freenovelworld Chapter 181 Changfeng
Chapter 181 Changfeng
After checking into the hotel, Wen Qing took a hot shower, changed into clean clothes, washed and hung the clothes she had taken off. She lay on the bed and smelled a musty odor. It was humid in the south, and there was always a musty smell in the house.
Wen Qing was very uncomfortable with it. She closed the doors and windows, and simply entered the space with her wet clothes and slept in the bamboo house.
The next morning, Wen Qing changed into a small suit, put on lipstick, went to a street shop for breakfast, and slowly walked to the Changfeng Battery Factory. It was just past work time, and Wen Qing said to the middle-aged woman guarding the gate, "I'm looking for Director Pang. We made an appointment in advance."
The gatekeeper said enthusiastically, "Director Pang has called you. Go through here. The three-story building in front is the office building. The director's office is on the third floor."
The eldest sister explained in great detail. Wen Qing walked 200 meters and saw a three-story blue brick building. In front of the building was a row of banyan trees. Their long aerial roots hung down among the green leaves, and the dense tree crowns looked like an umbrella. The rain had stopped, and only birds were singing among the green leaves.
Wen Qing went up to the third floor, knocked on the door of the office with the words "factory director" on it, and heard a voice saying "come in" from inside.
When he opened the door, he saw a middle-aged man sitting behind a desk. He saw a young woman standing at the door and suddenly said, "Are you Comrade Wen? Please come in!"
He spoke Mandarin very well. He came over and shook hands with Wen Qing. Director Pang pointed to the sofa and said, "Please sit down. When did you arrive in Xieyang?"
While giving up his seat, he asked his secretary to invite the chief engineer and made tea for Wen Qing.
Wen Qing smiled and sat down, answering his question: "Director Pang, you don't have to be so polite, I arrived last night."
After a while, a cup of steaming hot tea was placed on the tea table. Director Pang said with a smile, "This is our specialty, called Phoenix Dancong, which is a kind of oolong tea. You should try it."
Wen Qing picked up the teacup and opened the lid. A strong tea aroma rose up. The tea soup in the cup was bright orange-yellow. She took a sip and tasted the fragrance of tea leaves and a faint fruity aroma. She put down the teacup and smiled, "It's really good."
A man in work clothes stood at the open door and knocked on it. "Director Pang, you're looking for me?"
Director Pang smiled and said, "Chief Engineer Xu, let me introduce you to Comrade Wen Qing. She is from Pingjing. She has a design for a lead-acid battery. Please come and take a look."
When Chief Engineer Xu heard about the new product design, he showed great interest. He sat on the sofa next to Wen Qing and said directly, "Comrade Wen, can you let me take a look?"
Wen Qing took out the design drawing and handed it to Director Pang, who flipped through the pages one by one. Half an hour later, when Chief Engineer Xu became impatient, he handed the design drawing to him.
Chief Engineer Xu eagerly opened the design atlas, looked at a picture, and asked: "Are the positive and negative electrode materials reliable? How is the coating of the plate? Will salting occur during charging?"
Wen Qing answered his questions one by one.
Chief Engineer Xu spent even longer looking at the design atlas, so Director Pang had to remind him, "Chief Engineer Xu, have you finished reading it?"
Chief Engineer Xu then looked at Director Pang, nodded, and put down the album.
Director Pang smiled and said, "Comrade Xiao Wen, I'm very interested in your design. Can you transfer it to me?"
Although this design album is comprehensive, Wen Qing did not mark the key parameters, nor did she include the most critical design drawings.
She smiled and said, "This battery structure is not complicated, but it has a long service life, is highly safe, and basically does not require maintenance. It has a wide range of uses. I wonder how much your factory can offer?"
Xieyang is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. After the market was opened, overseas Chinese began to invest in the country. Their Changfeng Battery Factory was also established with the help of funds and technology from relatives abroad.
Director Pang said: "We can pay 50 yuan as technology transfer fee."
Wen Qing nodded: "50 yuan is not impossible, but the transfer is not the only one."
Director Pang asked Chief Engineer Xu to go out to another office and he came back an hour later. Wen Qing knew that they were calculating the profit of batteries.
Director Pang said, "If we only transfer it to Changfeng, how about the transfer fee of 100 million yuan?"
Wen Qing said, "The transfer fee is 120 million yuan. Director Pang, you must believe that your profits in the future will far exceed this amount."
Director Pang hesitated, and Chief Engineer Xu stared intently at the first drawing of the design without expressing any opinion. This kind of decision can only be made by the boss.
In the end, the result of the negotiations between Wen Qing and Director Pang was that Changfeng Battery Factory acquired all of Wen Qing's designs for 120 million yuan, and Wen Qing was not allowed to use the designs for his own use or transfer them again.
The two parties signed a technology transfer agreement. Wen Qing reminded: "Director Pang, this kind of battery can be used in automobiles, backup power supplies, mobile power supplies, etc., but technology is advancing very quickly. You must put it on the market as soon as possible."
Chief Engineer Xu returned to the technical department with complete drawings and immediately organized personnel to digest her design. Wen Qing promised them to stay in Xieyang for a while and discuss any problems in person.
At noon, Wen Qing treated Director Pang and Chief Engineer Xu to a banquet and they ate the famous local beef hotpot. The beef at Xieyang was delicious. Unlike the hotpot in Sichuan Province, their hotpot was mainly clear soup, with fresh soup and tender meat. The three of them were very satisfied with the meal.
In the afternoon, Wen Qing went to Yangmei Village, a place known as the "Jade Capital of Asia". It has been doing jade business for 100 years. There are many jade carving masters in the village, and their skills are all passed down from generation to generation.
Wen Qing brought a piece of bloodstone and a piece of glutinous icy green jadeite. The bloodstone is relatively large in size, but the color distribution is not very uniform, so it has great potential as an ornament. The jadeite has a good texture, and Wen Qing wants to make some jewelry that will be useful in the future.
Yangmei is 20 kilometers away from Changfeng Factory. Wen Qing took a tricycle for two hours to get there.
Yangmei Village is very large, like a town. There are shops on both sides of the road, some doing jade carving and some selling jade jewelry. There are many kinds of jade here, including high-end Hetian jade and jadeite, and low-end Qinghai jade, Lantian jade, and Russian jade. They also sell chicken blood stone, Qingtian stone and Tianhuang stone.
There were many people walking around the Jade Street, and the shops were doing good business, somewhat like the wholesale market that Wen Qing had seen in her previous life.
Wen Qing was more interested in shops with good carving work. She carefully watched how the craftsmen in each shop did their work. After a round of walking around, she walked into a shop. This shop had three rooms and the store was not small, but there were not many things on the counter.
A master in his 50s was carving a jade plaque in the shop. When I looked carefully before I walked in, I found that the plaque was engraved with the Heart Sutra. The Heart Sutra has more than 200 words. If it is to be engraved on a small Hetian jade plaque, it can only be micro-carved.
The old master was wearing a microscope and carving stroke by stroke. Wen Qing stood by and watched. He used small seal characters. The font was dignified and formal. It was a very good calligraphy work.
After carving the last few words, the jade carving master put away his tools, wiped the jade plaque with a piece of animal fur, looked up and saw Wen Qing, and asked, "Miss, what's the matter?"
Wen Qing asked: "Master, why are there so few things in your store?"
The chef said, "We mainly do processing for customers. The raw materials are provided by the customers themselves. They take the finished products away. We only make a small amount of money for the work. The products on the counter are those that customers have not taken away yet."