Chapter 23: The Seen-Through Little Morgan

"Sorry, I have already accepted the invitation of Xiangjiang University. I will go to Xiangjiang University to give lectures this summer. I can only apologize for the University of Tokyo."

Lin Ran was very polite, but his tone was extremely firm.

Even without the invitation from Xiangjiang University, he did not intend to go to Neon to serve as a visiting professor.

After he returned to 1960, in the process of checking information to understand this era, he discovered a very interesting thing, that is, neither Yang Chen-ning nor Tsung-Dao Lee had ever gone to Neon to give lectures.

As for Yang Chen-ning, unless it was an academic conference, he wouldn't even go to ordinary lectures. He didn't serve as a visiting professor at the Neon Academy until 2010.

(Poster for Professor Yang Chen-ning's lecture at the Neon Academy in 2011, serving as a visiting professor at the Neon Academy since 2010)

And Tsung-Dao Lee also didn't go to Neon.

He had received the Order of the Rising Sun awarded by Neon, but that was all in 2007. The reason for the award was not to promote academic exchange or contribute to Neon academia, but simply because 2007 was the 50th anniversary of his winning the Nobel Prize, and it was an honor awarded by Neon to outstanding Asian figures.

So Lin Ran was very curious, was there no invitation or what was the reason? During the chat after the interview, Lin Ran specifically asked, and the two's explanation was national hatred and family enmity. Science has no borders, but scientists have borders, and they cannot cultivate talent for Neon.

Two predecessors were still like this, and Lin Ran could not do the so-called China-Japan friendship and go to Neon to give lectures, even if the salary for two months in Neon was already the same as the annual salary of Columbia University.

"President Huang, I only talk about academics when I go to Xiangjiang, not anything else. I will stay in Xiangjiang for two months, have time to teach some students, and answer some questions. I think my academic attainments in the field of mathematics should be able to solve many problems."

After learning that Lin Ran accepted the invitation of Xiangjiang, Huang Yunji's sense of smell was very keen. A few days later, he came to the door on the grounds of sending local specialties.

Lin Ran took the red bean cake, a specialty of Shanghai, from the other party's hand, and then understood the meaning of the other party asking his ancestral home during the interview. Asking his ancestral home was to tell the readers, but it was true that he prepared hometown specialties to send to the door after asking.

On the premise that both sides are smart people, Huang Yunji naturally understands Lin Ran's meaning.

"I can provide help on academic problems, but don't talk about anything else."

Besides the coming and going of various people, mathematicians, ethnic Chinese scientists, reporters, etc., he could guess these, but there were also those he couldn't guess.

This visitor he couldn't guess was John Adams Morgan, a member of the Morgan family, whose mother came from the Adams family.

The Morgan family is famous on the simplified Chinese Internet because there are big and small Morgans.

But the Adams family is the first family in America to produce father-son presidents, holding the military-industrial complex Raytheon Company in their hands, and is also a well-established old family.

As a product of the marriage between the two sides, John Adams Morgan is an absolute real-power figure within the Morgan family. He is only thirty years old at this time and is a partner in an old investment bank in New York.

And John Morgan is obviously not willing to just be a partner. He hopes to seize more power within the Morgan family, so he specifically found Lin Ran.

"Professor, I know you. You have made outstanding contributions in the field of mathematics, but you are more interested in aerospace. Professor Horkheimer hopes that we can give you a chance, saying that you have talent different from ordinary people.

The old guys in the family don't believe it, but I believe it.

I am willing to give you a chance to let you get what you want."

John Morgan's appearance belongs to the old-fashioned white people, but he is particularly strong. Later, Lin Ran learned that the other party was a former Olympic champion.

In the high-end restaurant he specifically booked, Lin Ran had a feeling that the other party was trying hard to prove himself and wanted to master the entire negotiation rhythm in his own hands.

But how could he let you get your wish? Even if he wants to borrow the power of the Jewish community, even if he faces a behemoth like Morgan, the information gap of the next sixty years is not for nothing.

"Eisenhower can't sit still?

It seems that the media has angered the Elephant Party and Eisenhower."

(Satirical cartoon of the American media after Soviet Russia launched a satellite, mocking Eisenhower for only knowing how to play golf in the face of Soviet Russia's satellite launch.)

"Let me guess, to surpass Soviet Russia, obviously landing on the moon is the best choice.

Soviet Russia's Sputnik 1 has already gone to heaven, and their Sputnik 2 has even sent a puppy to heaven.

If it's just sending people to heaven, the White House is not sure that it will be faster than Soviet Russia's progress.

Only a project like landing on the moon has a long enough cycle and enough technical difficulties in the middle to have the value of catching up and the possibility of catching up.

So the White House intends to land on the moon?"

Before John Morgan could speak, Lin Ran tapped the table to signal the other party not to rush to answer, he hadn't finished speaking yet:

"If you land on the moon, you must first conduct a feasibility study. This is a big project, a project that can't be bigger.

It requires meticulous preliminary argumentation.

It's not that anyone can take it.

With Morgan's power in the White House, he should have received the news in advance. The White House wants to organize a feasibility study, which requires various companies to come up with plans, and the winning plan will finally get America's moon landing order.

There are only a few companies with this ability.

In 1892, under Morgan's leadership, Edison General Electric Company and Thomson-Houston Electric Company merged into General Electric Company, and Edison was sadly out.

Although General Electric is called electric, it spans too many fields, including the aerospace field.

But in the aerospace field, General Electric does not have an advantage, and even the aerospace-related department is not a department with influence within General Electric, which is somewhat marginalized.

So sir, you want me to participate in the writing of the feasibility study report of General Electric's moon landing plan to help General Electric win NASA's order.

And if you can win the order, with your power within the Morgan family, I am afraid that General Electric will split the aerospace sector into a new company, General Aerospace.

General Aerospace may not be unable to become a behemoth like General Electric, just like your grandfather annexed General Electric, and you can also become the head of the Morgan family by rebuilding a behemoth like General Electric."

Before John Morgan met Lin Ran, he not only greeted Professor Horkheimer but also found Haynes, who worked at NASA, to ask about Lin Ran's situation. It was precisely because he had a certain understanding of Lin Ran's attainments in the aerospace field that he came to find the other party.

Haynes said Lin Ran was a bit special, but he didn't believe it. How special could he be?

But when Lin Ran finished speaking, John Morgan really had the feeling that his soul had been seen through. It was really hell. ===== CHAPTER 24 =====