Lin Zhenhua lived in Xunyang for a few days and arranged some production and business matters.

After the coordination of Cen Youjun, now in the original Xunzi factory area, two companies have been formed: Hanhua Industrial Company, which produces electric fans, and Hanhua Machine Tool Company, which produces machine tool accessories. Of course, the latter's name only exists in the frequent chat between Lin Zhenhua and Cen Youjun, and its official name is still Yonghe Agricultural Machinery Factory.

For Yonghe Agricultural Machinery Factory's rental of Hanhua Company's factory buildings and dormitories, all the workers and cadres did not feel anything abnormal, and everyone even felt that this so-called Yonghe Agricultural Machinery Factory was actually a machine tool workshop of Hanhua Industrial Company.

In those days, everyone's awareness of property rights was not so strong, everyone was used to the role of employees of state-owned enterprises, and you never had to ask who the factory was, you just needed to know that someone paid you wages.

The production of electric fans continues, however, compared to last year's tension, this year's fan production seems a little cold. The first is that the export task has been cut in half, and the second is that the sales situation in the domestic market is not very optimistic. The market effect brought about by the innovation of water lily fans has faded, and more and more domestic fan manufacturers have begun to realize the importance of fan appearance. In fact, there is not much technical content in the appearance, and once others realize it, the advantages of GCA will disappear.

Thanks to Lin Zhenhua's advance layout, Xiong Lijun in Shanghai, Zhou Weiyang in Nanjing and Chu Hongyang in Wuhan have established good relations with local department stores, thus ensuring that water lily fans can still occupy a place in these markets.

Another factor affecting fan margins is also quietly emerging, that is, the supply of raw materials is starting to become tight and prices are rising.

The Provincial Department of Materials, seeing that Hanhua Company undertook the export task, did not strictly control the supply of raw materials such as steel plates, silicon steel sheets, and enameled wires proposed by them. Lin Zhenhua knows that such a situation may be difficult to maintain for too long.

The export task is guaranteed by the province, and your sales to the domestic market, why can you eat small stoves? There are many enterprises in the province that want to engage in various household appliances such as fans, and everyone is putting pressure on the Provincial Department of Materials through their own channels, and the Department of Materials will not be able to cover Hanhua Company forever.

Lin Zhenhua can only keep running forward now, always one step or more ahead of others, otherwise the former glory will become a flash in the pan. He now feels more short of money than in the past, when he opened the Xinxin store, he earned 100,000 yuan a year, and he already had the feeling of a large amount of money, and he could invite his sister and girlfriend to eat boiled fish every day. Now, boiled fish is no longer a luxury for him, but the R&D funds promised to Lang Dong are 5 million, and the machine tool company still needs more R&D funds.

After settling the affairs of Xunyang a little, Lin Zhenhua set off again, this time, his destination was Shanghai. He was accompanied by Wei Jingwen, a teacher from Fenghua Middle School. Lin Zhenhua has successfully persuaded Mr. Wei to leave his heartfelt passion for education and come to work in Xunyang. For identity considerations, Wei Jingwen's personnel relationship was linked to the Xunyang Municipal Education Bureau, and then he served as the chief engineer of electronics in Hanhua Company in the form of leave without pay.

The one who came to the train station to greet Lin Zhenhua was still Wang Baoxing, who he saw last time. Compared with last time, the young man seems to be much more mature, although he is still very respectful in his attitude towards Lin Zhenhua, but he is a little less youthful and restrained.

"I'm now studying ship theory at the night university opened at the base, and Director Liu said that when I graduate, he told the guard squadron to let me go to the fleet." Wang Baoxing said excitedly to Lin Zhenhua that they were sitting on a minibus to the base at this time.

"What, you want to be a sailor?" Lin Zhenhua asked.

Wang Baoxing said: "I want to be on the ship when I become a navy, who knows that I will be assigned here to be a guard soldier." I've been a soldier for a few years, and I haven't been to sea yet, which is too embarrassing. ”

"You're not afraid that I'll tell you what I'm talking about?" Lin Zhenhua scared him.

Wang Baoxing smiled and said, "I have reported to the leader eighty times and asked to go to the fleet." In the end, Director Liu said that he had to get a graduation certificate from the night college to go. I'm studying and doing homework every day, but I didn't take it so seriously when I was in junior high school. ”

"What are you studying?"

