Chapter 454 Manned Spaceflight and Lunar Exploration Project Exchange Meeting

After a normal math class, Xu Chuan packed up the podium and textbooks and left the classroom.

Although there were still no seats in the lecture hall, as he taught steadily during this period, he was no longer surrounded by students like before.

After all, the sense of mystery has a time limit.

Or across the screen, you will be very interested in your favorite stars and idols, and love them to the point of madness. But after you really eat and live with them for a period of time, you will find that the so-called stars and idols are actually just like that.

Celebrities are also people and have their own daily lives.

With the textbooks, Xu Chuan did not return to his office, but found the principal Tan Shaoyuan.

"Hey, how come Academician Xu has time to come to me today."

In the administrative building, Tan Shaoyuan, who was handling official business, saw Xu Chuan coming in, and smiled and stood up to greet him.

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "I came here today because I have something to trouble Principal Tan."

"Academician Xu, please go ahead."

"Well, it's not a big deal. I just want to trouble the school to help find an assistant for administrative work." Xu Chuan said with a light cough.

Normally, scholars or researchers of his level would have been assigned assistants long ago.

However, for some reasons, and because assistants were often replaced by people assigned by the state, such as Gao Hongming during the controlled nuclear fusion project.

And sometimes his driver and bodyguard Zheng Hai could also play the role of assistant and pass on some work, so Xu Chuan never considered it.

However, with the manned space exploration project, the construction of the Large Intense Particle Collider, and the teaching of Nanjing University, it was time for him to arrange one or two assistants for himself.

After all, he couldn't go there in person every time there was something.

In addition, before class today, it was his students who reminded him of the course, which reminded him that this kind of thing should be done by an assistant, so he went to the principal after class.

"Just this matter, no problem. I'll help you here." Hearing this, Tan Shaoyuan agreed with a smile.

There are actually many types of assistants for university professors.

There are actually various aspects such as administration, finance, teaching, foreign affairs, industry-university research, team building, etc.

But generally speaking, there are two types, one is administration and life, dealing with daily work. For example, course arrangement, administrative incident handling, etc.

The other is a research assistant.

Research assistants are generally students led by professors in colleges and universities. Many graduate students who advance to doctoral students basically serve as research assistants.

Not only can they get some extra income, but they can also participate in the experiments of professors and mentors.

For professors, it is also good to have students serve as assistants. Close relationships make confidentiality easier, and they know each other better, etc.

Of course, in addition, the salary paid by students as assistants is relatively cheap.

For Xu Chuan, since he returned to NTU, he didn't have much time to take classes in NTU in the first two years, let alone do research in NTU, so he didn't do either administrative assistant or research assistant.

However, now that the teaching time is more frequent, it is still necessary to hire one.

Nodding, Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Then I'll trouble the president, but when selecting assistants, the background must be clean, and confidentiality is also more important."

Many of his work here are linked to national key projects.

Although he usually pays more attention not to bring these things to school, sometimes these things are unavoidable.

Of course, his assistant is not only investigated by Nanjing University, but also by the team responsible for his security.

He said this in advance, mainly because he was worried that Nanjing University would accidentally find an assistant with problems, and it would be troublesome if the security team found out later, so he said it in advance.

"Please rest assured, Academician Xu, the assistant I found for you will definitely have a clean background." Tan Shaoyuan replied with a serious face.

The security level of this person is very high.

After all, there is only one national scholar in the whole country, and his security and protection, whoever tries it will know.

Apart from other things, the security scope and level of Nanjing University have been upgraded by several levels with him.

In the past, students and outsiders of Nanjing University could enter and leave the campus of Nanjing University almost at will.

After all, domestic universities are also tourist attractions. Except for a few special universities, most universities can be visited by ordinary people, even Shuimu Peking University.

Now, NCU has implemented a card-swipe entry and exit system. Strangers are basically not allowed in except for the first two days of school when parents can register and enter or have legitimate reasons at other times.

Takeout can't be delivered, so it can only be piled up in the security room for students to pick up.

In addition, there are surveillance cameras all over the campus, especially in the teaching buildings and other places where this person often goes, which can be said to be 360 ​​degrees without blind spots.

All of these are brought by the person in front of him.

If he finds an assistant with a dirty background for this person today, he might be asked to cooperate with the investigation tomorrow.

Although the level of the university president is vice-president, which is already very high, it is really not enough in front of this person.

Finding an assistant is a trivial matter for others, and it may be done in a day or two. But for Xu Chuan, it will take a few days to pick a candidate.

Xu Chuan is not in a hurry. Anyway, at present, he does not have a great need for assistants.

In addition to his daily research work, there is nothing that requires him to run errands.

Usually when it comes to things related to him, even if it's giving him benefits or something, others come to him on their own initiative.

The days passed like this, and five days passed quickly.

After careful selection by NTU and thorough research by the security team, the two assistants were finally selected.

But by now Xu Chuan had already left for the capital.

In one day's time, December 25th, an exchange meeting on manned spaceflight and lunar exploration projects will be held at Shuimu University.

Although he didn't know why this kind of thing was placed in Shuimu University instead of Aerospace University, Xu Chuan didn't pay much attention.

On the contrary, compared to Aerospace University, which he had never been to, Shuimu University was quite familiar to him.

The 25th, which is Christmas morning.

A big red banner was hung at the entrance of Shuimu University to celebrate the convening of the seminar on manned spaceflight and lunar exploration projects.

For Shuimu University, this exchange meeting was personally named by the principal to take the lead in attaching importance to security work.

