Back To The Age Of The '80s

Xu Mingsheng was very active, and within two days, Li Zheng received his call.

"Li Zheng, the matter is settled. Come and go through the formalities. Those old partners of mine want to meet you very much. Let's sit down together on the day of the formalities?" Xu Mingsheng smiled heartily on the other end of the phone.

Li Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, and after the negotiation of Xiangjiang University's title, his laboratory plan was half successful.He traveled to many places in the past two days, but he still couldn't find a satisfactory place to build his own laboratory.

Li Zheng's laboratory is not just two houses.In his previous life, he returned to China from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and the working environment can be said to have undergone earth-shaking changes.

Compared with Cold Spring Harbor, the domestic working conditions can even be described as "difficult".

In 1990, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) officially launched the Human Genome Project.The Human Genome Project, the Manhattan Atomic Bomb Project, and the Apollo Project are collectively known as the three major scientific projects.Known as the "Moon Landing Project" of life sciences, it is ironic that Huaguo, which accounts for one-fifth of the world's population, is excluded from this plan.

When the news spread back to the country, the whole country was in an uproar, and the entire Huaguo biological circle was silent.At that time, Mr. Liu Jiasheng, known as No. 1 in domestic biology, entered the university with a cane, and talked with the old chief for a day and a night.Since then, the national finances have finally opened up to biological research, and the biological circles in Huaguo have been catching up. Finally, at the end of the 20th century, they gained a place in the world's biological circles.

In September 1999, Huaguo formally joined the "Moon Landing Project" known as life science.

It's just that there are still differences between the accelerated development of domestic biology and foreign biology. What Li Zheng feels the most is the infrastructure.The equipment and resources of domestic first-class laboratories are not bad, but the working environment is completely different from foreign countries.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is located in Long Island, USA, surrounded by mountains and rivers. The entire research center is designed like a villa area, and there are complete leisure facilities for employees.The famous American TV anchor "Julia O'Hart" once said, "This place belongs to you fools who only love the laboratory. It's such a waste! If it were me, I would I will live every day like a vacation.” This fully demonstrates the good environment of foreign top laboratories.

Now that the funds are limited, Li Zheng does not dare to expect his laboratory to be like Cold Spring Harbor, but it must not be a series of low houses in mainland China. A university walks in. Where is the shortest and most shabby, the door is the lowest. Maybe it has the sign of a certain laboratory.

Therefore, the land of the laboratory must be large. Even if there is no money to build it now, just fill it up little by little. One day, Li Zheng's laboratory will have a place among the top international biopharmaceutical laboratories!

Li Zheng walked into the gate of Xiangjiang University with relevant information, looking for land to build a house, it is much better to have a local snake come out than him to run around like a headless chicken.

The melodious music floats in every corner of the campus, and young men and women come out of the teaching building talking and laughing, and the whole campus is full of youthful flavor.Li Zheng walked on the path of Xiangjiang University with some nostalgia. He suddenly looked forward to the upcoming university life.

"Student? Which college are you from?" A girl was pushed and shoved by her companions, and came to Li Zheng.

A momentary blankness appeared on Li Zheng's face, and then he smiled politely, "I'm not a student of Xiangjiang University yet."

The girl was taken aback when she heard this.The companion behind her had already chuckled softly.

"It's still a high school student, I just said it's so tender, it looks about the same age as my brother in fifth grade."

Li Zheng...

Resisting the helplessness in his heart, Li Zheng asked these girls for the address of the school affairs office. After 10 minutes, he successfully stood on the eleventh floor of the administrative building of Xiangjiang University.

As soon as he stepped out of the elevator, a strange expression appeared on Li Zheng's face.The corridor was obviously very quiet just now, but the moment he stepped in, it was as if the originally static movie had pressed the play button, and it suddenly became noisy.

"Little Hu, have you printed the document I asked you to print?"

"Oops, I'm out of hot water in my thermos!"

"Little Hu, is it raining outside today?"

Old professors in their 60s and [-]s came to the corridor in front of the elevator at the same time as if they had made an appointment. When they saw each other, the atmosphere froze for a moment.

"Haha, Lao Liu, are you out too?"

"I'll fetch some hot water."

"Oh, let me print the document."

At the same time, the two looked at another old professor with gray sideburns who came out of the office, "Principal, who is this?"

