Technological Hegemony

? North America, Boston.

An Ran hung up the phone. Actually, he had nothing special to call Luo Jia. It was just that when he was resting on the plane, he suddenly remembered the multi-link system experiment that the hardware department was doing. It seemed that a new algorithm could be activated. So I asked for Luo Jia's opinion.

There is no way, An Ran is such a workaholic, thinking about problems even when he sleeps, since he joined Xingchen Technology, An Ran has been fighting with his life.

After hearing what An Ran said, Luo Jia said that tonight, he would start rebuilding a mathematical model.

Only then did An Ran feel relieved, as soon as he walked out of the airport, he saw two familiar faces in the crowd, one of them was his little junior sister Ping Yuying, and the other was his classmate, who is now a professor in Massachusetts Qi Mengzhou.

Ping Yuying is still dressed as a cute little lolita, while Qi Mengzhou is already twenty-eight years old and is a mature royal sister. She wears a sexy dress and high heels, and carries a lemon-colored bag in her hand. Hair shawl, obviously seriously dressed.

The winter in Boston is extremely cold, Qi Mengzhou put on a long windbreaker over the dress, but in order to welcome An Ran, a little cold is nothing.

An Ran smiled and walked towards the two of them.

In fact, he has never lacked suitors. The reason why he is single is not because no one wants him, but purely because of his workaholic personality. This Professor Qi Mengzhou is one of An Ran's fanatical suitors.

"Why are you here?" An Ran asked.

"Of course I'm here to pick up my senior brother. It's cold outside, so let's get in the car." Ping Yuying said while clutching her blushing face.

Qi Mengzhou drove, and the three of them went to the hotel that An Ran had reserved.

To a certain extent, a person with a super high IQ will not have a low EQ. An Ran smiled and said to Ping Yuying, "Luo Jia is pretty good. Although he made friends with a star, he is still single."

Ping Yuying's face turned red again, she came to pick An Ran up just to inquire about Luo Jia.

And An Ran told her so frankly that Luo Jia was still single, which made Ping Yuying shy, but at the same time, it was inevitable that she started thinking wildly in her heart.

"What about you? Are you single too?" Qi Mengzhou, who was driving, asked.

"Me?" An Ran smiled,

"I'm so busy at work that I don't have time to think about anything else."

"By the way, what is the school board thinking? In the past, there were always some undergraduate places reserved for the Huaxia region. This year, they were suddenly canceled. Aren't they afraid of causing criticism?"

Qi Mengzhou pouted, An Ran is too smart, once it comes to a question about himself, he will immediately change the topic, An Ran has always been like this in the years of acquaintance.

"What's the criticism? Massachusetts is a private university that doesn't enroll Chinese students and keeps more places in the mainland. Except for Huaxia's displeasure, North America is very happy."

"Besides, it's just that undergraduates are not accepted, master's and doctoral students will still have places in Huaxia."

An Ran looked out of the window and said calmly, "Both Luo Jia and I feel that this seemingly insignificant incident may become a series of bad beginnings. Before Massachusetts, it was Harvard that restricted the number of Chinese, and perhaps in the future , there will be more incidents like this, and that is what worries us the most."

Qi Mengzhou nodded slightly. Although the proportion of Chinese people studying in North America is very high, behind this is the huge population base of Huaxia, as well as the amazing quality and talent of Huaxia students.

In North America, this is probably how private university admissions work.

If you want to study in Massachusetts, 400 points is enough for black students, 450 points for Latinos, 500 points for whites, and the worst is the East Asian group headed by Huaxia, which needs 600 points.

This is the fucking racial balance policy in North America. In order to ensure the balance of all ethnic groups on campus, students with different skin colors have completely different admission standards.

Due to the super high academic performance of Huaxia and the entire East Asian ethnic group, their admission standards have always been the highest, none of them.

Although there are many Huaxia faces in Massachusetts, each of them squeezed in with their strengths, with much higher grades than the others.

In Berkeley, California, which implements fair admissions based on merit, 40 percent of students are Asian, and there are very few black students.

The car stopped at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Boston. An Ran was the vice president of Star Technology, and he naturally carried out the highest standard on business trips. The administrative department booked him a presidential suite, and the nightly accommodation cost was as high as 9,500 US dollars.

After putting down her luggage, An Ran went into the room to take a shower and change clothes. Qi Mengzhou leaned on the sofa and looked at the incomparably luxurious room. It's really not comparable to a poor professor like myself.

After a while, An Ran walked out of the room. He changed into a neat suit and tie, and he looked heroic, like a business elite.

"Senior brother is so handsome!" Ping Yuying said with bright eyes.

Qi Mengzhou felt her heart beating, she walked over, helped An Ran straighten her tie, and asked curiously, "Why are you so formal today?"

"I hope to leave a good impression on Mr. Principal." An Ran shrugged, "You may not understand Luo Jia's character, it's fine if this matter is negotiated, but if it fails, Mr. Luo will probably attack Massachusetts .”

"Start with Massachusetts?" Qi Mengzhou was puzzled, "You are a company, and Massachusetts is a university, so don't get involved at all."

An Ran said, "I don't know whether to get along, but I believe that Luo Jia will always find a way. If that's the case, I will go to persuade him then."

Qi Mengzhou laughed, "It turns out that you didn't want Xingchen Technology and Massachusetts to fall out, so you came to solve the problem yourself, let's go, anyway, let's go to eat first."

"En." An Ran nodded.

 …

Raphael Love has been the principal of MIT since 2012. He is a big name in the electrical field and has a good reputation among students.

