After finishing an ordinary math class, Xu Chuan packed up the platform and textbooks and left the classroom.
Although there are still no seats in the lecture theater, as he has been attending classes steadily during this period, he has no longer been frantically chased by students like before.
After all, mystery has an expiration date.
Or through the screen, you will be very interested in your favorite celebrities and idols, and you will be crazy about them. But after you eat and live together for a while, you will also find that the so-called celebrities and idols are actually nothing more than that.
Celebrities are people too and have their own daily lives.
With the teaching materials in hand, Xu Chuan did not return to his office, but found the principal Tan Shaoyuan.
"Hey, how come Academician Xu has time to come to my place today?"
In the administrative building, Tan Shaoyuan, who was handling official duties, saw Xu Chuan walking in and stood up with a smile to greet him.
Xu Chuan smiled and said: "I came here today because I have something to discuss with the principal."
"Academician Xu, please speak."
"Well, it's actually not a big deal. I just want to trouble the school to help find an administrative assistant." Xu Chuan coughed slightly and said.
Normally, a scholar or researcher of his level would already have assistants.
However, due to some reasons, and the fact that the position of assistant is often replaced by people assigned by the state, for example, during the controllable nuclear fusion project, Gao Hongming was equivalent to his assistant.
And sometimes his driver and bodyguard Zheng Hai could also serve as an assistant to deliver some work, but Xu Chuan never considered it.
However, as the manned space and lunar exploration project, the construction of the Large Strong Particle Collider, and teaching at NTU are all crowded together, it is time for him to arrange one or two assistants for himself.
After all, you can't just go there in person whenever you have something to do.
In addition, before class today, it was still a lesson that his students reminded him of, which reminded him that this kind of thing should be done by the assistant, so he went to find the principal after class.
"That's it, no problem. I'll help you take a look." Hearing this, Tan Shaoyuan agreed with a smile.
There are actually many types of assistants to university professors.
There are actually various aspects including administration, finance, teaching, foreign affairs, industry-university research, team building, etc.
But generally speaking, they are generally divided into two types. One is administrative and daily life, dealing with daily work matters. Such as course arrangements, administrative incident handling, etc.
The other is a scientific research assistant.
Scientific research assistants are generally held by students led by professors in universities. Many postgraduate and doctoral students will basically hold the position of scientific research assistant.
Not only can you earn some extra income, but you can also participate in the professor's experiments.
For professors, there are also benefits to having students serve as assistants. It is easier to keep secrets if the relationship is close, and they understand each other better, etc.
Of course, in addition, the wages paid by students as assistants are relatively cheap.
For Xu Chuan, since he returned to NTU, he had not had much time to take classes at NTU in the first two years, let alone do research at NTU, so he did not work as an administrative assistant or a scientific research assistant.
But now that the teaching hours are becoming more frequent, it is still necessary to hire one.
Nodding, Xu Chuan said with a smile: "That's troublesome for the principal, but when it comes to selecting assistants, the background must be clean, and confidentiality is also more important."
Much of his work here is linked to key national projects.
Although he usually pays more attention not to bring these things to school, sometimes these things are unavoidable.
Of course, his assistant will not only find out the details at NTU, but also the team responsible for his security.
He said in advance that he was mainly worried that Nanda accidentally found a problematic assistant, and it would be very troublesome if the security team found out later, so he said it in advance.
"Academician Xu, please rest assured that the assistant I will find for you will definitely be clean." Tan Shaoyuan replied with a serious face.
This person's security level is very high.
After all, there is only one national-level scholar in the entire country, and whoever tries will know about his security and protection.
Not to mention anything else, anyway, the security scope and level of Nanda have been upgraded several levels following him.
In the past, NTU students and outsiders could enter and leave the NTU campus almost at will.
After all, domestic colleges and universities can also be regarded as tourist attractions. Except for a few colleges and universities with special characteristics, most of them can be visited by ordinary people, including Shuimu Peking University.
Now, NTU has implemented a swipe card entry and exit system. Strangers are basically no longer allowed in except for the first two days of school when parents can register and enter or exit, or other times with legitimate reasons.
No takeaways can be delivered, so they can only be piled up in the security room and students can pick them up themselves.
In addition, there is surveillance in various places on campus, especially in places where this person often goes, such as the teaching building. It can be said that there is 360-degree coverage with no blind spots.
These are all brought by the person in front of me.
If he finds an assistant for this guy with a shady background today, he might not be able to be asked to cooperate with the investigation tomorrow.
Although the rank of a university president is deputy director, it is already very high, but in front of this person, it is really not enough.
Finding an assistant is a trivial matter to others and can be done in a day or two. But when it comes to Xu Chuan, I don't think I can even pick a candidate within a few days.
Xu Chuan is not in a hurry. Anyway, at present, he does not have a great need for assistants.
In addition to his daily research work, there is nothing that requires him to run errands.
Usually when it comes to things related to him, even if it's giving him benefits or something, others come to him on their own initiative.
The days passed like this, and five days passed quickly.
After careful selection by NTU and thorough research by the security team, the two assistants were finally selected.
But by now Xu Chuan had already left for the capital.
In one day's time, December 25th, an exchange meeting on manned spaceflight and lunar exploration projects will be held at Shuimu University. Although he didn't know why this kind of thing was placed in Shuimu University instead of Aerospace University, Xu Chuan didn't pay much attention.
On the contrary, compared to Aerospace University, which he had never been to, Shuimu University was quite familiar to him.
The 25th is Christmas morning.
A big red banner was hung at the entrance of Shuimu University to celebrate the convening of the seminar on manned spaceflight and lunar exploration projects.
