When will I have a long tassel?

"Achieving stunning results is not something I'm good at."

At home in the capital, Xiao Wenjun frowned and said after listening to Tang Zifeng's request.

Organizing Chinese machine tool companies to hold exhibitions in the United States quickly gained approval from relevant national ministries and commissions. Various large-scale machine tool companies are currently developing overseas, and the problems encountered are similar to Linji's. I heard that Linji is willing to take the lead in going to the United States for publicity. Everyone responded and contributed money and efforts. No need to go into details.

Holding an exhibition in the United States involves various local declaration matters. This matter is handled by the Ministry of Commerce. They have rich experience in organizing exhibitions overseas and are familiar with this matter.

All the work was going on in full swing, but Tang Zifeng began to feel worried. It is not difficult to hold an exhibition, but it is not so easy to change the impression of American companies on Chinese equipment through an exhibition. As a liberal arts student, what Tang Zifeng thinks most about is not showing off cutting-edge technologies at the exhibition, but how to create some gimmicks to impress as many people as possible.

There is no doubt that there will be a wave of media promotion surrounding the show. Tang Zifeng found his own public relations company, Deep Blue Focus, and handed over this business to them. After Bao Nana habitually complained about careless friendships, she began to give orders and arranged a capable team to handle the matter. However, Bao Nana also made a request to Tang Zifeng, that is, the exhibition must have news points that can attract attention. Otherwise, it will be difficult to achieve the publicity effect by just introducing some technical indicators dryly.

"If you are all in the industry, the technological breakthroughs alone will be enough to have amazing results. For example, the 'heavy-duty, high-stiffness, precision hydrostatic turning and milling turntable' technology just developed by Tengji is leading in the world. People with high status and knowledge will know what it means at a glance. However, it would be difficult for a liberal arts student to pronounce this phrase fluently."

Xiao Wenjun said, and at the same time he did not forget to criticize Tang Zifeng, who was ignorant and incompetent.

"But what we have to face is a bunch of liberal arts students." Tang Zifeng was already immune to this kind of attack.

Yes, I am a liberal arts student, I am a liberal arts student, I am glorious, I am proud, if you don’t accept it, hit me!

This was Tang Zifeng's daily life in front of Xiao Wenjun. Of course, he got beaten a lot because of it. His son Tang Yanqi is already in the third grade of elementary school, and the task of tutoring him in the Mathematical Olympiad rests entirely on Xiao Wenjun. Occasionally, Xiao Wenjun asked Tang Zifeng to give lectures to his son, and Tang Zifeng ran away on the pretext that he was a liberal arts student. When he came back, he received a few old punches from Xiao Wenjun and was not wronged.

In all conscience, Tang Zifeng was definitely not unwilling to teach his son questions because he was lazy. It was because the third-grade Mathematical Olympiad questions were too difficult and beyond Tang Zifeng's ability.

“Our sales staff introduced our technology to the engineers at the Baltimore factory. Although those engineers were a little skeptical, they were basically inclined to contact us to further confirm whether the technical level we claimed was true.

"The obstacle we face now is that General Motors' senior executives generally do not trust us. These senior executives all came to the company after their financial failure on Wall Street. They know nothing about technology and are quite prejudiced against China. We hold this exhibition. Half of it is to show our technology to American engineers, and the other half is to convince those corporate executives who don't understand technology to let them know that China's industrial technology has reached a very high level." Tang Zifeng said.

"Really, why is it that the United States, like China, is led by laymen who are experts?" Xiao Wenjun muttered.

Tang Zifeng smiled and said: "You are unreasonable. Enterprise production does need to be directed by engineers, but enterprise management is a matter for us liberal arts students. Although I don't understand machine tool technology, in the entire machine tool industry, who dares to look down on it? Me? Let’s put it this way, if you were to be the general manager when the opportunity came, could you do a better job than me?”

Xiao Wenjun remained silent. In fact, after being with Tang Zifeng for so many years, she gradually realized that liberal arts students have their own expertise. For a company to operate normally, technology alone is not enough. Human resources, finance, sales, investment, government relations, etc. all involve profound knowledge, and these knowledge are not something that she, an engineering professor, can understand.

"In our college, sometimes superior leaders come to inspect the work. We introduce scientific research progress to them. I feel that although these leaders listen carefully, they actually don't understand much. Some leaders give some instructions after listening to the report. , they are all irrelevant, we are all used to it." Xiao Wenjun recounted to Tang Zifeng.

"This is because you lack public relations skills." Tang Zifeng criticized, "From a communication perspective, you must consider the level of the audience and use a method acceptable to the audience to communicate, and the effect will be the best. You guys If you talk so much about your superiors, can your superiors have a good impression of you?"

"So what if I don't have a good impression?" Xiao Wenjun choked.

