Chapter 8 A New Invention of Patting the Head
Back at home, Liu Yu found the mechanical watch he had bought before and stared at the dial for a long time.
Check on the Internet, in ancient times, it was 12 hours a day, according to the 96 minutes of the Southern Dynasties, an hour was 8 minutes, and the moment was exactly 15 minutes.
And the scale of the watch is exactly 12 large divisions, if all the hands go half as slowly, wouldn't it be able to close?
Modu Xinshen Watch Factory is an old factory with a history of more than 50 years, after the restructuring, due to the backwardness of the manufacturing process and appearance style, the efficiency of the factory is very bad, and it can barely pay wages.
For this reason, manager Wang Shunkai tried his best, but he has had little success.
After going to work in the morning, Manager Wang received a strange phone call, and the other party was interested in ordering a batch of watches, but there were special requirements. If done well, the number of follow-up orders will be large.
After getting the customer's request, Wang Shunkai found Lao Chen, the chief engineer of the factory, who was the oldest technician in the factory and was rehired after retirement. As long as he said yes, he didn't run.
Lao Chen listened to his words and said hesitantly:
"Ordinary hairspring, relying on the fast and slow needle to adjust the speed of the time accuracy, the principle of the fast and slow needle, in fact, is to adjust the length of the hairspring to participate in the swing, one end of the hairspring is fixed on the balance, the other end is fixed on the balance wheel,
When the stuck point moves, the balance spring involved in the movement of the balance wheel becomes longer, then the balance wheel oscillation cycle becomes longer, and the watch travels slowly.
Conversely, if the stuck point makes the balance spring shorter, the cycle of the balance wheel becomes shorter and the watch goes faster. β
"So it's possible?" Wang Shunkai hurriedly asked, he wanted a positive answer.
"It's not a big problem."
"You go back and make two, be quick. Be sure to win this customer. Remember, there should be no markings on the watch body or the dial. Wang Shunkai waved his hand and asked Lao Chen to start quickly.
Liu Yu didn't care about it anymore after making the call, it must be just an idea, in case it was whimsical.
A large part of the land in Tongzhou Warehouse was bought by Liu Yutong and Ding Yingwen. Because it is wasteland, the transaction is very smooth, Liu Yu has no household registration in the north, and the Ding family is written on the land deed documents.
Liu Yu surrounded himself with an adobe wall near the crossing point.
Now he just needs to load the cart from the warehouse here, open the portal, unload it there, and come back and repeat.
After a week, all the goods arrived, and Liu Yu began to pull carts over there. Seemingly simple, the close to a ton of cargo still made him foam at the mouth with exhaustion.
When you go to Dadu, send someone to inform the Ding family caravan in Lu County, and don't worry about the rest.
Liu Yu sat by the door and opened the package sent by the magic capital. Inside two black cardboard boxes are brand-new mechanical watches. Yes, there is no sign, Liu Yu picked up a piece and looked at it, it was no different from an ordinary watch,
With a glass surface, a steel case, and a coffee-colored leather strap, I don't know if I'm going to be on the right track.
"My brother is a believer." Ding Yingwen was very enthusiastic when he saw the goods piled high.
"That's natural, don't talk about this, but there is herbal tea, hurry up all the way, and I don't even bother to take a sip of water." Liu Yu has not yet recovered from it.
"Please." Ding Yingwen was not polite anymore and gave it up.
Liu Yu poured a big sip of herbal tea and let out a long breath.
"Brother won't do it himself, he's so tired." Ding Yingwen was a little funny when he looked at him like that.
"There's no way, the amount is too big, so I can only go on it myself, and I can't compare to the owner's manpower." Liu Yu gave him a blank look, how could the exploiting class understand the hardships of the working people.
"What time is it?" Liu Yu remembered and asked, the watch still has to be adjusted, I don't know if the exact time is okay.
"It's just over the hour, about two or three minutes. My brother is hungry, and the wine and food have already been prepared, don't you take a break? Ding Yingwen counted his fingers and estimated, thinking that Liu Yu wanted to eat.
"It's not a moment, it's fine." Before it was time to go, it should be from one to three o'clock, Liu Yu took out his watch and turned the knob on the side.
"Oh, wait." Ding Yingwen called someone to come out of the back room and brought a copper kettle out of the back room and placed it on the table in the middle, Ding Yingwen leaned down and looked at something carefully.
