Not to mention that Shanghai is the largest city in the Far East at this time, don't look at July is one of the hottest months of the year, and there are many amazing ways to cool off, from a simple seaside summer, to a park at the door of the house, to a common bath and swimming in summer hygiene, etc., different prices have their own ways of living.

"Zhiyuan, hurry down, don't hide in the house, take a walk, my brother will show you the latest way to beat the heat." Downstairs in the apartment, Li Tianfu shouted upstairs with his throat.

Cheng Nuo is still studying the next step of the lecture, I heard that Situ Leiden is a teacher in Shanghai, and he is going to visit in advance to see who the other party is, and the future Academy of Sciences and Yenching University are also door-to-door neighbors, so it is necessary to explore the wind in advance.

Before he could write a few words with a pencil, he was startled by the shouting outside the building, and the tip of the pen was broken, so he shook his head and had to close the book, and walked to the window to look down:

"Lao Li, you, the president of the flour trade union, are quite leisurely and elegant, and you don't keep an eye on business in the factory, and you're here to kill me again, right?"

Li Tianfu smiled and touched his nose: "Brother Cheng, you are my business, staring at those iron lumps every day, and you can still conjure up a few more bags of flour for me, I can't have a good relationship with you, the yield and quality of wheat will naturally go up, and the money is not a rush."

Cheng Nuo waved his hand: "You don't wear a top hat for me, there is still a way to go behind the success of localization, these good words are useless to me, I have to let Maizi listen to them." Wait a minute, I'll change my clothes and go down."

As president of the Academy of Sciences, Cheng Nuo will definitely inspect the wheat experimental fields in Shanghai to see how the specific development situation is. Although Guo Shouchun, the direct person in charge, is not here, this guy has also stayed in person for a period of time, arranged for his personal disciples to be stationed here, and commanded remotely, so the overall situation is still very optimistic, the localization of American seeds is very successful, and the yield per mu has increased by 100 kilograms in the first year, which makes the members of the local flour union very happy.

Love House and Wu, they are very welcome to Cheng Nuo's arrival, and the extent is even more than the reception of Cai Yuanpei, after all, this economic benefit is real and tangible, and it is a bit false to talk about anything else.

As the president of the trade union, Li Tianfu has come to fulfill the friendship of the landlord these days, and the enthusiasm of Cheng Nuo is almost unbearable.

Changing into a custom-made tunic not long ago, Cheng Nuo in front of the mirror looked much more energetic, looked left and right to make sure there were no mistakes, then opened the door and walked out slowly.

As soon as they met, Li Tianfu gave a bear hug, and his face was full of smiles: "Our brothers are here, you don't have to dress so formally, I don't know, I think we're going to Beijing for a meeting, but then again, the loss is in the south, or you have to make up a pig's tail braid, it will be nondescript."

Zhang Xun's restoration made the whole country panic, but Cheng Nuo let people have a "pig's tail" in advance, and he, the "culprit", was hiding outside the capital, and the problem at home should not be big, thinking of this, he just smiled: "It's good to be formal, lest Lao Li you lead me to the place again, this small body is really unbearable."

Li Tianfu laughed after hearing this: "What I said, I am a righteous person on your sister-in-law's side, in order to treat you well, I have a lot of blood, I just want you to see a different kind of Shanghai Beach, don't forget your brother Li when you go back." ….

Cheng Nuo shook his head with a smile, a little helpless: "If my brother refers to the Hongkou swimming pool, then I really can't forget it."

"Haha, don't worry, this time it's a serious place." Li Tianfu touched his head, although he smiled, he didn't dare to face Cheng Nuo, who made him look foreign last time.

For the average person, the price of the Hongkou swimming pool is not cheap at all, and it costs two oceans per person each time. Located in Jiangwan Road, close to Hongkou Park, the environment is very good, although the pool is not as blue as the previous life, but it is also crystal clear, it is a good place to cool off.

