"How about it, this is the first factory we have been to, can you do parts processing for our aircraft?"

Shanghai Aiwenyi Road, in front of the tram production and assembly workshop of Yingdian Company.

Ba Yuzao looked closely at Wang Zhu who came out of it, his eyes were full of eager anticipation, and his mouth crackled and kept talking:

"Yu Peng, has their big boss seen you? Is it easy to talk? Have you told them that you only need to process a few small parts, in addition to the basic processing fees, materials, electricity costs are paid by us, and they will definitely not suffer losses, and the prospects for cooperation between the two sides in the future are very broad. ”

"Hey, you're talking, but you're dying, hurry up if you succeed or not, let's try our luck in the next factory, time waits for no one."

"Forget it, I won't tell you if I ask, I'll go in and ask him myself."

Seeing that Ba Yuzao really wanted to ask himself, Wang Zhu, who had been walking this way, nodded and shook his head again.

This time Ba Yuzao was dizzy, stepped forward and grabbed the other party's shoulder and said, "I asked, and then the other party didn't agree." ”

Wang Zhu shook his head, took Ba Yuzao's hand away, and walked to the side of the bench and sat down: "That's not what I meant. ”

"What does that mean? Isn't it nice to say that you are willing to process? Ba Yuzao also sat next to him, with confusion written on his face: "But you look dejected, no matter how you look at it, it's not like this." ”

Wang Zhu sighed and explained: "Seeing that I saw the big boss, people were also very enthusiastic on the surface, and asked him to help make parts, and they also agreed, but when we were asked later whether we were used to build airplanes, their faces changed with a brush."

Said I should wait outside for a while, discuss with their technicians, and then reply. ”

Ba Yuzao frowned slightly: "It seems that you don't want to help us build a plane, but people haven't vetoed it, does it mean that there is still a chance to cooperate, or I'll ask again?" ”

Wang Zhu took a deep breath and said: "I think it's because people want us to build airplanes, we have a public background, and they don't want to help and don't want to offend people, so they resorted to a delaying tactic. ”

Ba Yuzao was bitter: "Alas, although I went to so many factories and refused to help, the reasons for refusal were better than one another, and they were not repeated, I really wronged them, and I could still come up with so many tricks, let's learn a little, and we can use it when we reject others in the future." ”

Wang Zhu patted his friend's thigh and comforted: "It's difficult to pass the pass, everything is difficult, everything is difficult, everything is hard." It's really not good, let's buy a machine tool and build a machine by ourselves, even if it's a rivet, we will make it ourselves, and we will get it out ourselves if we have the effort to ask them. ”

Ba Yuzao, who calmed down, said: "It's hard to say about these foreign companies, but I believe that our Chinese factory must have his reasons for resigning, maybe it is really impossible to make something that meets our precision requirements, and it is just powerless." ”

Wang Zhu nodded: "After all, all electric lights have to use foreign goods, and it is understandable that these parts cannot be made, so they can't be blamed." It's really not good, we can go to Guangzhou again, isn't there an airport built there, maybe there are machines there that can process aircraft parts. ”

When the Republic of China was just established, an aviation bureau was set up in the provisional presidential palace, and Yang Xianyi was appointed as the director. Under the guidance of the Provisional President, Guangzhou established an airfield and an aircraft repair factory at that time, and also allocated funds to purchase aircraft from abroad, and selected Yang Xianyi to go to the United States to learn flying and aircraft manufacturing technology.

Later, the Provisional President moved to Japan and established an aviation school in Kyoto's Biwa Yakaichi City. At the beginning of the school year the following year, 2 Gaodelon monoplanes were purchased, and 2 Japanese instructors and 1 American consultant were hired. More than 20 students are enrolled, most of whom are overseas Chinese in Japan, and the training is effective.

Ba Yuzao and Wang Zhu have the support of Cheng Nuo, and there is no shortage of money for the time being, but there is a shortage of manufacturing machines and manufacturing workers, which are not available in China, and they need to be prepared from scratch. As far as the machine is concerned, it can definitely be bought from abroad, but there is a window period in recent months, and we have to wait for the machine to come from overseas.

This meant that the construction period for their first aircraft was extended in vain, and it did not meet their original plan at all.

