My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 76 Adults Really Want It All

But today Zhang Lanzhi wore a military uniform.

I don’t know if it’s to express my ultimate belonging, or to tie in with today’s theme of military-civilian integration.

Anyway, the effect is great.

It also inadvertently affected the direction.

Let Weidong drive back to the Post and Telecommunications School and take Dong Xueqing's single-cassette recorder.

This girl actually got a piece of floral cloth, folded it, and threaded it into a cover for the tape recorder, wrapping the precious tape recorder like a military schoolbag.

Wei Dong couldn't help laughing when he saw this, but also had some new ideas.

The press station only had one 212 jeep. When they met in the suburban town where the electronics factory was located, Weidong, out of curiosity, switched cars with the driver to drive to the factory. He completely gave up the idea of ​​getting this car because it was even bumpier than a truck.

Editor-in-Chief Lao Feng brought up this scene with the factory leaders who greeted him: "Weidong has been driving around like this in several third-tier factories in Jiangzhou, assisting with sales and sorting out products. He's accumulated rich market experience and is very calm and experienced. Only now can you see some of his youthful demeanor."

Indeed, as a talented person in reform and opening up who is now highly praised by various enterprises and official media, Weidong seems too young.

Especially after Dong Xueqing got him this outfit, he no longer had the rustic look he had before, and he was definitely a fashionable and energetic young man at that time.

Then he brought two young girls with him.

She is slim and pretty in a black turtleneck sweater, always smiling; she is tall and elegant in a green military uniform, yet remains cool and serious.

Each has its own characteristics and is very eye-catching.

Everyone was sitting in the conference room, and many factory employees and cadres were crowded at the door, curiously peeking in.

They are quite unruly. You can tell they don't take the factory leaders seriously. Everyone has a stable job and I've never heard of words like expulsion or dismissal. It's written all over their faces.

Can this make a good product?

Weidong was a little nervous because he had only seen the product at a city meeting before.

Sure enough, when he took out Dong Xueqing's tape recorder and explained his idea, "First, make your model a little smaller, with a tape compartment on top and a speaker on the bottom. This way, it'll be about the size of a thick book. Finally, make a plastic cover so it can be folded up like a book and put in a bookcase."

When Mrs. Shi’s son was in junior high school, he had such a platform. She often took him to the guard room to practice speaking, which left a deep impression on Weidong.

Lao Feng and Yu Songhai immediately nodded and looked at each other seriously, expressing their affirmation of cooperation that this was a good idea.

But the person here immediately shook his head and said it was impossible because he didn't have the technical accumulation. He shut his mouth with a bunch of professional terms.

Such a small device requires different circuit boards and component structures, and may even require the world's most advanced integrated circuit boards. Currently, the entire Chengdu does not have the technical capabilities to do so.

It's typical that even though they're not starving, they still have the illusion that their superiors will support them, so they find excuses to shirk their responsibilities before anything else.

If private enterprises in later generations encountered such a thing, the boss would slam the table and shout "get out".

This is why state-owned enterprises cannot compete with private enterprises.

But there are no such large private enterprises now, so Weidong has to take a few steps back. If a small business cannot be done, then go bigger. However, your seemingly high-end wooden shell must be replaced with plastic.

He started to make excuses and shook his head again. We said that this was a product that won the second prize in Shuchuan and the first prize in quality in the national electronic product selection in 1978. How could we replace it so easily? Besides, we have no experience in plastic shell manufacturing. No way.

Wei Dong's negotiating ability, which was not very strong to begin with, began to make him impatient. What the hell was this?

You always make excuses no matter what I say, you deserve to be bankrupt in the future!
They would not panic until they started to face food shortages like the Xishan Factory and the Hongguang Factory.

Getting ready to leave.

Wasn’t that what he said before about the SLR camera factory?

Lao Feng and Yu Songhai quickly tried to smooth things over: "Factory No. 3 is still capable, and making some scientific and technological breakthroughs is also in line with the current reform trend of not daring to tackle tough problems."

Still have to coax!

Unexpectedly, Zhang Lanzhi, who was sitting next to her, suddenly spoke up: "We have a factory that can make it. Phenolic plastic is already very mature."

Thanks to her military uniform, no one blamed her for interrupting, and the manufacturer at most dared to ask which factory it was.

Zhang Lanzhi proudly reported a number, and no one said a word.

In fact, military factories are divided into many systems. Aerospace and aerospace are not one system. Logistics and armaments are different, and equipment and combat readiness are very different.

Most electronics factories are related to radio, radar, and communications, while optical instrument factories naturally focus more on making anti-fall casings and the like. It is said that this factory also supplies to aerospace companies.

Each has their own accumulation.

Phenolic plastic is a technology from Su Lian. Compared with the polyethylene plastic technology introduced from Europe and the United States later, it is strong and durable and has low cost. However, it is gray and dirty and not so beautiful.

Lao Feng and Yu Songhai hurriedly asked if this factory could supply the outer shell, and the third factory would still focus on circuit boards, speakers and other things.

They still wanted to integrate some of the electrical appliance factories in Chengdu. Now that they had changed their mindset, Weidong wasn't stubborn. "Going big is easy, right? Those big speakers that fool people with their big housings don't actually cost much, and the components are the same, but we can sell them for a higher price. At least at the same price point, ours are bigger and flashier, so they're bound to sell better."

There was a picture of a tape recorder on the blackboard in the conference room that looked like a child's drawing. Dong Xueqing couldn't help but smile.

But he learned from Zhang Lanzhi to take notes seriously in a notebook.

I didn't expect the radio factory to make excuses and refuse to do anything.

The corners of Fengchu's mouth quickly turned to the corners of his eyebrows.

