"The hall has become an employee dormitory, and these people don't go back?" Su Cheng couldn't tell the truth. He walked around the side of the stairwell and saw people in twenty or thirty sleeping on the floor of the hall behind the sheets. Some slept on the bedding, some hid in sleeping bags. Most of them wrapped themselves in thin quilts, which were both mattresses and quilts. As for the pillows, almost all were replaced by books.

Except for a space in the middle that is used to go up and down the stairs, the whole hall is sleeping on both sides. The weather is badly hot, so the empty hall will not be as cold as the wind will be. This kind of big bunk is not a big bunk. Sucheng has only seen it during the battle of the oil field, but the scene is a spiritual victory over matter, which is different from the background of this era.

Wang Yun was a little nervous. Two months ago, he was a researcher who only cared about the project. In a blink of an eye, he had to consider the food, drink, defecation and urination of the entire institute. He couldn't tell whether what he did was right or wrong. He hesitated for a long time and told the truth: "In fact, most of the people who stayed in the office building were assistants and interns, and they all had no employee dormitories. You know, we did not do it day and night. Some people stayed up until one or two o'clock in the morning to get off work, and they didn't even have a car outside. They couldn't even go back, so they could only deal with it for one night in the office. After a while, many people moved their luggage over."

Su Cheng also knew about low-paid assistants and unpaid interns. He nodded slightly and asked, "How many people sleep in the office building?"

"We all sleep in shifts, two or three hundred people."

"So many?" Su Cheng turned his head in surprise. There were dozens of people sleeping in the hall, and he thought there were only a lot.

Wang Yun whispered: "We recruit more interns and assistants."

"How many?"

"It's almost two thousand." This is twice as much as more than a month ago.

Su Cheng took a deep breath: "You are almost able to catch up with the total number of employees in Dahua Laboratory."

"The Carbon Fiber Research Institute approved 12 people. According to the number of experiments, it takes three years for people to complete the current 2-month volume. I think we have equipment now. We have also figured out the experimental methods and other aspects. We can't slow down because of human reasons... In addition, the cost of assistants and interns is low, so we recruit more people." Wang Yun said this, and said, "If we don't use this method, even if we can make cheap carbon fiber in two or three years, we can't sell the price. The foreign company's level can reduce the price of carbon fiber by one third in a year. Even if we don't take the lead, we have no advantage."

When Su Cheng heard this, he didn't say anything and went upstairs on his own.

He said everything he could say, but he didn't get a response. Wang Yun was stunned and thought to himself: Whether it's life or not, please give me a happy time.

He chased after him and asked, Wang Yun didn't dare, so he could only whisper to Yang Ming beside him: "Does Mr. Su agree or not?"

Yang Ming couldn't judge it, but he was unwilling to show his timidity and said in a divine manner: "What do you think?"

"That's angry?"

"It's hard to say." Yang Ming patted his shoulder and said, "Let's go up first, don't you?"

Afraid that he continued to ask, Yang Ming ran up the stairs in two steps.

Looking at the office director who was like a big horse and monkey, Wang Yun was stunned for a while and chased after him regardless of his image.

The second floor is an ordinary office building style, with a corridor in the middle. There are laboratories on both sides, and there are one or two windows in the room, but it is much brighter than the dark office building that was common in the 1990s.

There are signs hanging at the doors of each laboratory and office, mostly chemical laboratories and physical testing laboratories.

When Su Cheng went upstairs, he saw a door hanging on the "Mechanical Performance Testing Laboratory" in front of him open. A young experimenter looked at Su Cheng and his group and immediately stood up straight, obviously waiting for inspection.

"Are you an intern or an assistant?" Su Cheng asked him.

"intern."

“No salary?”

"There is a subsidy of 2 yuan a day." The intern answered carefully, and looked at Wang Yun who came up behind him.

2 yuan a day. If you don’t work overtime, it’s 4 yuan a month. Even if you work every day, 6 yuan a month is only enough for food expenses in 1993. You have to bear the expenses of accommodation, clothing, etc. If you don’t include food and accommodation, the 2 yuan subsidy is really equivalent to unpaid. Perhaps only college students who have not graduated can tolerate it.

