In the morning, Li Mingrui ran a few laps around the school pond in his sportswear, saying hello to the students along the way. As a researcher who became an associate professor in his thirties, he can be regarded as one of the best among people.
It was quite a relaxing and comfortable life.
However, there are even better among the strongest, and there are many smart minds in the world. Before Liu Mingrui graduated from the Ph.D., he thought he should be considered the smartest person in the world, but when he actually stepped into the door of the scientific research pyramid, he discovered that
Doctors are nothing, there are too many truly awesome people!
Liu Mingrui originally wanted to set up a biology research team in the Imperial Capital, but the fact is that the Imperial Capital has gathered the most resources in the country and the top talents in the country. After several years of work, he has been hit for a few years, so he can only return silently.
I found a university as a teacher in my hometown in Northeast China, and I got the title of associate professor very quickly, but the value of it was never recognized by others.
Liu Mingrui, who is still young, has always wanted to do some research to prove his ability, but scientific research costs money. Nowadays, it costs tens of thousands of yuan for any graduate student to do an experiment. If the experiment fails, tens of thousands of yuan will be reimbursed. It’s really serious.
Were the experiments done casually?
It used to be said that mathematicians were the cheapest to do research, as they only needed paper and pens. But now even mathematicians need to be equipped with supercomputers to do research, which can easily cost tens of billions.
Back then, when the atomic bomb was being developed, the whole country was tightening its belts. Do you really think that scientists could just draw a blueprint and find a few workers to build the atomic bomb? Now, research is purely a competition for capital. If you don’t have money, you can’t think of dedicating yourself to science!
In order to raise money for experiments, Liu Mingrui started some small projects of his own, looking for school students as workers to prepare some experimental medicines and take them out. But in recent years, the Northeast has been called a poor place, and no one is doing research among the poor. Liu Mingrui
I almost lost money after struggling for several years.
After sweating a little after running, Liu Mingrui went to inspect his laboratory. He had several scientific research dogs and a dozen scientific research handymen who could only wash flasks. Well, they were actually a group of graduate students and undergraduates.
These people maintain Liu Mingrui's last project - raising white mice.
Mice are always indispensable in biochemical experiments, especially in various drug experiments, mice of various pedigrees are indispensable, and the classification is quite complicated.
Liu Mingrui's university has a mouse breeding project that has lasted for more than 30 years. Every year, the entire biology department is supported by the money from selling these mice. The bitterness of this is enough to make me cry!
After entering the laboratory, a student reported to Liu Mingrui: "Professor Liu, Professor Xu from Ronghua has ordered another two thousand alpha-lineage mice."
"Ordered again? Didn't they just order a thousand of them last week?" Liu Mingrui was a little surprised. No one has sold mice in such large quantities from him in recent years. People nowadays like to buy imported ones. No.
That’s right, mice of special pedigrees are imported, and they are extremely expensive.
"No, they ordered a total of 4,500 last week," the student said.
"What? Four thousand five hundred! Can't they buy white mice and go back to barbecue and beat their teeth as a memorial?" Liu Mingrui couldn't believe it. In the past, they might not have been able to sell so many in a month. "How many sets of comparative experiments do we need to do?"
Ordinary white mice only cost two yuan each, but the white mouse in Liu Mingrui's hand belongs to a purified pedigree that has been bred for more than 30 years. It is the most valuable asset left by the older generation of researchers in the school. A white mouse costs three hundred yuan.
of.
It is not difficult to raise a white mouse, but Liu Mingrui's biology department usually only raises two to three thousand. This number is already very impressive, and it is useless to raise more if they cannot be sold. It is good to have people ordering now. He gritted his teeth and said: "
Let Xu Guoqiang pay the deposit first."
"The finance department of the department just called and said that the payment for the goods has been paid in full," the student said.
"Call me the full amount!" Liu Mingrui was surprised again. He calculated in his mind that Xu Guoqiang had spent two to three million just buying mice from him in the past two months. And mice are very cheap in biochemical experiments.
Consumables, you can imagine how much money the other party spent in total during the experiment!
"Xu Guoqiang is forcing our entire department to raise rats for him!" Liu Mingrui didn't have that much in his hands, but the rats would breed very quickly. When he heard that the other party was sending money, he already
He was determined to make this huge sum of money, and maybe even earn money for him to do experiments.
Liu Mingrui was overjoyed when suddenly the dean of the department hurried over, took his hand and shouted: "Xiao Liu, why are you still here? Come with me quickly."
Liu Mingrui snapped up on the spot, stood still and said, "Director, our laboratory has just received a large order for a white mouse. Once completed, we can earn millions. I have to continue with this task."
It's pitiful to say the least. An unsuccessful associate professor has a headache for millions of dollars in funding, while a professor who is in charge of a big project may have hundreds of millions of project funds in his hands. But Liu Mingrui and the others are so miserable, they are poor and short of ambition.
!
Seeing that Liu Mingrui refused to leave, the dean of the department was so anxious that he could only pull hard and shouted: "Don't worry about mice or not, there is a project worth 50 million waiting for us now. If we can take it down,
Our entire department will have no worries about food and drink in the next few years.”
"Fifty million?" Liu Mingrui's heart beat loudly. He remembered that he had participated in the competition for tens of millions of projects at a research institute in the imperial capital. As a result, he was so confident that he was beaten to the bottom and could only
Sadly, I will go back to my hometown in the Northeast to make a living.
"Who will give us a project worth 50 million soft girl coins? Director, have you been deceived by others?" Liu Mingrui felt that both the director and himself should calm down.
"Who said it's a soft coin, it's a U.S. dollar!" The department chair shouted to express his anxiety, "Do you know Xu Guoqiang? Xu Guoqiang took 30 million US dollars from this project to build a laboratory.
Yes, he has been so arrogant recently that people are angry when they see him."
Liu Mingrui's heart jumped into his throat when he heard that it was US dollars. Then he heard that it was funds to support Xu Guoqiang's research project, and he immediately believed it. At least Xu Guoqiang had been buying small items from him in the past few months.
Guinea pig. But this was the first time he heard that Xu Guoqiang could get 30 million US dollars in research funding.
"Can Xu Guoqiang get 30 million U.S. dollars in research funds?" Liu Mingrui felt like flames were coming out of his nostrils. 30 million U.S. dollars is more than 100 million soft sister coins. The project he lost in the competition was only 1,000 U.S. dollars.
Just 10,000 yuan.
"How can that Xu Guoqiang and He De control 30 million US dollars in funds? That guy's research level is a joke, far worse than mine." Liu Mingrui was so angry in his heart that he had a lot of knowledge but raised mice every day, and even
He is worried about making a million. But there are people who are not as good as him but spend a lot of money. How can people balance this?
Now Liu Mingrui was even more anxious than the department director, and ran out of the laboratory yelling, "Let's go, director, let's go quickly. My level is much higher than that of Xu Guoqiang. I must win the project this time."