Great Power

"What's wrong, Charlie, is there something wrong with Zheng? Or did he cross the line?"

A curious voice came from the microphone, and Charlie quickly said: "No, no, this trouble is that MIT invited Zheng Jianguo to join their physics laboratory. However, this is not the biggest trouble. The biggest trouble is Zheng invited. I joined his foundation as the person in charge—"

"Then you want to go underground? Or do you want to leave the FBI?"

The voice in the microphone hesitated and asked two questions in succession. Charlie instantly understood that there was a problem with his previous language. Instead of rejecting Zheng Jianguo, he chose to report to the BOSS, which shows that he wanted to be the foundation in his heart. The person in charge, otherwise, why use such an exaggerated tone to scream about your concerns when you are facing a choice, and you can just say it frankly: "I want to go underground, but considering that Zheng’s business involves foreign countries, the FBI is There is no right—"

"Just don't let the people on the CIA find you, and you will contact me one-line in the future—"

The voice in the microphone did not hesitate at all this time. Obviously, Charlie’s concerns are not a matter to him: "Since your relationship with Zheng is so good, I will slowly replace the monitors with no People who know your identity, by the way, don’t contact the Ulrika on your side, and I will transfer her away too, so that she won’t cause unnecessary trouble when she appears in front of Zheng Jianguo, Charlie, FBI. "

"Fidelity (loyal)."

"Bravery."

"Integrity (Integrity)."

Speaking of the meaning of the FBI subconsciously, Charlie's voice suddenly became a little deep: "It's just that I won't be Integrity anymore—"

"How about putting loyalty in the first place? To be brave for loyalty, and to be upright for loyalty. I don't need to say these. Good luck."

The voice in the microphone disappeared, and Charlie stared at the microphone that made the blind tone. He couldn't believe that the BOSS made a decision so quickly. Originally, he was still thinking about explaining how to explain it. After putting it on the phone, there was a little enlightenment: "Explanation, isn't that just to hide your true thoughts?"

"Bang bang—"

After two knocks came, Charlie looked up at Ulrika outside the glass on the door, nodded and waited until the other person came in, and said before she could speak: "Okay, I have arranged. Go back and proceed according to the original plan."

"Oh, then I'm going back—"

Looking at Charlie's thoughtful and strange expression, Ulrika didn't expect to have made the arrangements, and when she turned and left the office, she said with a bright smile: "Thank you for your help, Mr. Charlie. "

"Ok!"

Standing up to the door and watching Ulrika’s back disappear, Charlie then came up with an unbelievable thought in his mind: "If I get fired by Zheng then, I just don’t know if there is any salary and pension available. ?"

"Hi, BOSS, what's the matter?"

As the secretary's voice came, Charlie turned around and smiled at her: "It's okay, you go and pour me a cup of coffee, something inside is cold."

"Ok!"

The secretary smiled and walked away on the catwalk. Charlie went to the desk and looked at the phone. He picked up the handset and started dialing. Soon after the voice on the other side rang, he said: "Hi, Zheng, pass by me and BOSS communication, what I can tell you now is that I am ready—"

"Ready?"

Zheng Jianguo on the other end of the phone was a bit confused, and then remembered that he planned to wait until the oil contract was closed before entering the market, and quickly said: "Then what do you plan to do with the oil contract in the current position?"

"It's okay as usual. What I told the BOSS is that I will no longer accept new investments, and wait until the contract in hand is closed before leaving. This is also in line with the rules of the futures exchange——"

When Charlie’s voice came, Zheng Jianguo was relieved. What he wants most now is business as usual. Only in this way can he persist until the Iran-Iraq war starts. At that time, no matter what the price of the oil contract is, he will shoot three days after the start. , It’s just that there’s no way to tell this guy: "That’s good, I may not have time to pay attention to these in a long time. During this time, you can help me stare at some news about oil."

"The news about oil? What are you going to do?"

