Sail across the sea

Chapter 118 Want to do something worthwhile
"What, you are leaving Beijing for two months, let me cover you? Are you kidding me!"

In the reference room, Yang Kai looked at Gao Fan standing in front of him and shook his head like a rattle.

"I don't see any value in staying in school, I want to do something worthwhile."

Gao Fan said to Yang Kai with a calm face.

"What's worth doing? Go back and modify your outdated ammonium bicarbonate production plant?" Yang Kai asked disdainfully.

Before that, Gao Fan had told him about the ammonium urine modification of the Canghai Chemical Fertilizer Factory, and boasted that he had played an important role in it.Yang Kai didn't doubt that Gao Fan had such abilities, he just felt that it was a pity that Gao Fan used his intelligence on such low-end things.

Gao Fan said: "I definitely want to participate in that matter. However, I am leaving Beijing now, not for this matter, I want to do something big."

"What's the big deal?"

"Turn a stone into gold."

"You want to engage in synthetic diamonds?"

"..." Gao Fan's hair was black, "Brother, don't you have any literary talents? What I said is just a metaphor, okay, do you understand the metaphor?"

Yang Kai said contemptuously: "It's obvious that you don't have the talent for literature. Isn't turning stone into gold just turning graphite into diamond? You still plan to turn graphite into gold?"

"Let's put it this way, I'll give you an IBM_PC, do you want it?" Gao Fan asked.

"What do you mean!" Yang Kai's eyes lit up.

Gao Fan said: "It means literally. You help me cover up, and within two months at most, I will give you an IBM_PC, a new one."

"Have you seen IBM_PC? Do you know how much a brand new IBM_PC costs?" Yang Kai asked.

Gao Fan said: "I really haven't seen it. However, a brand new IBM_PC should cost about 3000 US dollars."

"It's US$3648." Yang Kai corrected, "It's equivalent to nearly 7000 yuan in RMB. With my salary, I don't eat or drink. It takes me 12 years to save money to afford one, and I have to find a way to get foreign exchange." Just do it."

"Brother, don't you really want to buy one?" Gao Fan looked at Yang Kai and asked curiously.

Yang Kai sighed, and said: "I dream about it, but I only dare to dream about it."

Gao Fan smiled and said: "That's it, I'll leave the words here, and I'll come back to take the final exam in two months. During this time, you can help me cover up, and don't let Grandma Zheng find out that I'm not at school. When I come back , How about bringing you an IBM_PC as a New Year's gift?"

"Aren't you joking?" Yang Kai became serious.

Gao Fan said the matter twice, it didn't look like a joke.After all, it's very disrespectful to tell a joke that isn't funny twice, Gao Fan wouldn't be like that.

Gao Fan said with a smile on his face, "Of course I'm not joking. I've never been so serious before."

"What are you going to do?" Yang Kai asked.

"I said that before I went to university, I opened a factory with someone else, do you believe it?" Gao Fan asked.

Yang Kai thought for a while, nodded and said, "You can believe it."

"The factory is currently making good profits, and it can make a profit of no less than 10 yuan by the end of the year," Gao Fan said.This number has shrunk severely. He is afraid that telling the real number will scare Yang Kai, and he is also afraid that it will bring hatred to himself.

"How much do you take?" Yang Kai went straight to the point.

"50%."

"50%! In other words, you can get a dividend of no less than 5 yuan before the end of the year!"

Gao Fan nodded, expressing his acknowledgment.

"My dear!" Yang Kai clicked his tongue.He didn't doubt what Gao Fan said at all, after all, Gao Fan didn't have any need to make up such a lie in front of him.

Yang Kai didn't know how long it took Gao Fan to make the profit, but even if it was a year's profit, this figure was shocking enough.

This is an era when everyone's average monthly salary is only 16 to 5 yuan. A [-]-year-old kid like Gao Fan can earn [-] yuan. What does this mean?
The current national policy is to encourage some people to get rich first, and the media often publicizes that there is a [-]-yuan household in a certain place.But this kind of [-] yuan household actually only has an annual income of more than [-] yuan. After deducting various expenses, it would be good to have a net income of [-] to [-] yuan in the end.

Moreover, the [-]-yuan household is calculated based on the family household. If there are four or five laborers in a family, the money each person earns is actually very limited.

But Gao Fan is different. According to him, it seems that this factory was opened by himself and others, and has nothing to do with his family.That is to say, he earned the money himself.

"Actually, there is no trick." Gao Fan said, "My friend is from the coastal area of ​​Shuinan, and I gave him a formula for antifouling paint for the hull of fishing boats. He produced the paint and sold it to the fishing brigades, basically half the profit."

"Anti-fouling paint? I think it should be a latex copolymer with a low gel point, plus a metal compound that is insoluble in water but can react with seawater. Metal compounds are generally Cuprous oxide, you can also use cuprous thiocyanate, mercuric oxide, zinc chloride..." Yang Kai is familiar with it.

When the Navy developed anti-fouling coatings for ships, it invited experts from the Department of Chemistry of Peking University to participate. The reference room of the Department of Chemistry has some technical materials left at that time.Yang Kai is also a genius with the potential of a humanoid database. After reading these materials, he remembered a lot of them, so he just said them to show off to Gao Fan.

Gao Fan nodded and said, "That's right, this is it. The kind of paint we make is used on fishing boats. The performance requirements are not so high, and the main advantage is that it is cheap. I proposed that formula, and my friend is responsible for it." Production."

"Amazing, intelligent." Yang Kai praised.

If the requirements for performance are not high, and only the cost is low, Yang Kai thinks that he can come up with a working formula with a little research, but he doesn't have Gao Fan's business acumen, and he never thought of using this formula to make money.

Thinking about it now, such a formula should indeed be able to make some money, even if it is not 5 a year, [-] to [-] is always possible.

"I want to invest more energy and make the factory bigger. I think this is more valuable than staying in school doing nothing." Gao Fan said.

Yang Kai frowned, and said: "Gao Fan, logically speaking, you are going to make money, and you are making such a large amount of money, so I can't persuade you to give up.

"However, I think you can have an income of 5 yuan a year, which is enough to live on. I believe you are not a person who pursues enjoyment.

"You have such a great talent, no matter what kind of research you do, you will definitely be able to produce good results. Isn't it too wasteful for you to spend all your energy on making money now?"

(End of this chapter)