If there is a kind of person in the world that is the most greedy, it must be scientists.

How much does it cost to make money for enjoyment? Learning from Bill Gates to buy a small island in the Maldives, usually taking a private plane to and from the mansion where you keep whale sharks, and occasionally buying a $300 million yacht modified by a destroyer like the Prince of Saudi Arabia is about the limit, and it can even be said to be extremely willful.

A woman's willfulness can also be added with expensive jewelry and luxury goods like Hermes.

But, for scientists, is a small island a cost? There is no circle of islands all over the world, just because scientists are poor and cannot afford funds. Don’t you see that all countries study frozen soil, tropical rainforests, climate change, and paleontology have established scientific research stations in the Antarctic Amazon jungle. Investors, whether individuals, institutions or countries, have only two choices. They either don’t invest. If they want to invest, they have to spend N times the money of Bill Gates, and it is a year-round expense.

Taking biologists as an example, the environmental protection model that humans need most is to establish various animal sperm and egg banks, improve DNA banks, and carry out various sequencing activities, so as to ensure that no matter how harsh the earth's environment is, it will not completely lose a gene that has evolved from millions of years. As for wildlife reserves, etc., it is more about protecting the culture of animals and human culture, not protecting the animals themselves - different wild animals will have different manifestations in different regions, which shows the ability of animals to adapt to the environment.

However, the human genome project cost $3 billion to be completed. Although most of the expenses do not need to be repeated on wild animals, sequencing wild animals will also add more costs. So, how much does it cost to sequence millions of animals, insects, microorganisms and plants around the world?

Some people may say, can’t this money be applied for from the country?

The country's money is also limited, and it is not really printed.

Schools like Tsinghua University have a yearly fund of 4 billion yuan, and Harvard has just exceeded 10 billion US dollars a year. It is all given to the Department of Biology and can sequence several products.

Not to mention, scientists also have preferences.

If you take the money from the country, you have to consider the problem from the public's perspective. Important animals and plants such as rice, wheat, pigs, chickens, and yeast will be the top of the sequencing list. Even if microorganisms such as yeast and rice are cheap, the cost of mammals such as pigs and chickens will be high.

If you take the money from the institution, you have to listen to investors. For example, Comrade Bill Gates has a preference for whale sharks, so people can ask for whale sharks to be tested.

What about scientists’ preferences?

If Yang Rui was a sequencing cow, he could apply for some public expenses. If he wanted to sequencing alpacas, it would not be so easy. If he had a more distant hobby, he would not have any public expenses at all.

As a result, the wealthy capitalists protected the whale sharks they might not like so much. Where can I make sense?

From this point of view, Yang Ruicun’s tea leaves are only enough to fulfill a little hobby.

As for the luxury of raising a whale shark? Whether it is the cost of construction or maintenance, smart homes with whale sharks are far less than those of an ocean research institute. In modern ocean research institutes, what is a whale shark?

Ruby was used to make watches, but later it was used by scientists on lasers, and the bigger the better.

Large diamonds are not very attractive to scientists, but the annual consumption of diamonds used in the industry is not less than that of women.

Hermes' scarves are often woven with special butterfly silk, but if a biologist wants to play with butterflies, selling Hermes is not a big deal.

It's just that I don't have money to make a fuss.

Who should master the right to allocate social resources? Politicians, civil servants, capitalists, economists or scientists? This is a philosophical proposition.

But Yang Rui is sure that he is qualified to have a certain distribution right.

In time, as a biologist, Yang Rui is qualified to build a scientific research station, seed bank, or even gene bank in Antarctica that is not influenced by stupid bureaucracy?

On the hustle and bustle of genetically modified products, can scientists who are unable to obtain social funds be willful and do the research they want to do?

When biofuels are prevalent, when cutting off corn planted in tropical rainforests needs to be stopped by deafening sounds, do people who make sounds have enough publicity capital?

Or, when biological experiments have fantasies about space, when biologists have fantasies about the deep sea, when biologists need supercomputers, when biologists need supercow machinery and engineering facilities, when biologists want to raising fish around the sea, cloning wagyu cattle...

Of course, biologists don’t have to do this. This kind of thing is actually rarely seen in scientists’ dictionaries.

There is always a tactful way to turn things around in most things.

However, biologists can also be willful.

Nobel Prize-level biologists can naturally be more willful.

As it turns out, most Nobel Prize winners are not easily able to obtain willful rights in social life. Instead, they will be treated more harshly.

Just like you are poor and you are reasonable, the higher the status, the more you should suffer, the more you should suffer, it is almost deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Yang Rui did not want to be a mascot who was arrogant. He is a scientist. Scientists are also qualified to consume high-priced tea, live in luxury houses, and drive luxury cars. Of course, such a wish is probably difficult for most scholars to realize.

Even after thirty years, it is difficult for scholars to reach the standard of 30,000 US dollars. If the salary of 50,000 US dollars is not changed specifically for money, it would be almost the highest point for scholars with names.

