Reborn I want everything

Chapter 139 Admission to Stanford

The flight from Shanghai to San Francisco takes 14 hours.

After Gu Zhe and Lu Youyou bid farewell, the two parties went their separate ways calmly.

After boarding the plane, Gu Zhe first managed to sleep for six or seven hours, and then got up in the middle of the night to listen to music and read books.

Because it is still night when I arrive in San Francisco, if I want to get jet lag faster, it is best to sleep for 6 hours and wake up for 8 hours on the plane. The value of the first-class ticket is also reflected in this.

After getting off the plane late at night, there was no acquaintance in the US to pick me up.

The doctoral students under Gu Zhe who will be transferred to the United States in the future, and Ye Xiaomin, who will come to do odd jobs at that time, have not left yet.

He had to wait for Gu Zhe to finish his master's admission work before he would deal with the operation of the new company in the United States.

Fortunately, Ye Xiaomin helped him go through the relevant procedures in advance, and hired a group of people from the security company, including security guards and drivers—similar to Tony Big Mouth in "Green Book", even the meaning of race is the same. Stupid descendants.

It seems that Italians are more suitable for this kind of help and odd jobs.

Gu Zhe asked their names in an approachable manner.

The leading Italian team leader, about thirty years old, named Cassino Auditore, was in charge of driving and arranging the itinerary.The co-pilot sat a younger bodyguard named Benito Luciani.

The employees of these security companies have obtained part of the employer's information in advance, but for the sake of confidentiality, they will not disclose things that they do not need to know.

So when they saw Gu Zhe for the first time, Cassino and the others were a little surprised: this Asian boss looked really too young.

According to the information, they are high-achieving graduate students at Stanford who have already started their own company. They always have the stereotype that they should be in their twenties, but they are only eighteen years old and a few months old.

Daniu, who finished his undergraduate degree in 20 months, is so perverted.

"Mr. Gu, it's an honor to serve you. Let's go to Palo Alto now? You can stay in a hotel tonight. I have already contacted you for the apartment or villa you want, and I can take you to see it in person tomorrow before making an appointment." .

It is difficult to find villas in downtown Palo Alto. They are all located in small towns along Highway 101 in the suburbs. If you are looking for convenience, it is better to find an apartment. The condition of the entire apartment on the top floor is not worse than that of the villa, and there is a roof garden—— Did you rest well on the plane? "

After getting into the car, Cassino first asked for instructions in sloppy English, which seemed to be comprehensive, and he looked like a local snake.

However, Gu Zhe rejected his proposal: "No, let's live in downtown San Francisco tonight. I'll find a hotel and I'll rent it for a month. I'll hire a lot of people later, and some subordinates will come from China. Make it more convenient. You will show me the house tomorrow."

Gu Zhe is considering that his new company in the United States and his research on basic material physics and chemical deposition methods do not fit well with the industrial structure of Silicon Valley.Even in the United States, basic scientific research is much more developed in places like Boston in the northeast, and materials research in California is not very strong.

In the future, he will also recruit people from other countries. If those physicists went straight to Silicon Valley as the first stop of their investigation in San Francisco, they might not be able to adapt, and would be shaken about whether to stay and work for a long time.

It is always right to arrange people to rent offices and laboratories in the most prosperous core urban area of ​​San Francisco first, and then rent some hotels for a long time.

Cassino was a little puzzled, and he didn't understand the twists and turns inside.But as long as he knows that this is the big boss and he is not short of money, he should try to arrange it properly.

Helping the boss find a place to spend his money is always the easiest job of all.

Gu Zhe didn't ask for any specific requirements, so he kicked the gas pedal and drove 15 kilometers. On the half slope of the peninsula on the south side of Jinmen Bay, he found the Hilton Garden Inn with the best view nearby and booked a presidential suite for Gu Zhe.

Gu Zhe was very generous and directly paid one month's rent.I also told the hotel to help him coordinate the reservation as much as possible. There will be more guests coming in the next month or two and more rooms will be needed.

The end of April was not the peak season for business travel, so the female head waiter of the hotel politely agreed, and even offered to give Gu Zhe a little discount.

After Gu Zhe had a successful career in his previous life, he also traveled to several mainstream technological powers such as Midori, and of course San Francisco.

He wasn't very cold about looking at the Golden Gate Bridge, but Casino arranged for him a sea view suite with a good view, so he ordered room service, ordered a bottle of gin from Groningen and some Caspian caviar from Persia, and sat down. Beat the jet lag with a drink on the balcony.

He's not a big fan of gin, but it's slightly more jet-lagged and sleep-prone than other spirits, saving me the need for melatonin pills.

