Chapter 405: Chapter 213 The Tainted Scholar (7.8K)

"What? You’re planning to recommend a friend who’s in the field of biology?"

Inside the laboratory.

Upon hearing Lin Zhenhua’s words.

Xu Yun was somewhat surprised, but there also emerged a vague, inexplicable feeling within him.

It’s important to know.

Although Hanhua Group is a heavy industry group, it has some biological or medical laboratories within the group.

In fact, it’s not just Han Hua Heavy Industry.

Under the current complex industrial research and development requirements, almost every heavy industry, both domestically and abroad, operates similarly.

For example, back in 2014, the First Heavy Industrial Group invested more than twenty million yuan to build a biological research center.

This research center has over 80 researchers dedicated to biofuel and microbial compound equipment and the like.

And the well-known Caterpillar.

This company originally dealt with excavators and mining machines and even collaborated with Lanxiang in the early years.

Now, with increased orders for various chemical containers, it also established several biochemical laboratories in 2016.

As mentioned before.

When a company reaches the scale of Hanhua Group, it essentially transcends the category of a typical company and can be considered a composite industrial complex.

Therefore, theoretically speaking.

If Lin Zhenhua knows someone, he could easily arrange for them to work at Hanhua Group.

There’s no need to specially seek Xu Yun’s recommendation.

Could it be.....

The person is a relative of Lin Zhenhua, and Lin Zhenhua wants to avoid gossip before his retirement, so he approached me?

This kind of action doesn’t quite match Lin Zhenhua’s past personality, but who can say if his views remain unchanged after decades?

Thinking of this.

Xu Yun glanced at Lin Zhenhua and tentatively asked:

"Elder Lin, does the person you recommended have any specific educational background or professional title?"

These days, while educational background doesn’t directly equate to ability, it still plays a role in initial judgments.

For instance, if Lin Zhenhua’s response is undergraduate, master’s, or Ph.D.

Then the person is likely a relative or a promising young talent to Lin Zhenhua.

If the person is an associate professor or full professor, there are probably other reasons involved.

"Professional title, huh..."

Lin Zhenhua directly skipped over the degree part and muttered the words "professional title" a few times.

A few seconds later.

Two words suddenly popped out from his mouth:

"Academician."

"Oh, an academician, that’s quite no-... what???"

Upon hearing Lin Zhenhua’s response, Xu Yun instinctively nodded and prepared to exchange some pleasantries.

However, just after speaking a few words, he realized something was amiss.

As he snapped back to reality.

His whole demeanor nearly jumped off the seat like Mr. Huang from the ending of the skit "Decoration" when he was startled:

"What did you say? Academician???"

Oh my gosh!

Anyone who has been an academician knows.

Academicians in Huaxia are divided into two categories based on their specific research nature and direction:

Academicians of the Huaxia Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering.

The former focuses on theory, while the latter emphasizes practice.

Although their focus differs, in terms of importance, they are equally invaluable treasure to the Republic.

Of course.

This refers to academicians who are genuinely contributive and accomplished.

Currently, there are a total of 802 Huaxia Academy of Sciences academicians and 895 Academy of Engineering academicians, totaling 1697 individuals.

Among these 1697 people.

There are 357 academicians involved in life sciences, medicine, and agriculture, all related to biology.

Among them, those eighty and older—officially termed as senior academicians—number 144 in total.

If this age threshold is lowered by five years.

To those aged seventy-five and above, there are 185 in total.

Most of these academicians, after excluding exceptions, generally no longer have the energy and stamina for long-term frontline research.

The academician recommended by Lin Zhenhua is definitely not one of these big shots.

In other words.

Realistically, there are less than one hundred and eighty academicians nationally who fit Lin Zhenhua’s conditions.

These top-level experts are the kind Xu Yun dreams of yet cannot reach, and now Lin Zhenhua claims he can introduce one to his company?

This seems too unbelievable, right?

How could such a high-level expert possibly settle for the small setup of Huadun Biotech at present?

However, Lin Zhenhua seemed unaware of Xu Yun’s tiny mental debate, and after a moment of silence, he added:

"But Xiaoxu, there’s something I must clarify with you upfront, to avoid any disputes later on." 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Xu Yun nodded:

"Please feel free to say whatever’s on your mind."

Lin Zhenhua lifted his eyelids to glance at him, and slowly said,

"Although my friend is an academician, his situation is somewhat special, different from ordinary academicians."

Upon hearing this, Xu Yun was taken aback.

His mind quickly raced with possibilities such as a counterfeit, honorary title for consultancy fees, etc.

But soon.

He dismissed the thought.

If Lin Zhenhua sought Xu’s recommendation to evade gossip and favoritism, there’s a tiny, negligible chance within reason.

Then the probability of him assisting a counterfeit for extra pocket money has to be zero.

Because it goes against Lin Zhenhua’s integrity, if he truly wanted to earn extra money, he could have drastically inflated past project costs, rather than resort to such petty tricks now.

Thinking this.

Xu Yun couldn’t help but look at Lin Zhenhua, asking: