Chapter 118: The German Expert of Selfishness
Nanjiang Institute of Technology.
The main building imitation Su style built in the 1950s faces east and west, facing the college gate. A tall statue of a great man stood in front of the building, majesticly raising his hands to greet every passing teacher and student. Feng Xiaochen rode his bicycle past the great man, came to the front of the building, locked the car, and walked into the building gate with great strides. His age was similar to that of the students in the school, and there was nothing unusual about his clothes. The guard in the building just glanced at him, did not go forward to interrogate him, and regarded him as a student in the school.
Feng Xiaochen found the place he wanted to go on the room number signs of each unit at the entrance of the stairs, went straight to the second floor, and came to the door of a room with the words "Office of the Director of the Mechanical Department" at the east end of the corridor, and raised his hand and knocked on the door.
"Come in!"
A powerful voice came from the room.
Feng Xiaochen pushed the door and saw that the room was not big. There were two patent leather bookcases on one side of the door, and an equally old artificial leather sofa on the other side. There were two desks side by side with various books, newspapers and documents on the table. A half-large old man was sitting at an office desk wearing reading glasses, looking at Feng Xiaochen who was coming in.
"Are you looking for me?" the old man asked.
"Are you Director Xia?" Feng Xiaochen asked. Before coming to Nanjiang Institute of Technology, he had done his homework and knew that the head of the Department of Mechanical Department was named Xia Yulin, who was a mechanical expert. Feng Xiaochen also recalled based on his memories of his previous life. It seemed that he had no impression of Xia Yulin. Judging from his current age, it was estimated that he would retire in a few years. By the time when Feng Xiaochen worked, there would be no information about him.
The old man was Xia Yulin. He treated Feng Xiaochen as a student in the mechanical department and couldn't help but feel a little annoyed. All students have received freshmen's enrollment education after entering the school, and he teaches the annual enrollment education. There is no reason for the students not to know him. In addition, he also taught basic courses such as Introduction to Mechanics to the first-year freshmen, which was a whole semester of course. Why would students ask him if he was Director Xia?
"Which major are you? How many levels?" Xia Yulin asked with a calm face.
"Director Xia, you misunderstood. I am not a student in our mechanical department." Feng Xiaochen said.
Xia Yulin then felt relieved and nodded and said, "Oh, then I'm wrong. Which department are you from? What's the matter with me?"
Feng Xiaochen smiled and said, "Director Xia, I am not a student of the School of Technology, I am a staff member of the Metallurgical Bureau of the State Economic Commission. This is my work certificate, please check it out."
As he said that, he took out his work permit from the Metallurgical Bureau and handed it to Xia Yulin. At He Chunmei, he got the work permit from Lin Bei Heavy Machinery, mainly to use the title of deputy director to scare the other party. At Xia Yulin, he got the work permit from the Metallurgical Bureau. For college teachers, the value of national ministries and commissions is far higher than that of enterprises.
"Oh, are you a cadre of the State Economic Commission?" Xia Yulin indeed took it seriously. He took the job and took a look, then stood up quickly, with a smile on his face, gave Feng Xiaochen to sit down, and said, "It turns out that it is Comrade Feng, please sit down, please sit down."
"You're welcome." Feng Xiaochen sat down on the sofa, then quickly moved his butt, because he felt that he was sitting on a spring, with only a thin layer of artificial leather between them, and I don't know when the spring popped out.
Although the country has repeatedly claimed to attach importance to education and science, but financial constraints are difficult to make the funds allocated to the school. Xia Yulin, the head of the mechanical department, used old furniture from more than ten or twenty years ago. The only thing that looks new is the strange-looking ceiling fan on the top of his head. Because before summer, the leaves of the ceiling fan have been picked, wrapped in newspapers, and tied next to the fan.
Because it was a cadre from the State Economic Commission, Xia Yulin was unable to continue to sit in his position and talked. He brought a chair, sat opposite Feng Xiaochen, and then skillfully took out a cigarette box and signaled to Feng Xiaochen.
Feng Xiaochen has begun to quit smoking recently. He only smokes one when he needs to use a cigarette to contact his relationship when dealing with others. In front of Xia Yulin, he doesn't have to do such a false condom, so he waves his hand and refuses Xia Yulin's kindness.
Seeing that Feng Xiaochen was not smoking, Xia Yulin put away the cigarette box and asked, "Comrade Feng, are you having trouble with me?"
"Something is happening," Feng Xiaochen said, "This is the thing. The Metallurgical Bureau sent a delegation to Germany at the beginning of the year and contacted a German bearing manufacturing company to invest and build a factory in Nanjiang Province. I wonder if you have heard of this."
"I have heard that this factory seems to be built in the Dongshan area, right?" Xia Yulin replied. The investment of Philo Company in Nanjiang is the number one news in Nanjiang recently. Anyone who often reads newspapers and listens to radios has never heard of it. Because the newly built joint venture is used for bearing production, Xia Yulin, as a mechanical expert, pays more attention to this matter than ordinary people.
