Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 33 Class
Early in the morning on September 9, Wang Jiankun washed up and walked to school through the back door.

When I arrived at the classroom at around 6:20, the head teacher was already sitting at the podium. There were still a few empty seats in the classroom.

Wang Jiankun came to his seat and sat down. Seeing his deskmate reading a Chinese textbook, Wang Jiankun also picked up the Chinese textbook. Although he had already studied the entire textbook during the summer vacation and could almost recite the texts by heart, in order not to appear strange, he had to take out the Chinese textbook and read.

At 6:, Head Teacher Wang asked everyone to be quiet and said that in the future, the Chinese teacher and the English teacher would be in the classroom for morning reading. He would also come to patrol every day and ask the class leaders to maintain order.

Several students who were late were caught by the class teacher on the first day and were called outside the classroom to be criticized. After coming in, they took their books and stood at the back of the classroom.

It seems that the head teacher wants to make a warning to everyone so that they will pay attention to discipline in the future.

The morning reading ended at 7:15 and everyone rushed to the cafeteria. Wang Jiankun didn't want to rush, so he walked at a normal pace.

At this time, Fang Guihua ran over from behind and asked him to run to line up together. Wang Jiankun stopped him and asked him to walk slowly and talk on the way. Anyway, the queue would not be long and they would all be able to have breakfast.

On the way, Wang Jiankun asked Fang Guihua how he was doing in Fengshan and what day he finished.

Fang Guihua said: "He and Hu Chunming worked until August 8th. Master Quan's business must be very good. Moreover, since they got the electric grinder, their salary has increased from 30 yuan a day to 1 yuan a day. They did not rest this summer vacation and earned more than 1 yuan in total, which paid for their tuition and the first month's living expenses."

After listening to him, Wang Jiankun also asked about the class placement of other junior high school students.

Fang Guihua also told them one by one that Hu Chunming and Cheng Ming were in Class 10, Yu Min was in Class 9, and Lang Junjian was in Class 2. He had gone to their dormitories last night to tell them about the arrangements for Sunday.

While talking in line, Fang Guihua asked him how he spent his summer vacation and why he heard that he even rode a motorcycle.

Wang Jiankun briefly talked about how he became an apprentice to Master Quan and accidentally succeeded in making an air gun. He then used a similar method and his family connections to buy parts and made a pot-carrying machine.

When he was in Raozhou, he saw a lighter. After some research, he found out how to make the key parts. He then asked the production team to open a factory to make lighters. He also earned money from it and bought a motorcycle.

Fang Guihua was stunned by what Wang Jiankun said. He felt like he had become a different person after one summer vacation. Although his academic performance was indeed the best among them, he did not expect that he could put his knowledge into practice to this extent.

Wang Jiankun didn't care whether others believed it or not. Most of the manufacturing principles made sense, and the manufacturing processes didn't need to be explained one by one because they had to be kept secret after all.

After a while, the two of them had porridge and steamed buns. Fang Guihua asked him to go to the dormitory to eat together. He brought some pickled mustard greens and sour peppers to go with the porridge and steamed buns.

The canteen had not yet installed tables and chairs, and Wang Jiankun did not expect that there would be no food for the morning, so he went to the dormitory with Fang Guihua. On the way, he met Hu Chunming, who asked him to pick up the food and go to Fang Guihua's dormitory to eat and chat.

The pickled mustard greens that Fang Guihua brought were pure pickled mustard greens. They did not contain any pork, but were fried with just a little oil. The sour peppers were well pickled, and the skin was red and smooth, which meant they would be very crispy when eaten.

They picked up two pickled peppers and a little bit of pickled mustard greens, and ate them while sitting on the bed.

After a while, Hu Chunming and Cheng Ming came together. As soon as Cheng Ming arrived, he complained that the three of them were not considerate enough for not inviting him when there was such a good opportunity to make money.

Before Wang Jiankun could say anything, Fang Guihua said, "Who told you to go to your grandma's house instead of repairing the road? If you were together, you could have gone together. It's almost the end of August when you go back home, and Master Quan's place is fully staffed, so it's hard to arrange how many days you can stay."

"Okay, okay, it's my bad luck. From now on, I'll have to rely on you, Wang Jiankun. I heard you bought a motorcycle? Have you ridden it over? Can you take us to see it?"

