Great Country Academician

Taking the high-speed rail, Xu Chuan returned to Jinling from the capital.

Then came along with him, and the driver Zheng Hai arranged for him by the above.

Said to be the driver, in fact, also has the meaning of being his guard to protect his safety.

However, there are still some differences from full-time guards. Zheng Hai did not follow him around the clock, and usually after sending Xu Chuan to the destination, he would find a place to stay by himself, so as not to affect the activities, but The on-call situation.

As for Xu Chuan, although he was surrounded by someone, he didn't feel much difference from usual.

The main reason is that Zheng Hai's normal presence is too low.

A face of ordinary people, coupled with no special temperament at all when not performing tasks, he disappeared immediately after being thrown into the crowd. Except for daily driving, it is almost difficult to feel his presence at other times.

It can only be said that people from special places still have skills.

At Nanjing University, an unremarkable car stopped at the school gate. Xu Chuan unfastened his seat belt, glanced at Zheng Hai in the driver's seat, and asked:

"Do you have a place to live? Do you need me to arrange it for you?"

Zheng Hai quickly turned his head and replied: "Yes, don't bother you, I am actually on a business trip here, whether it is staying in a hotel or a guest house, it can be reimbursed."

"That's fine, I won't arrange it, you can find a place to live by yourself."

Xu Chuan nodded, opened the door, got out of the car and entered Nantah University. For people like Zheng Hai, they usually have their own standards of conduct.

Following the familiar path, he came all the way to the faculty and staff residence hall of Nantah University.

Skillfully found the villa of the university tutor Chen Zhengping. Although the door was open, Xu Chuan still rang the doorbell, and soon there was movement from inside.

"Who is it? The door is open, come in."

A voice came, followed by an old lady who came out in a hurry.

"Miss."

Seeing the old lady who came out, Xu Chuan smiled and shouted, this is the married wife of his mentor Chen Zhengping.

Seeing Xu Chuan, Master Tian Jiangxiang was stunned for a moment, then a smile appeared on her face, and she greeted: "Xiao Chuan is here, come in quickly, come in quickly and sit down, when will you be back?"

While greeting, she shouted towards the study: "Old man, come out quickly, Xu Chuan is here."

In the study, Chen Zhengping, who was reading a book, got up quickly and walked out after hearing the voice.

"Teacher." Seeing Chen Zhengping, Xu Chuan shouted with a smile.

"I'm back." Chen Zhengping walked over with a smile, and greeted him: "I've been doing well in foreign countries for the past few years, and I've even won the Fields Medal."

Xu Chuan smiled shyly, and said, "It's the teacher who taught you well."

Chen Zhengping laughed and said, "Don't, what I said makes me blush."

After a pause, he continued to ask: "After returning to China this time, you probably won't go out again in the future, right?"

Xu Chuan nodded and said with a smile, "Well, I probably won't go out anymore, and I'm going to be a professor at Nantah University."

"Very good, what are you going to do next? I heard that you and Professor Fefferman were studying NS equations together before, and are you planning to continue studying this?" Chen Zhengping asked.

Xu Chuan: "On the one hand, this is a part. I have advanced a little bit on the NS equation with Professor Fefferman before. I think there should be potential, and I can try to push it further."

"In addition to the NS equation, I am also planning to lean a little towards physics and materials. The next focus may be more on these two."

Chen Zhengping shook his head with a smile, and said, "You haven't given up on physics yet."

Xu Chuan said with a smile: "I have never given up, it's just that the focus of learning is different at different time points."

After a pause, he continued: "In addition, I would like to ask the teacher for a favor. I would like to ask if there is a suitable material research institute here in Jinling. I want to buy one if necessary."

"It doesn't need to be too big, and the total price should not exceed 20 million. It is mainly used for research in the fields of carbon materials and polymer energy membrane materials."

Establishing a private research institute is one of the things he needs to do before officially launching the national project.

Although he has already established a line with the above and communicated with some follow-up developments, it can basically be said that as long as he has a need and can provide normal application materials, the above will give him research funds.

But he still wants to build a private research institute by himself.

Sometimes, some things that are inconvenient, or not supported by the above, or he does not want to study with the above, can be carried out in his own private research institute.

Moreover, he also has a family, and he also needs to leave something behind. At least, to realize the freedom of wealth and let his family no longer worry about money is what should be done.

"Institute of materials? Carbon materials and polymer energy membrane materials?"

Chen Zhengping was stunned for a moment, and then he thought quickly: "There are quite a lot of material research institutes here in Jinling, but there are not many that meet your goal of choice."

"General materials research institutes will only study one of carbon materials and polymer energy membrane materials."

"Of course, the main reason is that your budget is limited, 20 million. You can't buy any good materials research institute with this budget."

