Replay 07: Opening the Temple of Learning

Chapter 301 Great Honor
There is absolutely nothing wrong with what Fang Ark said. Science does not have so many curves for overtaking. Sometimes it seems that progress is fast because others have stepped into a pit and taken a long detour.

This process "happened" to be seen by someone, who then walked in the right direction and caught up with the person entering.

The question is who is willing to tell others about this process?
This is the original data for research and development. Even if it is erroneous technical information, it still has its own value. At least we know not to go back.

This means that if you want to learn technology, you have to do it yourself, without copying templates.

What Fang Zhou meant was that Lianxiang, who has accumulated a lot of technical experience, could create Xiaole with greater potential.

Ze Meng's Coco assistant only looks smart for a while, but in fact it is because of the accumulation of a lot of daily experience that it appears smart. If his future learning ability and learning training resources are not as good as Lianxiang's, he will only fall behind.

The highest level of Yin and Yang is to know that you are scolding someone and also know who you are scolding, but without involving a single word.

The story doesn't end here, Fang Zhou also cleverly led the topic to the appropriate point.

"If you don't agree with what I said, then please think about this. Which computer company in Xia Country has a say in the international arena now?"

The host understood: "It should be Lianxiang, right?"

"Yes, besides Lianxiang, which other company is there?"

The host hesitated for a moment and seemed to have no answer.

"No, right? That's why Lianxiang is so far ahead in China. Isn't it more likely that a company like this can develop good artificial intelligence? This company is the only national industry in Xia Country that can compete with international giants in the computer industry and has taken up the banner of foreign wars. Apart from Lianxiang, no other company has this capability."

What Fang Zhou said was not entirely false, at least under the circumstances at the time. To convince people, you can't just use lies, you have to mix truth with lies.

At that time, Lianxiang was at its peak and had a certain say in every aspect of computers, but no one knew the price paid behind it.

But at least from the perspective of the situation, it can sit at the dining table and eat, while other Xia country computer companies can only stand aside and watch.

After this interview, Fang Zhou reversed people's negative impression of Lianxiang, at least partially.

With academic experts and professors of such a high level coming out to promote it, and with the efforts of the media, self-media and platforms, Lianxiang's achievements themselves are solid enough, so netizens no longer think that Lianxiang is so ridiculous.

While Lianxiang's online reputation gradually improved, Jiangzhou University received great news.

Xia Guangming informed Lu Shan that he would win the Xiaguo Youth Science and Technology Award, and asked Jiangzhou University to arrange Lu Shan's work and allow Lu Shan to go to Yanjing to attend the award ceremony.

The relevant information will also be sent to Lu Shan, but Lu Shan is officially a graduate student and lecturer at Jiangzhou University, so his unit still needs to be notified.

If Lushan has no affiliated unit, there will naturally be no Jiangzhou University.

After receiving the notice, Zhu Yajie was ecstatic!

The Xiaguo Youth Science and Technology Award is a national award, and the value of this award is very high.

Someone has done statistics and found that since its establishment, the award is given every two years, and no more than 100 people are honored each time.

Only about 30 people have won the award in 1500 years.

Among these 1500 people, more than 60 were elected as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, more than 80 were elected as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and 10% became academicians, which is of great value.

It is not without regrets. The Moutai Academician incident has caused the value of the academicians to be questioned.

But apart from these clowns, most of the gold content is also hard.

As for scientific research, those who have money contribute money, those who have strength contribute strength, and those who have brains contribute brains. Giving the sponsor a little honor is actually nothing. Foreign countries are better at this.

This is the first time for Jiangzhou University to receive such an honor.

Zhu Yajie didn't wait a moment and told Chen Qiyi about the matter. Chen Qiyi was very dissatisfied.

"Which of Lu Shan's achievements is not unprecedented? He should be awarded Xia Country's highest science and technology award. Professor Wu won this award for his achievements in mathematics."

Zhu Yajie had to comfort him: "We should also know our place. Xiaguo's highest science and technology award is given to scientists who have made outstanding contributions, achieved major scientific and technological progress, and are unlikely to make further progress. The higher-ups must be optimistic about Lu Shan's further achievements, so they decided to issue the youth award to encourage Lu Shan, so Lu Shan will definitely be able to win the highest science and technology award in the future."

