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Showa Garden Factory was an arsenal established by the Japanese army during their occupation of Shandong. It was later taken over by the Nationalist government and renamed the Shandong Provincial Government Machinery Factory. After liberation, it was taken over by the Military Control Commission and renamed the Jinan Fourth Machinery Factory.

Factory director's office.

Factory director Yu Zengren, engineer Chen Jingfa, and production team leader Guo Wencheng are having a meeting.

Yu Zengren pointed to the outer shell of the rice cooker on his desk. "Engineer Chen, the Ministry of Industry and Mining has assigned us the task of making a mechanical stamping machine to produce this."

Chen Jingfa adjusted his glasses and continued to carefully examine the "new things" he had just noticed.

After examining it for a while, he asked, "Director Yu, what kind of machine's casing is this?"

"Electric rice cooker, electric rice cooker, rice cooker, iron pot." Yu Zengren took out a booklet. "This is the instruction manual. Engineer Chen, take a look and see if we can make it."

"An electric rice cooker?"

Chen Jingfa muttered to himself, adjusted his glasses, and took the instruction manual to read through it.

After reading a page, his expression turned serious. According to the instructions, the mechanical stamping machine should feed aluminum or steel sheet/coil into the stamping machine, apply high pressure through the mold, and complete the steps of blanking, stretching, bending and punching, forming the shell shape in one or more stations.

Looking at the second page, his expression became even more serious. The instruction manual listed the technical parameters to be achieved at each step. Looking at the numbers, he felt it was very difficult, extremely difficult to achieve.

After a long while, he finished reading the instruction manual, took off his glasses, and wiped them with the corner of his shirt.

Yu Zengren grew anxious and urged, "Engineer Chen, is it even possible to do it?"

Chen Jingfa put on his glasses and said calmly, "Director Yu, I can only tell you it's very difficult; the technical requirements are too high..."

"My dear Engineer Chen, don't ask me if it's difficult or not, just tell me if it's possible to do it."

Yu Zengren picked up a Daming Lake brand cigarette from his desk, handed one to Guo Wencheng, lit one for himself with a match, took a deep drag, and then stared intently at Chen Jingfa's face.

Chen Jingfa pondered for a while, then shook his head. "It's difficult."

Upon hearing this, Yu Zengren's eyes widened, and he slammed his hand on the desk. "Comrade Chen Jingfa, I order you to make the machine. This machine is a job that our comrades in Hong Kong found for our factory. If we make it, our factory can earn hundreds of thousands of US dollars in foreign exchange every year. If we can't make it, our Hong Kong customers will have to order the machine from Germany and the United States, and our factory will get nothing."

"Director Yu, even if we manage to make the machine, it won't be worth hundreds of thousands of US dollars."

“Who told you about the machine?” Yu Zengren pointed to the outer shell of the rice cooker. “I’m talking about this. The machine can make it. The order is from our factory.”

Upon hearing this, Chen Jingfa felt as if a mountain was pressing down on his shoulders. After a moment of hesitation, he said, "Director Yu, I will do my best..."

"Yes for sure."

"Yes, I guarantee I'll complete the mission."

Hong Kong.

An Oriental Pearl Research Institute has been added to the Hong Kong manufacturing group's factory area. The director is Raymond Lowe, an American from Longbow Design in New York.

Longbow Design was established by HK Consulting based on the vision of Sin Yiu-man, and is dedicated to technical research and industrial design development in the field of electrical engineering.

Longbow Design has made rapid progress in the field of industrial design, investing in Henry Dreyfus Associates, one of the four kings of industrial design, and establishing a partnership with the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago’s School of Design. They have not only established the Longbow Scholarship with an annual investment of no less than $10, but also provided students with internship opportunities and entrepreneurial funds.

Progress in the field of technical research is a bit slower. The leading figures in the electrical field have all been hired by large corporations' research institutions. Research funding is guaranteed, and salaries are relatively high. It is difficult to poach them, and large-scale poaching is not an option to avoid being targeted by large corporations.

In order to acquire the talent it wanted, Changgong Design could only offer a "patent profit-sharing system" to lure R&D personnel controlled by the "pre-invention transfer agreement" and precisely poach them, but it would not poach members of the "final push" team.

Like a certain company invested in by silver sulfide, when bullied, they not only know how to seek help from the law and reason, but when reason fails, they also know a little bit of martial arts, such as sinking yachts and causing car accidents.

The effect of force is relative. If you are not respectable, others will treat you in a similarly undignified manner. Everyone is a knight who "takes revenge from morning till night." If someone is several times larger than you, it is better to "use words, not fists."

