Zhou Jianhua rode his mother the next morning, rode with his sister to the county No. 1 middle school, and after recognizing his sister's classroom, he asked his sister to go to her class, while Zhou Jianhua and his mother went to the homeroom teacher of his third year of junior high school to talk about his intention to drop out of school and go to work.

In this era, it is not uncommon for the children of employees of some state-owned enterprises to drop out of school because of the recruitment of workers in their units, and sometimes a large enterprise is suddenly approved to obtain a large number of recruitment targets because of the demand for labor, and the children of the employees of the enterprises who are studying in school will drop out of school in batches to join the work. For the vast majority of these young people, it is more important than studying to grasp this kind of job opportunity that suddenly fell from the sky, to obtain the status of an employee of a state-owned enterprise, and to get an iron job bowl that guarantees income during drought and flood.

But the fact that Zhou Jianhua dropped out of school in the last semester before graduating from junior high school just to be "self-employed" has not happened before. Although Zhou Jianhua's head teacher felt a little regretful, it was inconvenient to say anything, after all, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and everyone has their own family arrangements and livelihood needs, which is not something that they can manage. So Zhou Jianhua's homeroom teacher took their mother and son to meet and talk with the grade leader, and asked Zhou Jianhua to write a dropout report, and the matter was settled.

After completing the dropout procedures, Zhou Jianhua took his mother to the "Jianhua Mechanical and Electrical Equipment Service Department" of the bamboo strip products factory. On the way to the "service department", when passing by the county people's hospital, Zhou Jianhua ran in and bought 20 thermometers, and handed them to Min Guibao as soon as he arrived at the factory, asking him to make another 20 "circuit board plug-ins" according to the last method.

After that, Zhou Jianhua accompanied his mother around his factory and façade. It's kind of a mother who recognizes the place. By this time, it was already halfway through the morning. Mother took a cursory look and hurried to go back first. She had to rush back to make lunch and buy some groceries on the street to take home.

After sending his mother away, Zhou Jianhua called the machine repair factory of Tonglin Commune, and it was Fan Hongquan, the director of the factory, who answered the phone. Hearing that it was Zhou Jianhua calling, Fan Hongquan immediately became excited:

"Oops! It's Master Xiao Zhou! Hello hello hello! Long time no see! Hehehe...... I heard you're self-employed, right? Where are you now? ”

"I'm in the county seat. Haha, I feel that Director Fan's spirit is good! Zhou Jianhua replied:

"How's it going, what's going on with your rotary tiller?"

"The rotary tiller is no problem now! Hahaha......" Fan Hongquan laughed happily and laughed loudly:

"Ever since you helped us make that heat treatment box. The production of our rotary tillage is made in strict accordance with the process requirements given by you, and now the quality of this rotary tillage is really good, and there is no problem in plowing more than 200 acres! After the agricultural materials company gave it to the farmers for trial, it also agreed to help us sell! Ha ha...... Thanks to your help! When is it convenient for me to invite you to dinner?! ”

"Hehe, there is a chance to eat!" Zhou Jianhua replied with a smile:

"As long as your factory is profitable, you, the factory director, can continue to do it steadily, and it is not a problem to invite me to dinner when you want! How about it, now you have to repay Secretary Cai's 150 yuan equipment on schedule, there should be no problem, right? ”

"No problem! Not to mention that he gave me half a year to repay the loan, he just wants me to pay it back now, and I can pay it back! Fan Hongquan confidently replied:

"Half a month's profit from the production of our factory is enough to repay Secretary Cai's loan! It's just that...... Alas! I'm afraid this won't last long......"

"How?" Zhou Jianhua asked.

