Chapter 521: Divide the Spoils
The current U.S. ambassador to China, whose Chinese name is Heng Anshi, was born in China to American missionary parents.
This kind of birth background is not surprising among the US ambassadors to China in the 80s, and two of the three ambassadors to China after Heng Anshi were born in China, and both belong to the type of China expert.
In the 80s, the appointment of ambassador to China was also regarded by these American diplomats as the pinnacle of their lives.
Because the current US ambassador really has so much to do, and in this regard, the current ambassador to China is like the future US ambassador to Saudi Arabia or the US ambassador to Iraq.
Heng Anshi is a career diplomat -- the position of US ambassador to France has always been a traditional position to divide the fat, and the gentleman who has won the US presidency often uses such a position to reward the warriors who contribute money and efforts, and the more complicated and poor the conditions, the more professional diplomats appear.
Yang Rui actually wants to meet a non-professional diplomat, everyone can chat, talk, and maybe make some connections for future business.
But it was up to him to choose, and about ten minutes later, Baldwin found an opportunity to pull Yang Rui into the ambassador's circle.
"Mr. Ambassador, may I introduce you to ......" Baldwin began to introduce Yang Rui to the ambassador as if he knew you very well.
Comrade Ambassador also put on a look of "Oh, we are very familiar", shaking hands and chatting with Yang Rui.
The flash flashed like it was like seeing a naked woman.
The two reporters who received Yang Rui's red envelope took a shot of the film in their cameras in one go, and then, like brave soldiers, they let go of the camera in their hands, took out a small one from behind, and took another set of films.
The ambassador made props for some unknown reason.
Yang Rui breathed a sigh of relief and had a cordial exchange with the ambassador. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are not so easy to take, real and fake always have to prepare something.
After a short exchange, Heng Anshi really became interested in Yang Rui. As a student, Yang Rui has indeed achieved the peak, and Heng An Shi even took the initiative to introduce schools and research institutes to Yang Rui.
Yang Rui had a conversation with him without a word, and career diplomats are weak in the United States, so maybe they are not as good as Baldwin.
Of course, the value of the US ambassador to China in China is not the same, and now Heng Anshi is a proper international friend, and in the eyes of the Chinese, the status cannot be compared with Kissinger, and that cannot be too bad.
Therefore, when Yang Rui and Heng Anshi finished talking, someone immediately followed and chatted with Yang Rui.
In today's China, there are too many needs for the outside world, and Yang Rui also knows this, and intentionally or unintentionally revealed that he has a good relationship with Coca-Cola and is familiar with the American ambassador at first sight......
Bragging, if you don't even know how to do this, how can you ask for funding.
Jing Yulan's eyes widened, watching Yang Rui lie all over the world, and when she was free, she whispered: "I have to pay attention to what you talk about in the future, who knows if it's true or not." ”
Yang Rui smiled and said, "I can't say that it's all a lie, I do have a good relationship with Coca-Cola, and I think I like me a lot as the American ambassador." ”
"But that's not what you mean. ”
"Everyone wants to land on Mars, so tell them that they are going to land on Mars, and the process in between, no one wants to know. Yang Rui came out of nowhere.
Jing Yulan didn't quite understand what Yang Rui wanted to express, but it didn't matter, she liked Yang Rui's active thinking.
The next day, Yang Rui came to the laboratory, found Liang Jinrong, who was still doing experiments, pulled him aside, and said, "Coca-Cola has talked to me, and I am ready to withdraw from this project." ”
"Huh......? How can you quit!" Liang Jinrong jumped to his feet in a hurry.
"The conditions are even better than the last one. Yang Rui stretched out his hand to appease Liang Jinrong.
Last time, Gibson proposed a $30,000 sponsorship to Yang Rui in front of Liang Jinrong, and Liang Jinrong wanted to agree, but Yang Rui refused.
Now, hearing that the conditions are better and knowing that Yang Rui did not leave him, Liang Jinrong is relieved all of a sudden.
Feeding Coca-Cola to the mice, this kind of project was originally going to Coca-Cola, and Liang Jinrong was not ready to do this project to make flowers.
