Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 43 Preparations before departure (Part )

On Monday morning, Wang Jiankun went to the classroom with the fermented fish his mother brought from home.

This fermented fish is made from big grass carps caught in the team’s fish pond during the Mid-Autumn Festival. At that time, each family in the team received two carps, and grandma kept one to make fermented fish.

To make the wine lees fish, you first need to marinate it for half a day, then wash off the salt and dry it in the sun, and then add oil, salt, dried chili rings, and wine lees to stir-fry. It is quite time-consuming and it took a week to be delivered.

After the morning reading get out of class, Wang Jiankun picked up two pieces for his deskmate and two pieces for Fang Guihua.

"Jiankun, where did you get the fish with fermented lees? Did you go home again yesterday?"

"I didn't go back. My parents brought it to me when they came to the county town the day before yesterday to do some business."

"Oh, your dad drives a big truck, so it's very convenient to go back and forth!"

"My mother said that the cotton and cotton cores your mother sent were of good quality, and she has asked her to go back and make a large amount of them. Your family's life will be much better in the future."

"That's good. I was planning to ask her after I finish my exams at the end of the month."

"When you go back at the end of the month, you can talk to your family and ask them to buy more cotton and hire more people to make cotton cores. You can also consider designing a machine to see if it can improve the production efficiency of cotton cores."

"I told them when I got back that I would let Hu Chunming, Cheng Ming and Lang Junjian's family members learn how to make cotton cores first, but designing a machine is difficult, right?"

"The machine for making cotton cores doesn't have to be complicated. Let's start with the simplest steps. You can go to the library and look up a book on cotton processing. There should be similar machines on it."

"Okay, I'll go look for it in the library. If the school library doesn't have it, I'll go to Xinhua Bookstore to look."

It was drizzling today, so the two of them ate their breakfast standing in the cafeteria.

I heard that the tables and chairs are still being made in the wood factory and may not be installed until after National Day.

During the third break in the morning, the monitor came over and said that the restaurant didn't receive any yellow croaker today. It was raining today and no one went fishing because the fish didn't bite because of the cold weather.

"It doesn't matter. Good things are worth waiting for. It looks like this rain will continue for several days. After all, autumn rain is continuous, unlike summer rain which stops after a while."

"Then wait until the weather clears up before you invite your deskmate to your secret base."

"Will you still come to my place when it rains?"

"Go ahead. I have an umbrella and a rubber raincoat. It'll be no problem for me to ride my bike."

"Rubber poncho? What kind?"

"I received it in my bag. I'll bring the vegetables to your place later so you can take a look. If you want it, I'll ask my family to use their connections to see if I can get it for you."

"No need to ask your family to look for it, I'll take a look. If it's useful, I'll buy a few for myself and my family when I go to Raozhou."

"Well, the county town doesn't sell them, but Raozhou might have them. In our country, only Hainan and the south of the colorful clouds can produce some rubber, and most of it has to be imported with foreign exchange, so rubber raincoats are relatively rare."

In fact, Wang Jiankun just wanted to borrow it for reference. If it was indeed as light and rainproof as the squad leader said, he would use his superpowers to combine a few pieces to give to his family.

At lunch time, the squad leader came to the recycling station wearing a military green raincoat, holding an umbrella in one hand and a lunch box in the other.

He tried his best to cover the lunch box with his umbrella to prevent it from getting wet, and let the autumn rain fall on his raincoat.

After entering the house and putting down the lunch box, Wang Jiankun tried it on and found that it was indeed very rainproof. It also had a one-piece hood on his head with a tightening rope.

But it still feels a bit heavy, probably because the canvas is too thick and the rubber coating process is not up to standard.

If you use your super powers to make it yourself, you can make it thinner, the canvas denser, and the waterproof layer as evenly distributed as possible.

After trying it, he returned it to the squad leader, who finished his meal and hurriedly rode away on his motorcycle.

Wang Jiankun also discovered that if you wear this kind of raincoat while riding a bike, your calves and feet will still get wet, so it is best to make it into a style where the clothes and pants are separate.

After dinner, Wang Jiankun discussed with Ye Wei about hiring someone to build the wall. Ye Wei said that there were bricklayers in their team and he would go back and invite them in the evening.

