Chapter 214 Tainted Scholar(7.8K)
"What? Are you going to recommend a biological friend?"
In the laboratory.
Hearing Lin Zhenhua's words.
While Xu Yun was slightly surprised, there was also an indescribable emotion in his heart.
To know.
Although Hanhua Group is a heavy industry group, it also has some biological or medical laboratories within the group.
In fact, it’s not just Hanhua Heavy Industries.
Under the current complex industrial research and development requirements, this is the case for almost every heavy industry at home and abroad.
For example, in 2014, Yizhong invested more than 20 million to build a biological research center.
There are more than 80 researchers in that research center, who are responsible for bioengineering equipment such as biomass fuel and microbial chemical equipment.
And the famous Caterpillar.
This company was originally engaged in excavators and mining machines, and had cooperated with Lan Xiang in the early years.
Nowadays, with the increase in orders for various chemical containers, it has also established several biochemical laboratories in 2016.
Like said before.
When a company reaches the size of Hanhua Group, it has actually broken away from the so-called company category and can be regarded as a composite industrial entity.
So theoretically.
If Lin Zhenhua has a friend, he can definitely arrange for him to work within the Hanhua Group.
There is no need to go out of your way to ask Xu Yun for recommendation.
Could it be said.
The other party was a relative of Lin Zhenhua. Lin Zhenhua wanted to avoid some gossip before retiring, so he found him?
Although this approach is not in line with Lin Zhenhua's past personality, no one can say whether Lin Zhenhua's ideas will still be the same after decades.
Think of this.
Xu Yun couldn't help but glance at Lin Zhenhua and asked tentatively:
"Mr. Lin, does the person you recommend have a specific academic qualification or professional title?"
Although academic qualifications these days cannot be directly linked to ability, they still play a certain role in making judgments when they first meet someone.
For example, Lin Zhenhua's answer is if he has a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, or a doctorate.
Then the other person is probably Lin Zhenhua's relative or promising junior.
If the opponent is deputy high or even high, there is a high probability that there are other reasons.
"Professional title"
Lin Zhenhua directly ignored the first person's academic qualifications and repeated the word "professional title" several times in a low voice.
After a few seconds.
Two words suddenly popped out of his mouth:
"Academician."
“Oh, academician, that’s pretty cool???”
Hearing Lin Zhenhua's reply, Xu Yun nodded subconsciously, preparing to say a few polite words.
However, as soon as he said a few words, he felt something was wrong.
After coming back to his senses.
He looked more like Mr. Huang Hong who had his anus fucked at the end of the sketch "Decoration". He almost jumped out of his seat:
"What did you say? Academician???"
Oh my god!
Students who have been academicians should all know this.
Huaxia academicians are divided into two categories according to the specific nature and direction of their research:
Academician of the Academy of Sciences and Academician of the Academy of Engineering.
The former is mainly theoretical, while the latter is mainly oriented towards practice.
The two have different emphases, but they are equally important. They are both extremely precious national treasures of the Republic.
Of course.
This refers to those academicians who have made contributions and have real materials.
Currently, there are 802 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 895 academicians of the Academy of Engineering, totaling 1,697 people.
And among these 1,697 people.
There are a total of 357 academicians related to biology in the faculties of life sciences, medicine, and agriculture.
Among them, there are 144 academicians who are over 80 years old - the official national title is called senior academicians.
If this age line is pulled down another five years.
That is to say, there are 185 academicians over the age of 75.
Excluding some exceptions from this group of academicians, the vast majority of the remaining people actually no longer have the energy and physical strength for long-term front-line research.
What Lin Zhenhua recommends will definitely not be this kind of big boss.
In other words.
Currently, there are less than 180 academicians nationwide who can truly meet Lin Zhenhua's requirements.
There is no such thing as a great person of this level that Xu Yun dreams of but cannot hope for, but now Lin Zhenhua says he can introduce an academician to his company?