"You can't achieve everything in one go, you always have to have some hope, right? We also hope that Lu Shan can continue to work hard, right?"

That being said, Chen Qiyi was still a little indignant: "Awards should be given according to achievements. At worst, both awards can be given to Lu Shan. His mathematical achievements are enough anyway. Not to mention that he has other technical applications. Topological semimetal semiconductor material technology is changing the industrial structure of the entire country and improving the level of manufacturing. Isn't that enough?"

"It can only be said that Lushan has not yet been fully popularized. The achievements of those people before have been applied in various fields for decades, and they are indeed not comparable."

Chen Qiyi thought about it at this time, and it seemed that this was indeed the case.

Due to the high difficulty of Lu Shan’s thesis results, not much has been achieved and the improvement in the country as a whole is not yet so obvious.

All previous winners were in their seventies or eighties, and some even received the award at the age of ninety.

Their achievements have been transformed thoroughly, and they have also brought out many industry elites, supporting various fields. Lu Shan really cannot compare with them.

Fortunately, Lu Shan’s achievements have a very high ceiling. In addition, Lu Shan has established a natural science laboratory, so he will definitely make greater achievements for the country in the future.

Judging from the time, Lu Shan may be able to transform all these achievements within ten years, and it will not be too late to get them then.

After thinking this through, Chen Qiyi was no longer so aggrieved and happily went to inform Lu Shan.

Lu Shan hasn't checked his email yet. He is busy with graphene batteries. How can he have the time to care about winning an award?
It’s not that Lu Shan looks down on the national awards, but he has been fooled too many times recently. Many associations and institutions want to award Lu Shan and let Lu Shan attend various award ceremonies.

What is this for? To flatter yourself!

Once Lu Shan agrees to accept these awards, the value of the awards will increase.

In order to get Lu Shan to attend, many award organizers even offered Lu Shan an appearance fee of millions, as long as Lu Shan just showed up.

After a long time, Lu Shan simply trained his assistant Coco to identify various awards. Any fake awards would be thrown into the trash can, and the real awards would be put in for inspection.

Jiangzhou University actively asked Lu Shan what he thought, so Lu Shan could not refuse and agreed to go to Yanjing to receive the award. If there had not been some progress in graphene battery technology, he would probably not have gone out.

Even though Lu Shan was not short of money, Jiangzhou University still covered Lu Shan's travel and food expenses and sent a team to follow him.

Ever since the incident in the United States, there have been people following Lu Shan wherever he goes. It’s not for surveillance, but just to prevent any urgent matters from being handled in the first place.

The news that Lu Shan was about to win the Xiaguo Youth Science and Technology Award spread quickly. Lianxiang was in Yanjing and had many collaborations with the Academy of Sciences, so he was well-informed.

Upon learning about this, Lianxiang was distraught.

I had just improved my reputation a little bit, but Lu Shan turned around and won such a big award. Wouldn't all my previous efforts be in vain?
With the country's endorsement, Lu Shan's products are equivalent to free and authoritative advertising, which is much better than hiring someone to do the show on your own.

Yang Qing became more and more anxious the more he thought about it and decided that he had to promote Lianxiang's products and build up momentum so that everyone would understand the value of Xiaole Assistant.

"But no provincial government is willing to give us this kind of award..." The subordinates were also in a dilemma. Even if the provincial government was willing to give it, Lu Shan's was a national award, how could it compare?
I can't compete! Why not change the track and create a national award yourself?

"What should we do? There is a time window for national award selection, and there is no such arrangement recently." Lianxiang's publicity department is still very capable and has investigated all of this clearly.

But the people in the propaganda department were still not strong enough because they had not come up with a solution.

When people below do things, they don't ask questions to the leaders, but give them options.

Yang Qing was so disappointed with his teacher that he called the person over to give him some instructions. The head of the Propaganda Department almost kowtowed to Yang Qing. This method was really - it was amazing, too ridiculous.

No national awards?

Why not find an alliance within your own industry and give a specious award to Lianxiang’s Xiaole Assistant?

The names of those organizations are like Xiaguo, Nationwide, or a certain Computer Association. Just changing the names a little and copying them is enough to confuse people.

This is the limit of ordinary people's knowledge. When they see such a name, they will believe it. They don't have time to check one by one to see if there are any problems. It is most appropriate for them to fish in troubled waters.

