When will I have a long tassel?

"Yes, you are very thoughtful." Tang Zifeng praised Xiao Wenjun.

Xiao Wenjun said dissatisfied: "Did you always think I was a fool?"

"How is this possible!" Tang Zifeng pretended to be wronged. "I have always known that you are very smart. When I am with you, I always have a sense of crisis."

"What sense of crisis?"

"I'm afraid that I will be betrayed by you."

"Humph, if it weren't for you, no one would want you..."

"Actually, I'm quite handsome and I can sell it for a good price..."

"I believe it."

"The only advantage I have is that I am relatively honest." Tang Zifeng boasted, and then returned to the topic and said: "It is not impossible to let Lin Yiji's technical department help with the design. But once Lin Yiji comes, Yiji now also has design tasks. Your Uncle Qin has arranged a lot of work for his subordinates, and it would be a bit unkind to add tasks to them. Secondly, I am not prepared to completely leave this product to Linyiji. This way it will be inconvenient for Linyiji to intervene too much."

"Don't let Linyi Machine do it? Don't you want to open a factory to do it yourself?" Xiao Wenjun asked tentatively.

Tang Zifeng shook his head: "A gentleman does something and doesn't do something. I'm not good at opening a factory, so I won't join in the fun."

"Then what are your plans?" Xiao Wenjun asked.

Tang Zifeng said: "Our country is about to join the WTO. After joining the WTO, various industries will be impacted by foreign competitors. The competitiveness of the machine tool industry is one of the worst among all industries. If all foreign machine tool giants all Entering China, the entire Chinese machine tool industry, including Linyi Machinery, will be eaten up to the core."

"Is it that serious?" Xiao Wenjun said in shock. She thought for a moment, nodded again, and said: "I remembered that when I accompanied my mentor to a technical seminar in the Mechanical Department last time, someone mentioned this matter during the meeting, and it seemed that they were not very optimistic. "

"It's okay not to be optimistic." Tang Zifeng said, "Now even a small South Korea dares to defeat us. How many Korean machine tool companies have entered China in recent years? Do you know how many Korean machine tool companies there are?"

"How many?"

"Nearly 300."

"There are so many!" Xiao Wenjun said in surprise, "However, the level of South Korea's machine tool industry is not very high. They have not published many papers on machine tools in international mechanical and engineering magazines, and their level is worse than that of Japan and European countries. too much."

"How many papers have we published?" Tang Zifeng asked.

"There are even fewer of us." Xiao Wenjun said depressedly.

"What's the reason?" Tang Zifeng asked again.

"Experimental conditions." Xiao Wenjun said, "If you want to write a thesis, you must have experimental support. Even the experimental conditions of our Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University are not good, let alone other schools. There is also little scientific research funding, and machine tools in South Korea are not good enough. Although the level is worse than that of Japan and Europe, their universities have much more funding and better equipment than ours, but they have fewer people than us and fewer truly qualified scholars."

In fact, there is another reason Xiao Wenjun did not mention, that is, publishing papers internationally requires payment of page fees. Although some page fees are only tens of dollars, it is a big obstacle for domestic scholars. Everyone would rather publish papers domestically than consider submitting to foreign publications.

"Are you considered a qualified scholar?" Tang Zifeng asked.

"Of course I don't count, but my mentor does. But my mentor's annual funding is only two to three hundred thousand, and he can't afford even a slightly more complicated experiment. Sometimes..."

Xiao Wenjun got stuck when he said this, and it was really inconvenient to say the next words.

Tang Zifeng was a little strange: "What happens sometimes?"

"Sometimes..." Xiao Wenjun hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "I even want to use my own money to do experiments. Some special steel test pieces cost one or two thousand yuan, and an experiment costs ten A few, but my supervisor’s funds were not enough, so the research just stopped there and could not be continued. I looked anxious, and several times I wanted to pay for the test piece myself.”

"It's not impossible." Tang Zifeng said, "You can tell your instructor that you will pay for the experiment, and after the experiment is completed, the first author will sign your name. Will this make you a well-known scholar?"

Xiao Wenjun shook his head and said: "This is too eye-catching. Forget it, if you don't talk about this, where did you just say it? By the way, you said that our country's machine tools are not competitive. What are you going to do?"

Tang Zifeng also felt that he had made a mistake. He said: "When I returned to the capital this time, I came with our factory director Zhou. My main task was to report to the bureau leaders about the large-scale entry of Korean machine tool companies into the Chinese market. The entry of Korean machine tools After the Chinese market, it has occupied a large part of our market share, posing a threat to machine tool companies across the country."

"There is such a thing..." Xiao Wenjun said to himself.

Tang Zifeng said: "In view of this, we proposed an idea to the bureau leaders, that is, to unite the country's large machine tool companies to stay warm, jointly improve their technical level, and welcome international competition. To achieve this, we must first let Major machine tool companies are willing to join forces with us. These guys are not willing to give in to the rabbit, and if we don’t give them some benefits, it will be difficult to convince them to join.”

