Xu Mingsheng was very motivated, and within two days, Li Zheng received his call.
"Li Zheng, things are done. Come and go through the formalities, my old friends really want to see you, can we sit down together on the day of the formalities?" Xu Mingsheng smiled brightly on the phone.
Li Zheng breathed a sigh of relief. After talking about the title of Heung Kong University, his laboratory plan was half-successful. In the past two days, he has traveled to many places, but he has never found a satisfactory place to build his own laboratory.
Li Zheng wanted more than just two houses in the laboratory. In his last life, when he returned to China from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the working environment can be said to have undergone earth-shaking changes.
Compared with Cold Spring Harbor, the working conditions in China can even be described as "hard".
In 1990, the US 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 known as the three major scientific projects. Known as the "moon landing plan" for life sciences, it is ironic that China, which accounts for one-fifth of the world's population, was excluded from this plan.
When the news came back to China, the whole country was in an uproar, and the entire Chinese biological circle was silent. At that time, Mr. Liu Jiasheng, who was known as the first person in domestic biology, entered the big room with a cane and talked earnestly with the old chief for a day and a night. Since then, the national finance has finally opened up to biological research, and the Chinese biological community has been catching up, and finally has a place in the world biological circle at the end of the 20th century.
In September 1999, Hua Guo officially joined the "moon landing program" known as life sciences.
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 the domestic first-class laboratories are not bad, but the working environment is completely different from that of foreign countries.
The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is located on Long Island, USA. The famous American TV anchor "Julia O'Hart" once said, "This place belongs to your group of idiots who only fall in love with the laboratory. It's a waste! If it were me, I would I will live every day like a vacation." This fully shows the good environment of top foreign laboratories.
Now the funds are limited, Li Zheng dare not expect his laboratory to be like Cold Spring Harbor, but it must not be the kind of low house in mainland China. When a university walks in, where the shortest and most broken, the door is on the door. Maybe there is a sign of a certain laboratory.
Therefore, 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 in the world's top biopharmaceutical laboratories!
Li Zheng walked into the campus of Heung Kong University with relevant materials, looking for land to build a house, it was much better for him to run around like a headless fly.
Melodious music drifted in every corner of the campus, young men and women walked out of the teaching building talking and laughing, and the whole campus was full of youthful flavor. Li Zheng was walking down the path of Hong Kong University with some nostalgia, and he suddenly had some expectations for the upcoming university life.
"Junior? Which college are you from?" A girl was pushed and shoved by her companion and came to Li Zheng.
Li Zheng's face was blank for a moment, and then he smiled politely, "I'm not a student of Hong Kong University for the time being."
The girl was stunned when she heard the words. The companion behind her had already laughed softly.
"It's still a high school student. I just said that he has a tender face and looks about the same age as my brother in Form 5."
Li Zheng…
Resisting the helplessness in his heart, Li Zheng asked the girls for the address of the school affairs office. Ten minutes later, he successfully stood on the eleventh floor of the administrative building of Hong Kong University.
As soon as he stepped out of the elevator, a strange expression appeared on Li Zheng's face. The corridor that was clearly still very quiet just now, the moment he stepped in, as if the original still movie had pressed the play button, it suddenly became noisy.
"Xiao Hu, is the document I asked you to print ready?"
"Oops, I'm out of hot water in my thermos!"
"Xiao Hu, is it raining outside today?"
The old professors in their 50s and 60s 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 get hot water."
"Oh, let me print the document."
At the same time, the two of them looked at another old professor who came out of the office with a gray sideburn, "Principal, this is you?"
Su Changzhi froze for a while, "Can't I come out to check the weather!"
Professor Liu and Professor Gao looked at each other, yes, of course, you can't see the weather outside from your office on the thirteenth floor, so you can go to the eleventh floor to see it, no problem!