"Our current capacity is to produce about 30 rotary tillers a day, and we can produce eight or nine hundred in a month. Now in the past half a month, the waste leaf spring steel raw materials we collected before have been almost used. Although we are trying to collect everywhere during this time, the waste leaf spring steel that can be collected is far from meeting our production needs, and we estimate that the waste leaf spring steel that can be collected every month is at most enough for us to produce two or three hundred knives...... "Fan Hongquan explained:

"You know, if we were to buy new high-quality steel as raw materials for the production of rotary tillers, the cost would have to increase dramatically, and we wouldn't be able to do it...... So most of the people in our factory will soon have to turn to the production of other small farm tools that do not need to use leaf spring steel, but the quality of those small farm tools we produce is not good, and the agricultural materials company will not help us sell, so we still have to ask you to help us in this matter! Two days ago, I also asked Lin Dongming to ask you about technical problems in this regard, but unfortunately you went to the provincial capital, hehe......"

"Oh! Director Fan! It's no problem to help, it's just that I just came back from the provincial capital, and I have a lot of things to deal with in this store. Zhou Jianhua replied:

"Otherwise, you can ask my cousin to come and find me. I know all about your production conditions and processes, and I don't need to go to your place to see anything, you ask my cousin to come over, and I will directly talk to him in detail about the ways to improve the production process. You'd better let my cousin come over today, in the next few days, I will have some guests from the provincial capital here, and I will have to accompany them then, I'm afraid I won't have much time, and after these few days, I will have to go far away, and I will have another week......"

"Okay, okay! I'll let him go to you now! Fan Hongquan heard Zhou Jianhua say this, and immediately replied impatiently.

Zhou Jianhua told Fan Hongquan the address and telephone transfer method of his "Mechanical and Electrical Equipment Service Department", and hung up the phone.

In fact, the current predicament of Tonglin Machinery Repair Factory was expected by Zhou Jianhua.

Fan Hongquan has long known the problem of raw materials for the production of rotary tillage, but he has no choice, Zhou Jianhua has long had a solution once and for all, that is, to completely change the production raw materials and manufacturing process of rotary tillage, and use low-cost cast iron raw materials and new production technology to produce rotary tillage with high efficiency, and at the same time greatly improve the profit margin of rotary tillage.

Regarding this idea, Zhou Jianhua had already mentioned it when he met Fan Hongquan for the first time at Secretary Cai Zhongming's house. However, this approach requires a large upfront investment. With the economic capacity of Tonglin Machinery Repair Factory. It is impossible for them to have this money invested in it, so Zhou Jianhua did not mention this matter later. But from that time on, Zhou Jianhua thought that when he had the ability to invest, he could consider cooperating with Tonglin Machinery Repair Factory, or simply contract or lease it.

For this reason, Zhou Jianhua also explored Cai Zhongming's attitude towards the current domestic political and economic development situation, and tried whether he could borrow the name of Tonglin Commune to set up his own "social-run enterprise" by paying "management fees". Zhou Jianhua realized that at this time, it was not realistic to want to "participate in cooperation" or "lease operation" with Tonglin Machinery Repair Factory, and he was not very interested in "contract operation".

However, Zhou Jianhua was just thinking about it casually, and did not think about these things seriously and carefully, let alone incorporate these ideas into his own plan, in Zhou Jianhua's heart, cooperating with Tonglin Machinery Repair Factory or contracting or leasing it is just one of the options that can be considered, but it may not be the most worthwhile project for him to do at present.

As Zhou Jianhua's understanding of the economic environment of this era deepened, Zhou Jianhua now had more concerns about the project of using cast iron to make rotary tillers. First, the state is now trying to protect the normal production of state-owned enterprises. The control of important means of production such as metals is stricter, and it is a social enterprise. That is, in the future, it is not easy for township enterprises to obtain a large number of metal raw materials in a long-term and stable manner, and of course, as a "self-employed person", it is even more difficult to obtain such raw materials;

Second, local protectionism, which is becoming more and more serious, will prevent rotary tillage knives from being sold to other provinces, which will be a more serious problem for Zhou Jianhua. The rotary tillage knife product in the province through the supply and marketing cooperatives system of agricultural companies to sell is easy to do, but the supply and marketing cooperatives system is also geographically competitive with each other, especially the competition between the provincial supply and marketing cooperatives, therefore, the circulation of products in the regional supply and marketing cooperatives system is not unimpeded, competitive products will be more difficult if you want to sell in other provinces. Therefore, it is not easy to make a large scale of rotary tillage, and only relying on the market in the province can not satisfy their appetite.

