"I'm completely betraying the master."

When Feng Xiaochen happily told Xu Zhiyuan that Wang Hongtai agreed to release the person, Xu Zhiyuan said half relieved and half sadly.

The practice of Binhai Secondary Transformation over the past six months has made Xu Zhiyuan fall in love with this job deeply. Compared to thinking about the taste of journal editors all day long and racking his brains to package a meaningless point of view into a beautiful academic paper, Xu Zhiyuan prefers this kind of research work that can be directly combined with the needs of the front-line production. The technical problems in industrial production do not pursue theoretical height like research topics in universities. Sometimes it may only require some very basic knowledge to solve it, but the value generated is incalculable. Jiang Xianyu and others may not have enough academic skills, or they may have been away from the academic circle for too long, and some problems cannot be seen through at once. As a doctoral student, Xu Zhiyuan has stronger advantages in this regard.

Xu Zhiyuan's ideal since childhood was to be a scientist. The scientist he imagined was the kind of person who could invent a new machine to benefit society. When he was in middle school, the chemistry teacher told them about China's chemical industry and lamented that China's chemical technology lagged behind the West for decades, and many basic chemical raw materials had to rely on imports. It was roughly at that time that Xu Zhiyuan had the idea of ​​studying chemical engineering and finally realized it.

After four years of college, three years of master's degree, then he passed the doctoral student of Wang Hongtai, a big shot in the chemical industry in China. However, Xu Zhiyuan found that he was not getting closer and closer to his youth's ideals, but getting farther and farther away from the ideals of his youth. Wang Hongtai is very famous in the academic world. He has part-time jobs in many academic institutions and has a lot of administrative affairs, and has gradually moved away from the front line of scientific research. But it is precisely because of the many part-time jobs in society that Wang Hongtai has almost no difficulty in applying for a project. Many times, various funds directly find him and ask him to apply. Because the threshold for applying for a project is low, Wang Hongtai no longer needs to study the scientific research direction as he did at the earliest times. Instead, he just opens his brains and arranges his doctoral and master's degree to check documents and write project proposals, and he can pass it easily.

After Xu Zhiyuan became a doctorate, he became one of Wang Hongtai's most capable assistants. A large number of project application and completion reports were all from Xu Zhiyuan. Objectively speaking, making these project application is also an important part of the training of doctoral students. It was in the process of searching various documents that Xu Zhiyuan honed his scientific research literacy and gained a deeper understanding of the international academic frontiers.

However, Xu Zhiyuan was not satisfied with doing projects and writing papers. Chinese scholars have published more and more papers in international first-class journals, but the technical level of the corresponding field has not been promoted. Xu Zhiyuan came to the Binhai Secondary Cultivation Site and chatted with front-line scientific researchers such as Jiang Xianyu and Bao Jianlin. He learned that most of the technological progress in the field of chemical equipment comes from technology introduced from abroad and the research of engineering and technical personnel. The research and production line of universities always seem to be separated from some obstacles, and there is a feeling of sitting and talking.

So, Xu Zhiyuan had the idea of ​​going to work in the practical department, rather than being the same as Wang Hongtai designed for him in the past: to be a postdoctoral fellow, then stay in school to teach, and to get the title of professor in eight to ten years, and become one of the top domestic scholars.

"We also need first-class scholars." Feng Xiaochen once said to Xu Zhiyuan, "We are indeed very backward at the moment, but we will enter the world's first echelon in the future. At that time, we need world-class theories to lead, rather than taking the path of learning and imitation like we are now."

"Let these things be done by my junior brothers and sisters." Xu Zhiyuan said, "Director Jiang and others urgently need high-level engineers now. Although I dare not claim to be high-level, I can at least play some role."

"Isn't this a pity for you?"

"It's not a pity. I started to learn chemical engineering to do this."

"So, will your mentor agree?"

"This..." Xu Zhiyuan's face became dark at a visible speed. He said silly: "This is what I worry about the most. This time my mentor sent me to Binhai Secondary Cultivation and agreed to come to help temporarily. After the Binhai Secondary Cultivation project was completed, I should go back. The mentor still had a lot of things to do, and my other fellow students were not as good as he wanted."

"What should I do?" Feng Xiaochen asked with a smile.

"Mr. Feng, can you tell me?" Xu Zhiyuan asked timidly.

Feng Xiaochen said: "I'm afraid it won't work if I go and say it. Professor Wang sent you to Binhai Secondary Crafts for my sake. Now I want to borrow you for a long time, and it also involves the issue of choosing your doctoral thesis in the future. Professor Wang is afraid he won't agree."

"Actually, there is still a way..." Xu Zhiyuan's voice was so low that he could hardly hear it.

