Chapter 651: The laboratory's one-stop money-making routine

Twilight descends, and the lights begin to come on.

"Really don't want to suck?"

"Don't suck!"

"Oh~" Song Yao nods, otherwise she would still have to struggle with whether to just kick this person away with one foot.

"..."

Xu Qingzhou watches Song Yao's brows unfurl, "You seem very disappointed?"

"Hmm, another chance to beat you up is gone."

Song Yao takes out her phone; Zhang Qiong sent a message asking if she wants to go shopping tomorrow. Thinking that she still has a thesis to finish, she types a refusal.

"I seriously suspect you have a fetish for being happy when you beat your husband."

"Beating is affection, scolding is love."

School Beauty Song is no longer the cold girl she used to be. If Xu Qingzhou says one sentence, she can refute one; if she can't refute it, she resorts to force.

Xu Qingzhou's fingertips brush over Song Yao's smooth calves; the skin is fair and translucent, and because of the fascia gun, it is still slightly flushed at this time.

Alright.

Actually, it's not just School Beauty Song who has changed; even he has changed.

Think about his former self, only reading the books of sages, how could he have so many strange hobbies.

He sighs in his heart and changes the subject: "Academician Ren Nan can come over next Monday."

"The headache problem is finally solved; I thought I would have to visit the thatched cottage three times."

"Hmm, I also didn't expect this stubborn old man to agree so quickly."

Xu Qingzhou feels somewhat emotional.

He first sent an email roughly explaining his intention, and after the other party sent a phone number, he called. If possible, he intends to return to Rongcheng to visit this old gentleman.

Previously, he also found Professor Xiao Chenghan to understand the situation of Academician Ren Nan.

Although he had heard of him, he hadn't really had contact.

Professor Xiao's evaluation of Academician Ren is also quite high, and he also expressed regret to Xu Qingzhou that the other party is a person with skills, and it is a pity to retire like this.

If you really want to talk about it, this old man is completely an elderly version of Zheng Xu.

Half a year ago, Ren Nan directly published an article criticizing a certain academician's disciple, mocking them for seeking fame and reputation without doing practical work.

Of course, the matter ended up with nothing in the end.

Xu Qingzhou is accustomed to this phenomenon; whether abroad or domestically, such things exist.

For example, the person in charge of a certain laboratory is an academician's disciple, which can be completely called a big sect. Thus, they open topics, cheat for heat, gamble for funding—a one-stop process, and it is basically the way a considerable number of laboratories make money.

This is the same routine as playing virtual currency, like Dogecoin and the like. First, get a niche concept, then pull in various big shots to stand for it, and find various media to report on it.

The person who opens the topic gets funding, the big shots who stand for it get fame and profit, and the reporting media gets hot topics—forming a win-win-win situation.

And in the end? The project is all outsourced empty shells, with no practical use.

But this thing is hard to define; there is no standard. If you say it's fake, they can really take out something. No one dares to boast that the experiment is meaningless; what if it really becomes popular in the future?

But if you say it's useful, it's all empty.

The other party is an academician's disciple and one of the people in charge of the Fusion Energy Executive Center. Even if the management department above knows, they can't really do anything to the academician, so they just turn a blind eye.

In short, Ren Nan just resigned and went back to school to retire.

Currently, there are four national-level controllable nuclear fusion research institutes: the Institute of Plasma Physics, the Southwest Institute of Physics, the Xia Nation Institute of Engineering Physics, and the Luzhou Comprehensive National Science Center Energy Ding Liyan.

The first two are the two giants of controllable nuclear fusion. The former built EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) and is responsible for leading the Xia Nation's participation in the key technology research and development of superconducting magnets, heating systems, etc., for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).

The latter is building the HL-3 (Huanliu-3), which is expected to be completed and achieve its first plasma discharge this December. It is a new generation of "artificial sun" independently designed and built domestically and is currently the large-scale magnetic confinement nuclear fusion scientific device with the highest parameters and largest scale in the country.

The latter two are only responsible for some key technology research. If it weren't for his straightforward personality, Ren Nan wouldn't have been squeezed into the latter two institutions that don't even have reactors.

Living room.