This is too mysterious, right?
How could a big boss of that level be interested in a small workshop like Huadun Biotech?
However, Lin Zhenhua didn't know what Xu Yun was thinking at this time. He was silent for a moment and then added:
"But Xiao Xu, I have to tell you something clearly first to avoid any quarrels later."
Xu Yun nodded:
"If you have anything to say, just say it."
Lin Zhenhua raised his eyelids and glanced at him, then said slowly
"Although my friend is an academician, his situation is somewhat special and different from ordinary academicians."
Xu Yun was stunned when he heard this.
Many possibilities, such as parallel imports and earning consulting fees in name, flashed through my mind.
But soon.
He gave up the idea.
If there is speculation that Lin Zhenhua went through the back door in order to avoid gossip, it is only slightly possible from a rational point of view.
Then the probability of him helping parallel importers to make extra money must be zero.
Because this was against Lin Zhenhua's character, if he really wanted to make extra money, he could have charged exorbitant prices for the previous modules, and there was no need to resort to such small tricks now.
Think of this.
Xu Yun couldn't help but look at Lin Zhenhua and asked:
"Mr. Lin, who is the academician you are talking about?"
Lin Zhenhua raised his head and glanced at him, sighed quietly, and said in a deep voice:
"His name is Zhou Shan."
"Zhou?!"
Hearing this name, Xu Yun was stunned.
A few seconds passed.
He just nodded clearly.
I see.
Why would an 'academician' be available and recommended to him?
Why couldn't Lin Zhenhua arrange for him to work in a state-owned enterprise like Hanhua Group?
Now it all makes sense.
Because that person is Zhou Shan
Zhou Shan.
This is one of the youngest academicians in the history of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is now 62 years old and focuses on animal molecular genetics and breeding.
Zhou Shan is not only an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
He is also an academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, a foreign academician of the German Academy of Sciences, and a foreign academician of the Gallic Academy of Sciences. He has a very dazzling resume.
But one day twelve years ago.
Zhou Shan was taken away by relevant departments for investigation before the start of an academic conference.
Half a year later.
Zhou Shan was prosecuted for transferring funds to a company he controlled, and was eventually sentenced to 12 years in prison for embezzling scientific research funds totaling more than 30 million yuan.
Now based on the timeline.
It is indeed time for Zhou Shan to be released from prison.
See here.
Maybe someone will ask:
On the surface, isn't this just a simple corruption case?
Why can such a tainted scholar join Xu Yun Company after being released from prison?
Why should I be recommended by someone like Lin Zhenhua?
Could it be that for the sake of so-called research and development capabilities, we don’t even care about the identity of tainted scholars?
The reason is simple.
The many internal stories behind the Zhou Shan incident are far from being as simple as they appear.
For example, a very important point.
Judging from Zhou Shan himself and the evidence collected at the time, it is true that Zhou Shan misappropriated funds to his company account.
But he did not use it for entertainment or purchasing real estate or cars, and he did not have any proof of personal consumption.
Quite the opposite.
All the money he transferred to the company's account eventually became the project team's research and development funds.
Yes.
You read that right.
Zhou Shan misappropriated R&D funds, but his final purpose was to use them for R&D.
Because the funding distribution at that time was like this:
For example, if the project proposal is approved, the planning period is one year, and 10 million yuan of funding is approved.
Theoretically, the money should arrive immediately, right?
wrong!
It often takes a long, long time before the money is received - as fast as half a year, or as slowly as nine or ten months.
The above requirement requires you to spend all the money within the remaining few months, and the unused project funds must be turned over again.
This approach leads to two situations.
First, many research groups spent money unexpectedly at the end of the year and closed accounts like crazy.
The second is for research groups that objectively require a lot of expenses to span the next year (for example, your experimental animals must be kept until next year), so you must find ways to use various means to retain funds.
