In 1978, I was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 122 Hiding Xie Wei? Principal, if you hide any longer, he will be snatched away!

"There are only a few girls in the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering? You want to hire all girls to design? What do you think?"

Du Guowang raised his eyebrows and looked at Xie Wei with dissatisfaction.

Xie Wei looked at Mo Lingyu standing aside.

Mo Lingyu blushed immediately.

Du Guowang's reaction was the same as Xie Wei's, which made Mo Lingyu realize the problem.

This request is a bit excessive.

"Don't you know what the female students of the workers, peasants and soldiers are like? Before entering the school, many of them didn't even learn the basic knowledge of high school. When they get to school, they all learn the basics first. And there are not many girls in the mechanical and electrical department. How can we find a girl who can independently complete the design of the production line? There are no female teachers of mechanical design in the mechanical and electrical department!"

Seeing Xie Wei's expression, Du Guowang understood what was going on.

He explained patiently just to tell Mo Lingyu that this plan was not feasible at all.

"Okay, let's talk about the Hong Kong branch. The Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering has a lot of precision instruments and spare parts that need to be imported from abroad. If we rely entirely on our own research and development, the speed will be too slow."

Without waiting for anyone to react, Du Guowang took the initiative to bring the topic back to the matter of Xiangjiang Construction Company.

Du Guowang is very clear about the significance of establishing a branch in Hong Kong.

There was not the slightest objection.

"Hong Kong is different from China. China has always had a planned economy, and all production is carried out according to the plans issued by the superiors. In order to complete the production plans of the superiors, costs and other issues are basically not considered..."

"Everything is for profit in the international market. Production cost is the most important competitive advantage. If a company wants to survive in the international market, it must constantly develop new products based on market demand... This is also the reason why the country is currently calling on all units to not wait and rely on others, but to reform and open up, marketize, and be guided by market demand..."

Facing several people, Xie Wei gave a detailed introduction to the marketization he understood.

Harbin Institute of Technology is a science and engineering university. Only 10 majors have resumed enrollment. Other majors that have not resumed enrollment but have research and development tasks have nothing to do with market economy and international trade.

It is basically impossible to find talents in this area in school.

As the director of the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Department, Du Guowang has strong technical and management abilities, but he is not familiar with the market.

Liang Hongbin and others rarely deal with production units and have no idea about them.

All night long, Xie Wei was the only one talking, while the others listened.

Wu Tao and Wang Zheng used the small notebooks they carried with them to keep writing down everything Xie Wei said.

"According to you, as long as we have money, we can buy even the goods banned by Batumi if we offer a high enough profit?"

Du Guowang asked excitedly after listening to Xie Wei's introduction to the international market.

Advanced mechanical equipment, especially testing equipment and advanced materials related to the research and development of mechanical equipment, are not open to the domestic market due to the existence of COCOM, and cannot be bought even if you have money.

The domestic foundation is too weak, and the research and development of some advanced technology and equipment is not only costly but also time-consuming.

The best you can buy is the best.

"It is said in Capital that as long as there is a 10% profit, it will be used everywhere; with a 20% profit, it will become active; with a 50% profit, it can take risks; with a 100% profit, it can trample on all laws; with a 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime... Apart from anything else, wasn't the reason why we started the century-long humiliating Opium War to open up the domestic market?"

Xie Wei's words made the whole room suddenly depressing.

China once stood at the top of the world.

The century-long humiliation of losing sovereignty and national humiliation ended only after the founding of New China.

Only by becoming strong again can you avoid being bullied.

Being backward will lead to being beaten. This is deeply rooted in every Chinese person's bones. Countless people have given up everything for the sake of the motherland's strength.

Capitalists will do anything for profit. There is a real example: the Toshiba incident!

Before obtaining Toshiba's five-axis linkage CNC machine tools, the Soviet nuclear submarines' processing equipment was not precise enough and the propellers made very loud noises when running, allowing NATO radars to detect Soviet nuclear submarines from a long distance.

After the Soviet Union offered a high enough price, Toshiba still tried every means to ship this high-end machine tool to the Soviet Union, even though it knew that the five-axis linkage CNC machine tool was an absolutely banned product.