It's a pity that the pool is newly opened, Li Tianfu has only heard of the name before, and has never been in, and when he asks the trade union members about the real situation, they are all laughing and silent, and then asking is "go and know". When the two of them actually entered after buying the tickets, they found that all the women who came to this ghost place were women with children, a small number of them were couples, and the real two men came hand in hand for the first time of the day, with a little embarrassment on their faces.

However, this time Li Tianfu is obviously much more reliable, and the place where he brought Cheng Nuo is a famous department store nearby, although it is not big, but there are many good things on display inside, the most popular of which are a number of American foreign goods.

Going around and around, he came to the counter with the most crowds somewhere, pointing to the black guy on it, Li Tianfu introduced: "America's 'Strange, brand electric fan, Brother Zhiyuan, this summer, Brother will get you one, blowing the wind on the other side of the Pacific Ocean."

The electric fan is very simple, with a motor, four fan blades and an iron base, which can surround customers with three layers inside and three layers outside, all of them stretching their necks to look at this foreign product. I don't think I've ever seen anything like this.

Cheng Nuo couldn't help but be curious and asked, "Lao Li, do we have this electric fan in our domestic products, why do you think that everyone has never seen it?"

Li Laosan pulled two stools, there were so many people coming over now, it was too hot, it was better to buy it directly when he wanted to buy it, so he simply sat down and explained: "Harm, if we could make this thing, the electric fan would not appear in this foreign goods shopping mall, and it would have blown its own wind on Shanghai Beach a long time ago."

"Then how much does this black fan cost?" Cheng Nuo asked again.

"It's not expensive, it's pure American goods, it was originally priced at two hundred and fifty yuan, but then I didn't think it sounded, so I simply added one piece, two hundred and fifty pieces." Li Tianfu blurted out: "But this thing is really powerful, the wind is whistling, but the power consumption is a little fast, like drinking water."

"Good guy, it's just such a small thing, and it's the price of a small courtyard house in Beijing." Hearing the price, Cheng Nuo was also taken aback, he didn't expect it to be so expensive, no wonder there were many onlookers at the counter, and there was less money to buy, even if such an expensive thing was an ordinary university professor, he had to weigh it carefully, the price was ridiculously high.

"It's so big, we can't make it out of a daze, it's really profitable, how much flour do you have to sell to make a lot of money for him to be a fan." Although he was talking and laughing, in fact, Li Tianfu was ready to pay for one to give to Xiaoyou, whether the thing is expensive or not, it all depends on who the person who gave it away.

At this time, the appearance of a middle-aged man attracted Cheng Nuo's attention, the figure was sneaky, and when he saw the person who was interested in buying a fan, he hurriedly stepped forward to Didi Gugu, until the customer stopped with an impatient face, with a look of loss on his face, until he met the next customer, he immediately cheered up again, and repeated the above process with a smile on his face. ….

According to common sense, it is estimated that it is a salesperson at a counter in a shopping mall to promote a new product, and it is normal for customers not to buy it, but it should not be so nervous until the real staff appears and answers Cheng Nuo's doubts.

"Hurry up, one got in without looking at you, who bought your thing, can it be turned, compared to foreign goods, is it good and itchy legs, want us to loosen it for you?" The guard grinned and tapped unhurriedly with his baton.

"Don't don't, the Chinese don't fight the Chinese, I also want to buy one, not to sell it." The middle-aged man looked flustered and his eyes were evasive.

"Hey, two hundred and fifty-one pieces of the ocean, do you have it, but if you can take out half of it, I will look down on people with dog eyes, if you don't, get out of here, be careful that I will blow the whistle and call someone to beat you up!" The guard picked up his short stick and made a gesture to strike.

"I'll go, I'll go......" The middle-aged man saw that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly left, but he was a little anxious, and his legs were actually lame, panicking like a lost dog, and others thought of the words of the guard just now, and laughed.

Even the guard, as if he had won a great battle, loosened his belt and spat at the man's back:

"I can't take care of foreigners, and I can't take care of you?!"

