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Chapter 264 Important and Unimportant

Although Zheng Xiwen was already accustomed to Qiao Yu's meticulous style of doing things, he still felt uncomfortable with Qiao Yu's actions this time.

He had studied Qiao Yu's files in depth and of course knew how much this guy valued money.

The current situation seems to be that Qiao Yu let others decide how much money he should have taken, and he also gave part of the profits to outsiders. He was even generous enough to let those foreign companies keep his money for at least three months.

In the past, Zheng Xiwen had no doubt that this agreement would cost Qiao Yu his life. But now this kid actually took the initiative to ask to sign this contract...

The reason why he was surprised at this time was because he was too busy and had no time to care about the contracts that Qiao Yu signed with those foreign companies.

Not to mention that these contracts still need to be reviewed by the business department before they can finally take effect, so he doesn't need to worry about these at all.

"Don't look at me like that, Uncle Zheng. It's true that I like money, but I'm not short-sighted! This approach is actually quite good, keeping the conflict within them first.

Do you know what my teammates like to say the most when I play games like Honor of Kings?

Zheng Xiwen shook his head and answered honestly: "I don't know. I have never played King of Glory. I haven't seen you play this game either."

"Haha, that's just a shabby development, don't waste it!"

In the spacious office, Qiao Yu shouted out this classic line excitedly like a real teenager. It can be seen that Qiao Yu is in a very good mood.

Zheng Xiwen also roughly knew the reason. Yanbei University's Golden Autumn Camp will begin next week.

As far as he knew, Qiao Yu's girlfriend also signed up for the Golden Autumn Camp and was successfully selected.

Although generally speaking, the Golden Autumn Camp of Yanbei University is for competitive students. It requires high school students to enter the provincial team in the five major subject competitions, or at least get the provincial first prize.

Otherwise, it won’t be of much help. Yanbei University’s autumn activities mainly include recruitment presentations, lectures on the frontiers of disciplines, explorations related to competitions in various subjects, and advance explanations of some key learning points.

Even if the children with poor aptitude came, they would not understand. But there are always exceptions. For example, this year Qiao Yu proposed that Guanghua College in Yanbei also join the Golden Autumn Camp.

The traditional Guanghua Experience Day for high school students was extended to four days. For liberal arts, it would be enough to have a few more lectures and debates, and then take everyone on a tour of the campus for a few more days. It doesn't require high talent or intelligence.

The suggestion put forward by Qiao Yu at this sensitive time would probably be fully supported by not only Guanghua College but also the president.

Zheng Xiwen was very impressed by this matter.

At an age when you are still caught by teachers for dating, just to date a girlfriend who lives in another city for a few days, it directly affected the organization of a school event...

Not to mention that the professors of Yanbei University and the teachers of Changjun Middle School probably knew about this matter, and no one raised any objections.

This relationship is many times more legitimate than what people of the same age have.

Especially many important figures are concerned about this matter, and some even welcome Qiao Yu's love affair at this time.

In other words, Qiao Yu is still a few years away from the legal age for marriage, otherwise some bigwigs would like Qiao Yu to get married and have children as soon as possible.

Of course, this is due to old-fashioned thinking. Qiao Yu often acts too eccentrically, and hopes that this little guy can get married soon and become stable and mature.

Obviously, in the eyes of these old people, a man can only be considered to have truly matured once he has established a family and a career.

Of course, not everyone is optimistic about this relationship. At least as far as Zheng Xiwen knows, there are some bigwigs who plan to introduce young women who are relatives of theirs to Qiao Yu.

The main reason for not taking action is that Qiao Yu is only 17 years old. After all, most people who can be called a big boss by Zheng Xiwen still have some dignity.

It’s really hard to introduce someone at this age, otherwise the way they eat would be too ugly.

Really, if Qiao Yu was already in her twenties this year, Zheng Xiwen would not be optimistic that the childhood sweethearts could really stay together until the end.

But both of them are seventeen years old this year, so there is a great hope that they can be together.