"Well, let me ask you about this matter. Do you want to buy it for your own use? If you want to use it yourself, I suggest you build one yourself. Although it is smaller, you can choose from both the environment and the equipment. And customization, more in line with your own requirements."

Xu Chuan shook his head and said, "It would be too time-consuming to build a new one. Buy one first and use it, and use it as a practice. Anyway, the investment is not much."

Chen Zhengping couldn't help laughing: "Twenty million yuan, you really don't take money as money? This should be your private investment, right? The bonuses and various rewards you have received over the years must have been thrown into it, right?"

Xu Chuan nodded and said, "Well, it's about the same. It's nothing, just make money when you run out of money."

Over the years, he has won a lot of awards, big and small, and the various bonuses and rewards are about 20 million.

In addition, he stayed in Princeton for three years and earned a little money by investing in the fund company there. Currently, he has a total of about 30 million in cash.

Therefore, investing 20 million yuan in the Materials Research Institute is not a problem for him at all.

And he can guarantee that if he invests 20 million today, he will be able to reap at least 2 billion in return in at most one year.

Scientific research, as long as there are suitable results, can quickly be converted into massive funds.

Chen Zhengping didn't persuade him too much. He knew Xu Chuan's character. Although he looked very gentle on the surface, like a scholar who came out of a book, he would actually do what he decided no matter what.

Nodding his head, he said, "In that case, I'll help you find it."

"Then I will trouble you, teacher."

After lunch at the tutor's house, Xu Chuan said goodbye and left, walking on the campus, looking at the quiet school, with a smile on his face.

It's mid-to-late August, Nantah University hasn't started school yet, and there are no people in the school. But in another ten days or so, another batch of new students will step into this kind of campus just like him a few years ago, thriving and striving to grow.

Thinking, he thought of his own sister.

That girl Xu Xiao, graduated from high school in June this year, her grades are not bad, she got 703 points in the test, plus the gold medal won in the international Olympic competition, counting the Olympiad bonus points, the total score exceeded 720 .

For this achievement, domestic universities are randomly selected.

And the girl chose Shuimu University, which he had just been to yesterday, and majored in biochemistry, which not only fulfilled her own dream, but also fulfilled Xu's father and Xu's mother's dream.

At the beginning, he didn't go to Shuimu Peking University, but finally chose Nantah University. Xu's father and Xu's mother still have some regrets.

After all, in the opinion of the older generation, Shuimu Peking University is the best institution in the country, and being able to be admitted to these two schools is really smoke from the ancestral grave.

The only one who is a bit sad and depressed is probably Old Tang from Xingcheng No. 1 Middle School.

At the beginning, he took Xu Chuan to study physics as the most important seedling, but Xu Chuan went to study mathematics in his third year of high school.

Later when Xu Xiao passed by, he took physics with him and cultivated them as key seedlings, hoping to continue the glory of the previous session.

After all, although Xu Chuan went to study mathematics, he also won the gold medal in the physical competition.

Fortunately, that girl ran off to study chemistry and biology in the second year of high school earlier, and completely left physics.

Two good seedlings left him one after another, which made him very depressed.

After dealing with some things in Jinling, Xu Chuan took the high-speed train back to his hometown.

In June, when he was in Princeton, he missed that girl Xu Xiao's college entrance examination. To make up for it, he agreed to send her to school.

It's almost September now, and it's time to redeem this promise.

By the way, when I visited Academician Peng Hongxi at Shuimu University, I promised Shuimu University to give a report there, and it would be good to finish it together.

After staying in his hometown for a few days, before school started, Xu Chuan took Xu Xiao to the capital.

At the end of August, the day before Xu Xiao entered school, he received a message from his superiors.

After more than half a month of discussion, after referring to some opinions from the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering, the high-level officials finally decided on the result.

A series of projects have been established, including nuclear energy β radiation energy accumulation and conversion mechanism, room temperature superconducting material research and development, and ultra-high temperature plasma turbulence control system.

The overall person in charge of the project is Xu Chuan, and the project will be launched in stages. The first phase of the project is the nuclear beta radiation energy accumulation and conversion mechanism proposed by Xu Chuan. The first batch of scientific research funds is one billion, which has been allocated to a special account.

One billion yuan in scientific research funds can be said to be quite large.

In Huaguo's past scientific research, the first batch of funds can reach this number, and there are only a handful of them.

Chen Zhengping's research and development project of tungsten diselenide material was only more than 10 million yuan.

Of course, Xu Chuan's one billion yuan is not all used for scientific research and development. It also includes the establishment of a nuclear energy laboratory, the purchase of corresponding equipment, and the recruitment of talents.

