Cheng Yu nodded.

As a person who studies economics, especially macroeconomics, Cheng Yu knows very well that a data model often represents the completely independent style of this researcher.

Economics also has a lot of data modeling, although it is not the same thing as scientific research modeling, but the principle is the same.

If two people or a team are working together, and if one of them is leading the modeling, then he is definitely one of the key players in the project.

Regarding the model, almost all the subsequent data needs to be continuously provided by the leader of this modeling, which is as if he constituted the lowest layer of a building block castle, although the departure of this person does not mean that the lowest building blocks will also leave, but when the building blocks are built, they will continue to need to use their algorithms.

The climb of each floor needs the most basic model data to support, and it is normal for Wu Jing to be unable to continue the research of that project in the face of such a situation.

After a little contemplation, Cheng Yu realized that if it was just a project, it would not make Wu Jing so worried, after all, the institute has given up countless projects for so many years, and there is no need for Wu Jing to be entangled in such a project.

Cheng Yu asked tentatively, "How many similar projects are there?"

"A lot. ”

Wu Jing's answer confirmed Cheng Yu's conjecture.

He asked again: "What was that person in charge of when he was in the institute before?"

"At that time, he was the chief engineer and I was his deputy. He is mainly responsible for the data modeling part, the foundation of the foundation. It is no exaggeration to say that he is in the research institute and is absolutely indispensable. It is precisely because of the solid foundation he laid that we were able to smoothly carry out the research and development of various projects at that time, but such a person had to leave the institute because of the treatment problem. He can't be blamed either, after all, he's not like us. ”

Cheng Yu didn't say anything, he knew that Wu Jing would be like a reservoir that had opened the sluice gates, and all the information about this person would flow out in a steady stream.

"The remaining researchers in the institute now dare not say that they are all free of food and clothing, but basically they have enough way out behind them. If we put the needs of life on the level of ordinary people, then it is not an exaggeration to say that those of us have achieved financial freedom. Of course, you can't compare with Cheng Shao, but the vast majority of our researchers are from military officer families or Kochi families. The financial freedom of the period is barely enough, at least there is no need to worry too much about things like a house and a full stomach. That's why we've been able to stay at the institute for so many years. ”

Cheng Yu nodded, and there were many emotions in his heart, what Wu Jing was going to say next, he probably already understood. And this is indeed the current situation faced by many scientific research units.

Those who can stay are all dependent on food and clothing.

Obviously, they all have to bear the expenses of their parents and children.

Scientists also have to eat.

"Li Gong is different from us. He came from a very poor family, and his family was a farmer in the old central province of Xingon, and his family conditions were very poor. In high school, if it weren't for the principal of the town's middle school who took care of the tuition and miscellaneous expenses for him, I am afraid that there would be no later Li Gong. Later, he was admitted to the university, and it happened that the education department was restructured, the university expanded its enrollment, and no longer included allocation, and completely canceled the statement of public-funded students, and studied at his own expense. Faced with an annual tuition fee of more than 3,000 yuan, Li Gong's family could not afford it at all, and even the old principal who had carefully cultivated him for three years could not help. ”

Cheng Yu had a brain teaser, and he roughly knew that the country's complete abolition of publicly-funded students was probably in the mid-nineties, twenty years ago. This means that this Li Gong should be around forty years old now.

Huh? That Li Gong is younger than Wu Jing? But he is the chief engineer, and Wu Jing was only his deputy at that time?

Moreover, this person should have left the institute for at least five years.

At the age of thirty-five, he has already served as the chief engineer of a department-level research institute, which shows his ability.

"I heard Li Gong say that when he was admitted to university, his first choice was Peking University, but because of his family environment, he had decided to give up. Preparing to study as a local teacher, the normal university agreed to give him a tuition waiver and help his family by becoming a teacher immediately after graduating from a teacher training college. It was the old principal who helped him find one of his former students and get in touch with a military school. ”

Cheng Yu nodded, the military academy was still free of tuition in that era, and the graduates of the military academy at that time were already a soldier from the beginning of their enrollment. Moreover, the military school has a subsidy, which is very small, but it is enough for him to have no worries about food and clothing in school, and even very little help for his family.

"Li Gong received his doctorate at the age of twenty-seven, and came to our institute in the postdoctoral research stage.

Within two years, he participated in the modeling of more than eighty percent of the projects of the institute, and finally stayed in our institute with the best efforts of the Chen Institute. Because he has been involved in almost all projects, he is indispensable in every project, but in the later stages of project development, his role is relatively easy.

Therefore, after the study of the superior leaders, it was decided that when he came to our institute for the fifth year, he would be promoted to deputy chief engineer. At that time, the chief engineer was already a retired old cadre, and he was only hired back.

