Rebirth in 1998 is also a kind of life

As one of the first batch of "labor dispatch" members of the Institute of Genetics, Fang Qingyun felt that his life in the past six months was a bit dreamlike.

Having already done heavy physical labor in Genetics for three years, he originally thought that after being dispatched to this newly established "Zhuhua Genetic Laboratory", he would still continue to follow the previous work and life trajectory-still a full day Work in the lab, manage and manage the petri dishes, and handle the experimental equipment;


As a result, when I arrived at this super-large laboratory located on the edge of Qilu Dezhou City, which is expected to cover an area of ​​600 acres (currently only 120 acres have been developed), I found that it is not only fully equipped, but also has electrophoresis equipment, constant temperature water baths, and high-speed freezing. Centrifuges, UV spectrophotometers, Pasteur pipettes, etc. are well-equipped, and there are all the equipment needed for conservative sequence PCR cloning techniques such as quantitative PCR instrument, PCR/RT-PCR/qPCR reagents, etc.

The most important thing is that from the point of view of rules and regulations, they can use these devices without restriction, even if dozens of experimental materials are used a day, no one will say anything;

Unexpectedly, those few seemingly young administrative staff talked to them specifically, asking them not to be restrained, and to do whatever they want, but there is only one condition: they are not allowed to overdo it. Operation, so as not to damage the health of the body - after all, there are many instruments here that have strong radiation, and some reagents and solutions are also quite toxic.

In addition, every researcher from the Institute of Genetics has 5-10 directional commissioned students as assistants to help them with various miscellaneous tasks, so as to save them from unnecessary physical exertion. Liberated from labor, concentrate on scientific research projects in public relations hands.

God is so pitiful, when will Fang Qingyun, who has been suffering for five full years in the Institute of Genetics, enjoy this kind of treatment! ?

You must know that certain units in Huaxia have extremely serious seniority rankings. No matter how capable you are, if you want to lead a scientific research project, don't even think about it without more than ten or twenty years of qualifications!

In addition, the Institute of Genetics is really not rich, and it would be lucky to be able to approve a few experimental materials for you. How about sending you a few assistants?dream you!

To be honest, on the premise of keeping the archives of the Institute of Genetics, he was overjoyed to work in such a unit that allowed him to flex his muscles; but it was only after he started working in Zhuhua Genetics Laboratory that he realized what it was like to be valued. What is it like.

First of all, depending on the original level, their fixed salary has been adjusted to 1-1.5 yuan/month-compared with the previous level of only 400 yuan in the Institute of Genetics, this salary can be called the ceiling in China.

In addition, each of them was allocated a set of commercial houses with an area ranging from 100 to 150 square meters and a Santana. As long as they have worked in Zhuhua Gene Lab for ten years, the real estate certificate of this house will be listed immediately. fill in their names;

How about saying that the big boss trench of Zhutou Business is inhumane?

It seems that they are worried that these researchers will lose their enthusiasm after a long time. Zhuhua Genomics Laboratory also has a clear incentive mechanism: whenever any project has a breakthrough, after the leader in charge checks and accepts it, the project team will be issued 5 to 50 yuan immediately that month. Waiting for cash rewards, after the results of the project, it is said that there is a big red envelope of 100 million yuan waiting for them; and it is promised that after obtaining technical patents and commercial applications in the future, the scientific research project team will have 10% patent dividends—— Of course, whether it is bonuses or patent dividends, the project leader does not have the right to allocate independently, but the administrative staff distributes them proportionally to each member of the project team according to the weight of work contribution.

This is just a material incentive. In terms of life, Zhuhua Genetics Laboratory takes good care of it.

Not only can you bring your family here to live together, but you can also take care of your children’s schooling, family work, medical care and health care—and it’s free, much like a state-owned enterprise 20 years ago.

In addition, no matter what difficulties you have in life, as long as you talk to those administrative staff, they will definitely solve your problems in the first time. Their strong execution and kind attitude are completely comparable to The British butler - it can be said that Zhuhua Genomics Laboratory's purpose of "management posts serving technical posts" has been brought into full play.

Of course, sometimes it is not a good thing for those managers to serve too attentively;

At the very least, people like Fang Qingyun are very distressed about the routine physical examination every two weeks and the monthly "Unmarried Youth Association".

