"Well, it's really hard to estimate. ”

Kang Haidong made a thoughtful look, thought for a while, and then said slowly: "Assistant Feng, the research of natural science cannot be exaggerated at all, it has its own laws, and we can't pull out the seedlings to help them grow." A theoretical breakthrough can happen suddenly, catch you off guard, or it may drag on for a long time. So, if you ask me to tell me an exact time, I really can't say it......"

Hearing this, Feng Xiaochen and Wu Shican's faces sank, we just asked you to design a set of ethylene devices, what laws of natural science did you talk to me about, bullying us for not doing scientific research?

Speaking of which, Kang Haidong really didn't mean to be cheating, he really had no choice but to say such inconsequential words in front of a young man like Feng Xiaochen with a shy old face, wanting to fool the other party temporarily and buy him a little more time. However, he knew in his heart that even if the other party didn't force him now and gave him another three or five months or even longer, he would not be able to complete the research tasks assigned by the equipment company. To use the saying goes, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and he has no one at hand who can use it, so how can he complete such a large-scale design task.

The strength of the petrochemical design institute is not said, and it has indeed completed the design of 5,000 tons of ethylene plant in the past, but that is already a thing of the past.

Thirty years ago, the petrochemical institute designed the ethylene plant, with the drawings provided by the Soviet Union as a reference, and a group of elites who returned from overseas as the backbone. With such conditions, the petrochemical institute was able to complete the design of 5,000 tons of ethylene plant in only half a year, and won the national commendation.

Nowadays, those technologies of the Soviet Union have become obsolete, and many of the technologies introduced from Western countries in recent years have not been fully understood, and the technical requirements of 600,000 tons of ethylene are not half a star compared with 5,000 tons of equipment, and the difficulty is conceivable. The key question is that the mental outlook of those engineers in the design institute today is almost completely different from that of 30 years ago.

When Kang Haidong had just brought back the design task of the 600,000-ton ethylene plant from Wu Shican, there was also a small climax in the hospital. The first phase of the 10 million design fee arrived, which made the leaders of the institute who suffered from financial constraints breathe a sigh of relief, and they were all in good spirits, and everyone launched a fierce struggle around these funds:

It's been a long time since you've seen a bonus, should you give everyone a little bit to improve everyone's life?

The medical expenses of the employees have not been reimbursed for many months, so they can't be owed all the time, right?

The experimental equipment in several design rooms is outdated, should we spend some money to buy some more?

Many office walls have fallen off, so why not paint them and replace them with old-fashioned wrought-iron windows?

Other units have bought cars, and when they go to the ministry for a meeting, the car in the petrochemical institute is the oldest, which seriously affects the image of the unit, and it is also necessary for work to have a new car, right?

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Everyone's argument has made sense, and the institute must take it into account. In fact, all of these are not big expenses, even if it is a passable Santana car, that is, a matter of 100,000 yuan, which is equivalent to a fraction of the 10 million expenses. One of the biggest uses of this fund is the decision of the petrochemical institute to build two new residential buildings to solve the problem of housing shortage for the staff of the institute that has plagued the hospital for many years. The decision to build the building was unanimously agreed by all the leaders of the petrochemical institute, but the issue of the allocation of new housing caused great controversy.

In the 80s and 90s, housing was one of the most sensitive issues in the national sector. Everyone's life has improved, and there are all kinds of household appliances at home, as well as all kinds of furniture with "48 legs", all of which need space to place. Many of the children in the workers' families have grown up, and when they reach the age of marriage and childbirth, the original living conditions of 20 square meters of the original family are obviously unable to meet the needs. As for the young people who were newly assigned to the unit, it was even worse, it was not bad to be able to get a bed in the building, and it was not news to live in the storage room and stairwell of the office building.

When the unit has no room to divide, although the employees have complaints, they only mumble a few words after tea and dinner, because they know that no matter how much trouble they make, it is useless, and the leader cannot conjure up the house. But when they heard that the design institute had money and planned to build a new residential building, all the employees flashed green light in their eyes, like hungry wolves on the grassland, and launched a powerful public opinion offensive around the new residential building:

Older workers claim that they have contributed their whole lives to the unit and deserve the priority of sharing a room; a young worker who says that he has not enjoyed any benefits when he comes to the unit, how can he not consider such a thing as a room allocation?

