Chapter 506

"Are you sure you're free? If you have work, you can go first; there are other members of your team here, you don't need to be present." Qiu Zhenghua looked plain overall.

But the voice and tone speaking at this moment were filled with a different kind of charm.

Just two simple rounds of words made everyone, including Fang Ziye, tense up.

Fang Ziye was facing Qiu Zhenghua's face, looking at the other's thick lips, dark skin, short sword-like eyebrows...

If he put on his father's clothes and sat in the field, there would be no sense of incongruity.

But at this moment, he indeed represented the highest achievers in the scientific and academic field of Eastern Han, one of the Academicians of the Academy of Sciences, coming to converse with Fang Ziye.

Fang Ziye nodded firmly: "Teacher Qiu, I've been on duty; the animal laboratory is not far from the Emergency."

"The daily tasks of the Chief Resident are also completed."

Hearing Fang Ziye say this, Gu Yuandong turned his head and said: "Director Zu, could you trouble yourself to temporarily recuse yourself? The content we need to discuss next, you need to avoid."

When Gu Yuandong said these words, several old professors next to them all took out a notebook; the format of this notebook was somewhat unusual.

And this scene was something even Zu HaiGuo, this organizer, hadn't expected.

Seeing that he was used to big scenes, he also smelled a hint of something wrong, and hurriedly said: "Professor Gu, Professor Qiu, I, Doctor Fang Ziye, and these doctors from Zhongnan Hospital have no special private relationship, nor are we relatives, why recuse?"

"Just because Doctor Fang Ziye once saved my life?"

"There is absolutely no such reasoning in this world."

"Also, Professor Qiu, I want to ask, what exactly do you and Professor Gu intend to do?"

Zu HaiGuo naturally knew what these two intended to do; they wanted to audit Fang Ziye's team, including but not limited to economic issues, procedural issues.

Economic issues referred to the application, management, expenditure of experimental funds...

Procedural issues included but were not limited to whether there was cross-level surgery, whether there was approval from the Medical Ethics Committee, etc.

But these, Gu Yuandong and Qiu Zhenghua, whom he brought himself, actually wanted to audit in front of him?

Do you want to frame me, Zu HaiGuo, to death?

It is well known that only the superior regulatory departments of the medical system, such as the Health Commission, and the Medical Affairs Office in the hospital, have the right to supervise these procedures.

Zu HaiGuo was exactly such an identity.

But Zu HaiGuo didn't let them do these things?

Hearing this, Professor Gu Yuandong smiled and replied: "Director Zu, we are professionals at doing these things, you can rest assured; if there are any problems, we can verify them in the first time."

"I have served as a member of the expert team for medical accident appraisal many times, and I will definitely investigate the team's many cash flows and account books, as well as some medical procedure matters, clearly and transparently."

"Not betraying Director Zu's trust."

Hearing this, Zu HaiGuo's eyes went black, and he turned his head to indeed see Fang Ziye and others' doubtful gazes.

His heart was full of bitterness.

What does "yellow mud fell into the crotch, not shit but shit" mean? This was it.

Zu HaiGuo was a person from the Health Commission, a superior regulatory department, had the power of review, and he could also organize an expert team to conduct various audits on Fang Ziye's team.

But the problem was, Zu HaiGuo had grievances in his heart.

Who was he?

A director of a certain department in the Health Commission, with a not low level, but Gu Yuandong and others didn't care what director you were; they flipped the table, what could you do?

In reality, there indeed were Academicians who fell from grace, but these Academicians who fell from grace basically were not overturned by directors of small departments; they were due to their own unstable foundations, rather than being forcibly removed by others.

If it really escalated to higher-level departments, the higher-level departments of the National Health Commission, others valued Gu Yuandong more than him Zu HaiGuo, unless Zu HaiGuo mobilized all connections, would there be a slight possibility to let the higher-level departments come out to mediate.

Zu HaiGuo at this moment didn't know how to explain even if he wanted to explain; he had anger in his heart, but completely had no place to vent.