So they decided to outsource a few key parts and take over the rest. But I never expected that the domestic industry was concentrated in the cotton textile industry, and there was no ability to help them do this.

Those who have the ability to do it are foreign companies, after hearing their origins, their performance is almost exactly the same as the British power company above, prevaricating them for various reasons in the early stage, and closing the gate directly in the later stage, and the rapid barking of dogs in the yard is their most real response.

"But this one is not bad, it actually has a snack, and it doesn't taste greasy." Wang Zhu took out a tightly wrapped thing in a handkerchief from his coat pocket, opened it and saw that it was two pieces of wife cake, and handed one to his friend: "I got up so early in the morning, I guess you haven't eaten, come out of it, try it?" ”

"When you say that, I'm a little hungry, how about I taste it." Ba Yuzao held a handkerchief, took the wife's cake, and without hesitation, directly stuffed it into his mouth.

Wang Zhu instructed: "Eat slowly, no one will rob you, if you don't have enough to eat, this piece in my hand is also yours." ”

After chewing a few times, Ba Yuzao swallowed it all: "One is just right, two are tired, you can eat that." ”

As he spoke, Ba Yuzao cleaned up the crumbs on the handkerchief and poured it into his mouth: "It's still better to eat this skin." ”

Wang Zhu ate his share slowly, with memories in his eyes: "Yunhua, do you remember the days when we first arrived in the UK before we went to the United States, at that time I remember that everyone brought a handful of soil from their hometown, and you were the only one who brought your hometown's wife cake."

At the time, I was still wondering, what are you doing with this, do you remember what you said? ”

Ba Yuzao shook his handkerchief and asked, "I still remember the matter of my wife's cake, but I really forgot what I said at the time, what did I say at that time?" ”

Wang Zhu sneered, almost choked something into his trachea, coughed for a long time before saying: "We were only seventeen or eighteen years old at the time, and you said that since there is no wife in the wife's cake, then find one on this British island, and go back and let the people in my hometown take a good look." ”

Ba Yuzao's old face flushed: "That's all in the past, don't mention it again, my wife hasn't eaten the cake, and my wife is gone." ”

Wang Zhu finished eating the rest of the dim sum and said with a smile: "Isn't it, at that time, your wife's cake was just taken out by the seagull, and the cake didn't reach her mouth, so your wife naturally disappeared." ”

Ba Yuzao stuffed the handkerchief to the other party and said unconvinced: "You have eaten your wife's cake, what about your wife?" ”

Wang Zhu didn't answer this sentence, and said slowly: "But come to think of it, the wife's cake before landing on the shore is actually the best food we have eaten in the UK, which is really amazing." ”

Patting off the crumbs of the snacks on his body, Ba Yuzao wondered: "Right now, we are busy looking for the machine, why did you suddenly start to recall the previous events?" It's almost okay, we have to go to the next factory after we pack up, we haven't gone to the Watson Electric Appliance Manufacturing Factory yet, I heard that the strength is quite good. ”

Wang Zhu put away the handkerchief and folded it neatly: "At that time, we came to study at the Armstrong Naval Academy in the United Kingdom, and it was during that time that in addition to learning naval skills, we were also fascinated by the aircraft that belonged to the Navy at that time and were in the ascendant. ”

"Is that the aircraft test site ten miles away from our academy? How can you forget! The topic finally turned to the plane, and Ba Yuzao said excitedly: "At that time, whenever there was a test flight of the plane, they would go on foot to watch, and their necks were about to break. ”

Wang Zhu put the handkerchief back in his pocket and said with a smile: "Yes, although we studied the navy at that time, we all wanted to return to China one day, and we could personally take the plane we built to go to the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, and feast our eyes." ”

Ba Yuzao had a smile on his face: "Later, we went to the shipyard for an internship in the summer, and there happened to be a private jet nearby, and we scraped together two pounds, and people didn't dislike it, and got on his plane, which was the first time we went to the sky." ”

Wang Zhu turned his head and asked with a smile: "Yes, the first time I went to heaven, it was novel, exciting, and unforgettable." Do you remember the name of that aviator? ”

Ba Yuzao didn't hesitate: "Portal! ”

"It's Mr. Portal, I haven't seen him in years, and I don't know how he's doing." Wang Zhu got up from the bench, tidied up his clothes, and said with a smile: "After we got off the plane, Mr. Potter said to us, since we have gone to heaven, will we still see everything on the earth?" ”

