industrial overlord

Chapter 71 Sales
In Nandu City, at the gate of the Provincial Department of Finance, Lin Zhenhua and Chu Hongyang are being questioned by the gatekeeper.

"What do you do?" the janitor asked majesticly. There was still some legacy of working-class leadership in those days, and the status of the old janitor was not necessarily lower than that of the directors in the agency.

Lin Zhenhua smiled all over his face and handed over his work permit: "Master, I am the manager of the labor service company of Hanhua Machinery Factory in Jiangnan Province. Look, this is my work permit."

"Manager? You can be a manager at such a young age? Is your work permit a fake?" The janitor flipped through the work permit, as if he wanted to find out some mistakes.

"Grandpa, look, there is our factory's big seal on it, and it can be faked? Besides, what am I trying to fake?" One came into the hand of the janitor.

The janitor took the cigarette and lit it with the lighter that Lin Zhenhua was pressing, with a milder look on his face: "Okay then, what are you doing in the Finance Department? Which department are you looking for?"

"Master, we are here to contact the business, and we want to find your administrative office."

"Contact business? You are a labor service company of a machinery factory, what business can you contact us with?" The old janitor seems to have excess energy, and he has to get to the bottom of everything he catches.

Lin Zhenhua smiled and said, "Master, speaking of this matter, it has something to do with you. The new product we developed is to reduce the workload of revolutionary veterans like you."

"Oh, let's hear it."

As soon as Lin Zhenhua reached out, he took a piece of blueprint from Chu Hongyang's hand, and spread it on the ground to show to the gatekeeper: "Master, look, we have designed a new type of gate, which is retractable. From now on, you don't have to work hard to open it." After working so hard to open and close the door, as long as I press the button in the duty room, the door will open. Press it again, and the door will close.”

"Is there such a good thing?" The old janitor really became interested, and put on reading glasses to look at Lin Zhenhua's drawings seriously.

What Lin Zhenhua handed to the old janitor was a rendering.Lin Zhenhua's own drawing skills are limited to mechanical drawing. This vivid rendering of the retractable gate was drawn by Bi Min.Bi Min has an introverted personality, but he has a bit of aura. He learned some painting somehow when he was a child, and he is considered a painter in the labor service company.

"Grandpa, look, a big unit like your finance department, especially the gate guarded by a revolutionary senior like you, should be magnificent, right? You are now a big iron fence gate, you know it It’s the Department of Finance, if you don’t know it, you’ll think it’s a prison... Hehe, you might think it’s a construction site, which is a compromise of your identity, doesn’t it?” Lin Zhenhua spoke eloquently, but he spoke too fast, almost talking about others The gate of the Ministry of Finance is like the gate of a prison.

"I've seen this kind of gate in your painting." The old gatekeeper patted his thigh and said, "I've seen it on the wall calendar. There is such a gate in some unit of foreigners."

"That's right!" Lin Zhenhua echoed loudly, "Sir, think about it, we need to learn advanced foreign experience and technology now, and units like our Finance Department often receive foreign guests. Let foreign guests see that we have Can such a high-end retractable door also show the superiority of our socialist system?"

"Young man, you are right. You are called..." The old man didn't have a bad memory, but he didn't ask Lin Zhenhua's name at all.

"My name is Lin Zhenhua, and I am the manager of the labor service company of Hanhua Machinery Factory. This is Chu Hongyang, the business director of our labor service company." Lin Zhenhua quickly pulled Chu Hongyang over to introduce the old man.

"Well, good, they are all young and promising." The old man said happily, "Let's go, I will take you to the administrative office. This matter is under the control of Director Liu. I will take you to see them directly."

"Thank you." Lin Zhenhua was so happy that he almost wanted to jump up.

Standing behind him, Chu Hongyang stretched out a thumb to him, and said in a low voice, "Tall, Taijun is really tall."

Under the guidance of the old janitor, Lin Zhenhua and Chu Hongyang came to the office of Director Liu of the Administration Department.Before Lin Zhenhua could say anything, the old janitor had already spread the blueprint on Director Liu's desk, and happily told Director Liu what Lin Zhenhua had just said.

"Master Chen, I understand everything. But our gate is not broken. Besides, don't we have this kind of gate they are promoting in China?" Director Liu hesitated.

Lin Zhenhua took a step forward, put a box of big front doors on Director Liu's desk, and said, "Director Liu, in fact, some units in Nandu have already used doors like this."

"Oh, what unit?"

"The Jiangnan Provincial Petrochemical Machinery Factory of our Light Chemical Department system. Their gate is somewhat similar to ours, but technically, it is several generations behind our gate."

"Petrochemical machine?" Director Liu thought for a while, then nodded and said, "I'm a little impressed by what you said. It seems that there is such a door."