Of course, Zheng Xiwen would not tell Qiao Yuming about these things. However, Zheng Xiwen felt that Qiao Yu knew everything, so he would not consider these things at all.

"You're just growing up, I'm going to go get busy now."

"By the way, remind me to call the Academy of Sciences tomorrow. I need to tell them to schedule the feasibility study meeting for that project this week, taking advantage of the National Day holiday. I won't have time to attend the meeting next week."

"It's impossible to make a decision on such a large project in one meeting, right?"

"I know. But after each meeting, at least a few days should be left for the experts to conduct various verifications before the next meeting can be held. Just stagger the time next week."

"Qiao Yu, you don't think dating your girlfriend is more important than your project, do you?"

"Uncle Zheng, look at what you're saying... At my age, falling in love is more important than just working on a project, it's obviously more important than anything else!

You have to know that people's driving force comes from various hormones that are secreted by themselves. It is well known that falling in love can quickly secrete a large amount of dopamine, which can make people feel happy and joyful.

After being stimulated by dopamine, people can focus more on doing many things. You were also seventeen years old, so you should know this very well. "

Zheng Xiwen was silent.

Looking back, he did have a vague crush on someone when he was seventeen.

However, at that time he was far less mature than Qiao Yu. His way of expressing his love was to pull the girl's braids whenever he had nothing to do, and he successfully made himself one of the people that girl hated the most.

However, before Zheng Xiwen had time to review himself, Qiao Yu's damn voice came again.

"Of course, when I reach your age, my brain will be too lazy to secrete hormones, and I probably won't be interested in things like dating! So not only should you start doing scientific research early, you should also start dating early!"

"I'll get busy first."

Too lazy to look at Qiao Yu's smug expression, Zheng Xiwen simply stood up and walked out of Qiao Yu's office.

He was not in a good mood, so Zheng Xiwen planned to wait until the afternoon to communicate with those people in the west.

Although he couldn't do anything to Qiao Yu, he could make those old men in the west get up in the early morning to work overtime!
To use Qiao's metaphor, it is better to lose both than to lose alone. In short, dragging some people along with me makes me unhappy, so does dopamine start to be secreted again?! ...

A few days later, during China's National Day holiday, with the efforts of many people and a series of operations, the three major cryptocurrency exchanges finally added a logo to their homepage as expected by everyone.

Following closely behind, major stock markets, futures markets and bond markets in the United States, Europe and the world all began to use the same logo within a few days.

The global financial industry has finally begun to stabilize. This is undoubtedly great news for Western powers. At least the market is no longer filled with bright red warnings every day.

Many people finally breathed a sigh of relief.

You should know that the Federal Reserve has basically used up all the tools it can use in the past few days. Not only has it been constantly rumoring that it will significantly cut interest rates, but it has even issued a document temporarily banning short selling, and the stock market still seems to be in a slump.

It is no exaggeration to say that if this situation continues for another month, the shadow of war will really cover the entire world.

After all, according to the forecasts of several major institutions, if investor confidence continues to be low, the market value of the U.S. stock market will be halved from its recent high in at most one month, and will enter a long bear market.

At present, the total market value of the three major markets has only fallen by 20%, but the society has already begun to be turbulent. God knows how many people have jumped off the rooftops.

If the market capitalization of the three major markets is collectively halved, coupled with huge debts and uncontrollable inflation, it is not long before the price of eggs rises to five dollars.

Even though it hasn't happened yet, there has been a lot of criticism on major Western social networking sites. You can imagine how tense the global political atmosphere is during this period.

However, what many people did not expect was that the stock market crash made China's major supermarkets the most dazzling stars in the world.

No one knows who started it, but the video of shopping in Huaxia Supermarket was uploaded to the Internet. Then countless foreign netizens flocked to the Chinese Internet to find the truth.

