Chapter 246: At Least One Month!

With Zhou Rui's return, the "Four Elephants" project team officially started.

Everyone had just finished the Chinese New Year and was eager to make great plans, especially the seven new members. After signing the confidentiality agreement and learning that the research direction of the project team was "metamaterials" and that a finished product had been produced, they were very excited.

This is the world's first finished metamaterial.

Although they have made achievements in different fields, there is still a certain gap compared to words such as "global leading" and "global cutting-edge".

Or it can be said that such words are difficult to appear in domestic scientific research projects.

An unexpected opportunity to enter such a project team is like winning the lottery for scientific researchers.

Mr. Mou was not idle throughout the Spring Festival. In order to make the most of his old bones, he frantically made up for the papers during the winter vacation to make up for the progress he had made in the past two years away from actual scientific research. He reviewed all the relevant public papers from countries around the world, and even reviewed them twice or three times.

He has made up his mind that he must make some achievements this time and fulfill his dream of decades.

In Mou Zhongyi's estimation, this may be the last scientific research project he will participate in.

At the same time, due to the particularity of the project field, although it has not really moved towards military industry, the confidentiality work at the school level has begun.

As a century-old famous university in China, Fudan University is involved in many confidentiality projects, which are roughly divided into two levels, namely national confidentiality and school-managed confidentiality.

National confidentiality still needs to be judged by superiors. The current progress is slightly stuck due to the Spring Festival, but the work of school-managed confidentiality has begun to intervene.

The confidentiality agreement signed by everyone is one of them. The school has also arranged for the school confidentiality department to assist. It has not yet reached the level of a dedicated person to stay in 24 hours, but daily experimental records, entry and exit records, hardware network restrictions, etc., all belong to the category of confidentiality management.

On the first day of work, the project team gathered together, and Zhou Rui also organized a meeting and took the opportunity to give a speech. The effect can only be said to be average.

First, many people in the group are not young, and the identity of "students" has gradually faded, and the "magic content" in Zhou Rui's words has decreased a lot. Secondly, although they are all picked out and have a good personality, Zhou Rui still needs some time to build prestige.

But Zhou Rui still got 3 points of [Speech] experience.

In the future, the project team will have a regular meeting every week to exchange progress and summary. Zhou Rui is prepared to say a few words from time to time, which can be regarded as a little bit of accumulation.

After all, he became the type of person he hated the most in his previous life: he had to say a few words even though there was nothing to do in the regular meeting.

Well, he can also go to Huawen Media often to gain some [Speech] experience. The people there have a better attitude when listening to lectures. I guess they won’t be impatient even if they talk for two hours.

Hey? This seems to be a good idea. If we concentrate on it, we may fill up the entries in a few days!

Zhou Rui silently remembered it in his heart.

After returning to Shanghai, the first three days passed almost in the blink of an eye. Zhou Rui also gradually withdrew from the leisure state of the Spring Festival and immersed himself in the laboratory again.

In the middle, Zhou Rui met with Dean Zhao once and confirmed the matter about the transformation of results and made preparations early.

After all, he knew that "reproduction" was very fast.

Dean Zhao received Zhou Rui in the office. In fact, even if Zhou Rui didn't come to see him, he was also paying attention to the progress of the "Four Elephants" project team every day.

After hearing Zhou Rui's intention, Dean Zhao thought that Zhou was still young and scientific research could not be rushed.

Although the Four-Elephant structure has an unexpected product, there is still a long way to go before there are definite results, otherwise the school would not have invested so much, buying equipment and transferring people.

He felt that it would be fast for the "Four-Elephants" to have results before Zhou Rui graduated from undergraduate school, and it would be too late to think about the transformation of results by then.

As long as he is still in this position, as long as Fudan University has not fallen, the promised things will not change.

But only Zhou Rui knows that the project progress will be very fast, faster than everyone expected, so some things must be prepared in advance, otherwise when the level of involvement becomes higher and higher, things will become troublesome.

The final conclusion is that the results of the "Four-Elephant" materials in the future will become the joint results of Zhou Rui and Fudan University, and the specific proportion will be determined according to the amount of funds consumed by the project team.

There are many ways to do this. Scientific research results are divided into "job results" and "non-job results", but there are many "human" spaces in the specific judgment, such as whether it is within the time of executing the work task, whether there is a contract, and whether the experimental equipment of Fudan University is used. The specific rules are very complicated and will not be repeated.

In short, stingy units can argue with you for more than ten years, or even kick you out directly, while generous units will raise their hands and let you pass, and send you a blessing and support.

Fudan University is very generous. It did not argue with Zhou Rui about words and put up regulations. It directly followed the "non-job results" theory and cooperated with Zhou Rui to develop. This is also the promise of President Zhao.

As mentioned before, Fudan University does not care about equity profits, but the new flag on the castle of science and the addition of new medals in the scientific research community.

Let it be said that the world's first metamaterial was developed by Fudan University, and Fudan University's metamaterial research leads the world. Any sentence is more important than any "profit".

Fudan University is willing to pay money!

Of course, there should be a part that should be there, otherwise the account will not be compliant.

Fudan University is investing real money and people. Just for the equipment, the human cost of so many doctors and professors, as well as the operating expenses and material costs of the project team, Fudan University has already invested several million, and it needs nearly one million every year to maintain it.

The longer it is delayed, the more Fudan University will invest, and the more rights and interests it should occupy. If the results are produced in two to three years or even longer according to Dean Zhao's estimate, the school and Zhou Rui should share 40% to 60% or even 50% in the end.

In fact, it is the same logic as commercial investment. Zhou Rui has a good idea and a good creativity, and external support enters the market, giving money to people and venues.

The more you spend, the larger your share will be. If you burn money and still have no results in the end, you can directly cut off the project team, which is fine.

If you only invest a little bit, you can take advantage of the wind. The school has limited investment and only plays a supporting role, so naturally it will take less.

But the only measure in the business world is money, and Fudan University provides more than just money, but also a huge talent pool for you to choose from, confidentiality services supported by the school, various high-end equipment that can be borrowed at will, and a scientific research environment that is difficult to find in society.

Coming out of President Zhao's office, Zhou Rui took out his thermos cup and sipped the Ten-Ingredient Tonic Soup.

"Entry Task [Health], Experience Value +1, Current Progress (45/100)"

Don't tell me, there's still a hint of sweetness when you drink too much.

Is the taste system already disordered?

With a plan, he was ready to take action. He would first register a tech company as a head start, which would be useful later.

As for the speed of producing results, although theoretically the faster the better for Zhou Rui, he was not in a hurry.

For him and the other people in the "Four Elephants Group", there are many things to study in metamaterials, and there are also many new things to learn.

He didn't just want to coat and make membranes, but to figure out the principles and develop more secrets of the incomplete "Revelation of Heaven". He also needed some time to accumulate. Every day, he absorbed a lot of knowledge from Fudan University and his colleagues.

It's better to take a little longer.

Well, at least a month.

If it's too fast, it will scare people.