Next to Jinling University.

It's still the same café.

Chen Yushan, who has been working in Jinling for the past few days, made an appointment with him to meet here after receiving a call from Lu Zhou. And Lu Zhou, on his side, also happened to fulfill the promise he said the day before yesterday about inviting her to dinner.

"Your lab director was interviewed by the FBI?"

Taking a sip of coffee, Lu Zhou nodded solemnly, and briefly explained the situation of the matter: "Well, I received his email this morning, and he told me in the email. ”

"Then get rid of it as soon as possible," Chen Yushan blew lightly as she held the steaming coffee in both hands, "It's good for both you and that Professor Sarot." ”

Lu Zhou thought for a while and said, "I don't quite understand. ”

Chen Yushan: "What do you understand?" ”

Lu Zhou: "The research projects of the Sarot laboratory do not involve sensitive content, and most of the more troublesome experiments are done at the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study...... If that's the case, even if the FBI or CIA were really investigating me, what would they be able to find? ”

Chen Yushan: "They don't necessarily need to find anything, whether it's evidence or witnesses, it can be made. ”

Is it made?

Lu Zhou had a thoughtful expression on his face.

Looking at Lu Zhou seriously, Chen Yushan said in a non-joking tone: "In short, I will help you contact a few suitable buyers." The laboratory of the Nobel Prize bigwig, I believe that there should still be many people who will be interested, and it should be no problem to sell it at a good price. ”

Lu Zhou: "Then please...... That's right. ”

Chen Yushan: "What's wrong?" ”

Glancing at the coffee she held in her hand, Lu Zhou asked with some curiosity.

"Speaking of which, haven't you always been an ice American? Why did you suddenly switch to hot drinks today? ”

From the moment he ordered, he was curious about this question.

However, I don't know why, it was obviously just a casual remark, but after hearing his words, Chen Yushan's cheeks suddenly turned red, and her voice stammered a little.

"Change, can't you?"

Seeing her react so much, Lu Zhou was also stunned.

"Nothing...... I'm just a little curious, and if it's inconvenient, forget it. ”

"It's not that it's okay, it's just that I'm ......" rubbed their knees together with each other a little cowardly, Chen Yushan's eyes drifted to the side embarrassedly, and whispered quickly, "I'm here for that, I can't drink cold." ”

Lu Zhou: "......?" ”

I don't know what she's talking about, but it always feels like the topic is going in a strange direction......

……

After talking to the senior sister, Lu Zhou has already made a decision about the stay of the Salrot laboratory.

To be honest, when he made this decision, his feelings were still a little complicated.

Although he has always been careful not to give way to politics as much as possible. Governance interfered with his own research, but now it seems impossible.

Even if he doesn't take the initiative to find trouble, trouble will automatically come to his door.

According to Chen Yushan's suggestion, starting from today, Star Technology's business in North America will try to retain only the necessary management departments and relevant legal teams to ensure that patent rights can be protected.

As for the R&D department, it is still domestic or political. Neutral third-country transfers with a lower risk of governance.

Professionals were hired to evaluate the assets of the Salrot Laboratory, and then Star Technology released the news of the transfer of the laboratory to the industry.

As Chen Yushan expected, almost on the day the news was released, he received eleven offers for Sarot's lab.

Among them are his old partner Umicore of Belgium, as well as international chemical giants such as Nichia Chemical, Dow and BASF, as well as his old rival ExxonMobil, who once competed with him in the lithium-sulfur battery cathode material project.

These companies all have business needs in the direction of materials, so the prices offered are quite considerable.

After some comparison, Lu Zhou finally chose ExxonMobil, which has deep pockets.

For this matter, ExxonMobil CEO Woods made a special trip to China and met with Lu Zhou in Jinling, Suzhou Province.

In fact, the CEO wanted to talk to Lu Zhou in Los Angeles at the beginning.

