It is unknown if it is because the brain is completely emptied after adulthood, unlike all awakened vegetative patients, Zuo Sicheng is currently very intelligent. If his IQ were to be measured, it would likely soar to 300, surpassing that of Einstein and Tesla.
At the same time, because he had been in the hospital for this period of time without being disturbed by too many real-world problems, and the doctors had treated him very well, Zuo Sicheng remained quite naive, without many complicated thoughts, and unaware of how powerful his intelligence was.
Therefore, when he returned home and saw the dilapidated, penniless pawnshop, even someone as intelligent as Zuo Sicheng was a bit lost, not knowing how to make money.
There is a rather magical aspect to this world: individuals with higher intelligence often find it more difficult to achieve success in business. If they were to dedicate their lives to research within a scientific institution, they might live comfortably.
However, if they were to fall into dire circumstances, the possibility of them using their intelligence to live a good life would be almost nonexistent, as was the case with Tesla and William James Sidis, who once had the highest intelligence of 300.
When Heaven bestows something upon you, it often takes something away in return.
Well, transmigration and rebirth protagonists, and protagonists of novels are exceptions.
Zuo Sicheng was facing a similar problem. He pondered for three to four days but could not figure out how to manage his family's scrap metal recycling station to escape their predicament.
He also considered the skills and knowledge he currently possessed, which were only writing and medicine.
Zuo Sicheng was unaware of the strength of his writing ability, thinking it was just average. Apart from his elegant prose and meticulous logic, he felt it was far from historical masterpieces in terms of both thought and impact.
Little did Zuo Sicheng know that there was such a thing as web novels in this world; otherwise, he might have been able to earn some pocket money.
As for medicine, Zuo Sicheng was quite confident. However, one cannot simply become a doctor. One needs to start learning from scratch, at least from high school, enroll in the college entrance examination, then enter a medical university, and gradually advance within the medical system to become a doctor.
This seemed too long for Zuo Sicheng. Moreover, considering that his father had never allowed him to study beyond elementary school, not even junior high, his father would not support him in going to university.
For a time, Zuo Sicheng fell into confusion.
Until one day, while sunbathing in the park, he accidentally overheard a group of elderly women chatting nearby. One of them proudly stated that her son had joined Jiangnan Group and worked in some "00 voice department," earning over 10,000 yuan a month, which was five times the national average wage, making everyone around extremely envious.
However, someone immediately questioned her, saying that her son had not even passed the college entrance examination, only attended a vocational college. How could he possibly be admitted to Jiangnan Group?
The elderly woman immediately became defensive, saying, "You don't know this, do you? Although Jiangnan Group recruits from schools every year, they actually have a 'Dragon Gate Plan.'"
This Dragon Gate Plan does not consider whether a person has a diploma or work experience. As long as they have the ability, they can apply to be screened. Once they pass the assessment, they can directly start working at Jiangnan Group!
Huang He, the chairman of Jiangnan Group, said this is called "no talent left unearthed," providing a way for those who have not received higher education but possess actual abilities to enter Jiangnan Group to work!
Upon hearing this, Zuo Sicheng became interested. The surrounding elderly women also obligingly asked for more information about the Dragon Gate Plan, and Zuo Sicheng learned that this plan was exclusively for technical positions, such as programmers, high-level technicians, electronics, railway technology, materials science, and so on. These are professions where individual abilities can be assessed through examinations.
The Dragon Gate Plan was indeed like this. It was a plan launched by Jiangnan Group only a few months ago because Huang He intended to invest 60 billion yuan in vacuum high-speed rail technology. This would create an extremely large talent gap. Even though the railway department supported a large number of talents in a short period, it was still a drop in the bucket, and there were too many projects requiring research.
Initially, Boss Huang chose to poach people from various research institutions, but soon these institutions became alarmed. Not only did they prohibit Jiangnan Group personnel from poaching, but they would also beat away any strangers entering the company with sticks, which was quite terrifying.
Moreover, many people in research institutions, although their resumes and academic qualifications appeared impressive, quickly discovered that many of them had been corrupted by bureaucratic work styles.
They were not proactive in research but were masters of slacking off, which was extremely frustrating.
Some people even spent two hours in the restroom during their eight-hour workday.
In the future, people would often see news reports about companies strictly setting restroom times for employees, even installing timers in the restrooms, and deducting wages for exceeding the time, which would then be criticized as inhumumane and widely condemned.
