Chapter 5 "The Original Rich"
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Cigarettes are a new thing, Yang Rui wrote and thought in the book, although Nanyang Tobacco did not appear, but the later success of Nanyang Tobacco shows that the tobacco industry is worth entering, but this project has more start-up funds, and technicians are also invited, and tobacco leaves are to be re-roasted and fermented. Their advantage is that they know that this industry can enter and understand better market strategies, and they can learn from the banana ripening process, which can shorten the alcohol mellowing time from one year to more than ten days, so that raw tobacco can quickly become mature tobacco, so as to reduce the pressure on inventory funds and reduce the loss of raw materials. Tobacco projects are feasible, but the resources required are significant.
When you think of cigarettes, you can't fail to mention the lighter, which appeared in the thirties of the twentieth century and was popular in World War II, and is undoubtedly a high-tech product at a time when everyone is now using matches. And I have a finished product, although it is a counterfeit Zippo, but it is also a modern item, can be imitated to quickly launch the product, according to the current level of science and technology, to meet the basic process and raw materials are not a problem, but I don't know how to solve the flint, this is said to be cadmium iron alloy.
Then there are toothpaste boxes, soaps, lotions, and ham sausages. These have their own finished products, and there are finished ingredients on them - thanks to the blessing of the Quality Supervision Bureau, the raw materials and ingredients on it are clearly written, and the research can be successful, this is also a huge profit, yesterday he saw that the American imported toothpaste in the store sold for more than five yuan.
Then there's honeycomb coal, which is written in a certain time-traveling novel. Shanghai still burns firewood, and the gas is completely used for lighting, unlike all the gas used to cook rice like in later generations, and the coal stove is also very marketable, and it can also be used for heating in this winter when there is no heating. It's just that this project is aimed at the residents of the concession, and it is difficult to keep the results without a government background, and the upper echelons will see the interests of honeycomb coal and will start to pressure themselves to buy it at a low price.
The last thing that can be thought of is monosodium glutamate, this Japanese thing was a hard money at the beginning, and now it has not been seen on the market, it is estimated that it has not appeared, Wu Yunchu's heavenly kitchen is nowhere to be seen, when he used gluten hydrolysis method to produce monosodium glutamate, and used bergamot monosodium glutamate to drive Japan's Ajinomoto out of the Chinese market. Yang Rui had studied this case back then, so he was impressed, although he didn't know the process requirements, but he understood the principles and steps of MSG production. Find someone who understands chemistry to simulate it, and write out the process requirements.
All that can be thought of is more certain and mature here, sulfonamides, penicillin or something is too high-level, now it is not suitable, and the fruit business is too low-level, the entry barrier is too low, but even low costs a lot of money. It would be nice to have a million oceans, Yang Rui took a few oranges that were sampled for Wal-Mart, and thought that this orange was also a good thing, if it could be grown...... Hey, I just don't know if there are seeds in it, and the probability of oranges having seeds is very low, so I don't know how lucky it is. If there are seeds, then see if you can plant them on Chongming Island, where citrus is grown in later generations, plant this kind of orange, in the future, this variety will be invincible just by virtue of taste, Yang Rui's occupational disease, the idea of fruit came.
The next day, Yang Rui went out to buy quilts and daily necessities, the night was getting colder and colder, the single bed quilt was not warm enough, and last time in order to save money, many things were not bought. I went on a shopping spree in the morning, and when I came back, I bought some spiced beans and fruits for the landlord, and anyway, they helped me. When I came back from shopping, Mrs. Huang was preparing to stir-fry, but there was an extra young man in the living room, wearing a dark cotton jacket and a signature braid of the Qing Dynasty, sitting in the living room reading a book. Seeing Yang Rui approaching, the young man looked up at Yang Rui, Yang Rui smiled, and was about to talk to Mrs. Huang, she turned around, and just saw Yang Rui and said, "Mr. Yang, go out." ”
"Yes, went out and bought something. By the way, Mrs. Huang, thank you for your help last time, I bought some spiced beans and oranges today, and I would like to express my gratitude. Yang Rui spoke in a literary tone, took the thing, and put it in Mrs. Huang's hand.
