When will I have a long tassel?

Fat people are very happy creatures. Their happiness comes from their simplicity. A fat person is always kind to society, and Ning Mo is such a happy fat person.

Unlike Lai Taotao, Ning Mo's purpose of doing business in Africa was not to make money, or to be precise, his ultimate purpose was not to make money. If Ningmo ever cared about making money, it was just because he hoped to prove his worth by making money so that people wouldn't say he was a weakling.

The income from the maintenance center is very considerable, at least for people like Lai Taotao who belong to the ordinary middle class in China, this income is quite satisfactory. However, Ningmo is a person who has outgrown low-level tastes. His annual dividends from Dahe UAV Company are tens of millions. This is because Dahe UAV Company is now in the expansion period, and most of the dividends are was invested in expanding reproduction. If calculated based on the market value of the company, Ningmo's family's assets have reached several billion. The maintenance center's income is really not enough for Ningmo.

After Ningmo arrived in Africa, he first experienced an exciting period of starting a business, and then began to feel a little tired. The reason was that the benefits from starting a business were not as great as he had previously imagined. This benefit was not enough to prove Ningmo's success. value.

Well, in fact, before Ningmo started his business, he didn't have a clear calculation of how much profit he could get. He just felt that he "should be able" to make a lot of money, so much that everyone would think highly of him. But this goal is actually destined to be unattainable. Not to mention that he is just a machine tool repairer. Even a large machine tool company like Linji cannot compare with Dahe UAV Company in terms of income. It is impossible to make big money with machine tools. of.

Opening a machine tool school was something Ningmo had never considered. But when the idea suddenly came to him, he immediately felt that this was what he really wanted to do. He remembered the time when Tang Zifeng gave him the shares of Lijia Supermarket. He gave roses to others, and the fragrance lingered in his hands. This was what he said.

Now he has no worries about food and clothing, and his net worth can even be ranked among the richest people in the country. At this time, money is just a number to him, and being able to use money to help others seems to be a more meaningful thing. The education Ning Mo received as a child made him feel that helping "brothers in Asia, Africa and Latin America" ​​was a noble thing. After arriving in Africa, he saw the poverty and backwardness there, and his urge to help the weak became stronger.

With a new goal, Ningmo was full of passion again. He did not tell Zhang Beibei and Tang Zifeng what he thought, for fear that they would stop him or interfere in his own affairs after hearing about it, so that he would not be able to show his independence. He used his own private money to rent a venue, hired several machine tool technicians from China as helpers, and set up this school in the suburbs of Addis Ababa.

Ning Mo had no experience in running a technical school. At first, he planned to imitate the model of Dongye Mechanical Technical School, which he had attended, and provide students with a full set of courses from mechanical principles to music and physical education. After recruiting students and making initial contact with them, Ning Mo realized that he had thought too much.

The actual level of these young black people who claim to have a high school degree is not even up to the standards of first and second grade students in China. Teaching mechanical principles to these students whose foundation in mathematics and physics is basically blank is as difficult as asking Ning Mo to lose weight.

As for courses other than mechanics, they are of little use locally. For the poor, all-round development is a luxury. What they need more is to quickly master a technology so that they can work in factories and make money.

At this time, Lai Taotao gave Ningmo a trick, that is, to skip any theoretical classes and directly give the students an old machine tool and let them dismantle it, reinstall it, and then dismantle it until it is embedded in their bones. All are imprinted with the impression of machine tools.

This trick was actually mentioned to several old fitters from Linyi Machinery during their daily chat. Before liberation, children from poor families had no chance to go to school and were sent to factories as apprentices at a young age. These people are basically illiterate and have no mechanical foundation. They can only follow the master to disassemble and assemble machine tools.

But for some people, because they disassemble and assemble machine tools more often, they gradually develop a feel for machine tools. From helping the master, I developed to being able to independently repair machine tools, and then I learned to use them. Some masters who are fitters are better at lathes and milling machines than ordinary third- and fourth-level lathes and millers. This is actually because they are more familiar with the principles of machine tools than the latter.

Ning Mo himself is not considered a smart person, at least when facing a top academic like Tang Zifeng, he thinks he is not smart. When he learned technology at a technical school, he also relied on the four words "practice makes perfect". From the beginning he was confused, and later he was able to take charge of it on his own. During this period, he did not seem to have experienced any "epiphany" process, it was just experience. Using oneself to save others, Ningmo also felt that Lai Taotao's idea was very suitable for young Africans.

