Chapter 611 Storytelling (4600 words)
At Garnika contacted the public relations company and notified the press conference time, Yang Rui first went to the New York Pioneer and was invited to accept an exclusive interview with female reporter Katie.
Academic people should establish an academic image in front of scholars, and in front of the public, they should establish a public image. Especially researchers like Yang Rui should pay more attention to the public image.
The so-called researchers like Yang Rui are referring to the laboratory head. The laboratory head is looking for money, but where does the money come from? Although scholars have some money in their hands, more money needs to be obtained from the public, including the government, for scholars, they all belong to the public.
Yang Rui received two interviews in total. Although they were all interviews with ordinary New York newspapers, it was not easy.
If he hadn't performed well in his speech, he wouldn't have gotten these two opportunities.
In order to show his solemnity, Yang Rui specially put on his suit.
The suit is hand-sewn by foreign tailors in China, just like Panama has a Panama tailor in the UK, and the British tailor in Beijing is also good at craftsmanship. The most important thing is that Yang Rui, who was once rich, can still afford high-end fabrics.
In New York, the fashion capital, Katie praised at the opening: "A beautiful suit."
Yesterday she was the female reporter who looked at Yang Rui the most diligently. Today she was alone and looked at Yang Rui with an interesting and careful look.
Yang Rui didn't care, so he took a cup of coffee and drank it casually, and looked at the people and affairs around him, with a relaxed expression.
Compared to the still restrained atmosphere in China, the United States in the 1980s made Yang Rui more adaptable, especially in New York, the most international in the United States. The relationship between people is very cold, but there will never be a enthusiastic neighborhood aunt to care about your hair being long and your pants being short, which is very comfortable.
Katie scanned Yang Rui with appreciation, but for a while said: "Your suit is much better than yesterday. What is the reason? Is it to be consistent with others?"
"Is the interview started now?" Yang Rui put down the coffee cup in surprise.
Katie nodded with a smile, took out a recorder, installed a small tape, and said, "Do you mind my recording?"
Yang Rui made an invitation and said, "Today's suit is my own, and yesterday's suit was a uniformly made suit in China."
"The Chinese government makes it uniformly, and then give it to you?" Katie reconfirmed. It seemed that the focus of her interview was still on the particularity of the Chinese government.
Yang Rui smiled in his heart. Katie had Katie's ideas, and he also had his own ideas. It depends on who's ideas that are more attractive.
However, in 1984, Sino-US relations are in a honeymoon period, and Americans are extremely friendly to the Chinese. Not to mention the common enemy of the counterattack against Vietnam and reform and opening up, it is the Los Angeles Olympics that just ended a month ago. China sent a huge delegation to participate in the competition under the general boycott of Warsaw Pact countries, which won countless "international friendships".
Because of this atmosphere, Yang Rui did not rush to refute it, but just smiled and said, "The salary of Chinese people is generally not high, and suits are also a benefit."
"But you can afford an expensive suit, why is that?"
"Because my work is different from other members of the delegation. Because I am still studying in college, I do not have a formal job, so I work part-time to help the UK's Jelikon company improve their Coenzyme Q10 production system..." Yang Rui talked freely, and Katie's eyes shone, and he felt that the materials he got today were really rich.
"At that time, it was the time when I was most interested in genes. There was all kinds of information about DNA, which was beating in my mind. I thought that DNA was the same as these winding mountain roads, and mountain roads, and mountain roads, actually have similar places."
Yang Rui paused for a moment, let the female reporter digest it for a moment, and continued: "Every mountain road has its own characteristics, but the mountain road in each mountain actually has some places, which are the same, such as a turn and a straight road, which are basically similar. If the mountain road on one mountain is half and the mountain road on another mountain road on another, you will not feel abrupt."
The female reporter understood it immediately and said in surprise: "It's similar to the principle of PCR."
"Yes, PCR uses endonuclease to take a piece of DNA and then use primers to copy it, just like a winding mountain road." Yang Rui was very satisfied with the effect of his story.
Being a scientist is not easy. The more a scientist is, the more popular it needs to understand popular stories. This is true for Chinese people and foreigners.
For example, Newton, which is familiar to people, will be instantly associated with Apple, but apart from teaching the Newton-Lebniz equation in college advanced mathematics classes, how many people will remember Leibniz?
Einstein has a matte hair that has almost become synonymous with mad scientists. "Mad scientist" is not a bad thing. In the eyes of investors, mad scientists may be synonymous with success.
The most famous scientists in the early days of China's founding were "Sanqian", namely Qian Xuesen, the father of missiles, Qian Sanqiang, the father of atomic bombs, and Qian Weichang, the father of mechanics. Among the three coins, Qian Xuesen is the most famous. It is definitely wrong to say that missiles are more important than atomic bombs, or more important than mechanics. In the final analysis, the story of "one Qian Xuesen is the top five teachers" is more useful. In comparison, the names of Qian Sanqiang and Qian Weichang are far from familiar. To put it another way, if Premier Zhou had not called the name "Sanqian", like Qian Weichang, the father of mechanics, would have probably become more unknown. In an era when most people have lower education than high and small, several people know what mechanics means.
