In the courtroom, the young male lawyer stood up and walked towards the defendant's seat in the middle. His expression was calm and calm, as if what he was going to do next was not to question the defendant, but to talk to him in the coffee shop.

Old friends reminiscing about old times, holding teacups in hand, chatting and laughing.

The senior university officials in the auditorium were all staring closely at this annoying lawyer who caused trouble for the university in the ancient book plagiarism case.

"Defendant," Beihara said unhurriedly, "Now, I want to ask you a question. You must ensure that your statements in court are true. Do you understand?"

This is the standard opening for a lawyer to ask a question.

Since criminal defense lawyers are in a weaker position than prosecutors and may be jailed for perjury by the police, for the purpose of self-protection, experienced criminal lawyers will take the initiative to ask questions before asking questions in court.

Before answering a question, the defendant must first guarantee that he or she is answering truthfully to avoid being framed as inciting the defendant to commit perjury in the future.

"I promise that my next answers will be truthful," Morimoto said.

"Defendant Morimoto, did you have any work experience before joining Kyoto University?" Kitahara said.

"No."

"In other words, this is your first time joining the company."

"Yes."

"How long have you been at Kyoto University?"

"Before this incident, I worked as a researcher at Kyoto University for almost a year and a half."

Kitahara took a few steps closer to Morimoto, "Is one and a half years considered a long time or a short time? As far as I know, the researcher positions in some universities are very fluid. Many people just don't apply for lecturers or assistant professors.

, so they temporarily became researchers. While serving as researchers, these people also actively applied for formal teaching positions in other universities. As a result, many researchers left their jobs again less than half a year after joining. At Kyoto University,

How about it?"

Morimoto nodded slightly, "Yes. The core members of the research team of the Faculty of Engineering are actually doctoral students and young lecturers or assistant professors who collaborate within the school, not researchers like us. In fact, researchers like us feel a little marginalized.

It’s just that the university’s budget for scientific researchers has not been cut, so it has always continued to recruit researchers.”

Morimoto continued: "Because the position of researcher cannot lead to tenure, and the assessment conditions for renewal are very harsh. Therefore, most people still use the position of researcher as a springboard. It would be better to make their resumes more polished.

Go apply for teaching positions at other universities.”

"Where are you?"

"Actually, I think the same way. When I was a researcher, I also submitted applications for teaching positions to other universities in Japan. You can find these recruitment emails in my mailbox."

"What do you need to do if you want to jump to another university?" Beihara asked.

"You need to have sufficient academic achievements, such as the publication of papers." Morimoto replied.

"Besides these, is there anything else?"

"There is also the need to be cautious in all aspects of life." Morimoto said, "Academia actually still values ​​​​the network of acquaintances. After all, whether a paper is well written or not, there can be academic debates and different opinions.

There is no final conclusion on the point of view. However, the endorsement of the relationship network is a powerful passport."

"Can you explain what you mean by 'cautious'?" Kitahara asked.

"To be specific, you can't cause trouble, you must keep your tail between your legs, and you can't be too high-profile. It's better to do less things than do more wrong things." Morimoto seemed to be calmer. He was nervous when he was questioned by the prosecutor before.

The feeling gradually disappeared, "If you have done something bad, you will never be able to survive in a very narrow circle like academia."

Listening to these constant questions and answers, Iwanaga frowned. The Kitahara lawyer's questions in the court were as plain as boiled water. However, in this inconspicuous question and answer, it gradually dissipated.

the defendant’s criminal motive.

Iwanaga had already heard the implication of Kitahara's message - if Morimoto was ready to change jobs at any time and apply for teaching positions at other universities, how could he do such self-destructive things as corruption?

"Just now you said that the researcher is not a core member of the research team. Then why does the Department of Engineering ask you to assist in the affairs of the industry-research joint venture? Could it be that only one non-core member is needed to handle the affairs of the industry-research joint venture?

?" Beiyuan's voice sounded.

"Of course not. Industry-research joint ventures are very important." Morimoto responded, "Because this is engineering. There must be enough materials, equipment, machine tools, and venues to conduct experiments. Without industry-research joint ventures, many scientific research projects

It will be difficult to advance. Without money, there will be no scientific research. A lot of funding matters are very important."

"In that case, why does the Engineering Department let you, a non-core researcher, take on such important things?"

"This...this..." Morimoto lowered his head slightly, "I don't know about this. This is Professor Okawara's arrangement. He asked me to be in charge of the industry-research joint venture."

"Did he ever say why he put you in charge?"

"No."

The faces of the senior university officials in the auditorium were already a little ugly. Judging from the defense lawyer's intermittent questions, he wanted to... to draw the flames to other people in the Engineering Department. In this way, the impact of the case will be

The area will become bigger and bigger.

"Then before you take charge of the industry-research joint venture, who is in charge of the Okawara research team?"

"I have no idea."

"How did the handover take place?"

"No...no handover."

"Huh?" Beihara suddenly pretended to be shocked, "The scale of fund payment involved in the industry-research joint venture should be very large. Dozens of companies, related documents, materials, vouchers, hundreds of projects,

How come there is so much material that doesn’t need to be handed over specifically?”

"But...but it's true, I didn't hand it over very much."

"Can you understand that the reason why you don't need to hand over is because there are not many materials left behind that need you to deal with, right?"

"Yes."

"In other words, before you took over the responsibility for some of the industry-research joint ventures, the relevant project information and documents were already incomplete. According to my understanding, if the previous industry-research joint ventures have done

If you keep complete files and the procedures are formal and complete, then there should be a large number of documents and information that you need to hand over. However, it turns out that when you hand over, you don’t have many documents.”

"The lack of documents actually reflects the failure of the financial system to be implemented in a standardized manner."
Chapter completed!