In 1978, I was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 123: School-enterprise partnership to start a business, money paves the way, the effect is great!
"All plans require the support of our superiors. You are more familiar with this than we are. The principal is also trying to be safe."

Wu Tao hurriedly explained.

He did not mention that he did not want to face the pressure from senior leaders, and directly suggested to Li Rui that Xie Wei go.

A dead Taoist friend will never die but a poor Taoist.

"Director Wu is right. You are more familiar with international trade than we are. If our superiors ask about other things, we won't be able to answer them, which will easily affect subsequent plans."

Wang Zheng knew that Xie Wei felt that traveling on the road was a waste of time, so he took the initiative to tell Xie Wei that things were far more important than doing research at school.

Seeing that Xie Wei's expression had eased a lot, he continued, "Director Wu and I have transferred the relationship between the chemical plant and the department store to the school-enterprise office in the past few days, contacted the relevant suppliers of core material production, and made preparations for the early production..."

"The Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering designed a sanitary napkin production line, and asked the metalworking workshop to organize the materials and prepare for production."

Xie Wei did not refuse again.

It is not easy to convince superiors.

Especially when foreign exchange reserves were insufficient, each competent authority would like to split every penny of foreign exchange into several parts to spend.

To set up a trading company in Hong Kong, you need to prepare at least one million Hong Kong dollars.

Of course, if Xie Wei does it himself, it only costs tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars: rent a house, get a registered address, and hire three or five people to open the business.

In the early stages, you don’t even need to settle the bill first, and you can take advantage of the rules of international trade to get something for nothing.

But Xie Wei can't go to Hong Kong.

Even if he wanted to go, Li Rui would not agree.

"Sixth brother, are you going out again?"

When Xie Wei returned to the dormitory, the few people who were woken up were no longer sleepy.

When he heard Wu Tao and Wang Zheng asked Xie Weiming to go out with the principal in the morning, he was worried that Xie Wei would end up like Tang Long and leave.

"Well, I have to go out with the principal for something. I will be back soon. Everyone, go to sleep."

Xie Wei knew what they were thinking. They were both looking forward to "disappearing" and yet also worried about "disappearing".

Mainly due to uncertainty about the future.

Seeing that Xie Wei was unwilling to say more, even though they were very curious, they knew they couldn't ask anything.

I tossed and turned in bed and had trouble falling asleep.

Xie Wei didn't care whether everyone could fall asleep or not, and soon he started snoring loudly, making it even more difficult for them to sleep.

It was not until Xie Wei woke up that they fell into a drowsy sleep.

Xie Wei got up very quietly, but still woke up several people who had just fallen asleep.

"Boss, Sixth Brother won't be sent away like this and never come back, right?"

After Xie Wei left, Feng Ke got up with red eyes. He was exhausted physically, but mentally excited and couldn't fall asleep at all.

"Why? Don't you think living in the same dormitory with him is too stressful?"

Yao Xinwei replied unhappily, "Wouldn't it be what you wanted if he left?"

"You sound like you don't want him to leave. If he doesn't leave, you, the deputy monitor, won't stand a chance!"

Li Chuangxin curled his lips and looked down on Yao Xinwei.

"fart!"

Yao Xinwei sat up suddenly from the bed like a cat whose tail was stepped on. "Old Li, please stop talking nonsense."

"Okay, it's early in the morning. If you're not sleepy, get up and memorize some words. Don't disturb everyone else's sleep."

Zhang Jingyan, the eldest brother who had been silent the whole time, spoke up, "Didn't Sixth Brother say that he would be back soon? He shouldn't leave right away like Tang Long did."

"He should have left first than my second brother!"

Feng Ke said slowly.

Xie Wei is the student with the worst foundation but the strongest learning ability in the class.

The efficient learning method provided by Xie Wei enables the whole class to learn various difficult knowledge faster than before.

There were several people living in one dormitory, and they had a vague feeling that they would only leave when it came to projects related to military technology, and Xie Wei was the one who participated the most in military technology projects in the class.

Xie Wei didn't leave yet, but Tang Long left first.

Several people were even more uncertain.

"After he leaves, the students in the class will still work hard. Can their condition be compared with the current state? The school cannot fail to consider this issue. From the very beginning, the school promoted the class monitor. Don't you understand? Xie Rou should be the class monitor of the 79th grade experimental class... I heard that the teacher from the admissions office has been away for a long time, visiting major cities across the country to inspect outstanding students..."

