I really just want to be a scholar

After Qin Ke and the others left, there were more whispers and rumors in the institute.

This time, the famous Academician Qin Ke did not even step through the gate when he arrived at the institute, as if just to humiliate the always strong Dean Qian Hongbin and Vice Dean He Fuyuan in front of all the researchers. At the same time, Qiu Xiaojie and others also gained He received countless envious glances, and those who had been watching indifferently or gloating about his misfortune were left with only a strong sour taste in their hearts.

Not to mention the news that spread today - last year's evaluation of Qiu Xiaojie and others was suddenly changed to "excellent" and bonuses were quickly reissued - I just watched Academician Qin Ke shake hands and talk cordially with these resigned personnel one by one and drive to pick them up. With such good treatment, you know that when Qiu Xiaojie and a dozen other people arrive at the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory of Qingmu University, they will definitely not sit on the bench, but will be greatly reused.

If you do research with a double winner of the Nobel Prize and the Fields Medal, you probably won’t have too many chances to get your name published in top journal papers in the future. The future is infinitely bright!
While everyone was full of envy, jealousy and hatred towards Qiu Xiaojie and others, they also looked at Dean Qian Hongbin and Vice Dean He Fuyuan who had always been aloof and slanderous like "gods", and looked a little strangely at them. Anyway, most of their awe was gone. , more of a mockery.

It was so bad to be slapped in the face, but I didn't dare to say a word. I could only smile and greet each other. I could tell who was strong and who was weak at a glance.

What? Before, Zaza Huhu seemed to be fighting to the death with Academician Qin Ke, but in the end he was just a paper tiger. As soon as Academician Qin Ke said he wanted to come to the door in person, his attitude immediately changed 180 degrees, and he tried to please him. Hehe, he was strong on the outside but strong on the inside.

There are even rumors that President Qian Hongbin and Vice President He Fuyuan were just "arrogant" before, and they clearly wanted to invite Academician Qin Ke to come over to get acquainted and hug each other.

In short, the prestige of Qian Hongbin and He Fuyuan in the institute has completely collapsed.

It's just that neither Qian Hongbin nor Qian Hongbin had the time to care about these matters. On the one hand, they asked people to quickly prepare the information Qin Ke wanted to see if they could save some relationship. On the other hand, they quickly mobilized their personal connections to find out if there was any What kind of "Operation Thunder" targeted the two of them or the institute.

But to their surprise, the news they got back was that everything was calm, and the two days on the weekend were even more peaceful.

Just when Qian Hongbin and He Fuyuan thought that Qin Ke was just talking nonsense to scare them, they breathed a sigh of relief and even began to doubt whether the large document was true, an investigation team suddenly stationed in the institute and started directly During the financial review and work review, Qian Hongbin and He Fuyuan were directly quarantined for review before they had time to make any response.

The investigation team had obviously done a lot of work secretly. In just three days, a large amount of evidence was thrown at Qian Hongbin and He Fuyuan. They abused power for personal gain, used nepotism, embezzled funds, accepted benefits, and even falsified research data and appropriated other people's academic results. …

Faced with irrefutable evidence, Qian Hongbin and He Fuyuan were ashen-faced and finally confessed truthfully.

The two mountains that were weighing on the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Disaster Prevention and Control suddenly collapsed, and the remaining three academicians were not spared. They were all affected and were investigated.

In the end, Qian Hongbin and He Fuyuan were notified that they had their academician titles revoked by Xia Ke Academy for violating disciplines and laws. What awaits them will be serious legal action, while the other three's faults were relatively minor and they were only punished.

But this is enough to shock the industry and academia. Many people with a guilty conscience are frightened and can't sleep at night.

The turmoil that arose did not end with the announcement of the punishment results for Qian Hongbin, He Fuyuan and others, but continued to penetrate into various domestic research institutions.

Perhaps considering that the impact cannot be infinitely expanded, some people with minor faults were only given warnings and downgrades, but a group of academic scoundrels who seriously violated laws and disciplines were still seriously investigated and punished.

It was not until the end of September this year that the so-called "hurricane leaf sweeping" operation was announced to be over, and a total of five academicians were expelled from the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering.The Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering also issued the "Code of Conduct for Academicians of Xia Guo and Double Academies" in response to the problems discovered in this operation, which regulates the non-scientific research activities of academicians and prohibits using the title of academician to seek improper benefits, participate in social activities, etc., as much as possible. Efforts should be made to cultivate scientific research teams with both ability and political integrity.

In addition, a large number of researchers who engaged in academic misconduct and research fraud were fired, and dozens of "academic bosses" who used their authority to attack competitors and academic challengers, affecting academic freedom, were also severely punished. Scholars and researchers lost their scientific research The phenomenon of enthusiasm and scientific research ideals that only like frequent meetings and building connections has also been greatly reduced, and the atmosphere of the entire Xia Kingdom's scientific research community has become clear.