"What conditions?" asked Liang Jinrong.
Yang Rui smiled and said: "You choose yourself, 20,000 US dollars, or two places to visit Coca-Cola in the United States for 10 days, counting air tickets and hotels, and a quota of 3,000 per person." ”
Yang Rui received a total of $600,000 in funding for three years, 30 places in three years, and $20,000 or two places for Liang Jinrong, although it was not even 10%, but this was the status quo of the scientific research pyramid.
Even if this project is completed, even if this project is mainly contributed by Liang Jinrong, Yang Rui and Liang Jinrong still cannot be equal in terms of projects.
On the one hand, Yang Rui provided the funds for the project and started the project, and on the other hand, the existence and significance of the project itself has Yang Rui's endorsement.
If it weren't for Yang Rui, the publisher of the "CELL" paper, Coca-Cola would have ignored Leung's project.
As Baldwin had earlier probing, they would only need to give the school tens of thousands of dollars, or just an empty shell of a joint lab, and the school could stop the project.
Liang Jinrong is not like Yang Rui, who has his own laboratory, or is willing to pay for his own research.
In the final analysis, Liang Jinrong does not have the ability to pick wool from multinational companies, so although he has paid more time and energy, he cannot get a fair share of wool.
Liang Jinrong also knew this, so although he wanted to ask all the conditions for Coca-Cola, Yang Rui didn't say it, and he was helpless.
He didn't even have a way to get in.
"Then this project paper can't be published?" Liang Jinrong curved to save the country.
Yang Rui said indifferently: "If you want to continue to do it, I don't object, but I can't sign it." ”
If he doesn't sign it, naturally there will be no funds to give it.
Thinking about how long it would take him to get the subsidy from the fund, Liang Jinrong suddenly lost his energy.
However, Liang Jinrong quickly became energetic again and asked: "Can I choose a fund of $10,000 and a place?"
Needless to say, he was going to go to the United States alone for an investigation, and by the way, he spent the funds.
Of course, the part of the $10,000 fund that can be used for personal expenses will not exceed half, in fact, two or three percent is relatively safe, which can be regarded as an unspoken rule, and the rest of the part, Liang Jinrong has to contribute to his laboratory.
Yang Rui nodded indifferently and said: "Yes, but the funding is from the White Laboratory in the United States, and they have their own audit system, you have to be careful." ”
"No problem, I know how to do it. Liang Jinrong's smile rose, no matter how good the auditing system of the Americans is, it is also in the United States, and he doesn't care at all.
"I hope there will be opportunities to cooperate in the future. Yang Rui patted Liang Jinrong's hand.
The best result of the short-term project is to get together and disperse, and the conditions given by Yang Rui are not bad, and they are completely worthy of Liang Jinrong.
"There must be a chance. Liang Jinrong didn't feel that he had suffered a loss, he shook Yang Rui's hand vigorously, turned around, wiped his face, and went to inform his students of the "unfortunate" news.
The news was a bit unfortunate for the students. If the project runs normally, they will gain knowledge and experience, and their resume will look better. For undergraduates, this may even be the biggest project they have ever done in their lives, and when they enter the unit later, this is the most important foundation and experience.
Moreover, it is impossible for students to get the compensation that Liang Jinrong and Yang Rui can get, not because they get very little, but almost nothing. This is not only the stinginess of the project leader, but also because students are a very complex and troublesome group, and it is the easiest and correct choice to end directly, and compensation is just asking for trouble.
Normally, students don't even know why the project ended.
The reason why a research dog is a research dog is because in the laboratory, the research dog has no human rights at all.
Yang Rui just invited Sun Ruyue and the others to have a project dinner, and then put them into Professor Xu's project again. It is impossible to say whether the Coca-Cola project will be done, and if it weren't for the hanging up of the joint laboratory sign at Stanford University a few days later, everyone might even forget about it.
In this regard, two signs for foreign cooperation have been hung at the door of the Tang Concentration Laboratory.
However, the most attractive thing was the first receipt of $150,000.
The school's accountant, without being notified, saw the money, and the office on half the floor was stirred.
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