Su Changzhi hesitated, "I'll come out and check the weather!"

Professor Liu and Professor Gao looked at each other, yes, of course, you can't see the weather outside in your office on the thirteenth floor, but if you go to the eleventh floor, there is nothing wrong with it!

Xiao Hu, that is, Hu Zhiyuan, obviously still has some problems, he came out to stand after sitting in the office for a long time.Professor Gao just asked him to print the document?And... the weather.

"Principal, the weather is fine today, it won't rain!" Hu Zhiyuan glanced out the window and replied hastily.

There was an awkward silence in the corridor.

At this moment, Xu Mingsheng walked out of an office with a smile.

"If you want to watch it, just look at it openly, each of you is not afraid of losing face in front of the juniors!" Xu Mingsheng's words were full of teasing.

He looked at Hu Yuanzhi who was still in a daze, and coughed dryly: "Little Hu, it's nothing, you can go back first."

Hu Yuanzhi returned to the office with an erratic expression on his face.

The corridor became quiet again, and Xu Mingsheng walked up to Li Zheng, "Go to the meeting room first, and I'll show you who you are!" As he spoke, he glanced at Su Changzhi and the other three who were pretending to be looking at the scenery, and continued: "To save some people from being unable to bear their curiosity and running out by themselves."

"Cough cough" Su Changzhi coughed twice in embarrassment, "Ming Sheng, this is the youngest billionaire in Xiangjiang you mentioned, right? He is indeed young, indeed young! Hahaha."

Su Changzhi is another acquaintance.When Li Zheng visited Xiangjiang University in his last life, this respected old man was already 85 years old. At the age of 70, the old man got stomach cancer and fought against cancer for more than ten years.

At that time, Li Zheng's anti-cancer drug had just been successfully tested on mice. After hearing about it, the old man came to meet Li Zheng at the hotel where he was staying. He held his hand and told him that he had struggled with cancer for so many years. Tired, hoping to fight vigorously against the disease, he voluntarily became a volunteer for the fourth phase of Li Zheng's anticancer drug clinical trial, which shocked Li Zheng very much!

"Principal Su." Li Zheng bent slightly, and gave the old man a junior salute.

Su Changzhi was taken aback, "You know me?"

"Principal Su is highly respected. Although I haven't stayed in Xiangjiang for a long time, I have heard of your name." Li Zheng said sincerely.

Su Changzhi laughed out loud, this time it was not an embarrassing laugh.Although with his prestige, he has heard many such words, but when these words are spoken from the mouth of the youngest billionaire in Xiangjiang, it does not sound generally comfortable.

The four of them walked into the meeting room, and Su Changzhi found that after only leaving for a while, there were so many people in the meeting room that there was no room for the big meeting table.Needless to say, these people must have heard the wind to see the youngest billionaire in Xiangjiang.

At the meeting once a month yesterday, Xu Mingsheng changed his previous silent state, and at the beginning of the meeting, he talked about the importance of biopharmaceuticals to all mankind, emphasizing that biology is the science that promotes the evolution of human beings!At the same time, it also criticized the narrow structure of the Department of Humanities, which only knows the intrigue and pays too much attention to personal gains and losses.The final conclusion is that this money has to be used wisely and invested in the exploration of life sciences!

The Department of Humanities was furious. Professor Guo from the Department of Social Sciences almost threw his stinky shoe on Xu Mingsheng's face. After Xu Mingsheng's words, if the school finance department allocates money to the Department of Humanities, it would be almost anti-human!As a result, a few highly respected professors from the Department of Humanities did not hesitate to poke the sore feet of the Department of Science and Engineering.

Oh, you contribute to human progress, you have a big picture, but you have produced results!Didn't a certain biological laboratory take millions of Xiangjiang coins last time, and they researched the guessed shape of the RESE virus!There is also a certain physics laboratory, which is very diligent in applying for scientific research funds. What about the results?Maybe when our bodies are half buried in the loess, the results will not come out!

The Department of Humanities is very good at talking, especially the dean of the Law School, with his skills in court battles, scolded a group of big bosses in the Department of Science and Engineering.

The group of old professors in the Department of Science and Engineering were so aggrieved, I don't know how many times they scolded Xu Mingsheng who was so strong.At this time, Xu Mingsheng unceremoniously threw a blockbuster.

