"Reduce funds? That's not what our initial agreement said." Richard's nose was about to hit Principal Pang's face.

Principal Pang said very upset: "I have explained to you that the school's policies have changed. It's not that I want to go back on my word, I have no choice. It's not that I don't want to help you, it's because I have no other choice."

"You can choose to abide by the agreement," Richard snorted, saying, "We have a contract, and there is news that your funding should last more than a year. During this period, you cannot withdraw if you want to."

"The school's funding has been stopped, and it's useless to force me." Principal Pang said with great displeasure.

"The school is the subject of the contract. If you break the contract, I will sue it." Richard had no choice but to raise the last litigation stick.

As Richard expected, Principal Pang hesitated, but after only about two minutes of thinking, Principal Pang slowly shook his head and said, "This is not my decision. I can only express regrets. Although I don't want such a dispute, just like what you Europeans and Americans say, don't punish the person who delivers the letter. I am just a sender."

Richard didn't believe it: "You are the principal of the school and you have great power, so how can you not make a decision?"

"Vice Principal, I am the Vice Principal." Principal Pang emphasized in English that this is the rare real title he describes.

Even threatening lawsuits could not solve the problem, and Richard was helpless.

He actually doesn't want to conduct litigation either. This is a time-consuming and labor-intensive high-cost behavior. Although some lawyers can complete most of the work, they still need the participation of litigants. In addition, lawyers charge a lot of fees.

Although Richard is a well-known professor at the University of California, his salary is only tens of thousands of dollars because he teaches in public schools, which is naturally richer than the Chinese in the 1980s. However, in American society, he is just a good middle class.

Of course, if Richard is willing to abandon his teaching position and work in a pharmaceutical company or other similar private enterprise, his annual salary can easily reach hundreds of thousands of dollars or even exceed one million dollars, just like Trapp of Gelicon.

But before that, Richard's private income was not high and there was no academic ground.

At this point, Richard did not even have the comfort of returning home from working in China.

However, Richard has the University of California as his backer. After sending President Pang away in a bored manner, Richard immediately notified the University of California about this.

After a few days of talk between the two schools, Richard received a call from the University of California: "Peking University will give you sponsorship funds according to 30% of the agreement, and the University of California will increase the funds equivalent to 20% of the agreement, but you have to rely on yourself for the remaining 50%."

Richard began to scratch his hair involuntarily, and 50% of the funds were reduced, which was not as simple as the language description. The funds were reduced by half, the experiments could not be reduced by half, the instruments could not be reduced by half, and the reagents bought could not be reduced by half...

Half of the funds are almost impossible to support a new laboratory.

Richard said angrily: "They signed the agreement, you should let them execute the agreement."

"You can hold them legally responsible, but you should understand that the reason why China reduces its expenditure is that you have no output in the past six months." The head of the University of California also did not want to bear the reputation of incompetence, and immediately pushed the guilt on Richard.

Richard was speechless, and he was not a person who was particularly good at speaking.

The tone across the phone was a little better, saying: "The only support we can give you is to give you funds in advance, so that you can maintain research for the next period of time. For the remaining gap, I suggest you find new investors or seek support from public funds."

Saying bad news first, then saying good news, and then giving a possible solution can indeed solve the severe heart congestion.

Richard regained his spirits and decided to do it according to the other party's advice.

In the United States, finding support from investors or public funds has always been the main job of laboratory leaders. Some laboratory managers will devote one-quarter or even one-third of their time and energy to fundraising.

Richard tried more than once to seek help from individuals or institutions. In most cases, investing in him was a loss of money, while in a few cases, investors or institutions received corresponding returns. Although it sounds a bit unreliable, Richard's record is actually quite good.

Biotechnology from the 1970s to 1980s, just like the Internet in 2000, received crazy investments across the United States and even the world. Most of the investments were losses, and the losses were extremely serious. However, the reason why venture capital is venture capital is that they can withstand risks and focus on the proportion of success.

Even in China, it has also been affected by relevant factors. Richard's laboratory was built so smoothly, and his excellent record was at work.

Until now, Richard's excellent record has not changed. He did defeat Yang Rui's scientific research competition, but the Richard Laboratory at Peking University has not been cancelled, which is not a record of failure. What's more, in his current state, his failure record will not have much impact.

The only problem is to be more flirting with, more flattery, and more waste of time.