"...Well, it really won't matter." Tang Zifeng retreated.

Yes, so what if the superior leaders don't have a good impression of them? They are Tsinghua University, and they have the halo of protagonists. No leader will embarrass them. At most, they will whisper in their hearts that these scholars are too noble. At the end of the day, the funds that should be given have to be given. This is how these people's problems are caused.

"It seems that I am really asking questions blindly." Tang Zifeng said frustratedly, "I should go to our Gaotan Park to ask the small bosses about this kind of question."

Xiao Wenjun said: "Those small bosses may not be able to come up with any good ideas. After all, this is a matter involving international communication. The small bosses in your park do not have this experience."

"That's true." Tang Zifeng also felt scratched.

"Dad, are you in trouble?"

His son Tang Yanqi, who was doing homework on the side, turned around and asked Tang Zifeng. Tang Zifeng and Xiao Wenjun discussed business management issues and never avoided his son. According to Tang Zifeng, he wanted his son to be nurtured from an early age so that he could take over his mantle in the future.

Of course, Xiao Wenjun had different opinions on this. She thought it would be better for her son to learn some art. You know, Xiao Wenjun once had an art dream when he was a child, but unfortunately he ended up becoming a machine tool professor.

Hearing his son's question, Tang Zifeng stepped forward, touched his son's head, and said, "Yes, your mother and I are discussing a complicated issue, that is, how to get others interested in our machine tools, you Any ideas?"

Born in such a family, Tang Yanqi knew what a machine tool was at a very young age, and was even able to distinguish the difference between a lathe and a milling machine. If he hadn't been too young, Tang Zifeng would have even planned to take him to the workshop to learn how to operate a machine tool, which was equivalent to a metalworking internship.

Tang Yanqi inherited the genes of his parents, who were masters in arts and science, and he has been quite talented since he was a child. However, Tang Zifeng's question was still far beyond the scope of his knowledge, and he could not answer it. After tilting his head and thinking for a while, Tang Yanqi asked, "Dad, is the issue you mentioned considered an internal matter or an external matter?"

"What are internal affairs and external affairs?" Tang Zifeng was a little confused.

Tang Yanqi said: "It's very simple. If you don't decide on foreign affairs, ask Google. If you don't decide on domestic matters, ask Du Niang. If you don't know how to solve math problems, ask Sifu. Everyone knows it."

"Who did you learn these messy things from?" Tang Zifeng's mind was filled with confusion. Why are children so poor nowadays? Also, what is a master?

Xiao Wenjun saw Tang Zifeng's surprise and couldn't help but smile and explain: "Don't you know, it is an online education platform co-founded by Ziyan, Guo Xiaoyu, and Zhang Jin, called 'Sifu', and these children just care about it My name is Sifu, which corresponds to Du Niang. Nowadays, even I can’t solve some of the Mathematical Olympiad problems that primary school students do. Sometimes I have to go to Sifu to ask the teachers who specialize in Mathematical Olympiad training. Their website is very popular now. , Ziyan said that she will apply for listing in a while."

The Ziyan Xiao Wenjun was talking about was naturally Tang Zifeng's sister Tang Ziyan. After Tang Ziyan graduated from university, she returned to the family business and started an e-commerce website called Tangyi.com. It is now one of the top three e-commerce websites in the country, and its market value far exceeds that of Linji Group.

Guo Xiaoyu and Zhang Jin were two entrepreneurial college students who were supported by Tang Zifeng. They founded a training institution called 'Si Er Xue'. Later, in the name of this institution, they attracted Zhou Heng's daughter Zhou Miaomiao to become a shareholder and founded The two institutions are currently leaders in the training market.

Tang Ziyan co-founded an online education platform with Guo Xiaoyu and Zhang Jin not long ago. Tang Zifeng had heard Tang Ziyan talk about it, but he didn't expect it to become so famous in such a short time. Nowadays, those who consider themselves middle class in China generally have some anxiety about their children’s education. It is indeed very easy to succeed in setting up an education website.

"I think Yanqi's idea is quite good." Xiao Wenjun said, "Today's young people are very active in thinking and often have some fantastic ideas. You might as well put your questions online so that netizens can Let me help you think of any good solutions."

"I didn't expect that I am already an old man now." Tang Zifeng touched his forehead with his hand and was filled with emotion.

Xiao Wenjun said that young people today are active in thinking, which clearly means that Tang Zifeng is old and cannot keep up with his thinking. Tang Zifeng has just turned 40 this year. Judging from his position, he is definitely a young man. He is called "Little Tang" by his leaders on various occasions.

But if he breaks out of the institutional environment and goes online, he will become a real member of the older generation. Nowadays, even those born in the 1990s on the Internet are lamenting that they are left behind. Those born after 2000 like Tang Yanqi have grown up and are beating the "front wave" to death on the beach without hesitation.