Actually, money is not the most important issue.
The crucial problem is that Zhao Yi has not expressed willingness to be responsible for the Particle Mathematics Research Center, and no one else has the ability to take charge. Their support is for Zhao Yi, not the School of Sciences of Yanhua University.
Zhou Zhengbin had no good solution and could only keep communicating with the relevant departments of the Science and Technology Office, bluntly speaking, it was just wrangling.
When the Science and Technology Office learned that Zhao Yi's particle mathematics research had achieved new results related to 'analytical strong force', they immediately took it seriously and even felt a sense of crisis.