That sounds like a lot, but for a project like nuclear energy, it can add up quickly.

Not to mention other things, a nuclear engineering and nuclear technology laboratory needs hundreds of millions of funds to build, in addition to the purchase of various equipment needed for experiments, etc., these things need to spend a lot of money.

As for the work before the complete construction of the nuclear energy laboratory, Xu Chuan plans to use the "Nuclear Research Institute of the Academy of Sciences" in Shanghai to carry out the work.

Compared with the nuclear waste eliminated from nuclear power plants, the radioactivity of ordinary nuclear fuel is almost negligible. Not only that, even high-concentration uranium raw materials such as uranium yellow and uranium cake can be directly handled without causing too much impact on the human body.

Of course, the premise is that it does not enter the human body, such as the lungs, nasal cavity, eyes and other places.

The reason why the word "nuclear" turns people's faces is that nuclear weapons and nuclear pollution are extremely lethal things, but nuclear fuel before the chain reaction starts, in fact, ordinary plastic gloves, goggles, Masks and other things are enough protection.

Those ordinary nuclear materials, such as uranium ore, uranium metal and the like, are not very dangerous.

In ancient times, the ancients also used the special color of uranium ore to naturalize the coloring and glaze materials of porcelain.

For example, the tea sets used by the royal family in the Song Dynasty, famous porcelain such as Jianzhan and Longyao firewood porcelain, are glazed with uranium ore.

And the facilities in the "Nuclear Institute of the Academy of Sciences" in Modu are sufficient to complete this step of research.

After the high-level decision-making was completed, the relevant approval documents came down soon.

After receiving the approval document, Xu Chuan found Han Jin.

In the days since he left, this competent person in charge has contacted and screened out some nuclear physics researchers. There are not many of them, only ten. scientific research experience.

This is what Xu Chuan requested.

The first batch of scientific researchers are not too smart. The mechanism of nuclear energy beta radiation energy accumulation and conversion of electrical energy is a technology that he has completely perfected in his previous life. Like a prophet, he knows very well how many people are needed to perfect this technology. what steps.

The first meeting of this small group was in the hotel where Xu Chuan lived.

The hotel manager Xia Huarong arranged a small meeting room for him.

In the conference room, Han Jinwen sat on the first side, and the other five recruited researchers were scattered on both sides, talking and discussing in a low voice, curious about the vacated main seat.

At first, they thought that Professor Han was the person in charge of the project, but later they found out that Han Jin was not, and that the person in charge was someone else.

Several researchers were curious about this mysterious boss, and also worried about whether the project was reliable.

After all, on the surface, it was obvious that this was a newly established project, but when Han Jin recruited them, the conditions they offered were quite favorable.

The annual salary is 150,000 yuan during the probationary period, and 200,000 yuan after becoming a full-time employee. After half a year of probation, you can apply for the position of intern researcher; after one year as an intern researcher, you can become a full-time researcher.

For domestic scientific researchers, the attraction is simply fatal.

What fascinates these scientific researchers is not the annual salary of 200,000 yuan, but the ability to become a full-time researcher after one year as an intern researcher.

A formal researcher in China can be regarded as a full professor position in a university to some extent, can have his own laboratory, can apply for independent scientific research funds, can engage in independent research work, hire other postdoctoral fellows, assistant researchers, etc.

Various benefits are much higher than those of assistant researcher and postdoctoral fellow.

In addition to regular benefits, formal researchers can also participate in the dividends of research and development projects, and even own the patent rights of some scientific research achievements.

But in China, it is very difficult to become a full-time researcher. To become a full-time researcher, if a doctoral student is in a university, he must first study as a postdoctoral fellow, then choose a professor as an assistant, and then an associate professor after completing his assistantship. After being an associate professor, you can become a full professor and become a full-time researcher.

Such a conventional process will take at least six to eight years.

Six to eight years, according to the domestic study system, when they become formal researchers, they are basically forty years old.

At the age of forty, it can be said that the golden research career of a scientific researcher has passed, and it is basically impossible to make some achievements.

But now, in a year and a half, he can become a full-time researcher.

This has shortened the time by five or six years, and the future will undoubtedly be much brighter.

But, does the boss of this project really have the ability to give them such benefits?

After all, no matter whether it is a national university or a scientific research institution, the number of official researcher positions is limited each year. In the past, it could be said that it was a position that could be said to be fought desperately, or it was time-honored, but now it seems that it is within reach.

is it possible?

The boss of this project really has such great ability?

Just as he was thinking, the door of the office was suddenly pushed open, and an unusually young man walked in.

After seeing the young man's face clearly, and after Han Jin got up and called out to the boss, everyone in the office was stunned, with their mouths open in disbelief.

This is their boss?