"Director Yang, congratulations!"
"Promoted to Deputy Director in less than a year, and the third Level 16 in our center, absolutely amazing!" Amidst countless rounds of applause and the envious gazes of all the researchers in the entire research center, Yang Yunhe numbly accepted the appointment letter from Tong He.
One month after Boss Huang's departure, Yang Yunhe suddenly learned that Jiangnan Group had finalized his rewards. The first of these rewards was his direct promotion from research team leader to deputy director of the research center. Besides Tong He, the director, there were three other deputy directors.
Yang Yunhe was now the fourth deputy director, making him at least the fifth most important person in the research center. For a complete newcomer who had joined the research center less than a year ago, this was nothing short of a miracle.
Didn't he see the many white-haired old men and veteran researchers with over ten years of work experience in the congratulating crowd looking at him with immense envy and jealousy?
But there was nothing that could be done. Along with the announcement of his appointment, the research center also publicized Yang Yunhe's achievements: anti-gravity engine technology, liquid apparel materials, extremely weak electrode induction technology, and one technology marked with a question mark that had not been publicly disclosed at all.
However, this technology was specifically marked as Yang Yunhe being the second co-inventor, not the first.
Clearly, the first inventor was Tong He, and this technology with a question mark was the top-secret Jia Shen 1478 material.
Below the announcement, there was a sentence stating that any researcher who was dissatisfied with this appointment could present their research achievements for comparison. If the importance of their achievements surpassed Yang Yunhe's, they would immediately receive equivalent or even greater rewards.
Of course, no one could present such contributions. After all, the anti-gravity engine technology alone was enough to make 99% of the researchers here grovel.
Therefore, even though many people present were unhappy or disagreed, no one dared to voice their opposition directly, as this was based on solid achievements.
However, it must be said that perhaps besides the Jiangnan Research Center, no other research center could achieve a system where meritorious contributions directly led to promotions and rewards were given based solely on merit. After all, various institutions have to consider personal relationships and social ties, except for this one.
This might sound offensive, but in reality, those truly capable researchers, or those who came from official research institutions, completely fell in love with this system and were unwilling to leave.
After all, this was a place where one received rewards for doing work, and once they experienced it, they were unwilling to leave.
In addition to the promotion, Yang Yunhe also received a large amount of merit points, directly raising his rank to Level 16, making him the third Level 16 employee in the research center. This was achieved in just eight months, once again making countless people jealous.
After all, in terms of the ranking system, Level 16 alone came with a direct bonus exceeding ten million.
Not to mention the various other invisible benefits, such as the ability to directly arrange for several relatives to join Jiangnan Group, or to obtain property rights for houses in the Jiangnan Park residential area.
The name Jiangnan Park sounded very ordinary. Many property developers no longer favored such unfashionable names.
But in fact, this was the place that all employees of Jiangnan Group dreamed of living in.
Jiangnan Group also had its own real estate development company. However, unlike most real estate development companies that operated externally, Jiangnan Group's real estate development company operated solely internally.
The properties they developed were never sold to the public, but were exclusively for Jiangnan Group internal personnel, either for sale or as gifts.
The locations of these properties were also, without exception, the closest to Jiangnan Group, making it convenient for group employees to commute. Therefore, unless there were special circumstances, employees generally only chose properties developed by Jiangnan Group.
Most of these properties could be purchased directly by all employees on a first-come, first-served basis.
However, there were a few residential communities where the houses were not for sale, but were all gifted, with eligibility based on rank.
The most premium, naturally, was the "Jiangnan Courtyard" community, located within the Jiangnan Industrial Park, adjacent to Boss Huang's villa. All the houses in this community were three-story detached villas and were not directly sold to anyone. However, as long as one's rank exceeded Level 18, they could receive such a house for free.
Currently, only nine people within the entire Jiangnan Group had received such housing.
The next level down was the Jiangnan Park community, right next to Jiangnan Courtyard. They were still villas, but their size and location were slightly inferior to Jiangnan Courtyard. Employees at Level 16 and above could receive them for free. It was rumored that only a little over twenty units had been given out so far, with most of them being vacant!
