Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

Uncle Zhou Yunsheng lived in Qinghe for five days, then he left.

When they parted, the siblings were crying again.

Li Weidong also took four air fryers and gave them to his aunt Su Qian as gifts.

At this time, the expansion project of the electric furnace factory has been completed, and Ma Zhongyi is busy recruiting workers.

Second-hand inventor Lu Jianli is also on summer vacation. He stays in the laboratory of the electric furnace factory from morning to night, consuming various raw materials.

However, Lu Jianli is not engaged in high-level research. At most, he uses some welding rods, iron sheets, wires and rubber tubes on weekdays, and it doesn't cost a lot of money.

Most of the folk scientists, their "inventions" are like handicrafts in handicraft classes. They look very crude and have little practicality. There are very few people like Lu Jianli who are serious about electricity.

Li Weidong walked into Lu Jianli's laboratory, only to see Lu Jianli holding a screwdriver in his hand, fiddling with a pile of parts.

"Mr. Lu, you are busy!" Li Weidong said.

"It's Director Li, sit down!" Lu Jianli said, looking around, and found that the room was full of thread, broken iron pieces, old parts and the like, and there was no place to sit.

"I'm too messy, Director Li, don't worry, I'll clean up right away." Lu Jianli said, and was about to clean up a place for Li Weidong to sit.

"Mr. Lu, don't bother." Li Weidong said, took out a few drawings, handed them to Lu Jianli, and then said, "Mr. Lu, can you help me look at these drawings?"

Lu Jianli looked at the drawing carefully.

"Below is the heating tube. The heating tube is directly connected to an iron plate. If the heating tube is energized, the iron plate will also heat up. Is this an electric heating pot?" Lu Jianli asked.

"Mr. Lu has good eyesight." Li Weidong gave a thumbs up.

"Then what is the shelf with the round hole on it?" Lu Jianli asked.

"It's for eggs, and this round hole just holds the eggs in place." Li Weidong paused, then introduced: "This thing is called an egg steamer. , put the eggs on the rack, and steam the eggs with steam."

Lu Jianli showed a look of disgust: "Is this necessary? Isn't this superfluous! Boil the eggs directly in the water, and the eggs will be cooked, so why do you have to use a special egg steamer, waste resources, and also Waste of electricity!"

"Mr. Lu, this thing is sold to foreigners!" Li Weidong said.

"Foreigners can't cook eggs?" Lu Jianli pouted.

"Of course foreigners can boil eggs, but foreigners are lazy! So they need my egg steamer.

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Li Weidong paused, then said, "I hope this egg steamer will automatically cut off the power as soon as the eggs are cooked. In this case, put the eggs in, press a button, and you don't have to worry about anything, and there will be cooked eggs in a while. can eat."

Lu Jianli thought for a while and said, "Oh, this can be solved by timing, for example, it takes five minutes to cook an egg, so set it in advance, press the button once, it will heat for five minutes, and the power will be cut off automatically after five minutes. The eggs are just about cooked too."

"I also hope to have three grades. The first grade is that the eggs that are steamed are soft, the eggs that are steamed at the second grade are normal, and the eggs that are steamed at the third grade are older." Li Weidong speak up.

"It's also easy, just set three different times. Then experiment, how long to steam the eggs to be soft, how long to steam them to be cooked normally, and how long to steam them to be old, and then set the time." Lu Jianli replied. road.

Li Weidong continued: "Also, for the heating plate, I plan to use stainless steel. After all, it is sold to foreigners. Stainless steel seems to be of high quality."

"Stainless steel is indeed better than iron plates, with corrosion resistance and oxidation resistance, but I have to remind you that stainless steel is much more expensive, and stainless steel raw materials are not easy to find!" Lu Jianli said.

Before the 1990s, China's stainless steel output was not high, and the quality of the stainless steel produced was not as good as that of developed countries such as Europe, America and Japan. Until 1997, the country formulated the "Ninth Five-Year" stainless steel development plan, and China's stainless steel industry began to develop by leaps and bounds.

In 1989, only a few giant state-owned enterprises such as Taiyuan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. were able to produce stainless steel, which led to the fact that domestic stainless steel raw materials were very expensive and scarce. To obtain stainless steel materials, a planning committee above the department level was required Just give the batch.

At that time, most of the stainless steel produced in China was used in key industries such as national defense technology or heavy industry. For township enterprises such as Li Weidong, it was impossible to obtain stainless steel.

Thinking that stainless steel is difficult to obtain, Li Weidong sighed: "I also know that stainless steel is not easy to get, but this egg steamer, after all, is used for export to earn foreign exchange. As long as it can win orders from foreign businessmen, I think the superior will help We coordinate to stainless steel.”

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The egg steamer is the next product Li Weidong is about to launch.

The structure of the egg steamer is very simple. At the level of Li Weidong, it can still be developed. At that time, there was already an integrated kettle with electric heating, so technically, it is not difficult to make an egg steamer.

The core technology of the electric furnace factory is all kinds of mechanical equipment that is heated by electricity. The fundamental principle of the egg steamer is also electric heating, so the egg steamer is the most suitable for the electric furnace factory.

At present, several products launched by Li Weidong, from air fryers, toasters, and egg steamers, are all based on the technology of electric heating. They are replaced by other small household appliances, using the technology of the electric furnace factory. , I'm afraid it's hard to do.

