Chapter 652: Subject and Object Dislocation (Part 1)

"Thank you! Thank you very much!" Professor Jiang thanked the person on the phone repeatedly, "With the support of you and the Ministry of Energy, our project will be launched as soon as possible. At the same time, you are very welcome to come and guide us at any time. Okay, Okay, I know you have a lot of things to do, so I can understand, "

After hanging up the phone, he immediately changed his expression, "Damn it,"

He slapped the table hard, and took out a cigarette from the bottom of the drawer. His hands were trembling with anger, and he lit the lighter a few times.

Walking to the window, opening a window, and taking a few deep breaths, I calmed down a bit.

Like Liu Jizhong, I feel that the future is bright, but there is more than one person who is not very optimistic at the moment.

For example, Professor Jiang from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Feng Yiping once came to ask for an interview, but at that time he was very arrogant, and Feng Yiping was extremely coldly received by this Chinese materials scientist. Today, he is quite similar to Liu Jizhong. place.

When Feng Yiping approached him last year, Professor Jiang was full of ambitions. He only thought that with his unique technology and the bright future of this industry, would funding be a problem?

I never thought, that is really a problem, and it is still a big problem.

The bursting of the dot-com bubble made all venture capitalists cautious about all high-tech projects. After 9/11, not to mention these venture capitalists, everyone knows that the U.S. economy as a whole Look, the general will firmly enter the downward channel, and the money in his hand is even more tightly held.

No matter how promising a new project you describe, how can you go to the market and operate those companies that have always performed well?

As for Professor Jiang's two partners, the originally promised funds were not available due to well-known reasons. Of course, he himself was the same.

Now he has been completely Westernized. He is no longer like his parents, who deposit all his spare money in the bank. stock.

And these stocks have also shrunk sharply due to the wave after wave of stock market declines. Fortunately, when Bush Jr. was running for the election, he proposed the idea of ​​a new energy economy, and another candidate at the time, formerly Clinton’s vice president , Gore is a staunch environmentalist and also strongly advocates new energy sources. This is why Professor Jiang told Feng Yiping last year that he was able to get funding from the Ministry of Energy.

However, in this regard, Professor Jiang is a bit too idealistic. Can the promises made by politicians during election campaigns be taken seriously? Waiting to be implemented, can it be done in a day or two? What's more, standing behind Bush Jr. is precisely the American oil consortium.

In short, Professor Jiang went to Washington for a while, trusting people everywhere, including the Chinese scientist Steven Chu who just won the Nobel Prize in 1997-the latter is currently working at the Lawrence Laboratory under the US Department of Energy. Having met several times, with the help of Steven Chu, he got a chance to make a formal introduction to relevant officials of the Ministry of Energy. His speeches and explanations with pictures and texts were verbally approved by some people on the spot.

In this regard, he has great hopes. As a well-known scholar in Massachusetts, he knows that the US government has a lot of money and is willing to do scientific research. Who knows, the funds allocated in the end are only a mere $100,000, such a small amount of money. , what is it for them to want to produce high-performance batteries on a large scale?

Moreover, the one hundred thousand dollars from the federal government is really a charity to him, and he is as proud as he is. Although he has been expressing his affectionate thanks to the person in charge of appropriating the funds just now, he has already gritted his teeth with hatred.

Thinking about one or two years ago, those investors were waiting in line behind those who had projects—some of them were not even counted as projects, they only had a rough idea, and they were all very popular, but now I am holding the lead The world's technology, regardless of his own face as a world-class scientist, can't be lowered to ask for money everywhere, and the result is only such a drop in the bucket.

Facing the window, he even had the same urge to pat the railing all over like Yue Fei. Who knew that in a country like the United States, which is so rich and values ​​scientific research, a top-notch scientist like himself would have to do something? Worried about money?

Suddenly, his hands were burned by the smoke, and he suddenly remembered, now, after Japan, isn't there another place where people are stupid and rich? Didn't a young man come to the door by himself last year?

