Listening to Sun Fanzhuo talk about the problem of money, Tang Zifeng immediately stopped sleepy.

Can a problem that can be solved with money still be called a problem?

"How much does it cost to invite a German professor over?" asked Tang Zifeng.

"Fifty thousand dollars. Sun Fanzhuo stretched out a slap to emphasize.

"So expensive?" Tang Zifeng frowned, "The foreign engineers hired by our Canglong Research Institute are enough for five thousand dollars a month. ”

"I'm talking about a year......" Sun Fanzhuo wanted to cry without tears.

I said 50,000 a year, you can understand it as 50,000 a month, how long are your brain circuits?

"It's so cheap!" Tang Zifeng's eyebrows furrowed even more, "Director Sun, what you said wouldn't be that kind of bullshit professor, right?"

"Of course not!" Sun Fanzhuo was annoyed, "The kind you said...... , uh, it can't be said that it's bullshit, it's just that the level is not so high, that kind of foreign teacher, we have two in the department now. We hired them not to engage in scientific research, but mainly to let them teach mechanical foreign languages to students. As you know, a lot of the literature for mechanical engineering is in German, so many of our students take German.

"The people I just mentioned are all internationally renowned professors. For example, Professor Alex Ferguson of the Technical University of Dresden has also missed the Nobel Prize several times. ”

"Wait, what do you say that person's name is?" Tang Zifeng became serious.

"Ferguson, Furgurson, if you ask someone, someone must know his name. Sun Fanzhuo finally found an opportunity to choke with Tang Zifeng, and the tone was a few points higher.

He is also a dignified professor, a department head of the highest university in Dongye Province, and his self-esteem was hit several times by Tang Zifeng and Zhang Jianyang, and he was so aggrieved that he was about to explode.

Aren't you rich?

But are you knowledgeable?

Have you heard of the famous Furgurson?

Well, in fact, Sun Fanzhuo knew this name, and it was also because a returnee teacher in the department recommended him, so Sun Fanzhuo and other leaders went to study this person's background and found that he was indeed quite good.

As for passing by the Nobel Prize, there is no evidence anyway, what can you do with me?

You don't see that every year when the Nobel Prize is selected, there will be news in China that so-and-so has been nominated, and then a few pamphlets that have been backlogged by this person in the bookstore for more than ten years will be snatched up by literary and artistic youths. Everyone competed to comment on how good his writing was and how meaningful his writing was. For example, when he writes "Xi Da Puben", do you know what it means? He can also say sauce purple, say buy Dongdong, and understand English, TJJTDS, how literary it is!

Tang Zifeng didn't care what Sun Fanzhuo thought, Sun Fanzhuo asked him to find someone to ask, and he really asked someone to ask. He took out his mobile phone, pressed two buttons and dialed out, and it was his wife Xiao Wenjun who answered the phone.

"Wen Jun, let me ask you about someone, there is a person named Ferguson at the University of Dresden in Germany, English is Furgurson, have you heard of it?" Tang Zifeng asked loudly in front of a group of people.

Sun Fanzhuo's face immediately darkened. The other party is really not particular, this is clearly not able to believe his own words!

Xiao Wenjun didn't know what was going on on the other end of the phone, and when she heard Tang Zifeng's name, she replied without hesitation: "I've heard that this person is engaged in metal materials, and he is a little famous in tool cemented carbide." ”

"I heard that he has brushed shoulders with the Nobel Prize several times?" Tang Zifeng continued to ask.

Sun Fanzhuo gritted his cemented carbide dentures with a rattle.

"Possibly. Xiao Wenjun replied seriously, "Maybe when he attended an academic conference, he rubbed shoulders with a Nobel laureate." ”

"Understood. Tang Zifeng smiled and hung up the phone.

Fortunately, Tang Zifeng called his wife, it was inconvenient to open a speakerphone, Xiao Wenjun's words that hurt people and did not see blood, Fan Wenping and Sun Fanzhuo did not hear it, otherwise they would definitely have to wonder if Tang Yanqi did not have a PY. With such a pair of parents on the stall, it is strange that little Tang can have PY.

Tang Zifeng got the information he wanted to know from the phone. First, this Professor Ferguson is still relatively famous, at least even Xiao Wenjun knows him. Second, it is not true that he brushed shoulders with the Nobel Prize, at best, he passed by the Nobel Prize winners. Of course, it is not easy to do the latter one, there are only a few Nobel Prize winners, and not everyone has the opportunity to rub shoulders.