"That's embarrassing, don't."
"There's nothing to be embarrassed about, it's all food, and it's not valuable," Yang Rui pushed his hand and insisted.
Seeing that Yang Rui was so persistent, Mrs. Huang accepted it and said, "I'm really sorry, I'm stir-frying now, I'll eat together later, Mr. Huang won't come back at noon." After a pause, he said, "This is my nephew, named Bo Cong, studying in Shanghai."
The young man stood aside, bowed and said, "Hello Mr. Yang!" ”
Yang Rui was secretly surprised in his heart, after all, in the later life, except in the funeral home, it was rare to see people bowing, and hurriedly said: "You're welcome, you're welcome, hello!" Hello! ”
Mrs. Huang grabbed her apron and said, "Mr. Yang, I'm going to stir-fry, you can talk." He said to the young man: "Bocong, Mr. Yang is a scholar, he has just returned from abroad, and he is old and knowledgeable, so he asks for advice from others." After finishing speaking, he went to the corridor to fiddle, it seems that Yang Rui's outfit is still very confusing, and now he has become a turtle.
Yang Rui was very ashamed of the two of them, he was an undergraduate student and a fruit seller, and now he even bowed and brought turtles, which was really not so comfortable. At the moment, he pretended to do it casually, put the things he bought aside, and said without words: "What kind of book did you just read?" Eh, you sit, you sit, your surname? ”
The young man handed over the book with both hands, sat down cautiously and said, "Don't have your surname Qian, Mr. Yang, you can just call me Bo Cong." He spoke softly, just like Mrs. Wong.
Yang Rui took the book and flipped through it, but now he made a mistake, and he was embarrassed, but fortunately Qian Bocong didn't see it. This is actually a book bound on this line, bound in the style of an ancient book. Yang Rui turned back to the front and saw a large black frame on it, with several large traditional characters inside: "Smith Adam Yuan Fu", fortunately, these words are very easy to recognize in traditional Chinese, otherwise it would really be embarrassing. Flip directly to the table of contents, and look at a few lines that are very familiar, Smith Adam, Adam Smith, oops, Yang Rui couldn't help blurting out: "Isn't this "The Wealth of Nations"! ”
Qian Bocong is looking at the headache, in fact, the teacher who teaches this course is not very familiar with the book, this is the first time that China has translated the famous book of economics, in this year, that is, the word economics has not yet been, so that everyone half understands, seeing that Yang Rui seems to be very familiar with this book, he is full of hope to ask for advice, and asked: "Sir, have you read this book?" ”
Yang Rui was looking at it, and when he saw him asking, he replied: "Well, I studied ...... in college" After speaking, I felt that I was casual, if I asked myself which university, what would I say, Harvard or Tongji.
Qian Bocong didn't actually think about this, but he was dizzy from the book he read, and many things in it were difficult to understand. Seeing that Yang Rui was still looking at it, he had to sit still and not speak, and ask for advice later.
Yang Rui read the table of contents and then flipped through the book, people who are used to reading modern books are really a headache when they look at this kind of book written in classical Chinese, the words are vertical, the chapters are A, B and C, and the text is even more difficult to read because there is no punctuation. The book was translated by Yan Fu, and the seal was printed by Nanyang College, and there are also the words of the Commercial Press on it, which should be their teaching materials. However, the book only has the content of the first part of the original book, and Yang Rui remembers that the original book seems to have four or five articles. He stopped and said, "This book is the foundation work of economics, and Adam Smith is the father of economics." Seeing that Qian Bocong didn't understand, he explained: "The economics I am talking about is the science of science mentioned in this book, and your school... Does Nanyang College offer an economics major? ”
Qian Bocong didn't expect Yang Rui to ask this, and replied: "There was a business class before, and it was withdrawn later." We are only in the middle court, and we haven't divided any majors yet, so it is estimated that we will not be divided until the upper court in the future. ”
The middle court, the upper court, Yang Rui suddenly remembered that Shanghai Jiaotong University came, the first time I went to Jiaotong University, I was very puzzled how the teaching building was divided into the middle and lower courts, as if the British Parliament, Nanyang College was later Jiaotong University, the calculation time is still about the same, he did not delve into this problem, seeing that Qian Bocong seemed to have a question to ask, he said: "Now there are not many people who study economics in China, no, there are not many people who study mathematics, and some concepts are easy to confuse at the beginning." ”
Qian Bocong asked a few acquaintances but with different nouns at the moment, and Yang Rui finished answering, feeling that the teacher who taught this course was too good. While the two were talking, Mrs. Huang came in with food, and when she saw the two of them talking lively, she said with a smile: "Bocong, you let Mr. Yang finish eating first."
