Chapter 168 Sorry, I Quit
Pete quickly got a call with Lu Shan and asked two questions. The first question was why Ji Yue had been contacting Xiaguo's copycat mobile phone companies, not only helping them upgrade their software but also providing financial support, with amounts ranging from 10 to 20 yuan given to several companies.
We even make business plans for these copycat companies to help them become formal and avoid patent issues.
This is not only a matter of money, but also a matter of energy.
The second question is why Jiyue didn’t contact market leaders such as Motorola and Nokia as soon as possible. Their sales have always been high and their market share is extremely high. Is Jiyue going to give up on them just like that?
Peter finally promised: "If Jiyue can't get in touch, IDG can come forward to mediate the negotiations."
Lu Shan's tone remained unchanged: "We will not go to companies like Motorola. We cannot accept the conditions they offer. As a newly established company, money must be spent in the right place. It is better to support our own mobile phone partners than to negotiate with Motorola."
"But now the market share of Jiyue Browser is declining. What should we do in the long run?"
"The decline in market share is because Ali is making efforts to open up the markets of Nokia and Motorola. Even if I try to fight for it, it will be useless because we can't offer Ali's conditions.
But this is temporary. Only a small number of people can afford these brands. We have a larger customer base, which is those who are still using knockoff phones. "
"So we're just going to ignore Motorola's customer base?" Pete was unwilling to accept this.
"Don't worry, I know this. These users will have to change their mobile phones soon, and then they will have to use Jiyue Browser." Lu Shan was very confident.
Peter thought for a moment. He didn’t understand technology or even the market, but he understood investors: “Okay, I won’t ask any more questions. I trust your judgment!”
"Thank you for your trust."
Pete has done market research. According to the current situation, Ji Yue will not fail. By that time, he will have made back his investment. What else is there to worry about?
Although there are more people in Jiyue nowadays, the atmosphere is very good. They are all ambitious young people, full of vigor and vitality, without the intrigue and decadence of big companies.
The best thing is that they are all classmates. Except for Ou Ping and Zhang Dong, they are all students of Jiangzhou University. Because of this relationship, everyone likes each other.
We went to work together, went back to school together, and when the graduation ceremony was over, we really entered the society. With so many classmates as companions before entering the society, the complex society seemed less cruel.
That day, after the routine inspection, Lu Shan was about to return to school, but was called by his employees to a dinner party.
After spending these days together, the employees have figured out the boss's personality. Although he is serious and doesn't talk much, he has a warm heart and doesn't express himself directly.
Originally Lu Shan wanted to refuse, but looking at everyone's expectant eyes, he really couldn't refuse.
The place for the dinner was not very fancy, but this group of young people were very happy. Lu Shan felt that he had also become younger. Although he was now nineteen years old physically, he had lived two lives and his mentality was very old.
This kind of atmosphere made Lu Shan sigh endlessly. He didn't have it in his previous life. Allowing the younger generation to grow like this in this life can be regarded as making up for his own regrets.
The company's cohesion is visibly strong. Compared with the atmosphere of the School of Materials and Chemistry team, Lu Shan is really helpless.
Poincare and Turing continued to perfect the experimental model. The more they perfected it, the more they discovered that the research direction of the School of Materials Science and Engineering was ridiculously wrong. After several meetings and discussions, this mistake gradually became the main research direction. Lu Shan wanted to speak up to remind them, but they didn't even notify him to attend the meeting. He discovered this through the mathematical problems submitted by the materials science team.
If this continues, the experiment will become a waste of resources. Lu Shan finally expressed his opinion at a routine progress meeting.
As expected, Lu Shan’s question was immediately rejected.
Tan Ming, the team leader, showed the documents and data to give the reasons: "By observing the magnetoresistance effect of FeSn2 - large unsaturated magnetoresistance, large angle magnetoresistance and sdH oscillation phenomenon, in order to further study the magnetoresistance effect of FeSn2 (magnetoresistance is defined as MR = {ρｘｘ(Ｂ) - ρｘｘ(０)}/ρｘｘ(０)), we first studied the relationship between magnetoresistance and magnetic field at different temperatures."
"It can be seen that the magnetoresistance decreases with increasing temperature. When the temperature rises to above 50K, the change of magnetoresistance slows down, and the magnetoresistance is less than 1% within the magnetic field range in the figure (±×106A/m). It is particularly important to note that obvious sdH oscillations can be observed in the low temperature range (2K, 10K), which is an important feature of topological semimetals."
"For example, this picture (Figure 4a) shows the relationship between magnetic resistance and magnetic field when the angle between magnetic field and current is different. It can be seen that the magnetic resistance decreases as the angle decreases, and the distribution is symmetrical on the left and right, indicating that the carriers of FeSn single crystal are isotropic."