Cheng Nuo felt a little strange, and his intuition told him that there was something hidden in this person, and it was by no means as simple as it looked. Seeing that the middle-aged man's figure was getting farther and farther away, and he was about to disappear into the crowd, Cheng Nuo hurriedly apologized to the side:

"Lao Li, I suddenly thought of something here, I have to go over and deal with it myself, I'm sorry for you here, I'll invite you to a table when I go back."

Although Li Tianfu didn't know what was going on, in line with the way of advancing and retreating between friends, he said politely, "Is there anything difficult? Do you want me to call some people, and let's talk about the dinner later, it's not such a day

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Cheng Nuo smiled: "It's not a big deal, it's just that I saw an old classmate I haven't seen for many years, and I just reminisced about the past."

Li Tianfu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay, then we'll see you later."

Cheng Nuo nodded, then walked in the direction of the door, halfway through, and turned back to instruct: "Lao Li, don't buy a fan, I haven't been in Shanghai for a long time, and it's a waste to buy it, remember, even if you buy it, you don't want it."

Seeing this, Li Tianfu hurriedly snorted, and his careful thinking was thought through, and he joked: "I know, I'll send you a big girl when I go back, and I'll be responsible for shaking the fan every day."

Cheng Nuo smiled helplessly when he saw this, and this friend was also in a good position, waving his hand and rushing out.

Fortunately, this passage was not delayed for a long time, and when Cheng Nuo rushed out, he could still see the figure of the middle-aged man, and he quickly caught up with him at a trot.

The incident in the mall obviously had a great impact on the middle-aged man, Cheng Nuo just patted his shoulder from behind, the man trembled suddenly, and his just right leg almost limped again.

"I've come out of the mall, why don't you still give up, are you willing to rest assured after another beating......" The middle-aged man cried and mourned, and the words in his mouth were habitually said, and when he saw the person who came, he breathed a sigh of relief, and turned vigilantly: "Who are you, follow *** what?" ….

Cheng Nuo didn't care about this attitude, and stretched out his hand in a friendly way: "Hello, I am a customer who has just entered the mall, and I am very interested in your products."

The middle-aged man was overjoyed when he saw this, but he was also desperate, and he didn't doubt this at all, so he grabbed him and said: "There is a saying that 'it is better to get ten good horses than to get one Bole, Mr. has a good vision, and the products of our Watson Electric Appliance Manufacturing Factory will definitely not disappoint Mr."

Cheng Nuo was curious: "I don't know your surname, sir, what products does your factory make?"

The middle-aged man was a little restrained: "Contemptible Yang Jichuan, the factory is currently making electric fans, but unfortunately for some reasons, it cannot be mass-produced, but I promise that as long as Mr. is willing to order, our production is no worse than foreign goods, and the quality is higher, and the price is cheaper."

In this way, the two chatted all the way, and turned around to the Watson Electric Appliance Manufacturing Factory on Yokohama Road, saying that it was a factory, but in fact it was just the size of a family workshop, and the workers in it were not enough to make up two tables of people to eat.

When the two of them came in, four or five workers were still busy assembling products, but the strange thing was that the assembly was not the electric fan seen in the mall.

In the middle, Yang Jichuan glanced at Cheng Nuo, and after seeing the confusion in his eyes, he quickly explained: "Sir, there is a misunderstanding here, the factory is not mainly producing electric fans at present, but it doesn't mean that we don't have the strength to produce."

Cheng Nuo did not directly question this sentence, but walked to the end of the production line, holding an assembled product in his hand, and said in a skeptical tone: "Director Yang, if I am not mistaken, this should be a current limit meter, and the difference between it and an electric fan is quite big."

Yang Jichuan trotted over and explained: "Sir, you also saw just now, our factory is not big, in fact, the production of fans at the beginning, but unfortunately the cost is too high, the supply of funds is not available, and the technology is not mature.