Since there was someone familiar with him, he gave the drawings to Ye Wei and asked him to tell the master to carry out the construction according to the drawings.

为了保证强度，底部1米5的高度都是砖头平放做的实心墙，1米5至2米2的地方才是空心墙。

There is also a sloping brick wall on the top to separate rainwater and prevent it from seeping into the hollow wall.

After school in the afternoon, Wang Jiankun returned to the scrap recycling station and checked the accounts with Ye Wei first. Because it rained today, there were fewer people selling scrap, so he only collected scrap worth more than 5 yuan.

After Ye Wei left, Wang Jiankun took out a text machine and contacted Cheng Yong, who replied that the ticket had already been bought.

When his father goes there tomorrow, he will give it to him. It will be a soft sleeper compartment. He directly bought 4 tickets to fill up one compartment. This way, he can lock the door and have a rest without outsiders coming in. He doesn't have to be on edge all day to prevent his things from being stolen.

Wang Jiankun thanked him for his thoughtfulness and then talked about his driving lessons.

He said he already knew how to drive, but he couldn't handle breakdowns yet. He planned to hire a retired car soldier to drive with him and learn while driving.

Then Wang Jiankun told his parents that the tickets had been bought, and asked his father to remember to get the tickets every day and give the money to Cheng Yong.

Soft sleeper tickets are quite expensive, four tickets to Guangzhou cost 4 yuan, not to mention that Cheng Yong had to use favors.

My father replied that he would not forget and would give the money when he got the ticket.

During evening study, Wang Jiankun began to design an automatic recording device because he found that without an automatic recording device, he had to record information with a pen while listening, which greatly affected the experience.

Seeing him writing and drawing something he couldn't understand, his deskmate asked, "The exam is next week, don't you need to review well?"

"Hasn't it been a short time since I started learning this? I can remember everything. You don't have to worry about me."

"Hmph, who's worried about you? You're just being sentimental." After saying that, he turned around and ignored Wang Jiankun.

He was a little confused. Why did she get angry? Girls were too difficult to understand. It would be more interesting to study electricity and magnetism.

Most of the time, the signals received by radio stations are complex sound signals, which are very simple to record on tape.

However, tape recording equipment is very large and it is not convenient to analyze after recording. If it can be converted into digital signals and then stored in semiconductor memory, it will be much more convenient to extract and analyze them.

The difficulty now is to analyze the sound signal. Different people have different voice frequencies and tones, so we have to slowly analyze and find the appropriate feature points to assign values.

At this time, telecommunications company laboratories in the United States and Europe had already begun conducting digital communications research.

The first generation of communication equipment all used analog signals, and the second generation of mobile communication systems are planning to use digital signals.

With the help of self-awareness and the assistance of intelligent particles, Wang Jiankun has already touched the threshold of the digital world.

However, it would be extremely difficult for him to conduct research of this level as he was in an information island, and he did not dare to conduct large-scale tests, so it was urgent to open up contact channels with foreign counterparts.

In the evening, Wang Jiankun tuned the shortwave radio receiver to 7.00085MHZ as usual. After waiting for a while, he heard the beeping sound of Morse code.

I quickly took a pen to record it. After recording more than 4 signal sounds, the earphones were filled with crackling background noise again.

The signal was given to Zhizi for analysis. After receiving more than 4 signals and combining them with the dozens of signals received yesterday, Zhizi gave some decoded information.

The general idea was to purchase 3 doses of penicillin, 60 tons of grain, and 20 tons of gasoline, and pay with 1 ton of old pit ore.

Wang Jiankun asked Chieko to help analyze the address and situation of the person who sent this message.

Chieko seized 1 ton of ore from the old pit and exchanged it for so many supplies, and guessed that the person who sent the telegram should have used jade ore.

Then the most likely location of this person should be in northern Myanmar.

Wang Jiankun's uncle went to the countryside in the south of Yunnan. Considering that he has not returned with any information for so many years, the most likely place he went is northern Myanmar.

