Fast forward to late June, and the summer sun begins to shine across the three northeastern provinces.

Everything grows, and the crops in the fields are frantically absorbing sunlight and making their last dedication for the next production.

At this time, in the Jichun City Wireless General Factory, the summer sun did not seem to shine into the factory, and everyone felt the cold of winter, and did not leave, but deepened.

At this time, in a conference room, the conference room of dozens of people was full, and everyone lowered their heads, not daring to look at the one sitting in the front.

Secretary Wang of the wireless main factory was furious at this time, scolding the group of people below.

Secretary Wang, who used to have excellent cultivation, has now become a street shrew, which also shows that the other party is extremely angry at the moment.

Secretary Wang couldn't help but be angry, and just this morning, he was also scolded by the leader above.

As for the reason for the scolding, he had already used all his strength at this time to yell at the group of wastes below.

Since last month, the sales of Jinpeng brand radios produced by the wireless factory have declined in an unimaginable decline.

The sales volume in March was 270,000 units, 360,000 units in April, and 210,000 units in May, and this month, it is only two days away from the end of the month, and the sales data that can be received is only 120,000 units!

This is no longer called a descent, but a flying stream of 3,000 feet, and it is suspected that the Milky Way has fallen for nine days, and even the foot brake is useless.

Secretary Wang has been proud of the past few months, and almost all of them have been spent in compliments from all parties.

He was originally the secretary of the first wireless factory, and the main contributor to the merger of the second wireless factory was him, of course, he succeeded!

The merger of the original wireless factory No. 2 has rejuvenated the original half-dead wireless factory No. 1, with a profit of two or three million per month, which can be said to have sufficient funds for the wireless factory.

He not only expanded the area of the factory, but also completed the feat that he had never had the opportunity to complete, that is, the construction of a new staff building, which solved the housing problem that had been plagued by the first wireless factory for a long time.

He built three tube buildings in one go, one with one large single room, and there were 240 households.

With these houses, the contradictions that have been squeezed for a long time will be quickly resolved, and their doubts in the wireless general factory will no longer exist.

But the building was only halfway built, and I found out that there was no money!

Yes, no money!

The profits in the past few months are enough to be millions, part of which is handed over to the municipal treasury, part of which is the purchase of raw materials, and the expansion of factories and the construction of tube buildings.

There is also the mess of paying salaries to current employees, reimbursing medical bills and pensions owed before, and so on.

After the merger of the four factories, it cost millions to clean up the previous mess.

You must know that the current wireless factory, after the merger of the four factories, there are almost 3,000 employees, although the wages in this era are low, but they can't stand so many mouths!

Moreover, these factories are all old factories, and more than 30 percent of them are retired and sick, and these have to be supported by money.

If the factory can maintain the previous sales, then these contradictions are all nothing, but once the sales plummet, then all the contradictions will erupt.

And, in order to support the merger of several wireless factories, how much support was given above?

Once there is a thunderstorm, what will those leaders above bear, no need for Secretary Wang to think about it, he also knows his own end.

All of him is so furious at the moment, like a shrew scolding the street, he also wants to vent all his anger.

After scolding for half an hour, Secretary Wang also felt a little tired, he took a few deep breaths, calmed down his mood, and then roared with a calm face.

"I'll give you two days, you have to find out the problem, and then come up with a solution to it, or all of you, go to the boiler for me!"

After saying this, he slapped his palm on the conference table, then stood up and strode away.

The secretary quickly stood up and followed.

A middle-aged man with glasses sitting at the very end of the conference table stood up without saying a word, with a calm face.

This person is Zhong Zhihua of the technical department of the wireless general factory, his face is calm, his face is as heavy as water, put away the notebook on his conference table, and follow the flow of people out of the conference room without saying a word.

Zhong Zhihua, the head of the technical section, is not a waste, but a top wireless professional expert, but at this time, his heart is like ashes.

He already had the intention of leaving the wireless factory, but he was very melancholy now, and he didn't know if he could return to the original 4044 factory after he left.

It has been four and a half months since the merger of the wireless factory.

During this time, from full of confidence to discouragement, it was only four and a half months!

Zhong Zhihua is not inactive, but his technical department is very active.

In the first month, he proposed a research direction, that is, to upgrade the current "Jinpeng brand" portable radio.

