When will I have a long tassel?

Hearing Sun Fanzhuo talk about money issues, Tang Zifeng immediately felt no longer sleepy.

Can a problem that can be solved with money still be called a problem?

"How much does it cost to invite a German professor here?" Tang Zifeng asked.

"It looks like fifty thousand dollars." Sun Fanzhuo stretched out a slap for emphasis.

"So expensive?" Tang Zifeng frowned, "For the foreign engineers hired by our Canglong Research Institute, five thousand dollars a month is enough."

"I'm talking about one year..." Sun Fanzhuo was about to cry but had no tears.

Don't let the poor speak. I said 50,000 a year, but you can understand it as 50,000 a month. How is your brain circuit developed?

"So cheap!" Tang Zifeng's eyebrows furrowed even more, "Director Sun, are you talking about the kind of professor who doesn't know how to live his life?"

"Of course not!" Sun Fanzhuo was annoyed, "The kind you are talking about..., well, it can't be said to be nonsense, it's just that the level is not that high. Our department now has two foreign teachers. Let's hire them. , not to let them engage in scientific research, but mainly to let them teach mechanical foreign languages ​​to students. As you also know, many of the literature on mechanical majors are in German, so many of our students take German as an elective.

"The ones I just mentioned are all very famous professors in the world. For example, Professor Ferguson of Dresden University of Technology also missed the Nobel Prize several times."

"Wait a minute, what do you think that person's name is?" Tang Zifeng became serious.

"Furgurson, Furgurson, ask someone, someone must know his name." Sun Fanzhuo finally found an opportunity to quarrel with Tang Zifeng, and his tone was a little higher.

He is also a great professor and the head of a department at the highest university in Dongye Province. His self-esteem has been hit several times by Tang Zifeng and Zhang Jianyang, and he is almost bursting with frustration.

Aren’t you just rich?

But are you knowledgeable?

The famous Furgurson, have you heard of it?

Well, in fact, Sun Fanzhuo knew this name because a returnee teacher in the department recommended him. Sun Fanzhuo and other department leaders researched this person's background and found that he was indeed very good.

As for missing out on the Nobel Prize, there is no evidence anyway. What can you do to me?

Didn’t you see that every year during the Nobel Prize selection, news will spread in China that someone has been nominated, and then several booklets of this person’s backlog in bookstores for more than ten years will be snapped up by young literary and artistic people. Everyone commented on how good his writing was and how profound his words were. For example, he wrote "Xi Da Pu Ben", do you know what it means? He can also speak Jiang Zi, buy stuff, and understand English, TJJTDS, what a literary talent!

Tang Zifeng didn't care what Sun Fanzhuo thought. Sun Fanzhuo asked him to ask someone, and he actually asked someone. He took out his cell phone, pressed two buttons and dialed. The person who answered the phone was his wife Xiao Wenjun.

"Wenjun, I want to ask you about a person. There is a man named Ferguson at the University of Dresden in Germany. His English name is Furgurson. Have you heard of him?" Tang Zifeng asked loudly in front of a group of people.

Sun Fanzhuo's face turned dark immediately. The other party is really careless, it’s obvious that he can’t believe his own words!

Xiao Wenjun didn't know what was going on on the other end of the phone. When she heard Tang Zifeng's name, she replied without hesitation: "I heard that this person is engaged in metal materials and has some expertise in cutting tools and carbide." Fame.”

"I heard that he missed the Nobel Prize several times?" Tang Zifeng continued to ask.

I will endure! Sun Fanzhuo clenched his dentures made of carbide.

"It's possible." Xiao Wenjun responded seriously, "Maybe he will rub shoulders with a Nobel Prize winner when he attends an academic conference."

"I understand." Tang Zifeng chuckled and hung up the phone.

Fortunately, it was not convenient for Tang Zifeng to call his wife on speakerphone. Neither Fan Wenping nor Sun Fanzhuo heard Xiao Wenjun's hurtful words. Otherwise, they would definitely doubt whether Tang Yanqi had PY. With such a pair of parents in the stall, it would be strange for little Tang to have PY.

Tang Zifeng got the information he wanted to know from the phone call. First, Professor Ferguson is quite famous, at least even Xiao Wenjun knows about him. Secondly, it is not true that he missed the Nobel Prize. At best, he just missed the Nobel Prize winner. Of course, it is not easy to achieve the latter. There are only a few Nobel Prize winners, and not everyone has the opportunity to pass it by.

"Don't mind, Director Sun. I'm actually just looking for an excuse to chat with my wife. Ferguson and all that, just in passing." Tang Zifeng explained. Seeing that Fan Wenping and Sun Fanzhuo were showing signs of overturning the table, he hurriedly said: "Just now My wife said that Ferguson is indeed quite famous, and she admires him very much. I’m just a little unsure, can such a well-known professor be hired for $50,000 a year?”

