"I'm a complete betrayal of my master. ”

When Feng Xiaochen happily told Xu Zhiyuan the news that Wang Hongtai had agreed to release him, Xu Zhiyuan said half relieved and half melancholy.

The practice of Binhai Erhua in the past six months made Xu Zhiyuan fall in love with this job deeply. Rather than pondering the tastes of journal editors all day long and racking his brains to package an uninteresting point of view into a beautiful academic paper, Xu Zhiyuan prefers this kind of research work that can be directly combined with the needs of the production line. The technical problems in industrial production are not as theoretical as the research topics in universities, and sometimes they may only need to use some very basic knowledge to solve, but the value generated is incalculable. Jiang Xianyu They may not have enough academic skills, or they may have left the academic circle for too long, and some problems cannot be seen through at once, but Xu Zhiyuan, as a doctoral student, has a stronger advantage in this regard.

Xu Zhiyuan's dream since he was a child was to be a scientist, and the scientist he imagined was the kind of person who could invent a new machine for the benefit of society. When I was in middle school, my chemistry teacher told them about China's chemical industry, lamenting that China's chemical technology was decades behind the West, and that many basic chemical raw materials had to be imported. It was at that time that Xu Zhiyuan came up with the idea of majoring in chemical engineering, and finally realized it.

Four years of college, three years of master's degree, and then admitted to the doctoral student of Wang Hongtai, a big bull in the domestic chemical industry, but Xu Zhiyuan found that he was not getting closer and closer to the ideal of his youth, but getting farther and farther away. Wang Hongtai is very famous in the academic world, has part-time jobs in many academic institutions, and has a lot of administrative affairs, and has gradually moved away from the front line of scientific research. But it is precisely because of the many part-time jobs in the society that Wang Hongtai has almost no difficulty in applying for the subject, and many times various funds directly find him and ask him to apply. Due to the low threshold for applying for topics, Wang Hongtai no longer needs to ponder the direction of scientific research as he did in the earliest days, but casually opens his brain, and arranges his doctors and masters to check the literature and write project reports, and he can often pass the test easily.

After Xu Zhiyuan became a doctor, he became one of Wang Hongtai's most powerful assistants, and a large number of project applications and final reports were made by Xu Zhiyuan. Objectively speaking, making these project applications is also an important part of doctoral training, and it is in the process of retrieving various literatures that Xu Zhiyuan sharpens his scientific research literacy and has a deeper understanding of the international academic frontier.

However, Xu Zhiyuan is not satisfied with doing projects and writing papers. More and more Chinese scholars are publishing papers in world-class journals, but the technical level of the corresponding fields has not been improved. Xu Zhiyuan came to the site of Binhai Erhua, chatted with Jiang Xianyu, Bao Jianlin and other front-line scientific researchers, and learned that most of the technological progress in the field of chemical equipment comes from the technology imported from abroad, as well as the research of engineering and technical personnel.

As a result, Xu Zhiyuan came up with the idea of working in the practice department, instead of being a postdoctoral fellow as Wang Hongtai had designed for him in the past: to be a postdoctoral fellow, then stay on campus to teach, and get the title of professor in eight to ten years, and become one of the first-class scholars in China.

"We also need top-notch academics. Feng Xiaochen once said to Xu Zhiyuan, "We are indeed still very backward at present, but in the future, we will enter the world's first echelon, and we will need to be guided by world-class theories, rather than taking the road of learning and imitation as we do now." ”

"Leave these things to my brothers and sisters. Xu Zhiyuan said, "Director Jiang, they urgently need high-level engineers now, although I dare not claim to be high-level, but at least they can play some role." ”

"Isn't that a shame for you?"

"It's a pity, I studied chemical engineering to do this. ”

"So, your mentor, will you agree?"

"This ......" Xu Zhiyuan's face darkened at a visible speed, and he said sneeringly, "This is what I'm most worried about." This time, my mentor sent me to Binhai Erhua, and said that he would come to help temporarily. After the Binhai Erhua project is completed, I should go back, and there are still a bunch of things for me to do on the mentor's side, and my other classmates are not as good as he wants. ”

"What then?" Feng Xiaochen asked with a grin.

"Mr. Feng, can you help me talk about it?" Xu Zhiyuan asked timidly.

Feng Xiaochen said: "I'm afraid I can't say it's okay, Professor Wang sent you to Binhai Erhua, it was for the sake of my face that I agreed, and now I want to borrow you for a long time, and it also involves the topic of your doctoral dissertation in the future, Professor Wang is afraid that he will not agree." ”

"Actually, there is still a way......" Xu Zhiyuan's voice was so low that he could barely hear it.