"Why are you willing to have an internship without pay?" Su Cheng was indeed very curious. College students in 1993 are still very expensive, and the distribution system still exists. No matter what school or major it is, it is not difficult for college students to find a job with a job with a strong job. The unpaid internship at Dahua Laboratory does not guarantee employment.

The Carbon Fiber Research Institute has 12 employees, but there are 2 assistants and interns. No matter how it expands, it is impossible to expand more than ten times.

The intern standing opposite Sucheng looked at Wang Yun and said, "I believe I can stay."

"Can't stay? There will always be people who can't stay."

"I can be transferred to an assistant within the year and accumulate working hours, so I will definitely stay."

"If you graduate, you haven't stayed yet?"

"I've graduated." The intern said.

"Did you give up state allocation?" Today's college students will be assigned to different state units after graduation, and there is no need for civil service examinations. Correspondingly, if you give up the allocation, it will be difficult to enter state organs again, and there is also no path to civil service examinations.

Sucheng himself was assigned from school to oil fields. For any college student, giving up state distribution is a bold move. It would be fine if he went directly to a private enterprise to get a high salary. As a low-paying assistant, Sucheng asked himself that he could not do it back then.

The intern opposite disagreed and said, "There is nothing good for national distribution, I want to do research."

College students full of ideals were not short of them in the 9th century. In fact, even if most college students in the 9th century did not achieve any earth-shaking achievements, they would not have to worry about food and clothing. Without material confinement, they could naturally let their ideals go. Such opportunities would be envied by ordinary college students in later generations.

Su Cheng sighed and said with a smile: "The national research institute can also do research."

"They only have more salary than assistants. The assistant is 18 yuan a month, but they can follow the researchers and associate researchers to do projects, and there are project bonuses. How many domestic research institutes can get 10,000 yuan in funding? In the end, they just need to spend hundreds of dollars on their own. Many researchers in their thirties and forties do not do more experiments in a year than I do in a month." Perhaps because they were confused by Su Cheng's smile, the intern also let go and said, "Besides, as long as they become an assistant researcher, the salary for a month is a thousand yuan, and they can be two or three thousand yuan as an associate researcher. I will earn back in two years!"

According to Dahua Industrial’s salary standards, even ordinary researchers who do not have “special contributions” have a monthly salary of more than 1,000 yuan, and depending on the level, salary of 2 or even 3 yuan is very common.

Of course, ordinary researchers in Dahua are also rare academic elites in China. In the first two years, they directly recruited fresh graduates, and their resumes and university grades could blind the krypton gold dog eyes in a room. The high scores in national competitions, national scholarships or high-impact papers are just appetizers... China's education system has always been elite education. This has not changed much until two years later. Although you can graduate without studying, it is still not easy to study hard and get excellent grades.

No matter how the media belittles China's university education, even if 9% of students do not study in college, 1% of students still learn. Any student who wants to take the lead still has to be cruel competition. In fact, China's university education has always faced top 1% or even 5% of students. The new knowledge system and excessive academic requirements have not changed until two years later. The expansion of enrollment may increase the number of enrollment, but it does not reduce the academic requirements of the university. For 9% of students who have not laid a solid foundation, they may achieve something in business, politics or art. However, unless it takes several times of time, most people are destined to fail to achieve something in academics at the beginning of their enrollment.

For Dahua Industrial now, students who can join at the beginning of graduation must be top-notch in all aspects. Basically, most graduates in schools must have the most beautiful resumes to have an interview opportunity. The requirements of Dahua Laboratory, which has increasingly increased treatment and status, are naturally higher. Just two difficulties in written examinations and interviews, can defeat most elite students. School students who lack famous teachers and excellent teaching equipment are basically difficult to enter the Dahua Laboratory.

It can be foreseeable that with the current implementation of the low-paid assistant and unpaid internship system of Dahua Laboratory, the difficulty of joining Dahua Laboratory will only increase and will not decrease. At least, except for those big and maverick figures who have achieved results, most newcomers will start with interns.

However, compared with domestic research institutes, Dahua Laboratory's funding investment is much greater. The 9th year was the low point of domestic research institutions, and the lack of funds was not even enough to guarantee the salary and benefits of researchers. How could it be like Dahua Laboratory's expensive material experiments like it was.

Such a scenario is difficult to change within at least ten years. Especially before the implementation of the Patent Law, the research results of state-owned research institutions were almost for nothing, and no matter how much money the enterprise earned, they would not be distributed to the research institutions. Research institutions also lack interest in market-oriented products and would rather do money-saving and good theoretical research...