After taking a deep breath, he coldly said: "Professor Qiu, Professor Gu, then you can freely perform!"

He wanted to see what these two old Academicians ultimately wanted to do; they were just Academicians, not the superior review department, had no corresponding procedures, they audited individual fart!

If it really blew up and became big, framing them as relying on power to bully others, using the power of the Health Commission to oppress juniors, could also make the two lose their later reputation on the internet.

After Zu HaiGuo finished speaking, Gu Yuandong and Qiu Zhenghua and Zhou Yuan and others split into two groups.

The three led by Qiu Zhenghua were reviewing the settlement and expenditure of the capital books in the animal laboratory.

"Doctor Fang, you shouldn't have any opinions either; after all, part of the research projects you applied for, the funding source is not fully funded by this hospital, there is funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China."

"Therefore, regarding the destination of these funds, we are entrusted to come and take a look." Old Professor Qiu Zhenghua appeared harmless to humans and animals, saying the most heart-piercing words.

Hearing this, Fang Ziye and others' hearts sank secretly.

The other party was not joking, but was for real.

Those who could audit the research project group, besides the Discipline Inspection Commission and the expert team of the Health Commission, there was another department, that is, the review team of the Provincial Natural Science Foundation Committee or the National Natural Science Foundation Committee.

There was no research project group that could say their team's research funds could bypass the National Natural Science Foundation and Provincial Natural Science Foundation; therefore, being investigated by them for economic issues was a catch-everyone situation, absolutely impossible to refuse.

And the reason for such regulations was because some 'big smart' predecessors, in order to turn research funds into money in their own pockets, tried every possible means.

Finally, the project produced a negative result, or even no result.

In recent years, as such things became more and more, the completion review of General Funds and the National Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund became more and more detailed, and there might even be mid-term reviews.

Actually, this microcirculation instrument had no special project funds; they were all transferred from other aspects, and another part was the research startup fund given by the hospital to Fang Ziye!

Of course, this part of research funds, Qiu Zhenghua and others originally had no permission to check; but they proposed to look, and Fang Ziye couldn't refuse either.

These old professors, everyone had fiery golden eyes, basically went through in detail the procedures where corruption easily appeared—

Including but not limited to whether there were invoices, whether reimbursement was made in the Research Department and Finance Department, etc.

These questions, Fang Ziye could only call Lan Tianluo and Li Yuanpei; the specific consumption issues of the project funds were the responsibility of the two.

Every penny of funds used by Nie Mingxian would go through the two.

Letting Nie Mingxian help him do things, Fang Ziye couldn't not pay money; some other funding sources were transferred by Yuan Weihong for Fang Ziye...

Fang Ziye saw Li Yuanpei even had a bit of a posture to erupt violently, even directly swearing softly outside the office.

Fang Ziye soothed: "Tian Luo, Yuanpei, you don't need to be so angry; the root cause of this matter might not be as complex as you think."

"Professor Gu Yuandong going to review the authorization levels of all our lead surgeries, Professor Qiu Zhenghua reviewing our fund application cash flows; this not necessarily means they want to harm us."

"You should know, none of them have obtained the corresponding review qualifications. If there really were such problems, the ones sitting in judgment here right now would be our hospital's Discipline Inspection Commission."

"So, in the absence of these proper procedures, these several old professors are probably trying to give us an internal investigation lesson."

Lan Tianluo was slightly impatient, sighing and muttering: "Are they just bored out of their minds?"

Fang Ziye shook his head again and said: "That's not exactly being bored. If right now someone asked me to vouch for a fellow trainee or an undergraduate, I would also thoroughly investigate everything about them, to avoid running into trouble later."

"When you go in later, pay attention. The more detailed Professor Qiu's questioning, the more minutely he investigates, the more it proves the other party has no ill intent."

Fang Ziye doesn't lack money for the time being, and fundamentally has no need to touch the research project funds.

