"Have you ever heard a story about a flush toilet?" Li Ji asked Zhao Shouzhong and Qian Jin. "No, what's the story of that thing?" Qian Jin said he hadn't heard of it. "At the end of the last century, some countries in Europe and the United States held a contest to ask people from all over the world to vote for the greatest invention of the 20th century. As a result, you must not have imagined that it was neither the atomic bomb nor the Internet, and even the open-boiled system and universal values were also famous, and the number one was actually the flush toilet.

At first, I thought it was a spoof of foreigners, and I couldn't figure it out, until I sat down on the toilet and thought about it vigorously. It turns out that the convenience that this flush toilet brings to everyone is indeed incomparable. When I was a child, more than once a year, I heard about people who went to the toilet with weak legs and exhausted physical strength, or accidentally plunged into a large manure tank - drowned? I always thought it stinks. Really, I don't lie to you, I don't believe it, you go and try the "convenience" of squatting on a large septic tank, I assure you, it's more unbearable than not having the Internet and the freedom of boiling.

In April 2012, Crown Prince Alexander of the Netherlands said in a speech at a rally: 'In the Netherlands, there are villages and towns that hold toilet throwing competitions for fun, and I also participated. But I am ashamed that there are still 2.6 billion people in the world who do not have the most basic amenities to meet their daily needs with dignity. 'You know what came to mind when I read the news?' Li Ji asked Zhao Shouzhong on the side.

"What comes to mind? Could it be that this news is an advertisement or a conspiracy of the ceramic industry that produces toilets? Zhao Shouzhong couldn't think of Li Ji's train of thought.

"How can you get involved in anything with vested interests or conspiracy theories? It's not those, it's how much technology has changed lives! We have lived in modern society for so long, did we have a strong sense of discomfort when we first arrived in this era, and many habits and actions have not changed until now. No electrical appliances, no light switches, no water heaters, no shower showers, no flush toilets, no internet, no cars, no noise, no pollution, no high-rise buildings, no glass windows, no plastic products, no supermarkets and almost infinite varieties of each of the goods that have condensed countless modern industrial technology crystallization, we are sighing how we survived this year, from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift. ”

"It's alright! Isn't the high-end professor's villa community in our base camp Chenji Academy already in the early stage of modernization, calcium carbide lamps are no worse than electric lights, a small number of small pieces of colorless flat glass spliced large pieces of glass are also okay, there are servants to serve without showers, no plastic bags and pollution is not better? Baskets are just as convenient and eco-friendly as cloth bags. As for the flush toilets, it was a problem, our stalls were too large, and the management and technical staff were insufficient. Ceramics, glass, stainless steel, enamel, aluminum alloy and other new material industries and related industries can only start to engage in large-scale factories when the students from the School of Chemical Materials and the School of Mechanical Engineering officially graduate. Now we use some handicraft workshop to carve and try to produce high-end products is quite reluctant, although it is easy to make a fortune from the toilet, but it is not good! This business can be entrusted to the brother-in-law of one of us in the future. Qian Jin said bitter water, and began to emphasize that he did not have enough students, research and development projects are always subject to the environment, can not be too advanced machinery, and can not be too large equipment, can only stay in the mechanical design and material experiments before the industrial revolution The requirements are too rigid, and involve hundreds of industries and types, the number is too many and the task is too heavy, even if the welfare and treatment are very high, I and the students' bodies are beginning to be a little unbearable.

"Didn't we cut 80% of the key research projects at this stage last month? Aren't the schedules and five-year project catalogs distributed among the various faculties and majors? Are you going to open a small stove again? Zhao Shouzhong asked with a silver face.

"That's not true, I can testify, the reason why I can't bear it is because some of the projects that I cut have been picked up by this technical maniac, and there is naturally not enough manpower! The Chinese can never change his original surname of greed and speed, although it is difficult for us to say anything about his own increase in self-weight, and the extra R&D funds are also made up by him and his students by saving money and making up everything, and we cannot say that he destroys the system and financial system. Although the new technology has led to the improvement of living standards, it is us and themselves who benefit, but too fast and too much energy may lead to the untimely death of old money, we can't ignore it, don't you say, Lao Zhao? Li Ji entered the actor mode with a kind face and began to play a leading role in caring for his subordinates.

"Yes, if there is not enough manpower, there is really no way to increase it, so it is not in the way to postpone the progress for a few months, you can hand over some technology research and development projects that have not entered the secret level to the workshops under the partner to tackle key problems! Why do you have to do it all yourself? This is not in line with our style of only doing profiteering and high-end? Lao Zhao asked suspiciously.

"You haven't done technology research and development, I do, and no technician can tolerate handing over half of their research work to others, even if it is more efficient and cost-effective. The more advanced the fanatical technical maniac, the less likely it is to give up their child-like research and development work, to the level of Lao Zhao, it is no longer about trivial things such as dignity and remuneration, that is to say, they have reached the fanatical realm of research and development for the sake of research and development. ”