Era: I have a two-world door

Chapter 318, Emergency

In the evening, Wang Qingsong, who had been shopping, saw that every store was calculating with an abacus.

I was thinking there in my heart.

calculator?
He seems to have bought several of these things.

Five dollars each.

This thing should be sold here, right?
Now, when he sees something, his first reaction is whether it can be sold here.

This kind of high-tech product should cost at least twenty dollars!
But he was thinking of another problem: what if this thing is sold to other countries and gets copied?
I shook my thoughts off and stopped thinking about it.

I'll check it out when I get back later.

I don’t know if it exists now.

I left the mall carrying a bunch of things and found a place to stuff the things I bought into a space.

I ran back and forth several times and bought a lot of things.

When I arrived at the train station and asked about train tickets, I learned that there would be no train until tomorrow morning.

The reason why I didn't let Li Sichen accompany me to buy tickets was mainly because I didn't want people to know that he had returned to the mainland.

There is another important reason, that is, many important service industries in Hong Kong Island speak a little Mandarin, which I only found out after I came here.

Just like a lawyer.

Unfortunately, all the tickets for today are sold out.

This bus naturally goes directly to the mainland, and there are only two buses a day.

There are other cars.

The direct bus to Luohu will depart in half an hour.

(There are two Luohu stations now, facing each other across the river, one is Luohu Station, which is now Shenzhen Station, and the other is called Hong Kong Luohu Railway Station.)
I bought a ticket and waited there quietly.

Sitting in the hall, Wang Qingsong pinched his eyebrows.

But my mind kept thinking about the abacus, that is, the calculator.

He heard it the last time he eavesdropped, the 109th Meritorious Machine.

That's a computer.

What I have now is a calculator.

Although they are different, they also have something in common!

Thinking of this, he put away the ticket and walked out of the train station hall.

I went outside, found a dark corner, and quietly left the place.

Back to Sijiu City again.

It’s still near the small commodity wholesale market that I left before.

It's about nine o'clock in the evening.

I came out of the dark corner and found a place to start searching for the calculator.

You don’t know until you see it. Once he sees it, his saliva is about to flow.

In 1972, HP launched the first handheld scientific calculator, the HP-35.

It was this product that brought HP to a new level. Without the HP-35, there would be no HP today, so it is no exaggeration to say that it is the most powerful calculator in human history.

What matters is the price.

$395 per unit.

Depend on!
so expensive?
It seems that his previous pricing was too low.

And the money is still in US dollars.

5 bucks equals 395 dollars.

79 times.

What the hell is this pork?

Keep reading.

That year, HP expected to recover its costs by selling 1 units, but market demand for the HP-35 exceeded HP's expectations, with more than 10 units sold in the first year alone.

10 units?

4 million?

In the 4s, million US dollars a year.

This is only the first year, won’t it reach over 100 million in the future?
It’s scary to think about it.

Just this small computer?
A computer that costs 5 bucks?
Of course, there are also expensive and better quality ones in the wholesale market.

Sell ​​this?
But how to sell it?
I just checked and there are circuit boards, memory and other things inside.

It seems not yet.

He was unwilling to sell it to foreigners. What if it was copied?
Sell ​​to the mainland?

How to sell?
These are all problems!
Du Minghai and his company definitely can't withstand this.

He scratched his head and pondered for a while.

Seeing that the wholesale market was still open, I walked straight in.

whatever.

Buy it first and talk about it later.

After looking around inside, I quickly found a place selling wholesale calculators.

This thing is used in large quantities, so it will naturally not be out of stock.

I bought dozens of them at different prices.

The most expensive one costs more than twenty dollars.

But there are 5 computers with the lowest price of yuan each.

2.99 yuan each.

The total amount is about 30,000.

After paying the money, they asked someone to load the goods.

Then he thought of a question.

395 US dollars, now the exchange rate of US dollar to RMB is 3.04, while the exchange rate of RMB to Hong Kong dollar is 2.42.

I took a calculator and did some calculations.

2905.936 yuan.

See this number.

Wang Qingsong looked strange.

Close to a thousand times?
I took a look at the phone and found that apart from the manufacturer's name on the box, there were no other signs.

Only CHINA is something he can understand.

Thinking of this, he took a few photos and sent them directly to Zhou Ying.

"Please help me translate the English here."

After sending the message, he waited there.

