"I know Lao Qi, who is still a normal person, but after returning from a few years as a visiting scholar in the United States, he has become a chatter. Now I have a comparative research center for Sino-American innovation culture in the school, which is quite popular. ”

In Bao Nana's office, several alumni of the National People's University met routinely, and when Tang Zifeng talked about Qi Muden, Wang Zijie gave him an introduction.

Qi Mudeng is now one of the biggest names on a par with Wang Zijie at the National People's Congress. What they have in common is that their academic attainments are not top-notch, but they are extremely famous, they often appear at various conferences, they write newspapers and magazines softly, and they can get more than ten times more than their wages every month.

Wang Zi is famous because he is pervasive in the entire economic circle in the context of neoliberal ideology, insisting that for developing countries, government economic intervention is indispensable, and industrial policy cannot be abandoned, or even strengthened, which has some relevance to his undergraduate experience in the Department of Planning Economics.

Because of his staunch siding with government intervention, he was highly regarded by government officials. Privately, many scholars disdainfully refer to him as a royal economist who stands up for the government. In the media, he is often asked by official newspapers to write opinion pieces and annotate national policies. A large number of "liberal media" tend to sneer at him, and even make irresponsible remarks about his private life.

Well, Wang Zijie's private life is indeed a little unscrupulous, and the media can't be blamed for being unscrupulous.

Qi Muden and Wang Zijie are two extremes, and he is known for his criticism of the system and Chinese culture. Anyone who has done it has counted that he mentions the phrase "rigid system" no less than 200 times a year, based on well-documented public speeches, media reports, and articles he publishes. As for how many times it has been said at various unreported meetings, it is impossible to count.

Because of the current wave of "reflection", Professor Qi is quite popular with the free media, and has countless fans among the people, especially on the emerging Internet, and has been named "a scholar who dares to speak the truth", "a scholar with a conscience", "the first Chinese scholar" and many other titles.

"I think a lot of what Qi Muden said is quite right, we Chinese just have inferior roots, and if we don't reflect deeply, we will never be able to catch up with the West." ”

Li Kejia commented. She is also one of Zimuden's fans, and there is a link to Zimuden's blog in her browser's favorites, which seems to be called "Orange Life", which sounds like a sign of an adult product store.

Wang Zijie said: "If it weren't for Lao Tang brainwashing me all day long, I also think Lao Qi's point of view is quite right." However, after letting Lao Tang brainwash, I really can't stand it anymore when I look at Lao Qi's things, it's all nonsense. ”

"Why is it nonsense?" Li Kejia was unhappy. She was sitting in Bao Nana's seat at this time, with the computer in front of her. She casually typed in a web address, opened the "Orange Life" blog, pointed to an article and said:

"If you look at this article he posted last month, "The Comparison of U.S. Government Buildings with Chinese Government Buildings," I read it, and I really found it shocking. He gave an example, saying that the city of Ramoni in Maine, USA, is about the same size as Suzhou, but if you look at the photos of its municipal government, it is not as good as one of our neighborhood committees. In China, can you imagine how magnificent the building of a municipal government is?

"The United States is developed because of these little advantages. People spend all their money on scientific research, but what about us, if we have the money, we have to build luxury office buildings, do you think China can not lag behind?"

Hearing Li Kejia say this, Wang Zijie and Tang Zifeng looked at each other, then sighed and said, "Senior sister, I have also read the article you said. At that time, I discussed it with Don, and Don gave me a suggestion to check the situation in this city of Ramoni, and then I knelt. ”

"What does it mean to kneel?" Bao Nana asked with a smile next to her.

The article Li Kejia said is very popular on the Internet nowadays, and all kinds of comments such as "falling into contemplation", "men and women crying", "not turning is not a fork", Bao Nana is a public relations company, it is impossible not to notice such an article.

After reading this article with pictures and texts, from the bottom of her heart, Bao Nana supports Qi Muden, but her long-term experience of cooperating with Tang Zifeng and Wang Zijie has taught her to pretend to be stupid and cute at such a time and not express her opinions directly. Because she knows that if you stand on the opposite side of these two things, there is a chance that you will be slapped in the face in the end.

Wang Zijie said: "Qi Muden's article, in fact, takes advantage of a delusion of us Chinese, always feel that a city is a very large administrative unit, this Ramoni City, although everyone has not heard of it, he said 'the area is equivalent to Suzhou', we really regard it as Suzhou."

"In fact, the population of Suzhou is 10 million, and the entire state of Maine, the 2000 census data is only 1.27 million, how do you compare the two?"

