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Chapter 358 I Have a Dream [Request Full Order]

He Guang is a young man under 30 years old.

But judging from his appearance, no one could tell that he is only 27 years old.

Because he looks too mature.

In addition, he has severe hair loss at a young age, and is showing a tendency to turn into a bald uncle. This is irreversible unless he stops his research and stops using his brain to think.

is it possible?
Of course not!

Therefore, his colleagues in the research group of the factory had already given him a nickname, calling him He Tou. Anyway, he had strong technical skills and graduated from a prestigious university, so sooner or later he would be promoted to the leader of their research group.

But He Guang had his own concerns.

He graduated from a prestigious university, one of the top universities, Yenching University, but now he feels very confused about his life.

After graduating from university, many students chose to either stay in school to take postgraduate entrance exams, go abroad, or go into politics. Only a very small number of students whose families had the means chose to start their own business.

He Guang's family conditions are not good.

He was born in a cave dwelling in an old revolutionary base area in the Loess Plateau in the northwest. His mother had a difficult delivery and barely managed to survive, but she became ill. He had no money to treat the illness, and due to lack of food and clothing, she eventually passed away when he was five years old.

My father was a simple old farmer from the northwest. When he was herding sheep, he encountered heavy rain and rolled down the mountain, breaking his leg. Because he had no money to see a doctor, he was paralyzed in bed and has been paralyzed for more than ten years.

In addition, he also has a grandparent. When he was a child, he was raised by his grandparents. His grandparents worked very hard. Not only did they have to feed him and pay for his education, they also had to support his father who had been paralyzed in bed for more than ten years.

Therefore, ever since he was old enough to understand, He Guang secretly vowed that he must make a name for himself and change the fate of his entire family.

We must never let my mother’s tragedy happen to our family again.

So he tried his best to study.

Sleepless nights.

Finally, his hard work paid off. He was admitted to Yenching University and received a scholarship from the county. Not only was his tuition waived, but he also received an additional living allowance.

From then on, he never took a penny from his family. He carried a worn-out schoolbag and set out for the north to study. While studying at school, he lived frugally and sent some money back home every month so that his grandparents would not have to work as hard as before.

He did it.

However, just doing this is not enough. My father's illness needs treatment. After being paralyzed for more than ten years, even though my grandparents took good care of him, it was obvious that his calves had severely atrophied.

He Guang heard that there are hospitals abroad that can make prosthetic limbs for patients, allowing disabled people to stand up again.

His idea was that it would be best to make a prosthetic leg for his father as well.

But this requires a lot of money.

Even if he didn't consider going abroad and only had the surgery done in a large domestic hospital, it was not something his family could afford.

Also, my grandparents are getting older and older. In case they get sick or something, they need to have money in their hands so that they don’t panic.

He is their only descendant and they can only rely on him.

Therefore, He Guang actually did not have many choices at that time.

He needed money, and he needed it urgently.

Taking postgraduate entrance exams and studying abroad all require money, so don’t consider them.

Start a business?

He can't afford to gamble and doesn't have the funds.

In the end, the only options left are to either go into politics, work for a state-owned enterprise, or take a class, so that you can get the money as quickly as possible.

He Guang considered it over and over again, and finally he listened to the advice of an alumnus and, with the other party's recommendation, went south to Zhongshan, a coastal city in Guangdong Province, to work in a private company called Subor Electronic Technology Company.

The reason is simple: this private company pays more.

He would be given 1000 yuan after signing his name, and another 500 yuan after he officially started working in the south. To earn the 1500 yuan, he would only need to work as a full researcher for two years.

Two years later, even if he chooses to leave, the other party will no longer pursue responsibility.

Ask him for the signing fee and settling-in fee.

How important was this money at that time?

It's equivalent to his grandparents not eating or drinking and digging in the soil for ten years. No, that's not enough. How could two old people earn so much by digging in the soil for ten years?
With this money, my grandparents won't have to work so hard on the farm anymore and can enjoy their old age. My father won't have to suffer from his injured leg during thunderstorms, with veins bulging and him rolling around on the bed.

Effective pain relief and treatment can be obtained to a certain extent.

But if he chooses to refuse, and goes into politics, or joins a state-owned enterprise and starts from the bottom, how long will it take him to save up that money?
One year, or two years?
This was even when he didn't eat or drink.

Moreover, the Xiaobawang Electronic Technology Company promised him at the time that as long as he agreed to join the company, in addition to a signing fee and a settling-in allowance, his salary would also be doubled compared to his salary in the state-owned enterprise.

