Go back to the past and be a schoolboy

Chapter 107 The First Domestic Electric Fan

"Professor Cheng, take a look, this is the first issue of "National" magazine, and this is the second special issue." Perhaps because Cheng Nuo would not believe it, Yang Jichuan personally brought a thick stack of magazines from his office, and talked about it. The content in it is even more precious: "Mr. Wu from your company in the last issue talked about the principles of motor manufacturing. After reading it, I was enlightened. The problem that could not be solved before was suddenly overcome."

Looking at the magazines on the table, with densely packed notes on the title pages, Cheng Nuo believed that what the middle-aged man in front of him said had a high probability of being true, and such historical traces could not be made in a short time.

In order to prove his hard work, Yang Jichuan winked at the people around him vigorously, turning his eyes sideways, signaling him to go over and bring some "evidence", so that he could stay here with the "God of Wealth".

Unexpectedly, the person next to him was also a simple and honest person. He just didn't know what he meant with his straight neck, and said in a rough and concerned voice: "Director, do you have trachoma? Why are you turning your eyeballs aside so hard? I'm so tired these days." Come on, why don't you invite a doctor to come and have a look, you are our backbone, no one can do without you."

Seeing this, Cheng Nuo turned his gaze away from the magazine, a little confused, so he said, "Director Yang, if you don't feel well, let's talk another day, it's not too late, as long as the product is of high quality, you're not afraid that it won't sell. We will definitely stick with each other.”

The hatred in Yang Jichuan's heart, let alone a day, is less than an hour. When a few machines are moved a little, the electricity bill will go up slowly, and it can't stop, so he wants to quickly get an investor to ease the factory Otherwise, the switch will not dare to be turned on, and a lot of money will be gone with a slight movement.

Right now, I only hate that the people I recruited are too honest, and I can’t even see a wink, so I glared at the worker next to me angrily, and then said with emotion: "As long as the factory can operate normally, my body will not be worse. I'm basically going to explain it here. But it's definitely not enough to just talk about it. It can't prove the strength of our factory. "

As soon as these words were said, Cheng Nuo was hugged by this group of people and entered the product display room. There were products made by Watson Electric Manufacturing Factory in it. They were said to be displayed, but there were not many finished products. I can count them.

In addition to the two imitation electric fans that have just been declared a failure, the most eye-catching thing is a current limit meter. Talking about this kind of thing he is good at, Yang Jichuan regained his confidence: "Actually, the principle of this meter is very simple. Unfortunately, even if this is the case, our domestic products could not be produced at the beginning, and the successful imitation was finally limited by the backwardness of the original product design, clumsy structure, high cost and impracticality, so that no one really wants to try our own. product."

Cheng Nuo was playing with a gadget in his hand, and said with a smile, "So what I want to say is, you should improve this thing, otherwise it wouldn't be displayed here."

Yang Jichuan smiled heartily: "That's natural. After improvement on its basis, we only spent half a year to come up with a new product that surpasses foreign products. They are very satisfied with the trial at Suzhou Electric Lamp Factory, and the price is less than [-]%. One-half of foreign goods, five taels of silver can win new products."

The words were calm, but Cheng Nuo believed that the half-year process must have gone through twists and turns, so he asked, "Did you encounter any difficulties in the middle?"

Yang Jichuan was taken aback for a moment, and then he said freely, "We're all here, there's no such thing as a big storm, which can't affect our progress."

The senior worker next to him couldn't help it, and there was a trace of pain in his tone: "Factory manager, have you forgotten? We didn't understand anything at the beginning, but we knew the name of this current limiter. Later, you see that this is not the way. My daughter-in-law took out all the two and thirty yuan she had saved, just to buy a foreign product for us to disassemble and look at, the factory in the middle was leaking, it was raining heavily outside, and it was raining lightly inside, it was not easy."

Yang Jichuan waved his hands and grinned. He felt as if his throat was blocked by something when he wanted to speak a few times, but he couldn't make a sound. He took a deep breath and laughed, "It's all about sesame seeds and rotten millet. Why mention it? , life has to look forward, you see our factory is not getting more and more powerful now, before a pot of rice could not finish, now a pot of rice is not enough, haha."

Cheng Nuo didn't expect that there was such a secret in the factory, so he put the current limit meter back and asked, "Is this thing easy to sell now?"

Hearing this question, Yang Jichuan's face was slightly embarrassed: "It's easy to sell, but it's not easy to sell."

