The rejuvenation of a great nation: from educated youth to national treasure scientist

Chapter 107 Setting a precedent

As soon as Wang Haoran finished speaking, Duan Wusen slapped his thigh and said with a smile: "Deal!"

Ni Haifeng said, "Comrade Haoran, you need to send someone to help us install and debug the production line."

"Also, do you think we can start production before the Spring Festival?"

Wang Haoran shook his head and said, "Trial production should be possible before the Spring Festival."

“But mass production is not realistic!”

"After all, you still have to straighten out the supply of raw materials, and you still have to train workers."

Duan Wusen said with a smile: "The Spring Festival is not many days away, Haifeng, please don't embarrass Comrade Haoran!"

"I think it would be good if we can start mass production in April."

Wang Haoran smiled and thanked him: "Thank you for your understanding, Director Duan."

"No matter what, you will be the first in our country to truly start mass production of color TVs!"

"I have a feeling that you will become the largest color TV manufacturer in Longguo in the future."

Duan Wusen smiled and said, "Thank you Comrade Haoran for your kind words."

Just like that, Duan Wusen personally signed the purchase agreement with Liu Xianchao.

After the agreement was signed, the experimental color TV production line began to be dismantled and then loaded onto trains and shipped to Sichuan Province.

Wang Haoran also went to Sichuan Province for a few days to help them install and debug the production line.

By the way, we also helped them train technical workers and engineers.

Factory 780 was originally a military factory, and the quality of their workers is still quite high.

After a few days of training, you can basically start operating the machine.

Of course, Factory 780 still has a lot of work to do.

The most important thing is to find good suppliers of various materials.

Sichuan Province is a key province in the Third Front construction.

There are many military industrial enterprises and factories of all types here.

Therefore, it is not difficult to find suppliers, and Ni Haifeng handles this matter personally.

It took them just over a week to sign all the suppliers.

After the supply cooperation enterprise is arranged, trial production can begin.

When the first color TV was assembled in a workshop at Factory 780, the entire workshop burst into applause.

Duan Wusen and the others were all very excited.

In fact, Factory 780 had already begun to transform into producing televisions.

They previously produced black and white televisions.

But the market response was not very good.

The production tasks assigned to them by the state are not many.

This time, Factory 780 was the first to use domestic color TV production lines to produce color TVs, which was a first.

Moreover, after the color TVs they produce are sent for testing, the quality can really reach the international advanced level.

The provincial supply and marketing cooperative signed a large-scale purchase and sales agreement with them.

When signing the purchase and sales agreement with the provincial supply and marketing cooperative, the cooperative originally wanted to sign an annual production supply of 5 units.

But Ni Haifeng insisted on signing an agreement to supply 40 units annually.

He explained to the responsible person of the supply and marketing cooperative that by June, two large-scale domestic color TV production lines would be put into production, so there would be no problem for Factory 6 to produce 780 color TVs annually.

Otherwise, why is Ni Haifeng called "Ni the Bold"?

Wang Haoran stayed at Factory 780 for more than ten days in total.

During his support for Factory 780, Liu Xianchao also reached a cooperation agreement with Li Guojian, the director of Beijing Machine Tool Factory, to process two domestic color TV production lines.

In fact, when Wang Haoran was developing and processing the experimental production line, Beijing Machine Tool Factory provided a lot of help.

Of course, Wang Haoran also paid the other party a processing fee.

Although they are all state-owned units, they all have to have independent accounting and support their own people, so they cannot be careless with money.

Li Guojian was very emotional.

They have benefited a lot from their collaboration with Wang Haoran's team.

Some of the lathe equipment in their factory were improved based on Wang Haoran's suggestions.

It turns out that these improvements can greatly increase production efficiency.

Most importantly, Wang Haoran’s team brought considerable output value to the Beijing Machine Tool Factory.

Two large production lines, each with a contract value of up to 100 million.

This contract is quite large for the Beijing Machine Tool Factory, which is only a second-rate machine tool factory in China.

Moreover, as Wang Haoran said, as long as the cooperation is good, then the processing and production work of domestic color TV production lines will basically all be theirs in the future.

Therefore, Li Guojian is full of energy.

In order to complete the production task quickly and with quality guaranteed, Li Guojian decided to work in three shifts even during the Spring Festival.

