Chapter 169: Cooperation Reached (Part 1)

Taking an iron teapot and half a box of tea leaves from the cupboard, Shen Peiyuan walked back to his desk. After pouring an appropriate amount of tea leaves into the iron teapot, he took the freshly boiled electric kettle off its base and poured the water slowly into the iron teapot.

Inside the office, a rich, fresh fragrance of new tea immediately wafted out.

Shen Peiyuan squinted and took a deep breath of the tea aroma, his gaze involuntarily turning to the iron teapot on the table.

He was a tea lover; he had no other hobbies, only a special fondness for good new tea produced domestically or abroad each year, and for collecting precious tea sets.

Japanese tea art originated in China but became its own entity, especially since the modern era, when it launched several large-scale tea ceremony revivals, making it vastly different from traditional Chinese tea art today.

This exquisitely crafted iron teapot was the work of the renowned Japanese teapot master, Abe Yujiro.

Unlike classic Chinese teapots, which mostly use purple clay or ceramics, Japanese craftsmen uniquely invented the way of the iron teapot, which has a distinct charm of its own.

This iron teapot of Shen Peiyuan's was a gift from a friend at the Tokyo Institute of Technology when he visited Japan for an exchange last year.

During his visit to Japan last October, the only reason he was able to go as Executive Vice President was because the former president of Nandu University of Technology was suffering from cancer and needed treatment.

Now, only half a year had passed in the blink of an eye, and Shen Peiyuan had finally leaped to become the new president of Nandu University of Technology. At just fifty-five years old this year, he was in the final struggle of his career and felt quite ambitious and excited.

Just as he sat down at his desk and hadn't yet had the chance to pour himself a cup of tea to savor the fragrance of this year's new top-grade Cloud Mist Tea, a knock suddenly came from outside the office: "Bang, bang..."

"Come in..."

Shen Peiyuan responded in a calm voice, then sat down and poured himself a cup of tea; immediately, a rich, fresh fragrance of new tea rushed to his nose.

"President..."

The door was quickly pushed open, and two middle-aged men, one tall and one fat, both looking to be over forty, walked in. "We're sorry to disturb you, we've come to report to you about this document!"

Shen Peiyuan had long worked in school administration, and he also had a hand in the school's personnel arrangements, so he naturally knew both of these middle-aged men.

Of the two, the slightly taller one, who was probably about 1.83 meters tall but had a slight hunch, was Du Qilin, an Associate Professor of Micro-electronics at Nandu University of Technology.

The other, shorter, wide-bodied, and ruddy-faced middle-aged man was even more remarkable; he was Professor Hong Lei from the Integrated Circuits major at Nandu University of Technology. Looking at the domestic IC field, he was a name-brand presence.

Hearing them mention some document, Shen Peiyuan's expression stalled slightly. Because he had only just defeated a pile of competitors to seize the presidency of Nandu University of Technology half a month ago, there were simply too many things he had to handle recently, so it took him quite a while of effort to recall what document the two were talking about.

"Document... oh, the one that Xu sent over, right? Sit down, I just brewed a pot of tea, come and taste it, it's this year's new tea..."

Shen Peiyuan nodded and politely invited them to sit on the sofa in the office, then took two porcelain cups from the cupboard and personally poured a cup of tea for each of them and carried them over.

Then, with a smile on his face, he sat down next to them and asked, "Have you both read Xu's document? How is it? Do you have any thoughts?"

Nine days ago, a New Student Mentor named Xu Chun from the Micro-electronics major had suddenly knocked on his office door. He brought a document, saying that one of the new students he was mentoring had invented a new hard drive technology and hoped to develop it in cooperation with the school.

Shen Peiyuan had just taken over the position of president and had too many things on his hands. Although he accepted the document at the time and opened it to flip through a few pages, because he had graduated with a major in finance and didn't understand much of what was described in the document, he handed it to the School of Electronic Engineering, asking them to arrange for someone who understood the field to take a look and report back to him.

Counting it up, it had already been over a week.

No sooner had Shen Peiyuan asked the question than he saw the two professors who were drinking tea hurriedly put down their cups.

"President, we came here today to report the situation to you. But before we report, may we ask you where you got this document?"

Before Professor Du Qilin could even open his mouth, Professor Hong Lei on the side couldn't help but speak first, asking him in return.

"Ah..." Shen Peiyuan was stunned by the question. After coming back to his senses, he answered slowly: "The document was sent over by a New Student Mentor named Xu Chun from your college's Micro-electronics major, who said it was given by a student he is mentoring, and they hope to cooperate with the school?"

"Really?"

Hong Lei and Du Qilin looked at each other, and an excited smile appeared on both their faces simultaneously. "If that's true, then that would be great!"

"Hmm?"

By now, Shen Peiyuan had also reacted. Looking at their hands clutching the document, he couldn't help but ask: "What, is there a problem with this document?"

"There is a problem, and a big one at that!"

It was Hong Lei again, his face glowing even redder. He half-rose to hand the document to Shen Peiyuan and said: "When the college called us over to look at this document a few days ago, everyone felt the value of this document. For the past few days, I have been staying with Old Du, Little Liu, and the others to study it. I have to admit, our school might have produced an amazing little guy!"

He said it all in one breath, fast and urgent, and after he finished, he was panting and had to stop to take a sip of tea.

Du Qilin then took over and said: "President, let's put it this way. Our college has studied the document. The new technology mentioned inside might be real, though the other party probably only proposed a conjecture regarding the new materials, but this does not affect the value of this document."

"Hmm?"

Shen Peiyuan frowned slightly. He roughly understood what they meant, which was that the document Xu Chun sent over was very valuable.

However, because he didn't understand the technical jargon they were using, he could only ask again: "Can you be more specific?"

"Sigh... President, look at us... it's like this: this document mentions a new hard drive access technology and a hypothesis for a new hard drive material, but it doesn't provide detailed data inside."

"However, based on the context of the document, we believe that the other party may have already realized this new hard drive access technology. And this technology is very likely to allow the hard drive capacity currently on the market to achieve an increase of at least forty percent."

"This is a remarkable technology. Once it is put into commercial development, it will not only fill the embarrassing situation of our country's technological backwardness in hard drive manufacturing, but it also has broad commercial prospects..."

After the two introduced it to him in detail, one sentence after another, Shen Peiyuan finally understood, but there was still a trace of doubt on his face.

"Is the new technology mentioned in the document really that important?"

"Very important!"

Du Qilin and Hong Lei nodded heavily and affirmatively.

He then lowered his head to look at the document in his hand, his eyes thoughtful. "It seems I have to contact Xu!"

PS:

There are probably about three chapters left of the recent content. If you don't like it, please skip it directly, but I still have to follow the detailed outline, otherwise, I will repeat the tragedy of the previous book that was ruined by changes.