"Richard must have known this now." Huang Mao looked at Xu Anqing's back and asked, "Do you know this student? Otherwise, I'll tell him, don't report to Richard first, delaying for a few days and counting how many days it will take."

"It doesn't need to be, Richard knew it." Yang Rui thought for a moment and said: "The domestic laboratory level is at most the kind in our school. Richard's new laboratories cannot exceed many, and the same is true for researchers. In addition to Richard himself, he can only find researchers from China, and the progress cannot be faster than us."

Yang Rui was quite confident. On the one hand, his confidence came from himself. The materials and papers in his mind could avoid countless detours in experiments. On the other hand, Yang Rui's confidence came from Huang Mao. Although Huang Mao himself did not realize that he would be able to successfully grow into an academician-level figure, so he must have outstanding achievements in scientific research.

Huang Mao has not yet proved his strength with unattainable facts, but he has completed systematic learning and basic accumulation. Normally, he now has the foundation for breaking out in the laboratory. The only difference is that two or three years later, he will accumulate more in the school laboratory, or in Yang Rui's laboratory.

The most important thing is that Huang Mao’s research direction at that time included potassium channel-related relationships. For a researcher, although there are any mistakes in the research direction, if he succeeds and becomes famous at the age of 40 or 50, and still does research in this area, he must have advantages or interests in this direction.

As a research, it should be a category that humans do not know. They do not know its appearance, nor do they know what knowledge they need to study it, whether they need a strong level of mathematics? Do they need a comprehensive chemistry foundation? Do they need reserves in fluids or electromagnetics? Before the research, no one could say, especially in biological systems, big bulls who are good at mathematics, big bulls who are good at chemistry, and big bulls who are good at physics are emerging one after another. Countless researchers have to compete for both strength and luck. The same research has different interpretation directions, and the results may also be completely different.

For example, the Nobel Prize discovery of the DNA double helix structure is the spiral parameters obtained by Watson and Crick through X-ray diffraction photos of DNA crystals. Without corresponding physical and mathematical foundations, no matter how powerful awesome the artist can do, it cannot be played with.

From the perspective of hindsight, Huang Mao obviously has the correct problem-solving posture when it comes to issues related to potassium channels, and perhaps there are also metaphysical bonuses of inspiration.

Yang Rui felt that if he cooperated with Huang Mao and the laboratory built with hundreds of thousands of dollars, such a combination would be sure to deal with Richard.

Although Richard is a great man from the University of California, he is only a great man. He is more awesome than a great man from Peking University like Tang Ji. He is in the center of knowledge and has the advantages of information and material advantages. In China 30 years later, professors like Richard come to Peking University again, and he is an ordinary visiting scholar, and he will definitely not receive the current academician-level courtesy.

Huang Mao did not have the confidence of Yang Rui, and he didn't even have the heart to read the literature. He said worriedly: "Richard is amazing alone. As far as I see, Lao Tang's gel laboratory is supported by him alone, and other assistant researchers, that is, the level of assistants."

Yang Rui smiled: "You are also an assistant, do you want to say that you are useless?"

"It doesn't matter if I'm useful. We need our research to be useful, otherwise there will be a lot of trouble. Can you bear the results of the waste of all the research funds?" Huang Mao lowered his voice and said, "Average research, even if there is no result, the process is useful. Once we do it now, once Richard takes the lead, the intermediate process will be useless. After the entire experiment is done, it will cost at least 100,000 yuan, even if you have dividends..."

"500,000." Yang Rui interrupted Huang Mao's words.

Huang Mao asked in confusion: "What?"

"I have prepared 500,000 yuan in funding, so I can bear 100,000 yuan in funding losses. Of course, I can also bear 500,000 yuan in funding losses. It is February, and by the end of March, I will still have dividends for the new quarter." Yang Rui's previous dividends have not been spent, so he has a considerable amount of funds. He is actually in a very perfect stage for a researcher - with high and long-term patent fee returns.

