The Volga car of the export company drove into the computer institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and stopped in front of the building. Xu Wangqiu and Hu Jian got out of the car, asked someone to inquire, and soon asked where Liu Shengquan's office was.

In order to establish a digital audio-visual research institute, it is necessary to find a digital expert to preside over the work of the institute. Liu Shengquan is an expert in digital graphics technology, and it is undoubtedly the best choice for him to be the director of the institute. Xu Wangqiu's level is low, and if he talks to Liu Shengquan, others may think that the export company does not pay enough attention, so he pulled Hu Jian.

Xu Wangqiu knocked on the door of Liu Shengquan's office and walked in with Hu Jian.

Liu Shengquan was the only one in the office, reading the information. Liu Sheng remembered Xu Wangqiu, and Xu Wangqiu's thesis and defense made a deep impression on him. At this time, seeing Xu Wangqiu and Hu Jian entering the door, he put down the information in his hand and asked, "Xu Wangqiu, are you talking about me here?"

Xu Wangqiu did not rush to say the purpose of the trip, and introduced Hu Jian to Liu Shengquan. Hu Jian is the deputy manager of the company and belongs to the department-level cadres, so it will appear that the company attaches great importance to this matter. Liu Shengquan shook hands with Hu Jian, beckoned the two to sit down, and then went to get the hot water bottle and prepared to pour water for the two. Xu Wangqiu reached out to take the hot water bottle in Liu Shengquan's hand and said that he was coming.

Liu Shengquanqian gave in, handed the hot water bottle to Xu Wangqiu, and sat down opposite Hu Jian. He is a straightforward person and doesn't like to beat around the bush, so he said directly: "Manager Hu, what is the matter with you coming to me?"

Hu Jianxiao explained: "Yes, now foreign computer technology is developing very fast, and computer computing is being applied to film production on a large scale. We see this as a trend that even cinema equipment will be digitized in the future. Abroad has come a long way in this regard, and we are almost blank in this regard. We don't want to be left too far from abroad and are ready to study accordingly. The Ministry of State and Culture has given this task to the export company, and we are going to build a digital audio-visual research institute that will focus on the study of digital images and sounds. ”

When Liu Shengquan heard that the export company was going to engage in digital image research, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said: "Do you want to study digital image technology with us?"

Hu Jian said sincerely: "I don't want you to study with us, but I want you to preside over our research work." There are some engineering and technical personnel in our export company, but there are no scientific research personnel, let alone experts who understand computers, and we need an expert in this area to preside over the overall situation. We would like to ask you to be the director of the Digital Audiovisual Institute. ”

"Please make me the director of your institute. Liu Shengquan was surprised, he looked at Hu Jian, and then at Xu Wangqiu, feeling that the other party didn't seem to be joking, and said in surprise, "Why did you think of looking for me to be the director?"

Hu Jian explained with a smile: "We mainly do research on digital graphics and digital sound, and we need experts in digital graphics and sound, and even if you are an expert in computer graphics, we don't look for who you are looking for?"

In fact, there is a reason why Hu Jian did not say that they need to find a digital technology expert to preside over the work, but this person cannot be too important in the Institute of Computer Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. If it's too important, the computer can't let people go. Suppose Xu Wangqiu and the others went to the leaders of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and told them that they hoped that Researcher Xia Peisu would become the director of our institute, and it was estimated that the Chinese Academy of Sciences would beat them out of the way. Because Xia Peisu is an authority on computers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he is known as the mother of computers in China.

Liu Shengquan lowered his head and thought about it, weighing the pros and cons. After a while, he slowly shook his head: "Manager Hu, I still want to stay in the computer institute." Doing research and taking students is my interest, the computer institute is more suitable for me, and I am more used to this kind of life, so I am really sorry, I can't agree to your invitation. ”

Hu Jian didn't expect Liu Shengquan to say this, and he didn't know how to persuade for a while.

At this moment, Xu Wangqiu suddenly spoke: "Mr. Liu, when Mr. Qian Xuesen was in the United States, he was already a very famous scientist. But when he returned to China, the Americans resolutely refused to let him go, and even said that they would rather shoot Qian Xuesen than let him go back to China. The United States treats Mr. Qian Xuesen very well, and the United States also has better research conditions. If Mr. Qian had not returned to China and stayed in the United States to continue his research, perhaps he would have achieved even more and might have won the Nobel Prize a long time ago. But he still came back without hesitation, why do you think he came back?"

"For the sake of the Motherland, of course, for the sake of the people. ”

"Then are you willing to go to the Digital Audio-Visual Research Institute to preside over the overall situation for the sake of the country and the people?"

"I stayed at the computer to serve the motherland and the people. ”

"Many people think that war is a military war, but they don't know that war is also a cultural war. Taizu once said that if you don't occupy the position of thought, others will occupy it. When the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, they forced the people of the Central Plains to shave their hair and change their clothes, for what? Was it to find an excuse to kill people? Of course not, it was to carry out cultural castration.

Culture is the soul of a country and a nation, and if it is lost, it is more terrible than losing a war. After the Xinhai Revolution, the whole country set off a braid-cutting movement, but many people were reluctant to cut their braids, and after being forcibly cut their braids, they cried bitterly, feeling ashamed of their ancestors, but our ancestors did not keep braids!

