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Chapter 19 Persuasion

When Jiang You signed the contract in Beijing, Du Qiu took Jiang Danfeng and Chen Zhiyang to the Institute of Quantum Physics in Qingyun Mountain, intending to win the support of Academician Hou Chengzong and increase bargaining chips to promote the expansion of university enrollment.

Qingyun Mountain is only more than 160 meters above sea level. The mountain is like an inverted shell. There are cliffs on the southeast side, which are steep and steep, and gentle slopes on the northwest side, slowly descending. The Institute of Quantum Physics is a product of the Cold War period. The site selection is very particular, and it is located at the junction of the south and west sides. It can not only protect safety by using the mountain, but also does not affect material transportation.

The institute covers a small area, only about 60 or 70 acres. Several scientific research buildings were built in the 1960s, with a typical Soviet style, square and steady, and the residential buildings were expanded one after another in different eras, so the style is very chaotic, including brick and tile houses from the 1960s, tube buildings from the 1970s, and single-family buildings from the 1980s.

Hou Chengzong is the only academician in the research institute. He has a very high status. He lives in a two-story building. He is surrounded by a fence at the entrance. He grows flowers on the left and grows vegetables on the right. He has a bit of hermit style as a picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and leisurely sees the southern mountain.

Du Qiu had just parked the car outside the yard when he saw Hou Chengzong walking out of the room. He quickly pushed open the car door and greeted: "Happy New Year, Teacher Hou."

"Xiao Du, you have been so proud of your tail recently." Hou Chengzong held up a newspaper and scolded him angrily: "It is too much to advertise Einstein, which will insult the ancestors!"

"Teacher Hou, don't be angry, it's just a photo." Du Qiu explained while going to the trunk to carry gifts: "This photo has been used by countless businessmen over the past few decades and has been made into T-shirts, mugs, dolls, etc. Einstein didn't mind when he was alive, and he also made it into postcards and sent it everywhere. I got the authorization through formal channels. It doesn't matter if it's advertising?"

Hou Chengzong is a researcher of theoretical physics. No scientist in this field does not regard Einstein as an idol, so he is very angry at Du Qiu's advertisement for him. After hearing the explanation, he is still unhappy and teased: "You stretch your face over and let me touch how thick the skin is. It's really a pug biting the moon - I don't know how high the sky is! I don't feel ashamed to compare myself to Einstein."

"Teacher Hou, it's been a day or two that you've known Du Qiu. When did he feel ashamed?" Jiang Danfeng helped to ease his cheeks and pulled the down jacket and said, "I've touched his face many times, it's thicker than this one!"

Hou Chengzong raised three sons, all of whom worked in other places, and lived in the research institute with his wife. His life was a bit deserted. When Snapdragon was working here, Jiang Danfeng was informed and tactful. He often came to visit him, which cultivated a lot of favors. He calmed down when he heard this, and said, "Danfeng, Xiao Du looked honest. In fact, he could jump more than Sun Wuzi. Please take him tighter."

"Yes, yes, I must watch him tightly. You should go into the house quickly. It's windy outside, be careful of a cold."

Chen Zhiyang took out a tote bag containing two bottles of wine from the Audi car he drove, and said with a smile: "Du Qiu, fortunately you brought Danfeng here today, otherwise Mr. Hou wouldn't have let you go so easily."

Du Qiu held a cardboard box full of local specialties and smiled bitterly: "I think Teacher Hou resented Brother Chen for dropping out of school and took his anger on me."

"Dayou has no choice. The company has a lot of things and really doesn't have the energy to write papers, so he can only drop out of school."

Chen Dayou used to pursue a doctorate degree with Hou Chengzong at the Institute of Quantum Physics. When he was halfway through his thesis, he founded Snapdragon with Du Qiu, and then ran around the world, without any intention or interest in continuing to write thesis. Chen Zhiyang had scolded him several times and ordered him to complete the thesis and get his doctorate. However, since the IView's successful financing in November, he changed his attitude and simply handled the withdrawal procedures for his son. First, Chen Dayou is already a billionaire and his diploma is optional. Second, because Hou Chengzong's requirements are very strict, the thesis that fools or asks a gunman to write cannot pass his review. Instead of making a mess, it is better to drop out directly, and at least retain the relationship between teachers and students.

Facts proved that this approach was very smart. Hou Chengzong felt sorry that Chen Dayou gave up his degree because of his career, and instead had a better impression of him, and the two families walked around more frequently.

"Old Hou, Dayou bought two bottles of red wine from California and asked me to give it to you. You can give it to see if there is any French one."

"If you buy the right red wine in California, the quality is no worse than that in France." Hou Chengzong is an expert in red wine. He took out a bottle from the bag and looked at it, and said happily: "Dayou has a good vision. He even bought Cabernet Sauvignon from the 1992-year-old Xiaoying Winery. This is the best wine. Don't leave at noon, let's have a drink with me."

"We weren't ready to leave at first." Du Qiu put the cardboard box on the ground, carried a piece of Xuanwei ham from it, put a chef's pose, and said with a smile: "Even the ingredients are brought, Teacher Hou will not be reluctant to leave the stove at home, right?"

"I can tell that you are not thick-skinned, you are not shameless!"

"Hey, Du Qiu is here, why did we make our old Hou angry again?"

