Back to the golden age

On the second day after the casing was delivered, Song Yuanchao asked Zhang Jianguo to help make things. Song Yuanchao and Li Daqi rode a tricycle to pull the things back directly, moved them into the air-raid shelter and installed them.

At this time, the air-raid shelter was quite different from the original appearance, and they had cleaned the inside. In addition, Gu Jie specially brought in a few large high-wattage light bulbs, and replaced all the low-wattage light bulbs that were originally dim. After installing new bulbs, the environment looks much brighter.

In the past two days, the five members of Song Yuanchao brought a lot of [-]mm thick iron wire from some places. Most of these things were bought from other people's factories as scraps through their relationship. Although there are a lot of things, the price is very cheap. One meter counts. It's two cents and five cents down.

When everything is ready, everyone gathers around Song Yuanchao to see how he handles it.

Song Yuanchao sat in front of that table, first strung a long wire into the casing, then compared the casing with the wire inside on the table where the size was engraved, and cut off a length of one meter with a vise.

Then, Song Yuanchao put the iron wire connected to the sleeve in the card slot on the table. One end of the card slot was fixed, and the other end held the wire with one hand and moved it up quickly, and then closed it with the card slot and pressed it directly. It becomes the shape that fits on the card slot. After taking it off, fix one end on the vise at the back, and then use a fist-sized steel sleeve to twist the other end of the wire, and then take it off after finishing. A fully formed wire hanger is complete.

"Look, how is it?"

It was very easy for Song Yuanchao to make this thing. It only took less than a minute to complete the front and back, and the finished hanger was very standardized in shape, well-proportioned from left to right and moderate in size. Looking at the hanger formed in Song Yuanchao's hands, Li Daqi and the four of them stared at each other. Straightened, dumbfounded.

No one expected Song Yuanchao to make the hangers so easily. When they figured out that Song Yuanchao was going to use these sleeves and wires to make hangers for sale, everyone was worried that the hangers would not be well made and would not be sold.

After all, the shape of the hanger is curved, and the two sides need to be symmetrical. It is impossible to use a vise without professional fitter skills, and it takes a lot of time.

According to Li Daqi and the others, it would take at least ten minutes to make such a hanger, and five people could make more than 20 if they worked together for an hour.More importantly, they couldn't guarantee whether the clothes hangers they made would look good, but who would have thought that Song Yuanchao would just fiddle with this weird-looking equipment and make a standard clothes hanger in the blink of an eye.

This is because Song Yuanchao deliberately slowed down the movements of his hands so that they could see the steps clearly, otherwise the speed would be faster.

Seeing their stunned looks, Song Yuanchao felt a little proud. This special table was made by Song Yuanchao for making clothes hangers. In fact, this thing was not unusual in later generations. Someone had invented it long ago, but in this era it is An uncompromising first.

At that time, Song Yuanchao had seen people use this kind of thing, and he learned how to use it out of curiosity, so he understood the principle and production method of this device.

Song Yuanchao's hand speed is not too fast. You must know that skilled workers who often use this equipment to make clothes hangers can complete one in five or six seconds at the fastest, that is, about ten in a minute.

The most important thing is that using this kind of equipment to make clothes hangers does not require any skills. The clothes hangers made are of the same size and beautiful in appearance, which are many times stronger than ordinary people holding vise slowly.

"Everyone come and try, Daqi, you come first." Song Yuanchao got up, and greeted everyone with a smile when he saw that everyone hadn't recovered.

Li Daqi went to where Song Yuanchao had just sat and sat down, and then began to fiddle with Song Yuanchao's guidance.Although he was not familiar with it the first time, the principle of this device is very simple. Li Daqi quickly figured out the steps, and a few minutes later an equally perfect hanger was born in his hands.

"Let me try it, let me try it too." Zhang Bin had already recovered by this time, seeing the clothes hanger Li Daqi made, his heart was hot, and he couldn't wait to get started.

Song Yuanchao smiled and agreed, anyway, everyone of them must learn this job, and today is just for everyone to get started one by one.

Half an hour later, Li Daqi, Zhang Bin, Wang Jianjun, and Gu Jie all learned how to make clothes hangers. All of them held almost identical hangers in their hands and compared them with cheerful smiles on their faces.

