Chapter 368

"Lower the cost? That's not what our original agreement said. " The tip of Richard's nose is going to press against principal Pang's face.

Headmaster Pang said: "I have explained to you that the school's policy has changed. It's not that I have to go back on it. I have no choice. It's not that I don't want to help you. It's that I have no other choice."

"You can choose to abide by the agreement." Richard said with a breath: "we have a contract and a message that your funding should last for more than a year. During this period, you can't quit if you want to."

"The school funding has stopped. It's no use forcing me." Principal Pang said with great displeasure.

"The school is the subject of signing the contract. If you break the contract, I will sue you." Richard had no choice but to raise the last lawsuit stick.

As Richard expected, President Pang hesitated, but after about two minutes of thinking, President Pang shook his head slowly and said, "this is not my decision. I can only express my regret. Although I don't want to have such a dispute, as you Europeans and Americans say, don't punish the messenger. I'm just a messenger."

Richard did not believe: "you are the principal of the school, in power, how can you not decide."

"Vice president, I'm vice president." President Pang stressed in English that this is his rare description of his real title.

The threat of litigation could not solve the problem, and Richard was at a loss.

In fact, he doesn't want to litigate, which is a time-consuming and labor-consuming high cost behavior. Although lawyers can complete most of the work, they still need the participation of litigants. In addition, lawyers also charge a lot of fees.

Although Richard is a famous professor at the University of California, because he teaches in public schools, his salary is only tens of thousands of dollars. He is naturally richer than the Chinese people in the 1980s. But in American society, he is just a good middle class.

Of course, if Richard is willing to abandon his teaching position and go to work in a pharmaceutical company or other similar private enterprises, his annual salary can easily reach hundreds of thousands of dollars, or even exceed one million dollars, just like Jericho's Trapp.

But before that, Richard's private income was not high, and there was no soil for academic corruption.

At this point, Richard didn't even have the experience of returning to work in China.

However, Richard has the University of California as a backer behind him. After he sent President Pang away, Richard immediately informed the University of California.

After talking about the two schools for a few days, Richard received a phone call from the University of California: "Peking University will provide you with 30% of the sponsorship funds in accordance with the agreement, and the University of California will increase the funds equivalent to 20% of the agreement, but the remaining 50% is on your own."

Richard started to scratch his hair involuntarily. He lost 50% of the money, which is not as simple as the language description. He lost half of the money, could not do less than half of the experiments, could not do less than half of the instruments, and could not buy less than half of the reagents

Less than half of the funding, for a new laboratory, almost means that the support can not go on.

Richard said angrily, "they signed the agreement. You should let them carry it out."

"You can pursue their legal responsibility, but you should understand that the reason for China to reduce its expenditure is that you have not produced anything in the past six months." The person in charge of the University of California didn't want to bear the reputation of incompetence, and immediately put the blame on Richard.

Richard is speechless, and he is not a very good speaker.

The tone on the opposite side of the phone was better, saying: "the only support we can give you is to give you funds in advance, so that you can maintain the research in the next period of time. For the remaining gap, I suggest you find new investors or seek the support of public funds."

First of all, bad news, then good news, and then give a possible solution, it can really solve severe congestive heart disease.

Richard regained his spirits and decided to follow the advice of the other party.

In the United States, looking for investors or public funds is always the main work of laboratory managers. Some laboratory managers will spend a quarter or even a third of their time and energy on fund-raising.

Richard has tried to seek the help of individuals or institutions more than once. In most cases, the individuals and institutions who invested in him have lost all their money. In a few cases, the investors or institutions have received corresponding returns. Although it sounds a little unreliable, in fact, Richard's record is quite good.

70 Biotechnology from the s to the 1980s, just like the Internet in 2000, has been wildly invested in the United States and even the world. Most of the investments are at a loss, and the loss is extremely serious. However, the reason why venture capital is venture capital is that they can bear the risk and focus on the proportion of success.Even in China, it has also been affected. Richard's excellent record has played a role in the smooth construction of his laboratory.

Up to now, Richard's excellent record has not changed. He is indeed defeated by Yang Rui's scientific research competition, but Richard Laboratory of Peking University has not been cancelled, which is not a failure record. What's more, in his present state, one more failure record will not have much impact.

The only problem is that we have to be more despised, flattered and wasted time.

