Chapter 772 This is a genius

Facts proved that Chen Cheng hadn't lied to Xiao Peng: Ma Xiao's boat handling skills were indeed excellent, and he was mature and steady beyond his years. This time, Xiao Peng had found a treasure.

"Hua Chong, do you feel wronged?" Xiao Peng asked Hua Chong, "Actually, I wanted you to lead the 'Calypso', but now it seems that Ma Xiao is indeed more suitable than you."

But Hua Chong said, "Boss, I'm convinced that Ma Xiao should be the captain. An expert can tell whether he's capable or not with just one glance. Young people these days are so scary! You know how difficult it is to not be convinced sometimes. There's just a difference between people! By the way, Boss, did you know that Ma Xiao graduated from the Junior Class at HKUST?"

Xiao Peng was shocked after hearing this: "What are you talking about? Are you kidding me? Didn't he graduate from Maritime University? Can the junior class at HKUST produce a captain?"

In Xiao Peng's eyes, Tsinghua University and Peking University are not the best universities in China. So which one is the best? Of course, it's the Junior Class of USTC!

Everyone knows Edison's saying, "Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration," but most people don't know that there is a second half to this saying - sometimes 1% inspiration is more important than 99% perspiration.

The best example of this statement in China is the USTC Junior Class.

In 1878, the University of Science and Technology of China selected 21 teenagers from all over the country to form the first junior college class in China. Any one of these 21 people was a tough guy. Some could recite more than 10,000 decimal places of pi at the age of twelve, and some could beat the vice president of the University of Science and Technology of China in chess at the age of thirteen... The youngest was eleven years old and the oldest was sixteen. Those who could enter this junior class were what ordinary people called "genius prodigies"!

This junior class has been in operation for more than 40 years and has trained less than 4,000 students. More than 90% of these students have been admitted to graduate school and are almost all leaders in their respective fields.

The key is that the education there is not like traditional schools where students study fixed courses every day step by step, but they can choose the courses they like based on their own interests. Countless outstanding people have been cultivated from it.

It's a bit amusing to say that some "public intellectuals" in China are constantly criticizing the USTC Junior Class, using arguments like "The Injury of Zhongyong" to criticize it, with all sorts of sour rhetoric. Especially the media, which has been criticizing it every day.

Is it so hard for them to admit that others are better than them? Is it so hard for them to admit that there are geniuses in this world? Do you deny others just because you can't do it yourself? That's just too shameful!

Is the Huazhong University of Science and Technology's Junior Class a case of "Zhongyong's injury"? This is perhaps the world's most ridiculous joke. Judging solely by the success rate, no school on the planet can compare to Huazhong University of Science and Technology's Junior Class! Numerous prominent figures have emerged from it: over 200 have been awarded the title of "Professor," including numerous startup CEOs and executives from Fortune 500 companies!

If the junior class of Huazhong University of Science and Technology holds an alumni association, it will scare a lot of people to death!

In fact, their main evidence against the "Junior Class" is Ning Bi, the thirteen-year-old prodigy whose chess skills overpowered the vice president of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He was renowned for his poetry, medicine, and chess skills. He was the first prodigy confirmed to be admitted to the junior class.

Ning Bi was once known as "China's No. 1 Child Prodigy" and the media praised him too much. However, after entering the junior class, he was surprised to find that the classmates around him were almost as good as himself. So he had psychological problems and was afraid of failure. He took the postgraduate entrance examination three times and failed to even enter the examination room three times. Later, he chose to become a monk at a young age. Among so many students in the junior class, these black fans only targeted Ning Bi.

But what is the reality? A genius is a genius! After returning to secular life, Ning Bi entered the education industry, teaching physics at a university, and remained a standard successful person.

Moreover, those "public intellectuals" only focus on Ning Bi, they can't see other big names!

For example, Cao Yuan, who published five papers in the world-renowned journal Nature on graphene technology, was named the top of Nature's list of the top ten most influential scientists of the year in 2018. He was only 23 years old at the time! He was the youngest Chinese person ever to publish a paper in Nature as the first author! It's no surprise that he won a Nobel Prize for his discoveries. Then there's Chen Gao, who, at 26, solved a world-renowned problem in complex differential geometry. His paper, "The J Equation and a Transformation of the Supercritical Hermitian-Yang-Mills Equation," shocked the world. All of them are accomplished graduates of the Junior Class at Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Even Xiao Peng, with his remarkable memory, wouldn't dare underestimate these geniuses. After all, their way of thinking is something Xiao Peng can't imitate! And yet, those public intellectuals still criticize the Huazhong University of Science and Technology's Junior Class every day? Even Fish Leong couldn't give them that much courage!

When Xiao Peng heard that Ma Xiao graduated from the junior class of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, how could he not be surprised?

Hua Chong said, "He graduated from Ocean University, but he wasn't just a student there. Didn't they have a marine research project at the time? Ma Xiao was the lead professor for that project. He and Lao Chen met at that time."

Xiao Peng was stunned after hearing this: "Then Chen Cheng said Ma Xiao was his student?"

"Yes, Ma Xiao learned how to sail from Lao Chen. He was his student who learned how to sail." Hua Chong explained.

Xiao Peng asked puzzledly, "How did you know?"

Hua Chong said, "Boss, there are only so few people on this boat, how can there be any secrets? I'm not exaggerating, if you ask me what color underwear the other brothers are wearing, I can tell you!"

Xiao Peng looked disgusted after hearing this: "There are only men on the boat, yet you're staring at other people's underwear. Don't you have a problem with your sexual orientation?"

Hua Chong said after hearing this, "That's a figure of speech! Exaggeration! Exaggeration! There's nothing wrong with my sexual orientation, okay? Captain, you're not a gossipmonger, but we're all ordinary people! Men can be deadly when they gossip!"

"Who said I don't gossip?" Xiao Peng asked, "What's going on with this Ma Xiao?"

Hua Chong lowered his voice and said, "Back when Ma Sihan was not yet in this position, he met Ma Xiao's mother, and then he used all kinds of sweet words to make Ma Xiao's mother pregnant."

Xiao Peng said, "Isn't this normal? Isn't this how men always deceive women?"

"Wife, you are too naive! Ma Sihan had a wife at the time!" Hua Chong explained: "You know that such things can have a great impact on the career of domestic cadres, so Ma Sihan suppressed the matter at the time."

"Oh my god, that's pretty exciting!" Xiao Peng's gossip fire ignited: "So what happened next? Oh my god, there should be melon seeds and cola by now!"

Hua Chong was about to answer Xiao Peng when the Luna suddenly slowed down and Xiao Peng almost fell off the sun lounger.

"Damn! This guy can't handle praise!" Xiao Peng picked up the intercom: "Ma Xiao! How the hell do you drive a boat?"

Ma Xiao's voice came from the intercom: "Boss, you'd better come to the cockpit immediately, we seem to be in big trouble!"