There is still a state of war among warlords here, so the purchase of penicillin should be for the treatment of gunshot wounds. Food and gasoline are strategic materials that warlords cannot do without. After reading the analysis, Wang Jiankun didn't know what happened to his uncle. If he was the one who sent the message, it would be good, which means that his situation is relatively safe and his position in the team is still relatively high. After all, the person who is responsible for contacting the outside world to purchase materials will not have a low status.

Although I really wanted to tell my mother and uncle about the results of my analysis, I was afraid that they would worry, so I had to listen to more information.

Wait for contact from my eldest uncle. It would be best if he can contact me and confirm that it is my younger uncle. Otherwise, I can only wait until my license is issued and then contact him in person.

It drizzled intermittently for the next three days. The bricklayer hired by Ye Wei brought four workers to build the wall in the rain. The progress was quite fast. On the third day, the solid part of the lower part of 3 meters had been built.

During the days when the wall was being built, Wang Jiankun asked Ye Wei to help keep watch, as if there was no one inside to watch it, the wall might be stolen.

I wouldn't feel bad if the collected waste was stolen, but it would be a big loss if the rare earth ore and two precious metals, copper and zinc, that my father brought back on Tuesday and Thursday were stolen.

On Thursday, he asked the master to install the big iron gate first. Wang Jiankun asked Ye Wei to go back in the evening because he wanted to extract all the rare earth elements from the rare earth ore.

A total of 10 tons of rare earths were used, and 6 types of rare earth elements totaling more than 900 kilograms were extracted. They were divided into 50-kilogram boxes using the original wooden boxes. Those that were easily oxidized were tightly wrapped with a thin layer of aluminum foil on the surface.

The other ingredients that were not used for the time being were transported to the nearby hill in several batches and spread evenly.

Seeing a thin layer of soil on the hill, Wang Jiankun thought about finding a larger place to dump the waste, otherwise something would be discovered after a long time.

The sun came out on Friday. After the third class in the morning, the monitor said that the restaurant had received some yellow croaker today and would make two dishes with yellow croaker, one braised and the other steamed with rice flour.

Wang Jiankun invited his deskmate to have lunch at his base.

"Yu Zirun, would you like to have lunch at my secret base at noon? We will have yellow croaker."

"Really? You wouldn't lie to me, it's been a few days. I thought you forgot about it."

"I didn't forget. It rained a few days ago and the fish didn't bite. Today the weather is clear, so there are fish. Do you want to go?"

"Go, is it far?"

"It's not far away. It's at the end of Shuxiang Road. It takes less than 10 minutes to walk there."

"Okay, then remember to call me after class."

When the bell rang for the end of get out of class at noon, Wang Jiankun called his deskmate Yu Zirun and Fang Guihua to go to the cafeteria to get food. After the meal, the three of them went out from the back of the school and walked towards the waste recycling station.

Arriving at the entrance of the recycling station, Yu Zirun looked at the red brick wall that was mostly built and asked, "Wang Jiankun, is this where you live? It's still under construction."

"I lived here before, and I rented a place a few days ago. I will live here occasionally in the future. The yard is being rebuilt with brick walls, and it's almost finished. Come in."

Wang Jiankun welcomed the two men inside. At this time, the bricklayers had already gone home, and Ye Wei also went to the house to rest after dinner.

Together with Fang Guihua, he put the folding table in the yard and took out four stools from the house. The stools were made by Wang Jiankun using his superpowers when his parents came over last time and there was no place for them to sit.

Not long after everything was set up, the squad leader arrived on a motorcycle with a large lunch box.

After parking the car and unloading the food boxes, Fang Guihua went over to help put them on the table.

The food box has 4 layers. The top two layers are steamed yellow croaker and braised yellow croaker, and the bottom two layers are braised pork trotters with soybeans and stir-fried Chinese cabbage.

After the food was served, the squad leader asked everyone to start eating and told Yu Zirun not to be polite. If he wanted to improve the food in the future, he could tell him or Wang Jiankun. They would have dinner here from Monday to Friday.

Yu Zirun did not hesitate. He picked up the food from the lunch box and ate it. He did not say whether he would come in the future.

The four of them ate and chatted, talking about interesting things in school and their troubles in studying.

