After confirming Xiaorong's intentions.

The remaining issues were quite simple.

That evening.

Xu Yun brought Gu Qunqing to visit again and signed the employment contract at Xiaorong's home.

The contract stipulated.

Huadun Biotech, with an initial monthly salary of 70,000 and some equity incentives, reached a formal employment intention with Xiaorong.

Starting immediately, Xiaorong would assume the role of CTO at Huadun Biotech, which is the Chief Technology Officer, fully responsible for the company's network security affairs.

The salary would be adjusted annually based on the annual report, with the initial contract being valid for three years.

To be honest.

The salary isn't high for someone of Xiaorong's caliber as a Red Hacker.

Take Tombkeeper, the well-known Master TK, who is currently the sect leader of Penguin Security Xuanwu Laboratory.

According to his revelation on a certain platform.

His annual salary alone starts at 5 million, not to mention the even higher bonus income.

Another notable figure is Brother Dao, Wu Hanqing with the alias aullik5, who directly hacked into a server in front of Ali's top executives—speaking of his salary, this is a true story.

In a sense, he's also a legend:

At 15, he entered the youth program of Xidian University, and at 16, he founded the Phantom Forum, bringing together top domestic security tech experts, many of whom have had accounts on Phantom.

Unfortunately, Phantom was founded at the end of 2001, unlike Black Base, which generated large cash flows around 2006.

Later, Wu Hanqing had to close the Phantom Forum due to the inability to maintain the server financially.

In 2005, on a friend's recommendation, he applied for a job at Ali.

At that time, 20-year-old Wu Hanqing remotely shut down one of Ali's routing devices during the interview, causing a network outage, and was immediately hired.

The only exaggeration about this story is that the interviewer was not Ma Yun, but Sheng Yifei from the Eighteen Arhats.

Interestingly enough.

When Wu Hanqing first joined Ali, the leadership didn't really prioritize network security.

So, Wu Hanqing, in his unconventional way, cracked all the game passwords within the company and left an email to inform them, thereby drawing the attention of the top executives.

Currently, Wu Hanqing's annual salary is around 7 million, and with stock options, it easily breaks into the tens of millions, with a generous starting figure.

Therefore, the 70,000 monthly salary Xu Yun offered Xiaorong doesn't quite match Xiaorong's stature.

But there's no other choice.

The current funds on the company's books are limited; it's tough.

Recently, the company's official stamp was approved.

That day, Xu Yun rushed to Lu Zhou High-tech Zone and paid the rent to a side character whose name the author can't remember and doesn't want to look up.

Gold coin -1130000.

At the same time.

New Creation Fund also submitted a list of necessary equipment, which was another major expense:

Due to the need for cyclization synthesis technology for the Fifth Generation Imidacloprid, the production equipment requirements are extremely high.

Even if the company initially plans to only operate three production lines, the cost of related equipment per set won't be less than 1.7 million.

A set costs 1.7 million, and three sets total up to something over 5 million without saying much.

It's more than four times the cost of regular agricultural imidacloprid.

And that's not all.

Besides equipment, funding is needed for every aspect including staff, utilities, and logistics.

It's like shopping at the supermarket.

This bag of chips doesn't seem expensive, that fruit looks quite cheap, and the shampoo is on sale today too.

But when you check out and add it all up.

Gosh, it's nearly 200 bucks!

Therefore, Xu Yun could only thick-skinnedly offer Xiaorong a rather standard CTO salary, planning to raise it when the company's finances were healthier.

Of course.

Though it's a standard salary, it's already the top salary internally at Huadun Biotech.

Gu Qunqing, as COO, signed a contract with low salary but high incentives.

The starting salary is only 40,000 yuan, less than 500,000 yuan annually before tax, which is about equivalent to a regular VP at an ordinary listed company in Shanghai.

As for Xu Yun...

As the executive director of the company, naturally, he wouldn't give himself a high salary—his income is all in the bonuses.

Although he doesn't do as Brother Dong, taking only one yuan, his take-home isn't much either, just 4,000 before tax.

Truly a story to make listeners grieve and witnesses shed tears.

In summary.

At this point, the company's main personnel structure is more or less complete:

Xu Yun is responsible for research and development.

Gu Qunqing is responsible for business affairs.

Xiaorong is in charge of network security.

As for public relations and finance, they can be handed over to Ke Da; they're much more experienced than Xu Yun in these areas.

And while Xu Yun was assembling his right-hand men.

From far-off Lu Prefecture, at Ke Da, Tian Liangwei also brought good news:

The paper Xu Yun submitted to "NUCLEIC ACIDS RES" is about to be published!

Those who've submitted papers likely know.

Generally speaking.

The time it takes from acceptance to publication is not easily determinable, with the better journals often having longer publication cycles.

For example, general journals take about 1 to 4 months.

Core journals might need a year or even a year and a half.

If the latter is a Chinese core journal, it might be a tad shorter, but not by much.

However, as "NUCLEIC ACIDS RES" is an invited journal, and since Tian Liangwei did quite a bit of work during this period.

Such as sending those foreigners some erjingtiao, cured meats, Luosifen, houttuynia, boiled eggs, and Ninghua rat dried goods.

Therefore, the whole process took just over a month.

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