For Shuimu University, this exchange meeting was personally named by the principal to take the lead in attaching importance to security work.
In order to ensure nothing goes wrong, the school also specially applied for a security team from the police to strictly secure the auditorium where the exchange meeting was held and the campus roads leading to the meeting.
Naturally, Xu Chuan didn't know about this. He couldn't walk there now anyway. Before the exchange meeting started, he was driven directly to the entrance of the auditorium by Zheng Hai, without even paying attention to the tight security outside.
As the Hongqi car drove in, the invited participants who were communicating on the roadside near the entrance of the auditorium cast surprised and curious glances.
Which boss is this? Actually drove the car directly here?
You must know that people who come to the exchange meeting, whether they are visitors from academia or industry, or even people from the government, basically walk over after passing the security check.
This kind of car driving directly to the entrance of the auditorium is undoubtedly a bright light in the dark night, which is too eye-catching.
"Red flag car? Could it be the leader of the Science and Technology Group?"
Some people from the business and industrial circles were thinking about it and were ready to come up and say hello.
But when they saw the figures coming out of the car, they all stopped again.
"Who is this? So young?" Someone in the crowd asked curiously after seeing the figure getting out of the car.
The colleague next to him glanced at him and said, "You don't know this guy?"
"It feels a bit familiar, but for a moment I can't think of it. Wait, who is this?"
"Well, besides him, who else is qualified to drive here directly? Didn't you see that the deputy director of the science and technology department came with us before?" The colleague beside him nodded and replied. .
"Let me go, this big boss actually came to the exchange meeting! Is it possible that this manned spaceflight and lunar exploration project is serious? Is the country really planning to engage in this?"
"Who knows? But since you are here, we may gain something from this exchange meeting."
As he said that, from the corner of his eye, he saw his colleague beside him eager to step forward and quickly grabbed him with his hand: "What are you going to do?"
"Of course I'm going up to say hello and make myself familiar!" said my colleague with excitement on his face: "If I can add a contact information to this person, then..."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by his colleague: "Well, I advise you to give up this idea. Didn't you see that the other big guys didn't make any move?"
"If you really want to get to know this guy, see if he will attend the party tonight. If he does, you can go say hello. If you go up now, you might be pushed to the ground by the security guard next to him."
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Although what the colleague said was a bit exaggerated, considering the current environment, the man who wanted to go up to say hello finally stepped back.
Xu Chuan didn't pay much attention to this. He smiled and nodded to the people who looked at him, then walked towards the auditorium.
After all, everyone who can participate in this meeting is a respectable person. How could he come over to say hello and be directly pushed to the ground?
In the auditorium, when Xu Chuan was looking for his seat and about to sit down, someone suddenly called his name from behind.
"Professor Xu, long time no see."
Hearing the sound, Xu Chuan stopped and looked back, only to see an old man leaning towards him, accompanied by another middle-aged man.
When he saw the person coming, he put a smile on his face, walked over quickly, and said hello with a smile: "Long time no see, Mr. Pan."
The person who came was none other than Mr. Pan Deming, a mathematician from Peking University whom I had met before.
"It's been more than three years since 18 years." Mr. Pan looked Xu Chuan up and down with a smile, and then said: "I haven't seen you for more than three years. You still look high-spirited, but I am already old. I don’t even have the energy to go to Star City.”
Hearing this, Xu Chuan smiled and said: "Mr. Pan, don't say that. I am your past and you are my future. How can you say you are old?"
Smiling and comforting, he also looked at the old man in front of him.
Eighteen years to the present, more than three years later, he could clearly feel that this person was much older than when he first met at the Swedish Crafford Prize.
At that time, the old academician still had the energy to fly abroad to Sweden to find him to mediate the conflict between him and the School of Mathematics at Peking University. But now, he may not even have the energy to go to Star City.
Hearing this, Pan Deming laughed and said: "Time is not forgiving. I got sick last year and almost didn't survive it, but fortunately it's over now."
Hearing this, Xu Chuan quickly found a seat and helped the old man in front of him sit down.
At the old man's age, to be honest, a common cold might take him away.
And it is undoubtedly the most sad and regretful thing for these respected old people and veterans to grow old with the passage of time.
It's just that time flies by and never stops for others, and Xu Chuan has no choice.
But the old man looked at him with a smile and didn't care at all. "When we first met in 2018, I knew that you would make great achievements in the future. I didn't expect that just over three years have passed. Not only have you won the Nobel Prize and the Philippine Prize, but you have also solved the problem of controllable nuclear fusion technology that has troubled the world for decades.”
"These are all inseparable from the state's support and help." Xu Chuan smiled, changed the topic and continued: "Why is Mr. Pan here today?"
Pan Deming said with a smile: "I heard that you were coming to attend the exchange meeting this time, so I shamelessly asked for an invitation letter from the Science and Technology Group, and came to meet you and talk."
Xu Chuan smiled sheepishly and said, "Hey, Mr. Pan wants to see me, just call me and say hello. I'll just go to Peking University. How can I bother you to come here in person?"
Pan Deming smiled, glanced at the auditorium that was gradually filled with people, and said with a smile: "Okay, this is what you said, go to Peking University after the meeting today?"
Xu Chuan smiled and nodded: "No problem. I will go to Peking University to see you tomorrow and have a chat with you."
After the exchange meeting on manned spaceflight and lunar exploration projects, he will have a discussion on the Large Strong Particle Collider in Beijing a week later. The time in between is enough for him to go to Peking University to see it.
Academician Pan patted his hand with a smile and said: "Then it's settled, I won't disturb your meeting today."
PS: There should be another chapter later, but it won’t be released before twelve o’clock. You can just wake up and read it in the morning.