"I am responsible for contacting the German side in this project." Feng Xiaochen said.
"Is that true? So, are you proficient in German?" Xia Yulin asked.
Feng Xiaochen nodded: "Learn a little, but you are definitely not as good as Director Xia's German level."
"Where are there," Xia Yulin said modestly, "I only have a little contact with German. There are several teachers in our department who are proficient in German. Recently, the Metallurgical Department wants to introduce steel rolling mills from Germany, so it needs to borrow some German talents and contact them specifically."
"Oh?" Feng Xiaochen was stunned and said terrible. He really forgot about this. There were not many people in Nanjiang Province who knew German. If the Metallurgical Department wanted to introduce German hot rolling mills, it would definitely require a large number of German translation talents. The teachers who know German at the Institute of Technology might have been caught by Qiao Ziyuan.
"Have these teachers been borrowed by the Metallurgical Hall?" Feng Xiaochen asked worriedly.
"Everyone has almost gone." Xia Yulin said, "This is a major event in the province, and our teachers are still very considerate of the overall situation."
"What a pity..." Feng Xiaochen sighed.
Xia Yulin said strangely: "What, aren't you from the Metallurgical Bureau of the State Economic Commission? You should have some contact with the Metallurgical Department, right? I thought you were here to talk about this matter too."
Feng Xiaochen said: "I know about this matter. At the beginning of the year, our Metallurgical Bureau went to Germany to talk about the hot rolling mill. Director Qiao of the Metallurgical Department also went there, and I worked as an interpreter for him. However, I came to Director Xia today to borrow several teachers from the Mechanical Department to go to the joint venture established by Philo Company and Tongchuan County to help with some information translation work, which has nothing to do with the hot rolling mill."
"That's right..." Xia Yulin said, "We have teachers who are better at German here, and they are basically borrowed, except..."
"Except what?" Feng Xiaochen sensitively grasped the flaw in Xia Yulin's words.
Xia Yulin smiled awkwardly and said, "We have a teacher Yan Baitong here. German is the best. The Metallurgical Department originally wanted to invite him, but after all, he just refused to go. Now he is the only one who knows German in the department."
"Why doesn't he want to go?" Feng Xiaochen asked.
Xia Yulin sighed: "Parentism, the idea of becoming famous and becoming a family is too strong. It is a waste of time to go to the Metallurgy Department to do translation work. The department has done a long time, but it has not been able to do it. Alas, now people advocate respecting talents, so we can't force them too much."
Feng Xiaochen thought for a while and asked, "What kind of research does this Teacher Yan do?"
Xia Yulin said: "It's a coincidence that he is a person who works in bearings and is quite famous in the field of bearings. You see, he published an article in the British Journal of Mechanical Engineers two days ago."
As he said that, he took out a magazine from his desk, turned a page, handed it to Feng Xiaochen, and pointed at the author's name with his finger and said, "This is Yan Baitong's name."
"Abstract determination method of dynamic coefficient of sliding bearing oil film..." Feng Xiaochen took the magazine, looked at the title, and recited.
"Comrade Feng still understands English?" Xia Yulin was shocked, and then smiled concealedly: "You see, I'm really confused. You are the translator of the Metallurgical Bureau, how could you not understand English? However, it is indeed admirable. You are probably less than 25 years old, you know German and English. It's amazing, amazing."
Feng Xiaochen did not correct Xia Yulin's guess about his age. He quickly looked through Yan Baitong's article and had a rough idea. Yan Baitong's article talked about how to use simpler experimental equipment to measure eight dynamic systems of bearing oil film. It listed a large number of matrix equations, which showed some of the author's mathematical skills.
Feng Xiaochen knew that the "simple equipment" mentioned in this article should actually be called "simple equipment", which is a temporary solution that scientists have come up with in the absence of advanced experimental equipment. The reason why this British magazine was able to publish this article may be because it was because it was because it was because it was because it was because it was not very valuable to the test method itself, because researchers with good equipment did not need to use such troublesome and rough methods.
"What do Teacher Yan usually do?" Feng Xiaochen read the complete text, closed the magazine, and asked Xia Yulin.
In Feng Xiaochen's mind, he had already made up his mind to pry Yan Baitong to Tongchuan. He was proficient in German and was also a bearing expert. Such a person was exactly what he needed, so how could he let it go for nothing? As for Qiao Ziyuan, he failed to borrow Yan Baitong, because Qiao Ziyuan could not get higher conditions and could not impress Yan Baitong. Feng Xiaochen believed that the so-called parochialism was worthless when working in the Metallurgy Department, but because the conditions were insufficient.
As the saying goes, there is nothing that cannot be done with one meal. If there is one, then two meals!
Chapter completed!