Thirty years later, most biology professors are pursuing what Yang Rui did. Why are so many people devoted to cancer fight disease or targeted research on AIDS? In the final analysis, these lifelong medication diseases can provide long-term and high patent funds.

If professors are ranked in order, professors in the Department of Biology and Medicine are usually at the top, and the more basic the professors are, the poorer they are. In short, professors who can make patents are the most comfortable, and a lifelong benefit from investment. Secondly, professors who can make projects are able to make millions a year as the benchmark. There are really many people who exceed the standard. The lowest income is to be a pure academic professor. Even if you can do some academics, such as getting 500,000 yuan away from 1 million yuan, the process is complicated and risky, and it is not the most perfect way.

In China in the 1980s, professors had not yet developed a corresponding business model, and once more than those selling tea eggs. As for a young lecturer like Huang Mao, he could almost be with the poor. Listening to Yang Rui easily talk about 500,000, it was really difficult to implement.

Huang Mao was worried that Yang Rui was bragging, so he couldn't help but say, "You still have the heart to joke, this is a serious matter."

"I'm serious, I promise a 500,000 yuan fund." Yang Rui paused for a moment and then said, "I know that Richard must be a powerful person. If our level and experience cannot keep up with others, we cannot suffer in terms of funding, otherwise how can we compete."

"Are you taking a gamble?" Huang Mao glared.

"It's just a 500,000 yuan fund, why is it just a desperate bet?" Yang Rui said in a show-off tone.

Huang Mao shook his head: "Even if you have 1 million, you can't spend it like this. Can you not do it in the future? It would be fine if this project could make money, but if you can't get a penny back, won't you feel sorry?"

"There must be heartbreaking, but things need to be done. If we do it well, we can not only make a profit, but we may also make a profit." After studying the potassium channel, it is only a step away to pharmaceuticals. This patent will be of interest to a large number of pharmaceutical companies.

If it weren't for this, Richard wouldn't have wanted to surrender.

"The money is yours, you will decide." Huang Mao was actually willing to do research with sufficient funds. He shrugged and said, "We'd better start now. We can only win but not lose. Otherwise, we will be bitten by Richard. Just as the student said just now, there are probably more people who believe that we plagiarize than those who believe that Richard plagiarizes."

"Sharpening a knife will not delay chopping wood, just do our own." Yang Rui pointed to the literature at hand and continued to look down at the journal.

To do this kind of research, you must first understand the research of previous generations. If it is 20 years later, this is the process of entering a few keywords and then searching for relevant literature. But in China in 1984, it was not so easy to search for keywords.

Even if there are some papers in Yang Rui's mind, they may be completely omitted. On the other hand, the potassium channel is the current research hotspot. They do need to know how others are progressing and establish their own arguments based on others. This is an inevitable part of scientific research. If you want to do Riemann geometry, you must first have Euclid's geometry as the basis. For papers like the potassium channel, there are more foundations to rely on.

Without a database or search engine, Yang Rui and Huang Mao would have to read books and journals one by one.

Thanks to Peking University's good conditions and their English skills are high, otherwise, even if a finished paper is placed in front of them, ordinary people would not dare to copy it.

Many certain researches will be discussed and debated, and plagiarized papers without any level of plagiarism cannot be copied.

After reading several journals, half an hour passed. During this period, Sun Ruyue went to the library to help the two change books, which was also the additional benefit of Yang Rui's silver bullet attack.

Huang Mao finished reading a paper, but did not read the next one immediately, but served tea and drank it for a while and asked, "What should you do if Richard's laboratory in China is just a cover?"

"What's the meaning?"

"It takes a month to arrange the laboratory, right? Richard should have been racing against time, but was it just a waste of a month to wait for our school to build a laboratory for him?"

"Do you suspect he is at the University of California and has started to do experiments?"

"It's not impossible. If he gives the order, it's not surprising that he starts doing it first."

"Then we have to speed up the progress." Yang Rui had no other way, he could not affect the United States.

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Chapter completed!