In 1978, I was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 100: Does Xie Wei, who is fighting for power with the principal, have the ability to predict the future?
"The contract has been signed. The school does not need to return the 60 yuan remittance. The school needs to arrange for a chemistry teacher to lead technical personnel to the Huadu Oil Factory to guide the production formula and process, and propose improvement plans for the existing production line..."

After reaching an agreement with Hou Guoyong, Xie Wei went straight back to find Li Rui.

He proposed dividing the market by region and adjusting the profit distribution to 25:75, directly giving up 5 percentage points of profit. The costs of adding production scale expansion to the contract could also be included in the cost, provided that the consent of the school-enterprise joint office was obtained.

The conditions are still harsh.

Hou Guoyong and Zhao Liangyu discussed for a long time and proposed that during the cooperation period, the school's other daily chemical products should be supplied to Huadu Oil and Fat Chemical Factory first. The factory had no demand, and if they were looking for other partners, they also needed to say hello to the Oil and Fat Chemical Factory first...

Xie Wei agreed to these conditions.

Xie Wei knew very well that the reason why Hou Guoyong agreed to the harsh conditions so readily was not only because the product had huge market potential and no substitutes; on the other hand, both parties clearly felt that the days of eating from the same pot would not last long.

The market is the key to the survival of an enterprise!

Huadu Oil and Fat Chemical Plant is a pilot project.

The Harbin Institute of Technology's joint school-enterprise office, which operates independently and is responsible for its own profits and losses, is also a pilot project.

At the current stage, cooperation between pilot projects is more prudent.

Before signing the contract, Xie Wei pointed out that the internal instability of the Huadu Oil and Fat Chemical Plant would affect the cooperation, and Hou Guoyong promised to address the issue when he returned.

Hou Guoyong also responded by expressing his concerns about Principal Li's arbitrary interference in the joint operation between the school and enterprises.

"Done? Good! Not bad! I knew you could handle them easily! You can discuss with Kang Yi about the school sending someone to provide technical guidance..."

While looking through the cooperation agreement handed over by Yuan Zhenyue and listening to Yuan Zhenyue's more detailed report on the content of the cooperation, Li Rui's smile never stopped when he saw that all three technologies had been reached and the 60 yuan deposited into the school's slush fund did not have to be returned to the Huadu Oil and Fat Chemical Factory.

He was generous in praising Xie Wei.

"Principal, even though the cooperation has been completed, the money doesn't need to be returned to them. I think we need to talk."

Xie Wei, who was silently drinking the Tieguanyin brewed by the principal himself, waited until Li Rui fully understood the situation and finished reading the contract before he spoke calmly.

"Talk about it. As long as we don't talk about money, we can talk about anything!"

Even when he was extremely excited, Li Rui did not get carried away and still stuck to his bottom line.

As long as we don’t talk about money, we can talk about anything!
"Let's not talk about money. Let's talk about the joint venture between the school and the enterprise."

Xie Wei no longer wanted to judge how shameless Li Rui's behavior was.

"???"

Li Rui looked at Xie Wei in confusion. What was there to talk about in the joint venture between school and enterprise?

Although Xie Wei only holds the title of consultant, in reality, Xie Wei has more say.

"The school-enterprise joint operation needs to be independent of the school, operate independently, and be responsible for its own profits and losses. It is only responsible for reporting the development plan to the school every year. The funding provided to the school needs to be based on the development plan and the profit situation of the year..."

Xie Wei ignored Li Rui's astonishment and directly made his request.

All of this was proposed to prevent Li Rui from interfering in the joint venture between the school and enterprises, especially touching the money of the joint venture.

"No! The school-enterprise joint venture belongs to the school's logistics system..."

Li Rui instantly understood what Xie Wei wanted to do.

Without waiting for Xie Wei to finish, he rudely interrupted him and flatly refused.

Just kidding!
According to the request proposed by Xie Wei, although the School-Enterprise Joint Office is still a subordinate unit of the school, it is out of the control of the school, and especially he, as the principal, cannot interfere with the operation of the School-Enterprise Joint Office at will.

How can I agree?
"If you don't grant me the policy of joint school-enterprise cooperation, I won't accept the title of consultant you forced on me. I will no longer be involved in the joint school-enterprise cooperation. I will be a student with peace of mind, study hard, and strive to make greater contributions to the country's modernization after graduation..."