After hearing Xu Zhiyuan's idea, Feng Xiaochen smiled in his heart. When talking about doctoral students in school, he often adds the word "silly" as the prefix. Dr. Xu is also known for being honest on the construction site, but who knew that he was so smart. Then again, he is a doctor after all, with a strong IQ and a silly person. He usually looks stupid, which is called wise and stupid. If you really think that a doctor is not as smart as you, you will lose.

Xu Zhiyuan's idea was to let Feng Xiaochen use attack instead of defense. He first threatened Wang Hongtai, saying that he would be transferred to the practice department through organizational channels, and then promised that as long as Wang Hongtai was willing to let Xu Zhiyuan go to Beihuaji, he would not go through organizational channels. Xu Zhiyuan worked as a doctorate under Wang Hongtai for two years and knew his mentor's character very well. The ancient saying of a fellow Taoist who died of death is almost Wang Hongtai's life creed now.

Feng Xiaochen acted according to the plan, and Wang Hongtai surrendered. He knew in his heart that Feng Xiaochen was making a fraud, but he did not dare to take the risk of being angry with Feng Xiaochen. He didn't know that this idea came from his beloved disciple himself, and he thought that Xu Zhiyuan was also coerced, so before leaving Binhai, he talked to Xu Zhiyuan for a special talk and comforted him in every way. Xu Zhiyuan used his talent for dramatic spirit hidden in his bones and acted as if he was wronged.

"Don't worry, the country will not treat you badly." After announcing the appointment decision for Xu Zhiyuan, Feng Xiaochen patted his shoulder and said, "According to the path designed by Professor Wang for you, you can become a well-known professor of chemical engineering in China in more than ten years. Now you choose to go to the front line of production, and I will also give you a promise. In ten years, I will let you achieve an annual salary of one million. The chief engineer of the top 100 companies in China will be treated as a five-star hotel on business trips."

Xu Zhiyuan smiled. In Xu Zhiyuan's opinion, Feng Xiaochen's words were half joking and half serious. A million-dollar annual salary may just be just a casual talk, but good treatment is definitely fine. However, as a doctoral student, Xu Zhiyuan really doesn't have much feeling about annual salary, five-star hotels and other conditions.

"Actually, Mr. Feng, the goal I hope to achieve is that in ten years we can no longer look at Chigu and Bo Lang and the others' faces." Xu Zhiyuan said.

Feng Xiaochen was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "This is also the ideal of Minister Wu and Director Jiang. By the way, when your supervisor went to Beijing to apply for the ruthenium catalyst project, he also had such an ideal."

"..." Xu Zhiyuan was speechless. After a while, he avoided the topic and asked: "By the way, Mr. Feng, there is one thing I don't quite understand. This time you asked someone to invite technicians from the company such as Bron and El to come over to help us convince the Argentine Ministry of Agriculture. Logically, their relationship with Chigu Manufacturing should be closer, but why did they speak for us?"

"What do you think?" Feng Xiaochen asked with a smile.

"Is it because they want to get more technical details about ruthenium catalyst from us?"

“Not exactly.”

"That's because we used some means..." Xu Zhiyuan said vaguely. The so-called means are actually bribery. Everyone has also discussed this topic behind their backs. When the technicians of Bronco and El Company left China, they were indeed carrying large and small bags of gifts.

Feng Xiaochen shook his head and said, "These are very conventional ritual exchanges, and they are not a means. If Chigu wants to invite them to a meeting, they will also give gifts."

"So, why did they help us? I can feel that they said something in front of Hagner, which has exceeded the scope of normal technical identification, a little..."

"It's a bit like advertising us, right?"

"It's a little bit." Xu Zhiyuan nodded.

Feng Xiaochen said: "This is actually very normal. You see that Bronn and Elle and the others have a close relationship with Ikegaku, but have you ever thought that there is a competitive relationship between them. Bronn and Elle are both old European chemical equipment companies. Ikegaku and other Japanese companies are latecomers, but they are very imposing and aggressive. According to the information we have, Japanese chemical equipment companies have robbed at least 10% of the market share of European chemical equipment companies in the past five years. In this case, will Bronn and Elle still regard Ikegaku as partners?"

"But we are also their competitors!" said Xu Zhiyuan.

Feng Xiaochen smiled and said, "We are not qualified yet. We are now only in large fertilizers and have some competitiveness. Domestic large ethylene is still under construction and lack international competitiveness. Bronze and El have given up large fertilizers, which are more profitable, and focus on large petrochemicals and coal chemical products. We have no competitive relationship with them in this regard. On the contrary, we have common competitors and can be regarded as friends."
Chapter completed!