And research a variety of models and styles of radio, so that the people's choice and diversification.

This kind of thinking almost coincides with Chen Can's original thoughts in Ningjiang.

From this point, it can be seen that Zhong Zhihua is a talent.

And Zhong Zhihua also mentioned a point of view, almost Chen Can's idea is exactly the same, that is, to introduce a tape production line as soon as possible.

In seven or eight years, there are not many people who have the idea of introducing tape production lines, in this era of China, tapes are not yet popular, only a few small cities in the south, just began to have smuggled over the tape recorder, in the northeast, no one really has that kind of advanced idea.

But ideas are ideas, and in reality, everything depends on the ideas of the decision-makers.

In the first month, Zhong Zhihua, together with more than a dozen colleagues in the technical department, worked overtime to make six radios of different sizes.

Yes, not three, but six, Zhong Zhihua has eliminated the cheapness of the portable radio before the Jinpeng brand.

This time, the all-aluminum shell is used, and the overall internal structure has also been redesigned, although the cost is slightly higher, but the overall texture, together with the appearance quality, has been raised a notch.

Six models, ranging from portable radios to the largest portable radios.

When Zhong Zhihua showed these six models to the leader, he got a very cold reply.

"With such a high cost, who are you selling to?"

Zhong Zhihua was angry on the spot, quarreled with the other party on the spot, and finally made trouble with Secretary Wang.

The overall cost of his six radios is actually not too high, and the smallest pocket radio is a little smaller than the previous Jinpeng portable radio.

Even he used an all-aluminum shell, but the cost was still only eleven.

This is Zhong Zhihua's proud work, and he will never allow others to insult it!

This matter finally came to Secretary Wang, and finally Secretary Wang understood it, and said to Zhong Zhihua with a frown.

"We already have a portable radio, so why do we have one? In addition to the low cost of this small radio, your other five models have a minimum cost of 20 yuan, how do we price it? ”

Secretary Wang's words made Zhong Zhihua's heart cold.

If Chen Can was present at the time, he would definitely praise Zhong Zhihua, because the other party's radio technology is not worse than him, and the overall quality is even better than the three designed by Chen Can.

People are pursuing real materials, while Chen Can is pursuing the lowest cost, and these two results are naturally different.

If Chen Can knows about this, he will definitely set up another high-end brand, as long as the appearance is changed slightly, and the rest is intact, it can be put on the market, and then the high-end brand will sell more than ten or twenty yuan, and there will be a certain market.

It's a pity that the leaders of the wireless factory can't see this.

For the leaders of the wireless factory, they have now tasted the sweetness of low-priced products, and naturally hope that the lower the cost price, the better.

So for them, the six models of radios, except for the cheapest one, which are still a little valuable, the other five, the cost is too high and completely does not meet their requirements.

Even if it is the cheapest, the cost price is still the same as the previous Jinpeng brand, what is the difference between it and the one I am currently selling?

Since there is no difference, there is no need to get on!

As for the import tape production line, it is even more ridiculous to talk about it, you must know that the import requires foreign exchange, who has nothing to do to take the precious foreign exchange, what tape production line to import?

Isn't that?

In short, Zhong Zhihua's ideas and plans were not approved, and the technical department of the wireless general factory can be said to be in name only.

In fact, many state-owned factories in this era, the technical department is in name only, and many products have not changed for decades, what is the use of the technical department?

Many ceramic factories, towel factories, from the sixties to produce products with one color pattern, to the eighties, also produced products with the same pattern.

This kind of state-owned factory, in this era, is almost everywhere.

The reason why Zhong Zhihua was invited to join the wireless factory was the idea of some far-sighted leaders in the province.

After all, Zhong Zhihua has real skills, and before the merger, many leaders had great expectations for this wireless factory.

In the past, a small wireless second factory can create such a big miracle, and now it has gathered all the resources of the wireless general factory, such as how to not be too stretched, right?

But the result has been seen.

Perhaps without the existence of Ningjiang Wireless Factory, Jichun Wireless General Factory can survive for a while longer.

But this time will certainly not be too long, no more than two years at most.

The final result of it is still slowly dying, but now the speed of death is too fast for many people to accept.