He publishes many papers; the annual research rewards and prize money from various awards are even higher than his own salary. Why would Fang Ziye need to embezzle project funds?

So, on this level, Fang Ziye is not afraid.

Qiu Zhenghua and the others also know Fang Ziye is very young and inexperienced in the world. Coming to review him at this time isn't to find trouble, but to plug gaps and fill deficiencies.

If they happen to discover some loophole that Fang Ziye missed, they can still help patch it up.

The reason these topics must avoid mentioning Zu Haiguo and the previous reporters is precisely because these are words that should be said behind closed doors.

Li Yuanpei thought seriously for a moment, then slowly nodded: "That's true. If these two old professors had any ill intent toward our research group, there would be no need for them to show up in person."

"Directly targeting us at some academic conference would probably attract countless followers. We wouldn't even have the face to refute it."

"Then, let them investigate?"

"Right. Let them investigate!" Fang Ziye said.

Although Fang Ziye has made some innovations now, what virtue and ability does Fang Ziye have? To simultaneously draw the jealous hatred of two great Academicians?

The age gap between Fang Ziye and them is huge. Unless they want to protect their own juniors, Fang Ziye wouldn't affect their social status either.

Some things just can't be suppressed.

Fang Ziye didn't follow them in; he just let the others go operate. Fang Ziye also understood that going in himself at this time would be purely superfluous.

Although Fang Ziye had his guesses, the waiting time still felt long and nervous.

After all, they are all just his own unilateral guesses.

……

About an hour later, the time came to 5:48 PM. Professor Gu Yuandong led the team back from the clinic.

His face was full of smiles. Very satisfied, he walked back in through the animal lab doorway chatting and laughing with Liu Huanglong and Yuan Weihong.

Still saying: "This kind of new project, besides needing the Ethics Committee's approval, also requires the hospital's expert team's written review materials."

"You rarely did this kind of thing before? Then that is your dereliction of duty."

"The hospital expert team's written review materials count as unofficial self-proving materials, but at critical moments they are extremely useful. They represent that many of your hospital's professors and directors have already understood this clinical project and have proven its practicality through theoretical argumentation."

"The Health Commission grants chief physicians the R&D rights for major surgical procedures and new techniques. This proves Professor Liu, you haven't applied them satisfactorily enough?"

"This is the first key point we need to discuss!"

After Professor Gu Yuandong finished speaking, he glanced at his phone privately. Perhaps seeing a certain reply, he then looked toward Fang Ziye's direction: "Doctor Fang, let's go in together."

Hearing this, Fang Ziye also nodded.

But just at this moment, Deng Yong, who had rushed over upon hearing the news, finally arrived at the animal lab from the external hospital's operating room. Upon entering, he immediately began enthusiastically greeting people.

Calling "Professor Gu" left and right, "Professor Long" left and right...

Fang Ziye hurriedly introduced Deng Yong to the three: "Teacher Gu, Teacher Long, Teacher Tian, this is my Person of Gratitude, Professor Deng Yong, and also our Large Research Group's Group Leader."

"But our Small Research Group?"

Deng Yong cut in ahead of time, cutting off Fang Ziye's words: "Professor Gu, hello hello. This is my student. If there are any inadequacies, please by all means be accommodating. Show some flexibility!"

On the way here, Deng Yong had made a psychological preparation.

Even if he, Deng Yong, went in, Fang Ziye still had to properly develop Trauma Surgery at Zhongnan Hospital.

He had to do this, because his own teacher did it this way too, and even now hasn't implicated a single person.

Water too clear has no fish.

In that era, if you said any single person didn't take a little money?

Who would believe it?

Deng Yong himself took some.

It's just like saying which unit in the early 2000s didn't have public funds eating and drinking — pure fucking nonsense!

But this matter, at Zhongnan Hospital's Trauma Surgery, came to a screeching halt at Old Professor Li Guohua, with no further investigation.

……

Deng Yong didn't straightforwardly explain what exactly the inadequacies were, because he believed Fang Ziye was definitely innocent.

