In 1978, I was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 181 Who Cleans Whose Ass? Growth Plan for the 40-Year-Old President of a Key University
"Did he really say that?"

After hearing Wang Zheng's answer, Principal Li was really panicked. "It was he who proposed to set up the school-enterprise office, and it was also run according to his plan. He is the consultant of the school-enterprise office. How can he just ignore it? Why?"

How dare you ask them why? Don’t you even look at what you have done?
Seeing Li Rui's face twisted with anger, Wang Zheng complained in his heart.

"Principal, Xie Wei said that the School Enterprise Office is a subordinate unit of the school. You are the person in charge of the school and have the right to manage any unit of the school..."

Wang Zheng's words were rather tactful.

However, the displeasure in his tone was not concealed at all.

"What the hell are you talking about! The school-enterprise office operates independently, and the school cannot interfere..."

Having said this, Principal Li could no longer speak.

Especially after hearing Wang Zheng's contemptuous look, "You yourself actually remember that the school held a meeting to discuss it and even stamped the document", he was so embarrassed that his old face turned red.

Of course, Principal Li’s face was dark, so it couldn’t be seen at all.

"This isn't interference... I was the one who negotiated the business..."

Principal Li felt very wronged.

All the profits from the business that I negotiated go to the school-enterprise business. The school's projects need funds but they cannot be used. No one would accept this, right?

Otherwise, he wouldn't be like this.

"Principal, you know the situation of the school-enterprise office. From my personal point of view, I support whatever decision you make..."

"What the hell!"

Looking at Wang Zheng's expression, Li Rui wanted to slap him in the face.

What is “personal perspective support”?
"Okay, since you can't make the decision, I'll go talk to Xie Wei!"

When Wang Zheng heard this, he immediately felt relieved.

It seems that the principal still has some dignity to save after all.

He had already made Xie Wei's attitude clear, and the principal was also worried that Xie Wei would really quit his job, rather than ignoring it for the sake of his own authority.

"Principal, if you need anything, just tell me and I'll come to you! You have to personally take care of so many things in the school. I can't bear the responsibility if you delay."

Xie Wei was not surprised by Li Rui's arrival.

Also not welcome.

"What are you talking about! Look at your attitude!"

Li Rui was disdainful of Xie Wei's sarcasm. "I know you think I didn't follow the rules I set before, but you can't blame me for this."

"How dare I blame you! Principal, I'm just a student..."

Xie Wei looked calm.

Li Rui, who was already feeling aggrieved, was furious when he saw Xie Wei's attitude. "Don't use the fact that you are a student as an excuse! When we were setting up the school-enterprise partnership, you dug a big hole for me. If you didn't tell me, the school won't be able to recover the money it invested!"

"Isn't the money that the school-enterprise office pays to the school every year a recovery of the school's investment? Think about how much the school has invested and how much it gets every year. And now the school-enterprise office's funding mainly relies on loans..."

Xie Wei did not back down at all.

Li Rui's behavior has affected the operation mechanism of the school-enterprise office.

"Have I touched the civilian product project? Regardless of the profit, apart from the commission you proposed, has the school touched the cake of the school enterprise office? Do you think the school enterprise office can handle the military products involved this time?"

Li Rui's words immediately made Xie Wei speechless.

Military products!

Obviously Xie Wei had forgotten.

Even in his time, the sale of weapons and equipment was not something that ordinary units could get involved in.

"It was my negligence not to communicate with you in advance. If you are dissatisfied because the school negotiated with Jiangbei Machinery Factory and bypassed the school-enterprise office, it only shows that you are immature..."

Li Rui became serious.

There is no problem for the school-enterprise office to produce civilian products. After all, they have the project autonomy and management rights given by their superiors, so there won't be any problems.

The weapons and equipment are different.

"Xie Wei, tell me, given the current situation of the School Enterprise Office, who do you think is competent in communicating with the troops or negotiating export business? Wang Zheng? Or you?"

At this moment, Xie Wei really couldn't refute it.

Not to mention the school-enterprise office, even other domestic military factories need to go through corresponding export agency companies when exporting weapons and equipment.

