In 1978, I was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 202: A wine bottle bid for the director, and a project worth hundreds of millions? Principal Zhang is really brave!
"Hainan City establishes a communication model project?"

Looking at Zhang Mingqiu and Liu Debao, who were drunk and could barely walk, supporting each other as they walked into his office, he was surprised to hear them tell him the good news with smiles on their faces while burping.

Ha city?

Can the Harbin Municipal Government agree?
Or will the Post Office agree?
The key point is, doesn’t this matter need to be reported to the province?
"Yes. For the entire city, the first batch will use the switches you developed to build a city-wide telephone exchange network..."

Zhang Mingqiu told Xie Wei with an excited look on his face.

As he was drunk, Xie Wei did not understand many key words, but he understood what the two drunk leaders wanted to express: the school's programmable switching system had received its first order!
Could this be what Zhang Mingqiu meant when he came to me and told me not to worry about anything else and just focus on the project and leave the rest to them?

It’s true that people can’t be compared.

Take a look!

Take a look!

As the same principal, that old fellow Li Rui is always thinking about embezzling the money of the School-Enterprise Office. Zhang Mingqiu and Liu Debao are still agents now. Faced with the mess left by Li Rui, they not only did not ask the School-Enterprise Office to fill the hole with money, but also looked for business for the School-Enterprise Office's projects!

Why is there such a big gap between one principal and another?
"Hiccup~"

The drunken Liu Debao burped, and Xie Wei watched as the liquid in his throat kept rising and falling, fearing that he was about to vomit.

Xie Wei was speechless for a moment and could only rush forward to pat him on the back.

"No, no need... I vomited a long time ago... I vomited all the time! Damn it, it was just the two of us, and we had to knock down five or six of them before they agreed..."

Liu Debao smiled happily.

Sure enough, he just felt a little nauseous and didn't vomit.

"You guys haven't been drinking since noon?"

Look at the time, it’s not even seven o’clock.

It's not common to drink to this extent so quickly after a meal.

"That's right! I started drinking at 11 o'clock... Ugh~"

Liu Debao still smiled and replied, "This drink was not in vain..."

Seeing that Liu Debao was feeling nauseous from drinking too much, Xie Wei hurriedly got up and made strong tea for both of them to help them sober up.

“Hulu~Hulu~Hulu~”

Zhang Mingqiu, who was sitting on a chair nearby, was leaning against the chair back with his head tilted back, snoring loudly.

Liu Debao seemed to be unable to sit still even though he was smiling. Xie Wei had no choice but to run to the design room next door, find a classmate, and move a camp bed over. Together with the camp bed he usually used to sleep on in the office, he settled the two drunk people down.

As soon as Liu Debao lay down, he began to snore loudly.

In the whole room, the two of them were snoring one after another as if they were competing with each other. Xie Wei had no intention of working at all.

"How about you go back to the dormitory and rest while I stay here to watch over the two leaders?"

Mo Lingyu said to Xie Wei.

Xie Wei shook his head. "We need to go find Wang Zheng and the others. We need to adjust our plans."

"Their tickets are ready, and they will leave tomorrow morning. What could be more important than finding business and obtaining funds for continued research and development? The funds for continued research and development of the numerical control system are almost out of stock, and they can't support this side... With the influx of foreign-funded products, the profits of calculators can only guarantee the development of Factory 14..."

Mo Lingyu obviously didn't know that the two acting leaders of the school helped to win the order for the switch system of the Harbin Post and Telecommunications Bureau.

However, Xie Wei was not clear about the specific situation.

In his opinion, the two of them didn't even know the cost.

After Xie Wei told her, Mo Lingyu looked puzzled: "Shouldn't our school be the pilot school first?"

"How many telephones does our school have? One exchange is enough. How big are the various post and telecommunications sub-bureaus and the main bureau in the city?"

Xie Wei asked Mo Lingyu.

Mo Lingyu naturally knew that the scale of the school's telephone network could not be compared with the entire city of Harbin.

In the current national telephone communication network, each city generally only has telephone circuits directly connected to the capital and provincial capitals, and then there are direct lines to the counties directly under the city. If you want to make calls to cities outside the city or province, you must transfer through the provincial capital's telephone exchange room to another switch room, and then transfer it layer by layer.

Harbin is an industrial city with many factories. It is also a provincial capital, so the total number of installed telephones is definitely not small.

In Harbin Institute of Technology alone, every administrative department and every department has at least one telephone.

