When will I have a long tassel?

"Old man, you have made me miserable."

In a private room of a restaurant in Beijing, a gentle man with some premature baldness complained to Tang Zifeng.

There were more than a dozen people in the private room, all of the same age, and they all seemed to have the temperament of "successful people", but the names they called each other were a little childish, such as ranking or nickname, and occasionally they were called by official titles, which sounded like There was also some weirdness, it was obvious that the person addressing the person didn't take the other person's official title to heart.

This was an ordinary gathering of Tang Zifeng's university classmates. The name of the gathering was to welcome the bald man to the capital for a business trip. After drinking for three rounds, everyone started chatting in twos and threes. The bald man grabbed Tang Zifeng and poured out his bitterness on him.

The bald man's name is Cui Shuo. He was Tang Zifeng's dormitory classmate when he was in college. He was the third oldest boy in the dormitory. When he graduated, he was assigned back to his hometown of Ningxiang Province. After more than 20 years of hard work, he is now the deputy mayor of a prefecture-level city called Chunze under Ningxiang Province, in charge of industry, finance, and trade. It is said that he came to the capital this time. "Running the money in".

"Why did Mayor Cui say this? Why did I trick you?"

Tang Zifeng was complained by Cui Shuo for nothing, and he didn't understand why, but he didn't care. When this Cui Sange was in school, he liked to be surprised, make jokes that no one else could understand, and then watch others bewildered, which made him extremely happy.

Tang Zifeng thought to himself that he had not had any contact with Cui Shuo or Chunze City recently, so he decided that Cui San must be acting clever again.

Cui Shuo curled his lips and said: "General Manager Tang Da, although you didn't cheat me, Cui Shuo, I was cheated because of you. Do you think I blame you for this?"

"I would like to hear the details." Tang Zifeng said.

Cui Shuo said: "Let me ask you, did your group recently build a 16-meter CNC boring and milling machine, which is claimed to be the largest in the world and boasted to great effect in the media?"

"This is indeed the case." Tang Zifeng said, "But this is also because the media does not understand the situation. In fact, the 16-meter boring and milling machine we built is only tied for the largest in the world. The 28-meter boring and milling machine we are building is the It is truly the largest in the world and has left similar machine tools in Germany and Japan to the Antarctic.”

"You're still bragging!" Cui Shuo said dissatisfiedly, "What kind of equipment are you building? You can do it secretly and make money quietly, but you can just brag about it in the newspaper all day long!"

Tang Zifeng smiled and said: "Mayor Cui is unreasonable when he says this. Aren't you Chunze bragging every day? You say that your local production of ballpoint pen refills accounts for 30% of the world's production, and you force our group to purchase from you." Ballpoint pens produced by Chunze are not allowed, what did I tell you?"

Cui Shuo slapped his thigh and said: "The bad thing is the ballpoint pen refill. Let me tell you, just because you brag about your 16-meter machine tool, the ballpoint pen industry in our city has been hit. Now every day in the province Put pressure on us, no, I really couldn’t bear it anymore, so I came to the capital. Let me tell you, my visit to the capital this time was incidental to the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Commerce. I mainly wanted to see you. General manager of Linji Group.”

"Is this happening?" Tang Zifeng heard the other party's seriousness and knew that this was no longer a joke. He asked: "Why are you looking for me? Also, how come our 16-meter machine tool is related to your ballpoint pen?"

Cui Shuo sighed and said: "You don't know something. Just because your 16-meter machine tool was promoted too hard, some people couldn't show it, so they took advantage of us. You must also know that this person is from our school." That Qimuden."

It turns out that as China's industrial level continues to improve, the country has increasingly emphasized independent innovation in recent years and constantly publicized China's various innovative achievements. The 16-meter CNC machine tool independently developed by Linji has made major achievements in the equipment manufacturing of Wumeng Hydropower Station, and has naturally become the focus of media reports. Some media have used terms such as "internationally leading" and "world-class". This will inevitably stimulate the sensitive nerves of some spiritual kneeling people.

Qi Muden is one of the spiritual kneeling people. He believes from the bottom of his heart that China cannot have world-class technology, so no matter what news he hears, he must subconsciously question it and write some sour articles to satirize it. The 16-meter CNC machine tool was something beyond the scope of his knowledge. What was said in the media was conclusive, with data and comparisons. Even if he wanted to refute it, he could not find a flaw.

After holding it in for several days, Qi Muden finally regained his confidence from another piece of news he accidentally saw, so he wrote a blog post and posted it online to oppose the upcoming 16-meter machine tool.

In this blog post, Qi Mudeng exposed an old rumor, saying that China is currently a major producer of ballpoint pen refills, and its annual ballpoint pen refill production accounts for 90% of the world. However, the machine tools used in China to process the small steel ball in front of the ballpoint pen refill are imported from abroad. In the words of Qi Muden, it is called "having to rely on foreign countries."

