eurekapd Chapter 228 Construction mission completed
Chapter 228 Construction mission completed
Qiao Jianshe was clutching a summons tightly in his hand.
With a serious expression, he slammed the summons onto the table.
"You, you lose your composure over the smallest thing."
Qiao Jianshe looked up at Secretary Bai, his eyes filled with a hint of disappointment. "Xiao Bai, I'm not trying to criticize you, but people who achieve great things must remain calm in the face of danger. It's just changing a name, what's the big deal? Go and call over the technical department, the sales department, and the publicity department. You all need to discuss it carefully and come up with a catchy and memorable name. I refuse to believe that our factory's excellent immersion heaters won't sell!"
Secretary Bai stood aside, completely taken aback that the manufacturer of the fast-heating immersion heater was so cunning as to have registered the trademark in advance.
At that moment, all he could think about was getting to work quickly and coming up with a catchy name so that the factory's products could be successfully launched into the market.
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Time flies, and Mr. and Mrs. Huang have spent almost half a month comfortably in Suzhou.
Mr. and Mrs. Huang have to go back. They need to go back to collect their wages. These days, they have to go to the factory to collect their wages in cash, unlike when they are directly deposited into their bank accounts.
As the start of school for Tu Nan drew near, Tu Nan volunteered to take his grandparents back to Changcheng.
Throughout the journey, Tu Nan thoughtfully took care of the two elderly people, helping them carry their luggage and find seats.
After arriving in Changcheng, Tu Nan stayed at his grandparents' home for a short while before boarding the train from Changcheng to Shanghai.
Pengfei also took the train from Guizhou Province back to Suzhou.
Life returned to its usual tranquility, continuing as usual.
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Although the issue of the immersion heater being copied seemed to have been resolved perfectly, the immersion heater produced by Changcheng soon ran into big trouble.
A customer bought a water heater produced by their factory (this is the name they changed from "hot water heater"), hoping it would bring convenience to his life, but he never expected that a nightmare would begin.
It was an ordinary evening. The customer was using the water heater to boil water as usual. Who could have predicted that the water heater was seriously substandard and suddenly leaked electricity and caught fire?
It's also his fault for forgetting about it after boiling the water, and going out to chat with the people at the convenience store.
The fire spread instantly, and the elderly man who was paralyzed in bed had no time to escape and was burned to death.
When the firefighters arrived, extinguished the fire, cleaned up the scene, and found out the cause of the fire was this water heater.
The family was devastated; how could they possibly let it go?
They gathered a large group of people and blocked the factory gate aggressively.
Holding banners, they loudly denounced the manufacturer's misconduct and demanded an explanation.
Qiao Jianshe was overwhelmed by this sudden turn of events and had no other choice.
He knew that if the problem wasn't resolved soon, and newspaper reporters came to interview him, the electric kettles would be completely unsellable, and the head office would definitely strip him of his factory position.
After difficult negotiations, Qiao Jianshe was forced to agree to give their family a job at a refrigerator parts factory and also provide them with a factory employee apartment.
That's how they managed to calm things down temporarily.
Zhuang Chaoying only learned about this matter after receiving a phone call from Huang Defa. Although the news did not make it into the newspapers in Changcheng, it spread like wildfire through the streets and alleys, and almost everyone knew about it.
Mr. Huang learned that Chao Ying had gotten a water heater from an old colleague. The colleague's son worked at a refrigerator parts factory, and the news spread like wildfire until it reached Mr. Huang's ears.
Mr. Huang quickly called Chaoying and told her the whole story.
Upon learning of this, Zhuang Chaoying immediately decided to go to the refrigerator factory on her day off.
Moreover, the factory is holding a new product sales conference this Sunday, and he felt he could take this opportunity to give Qiao Jianshe another blow.
Early on a weekend morning, Zhuang Chaoying rode her bicycle and hurriedly followed Engineer Lin to the refrigerator factory.
