Chapter 429 Who Said Making Clothes Is Not Scientific Research?

Housing prices in the Imperial Capital rise earlier than in other places, but commercial housing is promoted later. Moreover, most of the commercial housing in the Imperial Capital, except for a few specialized wealthy properties with sky-high prices, are of extremely average quality.

This led to the fact that even in later generations, the life of ordinary people in the real imperial capital was not as comfortable as that in the southern provinces. This was not only a difference caused by climate, but also a difference in service concepts.

It’s not just the imperial capital. In fact, most northern cities have this problem. They are obviously modern communities, but the living experience is not very good. Not to mention that compared with communities in the south with similar prices, or even communities several times the price, they are not as good. Compared with many southern cities.

Wang Xu grew up here, but he didn't have much hope for the services of the imperial capital. It is said that later on, people from the north had to hold their throats when facing the people from the south, giving them whatever they asked for, but they still looked at you like this to their own children. Something like that.

It’s not like the imperial capital doesn’t have particularly high-end places. There are palaces, Tan Palace, Fuli, the Great Wall, etc., which have been around for a long time. It's just that Wang Xu rarely goes there, and it's not a place where ordinary people in the imperial capital go.

People who go to that place do nothing more than dress up. The men of the imperial capital go there. In addition to being pleasant to the eyes, warm to the touch, pleasant to the body and mind, and an eye-opener, they still have to suffer a meal when they come back to show that they are not that depraved.

Well, that’s right, people in the Imperial City actually like to pretend more, but they just don’t pretend the same way as in the Magic City. People in the Magic City like to brag about the fancy places they often go to, while people in the Imperial Capital like to brag about all the fancy places they go to. Not rare enough to go.

Obviously, it is also a bragging, the cost of the latter is lower, so no one in the entire Imperial City has not boasted like this. The price is cheap, there is no need to pay taxes, it is simple and affordable, and it also shows the true qualities of our Imperial City men and Imperial City girls. atmosphere.

The disadvantage is that everyone says so, so it is difficult to verify the authenticity, and it gradually becomes an ineffective act of ridicule.

As for the Magic City, you have to prove that you have been there, and you have to have a few luxury items.

So things like check-ins, selfies, and luxury items were popular. The most common brand products in the 1990s were wallets and sunglasses. On the one hand, they were really useful; on the other hand, it was because of this It's the only brand that can barely be reached.

In Shanghai, every young person will dream of having a wallet like Pierre Cardin. As early as the 1980s, you can believe that they could buy out Pierre Cardin's wallets.

This is not the result of the rise of short videos. In fact, in the 1970s and 1980s, you can see many young people in Shanghai doing this. Although the photos are still in black and white, they left many beautiful photos.

If you can't afford it, you have to buy it together. It's not something that's only available now. It existed in the early years. Although the method is slightly different, the effect is the same.

Just like the fake collars that were popular in the Magic City in the past (you must be at least 50 years old to know this thing), there is almost no sales in the Imperial Capital.

Therefore, it is also a boast. Magic City is not very friendly to the poor and has a high entry barrier. Of course, it is also harder for people to tell the authenticity.

It's like the magical city in "Flowers", but it's really not the life of ordinary people. Even on the Yellow River Road, those who could open top restaurants in the 1980s couldn't be ordinary people.

In the early 1980s, most of the entertainment venues on Huanghe Road were state-owned, and most of the waiters there were uncles and aunts. How could there be so many young and beautiful girls?

After that, all kinds of weird operations appeared one after another. You will know just by looking at how many people entered there.

The life of the rich in the 1980s was even more magical. Those people are basically no longer in the country. I can’t write about it here. If you look at the Big Bear in the north, many stories are similar.

So, don’t imagine what it was like in that era. Back in that era, ordinary people were still ordinary people.

Travelers can make some money by relying on foresight, but there will be all kinds of other things that will torment you to death. At that time, there were not a few people who became rich overnight, but only a very small number were able to survive in the end. It’s not just the Magic City, it’s the same across the country.

