Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

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This is an old newspaper from "Qinghe Daily", which Li Weidong used to cushion the table when he was tinkering with parts.

The newspaper was in April, when Li Weidong was still selling air fryers at the Canton Fair, so naturally he didn't see the content of the newspaper.

Now a piece of tofu in this newspaper has attracted Li Weidong's attention.

"Lu Jianli, an inventor in our city, won the second prize in the 'National Five Little Wisdom Cup'! Lu Jianli, this is a famous folk inventor in Qinghe!" Li Weidong said to himself.

In the 1980s, the Communist Youth League launched the "Five Small Activities" nationwide. The so-called "Five Smalls" are small inventions, small creations, small innovations, small designs, and small suggestions. The purpose is to encourage young people to play smart in production practice. Wisdom, brains, think of ways to solve the problems existing in production positions and promote the development of production.

Among the "five small activities", a group of "civil inventors" emerged in China, and this Lu Jianli was one of them.

Lu Jianli is a physics teacher at the No. 2 Middle School in Qinghe City. He used to study electronic technology, and his teaching level is sparse, but he has an Edison heart.

Generally, such folk inventors are just as busy as Leonardo da Vinci, inventing something like "Three thousand of your life".

However, among Lu Jianli's inventions, several can be used.

The future Lu Jianli, who has been engaged in invention and creation for more than 30 years, has obtained a total of 12 national patents, of which 4 have been practically applied to products.

In terms of the application ratio of invention patents, one-third of the application rate is a terrifying figure. If you count Lu Jianli's status as a folk inventor, then his achievements can be called brilliant.

In the last life, Li Weidong had several encounters with Lu Jianli, all at some events held in the city.

Now that Li Weidong saw the news of Lu Jianli in the newspaper, he decided to invite Lu Jianli to help the electric furnace factory improve the air fryer, and by the way, he could also do some product design work.

Li Weidong is very clear about the importance of product research and development to enterprises, and Li Weidong also wants to set up a special research and development team to pave the way for the future.

However, in the environment at that time, it was impossible for township enterprises to set up a special R\u0026D team.

The key to doing research and development is talents who master the technology. In this case, the electric furnace factory can hire farmers. Many of these farmers have not graduated from primary school, and they can count with ten fingers if they can get a junior high school diploma.

It is a joke to expect these people who have never been in junior high school to engage in research and development.

At that time, even secondary school students were still assigned jobs, and college students had a lot of choice when it came to assignments. This also meant that township enterprises such as electric furnace factories could not acquire talents through normal channels.

No secondary school student will have a brain cramp and go to township enterprises after graduation. The level of secondary school students is not enough to support R\u0026D work.

Directly spending money to hire a tech giant to help with research and development is at most a part-time job, and a full-time job is impossible.

This is not a question of money, but in that environment, the talents who understand technology are all in large state-owned enterprises and institutions. It is simply impossible for the big tech giants to give up their iron jobs in state-owned enterprises and institutions and go to work in small town enterprises.

Even in 2021, those who hold iron rice bowls in state-owned enterprises and institutions will be poached by private enterprises in a small number, and most people are reluctant to bear iron rice bowls.

In the late 1980s, people were much more conservative in their ideology, and it was even more difficult to poach a foothold from state-owned enterprises and institutions.

Part-time technicians can temporarily solve technical problems. If you want to engage in systematic technology research and development, you will definitely not be able to count on them.

Li Weidong still has another way, which is to engage in the collaboration and integration of production, education and research.

But in the late 1980s, industry-university-research collaboration was a new thing.

It was also in 1997 that the state issued a notice on the pilot work of industry-university-research cooperation education, and identified 28 colleges and universities to carry out pilot projects for industry-university-research education.

What's more, Li Weidong's electric furnace factory is just a private enterprise attached to a township and township. Even if people take the money to find a university to cooperate in industry-university-research collaboration, they will not pay attention to Li Weidong.

At that time, township and village enterprises were worthless, and even the unemployed in the cities looked down on township and village enterprises in the countryside.

Therefore, for the electric furnace factory at this stage, a private inventor like Lu Jianli may be the best choice for the electric furnace factory to upgrade its products.

Many folk inventors have first-class hands-on ability and understand the principles of various machines. A private inventor like Lu Jianli, who can obtain 12 national patents, may have even better creative thinking than scientists in research institutions.

Letting folk inventors do simple product upgrades should still be competent, at least much better than those in the factory who have not graduated from primary school.

In Li Weidong's view, since I don't have the conditions to hire a tech giant, I can only hire second-hand inventors.

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The next day, Li Weidong bought gifts such as tobacco, alcohol, sugar and tea and came to the family home of the No. 2 Middle School in the city.

