Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 126 Talent shortage? Yang Ning proposes to run a school (Subscription required)
"Yang Ning, Dean Guo called and asked you to come over."

After hearing what Yang Fengyu said, Yang Ning put away the information in his hand and asked Yang Fengyu who came to inform him personally.

"Did Dean Guo say anything?"

"No, I just asked you to come over." Yang Fengyu said, waving to Zhao Yang who was waiting outside to come in and collect the documents on Yang Ning's desk.

"Okay, I'll be there right away."

Dean Guo has been in high spirits recently. As various research institutes have been gradually assigned to relevant departments, he has fewer and fewer things to be responsible for, and he has finally gotten rid of those complicated trivial matters.

When he had nothing to do, he would go abroad and attend some forums as our face in the cultural circle. His life was really comfortable.

Although his actual authority was weakened, he didn't care and instead enjoyed it.

As a famous social figure, this is what he is best at.

Now suddenly looking for Yang Ning, he thought there was something important.

When Yang Ning arrived at Dean Guo's office, he found that not only Dean Guo, but also Mr. Qian and Dean Qian, whom he had met before, were there.

"Yang Ning is here, sit down first!"

When Dean Guo saw Yang Ning, he greeted him with a smile.

"President Guo, what are you doing?" Yang Ning found a seat and sat down, looking at the three people in confusion and asked.

"I pushed back the Mechanics Institute and planned to take over the Aeronautics Institute that was about to be established, so I came to ask for help from President Guo."

Mr. Qian said with a bit of helplessness on his face: "But I didn't expect that we are so short of talents in this field, and Dean Guo can't find many people."

"It's the same for me. The reactor and cyclotron are about to be completed. Although I have more manpower, once the experiment starts, we won't have enough manpower. Besides, after the Spring Festival, we will have to send some people to the northwest, which will make the manpower shortage even worse."

"Then it's no use coming to me for this matter. Dean Guo can't do anything about it. I can't conjure up all these people, right?"

After hearing their words, Yang Ning was confused and looked at them with a helpless look. They really thought he was Sun Wukong, who could turn a human hand into one by just grabbing a handful of monkey hair.

"How can it be useless? Didn't you bring us back a lot of Hans's technology with just one sentence? You young people are smart. Think of a way. We can't afford to delay these two projects."

Dean Guo looked at Yang Ning with an "I believe you" look, which confused him.

How can this be the same? You think too highly of me. I can't let you shirk the blame like this.

You can't get any help yourself, so you make things difficult for a young man like me. Do I deserve to be bullied?

Seeing Yang Ning's embarrassment, Mr. Qian said gently: "It's not necessary for you to come up with a solution. If you have any ideas, please tell us and we can discuss it together."

"Yes, that's right. You have a sharp mind. If you have any ideas, please share them with us so that we can discuss them."

Dean Guo slapped his thigh and stared at Yang Ning, as if to say, "If you don't come up with an idea, you won't be allowed to leave."

"I don't have any ideas. The ideas I had before were just based on some information from later generations. Now you're asking me to solve the manpower problem. Isn't that embarrassing?"

Yang Ning complained in his heart, it seems that the problem of talent shortage has made Dean Guo desperate and try all kinds of methods.

"You guys are all well-educated. We don't have enough staff here. You can go out and call for help. Write letters to your alumni and invite them to come back. If we are more enthusiastic, we should be able to keep a few of them."

“Didn’t we send so many international students abroad before? How many are coming back now?”

"Especially Dean Guo, you often go abroad to attend various conferences. When you are there, don't just make friends. Take some time to visit our international students there and encourage them to come back."

Yang Ning really couldn't think of any solution, so he simply threw the blame back.

"You think we didn't do that, but the problem now is that even if they are willing to come back, it won't be that smooth. It's still not enough to quench thirst. If we wait for them to come back, it will delay things."

Dean Guo saw that Yang Ning looked like a rogue and explained with a wry smile.

"Yes, not to mention the difficulties I encountered before, I have already written letters to my two junior brothers. Junior Brother Guo is also willing to come back, but the Eagle Sauce has started to make trouble again and directly detained Junior Brother Guo's wife!"

Mr. Qian also looked sad and worried about the safety of his junior fellow apprentice.

"If both of them can come back alive, half of our scientific research problems can be solved."

After hearing this, Yang Ning knew who the two junior brothers Mr. Qian was talking about were, Mr. Guo and Mr. Lin.

Like Mr. Qian, they both studied under the famous aerodynamicist von Karman. Let's not talk about Mr. Lin's choice for now, but Mr. Guo should be able to return this year. However, his road back to China is also full of ups and downs, just like Mr. Qian's.