Wang Xu has been throwing away a lot of opportunities for free. He rarely even goes to those high-end places to hang out. At most, he just goes to bars to sing and play with low-level things.

Things like rock and roll, folk songs, etc., the status of these things in cities is actually similar to the status of suona in rural folk.

It is really not uncommon for second-hand roses to sing happy birthdays. There are definitely not a few rock bands in the city who sing happy birthday to people. Accompanying dances at corporate annual meetings is a very common band job. This is actually the same as having a drum troupe singing happy birthdays. There's really no essential difference.

But you have seen a few real high-end political and business people who love these things, whether they are in the magical capital or the imperial capital, it is the same. In the old tradition, these are low-level things and cannot be put on the table.

It's okay to add personality, and it will be fun to listen to a few live performances, but if you ask them to buy a poster and ask for an autograph, they will feel embarrassed.

Therefore, Wang Xu is very reassuring. Not only the people above him are reassured, but also the people around him. He has a harmless attitude. Of course, this is also related to the fact that most people don't know how rich the young couple is. , their company is not listed, and their assets are not online.

Therefore, for the young couple, clothing may be the only thing that can be called high-end, or it is his own luxury brand. As for speakers and the like, that’s more niche and doesn’t matter at all.

Most people in the Imperial City actually look down on what the Magic City is like. In the eyes of the people in the Imperial City, it is just a colonial hangover.

Of course, the opposite is also true. The Demon City feels that the Imperial City is either a bunch of idiots who have entered the city, or they are the old and young of the Puppet Manchukuo. People in the imperial capital are either rubbish or rotten. Anyway, they don’t have the foreign style of the capital.

The key point is that they also feel that Magic City has been the number one capital in the East since before liberation, and their foreign style has been inherited.

In Wang Xu's view, Europe, especially the rotten countries, are highly praised for their words. They often talk about inheritance, accumulation, and foundation. That is, they only talk about it all day long because they don't have it. You know your own weak foundation better than anyone else.

Recognizing one's ancestors everywhere is a ridiculously shallow cognition. In Wang Xu's eyes, apart from knowledge, nothing is accumulation, and apart from culture, nothing is heritage.

A master who has been making suits for thirty years may not be able to make a suit better than a new genius. Technology is technology, and the level of technology achieved is related to the year, but there is no inevitable relationship.

The clothes at Wang Xu's place were just like this. Tang Yun finally launched a customized men's clothing service. There was no other way. Those shareholders in Xiangjiang were really tempting. Chen Baiqiang even said that if Wang Xu was allowed to make it, he would wear it for the rest of his life. As for your own suit.

Okay, if you can still do it, let’s do it. Wang Xu's understanding of men's figures is far less good than that of women, and his skill in making men's clothing is indeed average.

Really top-notch clothing must be something with unique styles. These are actually industrial designs. If Wang Xu wants to do this, it is really not as easy as doing women's clothing.

Most men are very accepting of death. Their requirements for clothing are not high, but they are very high. There are many who fall in love with each other once and never change their clothes for the rest of their lives. For example, Steve Jobs's black sweater, but most men have never met the right one, and then it gives people the impression that men often wear clothes randomly and are very careless.

This also makes men’s clothing really difficult to make. In addition, most boys who have some money are already old and do not pay attention to body management. Belly and hunchback are very common. Just say how can you It's really a test to make such a person so pleasing to the eye.

Wang Xu himself does not have this problem. Of course, his small shareholders are actually well managed, but once it faces the market, it is really not a trivial matter.

Wang Xu actually doesn't have any good ideas, but he has a problem. It's not his system that can't beat three farts with one stick, but his influence in the college circle.

There are many fashion colleges in various places, and they are spread all over the world. They do surveys, statistics, and joint research. Anyway, everyone can publish a paper. Wang Xu just sponsors a research fund.

This is similar to the census, except that it will not survey everyone extensively, but will conduct a follow-up survey for each age group. The samples that can be selected will be limited, but in this era, tens of millions of funds Smashing it down was enough for Wang Xu to organize a large-scale investigation with a million samples.