Although the three of them were among the top students in the class, high school knowledge was much more difficult than junior high school knowledge. Moreover, only a few years had passed since the special period, and most of the teachers' teaching methods were very mediocre, mainly using rote learning.

If your comprehension ability is a little poor and you are distracted in class, you may miss some knowledge points, and then the things you don’t understand will accumulate, and in the end you won’t be able to catch up even if you want to.

Although Wang Jiankun felt that this knowledge was very simple and wanted to help these classmates who got along well with him, his admission ranking might not convince them. It would be better for him to wait until after this monthly exam and when he ranked first, they would be more likely to accept his help.

There is still time, so Wang Jiankun is slowly preparing and quietly accumulating strength and reputation.

After this monthly exam, Wang Jiankun plans to apply to skip the evening self-study class, so that he will have a lot more free time.

After dinner, the squad leader asked Fang Guihua to take his lunch box and leave on his motorcycle, while Wang Jiankun took Yu Zirun to visit the house.

"Did your family rent this house and yard to open a waste recycling station? Why don't I see your family managing it?"

"I rented the place myself and opened the recycling station. I hired someone to manage it myself."

"Yourself? What did you do before? It seems that you studied radio stations and rented a house to open a waste recycling station. Aren't you afraid that you won't have time to study?"

"After the exam next week, you will know my talent for studying. I only need to spend a little time on studying every day. It will be boring if I don't find something to do during the rest of the time."

"Well, seeing how you swear so confidently, I hope you're not lying to yourself. Let's go back to school."

The two walked all the way to school, chatting as they walked.

"Are you used to your father's lighter?"

"It's very convenient. He said he no longer has to worry about not being able to find matches or not being able to light them."

"Your father loves you very much. He comes to pick you up from school every night."

"He felt that he spent the least time with me when I was a child, and now he wants to make it up to me. I advised him not to come every night and that he could walk back by himself, but he said he was worried because public security has started to deteriorate recently."

"Is the security worse? Have you ever been in danger at night?"

"No, I heard from my classmates that some people have started to form gangs and harass women on the road. The number of homes being robbed has also increased."

"Well, I hope the government can take good care of it."

"My dad and his colleagues often hold meetings to discuss this, but the county town doesn't have many industries to place the unemployed young people. The leaders haven't given in to the self-employed yet, saying that they can't take the capitalist road and that it's a bad idea to act rashly."

"Ah? The market over at Dongmen Bridge is quite lively. Can it develop even if the leader doesn't agree?"

"Don't tell anyone about this. The squad leader's father supports reform. He and several people in charge of industry, commerce and public security support the idea of ​​preserving the market. Some people need to have a job, otherwise it will be a big problem if too many people have nothing to do."

"Okay, I won't say anything nonsense. I didn't expect that Squad Leader Wu's father would work for a big boss."

"Maybe he has support from higher-level people. After all, if you look at the newspapers, the majority of people support reform."

"That's right. It's right to follow the central government's policies. Developing productivity is a necessary condition for realizing communism. Otherwise, how can we realize communism if everyone is hungry and cold?"

"My dad said the same thing, but the opposition is still quite strong right now, so we have to take it slow."

After entering the school, the two went their separate ways. The afternoon and evening self-study were as usual the time for Wang Jiankun to study.

Wang Jiankun has made some progress in the research of digital-to-analog conversion equipment and is ready to start manufacturing physical devices for testing.

At night, he continued to listen to the radio waves in that specific frequency band and asked Zhizi to analyze the more than 40 symbols he heard.

The result of the analysis was that the radio station was asking about the status of material preparation and when the supplies would arrive.

As for the fact that Wang Jiankun had not received the reply letter, after all, it would take time to tune into each frequency one by one, and he would definitely miss it in the middle. If there was an automatic FM system, he could use electronic scanning to quickly capture the frequency of the reply radio station.

On Saturday morning, Wang Jiankun sent a message to his father asking him to wait for him after class at noon so that he could go with him to bring back the stamping and assembly equipment to be used in the second phase of the lighter factory to the team, and also to take away one ton of brass plates.

The payment for the equipment depends on whether the team has enough money. If not, it can be deducted from the processing fee next month.

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