"Yanchao, how much do you think this hanger is suitable for?" Although Li Daqi was happy, he did not forget that no matter how well made this thing is, it will be sold.

"Right now, the wooden clothes hangers in the store are [-] cents, and the bamboo ones are [-] cents. Ours is an iron hanger, not to mention strong and bright in color. What do you think of the price of [-] cents?" Song Yuanchao asked, asking about the price. I've figured it out a long time ago, but I still want to ask for everyone's opinions.

"Thirty-five cents?" Everyone looked at each other, nodded and said, "This price should be no problem, besides, our hangers are beautiful and strong, so they will definitely sell."

"Okay, the price will be set first, everyone will work hard these few days, and for the first time, we will finish all the things at once before selling them."

"okay!"

"no problem!"

"Listen to your support..."

Everyone was full of fighting spirit and gearing up excitedly.

On the same day, everyone was busy in the air-raid shelter. In order to increase efficiency, Song Yuanchao divided everyone's work. Two of them did the work of threading the wire through the casing, one specially cut it according to the size of 1.1 meters, and one completed the hanger operation work.Finally, the remaining person checks the finished hanger for quality problems, and then uses an alcohol lamp to bake off the opening of the hanger wire and the casing, and then bundles it every [-] pieces and puts it in a large sack beside it. inside.

Everyone works for an hour and rests for about 10 minutes, and then rotates their positions to avoid excessive fatigue from a single task.

On this day, everyone, including Song Yuanchao, was so excited that they even forgot the time because they didn't know the weather outside in the air-raid shelter.

After the excitement gradually faded and hunger and fatigue struck, Song Yuanchao and the others realized that they had been busy for twelve hours.

At this time, it was already dark outside, and everyone was hungry and tired.

It is impossible to go home now. It is not a trivial matter to be caught by the patrolling defense outside in the middle of the night. After discussing, let Li Daqi and Gu Jie go back and get them something to eat and drink for Song Yuanchao and the three of them. As for sleeping, it is easy , Spread the sackcloth on the ground, put on a coat and sleep directly in the air-raid shelter. This air-raid shelter is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the temperature inside is now much warmer than at home.

Taking advantage of the interval between Li Daqi and Gu Jie going home to bring them food, Song Yuanchao took Zhang Bin and Wang Jianjun to count today's achievements.

I don’t know, I was a little surprised. On the first day, a few of them made 618 hangers, 600 of which were filled with six big sacks, and 18 pieces were left aside.

According to the number of casings, Song Yuanchao had a total of 90 rolls of casing, each of which was 100 meters long. In theory, one roll of casing plus iron wire could make 100 hangers, that is to say, a total of 9000 hangers could be produced.

Of course, a theory is a theory, and in fact it has to be considered to eliminate losses, so according to Song Yuanchao's estimate, about 8950 can be made in the end.

According to the investment, the total cost is 160 yuan for the casing plus 230 yuan for the iron wire. These add up to 390 yuan, which is almost all the current assets of Song Yuanchao.

If all of them can be sold, the profit margin is really not small. Selling at thirty-five cents a piece, 8950 hangers cost 3132.5 yuan, and the profit is almost ten times as huge.

Song Yuanchao bought the casing from Jiang Dongliang almost at the price of cabbage, but even if he bought it at the cost price of 350 yuan per roll, it was still profitable for Song Yuanchao, and it was only worth adding wire to each hanger. It is a dime cost, and its profit can still reach [-]%.

As for sales, Song Yuanchao is not worried. You must know that in 1978, the population of Shanghai and Shanghai exceeded 1100 million, which does not include more than 6 foreign population. Shanghai is called the largest city in China, which is worthy of the name.

Although the clothes hanger is inconspicuous, all residents in Shanghai have to use it. Does that resident not have a few or even a dozen clothes hangers?

It’s not that there are no wire hangers on the outside, but those are made by a very small number of people. The wire hangers that are made are all “shirtless hangers” without outer sleeves. Iron wire is easy to embroider, and it will stain clothes after being stained with water and rust. On the other hand, Song Yuanchao's clothes hangers are different. They are covered with colorful sleeves. The sleeves are thick enough, not only will they not rust, but they also look much thicker.