A few days later, more than 100 sets of new equipment were neatly placed in the mechanical pencil production workshop, infrared sirens, and monitors arranged inside and outside the workshop at the factory gate were set up in place.

At this time, Li Mo's loan of five million from the bank was basically exhausted, and he could only rely on the factory's own hematopoietic production for the time being.

Fortunately, there are no places where there is a high cost nowadays, and the remaining problem is to start production at full capacity and bring the product to market.

After two or three days of collective training, the original mechanical pencil making workers in the factory and the new workers transferred from other workshops are basically proficient in the modified machines.

Although these grassroots workers do not have a high degree of education, and most of them have a junior high school and primary school education, their accumulated hands-on work has made them several levels higher than Li Moyuan, who has a bachelor's degree.

After simple training, the average efficiency of these workers has been able to mass-produce and assemble 15 mechanical pencils in 10 minutes, and assemble 1.5 pencils in an average minute.

With the current production capacity, today's Uglyfish Stationery Factory can mass-produce up to 60,000 mechanical pencils a day.

However, due to the extremely high requirements for precision of such hand-made mechanical pencils, and there are no large orders for the time being, mainly production inventory.

Therefore, the standard given by Li Mo is that each person can assemble one every two minutes, but the quality must be excellent.

What's more, what he made was not a big road goods for five cents and a dollar, but a high-grade mechanical pencil with a cost of three yuan, a wholesale price of five yuan, and a price of about seven or eight yuan.

As a result, the daily output of the factory is limited to about 20,000 pieces, and the average cost is also 60,000 yuan.

In the face of such huge expenses, Li Mo also had to speed up his pace and strive to bring this new pencil to the market.

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"Warmly celebrate the national patent for the research and development of a new mechanical automatic pencil by Li Mo, a student of our school"

Early one morning, the students of Ishikawa University of Science and Technology, who had just experienced a busy week of exams and had relaxed a little, suddenly noticed that at some point, such celebratory banners were hung in the school's teaching building, office building, laboratory building and other places.

Even leaflets were distributed by members of the student council of each ministry to the doors of each dormitory for the first time.

-- You must know that one of the duties of these people is to supervise and drive away those who indiscriminately post small advertisements for rent or pyramid schemes in the dormitory buildings!

Therefore, when they saw that the students in the student union did not send advertisements for the school newspaper, those who stayed in the dormitory were also surprised, took the flyers and looked at them carefully, and discussed this strange-looking mechanical pencil.

It is said that rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest, but Li Mo chose to start from his side this time and promote and sell his new products among the people around him.

To this end, in addition to taking out several patent certificates that he had already obtained, Li Mo also personally sent several finished mechanical pencils to several school leaders for each other to use and experience.

For this miracle mechanical pencil, all the teachers have only one reaction, and that is to praise each other, which is amazing!

With the previous popularity of "Fallen Country" and Pepsi's door-to-door invitation, almost all the teachers of HKUST already know about this most well-known college student since the founding of the university.

Therefore, when Li Mo vaguely proposed that the school could help publicize and expand the cost road, the school leaders almost gave the green light all the way and unanimously agreed.

Not only did he give Li Mo publicity tools, but the Vice President even personally provided him with a small shop of about 15 square meters next to the supermarket on campus, designated as the "Ugly Fish Monopoly" for encouragement, which was also the first time in the history of the founding of HKUST.

This is not only the importance of Li Mo, but the school leaders naturally have their own plans.

With such excellent research results, even if Li Mo does not take the initiative to put it forward, the school leaders who wish that their school would produce an Edison-level inventor will also take this opportunity to vigorously promote their ability to govern the school and educate people, not to mention that once Li Mo really creates a nationally renowned brand, it will be a supreme honor for his alma mater.

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"Li Mo? Isn't that the guy who wrote novels in our school, didn't he study civil engineering, how did he start a mechanical pencil? ”

"Who knows, maybe he's an all-around genius..."

Passing by the big red banner that appeared in front of me, two HKUST girls who passed by with books were curiously discussing.

"Don't miss it when you pass by, the new mechanical lead test is used, welcome to buy!"

