The NB laboratory Berlin is still on the banks of the Elbe, more than 20 kilometers southwest of Berlin.

This site was formerly owned by Thomas of the former East German Ministry of Industry. The Minzel Maschinenbau has always thought that Thomas. Minzel was the founder of the factory, inventors, scientists, and the like, and it wasn't until yesterday that Daniel was asked about him over dinner, and he learned that Minzel, a 16th-century utopian socialist and leader of the German Peasants' War, was a figure who was admired by the ideology of the former East Germany and did not fit in with the mainstream values of West Germany.

The mechanical plant bears his name and is completely influenced by Moscow. Just like Carl. Marx Street, Marx and Engels Square, Mao Z East Street and Zetkin Street have strong political overtones.

Last night, Jing was so busy answering second sister Zhang Lin's questions about Xia Yao this or that that she didn't bother to ask about the situation in the laboratory.

When I asked just now, Daniel just didn't answer, and the gods babbled about what they wanted to surprise him.

If you can't pass the review, you will have to break up next year, and with the current R&D capabilities and influence in the German scientific research community, I really can't think of any surprises that the Berlin NB Laboratory can bring to itself.

Closer and closer to the machinery factory, I saw that the factory gate was full of cars, there were "satellite" brand cars, and there were buses and RVs produced by the Yifa (IFA) truck complex. The grass on the left side of the parking lot is bustling with people sitting under the sun umbrella reading the newspaper, chatting on blankets, playing cards around folding tables, and even a hot dog stand.

There is no living area within a radius of two kilometers, and the last time I came, it was deserted, and the charter was confused. Puzzled, he asked, "Daniel, how can there be so many people." What do they do? ”

Daniel glanced out the window and said with a triumphant smile: "Yesterday I said that talent is the precious wealth of the company. Zhang, I can tell you very responsibly that they are all talents and wealth. ”

"Talent?"

"There is no doubt that at least a quarter of them are former members of the GDR Academy of Sciences, and the other three-quarters are from former East German universities, institutes and companies."

The Great Ideological Purge continues, and it's not surprising that academicians drive taxis and set up stalls to sell newspapers, but what are they doing here?

Before he could speak, Daniel pushed the car door. He explained with a smile: "They are all members of the 'Klinsmann's Friends Association', and they are all here to find work, so they didn't go in. ”

Germans are all association fans, such as boating associations, dancing associations, shepherd dog associations, and even parking lot associations. According to incomplete statistics, there are at least hundreds of thousands of associations of all kinds in Germany, some of whom belong to one, and some of whom can participate in several associations at the same time.

"Klinsmann's Friends Society?" The constitution was ridiculous, and I couldn't believe that the little old man would be crazy enough to register an association in his own name.

Daniel waved to Klinsmann's friends and confirmed, "The Doctor has a lot of friends. His association of friends is also very influential, and the last time I heard that it already has more than 3,000 members, your neighbor who is the deputy spokesman for the prime minister is one of them. Frankly, I've submitted an application, but it's been denied. ”

"For what?"

"Maybe it's because I'm a West German. Maybe think I'm not qualified. But you can try, they think highly of you and affectionately call you a little capitalist behind your back. ”

The charter couldn't help but laugh: "It's ridiculous. ”

"There's something even more ridiculous."

Daniel pointed to the gate of the machine factory and smiled, "Chapter." Don't despair, this is no longer the Berlin NB Lab. At least the media and the doctor's friends don't think so, they call it 'Klinsmann's Repair Shop'. If you had been following the Berlin News some time ago, you would have noticed that the Ph.D. was very popular, and I would have suggested that he run for office. ”

First there was the "Klinsmann's Friends Association", and now there is a "Klinsmann's Repair Shop", one after another, and the charter almost burst into laughter.

When he walked into the factory, he realized that "Klinsmann's repair shop" lived up to its name.

Sparks are flying in the workshop, machines are roaring, from large motors taller than people, to all kinds of lathes everywhere, the engineering technicians originally recruited for the German factory of NB Electric are busy under the command of old men. Some old men even went into battle in person, operating the machines of the machines, driving the cranes, and a few driving forklifts around the factory.

"Zhang, when did you come back?"

Just as he was about to go to the office building behind to find the little old man and ask what was going on, the little old man walked out of the workshop on the right. Not only did it make a mess of things, but even the styling became a mess. She wears a hard hat on her head, her glasses are tied with a string and hung on her chest, she holds a loudspeaker in her left hand, she holds her big brother in her right hand, and she is followed by a middle-aged woman who looks like a secretary.

