Now that it has been several years since the reform and opening up, Beijing's scientific research institutes can be regarded as having experienced some things.

Everyone has an idea of what business tricks multinational companies like Coca-Cola have, or what habits scholars like to see.

In short, any foreign company that is qualified to enter China is not stingy in terms of money.

These experts and professors who study food majors, if not from Coca-Cola, at least have benefited from COFCO.

Of course, the benefits given by Coca-Cola are more delicious.

"I didn't see it, Yang Rui is so young, so powerful. Out of the conference room, Chang Shihui laughed at himself and said something else.

The friends around him instantly understood, and then smiled: "If you are not powerful, you can't make so many things, you count the projects he does, I don't know how much money it will take......"

"A million is not enough. Chang Shihui had already calculated, it was not that he couldn't figure out the accurate answer, but he couldn't imagine it any more.

Nowadays, the research institutes of state-owned enterprises have an advantage in terms of welfare benefits, because the state-owned enterprises with research institutes under their umbrella are all large enterprises, such as COFCO, the wave of layoffs in the 80s is not affected, and the 90s are operating as usual, and after 2000, their real estate companies can sweep the country.

However, the research institutes of state-owned enterprises are not as good as ordinary research institutes and are not as good as university research institutes.

Chang Shihui can't do anything unique in this unit, and when he comes out of the project, he naturally falls behind, and from the perspective of the 80s, he may have less than one million yuan of experimental funds for his whole life.

Of course, the achievements of his life may not be as good as a cell paper.

Therefore, Chang Shihui counted 1 million, but he was unwilling to count it.

The colleagues who came with him had never seen more than 200,000 yuan in funds -- it is the truth of the universe that those who make food are poorer than those who make creatures -- and said with envy and hatred: "I heard that Yang Rui has a good relationship with the British Jielikang, and didn't the foreign trade of the Chinese medicine give him a fund of 200,000 yuan? I heard that it is also because of Jielikang." ”

Now, his relationship with Coca-Cola has also improved. Chang Shihui said with emotion.

The companion pouted: "Today's young people know what kind of ability it is to hug the thighs of foreigners." ”

Chang Shihui smiled when he heard this, glanced to the side, and quickly nudged him, and said: "Look at what you said, it will attract foreign investment now, you ask the secretary of the municipal party committee, does he want to hug his thighs? ”

In this group of people, half of them are holding the foreigner's thighs, and half of them are trying to hug but haven't hugged yet, if Chang Shihui doesn't remedy such a sentence, his colleagues don't know how many people to offend.

The latter rolled his eyes, and he also knew that he was Meng Lang, coughed twice in a low voice, and simply stopped talking.

"Let's take a break here first and taste the snacks produced by our Coca-Cola, of course, these products are not currently produced in China and can only be imported for the time being. Manager Xiao said that he asked people to send a vote of colorful snacks to individuals.

Two pieces per person, no more, no less.

The scholars present talked eloquently, glancing at the snacks on the table at most, as if they were disdainful.

"Let's take a break. Manager Xiao smiled and went out.

"Bang"

The door closes, and the atmosphere in the room seems to come alive.

Chang Shihui put all the snacks into his pocket one by one, leaving only a piece of sugar, opened the bag, and slowly took it in his mouth, thinking involuntarily: Yang Rui This time, I don't know how many bags of sugar to bring back.

In the conference room, Yang Rui was also full of joy waiting for Coca-Cola's offer.

Blackmailing multinational companies, this kind of thing, his mentor used to drool when he talked about it, however, it is useless, no matter what time it is, only scholars at the top of the pyramid can blackmail companies at the top of the pyramid.

As for the school that Yang Rui went to back then, as well as the geographical location, it was really difficult to blackmail multinational companies, and there were few successful people.

Now, thinking that he has the qualifications to let Coca-Cola speak, Yang Rui is also quite happy, and he has a sense of accomplishment that can get rid of the shadows of the past.

The sum of the shadow area in Mr. Sherwood and Mr. Gibson's hearts is as much as 8 units, that is 2 by 2, plus 2 by 2 area, the two made eye contact for a moment, but Sherwood spoke, and said: "Mr. Yang Rui, the experimental question you raised is very valuable, and we would like to invite you to cooperate with Coca-Cola to study this question in depth." ”

"How to study?" Yang Rui smiled all over his face, and there was a lewd thousand-armed Guanyin in his heart while rubbing his hands and shouting: Make a price, make a price!

After Sherwood confirmed with Gibson with his eyes again, he said, "We are willing to fund your project research, how about the funding amount, tentatively set at $5,000?"

This figure was 2 of Sherwood's budget of $2,000 when he entered the door. 5 times, which is equivalent to about three months of the income of an average American family, which is roughly equivalent to $11,484 in 2015 according to the CPI of the US Department of Labor.

It's not too much by American standards, but $5,000 is really too much by Chinese standards, and it's not really giving you research funding, it's just a bribe.

For the same money, if it is given to officials, I don't know how many will be stunted.

Just like the way Americans spend in Vietnam and Myanmar, Sherwood believes that 5,000 yuan of "dollars" is enough to make Chinese Yang Rui get down on one knee.

If you change a researcher, you might really get down on one knee. If you don't take 5,000 US dollars for nothing, you will swallow all the bold, and no one will necessarily trouble you, if you are timid, you will first exchange 20,000 yuan for 20,000 yuan in accordance with the foreign exchange license to enter the account, and the extra 30,000 yuan is simply a reasonable and legal income, which is simply a simple way to launder money.

It became 30,000 yuan overnight, and if the poor and middle peasants saw it, they didn't know how much indignation and resentment it would cause.