As soon as he said it, Ningmo contacted his friends in China and asked them to buy a large number of scrap machine tools for him at the price of scrap iron. They were all shipped to Ethiopia and stuffed into the old place he rented. In the factory.

Afterwards, Ning Mo started his own "Ning's Teaching Method". He first taught the students how to use various tools and the most basic disassembly and assembly skills, and then asked them to disassemble and assemble the scrapped machine tools. Ningmo adopts a completely herding approach, allowing students to figure out the disassembly and assembly methods on their own. The Chinese technicians only provide a little guidance at critical moments.

You can imagine how chaotic the teaching scene was at the beginning. Facing the mechanical monsters one after another, the students were both excited and timid. They were all chirping, knocking here, bumping there, daring to operate. Every time they removed a screw, they wanted to dance to Africa. Dance to celebrate.

As for parts or tools being damaged during the disassembly and assembly process, that is really a common thing. If this happens one or two hundred times a day, Ningmo and other Chinese technicians will feel surprised and uneasy.

By the way, the black apprentices damaged not only the parts on the machine tools and iron tools, but also the parts and flesh tools on themselves. During that time, Ningmo spent thousands of dollars just buying band-aids and gauze.

After the initial turmoil, the school's teaching work gradually got back on track. Some old students have figured out how to disassemble and assemble machine tools. Not only can they do it themselves, they can also demonstrate it to the new students.

The effect of old students guiding new students is even more effective than that of masters guiding apprentices, because these old students themselves have figured it out from having no clue. They know very well what mistakes the new students will make and the reasons why they make these mistakes, and they are more careful when giving guidance. Be able to be targeted. Sometimes Chinese technicians really can't imagine what kind of ideas these young Africans will come up with.

After familiarizing themselves with the machine tool structure, the students began to learn machine tool operation under the guidance of Chinese technicians. At this time, for these black youths, machine tools are no longer "high-tech" full of mystery, but a big toy that makes them want to play with it. There is no sense of strangeness or fear when operating it.

The first batch of students graduated after only eight months. Ningmo invited the bosses of some local machinery factories to watch the students' graduation performances. Watching these black youths skillfully install parts blanks, set various processing parameters on the control panel, and then operate the machine tools to process parts that meet the standards, the bosses were shocked and offered dazzlingly high salaries one after another to compete for these parts. batch of graduates.

Of course, the high salary mentioned here is only relative to the local income standards in Ethiopia. After all, this country's per capita GDP is only equivalent to 1/10 of China's.

When the news came out, the door of the machine tool school was instantly crowded with applicants.

Ningmo established the principle of not seeking profit when it first started running the school, and the tuition fees were very low. If it weren't for Lai Taotao's reminder, he would have even wanted to make it free for students directly.

Lai Taotao reminded him that free things make people not cherish them. If schools were completely free, many people would have an indifferent attitude and not study seriously. Charging some tuition fees appropriately can stimulate learning enthusiasm.

Ningmo accepted Lai Taotao's suggestion and set a symbolic tuition fee, which was much lower than the fees charged by local technical schools. At the beginning, some people looked down on this school because of its low tuition. Now, knowing that you can learn real skills at this school, the low tuition becomes another significant advantage. In particular, the local children from poor families regard learning skills at Fatty Machine Tool School as an opportunity to jump into the dragon gate.

With more people signing up, Ningmo has the power to be selective. The first admissions standard he proposed is that students must have basic Chinese conversational skills. Under the same conditions, applicants with high Chinese proficiency will be given priority.

This selection requirement is also supported by the employer. As China-Africa economic and trade cooperation becomes more and more frequent, the number of local Chinese-funded enterprises continues to increase, and non-Chinese-funded enterprises also have many businesses related to China. The status of Chinese in the local area has surpassed English, and various companies also hope that their employees can have a lot of knowledge. High level of Chinese language.

In order to learn machine tools, you must first learn Chinese. If you learn Chinese well, even if you can't get into a machine tool school, other Chinese technical schools may recruit students in the future, and your language advantage will still be able to be used. This idea has led to a new wave of Chinese language craze in the local area. Chinese employees in some Chinese-funded companies use their business hours to teach Chinese to local young people and can actually earn a good amount of extra money. This can be regarded as a spillover effect of Fatty Machine Tool School.