After listening to Xu Zhiyuan's idea, Feng Xiaochen smiled in his heart. When it comes to doctorates in school, the word "stupid" is often added as a prefix, and this Dr. Xu is also known for his honesty on the construction site, but who knows that he is so shrewd in his heart. Then again, after all, people are doctors, with steel IQs, and they usually look stupid, that's called being wise and foolish, and if you really think that doctors are not as smart as you, you lose.

Xu Zhiyuan's idea was to let Feng Xiaochen replace defense with offense, first threatening Wang Hongtai, saying that he would transfer him to the practice department through organizational channels, and then promised that as long as Wang Hongtai was willing to let Xu Zhiyuan go to Beihuaji, he would not go through the organizational channels. Xu Zhiyuan has been a doctor under Wang Hongtai for two years, and he knows his mentor too well. The ancient adage that a friend of the dead is not a poor man is now almost Wang Hongtai's life creed.

Feng Xiaochen acted according to the plan, and Wang Hongtai really gave in. He knew in his heart that Feng Xiaochen was cheating, but he didn't dare to take the risk of being angry with Feng Xiaochen. He didn't know that this idea came from his beloved disciple himself, and thought that Xu Zhiyuan was also coerced, so that before leaving Binhai, he talked to Xu Zhiyuan once, and appeased him in every way.

"Don't worry, the state won't treat you badly. After announcing the decision to appoint Xu Zhiyuan, Feng Xiaochen patted him on the shoulder and said, "According to the path designed by Professor Wang, you can become a well-known professor of chemical engineering in China in more than ten years." Now you choose to go to the production line, I also give you a promise, ten years, I will let you reach an annual salary of one million, the chief engineer of the top 100 domestic enterprises, and the business trip is at least the treatment of a five-star hotel. ”

Xu Zhiyuan smiled. In Xu Zhiyuan's view, Feng Xiaochen's words are half a joke, half serious, and the annual salary of one million may just be casually talked, but good treatment is definitely no problem. However, as a doctoral student, Xu Zhiyuan really doesn't have much feeling about the conditions such as annual salary and five-star hotels.

"Actually, Mr. Feng, the goal I hope to achieve is that in ten years, we don't have to look at the faces of Chigu and Brown anymore. Xu Zhiyuan said.

Feng Xiaochen was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said: "This is also the ideal of Minister Wu and Director Jiang, by the way, when your mentor went to the capital to apply for the ruthenium catalyst project, he also had such an ideal." ”

"......" Xu Zhiyuan was speechless, and after a while, he avoided the topic and asked: "By the way, Mr. Feng, there is one thing I don't understand, this time you asked the technicians of Brown and El companies to come over and help us persuade the Argentine Ministry of Agriculture." It stands to reason that they should be closer to Iketani Manufacturing, but why would they speak for us?"

"What do you think?" Feng Xiaochen asked with a smile.

"Is it because they want to get more technical details about the ruthenium catalyst from us?"

"Not exactly. ”

"That is, we have adopted some means......" Xu Zhiyuan said vaguely. The so-called means are actually bribery, and everyone has discussed this topic behind their backs, and when the technicians of the Brown Company and the El Company left China, they were indeed carrying large bags of gifts.

Feng Xiaochen shook his head and said, "These are very routine courtesy exchanges, and they can't be said to be any means. If Iketani invites them to a meeting, he will also give them gifts. ”

"So, why did they help us? I can feel that they said something in front of Hagner, which is beyond the scope of normal technical appraisal, a little ......."

"It's kind of an advertisement for us, doesn't it?"

"It's a little bit. Xu Zhiyuan nodded.

Feng Xiaochen said: "This matter is actually very normal, you see that Brown and El are very close to Chigu, but have you ever thought that there is a competitive relationship between them. Blanc and El are both veteran European chemical equipment companies, and Japanese companies such as Iketani are latecomers, but they are very aggressive and aggressive. According to the information we have, Japanese chemical equipment companies have stolen at least 10% of the market share of old European chemical equipment companies in the past five years.

"But we're also their competitors!" Mr. Xu said.

Feng Xiaochen smiled and said, "We're not qualified enough." We are now a large chemical fertilizer and still have some competitiveness, and domestic large ethylene is still under construction, lacking international competitiveness. Brown and El, they have given up the thin profit products of large chemical fertilizers, and mainly focused on large-scale petrochemical and coal chemical products, and we have no competition with them in this regard. On the contrary, we have common rivals and can be considered friends. ”

"I see. Xu Zhiyuan's eyes lit up, "What do you mean is that Iketani Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has a competitive relationship with the Brown Company, and the Brown Company hopes to pull Iketani back by supporting us." ”