Material Empire

Yan Jiamin didn't think of this incident by accident. This incident has been entangled in her mind for a long time. She just couldn't find a suitable time to talk about it to Tranquility, or in other words, she still lacked a suitable reason Come and inform Serenity.

Her supervisor, Zhang Shengying, has a prejudice against Tranquility, something that graduate students in the entire physics department know. As for Zhang Shengying developing this prejudice into hatred and looking for opportunities to frame Ning Jing, this is only known to a few people such as Yan Jiamin.

Zhang Shengying is not an open-minded person. She is arrogant when she is successful, and crazy when she is frustrated. This kind of bad character of the rotten scholars of the past dynasties has been completely inherited in her body. It turns out that she is one of the few authorities in the field of superconductivity in the domestic physics circle. Although her achievements and reputation are slightly inferior to Chen Zongze, she is comparable to other colleagues. At that time, it was very easy for her to apply for a project, but any opportunity to participate in international exchanges and the like would often be her turn. She is very successful both in face and inside.

Qin Hai's appearance was a boon to others. The establishment of the Superconducting Research Center of Beijing University has greatly improved the conditions for superconducting research in China, and has led to the emergence of a large number of academic achievements in a short time. But for Zhang Shengying, the situation is completely opposite, Qin Hai is simply her nightmare.

Before falling out with Qin Hai, Zhang Shengying and other colleagues were able to get help from the Superconductivity Research Center, and she also achieved several very good results because of the good experimental conditions and sufficient experimental funds provided here. However, seeing several other scholars who were inferior to her in the past also achieved good results, and faintly surpassed her, Zhang Shengying felt a little unhappy.

In her opinion, the original state is actually better. Although China's superconductivity research lags behind foreign countries, she, Zhang Shengying, is taller among the short people, and she can enjoy the glory of everyone's attention. But now, everyone's level has improved, and her strengths are not so obvious, which makes her feel lost.

Later, because Qin Hai asked everyone to spend part of their time doing superconducting applied research, and Zhang Shengying relied on her authority and was unwilling to accept this arrangement, thus conflicting with Qin Hai. Qin Hai adopted a discriminatory policy against Zhang Shengying and restricted her financial support in order to make an example of others, which directly pushed Zhang Shengying to the opposite side.

Under the guidance of Chen Zongze, Ning Jing discovered iron-based superconductivity, which opened a new door for superconductivity research, and brought the Department of Physics of Beijing University and even China's superconductivity research to a new level, directly entering the Being in the first camp of superconductivity research in the world, this is good news for China's superconductivity field, but it is a blow to Zhang Shengying.

Zhang Shengying initially refused to pay attention to the new concept of iron-based superconductivity out of dissatisfaction with Qin Hai and Chen Zongze. Zhang Shengying realized what she had missed when the colleagues in the same industry achieved results one after another, and the international superconductivity community set off a wave of iron-based superconductivity heat, and it was too late to catch up.

Iron-based superconductors cost more money than copper-based superconductors. Without a large amount of financial support, it is almost impossible to make iron-based superconductors. Zhang Shengying was a little slower than other colleagues, and when she wanted to apply for funding, she was no longer competitive. There are many papers in international authoritative journals as the preliminary results. She is blank in iron-based superconductivity. How can she win the fund?

The Superconductivity Research Center also has a large amount of funding, but this has nothing to do with Zhang Shengying. Although Chen Zong did not prohibit Zhang Shengying from using various equipment in the center out of caring for his colleagues, but Chen Zong was helpless when it came to things that required money such as buying materials and finding outsourced companies to make test pieces. The use of the center's funds is subject to the supervision of the auditors appointed by the Daqin Group. Without Qin Hai's nod, Zhang Shengying would not be able to spend the center's money at all.

It's not that no one has persuaded Zhang Shengying to bow her head a little and make peace with Qin Hai in exchange for Qin Hai's support. People like Du Xiangwang and Cao Guolin have expressed their willingness to act as intermediaries for Zhang Shengying. In this kind of unit, there is both competition and favor among colleagues, especially since Zhang Shengying is one of the few female scholars. More or less there is a sense of love.

However, Zhang Shengying was a bit ashamed. How could she bow her head to a young nouveau riche who was once invincible? The more she thought about it, the more she felt that Qin Hai was hateful; and the more she felt that Qin Hai was hateful, the less likely she was to make peace with Qin Hai. Because she hated Qin Hai, she regarded Chen Zongze as Qin Hai's accomplice, and as for Qin Hai's girlfriend Tranquility, that was a thorn in her side and a thorn in her flesh.