Liu Yu stood up and walked over, looking at the pot curiously, there was a small hole near the bottom, and water flowed out of the hole, and the next person took a copper basin and continued.
This thing is called "missing carving", and it is an ordinary timekeeping thing of the ancients.
"Two quarters and seven minutes, brother, what is this, sundial? How can it be so small. Ding Yingwen raised his head and looked at the items in Liu Yu's hand, puzzled.
"Two quarters, seven minutes. Okay, how about the owner view this thing? Liu Yu handed the adjusted watch to Ding Yingwen.
"Is this a timekeeper?" Ding Yingwen looked at the watch in his hand, brought it to his ear, and there was a ticking sound.
"Well, for the purpose of timing, it is replaced by a 'sundial', because it can be tied to the wrist, and the owner looks at this belt." Liu Yu took the watch and gave it to Ding Yingwen to tie it in his hand.
The name was broken by him, and the honor of naming rights will be remembered in history, and Liu Yu doesn't want to let it go.
Anyway, even if you call it shit, then it has to be called, and this is called monopoly.
"Look, here represents the time of the child, the time of ugliness, the time of Yin, the hour of Mao, the hour of Chen, the hour of Si, the time of noon, the time of Wei, the time of Shen, the time of You, the time of Wu, and the time of Hai.
Every eight quarters, the short hand refers to the hour, and the long hand is the moment. Look, it's not a moment. Liu Yu pointed to the dial and explained carefully.
"Is this needle self-propelled? How? Ding Yingwen understood as soon as he heard it, and began to explore the principle.
"Not exactly, the owner looks at this knob, you can pull out a little, when it is not pulled out, so that the needle can be rotated to move itself, if it is pulled out, turn the knob to adjust the pointer, to align the time."
Liu Yu is ready to wait until he can accept it, and then consider the automatic watch.
"Yes, exactly." Ding Yingwen raised his hand to look at it for a while, and listened to it in his ears for a while, like getting a big toy.
"The money is still being drawn into my courtyard." After eating, Liu Yu was ready to leave.
"I have something to tell my brother that the amount of money in this batch is a bit large, so if you want to exchange it for gold, it may take some time." Ding Yingwen couldn't help it.
"Yes." Liu Yu didn't care,
The purpose of bringing Ding Yingwen this watch is to let him know that what he has is new, and if he wants to do business for a long time, he should not use other brains. The number is getting bigger and bigger, and he is also afraid that the Ding family will hack him.
Liu Yu is going to let Li San and his family go to the land in Lu County to guard, and when they are fine, they can also open up wasteland and farm, and three people in the city are enough.
Li San was very happy when he heard this, and said again and again that he must work hard to do a good job. It seems that the peasants have a deep attachment to the land, even if the land is not their own.
"Liu Gongzi, you came so early, Miss Sunset is waiting for you." Ignoring the bustard's hospitality, Liu Yu raised his feet and went up to the second floor. Recently, he has been drunk and dreaming of death here every day, and he has a bit of a taste for eating marrow.
Sunset looked at the man who came in with a smile, young, golden, and bold. This kind of benefactor is what many girls dream of.
"I'm stunned, I haven't come to wait." Liu Yu enjoys this life very much,
Although the other party is a Qinglou woman, she is a tall woman, and she will be a talented woman and a beautiful woman in the next generation.
"Since Childe likes to serve as a slave, he will have to be diligent in the future." Sunset came over to help him take off his coat and hang it on the hanger, and walked to the table with his arms folded.
"Not today, just sit down and go." Liu Yu is very happy today and has made another business.
In the morning, Ding Ying told him that he hoped to buy some watches, the amount of 500 yuan, and Liu Yu asked for 200 taels each. He had to hurry back to Hyundai to order, the production cycle of the watch was a bit long.
Sunset didn't care either, she danced a solo dance, and Liu Yu also applauded the venue. Looking at the girl's soft figure, I thought, is it to get a steel pipe and keep it a sensation.
Manager Wang Shunfa Wang has been a little impatient recently, and the mystery customer last time received two samples and then disappeared. I don't say it's okay or not, it's too appetizing. Try to call over, always out of the service area.
When I was thinking about whether I had met a liar, the phone rang, and I had a premonition in my heart, so I picked it up and listened to it, and sure enough, it was that voice.
"Hey, okay, okay, you can rest assured, quality and quantity, good, no labels, no problem, rest assured." Put down the phone,
Wang Shunfa happily patted the back of his head, two thousand watches, one hundred and fifty-one, and there will be additional ones in the future.