After Xie Wei finished speaking calmly, he stood up and left Li Rui's office.

No longer angry or dissatisfied like before.

Li Rui was stunned.

Yuan Zhenyue was also stunned.

Until Xie Wei's back disappeared outside the office door.

"Xiao Yuan, is Xie Wei threatening me?"

It took Li Rui a while to come back to his senses from his shock, and he asked Yuan Zhenyue in disbelief.

"no?"

Yuan Zhenyue knew clearly that Xie Wei was threatening the principal directly with his actions, but he didn't dare to say anything.

I can't afford to offend either of them.

"Bullshit! He is just threatening me! He wants me, a principal, to not be able to control the subordinate units of the school? He is dreaming!"

Principal Li said with disdain.

Xie Wei asked me not to interfere in the joint venture between the school and enterprises, which meant that he did not want me to interfere with the funding of the joint venture between the school and enterprises. How could that be possible?
You can ignore everything else.

The principal must be in control of the school’s money.

Whoever controls the purse has the upper hand.

"Principal, if Xie Wei really doesn't care about the school-enterprise joint venture..."

Yuan Zhenyue reminded the principal carefully.

The person who understands the market best and can make money, Xie Wei is the most suitable one at the moment.

No one else knows how the joint venture between school and enterprise operates.

If Xie Wei was not still a student, he would not just hold the title of consultant, but would be the actual person in charge of the school-enterprise joint office.

"Ugh……"

Principal Li was silent.

Without the funds for joint ventures between schools and enterprises, many of the school’s plans would have to be shelved.

Not long after the launch, without even a handful of people, we made millions.

As the rice cookers of the Hongguang Factory and various daily necessities of the Huadu Oil and Fat Chemical Factory are put on the market, funds will continue to flow into the joint venture between the school and enterprises.

To this end, President Li has already begun plans to build new teaching buildings and dormitories and further expand the scale of the university.

Seeing that the school-enterprise joint venture has money but does not spend it, the school suffers from poverty?

How can this be done!

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"Xie Wei, the chip project has really been accelerated. The Metal Materials Research Laboratory has made rapid progress in adding rare earth elements to the alloy according to your proposal. The 410 design team has also begun to study how to further increase the temperature of the combustion chamber. However, as for the engine control system, we are unable to start because we do not understand the performance of the data processing chip..."

Wu Haowen found Xie Wei in the student dormitory.

With a bitter face, he raised the problems faced by the engine team to Xie Wei.

Previous engines used mechanical control due to poor electronic basic technology.

Xie Wei previously proposed using high-performance chips and high-performance sensors to monitor and control a series of key parameters such as engine fuel injection, combustion chamber temperature, ignition timing, power output, etc., in order to optimize the engine's power performance.

Such a plan can generally improve the performance of the WS-6 engine by about 30%.

Under such circumstances, the 410 technical team did not hesitate at all and directly started to improve the design.

Xie Wei required that the engine chip must be closely connected with the fighter's flight control system to improve the fighter's overall maneuverability.

"Teacher Wu, it's no use asking me about this. Improving chip performance is not something a student like me can interfere with!"

The Wu Haowen in front of him was obviously arranged by old man Li Rui to find him.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t come so fast.

Everyone knows the situation of chips. Why didn’t you ask earlier? Why are you asking now?
"How can it be useless! It was you who proposed using chips to improve engine performance. It was also you who proposed solving the problem of chip production quality at Radio Factory 14. The chips were designed according to your requirements..."

Seeing Xie Wei's face full of resistance, Wu Haowen hurriedly spoke.

Even if he said it, Xie Wei didn't take it seriously and reminded Xie Wei seriously: "Xie Wei, don't give up at this time, otherwise all the projects will have problems."

"What could go wrong?"

Xie Wei sneered at Wu Haowen's words.

Even if the other party is a leader, they are unwilling to give him any face.

"..."

Wu Haowen didn't expect that Xie Wei was even more difficult to deal with than the principal said.

The principal only told him that Xie Wei might quit and asked him to persuade him, but he did not tell him the real reason why Xie Wei wanted to quit.

Seeing Xie Wei's attitude, he couldn't help but frown.

"The principal asked you to come, right?"

Seeing Wu Haowen frowning, Xie Wei asked him with a smile.

Wu Haowen nodded but said nothing.

