Reborn since 1993

Chapter 5 The road is uneven

Nowadays, a Suzuki RMB 100 is sold for more than 6,000 yuan, which is enough to buy two color TVs. Except for those bosses and people who buy them for work purposes, young people like Zhang Ao buy them, basically just to show off. And picking up girls is the main reason why young people buy it.

The Wireless Factory No. 340 is located in the west of Binh Duong City, while the fertilizer plant is in the east. Most urban areas in the country now have a small population. For example, Binh Duong City has a total of more than million people, but only to people live in the urban area. , most of the rest live in towns and rural areas.

No one cares about urban planning these days. Whether it is light industries such as electronics, textiles, and clothing, or heavy industries such as fertilizer plants and steel plants, they are also all in the urban area. These state-owned factories basically bear the responsibility for Binh Duong City. part of the position.

Li Dongling left Xicheng Wireless Factory No. 1 and entered the largest main road in the city. The municipal office building is on this road. The street behind this road is also the busiest street in Pingyang City, with Pingyang Department Store, post office, The TV Tower, etc., are all on this road.

The buildings on this street, whether they are the supply and marketing cooperative, the cadre guest house that is the best hotel in Pingyang now, or the Pingyang Grand Hotel, are not high and have obvious period styles.

After entering the east part of the city, the style here was obviously much rougher than other areas, and there was a lot more dust on the ground. Li Dongling bought some tobacco, alcohol and meat before going to the steel factory.

"Look for Li Dongshan!"

Li Dongling arrived at the gate of the steel factory, smoked a cigarette, and threw away the remaining half a pack of cigarettes. The guard glanced at the cigarette case, put it in his pocket without saying a word, and walked toward the factory.

"Donngling, why are you here?!"

Li Dongling sat next to the bicycle. After waiting for a while, a deep voice came out, and Li Dongshan's tall figure appeared in front of Li Dongling, his eyes full of joy and a little happy.

"Big brother!"

After seeing Li Dongshan, Li Dongling stood up and looked at Li Dongshan who was still tall and did not bend his back. His eyes couldn't help but turn red.

I don’t know if it’s due to hereditary factors, but all members of the Li family are quite tall. Li Dongling is about 1.8 meters tall, Li Dongshan is half a head taller than him, and the younger sister Li Dongyue is also nearly 1.7 meters tall.

"Why didn't you tell me in advance when you came back? I'll pick you up!"

Li Dongshan, who has a simple and honest personality, wiped his calloused hands on his dusty pants and said, "Have you eaten yet? Come on, I'll take you to a restaurant!"

Li Dongling looked at Li Dongshan. When he and his younger sister Li Dongyue went to college, their living expenses were basically earned by Li Dongshan working as a temporary worker in this steel factory. However, it was precisely because he worked here for too long that he finally contracted the disease. He suffered from lung disease, his waist was bent, and he coughed all night long. By the end, he was already emaciated.

Li Dongshan pulled it, and when he saw that Li Dongling didn't move, he couldn't help but glance at him in confusion, "Is there something wrong with Dongling?"

When he heard that Li Dongling had returned to Pingyang, Li Dongshan squatted on the side of the road, smoking a cigarette. After a while, he said in a muffled voice, "Dad wants you to go to the provincial capital, to the big cities like Yanjing!"

"You can go to all these places in the future!" Li Dongling said with a smile.

"Different!"

Li Dongshan still muffled, and finally sighed, "Come back as soon as you come back. It's hard for you to explain to dad!"

"How are you and your sister-in-law?!" Li Dongling knew that at this time, Li Dongshan had fallen in love with a girl, but he delayed it. All the money he earned was given to him and Li Dongyue. In the end, he delayed himself and later married the girl. That woman, the two of them didn't have a good life, and they had constant quarrels.

Speaking of this, Li Dongshan, a tall and honest man, lowered his head between his legs and said after a while, "She's gone. She has relatives at home who helped her transfer work to the next city!"

"Just get her back when the time comes!" Li Dongling was silent for a moment and then said to Li Dongshan.

Li Dongshan shook his head and didn't know what he was thinking. Li Dongling and Li Dongling talked for a while on the side of the road. In the end, Li Dongshan didn't want the tobacco, alcohol and meat he brought over, and returned to the steel factory to go to work.

It wasn't until Li Dongshan was nowhere to be seen that Li Dongling returned to Xicheng Wireless Factory No. 1 by bicycle.