Zhou Jianhua now realizes that the state's planned control of important raw materials such as metals and the growing level of local protectionism will be problems that he will face for a long time. Therefore, if you want to participate in the large-scale production of society, it is best not to directly produce those products that require a large amount of metal raw materials or other important means of production at this stage. As you are currently doing, providing technical services for the market or developing some high-end electronic systems should be your best choice at this stage.

After Zhou Jianhua made the call, he thought that he would take Wang Xiaoling out of the mountains in Fujian in a few days, and an important purpose was to learn about the local spontaneously generated professional market to see if there could supply some raw materials that he could use in the future.

Going to take a girl to such a remote place alone really made Zhou Jianhua a little worried, and he said that he should always think of some ways to defend himself. He suddenly had an idea, didn't he just have the materials to make electric batons in his hands?! Get! I'd better make two electric batons to defend myself! This thing is convenient and practical, and in this era, the electric baton has not even been popularized in the public security system, and no one has ever seen this kind of self-defense, and it will have a surprise effect when it is taken out to deal with the bad guys at a critical moment!

Thinking of this, Zhou Jianhua took two magnetic rod antennas used in radios, enameled wires, insulating paper, epoxy resin glue and other auxiliary materials and some spare conventional electronics and components from the material warehouse, made 2 AC and DC converters and 2 multivibrators, and went to the Wujiaohua store to buy 6 380 volt converted into 3 volt indicator transformers, and made 2 voltage discharge electrodes in a group of 3 and primary and secondary in series. Then all the circuits are loaded into a tube body modified from a flashlight and a rubber tube, and two electric batons are made. Install the battery, turn on the switch, and the blue arc stabbing sound from the voltage of nearly 10,000 volts.

Min Guibao, who had been sitting next to him assembling the "circuit board insert" of the injection molding machine, looked at Zhou Jianhua's electric baton with an arc in his hand in surprise and asked:

"What's this?!"

"Hehe, this is self-defense!" Zhou Jianhua replied with a smile:

"How? Like the "lightsaber" in "Star Wars"? ”

"What you're doing is a lightsaber?! Min Guibao asked excitedly:

"But it seems to be a little different, can this sword body grow?"

Min Guibao asked as he curiously reached over and touched the electric baton. A few years ago, when "Star Wars" began to be broadcast on TV, Min Guibao, Zhou Jianhua, and Zuo Qianghua were must-watch in every episode. During that time, every night, they took flashlights out of their homes and used the light pillars of flashlights to fight each other in the dark night.

"Hey! You want to die?! Zhou Jianhua hurriedly turned off the switch of the electric baton:

"Have you ever heard of "curiosity kills cats"?! ”

"This can really kill?!" Min Guibao asked in disbelief.

"Of course you can!" Zhou Jianhua replied:

"But it's not meant to kill! If you use it for a short time, as long as you are not an elderly child and do not touch it near the heart, it is not very dangerous. ”

"Then what are you doing this for?" Min Guibao asked.

"Use it for self-defense when you go out of the house." Zhou Jianhua replied.

"Far away? Where are you going? Min Guibao asked again.

"In a few days, I'm going to go to other provinces to see if there are any raw materials that we can use in the future." Zhou Jianhua replied.

"Oh...... Jianhua, can you make more of this thing? Min Guibao thought for a moment and asked:

"Now the society is quite chaotic, we have a little money on hand now, there are many people with red eyes, those who beat Arhats on the street, maybe they will target us at any time, if we each have one of these things, we will not be afraid in the future!"

Min Guibao's "arhat fighter" is the local people's common name for those ruffians and street gangsters.

"That's not going to work!" Zhou Jianhua thought for a while and replied:

"At most, this thing can only be used by girls, if you put it in your hand, hehe...... You'll find out if there's nothing going on! ”

"Look at what you said, I'm a section chief now!" Min Guibao scratched his head embarrassedly and replied:

"Speaking of which, I should be a cadre now, a person who does things properly, how can I still go out and fool around like before, hehe......" (to be continued......

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