Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Chapter 319 It’s rude to come and not reciprocate

Stopped by Masaki Nagai, Li Weidong turned around again and asked, "Is there anything else Mr. Nagai has to do?"

"Mr. Li, please sit down, I have something else to say!" Nagai Masaki asked Li Weidong to sit down again.

After the two parties sat down again, Nagai Masaki said: "Mr. Li, I think that according to the current work progress, this microwave oven production line cannot be activated within the time specified in the contract!"

Li Weidong smiled coldly and said nothing.

Nagai Masaki said: "If the microwave oven production line cannot be activated within the time specified in the contract, then Mr. Li, you will inevitably bear the risk of breach of contract! The liquidated damages are hundreds of thousands of dollars!"

Li Weidong continued to sneer and still said nothing.

Nagai Masaki continued: "I think Mr. Li is definitely not willing to break the contract, right? So I have a bold suggestion. I can find a way to persuade the senior management of our club to terminate this contract!"

"Mr. Nagai, what do you mean by terminating the contract?" Li Weidong asked knowingly.

"We will transport the microwave oven production line back and refund you the money you paid for the production line. We will treat this contract to purchase the production line as if we have never signed it. In this way, you don't have to bear the risk of breach of contract!" Nagai

Masaki opened his mouth and answered.

Li Weidong shook his head without hesitation: "That's not possible. I have already built a factory for this microwave oven production line! In this case, wouldn't the money I spent on building the factory have been wasted?"

Nagai Masaki immediately advised: "Mr. Li, even if you don't have a microwave oven production line, your factory can still produce other products! As a foundry of Xizhi Electric, it will be a matter of time for you to expand your production capacity! You can build the factory in advance.

Nothing is wasted.”

Li Weidong pretended to be thinking, as if he was weighing the pros and cons.

As soon as Nagai Masaki saw the drama in this matter, he said with an earnest look: "Mr. Li, my suggestion is definitely good for you. A set of unusable production lines is no different from scrap metal. It is better to

Use this production line to get back valuable funds!"

Li Weidong nodded thoughtfully, and then he sighed: "Mr. Nagai, I need to think about it!"

Nagai Masaki also knew that it was impossible to make an immediate decision on such a matter, so he said: "Okay, if Mr. Li has thought about it clearly, I welcome Mr. Li to visit at any time!"

Nagai Masaki personally sent Li Weidong out of the door, looking at Li Weidong's leaving back with a proud smile on his face.

"It seems that it won't be long before my mission is completed and I can return to Japan!" Nagai Masaki thought proudly.

Nagai Masaki didn't know that after Li Weidong left, he immediately went to Tang Renjie to check the work progress of the scientific research team.

In the laboratory, Tang Renjie held a disassembled magnetron in his hand and introduced: "This is a thick and short cathode lead. When the microwave oven is being operated, the cathode must be connected to high voltage, which will cause the temperature to be too high.

situation. However, I have encountered this problem before at the fifth component factory.

The solution we adopt is to use tungsten wire to make a spiral shape, and after heating to a specified temperature by passing an electric current, it has the ability to emit electrons. This cathode has the advantages of short heating time and strong resistance to electron bombardment. Nowadays, as long as more

After a few tests, it’s enough to adjust the heating power of the cathode.”

Li Weidong nodded as if he understood, and then asked: "Tang Gong, apart from the cathode temperature problem, what other difficulties do we need to solve?"

"We also need to solve the problem of low output power of the magnetron." Tang Renjie paused and then said; "If the output power of the magnetron is low, the heating effect of the microwave oven will become worse, resulting in slow heating and insufficient firepower.

This is also the situation we most often encounter in experiments."

"Have you found out the reason?" Li Weidong asked.

Tang Renjie smiled confidently and said, "The reason is that the magnetic field of the magnetron anode weakens, causing the magnetism to decline."

Li Weidong looked confused and said he didn't understand at all.

Tang Renjie then explained: "When the microwave oven is working, the cathode and anode will form an electric field. Under the action of the electric field, the cathode emits electrons to the anode, and the anode receives the electrons and generates an anode current. The electrons resonate when they reach each sector-shaped anode.

When the cavity is in the cavity, it oscillates at its resonant frequency, and at the same time, the constant magnetic field generated by the ring magnet is perpendicular to the direction of the high-voltage electric field..."

The more Tang Renjie explained, the more question marks appeared on Li Weidong's head. He really couldn't understand this kind of professional knowledge.

Li Weidong patiently listened to Tang Renjie's explanation, and then asked: "Tang Gong, can all the problems you mentioned be solved?"

"This problem can be solved by connecting the magnetron anode voltage to the leakage inductance transformer for power supply. Of course, it must be explored through experiments!" Tang Renjie replied.

"As long as it can be solved!" Li Weidong paused, and then said, "Tang Gong, I sent you these dozen apprentices, you can use them as much as you want, and let them do the repetitive experiments.

That’s it, don’t worry about wasting experimental materials, just let them practice!”

The dozen apprentices Li Weidong mentioned were the dozen fresh high school graduates that Lu Jianli helped recruit.

