When will I have a long tassel?

"Do you want to remain anonymous for the rest of your life?"

Tang Zifeng received Yu Xiaohui at his home in Beijing. After hearing Yu Xiaohui's request, he straightened his face and asked seriously.

"But why does it take a lifetime?" Yu Xiaohui asked in surprise.

"Well, this is just a formality! You have to ask like this to appear sentimental." Tang Zifeng said angrily. He asked this question because he wanted to imitate the sacred feeling of his predecessors who conducted military and scientific research anonymously. However, when he met Yu Xiaohui, who liked to be more serious, the atmosphere that Tang Zifeng had created was ruined.

"Actually, it doesn't take a lifetime, it's just five years." Tang Zifeng changed his tune quickly, "However, Xiaohui, five years is also very important to you. Sister Zijun also wants you to post a few high-profile articles. SCI in the district, you can stay in school in the future. If you apply to go to the confidential workshop of Factory 82, this matter will come to nothing."

"Yes, Xiaohui, several teachers in the department said that you are very talented and want to keep you. If you go to Factory 82, it will be difficult to stay in school." Xiao Wenjun was also knocking on the side. Playing drums.

Yu Xiaohui is a frequent visitor to this house. As Han Weichang said, Tang Zifeng has always treated Yu Xiaohui as a daughter. When Yu Xiaohui comes to Tang Zifeng's house, she is considered to have gone home. There is no restriction. Hearing the advice from Tang Zifeng and his wife, she giggled and answered while holding little Tang Yanqi in her arms and teasing her:

"Uncle Tang, Sister Wenjun, in fact, I have always wanted to go back to Linji to work, and I don't want to stay in school. I think I am not suitable for academics, and it is better to do practice."

"How do you know you are not suitable for academics? I think you are quite suitable for academics." Xiao Wenjun scolded, but then changed his mind and said: "Even if you want to do practice, you can do it in school. There are more abundant resources and more opportunities, which are more conducive to your development."

Tang Zifeng quit. He retorted: "Professor Xiao's words are too unreasonable. Why don't we have resources in our company? This time we are cooperating with Factory 82 to develop alternative machine tools. The Science and Technology Commission has promised to invest 150 million yuan. Your university can apply Do you think I don’t know how difficult a 150-million-dollar project is?”

"But, can you evaluate professors in your company?" Xiao Wenjun choked.

"Of course we can, we have professor-level senior engineers."

"It's just a professor level, not really a professor. Besides, you can concentrate on scientific research in school. We are experts in management after all. When we go to the enterprise, we can only listen to the instructions of a liberal arts student who doesn't know what mechanics is. Maybe It’s just giving directions blindly.”

"You're definitely not talking about me." Tang Zifeng deceived himself.

"Of course it's not Uncle Tang. Uncle Tang is also half a mechanical expert now." Yu Xiaohui quickly rectified Tang Zifeng's name. However, even as a brainless fan, Yu Xiaohui's evaluation of Tang Zifeng is only "half", because Tang Zifeng's liberal arts background is really flawed. In the eyes of two science and engineering masters, his mechanical knowledge is just scum. Just scum.

"That's right, Sun Min and Chief Engineer Qin both said that I have already started, and Brother Xiao also said that I am very knowledgeable about machinery." Tang Zifeng boasted.

"Who else?" Xiao Wenjun was stunned.

Tang Zifeng laughed along with him: "Old... uh, it's my old father-in-law, Mr. Xiao, I'm talking about Mr. Xiao."

"Uncle Tang, you are so shameless! You are not allowed to call Uncle Xiao like this in the future, do you understand?" Yu Xiaohui warned with a smile.

After all this fuss, everyone changed the topic. In fact, Yu Xiaohui had told Tang Zifeng and Xiao Wenjun many times before that she wanted to return to Linji Group, so her decision this time was not sudden for Tang Zifeng and his wife. It's just that Xiao Wenjun is in college and always feels that staying in college is the right way. He feels a little regretful about Yu Xiaohui's choice.

"Whether you go to Factory 82 to stay for a while, PATEO's machine tools, although they are special-purpose equipment, have the same underlying principles. If Xiaohui can understand these principles, she can come back to design other machine tools in the future. There will be advantages, maybe it will be more effective than just staying in school doing theoretical research." Xiao Wenjun found a psychological balance for himself.

"I also feel that the energy invested in one thing will definitely not be in vain." Yu Xiaohui said.

"However, in the past few years, you really have to remain anonymous as Zifeng said. Your research results cannot be published, and you cannot even participate in academic exchanges. This has a great impact on a scholar. ." Xiao Wenjun reminded.

Yu Xiaohui said: "I have already thought about it, I don't care about this."

Tang Zifeng nodded and said, "Well, that's good. Now we are organizing engineers in the group to go to the confidential workshop of Factory 82, and we really lack a few young people with strong skills. Xiaohui should be able to play an important role there. .As for the issue of personal development, Xiaohui, don’t worry, when you come back from Factory 82, I will directly evaluate you as a senior engineer and will not delay your development."

