Chapter 21: Professor Shen
After meeting with Cao Zhengyang, Ren Feng had a preliminary understanding of the complex relationship in this small land of his hometown.
Originally, I thought that farming is farming, planting melons and beans and beans, buying seeds and selling products, very simple, leisurely and ecological, and there is no competitive pressure when the land is planted. But after listening to Cao Zhengyang's words, he knew that there were many things that didn't mean that he could do what he wanted, immortals fought and mortals suffered, his strength was too weak, and if he was not careful, he might become a victim of other people's struggles, and he didn't talk about it yet. Cao Zhengyang can still put it down, and he is not entangled in Panlongling to open a mine, but if other people have ideas, with financial strength and background relations, it is enough to make Ren Feng cry and not cry! Therefore, Ren Feng has more urgent expectations for the development of the farm, and only by standing at such a height can he have the initiative to grasp his own destiny!
There is no problem with the construction funds for the time being, and his father also helped watch the initial construction, and he put the introduction of talents as the top priority. In the past, the seedling farm was small in scale, with few product types, and relatively low technical requirements. To build a circular ecological park, the profession involved is relatively extensive, it is far from enough to rely on itself, even if you have the ability to understand so much professional knowledge, you don't have the energy to do it yourself, you must recruit some related professional technical personnel.
I called Fang Xiao and asked about the situation. Fang Xiao told him that he had already found a few graduates and asked him to check it himself. It just so happened that Professor Shen had returned from the meeting and was now at the school. Ren Feng wanted to take this opportunity to go to Jiangnan Agricultural University again, meet Professor Shen, and interview the students Fang Xiao had found.
This time he was already familiar with the way, and as soon as he entered the school, Ren Feng went straight to Professor Shen's laboratory.
After knocking on the door, the door was opened by a thin old man wearing old-fashioned black-rimmed glasses, wearing a black tunic and looking in good spirits.
He saw Ren Feng but didn't know him, and asked, "Young man, who are you looking for?" β
"You're Professor Shen, right? I'm Ren Feng, the Ren Feng who wrote to you! Ren Feng was a little excited, and a little apprehensive.
"Oh, you're Ren Feng!" Professor Shen immediately shook hands with him warmly: "Please come in!" β
He looked at Ren Feng again and again, and only when Ren Feng was a little uncomfortable did he say: "Sure enough, he is young and promising!" Xiao Fang said that you are a young man, I still don't believe it, those letters of yours seem to have the understanding of experienced agricultural technicians, you really wrote them? β
Ren Feng said a little shyly: "I actually don't know much, I read your old book, and I felt the same way at first sight, so I took the liberty to write to you!" β
"There are not many young people who are willing to engage in agriculture now, which is rare! What a rarity! Professor Shen couldn't help but sigh.
Professor Shen inquired in detail about the origin and development of the nursery farm, as well as the preparation of the current farm, and nodded from time to time. When he knew that Ren Feng had completed these tasks independently from almost nothing, and listened to the work he had done for development funds, he was even more impressed. He was also infected by Ren Feng's persistent and hard-working spirit, and kept saying, "Amazing!" β
Professor Shen had already seen the overall planning of the Circular Ecological Park, and he had already told Ren Feng through Fang Xiao what insights he had, and Ren Feng had also made adjustments in a timely manner. When he heard Ren Feng say that the basic preparations were already underway, Professor Shen sighed and felt that this young man was reliable. It's only been less than a month, and he has no money and no background, so he is doing it in a hurry, which is much more efficient than many large companies.
"Listen to what you said, I can't wait to go to the scene now!" Professor Shen sighed.
"No problem, Professor Shen is always welcome to go to the site for guidance!" Ren Feng replied.
"If you have time, you must go!" Professor Shen has been engaged in these theories for many years, but they have never been realized in reality, and he is looking forward to Ren Feng's farm.
The old and the young really met late, and had a very in-depth discussion on the long-term planning of the farm, and the more they talked, the more speculative they became.
But they all urgently feel a crisis: talent!
In the future, the demand for talents will be higher, and more and more majors will be involved, including almost all existing majors. Modern professions are like mountains, but what is required here is the integration of various professions, rather than simple cooperation. Therefore, there is a need for many people who can be familiar with several different professions, and this kind of person who is both specialized and comprehensive is very difficult to find.
At present, it is relatively better, after all, the scale of the farm is not large, in fact, it is a little reluctant to say that it is an ecological park. The talents needed are mainly in breeding and planting.
"Do you have a candidate now?" Professor Shen asked tentatively.
"Another purpose of coming this time is to interview a few students that Fang Xiao helped me find." Ren Feng replied.
"Why hasn't Xiao Fang mentioned it to me?" Professor Shen was a little unhappy: "After all, the students who have just graduated are still young and have little experience!" β
Ren Feng also knew this drawback, so he had to say: "There is no way, I can only grow while doing it!" β
Professor Shen thought for a while and said, "That's it, I have a few old colleagues who have retired from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and they are idle, so I'll help you ask and see if I can go to you to be a consultant." β
"That's a good feeling!" When Ren Feng heard this, he was also very excited: "Elder Shen, you can also come and be a consultant for us!" β
"I'm afraid I can't take care of it and can't ask if I come to be a consultant!" Professor Shen said: "From a practical point of view, I have been throwing away for many years, and these old colleagues of mine are all agricultural technicians who have been fighting on the front line, and some of them have worked with Academician Yuan!" β
Ren Feng thought to himself, this is really a treasure, Academician Yuan's name is unknown to everyone, and those who can work with this kind of big cow are definitely bulls!
As for the cost, this kind of talent is not too much!
