Invest 50 Million First.

"Menglong, how are you doing during the National Day?" Early the next morning, Zhang Menglong received a call from his senior brother Zhu Mengchao.

　　"Not bad, how about you, senior brother?"

　　"Of course hard-working doctoral students like us are just swinging those bottles and jars in the laboratory," Zhu Mengchao said helplessly. "I don't know what went into my head. After finishing graduate school, I then studied for a Ph.D. , My hair is getting less and less day by day, but my pockets are never bulging."

　　"Don't you get a lot of subsidies every month?" Zhang Menglong asked curiously.

　　"Subsidy? Come on! The school's 3,000 yuan subsidy is just enough to live on. My girlfriend can't afford it just by buying something. Lao Han's scientific research funding this year is too tight. Our labor fee has been deducted from 4,000 yuan a month to just one 800 per month, I'll be in tears if I talk about it too much!"

　　"Oh?" Zhang Mengyu's eyes lit up. It seems that due to the impact of the general situation this year, these traditional enterprises have been affected. Even these university teachers can't get scientific research funds.

　　"Let's not talk about that anymore. You are about to start preparing for your graduation thesis. Let's start tomorrow. I will send you a piece of information for you to read. I will take you to start doing experiments tomorrow."

　　"Okay," Zhang Menglong said.

　　Zhang Mengyu turned on the computer, and sure enough, a document had been transferred to his mailbox.

　　"Surface modification of graphene?" Zhang Mengyu glanced at his topic. Graphene is a very popular inorganic material recently. Its excellent properties play an extremely important role in many fields.

　　However, the cost of preparing graphene is quite high. The graphene prepared by the hummer method, which is the most common method in the laboratory, can even be less than 1 gram a week, and the purity is very low.

　　The price of high-purity graphene can even reach thousands of dollars per gram, which is ten times more expensive than gold!

　　"Good guy, scientific research is indeed the most expensive thing!" Zhang Mengyu took a look at the content of his experiment. The price of just 1 gram of high-purity graphene reached 2,000 yuan. No wonder these teachers are trying their best every day. When making money in various enterprises, a research group is simply equivalent to a money-burning machine.

　　Thinking of this, Zhang Mengyu directly dialed Zhu Mengchao's phone number.

　　"Hazy, what's wrong? Do you have any questions about the topic?"

　　"There is nothing wrong with the project," Zhang Mengyu said, "I just want to ask my senior brother, is our research team's research funding insufficient?"

　　"Hey, I feel worried when I talk about this!" Zhu Mengchao lowered his voice, "Lao Han got 30 million in scientific research funding last year and wanted to make some achievements in the field of graphene, and now he has achieved some results. ."

　　"But this 30 million yuan of funding can only support us for less than a month at most. The companies we originally cooperated with are also forcing us to get results. Now business is not doing well, and they are unwilling to increase our investment in scientific research. Han's hair has turned gray during this period."

　　"Is there a big funding gap?" Zhang Mengyu asked tentatively.

　　"It's quite big, at least 25 million, but don't worry, it will still be enough for your graduation, but we will suffer, hey..."

　　"Senior brother, is Teacher Han at school these days?"

　　"Old Han has gone to the company again in the past two days, but will go back to school the day after tomorrow. Do you have anything to do?" Zhu Mengchao asked, "Wait a minute, you don't want to go to graduate school, do you? Don't be confused. , I advise people to go to graduate school and have no descendants, but please don't come into our tiankeng major, you still have a bright future."

　　"Senior brother, I want to invest a scientific research fund for our research group."

　　"Ah? Say it again?" Zhu Mengchao thought he heard it wrong. Investing in scientific research is no joke. Not only does it entail huge risks, but even if there are results, the cycle of turning scientific research results into industry is quite long. long.

　　The most important thing is, where does Zhang Menglong, an ordinary senior student, get the money to support scientific research? Even if it's several million, their research group won't be able to withstand the effort for too long.

　　"Brother, I want to invest a scientific research fund for our research team." Zhang Mengyu repeated, "You just said there is still a gap of 25 million, right? I will invest 50 million first."