If you do a good job, you will get a raise in two years. By then, your salary will be five times or even more than ten times your current salary in a state-owned enterprise.

He was moved to tell the truth.

Everyone loves money, so he didn't even hesitate and directly rejected his mentor's request to stay, and followed this alumnus south to Zhongshan.

As expected, the alumnus did not lie to him. After he started working, he did receive a settling-in allowance of 500 yuan and double the salary as promised.

But two years have passed, and it is now his third year in the south. Where is the promise made at the beginning that as long as he works hard, he will be given a raise, a five-fold or even ten-fold increase in salary?
There is no shadow of things.

It's okay that the promised five or ten times reward was not delivered, but three times should be ok, right?

Excuse me.

Not even three times.

He Guang admitted that this was his research direction over the past two years, but it did not create any actual economic value for the company.

It's not his fault!

It is the company's strategic positioning that leaves no room for a pure technical researcher like him to perform. The Famicoms currently produced by the company, except for the appearance, are all imitations of mature foreign Famicoms that have already been launched on the market.

How difficult is it to recreate one based on the same pattern?
Not only the company I joined, but many companies across the country have copied the technology of the Famicom.

There is no difficulty at all, okay? There is not much room for their technical team members to play.

Except appearance.

Before he joined the company, senior researchers in the factory had already been doing this.

As for the company's new strategies and new products, they are still under discussion.

In a word, the Famicom makes too much money, and the domestic market is so large that it is far from saturated. Instead of making new products, it is better to make some quick money before other competitors start to fight each other.

We can think about it later. If the competition becomes fierce and our products lose their advantages, it won’t be too late to consider launching new R&D products to the market. We have money anyway.

Everything is easy if you have money. Aren’t technical talents recruited by poaching?
A top student who graduated from Yenching University is only worth 1500 yuan. Even if 100 of them were recruited, the total would only be 15 yuan.

is it a lot?
To be honest, it was not even enough to make their company's profit from one week's sales of the Famicom. The most important thing at this time was to seize the market.

All others step aside.

So when He Guang asked the factory leaders to apply for funds to research new technologies and new products, he was directly rejected by the factory leaders.

"Are you kidding? You are just a small researcher. Just complete the tasks assigned to you by your technical team leader. As for the rest, the company will make its own arrangements. You don't need to consider it for the company."

These are the original words.

At that moment, He Guang's mind buzzed for a moment, and then he realized that, yes, although he had been in the company for three years, he was still a researcher at the lowest level.

Not even a project team leader.

Not to mention the team leader of the entire technical team, there is a huge gap between them.

How can I make the factory leaders listen to me?

But if not, how can I get a salary increase if I don’t have the opportunity to show my abilities?

This is very contradictory.

If you want a salary increase, you have to produce results. If you want to produce results, you have to get cooperation from the factory, or at least provide some financial support.

Scientific research is not just empty talk or playing house. Without financial support, no experiments can be carried out. How can we produce results?

Because of this, He Guang has been very annoyed recently and his patience has almost reached its limit.

There are 2 reasons.

First, he is not out of touch with his former college classmates. Although everyone has graduated and lives in different places, at least they still exchange letters. Many of his classmates have gone to work in local areas or joined state-owned enterprises. After continuous climbing over the past three years, many of them have already assumed leadership positions.

Especially for those classmates who entered state-owned enterprises and served as small leaders of their projects, their salaries also increased sharply. With some additional subsidies, they earned much more than he did as a grassroots researcher working in a private company, and it can be seen that their future is bright.

Although he never regretted it, every time he saw the news, he couldn't help but feel sad in his dreams at midnight. Where is his future?
When can I get my father a prosthetic leg so that he can stand up again like a normal person?
As for my grandparents, they have worked hard all their lives and are now old. It is becoming increasingly difficult for them to take care of my father. When will I be able to work hard to bring my grandparents and my paralyzed father to live in this big city?
At the very least, as their only descendant, shouldn't I find a job nearby so that I can take care of them more conveniently?

He has been away from his hometown for several years. He had always wanted to change his family's living conditions through his hard work, and it would be best if he could bring his grandparents and his paralyzed father to live with him.

For this reason, he was reluctant to even talk about love. Besides being afraid of being a burden to the girl, he was also afraid of spending money.

He wanted to save all his money and work hard to bring his grandparents and his paralyzed father to live with him so that he could take care of them more easily.

But what he could not have imagined was that his efforts over the years seemed to be getting further and further away from him.