However, after digging a lot in the drawer, he has never been able to find the business card. Speaking of which, when others came to him, how could he have imagined that he really wanted to raise funds everywhere?

When Hamilton was stopped by Professor Jiang at the publishing house, he was still a little surprised. What do you mean when you, a professor from Massachusetts, approached me, Harvard Press?

After hearing his reason for coming, and seeing that he didn't even know that Feng Yiping was in the United States, Hamilton called first to ask. Feng Yiping, who had just returned to Stanford, heard, yo, this is the legendary subject-guest heterotopia? "Give him the phone, please,"

"Hehe, classmate Xiao Feng, you are in the United States now, why didn't you tell me?" Professor Jiang, who was bumping into walls everywhere, said these words with ease to this young man who didn't even look at him last year. Very, who told the other party that he might have the investment he urgently needs?

"Hello, Professor Jiang, it's not a big deal for me, so I don't want to disturb you. Is your company developing smoothly now?"

"As we expected, it went very smoothly," Professor Jiang said nonsense with his eyes open without blinking at all, "But, Xiao Feng, I have some news to tell you that we are now considering a round of capital increase, although There are many individuals and companies that want to invest, but I immediately thought of you, and I have won an opportunity for you. After all, among our compatriots, there are not many people with vision like you, how about it, are you interested?"

This guy is talented! Who said that today's scientific research workers don't understand business operations at all? Professor Jiang's words are impeccable. If Feng Yiping, who was originally in his twenties, would have been so excited by him, he might have to thank him, after all, he said, "Give you a chance." ,"

However, the current Feng Yiping is not so easy to fool, "Thank you, Professor Jiang, I have to go to class now, so I can't talk about it in detail. In addition, I have a special person in charge of my business in the United States. I will ask him to contact you later. ?”

"Of course, but Xiao Feng, you know the prospect of this line of business, so you should also know how rare this opportunity is. I won it for you. How to grasp it is something you should fight for. Right,"

Professor Jiang is not in a hurry at all, as if he has a lot of funds ready to invest in his project.

"Yes, I know, thank you Professor Jiang, I will let him contact you as soon as possible,"

As proud as you are, you even took the initiative to call. I don't know what the situation is. Do you think I'm melon skin?

"Buchanan," Feng Yiping explained the situation to him, "I'm personally optimistic about this project, but I'm not too sure about the main creator. You should inquire about the situation first, and then whet their appetite. There is only one request, try to use the lowest amount of money to achieve absolute control, let a few of them do what they are good at, and concentrate on scientific research, understand what I mean?"

"Understood, this is my line of work," Buchanan said with a smile.

Don't they, they're good at campaigning, they're better at hooking up than girls who are being courted by many at the same time - don't sentence you to death all at once, but always put you through Rain, you can't see the rainbow easily.

"Hehe, I'll leave it to you to handle it, but I can promise them clearly that in the future, we will never be stingy with the laboratories that belong to the company, and we will definitely build them according to world-class standards."

Although this Professor Jiang has some minor problems, he has to admit that his skills in this field are really good, and he must fully tap his potential.

Moreover, for a person like him who learns and excels in business, a laboratory at his own disposal should still be attractive.

Professor Jiang, who behaved calmly in front of Feng Yiping, waited all afternoon, but never got the call Feng Yiping said, and was a little anxious, "Isn't it true that he doesn't have any person in charge of American affairs at all, It's just for face, you're looking for it now? These young people, hmph, they're just talking about ostentation!"

ps: Happy New Year everyone! Happy New Year to everyone! May you be happy and prosperous! In addition, I'm sorry, I have the most things to do when I go back to my parents' house this year, so I stayed for the longest time. The record has not been updated for a few days. I just arrived at night and immediately wrote a chapter. It's just that there must be a lot of things in the first few days. It may not be possible to guarantee two updates a day, please forgive me! After a few days of busy work, I will definitely resume my original rhythm immediately.