Hearing the word "sponsorship", Professor Chu immediately put away his stinky face.

He stopped, looked at Li Weidong suspiciously, and asked, "You want to sponsor our scientific research funds?"

"Yes, I brought all the money!" Li Weidong said, opened the baby on his body, and showed Professor Chu the five stacks of "great unity".

With five thousand yuan in cash in front of him, Professor Chu's expression finally stopped rejecting people thousands of miles away.

"How about it, Professor Chu, let's talk!" Li Weidong said with a smile.

Professor Chu pondered for a moment and said, "You don't even know what topic I'm researching, so you want to sponsor me?"

"It doesn't matter what topic you're working on, it's that you have what I want there. Li Weidong said with a smile.

Professor Chu nodded, of course he knew that Li Weidong wanted the relevant process of linen core braiding.

As a professor of the textile industry, there are not a few companies that come to Professor Chu for advice on craftsmanship, like Li Weidong, who comes to the door with apple sausages, Professor Chu has also seen a lot, but all of a sudden he blatantly smashed out 5,000 yuan, Professor Chu is the first time to see it.

In the past, the enterprises that went to Professor Chu to ask for the formula were all state-owned enterprises, and it was a very troublesome thing for state-owned enterprises to approve large sums of money, and 5,000 yuan was even discussed at the meeting of the leadership team.

Therefore, those state-owned enterprises came to Professor Chu, in addition to sending some fruits, at most they brought two bottles of Moutai and two Huazi, and these tobacco, wine, sugar and tea were relatively easy to reimburse. As for sponsoring research funds, that's not a penny.

Although Li Weidong's garment factory is also a state-owned enterprise, after all, it has been contracted by Li Weidong, and the financial audit is much more lenient, and it is easier to get the money out.

In those days, how could Moutai Huazi have 5,000 yuan in scientific research funds! Although Professor Chu was a cold scholar, he also had an eye for money.

What's more, the scientific research funding at that time was already very tight, and it was not easy for Professor Chu to apply for a scientific research fund of 5,000 yuan from Jinmen University, which would be of great help to Professor Chu's research and enough to impress Professor Chu.

Li Weidong saw that Professor Chu was already moved, so he said: "Professor Chu, I don't know what procedures are required for this sponsorship of scientific research funds, you see that it is now time to eat, otherwise let's find a place and talk while eating." ”

Professor Chu nodded, although he didn't like to participate in the dinner, but for the five thousand yuan of scientific research funds, this meal must be eaten.

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Li Weidong, an old Jianghu, is best at talking about business at the wine table.

Although Professor Chu is cold, he is an intellectual after all, and when he arrived at the wine table, where was Li Weidong's opponent, after being poured a few glasses of wine by Li Weidong, he began to talk more.

"If you want to make the core braid have enough toughness, you can use a double warp and single weft structure, which will make the core braid smooth to the touch and make a braid more solid. The advantage of wool and linen weaving products is that the warp density is higher than that of the weft formed by stiff linen yarn, and it has the advantages of both wool and linen.

As I said before, the process is difficult to control when blending wool and linen, which will produce serious shortcomings such as flying wool and winding rollers, broken heads, and falling hemp, in fact, the main reason is that the wool in our country is not good, not only the quality, but also the follow-up processing of wool, if it is wool fiber imported from Australia, these problems will not occur.

However, it is difficult for domestic garment factories to reach the foreign exchange quota, let alone import wool from Australia, so if you want to solve the problem of wool and linen blending, you need to import a knitting machine......

Professor Chu used the strength of the wine to talk about a lot of process-related things.

Li Weidong looked at the time and asked, "Professor Chu, how much does this imported weaving machine cost?"

"Last year, when I visited the south, I visited a Hong Kong businessman's factory in the Special Administrative Region, which contained knitting machines imported from Japan, and the CIF price seemed to be close to 10,000 US dollars!" Professor Chu replied.

"10,000 dollars! Li Weidong said.

In later generations, the weaving machine has been achieved by China to the price of cabbage, ordinary automatic weaving machine, a few thousand dollars can be bought, export-grade weaving machine, that is, the price of two or three thousand dollars.

However, in the 80s, China could not make a good knitting machine, so it could only spend a lot of money to buy a knitting machine produced abroad.

Li Weidong thought about it in his heart, if he took out 10 million yen and bought three or four imported weaving machines, there should be no problem.

