Reborn in the ’80s as a Group Favorite Bigshot – Chapter 59

Chapter 59: You Actually Just Want to Sweet-Talk Me

After Gu Yue explained the principles of the chick incubator to the veteran technicians, most of them understood.

Director Zhang was even more involved throughout the process. Because Gu Yue’s explanation was relatively easy to understand, and he was a senior technician, he basically grasped everything.

In the afternoon, he personally saw the two off at the gate of the machinery factory.

Song Chu stopped and asked, “Director Zhang, about when will you be able to make the chick incubator?”

Director Zhang thought for a moment and said, “If we make it exactly as Little Gu described, I estimate it will take about a week to ten days.”

“You’d better come back in three to five days. If we encounter any technical difficulties, we can ask Little Gu. If you find any problems with the finished product, we can also make changes,” he added.

Song Chu glanced at Gu Yue, and seeing him nod, she said to Director Zhang, “Then we’ll come back in a few days.”

“Alright, alright, take care, you two young Comrades,” Director Zhang said with a smile and a nod.

On the way back, Song Chu asked Gu Yue, “Gu, the Academic God, if the chick incubator is successful, can it be used to incubate duck eggs?”

Gu Yue had already thoroughly studied the books and materials on incubators that Song Chu had given him earlier. He replied without hesitation, “Yes.”

“Actually, when I was drawing the structural diagram of the incubator, I thought about the possibility of also incubating duck or goose eggs, so I intentionally designed the egg tray to be adjustable in size.”

“However, the temperature and humidity for duck and goose hatching eggs need to be adjusted. Duck and goose eggs are larger and generate more metabolic heat. Without adjusting the temperature, the embryos will die.”

Speaking of these, Gu Yue was very professional.

After explaining, he said, “Don’t tell me you’re thinking of raising ducks now.”

Song Chu chuckled, “I’m planning to open a duck and goose farm once the chicken farm is stable, and focus mainly on ducks and geese.”

Gu Yue was puzzled, “Why focus on raising ducks and geese? People usually prefer to eat chicken compared to ducks and geese.”

“Because I want to make down jackets,” Song Chu said. She had gotten the inspiration today.

After negotiating with the clothing factory today, Director Wu took her to a warehouse specifically for “defective products” and let her roughly choose which clothes she wanted.

There was a large inventory of summer and winter clothes, and Song Chu saw some bulky, unattractive, and not very warm cotton-padded coats.

This was the south, unlike the north where there were heated kangs. Winters here were damp and cold. She herself was someone who felt the cold easily, so she missed the down jackets and down comforters from her previous life.

She had read before that down jackets only started to become available in the early 1980s. She could introduce them earlier.

After the reform and opening up, they could be mass-produced and sold not only nationwide but also exported globally.

Starting a duck and goose farm now would lay a good foundation and provide a better supply of duck and goose down.

She added, “As for the duck and goose meat, we can open a food processing factory later and sell them nationwide in vacuum-sealed packages. If we make them taste good, they will definitely sell well.”

In her previous life, there were many vacuum-sealed cooked foods, and she used to buy them quite often when she was in university.

Gu Yue knew a little about vacuum packaging. Current meat and fish cans used this technology.

“You mean like meat and fish cans?”

“Not like that. I’m talking about a kind of vacuum skin packaging…” Song Chu roughly explained the technology to Gu Yue.

She knew that in the 1970s, vacuum skin packaging for fresh and cooked meat was widely used in Europe and America, but it was only introduced to China in the late 1980s.

If they could succeed first, China wouldn’t need to import the technology from abroad.

After hearing her out, Gu Yue became interested, “Does this technology also require a vacuum packaging machine to be completed?”

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“Of course, why else would I tell you so much?” Song Chu said with a smile.

“…” Gu Yue wanted to facepalm. So, she told him so much because she wanted to use free labor again.

“You want me to research this vacuum packaging technology, and then we make the machine ourselves?” Although he was asking, his tone was quite certain.

There was no helping it. He already knew Song Chu’s tricks.

Song Chu chuckled, “Educated Youth Gu is indeed an academic god, so smart.”

She suddenly realized that having her other half of the space in Gu Yue’s mind seemed pretty good. After all, she wasn’t good at these things. Just having ideas and materials wasn’t enough to make them a reality.

But with Gu Yue, she could ask him to do anything she thought of. How great.

With his high IQ and comprehension ability, plus the books and materials she provided, he could definitely make it happen.

Gu Yue said helplessly, “The chick incubator hasn’t even been produced yet, and you’re already thinking about vacuum packaging technology. You really do come up with things on a whim.”

Song Chu retorted, “Gu, the Academic God, I have to criticize you on this point. You have an old-fashioned way of thinking, while I’m all about keeping up with the times. You should learn from me.”

“I should learn from you?” Gu Yue was at a loss for words.

Song Chu said confidently, “Of course, you should learn to be like me and broaden your horizons. We can’t just focus on this village, this county, or this city. We should aim for the whole country and the world.”

“This technology is already available in Europe and America, and its applications are constantly expanding, but we don’t have it. If we want to use it in the future, we’ll have to import it from abroad, and who knows how much they’ll take advantage of us.”

“So why don’t we do it ourselves? When the time comes, we can be world leaders and turn the tables on them. Just thinking about it is exciting.”

Based on her understanding, after the reform and opening up, because many technologies were led by foreign countries, domestic companies had to import them and were often taken advantage of by those capitalists, suffering huge losses in terms of price and conditions.

For example, importing a batch of advanced textile machinery from Japan, but their people wouldn’t tell you how to repair it if it broke down, let alone provide maintenance. If there was a problem or it broke down, you had to spend more money to hire their professionals to come and fix it.

Not only did you have to spend more money and waste more time, but the technology was still in their hands. It was such a loss.

After listening to her, Gu Yue was lost in thought, and a feeling he had never experienced before stirred within him.

Yes, the country was lagging behind now, but that didn’t mean it had to stay that way. If they could surpass Europe and America in these technologies and become world leaders, just thinking about it was exciting and made one proud.

Seeing Gu Yue silent, Song Chu asked with a smile, “Gu, the Academic God, do you think I’m right?”

Gu Yue came back to his senses, “You’re right.”

“Then should you learn from me?”

“I should learn from you.”

“Then should you research these technologies diligently, make them a reality, and benefit the country and the people?”

“Yes, I should.”

“Gu, the Academic God, I’m leaving this glorious task to you.”

“After all that, you actually just want to sweet-talk me into contributing to the technical aspects of the food processing factory you want to open in the future,” Gu Yue saw through her.

Next chapter around 12 o’clock~