I Inherited 5,000 Years of Family Property-Chapter 724 - 722: Everything I Said Is True

"It's just, Menglong, there's something I'm not sure I should bring up," Han Jinyu began, suddenly becoming somewhat hesitant.

"Go ahead!"

"Your topics, although they are all named under our university, to tell you the truth, our school's teachers in the relevant domains really can't compare with your achievements!" Han Jinyu said, embarrassed.

Although Zhang Menglong served as an honorary professor of Jiangnan University of Science and Technology, Han Jinyu was well aware that these achievements had nothing to do with their university. If Zhang Menglong didn't step in, no one else could handle it.

You should know that those scholars definitely come with all sorts of questions, and with the current level of scientific research of our school's teachers, I'm afraid they would not be sufficiently equipped to answer all the questions. When the time comes, we might expose our shortcomings.

"This is simple," Zhang Menglong said, "I'll send you some materials in a bit. You arrange for a few professors in the relevant fields to study them for ten to fifteen days, and they should have no problems dealing with those scholars."

"Great!" Han Jinyu sighed with relief. "However, Menglong, it's not a solution to always rely on you. Our university really must enhance the scientific research capabilities and knowledge base of our teachers and students. Do you have any idea how?"

Zhang Menglong paused. Yes, in the future, Jiangnan University of Science and Technology will only become stronger, possibly even the world's number one. With the international exchanges and scientific conferences that are bound to occur frequently, one couldn't always depend on oneself, right?

And even if one had the art of cloning, one person could not handle so many matters.

Although the research conditions at Jiangnan University of Science and Technology have certainly reached a top-level standard worldwide, and even the eminent global universities probably couldn't match things like radio telescopes and particle colliders, right?

However, the teaching and scientific research capabilities of Jiangnan University of Science and Technology were still too weak. They had to fundamentally change this issue.

"Let's do this!" Zhang Menglong said with a smile, "I have an idea!"

"What idea?" Han Jinyu hurriedly asked.

"Two strategies. The first one is to poach," Zhang Menglong said with a smile. "There's absolutely no problem with the scientific hardware facilities of our university, and now we also have some fame. The only thing that fails to attract those top talents to teach here is the issue of treatment."

"Menglong, the treatment is not a problem," Han Jinyu said. "Our university's budget has almost quadrupled this year. We can offer salaries that are attractive enough, but as you know, these people don't care about that. Many have already settled down in various cities. If they were to come to our university to work, it would be a massively complicated affair."

"That's easy to handle. I'll donate another 10 billion US dollars to the university. Aren't there many residential complexes near our school? We could purchase them all, transform them into residential areas for teachers, and according to different ranks, give regular residences to ordinary staff, and villas to the outstanding ones. With housing solved, I think the university can easily handle the issue of residence registration. Wouldn't that solve the problem?"

Han Jinyu was once again shocked by Zhang Menglong's blunt and straightforward approach. He believed that if such terms were offered, those top scholars, especially the younger ones, would be eager to join Jiangnan University of Science and Technology.

University ranking? Jiangnan University of Science and Technology is now top five in national comprehensive rankings!

Scientific research conditions? Whatever instrument you want, you won't find one missing in Jiangnan University of Science and Technology!

City development level? Jiangnan City is the fastest growing among the new first-tier cities in the country!

Treatment? They not only offer money but also houses, and not just the ones allocated by the university, but houses with property titles that you can sell if you wish!

Gauging the current housing prices near Jiangnan University of Science and Technology, a single house could easily be worth millions.

Who wouldn't want such terms?

"As for the other approach," Zhang Menglong pondered for a moment, "Mr. Han, I plan to cultivate a group of scientific research talents for our university!"

"You really have a way!" Han Jinyu had already been guessing whether Zhang Menglong had some secret training facility. Otherwise, even if he had been learning from the womb, it wouldn't be possible to achieve so much on his own!

"You help me find a group of reliable people from the university, preferably younger ones, and they must be exceptionally gifted because the training facility I use does have certain thresholds for talent."

"Sure!" Han Jinyu immediately nodded in agreement. "Our university established a genius class last year, consisting of 39 individuals. They are all national college entrance examination champions and champions in scientific competitions from across the country. Their intelligence should be up to par."

"Hmm," Zhang Menglong nodded, "I also cannot guarantee that all of them will be selected. As long as there are ten who can meet my standards, they will be enough to support the entire university."

"Okay, I'll take care of this matter. I'll go and talk to the president about it and get you a result within three days at the latest."

"Alright, let's leave it at that for now!"

...

Zhang Menglong casually opened his phone, and in fact, among the current generation in Huaxia, except for those with a postgraduate education, very few paid attention to national scientific research.

At most, they would praise an outstanding scholar for winning an award with comments like "so freaking awesome," "so impressive," and the like.

But in reality, they didn't even know the scholars' full names; they were simply following the crowd.

However, during this period, Zhang Menglong established a scientific research contribution foundation, suddenly making the whole nation take scientific research seriously. Countries took this opportunity to improve the treatment of researchers and perfect relevant policies.

Then, Zhang Menglong's performance at the international scientific research forum shocked the world, and this made even more people pay attention to research in various domains.

Last year around this time, opening Weibo would show which celebrity was dating, who got hurt, or updates on variety shows.

But today, when opening Weibo, half of the trending topics were actually related to technology.

News like "Professor makes huge breakthrough in a certain domain," or "Nation invests a significant amount of funding to strengthen research in a certain area," unexpectedly sparked a nationwide craze for scientific research.

"Huh? This trending topic is interesting." Zhang Menglong noticed that the rank of one trending topic was skyrocketing. He refreshed the page twice, and it climbed from beyond the top ten to third place.

"A professor from East Sea Vocational Technical College actually..."

"Wow, what year is it, and they are still using these clickbait titles? Today's media is really brainless," Zhang Menglong said, also curious to see what kind of unethical thing this professor had done.

However, the content of the article was quite different from what he expected; it wasn't that the professor had done something to outrage both gods and men. Instead, he had submitted a paper to a well-known international journal, which then leaked his research and even publicly ridiculed him for being crazy.

"A signal from outer space?" Zhang Menglong paused, the professor was in the field of astronomy, but not very famous. You could tell by the fact that he was teaching at some vocational technical college that his academic background and research capabilities were quite average."

As for why an astronomy professor was at a vocational technical college, Zhang Menglong wasn't surprised. After all, the competition was so fierce these days; countless top-100 students were competing for counselor positions at vocational colleges. Was it strange for a professor to take a minor position there to avoid the rat race, while casually conducting his own research?

However, his background did raise doubts about the reliability of his research.

"Hahaha, I know what the signal is. Isn't it 'Do not answer, do not answer, do not answer'?"

"The guy above is so Trisolaran; this is clearly just an academic fraud seeking attention."

"East Sea Vocational Technical College? What kind of no-name, sketchy school is that?"

"Isn't that the place known for excavator training?"

"That's Lanxiang!"

"He must have read too much Three-Body and thinks he's shooting a movie or something, right?"

...

The comments section was full of various aggressive remarks.

Out of curiosity, Zhang Menglong clicked on the professor's Weibo profile, and besides his article, there was only one recent post.

"What I said is all true!"