In contrast, Pu'er tea can bring a lot of comfort to Yang Rui. If one pays millions of yuan a year to simply use the income from tea, the money can be exchanged for about tens of billions in 20 years.

For 10 consecutive years or even longer, the total value can be approximately exchanged for the market value of a Fortune 500 company. Of course, this will have to be sold a little slower.

However, even hundreds of billions of yuan or even hundreds of billions of yuan are more than enough to maintain a world-class laboratory, and it is still difficult to build a new one.

Not to mention the annual funding of Harvard's 10 billion US dollars, it is Tsinghua's annual funding of 4 billion yuan. It is easy to spend ten times more on the fingers.

Who doesn’t want to use better reagents and equipment? It’s just that you can’t afford it.

However, it would be easy to sell the mahogany and porcelain and get a lab.

That's almost the limit.

As the top presence in the company's lab, Bell Labs is still living so hard. Yang Rui is not optimistic about the income and expenditure ratio of private laboratories. Additional investment is inevitable and will exist for a long time.

As for the impact of public expenditure on science, it often fails to reach the impact of lack of culture on IQ. It is better to have a wolf day to make a living lose coins, at least they have to train their muscles carefully.

The advantage of rebirth is that it is easier to make money and do what you like.

The advantage of the Nobel Prize is that it is about getting a lot of money, and there is no need to worry about being slaughtered.

Yang Rui turned around and threw the big business worth hundreds of billions to Jiang Zhijun, and gave another piece of advice: "If you have time, please buy me some jadeite raw stones, as well as the seed materials of Hetian jade and Hetian jade, which one is easy to store."

Jiang Zhijun is immune to Yang Rui's excessive spending, and only thinks that his desire to spend money soared after winning the Nobel Prize, and just as if he had an extra job, he asked weakly: "How much do you want to buy?"

"How much does jade cost now?"

"You don't even know the price..." Jiang Zhijun was powerless to complain and said, "A few days ago, a friend of mine bought two pairs of jade bracelets. I heard that it was pretty good. I gave a total of 1,000 yuan, and I bought it in the mall."

"What level of jade bracelet?"

"No question."

"Okay, if you want to calculate this way, buy one million first to try the water?" Yang Rui was not very anxious. The price increase of jadeite is a matter of the future, and now it is just a stockpiling.

He only needs to get millions of dollars in the Nobel Prize, and he can't deposit it in the bank. He can't wait 30 years to be used as pension money.

Jiang Zhijun didn't care, he just said curiously: "Aren't you busy with the joint venture factory these two days?"

He helped Yang Rui just to get a supporting factory.

I just don’t know how sad it was when Comrade Jiang Zhijun thought of today’s scene after more than ten or twenty years.

"It's basically done, it's all a ceremony. The signing ceremony of Northern United Pharmaceuticals. Jielikan won the bid. I'm very happy and sent the president to take photos and so on." Yang Rui was very impatient when he said something.

Doing business is indeed not his interest. It is fine if a pharmaceutical factory like Huarui Pharmaceutical is not just ready to produce orphan medicine for Gaucher disease, Northern United Pharmaceutical may also produce various ordinary drugs, which is beyond Yang Rui's professional scope. He is unwilling to spend time, and he does it more perfunctorily than he says.

Jiang Zhijun was anxious and said, "Jielikang is your old acquaintance, which is also a good thing."

"I'll introduce you to you when I have time." Yang Rui saw what Jiang Zhijun meant and was too lazy to be scheming, so he said: "The vice president of Jielikan China is Frank. He will be the one who is my old acquaintance in the future. I will take you to recognize someone else."

"That's great, thank you Professor Yang." Jiang Zhijun was happy with the purchase tasks that were pressing on him at this time.

Jielikan's advantages in China are too obvious. Not only Hu Chi and others are satisfied with such a joint venture, but Jiang Zhijun is also quite satisfied.

Jielikang has ready-made domestic channel resources for the newly born Northern United Pharmaceutical. On the other hand, they are also the top ten super pharmaceutical companies in the world and are capable of applying for new and generic drugs.

Of course, the relationship with Yang Rui was also one of the reasons why they finally won the bid.

Not only is Yang Rui relatively more fond of them, but because of Yang Rui, Jilikang also has some trust in Northern United Pharmaceutical, which has not made any name for fame. After all, it is difficult for people who can be trusted to make up their minds and pay a lot of money when investing in third world countries.

The next day, Jiang Zhijun specially asked someone to find multiple newspapers and looked at Hu Chi, director of the Chemical Medicine Revitalization Office, and showed an extremely bright smile.

If Yang Rui likes to spend money randomly, just spend it. It’s best if you spend all your money and come to me.

At that time, if Yang Rui asks me to borrow money, will I borrow it?

Jiang Zhijun fell into deep thoughts, secretly fantasizing about the scene, thinking: At that time, he must buy mung bean cake in the east, red bean cake in the west, oil cake in the north, eggs in the south, and borrow some money for him.

With such a wonderful fantasy, Jiang Zhijun boarded the train to go south and sowed funds to improve the living standards of the people in the poor areas of the motherland.
Chapter completed!