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"...I have no intention of influencing everyone's judgment, just as I have said before, I am not a professional. But I have always believed that everything is interconnected. Just like an award, the decision to grant it to anyone is not determined by a single reason."

Of course, I am just making a suggestion. But I hope you will take my advice seriously. You see, we have a report here, which is an investment portfolio diversified across the globe, managed and operated by the many foundations under the Royal Academy of Sciences."

Stocks, fixed income, real estate, hedge funds, and private equity, along with various bonds. A clever combination, diversified and efficient. You can confirm with the foundation's accountants whether this report is comprehensive."

Of course, showing you these is not a threat. I just want to express an attitude. We cannot allow the reputation of a person from The East to outweigh everyone else. Especially when this person from The East is showing an unfriendly attitude."

Again, we should stay vigilant and fulfill the obligations of allies. To carry out this duty, it may be necessary to sacrifice some intangible things. But that's the way the world works, any gain requires a cost upfront. What do you think?"

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In the rustic medium-sized conference room, the atmosphere was far from pleasant.

The people sitting around the oval conference table looked at Ruel Smith, who spoke with such ease, with extremely complex expressions.

Probably no one had expected that the first thing the acting director from Langley did after taking office would be to set his sights on the world-renowned academic community.

The stack of hefty documents on the table had not been touched at all.

After all, this was a report from Langley.

Those pervasive spies always have a way of acquiring things ordinary people couldn't possibly know about.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is in charge of the Nobel Prize, the Crawford Prize, the Shock Prize, the Eiminnov Award, and so on... It oversees the selection and awarding of these many prizes. The funding for these prizes relies on various specialized foundations.

In addition, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has many special funds.

These funds, supported by private donations or bequests, are allocated each year to projects that the Academy believes in.

Such as the artificial intelligence that has been hyped up in recent years, various virtual technologies...

Research needs money, and those modern laboratory equipments are expensive to build.

Of course, what's most important is to maintain the century-long reputation of these awards, ensuring that the prize money is always distributed on time."

If Langley really makes moves on the projects invested by the foundation, the problems could be severe.

The good news is, interference in awarding prizes due to ideological issues is not unprecedented. In fact, everyone is already accustomed to such incidents.

The bad news, however, is that this time the situation is a bit special.

The achievements of the young scientist in question have reached a level that cannot be ignored if one wishes to do so.

For a world-class scientific award, striving for impartiality is essential. If a candidate, whom the vast majority feels unarguably deserves the award due to his extraordinary contributions to the academic community last year, fails to receive it in the end and the jury can't provide a reasonable explanation, this would undoubtedly be a significant blow to the credibility of the award.

For example, the imminent announcement of the Crawford Mathematics Prize—if it is awarded to someone else, there needs to be a passable reason. Perhaps the achievements have yet to be recognized by the academic community or have been pointed out to possibly have flaws."

But the problem is, Qiao Ze's solution to the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap issue last year wasn't just verified by supercomputing, but has also been widely accepted by the academic community. A handful of world-renowned scholars have confirmed the correctness of Qiao Ze's methods.

The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton has already treated Qiao's Algebraic Geometry as a key research project.

Qiao Ze even built a model containing quantum theory based on his new method, successfully predicting the containment graviton, which was verified by CERN the following month."

Not to mention that some people believe Qiao Ze's earlier series of achievements laid the mathematical foundations for artificial intelligence.

So, can any justifiable reason be found to change the award recipient at the last minute?

If we compromise this time, who should receive the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry in October?

Others may not know which nominees have been recommended by past Nobel laureates and qualified recommending institutions lately, but those sitting in this conference room are well aware that the majority have directly recommended Qiao Ze.

Especially the recommendation letters sent by those Nobel laureates previously, eighty percent of which were for Qiao Ze's name.

This is actually normal.

Former laureates subconsciously value the fairness and neutrality of the award more than the organizers because only these can ensure the consistency of the prize's value, and the laureate title would continue to be respected.

If a globally recognized award suddenly goes bankrupt in credibility, maybe at that time, people would differentiate between former laureates and subsequent ones. But if we extend the timeline to centuries, the eventual outcome is likely that future generations will no longer recognize the award."

It might even be possible for a once-world-class scientific award to be considered a joke award."

This mindset could probably be understood as, 'I was already immortalized in history, and now someone wants to erase me from the history books.'

So, the veiled words of Ruel Smith genuinely caused dissatisfaction among many."