Charlie in the microphone asked without hesitation. Zheng Jianguo thought for a while before telling him that he graduated, so he said: "I have passed the qualification exam, and now I have signed an agreement with the Massachusetts General Hospital. You will go to their hospital for an internship, and you know that doctors have no sense of time when they are busy.

So from now on, you will help me pay attention to the news reported in the media about the discovery of oil fields or technological breakthroughs in shale gas. Of course, it may also be the country that plans to increase oil production, such as the Soviets over there and their The reserves are half the size of the Middle East."

After paying attention to oil during this period, Zheng Jianguo learned that Maozi’s oil industry mining history can be traced back to 1873, which was 4 years earlier than the modernization of Western oil technology. In 1880, the suburbs of Baku had two branches. There are more than a hundred refineries, and thousands of oil wells are distributed upstream of these factories: "If Maozi goes all out to start construction, we should close the position-now it is them that must be paid attention to."

Charlie’s ostensible identity is a futures trader, and the broker identity that Katsana has played with was still converted to the positive after being exposed to Zheng Jianguo. As for becoming a key account manager after less than a year, this is not him. For the promotion brought about by the sharpness of the market, it was also because of the latter's large investment that he took a sip of soup and became the brightest star on the exchange.

Until now, Charlie also holds a lot of funds in his hands. This is also brought about by Zheng Jianguo’s dazzling rate of return. Therefore, who has been studying Zheng Jianguo’s investment ideas privately, he heard this at this time and knew that this requirement was. I can't refuse: "This is no problem, I will pay attention."

"I'm going to another place in the next few days. I'll be away for about three or four days. If you have something to do, call me on a pager."

Zheng Jianguo on the other end of the phone reported his call sign. This call is considered to have been arranged. The reason why he thought of buying this thing was because it was one of the requirements of the Massachusetts General Hospital, and all the medical staff had one. He is here. Although I haven't registered yet, it's regarded as early contact.

In 1980, the pager was not a new thing. On the contrary, it had a prototype as early as 20 or 30 years ago. It was not until the 1970s that the development of electronic technology reduced the original brick size to half the size of a palm. Of course, the price The above is still very valuable, ranging from US$200 to US$500, which is considered a luxury category.

After eating, drinking, cleaning, and preparing, Zheng Jianguo went to the school to find Professor Fisher the next day, only to find that there was a familiar figure missing in the team, and he was a little curious: "Professor, won't Ulrika go? "

"She said she asked for leave because of something at home. I don't know if she can return."

Fisher said, putting away the glasses on the bridge of his nose and looking up at Zheng Jianguo, his white face showed a curious look: "Are you ready for your speech?"

"Ready."

The idea of ​​whether Ulrika was poached by other laboratories flashed in Zheng Jianguo's mind, but the next moment he remembered that if he wanted to quit, he would have better capital to raise conditions after attending the March meeting. .

After all, the world’s current research center for atomic graphite layers is located at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Massachusetts. If Ulrika can attend the March meeting as one of the representatives of Harvard University, this capital can be considered. It's a real deal.

"In what way? Do you want me to advise you?"

Professor Fisher's temperament is as straightforward as most Americans. Seeing signs that Zheng Jianguo didn't want to say, he asked the curiosity in his heart, and the latter nodded and said: "During this period of time Although I was busy taking the medical school graduation exam, when I was fine, I was thinking about some problems on the atomic graphite layer. For example, the most direct thermodynamic fluctuations do not allow any two-dimensional crystals to exist at a finite temperature. How did the discovered atomic-grade graphite layer come from?"

"Well, this question—"

Fisher nodded thoughtfully. The discovery of the atomic graphite layer shocked the world solid-state physics community because it violated the laws of thermodynamic fluctuations and overturned the solid-state physics community’s acquiescence for decades. Knowing, it's like normal people say there are ghosts but no one has ever called them out: "What do you think?"