At that time, Boss Huang stood on the side of the public, fiercely condemning this practice through his keyboard. However, after becoming a boss and witnessing such a situation, he was also extremely troubled. xxs 12
Perhaps occasionally, one might genuinely be ill and need two hours in the restroom.
But you can't spend two hours in the restroom every day. Even with a close friendship, it would be enough to wipe away tears four times.
Boss Huang was willing to pay high salaries but not to these individuals. Furthermore, such people would disrupt the company's environment. Thus, Jiangnan Group had no choice but to reluctantly start clearing them out, while also paying a considerable severance package, which was a huge loss.
Even Americans could not make Jiangnan Group pay, but the slackers managed to do it. This was the great victory of the slackers!
After that, Jiangnan Group largely abandoned poaching from various organizations and focused its main efforts on schools. After all, newly graduated students were the most manageable. As long as they were motivated and paid well, working 26 hours of overtime a day would not be a problem.
However, university students could only be "harvested" once a year; once this year's harvest was done, they had to wait until next year. But Jiangnan Group genuinely needed people.
Later, after investigating Jiangnan Transportation Science and Technology Group, Huang He was surprised to find that apart from the leading old academician who was overseeing the entire operation, the person who did the most work and achieved the most results, essentially the number two figure in the entire research team, was an ordinary railway engineer.
Moreover, this engineer had no academic qualifications, at most a self-taught university diploma, and had been unknown in the industry for the past twenty years.
He himself joined Jiangnan Group quite reluctantly. Yet, this unknown individual, unheard of in his previous life, once placed in the right position, erupted with such astonishing ability, forcefully driving the entire research process forward.
According to the responsible old academician, if they could maintain the current pace, the first experimental line would be completed in at most 10 years.
And before 2020, perhaps the first short-distance vacuum high-speed railway could be operational.
Inspired by this result, Huang He believed that there must still be talents hidden among the general public. Although most of them were so-called "folk scientists," sifting through the sand would surely yield some genuine gold.
Thus, Jiangnan Group launched this Dragon Gate Plan, symbolizing the carp leaping over the dragon gate. It provided an opportunity for everyone without a diploma, or with certain shortcomings, or who had suffered various setbacks in their early years and lost the possibility of advancement, to join Jiangnan Group and engage in high-paying research.
The plan, launched three months ago, had generated a buzz in many circles, with a large number of self-proclaimed geniuses flocking to participate in the Dragon Gate Plan, believing they could ascend to heaven in one step and transform from carp to dragon.
But reality was very harsh. In the past three months, over 80,000 people had applied for the Dragon Gate Plan, yet fewer than 100 had actually passed and joined Jiangnan Group.
The reason was simple. First, Jiangnan Group recruited skilled talents, so it was limited to six professional subjects: computer programming, materials science, physics, chemistry, railway engineering, and electronics.
However, these self-proclaimed geniuses mostly believed that although they had no diplomas, they were all business gurus. If given the opportunity to manage an enterprise, they could surpass Jiangnan Group.
If given funds to speculate in stocks, they could surpass Buffett.
If allowed to write freely, they could pen the Four Great Classical Novels.
As a result, when these people saw that there were no professional subjects they could apply for, many directly cursed Jiangnan Group for lacking foresight and missing out on their talent. They then helplessly lamented that they had not encountered a patron and continued to live under their self-proclaimed brilliance.
Of course, some people thought they could try applying for a major first, and then in the interview, deliver a stunning performance that would make the interviewer's body tremble, and they could enter Jiangnan Group.
As a result, after excitedly completing their applications and preparing for the interview, they were informed that they had to participate in a unified examination at a unified time and place.
The exam was a 100-point professional paper, and scoring over 60 points would allow them to proceed to the interview stage.
Then, when these people saw the exam, which was entirely set by frontline researchers and covered various technical difficulties currently faced by Jiangnan Group's research, with incomprehensible terminology everywhere, an exam that would make even a Ph.D. student weep, they could only angrily submit blank papers.
And then they cursed Jiangnan Group, accusing them of only understanding rigid things like examinations, which could not select truly talented individuals like themselves.
They truly could not find a patron and had to remain hidden, which was truly pathetic and lamentable.
This Dragon Gate, it is better not to leap!