In fact, Yang Jichuan was not a professional mechanical or electrical major at the beginning, he did not receive professional education when he was a teenager, and he has been studying with the private school of his eldest brother. Later, when he got older, he did not continue to study in middle school, but went directly to a foreign cloth shop in Shanghai as an apprentice, usually silent, and studied various homework on his own after work, and mastered basic scientific knowledge such as English, physics, and chemistry.

Later, I saw that the electric fans on the market were basically monopolized by American goods, so I simply invented them myself, and my two friends Ye Youcai and Yuan Zongyao gathered together dozens of oceans to buy all kinds of raw materials, from theory to practice, after repeated failures, they finally succeeded in manufacturing two fans, but unfortunately at this time there was little savings left on several people, and the investors who finally found it did not take the electric fan seriously.

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At that time, the theft of electricity was very serious, and their investors simply asked them to make a current limit meter, put their dreams aside, and talk about bread and how to survive first. But Yang Jichuan was unwilling to be mediocre, and came to the nearby shopping mall several times, just to find interested customers to change this bad status quo. ….

Cheng Nuo was a little moved after roughly learning about the experience, in a sense, this is China's first electric fan manufacturer, and the potential should not only be used on the power limit meter, and said with a smile: "Director Yang, in this way, you should have a good production film, you might as well take it out and let me see it, if the product quality is qualified, I will definitely order it in large quantities, and it is not impossible to become your new investor."

Yang Jichuan was a little excited when he saw this, and he was a little trembling when he said it on a hot day: "Yes...... We've got the electric fans we've made, sir, wait a minute, we'll bring them right away."

After speaking, Yang Jichuan immediately trotted towards the factory, shouting as he ran: "Xiao Song, old Zhangtou, quickly bring over the two electric fans we improved last month, we have a big customer coming, hurry up and be numb."

The sound is extremely penetrating, even the roaring machine sound in the factory area can't suppress the excitement of Director Yang, and the factory area also jumps with the chickens and dogs, and soon the two fans are brought to Cheng Nuo.

Perhaps in order to show the importance of it, the worker took out two long towels and wiped them again and again, almost wiping off the paint on the electric fan.

"Sir, this is the electric fan funded and developed by our Watson Electric Appliance Factory, whether it is smart speed, wind rate, electricity, utility value or temperature rise, etc., imported products may not be better than our domestic products." Yang Jichuan stroked the fan in his hand, his face full of pride.

Cheng Nuo didn't rush to try the fan, and asked, "Watson Electric Appliance Factory, why do you use this, is there any special meaning?"

Yang Jichuan touched his head and smiled: "The implication is there, I'm not afraid of your jokes when I say it, Watson means 'the Chinese nation is self-reliant,'" It echoes the self-improvement of our domestic products."

Cheng Nuo nodded and praised: "The implication is very good, I always remember to remind myself, and I am a role model for many people in the business world, especially in the local area where compradors are in charge, which is even more valuable."

Yang Jichuan touched his head and said a little embarrassed: "We can't control others, just be ourselves, not to mention that the factory is not even very skilled in climbing, and when we learn to walk, we will think about running."

This is not a lie, although the two fans placed in front of the table are formed, the overall design is not much different from the foreign goods seen in the mall, and its design is inherited

AEG fan style designed by Peter Behrens. When Peter Behrens, a well-known member of the German Industrial League, designed the electric fan for the German Electrical Joint Venture (AEG), the largest electrical appliance factory in Germany at that time, he mainly started from the functional requirements of the product and assembled it with standard parts to form a product that could be mass-produced by the machine, which was a typical modernist design, and the basic modeling style of the electric fan was also determined.

Here, it is not an exaggeration to say that the two fans are duplicated, that is, there is a slight difference in the color of the paint.

However, in the early stage, there are no restrictions on the appearance patent, and it will be adjusted later, mainly to see if there is a difference in use value.

This mileage directly ignored this shortcoming, directly connected the power supply under the gaze of everyone, turned on the switch, and the electric fan slowly rotated, although everyone knew the result in advance, but still cheered.

"It's turned, the electric fan is spinning, and you can see that this wind is much more powerful than the pu fan, and it blows cold, which makes people like it a lot." ….