Hearing Tang Zifeng's addition, Fan and Sun felt a little more comfortable. Sun Fanzhuo said: "We have directly communicated with Professor Ferguson on this issue, and the standard he proposed is US$50,000 a year. Of course, accommodation in China, working conditions, etc. are all up to us. If you come here to provide it, it won’t cost much.”

"Is he not happy there?" Tang Zifeng asked.

If something goes wrong, it must be a monster. A well-known professor can be poached for $50,000. There is something fishy about this matter. Tang Zifeng is a cautious person. Well, actually it’s because Tang Zifeng himself is a person who is used to engaging in conspiracy. Therefore, when encountering something strange, he must first ask questions to avoid being tricked by others and losing his alma mater. s face.

"It is indeed not satisfactory." Sun Fanzhuo said, "The college he is in has been unable to recruit students since two years ago. The number of undergraduates is not enough, and the number of graduate students has also been reduced. Ferguson himself has had no students for two years. Graduate students have been recruited. The school has said that if they still have insufficient enrollment for the next academic year, the school will consider reducing their size.

"Professor Ferguson said that he basically has nothing to do now. Even if he is not dismissed from the school, there is no value in staying. So when we contacted him, he expressed his willingness to come over."

"But why can't they recruit enough students?" Tang Zifeng asked in surprise.

Sun Fanzhuo said: "We have also asked him this question. He said that starting about 10 years ago, young people in Germany have been unwilling to study engineering. The best young people are studying finance, and some are Study art. Over the years, the quality of their students has become worse and worse. Sometimes, although they can recruit enough students, these students have no learning ability at all. Teaching them is very tiring and has no sense of accomplishment."

"Our school has also specially arranged people to understand this situation. It is mainly because the manufacturing industry in Europe is shrinking, many factories have closed down, and other factories lack expansion plans, so the demand for engineering talents is getting less and less. Some emerging industries The situation is not bad, but in traditional industries like machinery, it is becoming increasingly difficult for graduates to find jobs, so young people are naturally reluctant to apply," Fan Wenping added.

"So that's it." Tang Zifeng understood.

The shrinkage of Europe's manufacturing industry is not something that happens in a day or two. As early as the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese manufacturing swept the world, and the manufacturing industry in Europe and the United States began to decline.

In the early days, Japan only took over the labor-intensive industries transferred from Europe and the United States, while Europe and the United States turned to capital-intensive and technology-intensive industries, realizing "emptying the cage and replacing the birds." Later, with the rise of the Four Asian Tigers, Japan's industrial structure shifted from labor-intensive to capital- and technology-intensive, and Japan began to grab the cheese from the bowls of Europe and the United States.

As China's export-oriented economy fully develops, Chinese manufacturing has taken over from Japanese manufacturing and has become a nightmare for European and American manufacturing companies. Although Japanese manufacturing is fierce, after all, it is only a country with a population of more than 100 million, and it is difficult to swallow up the entire market. China is a big country with a population of more than one billion. The number of manufacturing workers is greater than the population of Britain, France and Germany. It is simply a money-attracting monster in the market. It can eat up no matter how big the market demand is.

At the beginning, China's manufacturing industry was mainly an export processing industry with "big imports and big exports", that is, raw materials were imported from abroad, assembled and processed in China, and then sold abroad. European and American countries mainly manufacture various mechanical equipment, forming a complementary relationship with China.

In this complementary relationship, China contributes cheap labor, while Europe and the United States contribute technology and brands. The Chinese work hard to produce hundreds of millions of shirts, but the profits are not enough to buy an Airbus 380 from Europe.

However, as the scale of China's export processing industry expands and the demand for equipment continues to increase, China's own equipment manufacturing industry has also been cultivated. In order to compete with local Chinese manufacturers for the market, European and American equipment manufacturers have also had to move their production bases to China in order to provide services to downstream manufacturers nearby.

The production base has come, but the R\u0026D center cannot stay. Think about it, if a group of machine tool designers cannot see the machine tools they manufacture all day long, but instead conduct "cloud design" tens of thousands of kilometers away, how can they discover problems in the design in time, and how can they get feedback from the production process?

In recent years, more and more European and American equipment companies have entered China, while fewer and fewer companies have stayed in Europe and the United States. Some companies' headquarters in Europe and the United States are only empty shelves, and their main production capabilities have been moved to China.

As a result, an embarrassing situation arises. If students from engineering universities in Europe and the United States still want to work in their own field after graduation, they can only apply for jobs in China. If they want to stay locally, they have to change careers to other majors, such as finance or the Internet.

Since they can’t find job openings locally if they study what they learn, why should they study this major?

Isn’t it good to learn about e-commerce?