"How do you say this, Director Yang, don't worry, if I really want to invest, character and even the most important thing, people are more important than products." Cheng Nuo asked with his hands behind his back.

"How to put it, in fact, our factory only had three people at the beginning, but it was going to close down like this. Later, Mr. Zhu Lanfangzhu saw that it was not easy for us, so he introduced the list of Suzhou Electric Lamp Factory to us, and asked us to help them solve the problem of electricity theft. The problem, fortunately, I was satisfied with the entrusted items, and I placed a large order, and the factory saved its life." Yang Jichuan reorganized his words and explained.

"Is that understandable? Watson Electrical Appliance Manufacturing Factory has something now, but only this order. How will it return to its original state after this period of time?" Through the other party's words, Cheng Nuo quickly understood the meaning of it. Turning around, no wonder the other party was so urgent, it turned out that he was hanging his life on this breath, and immediately he breathed out more and breathed in less, alas.

"That is to say, the factory manager, I feel that we have been cheated. Although we are half dead now, we are getting farther and farther away from our goal. Who will use our thing? Do we have a second customer besides the light factory? I have heard that the person surnamed Zhu is the shareholder of Suzhou Electric Lamp Factory, and it was not he who helped us, but us who helped their factory a lot, and earned a lot of hard money through hard work!" The more he talked, the more angry he became, the partner Ye Youcai simply took off his sleeves and threw them on the table.

It stands to reason that family ugliness should not be publicized, not to mention that at this critical juncture of attracting capital, one's own people cannot cause internal strife.

Yuan Zongyao, who is also one of the partners, quickly persuaded the workers to leave, and said with a smile on his face: "Production is important, and our lathes are still running. Everyone, work hard, do the work at hand first, and then earn money." I will definitely not treat everyone badly if I have money, so go about whatever you should be busy with, it doesn't matter."

At first I wanted to watch the fun, but the deputy factory manager shouted out that no matter how powerful the workers are, they have to give up first, otherwise they will definitely have no good results. It is not easy to find a job that can earn money to support their families these days .Although they complained and were curious, after the leader spoke, the workers and masters also dispersed in twos and threes, busy with their own tasks.

After everyone had almost left, Yuan Zongyao closed the door of the exhibition room, and the smile on his face stopped abruptly, with helplessness written all over his face.

"Tell me, why can't we take our time? If we insist on exposing our scars in front of so many people and putting them on the ancient battlefield, wouldn't it confuse the army? It's not easy for the factory to get to where it is today, so let's persevere."

Yang Jichuan came over and patted his friend on the shoulder, took down a photo from the wall, carefully wiped the soil on it with a towel, and finally handed it to Cheng Nuo, with an inexplicable smile on his face: "I'm not afraid of Professor Cheng's jokes, in fact, we At the beginning, people were not very educated. I was originally the accountant of Yukang Co., Ltd., Lao Ye was an employee of Welling Co., and Zong Yao was just a waiter of Jiuji Wood Co., and they were all invisible characters in the crowd. It is a blessing to meet those big people who can look at us more."

Turning around, holding his two partners with his left and right arms, he smiled with a hint of pride: "Now the three of us have set up such a large factory, and we have seven or eight masters under us. Was it the down and out at the beginning, I had nothing at all, so there is no need to be afraid of losing it, the worst is to start all over again.”

Ye Youcai's eye circles were slightly red, he hammered his buddy around, and said loudly: "I'm not angry, at the beginning, the guy surnamed Zhu looked at our fan and agreed to help him tide over the difficulties, and later he will use his relationship, Help us borrow a sum of money to support the expansion of the factory, who would have thought that yesterday would push today, today will push tomorrow, isn’t this sincerely playing tricks, and calling your mother when you lift your pants?”

Yang Jichuan didn't seem to be shocked at all, and said optimistically: "Everything has two sides. If Mr. Zhu hadn't helped us back then, we wouldn't be where Watson Electric Factory is today. Maybe we would go back to our old business and earn money. It’s better to earn less than to earn nothing.”

Seeing the three brothers who encouraged each other, Cheng Nuo also felt something, and said with a smile: "There is a saying that 'Buddha can't get over people, but you can get over yourself, and suffering can't bind you, but you can only bind yourself', at least you made it out of things, Continue to hurry up later, because of your aggressiveness, I have to invest."