The charter greeted him and smiled and asked, "Doctor, what are you?" ”

"Mr. President didn't tell you?"

"He said he wanted to surprise me."

Dr. Klinsmann was amused, pointed to the workshop behind him and smiled: "You have seen it, this is the surprise, how about it, it didn't disappoint you, right?" ”

"Doctor, can you tell me what they're doing?"

"Oh my God, I don't know where to start. In short, all this was forced out by the federal and state governments. We can't get orders for R&D projects commissioned by the government, nor can we receive R&D orders commissioned by West German companies, so we can only provide some after-sales service. ”

"After-sales service?"

"Yes," Daniel replied smugly, "Zhang, the task you gave me is almost impossible. In order to let the laboratory have enough external commissioned R&D orders, so as to pass the review of the scientific research department at the end of the year, we racked our brains and tried all the ways to finally come up with this idea of after-sales service.

Of course, it cannot be called after-sales service, but upgrading and transformation of R&D projects. It is not modest to say that with the joint efforts of colleagues and friends at the headquarters, we have become the largest and only after-sales service provider of products in the former East Germany. We worked in all the former Warsaw Pact countries such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, and even the socialist Soviet Union was one of our clients. ”

Emaciated camels are bigger than horses, and East Germany is indeed one of the world's 10 largest industrial countries.

The machinery manufacturing industry, the electrical machinery, electronics and instrument manufacturing industry, and the electronics industry are second to none in the socialist camp, and even in the early days of China's reform and opening up, they still purchased their products.

The government collapsed, the factory director stepped down, and the former SIS members were like criminals, all of them stood aside, leaving the state-owned enterprises of the former East Germany almost completely wiped out.

The factories are closed, and naturally they will not provide after-sales service for the products that were sold before. Statute suddenly realized, and couldn't help but smile and ask, "Doctor, what kind of services do you and your friends provide?" ”

Dr. Klinsmann is getting younger and younger, and his eyebrows are dancing when he speaks, "It doesn't matter what kind of service you provide, what matters is that you have orders and customer satisfaction, which is one of the most important things in the review." So far, we're going very well, as of yesterday afternoon, we've received 128 orders for upgrades, and the customers are so satisfied that I don't think the guys in the research department should be able to find any thorns. ”

"How does it work?"

"The president registered a company and then contacted them in the name of the Berlin Industrial Corporation in accordance with the export records of the Business Coordination Committee of the Socialist Unity Party Government and the Ministry of Industry. What followed was not very glamorous, but it was very necessary, and we claimed that we would take over the after-sales service of the 184 factories under the Ministry of Industry, and it turned out that the customer did have this demand. ”

The charter was happy, and he looked back and smiled: "Mr. President, very good idea." ”

Daniel pretended to be solemn and said unashamedly: "Whether it is East German or West German products, they are all German products now, and as a German company registered in Germany, we should take the initiative to assume this unshirkable obligation." ”

"I think so too," he said, nodding slightly, and then asking, "Doctor, why don't you invite those friends from outside to come in and sit down?" ”

Dr. Klinsmann glanced back and said lightly, "They are noisy, and they are not laboratory personnel, so they only sign loan agreements with them when needed, and let them provide services on behalf of the laboratory to customers." ”

The borrowed worker is a temporary worker, and the charter has been thundered, and he secretly wants to let the academician of the Academy of Sciences be a temporary worker, and this respected old guy in front of him can do it.

Looking at his stunned appearance, Dr. Klinsmann said with a serious face: "They are not in it for money, they just want to be treated with the respect they deserve." I also never thought about exploiting their surplus value, it was just that the budget was too tight and I had to leave them waiting outside. ”

Daniel was afraid that his head would be hot, so he recruited a large group of people in, and said with a smile: "Anyway, they have nothing to do in Berlin, which is good." ”

As a researcher, he can imagine what it would be like for them to get a temporary job and become a laboratory R&D person again, even if it is short-lived, even if they are not engaged in R&D at all.

As the Doctor said, all they need is respect.

They are respectable, pathetic, wretched, lamentable, and at the same time fortunate because they are Germans. Despite the loss of dignity and work, at least there is a pension, social welfare security, as long as you do not squander and waste, you have no worries about food and clothing.

In contrast, the Chinese intellectuals at the time of the WG were not as fortunate as they were. Being beaten into a stinky old man, being locked in a cowshed, unable to survive or die, even survival is a problem, how can we talk about dignity and work?

The charter sighed secretly and said expressionlessly: "Doctor, there is a new project in the Middle East, we may need to transfer some people from you, this is not the place to talk, let's go upstairs to talk." (To be continued......)

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