Xiao Jinlang gently knocked on the door of the small conference room. The dozen or so "old consultants" who were busy inside either looked up or lowered their heads in meditation, quietly.
There are two long tables lined up in the conference room, and there is a 486 in front of each table. There are also copy machines and fax machines in the corner, and occasionally the phone rings.
Although this office space is a bit crude, the office equipment is absolutely top-notch in the country.
It is summer in August, and the temperature is high. Lao Xiao came in from outside and was sweating. The air conditioner in the conference room was specially turned on, and he felt cool.
Director Ma from the Imperial Capital was on the phone, occasionally humming. Director Chen Mu, who had been to Tianyang before, waved and led Xiao Jinlang over.
"President Zhou has booked a flight to the Imperial Capital tomorrow, and I have already arranged a place for him to stay." Xiao Jinlang whispered, "Including our people, the entire negotiating team has more than thirty people, and it is quite large."
Chen Mu sighed with excitement, "The 'Holy Light' is coming for real. With so many people, it will be difficult to find a place to stay in the imperial capital. I'm afraid I'll have to find a few institutions for help."
Xiao Jinlang smiled, "You don't have to worry about that. Mr. Zhou buys a building in the imperial capital. Not to mention more than 30 people, more than 300 people can live in it."
Chen Mu was speechless and smiled awkwardly, "Buying a house is about building. Mr. Qian, this is really Mr. Qian. I didn't expect that our dignified ministries in the imperial capital would be reduced to the point of running errands with Mr. Qian."
Although it is self-deprecating, it is also very heartbreaking.
The busy 'old consultants' all raised their heads because of this, and even Director Ma, who was on the phone, covered the phone and glared over, signaling Chen Mu to stop talking nonsense.
China's industry learned from the Soviet Union. The Soviet empire collapsed, and American imperialism was raging in the Gulf. In addition to being frightened, the country was also determined to make a fortune from the imperial legacy.
At that time, the United States, Germany, South Korea, Israel, and even Singapore all sent people to Mao Xiong’s house to buy stocks.
China launched a "double introduction project" in 1991 to restore the "Friendship Award" established in the 1950s, and also wanted to attract some urgently needed talents.
But..., just talking about friendship is not as good as real money.
In order to attract talents, South Korea offers a monthly salary of US$1,500 to US$2,000 for ordinary experts and US$3,000 to US$4,000 for well-known experts.
At that time, the country in China could not even pay its own scientific researchers a monthly salary of a thousand yuan, let alone US dollars. No matter how much they talked about using their eggs, the experts would immediately turn around and go to the West.
This situation only improved in the late 1990s when the country became rich.
Later, Maozi’s experts also understood that the Western recruitment was just to get a feel for Mao Xiong. The other party had its own scientific research system and did not need Mao Xiong’s ‘silly, big, black and rough’ stuff.
But at that time, Da Mao's family was already relatively stable, so he could only go to Er Mao's family to recruit people. But it was only August or September of 1991, and there were still two or three months before Mao Xiong's official death.
The country is in dire straits due to the bad economic situation, the exchange rate of soft currency is plummeting, and there is no foreign exchange available to attract people.
Zhou Qingfeng said he wanted to buy the Tu-154 and asked Xiao Jinlang to help him find connections. After all, the aircraft was purchased for use. As a result, several ministries and commissions were more interested than him and immediately sent people to join his negotiation team.
Because this is the real deal.
When the 'Holy Light' advisory group was first established, Zhou Qingfeng spent five million US dollars and tens of millions of soft girl coins. All the money was spent in less than half a year.
Under the guidance of the advisory group, the money is used to recruit talents, train employees, purchase equipment, and transform production lines. The city's machinery factory alone is like a bottomless pit, swallowing up hundreds of millions of funds.
Those who make this money are often state-owned enterprises with connections behind the advisory group. Each consultant always looks after his own people.
Because the orders were so profitable, the simple consulting system quickly deteriorated. Some state-owned enterprises even took the initiative to send their own retirees to the Holy Light.
In order to grab business and make money, competition quickly broke out between consultants and companies, and eventually the ministries and commissions were involved. The ministries and commissions wanted to weigh it up and use the Holy Light's money to support their children as much as possible.
Regarding this matter, Zhou Qingfeng sighed endlessly - it was really a river and lake, everywhere was a mess. But it was the boss who spent the money. He did not hesitate to cut off some people's bad ideas and asked for tenders.