Packed up and ate at the moment, Mrs. Huang also made a cup of tea, and continued to chat with Qian Bocong, and learned that this Nanyang College is a school run by Sheng Xuanhuai, the Minister of Commerce, providing room and board, the school site is in Xuhui, and there are six or seven hundred students.
Yang Rui comforted him and said: "Economics is inherently more difficult to understand, there is a saying that mathematics is difficult to understand, and economics is inexplicable, after you learn the whole book, you will be better understood when you look back, Adam Smith should belong to the classical school of economics, and his book is still relatively easy to understand." Seeing that he didn't understand very well, he explained the concept of the classical school of economics again, focusing on introducing him to the "invisible hand". As for whether Qian Bocong understands it, he can't figure it out.
This day's experience is not an important thing for Yang Rui, but it is more shocking for Qian Bocong, not because there is a person who knows more than himself, but finally listened to Yang Rui say that what he studied is the classical school of economics, and he still understands the meaning of classical, isn't it outdated. Mrs. Huang saw that he didn't speak: "What's the matter, Mr. Yang didn't talk well?" ”
Qian Bocong frowned and said, "Mr. Yang said it very well......
Mrs. Huang didn't ask because he was still thinking about academic matters. Qian Bocong was silently reciting the sentence "an invisible hand......
Yang Rui entered the room and began to prepare for another thing - writing a book. When I saw the "Original Wealth", I thought of the college textbooks in my box, each of these is money, I really don't know it in Baoshan, more than ten textbooks in the box can be thrown away in addition to the ideology and morality of college students, the others can be taken to the library for publication as long as they copy one, and take it to the Commercial Press, they can specifically translate "The Wealth of Nations" to publish, and it is estimated that other economic books will also be published. As for classical Chinese and simplified traditional Chinese, this is more difficult to do, and it is too exaggerated to find an old calligrapher to polish his pen. In the end, Yang Rui decided to write an outline for each book first, and then write the introduction part of the book in front of the book, to see which one the publisher is interested in, so that the publisher will not do useless work, so he chose microeconomics, introduction to management, and introduction to accounting.
Later in the afternoon, Qian Bocong came to say goodbye, which was very polite, which made Yang Rui very worried, but he also sighed that people are really polite now. Copying a book is not as good as writing a manuscript, and by the next morning, the manuscript has been written, and a thick stack is packed in an envelope. In the afternoon, when it was two o'clock, the people from the electric light company came, because the power supply was a little far away, the two of them tossed for a long time to pull the line into the house, they pressed the light bulb on the side of the desk according to Yang Rui's request, the shape of the bulb is relatively narrow and long, and the filament inside looks like a jellyfish. Yang Rui guessed that it was carbon filament or bamboo filament bulb, Edison's. After the light bulb was installed, Yang Rui asked the two masters to make a simple wooden wiring board with excess materials, which of course cost two packs of cigarettes. When they left, Yang Rui took out the power cord of the notebook and carefully connected it, only to see the yellow-green indicator light on the transformer lit up, at this moment, Yang Rui felt that the whole room was lit up, he beat the table excitedly, and shouted: "He's m, finally there is electricity!" ”
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Note: The background of the protagonist is a graduate of modern Tongji University, otherwise it is impossible to explain the German source.