Counterattack 1988

Chapter 955 Throwing Thirty Million!
The next day was a sunny day.

The torrential rain has finally stopped.

Wang Lin opened the curtains, and the cool morning breeze blew over, carrying the fragrance of jasmine and Milan flowers.

The morning light slowly opened the curtain. This is a colorful morning, coming to the world with freshness.

Far mountains and near fields, everything is pure and refreshing, like a faint ink painting, filled with the pleasant fragrance of green grass in the ink painting.

Mianbo came over and called him to have breakfast.

"Are you better?" Wang Lin asked.

"It's much better." Mianbo was full of energy and her face was fresh, as if she had completed self-healing after waking up from sleep.

After breakfast, Wang Lin and others came to inspect the cotton fields.

After many days of heavy rain, the phenomenon of broken bells is obvious.

Cotton likes heat and does not like rain, which is why the cotton production in southern Xinjiang is extremely high and the quality is also good.

The Nanjing cotton production area developed by Wang Lin in Loudong is also one of the best quality cotton varieties, which is very suitable for high-end fabrics.

Cotton bolls organized staff to snatch rotten bolls.

In order to complete the picking of rotten bolls as soon as possible, Mianbo gathered a group of people from nearby villages.

Picking cotton is a tiring job.

The efficiency of machine cotton collection is high, but there is a big disadvantage, that is, the impurities in the cotton are high.

The cost of manual picking is high, but the impurities are low, so the factory purchase price is higher than that of machine-picked cotton.

Machine-picked cotton is generally processed in a cotton cleaning plant before it can be used by textile mills.

However, the investment in the cotton cleaning plant is very large, and the investment of tens of millions is not affordable for ordinary textile mills.

However, many private farmers contract large tracts of land to grow cotton, usually hundreds of acres or thousands of acres, and it is impossible for them to use machines to pick cotton. They only hire people to work for three months during the cotton picking season.

The wages of cotton picking workers are not high. They are paid [-] cents per catty of cotton, and the more they pick, the more they get.

A skilled cotton picker can pick more than 100 kilograms of cotton a day, and some of them can pick 200 kilograms a day.

But the vast majority of people can only harvest about 50 kilograms per day, and they can earn a salary of 10 yuan per day.

This salary is considered a high income in rural areas.

The cotton picking period is usually three months, and the New Year will come soon after the cotton is picked. Many farmers are willing to come out during this time to earn some money just for the New Year.

The workers work hard to pick cotton, but it is the hands that hurt the most.

The top part of the cotton shell is very sharp, and if you are not careful, you may get stuck in your hands. In addition, the weather is very dry, and your hands will be scratched by cotton branches.

After three months of cotton picking, the cotton pickers' nails are bald, there will be a little blood on the nail caps, and the fingers will be a little red and swollen.

Wang Lin went down to the field for more than an hour to try to pick, and soon he couldn't take it anymore.

Cotton plants are very short and can only be picked by bending over. Some workers pick on their knees or crawl forward to save effort.

Wang Lin weighed the cotton he picked, and there were only eight catties of cotton.

A cotton is very light, only about 5 grams.

Wang Lin only earned [-] cents after working for so long, which made him want to cry.

In fact, thinking about it, when he worked in the machine repair workshop of Shenfang Factory, his daily salary was only three or four yuan.

If he picks cotton for a day, he can earn at least four or five yuan, which is no worse than his salary as a worker.

It's just that, how can Wang Lin value the daily wages of these few dollars?

Wang Lin supported his waist with one hand, wiped the sweat from his forehead with the other, and said, "It's so tiring! This is the most tiring job I've ever done. Boss Zhou, we must implement mechanization!"

Zhou Boqiang said: "Picking cotton is really tiring. Only those poor people in the countryside who can't make much money come out to pick cotton. People in the city can't bear this hardship."

Wang Lindao: "Yes! So we must implement mechanized harvesting. Also, starting next year, we will expand the planting area to 20!"

They only cultivated 5 mu of cotton fields this year.

This is tantamount to doing experiments, the purpose is to test the yield of new varieties.

Zhou Boqiang said: "20 mu? Good! We have so many cotton fields, and we will be completely self-sufficient in cotton in the future."

For Chinese people, most people have a soft spot for cotton products. In the traditional cognition of Chinese people, chemical fiber products are not as good as those cotton and wool products. This cognitive habit also allows us to continuously expand cotton production and consumption. Among the cotton-growing areas in China, the Southern Xinjiang and the Yangtze River Valley domain names are the most resounding, which is also the base camp of my country's cotton industry.

my country's cotton has always been able to sell at a better price, and it is also a strategic material in the national reserve.