After a while, Zhou Ying called.

"Hey, what are you doing again?"

"Don't worry about it. Help me translate what's written on it."

"Oh, wait a minute! Let me see!"

Zhou Ying finished speaking and waited for a while before saying, "Oh, that auto power off means automatic shutdown, DELI is the brand, ... this model.

Electronic calculator means electronic computer, and Made in China means made in China.

Seeing that the other party was silent, Wang Qingsong asked, "Is that all?"

Anyway, he didn't understand which one the other person was talking about.

But I could hear it.

Except for one that says Made in China, the others have no logos.

Isn't this better?

"That's all! That's all!"

"Oh, okay, thank you! I'll hang up now."

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

……

Zhou Ying looked at her phone and muttered, "He's so mysterious all day long."

I ignored it and continued printing the drawings that I hadn't finished yesterday.

He was still muttering, "I was so anxious yesterday, but I am not so anxious today."

……

Wang Qingsong hung up the phone and put away the calculator.

There are no batteries inside.

But he had seen this kind of small battery in Hong Kong Island.

(The AAA battery in the United States is equivalent to the No. 7 battery in China. It has been around since the 50s and is mainly used in cameras.)
Even without batteries, this thing can be used as long as there is light.

Solar energy?
not understand.

I didn't care about it anymore.

It’s definitely impossible to imitate it with our current strength, but it can provide a reference for the mainland!

After everything was ready, we returned to Hong Kong Island.

At this time, there were only ten minutes left until departure time.

Wang Qingsong thought about it and finally decided to leave.

This thing cannot be researched and produced in a short period of time, so we will send some to the mainland for research for a period of time.

Wait for a while and then sell it yourself.

But this thing has such huge profits and is of great importance. Even if it is sold in Hong Kong Island, it still requires cooperation with people from the mainland.

We can’t let foreigners take advantage of us!
boarding.

I followed the crowd and got on the bus to Luohu.

The journey is 40 kilometers, and we have to stop at several stations along the way. It takes an hour and a half to reach the destination.

I followed the crowd, got off the bus, and arrived at Luohu Station.

If you are not leaving the country, there is no need for inspection.

After leaving the station, we came to a wide road.

Although it is night, it is still very lively here.

Trucks, horse-drawn carriages, tricycles, people carrying loads on their shoulders...

There were a lot of people busying around on the streets.

There were many refugees sleeping on the roadsides around.

After walking along the street for a while, I arrived at Luohu Bridge.

A bridge leading to the mainland, with train tracks in the middle and border crossings on both sides.

Many people came in and out.

There are people guarding the entrance for inspection and registration, and there are also several checkpoints in the middle and on the opposite side.

Wang Qingsong looked at the registration place.

As long as you bring your ID card, get a "Return Home Letter", fill it out and you're good to go.

This way I don't have to go through the trouble of crossing the river.

Shaking his head, he left the border crossing and walked eastward along the river.

The area near the train station was surrounded by a wall with only one gate, but it was locked and guarded by two men with guns.

This is not a problem for him.

Find a corner and quietly use Zhou Ying's way to get to the other side of the wall.

Over the wall.

This side is a dark wasteland.

Walk along the wasteland towards the shore.

There was another barbed wire fence, and there were people patrolling not far away.

I quietly used the things I bought at the antique shop to replenish the energy of the Bagua mirror.

Then he left quietly.

……

Half an hour later, Wang Qingsong had arrived and hid near the opposite train station.

Change out of wet clothes.

Looking around, there were people everywhere in the bushes.

He had already sent a letter when he first arrived. There were people everywhere here.

These are the people who find the right moment to rush forward.

A river channel of about 40 meters blocked those heading south.

Shake his head.

Watching someone come over to check on the train.

Can't these people see that there are so many people hiding out there?

You can see it.

They just turn a blind eye.

There is no way. There are too many people coming here. It is not an exaggeration to say that such a small place is overcrowded.

Many people even lay on the ground near the train station and slept openly.

Watching the inspectors installing lead seals on the train carriages, I knew that the train would be leaving soon.

As for the destination, there is no other place except Guangshi.

Even if you want to go somewhere else, you have to go through Guangshi.

Thinking of this, he went straight into the truck.

After coming in, I took out a flashlight and scanned the place.

machine?

There are quite a few wooden boxes in the carriage, and through some of them you can see the dark metallic luster inside.