If a war is lost, it is possible to win it back, and if the culture is emasculated, it is often irreversible. It's like a man who has been castrated, do you think he can still grow up? The Manchu Qing Dynasty used violent means to carry out cultural castration, while the West did it in the form of cultural export, and it was carried out imperceptibly.

If you look at the young people on the street today, which one is not proud of chasing Western culture? Toad glasses, bell bottoms, floral shirts, break dancing, which one is not a Western thing? It doesn't mean that young people are wrong to chase these things. It's just that under the pressure of the strong culture of the West, a large number of reverse racists will inevitably be born. These people feel that our country is not good, civilization is not good, and even the human race is not good, and they want to paint their skin white and become white completely.

Now the West is using high technology to create cultural products, such as "Star Wars", which have swept the world. We also hope to arm our cultural products with high-tech to counter the cultural invasion of the West. So, we named this project the Digital Great Wall!"

Hu Jian quietly gave Xu Wangqiu a thumbs up, this guy is really too good at talking, not only can he open his eyes and say nonsense, but he can make up the Digital Great Wall without blinking his eyes, and the big truth is one after another, which makes it impossible to refute, and even dead people can be said to live. Many scientists like Liu Shengquan have lofty ideals for the country. Xu Wangqiu threw out these words, not to mention Liu Shengquan, even better scientists are difficult to resist.

Xu Wangqiu paused, raised his voice and said, "Teacher Liu, you are from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and you should have heard the story of the atomic bomb." At that time, the scientists who participated in the project were all asked, "Are you willing to remain incognito for the sake of the motherland and the people?" We would like to ask you now, for the sake of the motherland and the people, are you willing to come to our institute?"

Sure enough, as Hu Jian expected, Liu Shengquan said excitedly: "Since it is for the motherland and the people, there is nothing to say, I am willing." It's just that I've never been an official or engaged in management, so I'm afraid that I won't be able to do well. ”

Xu Wangqiu smiled and comforted: "No one is born a leader, they are all trained. You didn't set up a CAD lab, you didn't do it. I invited you to come to prepare for the establishment of the Audio-Visual Research Institute, and the two are similar. As for management, you can leave the administrative affairs to other people, and you can do the research work. For example, we are going to engage in a 5.1 channel system, which involves a lot of technology, digital technology, sound computing, and laser storage technology. Relying on our export company to do it, it will definitely not be able to do it, and it needs to be completed jointly with multiple scientific research units. You need an expert like you to coordinate and control. ”

Liu Shengquan nodded, if you don't care about administrative matters and just study, then it's no problem. Since you are in charge of the overall control, you must know how much scientific research funding there is, so you say, "I don't know how much scientific research funding the state provides?"

Xu Wangqiu shook his head: "The state does not provide funds, and the funds are also provided by our company itself." ”

Hearing that the state does not provide scientific research funds, Liu Shengquan was greatly disappointed, thinking that it seems that funding is a big problem, digital graphics technology is inseparable from computers, there is not enough funds to buy computers, how to do digital graphics research, he felt that he should ask how much funds there is, so he said: "How much can the export company provide?"

Xu Wangqiu showed a smug smile: "That's what we think about, since we have a research institute, the office space and the equipment for scientific research must be solved, and we are ready to take 10 million to build a world-class digital audio-visual research institute." In addition, we provide 5 million yuan of research funding every year. If you don't have enough money, you can increase it. ”

When Liu Shengquan heard the figures reported by Xu Wangqiu, the whole person suddenly fell into a sluggish state.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has nearly 100,000 people, and in the 70s, the annual scientific research funding was about 360 million. There are dozens of research institutes under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and each institute has an average funding of 45 million yuan. In addition to paying salaries to personnel, purchasing books, medical expenses, and paying daily expenses such as water, electricity, and heating, the funds that can be used for scientific research are very limited.

After entering the 80s, the state proposed that scientific and technological work must be oriented to economic construction, and the research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was seriously out of touch with production, and many studies could not be transformed into commodities at all, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences was also subjected to unprecedented criticism for this, such as "money thrown in the water does not bubble", "ivory tower begging for a living", and so on, and some people even put forward suggestions such as "dissolving the Academy of Sciences, giving basic research to universities, and applied research to industrial departments", "starting from scratch, and rebuilding in another place".

In this case, instead of increasing the scientific research funding of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, nearly one-third of it has been cut. From more than 300 million in the 70s, it has dropped to more than 200 million. As a result, many basic research projects of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were forced to stop, and even the collider project that Taizong personally instructed to launch was almost discontinued.

Liu Shengquan's research on computer graphics and visualization stopped two years ago because these technologies could not be turned into commodities, at least not in the short term. His current job is to lead students at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he no longer conducts research.

At this time, when he heard that the export company provided 10 million yuan to build a research institute and 5 million yuan a year for scientific research, Liu Shengquan couldn't believe his ears: "You're not joking with me, are you?"

Xu Wangqiu smiled: "Of course not. I forgot to tell you. Our export company can bring tens of millions of foreign exchange earnings to the country every year, although these foreign exchange can not be obtained, but when you need to use foreign exchange, you can apply for it. Moreover, we have offices in the United States and France in the Xiangjiang Branch, which is quite convenient for the introduction of equipment and library materials from abroad. ”

Liu Shengquan said excitedly: "Why didn't you say it earlier, if you had known, even if you didn't come to me, I would have gone to you!"