Chapter 1402

If we say which kind of people are the most greedy in the world, it must be scientists.

How much does it cost for ordinary people to make money for enjoyment? Learning from Bill Gates to buy an island in Maldives, taking a private plane to and from his own mansion with whale sharks, and occasionally learning from the prince of Saudi Arabia to buy a destroyer refitted yacht worth 300 million US dollars, is about the limit, or even extremely willful.

Women's willfulness can be combined with expensive jewelry and luxury goods like Hermes.

But is an island a cost to scientists? There are no islands all over the world, just because scientists are poor and can't afford funds. There are no countries studying permafrost, tropical rain forest, climate change and paleontology. They all set up scientific research stations in the Antarctic and Arctic Amazon jungle. Investors, whether individuals, institutions or countries, have only two choices, or they just don't invest, To invest, you have to spend n times of Bill Gates' money, and it's a perennial expense.

Taking biologists as an example, the most needed environmental protection mode for human beings is to establish a variety of animal sperm and egg banks, improve the DNA bank, and carry out various sequencing activities, so as to ensure that no matter how bad the earth's environment is, the reason why an animal has evolved over millions of years will not be completely lost. As for wildlife reserves and so on, it's more about the culture of protecting animals and human beings than protecting animals themselves - different wild animals will show different performances in different areas, which shows the adaptability of animals to the environment.

However, the human genome project cost US $3 billion to complete. Although most of the costs do not need to be repeated on wild animals, more costs will be added to the sequencing of wild animals. How much will it cost to sequence millions of animals, insects, micro organisms and plants in the world?

Some people will say, can't the money be applied from the state?

The country's money is also limited, and it is not really printed.

A school like Tsinghua spends 4 billion yuan a year. Harvard spends just over 10 billion dollars a year. It's all for the Department of biology, and it can sequence several products.

Not to mention, scientists also have preferences.

If we take the money of the country, we should consider the problem from the public's point of view. Rice, wheat or important animals and plants such as pigs, chickens and yeast will be at the front of the sequencing list. Even if the cost of microorganisms such as yeast and rice is low, the cost of mammals such as pigs and chickens will be high.

If you take money from institutions, you have to listen to investors. For example, if Comrade Bill Gates likes whale sharks, they can ask to test them.

What about scientists' preferences?

If Yang Rui wants to sequence cattle, he can also apply for a little public expenditure. If he wants to sequence alpacas, it's not so easy. If he likes to be a little more eccentric, he can't get public expenditure at all.

As a result, the rich capitalists have protected the whale sharks they may not like so much. Where can we argue?

From this point of view, Yang ruicun's tea is only enough to complete a little hobby.

As for the luxury of raising a whale shark? No matter the cost of construction or maintenance, the intelligent house with whale shark is far less than that of an ocean research institute. In modern oceanography, a whale shark is nothing.

Ruby used to be used to make watches. Later, it was also used by scientists in lasers. The bigger the ruby, the better.

Big diamonds are not attractive to scientists, but the annual consumption of diamonds used in industry is no less than the demand of women.

Hermes scarves are often woven with special butterfly silk, but if a biologist wants to play with butterflies, it's not enough to sell Hermes.

It's just that there's no money.

Who should have the right to allocate social resources? politician? civil servant? capitalist? Economist or scientist? This is a philosophical proposition.

But Yang Rui is sure that he is qualified to control certain distribution rights.

Over time, as a biologist, is Yang Rui qualified to build a scientific research station, seed bank or even gene bank in Antarctica that will not be influenced by stupid bureaucrats?

On the day of transgenic clamor, can scientists who can't get social funds be willful and do the research they want to do?

When biofuels were in vogue, when the action of cutting down tropical rainforests to grow corn needed to be stopped by deafening voices, did people who had reason to make a sound have enough publicity capital?

Or, when biological experiments have fantasies about space, when biologists have fantasies about the deep sea, when biologists need supercomputers, when biologists need super cow mechanical and engineering facilities, when biologists want to raise fish, clone and cattle around the seaOf course, biologists don't have to do this. This kind of thing rarely appears in the dictionary of scientists.

Most of the things, there is always a euphemistic way to turn around.

But biologists can also be willful.

Nobel Prize biologists are naturally more willful.

Facts have proved that most Nobel laureates are not easy to get wayward rights in social life. Instead, they will be treated more harshly.

Just as you are poor and you are reasonable, the concept that the higher your status, the more you should suffer losses is almost deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Yang Rui doesn't want to be a high-ranking mascot. He is a scientist. Scientists are also qualified to consume expensive tea, live in luxury houses and drive luxury cars. Of course, such a wish is difficult for most scholars to realize.

Even after 30 years, the average salary of scholars is hard to reach the standard of US $30000. If the salary of US $50000 is not changed for the sake of money, it is almost the high point of famous scholars.

In contrast, Pu'er tea can bring a lot of comfort to Yang Rui. If he pays millions of yuan a year for the income of tea, the money will be converted into billions of yuan in 20 years.