As for where the funds went in the previous months
Xu Yun didn't know and didn't dare to make any guesses, but the common fact at the time was that funding would inevitably be delayed.
And Zhou Shan’s subject happens to be the second type, what can be done?
After much deliberation, Zhou Shan could only choose to divert the funds first and then use them slowly.
This was also a common practice in most projects at that time, and it was very informal.
So since Zhou Shan was arrested.
In 2014, GWY issued Document No. 11, allowing funds to be transferred to the next year.
Guidance was issued again in 2016, indicating that the remaining funds of the research team after acceptance can be retained for two years.
When the total budget remains unchanged.
The various expenses of the project team can be used in a balanced manner, and there is no longer a proportional limit on labor expenses.
Therefore, Zhou Shan's imprisonment was actually a very controversial case.
On the one hand, he did not engage in extravagant consumption in his own name, as all the evidence at the time showed.
After his arrest, dozens of academicians from the two academies jointly expressed the hope that he would be dealt with leniently.
In fact.
In 2018, nationally renowned legal scholars Gao Mingxuan, Chen Guangzhong, Zhang Mingkai, Chen Ruihua, Zhou Guangquan, Chu Huaizhi, and Zhang Yuanhuang also conducted arguments, and the final conclusion was:
"After the scientific research funds involved in the case were transferred out, they basically flowed into the industrialization platform supporting the project and were used for scientific and technological development, animal breeding and other purposes. They were not illegally appropriated by Zhou Shan and others. Their behavior does not meet the objective aspects of the crime of corruption. Requirements.”
"The source of the forensic accounting appraisal materials in this case is unknown, and there are many defects such as the appraiser not signing. It lacks the due standardization, scientificity and rigor and cannot be used as the basis for finalizing the case."
"Zhou Shan had no knowledge of the specific management of funds, had no criminal intent, and did not meet the subjective elements of the crime of corruption."
But why did Zhou Shan go to jail?
This was the situation involving the chaos in the Chinese scientific research circle at that time.
Tell the truth.
Since the emergence of qigong craze in the 1990s.
A large number of ghosts and ghosts emerged in the scientific research circle.
At that time, the Chinese scientific research community was indeed in chaos, to the point of extreme deformity.
Let’s not talk about the distance, let’s talk about Xu Yun’s alma mater, the University of Science and Technology.
Zhu Xshi, who was the disgrace of the University of Science and Technology, had launched various cool projects at that time, such as the previously mentioned project of putting jellyfish on the head to study superpowers, with a funding of 2 million.
To know.
That was 2 million in 2003.
There are also those engaged in research on Tarzan.
That is to say, an artificial rainforest was built in the laboratory, and then a group of parkour players were allowed to jump and dangle like Tarzan on these artificial branches.
The euphemistic purpose of this project is to measure the energy expenditure of primates living in the trees and then compare it to primates on land.
This allows us primates at the top of the food chain to understand why other monkeys don't come down from the trees.
The school engaged in this project is called Fudan, with a funding of 3 million.
In addition, there is still a lot of embezzlement of funds, and the cumulative number has reached an extremely shocking level.
Therefore, in that context, it is really impossible not to set an example.
It happened that Zhou Shan was in his prime at that time, so he became the unlucky guy.
Actually.
In terms of Zhou Shan’s academician status.
If he simply admits his mistake, his future career will not be affected in any way.
Because there are many examples to prove this.
The specific situation is relatively sensitive, so I won’t go into details here.
In the end, Zhou Shan's detention was extended indefinitely, and he was sentenced five and a half years later.
Therefore, the Zhou Shan incident is not something that can be explained clearly.
His crime is unforgivable, but his love is merciful.
Now Zhou Shan has served twelve years in prison. The long period of detention is the punishment for his illegal behavior. There is nothing to say about it.
Now that he has been released from prison, even the harshest people can no longer describe him as 'crime'.
"But after all, Lao Zhou was a typical person who was stood up at that time, and his identity is somewhat sensitive."