After careful consideration and discussion with his old friend in the United States, Richard decided not to return home first, but to make something and then look for new funds. However, the risk of doing this is even greater. If he had to spend two months looking for money, he would have to make something meaningful within three months. The relevant research has been done so now, and the error tolerance rate is very low in three months.

Richard resolutely.

He found President Pang again and made his own request, saying: "If you hand over the remaining funds to me in one go, I will give up the lawsuit and find a way to maintain Richard's laboratory. The results made by him will also sign the name of Peking University according to the original agreement."

Principal Pang naturally did not dare to agree.

Richard added weights to threaten his direct evacuation, and exposed his behavior at the next International Medical and Biological Engineering Conference and directly named Principal Pang.

Then Principal Pang felt ache and hesitated.

After several days of entanglement, Richard finally got the money for the next few months, and it was the last money given to him by Peking University.

Richard used the money to order new equipment and reagents. Most of the materials used in biological experiments were not made by himself. Some small biological companies specialized in providing them, which is also the foundation of small biological companies.

If an ordinary university professor can make one or two competitive biological materials to open a company, it will be easy to make an annual profit of one million US dollars.

By the 21st century, this trend has also spread to China. The research goals of many professors, researchers and even graduate students are to apply for patents and open small biological companies, from accurate ph test strips, bacterial culture media, immune cells, from mice, rabbits and even chimpanzees, they can create huge profits.

In the 1980s, there were fewer such biological companies and the prices of biological materials sold were more expensive, but no matter how expensive it was, it was still cheaper and cheaper than the laboratory itself.

Richard devoted himself to it.

It is not easy to do something for investors to see before the funds run out.

Richard became busier than before, which also meant that Xu Anqing, Zhu Jiahao and others were busier.

If these two scientific dogs were only squeezed out of bleeding before, they are now going to be squeezed out of their bone marrow, not to mention that they still need to take the final exam from time to time.

After only three days of work, Zhu Jiahao couldn't stand it anymore, so Xu Anqing had to hold on for a long time.

I only sleep for four hours a day, and do high-intensity precise experiments. I have to read literature and review exams a little free time. I think this situation is OK, but it will be too painful to do it. Moreover, the human body functions cannot be infinitely overdrawn.

After falling asleep during the exam the next day, Xu Anqing could no longer help but find Richard and asked for a holiday.

Richard was furious: "You are freshmen in the same school. Yang Rui can persist, why can't you persist?"

Xu Anqing heard the blue veins leapt straight and said, "If we talk about working hours, Yang Rui did not persist."

Zhu Jiahao also nodded repeatedly and said, "Yang Rui is going back to celebrate the New Year, why are you still insisting on?"

Richard's eyelids twitched: "What does it mean?"

Xu Anqing said angrily: "Yang Rui's daily working hours..."

"It's not you." Richard interrupted Xu Anqing and asked Zhu Jiahao: "What do you mean when you say Yang Rui is back for the New Year?"

"New Year is like you celebrate Christmas..."

"I know the Chinese New Year, I asked, has he gone back to celebrate the Chinese New Year? Has he left?"

"I haven't left yet, but I'm preparing. I heard from his fellow countrymen that Yang Rui bought train tickets for them." Zhu Jiahao was quite envious and asked, "There are not a few days in the Spring Festival, when will we have a holiday?"

"We won't have a holiday!" Richard's eyes flashed and said, "Yang Rui is too naive. Now I'm going back for the New Year. Do you expect me to let him go? Well... He may be setting off a smoke bomb, so that we can relax our guard and ignore him. The more we are at this moment, the more we should work hard..."

"He announced that the holiday was on. Anyone in Huarui Laboratory who wanted to go home could go home. Only those who were local or those who didn't go home stayed and paid for overtime." Zhu Jiahao almost stuck out his tongue and spoke.

"We cannot decide our behavior because of the opponent's movements." Sure enough, Richard began to use his opponent to describe Huarui Laboratory.

Xu Anqing frowned and asked Zhu Jiahao in Chinese: "Why are you so clear about the situation in Huarui Laboratory?"

"I'll ask people." Zhu Jiahao felt a little guilty.

Slap sex!

Richard's clapping interrupted Xu Anqing's inquiry. He called everyone in the laboratory and started his speech before "victory". The focus was on continuing to work hard and defeating Hua Rui.

Zhu Jiahao screamed and thought: I wouldn't have come to Richard's laboratory if I had known it.

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Chapter completed!