It should be a machine.

But he didn't know what these devices were.

After all, there are so many types of equipment!

I ignored all that and found a place to sit down.

"what!"

Just as he was about to put away the lamp, a customs declaration form attached to the wooden box caught his attention.

Unfortunately it is in English and I can’t understand it.

Only BJIING can tell that it is Sijiucheng.

His attention was mainly on a piece of paper next to it, which had a number on it and the address was also Sijiu City.

Wang Qingsong looked at the number and muttered, "Are you also going to Sijiu City? Why don't you just take this bus?"

Then he shook his head.

This truck is a freight truck. After going from here to Guangzhou, it needs to load and unload goods. It will probably take more than ten days to reach Sijiu City.

Unless it is a direct train with no stops in between.

Didn't care.

I took out a quilt, found a comfortable place to lie on it, and waited for the car to leave.

The wait is two hours.

It was already around eleven o'clock.

Only after the car started moving did he fall asleep peacefully.

It's OK, just a little bit hot and stuffy.

……

I woke up and fell asleep again, and woke up again.

In a daze, the car stopped, but Wang Qingsong did not wake up.

"These two carriages are going to the capital. Check the seals."

"Shen Qian?"

Wang Qingsong opened his eyes suddenly when he heard the voice.

I got up and stepped on the box to the vent on top of the carriage. Through the vent I could hear someone down there.

But I couldn't see anyone, only the light of the flashlight.

"Xiao Shen! This mission is considered completed. You don't need to go to pick up the rest of the goods. Hurry up and hand over and go home!"

The person who spoke was a middle-aged man.

Then Shen Qian's voice came again: "Team Leader Liu, I don't need to go back."

"Alright, this is an order! Secretary Chu had already told his family about everything when he left. Now that you're back, your mission is complete."

Seeing him say this, Shen Qian didn't say anything else.

There was a sound of murmuring outside.

After Wang Qingsong watched the people check their things and leave, he thought about it and decided not to leave in a hurry.

Looking at the pile of things in the train compartment.

After thinking for a while, he put all the machine tool drawings that he had printed out before into the car.

I also put a dozen or so calculators of various models.

He took out a piece of paper and wrote a few words on it.

After finishing, I felt that there was no movement outside, so I left quietly.

The equipment here will not be opened until we arrive in Beijing.

As for why he appeared here, it was none of his business.

Quietly left the train station and sneaked outside.

After coming out, he quietly rushed outside.

……

Shen Qian drove to a western-style house, said hello to the people who were seeing her off, and went straight in.

I knocked on the door, and after a while a middle-aged man opened it.

Looking at the other party, Shen Qian said embarrassedly: "Uncle Li, I haven't slept yet! Sorry to disturb you in the middle of the night."

"It's okay. I still have some things to deal with. I'll go to bed once I'm done."

After the other party finished speaking, he smiled and said, "Come in quickly. How about going to Hong Kong Island this time?"

"Well, it's okay. Anyway, I went there to learn things from the back. Secretary Chu and the others were busy there."

After Shen Qian came in, she said, "My dad hasn't slept again! It's already so late and he's still not asleep."

Secretary Li has things to deal with.

It was obvious that his father had something to deal with, so how could the other party dare to sleep?

Secretary Li smiled and said, "The Canton Fair will end in a few days, and the leaders are very busy now!"

After coming in, Shen Qian looked at him and smiled, "Uncle Li, don't worry about me. Go and do your thing. I'll go see Dad."

After saying that, he walked upstairs.

He came to a door and knocked gently.

"Come in!"

A mid-term voice came from inside.

Seeing this, Shen Qian pushed open the door and saw the old man holding a pen and writing and drawing there with his head down.

Not even looking up.

Seeing no report, the old man looked up.

Seeing his daughter, he smiled: "You're back!"

"Well, I'm back!"

Shen Qian came over, looked at the things on the table and complained, "What time is it? Why aren't you sleeping yet? Do you still want to work tomorrow? Do you want to sleep secretly tomorrow?"

It's five o'clock in the morning now.

"What nonsense are you talking about! I just woke up after sleeping for a while last night!"

Father Shen glared at him, put down the pen in his hand and said, "The Canton Fair is about to end. Things are quite busy. If we don't deal with today's matters, they will pile up tomorrow. We should finish today's matters today."