In order to ensure nothing goes wrong, the school also specially applied for a security team from the police to strictly secure the auditorium where the exchange meeting was held and the campus roads leading to the meeting.

Naturally, Xu Chuan didn't know about this. He couldn't walk there now anyway. Before the exchange meeting started, he was driven directly to the entrance of the auditorium by Zheng Hai, without even paying attention to the tight security outside.

As the Hongqi car drove in, the invited participants who were communicating on the roadside near the entrance of the auditorium cast surprised and curious glances.

Which boss is this? Actually drove the car directly here?

You must know that people who come to the exchange meeting, whether they are visitors from academia or industry, or even people from the government, basically walk over after passing the security check.

This kind of car driving directly to the entrance of the auditorium is undoubtedly a bright light in the dark night, which is too eye-catching.

"Red flag car? Could it be the leader of the Science and Technology Group?"

Some people from the business and industrial circles were thinking about it and were ready to come up and say hello.

But when they saw the figures coming out of the car, they all stopped again.

"Who is this? So young?" Someone in the crowd asked curiously after seeing the figure getting out of the car.

The colleague next to him glanced at him and said, "You don't know this person?"

"It feels a bit familiar, but for a moment I can't think of it... wait, who is this?"

"Well, besides him, who else is qualified to drive here directly? Didn't you see that the deputy director of the Science and Technology Department came here with us before?" The colleagues around him nodded and replied. .

"Let me go, this big boss actually came to participate in the exchange meeting! Is it possible that this manned spaceflight and lunar exploration project is serious? Is the country really planning to engage in this?"

"Who knows? But since you are here, this exchange meeting may yield something."

As he said that, from the corner of his eye, he saw his colleague beside him eager to step forward and quickly grabbed him with his hand: "What are you going to do?"

"Of course I want to go up and say hello and make myself familiar!" The colleague said excitedly: "If I can add my contact information to this person, then..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by his colleague: "Well, I advise you to give up this idea. Didn't you see that the other big guys didn't make any move?"

"If you really want to get to know this guy, see if he will attend the party tonight. If he does, you can go say hello. If you go up now, you might be pushed to the ground by the security guard next to him."

Although what the colleague said was a bit exaggerated, considering the current environment, the man who wanted to go up to say hello finally stepped back.

Xu Chuan didn't pay much attention to this. He smiled and nodded to the people who looked at him, then walked towards the auditorium.

After all, everyone who can participate in this meeting is a respectable person. How could he come over to say hello and be directly pushed to the ground?

In the auditorium, when Xu Chuan was looking for his seat and about to sit down, someone suddenly called his name from behind.

"Professor Xu, long time no see."

Hearing the sound, Xu Chuan stopped and looked back, only to see an old man approaching him, accompanied by another middle-aged man.

When he saw the person coming, he put a smile on his face, walked over quickly, and said hello with a smile: "Long time no see, Mr. Pan."

The visitor was Mr. Pan Deming, a mathematician from Peking University whom I had met before.

"It's been more than three years since 18 years." Mr. Pan looked Xu Chuan up and down with a smile, and then said: "I haven't seen you for more than three years. You still look high-spirited, but I am already old. I don’t even have the energy to go to Star City.”

Hearing this, Xu Chuan smiled and said: "Mr. Pan, don't say that. I am your past and you are my future. How can you say you are old?"

Smiling and comforting, he also looked at the old man in front of him.

Eighteen years to the present, more than three years later, he could clearly feel that this person was much older than when he first met at the Swedish Crafford Prize.

At that time, the old academician still had the energy to fly abroad to Sweden to find him to mediate the conflict between him and the School of Mathematics at Peking University. But now, he may not even have the energy to go to Star City.

Hearing this, Pan Deming laughed and said: "Time is not forgiving. I got sick last year and almost didn't survive it, but fortunately it's over now."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan quickly found a seat and helped the old man in front of him sit down.

At the old man's age, to be honest, a common cold might take him away.

And it is undoubtedly the most sad and regretful thing for these respected old people and veterans to grow old with the passage of time.

It's just that time flies by and never stops for anyone, and Xu Chuan has no choice.

But the old man looked at him with a smile, not caring at all about this and said: "When we first met in 2018, I knew that you would make great achievements in the future. I didn't expect that just over three years have passed. Not only did you win the Nobel Prize and the Philippine Prize, but you also solved the problem of controllable nuclear fusion technology that has troubled the world for decades.”

"These are all inseparable from the state's support and help." Xu Chuan smiled, changed the topic and continued: "Why is Mr. Pan here today?"

Pan Deming said with a smile: "I heard that you were coming to attend the exchange meeting this time, so I shamelessly asked for an invitation letter from the Science and Technology Group, and came over to meet and talk with you."

Xu Chuan smiled sheepishly and said, "Hey, Mr. Pan wants to see me, just call me and say hello. I'll just go to Peking University. How can I bother you to come here in person?"

Pan Deming smiled, glanced at the auditorium that was gradually filled with people, and said with a smile: "Okay, this is what you said, go to Peking University after the meeting today?"

Xu Chuan smiled and nodded: "No problem. I will go to Peking University to see you tomorrow and have a chat with you."

After the exchange meeting on manned spaceflight and lunar exploration projects, he will have a discussion on the Large Strong Particle Collider in Beijing a week later. The time in between is enough for him to go to Peking University to see it.

Academician Pan patted his hand with a smile and said, "Then it's settled, I won't disturb your meeting today."

PS: There should be another chapter later, but it won’t be released before twelve o’clock. You can just wake up and read it in the morning.