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Chapter 214 Has Unbridled Development Led to a Crisis for the School-Enterprise Cooperation Program? We Need to Get Old Man Li Back.

"We'll have to wait for Wang Zheng to return. I need to find out what's going on first..."

Xie Wei did not rush to answer Zhang Mingqiu's request, as he was unsure of Zhang's true intentions.

Only when Wang Zheng returns and understands the situation can a judgment be made.

Wang Zheng, that son of a bitch, would do such a thing?

Xie Wei clearly didn't believe it.

But Sun Shaodong, a department head, said so confidently to his face that such a thing had happened, and even told Xie Wei and Wang Zheng that they were on their way back. It was impossible for him to make up a lie to fool him.

Making judgments without knowing the facts is what Xie Wei least wants to do.

So, he could only wait.

“Okay. I’ll talk to you again after Wang Zheng returns. Also, the company in Hong Kong is developing quite rapidly. Do you think we should impose some restrictions? Currently, the people the school-enterprise cooperation office has assigned there are hardly making any difference…”

A company in Hong Kong?
Xie Wei looked at Zhang Mingqiu with suspicion, "Has something happened over there?"

"No problems have arisen, but instead of transferring the funds back, they've expanded the scale of their Hong Kong company... This is quite different from your previous proposal."

"Aren't the personnel over there, assigned by the ministry and the school, responsible for management and liaison?"

The university-enterprise cooperation office has no way of managing the companies in Hong Kong.

Xie Wei initially proposed setting up a trading company in Hong Kong to export various products produced by the school-enterprise office and transfer foreign exchange inland. Li Rui was in charge of the whole operation.

Apart from the last time the Japanese tried to extort money by infringing on the rights of sanitary napkins, Xie Wei has paid almost no attention to this matter.

"Shouldn't that fall under the jurisdiction of the school-enterprise cooperation office?"

Zhang Mingqiu was stunned when he heard Xie Wei's words.

Nima!

Xie Wei instantly had a bad feeling!

Could it be that the school and the ministry both believe that the School-Enterprise Cooperation Office is in charge, while the School-Enterprise Cooperation Office believes that the school and the ministry are in charge, and neither side has paid attention to the situation of Xiangjiang Company?
If so...

"I'll find out what's going on when Wang Zheng gets back."

Xie Wei suddenly realized that the management of the school-enterprise office had to be strengthened and could no longer be allowed to continue in a permissive manner.

If all else fails, we must contact Li Rui and ask him to find a way to recruit some professional managers from the Ministry of Commerce or state-owned foreign trade agencies. Otherwise, it is not a good thing for the school-enterprise office to continue to develop in this disorderly state.

Even if Xie Wei gave up his research project at the university to manage the university-enterprise office, without a large number of capable managers, he would not be able to manage the university-enterprise office well, no matter how hard he worked.

This is simply because the various businesses of the school-enterprise cooperation office are currently in a phase of rapid expansion.

Seeing Xie Wei's nonchalant expression, Zhang Mingqiu, despite his deep concern, had no choice but to give up.

Without saying anything more, he left Xie Wei's office.

After Zhang Mingqiu left, Xie Wei tapped his fingers lightly on the desk as he pondered.

Mo Lingyu saw Xie Wei deep in thought at the door, so she tiptoed in, afraid of interrupting his thoughts.

Some time ago, as the project's manpower increased, both the office space and the design studio became extremely tight. Although Mo Lingyu also participated in the project design, she mainly played a management role, communicating with Xie Wei and the design team. So she simply moved her office to Xie Wei's office.

I originally thought that being in the same room with Xie Wei would give me more opportunities to interact with him.

She then discovered that Xie Wei was just like a machine!
Every day is filled with intense studying and working, and even eating is done very quickly.

The rest periods were all very short.

After an unknown amount of time, seeing Xie Wei's brows furrowing deeper and deeper, Mo Lingyu finally couldn't help but ask, "Class monitor, what happened again?"

The voice of concern was tinged with worry.

Xie Wei snapped out of his reverie and forced a smile at Mo Lingyu. "It's nothing serious, just a few things I'm not entirely clear on. I'll know once Wang Zheng gets back. By the way, how long until Professor Lu and the others finish building the school's exchange system?"

During this period, Xie Wei continued to focus his energy on optimizing the program of the program-controlled exchange.

If he had originally run his own company's technical team, the situation wouldn't be this difficult.

We need to cultivate talent.

The school's exchange system is not something that can be solved simply by replacing the switches.

In particular, Xie Wei wanted to add telephones to all the offices in the school to make communication more convenient. This would require several telephone exchanges, as well as additional telephone lines and replacement of the telephones.