Liu Yu, who finished placing the order, rolled up his sleeves and moved more than 500 kilograms of gold on the micro-noodle car into the basement, which was only part of the payment for the big dog last time, and the rest had to be slowly redeemed.
At present, the speed of gold realization is far lower than that of obtaining, and how to solve this contradiction, he has a headache.
At night in the imperial capital without curfew, the lights are shining. Liu Yu sat in a taxi and quietly watched the flow of people on both sides of the street flash. Once upon a time, I was one of them, and I never thought that the scenery around me was so beautiful.
The famous bar street in Houhai is full of pedestrians, and various rhythmic music collides in the lights at night, making it noisy and impetuous.
It's not the first time Liu Yu has come here, when he was in college, several roommates brought their girlfriends to come here, but they were slaughtered by a black-hearted bar.
It was an unpleasant experience, he wasn't here to be nostalgic, he was just looking for a place to have a drink, and he was pulled here by the overly enthusiastic driver.
Liu Yujin's bar is very large, in addition to the bar, there are also tea, coffee, meals, KTV, etc., and the performing arts stage in the middle is very large, and a girl sings with the accompaniment of the band.
I found a seat by the window, and pushed out the window to see the weeping willows blowing low, the sparkling water surface, the evening breeze blowing, cool with a hint of tranquility.
Liu Yu ordered a beer, asked for a large glass, the golden liquid flowed in, and the snow-white foam floated, mixed with a fresh fragrance of barley.
The girl seemed to be singing an English song, and Liu Yu was not sure, her voice was very ordinary, far less melodious than the morning dew.
Chaolu Deqing Tower seems to be in this area, and I don't know if the ruins are still there.
Suddenly, Liu Yu had a peculiar idea, if he crossed here, would he appear directly in the middle of the lobby of Deqing Building?
Thinking that the girls and visitors on the building were stunned by his sudden appearance, Liu Yu couldn't help but laugh.
Su Wei's heart is very entangled, should you go over and try it? As a beer salesman, she had a poor day, and now it's prime time, and she's only sold two dozen.
The man sitting alone only needs a domestic beer, and he doesn't look rich. I don't know why he's laughing to himself, he's in a good mood? Su Wei decided to try her luck.
"Hello, sir." The reverie was interrupted by a female voice, and Liu Yu was a little unhappy.
She has short ear-length hair, heavy eyeshadow, and long eyelashes that look sticky to it. Uniforms with huge logos, miniskirts, flesh-colored stockings.
"Hmm." It's not an affair, it's just a beer girl.
"Hello, this is our company's new agent beer, authentic German imports, would you like to try it?" Su Wei tried her best to make her smile look less restrained.
"Oh, the brand you haven't drunk, how does it taste, why don't you have a drink with me?" Liu Yu just wanted to find someone to talk to.
"I'm sorry, I'm working, sorry to scratch you." With a sigh, Su Wei prepared to leave.
She doesn't know how to drink, and if it weren't for that, how could her performance be so bad.
"If it's convenient, can you tell me how many bottles do you want to sell in one night?" It's a newbie. Liu Yu remembered when he first went to work, he ran into walls everywhere and begged for help.
"Twenty dozen." What about suing sΓΉ, can you drink so much? Su Wei just replied to him out of politeness.
"Well, give me 20 dozen, can you sit with me?" It's just beer, it's a big deal to pack it and take it home, and the fridge is just empty.
"I'm sorry, I really don't know how to drink, but thank you for your kindness." Su Wei hadn't seen such a person, and she knew what she wanted to do, but she didn't want to sell herself yet.
Liu Yu didn't say anything more, and watched her walk away. In fact, he just wanted to find someone to talk to, and help her by the way. In this materialistic society, many tragedies stem from the fact that girls do not know how to protect themselves, and being vigilant is a very commendable advantage.
Liu Yu, who lost interest, checked out and went out and hailed a taxi. Because he had to drink, he didn't come by car.
In the next week, Liu Yu became busy, the company's business license was completed, and the application for import and export qualifications was basically completed.
Liu Yu named his company "Haisheng International", the appearance of the sea, the prosperity of eternity, in fact, is just a casual thought. As for the office address, Liu Yu filled in his home. In the words of the fat man, this is a leather bag company through and through.
hasn't figured out how to do it yet, and Liu Yu doesn't plan to open it immediately. The specific trade routes must also be determined, otherwise, Africa?