This is a good thing that should not be thought of in the future. In the future, even ten times the funds may not be able to obtain such survey results. What Wang Xu is trying to achieve is a time lag. It's not that domestic garment companies don't have the need for this, but they didn't have the awareness or the funds to do so at the beginning.

Let alone a manufacturer these days, that was when ordinary people's clothes could still be worn. The exported clothes were processed in whatever pattern they were given. It was the same as Wang Xu's approach to making women's clothing. Who would have thought of how to do it? Design the pattern.

Now, even the Fashion Institute does not have specialized research in this area. When Wang Xu came up with a large-scale research project on the human body shape survey in various places, even the professors who came to participate were confused. Most of the fashion schools at the moment have similar concepts to the School of Fine Arts. For tailoring, they still use inherited and imported methods. In terms of gameplay, I don’t know how to research cutting at all.

This is no longer a simple field of fashion design, but a real industrial field. Or how can I say that just learning is not enough? After learning the results, you may ignore the process of creation.

Just like traditional clothing, where does the so-called heritage of decades or centuries come from? In fact, it is the result of constant trial and error, but the inheritance of this kind of heritage is actually very poor, because you can only inherit the conclusion, but it is difficult to inherit the experience generated by trial and error.

Therefore, there is no essential difference in style between the so-called century-old clothing brands and the clothing brands that have been carefully managed for ten or twenty years.

This is especially true for women's clothing, because the style of women's clothing changes too quickly. In many cases, the style changes before the so-called foundation has even been formed.

As a result, the so-called battle for heritage has turned into a battle for the right to speak, and heritage has turned into various aristocratic models that I say look good. In fact, the level of clothing production in China in later generations is already very high, and many large manufacturers even surpass those well-known companies in collecting various body shape data.

But they still have no right to speak, and even Chinese people themselves think that they are not high-end. In fact, the so-called high-end at this time has little to do with the clothes themselves, or even the fashion charm itself.

That's just a side effect of being strong. Later generations will know that the 1990s was the peak of admiration for foreigners. In fact, the reason is also very simple. The family background is not strong enough.

It took more than a year, an investment of tens of millions, and this huge plan involving most provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China, including the border areas, to be completed, and Wang Xu has also put the second phase of the follow-up investigation on the agenda. , a long-term social science project was formally arranged.

This time the project will be more detailed, and a tracking file will even be established to form an overall trackable topic. This research is not just for making clothes, but more for providing some basic research to study the changes and development of the entire Chinese society in the next thirty years.

In fact, most social science research is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and results cannot be produced in a short time.

Now that Wang Xu has some ability, he still hopes to do something.

Ever since Wang Xu traveled through this world, the problem of talent has been a long-standing problem that has plagued the whole of China. Let alone the bottleneck, in the 1990s, there were many problems. Let's deal with the bottleneck first.

Since Wang Xu became a professor and had his own laboratory, he has been worried about the talent problem. It has been more than a year, and the laboratory only has three or two kittens. Except for Professor Luo, who is the leader, the remaining few All of them are freshly graduated Ph.D.

There are a few people who want to become postdocs, but they are really a drop in the bucket. Fortunately, the laboratory is in the direction of artificial intelligence, and engineering talents are relatively easy to find. Condensed matter is a headache, and science talents are even more scarce.

There are only a few top science colleges in the country, and most of the graduates have gone abroad. It may not be long before they come back.

It would be good if Shuimu could offer a monthly salary of one thousand yuan, but none of the top scholars could earn tens of thousands of dollars a month. Wang Xu couldn't blatantly provide various subsidies, so he could only resort to looking for domestic subsidies.

It has little to do with engineering, and the requirements for IQ are not that high. Experimental physics can be done, but once it involves theoretical physics or mathematics, it is really not something that ordinary people can do.

Fortunately, Wang Xu's place is still mainly about engineering, with some experimental physics mixed in. After more than a year, it is still possible to support the smooth operation of the laboratory. The paper is not idle for a moment, and now we are doing various exchanges and research here. There are also many more jointly developed laboratories.