"Come to my place this Sunday and I'll let you try it out."

"Really? That's great. That's it. I'll tell Yu Min and Lang Junjian the news later. Don't regret it."

"No, no, let's eat first, and then go to their dormitories to check. Don't spread the news that I have a motorcycle. Just let everyone know."

"Okay, okay! Eat quickly, and then we'll go find them together."

After dinner, they went to the faucet to wash the lunch boxes, and everyone went to look for someone with the lunch boxes.

First find Yu Min, then go find Lang Junjian together. After everyone gathers, we walk towards the football field. The place is big and we can talk while walking.

Cheng Ming, Fang Guihua and Hu Chunming recounted his glorious deeds during the summer vacation, and the two of them couldn't believe it.

Wang Jiankun had to repeat what he had just said, saying that these were all in the books and he just used them to solve practical problems. Only then did the two put aside their doubts.

After talking again about going to Wang Jiankun's place for a party and riding motorcycles next Sunday, the few of them went to different classrooms.

Fang Guihua and I came to Class 12. There were still a few minutes before the class. I asked my deskmate Yu Zirun what classes he had. Yu Zirun gave him a handwritten schedule and asked him to copy one.

After taking the timetable, what caught her eyes was the beautiful and powerful handwriting. Wang Jiankun copied it and gave it back to her, then picked up the math book and prepared for class.

The math teacher is a middle-aged man with glasses, a crew cut, dark skin, and a relatively thin figure.

When he entered the classroom, he just wrote the word "Hu" on the side of the blackboard and asked everyone to call him Teacher Hu from now on. Then he started teaching.

He lectured very quickly and covered most of the first chapter's sets in two classes. He started with the concept, then went on to the three characteristics of elements in a set, how to represent sets, how to classify sets, and finally halfway through explaining the basic relationships between sets. He then left homework and left.

At the beginning of the second class, Wang Jiankun noticed that many students could no longer keep up. Many concepts from the previous class were not understood, but the next class taught new knowledge based on the previous content. Those with poor learning and comprehension abilities began to understand incomprehensible things.

High school is indeed different from junior high school. In the first few years before the college entrance examination, a lot of knowledge has been added, so the teacher can only speed up the lectures as much as possible. How much you can master later depends on your self-awareness.

After class, some students started to study the textbooks on their own, while others simply gave up and started chatting with others.

Wang Jiankun did not have these difficulties. First of all, he had a strong learning ability. Before Qiyu's encounter, he had ranked third in the county. With Qiyu and Chieko's explanation, he had already learned all the high school knowledge.

This week Wang Jiankun plans to listen carefully to the lectures to see what the differences are between the teacher's explanations and Chieko's explanations. If after comparison he finds which one can help him master the knowledge faster, he will focus on that one.

Of course, one advantage of Chieko is that she can learn quickly, master new knowledge and output new knowledge, which is an aspect that her teacher does not have.

Through Zhizi giving exercises to his sister, Wang Jiankun developed a basic method of using Zhizi to assist in learning, which is to train himself with questions and test his level of knowledge mastery.

Next are two English classes. The English teacher is Liu Xiaoting. She introduced herself as having just graduated from a normal school in the first half of this year. Although she has little teaching experience, she hopes to make progress together with everyone.

The students were very considerate and applauded. Teacher Liu mustered up the courage to start the formal class.

Although Teacher Liu graduated from a normal college, the changes in teaching staff in recent years may have led to a decline in teaching staff. Wang Jiankun thought her pronunciation was very non-standard. She spoke Chinese most of the time, mainly explaining grammar, and rarely gave dialogue training, which may be related to the fact that her own spoken English was also average.

After all, Wang Jiankun could converse fluently with Peter, so it was painful for him to listen to the teacher's poor English, but he had to bear it.

Teacher Liu seemed to have noticed something. After class, she found Wang Jiankun and asked him to go to her office. Wang Jiankun spoke to her in English, but she didn't understand at first. Only when Wang Jiankun slowed down his speech did she realize that it was time for lunch and they should go eat. She blushed instantly.