"I feel that its two-dimensional structure is kinked at some angles—"

Zheng Jianguo picked up the convenience ticket on the table in front of him and tore off one, pointing to the smooth part on it and said: "We all think that two-dimensional materials are complete flat materials, just like the smooth parts on this piece of paper, but this is thermodynamically fluctuating. Doesn’t exist in the middle, so is it possible that the edge parts that are slightly twisted after being coated with glue?"

"This idea is good!"

Looking at the post-it note in Zheng Jianguo's hand, Fisher looked at his face in surprise after thinking all over his face, probed his hand and took the post-it note and said, "How did you think of it?"

Pointing his finger at the sticky paper in Fisher's hand, Zheng Jianguo smiled and said, "When I was thinking, I saw the sticky paper on the table was slightly upturned. I wondered if this is possible? Later I discovered that it was only this. This is the kind of phenomenon that can meet the fluctuations of thermodynamics-I really can't think of other things."

"You can think that this might not be easy--"

Fisher said with approval to Zheng Jianguo, put the note in his pocket into the door, and said to a few students and assistants: "Okay, then we will go. You will pay attention in the laboratory. schedule."

"Okay, Professor, Zheng~"

As Zheng Jianguo followed Fisher at the door, several people first responded to the latter and then greeted the former. Zheng Jianguo saw Fisher, who was turning around, winking vaguely, and followed him outside the corridor. When I got into the car, he listened to him and said: "I have always felt sorry for you to give up the research of atomic graphite layer. You are very talented in this, um, it is also good in medicine, originally I thought I can get you to work part-time in the lab during the weekend, but the school is afraid that you will be too busy—"

"I have signed an agreement with MIT before, and after graduation, I will work part-time in the laboratory there, that is, I will take the time to do repetitive research on Saturday and Sunday."

Zheng Jianguo said with a smile that the reason why he nodded after Thomas gave him the conditions was because he knew that Harvard University would not be able to give him the same treatment, otherwise the other teaching assistants and associate professors in the laboratory would have rebelled. The class of the last week of the month has to be named in the paper-

This is still no saying that the position of associate professor is suspended, and if an associate professor is suspended, a lifetime agreement will be signed at Harvard. Although Zheng Jianguo is happy to sign a lifetime agreement with Harvard University as a part-time associate professor, this is something the latter cannot agree to. .

"Then you attended the March meeting on behalf of the school this time, and next time you will be a member of the Physics Society of MIT, right?"

Fisher blinked and looked at Zheng Jianguo curiously. The latter nodded and said, "Well, the MIT Department of Solid State Physics will recommend me to be a fellow of the American Physical Society——"

Unlike the purely unofficial organization Gastroenterology Association, although the American Physical Society is also an unofficial association, from its funder, the Governor of Pennsylvania to the chairman, vice-chairmen and executive officers, all of them are owned by the current American official or It is the official manager of the Institute of Physics, which is half a level higher than the former in terms of formality.

As for the Fellows of the American Physical Society, every year from nearly 40,000 members of the Physics Society, those who have made important contributions to physics in the previous year are selected to be awarded the title of fellowship, and their proportion is 2% of all members. One, almost 200 people.

The only point is that although the American Physical Society is nominally the United States, its members have branches all over the world, so it can also be considered to be selected every year in the world. If it can be selected, it can be regarded as a solid step towards Nobel.

"Then congratulations in advance--"

Fisher showed a bright smile on his face. He regretted that Zheng Jianguo could not join the laboratory: "I feel that it is a mistake for you to focus on the medical field. Of course, I took the Helicobacter screening into consideration. , I have to admit that your discovery saved millions of people from the torment of this germ—"

"Yes, I chose the medical field because the Helicobacter screening technology is somewhat primitive, and the cost cannot be said to be cheap. After all, so many people don't even have social security. Maybe I will put my focus back when I find a new method. "

Looking at Fisher with a relaxed expression about the screening, Zheng Jianguo didn’t ask how the results were. The treatment for Helicobacter pylori was available long before it was discovered, and of course he used the " In the name of discovery as a child, even if it is detected, there is no need to worry. A few dollars of medicine can cure Helicobacter in most people.