Of course, if we want to fundamentally reverse the unhealthy trend in the academic and scientific research community, this cannot be solved by one or two large-scale actions. It also requires a multi-pronged approach from many aspects, including systems, compensation, management, etc., and it will take a long time. time to resolve gradually.

These are all things for later, so I won’t go into details here.

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For Qin Ke, he just made a suggestion on these subsequent matters. He didn't pay attention to how to implement it and who was involved.

Even if someone wants to investigate Qin Ke and his teacher Jiang Weixian, they can definitely withstand in-depth investigation.

It's just that since the incident between Qian Hongbin and He Fuyuan, the industry seems to have had some kind of magnified illusion about Qin Ke's role, and has obviously awe towards him. The research institutions that had previously held him back quickly put on smiles. They let him go and drove him to the door of the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory building in person.

With the addition of nearly [-] new researchers, the originally empty fluid mechanics laboratory became lively. Two old academicians, Jiang Weixian and Guo Weiyang, also took on more management responsibilities. In their words, this It is "making use of residual heat".Because there is no scientific research pressure, no need to stay up late, and it will not affect the health of the two elderly people, Qin Ke is happy to let the two old academicians help handle many management chores.

These management chores do take up a lot of time and energy, and in this regard, Qin Ke, who is still inexperienced, is indeed not as sophisticated and appropriate as the two old academicians.

He still devotes more energy to leading the team to do scientific research itself.

Hundreds of outstanding and motivated scientific researchers have joined, which has greatly promoted the progress of research, whether it is an independent project called "Analysis of the causes of extreme abnormal weather across the country and future deduction", or a project titled "Xia Guo El Niño Disaster Prevention and Response", The major projects that are actually "Xia Guo's Extreme Weather Disaster Prevention and Response" have all become orderly and steadily progressing after a short period of chaos.

Because the plan has been drawn up, all that is left is to implement it step by step. Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun can fully cope with it by spending about half a day every day from Monday to Friday.

In fact, they rarely go to the front line to conduct research on certain difficult problems in person. Whether it is Senior Brother Ding Yuefeng, Deng Zhaoliang, He Qingguo, Xu Jiaxing and others, they have been trained and can take charge of their own affairs. In addition, they also have a lot of experience Rich and high-level new forces enable most of the problems encountered in research to be solved through teamwork, and the huge research materials and data obtained from the Institute of Meteorological and Climate Disaster Prevention and Control are also brought into play. He played a crucial role in bringing the overall strength of the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory to a new level, and it has become the leading meteorological research institution in Xia State.Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun are mainly responsible for overall control, progress supervision, review and modification of research plans and experimental plans, and check the weekly reports. They are not busy at work.

Most of the things they spend half a day on every day are attending meetings of the "El Niño Disaster Prevention and Response Command Center" and conducting technical reviews and funding reviews of disaster prevention response plans reported from various places. This is what they do as technical general consultants. most important responsibility.

The "El Niño Disaster Prevention and Response Command Center" is only a temporary management organization with a total number of only about [-] people, which is not too many. More than half of them are administrative positions and are mainly responsible for promoting the supervision and implementation of various disaster prevention matters.

In terms of technical research, we mainly invited dozens of well-known scholars and technical backbones in the industry as consultants and technical guidance. They were led by technical general consultants Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun. They can also add people freely to form a larger team. "Technical Advisory Group".

Qian Hongbin and He Fuyuan were also on this "technical advisory group" before, but of course they have been removed from it now.

When Qin Ke communicated with these so-called well-known scholars and technology experts, he found that most of these people were just in name and held their own important positions, either as professors in universities or as executives of certain group companies. , general managers, etc. who want to find work with them, they will actually be transferred to their respective students and subordinate researchers.

These experts, professors, executives and general managers were invited to join this "technical advisory group", not so much to play an expert role, but to receive salary subsidies and the convenience of obtaining profit information.

Counting on them, we still don’t know how much of the 2000 billion will be effective. Fortunately, Qin Ke has never pinned his hopes on these people and has long issued a recruitment order to expand his scientific research capabilities.

After these experts, professors, executives and general managers heard the "story" about Qian Hongbin and He Fuyuan that was quietly circulated in the industry, they all had an inexplicable awe of Qin Ke and resigned one after another. There are still a small number of people who have not yet When he had time to resign, he was directly isolated for investigation. As a result, the "technical advisory group" that originally had almost 50 people was reduced to only 9 people.These nine people are all researchers with real technical backgrounds. They are also under 9 years old, with high level and rich experience.

Qin Ke was very sighing and speechless about this. After 80% of the water was removed, 20% of the people who actually worked were left... Probably this is also the true situation of many research institutions.

