Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 52 Preparations before base construction (asking for monthly tickets and recommendation tickets)

A new week has begun. The weather is clear and cool in autumn, which is suitable for sunbathing.

I was chatting with my family on the text machine yesterday and learned that our team had another bumper harvest of rice this year.

Because there were pumps to draw water when the rice was filling some time ago, not a single acre of rice field suffered a loss in yield due to lack of water.

Before harvesting the rice this year, the team sent people to walk along the Huirao Ancient Road, cross the Wu-Chu divide, and go to Xiuning, Hui Province to buy thresher parts.

After returning, he asked the carpenter to build a foot-operated thresher, which increased the threshing efficiency several times.

The elderly and children around ten years old can all go up to thresh the grain, so the team's lighter factory did not reduce production.

Before, there were only two threshers in the team. It was the year before last when we learned that the land was being distributed to each household. When my grandfather took people to visit, we saw several families there using a pedal thresher. The elderly and children were threshing the rice, while the young and strong were harvesting the rice and carrying the rice.

After some inquiries, I learned that this thresher was needed in large quantities because the land was divided.

If this type of thresher is not used, the threshing process must be done by strong laborers, and the entire harvesting time will be extended to a very long time, and you may even encounter days of continuous autumn rain.

After the land was distributed to each household, each family had to do all the work by themselves, unlike before when it was easy to allocate manpower when the work was done by a large or small team.

Some families have a small population or have many people but few able-bodied laborers. In this case, they need to find a way to solve the problem of occupying able-bodied laborers for processes such as threshing, harvesting rice and picking grains. Otherwise, the rush to harvest and plant will not keep up with the time and the harvest will be affected.

So the people there found a way to create this very labor-saving pedal thresher, freeing up the strong laborers from the threshing process. The elderly and children at home can thresh the land much faster than the previous strong laborers who used the threshing method.

After the rice was harvested, the team used the profits from the lighter factory in September to order a tractor.

Moreover, they ordered three at a time, equipped with a truck bed, an iron plow, and accessories for transplanting rice. In the future, they can use tractors for plowing and transplanting rice.

The tractors are usually not idle. The team decided to use one of the tractors for passenger transport, running the section from the commune to Lingjiao three times a day.

The other two were used for freight transportation, transporting the bricks and tiles produced by the team to production teams or communes farther away.

According to my father, the brick and tile factory has not reduced production and has recruited many people from the Shuanglukou production team to the factory.

The people in this production team were well-known for their hard work and perseverance, so they all rushed to do the work of carrying mud, sifting mud, and carrying bricks and stacking bricks in the brick factory.

The team calculates wages based on work done. Basically, if a man works 28 days a month, he can earn 30 yuan, and a woman can earn around 25 yuan.

I rode my motorcycle to the scrap recycling station and parked it there. I waited for lunch and then asked the squad leader to take it away. Then I gave him the project book I wrote yesterday.

During the first math class in the morning, Wang Jiankun felt bored after listening for a while, but it was impossible for him to miss the regular classes during the day. Not only would the head teacher and the subject teachers disapprove, but even his family members would not agree.

After some thought, Wang Jiankun decided to find some challenging problems to work on.

Some time ago, there was a mathematics journal in the Guangzhou Library. There was an interesting equation problem in it, which was the NS equation.

It talks about the current belief of mathematicians and physicists that both breezes and turbulence can be explained and predicted by solving the NS equations.

Wang Jiankun searched for some information in his mind and learned that scientists and engineers currently assume that the equations describing these fluid phenomena have solutions. Approximate values ​​are used to deal with practical problems in engineering practice, but they have never given up exploring the existence of solutions to such equations.

Wang Jiankun felt that he could challenge this difficult problem. In the future, when designing interstellar spacecraft or more advanced curvature spacecraft, this problem would be unavoidable.

Moreover, when designing such a large and ultra-high-speed aircraft, there are significant risks in using empirical formulas for design. Errors that seem extremely small and negligible now will become huge problems on ultra-high-speed and ultra-large aircraft.

And according to intuition and the development of extradimensional technology described by Zhizi, this problem should have a definite solution.

It’s just that Zhizi is not good at solving this kind of problem. He can only use his quantum computing ability to verify the calculation, but he is not good at reasoning.

Wang Jiankun gave Zhizi a specific disturbance equation for calculating the vortex when the water wheel rotates. Zhizi also spent more than half an hour calculating before getting the result.

However, the NS equation is a type of equation, and the scientific community believes that it should have a general solution, rather than using supercomputers to brute force and verify it one by one.

Otherwise, as long as one variable is different, it will have to be recalculated, which is of no help in solving such problems.