In the past few years, due to the background of the household contract responsibility system, each household only had a few acres of land. At that time, every household planted cotton and picked it by hand. However, this was limited to central China, such as the vast land in southern Xinjiang. However, when it comes time to pick cotton, it is impossible to pick it all with a few members of the family. For this reason, they need to hire tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of cotton pickers from other provinces.

If a mechanical cotton picker is used, the daily cotton picking is equivalent to the manual labor of 600 people.

Because of this, the American Society of Agricultural Engineers named the cotton picker one of the greatest inventions in agricultural engineering in the 20th century.

Wang Lindao: "Yes, we will be self-sufficient in the future! I'm afraid the related machinery won't be sold in China, right?"

Zhou Boqiang said, "Definitely not."

Cotton Boll said: "I know a thing or two about this situation. The patents for cotton picking machines are all in the hands of others, mainly in the hands of Americans. The cotton picking machines on the global market are mainly products of John Deere and Case. And John Deere cotton pickers alone account for more than half of the market.”

The reason why American cotton pickers can dominate the market is that they started earlier in the patent layout and have relatively high harvesting efficiency. For example, a certain John Deere cotton picker can harvest 65 acres of cotton in one hour. Moreover, it can pick cotton 24 hours a day, which is also the most efficient cotton picker in the world.

In the next few decades, 90% of the domestic cotton picking machine market will be monopolized by companies from developed countries such as Europe, America and Japan. It was not until after 2018 that the domestic cotton picking machine market turned around and came from behind.

my country's agricultural machinery market developed relatively late, which is related to my country's overall industrial progress.

Wang Lin couldn't help sighing softly: "Can't there be domestic brands?"

Zhou Boqiang said, "Would you like to find Jiangnan Machinery Factory for a try?"

Wang Lindao: "Mr. Mian, do you know how much a large cotton picker like John Deere costs?"

Mianling said: "Their ones are very expensive. Liudao's cotton pickers cost more than 500 million yuan."

"More than 500 million?" Wang Lin asked in surprise, "Isn't that a sky-high price?"

Wang Lin has experience. Taking Sanitary Zhan’s production line as an example, it costs 2000 million yuan to buy imported ones, and only 700 million yuan to buy domestic ones, which can be one-third cheaper. The main components are also imported products, and the quality is also low. not bad.

Thinking about it this way, Wang Lin felt that if the cotton picking machine could be localized, the price would definitely be about two-thirds cheaper, and the cost price would be even lower!
These capitalists in Europe, America and Japan are the most profitable, and the cost of one yuan can sell you 30 yuan!

If Wang Lin does not want to be exploited by foreign capital, he can only make the idea of ​​domestic production.

Domestic independent research and development can avoid major foreign patents.

my country's science and technology needs continuous development, and original scientific research is required to be able to compete with foreign brands.

However, the early stage of research and development needs to invest a lot of money, and ordinary companies will not invest such a large amount of money in research and development.

What Wang Lin can foresee is that the domestic market for cotton pickers is huge.

This is a large market of hundreds of billions of dollars.

The earlier you lay out, the better you can seize the opportunity.

The country's large-scale cotton production in southern Xinjiang is about to start. After 1995, a large number of cotton pickers will be purchased.

The price of a six-channel imported cotton picker is as high as 500 million. It is conceivable that they will earn hundreds of billions of money from our country in the next few decades!
After listening to Zhou Boqiang's suggestion, Wang Lin said slowly: "Boss Zhou's words are very true. We can contact Jiangnan Machinery Factory and hope that they can solve the problem of cotton pickers. Products that can be produced abroad, we can also Produced! Two bombs and one satellite have been produced, what else can trouble us?"

Mianling said: "In fact, our country has already started to develop cotton picking machines as early as 1952."

Wang Lindao: "Really? It was developed so early? What happened afterwards?"

Cotton Boll said: "At that time, our country invested one after another, and we also wanted to build a full-process mechanized model of cotton like Big Brother. We introduced a vertical spindle picking cotton picker for experiments. This cotton picker has many advantages, mainly because of the simple structure of the picking parts. , production requirements are low. But the disadvantages are also very obvious. The recovery rate is low, and the impurity rate is high. There is a lot of waste, and the loss is too large."

