Chapter 12: Physical Rewards (Seeking Clicks and Recommendations)

  "Try some of the pastry I made." Mrs. Liang interrupted Shu Lan's daydream, holding out two napoleons.

  "Thank you, Teacher's wife." Shu Lan turned her head around, pinched half a layered pancake and started eating like a hamster.

  Su Cheng's eyes widened in amazement, wondering how the flat stomach that had already stuffed down a whole bowl of noodles and three pieces of mantou could still fit in half a pancake. This was unscientific!

  However, the mille-feuille in the hamster's paws ultimately disappeared.

  At the same time, Liang Jianguo also finished reading the mathematical formulas on the drawings, stretched his back and sighed: "The formula is very clear. Su Cheng, I want to take this design to the hospital for trial promotion, what do you think?"

  "No problem." Su Cheng said succinctly.

  Li Jian Guo was overjoyed and repeatedly said: "Good, good. If the experiment is successful, I will find the hospital leaders to give you credit."

  Shulan suddenly laughed and said: "Master, this inflatable connector, if used in the oil field, can save tens of millions every year."

  "If all our devices use it, it's not just."

  "You should tell the hospital leaders to transfer Su Cheng to the design institute, and it's best to reward him with some cash."

  As for the latter sentence, Su Cheng nodded secretly in his heart, thinking that it was worth feeding him.

  Li Jian Guo agreed: "It's indeed worthy of reward. However, the current system is hard to resolve, let's see if we can use labor instead of cadre first."

  Su Cheng smiled and didn't say a word. For ordinary workers, replacing work with work was already a huge leap forward, and even being transferred from the front line to the logistics department was a dream come true that couldn't be achieved. But college graduates naturally came with cadre status, and Su Cheng's personnel relationship was also attached to the Petroleum Department, so Liang Jianguo's help was actually unnecessary.

  But these, it's not necessary to go into details at this time.

  The next day, Su Cheng slept in and spent half a day wandering around the streets before slipping into the library again.

  Apart from fighting, dancing and watching videos, young people today have no other forms of entertainment. They can't even afford beer, let alone get drunk.

  It was just past noon, Shulan sneaked into the library, her chest heaving up and down, saying: "There's good news, Master wants you to go to the Design Institute."

  Su Cheng licked his dry, cracked lips and smiled: "Are you going to test the armor's joint connection again? You're saying that this little thing has been back and forth, and it's ruined my entire vacation."

  "You're such a person! How many people have made inventions and thought of verifying them at the design institute, but no one would listen!" Shulan stamped her foot and walked ahead.

  She is quite tall, with a well-proportioned and plump figure, her young skin full of luster, with the vitality of youth.

  Su Cheng walked into the design institute's laboratory with a big stride. Shu Lan was somewhat surprised by his ease, and it took her a while to come back to herself, before she hurriedly followed him in.

  Across the table, there were four people standing, in addition to Liang Jian and Xiao Wu, there were also two leaders from the design institute. Shulan had seen them several times before, but she never dared to greet them.

  Liang Jianguo made a brief introduction, and Su Cheng shook hands with them.

  Shulan saw that he didn't take other people's leaders as cadres, and thought about his own behavior in the past, and couldn't help but feel a little indignant, standing in front of him without saying a word.

  Liáng Jiànguó however couldn't let her have her way, and with a rare flash of his white whiskers, he grumbled: "Xiǎo Lán, why didn't you call someone?"

  Shulan took a look at Su City, then lowered his head and looked at his toes, shouting: "Director Yuan is good, Director Wang is good."

  Su Cheng was very skeptical, wondering if she could really see her own toes.

  "Director Yuan cleared his throat: "As for Xiao Su's design, we've already studied it. The conclusion is that it can be adopted, but we'd have to replace the good reducer with a new one, which would be a waste of resources. So, it's not suitable for promotion in the short term."

  "Newly produced reducers can be considered for connection by expansion sleeve..." suggested Liang Jianguo.

