Chapter 104: Jokes
Feed the whole company and rely on the sales revenue provided by the mahjong factory steadily. Loans from banks to carry out new projects also rely on mahjong factories.
A little mahjong holds up a big dream.
Li Kangping thanked his ancestors for inventing mahjong.
Hera Mahjong Company is the lifeblood of Li Kangping, so Li Kangping went to the Bronx mahjong factory to investigate.
Accompanied by Li Chong, general manager of Hera Mahjong Company, Li Kangping had an in-depth understanding of the latest situation in all aspects of the mahjong factory, and expressed cordial condolences and ardent hopes.
In general, these more than 300 employees of the mahjong factory support the entire Manhattan Zeus Company and carry Li Kangping's majestic ambition.
The Bronx Mahjong Factory of Hera Mahjong Company has been fully operational, with six workshops, a warehouse, a maintenance workshop, a three-storey office building, and a four-storey staff dormitory.
The number of Chinese accounts for only 1/10, that is, the first batch of Chinese workers to enter the factory.
These Chinese were basically promoted to section leaders, and under their leadership, each section worked in three shifts to produce Hera brand mahjong.
"Is there a phenomenon of white and black people not obeying the Chinese management?" Li Kangping asked with concern.
"Yes, but it can be controlled." Li Chong replied.
It is undeniable that racial discrimination exists.
Whites discriminate against blacks, and whites don't want to work in the same workshop as blacks.
As a result, dozens of blacks were concentrated in a workshop for mahjong production, and three Chinese section chiefs were in charge of this workshop.
Before these dozens of blacks entered the factory, they were all unemployed vagrants, and they took to the streets every day to demonstrate.
Given a well-paid job, the blacks stopped, and they went about their jobs honestly, no longer demonstrative.
Li Kangping personally met a strong black man, and he shook hands with the black man: "Hello, I'm K.P. Lee, it's a pleasure to meet you. β
"Oh, you're Mr. Li, you're Mr. Li!" Blacks shouted.
"Dude, what's your name?"
"Larry, I'm Larry."
"Larry, are you happy with the job?"
"At the moment, it's not bad. But, Mr. Lee, you know, everything has gone up, then our salaries should have gone up too. β
"Larry, you're pretty direct. I promise that as long as you complete the work task, your wishes will be fulfilled. β
Li Kangping chatted with the black man for a while, and the black man seemed to be obedient to management, and the only demand was a salary increase.
Next, Lee talks about a white worker.
The white worker, a Polish immigrant, said he came to the United States alone and penniless, and he thanked Mr. Lee for the job offer that kept him alive in New York.
Most of the workers in the mahjong factory were black and European immigrants who came from the slums of New York.
It is impossible for a rich child to enter a factory to work as a worker, and the workers in the mahjong factory also have relatively poor native white Americans.
The white people who are unwilling to share the workshop with the black people are this group of native American white people.
Whoever it is, they receive a mahjong factory's salaryβenough to keep them alive.
They wouldn't be stupid enough to squeeze their eyes into a slit and shout "ching chong wing" in front of the mahjong factory owner.
There is a vacant lot in the corner of the mahjong factory, which is very small and cannot do any production-related construction.
Li Kangping said: "A basketball court was built here for staff to keep fit. β
It is very easy to build an open-air basketball court, and Li Chong arranged it.
Li Kangping returned to his apartment on Morning Street and continued to write his "Atomic Physics".
[The difference between X-rays and cathode rays is that X-rays are produced by cathode rays emitted onto the glass wall of the discharge device.] The specific method of generating X-rays is ......]
Li Kangping did not write quickly, and the first chapter, "X-rays", had not yet been written.
Li Kangping's outline is as follows: 1. X-ray; 2. Bekele's ear ray; 3. Electronics; 4. Photoelectric effect; 5. Radiation; 6. Nuclear atomic model and artificial nuclear reaction; 7. Bohr atomic model; 8. Quantum theory.
He can only write about quantum theory, and then on quantum mechanics.
Connecting these eight chapters is almost the list of winners from the first Nolology Prize to the latest Nolology Prize, and it is also a condensation of physics in the first two decades of the 20th century.
Li Kangping is likely to buy the Eastern Bay Radio Company in Jersey City, and before the acquisition, he wants to get a person, and he covets this person's patent for the superheterodyne radio.
Li Kangping called: "Hey, Edwin, I'm Lee. β
"Tell me, Dr. Li, what's the matter with me?" Edwin Armstrong muttered over the phone.
"I bought a radio company, it's in Jersey City, it's called the East Bay Radio Company."
"What? Did you do that? Did you really do that? β
"To be exact, I was about to buy the Eastern Bay Radio Company, and I had a good conversation with Mr. Miller, the majority shareholder of their company, and Mr. Miller was willing to sell, and I was willing to buy, so the Eastern Bay Radio Company was about to become a subsidiary of the Manhattan Zeus Company."
Edwin Armstrong was silent for a few seconds, and his voice sounded again after silence: "Do you have anything to do with me whether you buy a company or not, and what company you buy?" β
"Edwin, I want to treat you to dinner."
Armstrong first visited the apartment that Li Kangping rented on Chenbian Street, and he felt that people who made millions of dollars a year from the mahjong business should not rent an apartment, and such a rich man would of course own a big house of his own.
Making millions of dollars a year from the mahjong business was Armstrong's unilateral guess.
How much money can be made in the mahjong business, only Li Kangping and his shareholders know in their hearts.
"Edwin, we're old friends, and since we're old friends, I'll get it straight, I want to work with you, on the radio. Are you interested? Li Kangping poured a glass of whiskey and handed it to Armstrong, "Drink some bar, alcohol will make you braver." β
Armstrong took the glass, he was brave, and he drank a fifth of the whiskey in one go.
"Edwin, take care of yourself and give yourself another drink."
"Lee, this is the second time you...... It's like the third time I've told me about this, and I know you want a patent for my superheterodyne radio, and they all want it. β
"So Edwin, will you sell it to me?"
"And Dr. Lee, how much will you pay?"
"Edwin, let's not answer a question with a question, you name a price."
"I can sell you the patent rights to use the superheterodyne radio, and in exchange, your radio company--- Eastern Bay or whatever, will get 20% of the profit for every superheterodyne radio produced." Armstrong said in a measured tone.
"Hahaha!"
Li Kangping laughed heartily, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world.
Armstrong stared at Li Kangping coldly, he looked calm.
"So, Edwin, you want to be a millionaire."
Li Kangping was still laughing, and he couldn't close his mouth happily: "Edwin, I must tell you, your millionaire dream may be difficult to realize." You know, I bought a 36-acre, thousand-person radio company and it wouldn't cost me a million dollars? Edwin, you're so good at math, you should be able to figure out what $1 million means for a radio company. What radio company would pay millions of dollars for what you call a patent? I sincerely hope that you will investigate the situation of the American radio companies, the Eastern Gulf Company, the Southern Dolphin Company, whatever you like. β