Rebirth 1980: I Have Hundreds of Academicians Under My Command

In 1980, deep in the Qinling Mountains. Lu Yuan tore up the transfer order to return to the city, turned around and walked into a cowshed that smelled of sour rot. "In this life, I will not be an academician, I will be the ancestor of academicians." In the eyes of everyone, Lu Yuan was crazy. He took the mute lunatic, the blacksmith's son, and the shepherd girl to draw circles in the mud that no one could understand. However, when the first piece of high-purity industrial alkali came out, when the hand-made photolithography machine ignited in the barren mountains, when the world-class topology problem was solved by that dumb guy... The West was horrified to discover that the young man sitting on the rocking chair in Qinling Mountains had used a bullpen to lock the throat of global technology. There is no room for sand in science, and there is no room for mediocrity in my laboratory.