27: Is this mysterious person from a secret organization? (Please read

Chapter 27 Is This Mysterious Person From a Secret Organization? (Please keep reading)

These schools are his way of giving back to his hometown.

As for whether specifying the schools to be built in Northwest Province would lead people there to guess he's from Northwest Province?

Lu Ze didn't take it to heart. It would be a miracle if they could guess that. The entire Northwest Province has tens of millions of people, and the number of overseas Chinese is countless.

And who would be foolish enough to suspect that a master's student on a government scholarship, who has been abroad for less than a year, could acquire such high-level technology?

On the contrary, this could even lead them in the wrong direction, which was one of Lu Ze's incidental goals.

"Now that a thousand schools have been built, it should greatly alleviate the urgent need."

Lu Ze sighed with a hint of melancholy and helplessness: "The educational environment in my hometown is still too impoverished."

His hometown was not only the relatively underdeveloped Northwest Province of Da Xia, but even within the province, it was a typical poverty-stricken county.

When he was in primary and middle school, it was still the 1990s. At that time, there were only a few schools in the entire town. Lu Ze had been boarding at the town's school since middle school, returning home only once every two weeks.

One reason was the scarcity of schools; several nearby villages didn't even have a primary school. During primary school, since boarding wasn't allowed, they had to brave the severe cold and heat, traveling one or two hours over mountains and rivers to attend school.

With these thousand schools, this phenomenon should be greatly alleviated.

He thought of the second problem: "As for the teacher shortage, the Xia Academy of Sciences should handle that, right?"

Since Da Xia promised to build a thousand schools, it's absolutely impossible for them to build them without arranging teachers. This also doesn't align with Da Xia's usual conduct.

"The development in my hometown should be much better than when I was there. Last time I went back, I saw that roads had been built in the village," various memories flashed in Lu Ze's eyes.

It had been more than half a year since he last went home, and he hadn't even spoken to his family on the phone for the past two or three months.

The last time he contacted them, he remembered it was at the end of January, during the Spring Festival.

After all, he was currently studying abroad in Eagle Country, and it wasn't like when he was in university where he could occasionally go back for the New Year, or even stay in his hometown for a month or two during the summer vacation if he couldn't find a suitable part-time job. He used to call his family frequently.

But here in Eagle Country, international calls from Da Xia are incredibly expensive, costing one yuan every few seconds.

So, his family would try to call him only after a long interval, and they would even time it precisely to save money before hanging up.

Lu Ze took a deep breath: "I should go back home during the summer vacation."

"Otherwise, even the dog at home will forget me."

As a government-sponsored international student, Da Xia generally only covers his round-trip airfare. If he wants to return home during his study period, he has to bear the cost of the tickets himself.

Fortunately, he had saved a lot of money on a daily basis, so a trip back home during the summer vacation was not a problem.

After he joined the LLNL Laboratory, although his original two-to-three-month summer vacation had drastically shrunk to about two weeks, it was still barely enough.

He glanced at the system information on the light screen.

Achievement Points: 8500 points!

"Should I draw a few prizes?" Lu Ze frowned, contemplating the less-than-ten-thousand achievement points.

"Forget it, I'll wait until the replication count resets on Monday."

By then, he would have over ten thousand achievement points, allowing him to directly perform a blue lottery draw for ten thousand achievement points.

After all, blue lottery draws have a chance to yield purple items, and even a very small chance for gold.

Then white lottery draws would probably have a very small chance for purple, and he didn't think he would be that lucky every time.

After replicating next week, he would use all his achievement points for draws.

At this moment, inside the Da Xia Academy of Sciences.

Looking at the email on the screen, the two of them hadn't replied for a long time, still in a daze, their minds blank.

After a few minutes.

Zhang Yuli finally came to his senses, wondering if he had misread something: "He's using his one billion usd compensation entirely to build schools in Northwest Province?"

"What is he trying to do?"

Even now, he was still one hundred percent shocked by the Mysterious Person's decision.

This was a staggering seven billion yuan, all to be used for building schools? What kind of magnanimity is this?

Last year, the total annual fiscal revenue of Da Xia's Northwest Province was only a little over two hundred billion, and the total education expenditure combined was just over three billion.

These seven billion are equivalent to one-third of Northwest Province's fiscal revenue and double its education expenditure.

"Why Northwest Province? And not other places or within the entire Da Xia?"

Zheng Lixing looked at Zhang Yuli and asked, "Could it be that this Mysterious Person is from Northwest Province?"

If his hometown was in Northwest Province, then it would be possible for him to make such a decision; otherwise, it wouldn't be logically sound.

"Old Zhang, do we need to investigate this in detail?"

Hearing this, Zhang Yuli waved his hand decisively: "There's no need to investigate anything. How can you investigate so many people in the entire Northwest Province?"

"Besides, is there any harm to us if we know where he's from?"

What harm is there to Da Xia if the Mysterious Person uses this one billion usd compensation to build schools in Da Xia? There's no need to go to the trouble of investigating.

Moreover, it's not like they can investigate everything, right? If they really found something, what would they do then?

Why do something that has no benefit at all?

"I got caught up in appearances and hit a mental dead end." Zheng Lixing patted his forehead, annoyed: "No matter where he's from or what his identity is, as long as we know he's beneficial to our Da Xia, that's enough."

For Zheng Lixing, an old man who had been immersed in scientific research for decades, his habit of getting to the bottom of things and thoroughly researching every matter had not changed. This was also why he was reluctant to serve as the director of the Xia Academy of Sciences before.

Research requires investigating every detail, but in politics, one must learn to play dumb.

Zhang Yuli's eyes showed a bright keenness: "Moreover, there's an even more crucial issue that we do need to investigate."

"What crucial issue?"

"Did you notice that this Mysterious Person kept saying 'we'?" Zhang Yuli stared at the email content on the screen, emphasizing those two words.

"'We'? This means..."

Before Zheng Lixing could voice his guess, Zhang Yuli decisively concluded: "This Mysterious Person is definitely not just one person; they might even be an organization."

"That's why they kept using the word 'we'!"

An individual and an organization are completely different concepts.

Being able to nonchalantly obtain top-tier technologies like the F22 from Eagle Country repeatedly is definitely not something a single individual can accomplish.

"Hiss..." Zheng Lixing gasped: "So, the person who contacted us might not even be a Da Xian."

The more he thought about it, the more he felt this was the case.

The person who truly wanted to build a thousand schools in Northwest Province might have been hidden behind the scenes all along, never contacting them.

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