In the laboratory, Lin Zhenhua sighed again:
"Our Hanhua Group is a state-owned enterprise. At that time, when Lao Zhou entered the company, there were some political games, so I won't mention this aspect much."
"In short, after Lao Zhou was released from prison, it was difficult for me to place him in the Hanhua Factory due to various internal reasons."
"But your Huadun Biotech is different. It is nominally affiliated with the Academy of Sciences, but it is completely independent in operation. You can sign an employment contract with Lao Zhou without any pressure."
Xu Yun also nodded.
Now listening to Lin Zhenhua's explanation, the context of the matter is very clear.
Then he took the initiative to pour a glass of water for Lin Zhenhua and asked:
"Mr. Lin, I personally welcome Academician Zhou to join our group, but I have a question that I would like to ask you to answer."
Lin Zhenhua glanced at him:
"Say it."
After hearing this, Xu Yun pondered for a moment, organized his words, and said:
"Academician Zhou was undoubtedly a top scientific researcher before he was imprisoned, but his long sentence may cause his understanding of cutting-edge technology to lag behind."
"After all, technology has changed so fast in twelve years."
"So."
Xu Yun didn't finish the second half of his sentence, but his meaning was actually very obvious:
He was worried that Zhou Shan's current knowledge level could not keep up with the iteration of knowledge.
Twelve years
This is not a time that can be described as "fleeting".
It's enough for a child to grow into an adult, enough for advanced technology to be updated for several generations, enough for Conan to forget about it.
all in all.
In the field of scientific research.
Twelve years is enough time for many earth-shaking changes to occur.
If there is a huge cognitive barrier between Zhou Shan and today's scientific research front-end.
So in a sense
In fact, he is not much different from Lao Su, at least he cannot become an immediate combat power.
But soon, Lin Zhenhua’s answer made Xu Yun feel relieved:
"Don't worry, Lao Zhou is also an academician after all, and the country still recognizes his ability."
"Over the years he has been in prison, he has basically never stopped communicating with the scientific research community. He even participated remotely in the Sixth International Congress of Molecular and Cellular Biology."
"In recent years, he has relied on the lawyer's information transmission, and he has also guided the publication of twelve papers in the first area."
Xu Yun blinked slightly.
Good guy.
No wonder it was Zhou Shan, this operation was quite impressive.
The guidance Lin Zhenhua is talking about cannot obviously be the kind of behavior that is done in name. This approach can be identified at a glance by people in the industry.
In other words.
Today's Zhou Shan may be a little unskilled in practical operations because he has not been exposed to experiments for a long time.
But in terms of theory, he can keep in line with the cutting edge.
Think of this.
Xu Yun's mouth almost dripped with laughter.
That's Zhou Shan, one of the top molecular geneticists in China and even the world!
To use an analogy in Internet articles, you have opened a new website and are worried that there is no one to control the website. However, the newspaper seller submits articles for you.
Think of this.
Xu Yun immediately said to Lin Zhenhua impatiently:
"Mr. Lin, I wonder where Academician Zhou is now? Can we pay him a visit?"
Lin Zhenhua smiled, tapped the ground with his index finger, and said:
"It's just in Yongcheng. I just went shopping and fishing with me a few days ago."
After speaking, Lin Zhenhua looked at Xu Yun again and continued:
"Xiao Xu, if I don't tell you about Lao Zhou, you can probably imagine that he must have been suffocating in his heart when he just came out of that kind of environment."
"I can only build a bridge for you to meet Lao Zhou."
"As for whether you can persuade him to join Huadun Biotech, that depends on you."
Xu Yun nodded heavily:
"I'm ready, Mr. Lin."
It was only early two in the afternoon, and there was still a lot of time before dark.
So after simple preparation.
Xu Yun carried a fruit basket and several boxes of nutritional supplements and followed Lin Zhenhua into the car.