Then he asked her, "Did you not speak nonsense this time?"

"Oh my, how dare I! I didn't say a word the whole time. I only asked after the fact."

Shen Qian hugged his neck and said with a smile: "By the way, Dad, why did Uncle Chu come back suddenly? Did something happen?"

"Well, something happened! But I can't tell you about it!"

Seeing him say that, Shen Qian pouted.

Knowing the old man's temper, I have definitely told him what I can say, and there is no point in pestering him about what I cannot say.

"Okay, I'm going to take a shower. I'm all sticky. You should go to bed early!"

After saying that, he was about to leave.

"Dingling bell~"

While I was thinking, the phone on the table rang.

The old man answered the phone and then frowned.

"Okay, I got it. Send it over quickly! Remember to keep this a secret."

After that, he hung up the phone and said to Shen Qian: "Don't wash it yet, there is a problem with the batch of goods you are delivering."

"What? How is that possible? We checked everything at Luohu Station. The train didn't stop at any station. How could there be a problem? What's the problem?"

Shen Qian was anxious.

Father Shen frowned and said, "We caught a few people in your carriage who got on the wrong train and tried to smuggle themselves in. To prevent any problems, they opened the box and checked the carriage. There's something extra in your carriage!"

"Something extra? What?"

"You'll know when you get there. It's what the blueprint is!"

After that, he picked up the pen in his hand and wrote there, saying: "You go wash it! I think they still have about half an hour, you wash it quickly, and I will also get rid of some things quickly."

Shen Qian frowned when she saw this.

How could she have the mood to take a bath now?

I went downstairs and waited there.

It was already slightly bright outside.

After waiting for another half an hour, a car stopped at the door.

The leader was Team Leader Liu.

Mr. Shen probably heard the noise and came downstairs as well.

"Xiao Liu, what's going on?"

"Commander, we don't know either. These things were left in the car after it was opened. We checked it before."

Team leader Liu explained.

He gestured to the two people next to him to carry the things in.

A few boxes of stuff.

"Commander, please be careful, this thing is not bound."

The other party took a stack of drawings and handed it to him.

Father Shen took the thing and looked through it.

After all, he was from the industrial sector and he could see the problem with the drawing at a glance.

I flipped through it, then picked up the others and looked at them.

After thinking for a while, he said to the person next to him: "Make a phone call and ask the people from Beiyi Machine Tool and Shenyi Machine Tool to come over now."

Upon hearing this, Secretary Li hurried away to make a phone call.

After the people left, Director Liu handed him a calculator and said, "Leader, take a look at this!"

The old man took it curiously.

He looked at it and asked, "What is this?"

"I don't know! I didn't move anything. What are you talking about, a calculator?"

I handed him the paper.

The old man took the thing and looked at the contents on the note, frowning.

Put the note down.

I pressed the computer button, but there was no response.

I pressed several keys in succession before I finally pressed the power button.

A 0 sign appeared on the screen.

"calculator?"

Look again at the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division symbols above.

After thinking for a while, he pressed 1+1 and then the equal sign.

A 2 appears
Seeing this, the other party's eyes lit up.

It was as if he had felt a knock on the door and was calculating there.

After a while, Secretary Li came back from the phone call: "Leader, the notification has been sent down."

Old Shen nodded and said to him, "Bring your abacus here. I'll tell you a few numbers and you can calculate them to see if they are correct."

Secretary Li looked at what he had in his hand and nodded.

He went into the house and took out an abacus.

Then he asked curiously: "Chief, is this a mechanical calculator?"

It's not like there are no calculators now.

It just doesn’t look like this.

"I don't know. Try it yourself! What is 6*23?"

As the old man spoke, he pressed the button himself and then waited there.

Secretary Li next to him was calculating without thinking.

"Leader, 138~"

The old man looked at it, nodded, and continued: "1324*246"

Secretary Li was typing, muttering quietly: "Two plus one equals five, six plus two plus three equals two, eight plus three equals six..."

After a while, he put away the abacus and said, "325704"

After the fight, look at the other person.

Seeing this, Old Man Shen took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

He thought of something and said, "After the people from the machine tool factory have looked at these things, they will be airlifted back to Beijing. Take them with you to the meeting."

After saying that, he left with his things.

Seeing this, others got in their cars and left.

Shen Qian also followed behind in confusion.

(End of this chapter)