However, to be honest, weren't these two things between her and Zhao Qinghuai a little too smooth?
Subconsciously, Lin Ying looked at Er Ya, who was doing somersaults.
The more Lin Ying thought about it, the more likely it seemed.
She hurriedly told Zhao Qinghuai about it, and Zhao Qinghuai couldn't help but laugh: "You really know how to overthink things."
Lin Ying sighed helplessly. Well, nothing strange had happened to Zhao Qinghuai, so it was normal that he wouldn't think about it that way.
Perhaps it was because Zhao Qinghuai was too intimidating that during the time he was at home, not only did the adults not come to Lin Ying's house, but even the children stopped coming.
Zhao Qinghuai rested at home for about a week, and Lin Ying simply let him take care of the child.
Zhao Qinghuai used the trolley that Lin Ying had made to pull the two children up the mountain.
During her time at home, Lin Ying had been thinking about whether to draw up some blueprints for the factory. She had many ideas, but in this era, ordinary people didn't have much money, and factories had even less material. Or rather, materials like steel were mainly used for national construction, not for everyday consumer goods. Or rather, there wasn't the wide variety of materials available in later generations.
Therefore, she really doesn't have much to use.
Lin Ying remembered that she had only made saws because there was a demand. Since she couldn't think of anything else, she decided to investigate in person. With that in mind, Lin Ying called the factory, and soon a car was sent to pick her up.
This was Lin Ying's first time visiting the factory.
Lin Ying never expected that she would be personally received by the factory director when she was just visiting.
During the visit, Lin Ying realized that unlike Factory No. 1, which mainly produced large machinery, such as auto parts, and various mainstream domestic products, Factory No. 2 primarily manufactured smaller items. However, with many factories in the south establishing their own processing plants, in addition to taking on some extra work from Factory No. 1, they also produced iron pots, aluminum basins, and the like, competing with other steel mills for business.
A once-promising technology factory has been reduced to processing raw materials.
Well, it's because the factory manager, Jiang He, is a retired soldier who knows many people in the military. That's why Lin Ying's two saw blueprints ended up in his hands.
As a result, their factory finally had a chance to hold its head high last year and this year.
However, table saws are generally unaffordable for most families, and the market is already saturated in areas where they are. They are currently only making a profit from their hand saw business.
What remains is the processing fee paid by the processing plant.
Therefore, when Lin Ying said she wanted to visit for inspiration, Jiang He immediately had his driver pick her up in the factory's only car.
After looking around, Lin Ying felt even more uncertain. She had no idea what to do next.
Seeing that Lin Ying didn't seem to have any thoughts, Jiang He's heart sank. But Jiang He was already very content. If it weren't for Lin Ying, their factory would probably still be half-dead like it was two years ago.
While Lin Ying was deep in thought, she was drawn to a commotion.
Jiang He pointed outside the wall and said, "A bunch of kids are scrambling for coke outside. The factories always have some unburned coal used for iron smelting, so those kids come here to collect coke during the day when they have nothing else to do. The city isn't like the village, where you can collect firewood to make a kang (heated brick bed), so at least your bed won't be cold at night. In the city, the whole family relies on one stove for heating. Each household has a limited amount of coal, and once it's used up, it's gone. So a lot of kids come here to collect coke."
Not only here, but also along the railway tracks.
A thought flashed through Lin Ying's mind, and she suddenly asked, "Isn't there heating in the city?"
Jiang Hedao: "Aside from some important government agencies, where do ordinary households have heating?"
Lin Ying hurriedly asked, "If we sell heating systems, will anyone buy them?"
Jiang He didn't react immediately: "Heating?"
Lin Ying wanted to draw, but it was too cold here: "Shall we talk in your office?"
Upon hearing this, Jiang He knew what Lin Ying had thought of, and he was even more anxious than her: "Okay, okay, let's go, we'll go right now."
Jiang He led Lin Ying to his office. As soon as they entered, they saw that Jiang He's office was warm. Almost immediately, Lin Ying noticed the stove in the office, which was half-burning red.
Ignoring everything else, Lin Ying took out a notebook and pen from her backpack: "Factory Manager, take this stove of yours as an example. This is what I'm thinking: whether in the countryside or the city, most homes probably have stoves. Could we use these stoves to power one or more heating systems?"
Your office is rather small; one stove should be enough to keep your room warm. However, in a typical household, the rooms are certainly larger. It's better to have one stove burning all day, keeping the house warm all day, than to burn two or three stoves that only last half the day.
Jiang He was a little confused, but Lin Ying first drew a picture of the stove in his office, and then said, "Let's take the stove in your office as an example. When the fire is strong, the top half of the iron is red-hot, so the heat must be very high. We can make an inner liner in this part of the stove. Connect the pipes here. The pipes connect to the heating system. Then, make an air vent valve here in the heating system, and a water inlet here above."
In this way, the furnace will heat the water in this ring. This utilizes the principle that cold water sinks, creating a hot water circulation.
Jiang He's eyes lit up immediately: "Then wouldn't that mean the heating would be on while we're cooking at home?"
Lin Ying said, "That's not all. We can install a faucet under the radiator. That way, as long as the radiator is hot, there will always be hot water available."
Jiang He was extremely excited: "Great, this is great, let's make this one."
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