From a university student to a chief academician

Chapter 146 Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award

October 2026, 4, at 14 p.m.

Everyone in the number theory team took a plane to Kyoto, and checked into a hotel near the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Awards Ceremony after arriving in Kyoto.

"Group leader, it seems that many scholars live in this hotel."

Ye Fei and others were checking in at the front desk of the lobby on the first floor, a team member said.

Ye Fei nodded and said, "It's normal. This hotel is the closest to the award ceremony. Naturally, many scholars attending the award ceremony live in this hotel."

After checking in, Ye Fei and the others got on the elevator and walked to their respective rooms.

Along the way, some people were looking at Ye Fei.

Someone came up to greet Ye Fei.

The Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award covers all fields of academia, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology...

After Ye Fei participated in the Global Blockchain Academic Conference, many people in the mathematics and computer circles knew Ye Fei.

The Global Blockchain Academic Conference is one of the most popular conferences in the world.

Many scholars in Xia State participated.

The members of the number theory group were filled with emotion.

This time they saw Ye Fei's energy.

Look, there are many people who know Ye Fei when they are away from home.

This means that Ye Fei is very popular, and it also shows that Ye Fei's ability is very strong.

In academia, if you are not strong, even if you know you, you will not be ignored.

It is so realistic in academia, or in other words, it is so realistic in this world.

Everyone likes to get acquainted with excellent people, and they love to ignore, ignore, drive away, or hate inferior people.

After entering their respective rooms, they put down their luggage, and Ye Fei and the others wandered nearby together.

The next day, Brammy Hotel!

The Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Awards are held here today.

Ye Fei and the others arrived here by car early in the morning, took the elevator to the third floor, and at the entrance of a hall, after handing in the invitation letter, everyone entered and found their own seats to sit down.

There were many people who came to the awards ceremony, more than 1000 people by visual estimation.

The seats are also divided into many areas, and people who are traveling together sit in one area.

For example, the mathematics world sits with people in the mathematics world, and the physics world sits with people in the physics world.

There was no special treatment for Ye Fei's seat, because they participated as a group, not individually.

So, Ye Fei sat with his team members.

"Hi, Ye Fei!"

At this time, a fat man sat next to Ye Fei and said with a smile, "Meet you again!"

Ye Fei said in surprise: "Song Chengkun!"

Song Chengkun was met by Ye Fei at the International Conference of Young Mathematicians.

It was the meeting with Amata and Balatz who competed for the first place.

Song Chengkun is a professor of mathematics at the University of Guangdong Province, researching triplet prime numbers.

Ye Fei smiled and said, "How is your research on triplet prime numbers going?"

Song Chengkun shook his head and said helplessly, "Hey...it didn't work."

Ye Fei said: "Then what are you studying now?"

If a mathematical problem has not been studied successfully for a long time, most people will not die.

Unless it's the kind of dead-brained person.

But even if this kind of person dies, he will not succeed in the end.

What mathematics needs is inspiration, and inspiration cannot be obtained through hard work.

If hard work is useful, what is genius for?
Maybe with luck, suddenly at a certain moment, inspiration appeared.

Song Chengkun said: "This time I will find a simpler one, twin prime numbers."

The so-called twin primes are twin primes, or x+1 primes.

Ye Fei looked at him speechlessly and said, "You are going to fight prime numbers to the end."

Ye Fei really couldn't understand what Song Chengkun was thinking, prime numbers are such a big pit.

No one else jumped, but he jumped repeatedly in the pit.

This almost buried himself, and he was still jumping.

Sooner or later, he buried himself alive.

Ye Fei said, "Haven't you thought about studying other things?"

"Other?" Song Chengkun shook his head and said, "Not interested?"

"Not interested in asymmetric encryption?"

Ye Fei is in need of talents at this time, and he thinks Song Chengkun is very suitable.

Asymmetric encryption requires a lot of knowledge of prime numbers, and Song Chengkun has studied prime numbers for many years, so he is very suitable to study asymmetric encryption.

"Asymmetric encryption?" Song Chengkun said: "One of the four core technologies of blockchain?"