At this time, Hou Chengzong's wife came down from the second floor, chatted with everyone for a while, and took Jiang Danfeng to the kitchen. Chen Zhiyang took out a paper to argue the necessity of university enrollment expansion, asking Hou Chengzong to correct it. Du Qiu was not a person in the education system, and was not familiar with the educational environment in the 1990s. She could only tell the various benefits of university enrollment expansion by talking about the mountains, but could not turn the various benefits into well-founded papers. So she handed this work to Chen Zhiyang. He happened to need this political achievement, so he was extremely efficient and prepared the first draft in two days.

"You are like Xiao Du. Every time you come to me, there will be no good things." After Hou Chengzong teased, he saw the title of the proposal clearly, his face became serious, and asked Chen Zhiyang: "Do you want to expand the enrollment of university?"

"This is actually Du Qiu's idea. I think it makes sense, so I helped draft this paper."

"What is Xiao Du's idea?" Hou Chengzong was a little surprised, glanced at Du Qiu and asked, "What are you a capitalist who runs a company doing to interfere in university admissions?"

"Teacher Hou, don't exaggerate. I haven't interfered in college admissions. I just think there are too few college students now, not enough." Du Qiu laughed and said: "Last year, there were about 350,000 undergraduate graduates, who had graduated from graduate school and those who went abroad, and there were 300,000, who had just filled in and those who were not good at level, and there were 150,000, who had been civil servants and those who went to foreign companies, and there were 100,000, who had left public institutions and state-owned enterprises, and there were 50,000. There were millions of private enterprises across the country. How can 50,000 be enough?"

"Speak nonsense and talk nonsense!"

Hou Chengzong laughed and scolded, then put on reading glasses and looked down at the paper. Chen Zhiyang cared about the paper very much and sat in the living room waiting. Du Qiu was very relaxed and ran to the kitchen to help clean up the ingredients and make lunch. After working for more than half an hour, he was called back.

"Zhi Yang's article is well written, with clear structure, detailed data, and very convincing. It is much better than Xiao Du's words just now." Hou Chengzong had been engaged in science for a lifetime and felt that the logic was fine, so he immediately accepted it and said: "It is indeed necessary to expand the enrollment of universities to benefit the country and the people. I support this matter. What do you want me to help?"

"Universities cannot expand enrollment by simply expanding enrollment. President Chen and I want to promote several universities in Yuncheng to jointly apply to the provincial government and the Ministry of Education to build a university town in Yuncheng to accumulate experience for enrollment expansion." Du Qiu took a piece of milk candy from the fruit plate and handed it over with a little intention, saying: "Teacher Hou is respectful and responds to it with all his wishes. I hope you can come forward to create momentum for this matter and give it a blow. We are very grateful."

"I'm grateful for a piece of candy?" Hou Chengzong laughed in silence, threw the milk candy on the coffee table, and said, "You, you are very talented, but you are in the eyes of money. Everything is business. Tell me, how do you want to build a university town? Where to build it?"

Seeing that he was like this, Du Qiu obviously agreed to help, so he stopped making jokes and took a map of Yuncheng from the Jaguar, pointed to the area discussed with Yang Fan, and roughly explained the idea of ​​building a university town. Finally, he promised: "Teacher Hou, although I fell into the eyes of money, I am not a person who loves money as life. If this university town is approved, for every student I settled in, I will donate 10,000 yuan to the university I belong to as scientific research funds."

Hou Chengzong didn't take it seriously and shook his head and said, "Your nonsense style must be changed, otherwise you will suffer a loss sooner or later. If one student donates 10,000, then if there are 10,000 students, wouldn't you have to donate 100 million?"

"Of course, 100 million is not much, I can afford it."

Chen Zhiyang and Du Qiu have been in contact with him more often. Seeing that his expression is not as fake, he smiled and tentatively said, "Du Qiu, if you really donate like this, I promise that Sanjiang University will be the first to move into the university town."

Du Qiu stood up, stretched out his right hand, and said seriously: "President Chen, let's ask Teacher Hou to testify. For every 100 people, I will donate 1 million to Sanjiang University for every 100 students who have settled in. How about it?"

Chen Zhiyang also stood up, shook hands with him, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, let's make up for it!"

Even though Hou Chengzong was knowledgeable and mature, he was also very surprised at this time. He only reacted when the two of them let go and reminded him: "Xiao Du, college students are very poor. After four years of college, they may not be able to spend 10,000 yuan. If you donate this money, you can't take it back."

"Teacher Hou, what I meant was donating, not investing, so I didn't think about taking it back."

"Okay! Xiao Du, if you really donate 100 million yuan, I will open a bottle of the best red wine in my family and stop drunk with you." Hou Chengzong also stood up and said with a sigh: "I will go and run errands for you tomorrow and strive to build this university town."

"The veterans will take action, one will win two. If Teacher Hou comes forward, the university town will definitely succeed."

"Your level of flattery is far worse than Xiao Jiang. Learn more from her in the future."

After the major event was settled, the atmosphere became even more relaxed and pleasant. After lunch in the conversation and family matters, Du Qiu and Chen Zhiyang played several chess games with Hou Chengzong respectively. They did not say goodbye until after 3 pm. As a result, he had just driven the car back to the city and had not seen the shadow of Jingui Garden, he received a call from Hou Chengzong.

"Xiao Du, are you interested in buying our research institute?"

What the hell...
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