"Hu Qian, Gao Yongxiang, you two will go to the computer room to disconnect our equipment later! Everyone has half a day off in the afternoon, and they will take care of my personal hygiene. In the evening, the big boss will have dinner, don't give me a foreign appearance when the time comes!" As soon as he finished lunch, Liu Junliang signaled everyone to be quiet, and then announced the news.

"Big boss, which big boss?" the others asked, confused.

"Whoever pays for the project will naturally be the big boss!" Liu Junliang said with a smile.

"The richest man in the world, 'God of Wealth Li'?" finally someone reacted and immediately exclaimed.

In the past two years, more and more Hong Kong businessmen have traveled to and from Guangdong City, and the news here is not as closed as in other parts of the country. The news that Li Xuan became the richest man in the world caused a huge sensation in Hong Kong, and it has long been transmitted to the entire Pearl River Delta region.

"It is said that this Mr. Li is very wealthy by nature, and he is very wealthy! With a net worth of 7 billion US dollars, it should be able to fill several rooms when exchanged for paper money, right? It is estimated that a hair is worth tens of thousands of dollars!" The discussion began.

"Okay, don't talk nonsense, you haven't seen Mr. Li's photo! People are about the same age as you, and they are already famous all over the world, so you should be ashamed and brave!" said another older man.

"Hehe, Dr. Li, then you people who are older than Mr. Li should feel even more ashamed after eating for so many years in vain!" someone immediately laughed and retorted, the atmosphere in the team was not strict, and everyone often made some harmless jokes among themselves.

This doctor, surnamed Li, was a doctoral student recruited by Liu Junliang at the beginning of the year. Starting this year. Mainland universities have officially started to recruit the first batch of doctoral students on a trial basis. As a young and middle-aged professor, Liu Junliang successfully applied for one of the only two doctoral places in the Beijing-Beijing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications. Add doctoral supervisor after the title that can be professored.

The reason why Liu Junliang was able to overwhelm many seniors in the institute and take the lead in recruiting doctoral students was because of the blessing of the DS-2000 digital program-controlled switch project at hand. Since the project was approved in June last year, in just 15 months, the Oriental Research Institute has approved a total of 5.2 million Hong Kong dollars in research and development funds.

When other professors in the school are still applying for R&D funds of one or two thousand yuan or even hundreds of yuan. When he had to report to the leaders again and again to explain the situation, Liu Junliang already had the right to make complete decisions on the use of funds below 10,000 yuan, not to mention that all he got was foreign exchange.

Even if it involves tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. As long as Liu Junliang has a legitimate reason for applying, the Hong Kong Audit Center of the Institute of Oriental Studies will give a clear reply in one or two days at the earliest and three to five days at the latest. Of course, it was easy for Liu Junliang to take the money. However, the Institute of Oriental Studies will send an audit team on a regular basis. Conduct an exceptionally detailed and rigorous financial review of the project team.

However, Liu Junliang did not have too much selfishness in the whole process of the project, nor did he enrich his own pockets, so he was naturally able to go very smoothly with the relevant review. And the trust between the two sides is also through this kind of contact, which is slowly built up step by step.

When the project was first established, Liu Junliang could only use the funds at his own initiative at a time of only 3,000 yuan. The project review committee of the Oriental Research Institute completed the first mid-term review of Liu Junliang's DS-2000 digital programmable computer project. recognized his work, so he adjusted the amount of funds he could use independently to 5,000 yuan. And in March of this year. After the second mid-term review, the limit was raised to 10,000 yuan again.

In 1982, the first college entrance examination after the Cultural Revolution had just graduated at the beginning of the year. If they stay on campus as teaching assistants, their monthly salary is only 51 yuan, and the average salary of professors is just over 100 yuan. 10,000 yuan is equivalent to the sum of Liu Junliang's salary for ten years, which is undoubtedly a huge amount of money for intellectuals in this era.

Since the beginning of the DS-2000 program-controlled machine project, Liu Junliang has invested as much as 2 million Hong Kong dollars (about 800,000 yuan) in the construction and purchase of equipment and instruments in the real room, and all of them are foreign advanced equipment directly purchased with foreign exchange. His correspondence room has at least reached the level of the provincial and ministerial level.

According to the cooperation agreement signed between the Oriental Research Institute and the Beijing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications, after the DS-2000 project is completed, the ownership of these equipment will belong to the school. In other words, the Bei-Postal Academy will have a state-of-the-art real room, so it is not difficult to imagine how enthusiastic the school will be for the DS-2000 project.

In order to make the DS-2000 project go smoothly, everything is given the green light, especially in terms of talent allocation. Liu Junliang's team has grown from 11 people when it was first established last year to 30 people now. Among them, Professor Liu Junliang is the main person in charge of the team, and in addition to him, there are two other professors of BUPT, who serve as the leaders of the two core research groups.