Xiao Wenjun glared at him and asked: "Honestly, have you had this intention for a long time? By the way, this time when negotiating with Botai, you insist on letting Xiaohui work as an interpreter for Han Weichang, right? Is this considered?"

"No, no." Tang Zifeng quickly denied, "I asked Xiaohui to be the translator this time, mainly because I thought she would be strict and would not reveal our trump cards. If it had been anyone else, they might have been bribed by the Germans and took us away. All the trump cards were leaked.

"As for young engineers, our original plan was to go to several top science and engineering schools to recruit a few PhDs or masters, but how to write the specific recruitment conditions was a difficulty. We had to mention that we would not be able to publish results within a few years. , but we cannot say this publicly for fear of arousing the vigilance of the Germans.

"If Xiaohui is willing to go, it will solve our urgent need. Xiaohui will go over first and keep an eye on it. We will slowly recruit people in the name of the group. The people recruited can be inspected for a period of time to make sure that their abilities and political qualities have passed. It will be much easier if we send him there.”

Yu Xiaohui pursed her lips and smiled. In fact, she had already known about the company's arrangement from Sun Min and others. She took the initiative to ask for help this time to help Tang Zifeng share the pressure. When Tang Zifeng said that she had solved the group's urgent need, she felt happy.

The ancients said that if you learn martial arts and sell them to the emperor's family, this is what Yu Xiaohui thinks. In her mind, she felt that Tang Zifeng and Xiao Wenjun had taken good care of her over the years, and she needed to do something to repay this care. When she went to college, she gave up the most popular majors at the time, such as finance and computer science, and chose the mechanical major with the same intention.

It can be said that from the day she went to college, she had planned to return to Linji to work, and now she finally got her wish.

"Xiaohui, this time when we go to Factory 82, the person in charge is Guan Yong from Canglong Research Institute, but he is already older, lacks energy, and his knowledge structure is somewhat outdated. After you go there, you should give full play to your strengths and strive for success. Become the core of the project. Our goal is not to imitate PATEO's machine tools, but to design machine tools that surpass PATEO on the basis of PATEO. You must always keep this in mind." Tang Zifeng explained seriously. road.

"Let me be the core of the project?" Yu Xiaohui asked in surprise.

Tang Zifeng nodded: "I will appoint you as the deputy leader of the project team. In name, you will assist Guan Yong in his work, but in fact, you will preside over the overall work. Of course, you should keep a low profile at the beginning. After all, others are older than you. Big, more senior than you. Whether you can become the core of the project depends on whether you can convince everyone technically, and it also depends on whether you can establish good interpersonal relationships.

"If you feel that you are a talented student of Tsinghua University, a proud son of heaven, and you are arrogant..."

"Stop, stop!" Xiao Wenjun couldn't listen anymore, "Tang Zifeng, don't judge others by yourself. Xiaohui is not the kind of person who is arrogant. Don't worry, this core position belongs to Xiaohui. .”

Tang Zifeng looked at Yu Xiaohui with a smile and asked, "Xiaohui, what do you think?"

Yu Xiaohui thought for a while, nodded and said seriously: "I will try my best."

The formal agreement between PATEO and Factory 82 was quickly signed. At the same time, Linji Group also signed a memorandum with PATEO. The written content is that the two companies will form a friendly cooperative relationship and jointly develop intelligent machine tools for 2035. However, there is an inconspicuous clause in it, which stipulates that in order to ensure In the interests of both parties, each party promised not to carry out research and development work in the other party's main field of machine tools.

Among them, most of the machine tools that Linji Group focuses on are mid- to low-end machine tools, which PATEO has originally given up. The above-mentioned promise is just a smoke bomb to deceive others. Linji Group's promise not to invest in several machine tools that PATEO mainly sells is the core of this record.

According to this memorandum, the various subsidiaries of Linji Group and the Canglong Research Institute in which it holds shares will not develop several specific machine tools in the next five years. As for what will happen in five years, everyone feels that it is too early to consider it now, and we will just renew the contract depending on the situation.

Before the writing on the memo was dry, in a corner of Factory 82, a confidential workshop marked "Second Machine Repair" had been quietly established. The employees of Factory 82 have all received confidentiality education. They know that they should not ask questions or tell things they should not tell. Such a mysterious workshop did not cause much discussion in the factory.

A group of technical backbones from more than a dozen domestic machine tool factories came to Factory 82 in the name of "providing after-sales service" and settled in this confidential workshop. Factory 82 freed up several Botai machine tools from the production line and sent them to the confidential workshop for technicians to study. Don’t get me wrong, we don’t intend to copy these PATEO machine tools. They just need to understand the performance and operation of these machine tools as a reference for developing machine tools with independent intellectual property rights.

In accordance with the practice of the military industry system, the confidential workshop was given a code, called the 04 project team. Guan Yong, an engineer from Canglong Research Institute, served as the project team leader, and Yu Xiaohui, a doctoral student at Tsinghua University, served as the deputy team leader.