Chapter 1 His Amazing Perseverance Also Has No Audience
June 1984, Xidian.
This is an old dormitory building built in the 1960s. The brick walls are covered with green ivy, and the base of the wall is covered with traces of moss.
The third room from the sixth floor is dormitory 603. There are four bunk beds in the dormitory. The wooden structure makes a squeaking sound when touched slightly.
Go to bed on the left side of the door. A young man is lying on the bed, his eyes are a little confused and he is a little at a loss.
He had just received the admission notice from MIT, and in his memory, he was leaving China next month, also going to MIT. In the next forty years, he never set foot in China again...
He overcame the language barrier and obtained a master's degree in aerodynamics from MIT in two years. The following year, he studied radar spectrum and P-semiconductor applications with dual PhDs, completely shutting up those Westerners who once despised him.
After successfully graduating, he was approached by the MIT Institute of Engineering, the Oppenheimer Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Texas Instruments.
A generous salary, a car, a house, whatever Zhao Guoqing asked.
This was the 1990s, what did a $30,000 annual salary mean?
Zhao Guoqing did not hesitate and just wanted to return to China. This was also the choice of many people studying abroad at that time.
Of course, some people chose the US dollar.
The next day, Zhao Guoqing received a letter with just six words in it: become a U.S. citizen.
It took a whole month to make a difficult choice.
Science has national boundaries. At that time, Zhao Guoqing knew very well that although he had a double Ph.D., being Chinese was his original sin.
Even in the scientific research projects within the MIT School of Engineering, the professors and students intentionally or unintentionally avoided him.
You know, just what they want you to know...
“I completely renounce all my citizenship and allegiance to any foreign prince, monarch, nation, or sovereignty to which I have previously belonged, and I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, domestic and foreign. My allegiance will be sincerely true to the United States… "
Zhao Guoqing swore an oath in front of the American flag and the Declaration of Freedom, as if he had eaten dog shit...
He joined the Oppenheimer Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and studied the most advanced phased array radar and chip theory at the time. He was promoted to associate professor three years later and professor five years later. In 2006, he was elected as an academician of the American Academy of Engineering. The most cutting-edge research and development topic of FinFET field effect semiconductor structure.
In 2013, as an expert in radar avionics semiconductors, Zhao Guoqing joined Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works and entered the "Tear Project" developed by the United States' sixth-generation stealth fighter aircraft!
Until 2023, Zhao Guoqing has transformed from a 22-year-old young man who just came from the United States to a sixty-year-old man with white hair.
These memories seem to have happened not long ago and are extremely clear.
The older Zhao Guoqing gets, the more sentimental he feels.
"Our generation has too much to carry!"
In 2011, the J-20 fighter jet took off into the sky, and in 2021, the fifth-generation carrier-based fighter J-35 fighter jet successfully made a test flight.
Zhao Guoqing watched these news over and over again and smiled knowingly. He knew that his name would never appear in the newspapers, and like the dust of history, it would never be mentioned.
Zhao Guoqing remembered his assistant Xiao Zhou, who was a graduate student from Tsinghua University. In his life, he had brought no less than forty graduate students from China. Xiao Zhou was just one of them, and he was also the one who was most involved.
One day, Xiao Zhou seemed to disappear in the air and could no longer be contacted.
Zhao Guoqing called the police and the FBI. The federal agents searched for a long time and said that Xiao Zhou was involved in a murder case... but they didn't even find the body.
He did not expect that such a thing would happen to him soon. Perhaps it was because he discovered KMBBF crystal in an accidental experiment. Under certain conditions, it has properties similar to reflecting X-rays...
This is a discovery that could affect an entire era.
…………
In my memory, it was only a few days after he submitted his application to return to China to visit relatives.
He was busy as usual, and suddenly he felt a numbness in his neck. Then his body became weak and he slowly collapsed to the ground. Hot flames rose in the room...
Like the Chinese scientist Liu Bing who was shot dead a while ago, Zhao Guoqing still underestimated the shamelessness of the American Anglo-Saxon-Jewish Alliance.
He tremblingly touched his neck and pulled out an anesthetic needle.
Even the needles are made of plastic, which will turn to ashes in the fire without leaving any trace.
Zhao Guoqing slowly closed his eyes in anger...
"call!"
Unexpectedly, he went back to forty years ago. He sat up and blurted out fluent American English, and his mind was full of knowledge reserves. What impressed him most was the KMBBF crystal, and what he said when he was about to die. of despair.
Looking at the admission notice in his hand and returning to the crossroads of his life, Zhao Guoqing couldn't help but ask himself: Is it still necessary to go to America?