"At the same time, it can be seen that the magnetic resistance is linearly positively correlated with the magnetic field at any angle. This is because the magnetic field can hinder the movement of carriers in the material, increasing the resistivity and thus increasing the magnetic resistance. From Figure 4 (a) and Figure 4 (b), we can also observe that the positive magnetic resistance of FeSn2 shows a non-saturation trend as the magnetic field increases, which is a typical semi-metallic characteristic."
At this point, Tan Ming looked at Lu Shan meaningfully and said, "These are all the results obtained from actual operations. You may not be able to deduce all of them based on the mathematical model, right?"
Lu Shan did not back down: "Just because the experimental results are correct doesn't mean they are really correct. There are too many places in your experimental process that don't conform to the definition of the model, and the experimental results are more like coincidences." "Just like if you accidentally picked up ten yuan on the road one day, it doesn't mean you will pick up ten yuan every day when you walk here."
Lu Shan won’t say anything here, this group of people must understand what he is talking about.
This is like a piece of metal reaching a certain strength under high temperature, and another piece of metal reaching a corresponding strength after tempering, but if it is to meet other people's standards, it still needs to be processed. Obviously, the former still has room for processing, while the latter is very easy to break.
"You'd better do your job well. If the experimental process does not conform to the model and the correct material is obtained, it means that your model itself is not perfect." Tan Ming looked displeased.
Having said that, Lu Shan could no longer work with them.
Lu Shan then submitted his application for withdrawal to Shen Yanchun, the dean of the School of Materials and Chemistry.
Xia Guangming from the Xia National Academy of Sciences invited Lu Shan to join this project, and Lu Shan actually cherishes this research opportunity very much.
But if your suggestions are not taken seriously, then there is really no need to stay in the lab.
Shen Yanchun was shocked when he saw Lu Shan's application for withdrawal. This project was brought by Lu Shan. If he withdrew, Xia Guangming would definitely cancel the School of Materials Science and Engineering's qualification to participate. No matter from which aspect, Lu Shan must be kept, even if he had to be a mascot.
Therefore, Shen Yanchun did not agree to Lu Shan's application to withdraw, and also discussed the matter with Chen Qiyi, hoping that Chen Qiyi would find a way to keep Lu Shan from the perspective of the entire university's development.
Chen Qiyi knew that it was inconvenient for Shen Yanchun to come forward, and he also understood the needs of the university's development, but he was still very dissatisfied: "I'm not saying anything bad about you, but it's really inappropriate for you to do this."
"This is just an academic disagreement, not a personal grudge. Lu Shan is not a materials chemistry major after all, so before the final results of the project come out, I really can't guarantee who is right."
Chen Qiyi thought about it for a while and it seemed to be true, so he worked on Lu Shan.
"I know you feel wronged, but from an academic perspective, no one can guarantee that they are right. If that's the case, there's nothing to argue about. If you want to prove something, prove it with results. I actually prefer to believe that you are right, so you just need to deal with the materials and chemistry team. Do whatever you want to do yourself. If you need anything, tell me and I'll try my best to arrange it. You should also produce results as soon as possible and teach them a good lesson!"
Chen Qiyi stood firmly on Lu Shan's side, but didn't want Lu Shan to be too proud, so he said this to warn him.
Lu Shan had obviously thought about this problem. Although he had the help of Poincare and Turing, his model only looked more feasible from the perspective of basic theory. If he wanted to prove that he was right, he had to produce correct results. Otherwise, how could he convince others?
From this time on, Lu Shan started to plan two things. On the one hand, he continued to cooperate with the materials chemistry team's research and look for errors along their lines of thought. On the other hand, he started to conduct topological semimetal experiments himself.
This decision is easy to make, but not easy to implement, because Lu Shan needs to use the experimental equipment of the School of Materials Science and Engineering, and if he wants to use the equipment, he has to wait until the equipment is free.
And its use is limited, and there are limited resources, so it is impossible to reopen a complete experiment for Lu Shan.
So Lu Shan decided to split the experimental process, with most of the calculations being done in the model, and then using the laboratory to test whether his ideas were correct at the key nodes.
Things have come to this point, Shen Yanchun readily agreed to this request. He was also worried that the direction of the materials and chemistry team was wrong. Now a genius said that he could use very few resources to verify whether another path is correct. Why not do it?
The materials chemistry team watched Lu Shan's actions with cold eyes. They didn't believe that Lu Shan could create topological semimetal with such limited resources.
Every time he saw Lu Shan operating the idle experimental equipment, Tan Ming hoped that Lu Shan's experiment would fail, so that Lu Shan could concentrate on helping with the research here.
However, Lu Shan did not show much expression during each experiment. He would just record the data and leave.
If the laboratory needs mathematical model calculations, Lu Shan will provide them.
"Most likely he discovered he was wrong, but he just didn't want to admit it."
"I think so too. How can the experimental process be so fast? One test may last a whole day."
"Don't let him do this. It's such a waste of resources."
There were constant criticisms from the materials and chemistry team. Tan Ming sneered, "Don't worry about it. We just need to get the results quickly."
(End of this chapter)