Another reason that is not humane is that Tranquility is so beautiful that she is recognized as a flower in the Department of Physics. And this title once belonged to Zhang Shengying. People who have not experienced this kind of thing may not be able to understand how it is possible for two generations to have a competitive relationship because of their appearance. And the fact is that, an old milf's jealousy towards beautiful young men of the same sex is even stronger than that of her peers.

In this way, Zhang Shengying went further and further on the road of No_Zuo_No_Die. She hates Qin Hai, Tranquility, Chen Zongze, and all colleagues with greater achievements than her, until she hates the new direction of iron-based superconductivity.

She had hoped in her heart more than once that iron-based superconductivity was just a flash in the pan, and she hoped that one day an international authority would criticize iron-based superconductivity so that Chen Zongze, Tranquility, and other people who became famous through iron-based superconductivity would return to their original forms . She also secretly analyzed the literature on iron-based superconductivity, hoping to find the flaws in it, and then give everyone a resounding slap in the face. Then the reality is so ruthless. Instead of being overthrown, iron-based superconductivity has become more and more prosperous, pushing aside the copper-based superconductivity she is good at. Tranquility, which made her feel uncomfortable no matter how she looked at it, went smoothly. The paper was published in Nature, and she also won the honor of giving a keynote speech at the International Materials Annual Conference. status.

I must make this little goblin stumble!

Every time she walks through the corridors of the laboratory building and sees the color photo of Ning Jing standing on the podium of the International Materials Annual Conference on the wall, Zhang Shengying has to gnash her teeth and swear in her heart. Especially when she saw the boys in the department lingering in front of the photo, Zhang Shengying's jealousy became more intense. Shouldn't these little fresh meat bow down under her pomegranate skirt? Although she is old enough to be the old aunt of these boys.

Zhang Shengying knew that just relying on cursing would not make the opponent stumble, otherwise there would be no need for the various countries to expand their armaments, and they only needed to send a few gossip women to stand in front of the two armies and spit all over the place. She decided to take some practical actions to combat Tranquility, and it would be best to bring along Chen Zongze and Qin Hai.

It's not that she didn't want to check Qin Hai's family history, and whether there was any unclear financial relationship between Chen Zongze and Qin Hai. However, doing this kind of thing is not her specialty, not to mention that the other party really has nothing shameful to be caught by her.

What Zhang Shengying can do is to look for flaws in the quiet research results, so as to prove that this rising star is actually just a Kongming lantern that cannot withstand scrutiny. However, even this plan is very difficult. Tranquility's experiments and theories are very solid, not to mention that her supervisor is Chen Zongze, who is rich in academic experience. With him in charge, Tranquility's research will not What's wrong with it.

In order to make Tranquility stumble, Zhang Shengying had to use the power of her students. She first sent a hint to her graduate students, seeing that everyone could not understand the mystery, she simply said it outright, and asked the students to inquire in private about Tranquility and other teachers and students who are working on iron-based superconductivity. , of course, the reason she used was to maintain academic seriousness.

Zhang Shengying's students are relatively marginalized in the Superconductivity Research Center. Who made them a marginalized mentor? Due to the inability to produce good results, Yan Jiamin and her seniors had some complaints, some of which were directed at Zhang Shengying, and the other part was directed at the center.

Zhang Shengying knew the dissatisfaction of the students, but she couldn't see the part that was dissatisfied with her, only the dissatisfaction with the center. She took advantage of the students' dissatisfaction and encouraged them to find fault with their classmates in order to prove that iron-based superconductivity was a hoax.

Yan Jiamin had also received this kind of instruction, and had even thought about it. However, in her daily contact with her classmates, she knows that other people's research is quite satisfactory. The direction of iron-based superconductivity has been recognized by the whole world. As a doctoral student, how can she find out what's wrong? Come.

She didn't tell others what Zhang Shengying asked her to do, firstly because she didn't want to expose her mentor's shortcomings, and secondly because she herself felt somewhat inexplicably sour towards her successful classmates. She comforted herself and said that at least she had done nothing to offend her classmates. As for exposing her mentor, it was not her duty.

Just now, she just talked about her difficulties to Tranquility, and Tranquility enthusiastically gave her advice, and also expressed her willingness to contact her with overseas studies and let her be an exchange student. Based on her understanding of Tranquility, she knew that Tranquility's words were definitely not perfunctory, but sincerely wanted to help her. Impressed, Yan Jiamin felt that it would be inappropriate to hide Zhang Shengying's affairs from Tranquility.

Ning Jing, don't take it lightly, my boss...sometimes he is very unscrupulous in doing things. Yan Jiamin seriously reminded Jing Jing.

Get up at 3 o'clock in the morning to code, and code until 5:30... Are you moved? Anyway, I was moved, so I went to catch up on sleep...