In domestic research institutes, only a few nationally guaranteed projects can obtain some special funds. For example, carbon fiber projects are late for 1997 and are only included in the nationally guaranteed list and received a little grant. It will not be included in key projects after 15 years and receive large amounts of grants.

But for today's researchers, there are a few more than five years and fifteen years waiting.

Wang Yun has been doing experiments on paper countless times. The progress of Dahua Laboratory Carbon Fiber Research Institute is so fast, thanks to his early accumulation. However, if there were the current experimental conditions before, why wait until now to produce results?

"How are the requirements set from interns to assistants, and then to assistant researchers?" Su Cheng asked Wang Yun this time.

Wang Yun said a little unnaturally: "Time plus assessment, currently, the unpaid interns are scheduled to be a half-year or more than 12 hours. The assessment will be transferred to an assistant. The effective working time of the assistant exceeds 10,000 hours, or there is a recommendation from the chief researcher, and after the assessment, they will be converted to an assistant researcher."

The assistant researcher is a formal employee of Dahua Industrial. Wang Yun said and asked tentatively: "In three or four years, our carbon fiber research institute can always add hundreds of staff, right?"

"If you achieve your achievements, you can naturally increase your organization."

"How much can I add?" Wang Yun didn't have so many twists and asked directly.

Su Cheng was asked and said silently: "I have to let go of the personnel department, I'm so anxious?"

"I'm not worried that the previous promise would be invalidated. If there were too many staffing, everyone would be more motivated to work. I regret it now. I had filled up all 12 staffing." Wang Yun really looked regretful and patted his head and said, "I was squeezed at that time. Those who could do projects were not young anymore. The salary was not high enough, and people were unwilling to resign. Later, in order to cooperate with them, I recruited so many low-paid assistants and unpaid interns. Without nodding, the institute could not continue."

As he said that, Wang Yun looked at Su Cheng with a gaze and said, "Look, we will make the finished carbon fiber products in two months. If we can add 12 more builds this year, I promise to make two more carbon fibers!"

Su Cheng habitually made meditative.

Yang Ming was worried that he would agree and hurriedly said: "The Carbon Fiber Research Institute is not in this year's budget. All the 12 people are compiling with the mobile budget. The assistant's salary and interns' subsidies are also extra-budget. The research expenses are the overall budget of Dahua Laboratory, which has squeezed out the funds for several material projects. If the funds and salaries of 12 people are added, everyone will have to rebel."

There is nothing wrong with Yang Ming, Wang Yun said with a stern face: "To increase 12 assistant researchers, only increase their salary, not increase their funds, assistant researchers do not do ** projects."

"Then you have to pay hundreds of thousands of extra salary every month. If you ask Li Huanxiang, you can find out where Dahua Laboratory can get hundreds of thousands of dollars." Dahua Laboratory's annual funding is hundreds of millions of yuan, but it is one cent for several research institutes. The total funding of the laboratory is not much. Thousands of researchers are hungry with thousands of projects, and they are scattered at the beginning of the year, not to mention that it is now the end of the year. In addition, there are also clear differences in the experimental funding and personnel salary in the Dahua Laboratory's budget. Yang Ming has been in administration for many years and knows how troublesome it is to coordinate these things. At that time, not only Dahua Laboratory will have to do many documents, but Dahua Headquarters will also have to check countless documents. In the increasingly institutionalized Dahua Industry, these documents are indispensable, otherwise the management of the headquarters will be out of control.

Like other researchers, Wang Yun was extremely dissatisfied with the bureaucracy and bargained: "12 can't do it, one can do it. We now have a little five hundred assistant, so we have to solve one-fifth of it."

Yang Ming said skeptically: "You said that the effective working hours of 10,000 hours are calculated based on 8 hours a day. This is 125 working days. Even if you work too much overtime, you won't have to increase your staffing for three years."

"Isn't there any researcher recommendation?" Wang Yun shook for a moment.

"This can be controlled, and even if there is, it should be arranged in next year's budget."