It has been less than a year since the reform and opening up, and less than a year since the country's foreign military aid became paid. To export weapons and equipment, the system is incomplete.

"The school can't export. If we cooperate with Jiangbei Machinery Factory and Jiangbei Machinery Factory sells their own rocket launchers through cooperation with us, who will be responsible if there is a problem?"

Xie Wei reacted quickly.

It was my own fault that I didn't consider the special nature of disposable rocket launchers. "At the beginning, we had three rules. If the school-enterprise office is not suitable, we should communicate with each other first, instead of bypassing the school-enterprise office. Once a precedent is set, what will happen to the school-enterprise office if the principal is replaced in the future?"

Li Rui glared at Xie Wei. "Unless the person in charge of the school-enterprise office is on the same level as the principal, your worries may always come true! Do you think everyone is the same as me and can negotiate with you so calmly?"

Li Rui's words directly pointed out Xie Wei's biggest worry deep in his heart: school leaders can interfere with the operation of the school-enterprise office at will!

Once this happens, the school-enterprise office will eventually have serious problems and become a place for leaders to gain personal political achievements.

The leader achieved political achievements and was promoted and left.

And the final mess is still there!
How to do?
Even if it's Xie Wei, what can he do?

"Isn't it the same for you?"

"It's different. The ministry is already preparing to set up a special equipment import and export company..."

So fast?
Among the top ten weapons and equipment export companies in China, two are under the aerospace system: Precision Machinery Import and Export and Aerospace Long March National Trade.

Poly International, which has the export rights for the entire system of weapons and equipment, is jointly funded by the Equipment Department of the General Staff and CITIC. It should not have been established yet, right?

"This has nothing to do with your direct negotiations with Jiangbei Machinery Factory, right?"

Xie Wei could understand what Li Rui meant.

But he didn't want to admit it.

"Why is it not related? The original purpose of establishing the School-Enterprise Office was to transfer the school's technology and raise funds for the school's independent projects. Weapons and equipment also fall into the category of technology transfer, but the problem is that this does not apply to the business scope of the School-Enterprise Office..."

After all, the level of the school-enterprise office is too low.

Even at the school level, it is not possible to directly engage in the arms and equipment trade.

Xie Wei could understand, but did not support it.

"There is another question that I don't know if you have thought about. The school-enterprise office is currently unable to keep up with the development... I have an idea..."

"what?"

When Li Rui expressed his idea, Xie Wei widened his eyes and looked at Li Rui in disbelief: Li Rui actually proposed to directly register another company, which would no longer be under the management of the school, but under the management of the department.

"This way you don't have to worry about the school leaders treating the school-enterprise partnership as a money-making tool or a political achievement."

"no!"

Xie Wei thought about it and shook his head to reject Li Rui's idea. "Once it is under the management of the department, the school's project autonomy will lose its meaning."

The school-enterprise is run in the school, and all profits earned belong to the school.

Although under the jurisdiction of the ministry, the school can still initiate projects independently. If the company wants to transfer profits to the school's project, the leader of the competent unit must give the nod.

"Your consideration is correct, but the current weapons and equipment are definitely not suitable for the School Enterprise Office to manage."

After listening to Xie Wei's rebuttal, Li Rui did not insist.

The school is already short of money.

If a profitable company is put under the jurisdiction of a department, even if the superior leaders do not interfere in the profit distribution, what about other brother units that are short of money?

Xie Wei stopped talking.

He doesn't have a good idea either.

Setting up a private company?

Setting up an offshore company?

There is no problem with ordinary civilian product business, but once it involves weapons and equipment, and military technology, in China in this era, people will die without knowing how they died.

"I have already discussed with the army leaders that as long as our rocket launcher test results are good, we will first place an order for 10000 units. Although the counterattack in the southwest is over, the monkeys are not giving up and have occupied a lot of territory on our border..."

"so much?"

"Only 500. A lot? We have an army of over million. Each person has a rocket launcher. This is nothing! Otherwise, why do you think I would give out part of the profits and cooperate with Jiangbei Machinery Factory?"

“If 70% of the profits are given away, is that called partial profits?”