Xiao Hu, that is, Hu Zhiyuan, was obviously still in some condition. He had been sitting in the office for a long time and came out to stand. Just now Professor Gao asked him to print the document? And... the weather.
"Principal, the weather is good today, it won't rain!" Hu Zhiyuan glanced out the window and replied hurriedly.
There was an awkward silence in the hallway.
At this moment, Xu Mingsheng walked out of an office with a smile.
"If you want to see it, just watch it openly. You are not afraid of losing face in front of the juniors!" Xu Mingsheng's words were full of ridicule.
He looked at Hu Yuanzhi, who was still at a loss, and coughed dryly: "Xiao Hu, it's nothing, you go back first."
Hu Yuanzhi returned to the office with an erratic face.
The corridor became quiet again, Xu Mingsheng walked over to Li Zheng, "Go to the conference room first, I'll show you who you are!" After speaking, he glanced at the three Su Changzhi who pretended to be looking at the scenery, and continued: "It saves some people from being curious and running out on their own."
"Cough cough" Su Changzhi coughed awkwardly, "Mingsheng, this is the youngest billionaire you said in Xiangjiang. He is indeed young, indeed young! Hahaha."
Su Changzhi was another acquaintance. When Li Zheng visited Hong Kong University in his last life, this highly respected old man was already 85 years old. The old man had stomach cancer at the age of 70 and had been fighting cancer for more than ten years.
At that time, Li Zheng's anticancer drug had just been successfully tested on mice. After the old man heard about it, he came to see Li Zheng at the hotel where Li Zheng was staying. He took his hand and told him that he had been fighting cancer for so many years. He was tired and hoped to fight the disease vigorously. He volunteered to be a volunteer of Li Zheng's anti-cancer drug clinical stage 4, which made Li Zheng very shocked!
"Principal Su." Li Zheng bowed slightly and gave the old man a junior salute.
Su Changzhi was startled, "You know me?"
"Principal Su is highly respected. Although I haven't been in Xiangjiang for a long time, I have heard your name." Li Zheng said sincerely.
Su Changzhi laughed, but this time it wasn't an embarrassing laugh. Although he has heard a lot of words like this due to his reputation, the words from the youngest billionaire in Xiangjiang do not sound very comfortable.
The four of them walked into the conference room, and Su Changzhi found that after just leaving for a while, there were many more people in the conference room, and the large conference table could not be seated. Needless to say, these people must have heard the wind to see the youngest billionaire in Hong Kong.
Yesterday, at the January meeting, Xu Mingsheng changed his silence from the past. 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, he criticized the narrow structure of the humanities department, and only knew that he was intrigued and paid too much attention to personal gains and losses. In the end, this money has to be used on the edge of the knife and invested in the exploration of life sciences!
The Department of Humanities was furious. Professor Guo from the Department of Social Sciences almost smashed his smelly shoes on Xu Mingsheng's face. After Xu Mingsheng's words, if the school finances allocated money to the Department of Humanities, it would almost be against humanity! As a result, several highly respected professors in the Department of Humanities did not hesitate to poke the pain of the Department of Science and Technology.
Oh, you have contributed to the progress of mankind, you have a big structure, but you have produced results! Last time, a certain biological laboratory did not take several million Hong Kong dollars, and it researched the conjectured 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 we are half buried in the loess, the results will not come out!
The Department of Humanities is very skilled, especially the dean of the Law School. With his skills in the courtroom, he scolded a group of bigwigs in the Department of Science and Technology.
The group of old professors in the Department of Science and Technology were so aggrieved, they didn't know how many times they had scolded Xu Mingsheng, who was strong. At this time, Xu Mingsheng threw a heavy bomb.
A student from the medical school published an SCI paper on the Danotine catalyst, and successfully extracted the catalyst in the Medical Laboratory of Hong Kong University. Not only that, Roche and Pfizer also bought five-year patent rights from Roche at high prices. Xu Mingsheng didn't say the exact price, but he said something like, "I'm proud that our college can train ... such talents. The youngest billionaire in Xiangjiang, the huge wealth he has exchanged for knowledge is very inspiring. Meaning!"