Unlike Mr. Qian who was arrested himself, the Eagle Sauce may have learned a lesson from Mr. Qian this time and did not arrest Mr. Guo directly, but instead arrested his wife, Ms. Li, in an attempt to threaten Mr. Guo.

In the end, after their struggle and our mediation, Mr. Guo and his team finally returned to China, but the Eagle Sauce stipulated that Mr. Guo could not take a single piece of paper with him. In the end, Mr. Guo had to reluctantly burn all his hard work before he was allowed to return to China.

"So what you lack is not top talents, but basic talents who understand some relevant technologies, right?"

When Yang Ning heard what Mr. Qian said, he knew what they meant.

They can find ways to recruit top talents in key technologies in the project, but what they lack now is a large number of basic talents.

Whether it is the atomic bomb experiment or the preliminary preparation of the missile project, a large number of basic researchers are needed.

Thinking of this, Yang Ning suddenly remembered that in order to solve this problem in the future, the Chinese Academy of Sciences specially established a school of its own.

After all, a large number of basic scientific research personnel can only be found through education, and no one can create so many people out of thin air.

However, President Guo and his colleagues obviously have not yet realized the advantages of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. With so many top experts in various fields, wouldn't it be a waste to only let them do research? When they have time, they should be allowed to train more talents!

"President Guo, do you think this is feasible? Since we are short of talents and we have so many top experts, why don't we build our own university to train these talents for us?"

As soon as Yang Ning said this, Dean Guo and the others all looked at him with strange eyes.

Is it possible for the Chinese Academy of Sciences to set up its own school?
But then I thought, why not? This is simply too good to be true.

The reason why I didn't think about this before was, on the one hand, because the Chinese Academy of Sciences mainly focuses on scientific and technological research, the research tasks of each institute are too heavy, and the core experts are already working part-time at major universities.

Dean Guo had no idea how strong the teaching staff he had at his disposal was.
But who stipulates that these experts can only work part-time in one university?
With so many teaching staff, wouldn't it be a waste if we don't set up our own university?
If this university is established, we can train any kind of talents we want ourselves.

Besides, the Chinese Academy of Sciences doesn't have much else but many experts, professors and experimental research institutes. They can teach and practice at the same time, allowing students to get in touch with our cutting-edge technology as early as possible and participate in the construction as soon as possible. Isn't this an innate holy body for running a school?

It's like riding a donkey to look for a donkey!

After figuring it out, Dean Guo looked at Mr. Qian and Dean Qian and said with a smile: "What do you think? I said this kid has an idea, right?"

"We wanted to eat eggs, so the boy brought a hen over. Now we can eat not only eggs but also chicken."

"Then I'll see which projects are still short of staff and I can have them take turns teaching the students!"

"This is indeed a good idea. We don't know how long it will take for the higher-ups to stir up trouble."

"However, this matter cannot be delayed any further. I will trouble President Guo to apply to the higher authorities." President Qian also said with a smile.

"Well, I can come over to teach at that time, but let me make it clear first, you can't snatch the students from my class. I'm still waiting for people to open my class!" Mr. Qian pondered for a while and a smile appeared on his face.

The Aviation Academy is still in the discussion stage. It is completely in time to start training talents now. By then, students can be guided to practice while teaching. This is also the education model in the United States, and Mr. Qian is very familiar with it.

"Yang Ning, do you want to do a part-time job?"

Seeing that the other two had expressed their opinions, Dean Guo looked at Yang Ning and asked.

"I'd better give up. If possible, I can see if the Computer Research Institute needs to train some talents. Only when computers develop can I focus more on key projects." Yang Ning shook his head and said.

He himself was working part-time at the Wudaokou Technical School. He had only been there a few times in two years. Sometimes, Professor Dong was too busy and had to ask him to cover for him.

He found that he felt more at ease with a piece of paper and a pen in the office than on the podium.

Besides, he doesn't have time now.

"Forget about Yang Ning. The role he plays in the office is more important than his role on the podium. Besides, he is very busy now. Even though he is still young, he should take care of his health, right?" Mr. Qian also said at this time.

It's funny. He was worried before whether Yang Ning had enough time. If he was asked to teach students again, who would handle his research data in the future?

Besides, can Yang Ning’s abilities be taught?
"Forget it then!" Dean Guo thought about it and said a little disappointedly.

He was very clear about Yang Ning's current position in the upper class. If Yang Ning was not too young and his ability easily attracted the covetousness of others, he would probably have become a member of the academic department last year.

If Yang Ning could be brought into this planned school, it would at least help enhance the school's reputation in the field of scientific research.

　I am on a business trip out of town, so the updates have been unstable these two days. Please forgive me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)