I Inherited 5,000 Years of Family Property-Chapter 728 - 726: Is He Wholesale National Projects?

"Professor Yao!" Professors Liu Jinliang and Sun Chengshan hurriedly rushed into the adjacent office of the Science and Technology Department, "Something big has happened!"

"What big thing has you two in such a hurry?" the professor with the surname Yao turned around.

"Academician Zhang Menglong from Jiangnan University of Science and Technology has come to apply for an astrophysics academic program point."

"Let him apply if he wants to. Follow the procedure," said Professor Yao, "The Bachelor's Points can be approved for him within a month. As for the Master's Points and Doctoral Points, first, let him apply for those national projects. Once he has completed them and achieved results, he can come back to apply. Aren't there three astronomical national projects this year? With his capabilities, securing one shouldn't be a problem."

"The problem now is that he has already finished the project!" said Liu Jinliang with frustration.

"What? Finished?" Professor Yao was stunned, "These projects were only officially announced less than a month ago, and the formal applications start from next month. How could he possibly have finished already?"

"See for yourself!" Sun Chengshan threw the USB drive onto the table, "That 'Pulsar Physics,' he says, is already wrapped up. Now he is in our office, claiming he wants to close both the 'Gamma Burst Cosmology' and 'Fast Radio Burst Data Statistics' projects as well, to prevent us from making things difficult for him with insufficient project numbers!"

"We've been working for half our lives and this is the first time we've seen someone pull off a fait accompli with national projects!"

"That's outrageous!"

The so-called national projects, mostly funded projects, are hotly contested by major universities, with each project involving funds ranging from millions to tens or even hundreds of millions. These are crucial for national foundation science, economic development, and industrial progress.

Under normal circumstances, if a faculty member of a university secures a project, they could be up for a professorship or even an assistant professorship.

These projects often take a very long time, at least three to five years, with no upper limit and as long as they yield some breakthrough results, a national science and technology progress award is almost guaranteed.

This indicates how highly specialized and incredibly difficult these topics are!

But what's outrageous is that these projects were only announced less than a month ago! During this month, researchers from various universities are probably still desperately writing their applications, hoping to take on these projects.

But now you tell me someone has already completed these projects, even closed the cases, and not just one!

This is beyond his comprehension!

What's even more critical is, he doesn't know what to do now!

If he approves the application, his projects haven't even been officially registered yet; at most, they're only independent research now!

If he doesn't approve it, this guy has not only taken on the project, but he has also slapped the results in front of you, and now all they need to do is perform a project acceptance.

This kind of reverse operation left them at a loss!

"Moreover, he also told us that for future astronomical projects, the Science and Technology Department can just propose them directly to him, and he doesn't want a single penny of research funding!"

"This... you witness all sorts of things if you live long enough!" lamented Professor Yao with a bitter smile.

Normally, when people take on a project, they first look at the amount of money, the difficulty level, and whether their research group can handle it.

But Zhang Menglong, on the other hand, says he doesn't even need research funding, and any project the country suggests, he claims he can research it and produce results!

What kind of supreme confidence is this?

"Did he say anything else?"

"That's all, his only request is that these academic program points be applied for as quickly as possible."

"Here's what we'll do," said Professor Yao, "I'll get someone to review his results first. If there's no problem, I'll see if I can make a special application to the higher-ups."

"Knock, knock!"

"Please come in!" The office door opened, and the one knocking from outside was none other than Zhang Menglong.

"Academician Zhang, we were just discussing your case," Professor Liu said. "Our conclusion is that we need to first evaluate your academic research. Do you have something to report now?"

"Oh," Zhang Menglong walked in and placed two USB drives on the table, "I just finished up the 'Gamma Burst Cosmology' and 'Fast Radio Burst Data Statistics' projects. Why don't you review these as well?"

"What?" The three professors were petrified on the spot.

They had been discussing for just about ten minutes, and in that brief period, you finished two more projects?

"Impressive!"

"Invincible!"

"Monstrous!"

...

National-level projects can't be taken lightly by anyone, especially not in such special circumstances.

These things are like patents. If a project is approved, all its findings belong to the project, and in other words, to the nation.

But the projects hadn't been approved yet, which means Zhang Menglong could publish this material in international journals if he wanted to, effectively making what should be national outcomes public. How could this be allowed?

That very night, over a dozen astronomical experts reviewed these findings, and the outcome of their evaluation left them dumbstruck.

Every project has some standards for the final results. Take "Pulsar Physics," for instance: the basic requirement is to update the parameters for currently cataloged pulsars, none of which had been updated in over a decade.

Zhang Menglong not only updated these parameters but even expanded the potential number of observable pulsars from 170 to 300 by adjusting the technology and theory!

These updated parameters would give the astronomical community of Huaxia a head start, propelling them to the forefront of pulsar research!

The research for the other two projects was no less impressive. Zhang Menglong not only met the basic requirements but also added at least double the research findings expected of him based on the original workload!

The value of these three projects was staggeringly high!

Moreover, he had calculated all these findings through simulations, and the results, within the margins of error allowed by existing data, were so precise that they couldn't even be sure who was correct in the end.

Finally, they reached a verdict.

Bachelor's Points, Master's Points, Doctoral Points, he should get them all! Not only academic program points but also funding, personnel, resources—whatever he needed!

Other universities are about research, but at Zhang Menglong's place, he's practically wholesaling projects; if you dare to offer him a topic, he dares to complete it with speed and quality that boggle the mind.

They even began to suspect whether Zhang Menglong had bought off a technologically advanced alien civilization, with a group of aliens whose tech far surpassed modern standards assisting him in his project research.

If every academic institution could function like Zhang Menglong, it wouldn't just be scientific progress for the nation, Huaxia would experience a scientific explosion!

"Academician Zhang, we've submitted the necessary application for you. Within a week at the earliest, the academic program points designation should be approved. You can start assembling your team first and then recruit students next year."

"Thank you for your efforts," Zhang Menglong expressed his thanks. The outcome was not beyond his expectations. With his current pace and level of research, he was capable of propelling an era forward; there was no reason not to give him this green light.

"All right, that settles it," Zhang Menglong opened his Weibo and posted another trendsetting update,

"@East Sea Vocational and Technical College's Professor Liu Dongsheng, are you interested in teaching at Jiangnan University of Science and Technology? I've recently applied for an academic program point in Astronomy and would like to offer you the position of dean. The benefits will be according to our university's standards for professors, including a housing property with land rights near the school that qualifies for registration, and an annual research budget of 100 million yuan!"ƒreewebηoveℓ.com