In fact, he's the one in charge of all of our projects. But it was at that time that the higher-ups decided to restructure the institute, so that all benefits such as room sharing were cancelled......

It can't be considered a cancellation, it's just that I can't afford it, and I don't have the money......"

Without Wu Jing going on, Cheng Yu could also guess the follow-up development.

It is nothing more than Li Gong naturally becoming the chief engineer, and the entire research institute, except for the secretary and Chen Jiang, is the number three person and the number one in technology.

According to the timeline, he was only thirty-two or thirteen years old at that time.

And a family like Li Gong, he has been working hard in the institute for a few years, and he is at the age when he should enjoy the treatment of room sharing, and his parents should be in their sixties in the old district.

In that kind of difficult environment, the 60-year-olds are different from the retirees in the 60s in the city today, and their health is often very poor, and even sickly, Li Gong will of course have the need to bring his parents to Wu Donglai.

The superiors could not be satisfied, and the institute was not self-sufficient, so it was normal for Li Gong to choose to leave.

"He's not a soldier, can't he leave?"

When he was promoted to deputy chief engineer, he was already considered to have changed jobs, and his salary at that time was 6,000 yuan per month, which was not bad compared with Wu Dong's salary environment at that time. But in the past few years of his work, his father has been in poor health, and almost all his income has been consumed by medical treatment. Although the house price was relatively cheap at that time, not to the point of not being able to afford it, he obviously couldn't afford it. It was also at that time that I saved tens of thousands of yuan by myself, and my family took tens of thousands of yuan to buy a house in Dongshan, which was not long after the county was withdrawn. When I bought the house, the house price there was a little more than 3,000, and the down payment required about 100,000. ”

"But in his case, after all, from bachelor's degree to master's degree and doctorate, they are all trained by the state, even if they change jobs and have no military status, it's not easy to leave, right?"

"At that time, the leader in charge of our research institute didn't understand, after Li Gong submitted his resignation, he came down to investigate, and felt that he was just a modeler, and even criticized us that a modeler should be engaged in the most basic work, and we actually made him the chief engineer, which is unreasonable in itself.

In the eyes of the leader, modeling is probably a job that anyone can do with a little data.

He also said at the time that even if Li Gong himself did not resign, if he understood the situation, he would have asked Li Gong to be an ordinary chief researcher, and the chief engineer must be a person like me who has the ability to lead a scientific research team to tackle key problems.

We strongly opposed it at that time, but the leaders still insisted on approving Li Gong's resignation. After Li Gong left, many projects of the institute were forced to be suspended, and even a few projects, which I remember had been developed to the middle and late stages at that time, and which could be completed soon, had to be suspended.

The leader promoted me to be the chief engineer, and once regarded me as a descendant, probably thinking that he promoted me, and I would definitely be grateful to him, but he didn't know that it was he who made many of our projects, many projects that have been developed for many years, go down the drain, and the scientific research funds allocated by the state are also equivalent to being wasted. ”

Cheng Yu sighed slightly, he didn't know about these things, and he didn't know what was going on with these higher-level leadership departments, but he could understand Wu Jing's feelings.

"Wu Gong, you don't have to be too emotional, after all, so many years have passed. The technology and R&D from a few years ago are probably not too valuable now, right?"

Wu Jing nodded heavily and said, "Most of them are true, and scientific research is also highly time-sensitive. But until now, there has been no similar scientific research of the same value in the project I mentioned earlier. And that research project, we were already at the end of the day. ”

Cheng Yu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that when he signed the acquisition of the 30% shares in Wang Hongjin's hands, he gave him 100 points from the Shenxuan system, which made him clear that there were still some hidden values in the institute that had not been discovered.

Now, according to Wu Jing, Cheng Yu is almost certain that the project he just mentioned must be the part that might add value to the institute.

"Is there a big market demand for that project?"

Wu Jing shook his head and said, "I don't know much about this, after all, I'm only engaged in scientific research, and I don't understand the market." However, this project is definitely in the leading position in similar research. When it was originally developed, it must have been treated as an important military technology, but now, there should be alternative technologies in the military side, but in the civilian field, I have not heard of anything that can achieve the effect of our project. ”

Cheng Yu's heart was beaten hard, and he knew that this must be the hidden value of the institute he was looking for.

At least, one of them.

"How many such projects, I mean, can still be in the leading position in the civilian field?"

Wu Jing closed his eyes, thought about it carefully, and said hesitantly: "It's not good to say, after all, some projects are even just beginning, but in addition to this, there are two other projects, both of which are about halfway through, and I personally think that the current technology on the market cannot reach it." ”

Cheng Yu secretly cheered in his heart.

"Ding!"