For example, after a new aircraft is designed, it has to go through wind tunnels many times. The purpose of the wind tunnel is to calculate whether the aircraft is safe to fly in a real atmospheric environment.

Whether it can meet the design indicators such as speed, take-off and landing distance, load, range, etc.

These are practical applications of the NS equations. Since there is no general solution for quick calculation, we can only use the clumsy method to experiment with each variable one by one.

Moreover, this type of test also takes representative values. There will always be some exceptions in the actual situation, and it is impossible to test all the characteristic values. We can only keep approaching the limit values ​​to obtain the ultimate capability of the aircraft.

After blowing in the wind tunnel, it is not the end. After the prototype is made, it must be tested.

Because of its larger size, it is still different from the small model airplane in the wind tunnel. The test pilot has to conduct repeated test flights to obtain the aircraft's flight envelope.

This envelope means that in future mass-produced flights, all states within this range will be safe. Beyond this range, the aircraft will become uncontrollable, for example, it may suddenly disintegrate, lose altitude and speed, or become overloaded so that the pilot may faint, etc.

So now it takes about 10 years from the beginning of an aircraft research project to the production of a test flight prototype, and the test flight may also require hundreds or thousands of flights, and it will take 5 or 6 years to find the limits of each flight data.

If we can find the general solution to this type of equation and then use computer simulation technology to test it, not only will the speed be much faster but the cost will also be greatly reduced.

In the morning math and physics classes, Wang Jiankun was looking for information to understand the current research progress of the NS equation.

However, there was very little information found. There were only four papers that did some very superficial preliminary research. After reading the papers, Wang Jiankun roughly understood the difficulty of this problem, which was that there was no direction.

Wang Jiankun didn't think he could solve it in a few days. He had plenty of time in class and he had the help of Zhizi in his mind. He could use his imagination and believed that he could solve it.

At noon, as usual, the three of them ate together at the recycling station. Among the dishes the squad leader brought, there was a dish of braised pork with bean curd sticks that was particularly delicious.

The meat was red and greasy, and the yellow and white bean curd sheets absorbed the soup, which gave it a special flavor. Wang Jiankun and Fang Guihua finally shared the soup, without wasting any of it.

After dinner, Wang Jiankun showed the computer to the monitor. The monitor had heard of computers and seen them on TV, but this was the first time he had seen one in person.

Wang Jiankun demonstrated typing and asked the squad leader to try it as well. Wang Jiankun wrote a program for typing using pinyin, so as long as one knows pinyin, one can get started quickly.

The monitor had never used a keyboard, so he could only type by looking at the keyboard using the two-finger method.

After typing a paragraph, I asked Wang Jiankun some computer questions.

Wang Jiankun told him that this was the latest IBM computer that he had bought with the help of a friend in the United States. It had only been out for two months, and he also asked someone to help make the hardware and corresponding software for Chinese conversion, otherwise he would have had to use English instead.

Wang Jiankun did this to show his squad leader that he had overseas connections and that even the latest computers could be delivered to China so quickly.

Moreover, there are people in China who help with the Chinese translation, and there must be some experts and scholars in China who understand computers and can make modifications.

This shows that the relationship between Wang Jiankun's mother and uncle is quite strong and should not be underestimated.

When leaving the recycling station, Wang Jiankun gave the project book to the squad leader Wu Xiaoyi, and also gave him a copy of the computer introduction and instructions, indicating that he could come here and use this computer in the future.

In the next few days, Wang Jiankun dug out 110 cubic meters of underground space every night and stored or reinforced some of the solid elements he obtained.

The remaining 15 cubic meters of processing capacity are used to refine the rare earth ore brought by my father, making it into metal blocks and silicon wafers, as well as the by-product glass.

My father would take the produced glass back home the next time he came to unload the goods, and then have someone transport it to Master Quan's clock workshop.

Now Master Quan's workshop has expanded a bit, and all the assembly processes have been outsourced. He has developed all his relatives and friends into assembly workers, and his own shop is specifically responsible for manufacturing parts.

Wang Jiankun decided to hand over the spring manufacturing to the commune next month.

Because when my grandfather went to the commune for a meeting a few days ago, the commune leader said that the team had to hand over the profits of the lighter factory.

In theory, the collective enterprises in the team have no obligation to hand over profits to the commune. The state only stipulates that public grain must be paid.

In principle, the profits of collective enterprises belong to the collective or the entity that provided capital or technology. There is no requirement to hand over profits or taxes to the higher-level government.

But the current policy is still unclear, and my grandfather doesn't want to pay unclearly, because the commune cannot provide the team's factory with business establishment certificates and tax certificates.