Ba Yuzao's eyes were full of question marks, and he was confused: "Did Mr. Portall really say that?" ”

After Wang Zhu fastened the buckle of his suit, he stretched out his hand to his companion and said: "Regardless of whether you said it, we all have to move forward, open roads in the mountains, build bridges in the water, and really can't come by ourselves, what is this little setback?" ”

Ba Yuzao stretched out his hand, and after feeling the strong support of his friend, he got up and regained his self-confidence: "Shanghai can't work, let's go to Guangzhou, find the 'big president', if it doesn't work, let's go to Beijing again, isn't there a Nanyuan aircraft repair factory, there must be a way, it's just a little more effort." ”

"Then let's go, my wife has eaten the cake, and the 'chicken soup' has been drunk, let's go ahead and go to the Watson Electric Appliance Manufacturing Factory!"

"Lead the way ahead, it seems that this Watson Electric Appliance Manufacturing Factory has something to do with our Dean Cheng, I don't know if it's true or not."

"But it's better to be true, then we can count it as an action this time, and we can draw a punctuation mark, so what is the symbol called? Yes, it's a full stop, to draw a successful end to the action, it seems that this new punctuation is also promoted by our Dean Cheng, is it a good sign for the two of us? ”

……

In the Watson Electric Appliance Manufacturing Factory, a group of workers are working tightly in the workshop.

"A little to my left, to the left, to the left, hey, it's over, it's a little to the right, that's it, it's time to hook up."

Hearing the final confirmation command, the master decorator began to draw a small circle on the ceiling, and then began to take out the tools and use a hammer to punch the hook into it.

After seeing the hook entered, and shaking it with his hand, he couldn't feel the shaking, and rode on the ladder and shouted to the people below: "Director Yang, we have got acquainted, we can hang the fan." ”

"Are you sure!?" Yang Jichuan gestured to the people waiting below: "Hand over our new fan, so that Lao Zhang can hang it up." ”

Immediately after that, everyone gathered around, lifted the assembled new fan, hung it steadily, and even hung a big red flower in the center of the fan blade.

"Director Yang, hang up, do you see any other instructions?" The master worker on the ladder shouted.

Yang Jichuan turned his head to Cheng Nuo next to him, and said politely: "Professor Cheng, is this how this new fan is hung?" ”

Cheng Nuo nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, that's it, wait a while to arrange the wires to avoid interfering with the rotation of the fan blades, and our workers and masters can come down." ”

"Okay, no problem." Yang Jichuan beckoned to the other workers waiting on the side and said, "Brothers, give the ladder to Lao Zhang to stabilize it, so that the line can be stabilized." ”

Cheng Nuo came over this time, mainly to see how the production and sales of new fans are, whether they are on the right track, after all, he is about to return to Beijing, and the next time he comes over, he will have to wait at least until the annual meeting of the Academy of Sciences at the end of the year, and he may not have time to manage the subordinate enterprises of the Academy of Sciences.

In addition to the Zhoujiazui factory that is being built, the workshop here has also expanded a lot, and there are many unfamiliar faces, all of whom are busy producing electric fans.

After inquiring carefully about the sales situation, the order will be scheduled for six months later, which makes Cheng Nuo secretly speechless.

It's going to be winter in six months, do you still need a fan?

However, if you take a closer look at the source of the order, it is reasonable, it turned out to be from Guangzhou.

Just observed all the way and inquired all the way, I didn't see Yang Jichuan in the middle, and I thought that this guy was going to talk about business, but I didn't expect that in other workshops, he was experimenting with new fans, which was also the appearance that Cheng Nuo designed at the beginning.

"Professor Cheng, are we calling the new fan a ceiling fan, will it be a little ......" Yang Jichuan looked at the ceiling fan and bared his teeth: "This thing is not even available to the Americans, so we made it ourselves, which proves that domestic products are much more powerful than foreign products." ”

Cheng Nuo put his hands behind his back, and also looked at the ceiling fan above, and said with a smile: "It's easy to understand, how good, the names of those crepes, the common people also call them around, it's good to be neat." As for the benefits of domestic products, I believe that more and more people will realize it after this battle. ”

(End of chapter)