"So, you want to give this mini machine tool to everyone as a gift?" Xiao Wenjun heard some clues.

Tang Zifeng said: "That's right. Before that, I need to make sure that this kind of machine tool has a large overseas market and can generate sales of hundreds of millions of yuan. Only in this way can we attract those machine tool companies to join forces with us."

"But shouldn't the Machinery Department be responsible for doing this kind of thing?" Xiao Wenjun asked.

Tang Zifeng said: "Of course the ministry can do it, but I'm worried that it would be too inefficient for them to take the lead. We have to set rules. At least every company should contribute to the entire industry. , can you enjoy the benefits of the industry. If you only want to get benefits and don’t want to contribute, I’m sorry, we won’t take care of you. If this kind of thing is done by the ministry, this rule will definitely not be implemented. We are all state-owned enterprises, and benefits must be paid to others. Everyone gets a share, and as for contribution, it all depends on character.”

Xiao Wenjun thought for a moment, nodded and said: "I can understand this situation. My father also said this kind of thing in the past. When competing for benefits, various units would not give in to each other. When they needed to contribute, everyone would blame each other. They all feel that they have done more and others have done less.”

"It's the same in all industries." Tang Zifeng sighed.

Xiao Wenjun said: "Brother, I heard from my dad that the atmosphere in the past was not as bad as it is now, and every unit was about dedication. At first, our 17th Institute was in the capital, and many of the employees were from the capital. But the country required the 17th Institute to move When I went to Chutian, everyone moved there without saying a word and without any complaints. How could this happen now?"

Tang Zifeng said: "This question is also very simple. It is okay for everyone to talk about dedication, but after dedication, the country cannot treat these people who talk about dedication badly, so that it can last. But the reality is that talking about dedication means suffering, no You can make money by talking about dedication. Over time, who will be willing to talk about dedication? If it wasn’t me, even Lao Xiao himself wouldn’t dare to casually talk about dedication for 17, right?"

Xiao Wenjun frowned slightly and expressed dissatisfaction with the title used by Tang Zifeng. She said: "My father also said that when he went to the Science and Technology Committee for a meeting, he had to fight for the benefits he encountered. If he didn't fight, he would come back to the institute. The employees will scold him."

"Isn't that enough?" Tang Zifeng said, "In management matters, it doesn't matter if you occasionally talk about dedication, talk about public affairs and forget about selfishness. But if you wholeheartedly hope that everyone will talk about dedication, you will definitely not be able to do it. .”

"So, what do you do?"

"It's very simple. It's just to use interests to tie up all the companies and tie them to our Linyi machine chariot to form an industrial alliance to fight against the enemy together."

"After all, are you asking everyone to help you do something when you have an opportunity?"

"It should be said that it is a win-win situation." Tang Zifeng said, "This matter is beneficial to all enterprises. Of course, taking advantage of the opportunity can also benefit. However, if it is just for taking advantage of the opportunity, we don't have to do this. It’s hard work, but at the very least, if this set of mini machine tools is completely kept in Linyi Machinery, the benefits we will get will be greater.”

"So, you are dedicating yourself to the entire industry?"

"It can be said like this."

"Didn't you say that no one wants to talk about dedication now?"

"But I'm a good person!"

Xiao Wenjun had nothing to say, so she changed the subject and said, "But you still haven't helped me solve the problem. You said it's inconvenient for Linyi Machinery Technical Department to do these things, so who are you going to let do it?"

Tang Zifeng said: "I just suddenly thought of a genius idea. Fortunately, I didn't think of it when I was sleeping at night, otherwise I would have woken myself up..."

"What's up?"

"Well, I admire Xing Xing. ...This is not the point. The point is that I think we can come forward to form a new machine tool research institute, with various companies as shareholders. The calculation problems you mentioned can be left to this research institute. Also There are many technical problems faced by all factories that can also be studied by the research institute and then provided to various companies for use, charging licensing fees as operating costs." Tang Zifeng said with excitement.

"But isn't the Machinery Department a machine tool research institute? Uncle Qin used to work there." Xiao Wenjun reminded.

"That's the machine tool research laboratory under the Mechanical Design Institute." Tang Zifeng said, "I talked with Lao Qin, and he said that there is a lack of work in the machine tool laboratory. Because of the poor pay, young people are reluctant to go, and the old people are not willing to go. It means resting on one's laurels, so the results in recent years have been mediocre, many projects have started but ended, and the completion status is very unsatisfactory."

Xiao Wenjun said worriedly: "But, aren't you starting a new business by doing this? Will the Mechanical Department agree?"

"This is not up to them." Tang Zifeng said with a smile, "I am setting up a joint-stock research institute. When it is launched, all companies that are willing to join can join. Even the machinery department can participate in one share if they are willing to join. This is considered As a private organization, the Machinery Department cannot interfere. By the way, is Xiao Tuhao interested in taking a share?"