All the things that China can make are things that others disdain to make and are backward technologies.

All things that cannot be made in China are high-tech and are the highest expression of human civilization.

This is the world view of Qi Muden and others.

In his blog post, Qi Muden described the 16-meter CNC machine tool that was about to be built as a big, dark, and outdated piece of equipment. The reason why it was built so big was just to satisfy the leader's hobby of making great achievements, and it had no effect on the national economy.

China still needs to import ballpoint pen steel ball manufacturing machine tools, which are important tools related to the rise and fall of the country. Any country that cannot manufacture such machine tools will not be able to stand on its own as a nation.

Like other blog posts he has written before, this article is full of clichés such as "deep reflection", "down to earth", and "the sorrow of a great country". At the same time, it has also won a lot of cheap comments on the Internet as in the past. Cheers.

"Qi Muden's article directly named Chunze City by name, saying that every year we spend a lot of foreign exchange to import steel ball processing machine tools from abroad. I am a beast, and our city only has dozens of steel ball processing machines. We only purchase four or five new machine tools every year, and each machine tool costs more than 300,000 US dollars. How can it become a 'large amount of foreign exchange'? If we export ballpoint pens, we will have to earn hundreds of millions of US dollars in foreign exchange every year. Spending so much What’s wrong with spending some money to buy machine tools!”

Cui Shuo said angrily.

"I've heard of ballpoint pen and steel ball processing machines." Tang Zifeng smiled.

This meme is really an old meme. At that time, a newspaper searched everywhere for products that China needed to import, and called everything that needed to be imported "neck-stuck technology." Because it published an article like this every day, it was called the "One Card per Day" series by industry insiders, and it became a quite famous media event for a period of time.

The machine tool for processing the small steel ball on the head of the ballpoint pen is also mentioned in the "Rika Yineck" series. The reporter exaggerated it into the crown jewel of industrial technology, saying that to create such a machine tool, it does not depend on how many science and engineering universities or how many research institutes are established, but on a mysterious and mysterious method. Germanic industrial cultural genes.

"It is impossible for such a gene to be brewed in Chinese culture!"

This is the reporter’s eloquent assertion.

For such words, the big guys in the industry are not even interested in criticizing. In Xiao Wenjun's words, for a group of reporters who have never even seen what a machine tool looks like, anyone who says anything to them will lose.

Qi Muden actually didn't know what the so-called ballpoint pen and steel ball machine tools were. He only knew that China did not currently produce such machine tools, so he came to the conclusion that this type of machine tool was very advanced.

"Tell me, haven't we suffered a terrible disaster?" Cui Shuo said.

Tang Zifeng smiled and said: "He said his, why do you pay attention to him? This guy has cheated on us not once or twice, and he has been slapped in the face countless times by us, but as the old saying goes, people have no shame, so why Afraid of being slapped in the face? He doesn’t care at all about others slapping him in the face. Why do you need to pay attention to such a person? "

Cui Shuo sighed: "We didn't want to pay attention to him. But some leaders in our province saw his article and thought he was right, so they asked us to solve this problem. What do you think we should do?"

"..."

Tang Zifeng was speechless. People like Qi Muden can act like this because there are still many people in the country who believe in their arguments. Some people are wise, experienced and intelligent in their fields. But he is a complete idiot when it comes to things outside his own field.

Industrial technology has certain thresholds, and many people have little knowledge of industrial technology. These people don't like to read serious science popularization, but they are willing to listen to the deceptions of reporters and beasts. There are many people who are lame after being deceived.

"Then what are you going to do?" Tang Zifeng asked.

Cui Shuo said: "How do we know what to do? No, I remembered that you are the boss of a machine tool group. Machine tools that make steel balls are also considered machine tools, right? I want to ask you, if our Chunze City wants to entrust you with Linji Group Develop a domestic steel ball machine tool for us. The performance should not be lower than that of the imported machine tools, and the price should not be too expensive. Can you do it?"

"What's so difficult about this?" Tang Zifeng said easily, "Let me tell you the truth, we have actually done preliminary research on this kind of machine tool in the past, and the main technical obstacles have been solved. It's just because the market for this kind of machine tool is too big. "Small, it doesn't make much sense for us to develop this kind of machine tool specifically."

"It's interesting!" Cui Shuo took Tang Zifeng's arm, "Old man, this matter is not interesting to you, but it is very interesting to us in Chunze City. To be honest, this matter has been reported to our government. After a meeting, the city is ready to spend 20 million to overcome this technical difficulty.

"Since you said that you have done preliminary research in the past and there are no technical obstacles, then you should go ahead and develop this machine tool directly."