Reborn in the red age

The first thing Li Qingfeng did when he got home was to ignore Shiwu who came to greet him, and also ignored Hu Jiabao who came to greet him. He went straight to the bathroom at home, intending to take a look at the bathtub that cost him 98,000 yuan.

When you open the bathroom door, what you see is a remodeled built-in bathtub.

Li Qingfeng looked it up and down. Isn't this just a bathtub like those in hotels? It only has massage and heating functions. There is no gold or diamond inlaid on it. It is not worth 98,000 yuan at all.

"As soon as I got home, you rushed to the bathroom. I thought you wanted to use the toilet, but it turned out you wanted to see the new bathtub I bought."

Hu Jiabao, who followed him in, touched the bathtub he had just bought and asked Li Qingfeng with a smile, "Take a look at the bathtub I bought. Is it nice?"

"Not bad, it's not bad. I just want to ask, why did you buy such an expensive bathtub? It doesn't suit your style?" Li Qingfeng raised his eyebrows and asked in confusion.

It's just a bathtub. Not to mention 98,000, even 980,000 is just a drop in the bucket for Qingfeng Li.

The question is, why would Hu Jiabao spend so much money to buy a bathtub? She is not interested in luxury goods at all.

The clothes and bags I usually wear at home are not luxury items at all. Most of them are from Li Wenhui’s store.

Li Qingfeng was very curious about why Hu Jiabao was willing to spend so much money to buy a bathtub.

Hu Jiabao pursed his lips and said embarrassedly: "This bathtub was bought by Wenhui first. When I went to her house, I tried it out. I felt that both the material and the function were good, so I asked Wenhui to take me to buy one."

"Okay, that's a good reason. Money is meant to be spent. 10 is just a drop in the bucket. I'll buy another one someday and put it in the bathroom in our master bedroom."

"I see you really have money to burn. One is enough. This thing is not a necessity, and it's not cheap. It would be a waste to buy too much."

"You don't understand this, right? The master bedroom is in our own room, and the bathtub is quite big. We can take a bath together at night."

As soon as these words were spoken, Hu Jiabao immediately looked out of the bathroom door in panic. After making sure that Chuyi and Shiwu hadn't heard it, he blushed and hit Li Qingfeng.

Looking at Hu Jiabao's blushing face, Qingfeng Li was secretly surprised that the child was already in junior high school, but he would still blush when talking about such things.
The couple discussed for a while around the bathtub in the bathroom before coming out.

Fifteen saw Qingfeng Li coming out of the bathroom and immediately went to meet him. He raised his head and looked at Qingfeng eagerly: "Dad, you went on a business trip to the south. Did you bring me any gifts when you came back?"

Li Qingfeng was just about to ask what gift a child of this age wanted, but seeing Shi Wu's pitiful look, he finally softened his heart.

He rummaged in his pocket but really didn't have anything local that could be used as a gift for the child, so he simply took out his wallet, took out two hundred yuan and gave it to Fifteen, asking him to go out and buy it himself.

After receiving the money, Fifteen no longer bothered about whether he brought any gifts and happily returned to his room.

Looking at Fifteen who happily returned to his room with the money, Li Qingfeng could not help but shook his head. This kid was a little narrow-minded. He could be sent away with just two hundred yuan.

Look at your sister, she is on New Year's Day, so that she can have food and drink while watching the fun.

I asked a barbecue restaurant to bring a barbecue grill, a small sun heater, watermelons and sofas, and drove a van to the school gate to set up a stall specifically for your sister, acting like a rich girl.

Look at yourself at the age of fifteen. You are obviously the eldest son of a chaebol family and the future heir to a trillion-dollar enterprise, but how come you have achieved nothing like this?

That night, after the two children fell asleep, Li Qingfeng carried the embarrassed Hu Jiabao to the bathroom in the living room and experienced what the bathtub that he bought for 98,000 yuan felt like.

After trying it, Li Qingfeng gave the bathtub a favorable review. It was a good thing, worthy of the nearly 100,000 yuan he spent on it. Before going to bed at night, he thought about buying another one and installing it in the bathroom of the master bedroom.