Because with the reform and opening up, a large number of goods from the south will pour into the northeast on a large scale, which can be described as a devastating blow to many local industries.

Just like the soy sauce factory where Zhou Bingkun was before, in a year at most, the soy sauce in the south will appear in the supply and marketing cooperatives.

People have transported it thousands of miles away, and the price is cheaper than your local soy sauce, who is going to reason with this?

Secretary Wang asked for two days to know the causes and effects of the decline in sales.

In this situation of facing the insecurity of their positions, the people below will naturally be active.

Soon, a piece of information was collected to the wireless factory, and as more and more information was obtained, all the reasons were unfolded in front of everyone one by one.

In fact, it doesn't take much difficulty to investigate this matter, you just need to go to the first-line department store and ask to know the reason.

Those counter salespeople who face customers, they naturally know the reason why sales have plummeted.

For more than a month, almost every day, customers have raised a question, why are the radios sold outside so cheap, and you are still so expensive?

The counter clerks can only choose to ignore this problem, they are not stupid, they naturally know that there are people selling cheap radios outside, and even some of them have secretly bought them themselves.

It is an indisputable fact that people's radios are indeed cheaper than Jinpeng brand, and the quality is better and smaller.

In addition to the Jinpeng brand, in the past two months, at least five or six brands of radios of all sizes have emerged in Jichun City, and the prices are almost all cheaper than the Jinpeng brand.

Twenty-six yuan Jinpeng brand radios, except for those who don't know the inside story, no one has bought them at present.

Now there are so many choices that no one wants to be a fool.

Two days later, when an investigation report containing all the information appeared on Secretary Wang's desk, he gritted his teeth and read the report.

This has explained all the reasons, and if you don't want to find a way, then next, the sales of Jinpeng brand will further shrink, and even be eliminated by the market, at present in many counties and cities, many supply and marketing cooperatives are no longer willing to sell Jinpeng brand radios.

Secretary Wang has been in the wireless factory for most of his life, and he still hasn't figured out why his products are so popular and why they were eliminated from the market in just a few months.

This is really beyond his cognition, he still remembers that in six or three years, the radio produced by the first wireless factory, to last year, it was still on the market, a product for more than ten years, isn't it normal?

Why are so many cheap radios suddenly popping up on the market?

Although Secretary Wang didn't understand this, he only caught two words.

"Cheap!"

Yes, it is cheap, and the reason why Jinpeng brand was quickly eliminated by the market is because of the price.

Especially when he saw the report that the price of the hottest radio on the market was 19 yuan, this idea made him even more determined!

Secretary Wang, who thought he had grasped the key point, immediately held a meeting and began to discuss how to make Jinpeng brand radios cheaper!

The meeting was held again, and after the question was raised at the meeting, everyone looked at Zhong Zhihua, who was sitting at the end.

If you want to make the price of the radio cheaper, you have to ask the technical department to come forward!

When Zhong Zhihua heard Secretary Wang's question, he stood up expressionlessly and spoke.

"The cost of eleven yuan for the radio is already the limit, and if you want to reduce the price again, unless the price of materials and electronic components is reduced, it is difficult to reduce the price again!"

Zhong Zhihua's answer made everyone dissatisfied, and Secretary Wang even grasped the point, slapped the conference table hard, and scolded.

"Fart, the cost of eleven yuan is the limit, then the Ningjiang brand radio on the market, people can sell it for nineteen yuan, can you be sure that its cost is more than eleven yuan?"

Secretary Wang's good cultivation in the past, with the anger of the past few days, has long disappeared, and now he scolds when he wants, without any scruples about anyone.

Zhong Zhihua's face was blue and white for a while, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

These days, because he was annoyed and his plans and proposals were rejected, he was disheartened and didn't pay attention to the situation in the market at all.

It is mainly caused by the limitations of this era, who would dare to think that in just a few months, the market will change.

If it weren't for that survey report, the vast majority of people in the conference room today wouldn't care about the price of the cheapest radio on the market right now.

They are all leaders, and they are all in charge of every day, who cares about those?

Seeing the expression on Zhong Zhihua's face, Secretary Wang thought that he had said the point, and then scolded loudly.

