Chapter 230 Dilemma
Yes, after seeing the huge video of Yan Bei's report meeting, Frank did not fall asleep all night.
He looked at his life from the beginning.
To be fair, he was still very satisfied when he first came to the United States from China.
After all, at that time, he felt that everything was fresh and he lived a good life every day on campus. He doesn't need to worry about his livelihood.
When he graduated, he accidentally entered the Aisen family. And while other students were still worried about finding a job, they successfully obtained a teaching position in Berkeley, with a stable life and a happy family.
The most important thing is that the prices in the United States were not high at that time. Although he had a tax burden that he felt was quite criticized, he could still live a good life with his income.
Although he experienced inflation later, if he followed the plan of his father-in-law, Lucas Eisen, his income would also rise in the future. Even can live better and better.
Obviously, it was unexpected that Qiao Yu appeared in the sudden appearance.
This young genius from China suddenly made him reimburse for five years of hard work.
This even made him fail to show off his face in front of many big shots at this year's International Mathematician Conference.
It was only because of Lucas's face that he could barely give a thirty-minute report in the small branch hall.
The audience is very few, let alone any influence, and it just barely gains reputation.
If everything went well, he would have won a Salvi Award from the American Mathematical Society and a mathematical community at the International Conference of Mathematicians for his work in the Geometric Langlands Conjecture this year because of his work in the Geometric Langlands Conjecture. Youth Award.
These are all for him to lay the foundation for him to win higher honors at the next International Conference of Mathematicians.
But now it seems that everything is hopeless. Anyway, the Fields Medal is completely impossible.
If he had a little thought before, Lucas would have talked to him about this issue directly after the International Conference of Mathematicians.
Because he really cannot achieve any outstanding results at present, Lucas cannot force him to push him up without any convincing results.
There is no choice. Although Lucas Eisen has won the Fields Medal, there are many living Fields Medal winners, and no one can really cover up the situation.
There are even more senior Fields Medal winners who are even older than Lucas Eisen. For example, Pierre Dellini and Edward Witten.
The younger generation of Fields Medal winners have a greater reputation in the academic world. For example, Peter Schultz, Tao Xuanzhi, and Qiao Yu.
With these people staring at you, you can imagine how difficult it is to operate.
Not to mention that Lucas Eisen also tasted the taste. He had a feeling that the emerging math star was targeting Frank.
But he had inquired in private and observed the two of them with his own eyes. He really didn't see anything unusual between them, unlike when they had had an intersection before.
But no matter whether Qiao Yu takes the initiative to target Frank, the result will never change.
It can only be said that the golden age of mathematicians is too precious, and whether they have that talent will appear very early. Although there are examples of late bloomer, it would be a big joke to really regard individual examples as common.
So he could only regretfully tell Frank that his chances were slim. It would be better to put your goals more practical. It would be great to be able to win the status of a lifelong professor in Berkeley.
But this obviously does not match Frank's request for him.
To put it bluntly, how much money does a university professor who does not have a status in the United States make in a year? Coupled with inflation and the tax burden that cannot be escaped, it is difficult to support a family!
Not to mention that people are most afraid of comparison.
If the United States could still be as bright and beautiful as when he first came, or if his life had no vision and ups and downs, he would have recognized it as a tenured professor at a university.
After all, I am not as good as the top, but I am as good as the bottom.
But this is not the case now. His sons are now Fields Medal winners, their family is well-off enough, and their future is unlimited...
In other words, he could have lived a billionaire life. The spiritual realm could have been directly taken to the next level.
In the future, you only need to pursue spiritual things and you don’t need to worry about material things anymore.
But the reality is that he will squeeze into the ranks of billionaires in the future. It even needs the help of the previous generation to live a barely prosperous life.
He didn't even dare to think about what if he failed to become a tenured professor, or if his grandfather died one day and the school terminated his contract.
The United States does not have the kind of guarantee, and it will not be open to him just because he is unemployed.
He may not even be able to pay high property taxes by then.
He couldn't even sell his mansion after he was unemployed and moved to a lesser neighborhood to maintain a basic life, just like other middle-class people.
Because his wife Erin is absolutely impossible to agree.
This is the perception that native Americans will be branded from birth - life in different neighborhoods must be completely different.
Same house, some neighborhoods can be outrageously cheap. But at the same time, the public security and education in cheap neighborhoods will be outrageous!
Even children can only make friends with their peers who live in the same neighborhood, let alone those adults.
So if I really get to that point, Frank knows with his butt that Erin will definitely choose to divorce him on the grounds of being a child.
Although she no longer has a job, she is the only daughter of a high-level family. A person can live well.
As for him, he can only rely on his own parents. But the problem is that his parents have subsidized him a lot over the years, and basically all the floating wealth brought to the United States from China has been used up.
The jobs of both of them are not decent, and the salary they get is not high. The two of them combined only cost more than three thousand dollars a month.
One of his parents was 60 years old and the other was 62 years old. They have to wait until they are 67 years old if they want to apply for a pension.
But the most terrifying thing is that due to income factors, neither of them has 401K. The two have only traditional IRA accounts.
To be honest, with the current situation in the United States, it is difficult for him to take care of the little money in his parents' IRA account, let alone raise him.
After all, in the United States, property tax is not something you will not pay after retirement. As long as you own the property, you have to pay it for a lifetime.
Although Berkeley's property tax is not high, and the tax rate is only about 1.2% of the property valuation per year, it is for elderly families who have lost their ability to work after retirement and have a monthly income of only $2,000. , more than $400 a month of property tax expenditure is still difficult to bear.