All the talented people that Chang Gong Design values ​​are in Junzi Shop. If you want to poach someone, you have to keep a tight rein on them, block the door, and not utter a single word.

Big shots are not easy to dig up, but "you're still young" can be used to create a trap, and Raymond Loy is one of those big shots who got caught in the trap.

The Oriental Pearl Research Institute is currently working on two key areas: steam sensing and bimetallic strip temperature control.

These two technologies have been around for over a hundred years, but they are still one step away from meeting today's commercial application requirements. Raymond Lloyd is confident that he can make it, but he is quite troubled by the coupler concept proposed by the big boss.

Upon assuming his post, he received a gift from the big boss: a concept diagram of a split-type electric kettle. The key component connecting the two parts is the coupler, which is based on steam sensing and bimetallic strip temperature control technology, and is actually not difficult to implement.

But the big boss wanted a "mature product," which was a death sentence for him. A mature, commercially available kettle is about 7.12 times more difficult to produce than an atomic bomb. If he had a choice, he would prefer to design a small nuclear reactor for Adam Stark, the cartoon character created by Dragon Society.

Stuck on a difficult problem, Raymond Loy sat in a small park, holding a copy of "Iron Man" to clear his head, following the plot while uncovering some gossip:
According to those who have seen the Big Boss, the male lead Adam Stark is very similar to the Big Boss and is probably based on him; the female lead Marilyn Potts is confirmed to be based on Marilyn Monroe, according to official statements from Dragon Society; the other female characters are also likely based on Hollywood actresses, but this has not been explicitly stated by the official sources.

Taipei.

Sin Yiu-man is reading a report from a Hong Kong manufacturing group. After Fan Man swept through markets around the world, the regular electric fan brand followed suit and also achieved good results. It directly exports to countries that can export, and assembles locally in countries that cannot export or where direct export is not cost-effective, thus evolving into a local national brand.

The parts are shipped from Hong Kong, bypassing tariffs whenever possible. They tout local production and apply for recognition of filling domestic gaps. When they can't avoid it, they admit defeat and promise to achieve local manufacturing as soon as possible, fully demonstrating their "eat from which country's food and speak that country's language" style.

Currently, I am trying to enter the socialist countries of Eastern Europe, and I aspire to stand on the side of the proletariat and denounce the capitalists.

After looking at the sales figures, Sin Yiu-man turned to Sima Li's resume.

Sima Li was a sales manager recruited by Yuan Jifa. His main responsibility was to bring the products of the Hong Kong manufacturing group into the socialist camp, not through sales, but through the primitive barter system, where braids, minerals, and agricultural products could be exchanged for electrical appliances.

To this end, the Hong Kong manufacturing group created a new brand called "Maxim," which was a play on the pen name of Maxim Gorky, a Soviet writer who was being repackaged in a new guise. They only used the pen name, not the surname.

The brand logo is a simple line drawing of a villa in Gaulke Village.

There were no need for accompanying advertising slogans or selling point designs. Maxim didn't have to worry about retail. With his high proletarian consciousness, he bought whatever state-run stores sold, and he would rush to buy it, beg to buy it, and even use back channels to buy it, which was not so ethical.

All you need to worry about is how to enter the target country and how to win over the nodding people who, after being sanitation workers three to five years ago, have turned their lives around and still maintain the simple and honest way they do sanitation work.

Looking at Simal's resume, his academic experience at Kaunas State University of Vytautas is quite interesting. In just four years, he experienced his alma mater's three name changes and Lithuania's transformation from authoritarian dictatorship to puppet socialism. He was immersed in the Soviet-style pool and mastered the Ulaanbaatar spiritual victory method. He could complete the transformation from inner calm to euphoria in 0.01 seconds.

After reading half of the resume, Xian Yaowen rushed into the study, pulled a notebook from the bookshelf, and turned to the information on Antanas Nechkus, the spiritual Russian, the monster in his own mother's mouth, the Soviet representative to Lithuania, and the de facto supreme leader of Lithuania.

He found the paragraphs he had highlighted, reviewed the simple information about the Snečekus brothers and sisters, and then stroked his chin, lost in thought.

Lithuania, this small country destined for chaos, was in reality a Soviet puppet state, but nominally a sovereign one. This created room for political maneuvering. Snečkus, as Lithuania's supreme leader, had over two million Lithuanians chanting "Long live Lithuania!" yet he lacked the approval of his family. If he could persuade one of his siblings to go back and submit, it might indeed be quite wonderful, as the critics in Shaoxing, as Little Gorky suggested. (End of Chapter)