Chapter 21: Research Directions
Chen Yuanguang looked at Lin Jia sitting opposite him and talking incessantly about business, and recalled that they had just met in a public elective class and they were assigned to the same group. Lin Jia's demeanor and expression when he was analyzing were exactly the same as they are now.

Chen Yuanguang himself is not interested in this. In his opinion, it doesn’t matter how much money Tencent can make from him.

He owns a mountain of gold, and the advantage taken by Tencent is not even a grain of gold sand compared to the mountain of gold in his hands.

Only considering Lin Jia's interest in this, Chen Yuanguang pretended to be serious: "So what do we need to do?"

Lin Jia took a sip of the Pu'er tea on the table and continued, "There are only a few ways, threats, empty promises, cooperation, etc.

Didn't Tencent want to reveal this in advance? They obviously planned to wait until the movie was about to be released before revealing the news, so that the marketing effect would be the best.

Then you can threaten them by exposing this matter in advance and disrupting their plans.

But there is no benefit in doing this, and it is a measure that will not be used unless it is absolutely necessary.

I think it's better to just paint a picture. You can just say that you will write "Once Upon a Time in Kuala Lumpur" into a series, and then sign the IP license for the subsequent series in advance, and the requirement is that you want to get dividends starting from this one.

It's okay not to give dividends, we want an investment amount. For example, the total investment amount for this movie is 50 million. If we don't invite big names and just find a bunch of talented actors to shoot in Kuala Lumpur, 50 million is more than enough. We want an investment amount of 20 million.

Of course, 20 million is a very ideal situation. I estimate that Tencent can only give you a maximum investment quota of 5 million. If it is 5 million, I can invest in you and then we can split it, or I can calculate the interest for you based on the market operating loan.

You can also go directly to the bank with the contract to apply for a loan. In recent years, commercial banks have been very aggressive in their loan policies. They dare to lend money that the Big Four banks dare not lend, especially the commercial banks in the Yangtze River Delta region, which are very wild.

You have information to prove that the contract was signed between you and Tencent. It will be more than enough to use them as application materials if you give them the news published in "Nature", the specific issue, and the award-winning news of "Kuala Lumpur Past".

As for cooperation, it may be difficult to discuss. You don’t have the strength at the moment, and your strength is not equal to that of Tencent.” Lin Jia analyzed several situations to Chen Yuanguang.

Chen Yuanguang asked: "Will Tencent agree?"

Lin Jia smoothed his scattered bangs and said, "It depends on your ability to draw pictures.

The ability to paint a pie in the sky here refers to how to make Tencent believe that this can be operated into a world-class IP before the movie is released.

It can be operated like Detective Conan and Kindaichi, and become an IP that is long-lasting and users are willing to pay for it as long as it is filmed every year. "

Chen Yuanguang shook his head: "It's difficult, too difficult. The audience of science fiction novels is too small. The fame of the Kuala Lumpur series must be as good as that of The Three-Body Problem.

Compared with The Three-Body Problem, Once Upon a Time in Kuala Lumpur has a limited ceiling, not to mention that my writing is far inferior to Liu Cixin’s.

Lin Jia said: "When the level reaches a certain standard, strength is only a small aspect, and operation is more important."

Lin Jia knows some inside information about the operation of commercial films. In fact, film producers do not like to choose IPs that are too famous, because they need to pay a high price for such IPs. For example, the cost of copyright for The Lord of the Rings has been extremely high since the first film.

They prefer to pick upstarts with fixed adaptation fees, with a low enough floor, and even if the price is raised later, the overall cost will not be too high.

The Hunger Games and Twilight were chosen based on this logic.

"Forget it, leave it to me. I'll help you negotiate." Seeing that Chen Yuanguang was too slow in this regard, Lin Jia waved his hand and said, "You just need to cooperate in some interviews later. I am confident that I can make you a well-known scientist and writer like Teacher Liu."

Lin Jia suddenly became serious: "Just don't be like those famous writers in history who flirt with women everywhere. I can't accept that the people I invest in have moral flaws."

Chen Yuanguang was inexplicably a little panicked. I was living next to Loli in another time and space, so it shouldn’t be a big deal.

But he pretended to be calm: "You know, I just like to stay at home, read novels, play games, and have no other hobbies."

Being with Lin Jia, Chen Yuanguang felt more relaxed than ever before, as if he had returned to his sophomore year, as if he had never gotten the time-travel helmet.

But the happy time was short-lived, and soon he officially enrolled in school.

"Wright, I read the paper you published in Nature, and I also had a brief chat with Levitt on the phone. He spoke very highly of you and thought you were quite talented.

Of course, I think so too. Judging from the paper alone, you have solid knowledge of mathematics and programming, and good logical reasoning ability. Do you hope to continue to develop your advantages in this area, or do you want to make up for your shortcomings?

Let me briefly introduce to you some of the main topics I am currently working on, as well as some of the directions I have worked on before. I can provide you with guidance in these directions.

This is what I think, we should take two months as the time node.

Let's choose a direction first, and then I'll find some papers and books for you and you can study on your own. If you have any questions, we can communicate every Thursday afternoon.

Two months later, we decided on the topic and started working on it.”

Chen Yuanguang feels that Mongi Bavendi and Michael Levitt have completely different styles. Levitt gives people a sense of elegance, while Bavendi gives people a sharp feeling.

"Okay, I think so, but two months is a bit long. I only need one month."

Bawendi sensed the other party's confidence: "Hahaha, no problem, then it'll be a month. Come to me anytime if you need anything.

Let me tell you about the direction I have taken, please listen first. "

After Bawendi gave a brief introduction, Chen Yuanguang threw out the answer he had prepared long ago: "Perovskite."

Perovskite has been a hot topic in the past decade and is also one of Bavendi’s main research directions.

A large number of research groups have invested manpower and material resources into perovskites, and various experiments have attempted to push the photoelectric conversion rate of perovskites to a higher level.

The theoretical conversion efficiency limit of crystalline silicon solar cells is only 29.4%, while the theoretical limit of perovskite is 50%. With the emergence of new materials and new structures, this value can be further increased.

Although perovskite is already an outdated technology four hundred years later, it is precisely because of its backwardness that the possibility of this technology being implemented is greater.

As for other high-tech technologies, if we take them into modern times, you cannot create them even if you have theories because you lack the supporting industrial chain.

(End of this chapter)