With the enthusiasm of the blockchain, I believe that no one in the mathematics and computer circles has not understood the blockchain.

Song Chengkun once also knew that asymmetric encryption is one of the four core technologies of the blockchain.

Ye Feidao: "Why are you interested? Asymmetric encryption requires a lot of knowledge of prime numbers. If you study asymmetric encryption, you may get a lot of inspiration for prime numbers, which will help you study prime numbers."

Song Chengkun's eyes lit up, as if this was the reason.

Song Chengkun thought for a moment and said, "Let me think about it. If I agree, I will contact you."

"Good!" Ye Fei said.

Song Chengkun smiled and said: "I heard about your last global blockchain academic conference. There were many people from the mathematics and computer fields present. I also learned from a mathematician friend. He It was there."

"It's amazing, you were famous all over the world at that time."

Ye Fei shook his head amusedly: "It's all a false name, a false name."

Song Chengkun said with a smile: "If this is a false name, I want it too."

Ye Fei said: "If you like it, you can take it!"

Song Chengkun smiled bitterly: "Does this mean that you can take it away? I don't have the ability like you."

"From the International Conference of Young Mathematicians, I can see that you are not simple. I didn't expect you to make such a name in just over half a year."

"Envious, jealous!"

Ye Fei said: "Let's not talk about this, by the way, how much do you know about the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award?"

Song Chengkun said: "When it comes to this, you are asking the right person. I know all the details of the domestic awards, not to mention all the details, but I also know a lot."

"Did you see the group of people behind?" Song Chengkun tilted his head to indicate the group of people behind him on the right.

Ye Fei turned his head and saw that most of the people in the group were young and middle-aged, aged between 30 and 45.

Ye Fei asked suspiciously, "What happened to them?"

Song Chengkun said: "They are a bunch of parallel importers who spend money to win awards."

"Spend money to win?" Ye Fei was surprised.

"Yes!" Song Chengkun said: "You also know that the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award is divided into three major awards, one is the Achievement Award, the other is the Progress Award, and the other is the Innovation Award."

"En!" Ye Fei nodded.

"Among the three major awards, the Progress Award is the most valuable, followed by the Achievement Award, and the Innovation Award is the worst."

"It's water because compared with the previous two awards, it doesn't even deserve to carry shoes."

"Let's talk about the Achievement Award first. If you get the Achievement Award, you must be an academician, or a winner of the Dynamite Award."

The so-called Dynamite Prize winners are Nobel Prize winners.

Because Nobel studied explosives.

"Let's talk about the progress award. The progress award is divided into many awards, such as mathematics mechanics award, physics award, chemistry award, astronomy award...etc."

"The Progress Award is a very peculiar award. Some academicians can't get it, but some non-academicians get it."

"You also know that the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award was established by Xiangjiang, and its operation method is different from that of mainland awards."

"It doesn't mean that you can win an award just because you are an academician. People don't look at qualifications, but only look at the research results reported."

"Moreover, it will be more difficult to apply for the Progress Award if you are over 60 years old, and you need four academicians to nominate."

"If you are over 65 years old and apply for the Progress Award, the difficulty will increase again, and you need six academicians to nominate."

"So, it is very impressive to get the Progress Award."

"Finally, there is the Innovation Award. To get this award is purely a matter of spending money, fighting for relationships, and relying on operation to win the award."

Ye Fei smiled wryly: "There are still these twists and turns. Since the Innovation Award is so black, why is it set up? Just remove it!"

Song Chengkun said: "You can't say that either. In this world, there is white and there is black. It can't be all white, and it can't be all black."

"In the beginning, the Innovation Award was quite white, but I don't know when it turned black."

"That's why many people in the academic world don't like to see the innovation award in the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award."

"Only those who are incompetent and want to win the award will compete for the innovation award."

"The purpose is to put gold on my face, raise my own social status, so as to win some scientific research funds, improve my professional title and enter some societies and associations."

Ye Fei nodded, for such a black award, it would be a hell of a wait to see it.