"Don't mind, Director Sun, I'm actually just looking for a reason to chat with my wife, Ferguson or something, just by the way. Tang Zifeng explained, seeing that Fan Wenping and Sun Fanzhuo had signs of flipping the table, he hurriedly said: "My wife said just now, Ferguson is indeed quite famous, and she admires Ferguson very much." I'm just a little unsure, can a well-known professor like this be hired for $50,000 a year?"

Hearing Tang Zifeng's later additions, Fan and Sun were a little more comfortable. Sun Fanzhuo said: "We have communicated directly with Professor Ferguson on this issue, and the standard he proposed is $50,000 a year. Of course, the accommodation in China, as well as the working conditions, etc., have to be provided by our side, which does not cost too much. ”

"Is he not happy over there?" asked Tang Zifeng.

If something is abnormal, it must be a demon, a well-known professor can be dug up for 50,000 US dollars, and there is a bit of strangeness in this matter. Tang Zifeng is a cautious person, well, in fact, because Tang Zifeng himself is a person who is accustomed to conspiracies, so when he encounters strange things, he must first ask to understand, so as not to be cheated by others and lose the face of his alma mater.

"It's not quite as good as it could be. Sun Fanzhuo said, "His college has been unable to recruit students since two years ago. The number of undergraduates is not enough, the number of graduate students has also decreased, and Ferguson himself has not recruited graduate students for two years. The school said that if they still don't have enough enrollment for the next school year, the school will have to consider downsizing them.

Professor Ferguson said that he had little to do right now, and even if he wasn't fired from the school, it was worthless to stay, so when we contacted him, he said he was willing to come over. ”

"But why do they recruit students?" Tang Zifeng asked with some surprise.

Sun Fanzhuo said: "We have also asked him this question. He said that since about 10 years ago, young people in Germany have been reluctant to study engineering, and the best young people have gone to study finance and art. Over the years, the quality of their students has become worse and worse, and sometimes although they can recruit full students, these students have no learning ability at all, and they are very tired and have no sense of accomplishment in teaching them. ”

"This situation has also been specially arranged by our school to understand it, mainly because the manufacturing industry in Europe is shrinking, many factories are closing, and other factories also lack expansion plans, so the demand for engineering talents is getting less and less. The situation of some emerging industries is good, such as traditional industries such as machinery, it is becoming more and more difficult for graduates to find employment, and young people are naturally reluctant to apply for the examination. Fan Wenping added.

"I see. Tang Zifeng understood.

The contraction of manufacturing in Europe is not a matter of a day or two. As early as the sixties and seventies of the last century, Japanese manufacturing swept the world, and the manufacturing industry in Europe and the United States began to decline.

In the early days, Japan only undertook labor-intensive industries transferred from Europe and the United States, while Europe and the United States turned to capital-intensive and technology-intensive industries, realizing the "cage for birds". Later, with the rise of the Asian Tigers, Japan's industrial structure shifted from labor-intensive to capital- and technology-intensive, which was the beginning of grabbing the cheese in the bowl of Europe and the United States.

With the full development of China's export-oriented economy, Made in China has replaced Made in Japan and has become a nightmare for European and American manufacturing enterprises. Although made in Japan is fierce, after all, it is only a country with a population of more than 100 million, and it is difficult to swallow the entire market. China is a large country with a population of more than one billion, and the number of manufacturing workers is larger than that of Britain, France and Germany.

In the beginning, China's manufacturing industry was mainly an export processing industry with "big in, big out", that is, raw materials imported from abroad, assembled and processed in China, and then sold abroad. European and American countries mainly manufacture various machinery and equipment, forming a complementary relationship with China.

In this complementary relationship, China contributes cheap labor, while Europe and the United States contribute technology and brands. The Chinese toiled to produce hundreds of millions of shirts, and the profits were not enough to buy an Airbus 380 from Europe.

However, with the expansion of China's export processing industry and the increasing demand for equipment, China's own equipment manufacturing industry has also been cultivated. In order to compete with Chinese local manufacturers, European and American equipment manufacturers also have to move their production bases to China in order to provide services for downstream manufacturers nearby.

The production base has come, and the R&D center can't be retained. Think about it, if a group of machine tool designers can't see the machine tools they manufacture all day long, but carry out "cloud design" across tens of thousands of kilometers, how can they find problems in the design in time, and how can they get feedback from the production process?

In recent years, more and more European and American equipment companies have entered China, while fewer and fewer companies have stayed in Europe and the United States. Some companies have only an empty shelf left in their headquarters in Europe and the United States, and their main production capacity has been relocated to China.

In this way, an awkward situation is created. Students from engineering universities in Europe and the United States, if they still want to do their own business after graduation, they can only apply in China. If they want to stay in the country, they will have to change careers to other professions, such as finance or the Internet.

If they can't find a job in their home country, why should they study this major?

Is it bad to learn e-commerce?