"Suck~"

Li Chuangxin took a breath of cold air.

Xie Rou had been to the experimental class, and that look as if she was looking at a fool was really insulting.

The key point is that the girl is not very old and doesn’t consider that speaking too directly may hurt others.

For a moment, Li Chuangxin began to observe a moment of silence for his younger classmates.

"Fortunately, fortunately, I am glad that I am not taking the college entrance examination this year..."

Yao Xinwei's tone was full of relief.

"If I were in the same class with Xie Rou, life would be much easier! At least the monitor would care about our emotions, but Xie Rou doesn't care about emotions!"

The others agreed.

When Xie Wei is in the class, everyone feels desperate at the thought of pursuing him.

Xie Wei's existence is like a beacon. Whenever I feel tired and want to give up, I will feel motivated again when I think that Xie Wei has a better foundation than everyone else, a stronger ability to understand, and works harder than everyone else.

Anyone who can be admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology must have worked hard and diligently.

Under the stimulation of a powerful person like Xie Wei, the team must either give up playing badly or work harder, otherwise they will be left far behind.

No one wants to be left behind.

Even Wei Bingkun, who left the experimental class, is still diligent and hardworking, but his pursuits are different from those of other students in the experimental class.

"Don't worry. When we come back, we'll have a chemical plant and a department store run by the school."

On the way to the train station, Li Rui saw Xie Wei looking worried and thought he was worried about the chemical plant and the department store.

"Principal, I'm worried that my superiors won't agree."

Xie Wei has never greeted the senior leaders these days.

The brief contact with Deputy Minister Ren before made Xie Wei realize that each of the big guys was extremely shrewd.

It's not easy to fool.

Minister Song was Principal Li’s former superior. Whether he played the emotional card or acted helpless, it was much easier because of the relationship.

Now that Minister Song has gone to the Organization Department, the newly appointed Minister Zheng can't even throw a tantrum and act helplessly like he did with Minister Song.

At least, unless it is necessary, Principal Li would not dare to slam the table in front of Minister Zheng.

"As long as it is beneficial to the development of the school and can promote scientific and technological progress, the superiors will agree. Otherwise, do you think that the 1200 million is really just due to my relationship with Minister Song!"

Li Rui comforted Xie Wei.

At the same time, he was also observing Xie Wei's reaction.

Of the 1200 million, a large portion is used by the ministry for chip research and development.

Principal Li has no plan to allocate much to Factory 14.

I’m afraid Xie Wei will make a fuss after finding out.

You still have to be frugal with your money. Xie Wei spends money like water when he starts a project.

Only when you don’t manage a household do you know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are.

"It's not easy when it comes to foreign exchange. How many units in the country need foreign exchange to import technology and equipment from abroad? It's not certain whether the ministry will agree to policies such as self-management and self-financing for schools to open international trade companies in Hong Kong."

Although domestic and international contacts have been relaxed a lot.

Relatively speaking, it is still cautious.

The main reason is that no one understands how the international market works.

"Don't worry, I'll find someone familiar with the international market to take charge of the Hong Kong company. Even if we don't have the ability to do other things, we can still do this..."

Li Rui had a mysterious smile on his face.

Xie Wei really wanted to ask him where he found the person, but looking at Li Rui's expression, he knew that the old man wanted to keep him in suspense, so he was too lazy to ask him.

You will know when the time comes.

Curiosity often kills the cat.

After getting on the train, taking advantage of the fact that there was no one in the soft sleeper car, Li Rui asked Xie Wei many questions about things to pay attention to when opening a company in Hong Kong.

Xie Wei did not hesitate to answer all these questions.

Many things are hard to explain.

As for the part you know, you can explain that this is what you thought of after reading Das Kapital and understanding the nature of capitalism.

If you know everything, how can you know it under the conditions in China and have never been abroad?
Who knows what problems may arise by then.

"Principal, I don't know much about Hong Kong and the international market. Although Hong Kong belongs to us, it has not been taken back yet...how about I go to Hong Kong with Director Wu and others when the time comes?" It was not until 82 that Hong Kong's return negotiations were initiated. It was not until 84, after 22 rounds of negotiations, that the Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed, deciding that from July 1997, 7, China would resume the exercise of sovereignty and governance over Hong Kong.

"Forget it! Just study hard. If you need anything, let Wu Tao and the others investigate."

Li Rui refused without even thinking about it.