"Who the hell told you that 70% of the profits were distributed? What I negotiated with the Jiangbei factory was that 30% of the price we provided to the troops would belong to us. As long as they ensure the quality and reduce the cost, the excess would be theirs..." Only then did Xie Wei realize that Tang Daoxian had delivered the wrong message.

I could only smile awkwardly.

"Also, I asked the military leaders and told the people at Jiangbei Machinery Factory that the military would place an order with the school's company and the funds would be allocated to the school. The school's company responsible for this matter would sign a contract with the production factory... In other words, as you said, everything should be guided by marketization!"

After hearing Li Rui's explanation, Xie Wei was really embarrassed.

Before, he thought that Li Rui was messing around and he had to clean up his mess all the time.

In fact, the old guy is just cleaning up his own mess.

The School-Enterprise Office was proposed by Xie Wei, and the operating model was also designed by Xie Wei. Once it involves arms transactions, it would be fine if there are no problems, but if there are problems, the consequences will be serious.

Li Rui said it simply, but Xie Wei knew how difficult it was to convince the troops to agree to operate according to market principles, or even have the troops transfer the equipment purchase money to the school, which would then seek factories for production.

If any problem arises, he, as the principal, will still be blamed and it will not affect anyone in the school.

Especially Xie Wei, who was the one who really led these things, did not take any risks at all.

Li Rui considered everything for Xie Wei.

"The Jiangbei factory doesn't just help us produce. The school needs their technicians... When the school-enterprise office went to talk, the other party didn't give me any face... But it's different when talking to me. In the whole department, anyone who has heard of my name knows that I have no shame."

Li Rui's self-deprecating explanation made Xie Wei even more embarrassed.

"It's not a good idea for schools to just rob Peter to pay Paul as they are doing now."

Thinking that the school's funding chain was about to break, if it weren't for this, Xie Wei wouldn't have been upset because he thought Li Rui was messing around.

This is a good way to change the subject.

"If you want to get benefits, you have to pay something! You don't have to worry about these things."

Li Rui didn't want Xie Wei to know more about the military projects involved in the school.

The fact that he was able to obtain funds and support from the army certainly couldn't be because he was cheating on his former superiors.

Xie Wei sighed silently.

He now understood: without those projects, the school would definitely not be able to get so much support from the army and the ministry!
"Xie Wei, many leaders in the department have a very good impression of you... Even if you don't stay in school in the end, you will have a lot of development opportunities in the department. Just do it according to your own ideas. If there are any problems, we old guys will take care of them."

Li Rui's words made Xie Wei feel heavy.

Seeing the heavy look on Xie Wei's face, Principal Li grinned and said, "Well, if you feel bad about it, ask the School-Enterprise Office to increase the school's funding by tens of millions every year..."

Xie Wei, who was originally in a heavy mood, suddenly became irritable and pushed Li Rui out of the door.

"Bang~"

The door was slammed shut.

"This kid, if you don't want to give me tens of millions, a few million will be fine. If you give me a few million more, I can stand up straight a few more times..."

Li Rui outside the door was not quiet.

Xie Wei simply ignored him.

After Li Rui's explanation, Xie Wei no longer felt the same powerlessness as before.

It's all caused by poverty.

Making money is the way to go.

It was not until this moment that Xie Wei truly realized that "this world is a huge makeshift team" and that even the president of Harbin Institute of Technology is not perfect.

It's just that he was too idealistic from the beginning and hoped that Li Rui would be perfect, so that it would be more in line with the personality of the president of Harbin Institute of Technology.

Unfortunately, Harbin Institute of Technology has no money now!

"Old Du, you did a great job this time!"

"Just don't reward the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering with school funds."

Before Li Rui could finish, Du Guowang stopped him, "As a principal, you bow to a student. If this gets out, people will laugh at you."

"I'm bowing to the students? I'm bowing to the future development of the school! Besides, who in the outside world knows my name and doesn't know that I have no shame?"

Li Rui retorted unhappily.

Du Guowang sighed and took out a cigarette.

He took Du Guowang's cigarette, lit it with his match, and took a deep breath.

