Traveling through 70's wine

After returning, Wen Qing upgraded the transmission kit, mainly innovating the chainring and flywheel assembly, and designed an eleven-speed transmission kit.

The school is on holiday, but the school-run factory is not.

Wen Qing took the drawings to the school-run factory. The masters in the factory were already very familiar with her. From time to time, she brought apples, pears, and homemade wine to Director Liang and the masters.

This time, Director Xu did not need to write a letter of recommendation. Everyone was willing to give her a hand. Anyway, Wen Qing was never stingy with the money for materials and would just take whatever the masters said.

The eleven-speed rear flywheel has 11 sprockets, and the number of teeth on each sprocket is different. The eleven-speed not only adds 3 flywheels compared to the original eight-speed, but also increases the number of teeth on each flywheel, making the speed faster.

It took Wen Qing two weeks to make the parts she wanted, assemble the flywheel set, buy a set of bicycle parts from Zhuang Xien, and assemble an eleven-speed bicycle.

She rode her new bike and an eleven-speed gearbox to Zhuang Xien's shop. Since they started modifying bicycles and assembling new bikes, they no longer repair bikes.

Their store is called Schindler Bicycle Shop, and the new store in Dongcheng is also called Schindler Bicycle Shop, both of which sell gear kits and bicycles.

Wen Qing showed everyone the upgraded transmission kit. Fang Yuan was very excited and immediately took the parts and asked Wen Qing to assemble them. He was very impressed by how skillfully Wen Qing installed the bicycle parts.

Fang Yuan said: "Sister Wen's skills are comparable to those of the experienced workers in the factory."

Zhuang Xien looked at her in surprise and asked, "Sister Wen, what kind of transmission is this?"

Wen Qing said: "This is an eleven-speed transmission kit. It is faster to ride than an eight-speed kit, has smoother shifting and is more adaptable."

It took Wen Qing an hour to finally assemble the bicycle. She rode around the street and felt quite satisfied.

When she came back, Fang Yuan quickly grabbed the bike, jumped on it and rode away.

Zhuang Xien chased him out, only to see his receding back.

Zhuang Xien said: "Sister Wen, where did this transmission come from?"

Zhuang Xien is two years older than Wen Qing. In the north, people call each other "sister" not because of age. They also use the same respectful title for women of the same age.

Wen Qing said, "I designed it myself. How is it? It's okay."

Zhuang Xien praised it greatly and asked, "When will it be mass-produced?"

Wen Qing said: "Let's prepare to communicate with the factory first."

Zhuang Xien said that once the eleven-speed transmission comes out, they will improve this new transmission kit.

Fang Yuan rode three blocks before coming back. Zhuang Xien took over the bike and rode around himself.

Wen Qing left the car to them for display and did not ask them for money. They were all partners and there was no need to calculate so clearly.

Back in Erxia Village, Wang Jianguo was steaming wine in the backyard alone, and Wen Qing immediately went up to help him.

The two men steamed three steamers of grain dregs in total, piled them together to form a large rectangular block, boiled water, let it cool, and then poured it on the grain pile. The two men kept turning it over until the temperature dropped to the right level. Then they added the finely ground distiller's yeast and mixed it evenly. Then they poured it into the original wine cellar, compacted it layer by layer, and finally sealed the cellar.

Wang Jianguo cleaned up the debris and garbage on the ground, said goodbye to Wen Qing and went home.

After dinner, Wen Qing closed the doors to the front and back yards, took out 2000 kilograms of apples from the space, and prepared to make cider.

She could have brewed fruit wine in her space, but in the future she will try to brew it in the backyard so that she can explain it more easily if someone asks about the source of the wine.

Moreover, everything is ready outside and there are people to help, which is more conducive to large-scale production.

Wen Qing washed the apples, turned on the fan to speed up the drying, used a crusher to break the apples into small pieces, then added fruit wine yeast, poured everything into a stainless steel can, added sugar and stirred, and sealed the can mouth with a clean white cloth.