His attitude made Xie Wei realize that his previous view was correct: Principal Li would never agree to him going abroad.

Studying abroad is impossible.

Even going to Hong Kong is not allowed at the moment.

"You don't have to think too much. It's not that I won't let you go abroad. When you finish your studies at school, if you still want to go abroad, I will help you even if I'm not in school."

Seeing Xie Wei's dejected expression, Li Rui hurriedly explained.

He couldn't tell Xie Wei that if Xie Wei went abroad for a few years and then came back, he would have to start from the most basic level. The prospects would be completely different if he worked in school for a few years, made achievements, and then came back studying abroad.

Xie Wei was too young to explain these considerations, and Principal Li could not explain them to him.

"..."

Xie Wei didn't know how to answer.

He had never thought about going abroad these days. With the skills he had mastered, the biggest advantage of going abroad was that the supporting facilities were much better than those in China.

If I really go abroad and demonstrate my abilities, can I come back?
If you are determined to come back, given the nature of Westerners, you might die in an accident one day.

"You didn't sleep well last night. You should get some sleep."

Li Rui didn't want to discuss this topic with Xie Wei anymore. He would definitely not let Xie Wei go out in the next few years.

As for the fact that one can learn more by studying abroad, Principal Li cannot deny it.

Even if you don't go abroad, can't you achieve results?

The father of the hydrogen bomb never studied abroad, but he was able to make such a great contribution, surpassing several generations of scientists from the four Western countries and making China's hydrogen bomb technology unique in the world!

Why did Xie Wei go abroad?
Principal Li also needs to think about how to get the ministry to agree to let the school-enterprise set up a trading company in Hong Kong, and also consider the source of foreign exchange in the absence of a plan.

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"Director Wu, this is Director Qiao Yan of Dongfeng Oil and Fat Chemical Factory. Director Qiao will introduce the situation of the factory to you. I have something else to do, so I will not accompany you for now."

The leaders of the Chemical Bureau are very respectful.

After Wu Tao and Wang Zheng came to us, we immediately arranged for someone to accompany them to visit the enterprises allocated to the school-enterprise.

Dongfeng Oil and Fat Chemical Plant.

It was originally a basic plant that used crude oil to refine mineral base oil to support lubricant production plants.

Now, due to the serious aging of equipment and backward technology, there are very few production plans.

The factory originally planned to use the existing equipment to transform and produce soap, but several soap factories in the Northeast are quite large.

In addition, the Chemical Bureau did not have enough funds to provide Dongfeng Oil Factory with the renovation and upgrading of its production equipment.

The development of this factory came to a standstill a few years ago.

There are only more than 300 people in the entire factory.

The factory has large-scale distillation equipment, deasphalting and sophisticated solvent production equipment, as well as equipment for producing several key materials in the hands of the School-Enterprise Office. Otherwise, a shrewd person like Principal Li would definitely not take over.

The leader who brought the two people to the chemical plant introduced the person to them and then left.

Didn't stay a minute longer.

"You two, the situation at the factory is not optimistic. The equipment is aging and the technology is backward. We only produced for three months last year... We now owe a bank loan of more than one million..."

Factory Director Qiao Yan, who is in his early fifties, has already gray hair.

After the leaders of the Chemical Bureau left, he did not hide anything and directly introduced the true situation of the factory to the two of them.

"We know about the bank loan."

Wu Tao's words surprised Factory Director Qiao Yan.

"That's more than one million! There is no production plan this year, and we can't pay salaries. If we want to pay salaries, we have to continue to borrow money..."

The other party was from Harbin Institute of Technology, and Director Qiao didn't understand why Harbin Institute of Technology wanted to take over this mess.

The situation in the factory has become very bad.

If another unit were to take charge, Director Qiao and the factory leaders would be delighted.

But the new supervisory unit is Harbin Institute of Technology!

The school has money, wouldn’t it be good to invest it in building teaching buildings or in scientific research?

"We already knew the situation. Isn't the loan of more than one million yuan due in more than two years?"

Wu Tao looked relaxed.

In his opinion, although a loan of more than one million yuan is not a small amount of money, it is nothing compared to the future profits that the factory will generate.

According to the contract signed between the School-Enterprise Office and Huadu Oil and Fat Chemical Factory, the price of AES alone is 4800 yuan per ton. With the current production capacity of Huadu Oil and Fat Chemical Factory, at least 360 tons are needed each year.

The price of polytetrafluoroethylene is as high as 56000 yuan per ton.