Deng Yong stating Fang Ziye was his student was just to shoulder some things.

Gu Yuandong looked at Deng Yong, then at Fang Ziye, and felt a chill in his heart.

This person can't be moved by him anymore, can't be poached!

With a Person of Gratitude like this, no matter how good your pickaxe swings, if you dig at reinforced concrete, it's purely mutual destruction. There's no need for it.

"Professor Deng, no. Little Fang did very well."

"Of course there are also some places that aren't meticulous enough. I'm precisely going back to tell Director Liu and Director Yuan about them properly."

Gu Yuandong didn't keep them in suspense any longer.

The most iron-blooded side had passed, the most ruthless hidden arrow had been fired. Since it drew no blood, there was no need to continue maintaining his cold-person persona benchmark.

Everyone entered the conference room.

And in the conference room, Old Professor Qiu Zhenghua was slamming the table and cursing with a "hate iron for not becoming steel" expression: "You bunch of tm legal illiterates or what?"

"Is this how you borrow funds?"

"Is it that as long as the money is yours, you can use it however you want?"

"You think this is the money in your wallet?"

"You even touched the money in the Outstanding Youth Fund? Haven't you seen heads roll? Do you think the unit is too small for anyone to notice you?"

Li Yuanpei and Lan Tianluo both lowered their proud heads.

Qiu Zhenghua, on the other hand, saw Fang Ziye and the others come in and relaxed slightly, saying: "Did you remember clearly what I just told you?"

"Go to the Finance Department, stop the settlement, redo the accounts!"

"Return the previously settled transactions, use other funds. Some special funds absolutely cannot be misappropriated!"

"Sigh, forget it!" Qiu Zhenghua was both angry and amused, clutching his own hair, but ultimately just shook his head and didn't continue scolding.

Gu Yuandong's side had found no problems, so his mood improved slightly.

But after hearing the rest, he could roughly calculate and asked: "Professor Qiu, how much total funding does their research group even have? How can they misappropriate like this?"

"Added up, it's less than five million total." Qiu Zhenghua said.

Gu Yuandong: "..."

He muttered in a low voice: "This..."

Gu Yuandong looked at the large group of people, yet their total funding added up to less than five million.

This total isn't existing idle funds, but the sum over nearly a year — it's really stretched too thin.

You have to understand, Gu Yuandong, Qiu Zhenghua and the others usually get major project funding, tens of millions is easy.

Yet Fang Ziye's team actually pushed out these clinical projects and basic research projects with such funding.

Not to mention the rest, just the simulation of mangled extremity animal experimental model project alone — basically tens of thousands don't add up.

Hearing Qiu Zhenghua found problems, Deng Yong immediately said: "Professor Qiu, this funding, can we recover it?"

Deng Yong understands the suffering of economic hardship; sometimes if you don't misappropriate, the kids are starving.

Yuan Weihong's capacity is only so big; if he doesn't do this, what can he do?

"That depends on you guys; anyway I can only speak my piece."

"Professor Gu and I knew you might have problems with fund application, because before I came I already checked your research group's total natural science funding."

"Including total NSFC and provincial natural science funding, then I looked at your project quantity and paper quantity — good fellow."

"I knew this was a first-tier university's messy accounts."

"You doing this will ultimately harm Fang Ziye, you know that?" Qiu Zhenghua said.

"Does your research group have no other money?"

Hearing this, Fang Ziye immediately whispered a few words in Qiu Zhenghua's ear, explaining it was Yuan Weihong unwilling to use his talent introduction startup fund.

Immediately after, Qiu Zhenghua started mocking: "Hey, don't have a rich second-generation's fate, but got a rich second-generation's disease."

"Really f***ing novel." Qiu Zhenghua was truly angry.

If they hadn't found out now, by the time Yuan Weihong's projects start closing, that would be the day this research group collapses into chaos.

Perhaps Yuan Weihong knows, by then it'll be robbing Peter to pay Paul, but whether others listen to your explanation then depends on the visitors' mood.