"Don't worry, these old fellows, they can't stay idle at home, they have left those farmlands and crops, and they can't get tired. They don't care about the money, they can't spend the pension they get at all, as long as they go back to the farmland, back to the crops, they are willing to post the money! Professor Shen said again.
Just kidding, this kind of talent, how can he be called for free labor?
Professor Shen continued: "Graduates also have to be recruited, after all, these old guys are old, and they must have successors, so they should be polite to them, and they must get all their experience!" Squeeze every drop of blood out of them! β
This Professor Shen, the more he talked, the more energetic he became. It's no wonder that he is almost that age, and at this time, he no longer cares about money, reputation and the like, but cares about his knowledge and experience, which can be effectively inherited!
Today's trip is really not in vain, no matter whether the students Fang Xiao found in the back are suitable or not, whether they can take them away or not, with Professor Shen's words, don't care too much about these. Of course, since you're here, this one has to be done by the way, and it's best to take one or two back today, and the work at home is already in full swing!
Bidding farewell to Professor Shen, Ren Feng contacted Fang Xiao by phone.
She was on her way to the lab when she heard that Ren Feng had already met Professor Shen, and she was surprised and said, "Why did you come so early today?" β
Ren Feng replied: "I'm in a hurry, I got up early, I said that the road was ripe early, and it saved a lot of time." β
Fang Xiao didn't go any further, just waiting for him on the road.
She was also very happy to see Ren Feng, Ren Feng can be regarded as her nobleman, first she basically helped her make her graduation thesis, and asked him to help recruit people, and there was also a small subsidy. She hadn't attended a job fair herself, let alone interviewed someone for a job, which added a lot of fun to her boring graduate life.
"When are you going to interview them? I've contacted them, they don't have classes today, they can do it anytime!" Fang Xiao asked Ren Feng first.
At this time, it was almost lunch time, and when she asked, Ren Feng remembered two things, one was that Ding Peng interviewed him back then, that is, they had a meal together at noon, and the other was that he was so busy that he missed the meal when he came last time. Thinking of this, he decided to have a special interview: "Or at noon, call them to have a meal together, ask Shen Lao if he is free, and ask him to help check it too!" β
Calling Professor Shen can indeed help him check the gates, after all, Jiang is old and spicy, his experience, and his knowledge are all that Ren Feng Fang Xiao does not have, and it also happens to resolve his small dissatisfaction with Fang Xiao not telling him about it.
Fang Xiao had no opinion, she called to contact those students, but she thought to herself: "What a foodie, I eat every time!" βγ
Ren Feng called Professor Shen and asked him for help. Professor Shen happened to be not too busy, so he agreed, saying that it was not too far.
When Fang Xiao heard that Professor Shen's request was not too far away, he suggested the Shennong Hotel next to the school: "You are really good, others invite Shen Lao to eat by car, and he is not happy to go." You'd be better to come as soon as you invite him, and ride his old 28 'Permanent' by yourself! β
Hearing Fang Xiao say this, Ren Feng was also very embarrassed, he didn't have a car of his own, and he asked Professor Shen to ride his own bike. However, it is also strange that Professor Shen is also an associate professor of a regular first-class university, and he also rides an old-fashioned bicycle about the same age as Ren Feng, which is too poor!
"Xiao Fang, as far as you know, what kind of person is Professor Shen?" On the way, Ren Feng happened to ask Fang Xiao.
"He's a weirdo, an outlier!" Fang Xiao commented on Professor Shen.
After listening to Fang Xiao, I realized that Associate Professor Shen Yi was really a weirdo. He was originally from a scholarly family, and when he was in college, he caught up with that fiery era, and with the tide of the times, he reached the vast rural land.
When he went to the countryside, he really saw the world, and he had never seen whole grains, and he felt new to everything there. Although the social environment at that time was complicated and the living conditions were very difficult, he fell in love with agriculture as if he had been brainwashed. Therefore, among the peers who went to the countryside together, they also seemed to be particularly unsociable and excluded everywhere.
Fortunately, he happened to meet the team of Academician Yuan (who was not yet an academician at the time), and although he was not able to become a member of the team due to his background, he participated in some basic work and gave him a deeper understanding of agriculture.
After that great change, Shen Yi, who felt that his knowledge was insufficient, decided to apply for a graduate degree in agriculture. His idea is very simple, not to change his destiny through this way, but to really want to continue his education and learn more and deeper knowledge.
After obtaining a master's degree, he was assigned to work at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, which was a period of social transition, and that kind of unit was in a situation where he had to die and live a chaotic life. Shen Yi is not good at drilling, and he is dedicated to living in his ideals, but he is hanging on the ground like this, he is not young, and he is not married.
Later, he published some papers and became a little famous, so he was transferred to an agricultural school as a teacher. Somehow, this road has gone astray, the knowledge is getting wider and wider, but the research direction is becoming more and more outdated, and finally I began to study the partial direction of the circular ecological park.
Because his academic qualifications are only master's degrees, and he has no particularly profound achievements, he has not been able to go further after being promoted to associate professor, which is almost to retirement age, and this is still the case, especially the current young generation, whose academic qualifications and experience are particularly vigorous, and competing with them, basically he has no hope of becoming a professor.
If you are promoted to professor, you can work for another 10 years, but if you can't be promoted to professor, you will have to retire when you reach the age. Over the years, he has not even been able to recruit master's students, so it can be said that he is generally very average. Only on some occasions when he needs to borrow the name of a professor to prop up the faΓ§ade, he has a sense of existence. But this kind of occasion is really not what he wants, so he doesn't care about it more and more.
Therefore, it is actually quite difficult for Ren Feng to invite him to dinner, which just shows how much Professor Shen values Ren Feng.