Early the next morning, everyone from the technical department arrived early. Li Dongling looked at the 60 or 70 people in the office. They didn't talk much today, obviously they had heard something. Xu Yiqiao called everyone from the technical department to a large conference room. He first called their names. When he heard that everyone was present, his slumped face looked a little better.

"The leaders in the factory are very dissatisfied with our technical department. Now the sales of Feiyan radios and Feiyan TVs have dropped seriously. Last month, less than 600 radios were sold. The sales of TVs are even lower. The warehouse is almost full. full!
  If this continues, even the money from the raw material company will be owed, and everyone's salary will not be expected. The sales department said that our products are too old and no one will buy them. It is our technical department that has not Do it! "

As soon as they heard what Xu Yiqiao said, the people below immediately went crazy.

"That bastard in the sales department said this. I'm going to tear him apart. If he dares to miss even a dime in next month's salary and bonus, I'll fight him tooth and nail!"

"How can we blame our technical department? The factory didn't invest money to buy a color TV production line, but our technical department can still build a production line by hand!"

"If you can't sell, it's because the sales department is incompetent. If you can't do it, it's because of the rough roads. If you can't give birth, it's because of the mother-in-law. How about you?"

There was a lot of cursing below, and Xu Yiqiao was also very worried. Especially the women, who heard that the money was going to be deducted, became even more angry and wanted to go to the sales department for explanation.

Xu Yiqiao felt headache for a while, and it took him a long time to calm down, "The leaders of the factory are still discerning and did not blame our technical department for the problem of poor sales, but..."

"In the factory, we have decided to upgrade our products. We are the technical department after all, so the factory wants to hear the opinions of our technical department. What is the next step for our factory's new products?"

Hearing this, everyone in the technical department breathed a sigh of relief, but then it became lively again and started arguing.

"It must be a color TV. Color TVs are selling very fast now. If I could have spent money to buy a color TV production line two years ago, maybe it would be no worse than Changhong, Haier, Hisense, Huanghe, Venus, and Peony now!"

"I think it's refrigerators and air conditioners. These are hard currencies now. As long as they are produced, people are rushing to buy them. Chunlan, as you all know, made more than 5 billion last year. I heard that motorcycles are now being produced! "

"Can you beat Chunlan in the production of air conditioners? Changling is only two streets away from us!"

The person who said he was buying refrigerators and air-conditioning production lines was speechless. Not only Xicheng Wireless Factory No. 1, but even the wireless electronics factory in the provincial capital actually deliberately avoided the local giant Changling. , are reluctant to enter the field of air conditioners and refrigerators.

"Wen Yan, what do you think?"

At the critical moment, Xu Yiqiao still asked Zhou Wenyan about his daily welfare benefits. Without Zhou Wenyan's share, Xu Yiqiao "could not see" the hard work Zhou Wenyan did, but at the critical moment, he still knew who was in the technical department. Really useful person.

"I also think that it is good to make color TV products. We have experience in TV production. If we venture into other products, the risk will be too great and we have to start from scratch.

In fact, I have recently been researching the field of color TVs and have read a lot of color TV production line information from Japan, Italy, and Germany. I think from a technical and cost perspective, we should start from..."

"That's enough, that's enough," Xu Yiqiao interrupted Zhou Wenyan, "The leaders of the factory asked our technical department's opinion out of respect. They did not ask you to decide for the factory which production line to buy or where to buy it. That is the factory's responsibility. It's decided by the leaders here, so you don't need to worry about it. If you have any opinions, I will pass them on to the leaders."

Zhou Wenyan shut his mouth in silence, with a look of embarrassment on his face. Seeing Zhou Wenyan being reprimanded, many people in the technical department looked like they were watching. Everyone in the technical department knew what Zhou Wenyan had always wanted to show.

Seeing that most people in the technology department were interested in buying a color TV production line, Xu Yiqiao made a decision in his mind. However, thinking about Li Dongling, who had just come to the technology department recently, Xu Yiqiao still asked one more question.

"Li Dongling, what do you think? You are a graduate of Hanxi Jiaotong University and a top student in our department. What do you think our factory's new products should do?!"

Xu Yiqiao just asked casually, not expecting to hear any answer, but what Li Dongling said made him stunned.

"I think we should continue to make radios, transforming from home radios to personal portable radios, and..."

Before Li Dongling finished speaking, there was already a burst of uncontrollable laughter in the conference room. Li Dongling was not angry and just swallowed back the words on the car radio behind him.

(End of this chapter)