For 10 years in a row or even longer, the total value will be about the market value of one of the world's top 500 companies. Of course, it will have to be sold a little slower.

However, even hundreds of billions of yuan, or even hundreds of billions of yuan, is more than enough to maintain a world-class laboratory, and it is difficult to build a new one.

It's easy to spend 10 billion US dollars a year at Harvard, or 4 billion US dollars a year at Tsinghua. It's easy to sew your fingers a little wider and spend ten times more.

Who doesn't want to use better reagents and equipment? They just can't afford it.

However, if you sell the mahogany and porcelain, it will be easy to build another laboratory.

That's almost the limit.

Bell laboratory, as the top Laboratory of the company, is still living so hard. Yang Rui is not optimistic about the income to expenditure ratio of private laboratories. Additional investment is inevitable and will exist for a long time.

As for the impact of public expenditure on science, it is often less than the impact of no culture on IQ. To let a group of people who don't know Lagrange's mean value theorem judge the value and direction of science, it's better to have a wolf day, and then let the surviving lose a coin, at least they work hard.

The advantage of rebirth is that it's easier to collect money and do what you like.

The advantage of the Nobel Prize is that you don't have to worry about being slaughtered.

Yang Rui transferred hundreds of billions of big business to Jiang Zhijun, and told him: "if you have time, help me buy some jadeite stone, and Hetian jade and Hetian jade seed material, which is good for storage."

Jiang Zhijun is immune to Yang Rui's extravagant spending. He thinks that his desire for consumption has skyrocketed after he won the Nobel Prize. He just asks: "how much do you want to buy?"

"How much is emerald now?"

"You don't know the price..." Jiang Zhijun could not make complaints about it. "Some days ago, I had friends who bought two pairs of jade bracelets. I heard that they were pretty good, and they bought 1000 pieces of them in the shopping mall."

"What level of jade bracelet?"

"I didn't ask."

"Well, if that's the case, why don't you buy a million water first?" Yang Rui is not in a hurry. The rising price of jadeite is a matter in the future. Now it's just hoarding.

He has to take millions of dollars for the Nobel Prize alone. He can't deposit it in the bank. He can be used as pension money after 30 years.

Jiang Zhijun is indifferent, but he says curiously, "are you busy with the joint venture these two days?"

He helped Yang Rui to build a supporting factory.

I just don't know how sorry Comrade Jiang Zhijun was when he thought about today's scene more than a decade or two later.

"Basically finished, it's all a ceremony. At the signing ceremony of northern United pharmaceutical, Jielikang won the bid. I'm very glad to send the president. Take a picture or something. " When Yang Rui talks about things, he has no spirit.

Business is really not what he is interested in. Huarui pharmaceutical is just a pharmaceutical factory. In addition to preparing to produce orphan drugs for Gaucher's disease, northern United pharmaceutical may also produce all kinds of common drugs, which is out of Yang Rui's professional field. He is not willing to spend time doing more perfunctory than he said.

Jiang Zhijun is anxious to scratch his heart and lungs. He says: "Jericho is your old acquaintance, which is also a good thing.""I'll introduce you when I'm free." Yang Rui saw Jiang Zhijun's meaning and didn't want to play tricks. He said, "Frank is the vice president of jerichon China. He will be in charge of this joint venture project in the future. He's really an old acquaintance of mine. I'll take you to recognize someone another day."

"Great, thank you, Professor Yang." Jiang Zhijun at this time for the pressure on their own pile of procurement tasks.

Jielikang's advantages in China are so obvious that not only Hu Chi and others are satisfied with such a joint venture, but also Jiang Zhijun are quite satisfied.

Jielikang has ready-made domestic channel resources for the new northern United pharmaceutical industry. On the other hand, they are also the top ten super pharmaceutical enterprises in the world, and have the ability to apply for new drugs and generic drugs.

Of course, the relationship with Yang Rui is one of the reasons why they won the bid.

This is not only because Yang Rui likes them more, but also because of Yang Rui, Jielikang has some trust in northern United pharmaceutical, which has no reputation at all. After all, it's hard to make up your mind and pay a lot of money for investment in the third world countries without reliable and powerful people.

The next day, Jiang Zhijun specially asked people to find a number of newspapers, looking at the brilliant smile of Hu Chi, director of the chemical and pharmaceutical revitalization office, also showed a very bright smile.

Yang Ruiai can spend whatever he wants. It's better for you to come to me when you've run out of money.

At that time, if Yang Rui wants to borrow money from me, can I borrow it?

Jiang Zhijun fell into deep meditation and secretly imagined the scene. He said: at that time, we must let him buy mung bean cake in the East, red bean cake in the west, oil cake in the north, eggs in the South and lend him some money.

With such a wonderful fantasy, Jiang Zhijun stepped on the train to the south, in order to improve the living standards of the people in the poor areas of the motherland, and to sow funds.

(end of this chapter)