Yang Jichuan was ecstatic when he heard that, trotted forward to hold Cheng Nuo's hand but was afraid of being impolite, opened his eyes and said, "So, Professor Cheng is willing to invest in us and let our factory produce electric fans?"

Cheng Nuo smiled and shook his head, then nodded again: "Of course, the investment is conditional."

Compared with making money, Cheng Nuo valued the talents of these people more. How could a mere electric fan be overlooked? He must have a bigger goal and let the people from the factory act as his right-hand man and fill in other gaps.

Yang Jichuan was so excited that he didn't know where to put his hands. He forced himself to calm down and asked, "Professor Cheng, you said that it is okay to sell the factory to you, as long as the three of us can continue to do what we love. It doesn’t matter how much money you have.”

Cheng Nuo said with a smile: "I'm just investing. Of course, the factory still belongs to you. However, I have a few suggestions for the future development of Watson Electric Manufacturing Factory. You may wish to listen to them. It would be best if you agree, and the cooperation will be further deepened." At that time, in addition to financial support, the Academy of Sciences will also provide technical support to help the factory develop better."

"Okay, no problem, just say what you want." Yang Jichuan nodded without the slightest hesitation after hearing this, "I have different opinions, and the three of us will resolve them internally when we go back."

"Very good, let's talk about the electric fan first. By the way, do you have pencils and straw paper here?" Cheng Nuo looked around, ready to find some tools to draw things out. Pictures are easier to understand than words.

"Yes, yes, we are short of everything, but these two things are not missing." Yang Jichuan patted his forehead, and took the things over without much effort: "Professor Cheng, you are here to help us guide the product Is it?"

"Haha, it's just a personal idea, just listen to it." Cheng Nuo took the paper and pen, and then wrote and drew on the straw paper. After a while, he made a sketch of the new electric fan: "The first thing to do is to make a product." It’s no problem to imitate our fan, it’s not a problem, the gringos do it too, but we can’t do it after we have accumulated technology, otherwise, when people see our fans look so similar to American ones, the first thing they think of is ‘ Watson', but America's 'Singularity', if things go on like this, our products are inherently lower than others, how can we make it bigger."

Looking at the thoughtful looks of the three, Cheng Nuo continued to draw sketches on the paper, and took out several classic styles of later generations: "Those who learn from me live, and those who imitate me die. The same goes for business. For the same reason, we must move closer to the goal of a century-old brand, attach importance to innovation, and attach importance to the brand. You see, this is the new appearance I designed. At that time, we will implement a differentiation strategy. If there are cheap products, there will naturally be high-end products.”

Afterwards, Cheng Nuo taught the three of them some simple and common business skills of later generations, which refreshed their eyes and ears. They praised them again and again, and they were full of energy. The whole of Shanghai Beach.

Cheng Nuo is not selfish here. The teaching process is also a testing process. Reconsider the character and level of the three of them. Their skills seem to be at the top of this era, but they are not enough for the entire Academy of Sciences. Jiji, if you really want to make a fan, it will definitely not take the three brothers such a long time, and the quality is not the same.

It is not so much the technology that you can see, it is better to say that you are the talent you are looking for. Today, the Academy of Sciences has only one Chinese match factory, and other places that can be seen are spending money. It is absolutely impossible to save money, so we must open source .At present, there is no shortage of technical talents, but there are almost no commercial talents. Now I meet someone who can do both. Naturally, I can't let it go. Establishing an electrical factory to transform the technology of the Academy of Sciences will definitely make a lot of money. , You don’t need to pursue too much, just cover Tesla’s funds in the future.

Back to the Huasheng Electric Manufacturing Factory, they are also fed up with hunger and food. Although the order of the Suzhou Electric Lamp Factory looks beautiful, it is a pity that it will be completed soon, and then they will have to return to their poor days. Let alone ideals by then, real life will become very difficult.Cheng Nuo, who appeared at this time, was too convincing with such a long list of titles, and he couldn't resist the temptation of this kind of investment.

In this context, the two parties had a frank and effective communication, and finally acquired 5% of the shares of Huasheng Electric Manufacturing Factory at a price of 51 yuan, and the remaining 49% was jointly held by the three brothers, and the 5 yuan The yuan is directly used in the next step of production expansion plan.

The reason why it is not a wholly-owned acquisition but a simple holding is that Cheng Nuo also considers that the factory was founded by three people, and their identities have directly changed from boss to worker. Controlling, while ensuring the grasp of the development direction, mobilize their enthusiasm to the greatest extent, and in the long run, the people who can earn in the future will not only be able to earn more than the current [-] yuan.