Therefore, according to the plan given by Wang Jiankun before, it was proposed that the commune should also participate in the lighter industry and hand over the production process of the springs to the commune. The commune could get a processing fee of 2 cents for each spring.

If the commune pays for the material costs (iron and manganese) itself, it will have to pay an additional 3 cents per piece.

The commune decided to only earn processing fees in the early stage, and then decide on the material supply method after finding the corresponding source of materials.

Wang Jiankun has asked Zhizi to help design a small electric furnace, a small wire rolling machine and spring manufacturing equipment. This set of equipment can produce 2 small springs for lighters every day. The team collected 8 yuan of equipment fees on behalf of the team, which was offset by the processing fees of the springs, and the payment was paid in 6 months.

Not only could Wang Jiankun get back 8 yuan in cash, but he could also be freed from his spring manufacturing job.

The commune also has a primary factory that can provide employment for dozens of people and generate profits for the commune's public construction expenditures. It can be considered a win-win solution.

By the end of get out of class on Friday afternoon, Wang Jiankun had not received a clear response from the class monitor regarding the project proposal.

When asked during this period, he replied that his father was still studying it and would tell Wang Jiankun when there was any news.

Wang Jiankun knew that he had encountered resistance. The conservative forces should still have the upper hand for now, and the shift in the country's top leadership had not yet been transmitted to this small county.

But Wang Jiankun is not in a hurry. He is still young and can wait, and he has many choices.

After I finish the exam in Raozhou tomorrow and obtain the amateur radio license, I can contact my uncle directly.

It is also much faster to contact my uncle, unlike making a phone call which requires several transfers. Sometimes my uncle is not there when I call, which wastes phone bills and time.

The eldest uncle replied that the younger uncle had already set up a company in Hong Kong and was selecting personnel to come to the country and prepare to contact the eldest uncle and Wang Jiankun.

It is very difficult to find someone to represent my uncle. He must be able to speak Cantonese and Mandarin, and understand business negotiations and international trade.

Wang Jiankun could only wait for his uncle to find someone reliable.

As he was going to Raozhou for an exam the next day, Wang Jiankun went to his class teacher, Mr. He, to ask for leave during evening study.

The head teacher already knew that he was applying for a radio license, so he didn't make things difficult for him when he asked for leave to take the exam, and just reminded him to be careful.

After returning to his residence in Yu Yu Garden in the evening, he took out the reference books for the exam and looked through them again. He also asked Chieko to give him two sets of questions to do. He was prepared to pass the exam with full marks, so he looked to see if there were any knowledge points that he had not mastered.

On Saturday morning, Wang Jiankun got up early, washed, went to the morning market, had breakfast, and then dressed and rushed to Raozhou.

There were dewdrops on the weeds on both sides of the road, which turned into water vapor as the temperature gradually rose, making the morning feel even colder.

Fortunately, he had made a windproof suit and leather gloves a few days ago. The windproof suit was made of black rubber-coated canvas on the outside, with a layer of cotton in the middle and white cotton lining. After putting it on, he no longer felt cold when riding a bike.

It was not yet 8 o'clock when I arrived in Raozhou. I went to Cheng Xing's shop to get some water to clean up the dust, and then rode my bike to Raozhou Normal University examination center to take the exam.

The exam time is from 9:11 to :, and there is only one classroom for the exam.

After entering, I found that the seats were not full. Looking at the test numbers posted above, there were only 12 people taking the exam in total.

After all, Raozhou is just a small, underdeveloped inland city, and there aren't many people who have access to radio and have the interest and financial resources to do so.

Judging from the temperament of some of them, 3 or 4 of them should be veterans, and 6 of them are well-dressed and should be from cadre families or have small assets in their families.

The examination process went smoothly. Two staff members from the Raozhou Post and Telecommunications Bureau were invigilators. After collecting the test papers, they told everyone that the transcripts would be mailed out in one week. If there were no objections, the amateur radio license would be mailed out to the permanent address stated when filling out the application materials in another week.

After the exam, I had lunch with Cheng Xing in Raozhou, and then rushed to Dexing Copper Mine.

Before going to Guangzhou, Du Weiqiao sent a telegram saying that he had found three places and asked him to go and see which one to rent.

When we arrived at Dexing Copper Mine, we found him in the warehouse he rented.

His career also made great progress. He built a small office in the warehouse, hired an accountant to help him with bookkeeping and miscellaneous tasks, and also installed a telephone line.

"Jiankun, you are finally here."

"You were busy and couldn't get away before, so you came here as soon as you had some free time! You've upgraded your weapons so much that you even installed a telephone."

"Thanks to you, there are many more people coming here to buy metals recently, and the quantity is getting bigger and bigger. Some old customers have been cooperating with me for so long that they suggested that I install a phone so that they can call me to place orders and then transfer the money to me through the post office."

