Chapter 69 18. Who is the world for?

Xu Xiaoman called from Beijing, urging me to apply for a national scientific research project.I was supposed to apply last year, but she said the quota was too crowded and she asked me to defer for one year.I said: "Then which topic should I choose?" She said that the topic selection was good, and told me the main points of the topic demonstration.I look at my previous results, there are already more than ten papers, and the general framework is already in place.Systematize again, the doctoral dissertation is available, and the project is completed.I took the form and prepared to fill it out. I sat at the table and couldn't write for a long time. I always felt that something was wrong.After careful consideration, I feel that the argument is still very thorough.I picked up the pen to write, but there still seemed to be something blocking me.Barely opening a head, the writing always seems stagnant.I got bored and asked Dong Liu to make a cup of tea, and she brought me a cup of Junshan Maojian.I held the hot cup in my hands and took a sip. The slightly astringent fragrance went down from my throat, and a warm current permeated my whole body, as if it had reached the nerve endings, and my limbs were relaxed.Take another sip, the slightly astringent feeling awakened a certain consciousness in my heart, a thought flashed, I jumped up and patted the table, and the tea overflowed.How could I forget Director Ma?How to repay Director Ma's favor? This is something I have been thinking about for a long time but can't find an opportunity. Isn't this an opportunity?It is not a gentleman to know kindness and not repay it.Not becoming a doctoral supervisor is a heart disease of Director Ma. After completing a national project, the weight of the application is of course completely different.After solving Director Ma's problem, are you afraid that my problem cannot be solved?I grabbed the draft that had been filled in at the beginning, crumpled it up, tore it up and threw it into the toilet, and flushed it down, feeling like the evidence of the crime had been destroyed.I feel a little regretful, I have been doing it for so many years, but my name is left behind, I am a little bit reluctant, but after a moment of hesitation, I immediately made up my mind.

Having made up my mind, I still hesitate to say what to say.The more important a person is, the more sensitive his self-esteem is. If he didn't say a word well, even if there was only a little hint in it, he would be wrong to go to the moon.I remembered the last time I went to buy watermelons, I didn’t like the watermelons at the fruit stand where I often do business, but I took a fancy to the Xinnong No. 1 with the label on it at the neighboring stall.After I bought it, I felt very sorry for the familiar proprietress. After walking past, I turned back and said to the proprietress, "Next time you should enter Xinnong No. 1. This melon is of good quality and easy to move around." Just after saying that, the boss jumped off the cart. Get up and say: "Speak a good word, my melons are not good, when will my melons be worse than others, I sold hundreds of catties today, will you watch melons?" I didn't expect the boss to sleep there , Startled, smiled awkwardly and walked away.Usually the boss is very affectionate to me, why did he change his face all of a sudden?It doesn't mean that good intentions can be rewarded accordingly. You can't even touch a melon boss, and you are called a big shot?It can't be said that if it is a good thing, you can just offer it all, that is not acceptable, and you have to talk about skills so that he can accept it comfortably.Who is this world designed for?I thought and thought, how should I say this, to be honest, I have never paid such careful attention to my wife and son.The little people think about the big people more carefully than they think about themselves. Maybe the big people don't think about themselves so carefully.