"Director Liu, look, our subordinate companies are using this kind of gate, and our provincial department is still using the big fence gate. Isn't this a disgrace? Think about it, our director sits in front of the door every day. When the car enters and exits, it has to wait for the guard... that is, our uncle Chen, to open the big iron fence gate. Doesn't this affect the work and mood of the leader? Our Hanhua Industrial Company is exactly what the leader thinks, In order to meet the needs of the leaders, this automatic telescopic door has been developed, and the next step is to introduce it to the department-level units of the whole province. For this first unit, we will find our Finance Department.” Lin Zhenhua said.

Chu Hongyang stood aside, listening to Lin Zhenhua's words, he really felt it was funny, but also a little emotional.It has to be said that Lin Zhenhua has clearly stated many unspoken rules in the officialdom. In this day and age, everyone is still too embarrassed to say these things explicitly.

"You just said that the gate of petrochemical machinery is backward than yours, and it is several generations behind. Is there anything advanced about your gate?" Director Liu asked.

Lin Zhenhua said: "Of course there is. The full name of our gate is the universal program-controlled automatic retractable gate. The gate of the petrochemical machine, to put it bluntly, uses a motor to pull the door open or close, without any automatic control part. And we This door is embedded with a NE555 computer chip made in the United States, which can control the speed of the door opening and closing, making the opening and closing of the door more stable instead of sudden opening and closing. In addition, our door has a remote control function, within 30 meters You can use the remote control to control the switch within the range, so that even if Uncle Chen is not in the duty room, he can manage the opening and closing of the gate as long as he is within 30 meters of the gate. In order to avoid accidentally bumping into pedestrians or vehicles when the electric gate is opened and closed, our gate The anti-collision probe is also specially designed, as long as there is an obstacle in front, the gate will automatically stop."

"Is it so advanced?" Director Liu's eyes also lit up. Indeed, if the entrance of the Finance Department was replaced with such a gate, it would be such a magnificent thing.

"These are just standard equipment." Lin Zhenhua said coquettishly.

Director Liu asked, "What is standard configuration?"

"The standard configuration is the standard configuration, which is available for all gates. We can also add additional functions to the gates according to the needs of users. For example, you can set the light signal function, the delayed opening and closing function, and the password lock function. wait……"

"Wait, Manager Lin, according to what you said, isn't the price of this gate very expensive?" Director Liu asked worriedly.

"It's not expensive. With the width of the entrance of your finance department, the standard price is only 5000 yuan."

"5000 yuan!" Director Liu stuck out his tongue, "It's too expensive. Our original big iron gate cost less than 100 yuan."

"Can this be the same thing?" Lin Zhenhua said, "Director Liu, as the saying goes, you get what you pay for. Inside our gate, there is a control chip called NE555, which is a computer chip. This is quite Yu said, there is a computer controlling our gate, think about it, how much does a computer cost?"

This is Lin Zhenhua's nonsense. The full name of NE555 is an 8-pin time-based integrated circuit. Although several arithmetic units are integrated inside, it is too exaggerated to say that it is a computer chip. The price of NE555 in the US market is only one or two dollars, but it is a treasure in China.At that time, the country was short of foreign exchange, and all products that needed to be imported with foreign exchange were very precious.

When Lin Zhenhua first negotiated the price with Ford, he added a clause to ask Ford to purchase a batch of electronic components in the US market for him, including the very popular Z80 and this chip called NE555.Lin Zhenhua didn't think about using these chips in this way at the time, but now he uses them for the main purpose of improving the technical content of the products so that they can use high-tech as a cover to charge sky-high prices.

"It's too expensive, and our administrative expenses can't afford it." Director Liu said.

"Xiao Liu, we don't even have 5000 yuan?" The old janitor interjected. He was already moved by Lin Zhenhua's words, and felt that as a glorious old janitor, he had to look at such a door in order to be worthy of it. own identity.

Director Liu showed embarrassment, and said: "Master Chen, you also know that our department's funds are still relatively tight, 5000 yuan, I'm afraid the director will not be able to pass it. If it can be less, it's better to talk about it."

Lin Zhenhua did not expect that the Provincial Department of Finance would be short of money. He chose the Department of Finance as his first target customer because he felt that this unit would not be short of money anyway.Hearing Director Liu call him poor, Lin Zhenhua hastily retracted his words:

"Director Liu, I haven't finished talking just now. I mean, the quotation for this gate is 5000 yuan, but we can install a set for the Department of Finance at the trial price. We only need to recover some material costs, labor costs and technical costs. Fees, etc. may not be charged.”

"Oh?" Director Liu cheered up, "How much is the trial price you mentioned?"

"It's only 3000 yuan." Lin Zhenhua held out three fingers and said solemnly.

(End of this chapter)