The vehicle was driven by Zhao Haiyang, while Tang Li, Lao Su, Yu Yuanyong and others stayed in the park without accompanying them.
More than an hour passed.
The vehicle drove into the city and stopped at the entrance of a community after many twists and turns.
This community looks a bit old from the outside, like an employee community of some years ago.
The building is only seven or eight stories high.
Seeing that Xu Yun looked a little curious, Lin Zhenhua took the initiative to explain:
"Lao Zhou's lover was a teacher at Yongcheng No. 1 Middle School. The couple had a very good relationship. After Lao Zhou was imprisoned, she did not choose to divorce, but waited for twelve full years."
"Now that Lao Zhou is released from prison, he naturally moved here, and the couple can finally get together."
Xu Yun nodded thoughtfully, his eyes lingering on the exposed bricks on the side of the staff building for a few seconds.
But in the end he didn't speak.
Then Lin Zhenhua stretched out his hand and pointed forward and said:
"Okay, let's go in."
The security in this kind of staff building is relatively not that strict. In addition, Lin Zhenhua has an extraordinary bearing at first glance, showing a very standard scholar's demeanor.
Therefore, the security guard only took a brief glance and let the two people in.
"Building two, building five, and building three, here we are."
Lin Zhenhua took Xu Yun for a while and found the target through the building number engraved on the waist of the building.
There is no access control for a building of this size, so the two of them walked in easily.
As soon as I entered the building.
Xu Yun stopped in surprise.
I saw him pointing to the wall in front of him with advertisements such as applying for certificates and opening sewers, and asked Lin Zhenhua:
"Mr. Lin, Academician Zhou, don't their building have an elevator?"
Lin Zhenhua shook his head when he heard this, curled his index finger, and knocked on the wall:
"This is a staff house built twenty years ago. There is no space for an elevator at all. Where can I get an elevator?"
Xu Yun opened his mouth with an expression of disbelief:
"Doesn't Academician Zhou have any savings? Do you live in a community like this?"
Lin Zhenhua sighed with a heavy face:
"When Lao Zhou was first imprisoned, in addition to being required to return all funds, he also had to pay a fine of 2.5 million yuan."
"This is 2.5 million from 12 years ago. Lao Zhou is not the kind of corrupt person. His mother spent a lot of money on rectal cancer surgery in the early years. Now of course she can only live here."
Xu Yun was silent for a long time after hearing this, and sighed complicatedly.
When the procuratorate collected evidence of Zhou Shan's corruption, it did not find any expenditures in his personal name.
Some of the travel records found were either second class or economy class.
If not, the case would not have dragged on for five and a half years before going to trial.
Still the same sentence.
It may not be considered an injustice, but the circumstances are indeed pitiable.
Xu Yun then helped Lin Zhenhua go up the steps and soon reached the fifth floor.
As a result, as soon as the two of them passed the corner of the stairs between the fourth and fifth floors, an ajar door appeared in their field of vision.
At this moment.
A powerful voice was coming from the gate:
"Mr. Huang, please tell the Italian Academy of Sciences that I am very grateful to them for extending an olive branch to me at this time, but I am sorry that I will not work for foreign companies or units."
"But Academician Zhou, you are now"
"What's wrong with me now? I did something wrong in the past, and I should be punished for my mistakes. This is a natural thing. Now that my penalty period has expired, I continue to work in the country. Is this also a natural thing? ”
"Well, Academician Zhou, that's true, but you also know that it's not easy to find a suitable company nowadays"
It's obvious.
There was some conversation going on in the room.
And when I heard these last words.
Lin Zhenhua suddenly signaled Xu Yun to let go of the hand holding him and walked up the steps step by step.
Just listen to him saying loudly as he walks:
"Lao Zhou, I have a junior company that is recruiting people. Are you interested in helping?"
Note:
The plot of this chapter is original to the book and should not be substituted with the actual plot. Any similarity is purely coincidental.
(End of chapter)