After officially going to work the next day, Li Qingfeng did not go to Huaxin Building, but went straight to Ziyun Equipment, where the lithography factory was located.

With nearly 40 billion yuan of funds raised from the stock market, the two academicians in charge of the research and development of the lithography factory are now beaming with joy and have a cheerful smile on their faces when they meet anyone.

It’s simply because there is too much money in the account and he has no place to spend it.

Together with the US$500 million in research and development funds allocated by Huaxin and Lemon Company this year, the lithography factory now has as much as 8 billion in funds in its account.

How many R&D institutions in the country have such sufficient funds?
Let alone 8 billion, even if it's 800 million, 80 million is not much.

What's more, the company is full of talents. After integrating the talents in the lithography field of all domestic research institutes, the research and development process has been greatly accelerated.

The research and development speed in the past six months has been more than twice as fast as in the first half of the year.

Looking at the lithography factory making progress every day, how could Academician Wu and Academician Xu, the two responsible persons, not be happy all day long?
"Academician Wu, the funds raised from the stock market have all been in place. Is there anything else that Ziyun Equipment needs now? Feel free to ask and I will try my best to coordinate." Li Qingfeng looked at the two academicians sincerely and asked them if there was anything else they needed support for.

Academician Wu and Academician Xu looked at each other, both smiled and slowly shook their heads, indicating that as long as they had money, the rest of the difficulties would not be considered difficulties.

After asking again and getting the same answer, Li Qingfeng finally felt relieved.

Instead of continuing to ask about the progress of the project, he met with researchers seconded from other institutes accompanied by two senior academicians.

Looking at the group of scientific researchers dressed simply, Li Qingfeng couldn't help but shook his head. These were all treasures cultivated by the country in recent decades.

China's high-end scientific and technological talents have ended up like this. We can't expect them to live in luxury houses and drive luxury cars like those scientific researchers abroad and be truly high-income people. At the very least, we should let them become well-off in China.

Look at the simple clothes they are wearing. Doing scientific research in the country has made them low-income people.

No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in talent, especially scientific research talent. How come no one understands this? He shook hands with them one by one, and then instructed the nominal general manager of Ziyun Equipment on the spot to increase the subsidies for these seconded scientific researchers to the same salary standard as the researchers of the headquarters, and to give them the full benefits.

In a nutshell, except for the original shares that all researchers in the lithography field have, everything else is aligned with the salary and benefits of researchers in this department.

After all, seconded personnel are not employees of his own unit. Their personnel relations are within their original units, and their salaries are also paid by their original units. After all, they are not employees of his own company, so Li Qingfeng can only do this much.

When the researchers on secondment heard what Qingfeng Li said, their originally calm faces showed expressions of surprise and emotion.

Normally, they devoted themselves to scientific research and did not have many extravagant demands for material conditions, but the care and attention shown by Li Qingfeng at this moment made them feel that their efforts were seen and cherished.

There was a round of warm applause from the crowd. A young researcher said excitedly: "Mr. Li, thank you so much! Your support gives us more motivation to do a good job in scientific research. We will definitely live up to your expectations!"

Li Qingfeng smiled and waved his hand. "Don't be so polite, everyone. You are all the pillars of the country. You are fighting hard to overcome the difficulty of photolithography technology. It is right to improve your treatment. As long as you have any needs in life, you can always ask for it. We will try our best to help solve it."

After chatting with these people for a long time and having lunch together at noon, Li Qingfeng shook hands with them one by one and said goodbye.

When leaving Ziyun Equipment at noon, Academician Wu stopped Li Qingfeng and said with a look of regret: "What a pity. If we had known earlier, we should not have agreed to return as many people as they borrowed. We have found many good seedlings among the seconded personnel. If we keep them here and train them well, they will definitely become the backbone talents in the field of domestic lithography in the future."

Li Qingfeng and the companies under his control are well-known poachers in the domestic scientific research circle. They are wielding hoes and digging everywhere every day, and there is no unit that they dare not poach.

Many units that were originally of decent size have now been reduced to small units by Li Qingfeng.

Many small units were completely devastated by Li Qingfeng's poaching and completely lost their scientific research capabilities.