But something is better than nothing. With an innovation award, the status will be different immediately, and you can get a lot of benefits.

This kind of thing is very common in academia. Some scholars are not very capable, but through operation, they can obtain the title of professor, or enter certain societies and associations, strive for scientific research funds, and reap benefits.

But for capable people, these people are not cold, and even disgusted.

Song Chengkun said with a smile: "I haven't congratulated you yet, but with your ability, you should be awarded the Progress Award!"

Ye Fei is not yet an academician, so among the three major awards, it is impossible for Ye Fei to win the Achievement Award.

All that remains are the Progress Award and the Innovation Award.

And with Ye Fei's ability, he definitely wasn't competing for the Innovation Award.

So only the progress award is left.

Ye Fei shook his head and said, "Then you congratulated the wrong person, I didn't win the award."

"Huh?" Song Chengkun looked at Ye Fei in astonishment and said, "You didn't win the prize? Did you come with someone else if you didn't win the prize?"

"Yeah!" Ye Fei nodded, pointed to the team members beside him, and said, "They are the ones who won the award. They won the Progress Award. I am here with them."

The team members all nodded at Song Chengkun with a smile.

Song Chengkun also nodded with a smile, and then asked Ye Fei: "Who are they?"

"My team members."

"What?" Song Chengkun said in surprise, "All your team members have won awards."

"Yes!" Ye Fei said.

Song Chengkun was very sad. He himself hadn't won the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award yet, but Ye Fei's team members had all won the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award.

Doesn't this mean that he is not as good as Ye Fei's team members?
Very sad!
After a long time, Song Chengkun said with a dry smile, "What kind of research did they win the award?"

"Serre conjectures!"

"Sell's conjecture?" Song Chengkun said: "It means that the projective modules on the polynomial ring must be free modules?"

"En!" Ye Fei nodded.

Song Chengkun said: "You should participate!"

The difficulty of Purcell's conjecture is very high.

Purcell's conjecture is a study in algebraic theory, which is closely related to topology.

In 1955, after Purcell's conjecture was proposed, a person named Seshadi proved that Purcell's conjecture was established when it was equal to 2.

In 1964, a person named Horrocks gave a local ring (the ring with only one maximum ideal) and proved similar results.

In 1976, a North American mathematician Quillen and a Soviet mathematician Suslin independently proved the Purcell conjecture.

Quillen won the Fields Medal for this proof in 1978.

Of course, Quillen and Suslin proved the Purcell conjecture from different angles.

It's just that Quillen's proved to be more successful.

And Ye Fei instructed his team members to prove Purcell's conjecture from different angles.

However, compared with the proof angles of the previous few people, it is more rough and cumbersome.

If they can surpass their predecessors, they will not only win the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award, but the Fields Medal.

But even so, Ye Fei's team members are also very powerful.

You know, this is the Searle conjecture that won the Fields Medal.

"Yes!" Ye Fei said: "I just roughly gave the research direction and asked them to study independently, but I didn't expect it to be proved."

Having said that, Ye Fei showed a proud smile on his face.

"Amazing!" Song Chengkun gave a thumbs up in admiration.

Ye Fei is not only powerful himself, but also his team members.

Of course, because of the research of Ye Fei's team members, it was based on Ye Fei's guidance that the Sell conjecture was proved.

So, in essence, Ye Fei is still stronger.

Ye Fei smiled and said, "I'm average, but my team members are amazing."

Song Chengkun smiled and said, "They are all amazing."

Ye Fei said: "Since I'm so powerful, you have to think carefully about whether you want to come to my job, don't miss this opportunity, and never miss it."

"As soon as the scientific research funds come down, I will start recruiting people."

"With my influence, I think I can attract many people!"

"If my place is full, then you will have no place to come."

"Look at my team members, they are all lecturers and teaching assistants at Zhonghu University, not even an associate professor."

"They can all win awards. After you come, it is very likely that you can also win awards."

This said Song Chengkun was very moved, and Song Chengkun also wanted to win the award.

No one who is a scholar wants to win an award.

Awards not only represent honor, but also represent social status and recognition of personal ability.