Now that Yang Yunhe had been promoted to Level 16, he could naturally receive a house in Jiangnan Park. Although not in the same community as Boss Huang, the straight-line distance was less than 2 kilometers.
This illustrated how enviable and jealous Yang Yunhe was at this moment.
After Yang Yunhe somewhat dazed finished the ceremony and arrived at his independent office as deputy director, surrounded by his subordinate researchers, he asked everyone to leave under the pretense of needing time to adjust. Only then did Yang Yunhe slowly calm down.
"This place is truly amazing!" Looking at the expansive 180-square-meter independent office in front of him, the independent lounges on both sides, and the secretary's office, Yang Yunhe couldn't help but exclaim.
He had never imagined that in just over half a year, everything he had previously dared not imagine would now surround him.
Especially when Yang Yunhe's terminal vibrated, notifying him that a reward had been credited to his personal account.
Yang Yunhe only glanced at it and felt heat emanating from every pore of his body.
Because the amount of this reward was a nine-digit figure, a full one billion RMB!
That's right, just moments ago, Yang Yunhe's personal account had received a colossal reward of one billion RMB.
"Did I miscount the digits?" Yang Yunhe rubbed his eyes, intending to recount the numbers, when suddenly a doorbell rang.
Yang Yunhe glanced at the security monitor at the door and saw that it was Director Tong He knocking on his door. He no longer bothered about whether it was indeed one billion RMB and hurried to open the door to welcome Tong He.
As soon as Tong He arrived, he directly asked, "Your billion RMB reward has arrived, right? It was transferred to my project team's account just five minutes ago. I issued it to you immediately. How do you feel, excited?"
"It's really a billion!" Yang Yunhe swallowed and replied, "Excited, I'm so excited I'm about to go crazy."
"Yes, this bonus is truly unprecedented. I myself have never received a single reward exceeding one billion RMB. This shows how significant our contributions are and how highly the boss values the 'Tong He Alloy' that we invented!" Tong He said with emotion.
"Tong He Alloy?" Yang Yunhe was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized that this "Tong He Alloy" must refer to the Jia Shen 1478 sample.
Although the name Jia Shen 1478 sample had become accustomed, it was clearly not the official name. The group would definitely give a new name to this material with terrifying performance.
Yang Yunhe had originally thought that the group would name it based on the material's properties, such as "Super Liquid Metal" or "Automatic Energy Metal."
Unexpectedly, the group ultimately decided to name the Jia Shen 1478 sample after Tong He. What an immense honor!
Considering the terrifying properties of the Jia Shen 1478 sample, it would undoubtedly become the most important material in the history of human technological development. Yang Yunhe even felt it should be the most important material discovered in the 21st century, and it would become a mandatory topic in countless university and even high school textbooks, with countless students trying to memorize all the properties of the Jia Shen 1478 sample.
And now, such an important material was named after Tong He, called Tong He Alloy.
This meant that in the future, Tong He would, like Ampere and Volt, become a name to be remembered by the world, named after its discoverer. What immense honor this was.
At this moment, Yang Yunhe, who originally felt he disdained vanity, began to envy Tong He. The latter was destined to be remembered in history, and Yang Yunhe couldn't help but feel jealous.
But what Yang Yunhe never expected was that in the next second, Tong He shook his head and said, "No, you might not have heard clearly just now. This is not named after me, it's called Tong He Alloy, not Tong He Alloy."
"He?"
"He?" Yang Yunhe was stunned.
"I know these two characters sound somewhat similar, making it seem like it's named after me. But it is indeed 'He' and not 'He.' It's the 'He' from your Yang Yunhe, not the 'He' from my Tong He!" Tong He said seriously. "The boss and I agree that the Tong He Alloy is an alloy jointly invented and created by me, Tong He, and you, Yang Yunhe. Therefore, this alloy can only and must be named after both of us."
"I am the first author, so I shamelessly took the first character, and your 'He' is the second character, combining them, it becomes Tong He Alloy!"
"Comrade Yang Yunhe, starting from today, our names are destined to be remembered by the world. We are creating history, and history will record our names!"