Fortunately, the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, under the management of two veteran academicians, Jiang Weixian and Guo Weiyang, is completely different from these research institutions. Basically, except for a few mediocre people with old qualifications and strong connections, more than 95% of them are extremely talented people who have been trained for a long time. After it was clear that Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun would take over the laboratory with high-level scientific researchers, these related people also left one after another under various pressures. At present, the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory can be regarded as the purest and most dynamic scientific research institution in the country.

This is also the reason why Qin Ke dared to bypass the original "technical advisory group" and rely on the fluid mechanics laboratory to take the lead.

It has to be said that what Jiang Weixian and Guo Weiyang left him to inherit is indeed a very precious scientific research "property".

After talking to the nine remaining people one by one, Qin Ke confirmed that they were all highly skilled research backbones. They were selected because they were recommended by several retired academicians. They were considered to be truly capable of doing things, so he allowed them to stay with peace of mind. , and then selected 800 people among the 41 people in the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory to form a new "technical advisory group" to assist in the technical review of the plan.

After many rounds of selection, Qiu Xiaojie finally became Qin Ke's assistant to the advisory team, while staff assistant Chen Ya became Ning Qingyun's assistant.

Although Qin Ke has the power to review funds, he does not take over the power. Major technical decision-making and funding approvals will be reported to the director of the "El Niño Disaster Prevention and Response Command Center" via video conference for joint consultation and discussion, which takes more time. These can balance the relationship between all aspects so that the work can be truly implemented and advanced.

In addition, Qin Ke was good at dealing with people while adhering to his principles, and quickly established a firm foothold in the "El Niño Disaster Prevention and Response Command Center". The people at the "El Niño Disaster Prevention and Response Command Center" were very enthusiastic about him and Ning Qingyun. They were all quite obedient.

This is also related to the fact that the superiors took into account the prestige of Qin Ke and arranged for Shen Yunzhang, a good old man who is mature, gentle and does not like fighting, to be the director of the "El Niño Disaster Prevention and Response Command Center".

Shen Yunzhang also has an identity. He grew up in the same college as Yang Chengke and Chen Jixue. They have a very close relationship. Naturally, he regards Qin Ken and Ning Qingyun as "one of his own" and spares no effort to support them at work. This also makes Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun He is not the de facto leader, but has become the key to decision-making in the command center.

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At Qingmu University, Qin Ke and his wife Ning Qingyun still spend most of their time together, but Ning Qingyun puts more energy into teaching students, while Qin Ke spends more energy on scientific research.

In addition to the work in the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory and the "El Niño Disaster Prevention and Response Command Center", Qin Ke is also following up other research work, including the Enshu Research Center's overall seawater desalination technology plan, and the quantum computing laboratory's topological superconductivity Materials - research on "Lime Superconducting Material No. [-]", secondary optimization of perfect desert sweet potatoes in the plant breeding laboratory, and directing the "Qingbei Integrated Circuit and Chip Joint R&D Innovation Center" as "Mr. Q" Chip materials project team.

These studies are progressing steadily, especially the "Ling Ning Superconducting Material No. 70" has made gratifying progress. With Qin Ke's guidance and heavy support at no cost to the experiment, Harold Ling Shaotang's team has spent more than a year. After repeated experiments, we have basically developed the "Ling Ning Superconducting Material No. [-]" with better performance and easier synthesis. However, the cost has not reached the expected target, although it is [-]% lower than the "Ling Ning Super Conducting Material No. [-]". % of the cost, but because of the use of high-quality graphene materials, there is still a long way to go before low-cost manufacturing can be promoted on a large scale. Qin Ke is guiding them to reduce the doping of rare metals as much as possible and switch to cheaper and more common materials. metal element.

By the way, the quantum computing laboratory alone has burned almost 4 million yuan in the past year. The research and development of superconducting materials has burned a lot of money, but Qin Ke's Qing Ning Technology is not short of money at all.

The chip material research group's research on "carbon crystal composite nanomaterials" is not much more expensive. It has only been about seven months since "Mr. Q" intervened and changed the direction of research and development of "carbon crystal composite nanomaterials". The research funding of more than 2 million yuan has caused a lot of criticism. If it were not for senior brother Xu Qingyan who took power and applied for additional funding many times against all objections, the research on this topic would have stalled long ago.

There is no way, the domestic experimental equipment is not high-end enough. In order to make full use of the existing experimental equipment to research and produce "carbon crystal composite nanomaterials", we can only try our best to find a more suitable method through experiments, even if it is Qin Ke's handheld system The S-level knowledge of "The entire production process of a new type of carbon crystal composite nanomaterial suitable for 1nm chips" cannot reduce these processes. However, he and Ning Qingjun have used computational materials science to find the most accurate information as much as possible. direction, reducing the possibility of errors by about 75%, otherwise nearly 10 billion yuan would have been burned by now.

Chip research is burning money, and it is simply not money.

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Another half month has passed in a hurry, and spring has entered mid-March.

Mr. Qiu and Professor Witten's old friend, Professor Karen Uhlenbeck, were invited to come to Xia Kingdom all the way.