When Li Mu, accompanied by Lawrence and other Harvard leaders, visited the century-old Harvard campus, Li Mu's assistant Li Ziwei was busy running around.
At this time, the news about Li Mu's angry attack on the Yahoo reporter had been spreading on the Internet in the United States, winning unprecedented support for Li Mu. Silicon Valley staff immediately reported the online public opinion to Li Ziwei.
As Li Mu's personal assistant, Li Ziwei immediately recorded the feedback from company employees and reported to Li Mu at the right time.
However, Li Mu really didn't have any time to spare at the moment. Lawrence was enthusiastically introducing every brick and tile of the Harvard campus to him. Media reporters followed him all the way, and so did the fanatical students. Everywhere he went, he would attract a large number of people. Students gathered around to watch, so the scene was always very large and still growing.
After two hours of visiting, it was finally dinner time, and Li Mu finally relaxed.
The Harvard school arranged to hold a dinner for Li Mu and his entourage in the school's banquet hall. Next to the banquet hall is Harvard's dining hall, which looks like the Hogwarts restaurant in "Harry Potter". Fortunately, the banquet hall has to entertain guests. Because of Li Mu, it is temporarily closed to students and other faculty and staff. This finally gives Li Mu a relatively quiet space.
Before dinner, more leaders from Harvard came to Li Mu who had never met before. Lawrence personally introduced them to Li Mu one by one, and said to Li Mu: "There is also a Chinese vice president at Harvard who is responsible for capital planning and project management. He was originally I was on a business trip in Washington. I heard that you were coming over, so I made a special trip back today, and you should be here soon."
Li Mu did not expect that Harvard would have a Chinese vice president. A Chinese female official who had been accompanying him before was said to be a legal adviser to Harvard, but her position was not high.
A few minutes later, a middle-aged Chinese man in his forties walked into the banquet hall. When Lawrence saw him, he hurriedly greeted him: "Hey, Andy, come over here!"
The Chinese man named Andy smiled and nodded to Lawrence, and strode up to Lawrence. Lawrence hurriedly introduced to Li Mu next to him: "Li Mu, this is the Chinese vice-principal I'm talking about. His English His name is Andy, his Chinese name... I'm sorry, I'd better let Andy introduce it to you, I really can't pronounce his Chinese name."
The middle-aged Chinese man reached out to Li Mu enthusiastically and said to Li Mu in extremely standard Mandarin: "Hello Li Mu, I have heard of you for a long time. My name is Xie Huairu, a Confucian scholar."
Li Mu looked at Xie Huairu carefully. Although he was sure it was his first time meeting him, he always felt indescribably familiar, but he couldn't remember exactly how familiar he looked.
Xie Huairu is thin. Although he is a bit old, his appearance is still as delicate as a scholar. His smile is very friendly. At first glance, he is a quite elegant man. Li Mu shook hands with him and said politely : "Mr. Xie's Mandarin is very standard. He must have stayed in China, right?"
Many Chinese people in the United States under the age of 50 were born in the United States. Their parents traveled across the ocean from China to the United States for various reasons during the war years, and they may have never set foot on the land of China in their lives. Generally speaking, it is difficult for Chinese people who have never lived in China to speak such standard Mandarin.
Because most of these Chinese have strong Cantonese and Fujian accents in their accents, which are closely related to their parents’ generation. Most of the Chinese who came to the United States across the ocean decades ago They are all from the southeastern coast. When they came, China did not have the concept of Mandarin, so they came to the United States with their hometown accent. This accent was naturally passed on to their children, and Xie Huairu's accent was completely The accent of the CCTV anchor was such that Li Mu couldn't even tell which province's accent he had in his Mandarin.
Xie Huairu also knew that his standard Mandarin was indeed exposed, so he smiled and said to Li Mu: "I immigrated to the United States more than ten years ago, and I have lived in China for the past twenty years."
Li Mu nodded slightly and said with a smile, "No wonder your Mandarin is so standard."
Li Mu didn't show any special performance on the surface, but he was very shocked in his heart. Xie Huairu, a Chinese who had just immigrated to the United States for more than ten years, was able to achieve the status of vice president at Harvard, and was specifically responsible for capital planning and project management. It was really shocking. Somewhat surprised.
Although Li Mu doesn't know much about Harvard's organizational structure, it can be inferred from the work content that Xie Huairu is responsible for that the real power in his hands is probably second only to the executive vice president in the ranking of vice presidents. He has achieved such achievements in more than ten years. It's truly remarkable.
Xie Huairu asked Li Mu with a smile: "What is your impression of Harvard?"
Li Mu smiled and said: "It's very good. After all, it is a world-class academic palace. A half-hearted student like me who has no knowledge or skills can only worship and look up to me."
