industrial overlord

Chapter 185

Lin Zhenhua lived in Xunyang for a few days and arranged some production and business matters.

After Cen Youjun's coordination, now in the original Xunzi factory area, two companies have formed a pattern of coexistence: Hanhua Industrial Company, which produces electric fans, and Hanhua Machine Tool Company, which produces machine tool accessories.Of course, the latter name only exists in the daily chats between Lin Zhenhua and Cen Youjun, and its official name is still called Yonghe Agricultural Machinery Factory.

All the workers and cadres didn't feel anything unusual about Yonghe Agricultural Machinery Factory renting Hanhua Company's factory buildings and dormitories. Everyone even felt that this so-called Yonghe Agricultural Machinery Factory was actually a machine tool of Hanhua Industrial Company. It's just a workshop.

Back then, everyone didn’t have such a strong sense of property rights in their minds. Everyone was used to the role of a state-owned enterprise employee. You never needed to ask who owned the factory. You just needed to know that someone paid you wages.

The production of electric fans is still going on. However, compared with last year's tense production, this year's fan production seems a bit deserted.The first is that the export task has been reduced by half, and the second is that the sales situation in the domestic market is not very optimistic.The market effect brought by the innovation of water lily fans has subsided, and more and more domestic fan manufacturers have begun to realize the importance of fan appearance.Such things as appearance do not actually have much technical content. Once others realize it, Hanhua's advantages will disappear.

Thanks to Lin Zhenhua's early deployment, Xiong Lijun in Shanghai, Zhou Weiyang in Nanjing, and Chu Hongyang in Wuhan have all established good relationships with local department stores, thus ensuring that Water Lily Fan can still occupy a place in these markets.

Another factor affecting fan profits is also quietly appearing, that is, the supply of raw materials has become tight and prices have also risen.

The Provincial Department of Materials saw that Hanhua Company undertook the export task, and did not strictly control the supply of raw materials such as steel plates, silicon steel sheets, and enameled wires they proposed.Lin Zhenhua knew that it might be difficult to maintain this situation for too long.

The export task is guaranteed by the provincial government, but why can you be so small when you sell to the domestic market?There are quite a few companies in the province that want to manufacture fans and other home appliances, and everyone is putting pressure on the Provincial Department of Materials through their own channels. The Department of Materials cannot always cover the Hanhua Company like this.

Lin Zhenhua can only keep running forward now, always one or more steps ahead of others, otherwise the former glory will become short-lived.He now feels more short of money than in the past. When he opened the Xinxin store, he earned 10 yuan a year, and he already felt like a rich man. He could treat his sister and girlfriend to boiled fish every day.Now, boiled fish is no longer a luxury for him, but the research and development fund promised to Lang Dong is 500 million, and the machine tool company still needs more research and development funds. Lin Zhenhua can't wait to go to two banks to get some money Out.

After a little settlement in Xunyang, Lin Zhenhua set off again, this time, his destination was Shanghai.Accompanying him was Wei Jingwen, a teacher from Fenghua Middle School.Lin Zhenhua has successfully persuaded Mr. Wei to leave the education career that he sincerely loves and come to work in Xunyang.Due to identity considerations, Wei Jingwen's personnel relationship was linked to the Xunyang City Education Bureau, and then he worked as the chief engineer of electronics in Hanhua Company in the form of a suspension of pay.

The one who came to greet Lin Zhenhua at the train station was still Wang Baoxing whom he had seen last time.Compared with the last time, the young man seemed to have matured a lot. Although his attitude towards Lin Zhenhua was still very respectful, he was a little less immature and restrained.

"I am currently studying the theory of ships at the night university opened by the base. Director Liu said that when I graduate, he will tell the guard squadron to let me go to the fleet." Wang Baoxing said excitedly to Lin Zhenhua. Go to the base in the minibus.

"Why, do you want to be a sailor?" Lin Zhenhua asked.

Wang Baoxing said: "When I was in the navy, I wanted to be on the ship. Who knew that I would be assigned here as a guard soldier. I have been a soldier for several years, but I haven't been out at sea. It's too embarrassing."

"Aren't you afraid that I will tell your director this?" Lin Zhenhua threatened him.

Wang Baoxing said with a chuckle: "I have reported to the director [-] times and asked to go to the fleet. In the end Director Liu said that I must get a graduation certificate from Yeda before I can go. I am studying hard every day, As for homework, I wasn’t so serious when I was in junior high school.”