"Fleet Synergy."

"I'm dizzy." Lin Zhenhua laughed, "Your director is training sailors or fleet commanders, this major is too big for you, right?" ”

Wang Baoxing smiled embarrassedly: "Actually, the main content we learn is the communication between ships...... Chief, as you know, communication is part of collaboration. ”

Everyone chatted all the way, and before they knew that they had come to the base, Wang Baoxing directly took Lin Zhenhua and Wei Jingwen to Liu Xianghai's office.

"Xiaolin, ouch, and Teacher Wei, we haven't seen each other for a long time." Liu Xianghai greeted them warmly.

Wei Jingwen said a little awkwardly: "Director Liu, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

"Call me Lao Liu!" Liu Xianghai said, "Mr. Wei, we are old partners who have engaged in imitation five-axis machining together back then, don't make it so raw." By the way, speaking of imitation five-axis, Xiaolin, Mr. Wei, I will take you to see our newly renovated large-scale milling machine, which is the use of the imitation five-axis technology we engaged in back then. The Central Military Commission has specially allocated funds for the transformation, and I am not afraid that you will be angry, but what we have made is much stronger than the one we used to be. ”

"That's for sure, your electronics engineer is much better than my half-bucket of water." Wei Jingwen was not angry at all, he knew that his knowledge was already a little old, and the level of technicians on the military side would of course be higher.

Liu Xianghai said: "Old Wei, it's not a simple matter of level here. The control chip we used is also stronger than the Z80 that Kobayashi got back then, and we got it through secret channels. Haha, if only you knew these things, don't spread the word. ”

"How's the result?" Lin Zhenhua asked with concern.

"Very ideal. We have already fabricated the first set of submarine propellers, which are now being installed on test boats for sea trials. According to the news from the test team, the expected effect has been achieved in terms of power surname and noise reduction. ”

"How many decibels has the noise been reduced?" Lin Zhenhua asked very gossipy.

Liu Xianghai smiled: "This is a military secret, haha, Xiaolin, I think it's better if you don't know than if you know." ”

Lin Zhenhua said stupidly: "I think so too." At the very least, I don't have to go out with someone from the security department as a bodyguard. ”

After talking about the machine tool, Lin Zhenhua got down to business and asked: "Lao Liu, you called and said that there has been a breakthrough in the development of washing machines, what is the situation now?" ”

"It worked very well and exactly what you wanted." Liu Xianghai said, speaking of this, he smiled and sighed, and said, "Xiaolin, I really convince you." Do you know what unit we are? The naval equipment research department of a large country with a billion people, our every move is related to the balance of global naval power. However, it is ridiculous that you should ask our designers to help you develop a washing machine. ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "Lao Liu, you can't say that, the Eighth Route Army also helped fellow villagers carry water back then." If the design of my washing machine is brought to our chemical design institute, it will be a big problem, and if I put it here for you, it is just a matter of picking up water. Civil-military cooperation is mutually beneficial. ”

Liu Xianghai asked: "I heard that you have been cooperating with Professor Yao Heliang of Huaqing University, and they have even built an internship base for students there, why don't you let them help with this?" ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "The experts here in Huaqing, it is no problem to solve the principle of the mechanical part, but when it comes to the problem of fluid dynamics, the most professional must be you." ”

When Liu Xianghai heard this, he felt a lot more comfortable, and he said with a little pride: "You are not exaggerating what you said, when it comes to fluid dynamics, the top experts in the country are here with us." ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "This is not right, you should say that the top experts are in front of me." ”

Liu Xianghai said with a smile: "No, no, I also feel old now, and many things can only be done by young people." This time, I handed over your topic to Chang Qingbo to lead the team to do, and they did a very good job and solved many technical problems. However, everyone says that the most genius is still you Xiaolin, and the idea of using water to drive laundry is indeed very creative. ”

It turned out that Lin Zhenhua had been eyeing the washing machine market more than half a year ago, and was thinking about how to make some unconventional products to occupy the high-end of the market. He remembered that in later generations, the concept of "waterfall flow" was often mentioned in the advertisements of washing machines on the market, and as a person who did not use washing machines very much, he did not know what this meant, but vaguely felt that it should contain some inspiration.