Holding the contract in their hands, the three of Yang Jichuan looked and looked, and couldn't help but rejoice: "Now I feel more at ease, our hard work will not be in vain, and we will work hard in the future, so that these foreigners can see it well." Take a look at our domestic technology."

Ye Youcai touched the words on the contract, and after making sure that the ink was not lost, he also grinned and said, "Yes, the factory is rich now, and we can hire two more classes of masters at that time, so we don't have to worry about the production not keeping up." up."

Yuan Zongyao had a smile on his face, but his words were much calmer: "With Professor Cheng's investment, we can breathe a sigh of relief for the time being, but don't forget that our self-developed fans still have some minor problems that have not been resolved. After overcoming it, even if we sell it all over Shanghai, we will not feel at ease, and we will not be able to sleep at night."

Facing this problem, Cheng Nuo was confident and said with a smile: "The last time I saw your electric fans, I was really sweating for you, if this happens on the day of the release, the factory will probably have to be ordered by the customers." It turned the sky upside down, but fortunately it’s just a technical problem, which we can completely solve.”

Yang Jichuan put away the contract, and there seemed to be a flash of light in his eyes, and he asked quickly: "Professor Cheng has found the root of the problem again?"

Cheng Nuo shook his head: "If it's algebra, it's fine, but I'm still a layman when it comes to electrical appliances, so I really can't tell you about the specific faults."

Yang Jichuan was slightly disappointed, and then he comforted the other party, and he was also comforting himself: "It's not a big problem, the electric motors are foreign products, and it's normal for problems to acclimate, but at worst, we'll buy a few more American electric fans, and disassemble them to demonstrate step by step. "

At this time, Cheng Nuo had a mysterious smile on his face: "Although I don't know what the specific problem is, I still know how to turn on the fan and the price is cheaper."

Yang Jichuan asked curiously: "I don't know what method Professor Cheng will use. Is it to buy parts from another country? Right now, both Germany and France are trapped in the quagmire of the European War. Except for American products, it is difficult to find substitutes."

Cheng Nuo shook his head, and then said with a smile: "I know you are currently developing a three-phase AC transformer and a DC motor, why can't you change your mind and try an AC motor, the manufacturing cost is lower and the air volume is larger, and we will have an advantage in terms of price later on. , and allow more ordinary people to enjoy the convenience brought by domestic products.”

Yang Jichuan's pupils suddenly dilated, but it didn't last long, and his face darkened again: "Professor Cheng's thinking really caught our eyes, and we had never considered this technology before, but the problem happened here."

Cheng Nuo was puzzled: "With a new idea, let's try it slowly. If I remember correctly, DC motors should be used in the market. This is our opportunity."

Yang Jichuan had a bitter face: "We have stumbled and stumbled in the DC motor, but we still have nothing to do with the AC power. We started from scratch, and there is no master to take care of it."

Cheng Nuo laughed so hard that the three brothers couldn't understand why, so when you look at me and I look at you, you really don't know where the joke is.

Yuan Zongyao asked curiously, "I don't know why Professor Cheng is laughing?"

Cheng Nuo put away his smile and said seriously: "If it's something else, I might frown, but when it comes to alternating current, the most powerful master in the world is in our Academy of Sciences, and if nothing unexpected happens, you will be able to meet him this month gone."

"May I ask which master it is?"

"You'll know it when you see it." Cheng Nuo shook his head, and said mysteriously, "But for now, apart from studying AC, you might as well study other homework."

For example, the light bulb factory, the Suzhou Electric Light Factory mentioned above looks powerful, but actually used our piece of land, from raw materials to parts, all are foreign goods, and the domestic is responsible for processing and earning hard money, which is really bitter. .

Or set up an instrument factory. At present, even an electric meter cannot be manufactured in China, but these three brothers directly produced voltmeters and ammeters by hand. In addition to repairing scientific instruments, manufacturing a motor, a general motor, etc. can be considered.As for the various types and specifications of AC and DC ammeters, power meters, and power factor meters used in physics classes later, buying other people’s meters is not as comfortable as customizing them yourself.

Although it seems that they are all civilian technologies, Cheng Nuo is actually accumulating technology and talents, and sooner or later he will embark on the road of civilian reform to the army, and this time will not be too long.

(End of this chapter)