Really, this night, Frank became more and more frustrated. He could not understand that two years ago he was a mathematics professor with a high status and respected status and an infinite future.
How come he became like this now after two years. Well, actually he also knew that everything started with his work in Geoho Langlands's conjecture being overturned by Qiao Yu.
But if he had directly identified his identity with Qiao Yu at that time, perhaps his situation would be different now.
The only problem was that he didn't expect that Qiao Yu had surpassed Lucas in the academic world in just two years and had become a leader in the contemporary mathematics world.
Who did you go to make a reason for this? !
But now, when you recognize your relatives, it is not a matter of being unable to hold back your brides, but he had met Qiao Yu before, so why didn’t you recognize this son at that time?
Yes, Frank is thinking about how to find a perfect statement to test Qiao Yu's attitude.
After all, if he can't get Qiao Yu's approval and offend Lucas, then he will probably have to be a homeless man in the future.
So that night, Frank even complained about his parents!
If it weren't for them who had to take him abroad, but stayed in China honestly and accepted the fact that he had a child, how could he face such a dilemma now?
He can already enjoy his life in advance.
Thinking of this, Frank felt a little frustrated. His parents' cognition is worthy of their suffering.
They had at least a whole demolition house in Xingcheng. They had done business as contractors before, and their lives in China were much better than most people back then.
No mistakes, one poem, one post, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one read!
Although the management was standardized later, his father's contractor could not continue to work, even if he was lying down and collecting rent, he could live a rich life.
In a rage, he sold all his real estate and came here, and who would blame him for living his life like this?
If he continues to stay in China, he might even have married Qiao Xi and can now lie at home and enjoy a happy life!
Yes, at first I just had resentment. When the day was bright, the resentment had turned into hatred.
I have forgotten it all. In part, part of the reason why his parents decided to immigrate to the United States was that he suddenly found a child, which made the whole family panic.
It’s just that the delicate egoist like Frank’s idea becomes too extreme, and even if you think of this, you won’t think you are wrong.
But when this thought came out of my mind, Frank suddenly felt that the world was wide in an instant.
Yes, he can completely put the blame on his parents! He made up for his mistakes by not allowing him to think of Qiao Yu.
This is undoubtedly the best reason at this stage. What he has to consider now is how to contact Qiao Yu...
Sending an email or calling directly is naturally the most unfeasible option.
If possible, it is best to meet Qiao Yu or Qiao Xi in private! In this way, he can repent in person and explain the whole story clearly.
Yes, at this time, Frank really thought from the bottom of his heart that the responsibility was all on his parents and had nothing to do with him.
When he left China, he was just a high school student. What could he know?
So it’s all my fault!
Really, thinking of this, Frank suddenly felt relaxed.
It's still a question for what reason to go to China.
Berkeley Mathematics College does not have much cooperation with China, and Yanbei University has just held a large-scale report meeting and he did not attend it.
This means it is quite difficult for him to find a reasonable reason to go to China, and it may take some time.
But I felt like I found the direction, and Frank suddenly realized, and even looking at the rising sun, I felt so bright.
What Frank didn't know was that he was more than one who regretted it for a long time last night.
In fact, some people are also deeply regretting!
…
In Washington, DC, in a small conference room with a very distinctive white paint, five people were already red in their eyes.
There is no way. The abnormal movements in the stock market these two days are very troublesome. After all, finance is the foundation of this land.
Although they do not need to be directly responsible for the abnormal decline in the stock market, the person they are responsible for must be responsible.
The person who was in a bad mood naturally passed on to their staff.
They can’t just spread their hands and say there is nothing they can do.
After all, the workplace is not a TV series, nor is it a TV series in the Commonwealth. If the person above really is in a bad mood, he can really let them lose their jobs on the spot with just one word.
"I've said a long time ago that when he came to Philadelphia to attend the International Mathematician Conference in July, we should find a way to keep him."
"Okay, Jack, now It's not the time to complain about this."
"But I did make suggestions at the time."
"Yes, I know, but we talked to Langley about this, and the professionals felt that This proposal was not enforceable at the time! And we were not prophets! ”
Obviously such a debate is meaningless.
But when people can't imagine it for the time being, they seem to be able to make such a noise.
Maybe the problem-solving idea is coming...
Yes, the problem-solving idea is coming soon...
"Maybe we can go with Google, IBM, Microsoft cooperates to host a world-class quantum computing technology conference by these technology companies!
Then Qiao Yu was invited to participate. If he agrees to participate, wouldn’t our chance come? We can keep him in the United States! "
Jack looked at the person who was thinking, and said angrily: "He only stayed at the International Mathematician Conference for two days before leaving! Why do you think he would attend such an invitation?
Even if he doesn't have so many ideas, Qiao Yu's brain is a national treasure now! Do you think China can let him attend this meeting that he has never held before and has suddenly held? "
"Okay, Jack, you can't say that either! The quantum computing conference is held every year and is not held this year. And let go of your mind, what if it was not held in the United States? "
Hearing the chief of staff say this, Jack was quiet for a moment, thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "It's still difficult! As long as it is West, I think it is difficult! ”
"You can try it, but you don't have to be in the West. Choose a place that makes the other party feel safe! It's really difficult in China, but if you change to anywhere else in the world, you will have a chance!"
Heard Jack nodded reluctantly and said, "Okay, this sounds like a solution. So the question is, where to choose?"
(End of this chapter)