At a makeshift sales point set up with parasols marked with the pattern "Tear down and move", several boys put up stereos behind them, holding megaphones and shouting for publicity.

It was Li Mo's roommates, Zheng Qiang, Hu Bin and others.

At this time, this stall specially allowed by the school sold the first batch of products that Li Mo took, and asked a few of his roommates to help sell and promote.

"Mechanical pencil? Is this what the flyer says? ”

"Damn, seven dollars for a pencil, buddy is not kidding, right?"

"How do you draw a circle?"

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After a while, the entire booth was surrounded by students from the University of Science and Technology, and the boys and girls all rushed to take the mechanical pencils they had tried out, and according to Li Mo's prompts, they drew on the spare white paper, and then they were amazed again and again.

Those students who were originally worried about the price experienced the power of this mechanical pencil in person, and they also changed their attitudes in an instant, and even called for great value.

"Give you money, get me one."

"I want one too."

"How many sticks are in a box, help us bring a box up to the dormitory"

…

After experiencing the magic of this mechanical pencil, all the students were also boiling and rushed forward to buy it.

For an engineering student whose final course design is basically hand-drawn, such a fully functional pencil is simply a blessing for himself, and how much time he has to save with it!

In less than half a day, the three boxes of 600 pencils brought by Li Mo were sold out, with a cumulative turnover of 4,200 yuan.

Looking at the small mountains of zero bills piled up in the money box, the third Hu Bin widened his eyes and half-jokingly, "I'll rub, fourth, I don't study any bullshit college anymore, don't mix with you, this is simply a mountain of gold!" ”

"You're always welcome."

Li Mo smiled, and then took out today's remuneration and distributed it to several roommates.

"Fourth, you're too outward." Seeing that Li Mo actually wanted to pay himself, the boss Zheng Qiang was dissatisfied, "Brothers are just helping you, give more money." ”

"Yes, it's all a trivial matter, and if I hadn't helped you set up this stall, I wouldn't have been able to call the beautiful woman." The second Han Xiaoxiao waved the note in his hand, happy, "It seems that there are still more activities, I didn't expect to be able to put my sister when I am about to graduate." ”

Seeing that everyone refused to accept their honorarium, Li Mo also suddenly realized that maybe it was really because he had been in contact with the society for a long time this time, and he had lost some of the buddy righteousness that students should have, and he was a little emotional.

"Then let's go down to the restaurant for a meal."

Then Li Mo thought of another suggestion, "I haven't been together with everyone for a long time, so let's have a little wine together." ”

Hu Bin nodded, "It's pretty much the same." ”

As soon as the booth was cleaned up, a couple of students hurriedly walked over to this side, "Classmate, is this the place that sells mechanical pencils?" ”

"Ah, yes." Hearing this, Li Mo, who was moving the stereo, turned around and nodded, "But I'm sorry, it's already sold out." ”

"Sold out?" Hearing the news, the two were slightly disappointed, "When will it be available?" ”

"Are you students at this school?"

Li Mo looked at the two and asked.

"No, it's from our Polytechnic University." The man replied, "This pencil can't be exclusively for HKUST, right?" ”

"Of course not, that's the case, I've already informed the sales department, and in a while our 'Ugly Fish Store' store will officially open in the University of Science and Technology, right next to the supermarket, you can go and have lunch first." Li Mo explained, "Because of the support of the school, students can enjoy discounts with their student IDs, and others will be more expensive if they buy them." ”

"That's okay, then we'll wait in the cafeteria, in case it's late again, it'll be troublesome."

The girl standing on the side answered, completely determined not to leave without buying anything.

Bidding farewell to these two customers who were so loyal to foreign schools before they saw the products, Li Mo was also moved in his heart, and considered whether to continue to expand the results and open a store in the Polytechnic University.

After all, the positioning of ugly fish culture is "science and technology, high-end", and the university market is the first cake that Li Mo will eat.

With this small test, Li Mo also has some confidence in the future market development.

Who said that domestic production is weak, clownfish has great wisdom, sooner or later, he will become a man who will attack the world's colleges and universities!

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