"If you become an assistant researcher one year later, you will be one year later. If you have achieved success, why don't you be allowed to become a regular?" Wang Yun spent most of his time working in state units, and his speech was still the tone of the state unit, but his meaning was the same. In Dahua Industrial, the most important "special contribution list" is also an important factor. On the other hand, the concept of the same period similar to the Japanese consortium also has a strong meaning in Dahua Industrial. Looking at ten or twenty years later, there may be a huge difference between officially joining Dahua Industrial in 1993 and officially joining Dahua Industrial in 1994.

The intern standing by saw that it was an important moment to decide whether to eat meat or drink soup for the interns and assistants. He seized the opportunity and said, "10,000 hours of working time cannot take three years, and two years cannot be used."

Several people turned to look at him.

The intern said with his fingers: "The interns we work at least one hour a week, usually 11 hours. I work six and a half days a week and accumulate 5 hours a month. Even if I take one month off every year, I can accumulate 11 hours of working hours in two years. One hour is used to transfer to an assistant, and the remaining one hour is enough for me to transfer to an assistant researcher."

Su Cheng's eyes shook his eyes: "Work 11 hours a week?"

"11 hours are average. There are many people working 12 hours a week. Look at the people who sleep inside and outside, they sleep four or five hours a day. Even if they live in front of them, they are reluctant to go back and waste an hour back and forth."

Wang Yun had no time to stop him, and the intern finished speaking. He was so anxious that he touched his head and said, "I'm not exploiting labor. I want to drive people back to rest, but I can't even drive them away. I'm going to hold a meeting to change the rules, but I'm being pushed back."

The intern realized that he had said the wrong thing. He said: "We are happy to stay in the laboratory. What's the point of going back to sleep? As long as the carbon fiber research funding is all the funds to do the experiment, I would rather do the experiment until I die."

The words "death of overwork" suddenly appeared in Su Cheng's mind, and he hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, the intensity is too high. It must be lowered."

"We're happy."

"It's not okay to be happy. I'm really exhausted. The media still has to criticize me." Su Cheng insisted: "There's too much working time for one hour a week..."

"What does it have to do with the media? What are the differences between day and night? Such good equipment and such good conditions, if you don't hurry up and do research and experiments, isn't that a sin?" This time the old man came out of the opposite mechanics laboratory. Looking at the gray-headed look, he was at least sixty or seventy years old.

Those with this appearance are either retired researchers hired by Dahua or part-time qualifications. Su Cheng didn't have the direct order and had to say with a gentle voice: "Our Dahua laboratory will only invest more and more. As long as you don't waste equipment, you can't get tired of people for the equipment."

"I think you are saying that it is reversed. People are not tired. When we were working on the 156 project, which one did not sleep three or four hours a day? We still lived to be 70 years old and eighty years old. Equipment is different. Equipment must be old, and this year it is still first-class equipment. If you don't hurry up, it will become second-rate equipment next year." The gray-haired old man said, pointing to the assistant and intern next year, and said, "You ask these guys. If you want to go to Tsinghua University or to go to the University of Science and Technology of China, which one can exhaust them if you don't read a book for one hour a week? Do experiments in the laboratory and write experimental reports. Can the wind and rain not be wet, which are more tired than workers and farmers?"

Su Cheng was stunned when he heard this, but he didn't know how to refute it. Explain the relationship between pressure and death of overwork? He argued with the old man who had done Soviet aid projects in the 50s. Isn't that looking for political classes?

Yang Mingqing coughed twice and said, "Why don't we ask the interns and assistants what they mean?"

"They didn't even get the answer." The old man hummed and said, "A researcher in his forties and fifties has to work overtime for three or four hours every day. Do those who are assistants sleep? What should the assistant do? Come and be the master!"

Yang Ming was anxious: "This old man..."

"This is Professor Du Manchun, a visiting scholar at Kemnitz University of Technology in Germany for three years and has just returned to China." Wang Yun was afraid that he would say the wrong thing, so he quickly introduced.

Yang Ming was stunned. Why did this person who had done the 156 project return home overseas?

The old man waved his hand domineeringly and said, "Don't do things that admire foreign countries and fascinate foreign countries. Why is Germany's industry so powerful? Germans are diligent and willing to work hard. Whether it is apprentices from technical schools or students from schools, there are many people in factories, libraries and laboratories one hour a week. Why can't we do what others can do? Can we do it?"

"It's done." An arrogant roar resounded throughout the corridor.
To be continued...