Then the Soviet nuclear submarine disappeared from NATO radar.

Eventually the truth was revealed and Toshiba was merely sanctioned.

The Toshiba incident is just the tip of the iceberg.

Some large companies in the United States are also secretly exporting various equipment and technologies banned by the Batumi Agreement for the sake of profit.

The louder the waves, the more expensive the fish.

The greater the embargo, the greater the profit.

In order to obtain higher profits, the U.S. military-industrial complex even lobbied the U.S. government to launch wars around the world, thereby increasing U.S. military spending and making a fortune for themselves.

"However, if we open a company in Hong Kong, we definitely cannot do these things through that company... Once people in China are familiar with the international market, we can establish our own procurement channels..."

Xie Wei seriously reminded Wu Tao and Wang Zheng.

If a public company does something sneaky and gets caught, the end result will definitely not be good.

That night, Xie Wei said a lot.

He didn't care whether Wu Tao and Wang Zheng could digest it or not, and told them everything he knew.

The two were especially reminded that the companies they opened in Hong Kong must establish a legal department from the very beginning and recruit lawyers who are proficient in international law so as to develop habits and adapt to the various rules under the legal system.

In China, business these days is the same whether you have a lawyer or not.

"How are we going to manage the person in charge of the company in Hong Kong?"

Wu Tao raised his biggest question.

"How to manage anything? Just hold the financial power, the power to appoint and dismiss personnel, sign contracts according to local laws, and clarify the responsibilities and business of both parties. Everything should be done according to the contract! Otherwise, what is the point of setting up a legal department? The legal department itself can hardly create much value. Their purpose is to protect the interests of the company within the legal framework... But I suggest that the relationship between the school and the international trading company should not be made public from the beginning..."

As someone who has been through this, Xie Wei knows that Harbin Institute of Technology will be sanctioned sooner or later.

Unless Harbin Institute of Technology does not engage in cutting-edge military-related technologies.

Because of my appearance, Harbin Institute of Technology developed various high-precision and cutting-edge technologies many years ahead of schedule, and even restored the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics nearly 30 years ahead of schedule.

Since 78, we have been advancing into the basic technologies of third-generation fighter jets, eight years earlier than the rest of the country started projects in this area.

Being sanctioned is certain.

"Is that so?"

Wu Tao still didn't understand.

But he didn't know how to continue asking Xie Wei.

"Xie Wei, you said at the beginning that foreign capital would directly register offshore companies to avoid risks, and then use offshore companies for cross-holding. Do you want us to do the same? Then the person who is responsible for connecting with the Hong Kong company will have nothing to do with the school on the surface?"

Wang Zheng felt that he understood Xie Wei's intention.

But I'm not sure.

Ask Xie Wei directly whether his understanding is correct.

"Yes, that's what I mean. The head of the branch over there cannot receive all his income directly in the form of salary. We need to fully mobilize his enthusiasm. The company is engaged in trade, so we can give him a base salary + bonus... If the other party is not capable enough and cannot achieve the profit agreed in the contract, he will receive less; if he creates higher value for the company, we can set a specific amount, and if it exceeds the amount, we will give him a certain amount of bonus to improve his enthusiasm..."

"..."

Several people looked at Xie Wei in a daze.

This is completely different from the domestic employment system and is completely in line with the capitalist world.

If your superior knows about this, will he agree?

That night, when Xie Wei finished his introduction, it was already one o'clock in the morning.

It is cold outside.

Wang Zheng and Wu Tao still had more to discuss, so they asked Xie Wei to take Mo Lingyu back to the dormitory.

"Xie Wei, how do you know so much? I feel like I don't have enough time to learn all kinds of basic professional knowledge..."

The temperature in Harbin was very low in the early morning.

But Mo Lingyu's heart was burning with passion.

She thought she had a certain understanding of Xie Wei, but now she realized that she only knew the basics.

"I have a good memory. I don't like to mess around with my classmates after school. I don't have anything to do to kill time, so I just keep going to the library to borrow books to read..."

Xie Wei casually gave the reason.

I couldn't tell Mo Lingyu that I had studied for decades and had rich practical experience.

Coming to this world, the body I occupy has super memory and comprehension ability...