Originally, Li Weidong planned to let these dozen apprentices learn some skills from Japanese engineers, but Nagai Masaki was just here to cause trouble, so Li Weidong immediately changed his plan and sent these dozen apprentices to Tang Renjie to help him.

Although the ability of these high school graduates is not enough to engage in R&D work, they can learn some knowledge from these serious engineers.

…

Three days later in the afternoon, five microwave ovens were placed in front of Li Weidong, and Tang Renjie stood aside proudly.

Tang Renjie's technical team finally overcame the final difficulty in microwave oven production. The first batch of five officially produced microwave ovens were all placed in front of Li Weidong.

As a veteran engineer at Component Factory No. 5, Tang Renjie is very good in both theory and practice.

Tang Renjie used to research microwave transistors used in the military industry. Nowadays, it is not easy to make microwave ovens for civilian use!

Moreover, Tang Renjie did not start researching microwave ovens only after he came to Qinghe. When this scientific research team was first established, Tang Renjie had already begun research on magnetrons and had a certain theoretical foundation.

After arriving in Qinghe, I found Hitachi's microwave oven production line, which allowed me to combine theory with practice and get twice the result with half the effort.

Therefore, Tang Renjie led the scientific research team to overcome the difficulties in microwave oven production in just over a month.

Li Weidong touched the five microwave ovens and asked subconsciously: "Are all five of them qualified?"

Tang Renjie nodded proudly: "They have all been tested and all five units have passed the test! Director Li, would you like to heat up some steamed buns to try?"

"Okay, let's give it a try!" Li Weidong nodded.

Tang Renjie took a cold steamed bun, put it in the microwave, heated it for thirty seconds, and when he took the steamed bun out again, it had become soft.

"I have tested this steamed bun. Forty-five seconds is just right. One minute is too long. Thirty seconds is still a bit hard." Tang Renjie said.

Li Weidong squeezed the steamed buns in his hand and sighed in his heart: "I made a microwave oven so quickly. A house in Shanghai is well worth the money!"

Then Li Weidong said: "Tang Gong, you and your team have worked hard these days. Tomorrow I will send someone 30,000 yuan to give you bonuses!"

As soon as they heard that there was a bonus, everyone cheered.

Tang Renjie's scientific research team has a total of more than a dozen people. For 30,000 yuan, each person can receive an average of close to 2,000 yuan. Even in a big city, it is equivalent to more than half a year's salary of a state-owned enterprise employee!

Li Weidong knows very well that if you want to retain talents, you must not be stingy in spending money. If you don't spend enough money, talents will not work for you.

In the early 1990s, talent was very scarce. At that time, the best talents in the country were monopolized by state-owned enterprises and public institutions. If private companies wanted to recruit talents, the only way was to spend money.

The wave of overseas investment after 1992 most highlighted this point. During that wave of overseas investment, in order to poach talents from state-owned enterprises, private enterprises often offered five times or even ten times the remuneration.

Especially the self-employed small business owners, many of whom are uneducated and relied on the word "break" to complete their initial capital accumulation. These small business owners originally started their businesses with a ruthless spirit, and they were very aggressive towards technical talents.

The money is abundant and easy.

A young engineer in a state-owned enterprise whose monthly salary is more than 100 yuan can go to work for a small private boss in the Pearl River Delta. If he only provides technical guidance, his salary will rise to more than 1,000 yuan.

Under the temptation of such high salaries, many technical people left the system one after another and went overseas, which became the most popular word at the time.

Thirty thousand yuan is just a drop in the bucket for Li Weidong, but it can earn the loyalty of the entire technical team, which is definitely a good deal.

Li Weidong sent someone to the canteen, brought the leftover food from lunch, and began to test the five microwave ovens. Before long, the aroma of food wafted throughout the laboratory.

At this moment, Ma Zhongyi came over from outside.

"Weidong, there is news from the hotel that Nagai Masaki wants to see you!"

"Masaki Nagai finally can't sit still!" Li Weidong smiled slightly: "I have made a microwave oven, and it's time for a showdown with Nakano Co., Ltd.!"

…

Nagai Masaki stared at Li Weidong with a victor's attitude.

"Mr. Li, how have you considered the suggestion I made before?" Nagai Masaki asked.

Li Weidong smiled calmly, and then said: "I've thought about it, we have an idiom in China called keep your word, which means you have to keep your word and keep your word.

Now that we have signed a contract, I naturally have to abide by my word. Isn’t it often said in the Western world that there must be a spirit of contract? So I plan to continue to implement the contract we signed!"

Nagai Masaki never expected that after waiting for several days, he would get such an answer. He hurriedly persuaded: "Mr. Li, the microwave oven production line is destined to not be opened on time. You will face the risk of breach of contract by then. You are

You will have to pay huge liquidated damages!”

"But if I return the production line to you, I will also suffer a lot of losses." Li Weidong said.

"How could it be? We will return the payment to you!" Nagai Masaki said.

"What about the interest?" Li Weidong continued: "I spent one million US dollars to purchase your microwave oven production line. Half a year has passed since payment, and I still have to bear the interest for this half year.