At that time, the state helped coordinate scientific research institutes in various places and seconded personnel to Ziyun Equipment Company for research and development. However, the research institutes in various places were unwilling to do so. They were afraid that the talents they had cultivated with great effort would become Li after arriving at the local area and would not return. Therefore, they resisted the secondment of personnel.

As a last resort, Ziyun Equipment invested money and, under the coordination of the superiors, brought together the heads of various research institutes to hold a meeting to discuss the secondment matters.

At the meeting, a group of research institutes forced Li Qingfeng and Academician Wu to personally guarantee that they would not target these seconded personnel and that they would return as much as they had borrowed.

After signing the contract, researchers seconded from various research institutes set off for the capital one after another.

Listening to the complaints of the five academicians, Li Qingfeng couldn't help but twitching his lips. What do you mean by always saying this to me?
Did they want me to come forward and find a way to keep these researchers here? From secondment to full employment?

This is not a easy thing to do. We all gave our promises in person and even signed and recorded it.

If I continue to play this game, how can I survive in China? Wouldn't my reputation be ruined?
After thinking about the consequences of doing this, Li Qingfeng chose to remain silent in the face of Academician Wu's expectant eyes and did not respond to the conversation at all.

The two of them stared at each other for a long time, and finally Academician Wu couldn't help but speak first: "Xiao Li, you have to think of a way. These are all talented people. I really don't want to let them go back. You said that their research institute has no money and no equipment. Sending them back would be a waste of talent, wouldn't it?"

"I understand your feelings, but there is nothing we can do. We can't bring all the talents to our side, right? These are the backbone members trained by their respective research institutes. If we want them to stay, the research institutes will definitely not want to." Li Qingfeng pretended to be regretful and practiced Tai Chi with Academician Wu.

If there was no signature at the time and only a verbal promise, the poaching would have been done and the bad reputation would only last for a few years. After everyone stopped digging, it would not take a few years for everyone to forget about it.

But who made me sign it at that time? Once it is written down, I can't forget it even if I want to.
Who knows, one day someone might come out with this signed agreement to make fun of Qingfeng Li. This would be a stain on his life.

Considering his own reputation, Li Qingfeng said that he would never do this poaching. No matter what Academician Wu said, he would never give in.

After hearing what Li Qingfeng said, Academician Wu frowned, put his hands behind his back, and paced back and forth, muttering to himself, "Is there really no way out? It's such a pity to watch these talented people return to research institutes with poor conditions."

Li Qingfeng remained silent at the side, showing no intention of responding.

After a while, Academician Wu stopped walking, his eyes showing a determination to make a desperate effort. He said, "I don't care about my reputation. At most, I will risk my reputation and keep all those good seedlings. If those research institutes want to cause trouble, let them come to me and beat or scold me as they please."

Holy shit! Qingfeng Li was so frightened that the cigarette in his mouth fell off. Was this old man playing such a big game? He just threw away the good reputation he had accumulated throughout his life?

Li Qingfeng quickly persuaded him, "Mr. Wu, you have devoted your whole life to scientific research and are highly respected. You cannot ruin your reputation for such a small matter. Besides, it is not easy for those research institutes to train talents. If we force our way through, who in the industry will be willing to cooperate with us in the future?"

"Reputation is nothing to me. This time I have already caught all the existing talents in the country. How can we have future cooperation? Anyway, I am old and will not live for many years. I will just finish the things at hand first."

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The old man was really going to get angry, and Li Qingfeng quickly started thinking about how to persuade Academician Wu to stop.

After thinking for a long time, I still have no clue.

He Guangqin, who was standing by, hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively, "Teacher Li, Academician Wu, I have an idea, but it's a bit rotten."

"Tell me, no matter whether it's bad or not, it's a good idea if it can solve the problem." Li Qingfeng looked up at him expectantly.

"That's right. I remember when we signed the temporary agreement, it said that we promised to return as many people as we seconded from the original institute after the project was over, right?"

"what do you mean?"

"Ziyun Equipment has quite a few interns, we can use interns and seconded personnel to make a replacement." (End of this chapter)