The physical examination is nothing more than that. After all, for scientific research, the body is the capital of the revolution. Although the physical examination every two weeks seems a bit "excessive concern", it is a good intention after all.

But... what the hell is that "Unmarried Youth Association" that is obviously a blind date party! ?

What's so good about women, they just annoy themselves all day long and delay their scientific research progress, okay? ?

In short, in the past six months, except for a little discomfort in some places, all researchers including Fang Qingyun feel that they have arrived in heaven, and they wish to stay in this pure scientific research land forever.

And now that the Spring Festival is approaching, in addition to a big red envelope and a lot of holiday benefits for each person, the laboratory has also invited a lot of star actors over, planning to have a lively annual meeting.

Originally, Fang Qingyun didn't take this extravagant and wasteful behavior very seriously. If you have money from those actors, it's better to buy more experimental materials, and to waste the whole night watching those boring performances, it's better to get into the laboratory Let's do several sets of mrna difference display observations - the laboratory has strict regulations, and on major holidays, researchers are strictly prohibited from working overtime unless specially approved.

However, when he heard that this luxurious annual meeting was specially ordered by the big boss of Zhutou Trading, and that the mysterious boss was about to come to the scene, Fang Qingyun immediately stopped talking nonsense—you know, there are rumors in the world, That big boss with a net worth of billions has never shown up at the annual meeting of Lianzhu Investment and Trading, but now he has come to the laboratory, which shows how much he attaches importance to his scientific researchers.

In this age of indescribable words, a super boss attaches so much importance to scientific researchers whose social status is inferior to that of waiters, what else can he say besides being moved?

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At this moment, Yang Zhu was sitting in the reception room of Zhuhua Gene Laboratory with a smile on his face, chatting with several backbones.

"Mr. Yang, this is the progress of various scientific research work in our laboratory in the past six months." Fang Xiao, the general manager of Zhuhua Gene Laboratory, handed over a document with a face of respect.

Yang Zhu took it and flipped it casually, then put it aside, and waved his hand: "If it's a big holiday, don't talk about work, genetic research is a long and arduous process, I'm not in a hurry, and you managers You also need to guard against arrogance and impetuosity... Manager Fang, do you understand this truth?"

Swept away by Yang Zhu's meaningful eyes, Fang Xiao suddenly broke out in sweat, knowing that this was the big boss admonishing him-but it's no wonder, as the world's most cutting-edge scientific research work, how can it be so easy? The results?And the behavior of handing in the work progress report by yourself is indeed very similar to making up some unwarranted grades in order to cope with the inspection of the superior;

only……

Although he felt a little aggrieved, seeing Yang Zhu's faintly displeased expression, Fang Xiao still didn't have the guts to argue, and just smiled wryly: "Yes, Mr. Yang, don't worry, we will always remember your teachings; In the laboratory, our management staff will never intervene and interfere with the research work of the researchers, and concentrate on doing a good job of babysitting!"

Hearing Fang Xiao's assurance, Yang Zhu smiled with satisfaction, and then waved his hand: "Speaking of which, you have worked hard during this period. It just so happened that Director Lin gave me a cake of antique Pu'er tea, and I will borrow flowers to present Buddha, to give it to you." Everyone, try it out!"

After finishing speaking, he opened the box, peeled off the layer of film and tissue paper on the Tongqing, and carefully pried a piece off the tattered tea cake. The set in front of him seemed to have never been used at all. In an ordinary tea set.

Lin Keran, whose buttocks were still hot, looked at the antique tea with a missing corner of the cake with some heartache, and said to himself that you really don’t see it, I just delivered this antique tea worth 30 to you, and you immediately I just pried it out of my face——but, are you sure this guy with a science background can appreciate this thing?

Sure enough, the other five scientific research team leaders sitting next to Fang Xiao saw the antique tea cake that was over 70 years old. Suspicious objects that are brownish brown with a slightly withered yellow surface;

Probably if it wasn't for Yang Zhu sitting in front of them, and they could barely understand the world, they might have to find out the instrument on the spot to test whether there are harmful microorganisms exceeding the standard in this tea cake!