It can be said that everything is developing in a good direction. Wang Xu now has free time to engage in some social science stuff. Social science stuff is actually something that has been planned for a century. Many metaphysical stuff seems useless, but for The state, society and even the nation play an extremely important role.

The only problem is that truly top social science talents also need extremely smart brains and enough brain power. Those who can summarize rules and experiences from a chaotic and complex society are all top-notch brains. .

Later generations' disparagement of liberal arts is more of a ridicule of liberal arts, just because liberal arts is a more serious discipline than science and engineering. Moreover, society's demand for such people is extremely limited.

Once it is expanded without restrictions, it will only result in groups of graduates unable to find corresponding jobs, and become an embarrassing group of people who cannot achieve high or low levels.

In the words of a researcher from the Academy of Social Sciences whom Wang Xu knows, one person in ten thousand people like them is too many.

This is really not that he is bragging about his mind, but a social reality, just like the business administration major. You said, which unit does he lack a leader?

Maybe the general public has very limited understanding of the Academy of Social Sciences. Wang Xu has visited their Academy of Philosophy. Most of the people there started with Ph.D.s, and speaking three foreign languages ​​is a basic skill.

Those who are fluent in English and have reached the level of interpretation are like crucian carp crossing the river. German is an introductory language for learning philosophy, because most of the new generation of philosophers are Germans. French is also the main language in Europe at that time, so it is also a must.

Latin is a necessary condition for studying ancient Rome. If you don’t know Hebrew, let alone study classical philosophy. There are also ancient Greek, ancient Egyptian, cuneiform and other weird things. There are people who can understand them. The original text is only the first step in research.

If you are studying the Americas, you cannot just read English materials. Spanish and Portuguese are necessary. Otherwise, how will you know whether the translation is accurate?

But do you really need a lot of such researchers? No matter where you look at it, these people are purely supported by the state and do research that no one knows the use of. But as a big country, if you don’t have these people, it really won’t work.

This is why Wang Xu has been instilling the thinking of his Industrial Party in his superiors, that is, liberal arts majors should not be expanded without limit. After all, expanding liberal arts education is much simpler than science and engineering, but the employment opportunities are too narrow.

Liberal arts are important, but there is really no need to have too many. This is Wang Xu’s philosophy. Fortunately, it is not too late now, and he can have some influence. It is said that another physicist will win this year’s Nobel Prize. Xu's name has been reported, so there will probably be a wait, but it definitely won't be too long.

In recent years, Huaxia's reputation in the field of international scientific research is really not very good. So many scientific software are mainly maintained by Huaxia. Even many ideas and algorithms of foreign universities are through Huaxia universities. Really implemented.

This means that although Wang Xu has not had any major new projects in the past two years, his reputation has been increasing day by day. In addition, the previous projects can be said to be a steady stream of various results. Wang Xu is now not only in Mizuki can walk sideways, and there are few masters in the entire scientific research community who dare to compete with him.

Wang Xu's main goal in engaging in large-scale social science projects is to cultivate researchers in the true sense, the kind of people who can truly conduct independent research, rather than the kind of bastards who mix papers and professional titles.

It is too easy for bastards to fish in troubled waters in these disciplines, and the difficulty of supervision is more than an order of magnitude greater than in the scientific field. Let's put it this way, if you do a scientific experiment, even if it is extremely difficult, there will be someone who can do it. Reproduce it for you.

But if you conduct a social science experiment, it can involve tens of thousands of people, and it is definitely a small sample among the entire population. The experimental results, even if they are statistically significant, are not necessarily that reliable.

No one can even accuse you of falsifying, because human beings are really too complex, and different selections of people can cause huge deviations, and even opposite conclusions are common in social sciences. What do you think of such a subject? Can be built on a large scale.

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Thank you to all the book friends for following me all the way. I bowed and apologized to everyone over the wine, and let go of my worries recently.

I've been really busy lately. It's almost ten o'clock every day when I get back to my rental apartment, and I really don't have the energy to continue typing.

Therefore, I can only update it sporadically recently. I hope that after being busy for a while, things will be better after the new year.

Eunuchs can't do it, but updates cannot be guaranteed. I'll do my best.