Dong Liu and I took another wave to Mr. Ma's house.As soon as I entered the door, I stopped saying that I wanted to find Miaomiao to play with, and said straight to the point: "Director Ma, I have a problem now, and you can give me advice." He said: "Is it a work problem or a personal problem? Xiaoliuzi will solve the problem for you." I said, "It's both work and personal." I cautiously moved forward, "The Chinese medicine circles in our province have all shaved their heads when they applied for national projects in three or four years. So many professors in the college did not get it. Who am I? I never dared to think. A classmate who is the director of the Department of Science and Technology in the Ministry called me a few days ago and asked me to apply for a topic. She may also help A little help. I see that my preliminary results are only a few papers, and I don’t even have a book. How can I have enough weight to compete across the country? Try it, the hope is too slim, and I’m not reconciled if I don’t try it. Did you meet by chance?" He said, "Is your classmate speaking strong enough?" I said, "She said she could influence a few old gentlemen, and I don't know if she was bragging in it?" He said: "What topic do you want to apply for?" I hesitated and said, "I just didn't think about it, and I felt that I was not worthy enough to apply for anything." He said, "If we can get a topic, our scientific research in the hall will be upgraded. Let those old men from the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine take a look, and let them breathe a sigh of relief." Going around, the words never got around to the point, I couldn't open my mouth, and it was a little obvious when I opened my mouth.It's even more impossible for Director Ma to speak up.I brought the topic back to topic selection. According to the prior arrangement, Dong Liu turned her head inadvertently while talking to Aunt Shen and said, "You want Director Ma to help you choose a topic, how can you choose it yourself?" He turned around to talk to Aunt Shen again.I saw Director Ma’s expression did not change much, and a stone fell to the ground in my heart, and I said: “Director Ma, your research direction is similar to mine, and you have experience.” We discussed again, and whenever he proposed When I approached my intended direction, I kept saying: "Okay, okay." The topic selection became more and more clear, and I said: "Director Ma, your topic selection is really promising, and you can apply for one too. It doesn’t matter if I report it or not, I can’t report it anyway. As long as our health department system gets it, I’ll be angry with those old men from the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine. When I talk to Xiao Fang, he always uses those people to suppress me. I can’t accept this tone.” Director Ma said: “I originally wanted to apply for one myself. Our hall has shaved my head for several years. I am also anxious and not convinced. But there are always a lot of things going on in the hall Wait for me, just don't let me have a little leisure time." Dong Liu turned his head and said without losing the opportunity: "Director Ma, if you go out in person, hope will come."

I said: "Then I won't report it. It's not good to disperse the power. Chairman Mao said that it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt his ten fingers. This is a strategic issue." Dong Liu said: "Dawei, you are in Director Ma Ask a teacher here and ask him to take you with him." Director Ma said: "I hope it will be bigger and faster to make a report by twisting it into one rope." I repeatedly patted my thigh and said: "If Director Ma is willing to take me, it will be the best, and I have neither." I was flattered to think that Director Ma thinks highly of me. It’s just a subject, can two people apply together?” Of course I knew it was possible, but I just wanted to imply that I had never thought about the issue of joint reporting.Director Ma said, "It should be possible."

I breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Then I'm relieved." We discussed the argumentation of the selected topic in detail, and I first drafted the argumentation report, and then discussed and revised it further.I said, "If you get the project, it will cost tens of thousands of dollars." He said: "Where is tens of thousands of dollars? Caterpillars. The rare thing is the national project. As long as you do something, you can find a good publishing house." I said: "Even if the project is not approved, We will also publish it, and see if the Provincial Science and Technology Publishing House is willing to publish it." He said: "I either don't write it, and if I write it, it must be the China Science and Technology Publishing House, or at least the People's Health Publishing House, and the local influence is too small. Yes." Then he said: "If you really get the project, you will be able to break the rules and apply for a high degree next year, and it will also add a weight to our doctoral program. If we get our doctoral program, you will be a mentor. This will be great for you in the future. It is very important that cadres should be educated now, but they are not strong in business, so they don’t have the confidence to sit in that seat, and they won’t be able to sit securely if given to him, otherwise why are so many department-level cadres going to catch up with doctorates?” I said : "I took a step ahead last year, Director Ma thought far ahead for me."

Aunt Shen said, "Lao Ma takes your business as his own." I said, "I understand in my heart that people are not grass and trees, how can they be ignorant?" Dong Liu said: "He recites Director Ma's merits at home every day, but he doesn't talk about it here. This is his temper." When I got home, Dong Liu suddenly thought of it and said, "Director Ma didn't notice anything today, right?" I said, "With his shrewdness, he knows what's going on." She said, "That's not bad!" I said with a smile : "What's the matter, everyone knows it's a play! It's necessary to perform such a show, and it's tacit understanding. You can say all these things, can you continue? How do you act? As long as you are doing it for his own good, he won't have any objections, right?" , after all, people look at the results.”