What a pretty little girl, she is about to get angry!
The food is right in front of you, why don’t you eat it?

Weidong looked helplessly at Lao Feng and Yu Songhai. "We've already spent a lot of money to film a commercial that can be seen by audiences across the country to promote the product. We're aiming for annual sales of 100,000 units, or even more. Are you not planning to participate?"

The factory's thinking was stubborn: "We already have existing products. We won a national silver medal in 74 and another award in 78. They are well received by the people. We hope that if we can make these products better and more refined, we will have a bright future."

Weidong was speechless. "Times have changed, sir. It's 1984 now. Ten years have passed. We're rapidly developing the four modernizations. What's your main product? Radios! Now it's all tape recorders. There's a huge gap in product quality. So make that tape recorder you're imitating bigger and more impressive according to my ideas, otherwise you won't be able to compete with the coastal factories."

The manufacturer is still avoiding the issue and just wants to rely on its old reputation and make familiar radios. The newly developed tape recorder is also a copy of the existing model and they don't want to change it.

Besides, if your empty talk about modifying the model fails in research and development and trial production, who will be responsible?

Judging from the tone, if the newspaper hadn't brought them here, they wouldn't want to bother with anything.

They have all kinds of concerns and nagging, they just don't want to take risks, and they are unwilling to make any changes to the production line. The workers are still clamoring at the door, asking why they should change a familiar job.

Dong Xueqing finally couldn't hold back any longer: "If you don't want to do it, then don't do it. Brother, let's go somewhere else. The Post and Telecommunications Equipment Factory is also trial-producing electrical appliances. Let's go to the Post and Telecommunications Equipment Factory and take a look."

Weidong took one last helpless look at Yu Songhai, shook his head, put down his chalk, and walked away: "You won't think about reform unless you're forced to starve. Only when everyone is laid off will you realize that reform is not a treat."

Old Feng wanted to try to mediate, but Yu Songhai pulled him along, saying, "It's a good opportunity to see different situations. Around the Xishan Factory and at the Guozhou Daily Chemical Factory, I've seen different attitudes towards reform. They're quite representative. Let's go and explore other places."

Their original intention was to take them to visit other military factories, which was in line with the theme of military-civilian integration.

Rang Weidong had already come out and heard Dong Xueqing say that it turned out that the postal and telecommunications equipment factory was right inside their school. It was a school-run factory but it was quite large. Many of their students had the experience of working and studying there. In addition to assembling radios, they were also trying to imitate tape recorders. Hers had even been borrowed and disassembled, and she felt so sorry for it that she made a cloth cover to prevent anyone from seeing it.

Weidong laughed and said, "Then go to the Post and Telecommunications School first."

Yu Songhai also advised Lao Feng that there was a document in February to promote "factory-school collaboration" and promote technological innovation and transformation, which would be in line with this direction.

The difference is actually huge.

School-run factories have simple, high-level, and cheap labor in the form of students, and they have only been established one or two years ago in accordance with the documents, so they do not have the burden of so many retirees and rigid production lines.

However, he had a solid foundation in science and technology. There were many radio experts in the post and telecommunications major, but he was worried that he couldn't sell his radios, and he didn't know where to sell his tape recorders.

It was not until Dong Xueqing went to Radio Factory No. 3 that she found out that Weidong was assigned to engage in the tape recorder business.

This was like a perfect opportunity, and everyone from the factory director to the principal was called over for a lively meeting.

The exterior drawings hand-drawn by technical secondary school students were clearer than those made by Rang Weidong. On the way back to the Post and Telecommunications School from the Third Factory, Rang Weidong carefully explained to Dong Xueqing his ideas for the larger style.

In fact, the Hongguang Factory store had a Sanyo dual-cassette recorder that he had bought with foreign exchange coupons to rip foreign language tapes. Now, every day, it was "spicy hot pot, spicy hot pot, spicy hot pot for five cents a skewer!"

Dong Xueqing also watched it in Jiangzhou and helped with the recording.

Weidong asked her to borrow that design: "But it should be bigger and more powerful. Make it a few colorful lights, flashing brightly, and the speakers should be as big as possible, with the sound as loud as possible. There's no such thing as dual-card ripping, just a single card with high volume."

So the technical secondary school students who were about to graduate drew pictures for the principals and factory directors.

It became clear when Wei Dong explained it further: "Two models, the smaller one is as small as possible. If you can develop a loop mode, such as 10 seconds, 20 seconds, or one minute loop playback, then it will definitely occupy the top position in the market. If that doesn't work, can you also have a fast or slow function? Then it will be a perfect repeater that can be used by anyone learning a foreign language."

Before, when I was in the third factory, I was complaining and didn’t want to work hard to improve the production of small machines, so Weidong didn’t even have the time to explain these details.

Now Old Feng had to whisper to Yu Songhai: "Xiao Rang is indeed very sensitive to the market, and the Postal and Telecommunications Equipment Factory is more in line with his thinking."

Because this explanation process has been interrupted by applause again and again.

From the factory director to the experts, everyone kept saying that we should find a solution and that comrade’s idea was very good.

We want to do both big and small ones!
Zhang Lanzhi got the permission to produce phenolic plastic shells for a supporting factory next to the Xishan Factory that specialized in plastic shells. She was very happy and immediately called the factory via the long-distance call from the Post and Telecommunications School to report the good news.

Old Cheng said he would arrange for someone to come to Chengdu immediately.

So some people deserve to suffer from the reform.

But if Weidong stays for a day or two, someone will be able to seize the opportunity and come up with something new.

　After the Spring Festival, it will be on the shelves around February 6, 7, or 8. Welcome everyone to collect, read, recommend, and comment. I will definitely add more updates when it is on the shelves. I wish you all a happy Spring Festival.
　　

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