It's not actually that complicated, but the whole team is very busy, training technicians for installation and modulation. To this day, the school's switch system has not been replaced.

The main issue is funding!

The school doesn't have the money for this project.

"The switchboard has been manufactured, and the telephone lines have been arranged through the Harbin Post and Telecommunications Bureau... Currently, the school's logistics department is out of money..."

Mo Lingyu said with a bitter face.

"Once Wang Zheng returns, if Rongcheng has indeed paid the expenses, then the school-enterprise cooperation office should cover the cost."

After thinking for a moment, Xie Wei said, "So, let them run the telephone line and install the telephone first."

Given the school's reputation, owing a little money to the telephone line and telephone factory wouldn't be a problem.

Mo Lingyu looked at Xie Wei, her lips moved, and the words she wanted to say were on the tip of her tongue, but seeing Xie Wei's exhausted face, she ultimately said nothing.

She silently walked behind Xie Wei and massaged his temples with her cold fingers.

Soon, Wang Zheng returned to school.

Upon arriving at the school, he ignored the driver's advice to find Principal Zhang and went directly to Xie Wei.

"The Chengdu authorities require that the telephone exchanges used in their post office's telephone switching network must be manufactured in Chengdu?"

Before Xie Wei could even ask Wang Zheng, Wang Zheng had already reported the situation.

According to Wang Zheng, Rongcheng agreed to all the conditions proposed by Xie Wei, but they also had their own conditions.

This means that Chengdu will not buy the batch of switches currently being produced by the school.
"Yes. That means they will only use switches manufactured by Rongcheng Switch Factory... I agreed to that."

Wang Zheng nodded earnestly.

This matter was not among the conditions Xie Wei had given him before. Considering that Rongcheng had accepted all the harsh conditions Xie Wei had proposed, he simply agreed to this small request.

"What about the 800 million for the equipment?"

For a moment, Xie Wei didn't know what to say.

Having learned the information from Sun Shaodong and Zhang Mingqiu, Xie Wei found it difficult to question Wang Zheng.

“They have prepared the money, but the school-enterprise cooperation office can’t access it until the Rongcheng factory starts production… They want to transfer the 800 million yuan for equipment purchase directly to the switch manufacturing plant in Rongcheng.”

Wang Zheng got angry as soon as this was mentioned.

This means that if the switch manufacturing plants in Chengdu don't produce any switches, they won't receive a single penny from the Chengdu Post and Telecommunications Bureau.

Xie Wei frowned. Zhang Mingqiu and Sun Shaodong wouldn't lie to fool him.

If they were to fabricate lies, the moment Wang Zheng returned, the lies would be exposed.

Seeing Xie Wei's expression, Wang Zheng asked nervously, "Xie Wei, shouldn't I agree to Rongcheng's request?"

From the moment he joined the school-enterprise cooperation office, he always followed Du Guowang's teachings, disregarding his own status and position, and doing everything according to Xie Wei's requirements.

Whether he was the deputy director of the school-enterprise cooperation office or after Wu Tao was dismissed for making a mistake and he became the director of the school-enterprise cooperation office, Wang Zheng never considered making decisions independently.

Even this time, it was only because we were going to build a production plant in Chengdu anyway, and the production of the switches wasn't too difficult, with the core components being sourced from other places, and the Chengdu plant just handling assembly, that we agreed to the arrangement.

I didn't expect Xie Wei to have this attitude.

Immediately, Wang Zheng became worried.

"That's not the issue. What's your relationship with the Rongcheng Architectural Design Institute?"

Xie Wei couldn't understand the problem, so he went straight to the core question: "Establishing industrial bases and R&D centers in Chengdu are all follow-up matters..."

Planning is planning.

However, the fact that Wang Zheng has been in contact with the Rongcheng Architectural Design Institute multiple times is problematic.

"Sigh, let's not talk about that! To persuade the people of Rongcheng to agree to our conditions, Uncle Xie made some bold promises to the leaders of the Rongcheng Municipal Government. He said we would not only build an industrial base and R&D center there, but also a branch school... To make this happen, the Rongcheng Municipal Government has been very proactive in this regard. I couldn't refuse the architectural design institute they arranged..."

"..."

How did it get involved with his cheapskate father again?
For a moment, Xie Wei was completely stunned by what Wang Zheng had told him.

The old man actually boasted that the school was planning to build a branch campus in Chengdu?
Before Xie Wei could process this, Wang Zheng added, "If it weren't for Uncle Xie, Rongcheng wouldn't have accepted the conditions we proposed..."

This has nothing to do with Wang Zheng!
This is the only result Xie Wei came to.