  "Then we need to adjust the production plan, this is not something we can decide on our own, I'll report it to the higher-ups." Dean Yuan furrowed his brow tightly and said: "Regarding Xiao Su's substitution of work, I'll bring it up at the meeting another day. Su Cheng, you're considered a member of our Institute of Industrial Technology now, is that okay?"

  Su Cheng Bao smiled and didn't say a word.

  Director Yuan and Director Wang looked at each other, then said: "Alright, we'll temporarily transfer you to the Institute of Industrial Research for a year. Try to get the indicators for replacing labor with technology during this period. Meanwhile, you can continue to work on inventions and innovations..."

  He actually wanted to put the research results of "expansion joint connection" in the Institute of Engineering. In this era, there was no talk of transferring achievements, but absorbing Su City, even if only for a year, and having the achievements fall on his own head, would be a natural thing.

  Of course, in this process, he did not harm the interests of Su City. After all, "inflated sleeve connection" was not a good thing to make money, it could only be used in heavy machinery such as mining or oil extraction, and it needed scale advantages to show cost advantages. At this time, only national research institutes and large state-owned enterprises could effectively use it.

  And these departments, at most, are like Director Yuan, giving Suzhou some benefits, but it is impossible to pay patent transfer fees openly and honestly, and the finances cannot pass first.

  Su Cheng thought for a moment and said: "Director Yuan, I still like the oil extraction team."

  The work of the oil extraction team is hard, but it has its freedom. The research institute is different, in addition to being ascetic, there will be a large number of boring design tasks, and many times, they are just ideas that come out of the leader's brain - according to the leader's level, the degree of foolishness allowed also varies. In the research institute, doing small work and encountering liberal arts students who have no common sense is really frustrating and makes one feel uncomfortable all over.

  Su City does not have the indicator of replacing work with money, and Director Yuan was immediately at a loss. The leaders of this era are still relatively simple, taking money but not doing things, and taking credit for subordinates' achievements to earn political performance is still somewhat cautious.

  Director Wang stood up and interjected: "Then let's give physical rewards."

  He turned around and said, "Our research institute is also a poor unit. However, Director Yuan, how about this? Let Su Cheng make an application report for the technical improvement of the workshop, you approve a few hundred yuan, and then give the logistics department a heads up. As long as we can get the invoice, it's okay to reimburse."

  As a result, the achievements of process improvement are left in the research institute.

  Using the country's money to make achievements for oneself is the best. Director Yuan generously said, "Just approve 500 yuan, Little Su, what do you think?"

  Director Wang feared he didn't understand, and pointed out: "Train tickets, bus tickets, restaurant receipts can all be reimbursed under the name of a business trip. Also, purchases like books can be made into receipts."

  "Thank you, Dean." Su Cheng fully understood. He now calculates that with the subsidy added up every month, he only has 88 yuan and 50 cents, and 500 yuan is half a year's salary for him. Although it was a bit troublesome to find receipts, things like train tickets were still easy to come by.

  Everyone was overjoyed, Liang Jianguo stayed inside to sort out the materials, Shulan came out and called out to Qu: "If you had persisted a bit longer, Director Yuan might have found an internship quota for you, wouldn't that be better than 1000 yuan?"

  Su Cheng pretended to be surprised and said: "Not satisfied with 500 yuan?"

  "What's the use, now buying a 14-inch color TV costs one or two thousand. But if you're not an official, you can't even get a TV ticket." Shulan pouted, talking about the situation in the oil field like it was her own family affair.

  Su Cheng laughed and said, "Now give me a 14-inch TV, I don't have the heart to watch it, it's better to take the money to eat some good food. In a few more years, TVs will be worthless, but green food will be valuable."

  "Green vegetables?"

  "It's almost there. Ah, there is a restaurant right in front of us, let's go in and see the power of 500 yuan." Su Cheng pointed to a newly renovated five-story building in front of them.

  Shulan jumped in fright and said, "That's Lai State Restaurant."

  "It's just a bit expensive, right? No big deal, we can expense it." Su Cheng dragged her in without giving her a choice.

  Her small hands were so tender and soft, they seemed as if they could squeeze out water.

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