Before entering Harbin Institute of Technology, Xie Wei was always worried about being exposed in front of the school's top students.

After more exposure, I realized that my current advantages far exceed those of the academic masters of this era.

When the mindset changes, the attitude will also be different.

People will naturally become more confident.

"But I can't read many books. I find them hard to understand..."

"Sometimes, if you can't understand something at first, don't rush to understand it. Write it down first. A lot of content in books is not very useful for work and life."

"Ah?" Mo Lingyu stopped, his face full of confusion.

"Why learn something that is useless in life and work?"

“Are you a pragmatist?”

Xie Wei was surprised.

Only pragmatists would do this. Before learning anything, they would first consider whether it is useful or not. If it is useless, they would not learn it.

"In the philosophy content of the high school political textbook, it is introduced that quantitative change leads to qualitative change. This is one of the basic laws of dialectical materialism. Quantitative change requires a process of accumulation. As long as the critical point is not reached, we will not find how important these are... Most of the things we learned in class since elementary school are not used in life and work, but they can increase our knowledge, make us understand how to think, and even change our ideas invisibly, such as..."

What Xie Wei said was just his own understanding.

He had been confused before.

Starting from elementary school, mathematics can only be used in daily life except for simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. If you don’t work in a related profession, even trigonometric functions and equations are useless.

For example, flow calculation in elementary school, a pool is drained and added with water at the same time. This is basically not used in real life and may even be considered as stupid behavior by people who don’t understand it.

But such seemingly stupid behavior not only plays a huge role in engineering, but can even subtly change people's thinking from an early age, and can be used in many aspects.

For example, income is the inlet, expenditure is the outlet, making money while spending money, the pool is the savings...

The two walked and talked, and soon arrived at the school.

Xie Wei sent Mo Lingyu downstairs and turned back to the dormitory.

Mo Lingyu waited until Xie Wei's back disappeared for a while before turning around and returning to the dormitory.

Wu Tao and Wang Zheng woke Li Rui up from his warm kang in the middle of the night.

Although Principal Li's lover was dissatisfied, she got up, put on her clothes, and enthusiastically made tea for the two of them.

Li Rui was about to set off for the ministry at dawn.

The words Wu Tao and Wang Zheng heard from Xie Wei will be part of the reasons that Principal Li uses to convince the department to agree to open a company in Hong Kong.

"How about this, Wu Tao will come with me to the ministry tomorrow morning. Wang Zheng will stay at school. I have communicated with the Commerce Bureau today, and they will directly allocate the department store next to the school to the school-enterprise office... You will be responsible for connecting with them; in addition, Wang Zheng will also go to run the matchbox factory of the street office."

Principal Li felt overwhelmed after listening to the two people's reports.

All the reasons Xie Wei gave were very sufficient.

Principal Li was afraid that he would not be able to remember, so he simply asked Wu Tao to go with him.

"Principal, Xie Wei asked us to go to Hong Kong to investigate the market first... How about you take Xie Wei with you? He knows more about it than we do."

Wu Tao didn't want to deal with the leaders in the department.

The pressure is too great.

In particular, the principal often slams the table at his superiors in order to achieve his own goals. I followed the principal, and that scene...

Wu Tao was not afraid of affecting his future, he was simply afraid of dealing with his superiors.

"Him? I can't even hide him in time!"

Li Rui glared at Wu Tao and almost started scolding him.

Damn it, I'll take him to the superiors to make him familiar, what a good opportunity!
Don’t want it!

"If the superiors don't support me, I can't leave. Not to mention the follow-up. Although the department is short of people, the superiors have given tens of millions of funds for research. They shouldn't transfer Xie Wei away before he graduates..."

At this moment, Wang Zheng also supported Li Rui in taking Xie Wei to the department.

On the one hand, Xie Wei knew how to operate better than them.

On the other hand, Wang Zheng was considering Xie Wei's future: let the leaders of the department get to know Xie Wei now, and as long as he can achieve results, Xie Wei will have a bright future.

He understood the principal's thoughts, but did not support his approach.

People with abilities should be recognized by their superiors as early as possible. Only in this way can Xie Wei have greater development prospects in the future.

"But……"

Li Rui hesitated.

