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Chapter 176: The Massachusetts turmoil, Enron negotiation failed

Boston, North America.

An Ran hung up the phone. In fact, there was nothing special about calling Luo Jia. However, when he was resting on the plane, he suddenly remembered the multi-link system experiment that the hardware department was doing. It seemed that a new algorithm could be enabled, so he sought Luo Jia's opinions.

There is no way, An Ran is such a workaholic, who even thinks about problems when sleeping. Since joining Xingchen Technology, An Ran has been fighting with his life.

Luo Jia heard An Ran's words and said that tonight, he would start to reconstruct a mathematical model.

An Ran felt relieved. As soon as he walked out of the airport, he saw two familiar faces in the crowd, one of which was his junior sister Ping Yuying, and the other was his classmate, Qi Mengzhou, who is now a professor in Massachusetts.

Ping Yuying is still dressed up with a cute little luoli, while Qi Mengzhou is already twenty-eight years old and is a mature lady. She is wearing a dress and high heels, holding a lemon-colored Kunbao in her hand, and has a figure with long hair and draped shoulders. She is obviously dressed up seriously.

The winter in Boston is extremely cold, and Qi Mengzhou put on a long windbreaker outside his dress, but to welcome peace, what can a little cold be?

An Ran smiled and walked towards them both.

In fact, he has never lacked suitors. The reason why he is single is not because no one wants it, but because of his workaholic personality. Professor Qi Mengzhou is one of An Ran's fanatical suitors.

"Why are you here?" An Ran asked.

"Of course I'm here to pick up my senior brother. It's so cold outside. Let's get in the car quickly." Ping Yuying said, covering her face that was red with a cold face.

Qi Mengzhou drove and the three of them went to the hotel they booked in Anran.

To a certain extent, people with super high IQ will not be too low. An Ran smiled and said to Ping Yuying, "Luo Jia is very good. Although he has made a star friend, he is still single."

Ping Yuying's face turned red again. She came to pick An Ran up just to ask about Luo Jia.

An Ran told her so straightforwardly that Luo Jia was still single, which made Ping Yuying shy and inevitably started to think about it again.

"What about you? Are you single too?" asked Qi Mengzhou, who was driving.

"Me?" An Ran smiled, "I'm very busy with work and don't have time to think about anything else."

"By the way, what did the school board think? In previous years, there will always be some undergraduate quotas left for the Chinese region. This year, it was suddenly cancelled. Are they not afraid of causing criticism?"

Qi Mengzhou pouted. An Ran was too smart. Once he was involved in his own question, he would immediately distract the topic. He knew An Ran had been like this for years.

"What's wrong? Massachusetts is a private university that does not recruit Chinese students and leaves more places in the local area. Except for the unhappy China, the North American region is very happy."

"Besides, it's just that undergraduates are not accepted. There will still be quotas for masters and doctoral students in China."

An Ran looked out the window and said lightly, "Luo Jia and I both think that this event that doesn't seem to be big may become a series of bad starts. Before Massachusetts, there were the number of Chinese people from Harvard. Perhaps more similar events will happen in the future. This is what we are most worried about."

Qi Mengzhou nodded slightly. Although the proportion of Chinese people studying in North America is very high, behind this is China's huge population base and the amazing quality and talent of Chinese students.

In North America, private college admissions are probably like this.

If you want to study in Massachusetts, 400 for black students is enough, 450 for Latinos and 500 for whites. The worst thing is that the East Asian ethnic group led by China requires 600 for them.

This is the North American fucking racial balance policy. In order to ensure the balance of all ethnic groups on campus, students of different skin colors have completely different admission standards.

Due to the high academic performance of China and the entire East Asian ethnic group, their admission standards have always been the highest, no one.

Although there are many Chinese faces in Massachusetts, each of them is getting much higher than others and rushing in with their strength.

In Berkeley, California, which implements fair admission based on grades, forty percent of the students are Asian, and few black students are.

The car stopped at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Boston. An Ran is the vice president of Star Technology. He naturally implements the highest standards when traveling on business. The Executive Department booked him a presidential suite, with a nightly accommodation fee of up to 9,500 US dollars.

After putting down his luggage, Anran went into the room to take a shower and change his clothes. Qi Mengzhou leaned on the sofa and looked at the extremely luxurious room. He couldn't help but sigh that Xingchen Technology's treatment is really good. Anran is now an absolute super golden collar class, and it is really not something that he is a poor professor.

After a while, he walked out of the room safely. He changed into a straight suit and tied his tie. He looked heroic and looked like a business elite.

"Senior brother is so handsome!" Ping Yuying said with her eyes lit up.

Qi Mengzhou felt her heart pounding. She walked over and helped An Ran tidy up her tie, and asked curiously, "Why is it so formal today?"

"I hope to leave a good impression on the principal." An Ran shrugged, "You may not understand Luo Jia's personality. It would be fine if this matter was settled. If it fails, Mr. Luo may have to attack Massachusetts."

"Take action on Massachusetts?" Qi Mengzhou was puzzled. "You are a company, and Massachusetts is a university, so you don't have any connections."

An Ran said, "I don't know if I don't know, but I believe Luo Jia will always have a solution. If that's the case, I will persuade him then."

Qi Mengzhou laughed, "It turns out that you don't want Xingchen Technology to have a stumble with Massachusetts, so you come to solve the problem yourself. Let's go, no matter what, let's have a meal first."

"Yeah." An Ran nodded.

......

