Chapter 413: Chapter 214: Donkey: Always targeting one to suck! (10,000-word update!!!)_4

Xu Yun’s heart tightened, then suddenly understood.

So that’s how it is....

After the Huaxia academician system was established, there have been more than twenty co-signed petitions twice in total.

The largest protest involved the tobacco academician Xie Jianping, which was mentioned before.

At that time, there were more than 140 academicians co-signing the petition, divided into two batches.

Then there was the matter with Zhou Shan.

At that time, there were thirty-five academicians co-signing the petition, including highly respected figures like Academician Wu Mengchao and Academician Liu Xianlin.

Tian Liangwei, as a peer of Zhou Shan, was also among them back then.

In such a situation, those willing to stand up and speak out were almost always upright and righteous people.

With this layer of connection, the atmosphere in the living room became much more harmonious.

Subsequently, Xu Yun discreetly glanced at Zhou Shan and found that the other’s expression had relaxed a lot, so he continued to say:

"Academician Zhou, if you could join our company, you can rest assured about the benefits."

"Our company can offer you a signing fee of at least two million, an annual salary not less than two million, at least three million as project startup funds, a 50% patent share, and 4% company stock options."

When Xu Yun said this, he was full of confidence, like an author with a draft on hand.

The reason being none other than that.

Because Huadun Biotech now can indeed afford such an amount.

Previously, when deciding to introduce five additional FOERDA-T632 production lines,

the company, due to a lack of funds, had obtained a loan through Zheng Zu’s connections.

According to the introduction plan,

the price of a FOERDA-T632 production line is 1.7 million Huaxia Coin, so the company would invest 8.5 million to purchase these production lines.

But with the change of events with Nutrien, the FOERDA-T632 was listed under the embargo agreement.

Xu Yun could only look for domestic alternatives, which led to the meeting with Lin Zhenhua.

Later, Hanhua Factory successfully broke through the transition metal barrier, and Lin Zhenhua also gifted the most crucial and valuable cyclic module to Xu Yun for free.

In this way,

even accounting for other equipment production costs, a production line was just about four hundred thousand at most.

Not to mention, the module data provided by Lin Zhenhua is far superior to the FOERDA-T632, conservatively estimated to reduce production costs by about two dollars.

And coincidentally,

with Zheng Zu’s full efforts, that loan had arrived in the company’s account.

Thus, Xu Yun suddenly found...

that the company’s account balance suddenly had an extra few million in cash flow!

Hence, after discussions with the other members of the board,

Xu Yun grandly allocated a large portion of the funds as the condition to invite Zhou Shan to join.

As for that 4% share, it came from the option pool agreed upon when the company was established.

After that, Xu Yun paused, took a document from his briefcase, and handed it to Zhou Shan:

"Academician Zhou, although compared to the conditions of the Italian Academy of Sciences, our cash treatment may still have a gap."

"But first, we are a domestic enterprise in Huaxia, and secondly... here is the sales report and profit model of our company’s current products, you can take a look first."

Zhou Shan took the document, glanced at it, and raised his eyebrows:

"Wow, an estimated market share of 71% in three years? That’s so high?"

Xu Yun nodded, his tone and expression appeared very sincere:

"Academician Zhou, you are a top expert in the industry. With your connections, you can easily understand the advantages of our products; I have no reason to deceive you on this."

"According to this income ratio, I won’t promise the moon, but I can at least guarantee one thing."

"That is, starting this time next year, your research funding will definitely exceed the figure offered by Italy."

Zhou Shan put the document back on the table, looked at Xu Yun, and then glanced at the smiling Lin Zhenhua.

After a moment of pondering, he asked:

"Xiaoxu, is your company primarily focused on cockroach medicine?" 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Xu Yun immediately shook his head and explained:

"Academician Zhou, cockroach medicine is just the current major cash flow of the company."

"Our position is as a biotechnology company, aiming for comprehensive product goals in the future."

"If the opportunity is right, there might even be some cross-industry products, after all, the Physics College of Ke Da also holds shares in our company."

"So you absolutely do not need to worry about the research direction deviating from your expertise, our goal isn’t limited to just cockroach medicine."

"Of course, exterminating cockroaches is our main focus, and this point will certainly not change."

Academician Zhou Shan’s main focus is on animal molecular genetics and breeding, which is about researching animal genes, completely different from cockroach medicine.

To use a realistic example,

it’s almost like doing something like cloning Dolly the sheep.

Of course.

This is only a manifestation of results.

In the laboratory, it mainly involves micro-research on cells, genes, and so on.

Hence, Xu Yun had forewarned him in advance to avoid some unnecessary misunderstandings.

Seeing that Zhou Shan seemed somewhat moved,

Xu Yun took out another document from his backpack, thicker than the previous one, also the trump card of this trip:

"Academician Zhou, take a look at this."

Zhou Shan took the document and flipped through it as if he were reviewing the sales report again.

After a while,

crash——

The document fell to the ground and scattered into a mess.

However, Zhou Shan seemed not to notice at all, staring intently at Xu Yun:

"Xiaoxu, did your company find a local donkey, and it’s a pair?"