One day in mid-December was also the last time Gu Ao held a banquet in Xiangjiang this year and distributed the interests of some real estate families.

While Gu Yuan was drinking and chatting, Professor Yao, the head of the Department of Environmental Science, one of the three top institutions in Xiangjiang, also welcomed a broker from the Xiangjiang Development Fund with a Brittanian background.

(I won’t talk about which university it is, I will only write one of the schools so that some people will not say that they will put the traitors in their school. Anyway, it is certainly no problem to find one or two such scholars in Xiangjiang. It is not an exaggeration to say that the professor’s surname is also written casually.)

Although Professor Yao took the name of the Chinese surname, he has long been a Brittanian in terms of nationality. Western sinologists have the habit of having a Chinese name. Over time, all those who deal with Chinese issues in other professional fields are used to doing this.

As for Professor Yao’s English name, there is nothing to be verified.

It is enough to know that he is a prestigious and influential figure in the Xiangjiang environmental science academic community and often benign interactions with the Governor's Office and certain development funds.

Wherever those development funds want to develop, they can let Professor Yao demonstrate where development does not damage the environment; where those development funds don’t want to develop, they can let Professor Yao demonstrate where development does not damage the environment. Finally, the Planning Bureau and other units can follow up and quote their conclusions, and the combination of industry, academia and business is very perfect.

Today's visitor, the developer's broker, named Daniels Robben. He is a genuine Brittanian. He doesn't have to fool the people in the Hong Kong River anyway, so he is too lazy to pretend and does not need to give a Chinese name.

"Professor Yao, congratulations on your academic status being promoted again recently. I heard that the last time EST journal asked you to be a reviewer, you seized it well."

Daniels Robben sat down on Professor Yao's office sofa. The first thing he said was not easy to talk about serious matters first. He always had to compliment the other party's recent achievements before continuing to assign tasks.

EST journal, full name is "Environmental Science & Technology", translated into Chinese, which is "Environmental Science and Technology". It is one of the three top journals in the field of environmental science, led by Americans. The papers published among them are the most influencing factors of SCI in the field of environmental science.

Professor Yao was able to say whatever he said at various development environmental assessment hearings on this acre of three-point land in Xiangjiang, and convinced people from all walks of life and could not resist. The most important reason is that he is the one who published the most ests among the professors in Xiangjiang, so he naturally became authoritative.

Moreover, Mr. Daniels Robben from a development fund is also considered half of Professor Yao’s noble person.

In order to make Professor Yao’s card better, they have spared no expense to make him meet senior executives in recent years, and have found ways to show his face on the est editorial board and several permanent reviewers who have won top academic awards in this field.

After showing off his face, Professor Yao also got one or two double-blind cross-reviewer opportunities. In theory, as long as a top academic journal has published your paper, it is possible to ask you to review the papers and review whether other people’s papers are qualified in the future, because experts on the journal editorial board do not know everything, and they have specialized in their profession.

However, the number of authors who have published papers in journals must be more than ten times less than those with review qualifications. Therefore, the identity of reviewers is extremely precious. For those academic sub-sectors that are not market-oriented, it becomes easy to fake and form cliques - after all, your academic achievements do not directly become commercial value and products, and do not need to be tested by consumers, so whether it is good or not is the final word.

All academics that cannot be whipped by the market are just tyrants.

There may be several professors who have published papers in the three universities in Xiangjiang, and the others only have fewer articles than Professor Yao. However, if you want to say that you have been an est reviewer, there are only Professor Yao.

Daniels Robben mentioned this section in front of him, which also reminded Professor Yao not to be ungrateful.

Of course, Professor Yao is very smart and very knowledgeable: "Mr. Robben, we will not say secret words anymore. The opportunity for reviewers is thanks to your help and create opportunities. I am not ignorant. Is there anything else to help recently?"

This is the way of speaking.

Mr. Robben pretended to clench his fists and put them to his mouth and coughed: "Recently, several large real estate developers and investors from the United States have bought government-owned homeless land in Daguling and Shajiao blockbusters. Have Professor Yao heard of this?

The procedures for buying land are legal. After all, Xiangjiang also talks about the rule of law. Whether it is the Planning Bureau or the Land Affairs Bureau, it is not suitable to block them during the purchase process."

Professor Yao did not know much about commercial news, and it only happened within a week or two for at most. He naturally didn't know what he hid in the ivory tower. At this moment, he had a rough impression after hearing Mr. Robben's words.

His first reaction was of course that he felt it was not good to let him come directly.

Professor Yao suggested: "Then why not ask local rural blacks...whose clubs to solve the problem? The cost of their hands-on work is much lower than mine."

Under the land rights system in Xiangjiang, all forces have professional nail households. Each village always needs to install several households, and some are clubs of that nature, which can sometimes prevent business competitors from sneaking out certain blocks. In this way, nail households have penetrated into the land that the other party wants to acquire, which can restrain each other.

Even if it was finally developed, it is not that these professional nail owners have really stopped, but that several major real estate family forces have reached an exchange of interests. For example, if I asked the nail owners I placed on a certain piece of your land to surrender, you also asked the nail owners you placed on a certain piece of land I wanted to surrender. Both parties felt that these two chips were about the same, and the transaction was reached.