"what's your major?"

"Fleet coordination."

"I'm dizzy." Lin Zhenhua laughed, "Is your director training sailors or fleet commanders? Isn't this major spanning too much for you?"

Wang Baoxing smiled embarrassedly: "Actually, the main content of our study is the communication between ships... Chief, as you know, communication is a part of coordination."

Everyone was laughing and chatting all the way, and before they knew it, they had arrived at the base. Wang Baoxing directly brought Lin Zhenhua and Wei Jingwen to Liu Xianghai's office.

"Xiao Lin, ouch, and Teacher Wei, we haven't seen each other for a long time." Liu Xianghai greeted them warmly.

Wei Jingwen called with some embarrassment: "Director Liu, it's been a long time."

"Call me Lao Liu!" Liu Xianghai said, "Mr. Wei, we are old partners who have done imitation five-axis machining together back then. Don't be so pretentious. By the way, speaking of imitation five-axis, Xiaolin and Mr. I will take you to see our newly modified large milling machine. It uses the imitation five-axis technology we developed in the past. The Military Commission specially allocated funds for the transformation. I am not afraid that you will be angry. What we have produced is comparable to ours back then. Taiwan is much stronger."

"That's for sure, your electronic engineers are much better than me, a half bucket of water." Wei Jingwen was not angry at all, he knew that his knowledge was a bit outdated, and the technicians on the military side, The level will of course be higher.

Liu Xianghai said: "Old Wei, it's not simply a question of level. The control chip we use is also better than the Z80 that Kobayashi got back then. Our professional industrial control chip was obtained through a secret channel. Haha , as long as you know these things, don’t spread them to the outside world.”

"How is the processing effect?" Lin Zhenhua asked with concern.

"Very ideal. We have processed the first set of submarine propellers, and now they have been installed on the test boat for sea trials. According to the news from the test team, it has achieved the expected results in terms of power and noise reduction. "

"How many decibels has the noise been reduced?" Lin Zhenhua asked gossipingly.

Liu Xianghai chuckled: "This is a military secret, haha, Xiao Lin, I think it's better if you don't know than know."

Lin Zhenhua said resentfully: "I thought so too. At least, I don't need to bring people from the security department as bodyguards when I go out."

After talking about the machine tool, Lin Zhenhua got back to business and asked, "Old Liu, you called and said that there has been a breakthrough in the development of the washing machine. How is the situation now?"

"The effect is very good, and it fully meets your requirements." Liu Xianghai said, and when he said this, he sighed with a smile and said, "Xiao Lin, I really admire you. Do you know what unit we are? A billion people The naval equipment research department of a big country, our every move is related to the balance of global naval power. However, you actually asked our designers to help you develop washing machines, it is really ridiculous.”

Lin Zhenhua said: "Old Liu, you can't say that. Back then, the Eighth Route Army also helped the villagers carry water. If the design of my washing machine is taken to our Chemical Engineering Design Institute, it will be a big problem. Putting it here is just a challenge. Carrying water. Military-civilian cooperation, mutual benefit.”

Liu Xianghai asked: "I heard that you have been cooperating with Professor Yao Heliang from Huaqing University. They even built a student practice base with you. Why don't you let them help with this?"

Lin Zhenhua said: "The experts on Huaqing's side can solve the principle of the mechanical part without any problem, but when it comes to fluid dynamics, you must be the most professional."

After hearing this, Liu Xianghai felt a lot more comfortable. He said with a little pride, "You are not exaggerating. When it comes to fluid dynamics, we have the top experts in the country."

Lin Zhenhua said: "This is not right, you should say that the top experts are right in front of me."

Liu Xianghai smiled and said: "No, no, I also feel that I am old now, and many things can only be done by young people. This time, I will entrust Chang Qingbo to lead the team to do your topic. They You did a great job and solved many technical problems. However, everyone said that you, Xiaolin, are the most genius. Your idea of ​​washing clothes with water flow is indeed very original."

It turned out that Lin Zhenhua had his eye on the washing machine market more than half a year ago, and was thinking about how to come up with some unconventional products to occupy the high end of the market.He remembered that in later generations, the concept of "spraying waterfall water" was often mentioned in the washing machine advertisements on the market. As a person who didn't use washing machines very much, he didn't know what it meant, but he just vaguely felt that it should contain some inspired.