That pair is obviously very proud, but it still pretends to be a light-hearted look. In the eyes of other people, it is clearly the four words "little man is successful"!
Not to mention the fact that Xu Mingsheng said that Li Zheng had not yet entered school, which caused everyone to ridicule him for a while. It was precisely because Xu Mingsheng said Li Zheng was so excellent that it aroused the curiosity of all the professors at the meeting. Hence today's scene.
Originally, it didn’t take so many people to simply go through the formalities. At least those old professors who didn’t have administrative positions didn’t have to make this trip at all, but they came. ran over.
Su Changzhi sneered in his heart. On weekdays, he asked you to hold a meeting and participate in an activity. Each of them was either busy with scientific research or was not feeling well. Now they are all in good spirits.
"Student Li, find a place to sit." Su Changzhi said so, looking around, he was embarrassed to find that because of the sudden number of people, there was no room at the conference table! !
All the respected old professors in the field could not help showing embarrassed expressions on their faces. Professor Chen from the Department of Law laughed and stood up. Professor Chen seemed to be in his early forties, and he was a junior among the professors present, "Come on, classmate Li, sit with me, anyway, I'm here to see the youngest in Xiangjiang. It's nothing to be a billionaire." Professor Chen said very earnestly, which caused a burst of laughter in the hall.
Li Zheng hesitated for a moment, and after expressing his gratitude to Professor Chen, he sat down. He could see that if he didn't sit, the awkward atmosphere would probably spread.
As soon as Li Zheng sat down, almost everyone's eyes were focused on him. Li Zheng's body froze. He had seen big scenes in his previous life, but with so many seniors looking at him like monkeys in a zoo, he was still a little uncomfortable.
Su Changzhi was the first to break the deadlock, "It's all my own, I'll introduce first, from left to right are Professor Guo from the Faculty 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 from the Department of Chemistry. You are familiar with Professor Zhou and Professor Xu, and they are all from the medical school next to him, Professor Zhao, Professor Qian, Professor Sun, Professor Li..."
Almost all the leaders of the various colleges in Heung Kong University are here, especially the medical school, where all the full professors are not lost, even more than the meeting of the colleges. No wonder Su Changzhi was unhappy.
Li Zheng stood up and said hello one by one, which caused those old professors to nod their heads, and even those old professors in the humanities department couldn't help but soften their eyes.
These old professors in the Department of Humanities had a very complicated perception of Li Zheng, because Li Zheng's birth made the Department of Humanities feel a bit stunned at the meeting. But how can a teacher not like a good student? It's just weird, how could such a good child go to study biopharmaceuticals...
The old professors of the Humanities Department glanced at Xu Mingsheng, who was full of ambition, and felt even more uncomfortable.
"Ahem, today's meeting is about two topics. First, Li Zheng's enrollment. Second, Li Zheng's lab's name. Both of these issues are related to our newly released Xiangjiang's youngest billionaire. It's related." Su Changzhi said with a smile.
There was a good-natured laugh from the old professors.
Li Zheng glanced at Xu Mingsheng, enrolling? Didn't you say it's good 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 the school in the spring, he was scolded by Su Changzhi by pointing his nose. If Su Changzhi were not both the principal and his mentor, Xu Mingsheng would have really wanted to slap the table and leave. No one had spoken to him like that since he became the dean of the academy.
However, what Su Changzhi said also makes 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 would like calves to grow on their land.
So sooner rather than later! Get this settled asap.
"There will be an Asian Biopharmaceutical Conference in Tokyo at the end of the year, and the quota for Hong Kong University is three professors and three students, and three professors have been set. The three students have selected two graduate students, and one has not been available yet. It's settled, after all, this is an international conference, and we want to show the best face of our biology team at Hong Kong University, so your presence, Li Zheng, has solved our urgent need."