"However, the number of people alone can't say anything, even if there are only 100,000 people in Ramoni City, our small county town of 100,000 people, the county government is more than a little bigger, right?" Li Kejia said.

"The most important cities in Maine include Auburn, Augusta, Bangor, Bal Harbor, Portland, South Portland, and none of them, do you think it can have 100,000 people?"

"Perhaps?" said Li Kejia, "Qi Mudeng can't make it up, right?"

Wang Zijie nodded and said, "You guessed it, he just made it up." At first, I also thought the same way as you, but after being reminded by Old Tang, I made up my mind to check it. I logged on to the website in the United States, and with great effort, I finally found the city of Ramoni, and the photo of the city hall was also compared, and it was exactly the same as the photo of Qi Muden. ”

"And then?" asked Li Kejia.

The city of Lamoine, whose English name is Lamoine, is a town under Hancock County, Maine, with an area of 65 square kilometers, equivalent to 1/130 of the city of Suzhou, and the population of the 2000 census was 1,495. ”

"How many?" Bao Nana couldn't believe her ears.

"1495 people. Wang Zijie replied.

"That's not ...... Isn't it as many as one of our neighborhood committees?" Bao Nana said stunned.

"Isn't it just a neighborhood committee? Tang Zifeng interjected with a smile, "In fact, many cities in the United States are just a residential area, which is equivalent to our neighborhood committee." Qi Mudeng is taking advantage of our illusion to sell poisonous chicken soup and hype up the differences in systems. This kind of thing, deceiving illiterate people on the Internet, or a little girl like Senior Sister Li who went to college but still doesn't know anything about the world, is pretty much the same. It is impossible to get a genius of my wisdom and erudition. ”

"Blow, blow again! Is it that he was abused by Dr. Xiao at home, and came to us to find psychological balance?" Li Kejia reprimanded viciously, in order to hide his embarrassment.

The data reported by Wang Zijie is fragmentary and complete, and it is obviously impossible for him to make it up by himself. Of course, this also depends on everyone's trust in each other, Li Kejia believes that Wang Zijie will not compile a data to blind her.

Since Wang's data is true, it means that Qi Muden's blog post is confusing right and wrong. Of course, it may also be that Qi Muden was blinded by others, and when he saw a little hearsay news, he came out as a baby. It's ridiculous that he is also a white-collar worker, elite, and backbone commonly known as "white bone spirit", and he will be fooled by such a clumsy joke.

"In the past two years, newspapers, especially on the Internet, have been full of such specious articles, starting with a picture, and the process is all up to the editor. If you don't research and think about it yourself, you will be brainwashed by them unconsciously, and finally believe that we are really useless, and it is better to lie flat and let others step on it.

"On the contrary, if we can have the ability to discriminate, we can know which is the real advanced foreign experience and which is just the poisonous chicken soup for the soul, so as to establish institutional confidence, cultural confidence, and road confidence. ”

Tang Zifeng talked eloquently, and the Internet witticisms and political terms of later generations came at his fingertips, without any sense of disobedience.

Li Kejia said with a smile: "Zifeng, you, the general manager of the machine tool group, are too unprofessional, right? Professor Wang makes a living by fooling, and it's just a matter of studying these Internet jokes." You're in industry, what do these jokes have to do with you?"

"Why is it irrelevant?" Tang Zifeng said, "I'll give you an example, a few years ago, the domestic Kazakh and Korean wind prevailed, and even affected the user's choice of machine tools.

"Later, I arranged for a group of people to expose Korea's shortcomings in the newspaper and shake up its dirty things. Many of our customers have become suspicious of Korean machine tools after reading these articles. Later, we drove South Korean machine tools out of the Chinese market, which certainly has product quality problems and price advantages, but our previous public opinion war is also indispensable. ”

"You have a point. Li Kejia said seriously.

These people are all practical people, and discussing issues together is also to distinguish between right and wrong, not to fight for face, so although Wang Zijie refuted Li Kejia's point of view, Li Kejia will not feel annoyed or angry at all.

She said: "When we were selling domestic software, we were also deeply influenced by this kind of flattery. As soon as the user heard that the software was domestic, they shook their heads and asked us if we were using foreign ready-made software. ”

"What if it is?" asked Bao Nana curiously.

Li Kejia said helplessly: "If it is changed with foreign software, they are willing to try it." If we say that it is completely independent development, they are not even interested in trying it out. ”

"This ...... , isn't it completely reversed?" Bao Nana was messy, "They don't accept independent things, but they think they are good for plagiarized things, what kind of values are these!"