The good news is, the contract that was signed earlier can now smoothly proceed, and the material crisis has been successfully resolved through the mediation of the conglomerate's senior executives.
This means that their previous efforts were not in vain.
The bad news, however, is that for various known reasons, the group's previously promised rewards have to be executed at half the amount. Of course, this involves not just Ryan James alone, but a collective of over three thousand individuals from the entire corporate business unit.
It's not just the business department that's been affected, but also others, including the engineering department, to varying degrees.
Fortunately, this time Ryan James didn't feel too angry.
After all, if this matter couldn't be resolved, it wouldn't just be an issue of halved bonuses.
If those signed contracts cannot start on schedule, that would be a matter of compensation. For frontline sales staff like them, they would be the first to face a heap of troubles.
Then, forget about bonuses, even salaries might be an issue.
After all, if the conglomerate went bankrupt because of this, suing them wouldn't be of much use.
Of course, for those who have been following the entire matter from the beginning and have their own judgments, there is a basic understanding of whom to blame.
These guys have never done a single good deed!
If it wasn't for their meddling, how could so many complications arise?!
But the others aren't much better!
What does it mean that our network is controlled by artificial intelligence?!
It's clear that it's controlled by a bunch of incompetents!
The big shots probably understood what Qiao Ze meant by money can be both a bonus and compensation.
Many people truly did not anticipate the amount of foreshadowing in Dou Dou's maneuvers.
Many things that are inconvenient for official channels to handle become quite smooth once Dou Dou takes the lead.
Handling some matters in the name of artificial intelligence has a very special effect, hardly meeting any resistance.
The more information one has, the more astonished they are by these magical realities.
Surprisingly, there was no investigation, no official complaints, and no clamoring for retaliation through other means. On the contrary, a number of threatened companies generously offered donations to the National Natural Science Foundation of Huaxia.
It's as if everyone became reasonable overnight.
Is this because they understand that artificial intelligence really is unreasonable?
Truly, this whole series of maneuvers has left many people bewildered.
There's a general feeling that the world shouldn't be , but when the donations truly enter the account of the Qiao Ze Natural Science Foundation, it's evident that the world can indeed be as abstract and mystical as it is concrete.
Many online slangs are actually quite accurate, such as "saving face hurts the wallet"!
Those who know the ins and outs of the situation are of course aware that Dou Dou's series of moves are utterly shameless.
For example, the initial reason given for the sales ban was that the production and transportation of these materials would threaten environmental safety.
Then, after doing nothing for nearly half a month, a new procurement rights system was developed, allowing manufacturing companies to resume orders through the backend.
No matter how you look at it, this is not a face-saving act, but the other side somehow fell for it. There wasn't even any outcry that Huaxia's companies were not abiding by contracts and the corresponding business rules. The extent of capitalist benevolence exceeded many people's expectations.
For many experts in social sciences, this is absolutely prime material, which could potentially lead to papers in top-tier journals.
Such as the theory of artificial intelligence in capital competition.
This also raises a question: does artificial intelligence have a concept of "face"?
Or to put it more clearly, does artificial intelligence truly understand human moral boundaries and codes of conduct beyond the law?
But these are trifles.
The greatest shock this event caused in the academic world is a matter of mindset.
Or a matter of academic self-confidence.
In a sense, too many people in Huaxia's academic circles lack self-confidence at their core.
This is reflected in the belief that publishing a paper in a well-known international journal merits more rewards, and receiving an international award is often recognized more than a domestic one.
There may be many complex historical and realistic factors involved, but bluntly, it is ultimately a low recognition of the domestic evaluation system.
Even Xu Dajiang greatly wished for Qiao Ze to win the Crawford, Nobel, Fields, and other such awards to establish the status of the West Forest Mathematical School.
Who would have expected Qiao Ze to defy convention? While everyone hoped he would simply become the youngest awardee ever, this young man overturned the old table altogether and set up a new one.
This time, it really caught a lot of people off guard.
If the Qiaoze Natural Science Award truly succeeds, it means that the entire evaluation system of Huaxia's academic world will need to be rewritten.
Including Xilin Institute of Mathematics, which just launched the journal "New Discoveries in Mathematics and Physics," its rating will have to rise.
Not only because this academic quarterly has already gathered many high-quality articles, but also because the Mathematics Research Institute that operates the journal is simultaneously running a scientific award that might rival the Nobel Prize in the future.
The value and status of an academic journal are results of comprehensive considerations.
Some people, because of this series of events, fell into confusion.
The sense of loss from having their worldview severely challenged cannot be adequately described in words.
When the outside world can almost be described as chaotic, the small courtyard of Xilin Mathematics Research Institute still maintains calm, or rather, a semblance of outward calm.