At that time, the washing machines on the market were rotated by a wave wheel to drive the relative movement of the clothes and the washing water, so as to achieve the cleaning effect. The disadvantage of this method is that it is easy to get tangled in the garment, resulting in some parts of the garment that cannot be washed cleanly. Lin Zhenhua imitated the washing process in his mind, and combined with the inspiration of the word "waterfall flow", he proposed an idea of using water spraying to stir the clothes to achieve the purpose of cleaning.

It's a simple idea, but it's a bit cumbersome to implement. The equipment of water spraying is not difficult to solve, this is a technical problem in the purely mechanical sphere. However, the location of the water nozzle, the water flow velocity, the amount of water, the coordination of each water nozzle, etc., involve a series of fluid mechanics problems, which are beyond the scope of Lin Zhenhua's knowledge.

When it comes to fluid mechanics, Lin Zhenhua's first thought is to think of Liu Xianghai, who else knows this field better than him? He casually made a five-blade fan, and he was impressed by the European and American markets, in fact, he relied on the foundation of fluid mechanics. The situation is similar for washing machines, except that the five-blade fan is the fluid of air, and the washing machine is the fluid of water.

In this way, Lin Zhenhua handed over the problem to Liu Xianghai. Liu Xianghai was quite interested in Lin Zhenhua's idea, but after thinking about it, he found that the amount of calculations and imitation work that needed to be carried out was very large, and it could not be solved by adding two night shifts by himself, so he politely refused, because his work is very busy now, and time no longer belongs to him. However, Lin Zhenhua eventually persuaded him to accept the project.

Lin Zhenhua's method of persuading Liu Xianghai was very simple, he told Liu Xianghai that the project was developed by the Propulsion Institute commissioned by Hanhua Company, and the research fund for the project was 500,000 yuan.

500,000 yuan! This was not a small amount in those years, and the national funds received by the thruster were only more than 1 million a year, and these funds also included all capitation fees. After the salary is paid, Liu Xianghai can take out the money for scientific research, and it will not reach 500,000 yuan a year.

"Xiaolin, I can't imagine that our dignified research institute will eventually fall under your money offensive." Liu Xianghai said to Lin Zhenhua with a helpless smile.

"You can't say that." Lin Zhenhua said with a smile, "We are local enterprises supporting the army, and you are the army helping local enterprises." This is called the army loving the people, and the people supporting the army, so we should send each other pennants. ”

"However, Xiaolin, I also lost your 500,000 yuan to solve many of our big problems." Liu Xianghai said, "To be honest, we spent less than 50,000 yuan in total to develop your waterfall washing technology, most of which is the cost of experiments." Chang Qingbo: They all use their spare time to do research for you, and they only get two cents a day for overtime pay. We used part of the surplus funds for important research, and some of them paid benefits to employees. Kobayashi, are you okay with that? ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "My money has been paid to you, how do you use it, what is my opinion?" ”

Liu Xianghai said: "Speaking of which, it's really good to have a little extra money." Just because of this money, in the past half a year, we have been able to send 5 catties of eggs to employees every month. ”

As he spoke, Liu Xianghai took out a small basket made of wire from under the desk and said, "Look, this is the basket that our unit allocates to each employee, and there is one under everyone's desk." At the end of each month, everyone carries a basket to the logistics to receive eggs, five pounds per person. Good guys, who in the whole base doesn't envy us. ”

Wei Jingwen was deeply touched: "Yes, in the past two years, the price of agricultural and sideline products has risen too much, and it is amazing to be able to send five catties of eggs a month." ”

When Lin Zhenhua heard this, he didn't laugh at all, but felt a little sad. He said: "Lao Liu, I didn't expect you to be so poor, otherwise, I will change the contract again and give you an additional 200,000." You people are the treasures of the country, and the country should treat you like this. ”

Wei Jingwen also nodded desperately: "Yes, yes, the workers of our Hanhua Company are now much better than yours." What is said in society, it is better to sell tea and eggs than to build missiles, and after reading your here, I really realized it. You propeller builders are not as good as us making electric fans. ”

Liu Xianghai waved his hand: "Xiaolin, I have received your kindness." Actually, you gave me 500,000, which is already a great favor for me, people's ** is infinite, I can't be too greedy. ”

(To be continued)