60s: I have a store

Chapter 204

After eating and drinking, Zhou Yimin went back to the courtyard first, asked Director Ding for the address, and went there directly later.

You can't go to an old cadre's house empty-handed, right?
Zhou Yimin thought about what to bring with him.

No matter what happens in the future, it is still good to know more big guys. Big guys are well-informed and can notify you in advance if something happens, so you won't be too passive.

Zhou Yimin found out that Director Ding's father-in-law was a veteran fisherman.

It seems that there is some truth in the fact that those senior time travelers happened to meet the retired boss while fishing. However, even if there was such a chance, Zhou Yimin was too lazy to "encounter" him.

What do fishermen like?
Of course it’s fishing gear!

Fishing gear in later generations is very diverse, and has formed a huge industrial chain, including fishing rods, floats, fish hooks, fishing lines, lead sinkers, etc.

Each fishing tackle has different materials. For example, fishing rods are made of fiberglass, carbon, carbon fiber, etc., with different prices.

There are different fishing rods, fishing lines, fish hooks, floats, etc. for different fish.

Even the fishing baits come in different types.

Therefore, there is a saying on the Internet in later generations: fishing will make you poor for three years, and bird watching will ruin your life. In fact, it is not just three years of poverty. Fishing supplies are so free? Some good fishing rods cost thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan.

Moreover, fishing is addictive. Some people skip work just to go fishing and some even abandon their wives.

Zhou Yimin thought, give him a fishing rod?
The supermarket in my mind has fishing rods, and they are not cheap, ranging from a dozen yuan to two or three hundred yuan.

Fishing rods in this era were very common and crude, many of them had handmade hooks and floats, the sinkers were made of toothpaste tubes, and the fishing lines were nylon lines dyed with pig blood...

Of course, someone like Director Ding’s father-in-law may have access to the more advanced fishing rods of this era.

After much deliberation, Zhou Yimin bought a set of ordinary fishing gear.

It may be considered ordinary, but in this era, it is quite advanced.

I dare not take out the carbon fiber fishing rod.

Although carbon fiber composite materials were invented in the 1950s, they were first used in aerospace and military industries and were one of the items embargoed by the West to my country.

It is actually an inorganic fiber material that can only be formed under a high temperature of 1000 degrees. Compared with other similar materials, it is lighter, stronger, and has a wider range of applications.

As a person from later generations, Zhou Yimin knew clearly that the research team formed by my country with the national scientific research strength had spent a full forty years but had not been able to break the monopoly.

However, it was unexpectedly solved by a little-known fishing gear manufacturer, which is really a bit laughable.

That story begins with a small factory that was on the verge of bankruptcy in the 1980s.

Chen Guangwei was assigned to be the director of a petrochemical research equipment factory in the town. He thought it was a good job, but he unexpectedly took on a "hot potato". Sitting in the director's office, Chen Guangwei was surprised to find that this small factory actually owed a huge amount of 76 yuan.

Not only that, but the workers’ wages have been in arrears for half a year. In the entire factory, all the workers with some skills have left, leaving only some low-level workers who do manual labor. Even so, there are only 35 workers left, and they are all complaining.

With no money, no people, and no technology, it can be said that it is only one step away from bankruptcy.

In order to revitalize the factory, Chen Guangwei had to find Universal Fishing Gear and hope to do OEM for them. However, Universal Fishing Gear itself was also an OEM for the Japanese, and the profit of doing OEM for OEMs can be imagined.

Later, this small factory was forced to produce carbon fiber.

In the evening, Zhou Yimin brought the fishing gear to a large courtyard. This courtyard was obviously better than the ordinary courtyards, and it was obvious that it was special.

There are soldiers guarding the door.

Zhou Yimin stepped forward to ask for advice.

"Stand here and wait for a moment. I'll go..."

Before the soldier finished speaking, Director Ding's voice came from not far away. "Xiao Liu! That's the guest invited by my father-in-law. No need to ask."

The soldier stood at attention, saluted, and stopped trying to stop them.

"Why are you still carrying things?" Director Ding couldn't help but "reproach" Zhou Yimin when he saw the box in his hand.

"A friend gave me a set of fishing gear. Director, you know I don't like fishing very much. If this thing stays in my hands, it will just gather dust and be of no use. I'm just lending it to someone else to give back to them," Zhou Yimin said with a smile.

Director Ding was surprised.

I didn’t expect it was fishing tackle.

I have a heart.

Boy, if you become an official, you should be able to do well.

After entering, Zhou Yimin found that everyone in Director Ding's father-in-law's house was there, including Director Ding, his wife, his two children, Director Ding's eldest brother-in-law and his family of five, and Director Ding's father-in-law, Mr. Zhao.

"Father-in-law, this is Comrade Zhou Yimin," Director Ding introduced.

Mr. Zhao has a missing ear, so he is easy to recognize.

"Hello, Mr. Zhao!" Zhou Yimin greeted.

When the old man saw the box in Zhou Yimin's hand, his reaction was the same as his son-in-law's just now, and he also used a "blaming" tone to "teach" him a lesson.

"Father-in-law, Yimin knows that you like fishing. It just so happens that his friend has a set of high-end goods, and he himself doesn't fish, so he borrowed flowers to pay tribute to Buddha." Director Ding helped to explain.

"Oh? High-end fishing gear? Let me take a look." Mr. Zhao's eyes lit up.

He opened the big box and found a smooth fishing rod inside, which looked to be made of steel and was very beautifully made, as well as fishing lines, floats, and so on.

It's really a set.

What the hell!

Even an experienced fisherman like Mr. Zhao had never seen such professional equipment. There were several types of floats and fish hooks alone, which dazzled him.

"It's foreign product, right?" Mr. Zhao couldn't help but say.

Zhou Yimin was stunned for a moment, and his mind was shocked: There is no such fishing rod in China now? No way?
His eyes suddenly caught sight of a fishing rod in the house, the one that Mr. Zhao usually used.

Well, he overestimated the fishing tackle in China.

What Mr. Zhao is currently using is actually a bamboo pole, but it is a plug-in type. It looks very high-end, but the materials used are still bamboo and wood.

Generally, bamboo or wooden rods have the advantages of excellent material selection, exquisite workmanship, low price and easy use. Most experienced anglers like to use this kind of fishing rods.

It’s just that the bamboo fishing rod used by Mr. Zhao is better and the craftsmanship is more exquisite.

Generally speaking, the bamboo used to make the same set of fishing rods must be of consistent quality, and the bamboo joints should be arranged evenly from top to bottom with equal spacing between thicknesses, and smoked with moderate amounts of fire.

It should not be aged, the line should be tightly wrapped around the socket, and it should be evenly painted. It should be longer than the insertion depth to prevent it from breaking under stress during fishing.

The upper and lower sections should fit together completely and tightly without any gaps. The socket should not be too thin and should not have any cracks. After the entire rod is assembled, the whole should be straight and bend into an arc when subjected to force.

When there is no force, it will return to its original shape, with appropriate weight. When you shake the root of the rod with your hand, it should appear elastic and tough, and the appearance should be harmonious and coordinated.

Zhou Yimin was glad that they didn't give him fiberglass or carbon fiber.

Otherwise, it would be even harder to explain.

(End of this chapter)