Due to the special nature of Harbin Institute of Technology, the school has telephone circuits directly connected to the capital, and also directly connected to the Heilongjiang Province Post and Telecommunications Bureau, but still requires transfer.

If you want to make a call outside, you have to call the switchboard from the office first, the switchboard will connect to other telephone exchanges, and then connect to another telephone exchange...

It is possible that a call needs to be connected multiple times at many different local telephone exchanges. If the line at a certain relay station is busy, then after the recording desk accepts the call and it is transferred to the relay desk, you just have to wait patiently on the side for the call to be connected.

Only after the call is connected can the caller and the receiver talk.

Call quality?

There is no guarantee that the other party will understand what you are saying if you yell.

When will the call be connected?
This is more mysterious: whether the circuit is empty, whether the recipient is there, the coordination between operators, whether the caller has to leave temporarily for something, etc. may all affect the call.

If you are lucky, the call will be connected in more than ten minutes; if you are unlucky? It is common that you cannot get through for several hours or even a whole day.

For example, if the school-enterprise office wants to call the sanitary napkin factory next to the school, Wang Zheng needs to dial the school switchboard first, then transfer to the Harbin switchboard, and then the Harbin switchboard will transfer to the branch office in the street area, and the branch office will then connect to the factory.

Faced with the busy Harbin telephone network system, it is possible that the call cannot be connected for half an hour!
This amount of time is enough to walk back and forth from the school-enterprise office to the sanitary napkin factory, or even drive several times back and forth.

Of course, this is just a normal call line.

The leaders are all aware of the situation of the domestic telephone network, so the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications classifies calls according to their importance. The higher the level of the call, the faster the connection speed.

Just like when you encounter special vehicles such as 110, 119, and 120 on the road, other vehicles need to give way to ensure that important calls are connected in the shortest time possible.

Knowing this, Xie Wei had included the programmable switching system in his plan before going to school. If it weren't for the accident, it would not have been started yet.

Xie Wei was not clear about the current number of installed telephones in Harbin. In order to train Wang Zheng and other staff of the School-Enterprise Office, he asked the School-Enterprise Office to understand and inquire about these situations.

"The tickets have been arranged and the telegram has been sent. Why did you change the itinerary at the last minute?"

Luo Cheng looked at Xie Wei with dissatisfaction.

He has been calling people a lot these days for help, and has been by the phone almost all the time.

"Xie Wei, the entire city of Harbin has more than 50000 telephones installed so far, but the number of switches is far from enough. There is one central office and ten branch offices in the city, and each switch room is divided into three shifts, but it still cannot guarantee..."

Wang Zheng introduced to Xie Wei what he had learned.

At the end, he added, "The switch network of Harbin Post and Telecommunications Bureau is not suitable for us now. It is too difficult to build... If we use all the small-capacity switches we have now, the city will need to build a capacity of more than 6 lines. Even this year's telephone installation capacity will exceed this number... How many switches will be needed?"

"Harbin has many factories, mines, colleges, government agencies and other enterprises and institutions, and its installed telephone capacity ranks among the highest in the country. Just last month, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications conducted a pilot program of charging for local calls in Harbin and Shanghai. Xie Wei, do you know what this means?"

Luo Cheng standing aside also had a serious expression on his face.

There are too many telephones installed in Harbin!

At present, the school's programmable switching system project has only developed a 256-port programmable switching system. To meet the needs of such a huge telephone communication network, hundreds of units would be needed!

Even if Harbin is willing to provide this service, it will have to consider where to place hundreds of small switches.

Even if we build a building specifically for this purpose, I’m afraid it wouldn’t be possible to install all of them.

"..."

Xie Wei was silent. He did not expect that the two acting leaders, who had created a big business, would propose such a big adjustment to the technical development team that had just become familiar with the switch business.

"We don't know the details yet. We'll have to wait until the two leaders sober up and understand the situation... We're developing program-controlled switches in our own territory. If the city uses foreign switches, this..."

Mo Lingyu, who had been silent the whole time, immediately shut up Luo Cheng and Wang Zheng with just one sentence.

It would be unacceptable if Harbin Institute of Technology did not develop programmable switching systems.

They did it themselves and succeeded.

But the city they are in uses other switches, so they won’t be able to compete with their rivals when they go out.

"No matter how difficult it is, we have to do it. We originally lacked a model project, and Harbin is the best. The project team is here, and any problems can be improved at any time. As for the difficulty of the entire project, let's wait for Principal Zhang and Secretary Liu to wake up and understand the specific situation before making a decision."