During these three years, although he did not go back home, he sent money continuously to his family. During these three years, his father caught a bad cold once, had a sore on his back and was hospitalized once, his grandmother broke her calf and was hospitalized once, and when he was boiling water for his father's feet, the kettle was knocked over and scalded his grandmother's feet, so she was hospitalized again.

Just with these expenses, He Guang has almost used up all the money he had saved over the years.

When will this day end?
He Guang knew very well that as his father spent more and more time in bed and his grandparents grew older, there would be more money to spend in the future because the possibility of the three elderly people in the family getting injured would increase.

If I don't make changes and can't even get the most basic salary increase, then sooner or later, I will go back to my childhood and watch my loved ones leave this world and myself in pain because they have no money to treat and fight the disease.

"No, I swore that I would make a name for myself and never let my mother's tragedy happen again."

He Guang clenched his fists tightly.

He looked up at the wall clock and saw that it was almost time to get off work, so he took off his gloves and prepared to go to the factory leader to try it one last time before leaving get off work.

"Hey, He Tou, you're not working overtime today? Aren't you an overtime fanatic?"

A young man who was even younger than him came out from somewhere.

He Guang glanced at the young man and frowned slightly: "What do you want to say?"

This young man was the first one who jokingly mentioned my nickname He Tou, and no matter how people advised him, he wouldn't listen. From that time on, the team leader of the project I was in seemed to target me, intentionally or unintentionally, and gave me all the dirty work, while the credit had nothing to do with me.

Is he stupid?
Of course he knew very well why this happened, but he had no way to explain too much. Rumors stop at the wise, and he who does not arouse envy is a mediocre person. He graduated from prestigious universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University, and he knew his own abilities. It was normal for the project leader to be wary of him.

It's not necessarily because of He Tou's nickname, the nickname is just an excuse.

The young man said with a twinkling look in his eyes: "What can I say? You are Hetou. By the way, Hetou, I heard that the company is going to start a new research project. Are you interested in competing for the position of team leader?"

He Guang looked at him coldly: "No comment."

He was not good at speaking, so he could only drive people away in this way. Otherwise, if he answered truthfully, within a few minutes, the news would spread to everyone in the factory, regardless of whether he was interested or not.

The young man's face changed, and he said with a little embarrassment: "Hetou, this is boring, isn't it? I asked you a question with good intentions, even if you don't answer, there is no need to be arrogant, right? Even if you are determined to win, at least now we have the same job, both of us are ordinary technical researchers in the factory, and you are at most just a senior who entered the factory first, what's so great about it?"

He spoke very loudly, instantly attracting the attention of many people in the factory's research department.

Someone gave me a questioning look.

Some people happily expressed their willingness to watch the show.

Some people sympathized with He Guang, because after this incident, even if the factory really had funds to set up a new research team, they would probably not consider letting someone who could not unite with his colleagues take the role at this critical juncture.

So?

So even though some of them had a good relationship with He Guang and sympathized with his situation, they had to secretly hide their sympathy in their hearts because this incident might help them get rid of a powerful competitor like He Guang.

He Guang's face looked very ugly at this time.

He clenched his fist so tightly that his nails almost dug into the flesh of his palm. He secretly hid his fist in his crotch, ready to take it out at any time and punch the other person hard in the face.

Bullying the honest people, huh?
Do you really think that honest people will never get angry?

At worst, I can just quit...

He was already considering the worst outcome, and just when He Guang could no longer tolerate it, he was ready to punch the annoying face opposite him regardless of the consequences.

A burly cook ran in with a long-handled spoon in his hand, knocked on the door and said, "Comrade He Guang? Is Comrade He Guang here? The factory leaders want you to come over. There are guests visiting our factory, and they specifically want you, a technician, to receive them. The leaders also told Comrade He Guang to go back and change into nice clothes before coming back. Don't dress like a country bumpkin, or you'll bring shame to our factory."

It turned out that the senior student Xu Siqi had been trying to contact was He Guang. However, He Guang could not afford a mobile phone and did not use a pager. The only address in the address book was Xiaobawang Technology Co., Ltd.

In the end, Lu Yang had no choice but to shamelessly tell the factory leaders during the visit that his beautiful secretary graduated from Yan University, and it was said that she had a senior who also graduated from Yan University and was working in the factory. Could he please invite her out to meet him?
Luyang is now quite famous, and Pengcheng is only a few dozen kilometers away from Zhongshan.

The other party still needs to meet this requirement.

After all, they don’t know the purpose of this big boss’s visit, and he brought so many people with him. If they want to invest in the company, he will be their ready-made God of Wealth.

The necessary reception was good.

(End of this chapter)