When Xia Yulin heard Feng Xiaochen's question, he was stunned for a moment before he realized. At that moment, when he saw Feng Xiaochen flipping through Yan Baitong's paper page by page, and still muttering something, Xia Yulin was stunned.

In Xia Yulin's mind, Feng Xiaochen is just an interpreter. It is already a good thing to be able to master two foreign languages ​​at a young age. It is impossible to have any professional knowledge other than language. Xia Yulin even looked down on Feng Xiaochen, which is also a common problem for intellectuals. He always likes to use his own strengths to compare others' shortcomings and then find self-esteem in it.

But Feng Xiaochen's performance was beyond Xia Yulin's expectations. It would be fine if he could recognize the professional vocabulary in the title of the paper. After all, he had just accompanied a German bearing company to invest in Nanjiang, and probably had done professional vocabulary homework. The problem is that he could read the formulas like ghost-drawing talismans in the paper, which was completely unscientific. You should know that almost all of this article were mathematical deductions, and there were large pieces of matrix equations, and what other letter symbols were like, even Xia Yulin felt dizzy when he looked at it. How did this little translation continue?

Could it be that he was just pretending to be a fork, but he actually didn't understand a single word?

Xia Yulin naturally couldn't help asking this question. He hummed a few words, recovered from the embarrassment, and said, "Old Yan, except for class, he stayed in the laboratory all day, and he had no other hobbies."

"Did he publish a lot of articles in such international journals?" Feng Xiaochen asked, raising the magazine in his hand.

"Not much." Xia Yulin said, "It's not easy to post foreign articles, and it's very expensive. Needless to say, what kind of page fees do foreign magazines need to charge for page fees. When we publish articles in domestic journals, we have to pay for the manuscript fee. Foreign countries not only do not pay the manuscript fee, but also come to us to collect money. What do you think this is a matter? Old Yan published this article and heard that he paid the page fee of 15 pounds, 15 pounds. Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk, you can calculate how much it costs to exchange it for RMB."

"Can the school not reimburse this money?" Feng Xiaochen asked in surprise.

Xia Yulin shook his head: "How can this be reimbursed? When the teacher gets the royalties, he won't say he has to go to the school, right? It's a matter of being famous for publishing articles, and some teachers are still willing to pay for it out of their own pockets. However, I applied for the foreign exchange for Lao Yan's layout fee for publishing this article, otherwise he would not get foreign exchange."

"It's really too hard." Feng Xiaochen said hypocritically. He had more confidence in leveraging Yan Baitong. At least, he had foreign exchange in his hand and promised to help him reimburse all international magazine page fees in the next 10 years. If Yan Baitong was really just as Xia Yulin said, just wanting to become famous and become a family, this condition would be attractive to him.

"Director Xia, is Teacher Yan in school now? If it is convenient, can you take me to see him?" Feng Xiaochen asked.

"Do you want to ask him to come to your place to help?" Xia Yulin asked.

Feng Xiaochen said: "Yes, why, isn't it allowed in the school?"

Xia Yulin shook his head quickly: "Of course not. Your joint venture is an enterprise that the province attaches great importance to, and we have the obligation to provide services to such enterprises. I just think it may not be easy to invite Lao Yan to your place. He doesn't give the Metallurgical Department's face. Although your State Economic Commission has a greater face, he may also refuse."

Feng Xiaochen smiled and said, "Director Xia, don't worry, I won't use the Economic Commission's big hat to suppress him. For scholars like Teacher Yan, we emphasize understanding the reason, moving them with emotions, and seducing them. Uh, I mean, I will talk to him well."

"Yes, yes, you have to have a good talk. I think Old Yan is also a wise person." Xia Yulin responded with a dry smile. Although Feng Xiaochen's words "temptation for profit" were not finished, Xia Yulin also understood. There were also some teachers in the school who were hired by outside units to do some things, nominally supporting the production front line, but in fact they were interested in the subsidy given by others. Feng Xiaochen seemed to be planning to use money to spend Yan Baitong, but he didn't know how high the price offered by the joint venture would be. Xia Yulin was secretly thinking in his heart.

After packing up the documents on the table, Xia Yulin accompanied Feng Xiaochen out of the office and went to the laboratory building of the School of Engineering. As expected, Xia Yulin's guess was not out. When they walked into Yan Baitong's laboratory, they saw him lying on the laboratory table, fiddling with a lot of messy equipment in front of him, and they didn't know what project they were busy with. The students who were helping next to him had already seen Xia Yulin and shouted "Director Xia". Yan Baitong seemed to hear nothing and didn't even raise his head.

"Old Yan!" Xia Yulin walked behind Yan Baitong, shouted, raised his hand and wanted to pat Yan Baitong on the shoulder.

