Chapter 589 (2/2)
With a raised eyebrow, the eldest John looked at Zheng Jianguo's figure and seemed to stand a little straight. Then he said with a straight face: ”Sir, there are few manors and castles and you don't have your own garden. If you agree, I'm going to buy some real estate here while the land price is cheap. I think the old lady likes farming -”
Without castles and houses, farming in Britain is more difficult than in America, because farming in the latter only requires community consent, while farming in Britain is simply an access system.
If you want to plant land, you have to apply to the government department in advance. When it's your turn, you can plant it. As for where the land is and how far it is from your home, that's another saying, and you have to pay money, like renting land to plant it?
It was originally a sublease system.
Of course, if you have it at home, you can plant it at will. You just need to pay tax if you want to sell the planted things. Zheng Jianguo knows that this is not the time to buy real estate in Britain: ”this will be suspended until the results come out of Japan.”
In Zheng Jianguo's memory, many people lament how cheap Britain's castles and manors are. Even in some places, there is a pound given, but those don't include one thing, that is, the land price.
The castle of hundreds of millions of pounds reported by the news media is not so much bought as rented. At most, it is even a ground property right. The land belongs to either the local government or the noble family.
If you really want to buy it, it's not that you don't sell it. You can't stop the price of the two houses on Kensington Palace Garden Street with Zheng Jianguo.
Therefore, considering that there are still many things to spend money in the future, Zheng Jianguo didn't let big John buy it. It's enough to have such a castle for Du Xiaomei.
After handling the matter in hand, Zheng Jianguo didn't go to find Du Xiaomei, who was busy somewhere. Instead, he ran to Yang Na's ward on the second floor. Looking at Zheng Chaochao, who was swaddled by his mother with small bedding, he listened to Maiya's hesitation and said, ”Sir, the old lady won't let us touch the young master.”
”Oh, it's a difference in customs.”
Knowing that Maiya was expressing dissatisfaction, Zheng Jianguo looked at Zheng Chaochao, who was sleeping with his eyes closed, and said, ”the child hasn't learned to control his hands and feet at this time. All of them rely on instinctive command. In this way, he straightened his arms and legs and tied them with a mattress for fear that he might catch his face and eyes.”
Just born, the advantage of white swan is reflected. After receiving the award at 9:00, they arrive at the airport at 11:00, fly for 3 hours, and arrive in New York at 14:00 British time.
The five hours excluding the time difference is 9 a.m. in New York. The conference has just begun. It is more than an hour before the speech time of 10 a.m. and we can arrive at the venue just before the speech.
Of course, there is a premise for this arrangement, that is, these processes must be completed on time. If the royal family comes and delays for an hour, Zheng Jianguo will say goodbye to the meeting in New York.
However, since the paper of scanning tunneling microscope has been published, Zheng Jianguo's idea is that it's OK not to go to the meeting. After all, he wants to get the Grand Cross and stand up for such a meeting. Even if some people are uncomfortable, they can only hold it.
Zheng Jianguo originally wanted to attend the meeting, but he ran to publish the papers of the scanning tunneling microscope first. Now that they have been published, it is no different to let Professor Fisher make a presentation in person.
The preparation for the meeting flashed through his mind. Zheng Jianguo didn't expect to see Big John after he left the ward and said, ”Sir, Professor Fisher of the Physics Department of Harvard University called and said he had something urgent to find you.”
Such a time——
After looking at the watch on his wrist, Zheng Jianguo found that it was almost 8 o'clock in his heart. That is to say, it was midnight in Boston. He knew that there should be something urgent.
Zheng Jianguo nodded slightly and quickly returned to his residence on the first floor. He picked up the phone and fed. Then he heard Fisher's voice: ”Zheng, do you know gaid Benny and Heinrich lorel?”
Professor Fisher's voice was a little tired, but it sounded normal to Zheng Jianguo. After all, the people who ran for seven stayed up late. It was strange that the voice was not different until now. After blinking, they found that they didn't have the impression of these two names, so they said, ”who are they? Should I know him? ”
Fisher's voice on the phone was obviously relieved: ”Zheng, IBM objected to the invention of our scanning tunneling microscope, saying that it was in one of their laboratories, and the two researchers I mentioned earlier were conducting relevant research -”
After raising his eyebrows, Zheng Jianguo thought he had heard wrong and immediately said, ”Professor Fisher, are you questioning that my research was stolen?”
As if feeling the unhappy tone in Zheng Jianguo's words, Fisher quickly raised more than a dozen decibels and said, ”no! Zheng, I don't question your idea of academic ethics. After all, IBM hasn't finished the project themselves.
I'm just worried that an argument like Rosalind Franklin will bring us unnecessary trouble. Now that you don't know these two people, I'm relieved. I'll see you on the 26th. ”
When Fisher mentioned the mother of DNA, Zheng Jianguo's previous dissatisfaction was suppressed. Because the father of DNA is American, this woman is not known in the United States, but there are discordant voices about her from time to time in Europe.
Of course, Zheng Jianguo won't care about the truth. The father of DNA is a Nobel laureate. He's not interested in provoking each other, so he said the possibility he thought about earlier: ”Professor Fisher, I'm going to attend a royal event on the morning of the 26th. If I don't arrive in New York during the meeting time, I can't attend the meeting.”