The family home of No. 2 Middle School was much smaller than the family home of the transportation company. The car could not go in at all. Li Weidong parked the car on the side of the road outside and walked in.

"Master, let me ask you about someone, where does Mr. Lu Jianli live?" Li Weidong asked an uncle who was enjoying the shade by the roadside.

"What kind of ceremony Lu?" The uncle was a little deaf.

"Lu Jianli!" Li Weidong said loudly.

"Lu Jian what?" the uncle asked again.

"Lu Jianli!" Li Weidong replied again.

"What Jianli?" The uncle may also be a traveler, joking with Li Weidong.

"Master, take a rest, I'm not looking for Ma Dongmei!" Li Weidong said.

"Comrade, there is a problem with Uncle Wang! I just finished saying the previous sentence, but I forgot about it!" A voice sounded from behind, and a middle-aged man pointed at the uncle's head and said.

"Oh, there's something wrong with my brain." Li Weidong turned to the middle-aged man: "Comrade, do you know where Mr. Lu Jianli lives?"

"Look for Xiao Lu. Walk straight ahead. It's the staff dormitory. Xiao Lu lives in the second-to-last row, the house in the far west." The middle-aged man replied.

"Thank you." Li Weidong took the gift and walked forward.

The so-called staff dormitory is a row of tile houses. It seems that there is only one house per household, and the living environment is much worse than that of the previous transportation company family area.

After all, the school is not a profit-making organization. It relies entirely on financial allocation. If the finance does not give money, there will be no extra money to improve the housing environment of the faculty and staff.

Li Weidong came to the westernmost house in the penultimate row, but saw that this house was not closed.

Li Weidong looked into the house and asked, "Is Teacher Lu Jianli there?"

"Don't come in!" the man inside the house shouted.

At this time, Li Weidong could see clearly that there was a person squatting on the ground. In front of this person were various metal parts and the like.

"Don't come in, be careful to step on my invention!" said the man squatting on the ground.

"Okay, I won't come in." Li Weidong asked, "Are you Teacher Lu Jianli?"

"Yes, I am Lu Jianli!" The other party raised his head.

Li Weidong took a closer look, and it turned out that he was a young version of Lu Jianli, a little more literate than when he was old, but a little less stable.

"Who are you? What are you doing to me?" Lu Jianli asked.

"My name is Li Weidong, and I'm the director of the Xiangyang Town Electric Furnace Factory." Li Weidong paused, then said, "I came to Mr. Lu this time because I want to ask Mr. Lu for help!"

"No time!" Lu Jianli shook his head without hesitation: "Didn't you see that I'm busy making new inventions now?"

"Mr. Lu, are these bits and pieces on the ground your new invention?" Li Weidong asked with a smile.

Lu Jianli glared at Li Weidong and said, "Don't underestimate these bits and pieces, when I assemble them all, it will be a new invention!"

"Then you assemble it quickly, so that you can talk about the improvement of our factory's products." Li Weidong said.

"You think I don't want to assemble, isn't it that there is no welding rod?" Lu Jianli snorted coldly, and then said: "This welding rod is too expensive. Most of my salary for half a month is all tossed on this welding rod."

Li Weidong smiled slightly: "Mr. Lu, are you looking for welding rods? I have them. How much do you want to use? How many?"

"Do you have a welding rod? Give it to me for free?" Lu Jianli finally stood up.

"Not only welding rods, but I can also get you a room to use as a laboratory!" Li Weidong continued.

"Really?" Lu Jianli couldn't help but said, and immediately began to pack up the parts on the ground, and then said, "Wait for me to pack up, and now I'll go get the welding rod from you!"

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Li Weidong drove with Lu Jianli.

In the car, Li Weidong said his intention again: "Mr. Lu, our factory has a product called an air fryer. I recently wanted to upgrade the air fryer in some functional aspects, such as adding a temperature control function, and then Add a timer function. But I don't know that, I know you are an expert in invention, so I came to you for advice."

"Air fryer? Never heard of it, what is this?" Lu Jianli asked.

"This is a household appliance." Li Weidong briefly explained the principle of the air fryer to Lu Jianli.

"This is an upgraded version of the electric oven. If you want to control the temperature, you can just add a temperature sensor. As for the timing, it's even simpler. Don't all electric fans have timings these days!" Lu Jianli said.

"Can you do all of these?" Li Weidong asked.

"Of course I can!" Lu Jianli continued, "I can make these things for you, but you have to use your welding rods for me, and I have to bring a few back."

"No problem! Isn't it just a welding rod, you can just bring a box back later." Li Weidong said with a smile.

Second-hand inventors, the asking price is low, and a few electrodes can be done!