The white cloth is breathable and also allows the carbon dioxide produced during fermentation to escape. After doing all this, she put away her things and went to rest.

The school is on vacation, and it is time to harvest the crops in Wen Qing's space.

As her kung fu improved, her mental strength became even stronger.

She can operate a tractor to plow the land while using her mental power to collect the grass roots and straw scattered on the ground; or she can drive a tea picker to pick tea while using her mental power to harvest peas planted in the tea garden, making her work more efficient.

It took only one week to harvest all 250 acres of land in the space, and then store them in the warehouse after drying.

After fertilizing the fields in the space, Wen Qing scattered rice seeds into the nursery fields, waiting to plant the new season's crops.

Within two days of the holiday, Zhu Hongying replied to her and said that she had rented a house near the school and would move into the rental house when the child's father came and would not disturb her.

Seeing that she had already made arrangements, Wen Qing felt relieved, but she just reminded her to come to her if she had any problems and not to be polite.

Leaving the household affairs to Liu Quan and Wang Jianguo, Wen Qing called Director Huang of the Ping'an Machine Repair Factory and told him about the upgrade of the bicycle transmission. Director Huang was very happy and asked her to come over immediately, hoping to start production of the eleven-speed transmission set right away.

Wen Qing still took the train to Ping'an County. After leaving the train station, she went directly to the machine repair factory.

The old man guarding the door knew her and greeted her familiarly, "Xiao Wen, you're here. Director Huang is in the office."

Wen Qing put the luggage in the mail room, gave him a bag of candy and said, "Hello, Master Li. Take this candy back to sweeten the mouths of your grandchildren. I'll be upstairs right away." She went straight to Director Huang's office.

When Director Huang saw Wen Qing coming, he asked, "Xiao Wen, what new products do you have?"

Wen Qing took out two sets of eleven-speed transmission kits and explained the differences to Director Huang.

When Director Huang heard about the advantages of the eleven-speed bicycle, he immediately called the technicians, and they all went to the workshop together, found two new bicycles, and started to modify them impatiently.

Wen Qing asked someone to bring tools and took another technician with her, and it took an hour to install the two bicycles.

The technician who modified the bicycle together was very satisfied with the results of his work. He said to Director Huang, "Director Huang, I'm going out to test the bike." He pushed the bike out of the workshop and started riding it in the yard.

Another technician took the bicycle from Wen Qing and said, "Sister Wen, let me try it too." He also rode away.

Both of them were young men in their thirties. They first rode in the yard, but later felt that the place was too small and they couldn't tell who was better, so they simply rode out one after the other and started competing on the road outside.

Watching the two people go away, Wen Qing turned to Director Huang and said, "Brother Huang, how is the transmission sales in our factory? Are there any problems?"

Director Huang said: "We sold 2 gearshift kits in the first half of the year, mainly to bicycle shops in surrounding counties and cities, and department stores came to us to buy goods. Bicycle repair shops did not buy much. Basically, we sold as many as we produced, and we did not have much inventory."

Wen Qing said, "We have to give the product a name, register it with the Industry and Commerce Bureau, and then print some advertisements and send them out. Otherwise, only people nearby will know about our product, which will not be conducive to expanding sales."

Director Huang: “Yes, that’s the truth.”

According to Director Huang, only their factory produces transmission kits. Although the price is not cheap, it is popular among young people. They can upgrade their bicycles with only a hundred yuan, and many young people are willing to spend the money.

In order to increase the sales of large-speed bicycles, Wen Qing suggested setting up a sales department.

The machine repair factory only has a purchasing department, a production department, a technical department, a security department, etc., but no sales department. The main reason is that in the past, everything was purchased and sold at a unified level, and people didn't pay much attention to sales. Now they need to go out and market, and without a specialized team, it won't work.

She also suggested cooperating with bicycle factories to produce speed bicycles, but Director Huang thought that if they cooperated with a large bicycle factory, they might lose the initiative of the product, and cooperating with a small factory would not help much in increasing sales. The two disagreed.

Wen Qing felt that she was not very knowledgeable about these matters and respected his decision very much.