No one can try to use power to seek personal gains and sell junk goods to the ‘Holy Light’.
Because of this matter, Xiao Jinlang and others received countless relationship-building calls, and the stack of notes they handed over could make roasted sweet potatoes.
A junior section chief like Chen Mu is like a rat in a bellows. He is being offended not only from both ends, but from all directions. He is as aggrieved as a newly married young daughter-in-law.
But Zhou Qingfeng has no money, and no phone calls can be made. Either get out, or do what he wants. This kind of force is too uncomfortable for bureaucrats.
Previously, 'Shengguang' wanted to find a company in China to cooperate in assembling three-axis machine tools, but such a good thing has never happened. It's just that someone is causing trouble behind the scenes, thinking this is a handle, and wants to give Uncle Zhou some trouble.
As for who was showing off to whom later, Chen Mu didn't know, nor did he want to know. Anyway, he revealed some information to Xiao Jinlang in a roundabout way.
So in the past two or three months, many people have held funerals, and the scene was quite lively.
After Director Ma finished the phone call and confirmed Zhou Qingfeng's whereabouts, he also sighed - Zhou Qingfeng thought that the ministry wanted to borrow his help to go to Mao Xiong's house to buy bargains, but he was wrong.
Big mistake.
The ministries know very well that they have no money to buy the dip.
The U.S. imperialism is showing its power in the Gulf, and the country has realized how backward it is. For example, the National Science and Technology Commission can only bite the bullet and start projects. But if you don't have money, you have no money, and if you cut your belt, you have no money.
Scientific research cannot rely solely on theory, it must be practiced on projects. Top designers must complete several large projects to practice.
Why will domestic infrastructure be so great thirty years later? Because there are too many projects for practice.
Nowadays, there are many scientific research institutes in China, but only so much of the limited funds are allocated to actual positions.
A large project, experimental testing, technical management, electronically controlled servo pyrotechnics, flow field vibration sensors, sealed electronic machining, there are too many related disciplines.
One carrot and one pit, there really is no money to support too many people.
But if we don’t support people, there will be gaps in scientific research. Once there is a gap in talent, we can only pray that the 80-year-old senior engineer is still alive and invite him to come out again to take charge.
Because only by working on projects can you have practical experience, know where problems may occur, and avoid detours.
Do you know what I’m talking about? Underwater nuclear power.
Of course the ministries and commissions want to take advantage of Mao Xiong's family, but they also want to maintain the existing talent echelon. Otherwise, how can we conduct scientific research if everyone has left?
Later generations of space projects such as the "Shenzhou" were repeatedly successful, and members of the project team were revealed on the Internet, praising the young people in their thirties and forties who began to take the lead.
But careful people will find that apart from young people and old men, there are very few middle-aged people in their forties and fifties. What does such an obvious age gap mean?
It means that the people who should have taken the lead twenty or thirty years ago have left.
Now, twenty or thirty years ago, all the domestic elites were running abroad. After all, the income and life abroad were much better than at home.
If the ministries and commissions have no money, they can only send people to the advisory group of the ‘Holy Light’ to support them. Zhou Qingfeng wants to build a passenger plane, and the ministries and commissions support it – this is better than the leather company of the Nande Group.
Director Ma came to Tianyang because he was afraid that Zhou Qingfeng was just talking about it. He was happier than anyone else when he heard that this gentleman was so resolute and would go to the Imperial Capital whenever he wanted.
If you buy a passenger plane, someone must fly it. This can solve several pilot positions.
With passenger aircraft, there must be someone to maintain them. This will solve the positions of a group of aircraft designers.
Now that everything has been maintained, can we set up an overhaul shop? This can support an aircraft design bureau.
All kidding aside, it is better to make a living than not to feed at all. For example, in order to support the production and design team of the "Yunba" in China, they once used military transport planes to sell live sheep in the northwest.
Nuclear plants in the northwest use high-speed centrifuges that produce uranium 235 to make ice cream. Mr. Song from Chengdu Aircraft Corporation set up a stall himself, and I don’t know whether he sold noodles or salted duck.
Now the National Science and Technology Commission is anxious and doesn't really have much idea. It just hopes that Zhou Qingfeng can really launch a big project to support a few more scientific research institutes and personnel.