The egg steamer is a very convenient small appliance. Put a little water, press the button, and you don't have to worry about anything.

In daily life, any home appliance product that can make people lazy will definitely sell a good sales volume. The egg steamer is obviously a product that can make people lazy.

In his previous life, Li Weidong had seen the market analysis of egg steamers when he was working with others to do small home appliance business, and he also had an understanding of the market prospects of egg steamers.

In the future, the biggest market for egg steamers is of course China, followed by Japan, which is mainly related to eating habits. East Asia is more accustomed to eating boiled eggs.

Europeans eat boiled eggs just like eating steak. They have to be cooked to a certain degree, and they taste quite ceremonial. There are even tools for eating boiled eggs. As for Americans, it's probably only light eaters who eat boiled eggs.

Due to dietary habits, the main market for egg steamers is still in East Asia.

Chinese people in the late 1980s couldn't be willing to spend money on something specializing in steamed eggs. Just like Lu Jianli said, boil water and cook it directly. South Korea has not established diplomatic relations with China, so there can be no economic and trade exchanges.

Therefore, Li Weidong's research and development of egg steamer is mainly aimed at the Japanese market.

According to Japanese eating habits, boiled eggs are a relatively common food, and according to the market analysis Li Weidong read in his last life, Japan is also the world's second largest market for egg steamers.

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After handing over the development of the egg steamer to Lu Jianli, Li Weidong wandered around the electric furnace factory and found that he had nothing to do with him.

Ma Zhongyi is solely responsible for recruiting new workers. As a senior local snake in Xiangyang Town, he is very familiar with the situation of each village in Xiangyang Town, and even knows how many slackers there are in which village.

So Li Weidong simply drove back home, bought two watermelons and a roast chicken on the way, and served Mr. Li Dengke a drink.

When I came to the door of the house, I just stopped the car when I saw a rural man in his forties who came over with the help of a young guy.

This young guy, Li Weidong knew, was Fang Zhenhong who was going to take the university entrance exam, and the rural man who was being supported had a similar resemblance to Fang Zhenhong between his brows. It should be Fang Zhenhong's father who broke his leg.

"Director Li!" Lao Fang came over and knelt down directly at Li Weidong. Perhaps for this rural man, kneeling to his benefactor was the best way to express his gratitude.

"Director Li, if it weren't for you, my leg would be useless. You are the benefactor of our whole family. I kowtow to you!" Lao Fang said.

"Get up, your legs are still in good shape, right? You can't kneel!" Li Weidong quickly stepped forward and helped Lao Fang up.

"Director Li, I will never forget your great kindness to me! I will never forget the money you gave me to treat my legs, even if I am a cow or a horse," Lao Fang continued.

Li Weidong immediately said: "You need to take care of your legs first, don't leave any sequelae, don't worry about paying back the money. By the way, count the time, the college entrance examination is over, how is Fang Zhenhong's test? Have you been admitted to university?"

"Thanks to the 300 yuan given by Director Li at that time, my baby can take the exam with peace of mind." Lao Fang continued: "This child is also a good candidate, and he is admitted to the university!"

"That's great! What university did you go to?" Li Weidong asked.

"Harbin Institute of Technology!" Fang Zhenhong replied.

"That's a good university!" Li Weidong couldn't help sighing.

In the 1980s, Harbin Institute of Technology was worth a lot of money, even in the face of Tsinghua University and Peking University. After all, in the era when state-owned enterprises were in power, the Northeast was the core area of ​​China's economy, and Harbin Institute of Technology was a good university in the Northeast, so it was naturally full of arrogance.

Li Weidong asked again, "What major are you studying?"

"Material forming and control engineering, this is a new major this year." Fang Zhenhong replied.

"Is it a mechanical major?" Li Weidong asked.

Fang Zhenhong was slightly taken aback, he did not expect Li Weidong to know this profession.

Mechanical majors mainly include mechanical design and manufacturing and automation, material forming and control engineering, industrial design and process equipment and control engineering. Among them, material forming and control engineering only appeared in the "Catalogue of Undergraduate Majors in General Colleges and Universities" in 1989.

In the future, the mechanical major is not a great major. When graduates are looking for jobs, the salary is actually low and the working environment is not satisfactory.

However, in the 1980s and 1990s, the graduates majoring in machinery were Xiangmomo, and large state-owned enterprises were rushing for them, starting as engineers.

What's more, the mechanical major of Harbin Institute of Technology is full of gold.

"Okay, the mechanical major has a future. It seems that Fang Zhenhong of your family is going to make a lot of money in the future! Lao Fang, after a few years, Fang Zhenhong will work, and you can enjoy the happiness at home!"

Li Weidong said with a smile, and then took out a hundred dollars from his arms, handed it to Lao Fang, and said, "Lao Fang, take this money, I congratulate Fang Zhenhong on his admission to university!"

"No, Director Li, we absolutely can't ask for this money. Our grandfathers are here to thank you this time. How can we still accept your money!" Lao Fang firmly refused.

"Old Fang, just accept it. Fang Zhenhong always needs money when he goes to college. When the time comes, he will use the money to buy something, such as a washbasin and kettle. Don't you have to spend money to buy it!"

Li Weidong forcibly put the money into Lao Fang's hands, and then Fang Zhenhong said, "When you arrive in the Northeast, study hard. It's not the point of getting into a university. Try to get another graduate student back!"