"This kid is too thoughtful. I can't understand what he wants. I originally thought that he supported Fang Pengju's long-range rocket and Tang Daoxian's rocket launcher, and was preparing to turn to the direction of military equipment technology. But he is now working on a program-controlled switch... I can't tell his attitude towards military projects."

Du Guowang spoke only after he blew out a cloud of smoke.

"that's not important."

Li Rui shook his head. "He is too young at the moment. We can still help him weather the storm for a few more years. This time is enough for him to grow up. If he can't even handle the financial pressure, how can he make progress in the future?"

Du Guowang just smoked silently and didn't respond.

"By the way, what exactly are you thinking about Xie Rou? It's not a good idea to always put her on various projects."

"What can I do if Xie Wei does this? Liang Hongling hasn't spoken to me for half a month... Haven't you noticed that since the start of this semester, you have had fewer opportunities to eat at my house?"

Li Rui was stunned.

It seems that this semester, the only time I went to Du Guowang’s house for a meal was during the National Day?

"Isn't Liang Hongling busy making models for the fighter jet project?"

"The original plan was for Xie Rou to learn mathematics from her first... but... Xie Rou made rapid progress in Fang Pengju's studies. However, Fang Pengju's rocket project was short of funds..."

"Well, I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

When Li Rui heard that Du Guowang was going to take this opportunity to help Xie Rou get funding, he said goodbye and left without hesitation.

It's enough for a genius to get into his own school.

What students learn is none of the principal’s business as long as they are willing to do so.

Want money?

There are no doors.

"Old Du, Xie Rou is with Fang Pengju. If she needs research funding, ask her brother to help. The school-enterprise partnership has money."

When he reached the door, Du Guowang turned his head and reminded Du Guowang.

"Old man, you are becoming more and more sinister. You took millions of dollars from the Second Artillery Corps for long-range rockets, but you didn't give a penny to them! Aren't you afraid that Xie Wei will find out and make trouble with you again!"

Du Guowang complained.

At last, he sighed and murmured to himself:
"Alas, I don't know when Xie Wei will truly grow up."

Du Guowang knew the reason why Li Rui did this.

In fact, this was a plan drawn up after discussions among the school's key leaders including Du Guowang, Liang Hongbin, and Yu Guofeng: Xie Wei was very mature in technology research and development, project management, and other aspects.

But he is too naive and idealistic politically.

Li Rui had been training Xie Wei as his successor from the very beginning, so naturally he could not tolerate Xie Wei's political immaturity.

Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, problems such as an aging cadre team, low cultural level, and unreasonable structure have gradually been exposed. Although there are still no clear documents and policies from above, people with a keen political sense, such as Li Rui and Du Guowang, have already felt that policies will soon be released.

According to Li Rui's plan, Xie Wei will be a part-time teaching assistant in his junior year next year; after graduation, he will study for a master's degree while participating in the school's teaching and management work. During the graduate period, he will skip the teaching assistant position and become a lecturer, and also serve as the director of the school-enterprise office; after one to two years of training, he will be promoted to associate professor and then the director of the school-enterprise office; after another two years, he will become a professor, and then he will set up the economics and management department and become the director of the economics and management department...

What are the research results required for extraordinary promotion?
Is it a problem for Xie Wei?
According to Li Rui's plan, Xie Wei will complete the growth from student to vice principal within ten years.

At that time, Xie Wei was only in his early 30s. After working in various management positions for a few more years, he would become the youngest president of a key university when Li Rui retired!
Such planning is politically immature and overly idealistic. How can one be qualified for the position of principal?

Before Xie Wei came to HIT, Li Rui had never given the school so many projects.

It was already a foregone conclusion that he would be transferred from the school to the ministry, but he stayed because of Xie Wei and was even prepared to stay in the position of principal until retirement.

Only Du Guowang and a few others know how much they paid in the process.

Xie Wei didn't know.

A life that is arranged is not free?

So you don't accept it?

No, even if Xie Wei knew, he would not have any objection: the resources that a president of a key university can mobilize are unimaginable for ordinary people.

Xie Wei had started a business before and was worth a lot of money.

But social status...

Xie Wei didn't know all this at the moment. As the information from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications arrived,

(End of this chapter)