At first glance, he is a trapezeman who is used to traveling in Europe and America and has experience in dealing with jet lag.

After drinking half a bottle of gin, Gu Zhe also became dazed, and his mood was completely calmed down and adapted.

Across the 10-kilometer-wide Golden Gate Bay, you can see the UC Berkeley campus on the opposite side from the peninsula mountain on the west bank. It is also a famous school with an academic level no less than Stanford, but the combination of industry, education and research is not good enough.

"After graduation, let's set up a scholarship like Academician Qiu Chengtong, and recruit some younger students Wei Peisheng to come to Stanford and UC Berkeley to exchange. Well, don't exchange such rubbish at USC."

While Gu Zhe was drinking gin, it was inevitable that mental patients had wide-ranging thoughts. When he became a world-renowned scientist in the future, he wondered how he would go back to his alma mater to operate the "Gu Zhe Scholarship".

Any Nobel Prize winner in natural sciences and Fields Medal winner should of course have the right to set up a university scholarship named after him.

Qiu Lao is a Fields Medal winner and an internationally renowned mathematician, so he has a scholarship at Tunghai University, and Gu Zhe will also want it in the future.

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The next morning, Cassino and the others were quite winking, and they didn't come to Gu Zhe until ten o'clock.

Gu Zhe got up late due to jet lag, and the restaurant's breakfast buffet was over, but it didn't matter, he ordered room service for extra money.

The long-distance trip halfway around the world made him lose his appetite, and he had a drink last night, so he had to eat something light in the morning—the so-called light means that the main course only needs Matsuba crab and sea cucumber from Bering Sea, and the rest is all vegetarian.

The whole day's itinerary is nothing more than buying a house, buying a car and settling down. Anyway, tomorrow is the official registration day for the new semester at Stanford University.

I left all my luggage at the Hilton Garden Inn, and there was nothing to bring. Anyway, the guest rooms here need to be rented for a month. After buying a house, if there are any daily necessities that need to be arranged, just buy them all again.

Gu Zhe did this not purely out of extravagance, but also to show that he "just came to the United States and planned to manage his home well and prepare to live permanently."

He knew in his previous life that whenever the elites of the technology industry enter the United States, especially in Silicon Valley or Boston on the East Coast, they will be targeted by the FBI-this is not targeting anyone, but a general wide-spread screening , It is necessary to assess and confirm the possibility that every valuable scientific and technological talent will be used by the United States in the future.

If you don’t buy a house or a car, it’s easy to alert people, thinking that this person will definitely return to China after studying.And if you buy a house or a car, the detectives will instantly reduce the intensity of their staring at you.

Just like some foreigners who carried out attacks in Miyin in later generations, if they did not buy pension insurance, they would be easily targeted by big data and closely investigated by relevant departments.

And as long as he buys pension insurance, whether it's the FBI or the NSA, his guard against him will be greatly relaxed.

Everyone on the earth knows that if a person is always mentally prepared to die at any time and knows that he will not live to retire, he will definitely not buy pension insurance.

Gu Zhe looked at it for more than an hour, turned around three or four properties, and finally chose a penthouse in the northeast suburb of Palo Alto near the bay.

The houses in the urban area of ​​Palo Alto are relatively low, and they are all spread out in a flat pattern, so there are more high-rise buildings by the bay.Maybe it's because Americans are too keen on sea view houses, so they can be more expensive.

The penthouse apartment that Gu Zhe bought was not considered a first-line sea view, but it was half a mile away from Golden Gate Bay, on the 26th floor or so, and he was on the top floor.There are two buildings in front of him with 18 floors and 12 floors, so they can't block his view.

This kind of pattern was relatively rare in China in 04. After all, the "Property Law" had not been enacted at that time, and the domestic easement regulations were relatively blank, unless a developer had acquired a lot of land and could make overall arrangements for it.

Otherwise, if several pieces of land in one area belong to different right holders, it will be difficult to fully protect the law if you want to agree on a contract that "the land closer to the sea than me is not allowed to be built high to block my view".

However, it has not been a few years. By the end of 07, the domestic "Property Law" will be gradually implemented, and these will be resolved.

The 300-plus-square-meter top floor with a loft and a roof garden is still the core town of Silicon Valley where Stanford is located, and it cost Gu Zhe more than 200 million US dollars.

It can only be said that the housing prices of Americans have not been low. In China in 04 and 20 years later, the housing prices may be ten times or even more different.In the United States, it was already quite expensive in 04, and it will increase by three or four times at most in the next 20 years.