Then I discovered that there really is such a magical place in this world, where eggs in the supermarket only cost a few cents each!
You can buy a large piece of bread for just a few dozen cents, and a whole cooked roast chicken for just $1.5, and it’s New Orleans style!
There are also all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables that can be bought for tens of cents, and all kinds of groceries that can be bought for a hundred dollars are not even enough to fit in a supermarket shopping cart.

After learning this, these people continued to explore and found that after buying a house in Hua Xia, it would belong completely to them in the future and they would not need to pay taxes every year.

If you rent a house, a two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment in a second- or third-tier city would cost only two hundred dollars.

If you choose a village in the city that looks more lively, you can even find a single room for less than $100.

The most terrifying thing is that every city has a very complete public transportation system. The ticket prices are almost free compared to their place, and it is extremely convenient.

The subway station is built to look no different from an airport at home, or even more beautiful.

Therefore, ordinary people can live well in the city without even buying a car, and naturally they don’t need to pay expensive car insurance every month.

Even so, there are small gardens built in the middle of China's neat roads, making the entire city look pleasing to the eye, and the interiors of many communities are really no different from parks.

But these are secondary.

Many foreigners in China went crazy and started taking pictures of everything, and began to show off China's medical system.

Then countless foreign netizens were surprised to find that if they felt unwell in China, they did not need to see their family doctor who might be on vacation, but could go directly to the hospital.

Even in the hospital, most of the test results can be obtained on the same day, and the price is shockingly cheap. Most of the surgery costs are even cheaper than flying to China for treatment.

And these are all normal people's daily lives. So the Internet became even more vulgar.

Of course this is understandable.

For the rich people in the Western world, these are actually nothing. They can enjoy the same things easily in the Western world, and even better.

After all, many wealthy people even have a whole medical team at their service at all times. With just one phone call, they can call top experts to their homes to serve them.

But no matter which country in this world, the majority of people are ordinary people who cannot enjoy too many resources in their entire lives.

They cannot see the daily life of rich Westerners at all, but they can see the daily life of ordinary Chinese people through the Internet and are deeply shocked!
So a lot of old posts were dug up, such as the one on Twitter that was praising Western University’s dollar fried chicken.

"I live in New York City, can you tell me where I can get one dollar fried chicken? I'll go get it right now, anywhere in New York City! Of course you won't reply to me! Because we all know that the real place for one dollar fried chicken is on the other side of the world!"

"The United States is the stupidest place in the world right now! But do you know how this happened? That's right, because that white house has been occupied by a group of guys with an average IQ of less than 50 for too long! They really believed your nonsense!"

"You know what? You're a damn spy. I suspect you're passing on some unknown information by constructing false news like this! Although I have no evidence, I know it must be the case. Don't let me know where you are!"

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On X, Facebook, DouLe International Edition...

It feels like decades have passed in just these few days, and the whole world has suddenly changed.

Last week, Xi’an University was still a beacon of world civilization and a place that everyone in the world longed for. But just one week later, the sacred halo surrounding Xi’an University in the eyes of ordinary people was gone, completely disappeared!

A developing country has suddenly become a place that many people dream of. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a paradise in the minds of many ordinary people abroad.

And there is a lot of evidence to support this massive Internet exploration activity. For example, why is China's quantum simulation computing technology so powerful?

Ten minutes to make the US cryptocurrency exchanges lose their weapons? Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, and Nvidia all asked for cooperation.

Do those financial markets have to have logos designed and approved by Chinese people to be considered safe?
Doesn’t this just prove that the United States lags behind China in the technology that it is most proud of? The logic is closed here, and it cannot be refuted.

Of course, these debates did not have much impact on China. There were not even more people taking photos with their phones on the streets.

After all, before foreign eyes began to focus on this land, China was already one of the world's largest single Internet markets, and the Internet celebrity economy had already begun to flood.

However, these situations did not affect Qiao Yu, who was looking forward to his girlfriend coming to participate in the Golden Autumn Camp of Yanbei University.

After all, no matter how much those people filmed, it was still difficult to enter the campus of Yanbei University.

In short, it’s just a different National Day!

(End of this chapter)