He didn't want Xie Wei to appear in the sight of his superiors so early.

Where is the candidate that I favor to succeed him as the principal?

Once Xie Wei is transferred to another unit, will he be able to come back?

"Principal, you can't hide it. Aren't the people from the Third Ministry of Machine Building here? You can handle it at first, but what about later? The leaders of the ministry have to speak up..."

Wang Zheng reminded Li Rui.

During the Chinese New Year, someone from the Third Ministry of Machine Building came to the school to ask for Xie Wei.

They didn't tell me which specific unit it was. Principal Li was upset at the time and didn't even ask more questions.

Now that Wang Zheng mentioned this matter, Principal Li, who was already in a bad mood, became even more upset.

There was silence in the room for a moment.

Li Rui thought for a moment and felt that what Wang Zheng said made sense. Now the subordinate units of the Third Ministry of Machine Building had already set their sights on Xie Wei and took the initiative to come to his house to try to get rid of Xie Wei.

The longer the time went on, the stronger the abilities Xie Wei demonstrated, the more units the school cooperated with, and naturally the more units he knew.

Principal Li knew very well that if his superiors were persuaded and a transfer order was issued, it would be useless no matter how much he objected.

It seems that only if Xie Wei becomes well-known in the department and the department leaders are familiar with Xie Wei and know his true abilities, the department will keep Xie Wei.

By then, other systems will come to compete for people, which will cause headaches for the superiors.

"Okay, one of you will go and notify Xie Wei and ask him to pack up and come with me to the department tomorrow. You guys should finish your work in the next few days. When your superiors support you, you can go and investigate the market and prepare to open a company in Hong Kong..."

Principal Li didn't care that it was already past two in the morning and immediately asked Wu Tao and Wang Zheng to inform Xie Weiming to go to the department with him early in the morning.

"You guys aren't sleeping in the middle of the night, and you won't let anyone sleep?"

Xie Wei, who was sleeping soundly, was awakened by the knock on the door and looked at the two of them with an unhappy face.

Zhang Jingyan and others who were woken up at first were still cursing, but when they saw that it was Wu Tao and Wang Zheng, they kept silent.

"The principal asked you to pack up and go out with him tomorrow."

"Whoever wants to go can go!"

Xie Wei refused without even thinking about it.

What a fuss!

I haven't had a good rest yet, I just came back and now you're going on a business trip again?

It’s not the era when airplanes and high-speed trains are very convenient.

Going out means several days of discomfort.

"Xie Wei, how about we talk outside?"

Wang Zheng looked at Wu Tao, and seeing Xie Wei's reaction, he could only sigh silently. Several people in Xie Wei's dormitory were woken up. Although the matter did not need to be kept so confidential, if the students in the experimental class knew about it, they would have other thoughts in their minds.

"What's there to say!"

Xie Wei was very sleepy at this moment.

He just wanted to go back to his warm bed and have a good sleep.

"You were not in school on New Year's Day, so the unit under the Third Ministry of Machine Building contacted the principal and planned to transfer you..."

Wu Tao knew that it was inappropriate to disturb someone's sleep in the middle of the night, but he couldn't just leave Xie Wei alone to explain his attitude.

What the hell?

Not only Xie Wei was confused.

Even the people in the dormitory who were woken up suddenly had their brains shut down.

Tang Long left on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Could it be that he also went to the Third Ministry of Machine Building?

Xie Wei knew where Tang Long had gone. When he heard that someone from the Third Ministry of Machine Building wanted to transfer him away, he was unable to react for a moment.

He also knew that it was not appropriate for his classmates to hear.

I could only put on my coat helplessly and walk outside.

They didn't stop until they reached the study room.

As it is winter vacation now, most of the students who stay in school are participating in projects. In addition, it is the Chinese New Year period, so there is basically no one in the all-night study room with the lights on after 2 a.m.

"what happened?"

Xie Wei frowned and asked the two of them.

He thought that apart from having contact with several project teams at school, he had never had any contact with people from the Third Ministry of Machine Building. Why did people from the Third Ministry of Machine Building come to transfer him away?

What's more, I'm just a freshman and don't fit the procedures!

(End of this chapter)