Xie Wei thought for a moment and said.

"But……"

Luo Cheng also wanted to talk about the changes in itinerary.

"If we can't handle this in Harbin, we can only sell some small switches in other places. Now that we have obtained a big project, it will be the same as before." Xie Wei reminded him, "Send a telegram to explain it."

Luo Cheng looked at Xie Wei seriously for a while, then gave in and nodded helplessly:

"Okay~"

At 3:30 in the morning, Zhang Mingqiu woke up and tried hard to sit up, but because he was too drunk and weak all over, he failed several times.

Xie Wei, who was resting on the desk, woke up when he heard the noise and hurriedly helped him up.

"Ugh~"

The smell of alcohol mixed with stomach acid was extremely unpleasant.

"Water~"

Xie Wei brought over the strong tea that he had brewed when the two of them came over last night.

"Gudu~Gudu~"

After drinking all the tea in the cup, Zhang Mingqiu let his mouth leave the edge of the cup with a sense of unsatisfied desire. "I'm so thirsty. I feel much better after drinking this cold strong tea. Damn, I didn't feel this bad when I was drunk before!"

"How much have you drunk?"

Xie Wei asked curiously.

"I don't know. We drank at least 20 or 30 bottles of liquor. Secretary Liu and I both vomited and drank and vomited..."

Xie Wei's face was gloomy.

To get business these days, without instructions from your superiors, do you have to rely on drinking?

"Don't worry, although we don't want to, this drink is definitely worth it."

Seeing Xie Wei's expression, Zhang Mingqiu knew what he was thinking. "We are lucky. With the advancement of reform and opening up, industrial cities like Harbin are developing rapidly, and the demand for communications is growing rapidly. However, the backward communication capabilities are simply not in line with the city's economic and social needs. In order to improve the problem of backward communication capabilities, the Harbin Planning Commission is preparing to apply to the National Planning Commission for a project, hoping to obtain a loan from Japan and introduce Japanese program-controlled switches..."

After listening to this, Xie Wei immediately understood why Zhang Mingqiu and Liu Debao drank so much.

It's obviously a hijack.

"At first, they were reluctant to use the switches developed by the school, especially that bastard Jin Xiaolian, who said our technology was backward and had a small capacity..."

Xie Wei didn't know who Jin Xiaolian was.

I only found out after listening to Zhang Mingqiu's introduction.

After understanding the situation, Xie Wei realized why Zhang Mingqiu said the dinner was worth it: Harbin had no money, and as long as the State Planning Commission approved Harbin's project, Harbin could negotiate with Japan and use Japanese loans to purchase Japanese programmable switching systems. This not only solved the funding problem, but also solved the problem of backward technology and small capacity of Harbin's entire telephone communication network.

"Water, water~"

At this time, Liu Debao also woke up.

After gulping down a glass of cold strong tea, he burped again, "I feel much better after drinking this cold tea."

"Xie Wei, you didn't sleep all night? I'm sorry..."

Looking at Xie Wei standing aside, Liu Debao looked apologetic.

At this time, Xie Wei was in front of him, and it was obvious that he was taking care of both himself and Zhang Mingqiu.

"It's okay. Thank you for your hard work, leaders."

Xie Wei once again despised the old man Li Rui in his heart: Although they are both leaders, the gap between Li Rui and the two people in front of him is too big.

"We are not tired. Although this drinking session is uncomfortable, it has brought about a project worth tens of millions!"

what?
Tens of millions!
In the 80s when the average wage per capita was in the s or s, projects worth tens of millions were definitely considered big projects.

"The entire Harbin communications project upgrade and renovation project will be completed by the school?"

After Xie Wei heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched twice.

Sure enough, it was just as he worried.

The school currently only has a 256-port programmable switch. It is technically possible to meet the needs of a city with a large installed capacity demand, but the problem is that the number required is too large.

"Correct!"

Liu Debao nodded, "They were originally planning to find a Japanese company to do it. We almost had a fight at the table. How many crimes did the Japanese commit in Harbin when they invaded us? Especially that bastard Jin Xiaolian, who said that it was because the Japanese committed too many atrocities that they gave us development to atone for their sins. Principal Zhang hit him with a bottle of wine at that time..."

Is Zhang Mingqiu so powerful?

Xie Wei looked at Zhang Mingqiu in surprise.

