When Feng Xiaochen returned to the dormitory of the Strategy Office from the reinstallation office, it was almost seven o'clock in the evening. When he was going up the stairs, he met Qi Ruicang. Xie Keli and Ding Shikuan got down from the building. Seeing Feng Xiaochen, Qi Ruicang greeted casually: "Xiao Feng, why are you back? If you don't have any, go together."

"Why, you didn't eat?" Feng Xiaochen asked in surprise. The meal at the Strategy Institute was 5:30 pm, and the group had not eaten yet.

Ding Shikuan sighed exaggeratedly and said, "Hey, there's no way. Isn't this going to work for Lao Wang and his team? I've been busy until after six o'clock. Everyone washed their faces and were thinking about going out to find something to cushion their stomachs."

"Wait for me, I'll go wash my face, and I'll come soon." Feng Xiaochen said.

A few people went downstairs and waited outside the building gate. Feng Xiaochen ran upstairs and hurriedly washed his face, changed his clothes, and rushed down. The four of them chatted and came to a small restaurant outside the Institute of Strategy. This restaurant was run by an old couple. Because the food was well prepared and the price was not expensive, and it was very close to the Institute of Strategy, it was favored by graduate students and young researchers in several institutes in the courtyard. Sometimes, when they caught up with a name, old professors such as Shen Rongru would also follow the young people to come here to gather, which was equivalent to the off-staff canteen of these institutes of the Academy of Social Sciences.

When Feng Xiaochen and his party arrived at the restaurant, there were no other guests in the restaurant. The old lady Miao Guiping was cleaning. When she saw everyone entering the door, Miao Guiping warmly greeted them and sat down, and then asked, "What are you guys eating?"

"Give me some fish-flavored shredded pork, a stall of yellow vegetables, and a stir-fried rapeseed." Feng Xiaochen ordered the dishes for everyone, then looked at everyone with a consulting gaze and asked, "Do you want some beer?"

Several people looked at each other, and finally Ding Shikuan said, "Forget it, let's forget about beer. The three of us have been working on it for a day and haven't made any money for beer."

Miao Guiping returned to the kitchen to prepare the dishes. Feng Xiaochen looked at everyone and said, "What's going on? Lao Wang is so stingy. Please go to work and don't even care about the meal?"

Xie Keli waved his hand quickly and said, "Not this. Lao Wang gave us some opportunities to make extra money. How could we let him pay for the treat? Don't listen to Xiao Ding. The three of us went to help the Planning Commission's information room to organize the books for a day. We had a working meal at them at noon. After one person, he also received a 5 yuan labor fee."

"5 yuan a day?" Feng Xiaochen said in surprise.

"Isn't that true? This is also Lao Wang's face." Ding Shikuan said.

The old Wang they mentioned was Wang Zhenbin, a classmate who used to work in the State Planning Commission and now came to study at the Academy of Social Sciences. Wang Zhenbin, Feng Xiaochen, and Yu Rui, a classmate who came from the Sports Reform Commission, all came to school with their original unit’s salary, and their income was pretty good. Qi Ruicang and the others were completely decoupled from the original unit, and they received the postgraduate allowances stipulated by the state, which cost more than 40 yuan a month, without any bonuses, benefits, etc.

If you have a little more than 40 yuan, it will be enough to avoid being hungry. But if you want to buy some books and occasionally come out to have a tooth sacrifice, the money will be a bit stretched. Qi Ruicang is a married person and has a burden at home. Xie Keli has already negotiated a partner and is about to get married, so he becomes even more financially nervous. Ding Shikuan is a pure bachelor, but his parents are farmers. If possible, he wants to subsidize his parents, so he also attaches great importance to money.

Wang Zhenbin and Yu Rui both have some positions in their original unit and can find some opportunities to make extra money, so they occasionally introduce these young classmates to work. For example, today, Wang Zhenbin helped the three of them contact the planning committee information office to help organize books. The other party not only took care of a meal, but also gave each person a 5 yuan labor fee.

5 yuan a day, from the perspective of future generations, seems to be too cheap. But in 1985, the salary of general government officials was only 60 or 70 yuan. The wages of workers were only more than 40 yuan in factories with poor efficiency. The labor fee of 5 yuan a day is equivalent to a monthly salary of 125 yuan, which is very high. Ding Shikuan said that this is Wang Zhenbin's face, and he was not wrong. If someone hired a temporary worker to do this work, some people would flock to him to give him 2 yuan a day.

"Oh, what are the prices rising now? What's our postgraduate allowance?" Xie Keli complained.