Some of the scientists’ stories come from themselves, and some come from media processing.
Yang Rui doesn't care about fame, but he does need mass media to prove his achievements now.
Thinking about the results of PCR in 1983 was very beneficial to Yang Rui. Although this cannot be regarded as evidence, it also has a subtle effect. If he unfortunately sued the case like he did in his previous life, Yang Rui hoped that the members of the jury had heard his story.
Katie liked stories more than Yang Rui. He immediately followed Yang Rui's ideas and asked: "That is to say, you had the idea of PCR when you were in high school?"
"Yes."
"Did you start doing experiments at that time?" Katie did not doubt Yang Rui's statement, because Yang Rui laid the groundwork in advance. The most important thing about his cooperation with Jilikang is that the money he earned from Jilikang well illustrates his value.
Since Yang Rui was able to make money from multinational companies in high school, there was no reason why he could not come up with a wonderful idea.
Yang Rui relied on sufficient preparation to make the interview follow his own direction and said: "It was very interesting to talk about this idea, but I didn't realize the value of this idea at that time."
"Oh? Why?"
Yang Rui shook his head and smiled, "I thought at that time, someone must have thought of similar ideas. Maybe it's better than mine, and then he must have achieved results. I just didn't find it. You know, at that time, I was in middle school and didn't have much conditions to search for information. In addition, I had to spend a lot of time on coenzyme Q10 and other aspects, and the college entrance examination was also an urgent problem."
“Sounds busy.”
"That's true. I picked up the idea of doing PCR after I entered university. Of course, at that time, my ideas were relatively complete, especially after doing research on potassium ion channels, I had a deeper understanding of PCR and realized its importance. Then I stepped up my efforts. Calculate the time. The topic part of PCR was only two months, and half of it was first familiar with the experimental process."
How did Yang Rui say the dream? The American dream is to make ordinary people afford it. If you tell the American public that PCR requires at least three to five years of systematic training, the help of multiple assistants, and the reserves worth millions of dollars. Americans don’t listen to what is below, and this story will be considered to be over.
The people of the world overlords are always a bit pretentious.
While listening to Yang Rui's words, Katie straightened out the story in her mind: Yang Rui, a teenager from a remote township in China, had a dream in high school. This dream came from his experiences on the way to school every day... He did not realize the importance of his ideas. Until he entered university, Yang Rui spent two months to complete his ideas and made a big splash at the "International Genetics Conference" in the United States, with sales exceeding 300,000 US dollars on the first day.
The final version of Katie's story will include PCR, but when she planned the storyline, she did not think about what PCR was.
A story that is completely in line with American ideas, Katie is shaking happily.
However, why did Yang Rui's preparations come true?
He smiled and continued, "In fact, I'm skeptical until today why no one did this research. As I said, it was a very simple study, maybe it might be so simple that people either thought someone had done it or thought it was impossible to do it. I think if I didn't do it, maybe someone would make it in a few years, but it's just that maybe, maybe, maybe, someone would discover the secret ten years later. How to say, I'm a lucky man."
"Very lucky." Katie's eyelashes began to tremble, and she smiled: "American biology experts must regret that they have climbed too few mountains."
"Maybe." Yang Rui thought to himself: If PCR really won the Nobel Prize, it would be more than regret. Many people were jealous and crazy back then.
After the interview, Katie left Yang Rui's contact information and took the initiative to send him out.
When Yang Rui was about to get in the car, Katie suddenly remembered a message and said hurriedly: "Yang Rui, you sold your technology to Garnika Company, is that true?"
"When?" Yang Rui closed the car door and signaled that the taxi driver could leave.
Katie quickly opened her notebook and said, "Don't you know about this? Garnika will hold a press conference at 10:30 tomorrow morning to announce the conclusion of an intentional contract with the Chinese government..."
She read it once and looked at Yang Rui.
"It's just an intentional contract, are you sure?"
"Sure."
Yang Rui breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "It's just an intentional contract, and PCR technology will not be sold directly."
"Are you sure the Chinese government will not sell it?"
"PCR technology does not belong to the Chinese government." Yang Rui laughed, glad that he had clearly divided it before, and said: "PCR technology belongs to Hong Kong Huarui Company. If Garnika wants to purchase this technology, he must contact Hong Kong Huarui Company."
Katie's eyes lit up again and asked, "Can I quote you in the article?"
"Of course, I will notify Hong Kong Huarui Company and ask their lawyers to send you documents. Well... I will send a lawyer's letter to Garnika Company." Yang Rui's expression was relaxed and did not regard this as a serious matter.
If an intentional contract can sell things from a Hong Kong company, then the country will no longer have to dig into making foreign exchange, and just wholesale intentional contracts.
Garnika held a press conference and announced an intention contract, which was similar to Yang Rui's interview. They both fought for the initiative through public opinion. However, Garnika found the wrong partner this time.
Yang Rui called a taxi again and left. When he arrived at the hotel, he called Li Zhangzhen again. Then he asked his company's lawyer to contact the American lawyer. With a fax, he threw the lawyer's letter to Garnika.
As for which clerk in Garnika would be unlucky, Yang Rui didn't care at all.
Chapter completed!