Feng Xiaochen grabbed Xia Yulin and said softly with a smile: "Director Xia, don't worry, wait for Teacher Yan to finish it."

"Who knows how long he will take to do this experiment?" Xia Yulin muttered, but did not bother Yan Baitong again. The students brought stools for the two of them, asked them to sit aside, and then went back to help Yan Baitong test the data. Feng Xiaochen looked at the busy appearances of the teachers and students with interest, smiling without saying a word.

After about ten minutes of touching, Yan Baitong stopped the operation and ordered several students: "Have you recorded all these values? You can calculate the thickness of the oil film to see if it matches the theoretical value."

After saying that, he took off the sleeve he put on his hand, turned around, walked to Xia Yulin, and said with a smile: "Director Xia, why did you come to the laboratory in person?"

"Go! Who are you sarcastic?" Xia Yulin stood up and scolded him angrily. Then he turned his head to Feng Xiaochen, who was also standing up, and said with a smile: "This old Yan criticized me for leaving scientific research. I was also a person who went to the laboratory every day. I have been a department director in the past two years and have been busy with work, so the laboratory has been less. Look, he has to be unreasonable."

Seeing Xia Yulin talking to Feng Xiaochen, and having a little politeness in his words, Yan Baitong looked at Feng Xiaochen curiously, and then asked Xia Yulin: "Old Xia, this person is it."

"Old Yan, let me introduce you to you. Comrade Feng Xiaochen from the State Economic Commission, is here to contact you for work. I can tell you that the work that Comrade Feng talks about is an important task in our province, so you are not allowed to make a mistake." Xia Yulin explained in an attempt to cover up.

Yan Baitong looked surprised and said, "Oh, it turns out that he is the leader of the Economic Commission, he is disrespectful. It's too noisy to talk about it here, why don't we go back to the department to talk."

His expression seemed a little exaggerated, and it can be seen that the hat of the State Economic Commission was still somewhat intimidating to him, but Feng Xiaochen's youth diluted this effect. Before understanding Feng Xiaochen's identity and purpose, Yan Baitong wanted to use this method to show respect for the Economic Commission, but also leave a step for the next step of changing face.

This is a self-righteous cunning person who is a little intellectual. For someone like Feng Xiaochen who has been immersed in the agency for many years, it is a very clumsy trick. Feng Xiaochen did not expose Yan Baitong's thoughts. In his opinion, it is a good thing that Yan Baitong can have such a flexible attitude. He is really not so easy to talk to when he encounters a pedantic science and engineering mate.

"Teacher Yan, Director Xia and I just came from the department. We don't have to bother to run back. Let's talk about it here." Feng Xiaochen said. He pointed at Yan Baitong's laboratory bench with his finger and said, "Teacher Yan was doing oil film thickness measurement just now? I heard that all 22 oil film thickness measuring instruments of Pujiang 704 have a large range and good accuracy and linear range. Why don't you use this kind of equipment?"

"Uh" Yan Baitong showed a strange expression on his face, thinking that this young man really came from a ministry and had no idea what to say. I don't know that the special oil film measuring instrument is better, but I have to have such equipment. If you ask, isn't it a modern version of why not eat meat?

"Comrade Feng, you may not know much about our situation. Our entire college of engineering has limited scientific research funds, and the amount allocated to us to purchase experimental equipment every year is very small. What you just said is 22, but we don't have it yet, so Lao Yan can only take the students to do some experiments because of the bad things." Xia Yulin explained dumbly.

"You don't have 22, so where are the other oil film measuring instruments? I remember Lin'an Automation Instrument Factory also released a type, which seems to be called 61, so don't you have it either, right? There is also the one from the American company N, and you don't have the one from Bentley and Nevada? How is this possible?"

Feng Xiaochen reported the device model like a fool, with a confused look in his eyes, and he seemed unable to understand why the other party had no such device in monochrome.

Xia Yulin and Yan Baitong looked at each other, and Yan Baitong's expression was the most complicated. Yan Baitong had heard of these equipment models mentioned by Feng Xiaochen, and he had always wanted to have a chance to use them. He never thought that there would be one or two units in his laboratory, which seemed to him an unattainable luxury. But even if he borrowed someone's use, he never realized this wish. Several well-known universities in Beijing, Pujiang and other places have this equipment, but why should they let him use it?

Hearing Feng Xiaochen standing and talking without a pain in his back, Yan Baitong had a desire to pinch the other person's neck and let him stop talking. Damn, you are not here to promote experimental equipment, wouldn't you take this to harm people like this?

"Comrade Feng, let's talk about serious business." Xia Yulin couldn't listen anymore and reminded carefully, "Didn't you say that you have something to talk about with Teacher Yan?" To be continued.
Chapter completed!