"It's all a bunch of waste, a dozen people in the technical department, do they eat dry food every day? The enemy has all hit the doorstep, and you don't even know what the other party looks like, so if you were on the battlefield, how many times would you have died! ”

After shouting this great truth, Secretary Wang felt that the depressed breath in his chest dissipated a little, since the problem has been found, then solve the problem.

Immediately, Secretary Wang slapped the conference table again and yelled at Zhong Zhihua.

"Give you seven days for the technical department, no, three days, research a cheaper radio out, people sell for nineteen yuan, then we will sell eighteen yuan, Niang Xipi, I still don't believe it, our wireless factory, but can't do a Ningjiang brand that came out of nowhere!"

These words can be regarded as completely defining this meeting.

The others gloated at Zhong Zhihua, and then stopped paying attention to the unlucky ghost!

After the meeting, Zhong Zhihua frowned and returned to the technical department.

At this time, someone had already sent several radios currently on sale on the market, all portable radios, and there were six of them together.

Six radios were placed on the table of the technical department, and the small and delicate radio in the middle immediately attracted Zhong Zhihua!

In the light, the small, silver-gray radio was out of step with the other black, strangely shaped radios.

It's as if this radio is an era ahead of other radios.

Zhong Zhihua picked up the radio and subconsciously spoke.

"Which country is this?"

Before he could finish speaking, he stopped, because he had already seen the small Ningjiang logo directly above it.

"Ningjiang!"

Zhong Zhihua muttered to himself, this is like a place name, although Zhong Zhihua is from the Northeast, but for the first time, he really didn't remember where Ningjiang was.

Ningjiang is just a small county-level city, and ordinary people really don't pay attention to the name of this small county-level city.

Fortunately, a colleague next to him knew about Ningjiang and hurriedly explained.

"Ningjiang is a county-level city under Liaoshen, about 300 kilometers away from us!"

Zhong Zhihua was even more surprised now!

How can a small county-level city produce such a beautiful radio?

After a brief play, he realized that this radio was not ordinary!

It doesn't even have an antenna!

And this smooth appearance design, it always doesn't feel like a product of a county-level city in Northeast China.

At this time, Zhong Zhihua couldn't wait, and hurriedly took out screwdrivers and other tools, and opened them directly.

Under everyone's gaze, Zhong Zhihua quickly disassembled the shell.

The shell is made of hard plastic and aluminum alloy, but the plastic shell is sprayed with a layer of metal-like paint, so this radio feels very textured.

There is also this shape design, which does not have that square touch, and it is very moist when you hold it in your hand.

Wait!

Zhong Zhihua suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly shouted to a colleague next to him, take it!

A colleague hurriedly ran to get the scale!

Taking advantage of this time, Zhong Zhihua finally opened the shell, and when he opened it, he saw the structure inside, and Zhong Zhihua was stunned!

How can it be so simple?

Is this a hidden antenna?

This board is so clean!

Zhong Zhihua carefully inspected each part, and the more he checked, the more frightened he became, and he was even amazed by the genius ideas and creativity of the other party!

However, he always felt that the structure of this radio had a sense of familiarity!

Just as he was thinking about it, a colleague had already hurriedly brought a small name for medicinal herbs.

Zhong Zhihua didn't think about it, put the radio into the weighing plate, weighed it, and when he saw the weight on it, his eyes widened, and he muttered in his mouth.

"Impossible!"

A pound!

The scale shows that it weighs just one pound, and this weight breaks Zhong Zhihua's understanding of portable radios!

You must know that the weight of the Jinpeng portable radio is 1.2 kilograms, which is almost the lightest radio on the market before the Jinpeng brand was launched.

Even now, there are a large number of products on the market, and those weigh more than a kilogram.

And now, this radio is only 500 grams!

How this did not shock him!

In this era, it is common knowledge that electronic components are heavy and large, and even the shell, if you want to reduce weight, you have to start from the material aspect.

And the radio in front of him, its structure is extremely simple, the internal layout is very reasonable, and even the shell, he came up with metallic paint to hide the cheapness of hard plastic.

This man is a genius!

Wait!

Zhong Zhihua just thought of the Jinpeng brand radio, and then looked at the structure inside this radio, his frowning brows finally relaxed.

At this moment, he finally understood where that inexplicable sense of familiarity came from!

This... Isn't it a simplified version of the Jinpeng brand radio?