Chapter 26: The Selected Chen Jingrun

"You don't need to worry too much about this.

You are a Cultural Huaguo person and don't understand the logic of American political operation.

The authority of a billionaire in America is enough to make everyone, whether it is Blue Origin or other external audit institutions, ignore you," Li Xiaoman explained.

Lin Ran was a little surprised. He really didn't understand America. In the past, his impression of America only stayed on the surface abstract concepts such as developed, domineering, siphoning global elites, and good treatment.

As he successively contacted people like Horkheimer, John Morgan, and Arthur Rudolph in 1960, he knew that the logic of America's operation is far more important than rules.

But he felt that Li Xiaoman's cognition might give him another completely different facet to understand America. Such a facet is very important and can also become a link in his information gap advantage construction.

"Sister Xiaoman, your answer is still a bit abstract. What does it mean to be ignored?

Is there me, but they all treat me as if I don't exist?"

Li Xiaoman thought for a while: "Also, it is indeed a bit abstract. I will use an example to tell you.

The most straightforward example is corruption. American-style corruption, all its behaviors are on the surface, all corruption behaviors are placed on the surface, and written in reports to Congress.

Like USAID, the annual report of the American International Development Agency to Congress will tell Congress its problems in detail, and even every citizen can check it through the official website of USAID.

But the definitions of these problems are all meet standards, or issue alert, or no misconduct.

Maybe there are 100 audit problems in total, and none of them have been convicted.

The most outrageous thing was in 2010, when the Haiti earthquake occurred, and then USAID announced that it would allocate 1.15 billion dollars to Haiti, plus the allocations of other Western countries and the donations of global citizens, the final total figure exceeded 5 billion dollars.

In the end, less than one-tenth of this money was really spent on post-disaster reconstruction in Haiti.

And the flow of these five billion dollars was clearly written in the USAID report, and it was given to foundations that have various relationships with politicians in Washington, Maryland, and Virginia.

Like spending 4 million dollars to study the feasibility of building a new port in Haiti, announcing that the research failed, and the money went directly into the pockets of the winning company. Spending 300 million dollars just to build the Caracol Industrial Park, and it hasn't even been built yet.

Obviously, saving the wounded and post-disaster reconstruction are more important, but it still has to spend more than 300 million dollars on the HIV/AIDS mitigation project.

All these money flows are placed on the surface, but no one will be punished, no one will have problems, and all this is reasonable and legal.

Why is there no accountability? Because funds are distributed through multiple international organizations, contractors, and non-governmental organizations, the responsibility chain is long, and it is difficult to track specific responsible persons.

It is difficult to track specific responsible persons, so I will not track it.

This is the peculiar place of American logic.

Corruption is like this. You are a researcher in a commercial aerospace enterprise. Even if you really touched the rocket launch device and really touched a large amount of Blue Origin's internal data, these things are clearly written in the report given to NASA by the audit institution and published on NASA's official website, and everyone will turn a blind eye to this.

Bezos, the world's richest man, absolutely has this ability.

So you don't need to worry too much.

If you are more careful and cautious, and don't appear in public materials, it will be even more fine."

When Li Xiaoman mentioned American-style corruption, her face was filled with indignation, giving people a feeling that the country is being stolen but there is nothing she can do.

Lin Ran was also stunned after listening. Can it still be played like this? It's still that he underestimated America too much.

"Dean Qian, Secretary Wang from the Science and Technology Commission is here, asking what mathematical problems we have that cannot be solved? Let us pick some out."

At this time, although Zhang Kewen had been transferred to the Academic Affairs Section as a section chief, because Qian Xuesen's new secretary had not yet taken office, she also served as his work secretary.

"Oh, is it about Xiangjiang?" Qian Xuesen asked. Although all his thoughts at this time were on the R&D of DF-1, he still had some understanding of the outside world.

Like the Fermat Conjecture being proven by an ethnic Chinese, and this ethnic Chinese mathematician will go to Xiangjiang University to give lectures in the summer, and expressed to the president of the "Overseas Chinese Daily News" that any mathematical problem can go to him.

The Science and Technology Commission had already told the relevant departments about this matter, asking them to make preparations in advance and send people to ask this famous mathematician to answer it uniformly when the time comes.

Qian Xuesen did not have high expectations. After the Science and Technology Commission notified everyone, he also found Hua Luogeng to communicate. Hua Luogeng's meaning was that the other party's main direction is number theory and algebraic geometry, which has little to do with the differential equations they use in missile research.

He is very clear that although number theory and algebraic geometry are mathematics, and differential equations are also mathematics, in the large category of mathematics, different small categories are separated by mountains.

So Qian Xuesen didn't take it too seriously and handed the prepared equation to Zhang Kewen: "You give this to Secretary Huang's side."

There are so many mathematicians in Cultural Huaguo who can't do it. The other party is so awesome, and wants to do it in a short two months. I am afraid it is impossible.

After all, the time the other party can stay in Xiangjiang is only two months.

Zhang Kewen regarded it as a treasure and sealed the paper in the envelope of the Institute of Mechanics.

And at this time, in the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hua Luogeng was earnest to Chen Jingrun: "Jingrun, this time you are sent to Xiangjiang to participate in Professor Lin's course, you must remember that learning itself is secondary, and building a good relationship with Professor Lin is the most important.

Let you bring the problem, the premise is to build a good relationship, so that you can ask more, and others are willing to spend time on you.

I know that you are honest and kind, which is naturally an advantage, but looking at it from another aspect, it is slightly wooden, which is naturally not a good thing in dealing with people.

So this time you go to Xiangjiang, remember to do more, see more, think more, and answer more. Your talent has no problem. I believe your talent is enough to make Professor Lin look at you with admiration."

And the one who was finally selected to be sent to Xiangjiang was Chen Jingrun. At this time, Chen Jingrun was working in the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, doing research in the number theory discussion class centered on the Goldbach Conjecture organized by Hua Luogeng.

Lin Ran's direction is number theory, and his direction is also number theory.

In addition to the overlap of directions, more importantly, his English is good and his memory is amazing.

At this time, there are not many people with good English. Running to Xiangjiang, this temporary control area of England, and dealing with American ethnic Chinese professors, knowing English is too critical.

Although Cultural Huaguo does not expect Lin Ran to really solve these problems, what if? What if the other party can really solve it, then the answer must be brought back, especially since these problems also have problems related to intercontinental missile guidance algorithms.

So amazing memory is also equally important.

With the overlap of the three, only Chen Jingrun meets the conditions. ===== CHAPTER 27 =====