We strive to complete the processing of the two production lines within a maximum of two months.

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However, after talking with Wang Haoran, Tang Jianming, the director of the Beijing Television Factory, was determined to apply for financial support from above and purchase a domestic color TV production line.

In order to achieve this goal, he went to the district almost every day to talk with the district director Wu Gewen.

Wu Gewen was just perfunctory at first.

Because there is not much money in the district!
Where can I get 200 million to buy a production line for a TV factory?

But Tang Jianming was like a sticky candy, looking for him every day.

Moreover, Tang Jianming did not ask for money directly later, but hoped that the district would help them borrow two million yuan from the bank.

As for the mortgage, that means mortgaging the entire TV factory.

The total assets of the TV factory amount to about six or seven million.

Tang Jianming told Wu Gewen that he, Tang Jianming, could even put his own future on the line! Moreover, color TVs were a very scarce product now, and as long as they could be produced, the supply and marketing cooperative system would buy them all, no matter how many there were.

If the district helps the TV factory now, the profits and taxes it will receive in the future will be quite generous.

Wu Gewen was almost at a loss as to what to do.

Moreover, after thinking about it, he felt that helping the city's television factory produce color TVs would also be of great benefit to the district's economic development.

Besides, the production of color TVs is indeed much higher-end than that of black and white TVs.

When Tang Jianming came to see him for the 11th time, Wu Gewen said, "Comrade Jianming!"

"It's rare that you care so much about the development of the company."

"In fact, I am also looking forward to the future development of the city's television factory."

"How about this, the district will guarantee you and see if we can get you a loan of 2 million from the Construction Bank."

Tang Jianming was overjoyed.

Because he knew that as long as the district stepped forward, China Construction Bank would definitely give face no matter what.

A loan of 200 million is really not a small amount.

It would be good if you could get a loan.

Tang Jianming hurriedly thanked him.

Wu Gewen said: "You don't have to thank me. I think you are also doing this for the economic development of our district, right?!"

"I've also learned that the domestic color TV production line is really good. I admire your courage in making a desperate effort to build a color TV production line!"

Tang Jianming was very grateful to Wang Haoran in his heart.

If Wang Haoran hadn't given him this idea, how could he have thought of pestering the district director?

This trick seems to be really feasible!

The district government approved the city TV factory's loan application quite quickly. It took less than two weeks for the loan to be approved.

When Tang Jianming saw the loan was approved, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

So he hurried to Beijing Institute of Technology to find Wang Haoran.

Wang Haoran had just returned from Sichuan Province.

As soon as Tang Jianming saw Wang Haoran, he said, "Comrade Haoran, do you still remember me?"

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "You are Comrade Tang Jianming, the director of the Municipal TV Factory. Comrade Jianming, have you raised the money to buy a color TV production line?"

Tang Jianming smiled and nodded, "I thought you had forgotten me."

"Yes, I have successfully raised 200 million."

"I came here this time to sign an agreement with you to purchase the production line."

"Comrade Haoran, you don't know! In order to raise these 200 million, I bet my future on it."

"We got a loan of 200 million yuan from the bank, and from then on, we were burdened with a heavy loan burden."

"If the production of color TVs is unsuccessful this time, I'm afraid I'll be drowned in the saliva of all the factory workers."

Tang Jianming talked on and on.

Wang Haoran knew that Tang Jianming must be under a lot of pressure right now.

However, if you really think about it, there is actually no danger in purchasing a color TV production line.

After all, color TVs are really popular nowadays.

The supply and marketing cooperative system will buy as much as you produce.

What are the risks?

The main reason is that at this time, people generally lack the spirit of adventure.

This is because: taking risks can easily bring unpredictable dangers. We are all doing things for the country, so why should we take personal risks?
We should do whatever the country asks us to do, and avoiding mistakes is our top priority.

Otherwise, why are those famous entrepreneurs in the early days of reform so valuable?

Wang Haoran smiled and said to Tang Jianming: "I must congratulate you, Director Tang, you made a good move!"

"Beijing TV Factory will surely embark on a path of rapid development because of your decision!"

“You will also become a famous entrepreneur in the country!”

Tang Jianming waved his hand and said, "I haven't thought about it that much."

"As long as our factory can live a better life and employees can get more bonuses, I will be satisfied."