Zhou Boqiang smiled and said, "It's amazing, Mr. Mian, your knowledge is really broad!"

Cotton Boll said: "I am reading relevant information every day for the cotton planting area, and of course I have to study the cotton picker. I still remember that the representative models of that era were the XBH-1.2 2-row cotton picker and the XC -15 type 4-row cotton picker."

Wang Lindao: "What happened later? Is there no more to come?"

Mian Boll said: "Because the disadvantages are too obvious, it is not as good as hand-picking, which does not conform to our country's national conditions. Up to now, our country has almost completely and completely abandoned the vertical spindle-picking mold mining machine technology."

Wang Lin was stunned: "Then the previous research and development work, isn't it all in vain?"

Mianbo said: "Yes! So we can only take other research and development paths."

Wang Lin murmured, "Should the Agricultural Machinery Institute take the lead in research and development of such agricultural machinery tools?"

Mian Boll said: "It's definitely not enough to rely on only one institution."

Wang Lindao: "Then contact a few more scientific research institutions and bring Jiangnan Machinery Factory to produce. We must take the road of independent research and development and cannot rely on others. I believe that there are cotton factories in China that demand this There must be many."

In fact, for a long time in our country, during the cotton harvest period, there is a shortage of cotton picking labor in cotton areas, and the cost of manual picking cotton is expensive.It is difficult for foreign cotton pickers to operate in my country's cotton areas due to differences in cotton varieties and plant row spacing.In recent years, with the expansion of my country's cotton field area and the increase of output, some large cotton-growing areas are in urgent need of localized cotton pickers.

It can be said that it is the right time for Wang Lin to start developing domestic cotton pickers.

After returning to the office building in the cotton district that day, Wang Lin contacted Jiangnan Machinery Factory.

After the call was connected, Wang Lin said, "Hello, please find Director Cui."

A loud voice on the opposite side asked, "Which Director Cui?"

"It's your director Cui Zhenhua Cui!"

"You mean Director Cui? He is no longer the director of our factory, he has gone to work as the director of the bureau."

"Oh, he's been promoted! Excuse me, do you know Director Cui's phone number? I'm a friend of his, and I have something to do with him."

"Who are you?" The other party was also very cautious. Since you are Director Cui's friend, why don't you know about Director Cui's promotion?
"I'm Wang Lin from Aixiu Group."

"Ah, you are Mr. Wang! Mr. Wang, hello. I will tell you Director Cui's phone number."

Since the last time he cooperated in the sanitary napkin production line, Wang Lin rarely found Jiangnan Machinery Factory in the past two years.First, it is very convenient to find the equipment he needs to buy from Tang Hua's company. Second, the production capacity of sanitary napkins is basically sufficient now, and there is no need for new machines for the time being. Jiangnan Machinery Factory does not produce other machinery and equipment. If all the machines are newly developed, the investment will be too great, the factory can't afford it, and Wang Lin can't afford to wait.

After Wang Lin got the call, he contacted Cui Zhenhua.

This time the call was made, and the person who answered the call was Cui Zhenhua himself.

Cui Zhenhua recognized Wang Lin's voice, and laughed loudly, "Mr. Wang, long time no see."

Wang Lindao: "Director Cui, congratulations on your promotion. We haven't seen each other for a long time, and we haven't sent you our best wishes."

"Oh, what kind of promotion is this for me? Now the bureau needs to be restructured, and the machinery factory also needs to be reformed and reorganized. Mr. Wang is bold enough to take over Shenfang Factory directly. Mr. Wang, are you interested in our machinery bureau? Or can I entrust it to you?"

"Director Cui is joking, right?" Wang Lin said with a smile, "I have something I want to ask Director Cui about."

"Mr. Wang is polite, please give me instructions if you have anything to do."

Back then, Wang Lin only had a small sanitary napkin factory with a few thousand workers, while Cui Zhenhua was the director of the dignified Jiangnan Machinery Factory.

Today, Wang Lin has hundreds of thousands of workers, but Cui Zhenhua has become the director of the bureau.

In terms of influence, Wang Lin is much bigger than Cui Zhenhua.

Just like Zhou Boqiang was Wang Lin's leader back then, but now he is being led by Wang Lin.

In Cui Zhenhua's tone, he was quite respectful towards Wang Lin.

Wang Lin didn't talk nonsense, and directly talked about the research and development of cotton pickers.

Cui Zhenhua said: "Cotton picker? This is a difficult problem."