At that time, the washing machines on the market all rotated through the pulsator to drive the relative movement between the clothes and the washing water, so as to achieve the cleaning effect.The defect of this method is that the entanglement of the clothing is easy to occur, causing some places in the clothing to be washed uncleanly.Lin Zhenhua imitated the washing process in his mind, and combined with the inspiration of the word "spraying waterfall water flow", he proposed an idea of ​​using water spray to agitate the clothes, so as to achieve the purpose of cleaning.

This idea is simple to say, but it is still a bit troublesome to implement.The equipment of spraying water is not difficult to solve, and this is the technical problem of purely mechanical field.However, the position of the water spout, the speed of the water flow, the amount of water, and the coordination of each nozzle, etc., involve a series of fluid mechanics issues, which are beyond the scope of Lin Zhenhua's knowledge.

Speaking of fluid mechanics, Lin Zhenhua's first thought was Liu Xianghai. Is there anyone who knows this field better than him?He casually built a five-blade fan, and he convinced the European and American markets. In fact, he relied on his foundation in fluid mechanics.The situation of the washing machine is similar to this, except that the five-blade fan is the fluid of air, and the washing machine is the fluid of water.

In this way, Lin Zhenhua handed over the question to Liu Xianghai.Liu Xianghai was quite interested in Lin Zhenhua's idea, but after thinking about it carefully, he found that the calculation and modeling workload required was huge, and it couldn't be solved by adding two night shifts by himself, so he politely refused, because he The work is very busy now, and the time is no longer my own.However, Lin Zhenhua eventually persuaded him to accept the project.

Lin Zhenhua's method of persuading Liu Xianghai was very simple. He told Liu Xianghai that this project was commissioned by Hanhua Company to develop the propulsion institute, and the project research fund was 50 yuan.

50 yuan!This was not a small amount back then, and the propulsion institute received only more than 100 million state funds a year, and the money also included all headcount fees.After the salary is paid, the money Liu Xianghai can use for scientific research is less than 50 a year.

"Xiao Lin, I didn't expect that our magnificent research institute would eventually fall under your money offensive." Liu Xianghai said to Lin Zhenhua with a helpless smile.

"You can't say that." Lin Zhenhua said with a smile, "We are local enterprises supporting the army, and you are the army helping local enterprises. This is called the army loves the people, and the people support the army. We should send silk banners to each other."

"However, Xiao Lin, I also owed you 50 yuan, which solved many of our big problems." Liu Xianghai said, "To be honest, we spent less than 5 yuan in total to develop your waterfall washing technology. Most of it is experimental expenses. Chang Qingbo and the others are all doing research for you in their spare time, and they only get one yuan and twenty cents a day for overtime work. We use part of the remaining funds for urgent research. There is still a part, which is to give benefits to the employees. Xiaolin, do you have any objections?"

Lin Zhenhua said: "My money has already been paid to you, how do you use it, what do I have to say?"

Liu Xianghai said: "Speaking of which, it's really nice to have some extra money. With this money, our institute has been able to distribute 5 catties of eggs to employees every month for more than half a year."

As he said that, Liu Xianghai took out a small basket made of wire from under his desk, and said, "Look, this is the basket that our unit distributes to each employee, and there is one under each desk. , everyone went to the logistics with a basket to pick up the eggs, five catties per person. Good guy, in the entire base, who doesn’t envy us.”

Wei Jingwen was deeply touched: "Yes, the price of agricultural and sideline products has risen too much in the past two years. It is amazing to be able to distribute five catties of eggs a month."

When Lin Zhenhua heard this, he couldn't laugh at all, instead he felt a little sad.He said: "Old Liu, I didn't expect that you are still so poor. Otherwise, I will change the contract again and give you an additional 20. You people are the treasures of the country. It is really unfair for the country to treat you like this." It should be."

Wei Jingwen also nodded desperately: "Yes, yes, the workers of our Hanhua Company have a much better life than you now. What is said in the society, it is said that those who make missiles are not as good as those who sell tea eggs. I have seen It’s only here that I truly understand it. You who make propellers are not as good as we who make electric fans.”

Liu Xianghai waved his hand: "Xiao Lin, I accept your kindness. In fact, you have helped me a lot by giving me 50. People's desires are endless, so I can't be too greedy."

(End of this chapter)