"Oh, you feel comfortable doing this, aren't you afraid of not getting the money back?"

"Of course I'm worried, but if we ship in small batches multiple times, the financial risk will be much smaller. And I only agree to this method with reputable merchants. I dare not do it as a newcomer. I must pay the money and receive the goods."

"This is a good idea. It saves the trouble for the merchants and increases your sales. It's a win-win situation! Without further ado, can you take me to see those places now?"

"Okay, Xiao Xie, you stay here and watch. If there is a call, follow the instructions you gave me. I'll go out with Wang Jiankun."

Du Weiqiao took Wang Jiankun to see the three places he had found. Two of them were quite far from the mountain, more than 100 meters away, making it inconvenient for Wang Jiankun to use the terrain.

There was a perfect place, with a barren mountain over 50 meters high just a few meters behind the house.

There are scattered shrubs on the mountain, but no tall trees. It is public property of the local commune.

The house is also public property of the commune and was previously used as a warehouse.

Du Weiqiao knew the secretary of the commune, and seeing that Wang Jiankun was interested in this place, he took him to see the secretary of the commune and rented the house.

Wang Jiankun proposed to rent the house for 10 years, but the commune secretary disagreed and was only willing to rent it for 5 years and pay the rent for 5 years in one lump sum.

Wang Jiankun argued with the commune secretary for a long time and agreed that the rent would be paid in two installments, two years' payment first and three years' payment before the end of the second year.

The house is more than 300 square meters, with a floor height of more than 4 meters. There is a small room inside that can be used as an office and lounge, and there are water, electricity and a toilet.

The main gate is also an iron frame door with wheels, so cars can drive in to load and unload goods.

I haven’t figured out how to use it specifically yet, but it’s not a wrong idea to rent it first. I can also build a secret base in the mountains behind. After a few years, I can find a way to buy this place.

After signing the rental agreement and paying two years' rent of 4 yuan, Wang Jiankun and Du Weiqiao returned to his territory first.

This time, Wang Jiankun placed a large order with him, including 30 tons of copper, 20 tons of lead, 10 tons of zinc, 10 tons of manganese, and 30 tons of copper, to be delivered in three months.

He paid a deposit of 1 yuan first. Starting next week, he will come to pick up a truckload of goods every week. When he picks up the goods, Wang Jiankun will ask his father to give him the payment.

Of course he was very happy to have such a big order, and Wang Jiankun's willingness to pay a deposit of 1 yuan made him feel at ease.

He promised to supply the best quality, and any unqualified products could be returned to him, and the shipping fee would also be his.

Then Wang Jiankun asked him to help find someone to guard the warehouse, who had to be honest and reliable, a local and have a family.

Du Weiqiao of course agreed to this small request and said that he would find a good person tomorrow.

He has a relative who used to be a gatekeeper for someone else, but his boss's business failed and he no longer wanted the warehouse, so he was left with nothing to do.

His home is in the commune where the warehouse is. Call him over tomorrow morning to let Wang Jiankun take a look.

That night Wang Jiankun and Du Weiqiao went to the Huaiyang restaurant for dinner.

Business in the evening was indeed very good just as the boss said, and the lobby downstairs was almost full.

The two of them did not go to the private room upstairs, but found a small table in the lobby to order food and eat.

Du Weiqiao was obviously a frequent visitor and ordered several special dishes.

During the meal, he talked to Wang Jiankun about his business experience, telling him how he had gradually grown from a patchwork middleman to his current scale and connections, and how his goods had been sold to several larger factories in Jiangsu Province.

While complimenting him, Wang Jiankun asked him how his goods were shipped to Jiangsu Province.

He did not hide anything and told him directly that if he was responsible for the delivery, the goods would be transported by train to Jiujiang Port, and then transferred to ship via the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal to Jiangsu Province.

Although the distance is long, the freight is cheap, and for him who sells metals, low freight is good.

Before, Wang Jiankun had been thinking about how to open up a channel to Anhui Province and then sell lighters to the north. He didn't expect to use water transportation to first go northwest, then southeast, and then to the Grand Canal to the north.

This gave Wang Jiankun an idea. He decided not to focus on train freight and road transportation all the time. Water transportation can currently reach some of the most developed areas in the country.

Moreover, water transportation is more flexible. We can make some high-speed ship engines ourselves and install them on the hulls we buy. The transportation efficiency will increase a lot at once, and the engines can also be imported from abroad.

After dinner, Wang Jiankun went to the guesthouse to rest. After finishing the interview tomorrow, he will return to the county town to continue building the underground base.

(End of this chapter)