Chapter 248 247【Promotion】

Yu Qiaqing, who had been silent all this time, suddenly clapped her hands and applauded after the game: "What a good machine!"

Li Shuhua smiled and introduced: "Our harvester has another advantage, that is, the main body is made of wood. It is easy to manufacture, low in cost, suitable for large-scale promotion, and farmers with medium wealth can afford it."

Yi Peiji laughed and said: "This product is very good. I will urge the Ministry of Agriculture and Mining to quickly promote this machine to rural areas across the country."

Zhou Hexuan said: "We still need the Chamber of Commerce's help and support."

"Yu must do his best." Yu Qiaqing immediately stated.

Yu Qiaqing's current status is the vice president of the National Federation of Chambers of Commerce and the president of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce. Although he does not engage in machinery manufacturing himself, he can help contact relevant businessmen across the country.

Among the business representatives, a middle-aged man suddenly said: "This machine is of great help to farmers, and I would like to introduce it to Sha County!"

The one who spoke was Huang Erkang, the vice chairman of the Sha County Chamber of Commerce. Like Yu Qiaqing, this gentleman was born as a poor apprentice, and he developed through his own efforts step by step.

Huang Erkang started to get involved in the candy business last year, and opened a branch in Shanghai this year (the main store is in Fuzhou), and even opened a branch in Tianjin next year. When Zhou Hexuan went to invite Yu Qiaqing, Huang Erkang stopped by to watch the excitement.

Huang Erkang's business philosophy is to value the poor. Last year, a child came to his store to buy sugar, and he only bought sugar for one copper plate. The clerk thought that the child bought too little, so he said there was no candy for sale.

When Huang Erkang heard this, he immediately stopped the child and sold him the sugar. Afterwards, he said to the clerk: "In the heat of the day, asking a child to buy a penny of candy must be due to a poor family and urgent needs. You think that a penny is a small business and has a lot of trouble, so you can't do business. You should find another job." Bar."

So Huang Erkang fired the clerk and made a shop rule: when someone enters the store wearing straw sandals, the owner should personally offer tea and cigarettes to show his kindness; Be polite.

This is a kind man.

"I take care of the business in Ganzhou!"

"I can't make decisions about other places. I will order 500 harvesters on behalf of Yiyang!"

"Anqing, we also want Anqing."

"..."

The businessmen promised one after another. These people obviously saw the value of the harvester, and they didn't want to miss this good business that can make money and benefit the people.

But, there are also some profiteers who stare at the machine closely and want to find a carpenter to imitate the counterfeit product.

The main body of this thing is a wooden structure, which is very easy to imitate. That is to say, the degree of density of the thresher is not easy to grasp. If it is too dense, the tassels will be stuck, and if it is too sparse, the threshing will not be clean.

Zhou Hexuan smiled and said, "Don't worry, let's compete again."

Soon, they found two similar paddy fields. This time, the long-term worker was already familiar with the machine, and the paddy harvesting was very fast. As for the four long-term workers who used traditional methods, since they had been working continuously for an hour, their physical strength was slightly reduced, and the speed of rice harvesting was not as good as before.

Finally, through timing calculations, the harvesting efficiency ratio between using machines and traditional methods is 2.8:1, which means that one person can almost equal the productivity of three people.

And the biggest advantage of the machine is labor-saving, the longer the working time, the better the effect will be reflected.

In the traditional harvesting method, farmers have to swing their arms all the time. After working continuously for a day, their arms are sore and unbearable when they sleep. Machine threshing is much easier.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhou Hexuan discussed the cooperation details with the businessmen.

The final result after mutual negotiation is that the businessman is responsible for the production and sales, and one percent of the selling price of each machine is taken out as a patent royalty. The patent use period is five years, after which there will be no charge.

The patent fee of 1% is very low, but it was already commendable in the period of the Republic of China. Even so, it is estimated that some businessmen falsely report the sales volume to avoid patent royalties.