"That's it, look at this wind, in the play, Sun Monkey is over the flame, and the banana fan in his hand may not be as good as our electric fan."

"There must be no electric fan to use, plug in the electricity and it can be used, the oil on the motor is ordered by my grandson himself, I haven't been so concerned about my daughter-in-law, that guy is always struggling."

Unfortunately, everyone didn't have to be happy for long, and then a smell of lake scorch wafted out from the fan, and then a puff of black smoke quickly rose, and the fan was about to burn when it failed.

Seeing this, Cheng Nuo hurriedly disconnected the power supply, afraid that the fan would burn up and cause a fire, and the fun would be great.

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Chuan's face was pale, as if he was grasping a life-saving straw, hugged another spare fan, and hurriedly explained, "First ...... Sir, we still have one, this guarantee is no problem, it will definitely work normally, and there will be no recurrence of the situation just now."

After speaking, Yang Jichuan trembled and inserted the plug into the socket, but he couldn't plug it in after several alignments.

In the end, Cheng Nuo couldn't stand it anymore, and leaned on the wall with one hand, before he gave the socket to ***, turned on the switch, and the backup fan quickly turned around, but everyone was not happy for long, and the familiar black smoke came out again.

Answer: It is obvious that the imitation of domestic fans has failed in succession.

Disappointment, hope, disappointment again.

Under the repeated blows, Yang Jichuan's heart was completely drained with the black smoke, and he knelt on the ground, lying on the table, his mouth slightly open, and he said a word.

Cheng Nuo sighed in his heart when he saw this, the road of "Chinese version of Edison" is not so easy to walk, he is not afraid of disappointment, so he will be disappointed after giving hope, which is really desperate.

No, Cheng Nuo didn't recognize the electric fan at first, but the self-taught person in front of him, patted him on the shoulder, and said softly, "Director Yang, it's okay, let's just come later."

Yang Jichuan shook his head, his eyes were blank: "No, everything is not like this, the two fans were fine before, but who knew that the chain fell off like this at the critical moment, maybe as the industrialist said at the beginning, I am only suitable for imitation, not for invention."

Cheng Nuo didn't continue the topic and asked, "There is a sentence I actually wanted to ask just now, is our fan too similar to the American Strange brand fan, if you don't say it in advance, I'm afraid people will think they are twin brothers."

Yang Jichuan sighed and explained: "At the beginning, in order to better imitate, except for the fan shell, all the parts in it are serious American goods, and it is human nature for Mr. to have this idea, except for this clothes, the heart is still the American heart."

Cheng Nuo said with a smile: "So, it's not that we can't do it, but they can't do it with American goods, the parts are their own, and we just assemble them, and the result is that there are constant problems, and it must not be explained by simple adaptation to the soil and water, Director Yang, in addition to the current limit meter, doesn't we design our own products?"

The master next to him couldn't help but interject: "Who said no, our Watson Electric Appliance Manufacturing Factory will have other ...... besides us."

"Old Song!" Yang Jichuan, who was awakened by these words, seemed to have regained a lot of strength, stood up again on the table, and said seriously: "This gentleman, after talking so much, I still don't know your identity?"

Cheng Nuo took out the prepared business card and smiled with confidence: "Director Yang, reacquaint yourself, my name is Cheng Nuo."

took the business card, and a few lines were clearly written on it in thin gold font: Editor-in-Chief of "National" and "Youth" magazines, President of the Academy of Sciences, Director of the Chinese Sports Association, Director of the China Vocational Education Society, President of the Study Abroad Foundation...... Professor of Mathematics at Peking University - Cheng Nuo.

With the business card in his hand, Yang Jichuan still felt a little unbelievable after reading it several times, and his eyes glowed again.

"Mr. Cheng, our factory needs your arrival, not only the current limit meter, but also the three-phase AC transformer, DC generator, electroplated DC generator...... mechanical and electrical chapter of the "National" magazine, we often read it!"

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