"Our cell phone will be much smaller than Motorola's and weigh more than two-thirds as much. I plan to use a lithium battery, which has a longer recharge cycle than the nickel-based batteries used in current cell phones..."
Wan Feng was startled. "Wait! Lithium battery? Mr. Gu! You don't have a fever, do you?"
Gu Hongzhong was stunned: "Fever? Why would I have a fever if I'm fine?"
"Where do you get lithium batteries?"
Gu Hongzhong looked at Wan Feng as if he didn't know him: "You don't even know about lithium batteries?"
“It seems that it is not sold on the market?”
Although Japan successfully researched lithium batteries last year, their commercial use will not be launched until summer or autumn. There are no commercial lithium batteries on the market now.
"Who asked you about the market? Yang Li's research has developed lithium batteries, and you didn't even know?"
Wan Feng shook his head: "No one told me?"
"Are you the boss?"
"What do you think?"
"Yang Li said that she was inspired by you and went to Bohai University of Technology to find a mentor there to conduct demonstrations and physical experiments. She succeeded in her research half a month ago!"
Wan Feng remembered it, it seemed to be two months ago...was it one month or two months? He couldn't remember the exact time.
Once he was discussing batteries with Yang Li, and he seemed to have said something.
What did I say that day? I really can’t remember what I said. It seemed that Yang Li was deeply inspired and then ran to Bohai University of Technology.
He had no idea when he came back and what he did.
"Have you applied for a patent?"
Gu Hongzhong was exhausted upon hearing this: "Boss Wan! Why are you so obsessed with patents all the time? Even if you can just make a screw, you still want to apply for a patent. Aren't you afraid that the people at the Patent Office will punish you? It seems like patents are useless nowadays!"
This is true. With counterfeiting rampant in China, patents are of little use because no one abides by the agreement.
"Hey, Mr. Gu! Patents are a great thing! Just because they're useless now doesn't mean they won't be useful in the future. Once China joins the World Trade Organization, they'll be useful."
China's accession to the WTO is still in its infancy, with whirlwinds in the air, so patents are of course useless.
Those people in the public relations department are even more anxious than you and have already applied for a patent.
"Do you think the lithium battery Yang Li developed can be used commercially?"
"Yang Li said that stability and high-temperature resistance are basically no problem. Once these two problems are solved, it can basically be commercialized. It is also light weight and compact. She has already made a sample and is stepping up testing. It is expected to be commercialized next year."
Another piece of good news. When Wan Feng asked Yang Li to lead the lithium battery research, he originally intended for automotive use, but he didn't expect it to be used in mobile phones first.
This is also the case of when the East is dark, the West will be bright.
"Boss Wan! What kind of mobile phone do we have?"
"Ah? Is this my responsibility?"
"I see you're always drawing clothes or cars, and every one of your drawings is spot on. You're the only one who can draw our mobile phones."
"I can't draw everything. What if word gets out that I'm like Ma Liang, the magic brush artist, and people come to me for drawings when they have children?"
Gu Hongzhong chuckled and said, "I think that apart from President Luan, no one else would ask you to draw this."
Wan Feng thought about it, picked up a pen and paper, and drew a candy-bar phone, similar to the P7389i produced by Motorola in the 2000s.
In 1989, when Motorola's MicroTAC9800x was released, the size of mobile phones had been greatly reduced and they had already taken shape as the prototype of mobile phones.
The mobile phone that Wan Feng drew was not big, but he didn’t remember clearly what it looked like originally, so he just drew a rough outline.
Gu Hongzhong took Wan Feng's drawing and looked at it from left to right, up to down, and the more he looked at it, the more he realized that the design of this phone was not simple.
"If my wife gets pregnant again, I will ask you to draw a picture of the baby in advance, and then I will give birth to the baby according to your drawing." Gu Hongzhong said this after looking at it for a long time.
"Just give up on this idea. You already have two children at home, and you want to have another one?"
Gu Hongzhong held the circuit board he made in one hand and Wan Feng's drawing in the other, gesturing back and forth for a long time.
"Almost done. I'll have a prototype in a month. Once it's ready, I'll be waiting for Yang Li's lithium battery. Mr. Wan! I'm ready to get to work."
Holy shit! That’s the order to evict me!
Wan Feng came out of the research building very depressed. As soon as he reached the gate of the new factory, he saw Zhou Liming and Zhang Juan coming back from somewhere.
"You're such a jerk, Zhou Liming! You're out hanging out with your girlfriend again during work hours. Do you really think the Nanwan Factory is your bed?"
"Mr. Wan! Have you forgotten that you sent me to the county town to do some work this morning? I just came back," Zhou Liming said aggrievedly.
"Ah? I sent you out this morning? What about her? Did she follow you on your errand?"
"I met Zhang Juan by chance at the Holi Store."
"What a coincidence? Hey, Zhang Juan! You have nothing better to do than go to the Holi Shop and flirt with it. I'll tell your sister."
This brother-in-law has never been fluent in his speech. What does it mean to flirt with others?
Zhang Juan smiled mischievously: "I'm not from Nanwan Group, you have no right to interfere!" After that, she ran towards the paging station.
"Then go back! You have so much time to go on dates at night, why bother to get excited during the day?"
Zhou Liming decided not to argue with Wan Feng. Even if he could live in vain, he would not be able to live as well as his own boss.
I hurriedly said goodbye to Wan Feng and returned to the public relations department.
Wan Feng looked at the time and it was almost eleven o'clock.
Go home for dinner, and then go to the county town.
Wan Feng watched the car go home, ate a plate of shredded potatoes fried by his mother, and lay down for a while.
Around twelve o'clock, we drove out and headed straight to the county town.
Hongya County has developed very rapidly in recent years. The parts that originally belonged to the suburbs are now included in the urban area of Hongya.
Because the county will be abolished and turned into a city next year, land and people are being allocated everywhere. The corresponding real estate development has ushered in a new spring in the second half of the year. Many places are digging foundations and preparing to build some messy buildings.
Wan Feng drove into the county town, went east along Anyan Road, and then turned west when he reached Yongxing Street.
Yongxing Street was still a suburb five years ago. Back then, Wahou was delivering bricks to the brick and tile factory in the county town and had a conflict with Zheng Laosan at the location of the Yongxing Police Station on Yongxing Street today.
At that time, this place was still a field. Apart from the brick kiln in Zheng Laosan's village, there was only the Hongya Winery in front that had existed for who knows how many years.
Now this place has become a bustling street. The place where the fight with Zheng Laosan took place was the intersection of this T-shaped intersection.
Continue forward and there is a winery on the left side of the street, and a plumbing equipment factory below the winery.
The plumbing equipment factory is at the foot of a small hill. The top of the hill is where Wan Feng is going today, the Yongtai Auto Parts Factory where he worked for less than two years in his previous life.
It is also the place where he once fought.
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