In addition, it is impossible for Gu Zhe to buy a new home in this kind of place, it must be second-hand.When Gu Zhe bought it, he asked Cassino to find out the information of the original owner.

I learned that the original owner was an early small investor in Google, who entered the market at a high level in 99, and was trapped in the cold winter of the Internet for several years.Now it is almost May 04, and the cold winter has finally eased a little, and the valuations of all Internet companies have risen back.

That guy was in a hurry to transfer the little bit of Google shares he had at the right time, and then even sold the house on the Silicon Valley side, planning to pack up and leave the Bay Area to make some other promising investments.

In the past few years, due to the general collapse of the Internet, housing prices in several towns in Silicon Valley have even plummeted, such as Palo Alto, Montevideo, and Santa Clara.Now that the Internet is recovering, Silicon Valley housing prices are also recovering, so it can be regarded as a good time to escape, at least to save capital.

When he heard this story, Gu Zhe couldn't help but laugh a little. This kind of person is really a traitor for 45 years, and the war of resistance is almost won, only to feel that "the trick is finally solved", and sell his military achievements to run away.

However, Silicon Valley is so big that there are always such people, otherwise Gu Zhe would ask who would buy a house.A luxury house always needs someone to sell it before someone can take it over.

After the apartment was settled, there was not much to say about the car.Going to do as the Romans do, Gu Zhe was happy to save money and buy a Cadillac, pretending how much he "loves the American way of life".

Anyway, Cadillac is much cheaper than German luxury cars, and it can also lower the alert level of the FBI and NSA, killing two birds with one stone.

The delivery of the car and the room still takes a day or a few days respectively. After a day of shopping in Palo Alto, Gu Zhe went back to the hotel to rest that night.

May 5st is the registration day for the summer semester.Cassino drove Gu Zhe to Stanford University in the Cadillac he just bought to go through the graduate admission procedures.

Before coming here, Gu Zhe had already taken care of it, and through the exchange student program between Tunghai University and Zhu Yuan here, and the information channel of the seniors and sisters here in the past few years, he learned that he was engaged in material physics research, which one should he find? Professors are the least likely to be stuck.

That morning, when Gu Zhe arrived at the appointed place, he met a senior to receive him.Gu Zhe had communicated on the phone in advance, and knew that the other party's name was Tang Yan, and he was also an exchange student from the Zhu Institute of Donghai University.

"Student Gu, welcome to Stanford. I've heard about your achievements in China, which are really admirable. You're just an undergraduate, and CM will post them casually. You will definitely show your talents here. By the way, where did you go in high school?" Is it? I heard that you are also strong in competition, are you from our Ark No. [-] High School?"

Tang Yan is a scholar at first glance, and EQ doesn't seem to be very important, and it almost causes embarrassment when he flirts with each other.

Gu Zhe quickly said, "Almost, I'm from Zhenyang Middle School."

Tang Yan still had a few mismanagement of facial expressions, and his face was full of surprise, apparently wondering "Is the Zhenyang Middle School competition okay now?"But he is quite straightforward, and he will say what he has:
"Really? That's good. Zhenyang Middle School has also improved in recent years. I came out of Fangzhou No. 98 Middle School. I entered Zhuyuan with a silver medal in the 01th grade. I came here in [-]. I just finished my master's degree at the end of last year and I am now studying for a Ph. D. If I worked hard back then Work hard, and if you get the gold medal, it will be safe for Peking University to transfer to MIT.”

Gu Zhe didn't have time to listen to the old senior lying on the credit book and bragging about his past glory. He forced himself to be patient, and waited for the other party to finish speaking before asking the right thing:

"What's the current situation about the arrangement of exchange professors? It won't be difficult to accept my professor."

It was only then that Tang Yan remembered what the other party was most concerned about, and quickly said: "I have inquired, and Professor Bushwell is here to accept you. This is already the result of the operation. Professor Bushwell is the strictest and most responsible person in the school. Enlightened professor.

Under normal circumstances, students do not listen to his research directions, and he will not give you small shoes.But the premise is that you are talented, and you can choose your own direction to ensure high-quality papers.

I am ashamed to say that the year before last, there was an Israeli classmate who was studying for a master's degree at the same time as me. He performed well in his thesis and graduated a year earlier than me. "

Gu Zhe nodded: "That's good. I like to work with professors who 'as long as the quantity and quality of papers are excellent, they won't interfere too much'."

As Gu Zhe said, he was already thinking about whether he should give the professor a car or something else, so as to relieve the professor's hard work of commuting to work overtime every day - sending things is not an end in itself, the purpose is to improve work efficiency.

A good car is not only an attribute of wealth, but also a tool for work.

(End of this chapter)