Reborn I want everything

Chapter 127 The first snow in 2004
After the deployment of complex scientific research tasks, the specific results will take at least a few months to be seen.

Therefore, in a short period of time, there is no plot that is enough to pretend to be a face for outsiders to be worth repeating.

Although the scientific research is busy, life is still easy.Gu Zhe's [-]th birthday, he may not care about it himself, but outsiders are helping him carefully plan it with the mentality of "rich people have distant relatives in the mountains".

He didn't want to go against the good intentions of others, so he reluctantly took the time to pass it.

It took about two or three weeks to ask for leave and stay in my hometown in Mingzhou, from halfway through December to the end of the New Year's Day holiday.

Mingyuan International's research and development of a new generation of melt-blown materials is initially on the right track, and various subdivided scientific research departments have also begun to speed up.Seeing that Gu Zhe didn't have much to worry about personally, he could hold a regular meeting every week, confirm the progress of the report, and solve the shortcomings.

He also went back to the provincial capital, telling Jin Can and Lu Jinming to advance separately, and not to come to him for the next half month.After half a month, it will be almost the Chinese New Year, and after the new year, we can maintain the frequency of regular meetings every weekend to report.At that time, he will also take time to go back to his hometown in Mingzhou on weekends, running between the provincial capital and Mingzhou.

Anyway, the two places are only about 150 kilometers away. With the Maybach, there will be no traffic jams on Gu Zhe's head. Basically, no one will block his driveway.So it takes three hours to go back home every week, which is acceptable.The condition of the car is good, you can also sleep, and it is wide and long enough when lying flat.

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The wheel of history quietly turned and entered 2004.

After returning to the provincial capital after the New Year's Day holiday, Shen Mingbo of Tianyuan Technology's research and development project of a new generation of two-phase resin lenses is also progressing smoothly.The progress of the first stage of material screening by two-phase method is very fast, and it is almost halfway through.

Gu Zhe paid close attention to him for a few days, and then devoted himself to preparing for the final exam.

2004年的春节还来得特比早，所以秋季学期也短。1月21日就是除夕了，1月12日就要放寒假。

By the time Gu Zhe finished dealing with Shen Mingbo's research and development progress at Tianyuan Technology, it was already the week of January 1th to 5th, and there were intensive final exams in between, and there were even two days of exams on the weekends of the 9th and 10th.

Gu Zhe also only had a short time to review. Fortunately, he was not idle in his hometown on New Year's Eve. When he was free, he made a surprise review to familiarize himself with homework, and then took intensive exams in the morning and afternoon for seven consecutive days.

There were several exams, because Gu Zhe had chosen too many courses and the time overlapped, the school also gave him the spare papers of the second set of questions, or simply took the papers prepared for make-up exams with lower difficulty for him to take the exams.

After seven consecutive days of high-intensity dizziness, Gu Zhe managed to cope with all the subjects.

Rao, most of the professional courses are chemistry exams, but Gu Zhe still only scored about 70 points in several of the exams, and even passed one of the physics classes with a score of just 60 points. It is estimated that the marking teacher took into account his status. Due to his busyness and difficulties, his hands relaxed a little.

However, after all, there is still no failure.

After the exam, it was a short winter vacation in a blink of an eye.

When Gu Zhe's grades in various subjects reached the ears of some students, it still caused a lot of private discussions, but after all, no one jumped out to openly question it. Everyone knew that Gu Zhe's current strength was no longer something they could talk about. .

Jealous people also whispered in private: "The person who claims to be so good at material and chemical research and development that he can get on CCTV, there are times when he only scored 70 in the chemistry class. His average score in each subject this semester is estimated to be 50%. It's hard to say whether there are top [-]% of the hospital.

If it hadn't been decided that he was going to Stanford for an exchange, and he was allowed to take so many more courses, it would be incomparable with us, otherwise the college really couldn't even cover it up this time. "

These private things they said are all true, because when Zhu Yuan finally clarified this issue in private, the rhetoric used was really "Gu Zhe has a huge number of courses, and he needs to take more credits in a semester, so His average score cannot be calculated on the same level as other students, and the speed at which he takes credits must be taken into account.”

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After finishing all the homework quickly, Gu Zhe went back to Tianyuan Technology outside the school to deal with company affairs for a few days and catch up on the research and development tasks that were neglected during the final exam.

It was delayed until around January 1, and the winter vacation was over for four days before I had time to return to my hometown.

After returning to Mingzhou, it is inevitable to spend another day or two dealing with the research and development progress of Mingyuan International.

And January 1th was Lu Youyou's birthday, so Gu Zhe was able to relax, spent two days playing and relaxing with his fiancée, and even gave Lu Youyou some expensive birthday presents.

After all, this is the day when Lu Youyou officially turned 18, and it is also Lu Youyou's first birthday after becoming his woman, so the meaning is still different.

Gu Zhe received a lot of presents for his 18th birthday a month ago, so of course he has to show off this time.Isn't it stupid to have money and not spend it?

What's more, Essilor gave him more than 1000 and 300 million US dollars. So far, he has spent more than 300 million on scientific research, bought several villas, Maybach luxury cars, and a bunch of luxury goods. The total cost is less than 3.It cost another 300 million yuan to buy a 200% stake in Ali Baba, and there was still more than [-] million yuan left to spend.

And with the success of Gu Zhe's new wave of scientific research projects in a few months, more money will only continue to flow in.Even if you don't count those huge sums of money, Gu Zhe still has tens of millions of dollars in the regular lease of patents every year——

Not long after New Year's Day, Essilor and Bausch & Lomb, another domestic contact lens company that is doing well, finally couldn't hold back and agreed to Gu Zhe's 500 million yuan a year for the "Patent of Color Contact Lens Materials in Greater China". Licensing fee", and began to make confessions to Gu Zhe.