After submitting the materials, I started to work.Director Ma said: "Seize the day and night, the project has been approved, and we have finished it here." He greeted Yuan Zhenhai, and I don't have to go to work, or I can go to the research institute to use all the equipment.The hall approved 30,000 yuan, and I also arranged for Director Ma's two graduate students.He is also very devoted himself. He puts down all his work at night and stays in the laboratory with me, and he devotes himself all day on weekends.The people in the hall saw that I was actually engaged in such a big project with Director Ma, and they treated me very well, as if the ground under my feet had grown three feet.When the project was approved, even Director Ma was unabashedly happy, urging me to speed up my work, to complete the project and publish the book before I applied for the PhD program.I wrote part and took it to the printing room of the office to print part, and the proofreading work was handed over to graduate students.Director Ma said: "China Science and Technology Publishing House has already contacted. Of course, there is no problem with the national project, but some money needs to be posted in the hall." Work?" He said: "This is work. The department must develop. Development is the last word, and it is also the biggest job. Now we can't just compare with others in the province, we have to compare with others in the whole country. I have always been the basis of work. Let’s compare it across the country.”

I worked hard for several months, and every time I wrote a paragraph, I handed it over to Director Ma for review and revision.On the day when it was finished, I was exhausted physically and mentally, and I threw the pen in my hand out the window, just like throwing a paper airplane when I was a child, I flicked my hand very smartly.The manuscript arranged by the computer came out very quickly, and it was a thick stack in my hand, which was pleasing to the eye. After flipping through a few pages, I didn’t believe that every word on it was written by myself.Director Ma sent Xiao Cai from the Retirement Office to send the manuscript and the CD to Beijing.Xiao Cai came back and said that Director Gao of the editorial department said that it would take half a year at the earliest to come out.I said, "We won't be able to catch up in half a year." Director Ma said, "He gave us a problem."

They asked the financial office to send 20,000 yuan as overtime pay, and they promised to expel them within two months. The hall had planned long ago, and the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine would invite well-known experts from all over the country to hold a high-level academic seminar.Some of the experts are the judges of the degree points. Too many people are asking for it, and too many people are invited. Inviting him is not just sending the plane ticket, but also mobilizing various relationships to be able to invite him.There are also some who have air tickets included, and all the expenses are covered, and they can bring their wives and they can’t invite them. Director Ma said: “Really, please don’t. Let’s come to work slowly in the future.” After raising a special fund of 600,000 yuan, Director Ma personally led the team to run across the country for more than 20 days. The judges visited one by one. More than half of the money was spent, but the matter still failed.Another 400,000 was added this year, and I am determined to win.This meeting created a budget of 210,000 yuan, which was mainly spent from the fund.Dong Liu said: "When you use money, I can fall over when I hear it. We get an injection for one yuan and two yuan, and a lifetime of treatment is not enough for you to have a three-day meeting." I said:

"Who is compared to whom? You have worked all your life just to hold these three-day meetings. Are people compared to each other?" Academic conferences are a small matter of academic exchanges, but dredging of relationships is a major matter.Such a high-end meeting cannot be held without the interests of the big shots.Dong Liu said: "I really feel sorry for those nurses, how do they make money? Hard-earned money, needle pick dirt!How do other people spend their money? The waves push the sand!The way of making money is very different from the way of using money. It is indeed heartbreaking to think about the money spent, but how can the people on the top of the pyramid compare with those below? There is no comparison between dozens and hundreds. For those who have made contributions, the spirit of dedication is worthy of affirmation and advocacy. They have made extraordinary achievements in ordinary positions, and the organization is well aware of these achievements. "Dong Liu sneered and said: "Put a few big straw hats on the heads of us, hardworking and dedicated!"What people get is practical things. "