"I asked the principal not to interfere with the operation of the school-enterprise joint venture, especially not to use the funds of the school-enterprise joint venture indiscriminately, but he disagreed. So, you showed up now."

"The school-enterprise joint office is a subordinate unit of the school. The principal has no right to interfere with its operations?" Wu Haowen looked at Xie Wei in disbelief.

If the head of a unit cannot interfere with subordinate departments, then what is the point of being the head?

Wu Haowen even admired Xie Wei's courage: he was still a student, but he started to fight for power with the principal.

"Yes! The establishment of the school-enterprise joint office is not only to transform the technological achievements developed by the school, but also to undertake the important task of raising funds for the school's technological research. According to the principal's way of doing things, if there is money, the school-enterprise joint office will be unable to do anything! Without money, how can it develop?"

Xie Wei did not hide anything from Wu Haowen.

Wu Haowen is engaged in aerospace power systems. Judging from the current situation, he is likely to become the chief person in charge of the fighter project.

He wanted to convey his ideas to Li Rui through Wu Haowen.

"The school-enterprise joint office currently has no projects and is not in a hurry to use the money."

Wu Haowen frowned even more tightly.

He didn't know the inside story, but he knew clearly that the young Xie Wei would not quit for no reason, otherwise, he would have scolded him long ago.

It is true that Xie Wei is a freshman, but he already had five years of work experience before entering the school.

It was obvious that Xie Wei was competing with the principal for the right to run a joint school-enterprise operation.

Although Wu Haowen thought he did not look down on Xie Wei, he did not expect this to be the case.

For the students of Grade 77/78, no leaders or teachers in the school would treat them as mere students. They have all been struggling in the society for many years and are as smart as human beings.

Everyone in the education system knows that the country’s talent training has been interrupted for many years, and countless units are facing a shortage of young people.

Before the resumption of the college entrance examination, not only were there few students recommended to go to university, but most of them had very poor foundations before entering university.

The first few batches selected through the college entrance examination will definitely be valued in units that are in urgent need of talents and have great potential for future development.

Wu Haowen still hopes to persuade Xie Wei not to ruin his relationship with the principal over the rights of joint school-enterprise operation.

“No project, no need to spend money?”

Xie Wei sneered.

"Teacher Wu, didn't Principal Li tell you that the school-enterprise joint office needs to provide artificial synthetic fragrances and AES to the Huadu Oil Chemical Factory? Doesn't it cost money to find a factory to produce or build a factory? Doesn't it cost money to do subsequent technical research and development?"

As he spoke, Xie Wei's tone became impolite.

Wu Haowen was silent.

"Also, any R&D tasks not assigned by the superiors require joint efforts between the school and the enterprise to raise money. When the school raises funds for the project, it must focus on making money in the early stages. The principal focuses on the R&D of military technology..."

Xie Wei's expression turned serious.

Xie Wei could understand what Li Rui and the school leaders were thinking, but he couldn't support it.

It's not just school leaders who think this way; all military-related units across the country have the same idea.

Especially those leaders who have served in the army, whether it was the Long March, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the later War of Liberation, they fought against 17 gangs on the peninsula, but were bombed by enemy planes and artillery and could not raise their heads.

If you fall behind, you will be beaten.

If we lag behind in military technology, we will not only be beaten, but we will be beaten badly.

Everyone knows that the research and development of military technology has a very high return on investment.

All advanced civilian technologies are derived from military technology, such as the rice cooker developed by Xie Wei, which was developed by the Japanese to supply the troops...

Military technology integrates a large number of advanced technology systems through advanced weapons and equipment, which requires too much investment, has a long R&D cycle, and a long payback cycle.

Even if it is developed, it cannot be directly transformed into civilian products.

It involves national defense security!

The Soviet Union invested all its national strength into research in the military industry, and became a world leader in countless fields. Now, if it stomps its feet, the entire blue planet will tremble.

Even the United States, together with the entire Western world, could not completely challenge the Soviet Union in terms of military strength.

Even some of the technologies left behind by the Soviet Union, which collapsed more than a decade later, were not caught up by the rest of the world for decades to come.

Such a powerful Soviet Union was dragged into the space arms race directly by PPT because of the "Star Wars Plan". Due to the distorted economy, the huge empire collapsed in just a few years...

Xie Wei knew everything, but he couldn't explain it in detail.