However, Yang Rui was inevitably disappointed.

In the stories he has heard of blackmailing multinational companies, the units of funds are at least 10,000, and if you don't get it right, it is 1 million, what the hell is it in thousands of units?

5,000 US dollars is not a small amount for Yang Rui, but it is greatly insufficient compared to the figure he expected.

Yang Rui even felt that Coca-Cola looked down on people.

Look at Jielikang, hundreds of thousands of dollars in dividends, there is no arrears for a day, what a good person.

In such a comparison, Yang Rui's mood is in a state of falling on a roller coaster.

"Do you have any requirements for the project you want to study?" Yang Rui's voice was cold, as if he were a thousand-armed Guanyin.

"There are no special requirements, food, biology, you can do it. Sherwood replied disapprehantly.

The thousand-armed Guanyin in Yang Rui's heart sacrificed the whetstone, rubbed it loudly, and said, "Then we can do a set of human experiments for teenagers." ”

"What?"

In fact, there are so many young people who drink carbonated beverages now, we can carry out scientific investigation and research, and directly carry out a long-term project to understand the impact of carbonated drinks on adolescents. Yang Rui really didn't scare them, this kind of research was carried out by many research institutions in later generations, such as Harvard University and other old research institutions, and the reports released by old research institutions appeared frequently in the news of countries around the world.

Sherwood was really frightened, his white face turned even whiter, and he hurriedly said, "Wait, is it legal to use teenagers for human experiments?"

Yang Rui shrugged his shoulders and said, "Human experiments are a general term, and you are referring to experiments in a narrow sense...... In fact, this kind of experiment is completely different from medical experiments, we don't need to make requirements for teenagers to drink carbonated drinks, we only need to select a certain number of teenagers, such as 5,000, and then, we do regular physical examinations and return visits to them, record their physical physiological indicators, record the amount of carbonated drinks they consume every day, and after a period of time, analyze these data. The selected teenagers will not change as a result of our research, and of course, we will ask for the consent of the teenager and their parents. ”

If there was no problem with carbonated drinks, such experiments would have been fine, but now that it was 1984, Coca-Cola had long since lost its sense of security.

From Sherwood's point of view, even if Coca-Cola is good for physical and mental health, they don't want such follow-up studies to happen on their own turf.

Gibson said with luck: "The cost of such an experiment is too high, I'm afraid we can't afford it, you know, our rights are limited...... Besides, in China, it's hard to find a suitable test subject. ”

"We don't have to experiment in China, Coca-Cola is available globally, and the people who drink carbonated drinks are also global. Not...... It just so happened that I was working with a professor at the University of Tokyo in Japan, and we might be able to discuss this project. In addition, the British may be interested......"

Gibson and Sherwood's little hearts trembled.

Gibson licked his lips and said, "Mr. Yang Rui, Japan and the United Kingdom are both extremely high-consumption countries in the world, and to do follow-up research in these two places, the average student needs at least $20 per year, and 5,000 people are $100,000. ”

The implication is that he doesn't believe that Yang Rui can come up with $100,000.

Yang Rui also nodded naturally, and said, "There are other related expenses that have not been calculated, in this case, it is indeed a problem......

The corners of Gibson and Sherwood's mouths curled slightly, are they going to make an offer?

But seeing that Yang Rui seemed to really think for a while, he said: "Maybe I can only reduce the scale, the first phase is in one country, select 2,000 students, and do an 8-month follow-up survey first, in this way, 50,000 US dollars should be enough, and there is just such a sum of money left in my laboratory." ”

Gibson and Sherwood were utterly desperate.

For multinational corporations, a deep-pocketed researcher is just as untouchable as a deep-pocketed lawyer.

A lawyer with insufficient funds, although it may sound like a lawyer, any multinational company has the ability to pile you to death with countless documents and delaying tactics without looking at the evidence.

A researcher who has no money, even if he is called a scientist, is at most like a reporter, writing a few innocuous texts that will not hurt the muscles and bones of multinational companies. However, once a researcher has money, the offensive against multinational companies is like a wave turning into a tsunami, especially in the food and biology fields, such as DuPont, which has to fall on the paint formula of non-stick pans, and it is difficult to fight and win against such a company without a strong laboratory.

Sherwood and Gibson didn't know if the experiment Yang Rui was talking about would be successful, but just listening to it was scary enough.

"Mr. Yang Rui, I can prepare $12,000 to fund your research, and if you are willing to wait a little longer, we may have additional surprises. Sherwood showed the utmost sincerity, and he could have approved a maximum of twelve thousand dollars.

Yang Rui shook his head regretfully and said, "I didn't expect Coca-Cola to be so poor." ”

Sherwood blushed and said, "We'll ask our superiors for instructions." ”

Yang Rui didn't know that two years later, CCTV made Coca-Cola in the blockbuster news just for $200,000 in advertising expenses, which melted Coca-Cola's doubts in China.

For an organization like CCTV, $200,000 is sky-high, and the $12,000 proposed by Sherwood is indeed very high.

It's a pity that the living money in Yang Rui's hands is far from being comparable to 12,000 US dollars.

After thinking for a while, Yang Rui patted Sherwood and Gibson on the shoulders respectively, and said, "Twelve thousand dollars is not necessary, since Coca-Cola has limited funds, there is no need to donate to my laboratory for the time being, and we will have a date later." ”

Sherwood and Gibson watched Yang Rui leave, and wanted to press Yang Rui to the ground more than once.

After a long time, Sherwood asked, "What is Yang Rui's final opinion?"

"I don't know. Gibson's eyes were full of confusion, today's conversation was too informative.

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