However, this is the case. After Yang Zhu washed it three times, he personally poured tea soup for several people. The five scientific research team leaders did not immediately pick up the cups and drink it, but looked at the area with scrutiny. With the thick rust-red tea soup, they looked at each other in blank dismay.

Seeing this, Yang Zhu laughed, and was not angry. He just picked up the teacup in front of him, sniffed the somewhat obvious camphor scent, and took a sip;

After carefully feeling the faint bitterness in his tongue and the sudden rush of saliva, Yang Zhu nodded in satisfaction.

Strictly speaking, in fact, the charm and taste of this kind of antique tea that has been completely transformed from raw to cooked have actually dissipated more than half; and because of the reason that it was mixed in the past, the raw materials of this tea cake are not top-notch, so it is not enough to drink it. The taste in the tea is actually not as good as those 10-15 years old pure tea;

However, isn't this thing just a rarity?

Besides, after aging for 70 years, the sense of vicissitudes unique to the years and the special charm of occasional surprises in the ordinary are definitely not comparable to ordinary tea.

However, judging from the reactions of a few people just now, these people probably don't have much research on Pu'er tea; therefore, this tea cake can be regarded as winking to the blind.

After closing their eyes and stuffing the tea soup in front of them, they found that although they didn't like it, it wasn't as bad as imagined, the three scientific research team leaders let out a long sigh of relief;

Then, as if afraid that Yang Zhu would continue to persuade him to tease him, a scientific research team leader named Xie Qi said, "Mr. Yang, you actually blamed Manager Fang just now."

Yang Zhu looked at this thin scientific researcher with some surprise: "Oh?"

Xie Qi boldly said: "Mr. Yang, at present, the difficulties in gene research lie in gene sequencing, determination of the expression of gene fragments, the relationship between various proteins and enzymes, protein folding and hierarchical structure, and gene regulation. Network access limits, gene transcription-mutation rules of two parts per million;”

"However, because the Institute of Genetics has done a lot of basic research work before, and the main scientific research projects of the Zhuhua Genetic Laboratory are actually more focused on plant hybrid breeding and gene editing research... so the difficulty is actually not as difficult as you imagined. Big."

Yang Zhu heard what he meant, raised his eyebrows, and said with great interest: "It means... It's only been half a year, and our laboratory has really researched something?"

Xie Qi saw Yang Zhu's kind attitude, and the tension in his heart dissipated a bit, and he said with a smile: "Although there is no final result, and because it will take several years of trial and observation, there are some things that I dare not be sure about...but we must Speaking of breakthrough research results, there must be, otherwise Manager Fang would not dare to report to you."

Yang Zhu became interested: "Oh? What breakthroughs have you made?"

When it comes to majors, Xie Qi is clearly confident: "As far as I know, there are currently two projects that have made major breakthroughs;"

"The first one is the [Giant Sweet Sorghum] project in charge of an experimental group under me;"

"This new type of sorghum specially designed for feed production has bred the third-generation offspring last month. Although the experiments on resistance to diseases and insect pests and lodging resistance have not yet been done, the traits and gene fragment expression of the female parent From the speculative point of view, there should not be too many problems, and we can start to conduct trial observation immediately; "

"This giant sweet sorghum, from the beginning of the breeding design, has been heading towards the four-in-one direction of large plants, high protein, lodging resistance, and salt-alkali resistance;"

"One of the biggest features is the large plant! It is predicted that the height of the plant can exceed 6 meters, which is twice that of ordinary sorghum; Sweet sorghum can really enter the solid planting stage, and its single plant biomass (including the weight of stems, leaves, and roots) can exceed three times that of the current mainstream raw material [silage corn]!"

"Furthermore, this giant sorghum grows extremely rapidly after the seedling stage. In areas with suitable conditions, it can even be harvested more than three times a year, and its annual output exceeds that of any current domestic forage grass variety;"

“Of course, it’s useless if there is only quantity but no quality—because this type of giant sorghum contains the gene of sweet-stalk corn, the sugar content in the main stalk is extremely high, so if it is used for making feed, it is not only nutritious and The energy density is higher, livestock such as pigs, cattle and sheep are also more like to eat, and the fattening speed is faster, so it can be regarded as a pasture variety with high economic value!"