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"That's what he said?"

Even though Wu Haowen relayed Xie Wei's words very clearly, Li Rui still didn't believe it. "Doesn't he know that national defense and security are supreme? Everything needs to give way to national defense? If you fall behind, you will be beaten!"

"Xie Wei told you to wait a few days to see the situation before making a decision. He is not in a hurry."

"What are you waiting for?"

Li Rui was stunned.

"He didn't say anything specific, but I think it has something to do with the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee to be held tomorrow."

Wu Haowen said.

What Xie Wei revealed should be the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, saying that there should be new major policies.

But Xie Wei didn't say it clearly, so Wu Haowen naturally couldn't pass the message to the principal.

"The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee?"

Li Rui frowned, "Could it be that there will be major changes in national policies?"

Principal Li had a premonition that national policies would change.

Starting from 76, some units with poor production quality and poor technical foundation began to have their planned orders reduced; in the past two years, the production plans issued by the state have also been continuously reduced, and superiors have long begun to encourage subordinate units to be self-reliant.

A large number of military research projects have not made any progress for more than a decade, the basic supporting facilities cannot keep up, and the funding needs are huge. Now, they are slowly stagnating due to the gradual reduction in funding.

Hongguang Factory was one of the first units to have its planned orders cut.

Xie Wei reversed the situation where Hongguang Factory could not afford to pay wages and made this small factory prosperous.

“Is it related to the pilot?”

Li Rui asked Wu Haowen in a low voice.

Wu Haowen shook his head blankly, he didn't know this.

Although I read newspapers and listen to the radio every day.

"The biggest news is the 'Sino-US Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations' published yesterday. Starting from January 1 next year, we will recognize each other and establish diplomatic relations with the United States. In addition, there have been frequent military movements in the south..."

Liu Debao on the side told the biggest news in the country at the moment.

"Since Nixon's visit to China, exchanges with the West have become more frequent. It is only a matter of time before diplomatic relations are restored. There is no radio or newspaper coverage of the military mobilization in the south. Xie Wei has no access to it, so it should have nothing to do with the military."

As soon as Liu Debao finished speaking, Li Rui put forward his own opinion.

"The Huadu Oil and Fat Chemical Factory is for export; the rice cookers and pressure cookers produced by the Hongguang Factory are also intended to be exported to earn foreign exchange..."

Wu Haowen suddenly said, "These two factories are just like the joint venture between the school and the enterprise, they are all pilot projects!"

Pilot!

Li Rui and Liu Debao suddenly realized what was going on.

"Could it be that Xie Wei has the ability to predict the future?"

As soon as Li Rui said this, he shook his head decisively to get rid of this unrealistic idea from his mind.

"Principal, what should we do now? Should we wait or?"

Wu Haowen didn't want to get involved in the dispute over power between the principal and the students.

But there is no way around it.

"Didn't he tell us to wait? Then let's wait a few days and see what happens."

Li Rui had no good solution either.

If he really follows what Xie Wei proposed, will he not touch the funds from the joint venture between the school and the enterprise?
Can't do it.

The other two had no better solution.

When Li Rui learned about the "Communiqué of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee" through the broadcast of the Central Radio Station on December 12, he could no longer sit still!

"~The focus of the whole party's work and the attention of the whole nation have shifted to socialist modernization... It is a broad and profound revolution to change the production relations and superstructure that are not adapted to the development of productive forces in many aspects, and to change all unadapted management methods, modes of activities and modes of thinking."

"…adopt a series of new and major economic measures, embark on a serious reform of the economic management system and management methods, actively develop equal and mutually beneficial economic cooperation with other countries in the world on the basis of self-reliance, strive to adopt the world's advanced technology and advanced equipment, and vigorously strengthen the scientific and educational work necessary for achieving modernization…"

"…Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth…"

The Communiqué contains a lot of content.

Li Rui, who was good at grasping key content and interpreting policies, was stunned.

When all these contents are combined, there is actually not much: reform and opening up, and the focus of national work has shifted to economic infrastructure construction!

Seeing these contents, and thinking back to how Xie Wei had tricked me into asking my superiors for policies on establishing a joint school-enterprise office, don't they just happen to be in line with these policies?
When Li Rui thought about this, he felt numb all over!
Does Xie Wei really have the ability to predict the future?
(End of this chapter)