If special funds aren't used for their designated purpose, problems easily arise.

Yuan Weihong ultimately lowered his proud head, not a trace of temper left.

And at this moment, after the scene went dead silent, Zu Haiguo asked: "Professor Qiu, Professor Gu, you're just helping with self-inspection, right? Not for real?"

Qiu Zhenghua nodded at this, sighed lightly: "Director Zu, of course not for real."

"Actually, we as professionals, when outstanding talent appears in our professional field, still need your superior department to recommend them back to us — it's a bit funny."

"Seems like mocking our incompetence."

"Of course, there's a reason — Doctor Fang grew too fast!"

"I was wondering why I never heard this name; turns out Doctor Fang never appeared in COA, so where would I hear of him?"

COA is the abbreviation for the National Orthopedics Annual Conference.

Zu Haiguo also relaxed a breath; at least it was a false alarm.

Mainly because Gu Yuandong and Qiu Zhenghua's sudden hostile posture and speed just now made him think they really came with ill intent.

Immediately after, Qiu Zhenghua said: "Director Zu, since we're all here, and you've assembled so many people, can we talk a bit more heart-to-heart?"

"You also saw, our Trauma Surgery's Little Fang is indeed a talent; his growth speed, Han City University Affiliated Zhongnan Hospital's internal exceptional measures, already can't keep up with his growth speed."

"Doctor Fang's surgical ability and research ability, these things, these surgeries embody them."

"So, I hope your unit can discretionarily, specially approve Doctor Fang's early appointment as Deputy Chief Physician with Deputy Senior Professional Title, and open his surgical permission."

"This filing process ultimately still needs the Health Commission to handle; as for the expert team formation for the surgeon's surgical level application form?"

"I think the few of us can sign right now, completely no problem." Qiu Zhenghua, seeing Gu Yuandong return without a single complaint, knew Fang Ziye's professional ability was extraordinary.

Zu Haiguo frowned slightly at this: "Exceptional promotion to Deputy Senior?"

"Yes!"

"Deputy Senior! Doctor Fang currently only has an Intermediate Professional Title; this title restricts him too much."

"Also, some Deputy Senior titles are research titles, which have little significance for clinical work."

"Director Zu, you must know, the greater Doctor Fang's clinical permission, the more patients benefit, and not be limited to fixed disease types and new surgical techniques."

"Doctor Fang needs more permissions to open a broader vision, create more new ideas." Qiu Zhenghua's voice once again returned to simplicity.

The fangs he and Gu Yuandong discussed afterward were not aimed at Zhongnan Hospital and Fang Ziye, but to bite the National Health Commission.

Must tear open a gap from there, adorn Fang Ziye with some gold.

"No problem on my end, but need your Trauma Surgery experts to write an application to the National Health Commission; this can reference the Central South University case from a few years ago."

"They wrote to the Ministry of Education." Zu Haiguo examined carefully, then said: "This kind of special approval, I can matchmake, but can't take the lead."

"The final approval still needs a meeting to process."

Of course, Zu Haiguo said up to here, then added: "Now I barely understand why Han City University had to contact our unit directly through the Science and Technology Development Institute."

"The water in this Han City runs a bit deep..."

What Brother Zu said had nothing to do with Fang Ziye and the others, and everyone fell silent.

After a while, Deng Yong finally suppressed the fluctuation within, laughing as he said: "Professors, Director Zu, Director Liu, it's getting late, it's meal time."

"How about we go out for a simple meal?"

Deng Yong said while signaling Yuan Weihong to go out first and reserve a place.

Yuan Weihong instead made an ok hand gesture to Deng Yong in private.

When ordering food, better to order wrong than to miss out, right?

Brother Zu was visiting in a private capacity, so having a meal together was no problem.

Instead, Old Professor Qiu Zhenghua said playfully: "Professor Deng, are you sure you want to treat us to a meal? Aren't you afraid I'll poach your people right in front of you?"

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