But Lu Zhou directly threw a sentence of "love doesn't come, it's not good to pull it down" to him, which immediately made him compromise very untempered......

In this way, the venue for the negotiations was set in Jinling.

With the help of his senior sister, Lu Zhou negotiated the original offer of $45 million to $50 million.

The transfer price of $50 million is not a lot, almost the price of a private jet, but for Lu Zhou, who has just bled heavily in "stock speculation", it is still a little bit of blood.

In fact, although his usual consumption is not high, his expenses are actually quite large.

Not only are there thousands of researchers, research assistants and other scientific researchers at the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study to support, but there are also nearly 100 ongoing scientific research projects that are not money-saving.

Especially the research of carbon-based chips and Hall thrusters, these are big money-burners, and they are the kind of bottomless pits. Even though the national scientific research funding has relieved the pressure on some of his projects, most of the topics involving patents are still his own.

In addition to the $50 million, Lu Zhou also attached a patent to the transfer agreement for a carbon nanosphere that seemed to be useless.

Although he has no plans to make such a black technology as lithium-air batteries for the time being, this thing was obtained from him by ExxonMobil through unfair competition after all.

Now that it is brought back in this way, it can be regarded as the return of the goods to their original owners.

Speaking of which, there is actually a small episode.

After learning that Lu Zhou was interested in the patent for the carbon nanosphere, Woods did not plan to sell it at first.

It's just that after seeing that Lu Zhou easily gave up this proposition and opened his mouth to increase the price by $1 million, Woods immediately shook his original idea.

Useless patents are worthless.

Rather than procrastinating on the transfer of the Sarot lab for the sake of this million dollars, it would be better to make it worthwhile. After all, in his opinion, that patent document, which is about the same as waste paper, is not worth $1 million......

The final transfer contract was finally finalized, and the two parties agreed to sign it at 8 o'clock in the evening at the Jinling Hilton Hotel.

As he signed, Woods had a pained look on his face.

However, almost at the moment when Lu Zhou held the pen and just signed his name, he suddenly seemed to change his face, the expression of pain disappeared from his face, and he put away his contract with a smile

"Happy working together!" Holding hands warmly, Woods' face had the most pleasant smile in days.

"It's a pleasure to work with, my old subordinates are very good, remember to be kind to them, or I will consider poaching them back one day...... You seem to be in a good mood? It seems that my price is still a little lower. Letting go of Woods' hand, Lu Zhou laughed and teased.

"How so? In fact, my heart is heavy, very, very heavy...... But we have to look forward, don't we? Haha smiled and patted Lu Zhou's shoulder, after the contract was in hand, Woods didn't bother to act, and said with a smile on his eyebrows, "Do you want to have a drink together?" I know of a nice bar that is not far from here. ”

Obviously, 50 million is still lower than ExxonMobil's psychological expectations, and even makes a lot of money in their opinion......

At least that's what they think now.

Putting away his contract, Lu Zhou thought for a while, shook his head and said, "No, I still have something to do at night." ”

"Dating?"

"Experiment."

Woods sighed helplessly and said, "Well, it seems that you are a man with no nightlife...... Honestly, my friend, you have made so much money that you haven't thought about spending some time and money on yourself and enjoying your life? ”

Lu Zhou replied in an indifferent tone: "I enjoy it, whether it is the result of the experiment or the process. ”

Shrugging his shoulders, Woods said, "...... That's a pity, it seems like I'm the only one going to have a drink. ”

After the negotiations, Lu Zhou left the Hilton Hotel with Wang Peng.

Sitting on the black red flag at the door, he glanced at the contract in his hand, then took out his mobile phone and sent an email to Sarot, who was waiting for the outcome of the negotiations.

[The negotiation is complete, your new owner is ExxonMobil.] 】

After waiting for about three minutes, an email came back.

There is a rare single word in the body.

[Thank you......]

Lu Zhou smiled and replied casually.

[You're welcome.] 】

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