Raphael Love has been the principal of MIT since 2012. He is a big shot in the electrical field and has a very good reputation among students.

An Ran is now an outstanding alumnus who has gone out of Massachusetts, so his request was quickly approved. President Raphael took time out of his busy schedule and personally received An Ran.

As soon as the two met, Principal Raphael enthusiastically asked about energy wave wireless charging, supercapacitors, batteries, electronic controls, and all the questions he was concerned about.

After all, Principal Raphael is an electrical background, and the wireless charging and supercapacitors of Xingchen Technology are both his old professions.

Anran answered questions in a sequel, and also paid great attention to the company's confidentiality rules. He said what he could say and refused to say what he couldn't say.

Not long after, Principal Raphael held up his chin in disappointment and said to An Ran, "Hey, I really hope to go to your company and take a look at the supercapacitor with my own eyes. After all, that is a major invention that will change the entire world's energy field."

An Ran smiled, "As far as I know, the deep-sea energy storage technology jointly studied by North America and Germany is also very good. In terms of energy storage, our advantage is actually not too great."

President Raphael waved his hands repeatedly, "You Chinese are just too modest. Deep-sea energy storage has cost advantages, but their efficiency is much lower than you. In short, I strongly like your supercapacitor project. After all, you are doing technological breakthroughs, while the Germans are only doing engineering breakthroughs. The two are not at the same level."

Unexpectedly, Dean Raphael was so optimistic about supercapacitors, and An Ran was slightly surprised.

They talked for a long time, but An Ran couldn't see that this old man who was born in electrical engineering had any attempt to crack down on China.

In fact, he likes An Ran very much, and also likes the smart Chinese students in the school, and praises them endlessly.

An Ran frowned and decided to change the topic, so he talked about Star Industrial Software.

Principal Raphael suddenly became angry and praised Xingchen Technology's computational fluid mechanics.

In his opinion, Star Industry will soon become the world's most powerful industrial software cluster and create a brand new era of automation industrial design.

The entire meeting was completely unrestrained. Dean Raphael kept praising An Ran and Xingchen Technology.

Even he did not object to the publication of Xingchen Journal in Chinese, believing that since those scientific research results were made by Xingchen Technology, Xingchen Technology has the right to decide which language to publish them.

Of course, Principal Raphael also expressed regret. It was indeed troubled by the fact that he could not understand the Star Journal. Fortunately, there were many Chinese people among his students, and it was these lovely Chinese students who helped him.

After thinking a little, An Ran probably understood why Principal Raphael looked at the problem in this way. He was born in Venezuela and came to North America to study after adulthood. Therefore, he was not the kind of red-neck in the south who wanted to die and be patriotic, but more like an internationalist.

Star Technology is a company in China or North America, and it doesn’t matter to President Raphael. As long as it can promote the continuous progress of mankind, he will support it.

Thinking of this, An Ran couldn't help but sigh, "Mr. Principal, I'm afraid that starting next year, the fact that the Chinese undergraduate students will no longer be recruited has nothing to do with you, right?"

Principal Raphael was stunned, and rarely with strong anger, and in front of Anran, he scolded the ignorance of the school board. This lovely and respectable old gentleman always firmly believed that science had no borders.

He even showed An Ran his resignation letter. It turned out that because the undergraduate department no longer accepted freshmen in China, Principal Raphael was very angry and had submitted his resignation to the school board.

MIT is the world's number one science and engineering college, a holy place for science and engineering. The candidates for principals must not be careless. Therefore, during the time when the new principal has not been appointed, Mr. Raphael has been doing his best to manage the school for the sake of the unity and stability of the school.

The situation of Anran's forehead is completely clear. The fact that the failure to recruit Chinese undergraduates has nothing to do with the school, but it is the decision of the financiers behind the school board and the school board.

There is a custom in North America and China. Science and engineering graduates like to change careers and do finance. After all, finance is largely related to mathematics. It is easy for science and engineering graduates who are good at mathematics to change careers and do finance.

Behind MIT, there is the power of North American financial circles, and a large part of the financial resources of private universities come from alumni donations, and these generous alumni control the school board and the school’s personnel appointments and admissions policies.

So, the so-called academic independence is simply a joke.

If a person wants to be independent in personality, he first needs economic independence. If a university wants to be independent in academics, he also needs economic independence as the basis.

In fact, scholars like Principal Raphael cannot decide many things.

An Ran walked out of Principal Raphael's office in disappointment, stood in the familiar campus where he was studying, and called Luo Jia.

There will be no negotiation at all, everything is decided by the school board and the financial forces behind the school board.

Wall Street suffered heavy blows in the showdown between Google and Star Technology, in the previous mobile phone war and subsequent industrial software wars. I think they should hate Star Technology very much.

An Ran told Luo Jia everything about the situation in Massachusetts.

"I think it's better not to do Massachusetts. If we use those rogue lawyers to do Massachusetts, the entire academic community will be bored with us. Before our Star Journal was not released in English, it has caused a lot of criticism from the academic community."

An Ran suggested to Luo Jia that he did not want Xingchen Technology to work with the academic community. After all, the company's front line was already very long, and even Luo Jia himself said that he did not want to reach the point of siege of the world.

"I understand this." Luo Jia said on the phone, "Why did you say that just now?"

"Which sentence?"

"About Dean Raphael, do you say he is planning to resign from Massachusetts?"

An Ran was stunned for a moment, "I said that Principal Raphael was very angry at the decision of the school board and had already written his resignation."

"That's it..." Luo Jia pondered on the other end of the phone.
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