Qi Ruicang said: "Isn't it? Now it is said that missiles are not as good as those who sell vegetables, leaves and eggs. We graduate students are not as good as Aunt Miao who opens a restaurant to make money. This is really a devaluation of knowledge."

"When will knowledge be valuable?" Xie Keli asked back.

Feng Xiaochen smiled and said, "Old Xie, I don't agree with your point of view. Knowledge is valuable at all times, but you just haven't found a channel to sell knowledge."

"Do you have this channel?" Xie Keli said, "Younger, you have the most ideas in our class. Think of a way for us to sell our knowledge and you can get the commission from it."

"Haha, yes, we divide the sixth and fourths into each other. The youngest ones, you get sixth and we get four, how about it?" Ding Shikuan also started to cheer.

Feng Xiaochen looked serious, but he glanced at everyone and asked, "Are you talking seriously?"

Qi Ruicang felt that Feng Xiaochen's attitude was a little strange, so he couldn't help but become serious and asked: "What do you mean? Do you really have such a channel?"

Feng Xiaochen nodded and asked, "How much do you think your labor is worth? For example, how much do you think it is appropriate to give when you hire everyone for a month?"

"What specific job do you do?" Ding Shikuan asked.

Feng Xiaochen said: "Of course, it is to use everyone's expertise to do research, write articles, and participate in academic conferences. Don't worry, these work are all about using your spare time. Except for academic conferences, you may have to take leave to participate, other research activities, writing articles, etc. will not conflict with our courses."

"You mean, can you find a research project for everyone?" Xie Keli understood that such things are not uncommon in universities and research institutes. Their supervisors occasionally take on such projects, and then give them some labor fees from the project fee, which is ten or twenty yuan at a time, which is a considerable income from extra money. According to Feng Xiaochen's meaning, he seemed to have gotten such a project and wanted everyone to participate together.

"I think it will cost at least 20 yuan a month, otherwise..." Ding Shikuan said halfway and did not continue. He felt that if this topic was obtained by Feng Xiaochen himself, he would be embarrassed to share Feng Xiaochen's income as a classmate. But if he didn't take a penny, he was a little unwilling to accept it.

"I did take on a topic," Feng Xiaochen revealed the answer and said, "I thought about it. If you don't have any money, you will definitely give priority to this topic. If we can't do it ourselves, we will invite seniors from the previous class or classmates from other institutions to participate. As for the cost, if everyone is willing to participate, it will cost 200 yuan per month, what about it?"

"We are 200 yuan in total?" Xie Keli asked.

"Of course it's 200 yuan per person." Feng Xiaochen replied.

"Each person is 200!" Qi Ruicang, Xie Keli and Ding Shikuan exclaimed in unison. Feng Xiaochen said that he was not very clear. They subconsciously thought that 200 yuan per month should be the total reward for everyone, because the per capita standard of 200 yuan was too shocking. But who would have thought that Feng Xiaochen proposed such a shocking standard. Such a quota, let alone doing a topic, would not be a problem to hire someone to kill and rob.

"Youngest, what topic are you going to take on? How could you give so much money?" Xie Keli began to ask after being shocked.

Feng Xiaochen said: "Old Xie, didn't Lao Qi say just now? Knowledge is too depreciating. I'm just letting knowledge return to its real value. We are all elites of the country. What's the point of earning 200 yuan a month? Aunt Miao can make so much money in a month. I said 200 yuan is just a preliminary intention. If everyone does a good job in research in the future, it is not impossible to add some fees."

"So, what topic is we want to study?" Ding Shikuan asked.

Feng Xiaochen said: "The national industrial policy issues, or a little more detailed, are the national equipment manufacturing industry development strategy issues."

Ding Shikuan said: "By the way, I remember, you did it again. This is the topic you did it again?"

Feng Xiaochen nodded.

Qi Ruicang said: "There are many scholars currently studying this issue. Specifically in terms of industrial policy, Professor Gao Lei from our Academy of Social Sciences proposed the international collaboration theory, which has a great impact at present. The Reinstallation Office wants to study this issue, so why not contact Professor Gao directly?"

Feng Xiaochen smiled slightly and said, "Because Professor Gao's theory cannot be recognized by the Chuanghua Office. The Chuanghua Office believes that this view is one-sided and wrong."

"So, what's the idea of ​​reinstalling the office to hand over this topic to you?" Xie Keli asked.

Feng Xiaochen said: "It's very simple. It's about finding out Professor Gao's theoretical fallacies and refuting them. And it's not enough to simply refute them theoretically, but also to thoroughly eliminate them in public opinion."

"this……"
Chapter completed!