An Ran is now considered an outstanding alumnus from Massachusetts, so his request was quickly approved, and Principal Raphael took time out of his busy schedule to meet An Ran in person.

As soon as the two met, Principal Raphael enthusiastically asked about energy wave wireless charging, supercapacitors, batteries, electronic controls, and everything he cared about.

After all, Principal Raphael is an electrical engineer, and Star Technology's wireless charging and super capacitors are his old profession.

An Ran responded fluently, and at the same time, he also paid great attention to the company's confidentiality rules, saying what he could say, and resolutely refraining from saying what he couldn't.

Not long after, Principal Raphael raised his chin in disappointment, and muttered to An Ran, "Hey, I really hope to go to your company and see the supercapacitor with my own eyes, after all, it is a major invention that will change the entire world's energy field. "

An Ran smiled, "As far as I know, the deep-sea energy storage technology jointly researched by North America and Germany is also very good. In terms of energy storage, our advantage is actually not too great."

Dean Rafael waved his hands again and again, "You Huaxia people are too modest. Deep-sea energy storage has a cost advantage, but its efficiency is much lower than yours. In short, I am strongly optimistic about your super capacitor project. After all, what you do is Technological breakthroughs, while the Germans are only engaged in engineering breakthroughs, the two are not at the same level."

Unexpectedly, Dean Raphael was so optimistic about supercapacitors, An Ran was a little surprised.

They talked for a long time, but An Ran really couldn't see that this old man with an electrical background had any intention of attacking China.

In fact, he likes An Ran very much, and also likes those smart Huaxia students in the school, and he is full of praise for them.

An Ran frowned, decided to change the subject, so he talked about Xingchen Industrial Software.

Principal Raphael immediately beamed with joy, and he was also full of praise for the computational fluid dynamics of Star Technology.

In his view, Star Industry will surely become the world's most powerful industrial software cluster in the near future, creating a new era of automated industrial design.

The whole meeting was not meant to be tense at all. Dean Raphael kept praising An Ran and Xingchen Technology.

Even he does not object to the publication of the Chinese version of the Star Journal, and believes that since those scientific research results are produced by Star Technology, Star Technology has the right to decide which language to publish.

Of course, Principal Raphael also expressed his regret. He was really annoyed by not being able to understand the Star Journal, but fortunately, there were many Chinese students among his students, and it was these lovely Chinese students who helped him.

After thinking about it for a while, An Ran roughly understood why Principal Rafael looked at things in such an attitude. He was born in Venezuela and came to North America to study when he was an adult, so he is not the kind of southern red who wants to die to be patriotic. Neck, more like an internationalist.

Whether Star Technology is a Huaxia company or a North American company, it doesn't matter to Principal Raphael, as long as it can promote the continuous progress of mankind, he will support them all.

Thinking of this, An Ran couldn't help sighing, "Mr. Principal, I'm afraid that starting from next year, the matter of no longer recruiting Huaxia undergraduates has nothing to do with you, right?"

Principal Rafael was taken aback suddenly, and with rare strong anger, he reprimanded the school board for ignorance in front of An Ran. This lovely and respectable old gentleman always firmly believes that science has no borders.

He even showed An Ran his resignation letter. It turned out that Principal Rafael was very angry because of the decision of the undergraduate department to no longer recruit freshmen from Huaxia, and had already submitted his resignation letter to the school board.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the world's number one science and engineering institution, a holy place for science and engineering, and the candidate for the principal must not be sloppy. Therefore, during the period when the new principal has not been appointed, Mr. Raphael, for the sake of the unity and stability of the school, temporarily Still doing his best to manage the school.

The situation has been fully clarified for An Ran's quota. The matter of not recruiting Huaxia undergraduates actually has nothing to do with the school. It is the decision of the school board and the financiers behind the school board.

In North America and China, there is a trend that graduates of science and engineering like to switch to finance. After all, finance is largely related to mathematics. It is easy for science and engineering graduates who are good at mathematics to switch to finance.

Behind MIT, there is the power of the North American financial community. A large part of the financial resources of private universities comes from alumni donations, and these generous alumni control the school board and the school's personnel appointments and admissions policies.

Therefore, the so-called academic independence is simply a joke.

If a person wants to be independent in personality, he first needs financial independence. If a university wants to be academically independent, it also needs economic independence as a basis.

A scholar like Principal Raphael actually cannot decide many things.

An Ran walked out of Principal Raphael's office in great disappointment, stood on the familiar campus where she was studying, and called Luo Jia.

There will be no negotiations at all, everything is decided by the school board and the financial forces behind the school board.

In the duel between Google and Star Technology, Wall Street suffered heavy losses in the previous mobile phone war and the subsequent industrial software war without exception. Presumably they should hate Star Technology.

An Ran told Luo Jia everything about the situation in Massachusetts.

"I think it's better not to engage in Massachusetts. If we use those rogue lawyers to engage in Massachusetts, the entire academic community will be bored with us. Before our Star Journal did not have an English version, it has already caused a lot of criticism in the academic community. .”

An Ran suggested to Luo Jia that he did not want Star Technology and academia to get involved. After all, the company's battle line was already very long. Even Luo Jia himself said that he did not want to be besieged by the world.

"I understand the truth." Luo Jia said on the phone, "What did you say just now?"

"Which one?"

"About Dean Rafael, you said he is planning to resign from Massachusetts?"

An Ran was stunned for a moment, "I said it, Principal Raphael is very angry with the decision of the school board, and has already written his resignation letter."

"Is that so..." Luo Jia murmured on the other end of the phone.

"You...what are you going to do?" An Ran frowned and asked curiously.