Chapter 31: Frustration
When Wang Weidong returned home, he wrote a letter to Wuxi according to the address on the letter, and sent it the next day.
The address he wrote on the letter was not the address of the factory, but the address of his own home.
The next night, Wang Weidong left a few leaders for a meeting, and on the table was a radio magazine, as well as a piece of paper with drawings drawn by Liu Jianguo from the magazine last night.
"I always went to the factory supply and marketing cooperatives to inquire about the sales of our radios, and on Sundays I rode my bicycle to the supply and marketing cooperatives in two or three nearby counties to inquire, and the radios were getting worse and worse, so I decided to design a new radio. Let Liu Jianguo talk about it. Wang Weidong said.
"It's a desktop radio, and it runs directly on alternating current, so you have to add a transformer, and two five-watt horns are louder." Liu Jianguo finished two or three dry sentences.
Wang Weidong was very dissatisfied with Liu Jianguo's brief explanation, could it be that this is the virtue that engages in technology? So he decided to go down and incite it himself.
By producing a radio half the size of a brick, more than 30 disabled people were fed, and they were doing well. It is not easy for people to change, especially when life is good, change is forced and forced.
Wang Weidong coughed and said: "You all know that my eldest brother Wang Jinjin is going to get married, and my mother said that there is already a radio at home, so there is no need to buy it again." But my eldest brother and his partner were not happy, because I had bought the radio in my house for more than ten years, and it was a five-lamp machine with a tube. Of course, the most important thing is that the radio is nominally my parents' own, and if you buy them a new one, the property rights will belong to the younger couple. ”
Several of the others had smiles on their faces.
"I mean, when you get married, you have to buy a radio for the newlyweds, and if you don't buy the woman, you won't agree! No one picks like my mom. Since you buy a radio, you will buy a big one, and if you have face, you will not buy the radio we are producing now that is only half a brick! Wang Weidong said.
Wang Weidong patted the drawings and said: "This radio is almost the same as the radio we produce now, except that a horn and transformer have been added, the magnetic rod is a little longer, and the other parts have not changed." The important thing is the shell, it looks beautiful and solemn! No one buys a radio with a manual and studies the circuit diagram. ”
Wang Weidong's words were very convincing, and everyone felt that what he said made sense.
But no one spoke.
Xiangyang Chemical Factory is a large factory with tens of thousands of workers, with thousands of cadres and technicians, and strong technical ability.
But even so, no factory director has ever thought of independently developing a weapon and equipment, and this kind of thing is not what a leader at his level should think.
At present, the country is still very backward compared with the advanced countries, and in terms of weapons, it is still in the stage of following, imitating advanced foreign weapons according to its own production capacity and technological level.
Orders are issued at the highest level of the state, and the ministry organizes technical forces to develop and then issues production tasks to the factories below.
In the past 30 years, everyone has formed the ideological inertia of waiting for orders from above and then completing the task, and even affects everyone's thinking.
Now that the factory is in good condition, why bother again?
"If you do what you say, we have to write a report to the factory leaders and then the factory will report to the department, even if the factory and the department agree, the ministry and the fourth machine department will communicate to change the number and type of electronic components from the next year, which is too troublesome." Bao Qihang said.
Obviously, he didn't agree with Wang Weidong doing this, but what he said was also reasonable, even if this whole set of procedures was completed, it might take a year, and which of the leaders said that he would put the report on the study first, and then he didn't know how long it would be delayed.
The reason why the radio factory was opened smoothly more than a year ago was actually mainly because Wang Weidong asked Liu Jianguo to write a letter to the leaders of the ministry pretending to be his mother, Fuguirong, a national model worker, which alarmed Minister Zhang, and thus caused the leaders of the Xiangyang Chemical Factory and the ministry to move, so things were done quickly and smoothly.
Before writing the letter, Wang Weidong had gone to the house of Deputy Factory Director Fang, although Deputy Factory Director Fang was Wang Weidong's grandfather's apprentice, but he was only perfunctory to Wang Weidong on the surface, and he didn't even do what he proposed at the factory office meeting.
It's right not to mess with it, but people in different positions have very different meanings.
Deputy Director Fang is reluctant to cause trouble, and Wang Weidong is now causing trouble.
"The factory belongs to everyone, and I can't make the decision alone, so let's raise your hand about this matter." Wang Weidong said.
"Raise your hand in agreement with the production of this radio!" Wang Weidong said as he raised his hand.
Liu Jianguo also raised his hand, and the mute girl Chen Jihong hurriedly raised her hand when she saw Wang Weidong raise her hand, but neither Shi Yueshuang nor Bao Qihang raised her hand.
"Three to two, passed. I immediately wrote a report and handed it to Deputy Director Fang. Wang Weidong said.
"Weidong, even if you hand in the report, the factory leaders will not approve it." Bao Qihang said.
Shi Yueshuang didn't speak, and shook her wheelchair out of the factory.
Shi Yueshuang's biggest dream is to go to college, since she can't go to college because of physical reasons, she can only accept her fate, she feels that this is already very good now, and there is no need to change.
A sense of crisis, people in the seventies and eighties did not have a sense of crisis. What if you tell him that in the future, if the factory is not doing well and cannot be paid? He will look at you like an alien.
Today is tomorrow, tomorrow is the day after tomorrow, and good days will go on forever.
However, Shi Yueshuang felt very uncomfortable, because this was the first time she had opposed Wang Weidong's opinion.
Walking into the house, Shi Yueshuang saw that his father, Director Shi, had returned.
Shi Yueshuang was eating silently and suddenly looked up at her father and asked: "Dad, Wang Weidong said today that the radio factory would produce a new radio, and I didn't agree to it when the meeting was voting, in fact, I think he was right, if the radio is produced, it will be better than the current radio." ”
"If the things you produce can be completely digested by our factory, and the Xiangyang Chemical Factory can fully supply the production components, I may consider it. However, the sales of radios depend on the provincial supply and marketing cooperative, and the electronic components rely on the ministry to communicate with other ministries, which is too troublesome. It's like it's okay for a child to do something to trouble his parents, but it's different if he wants to trouble the neighbors, so it's better not to do it. Director Shi said.
"The factory agreed to set up this radio factory to solve the employment problem of disabled young people in the factory, and the factory was ready to lose a little money on you, but now you can support yourself It's already good, don't do it again!" Director Shi continued.