She said she would treat me to lunch, but I had to tell her how I learned spoken English. She said that her teacher at the normal school was a Russian teacher who switched to teaching English, so her spoken English was very poor and she could only learn grammar, words, etc. Now she can only teach me dumb English, after all, the English test now mainly consists of a written test, and the listening score is very low.

Wang Jiankun was not able to explain too much, and he said that a relative gave him a radio that could listen to foreign broadcasts, and he learned it by following the radio.

Teacher Liu looked at her expectantly and asked if he could lend her the radio. Lying always comes at a price, and he had no choice but to say that he didn't bring the radio with him this time, and that he would ask his family to bring it next time, and then he would lend it to the teacher.

Although we can’t get it now, it’s good that Wang Jiankun agreed. Now it’s time to go eat.

So she called Wang Jiankun and went to the small window on the second floor of the cafeteria to get food. This window was specially for faculty and staff.

Teacher Liu ordered a portion of braised pork, a portion of fried tomato and egg, and a stir-fried cucumber. She ordered 2 liang of rice for herself and 8 liang for Wang Jiankun.
The two sat in a corner and talked while eating. Wang Jiankun talked about his situation, and Teacher Liu also talked about how she was from the county, passed the normal school exam, and after studying for three years, she was assigned to teach English at No. 3 Middle School. The first six months she spent as an intern at a school in Raozhou, teaching English to junior high students.

The two of them spent half an hour eating, and Wang Jiankun finished most of the bowl of braised pork. He was so happy that he had to find a way to get the radio out.

Originally, Wang Jiankun was going to go home to rest at noon. As he had already spent more than an hour chatting and eating, it was a bit early to go back to the classroom, so he walked around the campus for a while and found the library to take a look.

In it, Wang Jiankun used his superpowers to project all the books into his mind, and then searched for any content related to the radio.

Not to mention finding a book introducing the principles of radio, I don’t know how a high school library could have such a professional book.

Wang Jiankun went to the bookshelf to find the book, checked it out, and went to the classroom with the book.

In the afternoon, there are physics and geography classes, both of which are two consecutive classes with a 10-minute break in between.

Wang Jiankun listened attentively during the class. After all, the teacher's explanation angle was a little different from self-study and Zhizi's tutoring.

After school at 5 pm, Wang Jiankun got some food and rushed home. When he got home, he ate first and then came to hand over to Ye Wei.

The business just opened today and only three people came to sell a total of 3 kilograms of waste paper. Ye Wei also bought kitchen supplies.

Wang Jiankun took a look and found that everything was in good order, without any mess. Ye Wei also reinforced and adjusted the kitchen.

This made Wang Jiankun very happy. He liked organized people who did things in an orderly manner.

The pots, pans, and utensils cost 4 yuan, and Wang Jiankun collected 2 cents from them. He spent 8 cent on collecting the waste, and Wang Jiankun made up 1 cent to cover the purchase cost.

After the handover, Ye Wei was allowed to go home early. It would take him about half an hour to walk home using crutches.

In the evening, Wang Jiankun went to evening self-study. Today was the first day that the head teacher was in class. He taught physics and told everyone to ask him if they had any questions, but not to whisper and affect others.

Wang Jiankun took out the borrowed Basic Principles of Radio and started reading. When he encountered something he didn't understand, he discussed it with Zhizi. After all, Wang Jiankun had the books from Raozhou Library in his mind, and Zhizi had already summarized and organized them. He then started to explain them to Wang Jiankun based on those books.

During the break, his deskmate Yu Zirun asked him why he didn't review what he learned in class today. Wang Jiankun answered honestly, "I already understood everything in class, so there's no need to review."

Yu Zirun was a little suspicious, but considering that he was ranked first in the class when he entered, he didn't say much.

Fang Guihua also came to talk to him during the break, complaining that the high school teacher lectured too fast and that he was distracted during the morning math class and couldn't understand the rest of the class. He asked how Wang Jiankun was doing.

Wang Jiankun said it was okay and that if there were any difficulties, they could contact him.

In the three evening classes, Wang Jiankun watched for a while and then let Zhizi explain for a while. Radio knowledge was a completely new field for Wang Jiankun, and it took a lot of energy to learn it. Fortunately, with Zhizi's guidance, he was able to get started.

In the next two days, Wang Jiankun listened to the lectures carefully during the day. If the teacher’s teaching was really poor, he would learn radio knowledge from Zhizi. He usually studied with Zhizi during the evening self-study session.

