The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 584 Cook
Whether he can save money or not is his own business. Anyway, now that he's here, I won't let him worry about money, and I just hope he won't let me worry about research either.

Zhou Tianxing's HR department is really efficient. In less than a week after Liu Hua assigned the task, they brought back seven or eight interns from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The head of the rocket research and development department was astonished, so he continued to ask the head of the human resources department: "How did you manage to hire these people? It's only been a week, how did you manage to do it so quickly?"

"When we arrived at the school there and announced that we were recruiting people with relevant majors, they came in droves. We even had to select the best candidates," the head of the human resources department said with a smile. "I also inquired and found that some of their students with relevant majors couldn't find jobs locally after graduation. They chose this major because they liked it, but they were very disappointed because they couldn't make a living from it after graduation. Now that we're giving them a job opportunity with a decent salary, of course they're happy to accept it."

"Our wages are much lower than theirs locally, aren't they?"

The head of the HR department nodded: "Our salaries are indeed much lower than theirs locally, but they also spend less in the mainland. These are all science and engineering students. They use rational thinking to look at things. They clearly recognize that the mainland has a promising future. If they can settle down in the mainland in the future, it will be beneficial for themselves and their families."

"Wow, our science students are truly amazing." The project leader gave a thumbs up: "They study science, so they can view development from a scientific perspective."

"Our recruitment efforts in the US are also quite successful." The head of HR said, "We've received quite a few applications, but there are some problems."

"What's the problem?" the project manager asked curiously. "Could it be that the relevant departments in the US are preventing you from recruiting from them?"

The head of the HR department shook his head: "Ordinary elite families would never send their children to work here, so the people we recruit are mostly from the lower middle class. You know what the concept of 'happy education' is over there; most of them are good-for-nothings. Even the few geniuses who are actually geniuses always have some minor flaws."

"Talent is hard to come by, what flaws could there be?"

The head of the HR department laughed and said, "For example, I have my eye on a chemistry major, an undergraduate, who is extremely capable, but I heard that he worked as a cook for gangsters in high school to pay for his tuition."

"What's wrong with being a chef? It's not like I'm a gangster."

The head of the HR department glanced at the project manager and said with a smile, "You don't watch enough TV. Go watch some American gangster movies, and you'll know what a chef is."

"A cook is just a cook, what other meaning could there be?"

The project manager went back and randomly searched for a gangster movie. After watching half of it, he knew what a chef was.

"Is that cook really that good at chemistry?"

The head of the HR department nodded: "He's incredibly capable, but most large companies are unwilling to hire him because he has a criminal record. It's said that he still has some entanglements with the underworld, so most chemical labs don't want to get involved in that kind of trouble."

"If he's really that good, you should ask the boss for instructions. After all, talented people are hard to come by."

The head of the HR department actually consulted Liu Hua: "Boss, should we hire this student or not?"

"Besides being a cook, does he have any other problems?" "No." The head of the HR department shook his head: "I spent a little money consulting the local police department. This kid was a cook back then to raise tuition fees. He doesn't have any other problems, and he doesn't eat those kinds of food himself."

“We should recruit him. Once he’s here, will he still have any connection with the local gangs?” Liu Hua said with a smile. “After he arrives, we’ll give him a few propaganda lessons and tell him just how serious it is to touch that stuff in our house. As long as he doesn’t get involved with those gangsters again, he’ll be a good researcher. After all, he’s a studious person, and he became a cook to pay for his tuition.”

This kid actually came to our house later to do research and made a huge contribution to rocket fuel.

It was precisely because of Zhou Tianxingdou's recruitment efforts abroad that those foreign companies learned that China actually had a private aerospace company.

Take Comrade Ma Jianjun for example. He always thought that China's aerospace engineering was the responsibility of the state. Now that there is a private aerospace company, it has immediately piqued his interest.

Upon further inquiry, it was discovered that this company had already successfully launched a satellite and possessed a rocket with 150 tons of thrust. To put this in perspective, the rocket engine they were currently using had less than 100 tons of thrust.

He thought to himself, "Since I can reach a deal with Taiyi Group on electric vehicle patents, can't I also reach a deal on rocket engines?"

Thinking of this, Ma Jianjun felt a surge of excitement, but he did not rashly send another representative to discuss the issue, because he knew that Liu Hua did not have a very good impression of them, the Americans, as evidenced by the fact that he had doubled the price last time.

He plans to visit Zhonghua's family in person to discuss this issue with Liu Hua, and he also plans to visit Zhonghua's family next year.

He heard that Liu Hua once said that if Tesla wanted to achieve great development, it had to build a factory in China, where all the industrial supply chains were available.

In contrast, the United States today has experienced extreme industrial decline, and many parts for its electric vehicles have to be imported from China.

Detroit, the famous Motor City in the United States, is now on the verge of bankruptcy, and the city government is barely managing to stay afloat.

All of this made Musk feel a huge crisis. Continuing to produce electric cars in the United States would basically be a dead end for him. The high cost of labor, spare parts, and transportation would all drag down his fledgling electric car company.

The Ma Jianjun of today is not the Ma Jianjun of ten or more years from now. At most, he can only be considered a new internet tycoon in the United States. And there are hundreds or thousands of new tycoons like him in the United States.

In order to become one of the best among these hundreds or thousands of new rich, and to be able to emulate the old money, Ma Jianjun had to rack his brains.

Liu Hua became Ma Jianjun's target. In Ma Jianjun's eyes, Liu Hua was a very successful person. He was knowledgeable and technically skilled. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering and owned his own technology companies. Both Taiyi Group and Zhou Tianxingdou were high-tech companies that were at the forefront of the industry. Liu Hua was the target that Ma Jianjun pursued.

So Ma Jianjun made a note in his memo that he would go to Zhonghua's house and have an in-depth conversation with Liu Hua.

(End of this chapter)