The price of perfluoroalkyl compounds is directly calculated by kilogram.

Not to mention products like synthetic flavors which are also priced by the kilogram.

The selling price of each product is almost three times the cost!
"Director Qiao, you are an old graduate of Harbin Institute of Technology, and we understand your feelings. Please rest assured that the school is willing to take over after understanding the situation. There must be considerations for the school. I hope you can cooperate with us..."

Wang Zheng knew Qiao Yan.

Xie Wei told him that if the school-enterprise office wanted to develop better and leaders’ work would be easier, they must understand the heads of the various units under them.

If other units that are having a hard time were to have new supervisory units take over, the leading cadres would be eager for it.

At least, you can ask for funds frequently.

Last year, Qiao Yan also frequently went to the office of the leader of the Chemical Industry Bureau and almost broke down the threshold of the office.

The reason why he treated Wu Tao and Wang Zheng like this was because he graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology.

"Don't worry, as long as the school gives instructions, the whole factory will definitely cooperate!"

Qiao Yan wanted to say something, but seeing that Wu Tao and Wang Zheng didn't care at all, he could only keep silent.

"Today, I will pay January's salary in arrears, and also pay February's salary in advance. From now on, I will pay the salary on time on the 5th of every month!"

"This……"

Wang Zheng said that he would pay all the factory cadres and employees their wages in advance in the afternoon, which made Qiao Yan dumbfounded.

Is the school so rich?

"You'll get used to it in the future. This is the rule for schools to run subsidiary companies. You're not the first, nor will you be the last."

Wu Tao explained with a smile.

At Factory 14, after the School-Enterprise Office took over, they found that the results were amazing!
"Although workers have high consciousness, they still need to eat, right? We can't just talk to them about consciousness and ideals and ignore their meals! Otherwise, we'd be being a hooligan! If you want the horse to run, you have to feed it first. Without worries, everyone can work more actively and contribute to the development of the factory. We don't need to pay more money, as long as it is paid on time, everyone will be more motivated... This is a truth that a leader must understand!"

Xie Wei told the two of them this in a very serious tone.

With the precedent of Factory 14, after Wu Tao took the money to the factory to get the back pay, the cadres and workers of Factory 14 worked day and night on the small-batch trial production of the school's HZ80 chips, giving up even their rest and working tirelessly to improve production quality, which was something Wu Tao had not expected before.

I came back and asked Xie Wei why the people at Factory 14 were unwilling to do so even though they could have improved the production quality.

Xie Wei only said one sentence: The workers are in charge!

How do workers take charge?

Instead of letting the workers decide the development direction of the factory, after the development direction is decided, we fully listen to the suggestions of the workers and make them feel respected.

We eat from the same pot, and the income is the same regardless of whether the quality improves or not.

At the beginning, some people worked hard to improve.

After a long time, if leaders no longer take it seriously, how many people can persist?

With the precedent of Factory 14, Wu Tao and Wang Zheng directly believed in Xie Wei's words and used them as the code of conduct for the school-enterprise office.

It was Wu Tao who proposed to distribute the money.

Wang Zheng also supports it.

The two did not apply to the school and directly used the money from the school-enterprise office.

The School-Enterprise Office needs to make its own decisions on these matters. At that time, Xie Wei fought with the principal for this right for a long time.

That afternoon, more than 300 cadres and employees of Dongfeng Oil and Chemical Plant were present.

Qiao Yan announced to all the cadres and employees that the factory would no longer be under the jurisdiction of the Chemical Industry Bureau, but would be a subsidiary of the Harbin Institute of Technology’s School-Enterprise Office. It would not only undertake the important task of transferring the school’s related technologies, but also students from the school would come to practice there…

At first, the cadres and staff in the cold wind did not react much.

Isn’t it the same no matter who cares?
But when Wu Tao brought the prepared cash, and the cashier mobilized by the school's financial department, together with the accountant and cashier of the factory, started distributing money on the spot, everyone became excited.

Not only did they pay January's salary, they even paid February's salary in advance.

The next day, when the teachers and students arranged by the school's Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Department and Chemical Engineering Department arrived at the factory, all of them were enthusiastic and worked hard to introduce various situations to the school personnel who came to inspect the equipment and prepare improvement plans.

"Xie Wei is right. Money is not everything, but without money, nothing can be done!"

After learning about the situation, Wu Tao once again sighed.

(End of this chapter)