"That's why the Rongcheng municipal government naturally hopes that relevant units in Rongcheng can benefit from this project... Before we even made contact, the Rongcheng Architectural Design Institute had already started planning our industrial base and research center. Even when I said I needed to come back and ask the university for their opinion, they didn't give up..."

have to.

Xie Wei now understood that Wang Zheng had no idea what the problem was.

The leaders of the Chengdu Municipal Party Committee and Government were afraid that the project would not be implemented in Chengdu, so they adopted this method.

They even "arranged" all the business that the units in Chengdu could obtain in advance for the sake of their development!

This incident once again demonstrated to Xie Wei that none of the leading cadres these days are not shrewd.

"So, awarding the Rongcheng project to the Rongcheng Architectural Design Institute was also one of the conditions set by the Rongcheng Municipal Government?"

After figuring out the ins and outs, Xie Wei asked Wang Zheng.

Wang Zheng nodded, glancing at Xie Wei with some apprehension, before beginning to explain, "When I first found out, I strongly opposed it, but the Rongcheng municipal government refused to sign the contract... I don't think it will have much of an impact. In Rongcheng, they can arrange for a company to do the design for us, no problem..."

Wang Zheng's idea is correct.

Xie Wei could not find anything in this that could be used to criticize Wang Zheng.

Those who know him are well aware of how demanding his conditions are. Chengdu was able to accept them partly to attract investment and partly to develop Chengdu.

It can't be that all the money goes to outside companies while they get nothing in return.

Moreover, the factory buildings, workers, and construction funds for the switch factory were all provided by Chengdu.

It was only then that Xie Wei realized that Chengdu's ability to surpass Chongqing in all aspects and even become a force that Chongqing could not catch up with in terms of industrial layout over the more than ten years after Chongqing became a municipality was absolutely inseparable from the planning of successive leadership teams.

In the cooperation, Chengdu appeared to have accepted harsh conditions and suffered significant losses.

Actually?

This plan will not have any impact on the cooperation between the two parties.

Both Zhang Mingqiu and Sun Shaodong were misled by the information deliberately released by the Chengdu authorities.

Prevent?

Xie Wei didn't know what reason to give to stop it.

Cooperation needs to benefit both parties; otherwise, it cannot last.

"What's the situation with the Hong Kong company?"

After Xie Wei figured out the ins and outs, he decided to ignore the issues with the cooperation with Rongcheng and let Sun Shaodong find another way.

If the school takes all the benefits, future cooperation will definitely be affected.

"Isn't Xiangjiang Company under the jurisdiction of the Ministry?"

Wang Zheng asked Xie Wei with a puzzled look.

"Back then, when Unicharm Corporation was extorting money from us, it was the Ministry of Commerce and its leaders who stepped in together..."

Wang Zheng reminded Xie Wei.

At that time, the school-enterprise cooperation office didn't even have the qualifications to participate.

Although the agency in Hong Kong sources its products from enterprises under the School-Enterprise Cooperation Office.

In an instant, Xie Wei realized that his worries had come true.

Upon further questioning, Wang Zheng told Xie Wei that although he and Wu Tao initially went to Hong Kong to find people and establish the company, later, under Principal Li's arrangement, the Hong Kong agency company, because it was funded by the Ministry, had no direct connection with the School-Enterprise Cooperation Office.

"grass!"

Xie Wei couldn't help but swear.

Seeing Xie Wei's somewhat distorted expression, Wang Zheng, who was completely bewildered, didn't dare to ask Xie Wei what had happened.

Instinctively, he was somewhat afraid of Xie Wei's expression at that moment.

"Let's go find Principal Zhang."

Soon, Xie Wei made up his mind: he had to find Li Rui and find out the inside story and the jurisdiction of the company in Hong Kong before he could make further arrangements.

Wang Zheng didn't come to see him immediately after returning; instead, he went to see Xie Wei. Although Zhang Mingqiu felt uncomfortable, he didn't use this as an excuse to cause trouble for the two of them.

Whether the events in Rongcheng were Xie Wei's arrangement or there was another hidden reason, he was eager to know, but he also did not want to create a rift between himself and Xie Wei.

The two men quickly came to find him. Before Zhang Mingqiu could speak, Xie Wei suggested that he contact Li Rui to come back to the school, which surprised Zhang Mingqiu: "Have Principal Li come back to the school?"

He really wanted to say that this was inappropriate.

Seeing Xie Wei's serious expression, she ultimately didn't say anything.

"Yes! We must bring him back; it's a matter of life and death for the School-Enterprise Cooperation Office."

Not so!

Wang Zheng stared at Xie Wei in astonishment. Even if Xiangjiang Company was not under the jurisdiction of the School-Enterprise Office, it shouldn't affect the survival of the School-Enterprise Office.

(End of this chapter)