There is no way, the national conditions are such that I can only admit it while pinching my nose.

Li Shuhua is very satisfied with this. He feels that even if he does not charge a penny of patent fees, it is good to benefit the country and the people.

Not only the National Federation of Chambers of Commerce agreed to cooperate, but the Ministry of Agriculture and Mining also agreed to help promote it. Yi Peiji even made a decision on the spot to reward Peking University's scientific research department with 500 yuan in recognition of their contribution to the agricultural development of the Republic of China.

Li Shuhua and the accompanying students from the Research Department of Peking University were very excited, as were the reporters.

Not only "Ta Kung Pao" reported it in detail, but even "Shen Bao" and "News Daily" were not stingy with praise.

"Shenbao" used a full page to publish this news:

"The famous scholar Zhou Hexuan is famous for his novels and academic monographs, but he is also an inventor. 'Zhou's underwear' is popular in China now, and this underwear was invented and improved by Mr. Zhou Hexuan...

Recently, the "human harvester" designed by Mr. Zhou and participated in the design and development of Peking University's scientific research department was tested in the rice fields of Jinshan. There were many visitors at the scene, including Yi Peiji, Minister of Agriculture and Mining, Yu Qiaqing, Chairman of Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce...

Two competitions were arranged that day. At the beginning, because the long-term workers were not familiar with the machines, the harvesting progress fell behind. However, it only took two quarters of an hour for the machine to surpass the manpower... The second competition ended with the machine winning a complete victory. Through scientific measurement, the working efficiency of the machine is three times that of manpower...

Westerners lead the world in science and technology, modern inventions emerge in endlessly, and the steam engine even created the industrial age. And don't Chinese people have the spirit of invention? Not so, the four ancient inventions all came from China and made great contributions to the development of human society and science. Today's human harvesting machine also proves this truth. Chinese people have intelligence and intelligence, and they are not half inferior to Westerners...

According to Mr. Zhou Hexuan, the human harvester invented this time is mainly used for harvesting wheat and rice. Because there are many hills and rivers in southern China, large machinery is not suitable. Combined with China's special agricultural geographical environment and China's underdeveloped basic industry, the main body of Peking University's human harvester is made of wood, which is light, easy to operate, cheap and easy to manufacture. This machine can be used in the mountains in the southwest, and it is also suitable for the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River. Traditional carpenters can also imitate themselves, which is a great invention that suits the national conditions. "

Due to the competing reports of Shanghai newspapers, other newspapers also reproduced it one after another, and the reputation of the human harvester quickly opened up.

Just bragging is useless. News photos plus the results of the competition will give ordinary readers a more intuitive impression. The production efficiency of 1:3 is proved by scientific data, which is very convincing.

Numerous readers have praised it, but there are also dismissive ones.

These people believe that the human harvester invented by Zhou Hexuan and Peking University is just a simplified version of the Western combine harvester, and there is nothing worthy of praise. People's combine harvesters are convenient, quick and tall. This broken harvester in China has to be carried and trampled by manpower, which still belongs to the category of traditional farm tools.

Regardless of whether you agree or disagree, Zhou's harvester (also called Peking University harvester) quickly became popular.

There are even traditional craftsmen using their brains to use bamboo chips instead of iron buckles and hemp ropes instead of belts to imitate "pure natural" counterfeit products. When the whole machine was disassembled, no iron objects could be seen on the whole body, not even a single nail, because people used mortise and tenon structures.

By the mid-1930s, human-powered harvesters had spread across rural China. Due to the different regions and crops, there are various imitations in different versions. This machine has been used until the 21st century, until it was replaced by a new type of agricultural harvester, it finally ended its historical mission.

The funny thing is that because most of the imitations are all wooden structures, many people in later generations think that this kind of machine belongs to traditional farm tools. There was even a professor who wrote a dissertation, using the human harvester to tout traditional Chinese agricultural tools as the ancestor of the modern combine harvester, which made a big joke.