After careful consideration and discussion with his old friends in the United States, Richard decided not to go back to China, but to make something, and then to look for new funds. However, the risk of doing so is even greater. If it takes him two months to change money, he will have to make something meaningful within three months, and the relevant research has achieved the present, In three months, the fault tolerance rate is very low.

Richard was determined.

He went to President Pang again and put forward his own request, saying: "if you give me the remaining funds at one time, I will give up the lawsuit and try my best to maintain Richard laboratory. The achievements made will also sign the name of Peking University according to the original agreement."

Of course, principal Pang did not dare to agree.

Richard added weight and threatened to withdraw directly. He exposed his behavior at the next International Conference on Medical Bioengineering and named president Pang directly.

At this moment, President Pang felt the pain of the skin and hesitated.

After several days of struggle, Richard finally got the money for the next few months, which was also the last sum of money given to him by Peking University.

Richard used the money to order new equipment and reagents. Most of the materials used in biological experiments were not made by himself. Some small biological companies specialized in providing them, which is also the foundation of small biological companies.

If an ordinary university professor can make one or two kinds of competitive biomaterials to start a company, it will be very easy to make millions of dollars a year.

In the 21st century, this trend has also spread to China. The research goals of many professors, researchers and even graduate students are to apply for patents, set up small biological companies, and create huge profits from accurate pH test paper, bacterial culture medium, immune cells, mice, rabbits and even chimpanzees.

In the 1980s, there were fewer such biological companies, and the prices of biomaterials sold were more expensive. However expensive, they were cheaper and cheaper than the laboratories themselves.

Richard put his heart and soul into it.

It is not easy to make things for investors to see before the capital runs out.

Richard has become more busy than before, which also means that Xu Anqing and Zhu Jiahao are more busy.

If we say that these two research dogs used to be squeezed blood, now they are going to be squeezed bone marrow, not to mention that they need to take the final exam from time to time.

After only three days, Zhu Jiahao couldn't stand it, and Xu anqing insisted on it for half a day.

Sleep only four hours a day, and do high-intensity accurate experiments, a little free to read the literature, review the exam, this kind of situation is OK, it is too painful to do, and people's physical function is not unlimited overdraft.

After falling asleep in the next day's exam, Xu anqing couldn't help it any more. He found Richard and asked for a holiday.

Richard furious: "you are the same school freshmen, Yang Rui can insist, why can't you insist."

Xu anqing listened and said, "if we talk about working hours, Yang Rui doesn't insist on us."

Zhu Jiahao nodded and said, "Yang Rui is going back to celebrate the new year. What else do you insist on?"

Richard's eyelids jumped: "what do you mean?"

Xu anqing said angrily: "Yang Rui's working hours every day..."

"Not you." Richard interrupted Xu Anqing and asked Zhu Jiahao, "what do you mean Yang Rui has gone back for the new year?"

"Chinese New Year is like Christmas for you..."

"I know the Chinese New Year. I mean, did he go back for it? Has he left? "

"I haven't left yet, but I'm preparing. I heard from his fellow villagers that Yang Rui bought them train tickets." Zhu Jiahao was envious and asked, "the Spring Festival is just a few days away. When shall we have a holiday?"

"We don't have holidays!" Richard's eyes flashed and he said, "Yang Rui is too naive. Now when I go back to celebrate the new year, do you expect me to let him go? Well, maybe he is playing a smoke bomb. Let's relax our vigilance and ignore him. The more such a moment, the more we should work hard... ""He announced that he had a holiday. People in Huarui laboratory who want to go home can go home. Local people or those who don't want to go home will stay and pay overtime." Zhu Jiahao almost spoke with his tongue outstretched.

"We can't decide our own behavior because of the movements of our opponents." However, Richard began to describe Huarui laboratory as an opponent.

Xu anqing frowned and asked Zhu Jiahao in Chinese in a low voice, "how do you know the situation of Huarui laboratory so well?"

"I ask people." Zhu Jiahao is a little guilty.

make love!

Richard's clapping interrupted Xu Anqing's inquiry. He called in all the people in the laboratory and began his speech before "victory". The key point was to make persistent efforts to defeat Huarui.

Zhu Jiahao wailed and thought: I would not have come to Richard's lab if I knew.

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