In addition to 3 full professors, the team also has 2 senior researchers (at the same level as full professors), 3 associate senior researchers, 1 associate professor, 3 lecturers, 1 doctoral student, 12 master's students, and 5 undergraduate students.

These students are the disciples of various professors, commonly known as scientific research dogs. These senior and associate senior researchers were seconded from the First Research Institute (Huhai) and the Fifth Research Institute (Jincheng) under the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

Getting into the DS-2000 research project team is not an easy task because the competition is very fierce. The reason why everyone is desperately competing for this fragrant bun is because the treatment in the project team is so good. Although the project team does not pay salaries in name, in fact each member receives a living allowance.

According to the standards set by the Institute of Oriental Studies, Liu Junliang, the project leader, receives a monthly subsidy of 500 yuan, 300 yuan for full professors, 250 yuan for associate professors, 200 yuan for lecturers and doctoral students, 100 yuan for master's students, and 50 yuan for undergraduates.

What is even more exciting is that since the DS-2000 project is a foreign-related cooperation project, all the subsidies for scientific researchers are directly issued by the special financial account set up by the Oriental Research Institute for the project, and each person is issued with foreign exchange coupons instead of RMB.

Foreign exchange vouchers were something peculiar to the eighties, when direct use of foreign exchange was not allowed in the country. After overseas Chinese and foreign friends come to China, the foreign exchange they hold in their hands needs to be exchanged for foreign exchange coupons before they can be used in China.

Nominally, the face value of foreign exchange coupons is the same as that of RMB, but in fact, because of the use of foreign exchange coupons, you can go to the friendship store to buy large electrical appliances and other in-demand materials. Therefore, on the black market, the actual value of foreign exchange coupons is much higher than that of RMB, and 100 yuan of foreign exchange coupons can be exchanged for at least 130 yuan.

At the Hong Kong headquarters of the Oriental Research Institute, even if a recent undergraduate student joins the company as a R&D officer, the starting salary is at least 4,000 yuan (about 1,500 yuan). The living allowance of the Oriental Research Institute for domestic projects has been much lower with reference to the domestic income level. But even so, joining the DS-2000 digital program control computer project team, the income of scientific research subsidies is at least 2-3 times the normal monthly salary, and everyone will naturally rush to it.

The dinner hosted by Li Xuan for Liu Junliang and his scientific research team was placed in the guest house of the provincial party committee, and the chef of the guest house cooked a table of Cantonese cuisine with all the color and aroma. Not all the members of the team were there, and half of them were testing another program in the Deep Sea Special Zone, and the two teams were experimenting at the same time, which could make the collection of more abundant numbers and the project progress faster.

"Thank you all for your hard work over the past year or so, and I would like to express my gratitude to you on behalf of the Institute of Oriental Studies!" Li Xuan raised his glass and said to the young faces in front of him.

Li Xuan's Mandarin is very good, which is somewhat unexpected by everyone. Because in the impression of most mainlanders, Hong Kong people speak broken Mandarin. At first, everyone was still a little restrained in front of him, the big boss, but with the exchange between him and Yan Yuese, the atmosphere at the wine table finally relaxed.

Of course, the focus of Li Xuan's conversation was still on Liu Junliang. After the dinner, Li Xuan invited him to his suite, and the two continued to communicate in the living room.

"Professor Liu, after completing the research and development of DS-2000 digital program-controlled telephone exchange, Oriental Research Institute hopes to continue to develop DS-1000 and DS-500 by your team to form a series of digital programmable computers. Dongfang Electronics will be ready to cooperate with the Shanghai side to promote our DS-2000 switches in the domestic telecommunications system.

However, the current telephone installation rate in China is still relatively low, and the vast number of county-level post and telecommunications bureaus do not need to use 2,000 program-controlled switches, 1,000 or even 500 switches, and they can already meet the demand. The price of the DS-2000 is too high for them, and it is more cost-effective for them to configure a lower digital program!" Li Xuan said. On behalf of the Institute of Oriental Studies, he extended another invitation to Liu Junliang.

"Mr. Li, at what price did you decide to sell the DS-2000 in China?" Liu Junliang suddenly asked.

"The specific pricing needs to be finalized after detailed market research and analysis, but it will definitely be slightly lower than similar products in the international market!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

Liu Junliang frowned, he remembered that the price of 2,000 foreign digital program-controlled switches was generally more than 500,000 US dollars, equivalent to more than 1 million yuan. It's a pity that he only applied for other funds to do the project, and did not have the right to decide the price of the product. But he couldn't help but ask tentatively: "Mr. Li, will this price be too high!"

"It's not high, our switches are produced in China, and there is no need to use foreign exchange when buying, this buying point is enough to make domestic telecommunications bureaus rush to it!" Li Xuan shook his head and said. (To be continued......)