Daniels Robben exposes Professor Yao's fantasy in one sentence: "Have you never been to Taguling and Shajiao? It's not Yuen Long or Da Pu! It was a border area that once had military considerations, and the original rural areas were very sparse! People who are interested in development can always be surrounded by them. So the main force we used when we blocked this time is the environmental impact assessment!

The above gentleman said that no matter how many years the trees on Daguling are, and whether there are any rare animals and plants, you have to prove it to be "with unique protective value that is irreplaceable across the world and is an ecologically unique primeval forest". As long as it is done, the fund will naturally support you, so that you will become the permanent reviewer of est sooner or later."

Strictly speaking, academic journals do not actually say "permanent reviewers", but some reviewers have a good reputation, so over time, the editorial board has formed the inertia of "when encountering problems in this field, they will be sent to the expert for review by default."

This is what Daniels Robben said.

"Est's permanent reviewer!" This title immediately stimulated Professor Yao, who was a student for several times, and his pupils turned red.

That's "Environmental Science and Technology"!

"This matter is bound to me! When will it take the result?" Professor Yao agreed immediately, and did not forget to ask and explain some details.

"It's important. This is not something that can be solved by just saying a few words at the hearing. Because in Daguling, during World War II, many tunnels and fortresses were dug to defend against the Japanese attack, and also cut down many trees as building timber.

The forest there grew up naturally after being abandoned and was abandoned. It only lasted for 30 or 40 years. It is very difficult to prove it as a 'unique primeval forest'. I must arrange some authoritative papers in advance to be able to speak nonsense..."

Mr. Robben nodded: "Give you two to three months to layout, they can't develop it for a while. The Lands Department and the Planning Bureau can reasonably drag them down according to the procedures."

...

Mr. Robben from a certain development fund reached a dirty deal with Professor Yao.

The lights in Gu Garden gradually faded away from the noise.

At this cocktail party tonight, Gu Ao was purely here to show off his wealth and show his strength, and he did not expect to reach any cooperation.

Therefore, the guests he invited were all rich second generations from Xiangjiang and even Ao County, as well as the first generation of wealthy businessmen who were successful in their youth - because most of the rich first generations were in their seventies and eighties, and many things were not to be played with. If you really give him a feast that integrates with the sky and the sea, the old bones would not be blessed to be eaten.

So to play with various ways to show off your wealth, the best thing is to invite young people.

For example, if you have a little pool party like today, you can see how Gu Ao is so rich that he can dive and dive on the top of Taiping Mountain.

With a "thump", a young lady Yang jumped into the ground swimming pool below a ten-meter drop from the edge of the transparent empty swimming pool on the top floor of Guyuan, along the miniature waterfall formed by the overflowing pool water. Her momentum was no less than a diving competition.

The swimming pool next to the ground is more than 8 meters wide and nearly 20 meters long, so no matter how skilled the person who jumps down is, it is impossible to jump out of the pool and fall to death. At the same time, the deepest place is 3.5 meters, which is exactly the same as a standard diving pool and will not hit the bottom of the pool.

Of course, this Miss Yang is just here to support her business. She is 18 years old this year. She has just been admitted to an American university and has just studied for a semester. She returned to Xiangjiang for vacation during the Christmas holiday. Her father is already working in Gu Ao’s record company. The artists of Tiankun Music have recently been drinking and chatting with guests at the Guyuan cocktail party, so young people also come to see the world.

Miss Yang had just jumped into the water, but her arms stretched forward almost penetrated Miss He Si who was wearing scuba and was watching deep-sea tropical fish underwater. Miss He Si was the lady from the He Du Wang family in Ao County that Gu Ao met at the auction to harvest Kong Shangzhong's heritage last year.

The two women couldn't help but curse each other under the water, but they couldn't speak under the water, and they just turned into two strings of scuba bubbles.

It turns out that under the design of Master Pei, Gu Ao’s garden, the transparent waterfall swimming pool is flush with the top floor, and the water surface of the ground pool is just flush with the ground floor of the building, and the bottom of the ground pool is flush with a cafe and cocktail bar hall on the underground garage level.

There is a wall near the swimming pool, which is a high-pressure glass box, which is similar to the later generations of Bill Gates raising sharks in the basement wall of the mansion. Gu Ao was a little restrained and just raised some beautifully colored deep-sea tropical fish - because it is a deep-sea fish, this aquarium wall naturally needs to be supercharged.

When drinking coffee and tasting in the house, you can sit and admire the tropical fish wall in a dignified manner. When diving in the swimming pool outside the house, you can also watch the fish at close range against the aquarium wall. Because the transparent glass is not easy to see clearly under the water, it will give divers a sense of immersion that integrates with the fish.

"The designer Gu Sheng is looking for is really ingenious. How could he think of building a pressurized aquarium wall? On the top of Taiping Mountain, you naturally stock the tropical fish in the deep sea. It is estimated that Gu Sheng, you can do this in the world."

After Miss He Si got ashore, she took a bath towel and wiped it, clasped her shoulders and patted Gu Ao on the shoulder to show her conscience.

"Aren't I following the local customs? Actually, I am an atheist. But after coming, you rich businessmen in Xiangjiang and Ao County are so superstitious. You need to burn incense when you start filming movies, and you have to raise Feng Shui fish at your business. How many of them should I keep?"

"So it turns out that you can spend money like this, it's really..."

As the party ended, a group of young rich second-generations lamented the gap and left Gu Yuan one after another with the legend.
Chapter completed!