There are also many hidden benefits that cannot be seen.

Song Chengkun's eyes flickered, and he said after a long time: "Okay, I must think about it carefully, and I will call you when I think about it, it will not take more than half a month at most."

"Yeah!" Ye Fei nodded.

At this time, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award Presentation Ceremony began.

The host came to the stage and introduced the important leaders present.

Then the director of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Committee took the stage to speak for more than ten minutes.

Afterwards, the awards began.

The first to be awarded is the Achievement Award, and the annual Achievement Award winners are sometimes one person, sometimes two.

The two proved to be two people working together on the same project.

The host said: "The recipient of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Achievement Award this year is Academician Cai Lin of Zhejiang University."

"Academician Cai Lin, Executive Director of Zhejiang University Blockchain Research Center, Distinguished Researcher of National System Researcher of Zhejiang University, Dean of Zhejiang Blockchain Technology Research Institute, and Director of the Blockchain Professional Committee of Xiaguo Computer Society."

"The convener of the expert group of the national block chain innovative application pilot action plan, and the formulation of information standards for many ministries, banks and authoritative institutions in Xiaguo."

"Academician Cai Lin mainly studies cloud computing, blockchain, metaverse and information security."

"It has appeared on CCTV news many times, and has been reported by many domestic mainstream media and online media many times."

"Academician Cai Lin's research has been widely used in finance and large enterprises, and has achieved remarkable social and economic benefits."

Ye Fei was amazed when he heard this, this is a genius!
Research affects many industries across the country and makes many contributions to the country.

Many people present were filled with admiration.

The host said: "Welcome Academician Cai Lin to the stage."

A lean, middle-aged man in a suit and silver-rimmed glasses came onto the stage and shook hands with the host.

The host said: "Next, the director of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Committee will present the award to Academician Cai Lin."

After the director took the stage, he presented an award to Academician Cai Lin.

"Papa..." Everyone present gave warm applause.

Afterwards, academician Cai Lin gave a speech.

After Academician Cai Lin stepped down, the next step was the Progress Award.

There were many people who could win the Progress Award, and they came to the stage one by one in order. The first one was mathematics, and Han Dong came to the stage excitedly to accept the award.

All awards are presented by the Director.

Han Dong said with a smile in his speech: "This is the first time in my life to receive an award. I didn't expect to win the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award for the first time. At this time, I am very excited, very nervous, and very excited."

"There are 11 people in our group, and I came up to accept the award on behalf of our group."

"First of all, I would like to thank Professor Ye Feiye, who is the leader of our group."

"All of our research was done under his leadership."

"Without him, we would not have been able to complete the study."

"Thank you very much, Professor Ye."

"..."

Many people present were surprised, Ye Fei from Zhonghu University?
These winners turned out to be members of Ye Fei's team?
Oh my god, this is too surprising.

It's fine for Ye Fei himself to be good, but he never expected that he would also guide his team members so that his team members would also win awards.

Cai Lin, who was sitting in the front row, asked the person next to him: "Is this Ye Fei the one who proposed the future development and research of blockchain at the Global Blockchain Academic Conference?"

"Academician Cai, that's him." Humanity on the side said.

Cai Lin smiled and said, "Is he here today?"

"I don't know, but it should be coming."

"If I come, I'd like to have a good chat with him. I didn't go to the last global blockchain academic conference because I was too busy with research, but when I heard his name recently, I could hear calluses in my ears. I heard that he is only 24 this year. age?"

"Yes, Academician Cai."

"Young and promising!" Cai Lin said with a smile, "I really want to get to know him."

"Academician Cai, you can get to know him when there is a party in the evening."

Cai Lin nodded.

After Han Dong came down, the awards ceremony continued.

After the progress award is awarded, it is the innovation award.

As Song Chengkun said, everyone knows that the innovation award is not very popular, and everyone doesn't pay much attention to it.

Of course, they patiently watched the presentation of the achievement awards.

It's just that a lot of people, looking at people with achievement awards, look like they're looking at clowns.

(End of this chapter)