Free Web NovelChapter 832: Chapter 440: Kunlun Engine Group 2_2
"Is it just because he’s in the metal materials lab?" Zhang Hongtao thought somewhat gloomily.
People are afraid of comparisons.
If Li Rongmao hadn’t received a hundred thousand, Zhang Hongtao would have felt that eighty thousand wasn’t too little, but with the comparison, he felt unbalanced inside.
In reality, part of the personal bonus came from the coffers of 307 Steel Plant, which offered better treatment to its collaborators, and the metal materials lab was the collaborator, with subsequent R&D also being in partnership with the metal materials lab, not concerning the metal composites lab.
Zhang Hongtao wouldn’t follow up on the project and naturally ’missed out’ on a piece of the bonus.
The 307 Steel Plant wasn’t interested in Zhang Hongtao, but elsewhere, he was still considered an important figure.
The R&D group hadn’t fully connected with 307 Steel Plant before Yanhua University had already reacted because the research was done within the university, and school leaders and professors knew the R&D group completed a major project, even knowing it was related to turbine blade materials.
With the collaboration between the metal materials lab and 307 Steel Plant, there would surely be a steady flow of funds in the future, and its development was almost certain, so the university essentially got a material lab with great potential for free, while also prioritizing the lab’s development.
This lab was enough to propel the university’s material science specialty forward, and what it lacked the most now was talent.
The lab had too few people.
Zhao Yi hardly counted as a member of the lab, with the university having only signed with Shen Binghe and Li Rongmao, both of whom would participate in subsequent project development, with the rest being just ordinary lecturers, many courses on material science at the undergraduate level were even taught by teachers from other faculties.
This definitely wasn’t acceptable!
Ordinary lecturers and highly-educated associate professors were easy to recruit, but those focused on education were lacking in research points, and to develop, it was necessary to sign more talents in the research field.
That day.
Zhang Hongtao finished the data recording work and was about to return to Aerospace University when he was immediately pulled aside by the university’s Director of Academic Affairs and the Dean of the Mechanical Engineering College, who treated him very warmly before bringing up headhunting. freёwebnoѵel.com
"Come to Yanhua University and sign a professor’s contract directly!"
In the metal composites lab, Zhang Hongtao was an associate researcher, and with many achievements, he was about to be promoted to researcher, which qualified him to hold a professorship at Yanhua University.
Then they discussed the treatment issues, including salary, benefits, and the university’s guarantees.
To contest for the talent of Zhang Hongtao, the university even promised that after three years of work, he would be allocated the school’s rare guaranteed housing.
There was also another important point—
"You decide the contract term."
Nowadays, professors at domestic universities are under an ’employment system’—not a lifelong guarantee—so choosing the contract term freely equates to a lifelong guarantee, which is definitely very attractive.
Zhang Hongtao was tempted after hearing all this. The treatment at Yanhua University was one thing, but also joining the metal materials lab was like ’following Zhao Yi in research,’ bringing him much closer, yet when he thought of his half-mentor Wang Zhifang, he felt he couldn’t just leave.
Job-hopping was possible, in the future.
Definitely couldn’t jump ship right away, people still need to cherish relationships!
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Zhang Hongtao returned to the metal composites lab and mentioned to Wang Zhifang about the data issues from the last experiment and talked about the cooperation with 307 Steel Plant. He thought the metal composites lab could also strive for a partnership with 307 Steel Plant since both he and Wang Zhifang were involved in the R&D, and in terms of true research capability and experience, they were certainly much stronger than Li Rongmao and Shen Binghe.
Now, being ’kicked out’ of the metal composites lab was just too depressing.
Wang Zhifang shook his head and said, "Hong Tao, it’s not that we can’t fight for it, but I didn’t take the initiative!"
"Why?"
Zhang Hongtao didn’t understand.
He had already felt depressed about being ’kicked out’ and thought it was because 307 Steel Plant only cared about Zhao Yi’s lab, which he could understand, but he didn’t expect Wang Zhifang hadn’t made the effort.
"Here’s the thing."
Wang Zhifang said, "Zhao Yi asked me, and after thinking it over, I refused because if our lab were to follow up with the R&D, I’d have to be involved."
"Is that so?"
Wang Zhifang sighed, "Forgive my selfishness, Hong Tao. I’m old." He shook his head, "During the project, I felt I couldn’t keep up with the energy. Continuing with the project, it’d be hard to achieve any more results, and in terms of research and development, I’d often have to run to 307 to communicate..."
He kept shaking his head as he spoke.
It was then Zhang Hongtao remembered, Wang Zhifang was nearly seventy, indeed lacking the energy to keep up.
If they secured the follow-up nickel-iron alloy R&D project, Wang Zhifang, as the main researcher of the metal composites lab, would have to carry the burden and a lot of work would be required.
Wang Zhifang continued, "Having completed this project, I am content. Hong Tao, I’ve spent a lifetime in alloy research, and I never thought that in my old age, I could be involved in such a significant project, achieving such wonderful results, which is probably the biggest achievement I’ve had since I was young."
"So, I’ve thought this through. I won’t do research in the future and will slowly distribute my current work, then focus on teaching at the university, giving lessons, teaching the students..."