After three days of intermittent study, Wang Jiankun had a basic understanding of radio and knew that shortwave radio stations were the only ones that could receive foreign radio programs.

I also took advantage of the lunch time to buy a radio and asked where I could buy a radio that could receive foreign programs. The salesperson said that it was only available in foreign-related hotels and some special places, and individuals could not buy it.

After understanding the situation, Wang Jiankun realized that what he said to Teacher Liu before was a bit reckless. He had to listen to foreign programs secretly, otherwise he might be caught.

But thinking that he had already agreed, it was not easy to go back on his word. He thought that she might not know that she couldn't listen to the program, so he told her to keep it a secret and asked her to come to his place on Sunday to listen.

You still need to make a shortwave radio so that you can listen to foreign news. Now that we have a good relationship with the United States, it should be no problem to listen to the programs of the American Broadcasting Corporation.

I also have to find a way to solve the communication problem with my family and Raozhou. Radio should be able to solve the problem, but I haven’t figured out how to manufacture it and what mode to use, so I have to experiment slowly.

September 9th was a Saturday. During the morning break, my father passed by the county town on his way to Raozhou. He found Wang Jiankun at the school and the two chatted for a while.

According to my father, all seven production lines of the team's lighter factory have been opened, and they will work overtime until 7 o'clock.

Because last month's wages were calculated two days ago and the workers were asked to sign for confirmation, some received as little as 30 yuan and some as much as 60 yuan, and this was because they only worked for half a month.

So we started working overtime to make lighters the day before yesterday. Today this truck carried 1 lighters and the carriage is almost full.

Wang Jiankun told his father to be careful, saying that after paying the money for the goods, there would still be a lot of money left to buy the car, so he should remember to keep it safe.

My father said he would pay attention and should be able to learn how to drive quickly. On the 2nd when we went to Raozhou, Hu Xiyang let him drive half of the way.

Wang Jiankun felt relieved when he heard what his father said. Since Hu Xiyang was willing to let him drive, it meant that his father learned to drive quickly. So he just needed his friend Cheng Xing to take him for two or three trips.

Wang Jiankun asked his father to talk to the driver and have him drive back and forth from Raozhou to the production team every other day so that his father could drive as soon as possible, and he could pay more tuition.

After the father and son finished talking, they separated. Wang Jiankun was about to go back to class and passed by the message room to see if there were any letters or telegrams. Unexpectedly, he received a telegram from Peter, asking him to call back as soon as possible.

There was no choice but to quickly eat lunch and then run to the post office to call Peter.

Peter said that the last batch of goods received a good response after arriving in the United States, and he wanted to order another batch, this time to order 1 green ones, 2 galvanized ones, and 2 brass ones.

Wang Jiankun asked him when he wanted it, and he said the sooner the better, he could transfer the payment to Wang Jiankun's account within 5 days. Wang Jiankun calculated the time, it would take about 4 days to produce, minus the goods to Raozhou, Wang Jiankun had 8 days left, and said he would go to Dexing to deliver the goods on September 9, which was Sunday. Before the delivery, he would call to check the account, and the payment must be received before then.
Peter said it was no problem, so after Wang Jiankun hung up the phone, he sent a long telegram to his family, saying that he would set aside these goods on September 9 and package them according to the quotation marks he wrote last time. He would send them to important customers on the 12th, and asked his mother to strictly supervise these goods and be careful not to load kerosene.

After I finished making the phone calls and sending the telegrams, it was almost time for afternoon class, so I ran to school in a hurry and was still panting when I arrived at the classroom.

His desk mate asked him what was wrong and why he was so happy despite running so hard.

Wang Jiankun shook his head without saying anything, indicating that the teacher was coming.

During the evening study session, my deskmate brought it up again. Wang Jiankun said that there was something good that would be produced in a while and she could take a look at it then.

Wang Jiankun has already thought of a good idea, which is to make a shortwave radio that can only be listened to with headphones.

In this way, Wang Jiankun is easier to control. He can use his superpowers to change the structure of the radio at any time. Even if someone sabotages it, it will not be heard by others, and the radio changed by Wang Jiankun cannot be used as evidence, so he will be much safer.

(End of this chapter)