The technological empire begins with polymer materials

"I'm back."

"The two-dimensional culture is really becoming more and more popular now. Can you imagine? When I took the subway today, I met four lo girls, three Hanfu girls, and a pair of cosplayers..."

"Huh? Why are there so many delicious foods? And beer?"

"I'm talking about Gao Yuan, could it be that you won the lottery? Or maybe you were chosen by some rich woman, and you will lose twenty years of hard work?"

It was almost nine o'clock in the evening, and Cao Feiyu returned home with a tired look on his face. He was soon surprised by a table full of dishes in the living room.

Although most of them are takeaways and cooked food from the braised food shop downstairs, there are quite a lot of them, including a whole box of Tsingtao Augute beer.

Pa~

Gao Yuan opened a can of beer and said to Cao Feiyu with a smile: "I wish I would have struggled for another twenty years. Sit down and let's talk while drinking."

Cao Feiyu happily agreed. He went to wash his hands first, and then sat down opposite the plateau. The two of them grabbed the beer glasses and drank a lot.

"I asked, what day is it today and why did you buy so many delicious foods?" Cao Feiyu asked curiously while nibbling on the chicken legs.

Gao Yuan poured wine for Cao Feiyu, "This is a farewell party. I have decided to go home tomorrow and join the textile industry."

"So sudden?" Cao Feiyu was shocked at first, then a wry smile appeared on his face, "If you don't work hard, you will have no choice but to go home and inherit the family business. It turns out you are the one I'm talking about."

"I remember that you used to hate the factory at home. Why did you suddenly change?"

Gao Yuan thought for a while, even though Cao Feiyu was his best friend, he still couldn't tell him about the system.

"Maybe it's because you are unwilling to give in." Gao Yuan said lightly.

"Not willing?" Cao Feiyu was confused.

"My fourth uncle moved the factory to Vietnam. You should know about this, right?" Gao Yuan asked.

Phew~

Cao Feiyu seemed to have remembered some funny joke and almost spit out the beer in his mouth.

"I know, because it is a fabric factory, there are many young Vietnamese female workers. There are rumors that your fourth uncle was very happy in Vietnam. When he came home during the Chinese New Year, he lost a lot of weight. He even went around looking for people to buy medicine. He said he wanted to mend his waist."

Gao Yuan shook his head helplessly. He didn't object to his fourth uncle's private life, but he felt that he had no restraint and his lifelong pursuits were probably money and women.

"Not only my fourth uncle, Lu Yuming moved his factory to Bangladesh, Zhang Xilai went to Cambodia, and Du Ping was more unlucky. He moved his factory to India and caught up with the changes in the current situation. This time I am afraid he will lose his pants. Woolen cloth."

"I thought about it. None of the uncles and uncles who worked hard with my father back then are still in China. Unknowingly, everyone has moved their factories to Southeast Asia. Only my father, the idiot, is still struggling to hold on. .”

"Others may not know it, but we all know it. There were thousands of textile and garment factories in the city back then. How many are left now?"

"In recent years, everyone has been paying attention to the Internet, finance and real estate, Internet celebrities and celebrities big and small, but little did they know that the manufacturing industry was declining."

"Everyone praises the great power of a great country. Everyone says that industry is the foundation of a country, and finance is just a virtual bubble. No matter how powerful the Internet is, it must rely on manufacturing."

"But the actual situation is that everyone wants to go into finance, everyone wants to join Tencent and Alibaba, and everyone looks down on manufacturing!"

"As the saying goes, if a big country has important weapons, you do it. I will make money every day. I will persuade others to be poor and happy, and I will drink and pick up girls."

"Anyway, I just won't give in." Gao Yuan said in a low voice: "I want to create truly world-leading products, and I want those who move their factories abroad for petty profits to lose their pants."

Gao Yuan raised his head and looked at Cao Feiyu, who was already a little drunk. "It may be a bit narrow-minded to say this, but I just can't stand their faces. They even left. They kept showing off to my father and praising themselves behind their backs." You are smart and call my father a fool.”

Cao Feiyu shook his head gently, "There is nothing we can do about it. It has been said in Capital that the vast majority of capitalists only care about profits and have no motherland in their hearts."

We drank a lot and talked a lot.

In fact, the system is just an opportunity. Even if there is no system, Gao Yuan still feels that if things continue like this, the manufacturing industry will have big problems sooner or later.

According to a 2018 World Bank report.

In China, the average annual income of mechanical engineers is 76,140 yuan.

The average annual income of IT engineers is 132,042 yuan.

The gap has actually reached nearly 50,000 yuan, and it continues to widen.

We are all engineers, and they are all called Engineers in English. They have also gone through more than ten years of hard study, but in the end, they have completely different lives. Is this really okay?

Take Germany, the manufacturing hegemon, as an example, according to the same 2018 World Bank report.

In Germany, the average annual salary of a mechanical engineer is 67,500 euros.

The average annual salary of an IT engineer is 55,776 euros.

You might say that there are not many IT companies in Germany and the Internet is far less developed than in China, so the income of mechanical engineers is higher than that of IT engineers.

Maybe, but in any case, as an engineer who has also received many years of education and is a pillar of society, the salary gap is so huge. Is this really good?

The virtual economy has received unprecedented popularity among the people, and people worship Internet entrepreneurs as gods.

At the same time, biochemical and environmental materials are being discouraged, machinery is being discouraged, and civil engineering is being discouraged. Everyone is trying to do the Internet, but no one cares about the industry. Is this really good?

…

The next day happened to be the weekend and Cao Feiyu didn't have to go to work, so he helped Gao Yuan pack his luggage and accompanied him to the train station.

Standing in the bustling hall, Gao Yuan felt a lot of emotion in his heart.

I remember when I had just graduated from college, I refused to help in the factory. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Boss Ma and become a glorious IT industry employee.

As a result, after more than a year, Cao Feiyu, who had no intention of entering the IT industry, joined an Internet company, while Gao Yuan continued to be frustrated in his job search, and in the end he did not know which way the Alibaba Group's door opened.

"Zhao, I'm going to get out soon. From now on, if you are alone in Hangzhou, be careful." Gao Yuan said in a self-deprecating tone.

Cao Feiyu said disapprovingly: "When you, the rich second generation, inherit the family business, I will go back to you in the worst case. With our twenty-year friendship, why can't you reward me with food?"

Phew~

Gao Yuan almost burst out laughing, "You are the second generation rich, and the second generation negative is about the same. My father is a stubborn donkey. In order to support the factory, he has sold everything he can. What is waiting for me may not be a sports car or a mansion, but a luxury car." It’s the father’s debt that the son pays.”

Cao Feiyu didn't say much. He actually knew the current situation of the Gao Yuan family.

It doesn't matter if you don't mention some things. We are brothers. Gao Yuan can make fun of his own family, but Cao Feiyu can't poke other people's hearts. This is the bottom line of being brothers.

The son is not a fish, how can he know the joy of fish? The father of the Cao family is a great talent. When naming him, he referred to this allusion.

As an adult, Cao Feiyu inherited half of his father's brilliance, but his unhurried and unhurried character, who didn't particularly care about anything, was sometimes quite worrying.

In this way, the two good friends said goodbye reluctantly.

Gao Yuan took his backpack from Cao Feiyu and boarded the train home.