Chapter 466: If the experiment fails, I can only go back and eat soft rice

In the living room, Er Miao was lazily lying on the windowsill, staring at the sunset scenery outside the window in a daze.

"Mm."

The girl nodded, her voice cold and clear.

"You're not even considering it?"

Xu Qingzhou pulled up the school beauty Song's left foot, and while pinching it, teased: "This project, the expenditure is at least over 1 million USD, and it's still a bottomless pit. If it fails, both of us will become poor eggs."

Like that project at Princeton, the experimental funding was 2 million USD, and that was just the first stage.

Riemann Hypothesis, Kyoto University had a bonus of 2 million RMB, MIT had a bonus of 500,000 USD, plus the previous bonuses.

The amount he could use was about 10 million RMB.

"That's your money."

Song Yao blinked.

Xu Qingzhou, through the little white socks, hooked a few times on the sole of Song Yao's foot, and said angrily: "We are already married, what's mine or yours."

Song Yao stared, almost giving this person a kick.

It hadn't been washed yet, it must have a smell.

She said she would only massage her legs!

"What are you staring at."

Xu Qingzhou was rarely tough, kept a straight face, and said: "This is a punishment for you saying the wrong thing. If there's a next time, it won't be as simple as tickling, but spanking."

Song Yao curled her lips, speechless. They were indeed married, and were husband and wife in the legal sense.

"I can support you."

Song Yao had an obsession with supporting Xu Qingzhou, although there was no possibility of it being realized.

"Domineering."

Xu Qingzhou gave Song Yao a thumbs up.

Song Yao continued to hold the water cup, biting the straw and saying: "Next month, the project bonus for the third stage and the SCI bonus will come down, and you forgot, I, like Professor Morton, am also working at Morgan Stanley, with an income of 20,000 USD per month, and there are also stocks..."

The money she had added up to more than 1 million.

Supporting a man was no problem.

Besides, this guy was only interested in lewdness, and now he didn't smoke anymore, and usually didn't have any big expenses.

"As long as you agree."

Xu Qingzhou smiled lightly, his fingertips sliding across her soft thighs: "If the experiment fails, I'll go home and eat soft rice."

This pair of legs of the school beauty Song, no matter how he touched them, he couldn't get tired of them.

Sensing Xu Qingzhou's hand getting further and further up, the school beauty Song pulled her leg out of this person's arms and played with his hair, "Professor Xu, be confident, you can do it."

"Little Song, I'm very confident. Shouldn't we take a shower?"

"No."

"It's just taking a shower together, and I won't do anything."

"Heh~"

Xu Qingzhou spent another 5 days organizing materials. Everything was ready, and he officially started writing the project application.

July 28th.

Office of Research Administration.

The person in charge, Wilson, brewed a cup of coffee for Xu Qingzhou and said with a smile: "Compared to Horn, this coffee might be slightly worse, please don't mind."

"Thank you, the taste is quite good."

Xu Qingzhou thought to himself that it was no wonder Professor Roberts' office was called the "MIT Coffee Shop"; it seemed everyone went there to mooch coffee.

Wilson sat down and entered the topic, saying: "Professor Xu, the academic committee has already read your project application and gave me corresponding suggestions."

Xu Qingzhou put down the coffee: "What's the result?"

"Their meaning is that they hope you can change to another project, for example, the mathematics you are best at."

Wilson said helplessly.

A mathematics professor suddenly running to do condensed matter physics, which he wasn't very familiar with, no matter how one looked at it, it was a bit unreliable.

MIT hired Xu Qingzhou with a salary of 500,000 USD per year, and didn't set teaching tasks, research tasks, etc., and of course hoped to achieve some world-renowned achievements in mathematics.

It would be best to solve another mathematical conjecture.

That way, MIT's status in the mathematics world would be stable.

But who knew this young man wouldn't take the usual path, and the first project was a field that was completely unrelated.

You know, more than 10 top teams in the world were already conducting research in this field, and the competitive pressure was quite high. Looking at Xu Qingzhou here, he was alone, and was a mathematics major, almost could be said to have no chance of winning.

"What's your meaning?" Xu Qingzhou nodded, having been mentally prepared for a long time.

"What's a coincidence is that, apart from you, the academic committee also received another project application in this field. Professor James plans to develop niobium nitride (NbN) thin films, with the goal of increasing (T_c) from 15K to 25K."

"You should know that his team is definitely in the ranks of the world's top."

"I have had the honor of reading your papers on quantum mechanics and particle physics, which are very brilliant, but if it's condensed matter... no matter from which angle you look at it, passing your project application is the wrong choice. So, if possible, I also suggest you change the project."

Wilson paused for a moment and said sincerely: "As long as it's a mathematics project. Funding, equipment, personnel, these are all not problems."

Xu Qingzhou sipped coffee and said in a deep voice: "What if I fund the experiment myself?"

"You fund it yourself?" Wilson was stunned, a bit unexpected.

"Right."

"This will be an extremely huge amount of funding."

"I know."

Xu Qingzhou nodded and told his plan: "I am willing to bear all the expenses during the experiment. Of course, we have to sign an 'Intellectual Property Division Agreement.' If the experiment is successful, I need the patent rights."

Wilson was silent, pondered for a moment, and said: "I can represent the academic committee and agree. However, Professor Xu, I still think you should consider projects in the field of mathematics, which is what you are good at, isn't it."

"But I don't want to think in a few decades that I would regret not trying the project I was interested in today."

Xu Qingzhou shook his head and said.

Wilson looked at Xu Qingzhou's serious expression and finally nodded: "As an apology, I can make the decision to waive the equipment usage fees for you, but other things, you know, the board of directors are all old antiques, they prefer to see results."

MIT had two laboratories that could do this experiment, one of which had just been built and was assigned to Professor James, and the other old laboratory just happened to be given to Xu Qingzhou.

MIT would have its own Fields Medal winner. Moreover, Xu Qingzhou, a Fields Medal winner, was also a winner of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, which was worth much more to MIT than a few hundred thousand dollars.

Furthermore, it could be considered showing favor to this genius mathematician. Even if Xu Qingzhou returned to the Xia country in the end, as long as he was still in the scientific research circle, they would meet sooner or later.

"Thank you." Xu Qingzhou thanked him with a smile.

This was also within his expectations. He had already borne the expenses, so MIT had no reason to refuse.

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