"In addition, this giant sorghum has a particularly important highlight - salt-alkali resistance!"

"We all know that the area of ​​saline-alkali land that cannot be used for cultivation in China is about 14.8 billion mu, of which the area of ​​modern saline-alkali soil is 5.5 million mu, and the area of ​​residual saline-alkali soil is about 6.7 million mu, which does not include about 2.6 million mu potential saline-alkali soil—it can be said that the area of ​​saline-alkali land can almost catch up with the domestic arable land area!"

"Aside from other things, half of your Qilulu Northwest Plain is saline-alkali land. It is a pity that such a large piece of land is left there for nothing!"

"However, our giant sweet sorghum uses some tidal flat herbs as the female parent, so in theory, there is no problem with salt-alkali resistance."

"Mr. Yang, you are an elite in the business world, and you know a lot about the planting industry. Naturally, once this giant sweet sorghum is verified to have excellent salt-alkaline resistance, how much is its promotional value and economic value? An epoch-making forage grass variety!"

After hearing this, Yang Zhu took a deep breath—this is more than an epoch-making breed of forage grass?It is not an exaggeration to say that it is gong in the present age!

You must know that the area of ​​cultivated land in later generations once approached the warning red line of 18 billion mu; and in order to feed a population of 14 billion, these cultivated land must be mainly used for the cultivation of staple food and vegetables;

But China is not the Three Kingdoms, and it is impossible for the citizens to eat only staple food and vegetables for every meal; therefore, in addition to cooking oil, meat, egg and milk are also indispensable.

At this time, the domestic population was too large, but the problem of insufficient arable land was exposed—most of the arable land was used to ensure staple food and vegetables, so the feed used for livestock breeding, especially the high-protein and high-sugar feed was never Where are you from?

The fundamental reason why wheat, corn, and soybean meal have become the main raw materials for feed in the world is that these three raw materials have high energy density; if possible, the country would like to find a substitute for these three feed raw materials, so that Liberate more arable land—In fact, since 2005, the country has used fodder grass as an agricultural strategic project for technical public relations. One of the most important purposes is to get rid of the dependence on foreign imports of feed raw materials.

And this giant sweet sorghum is the perfect feed material - not only has a high yield, but it can also be grown on saline soil.

Think about it, how much feed material can be provided by nearly 15 billion mu of saline-alkali land! ?How much can the cost of feed be reduced! ?

Even if these giant sweet sorghums belong to silage, the energy density may be slightly lower than that of corn, wheat and other food feeds, but in any case, as long as the feed formula can be optimized, it can greatly reduce the external dependence of feed raw materials !

Thinking of this, Yang Zhu did not hesitate, and looked at Fang Xiao with a serious face: "Manager Fang, immediately raise the project level of giant sweet sorghum and list it as a category A project. All resources and manpower should be focused on it first!"

"In addition, in my own name, a cash reward of 500 million yuan will be awarded to Director Xie's giant sweet sorghum project team, which will be distributed on the spot at the annual meeting tonight!"

what! ? ?

Xie Qi was startled and trembled, his hands trembling.

500! ?

Let alone 500 million yuan in his life, he never even saw 5 yuan before he entered Zhuhua Gene Lab.

Swallowing, Xie Qi said: "Yang, Mr. Yang, the research stage of the giant sweet sorghum project is still in the laboratory. According to the regulations, the scientific research project cannot be rewarded again before the results are released... Moreover, your reward amount is, somewhat too high!"

Yang Zhu smiled: "Director Xie, as I said, this is my personal reward, and it does not conflict with the laboratory's reward system;"

"Also, maybe you, as a pure scientific researcher, don't quite understand the strategic significance of this project;"

"But I can tell you this, if your giant sweet sorghum project is really successful; and one day in the future, Huaxia will completely stop relying on imported feed while ensuring that every family can eat meat without any scruples." The raw materials are ready, then... that invisible medal has half of you and your team members on it!"

Speaking of this, Yang Zhu's expression became more solemn, and he looked around: "Director Xie, and everyone, the burden on you is more than a thousand catties, and your value is immeasurable; if it really succeeds... just 500 million, really In case of not being able to commend your achievements;”

"Here, I can only say - I, Yang, will not be stingy with those extraneous things, but if you have any requests, please feel free to ask them!"