Haichang is still holding back and hasn't made a move so far. It is probably because he suffered a lot from the humiliation last time and couldn't swallow this breath, so he has to hold back a little longer.But even if Haichang doesn't come, Gu Zhe has guaranteed 1000 million annual rent there, and he can spend it as he wants.

Considering the principle of "antiques in prosperous times and gold in troubled times", 03/04 was still the early stage of the upward channel for the appreciation of artworks and jewelry. Jewelry and antiques have continued to skyrocket for more than ten years since the beginning of the 21st century.

Although Gu Zhe doesn't need to think about selling it in the future when buying gifts, especially commemorative things that will be kept for a lifetime, but getting something with value-added potential is more memorable after all, and it will make you feel happy every time you see it in the future.

After comprehensive consideration, Gu Zhe spent a full budget of more than 100 million US dollars, and sent his fiancée an absolute token of love in one step.

On January 1th, the day of Lu Youyou's birthday, Gu Zhe took her out to play for a whole morning.Then when he returned to Lu's villa, Lu Youyou found that there was a mysterious big guy in his study, and he covered it with mahogany boards and the outermost layer of reindeer skin.

Apparently, it was all delivered by the fiancé while he was going out in the morning.

When Lu Youyou saw the size of that thing at least a few meters long, Lu Youyou already had a little idea in his heart, and roughly knew what kind of thing it would be.

Excitedly, she pulled back the outer covering of the little reindeer's skin, and only after Gu Zhe removed the mahogany shutter with her own hands did she reveal her true face inside.

"It's a Steinway piano, but isn't it a little extravagant to use a small reindeer skin as a cover? It's not environmentally friendly. I just wipe the piano with a small reindeer skin rag." Lu Youyou was excited and nervous at the same time, Feel over.

Gu Zhe pointed out domineeringly: "It's not just as simple as a Steinway. Look carefully, it's still an 1882 Steinway. If you take the keyboard apart, you can see that the hammer underneath is from the 19th century. Purple birch style."

Lu Youyou can play the piano, after all, she is a lady from a rich family, and she has learned both piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since she was a child.So after Gu Zhe dialed her a little bit, she understood, and she didn't need to introduce further.

She knows all about history.

The Steinway family came to the United States in exile from the German region (not yet Germany) in the 1850s, in order to avoid the war in Europe after the death of Da Ge in 1848, and then began to engage in the piano manufacturing industry in the United States.

However, after the Steinway family went to the United States, within ten years they met the Americans and began to fight for internal occupation. After a few years, Germany was unified. Therefore, after the 1870s, the second generation of the Steinway family was divided into Two branches, the eldest son continued to stay in the United States with his father, and the second son returned to Germany with some family craftsmen to open a factory in Hamburg.

The 1882 Steinway was the first well-known product officially mass-produced by the Steinway family after returning to Europe. It used the new steel first invented by Krupp after the Franco-Prussian War, so the texture was a leap forward. .

This is also a big difference in the collection value of pianos and more classical instruments such as violins - violins are made of strings and wood, and wood has no technological bottlenecks. Ancient wood can be better than today's.

Therefore, many top violins worth tens of millions of dollars were even made by European classical master craftsmen in the late Renaissance and 16th century.

Pianos also use steel, and the quality of steel must have been improved with the advancement of science and technology. Pianos made of steel before the 19th century were definitely inferior to contemporary metallurgical technology.

This leads to the fact that the collection of pianos cannot blindly pursue the ancients, otherwise it will be purely old-fashioned, and the timbre and technical content are not considered for the sake of collection.

It has to be said that Gu Zhe chose this gift very cleverly. He spent a small amount of money to achieve a big event. Just over 100 million US dollars, he got a top-notch gadget in the circle.

After all, there is no piano in the world that is earlier than the Steinway 1882, but guarantees the use of steelmaking technology after the Krupp Franco-Prussian War (the end of the 1870s).

Let's put it this way, if Gu Zhe keeps this violin in his hands for a few years, the rate of appreciation will not be much slower than real estate speculation, and it will definitely increase more than the so-called "eight stars and eight arrows, large carat diamonds" in those years. Still fast.

Before the subprime mortgage crisis in 08, this violin was worth at least 400 million U.S. dollars. After more than ten years, several QE releases of RMB 2000 have caused the price of art and antiques to rise. It is normal for 400 to 50 million U.S. dollars. (Now the new Steinway in Tokyo costs [-] million RMB, about [-] million US dollars.)
So, it's not a waste of money.

Seeing his fiancée's stunned look, Gu Zhe said calmly:

"Don't take it to heart, it's only 150 million US dollars, which is the money for three low-end Maybachs. The Maybach will be scrapped after 20 years at most. This thing can be passed down from generation to generation. It will be one of our family's heirlooms in the future. In fact, this Qin has been passed down in the family of the Duke of Hannover for 100 years before, and they only sell it now that they are poor and destitute.

This is your 18th coming-of-age ceremony, and it is also our engagement gift. By the way, I wish you a happy new year. Isn’t it right? If you earn money, you spend it. Otherwise, I’m sorry for being so busy all the time.

When I went to the United States, if you played this piano more, you would recall the days with me.

As for environmental protection, you don't have to worry about it.This is not a piano cover made of domestic reindeer skin, but made of Nordic reindeer. Sweden has a lot of reindeer and is not protected by local laws—otherwise, Santa Claus would not have so many reindeer to pull the cart, right? "

(End of this chapter)