Zhuang Chaoying pedaled his bicycle. "Mr. Lin, my father-in-law called me and said that the Changcheng factory that makes the refrigerators that imitate ours has had an accident. Due to product quality issues, there was an electrical leak that caused a fire, and people were burned alive."
Lin Wufeng originally thought that Teacher Zhuang was going with him for the sales conference, but he didn't expect it to be such a big deal.
He frowned. "That's enough to give their factory a run for its money!"
"This is a classic case of reaping what you sow. For the sake of some profit, they produced substandard products, and in the end, they reaped the bitter fruit of their own actions!"
When they arrived at the factory, Director An's office was already full of distributors from all over the country.
This trade fair not only showcased automatic shut-off kettles but also automatic shut-off immersion heaters, all of which were the result of research and development by Engineer Lin and his colleagues in the technical department, and are currently on display.
We should ask the distributors to conduct their own experiments to test the water boiling capacity and time.
During a period when the home appliance market was booming, the automatic shut-off kettle, as an emerging product, was positioned as a high-end product from its inception.
The electric kettle produced by Zhuang Chaoying's factory is the result of a great deal of research and development effort. It is made with exquisite craftsmanship and superior materials, and the ex-factory price is set at eighty-six yuan.
This price is indeed not low for ordinary consumers, but it has a unique appeal to wealthy families, cadres, and leaders' offices who pursue a high quality of life, and most importantly, it's about saving face.
As for how high these dealers will ultimately raise prices, that depends entirely on their capabilities.
The electric kettle with automatic power-off function represents a key upgrade, but the factory price for distributors remains at ten yuan, the same as the first-generation product.
The upgraded automatic power-off hot water heater has a significant advantage in terms of cost performance.
Not only have the product features been significantly improved, but the price remains the same. If you were a customer and the price was the same, you would definitely buy the upgraded product.
As a core component of the automatic power-off function, the thermostat is not easy to develop without a clear technological direction. Even if Qiao Jianshe's factory or other competitors wanted to imitate it, it wouldn't be easy.
These measures, like a heavy blow, completely caught Qiao Jianshe off guard.
In his factory, large quantities of electric kettles were produced and stockpiled, with inventory piling up like mountains.
These unsold products were like heavy stones, weighing down Qiao Jianshe and making it hard for him to breathe.
He's extremely anxious now; his already balding head has almost no hair left.
Qiao Jianshe made a solemn promise to the head office: to achieve a turnover of one million by the end of the year. Now, the inventory is piling up. That damn hot water factory.
He wondered if he should humble himself and approach the immersion heater factory, even if it meant paying a usage fee to buy temperature controllers from them. Perhaps that would save his factory.
But the thought of having to bow down to his competitors made him unwilling.
[Ding, the construction task is complete.]
[Reward: Thick, black hair that will never go bald.]
At this moment, Zhuang Chaoying was sitting in her office, writing lesson plans.
The sudden sound of a reward startled him.
He was stunned for a moment. He had thought that he would get a sum of money from this task, but the reward was just a head of thick, black hair.
Is that all? Qiao Jianshe doesn't seem to have any great ambitions. This reward is too perfunctory.
Damn it!
As she thought about it, she stood up, walked to the mirror hanging on the wall, and carefully examined her hair.
He looked left and right, but felt there was no change, so he reached out and tugged at it.
Just then, Teacher Wang pushed open the door and walked in. Seeing Teacher Zhuang fixing her hair in front of the mirror, she asked curiously.
"Teacher Zhuang, do you have gray hair? Do you want me to help you look for it?"
Zhuang Chaoying smiled and waved her hand. "No, Teacher Wang, I was just checking if I was bald on top."
Upon hearing this, Teacher Wang couldn't help but tease, "Don't joke around, Teacher Zhuang. With your hair, you're worth ten times as much as Teacher Zhao."
After saying that, she subconsciously glanced around, thankfully Teacher Zhao wasn't there. Teacher Zhao's hair on top of her head was pitifully sparse; if a fly landed on it, it would slip and fall.
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