Xie Wei knew that the school principal and department heads would resort to physical fights when they couldn't reason with each other.

In his understanding and memory, how could a refined leader like Zhang Mingqiu take action?

"No matter how poor we are, we must have ambition. The Japanese don't charge interest when they lend us money! That bastard Jin Xiaolian obviously didn't go to No. 23 XJ Street in Pingfang District to see what the Japanese 731 factory beasts did!"

Zhang Mingqiu had no shame at all, and still looked angry when he said this.

Xie Wei didn't know what to say.

National hatred and family feud!

"If it weren't for Principal Zhang's bottle, Wenmin and the others wouldn't have let go. Now that we've helped you get the business, it's up to you to decide on the technology."

Liu Debao said to Xie Wei.

Xie Wei sighed silently. In order to win this project, the acting principal of the school even used a glass bottle filled with wine to hit the cadres. Even if there were difficulties, could he say it?

"That's not right, Secretary Liu, Principal Zhang, even if Harbin City gives us the business, they have no money, how can they do it?"

Suddenly, Xie Wei remembered that the two men were talking about seeking a loan from Japan to purchase Japan's programmable switching system. He didn't know how to repay the loan, and it was obvious that they had no money.

And now, if the contract is finalized and the Harbin city government cannot come up with the money, won’t the school have to provide subsidies?
A project worth tens of millions of dollars, judging by the cost, even if there is only half profit, how can a school with a leaky roof and drafty walls afford it?

Let the school-enterprise apply for a loan?

"The Harbin Post and Telecommunications Bureau took out a loan. Last month, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications conducted a pilot program of charging for local calls between Harbin and Shanghai. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications stipulated that the basic monthly charge for Type A phones is 100 times, and the monthly rent is 9 yuan if it does not exceed the basic number. The basic monthly charge for Type B phones is 200 times, and the monthly rent is 13 yuan if it does not exceed the basic number. For calls exceeding the basic number, an additional 1 cents will be charged for each call."

Zhang Mingqiu's words made Xie Wei's brain work rapidly.

Harbin now has more than 50000 telephones installed. Even if calculated based on Type A, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications will have to collect 45 yuan in monthly rent!

Many units in Harbin are in frequent contact with each other. 200 times is simply not enough for many departments that need to communicate with other units!

"Also, a few days ago, the state issued a regulation that local telephones should be jointly invested in by the central and local governments, and that users' initial installation fees should be appropriately collected for the construction of local telephones. Harbin City is implementing the policy of the state, local governments, collectives and individuals working together. The municipal government is discussing returning the telephone surcharges used for urban maintenance to the Municipal Post and Telecommunications Bureau for the construction of local telephones. Harbin City has reported to the Provincial Department of Finance and the Price Bureau that enterprises will be charged 2000 yuan for each telephone installed (including trunk lines and dedicated lines), and the party, government, military and public institutions will be charged half the fee... Do you think they will have no money?"

Liu Debao's words made Xie Wei realize how slow he was in responding to these national policies.

Even Wang Zheng doesn't understand these policies very clearly.

It can be seen how much effort Zhang Mingqiu and Liu Debao put into the programmable switching system project.

It also further proves that what Zhang Mingqiu said to Xie Wei was serious.

The initial installation fee of 2000 dollars for a phone is only about 1300 dollars at the current exchange rate, which is actually not that much.

"Also, Harbin is planning to increase its telephone installation capacity to 10. If this capacity is reached, the initial installation fee alone will be worth hundreds of millions, not to mention the monthly rent and billing times..."

"They charge 2000 yuan for each phone installation. We didn't ask for more. Just like in other countries, we charge by line, 700 yuan per line..."

"..."

Xie Wei didn't expect that these two were no less evil than Li Rui!

According to the current technology of the school, if we include the cost of switches and R&D investment, the average cost per line is only more than 100 yuan. With the development of technology and the increase in production quantity, it will be further reduced.

They directly quoted the price at 700 yuan.

This means that a 256-port programmable switch costs nearly 180000!

Absolute huge profits.

"Isn't 700 per line too little?"

Seeing Xie Wei's frozen expression, Zhang Mingqiu asked nervously.

Afraid that Xie Wei might misunderstand, he immediately added: "I asked Wang Zheng before, and he said that the cost per line is about 200 yuan. We were originally going to quote 500 yuan, but when we thought about their first line charging 2000 yuan, we thought they were making too much money..."

(End of this chapter)