the time. ”

Chen Yushan: "......? ”

After a pause, Lu Zhou continued.

"If you haven't figured out what to do yet, why don't you come over and help me do something first?"

"Although it is not as exaggerated as the market value of hundreds of billions, it seems that there are still hundreds of millions a year."