Anyway, these are all private institutions, have nothing to do with state departments, and have no control over their daily operations.

Isn’t it okay for parents to give their children a little red flower as a reward?

What if there is no such institution?
Then just appoint someone to register one!

Can't you just hold up the scene?

There are shell companies, but are there no shell agencies?
Anyway, it doesn't involve business, money, and the management will be very loose. So we have to give it some awesome names to make it more grand.

Look, this is Yang Qing’s idea, he actually found a solution.

Once his subordinates had a direction to work in, they immediately started to execute it and soon came up with an award titled "Xiaguo Internet's Most Promising Invention of the Year". When they looked at the organizations that were acknowledged and recognized, they were all very impressive and all of them were in accordance with Yang Qing's requirements.

Some of the institutions are relatively large and well-known, and they were all given benefits after Lianxiang made introductions. Some of them are just for the money and effort, and they have no bottom line.

Some are newly established, which I will not go into detail about.

Now that you have a name, you have to publicize it. Lianxiang started the publicity machine, and everyone started to build momentum with one heart, so that such news could be seen everywhere.

Netizens basically believe that this so-called Most Promising Invention Award is real, and it is a national award. They all think that Lianxiang’s Xiaole Assistant seems to be good and should be a product that will be launched in the later stage.

The download volume of Xiaole Assistant has recovered to a certain extent, but Coco Assistant is still far ahead. After all, people still have to pay attention to their current work and life, and future things can only wait until the future.

At this time, Lu Shan arrived at the Xiaguo Academy of Sciences and was directly arranged to stay in a hotel inside the academy.

Ordinary people don’t have this kind of treatment. Who will arrange accommodation for those who don’t win the prize?
This is the treatment that one deserves.

On the day of the award, the entire venue was packed with people, and countless official and mainstream media sent people there.

The entire meeting was not held in the Xia Kingdom Academy of Sciences, but in the most important conference hall in Xia Kingdom.

This shows the importance of this award ceremony!
In addition to the individuals and groups who received the awards, many well-known professors and scholars from universities also came here, mainly professors from Yenching University.

Some well-known social research institutions, groups and even foreign related groups and experts also came here to witness the grand event.

After the meeting started, the person in charge of the meeting made a speech, listing some of the technological progress made by Xia State in recent years. He also pointed out the shortcomings of Xia State in some aspects, and encouraged many scientific researchers to work harder and strive for breakthroughs as soon as possible.

Then the time was handed over to the host to start the award ceremony and speech of thanks.

One by one, young and promising scientific and technological workers were called up and gave their speeches.

Most of these people are majored in mathematics, physics and chemistry, and their specific application areas cover aviation, manufacturing, materials, communications and other industries. From this we can see what the development strategy direction of Xia State is.

Lu Shan was the last to perform. The organizer attached great importance to Lu Shan. They were even afraid that Lu Shan would get anxious waiting, so they told Lu Shan about this in advance.

As the forty or so people in front of him left one by one, the host paused and raised his voice: "Next, please invite Lu Shan to the stage!"

As the music started, Lu Shan slowly walked to the stage. The large screen behind him clearly displayed the reasons why Lu Shan won the award. Due to various considerations, the organizer did not write the full reason, but only wrote about Lu Shan's mathematical achievements in breaking the Riemann hypothesis and his achievements in computer semiconductor materials.

These two things alone are enough to make the world look up to him, and are also enough for Lu Shan to compete for the country's highest science and technology award. This is a dimensionality reduction attack, so no one will be dissatisfied.

Especially the young scientists who won awards in front of them, they all felt proud when they saw Lu Shan coming up, but when they looked at their own achievements, it seemed that they were indeed a bit embarrassed.

"Now, please allow Lu Shan to give his acceptance speech."

"Thank you!" Lu Shan walked to the fixed microphone and spoke calmly: "I am grateful for the country's recognition of me, I am grateful for Jiangzhou University's support for me, and I am grateful for my parents' care and cultivation of me. Everything has enabled me to receive such an honor."

Applause broke out from the audience, and Lu Shan continued his speech: "Science is never a one-person thing. The results come from the country and the people, and in turn will benefit the country and the people."

(End of this chapter)