Liu Hong was helpless.
He knew how to do experiments, and he knew how to kiss a*s, but his emotional intelligence wasn't high enough to "spy on the enemy".
However, he had no other options; he had to follow his boss' orders.
If the supervisor asked him to clean the toilet, he would have to do it.
However, Wang Haifeng was still "generous" as he paid for Liu Hong's train ticket to Jinling.
There were many ways to explore the research progress of a research institute. For example, the simplest and most barbaric way was to poach the enemy's employees by offering to triple their salary. Although this sounded unethical, it was the most efficient way.
However, this method was obviously expensive.
Although research funding could be used to pay researchers, having high salaries would be alarming to investors. Research funding was no joke.
No investor would want their money wasted on employees that were overpaid.