Those who have scientific research achievements should take their own published papers, award certificates, and so on to the leaders of the academy to show their credit, saying that they have sweated and shed blood for the dean;

Those who have many children in the family emphasize their own difficulties, and those who have few children in the family say that you people do not abide by the national policy of family planning, and now that the children have no place to live, they deserve it......

Everyone is busy fighting for benefits, where is there still the heart to work. For the tasks delivered by the equipment company, in the theoretical analysis stage, with some accumulation in the past, everyone was able to say that he was ugly when he held a meeting, but Wu Shican was fooled. But when it comes time to put it into practice, it turns out that those accumulations are not enough, and you need to dig into it wholeheartedly, check the data, draw pictures, and do experiments, which is not something that can be done by showing off your tongue.

The experts of the design institute, of course, still have some ability, if they can organize it well, and then learn from foreign technology, they can also make a set of design drawings. But now the old experts can't do it, and the young technicians are in a mood because the treatment cannot be implemented, and they don't want to work at all. Kang Haidong set the task and it became a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no response for several months, what can Kang Haidong do?

The leaders of the hospital also know that it is not possible to drag on like this, after all, they have taken the money of the equipment company, and even more than half of it has been spent, and it is unjustifiable that they cannot come up with results. Kang Haidong personally presided over several mobilization meetings and said some cruel words, but it had no effect at all. Several young researchers fired at Kang Haidong directly at the meeting, saying that it was not their turn to divide the room, so why should they look for themselves when they worked. If you want to make it easy for yourself to work, take a room allocation index, and sell your life to the hospital.

Kang Haidong has no power to decide who to divide the room, this kind of thing is very sensitive, not to mention that Kang Haidong is just a vice president, even if he is the president, he does not dare to be arbitrary, so he can only let the administrative department take a very complex algorithm to calculate the score of each employee, and then line up according to the score to determine the allocation of housing. In this set of algorithms, the contribution to the design institute also accounts for a certain weight, but the contribution is measured by a series of indicators. The researchers, all science students who are good at calculations, carefully calculated for a long time, and found that the contribution of drawing a drawing was not as good as the contribution of a handyman who burned a boiler for a day, so they began to slack off.

All of these are the bitterness in Kang Haidong's heart, but who can he say to him? Wu Shican and Feng Xiaochen are his customers, and they only have drawings in their eyes, so how can they care about the bullshit in the design institute. Kang Haidong could only delay one day a day, and as for the reason for delaying, it naturally became more and more bizarre.

"Dean Kang, according to the contract, you should complete the overall design in March this year. It's September, and it's been half a year, and you're still talking about scientific laws, don't you think it's boring?"

Feng Xiaochen spoke coldly. He is not familiar with Kang Haidong, so there is no need to save face for Kang Haidong like Wu Shican. Of course, if Kang Haidong's performance was not so unbearable, Feng Xiaochen would also be polite, which is the minimum politeness to others. But now that Kang Haidong is talking nonsense with him, Feng Xiaochen doesn't have such a good temper.

"How can it be boring to talk about the laws of science? Aren't we doing scientific research?" retorted Kang Haidong with a red face.

"It's not. Feng Xiaochen replied firmly, "Dean Kang, you can be mistaken, what we are talking about now is not a scientific issue, but a commercial issue. Your hospital has signed a contract with our company, and our company has paid the money according to the requirements of the contract, then you must submit the results to us within the time specified in the contract, otherwise we can only do things according to the contract. ”

"What do you want to do?" asked Kang Haidong. Of course, he knew what the contract was all about, and he had feared more than once that a breach would bring some trouble. However, the trouble he thought of was just a fight with the equipment company, and he might need to pay some loss of face, but he felt that other risks did not exist. The equipment company belongs to the state, and the design institute is also the state, so can your own people still get along with your own people?

Feng Xiaochen smiled and said, "Dean Kang, I came with Director Wu this time to coordinate this matter. Considering the difficulty of this project, we can give the petrochemical institute some grace time, but you must give us a clear answer within three days, explaining the time when you will submit the final results and the actionable measures. If we do not see such a reply, or if it does not satisfy us, then we can only do so according to the contract. ”