While the entire Future editorial department and Academician Zhang, who served as a reviewer, were worried about Lu Zhou's thesis, the research and development department of East Asia Power was also having a hard time because of Academician Lu's rise to power.
Director Song Yangwei of the Science and Technology Committee of the Board of Directors was dismissed. The entire senior management of the research and development department underwent a major change, followed by the reform of the scientific research funding approval mechanism.
There were rumors that Lu Zhou was reviewing the academic resumes of the senior executives of the entire research and development department. He adopted a zero-tolerance attitude towards those managers who did not deserve to be in their positions. For a while, the entire research and development department was in a state of panic.
Of course, not everyone was panicking.
For those who worked diligently in scientific research, the series of measures made by Lu Zhou after he came to power was still very popular. For this group of people, they had long been annoyed by the department executives who relied on nepotism, as well as the project team leaders who had never published a single thesis but received a lot of funding.
"On the Impact of Feng Shui on the Safety of Controllable Fusion Core … What the f * ck, what kind of garbage topic is this? One dares to report, and the other dares to criticize! "
Lu Zhou drew a big red cross on a document. He reached out his index finger and quickly swiped across the holographic screen, switching to the next document without stopping for a second.
After a century of development, the scale of East Asia Power had become larger and larger.
Behind the huge profitability and scale of the enterprise was a depleted creativity and bureaucratic corporate culture.
Although the tree was still lush with leaves, it was already full of holes from being eaten by the moths.
If it weren't for the lifelong efforts of people from a century ago, Lu Zhou even wanted to sell the stock and start a new business.
However, to his surprise, he didn't expect that after he said those words, he was still pushed to the position of chairman.
But because of this, even though in his opinion, East Asia Power was terminally ill, it was not to the point of being hopeless.
Even if these future children let him down time and time again …
Lu Zhou's eyebrows twitched again as he looked at another study titled "Twenty-seven Ways to Brew Coffee and Its Impact on the Quality of Afternoon Nap."
"What the f * ck?!"
Was this a scam?!
It was the kind that didn't want to act anymore.
Lu Zhou looked at the project applicant who had appeared in front of him countless times, as well as Director Song, who casually approved two million credits for this garbage project. Lu Zhou felt like his IQ had been f * cked. He finally couldn't take it anymore and made a mark next to the author's name.
After that, he would ask his office secretary to throw these vermin to the economic investigation department to deal with.
Originally, he thought that it would be fine if he persuaded them to leave. After all, he was their ancestor. But now, it seemed that if he didn't kill a group of vermin as a sacrifice, he wouldn't be able to lead the team!
Looking at the time in the upper right corner of the holographic screen, it was almost time for lunch break. Lu Zhou took a deep breath and stood up from his office chair.
Although he had no appetite at all, he decided to go to the rest area on the floor to have a cup of coffee and get some fresh air after staying in the office all morning.
Now, he finally realized how difficult it was to run a business.
And this was in his area of expertise.
In addition to scientific research funding, East Asia Power had a lot of problems …
Holding a paper cup full of coffee in his hand, Lu Zhou looked at the city outside the floor-to-ceiling window. He suddenly thought of Chen Yushan, who had silently supported him, and he couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.
Although he always tried not to deliberately recall things from a century ago, from time to time, he would still think of things that seemed to have happened yesterday.
In fact, since he woke up, he had been urging Xiao Ai to help him dig out things about Chen Yushan from history a century ago.
However, all the clues were interrupted in the third year after his disappearance. Only limited indirect clues showed that after she resigned from the CEO position, she went to Beijing and met her parents.
After that, she disappeared in the vast sea of people like a god, and no one had ever seen her again ….
"Still reading memorials?"
When Lu Zhou heard the voice coming from behind him, he turned around.
A man wearing gold-rimmed glasses, also holding a cup of coffee in his hand, walked to his side with a smile on his face.
The AR technology of this era was quite convenient. For those friends who had an electronic business card, even if they couldn't remember their name for a while, they could quickly recognize each other's names through the face recognition function of the AR glasses. This minimized the embarrassment of forgetting each other's names in daily social interactions.
Relying on this function, Lu Zhou remembered that this guy's name was Zhong Ziyu.
"Kind of, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, I was just saying." Standing next to Lu Zhou, Zhong Ziyu smiled and continued in a casual tone, "It has been five years since the AIIB appointed me to East Asia Power. Among the three chairmen I have experienced, you are probably the most courageous one."
"Thank you for the compliment."
"It's not a compliment, it's just a statement of fact." After taking a sip of coffee, he cast his gaze at the Huangpu River estuary outside the floor-to-ceiling window, smiled, and continued, "Everyone knows what the problem is, but you are the first to stand up and try to solve it."
Lu Zhou spoke blankly.
"If you did it, I wouldn't have to do it."
"It's not that we don't want to do it, but the problem is far more complicated than you see." Zhong Ziyu sighed softly and continued, "Not to mention that any company is actually the same. There will always be people who do things and people who don't do things. The two will reach a balance at a certain critical point, and together, they will maintain the efficiency of the company on an acceptable track."
Lu Zhou: "But this is unfair to those who do things seriously."
"This world isn't fair to begin with."
"But this is not a reason for us to stop pursuing fairness …" Noticing the surprised expression on Zhong Ziyu's face, Lu Zhou frowned slightly and said, "I feel like you have something to say."
"Nothing? I'm just a little surprised, but not particularly surprised … "Zhong Ziyu said with a smile," I didn't expect you to be an idealist. "
Lu Zhou: "So?"
Zhong Ziyu: "Please don't misunderstand, I don't mean anything else, I just admire your ideas. Ordinary people like us have no interest in what happens to others … Maybe this is why you can become a great man, and we are just passersby. "
"It doesn't matter if I'm a great man or not, I only do what I have to do."
Lu Zhou threw the empty paper cup in his hand into the recycling bin next to him. He looked at Zhong Ziyu and continued, "For the afternoon meeting, inform all the research and development departments for me that researchers above the project team leader are not allowed to be absent without special reasons."
Zhong Ziyu nodded and replied cheerfully.
"I'll inform them for you."
…
The lunch break was over.
At two o 'clock in the afternoon.
In the conference room on the first floor of East Asia Power. Lu Zhou arrived at the scene on time.
When he arrived, the conference room was already crowded with people. As far as the eye could see, it was a dense mass of people. East Asia Power's research institutes were all over Pan-Asia. Although not everyone was there in person, at least they were here through the holographic conference system.
Lu Zhou looked around at the nervous researchers and project team leaders. After a few simple opening remarks, he went straight to the point.
"When I checked the accounts, I found that East Asia Power has never been stingy in investing in new technology research and development. Unfortunately, the results achieved were minimal.
"Later, when I continued to check where every scientific research funding was used, I finally found where the problem was.
"And this discovery made me sad."
Lu Zhou looked at the silent conference room and the excited, nervous, hostile, and hopeful faces. He continued in a calm tone.
"Solving these problems is an urgent matter. The approval of scientific research funding and even the entire research and development department of East Asia Power need a thorough top-down reform!
"From today on, the unlimited funding approval system will become a thing of the past. All project reports, from the scientific research director to the Science and Technology Committee of the Board of Directors, to the signature of the finance department, will be replanned.
"For existing projects, I will cut 50% of them, and liquidate those projects that were suspected of embezzlement and serious problems in expenditure in the past, and hand them over to the legal department for accountability!"
Looking at the silent crowd, Lu Zhou slowed down his tone slightly and continued.
"Next is the focus of today's meeting.
"Let's talk about how to deal with the second-generation controllable fusion project."
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