For Geng Jian, tens of thousands of yuan is already awesome. In fact, he can't even get 620 yuan, and tens of thousands of yuan can be said to be astronomical.

Even a Peking University student, Geng Jian had to admit that his fantasy was that one day he would become a person like Yang Rui. If someone could take the initiative to give tens of thousands of yuan in research funds, buy whatever he wanted, give him what he wanted, and write a paper.

Before today, Geng Jian's fantasy did not even include the word "active". The researchers he had come into contact with were racking his brains and doing his best to get a piece of funds.

In fact, the researchers Geng Jian met were unable to say that he had done his best.

Yang Rui has seen a researcher who really tried his best to make a funding. In order to stamp a seal, he ran to three branches from south to north, waiting at the door to stamp it. As for how many sleepless nights to stay in the laboratory and how many experimental dogs were exhausted, it was even hard to say.

In China 30 years later, a university professor spent an average of one-third of his time on applying for projects and funds every year. If he focused on this, he would consume two-thirds of his time.

Compared to the project application form that had to be stamped with dozens of chapters in later generations, the current one-sentence program allocation method is even simpler than Yang Rui imagined.

Of course, it's just simple for him.

After all, the mail bag placed in front of each committee member can be printed with a large "CELL".

"I urgently approved 50,000 yuan of research funds. Now, it's still a little less. I hope to apply for another 600,000 yuan so that Yang Rui can improve his paper and strive to pass the revision." Professor Cai shook the chair with a smile, feeling very good.

In any case, Yang Rui is a student of the Department of Biology, and the work unit he designated is "Tang Ji Laboratory", which is also from the Department of Biology of Peking University. All honors and military medals are indispensable to Yang Rui, the school, and Professor Cai.

All the members here are the members. No matter which department they are from, they can only look at Professor Cai with envious and jealous eyes.

After a while, a familiar professor sighed: "I asked you to get a bargain. Yang Rui did not apply to the Department of Chemistry, otherwise H would have published a top journal last semester."

"Give us the Department of Physics and publish top journals in four months." Another professor said casually.

The people next to him were not willing to be outdone: "Give us the geological system, 3 months."

The committee member who came to the meeting in the mathematics department smiled, stretched out a finger, and said, "Give you two months."

"Publish papers in one month to top journals? How do you train?"

"You're going to blow it, there's no need to prove it." The mathematics professor laughed, which attracted more laughter.

Professor Cai coughed and said, "Don't just brag, let's talk about serious business. I want 600,000 yuan in funding. If no one objected, I will approve it."

"600,000 is too much, it's impossible." The Department of Chemistry and Biological have more commonalities, and there is more time to compete for funding.

Professor Cai smiled and pointed in the middle, saying, "Cell, it's 600,000 yuan to publish a cell. I think it's too much? I think 6 million is not too much."

"6 million is not much, but your project has been completed. Where can I use 600,000 yuan for minor changes? I think 60,000 is enough." The Department of Physics is also a major department that uses funds, and it looks even closer to the school's funds than your own.

Professor Cai gusted two sips of tea and said, "I'll give you 60,000 yuan, you can make a small change for me."

"I really change it, will you give me a name?" The professor in the Department of Physics was not willing to be outdone.

"You ask Tang Ji and Yang Rui, I'm not the author." Professor Cai smiled twice, looked at the principal of the main seat, and said: "Now, a total of 600,000 yuan is needed. Tang Ji's laboratory is empty. Our biology department can pay another 50,000 yuan, and the remaining 550,000 yuan is hoped that the school can make up for it and we guarantee that the minor reform will be passed."

"Ensure that the minor reforms are passed?" the principal sought confirmation.

The representatives and deputies of the Department of Mathematics said first: "You can guarantee this kind of thing? The minor changes are relatively simple, but they are guaranteed to pass? How do you guarantee that? Can you have an undercover agent in the journal company?"

"I can at least be sure that 600,000 yuan of funds will definitely be more guaranteed than 50,000 yuan of research funds. Besides, Yang Rui's research has always been provided by Hong Kong Huarui Company and Richard Laboratory. The school did not provide a penny of research funds. Now, it is 550,000 yuan, and it is not a loss to get a paper about the cell." Professor Cai said something that he did not make a swearing, but he said it was much more convincing than swearing.

The principal nodded slightly.

"You are not really thinking about it, right?" The professor of physics moved his chair and said forward: "The several projects we are applying for are all stuck due to funding issues."

"Who are we? Can the projects you apply for? Can you apply to "Cell", "Nature", or "Science"?" Professor Cai kept mocking. School project funds are usually used by scholars who cannot apply for national funds or provincial and ministerial funds. Although it is not that it is not good to apply for national funds or provincial and ministerial funds, in terms of proportion, such research is naturally more difficult to enter top journals.

In fact, as far as the current situation in China is concerned, let alone top foreign journals, they are almost certain to be listed in middle-level journals and obtain national-level funds. Yang Rui is an exception. He is still a student, with too little age, no accumulation, and he has risen too quickly, so he did not apply for national-level funds. What Professor Cai is doing now is actually compensation for Yang Rui.

He himself is a member of the academic department. To be honest, it is even more rare than that of academicians in later generations. Just look at Yang Rui's paper and then look at the opinions given by the reviewers. He can almost introduce the funds needed. As for the current situation, let alone 600,000, he may not need to be paid.

However, research funds are used too much, or in other words, during the research process, money is used too much. With the current domestic mechanism, a scholar can only get a large amount of funds when he produces his achievements, which is Yang Rui's current situation.

According to Professor Cai's opinion, if Yang Rui doesn't ask for funds now, it will be difficult to get funds when he does the next project. The representatives and deputies who compete for funds will still re-examine what they say today, and Yang Rui's competitiveness will be even weaker.

Because no one can guarantee that his next paper will be available on "Cell", and Yang Rui is almost certain that he can.

This makes it easier to invest in Yang Rui now.

In the early stage of the project, Yang Rui did not invest in it, but instead, because of Vice President Pang, he funded Yang Rui's competitor Richard, which made Professor Cai feel a little guilty and helped Yang Rui get 600,000 yuan, which is a small compensation.

This money may not be enough to buy equipment in US dollars, but it is more than enough to maintain a laboratory, do some experiments, or even keep a few experimental dogs.

In the Department of Biology at Peking University, laboratories that can obtain 600,000 yuan in a year are at least at the level of independent laboratories.

Although Professor Cai could not give Yang Rui the name first, in terms of research itself, funding is still the king.

Professor Cai’s reason for preparing did indeed impress the principal.

After thinking for about a minute, the principal pushed forward his palm and signaled others to stop discussing, and then said: "The school's funds are indeed relatively tight. Not only our Peking University, but also Tsinghua University and the National People's Congress are also very nervous. However, I think the same choice is the same for Tsinghua University. Whether it is 550, 600,000, or 1.6 million, it is still necessary to ensure a cell paper."

The representative professor of physics was quite frustrated, but he could only express his understanding. In fact, the principal also said it very clearly.

Those who apply for funds in the Department of Physics are graduate students, doctoral students, and lecturers with low-age seniors who are difficult to apply for funds outside the school. In short, senior experimental dogs and head dogs need to train their skills and knowledge through the funds provided by the school. At this time, the school funds are equivalent to angel investment.

In contrast, Yang Rui is actually younger and more difficult to apply for funds outside the school. He only gets money from the school when the project is about to be completed. If the school doesn't give it, it's unreasonable.

As for the amount of times the salary of 600,000 yuan, no one here cares.

This is "CELL", no matter how much money you have!

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Chapter completed!