I said: "That's how the world is. If you have opinions and ability, you should go there. If you have opinions and temper, you should complain to the sky. If you have opinions, but no ability and temper, you should just stay there. , it’s better if you have a mental retardation and can’t see anything clearly, you don’t even have an opinion.” Dong Liu said: “These people must be reasonable.” I said, "Truths are told by people, and it is up to big people to decide what to say, and big people speak according to their own needs. These are the rules of the game and are designed by big people. This truth should be explained by you people. Then a lot of things can’t be done. So I can’t let you have the opportunity to say something. It’s okay to think about it in your heart, but you can’t say it. Whoever says it is his fault. If you are wrong, just wait and see. So everyone should not Complaining is too indifferent, there is really nothing to do, and not everyone is willing to do that." Dong Liu said: "Some people have gold hats on their heads." I said: "You are afraid that what you say is gold. How much is it per gram? All that money bought gold to make a hat, who can afford it? You still think of the farmer uncle, thinking that the emperor would dig the soil with a gold hoe, probably.” Dong Liu's words also awakened my common people's consciousness. When a person masters resources, he should always think about how the things in his hands came from, and they were shot out one by one!During the Spring Festival, some people bring rice and white noodles to visit the needy workers, which is too dramatic.People are still grateful, but how dare they imagine how much those people consume in a year?This is the secret history of the Qing palace.The world is very absurd, and it will continue to be so absurd year after year, so the absurdity will exist and be reasonable. In order to allow the book published in Beijing to catch up with the meeting, Director Ma temporarily decided to postpone the meeting for ten days.This push kept many people busy for a few days.There was still a week before the meeting, and the book was still in a printing factory in the suburbs of Beijing. Director Ma was very anxious.I said: "It's fine if you don't make it in time, and it's the same when you send it to them in the future. Besides, they may not necessarily read it." See, it’s only that big of a deal.” He sent Xiao Cai to the printing factory with 10,000 yuan in overtime pay, and he had to bring thirty books back before the meeting anyway.The day before the meeting, Xiao Cai called back and said that he had already got the book, and I said, "The sooner you come back by plane, the better." He asked me if the taxi from the printing factory to the airport cost more than 100 yuan, can I be reimbursed?I said, "The sooner the better, don't you understand Chinese?" A floor was reserved for the meeting at the Suiyuan Hotel, and two small cars went to the airport and train station to pick up people.Because the board and lodging fees of those few judges were not charged, the board and lodging fees of the other representatives were simply waived, so as not to be yelled at.A few senior citizens were surrounded wherever they went, and the young representative brought a camera and took a group photo on the left and a group photo on the right, which will be used as an excuse to build relationships in the future.If I wasn't in charge of the conference affairs, I wouldn't be able to get in at all, and I really don't have the courage to make such a face.I thank Director Ma for his arrangement. He really thinks about the problem carefully, otherwise how would I have the opportunity to go up and say a few words and leave some impression?On the third day, when I went to Shazhou to play, an old man with a childlike innocence took off his shoes and jumped into the water. Immediately, a representative from Guangxi went to find the way for him, bent down, took out water with both hands and said, "here, here , this place is flat, here, here, here is also flat.” When I went back to the hotel and touched my pocket, I found that my wallet had fallen into the water, and I had lost my ticket and ID card. It hurts from laughing. The meeting lasted for three days, and on the fourth day, representatives were organized to visit Jianshan Mountain, which was a four-hour drive, and Director Ma accompanied him.An old man on the road said: "Old Ma, I think you will still have hope next year at this point." Director Ma said: "It depends on your support." It's not good to stop talking and clarify the matter.Three days later, when I returned from Jianshan, the meeting ended.Several judges stayed for another two days to give lectures at the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Research Institute. Every time I finish a lecture, I send an envelope as usual.One or two people touched the envelope and said, "Can there be so many?" I said: "In the era of knowledge economy, the value of knowledge must be reflected. Can the value of knowledge be measured by money?" In the end, no one said that too much would not be accepted, and everyone tacitly agreed. I was relieved to see off the guests, and there were thousands of dollars left after the checkout.Roughly half of conference expenses and half of lecture fees.Director Ma's idea is to make those key people owe us favors, the more the better, to make them feel hot and feel guilty, so that they will be trapped, and they will naturally repay in the future.After careful operation, Director Ma's vision has been fully realized.The meeting was very successful, very good.I saw more and more clearly that there are two kinds of people in the world. One kind of people has what they want, and every hair of him is cared for meticulously.Who is the world designed for?It is designed for those designers, that is, the designers design for themselves.Anyone who jumps out and says anything can't change this hard fact, it's useless.If you are not convinced, go hit the sky with a rock.