Xie Huairu laughed and said: "It is true that Harvard is a world-class academic palace, but you are also the jealous object of major academic palaces in the world. Everyone hopes that their campus can have a legendary student like you. Wait until the end of the year to make the latest When ranking global universities, the ranking of Renmin University can at least climb dozens or hundreds of places because of you. This is second to none. The key is that the popularity of Harvard has increased too much. Now Harvard, from school leaders to faculty to students in various colleges, who doesn’t know about it? People's University?"
Li Mu was particularly surprised by Xie Huairu's words. He did not expect that because of his own fault, the world reputation of his alma mater Renmin University would increase a lot. Li Mu suddenly thought of Su Yingxue's cooperation with the Harvard Renmin University exchange students he mentioned some time ago, and couldn't help but ask him: "Is this also the reason why Harvard takes the initiative to cooperate with Renmin University in exchange students?"
Xie Huairu nodded and said with a smile: "Most of the reason is because of you. Harvard had not yet contacted you at that time. The school wanted to see the differences between Renmin University students through exchange activities."
Only then did Li Mu figure out the matter of exchange students. Originally, he had not understood why a world-ranked university would take the initiative to seek cooperation with the National People's Congress for exchange students. Xie Huairu's explanation made it much more reasonable.
Just as he was talking, the dinner was almost about to start. Principal Lawrence invited Li Mu and others to sit on both sides of a long table that was at least ten meters long. Lawrence sat at the top of the middle table, and the first one on the right was the one he gave to Li Mu. The reserved seat shows how much he and Harvard value Li Mu.
Li Mu was still looking around before taking his seat. He told Harvard officials to arrange for Mark Zuckerberg to attend the dinner together, but he has not been seen yet.
Just as he was thinking about it, the Chinese female official from earlier walked in from the side door with a nervous-looking Mark Zuckerberg. Li Mu immediately saw Mark Zuckerberg who had specially changed into a suit, and hurriedly waved to him. , greeted warmly: "Hey, Mark, here, sit next to me."
Lawrence was quite happy to see that Li Mu was so interested in Mark Zuckerberg, an ordinary Harvard student. He could also see that Li Mu had nothing in common with him and other Harvard staff. It was all ceremonial contact, and I only chatted a few words with Xie Huairu, but that was probably because Xie Huairu was of Chinese descent. In addition, the one whom Li Mu treated most enthusiastically was the young Mark Zach. Berg.
From Lawrence's perspective, Li Mu seems to have a good rapport with Mark Zuckerberg and seems to have already developed a personal relationship. In this way, if Harvard needs to have any interaction with Li Mu in the future, it will have a way to directly communicate with Li Mu. ties of connection.
In fact, Lawrence's background is quite unusual. Before taking charge of Harvard, he served as the vice president of the World Bank and the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. He is a master-level figure who is extremely proficient in economics. With his background, any well-known entrepreneur can It was impossible for him to take it so seriously, only Li Mu.
Also because he knew so much about economics, Lawrence admired Li Mu very much. He had studied many of Li Mu's business moves and was amazed by Li Mu, especially Li Mu's 3321, which in his eyes was simply a brand new genius. As for the business model, Lawrence had not heard of the sharing economy at this time, let alone the O2O model, but this did not hinder his admiration for 3321 at all.
Lawrence has always had an idea. He hopes to introduce 3321 to Harvard, and even to the entire American universities. This time the founder of 3321 is here, and he is going to propose this idea at the dinner. If Li Mu can directly create an American version of 3321, That would be perfect. If Li Mu is unwilling, it doesn't matter. Then try to get him to authorize Harvard to be responsible for establishing an American 3321.
At this time, Li Mugang called Mark Zuckerberg to his side and briefly introduced it to the Harvard leaders present. Mark Zuckerberg was very nervous. The core leadership of Harvard University was at this banquet today. Everyone gathered in the hall, and I, an ordinary student, was really under a lot of pressure in such a battle.
Li Mu saw Mark Zuckerberg looking nervous, so he whispered to him: "Mark, be more confident. If you can't hold on to this little battle, how will you get to the top of your life in the future?"
Mark Zuckerberg glanced at Li Mu gratefully, and thought aggrievedly: Today's battle is already the peak of my life. I am at the peak, how can I not be nervous.
However, because of Li Mu's comfort, Mark Zuckerberg's mentality eased a little. After sitting down next to Li Mu, Lawrence called the waiter to serve the food.
The waiter brought all kinds of American food to the table. After Lawrence said some words of invitation, he announced the start of dinner. The atmosphere was particularly harmonious, and even Mark Zuckerberg gradually became more relaxed.
Lawrence took the initiative to clink glasses with Li Mu. After taking a sip of red wine, he expressed his inner thoughts to Li Mu: "Li Mu, I am particularly interested in your 3321. This is really the most thoughtful and meaningful thing I have seen in the past few years." I have an idea and I hope to invite you to open a 3321 US station in the United States. I wonder if you are interested?"
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