The factory received an order for a high-frequency induction furnace for a furniture factory, specializing in the production of bent wood furniture. The furniture factory first makes various shapes of molds, such as bow-shaped, U-shaped, etc., puts the mold on the high-frequency furnace, adds very simple wood chips layer by layer on the mold, puts a layer of brushing glue, meets the thickness, presses into the mold with a hydraulic press, and heats the high-frequency furnace at the same time, and the glue is quickly dried and solidified to harden and form the plywood.

The focus of this electric furnace is the control of temperature, positive and negative temperature difference can not exceed three degrees, in order to ensure the smooth production of the first high-frequency furnace, Hu Youmin suggested to the factory director that all electronic components are purchased, the factory director said that everything let him call the shots, must do a good job in the first high-frequency furnace.

After a period of intense work, the high-frequency furnace was completed and successfully commissioned. This was followed by delivery, installation, production, and everything went smoothly. The furniture factory is in the city's effective area, the boss is a military cadre, about 1.65 meters tall, about 40 years old shrewd middle-aged man, that day he was very happy, invited Hu Youmin and the installation and commissioning workers to the restaurant for a meal, and gave him a business card, saying that he could find him to buy furniture in the future, and gave Hu Youmin a 7% discount.

The efficiency of the factory is getting better and better year by year, and the scale is constantly expanding, and by the end of 92, the factory has increased from more than 20 people to nearly 40 people. Hu Youmin also came out of the school, and under the recommendation of his master Lao Tian and the appreciation of the factory director, he served as the production dispatcher in the factory, and his salary rose to 300 yuan a month.

Hu Youmin didn't plan to go back for the Spring Festival this year, Lao Tian asked him to go to his house for the New Year, and he promised to go to visit the third grandfather this Sunday morning and tell them. At the gate of the family courtyard of the military region, Hu Youmin met an acquaintance, Zhou Zixiang, the owner of a furniture factory that ordered high-frequency furnaces in their factory.

When the two saw each other, they were stunned, feeling that the world was really small, Boss Zhou was very impressed by his seriousness and dedication, and Hu Youmin was also quite curious about this local tyrant who was digging up quickly. Zhou Zixiang took the initiative to stretch out his hand, Hu You hurriedly held it, and after chatting, he learned that he was transferred from the logistics department of the Tanglin Military Region, and bought the house when the army was reformed, although he bought a house in a high-end community after making money, but the environment of the army's family home is good, and the quality of the personnel is also high, so he has been living here.

After learning the reason why he came here, Zhou Zixiang became more enthusiastic and invited him to play in the store and factory, and Hu Youmin readily agreed. The two chatted for a while, Zhou Zixiang said that there was something in the factory, and he wanted to go and see, and when he left, he specially left him a mobile phone number, and then drove away in a Fukang car.

Looking at Zhou Zixiang in the distance, Hu Youmin fell into deep thought. Zhou Zixiang has only been engaged in the furniture industry for five or six years, starting from opening a furniture store, expanding to three stores and opening a furniture factory. Both husband and wife have a Motorola folding phone of more than 10,000 yuan, bought a car, a van, a van, and bought a house.

Hu Youmin has been to his furniture factory, which is a labor-intensive industry with little scientific and technological content, low entry barriers, and low degree of mechanization. He roughly estimated that if he only purchased a few basic carpentry equipment and painting equipment, it would be enough to open a factory for 30,000 or 40,000 yuan. At the beginning, you can also do not purchase woodworking equipment, rely on carpentry to do it manually, just slower, the cost is higher, and then slowly add equipment when the benefits are good, so that 20,000 yuan is about the same.

I feel that I can develop in this direction, but now Hu Youmin's money is not enough, and he lacks marketing experience, and he still needs to do a complete market research before he can decide whether he can do it? But with a direction and a goal, people suddenly have a spirit, just like a person who is groping in the dark sees the dawn.

The more he thought about it, the more excited Hu Youmin became, and discussed it with the third grandfather at noon, and Hu Youmin, who was encouraged and supported, decided to plan well in the period before graduation. Hu Youmin went to Zhou Zixiang's store in the afternoon, and Zhou Zixiang received him very warmly. He hired a salesman in the store, a few young and beautiful girls, and he went to the store just to inspect and arrange some major work, and he didn't ask about the specific business.

He put a set of tea sets in his shop, drinking kung fu tea like a southerner, Hu Youmin didn't understand these, he sat honestly and watched him fiddle with those tea sets, he first boiled a pot of boiling water to clean the tea set, and then boiled a pot of boiling water to make tea, the first tea was poured out and not drunk, and the second tea began to drink, watching those tea sets fly up and down in his hands, as if spiritual, Hu Youmin had a preliminary understanding of tea art, and also fantasized that one day he could leisurely make a pot of kung fu tea and chat with friends.

Zhou Zixiang poured good tea and motioned him to drink tea, Hu Youmin picked up the teacup like him, and tasted it in small sips like drinking, I don't know if it was a psychological effect, or this tea was really delicious, he only felt that the tea was fragrant after the mouth, which was endlessly memorable.

When chatting, Hu Youmin pretended to chat with him casually about some interesting things in business, and brought up some things that he was concerned about or didn't understand, intentionally or unintentionally. Zhou Zixiang quickly realized his intentions, I don't know if it is because of the refreshment of the Northeast people, or I think this is not a trade secret, Zhou Zixiang told him that the furniture is purchased from Guangzhou, and the gross profit is about 30%, and the furniture factory has only opened for a short time, and the gross profit is not yet determined.