A student of the Faculty of Medicine published an SCI paper on Dannotin's catalyst, and successfully extracted the catalyst in the Medical Laboratory of Xiangjiang University.Not only that, Roche and Pfizer also bought five-year patent rights from it at high prices.Xu Mingsheng didn't say the specific price, but he said, "I'm proud that our college can train...the emergence of such talents, the youngest billionaire in Xiangjiang, the huge wealth he gained by exchanging knowledge is very Inspirational meaning!"

That pair of obviously very proud but still pretending to be calm and calm, in the eyes of others, it is obvious that the four words "little man succeeds"!

Not to mention the fact that Xu Mingsheng revealed the fact that Li Zheng hadn't entered school yet, which caused everyone to ridicule him.It was precisely because Xu Mingsheng described Li Zheng so well that it aroused the curiosity of all the professors at the meeting.That's why today's scene happened.

Originally, it didn’t take so many people to go through a simple procedure, at least those old professors without administrative positions didn’t have to make this trip at all, but they came, not only that, but also some well-informed middle-aged professors. ran over.

Su Changzhi was sneering in his heart, he asked you to come to a meeting to participate in an activity on weekdays, and each of you was either busy with scientific research or not feeling well, but now all of you are energetic and flexible.

"Student Li, find a seat." Su Changzhi said, looking around, he was embarrassed to find that there were no vacant seats at the conference table due to the sudden increase of people! !

All the respected old professors in the field couldn't help showing embarrassing expressions on their faces.Professor Chen from the law department laughed and stood up. Professor Chen looked like he was only in his early forties, and he was relatively junior among the professors present, "Come on, student Li, sit here with me. It's nothing to do with the billionaire." Professor Chen said very truthfully, which caused a burst of laughter in the audience.

Li Zheng hesitated for a moment, thanked Professor Chen, and sat down.He could see that if he didn't sit down, the awkward atmosphere would probably continue to spread.

As soon as Li Zheng sat down, almost everyone's eyes were on him.Li Zheng couldn't help but froze. He had seen big scenes in his previous life, but he was still a little uncomfortable with so many seniors looking at him like monkeys in a zoo.

Su Changzhi was the first to break the deadlock, "They are all my own people. Let me introduce them first. From left to right are Professor Guo from the School of Social Sciences, Professor Zhong from the Department of Law, Professor He from the Department of Literature, Professor Liu from the Department of Physics, and Professor Zhong from the Department of Chemistry. Professor Zhou and Professor Xu are very familiar to you, and they are also from the medical school, Professor Zhao, Professor Qian, Professor Sun, Professor Li..."

Almost all the leaders of the various colleges in Xiangjiang University are here, especially the medical school, all the full professors are here, which is even more crowded than the college meeting.No wonder Su Changzhi was unhappy.

Li Zheng stood up and said hello to each other, causing those old professors to nod repeatedly, and even those old professors in the humanities department couldn't help but soften their eyes when they looked at him.

These old professors in the Department of Humanities had mixed feelings about Li Zheng, because the sudden appearance of Li Zheng made the Department of Humanities feel a lot of suffocation at the meeting.But which teacher doesn't like good students?It's just strange, how did such an obedient child go to study biopharmaceuticals...

The old professors of the humanities department took a look at Xu Mingsheng, who was full of ambition, and felt even more uncomfortable.

"Ahem, there are two topics for this meeting today. One is the admission of Li Zheng's classmate. The other is the name of Li Zheng's laboratory. These two things are related to our newly released Xiangjiang's youngest billionaire It's related." Su Changzhi said with a smile.

The old professors let out a burst of good-natured laughter.

Li Zheng glanced at Xu Mingsheng, enrolling?Didn't you say you're ready for spring admission?

Xu Mingsheng looked at his nose, nose and mouth without saying a word.Yesterday he mentioned to Su Changzhi that after Li Zheng entered school in the spring, Su Changzhi pointed his nose and scolded him. If Su Changzhi hadn't been both the principal and his mentor, Xu Mingsheng really wanted to slap the table and leave.No one had spoken to him like this since he had become Head of the Academy.

But what Su Changzhi said made sense. Although their university is the highest institution in Hong Kong, what if Roche or Pfizer propose to send Li Zheng to study abroad!With the urine of those pharmaceutical companies, they wish that all the calves would grow on their land.