The interest rate on loans in China is very high, as high as 12%. Even if you pay me back the one million U.S. dollar loan, I still lost more than 60,000 U.S. dollars in half a year!"

"Mr. Li, you have to know that the liquidated damages are more than the US$60,000! If you break the contract, you will lose more!" Nagai Masaki said.

"What Mr. Nagai said makes sense, but in my opinion, since we are all going to lose money, I might as well take a gamble!"

Li Weidong's eyes suddenly became sharp: "I won't change the factory building, and I don't plan to buy an air conditioner. I decided to start the microwave oven production line directly!"

Nagai Masaki was stunned for a moment, then asked sharply: "Mr. Li, you mean you don't need our technical support anymore?"

"I need it, but will you give me technical support?" Li Weidong shook his head and continued; "From the beginning to the end, you have not given me any technical support! Not only is there no technical support, you are also making things difficult for me!"

"Mr. Li, you misunderstood. I didn't make things difficult for you. I just asked you to abide by the production standards we set!" Nagai Masaki defended.

"Well, I don't want to waste time on such meaningless topics. Let me put it another way, I can't meet your Japanese production standards, so I have to follow our Chinese production standards!" Li Weidong said

said.

Nagai Masaki smiled disdainfully: "Mr. Li, you are too fanciful. Do you think microwave ovens are an appliance that is easy to produce? You are wrong! Producing microwave ovens is very technical, and we don't have the technology we have.

Support, you can’t make a qualified microwave oven!”

"Really? I don't think so!" Li Weidong shook his head and continued, "I believe we can overcome the difficulties!"

"Mr. Li, I appreciate your confidence, but confidence cannot solve scientific problems! If nothing else, just adjusting the magnetron is a complex and advanced technology! Our engineers also spent a lot of time to master it.

You have acquired this technology, and without our technical support, it would be impossible for you to complete this work!" Nagai Masaki said with a proud look on his face.

"Mr. Nagai, I disappoint you. We have solved the problem of magnetron control." Li Weidong said.

"What?" Nagai Masaki was stunned for a moment, then shook his head violently: "This is impossible! How can you solve such a complex technical problem with China's technical level!"

"Mr. Nagai, you underestimate our Chinese technology!"

Li Weidong said, clapped his hands toward the door, and Ma Zhongyi walked in holding a microwave oven.

"Mr. Nagai, this is the microwave oven that just came off the production line in our factory!" Li Weidong introduced.

"It's really a finished product!" Nagai Masaki gasped.

Nagai Masaki looked at the microwave oven, feeling confused. He tried to calm himself down, and then said harshly: "Mr. Li, it is not difficult to assemble a microwave oven, but whether the assembled product can be used normally?

That’s not necessarily the case!”

"It seems that Mr. Nagai doesn't trust me! Then I will demonstrate on the spot whether my microwave oven can be used normally!"

Li Weidong said, picked up the microwave and walked to the power source, plugged it in, then took a few slices of toast from Ma Zhongyi next to him, put it into the microwave, and twisted it for thirty seconds.

The microwave oven started up and made a "buzzing" sound. Thirty seconds later, there was only a "ding" sound and the microwave oven stopped working.

Li Weidong used chopsticks to take out the slices of bread from the microwave, and turned to look at Masaki Nagai: "Mr. Nagai, do you want to try it? Or I can use the microwave oven to heat you a glass of milk?"

At this time, Nagai Masaki had already realized that since Li Weidong dared to demonstrate the microwave oven live in front of him, it meant that the microwave oven production line had been activated and could produce qualified microwave ovens!

"Without our technical support, how could the microwave oven production line be put into operation normally? There are so many technical difficulties in the production process, but the Chinese have overcome them? How did they do it in such a short time?"

Nagai Masaki suddenly realized two problems:

It is impossible for Li Weidong to solve all the technical problems of the microwave oven production line in just a few days.

Solving these technical problems definitely requires a professional technical team!

"Do you have a technical team for microwave oven production?" Masaki Nagai asked.

"That's right, this summer, I already established a technical team to research microwave ovens."

Li Weidong did not hide anything. He went on to explain: "I had no plans to use my technical team so soon. I still place my hope in your technical guidance. After all, your technology must be more mature.

But after you arrived, I discovered that you were not going to give me technical guidance, but would only cause trouble. So I called my technical team and started to solve various problems on the microwave oven production line by myself.

Fortunately, my technical team are all experienced engineers who have studied microwaves for many years, so it only took more than a month to solve the problems on the production line and our microwave oven production line could be put into operation!"

"More than a month?" Masaki Nagai calculated the time and finally understood: "I had just arrived at that time! You had already given up our technical support and asked your own technical team to intervene!

But you are still negotiating with me, you have written to the headquarters to complain about me, you have promised to install air conditioning, and you have even said that you will consider my suggestions! Even now, you have made the finished product, why are you talking to me about $60,000?

Interest! It turns out you have been playing tricks on me!"

"You were the one who tricked me first!" Li Weidong snorted coldly: "We have an old saying in China, it is disrespectful to call someone back but not to reciprocate!"

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