Then they talked about the history of the development of furniture in China, from the Han and Tang dynasties to the Song Dynasty, all kinds of furniture with high sitting. Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the production and design of furniture requirements for excellence, especially the Ming and Qing dynasties, became the heyday of traditional furniture, is the golden age of furniture, can be said to have reached the peak.

The characteristics of Chinese furniture in the past dynasties lie in the fact that it not only improves its use value for human beings through the evolution of various historical periods, but also condenses the different artistic styles formed in its specific environment. In the existing Ming and Qing Dynasty furniture, it is more concentrated to reflect the exquisite craftsmanship value, the extremely high art appreciation value and the heavy historical and cultural value. This makes furniture one of the cultural heritages that the Chinese nation can be proud of and cherish.

Furniture can be divided into modern furniture, European classical furniture, American furniture, Chinese classical furniture (that is, mahogany furniture), as well as the more popular neo-classical series furniture in the past two years. According to the materials used, furniture is divided into: solid wood furniture, panel furniture, soft furniture, rattan furniture, bamboo furniture, steel and wood furniture and furniture made of other artificial materials (such as glass furniture, marble furniture, etc.).

According to the function, it can be divided into several categories: office furniture, living room furniture, bedroom furniture, study furniture, kitchen furniture (equipment) and auxiliary furniture. According to the classification of furniture products, it can be divided into: high-end, high-end, medium-high-end, medium-low-end, low-grade, low-grade.

With the improvement of people's living standards, the demand for furniture is growing and the requirements are getting higher and higher. Some personalized customized furniture began to appear, and the size, style, material, paint, color, etc. were all processed and produced according to the customer's requirements.

Although Hu Youmin read some books on this subject in advance, he has a general understanding of the furniture industry, but in front of Zhou Zixiang, he is not even a primary school student, there is no harm if there is no comparison, in the face of Zhou Zixiang, who has been crawling in the shopping mall for many years, let Hu Youmin know the difference between paper talk and actual combat.

However, Hu Youmin always felt that something was wrong, for example, he said that there was only 30% gross profit, how could he develop so fast in such a short period of time? That is the rhythm of doubling every year. Hu Youmin knows that everyone has a unique skill that is not passed on secretly, which has to be explored and understood by himself, and it is impossible for others to tell him. Still, he found the conversation very beneficial.

The offices of the factory are heated, and when the thick door curtains are lifted, the heating comes in, and the outside is two worlds. There is no heating in the workshop, just rely on a few stoves to keep warm, the stove here is different from the wood stove and lotus root coal stove in the south, it is to burn coal, the stove is connected to a very long chimney, rely on the chimney to dissipate heat and heat, see that the fire in the stove is weak, use the stove hook to lift the cover, shovel a shovel of coal into it. This is naturally not comparable to the heating in the office, but it is much stronger than the ice and snow outside. After working for a while, everyone will come over to bake the fire around the stove, blow the cow, and talk about the mountains for a while.

One day, when she was about to get off work, Tian Yumei slipped to Hu Youmin's workshop office, saw him lying on the table and reading the drawings, and secretly walked behind him and roared, which frightened Hu Youmin to stand up suddenly, and Tian Yumei, who was hiding behind her, was touched back several steps. She said angrily, "What are you doing? ”

Seeing that it was her, Hu Youmin became happy, he hadn't seen her for a few days, he had already missed her a little in his heart, and he was about to get off work and have dinner with her. So while collecting the drawings, he said to her, "I invite you to dinner in the evening, what do you want to eat?"

"You invite me to dinner?yo, it's rare for you to take the initiative to invite me to dinner!" Tian Yumei was a little surprised.

"How about the Chaoyang Hotel?

"What's going on?"

"No, I just miss you!"

"Really?" Tian Yumei heard the lovesick words coming out of his mouth for the first time, and was a little suspicious that she had heard it wrong.

"Tonight, you're going to be good, I'm in for a treat, and you pay!" Hu Youmin teased her.

", pick the ghost, you know you're a miser!"

"Brother doesn't pick it, when will I be able to save enough for my wife?

"Yo, you're starting to save your wife's book? Who do you like? Say, sister will give you a staff officer!"

"Well, it's beautiful, I won't tell you, I'm afraid you'll have low self-esteem, haha!"

"How pretty?"

"Closing the flowers and the moon, sinking the fish and falling geese, won't it hit you, right?"

"No, when did you meet?

"She's far away, close at hand!"

"Yo, I've learned to flirt with my sister! Tell me honestly, how many have you flirted?" Tian Yumei stretched out her two divine fingers, and Hu Youmin hurriedly swore to the sky, and only then did he escape.

Hu Youmin while going to work, while pondering the furniture factory, when he has time, he went to the furniture market and building materials market to do some investigations, with a deeper understanding, he slowly touched some doorways, one is in the material, the second is in the style, the third is the brand effect, these price differences are several times, which strengthens his determination to open a furniture factory.

It's been almost two years since I came to Tanglin, and Hetian Yumei's feelings are getting deeper and deeper, but she hasn't told her family about it. Tian Yumei didn't dare to say it, Hu Youmin was afraid to say that the power of the world is very powerful, if he stayed in Tanglin to develop, there was still a possibility with her, but he wanted to go back to Xiangnan to open a furniture factory, and wanted to have his own business, and the possibility of Tian Yumei returning to Xiangnan with him was almost zero. He wants both love and career, but reality can only let him choose one!

At the end of July 93, Hu Youmin received a letter from home, his younger brother was admitted to Changde College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, although the school was not ideal, but the family had a college student who jumped out of the farm, it was still very happy. He immediately wrote back to congratulate his younger brother, asking him to study hard, not to worry about tuition, and to tell him any difficulties in time, and let him solve them. Then I went to the post office and remitted 1,000 yuan to my family.