"Comrade Haoran, if we sign the agreement now, when will the production line be delivered?"

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "There are two production lines of Factory 780 in front of us that are processing."

"If you sign the purchase agreement now, I can guarantee that your production line will be delivered in June this year."

"Of course, we will also help install and debug the production line."

"In addition, I think your original workshop will also need some renovations, and the old equipment will be disposed of when the time comes..."

Tang Jianming nodded: "Whatever you say, we'll do it!"

"What else can I do now except trust you?"

Wang Haoran took Tang Jianming to meet Liu Xianchao.

Liu Xianchao is the president of Beijing Institute of Technology, so it is natural that he should be the one to sign the agreement.

After signing the agreement with Tang Jianming, he received a deposit of 1 million yuan from him.

Wang Haoran then notified Li Guojian to add another processing task for the color TV production line.

Li Guojian was naturally overjoyed.

Because, just by doing the work assigned by Wang Haoran's team, they have almost completed the annual task targets.

Time passed quickly and soon it was early February 1978.

That means the Spring Festival is coming soon.

On February 2, Wang Haoran went to find Liu Xianchao.

"Principal, the New Year is coming soon." Wang Haoran said to Liu Xianchao.

Liu Xianchao nodded and said, "Yes, Haoran, is there something wrong?"

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "Our team has been busy for so long and has brought millions of dollars in additional revenue to the school. I think we should give each team member a bonus to motivate everyone."

"This will make everyone more motivated in their work next year."

Liu Xianchao nodded and said, "It's only right to give you an extra bonus!"

"After all, your contribution is the greatest!"

"How are you going to send it? Do you have a plan?"

Wang Haoran said: "This is what I thought. Each key member of the team will receive a bonus of 500 yuan."

"The others will each receive a bonus of 200 yuan."

"We still have more than 50 color TV sets. I plan to give one to each of the 23 key personnel, and distribute the rest to the project team members through lottery."

The research team led by Wang Haoran has more than 20 core members and more than auxiliary members.

It is impossible to distribute more than 50 color TV sets evenly, so in addition to the fixed distribution to key members, they can only be distributed through lottery.

Liu Xianchao hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "You can write an application and submit it to the higher-ups to see how they approve it."

In fact, in order to motivate people's enthusiasm, the country has also introduced a series of policies.

These policies adhere to only one principle: more work, more pay!

If we only focus on equality and eating from the same pot, people's enthusiasm will be dampened and the end result will be a large number of lazy people.

When Wang Haoran heard Liu Xianchao say this, he took out an application from his pocket and handed it to Liu Xianchao.

Liu Xianchao took it, read it, nodded and said, "Then I will submit it to the competent department immediately."

"I believe the leader will approve it."

"After all, the domestic color TV production line is a major national achievement!"

"It has saved hundreds of millions of dollars just for the country's foreign exchange."

Liu Xianchao submitted Wang Haoran's application to the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building.

After reading Wang Haoran's application, Wang Cunxian, the head of the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building, did not hesitate and immediately signed the word "agree" and his own name.

Application approved!

Wang Haoran immediately organized a meeting of the project team.

All members of the research team attended the meeting.

This includes Qian Dake, the head of the Department of Electronic Engineering, and Xiao Renming, a well-known professor in the Department of Radio and Electronics at Peking University.

Qian Dake sat with Xiao Renming.

The meeting was held in a tiered classroom at Beijing Institute of Technology.

The first two rows were filled with professors.

Qian Dake smiled and said to Xiao Renming: "Teacher Xiao, your son-in-law is really amazing!"

"He led us to build a domestic color TV production line in just four months."

Xiao Renming was very proud in his heart, but he said modestly: "It all depends on the help of all the teachers!"

Qian Dake said jokingly: "Without a genius to lead the way, relying only on a bunch of mediocre people, nothing great can be accomplished!"

"I heard that Comrade Haoran is going to give out bonuses today. I wonder how much money he will give out, haha!"

Xiao Renming said: "Comrades have worked so hard for so long, it's time to give them some encouragement. The amount of the bonus is not important, the most important point is that the superiors recognize our work!"

As they were talking, Wang Haoran came onto the stage with a smile on his face.

The lecture hall immediately fell silent.

(End of this chapter)