Wang Qi had never risen early without profit in sight—not even when doing good deeds or serving the people.
In this respect, he had the same temperament as Western capitalists: charity was for corporate tax deductions, and charitable foundations were for dodging inheritance taxes.
For someone like him, before setting out for the South Sea, he had surely squeezed out every benefit he could get.
The most important of those benefits was the many experimental departments of Burning Gold Valley.
Back when Wang Qi had begun creating a replica Bourbaki school, he had already been considering when to pull some strings with Burning Gold Valley and get condensed-matter physics underway.
The core of the Bourbaki school, including Grothendieck's early work and the cohomology within Layer Theory, was precisely the key to resolving topological field theory in condensed-matter physics.
If Wang Qi wanted to expand his school, improving the treatment of its cultivators was also crucial. There were certainly many Myriad Dharma Sect disciples who could settle down and pursue pure theory, but pure theoretical research did not have much funding. Most of it was in the hands of cultivators who had already achieved fame and success: the currently vital but sparsely populated Unnamed faction, the talent-packed Unnamed faction, and the Gottingen Sect, which had declined but still retained the majesty of a tiger whose death did not diminish its might. Wang Qi did not think he could snatch food from those people's bowls.
Therefore, he had to put his mind to the funds the Immortal Alliance allocated to "experimental" research.
For instance, if he proved that the Ji Sect's mathematical theories had profound connections to condensed-matter physics, Burning Gold Valley would certainly send people to collaborate with him—and would certainly not stint on pouring resources into both him and the