Wang Lindao: "How difficult can it be? It can't be more difficult than two bombs and one satellite, right?"

Cui Zhenhua said with a smile: "Of course it's not as good as it is. After two years, it can still be developed. It just takes time and effort, mainly money."

Wang Lindao: "Our country is a big cotton-producing country and a big textile country, but it doesn't have its own cotton picking machine. Is it unreasonable? Of course, agricultural machinery tools like this should be guided from the policy level, and multiple scientific research units should be organized to carry out cooperative research and development. Cui Director, how about you take the lead?"

"Mr. Wang, it's easy for me to take the lead. There are also plenty of talents in the various scientific research units of the Political Bureau. However, what we lack is research funds! Mr. Wang, if you can help us solve this perennial problem, then the machine will not be a problem! "

"I can pay. However, my payment is conditional. After the product is developed, I want the patent right. It means that I pay the money and entrust relevant units to carry out research and development. In addition to the research funding, I can also give another sum of money. money."

"That's easy to talk about!" Cui Zhenhua said, "If you have money, you can do things! You give me [-] million and give me two years, and I will take the lead in developing it!"

"Okay, it's a deal! Thirty million is thirty million!" Wang Lin agreed.

Cui Zhenhua was shocked by Wang Lin's boldness.

He said [-] million, but he just said it casually, which is equivalent to ordinary people saying, you give me [-] million, and you can do whatever you like.

Unexpectedly, Wang Lin agreed directly without even bargaining.

As a result, it was originally Cui Zhenhua who was leading Wang Lin's army, but now it was Wang Lin who was leading Cui Zhenhua's army.

I will give you the money you want, and you must give me the technology I want within two years.

Cui Zhenhua touched his face and said seriously, "Mr. Wang, are you serious?"

"Can I joke about such a big matter? Director Cui, you can't back down! Let's just make a deal like this."

In Wang Lin's view, it is a good thing that Cui Zhenhua became the director. It is more convenient to contact various scientific research units, and he can better command various machinery factories to cooperate.

Cui Zhenhua thought for a while, then patted the table: "Okay, I'll take over this matter! Within two years, I will develop a domestic cotton picker for you! Isn't it just a cotton picker? I don't believe it, we Can't figure it out?"

Wang Lin smiled and said, "That's right, it's just a cotton picker, and it's not an aircraft carrier or a spaceship. How much technical content can it have? Two years is enough for research and development."

Cui Zhenhua said: "I will contact the Agricultural Machinery Institute, the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute and other scientific research units to organize and launch a research on the cotton picker!"

Wang Lin smiled and said, "Great, Director Cui, after I return to Shencheng, I will transfer the funds for the first installment to you."

Friendship belongs to friendship, and this business belongs to business.

What Wang Lin promised was [-] million scientific research funds, but he would not give all of it to the other party at one time, but would make several transfers, and he would also withhold half of the funds, and wait for the other party to develop it. After Wang Lin got the patent right , and send them the rest of the money.

Of course, before formal cooperation, the two parties must sign a contract agreement.

The other party is a government agency, and Wang Lin can still trust it.

What Wang Lin wants is technology, patents, and machines, and it doesn't matter if it costs tens of millions.

He has now spent [-] million yuan to develop a cotton picker with independent intellectual property rights. In the next few decades, he can earn [-] billion or [-] billion with this machine!

Wang Lin had such confidence and foresight that he dared to spend [-] million.

Zhou Boqiang, Mianling and the others were all listening to his phone call. They all looked at each other in blank dismay at the moment, shocked by Wang Lin's behavior of a local tyrant.

Wang Lin put down the phone and said with a smile, "It's done! With Cui Zhenhua taking the lead, I believe that the difficulty of the cotton picker will be overcome soon."

Mianbo said: "Mr. Wang, are you too self-willed? Today you need a cotton picker, and you invest tens of millions in research and development? What if you need other machines someday? Are you doing the same?"

Wang Lin didn't understand the admonition in her words, nodded and said, "You are right, we can make all the machines related to the textile industry!"

Cotton Boll: "..."

Zhou Boqiang said with a smile: "As expected of Mr. Wang, he is generous!"

Wang Lindao: "To be honest, I invested [-] million, which is not too much. As long as they can show the technology, then I will definitely make money in the future! I am afraid that [-] million is not enough!"

He touched his chin and fell into deep thought. Is there a faster way to help the production of domestic cotton pickers?

(End of this chapter)