Professor Chu continued: "In fact, even if you have an imported knitting machine, if you want to make the kind of core braid you need, you need to conduct a lot of experiments, such as the ratio of linen and wool, do you know how much to match?"

"I don't know, but isn't there still Professor Chu. Li Weidong smiled slightly, changed his voice, and then said: "Professor Chu, if it is convenient for you, we can go and sign the contract for donating scientific research funds in the afternoon." ”

"Director Li is a happy person!" Professor Chu smiled slightly, and then said: "The matter of the proportion of raw materials for core braids is actually very easy, I will let my graduate students do a few experiments, and I will give you the results when the time comes!"

"That's a word!" Li Weidong breathed a sigh of relief, the matter of the core-filling braid process was finally done.

Li Weidong toasted Professor Chu with a glass of wine to express his gratitude, and then asked: "Professor Chu, I don't know much about imported knitting machines, I don't know what brand to buy, what type is it?"

"I'll have to go back and check the latest literature before I can answer you. Well, I'll take some time out on the weekend to help you go through the literature. Professor Chu said.

"Foreign literature?" Li Weidong continued: "If it is convenient for you, I can also read it myself, I understand English." ”

Li Weidong really didn't brag, when he was doing business in his last life, in order to deal with foreigners, Li Weidong specially found a young and beautiful female graduate student to help him tutor in English.

It's hard to say how effective the tutoring is, but the young and beautiful female graduate student will focus on it first.

Professor Chu looked at Li Weidong with some surprise, there are not many people who dare to say that they know English these days, even if they are college graduates and not English majors, they are embarrassed to say that they can speak English.

Then Professor Chu explained: "There are some English literature, but what you need is a knitting machine imported from Japan, and you still have to read some Japanese literature." In Japanese, I don't know much, but I mainly look at the model parameters inside. By the way, you know Mr. Xu, you can ask him to translate for you. ”

"I don't have a problem speaking Japanese, I speak Japanese better than English!" Li Weidong replied with a smile.

"Do you still know Japanese?" Professor Chu asked in surprise.

At Li Weidong's age, he knows two foreign languages, which is already a rare talent in China.

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5,000 yuan to get the core braiding process is not a loss in Li Weidong's view.

If Li Weidong is allowed to study it himself, the cost of time alone is not something that Li Weidong can afford. And even if it takes time, it may not be possible to successfully study the process of filling the braid.

Now Li Weidong has his own career, and for Li Weidong, it is really time and money.

The wave of reform and opening up is full of opportunities, and every opportunity represents wealth, and this opportunity is often fleeting, so no time can be wasted.

What's more, Li Weidong thinks that the problem that can be solved by throwing money is the simplest, as long as the money is spent reasonably. And those problems that can't be solved by throwing money at them are the real problems.

With a sponsorship fee of 5,000 yuan, Professor Chu will help Li Weidong solve the problem of the core-filling braid process, and next, what Li Weidong needs is to solve the problem of imported braiding machines.

It is not easy to import equipment from abroad, because foreign exchange is required. The application is sent up, and the approval is carried out layer by layer, even if everything is smooth, it will take a year to get the foreign exchange quota if you do less.

If it doesn't go well, it will take longer, and the foreign exchange you get may shrink. For example, if you apply for 50,000 US dollars in foreign exchange, you will only be granted 25,000 in the end, which is a common thing.

What's more, just with Li Weidong, a tertiary garment factory, he is not even a prefecture-level enterprise, and he still wants to apply for foreign exchange?

It is estimated that the application of the garment factory was sent to the foreign trade department, and it was directly thrown into the garbage bin.

Li Weidong did not intend to apply for foreign exchange quotas through normal channels at all, after all, he had 25 million yen of cashier's checks in his hand, and although 10 million yen of them had already been mortgaged, there was still 15 million yen to use. With another 10 million yen from it, it should be possible to buy four weaving machines.

Now the problem Li Weidong is facing is how to buy imported knitting machines.

There is a foreign trade bureau in Qinghe, but this foreign trade bureau basically has no experience in dealing with foreigners, in the small place of Qinghe, the traffic is average, not by the sea, the policy is not tilted, almost no foreigners come to invest.

It is obviously a foolish act to purchase imported equipment through the Qinghe Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, which has no ability to contact foreign equipment manufacturers at all, and if you go through official channels, all kinds of complicated approval procedures are also very cumbersome.

It was too delayed to go through official channels, and Li Weidong could only go to a foreign trade company for help.