So sooner rather than later!Get this thing settled as soon as possible.

"At the end of the year, there will be an Asian Biopharmaceutical Conference in Tokyo. The places given to us at Xiangjiang University are three professors and three students, and the three professors have already been confirmed. The three students have selected two graduate students, and one has not been selected yet. It's decided, after all, this is an international conference, and we want to show the best of our biology team at Xiangjiang University, so your arrival, Li Zheng, has relieved us of our urgent need."

"Li Zheng, you should enroll early, so that we can report your name to the organizing committee. As for the credits for the first year..." Su Changzhi thought for 2 minutes, and then said: "Our one-year credits It’s 30 points, and your paper counts as 15 points, okay?”

Principal Su, you have said so, can he say no?

Li Zheng smiled wryly, "Principal, I don't know if Professor Xu has mentioned to you about my recent preparations for the laboratory, so I may be busy recently and can't take care of the school."

Su Changzhi immediately said: "You don't have to worry about this, just treat it flexibly."

Seeing that Li Zheng agreed, Su Changzhi became obviously happy, "Then let's talk about the naming of the laboratory. We have discussed this matter at the meeting. It was voted on at the time. Now it is all about rights." And obligations, we can’t take 200 million for nothing. Li Zheng, I heard that you are looking for a place to build a laboratory. Our old library is on the westernmost side of the campus. The rest can be assigned to your laboratory."

Li Zheng didn't expect that the 200 million yuan would have such an effect. To be honest, he was really moved. Xiangjiang University has an excellent geographical location and complete supporting facilities. Moreover, for a researcher, it has its own laboratory in the university. is of special significance.

Li Zheng took a deep breath and tried his best to resist this huge temptation.

"Thank you very much, principal, for your generosity, but the design drawings of the laboratory have come out, and I like it very much. If it is in the library, I am afraid that the design drawings will have to be reworked."

The professors present were all a little surprised. Li Zheng's excuse was not very clever. He would not even come up with the design drawing without confirming the land, but everyone could hear that Li Zheng refused.

He actually refused? !

Many professors, especially those of science and engineering with their own laboratories, felt somewhat uncomfortable when Su Changzhi said that he would allocate the building of the old library to Li Zheng.

The laboratory conditions of Xiangjiang University are much better than those in mainland China, but they are definitely not as luxurious as a building.If Li Zheng agreed, then his laboratory would be bigger than Professor Zhu in terms of floor area.

For a young junior to be crushed on his head, these old seniors will feel somewhat uncomfortable.No objection was raised, firstly because I was too old to pull off this old face, and secondly, why did you not give the school 200 million.

But when Li Zheng refused, they felt embarrassed again.

"Don't be burdened. Since the principal has spoken, you should continue." It was Professor Zhao from the School of Medicine who spoke.

Li Zheng smiled and shook his head, "If you professors really want to help me, you can help me find out where there is about [-] acres of land for sale. The environment should be better, and the transportation should not be too inconvenient. It's better to be closer to the school .”

A group of professors looked at each other in blank dismay. It turned out that after all, they looked down on such a small building as the library.

Alas, they can't accept it.

Professor Zhong from the Law School frowned and said, "I know of a place that meets your requirements except that it's a little bigger. It's about ten kilometers away from our school. Three or four villas have been built and a man-made place has been dug. Hu, later the developer ran out of money, so it rotted there, and I did the bankruptcy liquidation.”

Li Zheng's eyes lit up, and when Zhong Jingming reminded him, he remembered.

In 1982, one of the darkest periods in the history of Xiangjiang real estate industry, land prices, property prices and rents in Xiangjiang dropped sharply.According to statistics, the drop in land prices at that time reached 40%-60%, which is not surprising.

Compared with the Xiangjiang real estate market in the later generations, which often cost more than ten or 20 square meters, the current housing prices in Xiangjiang are simply the price of cabbage.

"Professor Zhong, can you take me to have a look if you have time?" Li Zheng, who is an experimenter, would not deliberately hoard land and houses, but he would not be stupid enough to refuse if it hit his hand.

Zhong Jingming was stunned, he really wanted it.

"With the addition of the artificial lake, the entire property is close to 25 mu. Due to the drop in land prices and bankruptcy liquidation, the price will be a little lower than the market price, but even so, at least 8000 million Hong Kong dollars."