"And the task of Zhuhua Gene Lab is far more difficult than you think, and its importance is far beyond what people can imagine!"

"In the days to come... gentlemen, let's encourage each other!!"

After finishing speaking, Yang Zhu stood up and bowed slightly to the technical supervisors.

At this moment, everyone panicked, stood up quickly, waved their hands quickly, and didn't dare to accept the gift-what a joke, with Yang Zhu's current status and the boss of his own boss, no matter how unreasonable they are, they can't accept the gift. I dare not continue to sit there.

It's just that a dignified billionaire and a big man who can directly talk to ministerial leaders respect and value them so much. After being frightened, the emotions in the hearts of several technical directors are hard to describe. They almost cried on the spot—— You know, just two years ago, they were poor ghosts who would be ridiculed and despised by the waiters even when they went to restaurants!

………………

They chatted for more than two hours. Seeing that it was getting late, several technical directors and Fang Xiao, who seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, left - tomorrow is going to be a holiday, and the various groups and departments should open The year-end summary meeting will still be held.

Seeing that the reception room was empty, Lin Keran, who had been listening quietly, scanned the antique tea cake that was missing a corner, and looked at Yang Zhu with some doubts: "Yang Zhu, you...why do you value these scientific research so much?" personnel?"

I have known Yang Zhu for three years, and Lin Keran knows his temperament very well. This guy is extremely arrogant in his bones—whether he is an executive of Zhutou Commercial/Zhutou International Trade, or a business owner like her father, or even It's those high-ranking leaders; Yang Zhu may be polite on the surface, but he doesn't really take it to heart;

As for Yang Zhu's preference for tea and how stingy he is, those who are familiar with him know very well that he can share this unique Tongqing Pu'er antique tea with these technicians without hesitation. His speech and demeanor, the meaning in the middle is more than just paying attention... It is no exaggeration to say that it is respect!

Therefore, she is very curious, in this era where business and wealth are the most important, why does Yang Zhu, who looks like a big boss, treat a few science and technology men like this? ——Even if the other party is affiliated to the Institute of Genetics, the name of the Huaxia Academy of Sciences these days can't scare people at all. In the eyes of people with a little background, that so-called gold-lettered signboard has no weight at all!

Yang Zhu glanced at Lin Keran, who had panda eyes, and saw that she was looking at him seriously, and remembered that his action of opening the box and prying tea in front of her was indeed a bit inappropriate, and in addition, he was in a good mood today, so I didn't intend to fool the past;

Shrugged: "I don't know if you have heard of a saying... The end of physics is mathematics, the end of mathematics is philosophy, and the end of philosophy is theology."

Lin Keran was stunned, not understanding why he brought up this question, but nodded anyway.

Yang Zhu smiled: "It is said that all the objective laws in this world that can be analyzed rationally are actually a prank by God!"

Not knowing what came to mind, Yang Zhu sighed: "I don't know if you understand the Euler function?"

Eh?

Lin Keran looked at him stupidly, feeling that today's Yang Zhu was unspeakably weird...

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ps1: Today is Chinese New Year, and here is a New Year greeting to the more than 80 readers who still insist on reading this book. I wish you all success in your studies, good health, and big pockets in the new year!

Uh, that’s right, judging from the background data, even if robots are counted, only 84 readers are still reading the book. It is estimated that the book is really not very good-the author fainted in the toilet. , Isn't it what a guy who is forced to watch online classes and do homework every day should do? (Hurry up and stuff the monthly pass into the red envelope!)

ps2: The giant sweet sorghum mentioned in this chapter is indeed a new type of forage grass jointly launched by the [Institute of Genetics] of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, but the project should have been approved around 05, and this book is 4 years ahead of schedule; One of the project members is indeed Xie Qi (same pronunciation and different words) in this book. Here, I would like to pay sincere respect to these researchers who are silently fighting on the front line of scientific research!

After all, judging from the grain and oil import data and price fluctuations in the past six months, there will be a lot of trouble in the import of various grains and feed ingredients in the next few years!