"Li Zhengna, you should go to school early, and it is convenient for us to report your name to the organizing committee. As for the credits for the first year..." Su Changzhi thought for two minutes and said, "The credits we stipulate for one year are 30 points, your paper counts as 15 points, right?"
Principal Su, you said so, can he say no
Li Zheng smiled wryly, "Principal, I don't know if Professor Xu has mentioned to you that I am planning to set up a laboratory recently, so I may be busy in the near future, so I can't take care of the school."
Su Changzhi immediately said: "You don't have to worry about this, just be flexible."
Seeing Li Zheng's agreement, Su Changzhi became visibly happy, "Then let's talk about the naming of the laboratory, which we have discussed at the meeting. It was voted through at the time. Now it's all about rights. And obligations, we can’t take 2 million for nothing. Li Zheng, I heard that you are looking for a place to build a laboratory. Our old library is located in the westernmost part of the campus. , and the rest can be allocated to you as a laboratory."
Li Zheng didn't expect that these two million dollars would still have this effect. To be honest, he was really moved. Heung Kong University has a superior geographical location and complete supporting facilities. Moreover, for a researcher, he has his own experiment in the university. Room is of special significance.
Li Zheng took a deep breath and tried his best to resist this huge temptation.
"Thank you very much for your generosity, principal, but the design drawings of the laboratory have come out. I like it very much. If it is in the library, I am afraid that the blueprints will have to be reworked."
The professors present were a little surprised. Li Zheng's excuse was not very clever. How could anyone come up with a design plan without even being sure of the ground, but everyone could hear that Li Zheng refused.
He actually refused? !
Many professors, especially those professors of science and engineering who have their own laboratories, felt somewhat uncomfortable when they heard Su Changzhi say that he would allocate the building of the old library to Li Zheng.
The laboratory conditions of Hong Kong University are much better than those in mainland China, but they are definitely not as luxurious as a building. If Li Zheng agreed, his laboratory would be above the professors in terms of area.
A young young generation actually pressed him on his head, and these old seniors would feel somewhat uncomfortable in their hearts. I didn't raise any objection. First, because I was too old, I couldn't hold this old face. Second, who told you not to give the school two million.
But when Li Zheng refused, they were embarrassed again.
"Don't have a psychological burden. Since the principal has spoken, you can continue." It was Professor Zhao from the medical school who spoke.
Li Zheng shook his head with a smile, "If the professors really want to help me, please help me find out where there are about 20 acres of land for sale. The environment is better, the traffic should not be too inconvenient, it's better to be closer to the school. ."
A group of professors looked at each other, twenty acres, it turns out that people don't like a small building like a library.
Alas, they can't accept their old age.
Professor Zhong frowned and said, "I know of a place that meets your requirements except that it is a little bigger. It is about ten kilometers away from our school. Three or four villas have been built, and some laborers have been dug up. Lake, after the developer ran out of money, it rotted there, and I did the bankruptcy liquidation."
Li Zheng's eyes lit up, and when he was reminded by Zhong Jingming, he remembered it.
In 1982, one of the bleakest periods in the history of Hong Kong's real estate industry, land prices, property prices and rents in Hong Kong fell sharply across the board. According to statistics, the land price at that time fell by 40%-60%, which is not surprising.
Compared with the Xiangjiang property market, which is more than 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 square meters in the future, the current Xiangjiang house price is simply the price of cabbage.
"Professor Zhong, can you take me to see if you have time?" Li Zheng, an experimenter, wouldn't go out of his way to hoard land and house, but he wouldn't be stupid enough to refuse if it bumped into his hands.
Zhong Jingming was stunned, he really wanted it.
"With the artificial lake, the entire building will be close to 25 acres. Because of falling land prices and bankruptcy liquidation, it will be a little lower than the market price, but even so, at least 80 million Hong Kong dollars."