　　"What? 50 million? Wait, junior brother, are you kidding? You..."

　　"I'm not joking. Look, I'm about to leave school. I don't want to make some contributions to our school and our research group before graduation."

　　"But..." Teacher Han is famous for his temper. If Zhang Mengyu was joking, his senior brother would be torn into pieces by Old Han.

　　"Brother, let's do this. Give me Teacher Han's contact information, and I'll talk to Teacher Han myself. This way, even if there are no problems, it won't implicate you." Zhang Menglong knew what Zhu Mengchao was worried about. Ordinary people, who can believe it?

　　Even the 30 million was obtained by Teacher Han after many trips, signing many agreements and clauses, and a part of the so-called handling fee was left by the school. In fact, what he got was not 30 million at all.

　　"Okay, but you can't say I gave you the number."

　　"Don't worry, senior brother, I'll treat you to dinner when the time comes!"

　　"There is no need to eat," Zhu Mengchao said, "If you can really help our research team solve the funding problem, I would like to thank you before it is too late, so that Lao Han will no longer deduct our labor fees."

　　"Hahaha, don't worry, senior brother, I will definitely help you!"

　　Zhang Menglong successfully obtained Teacher Han's phone number from Zhu Mengchao.

　　Teacher Han's full name is Han Jinyu. He is a very famous professor at their Jiangnan University of Technology and the head of their materials major. He has the title of Yangtze River Scholar. If this project is successful, he may even have the opportunity to become a self-trained student of his school. The second academician is no small matter for an ordinary university like Jiangnan University of Science and Technology.

　　Han Jinyu was lying on the hotel bed with a sad look on his face, with a thick stack of information scattered beside him.

　　Although he is a personable professor on the surface, only they know how painful it is to deal with the bosses of those companies.

　　Especially when asking for money from them, he is almost like a grandson.

　　Today he was once again rejected. The project has achieved so far only in papers, but for companies, they don't care at all what level of papers they publish, even if they are published in the world's first-class journals like Science or Nature. , it won't be of much benefit to them either.

　　All they care about is how their research results can be applied to industry and how they can help them earn more money, nothing more.

　　They have already invested 30 million, but they haven't seen any return yet, and now Han Jinyu is asking them for funds. Isn't this a joke? Businesses are not charities!

　　Just when Han Jinyu was about to collapse, his cell phone rang, but a very young boy's voice came from the other end of the phone.

　　"Hello, are you Teacher Han?"

　　"Who are you?"

　　"Teacher Han, I am Zhang Menglong who chose your research group for graduation project this year. You should be impressed, right?"

　　"Oh, it's you," Han Jinyu said, "Didn't I arrange for Zhu Mengchao to take you to do the experiment? What's wrong, is there something wrong with the experiment? Or is my senior brother irresponsible?"

　　Zhang Mengyu quickly developed a liking for Han Jinyu's attitude. He knew many teachers who treated ordinary students with a arrogant attitude. For this reason alone, Zhang Mengyu was willing to help him.

　　"Nothing, senior brother takes good care of me."

　　"That's good. What's the reason for you calling me?" Han Jinyu really couldn't imagine the purpose of a graduate calling him. Could it be that he hoped that he would let him go in his graduation project?

　　"Teacher Han, I heard that your research group has encountered some funding problems recently, so..."

　　"Did Meng Chao tell you?" Han Jinyu's tone suddenly became serious. This kind of thing is the secret of the research team. How can you just talk to a student doing graduation project?

　　"Teacher, don't be angry. It's like this. I have some money here that I want to invest in our research group as funding. Let's see when you have time and we can discuss this matter."

　　"Scientific research funding?" Han Jinyu couldn't help laughing, "How much money do you plan to invest in our laboratory?"

　　"Shall we invest 50 million for now?"

　　"What? 50 million?"

　　"Yes, if it's not enough, I will add more later. Since you are out of town these two days, then I..."

　　"No, no, no, where are you now? I'll go back to school right away!" Han Jinyu seemed to have regained all his energy at once. This time, his project was saved!