After leaving, Zhang Yi wandered around the Development Zone. Although their processing factory fell under the Development Zone's jurisdiction, it was actually some distance from where his family lived, so Zhang Yi was not very familiar with the area.
Xian County's Development Zone had begun construction ten years ago and covered an area of one hundred thousand mu. When the county had built it, its ambitions had been enormous. It had hoped to attract investment and use this nearly one hundred-thousand-mu Development Zone to shake off Xian County's label as the poorest county in Jiangnan Province.
But reality was cruel. Although the Development Zone had been built, hardly any outside companies had moved in. Even now, the entire zone contained only local Xian County businesses, and most of them were small and medium-sized enterprises—the pillar of Xian County's industry: wooden handicraft manufacturing.
After taking a lap around the Development Zone, Zhang Yi found that the industrial area was divided into two sections. The first housed small and medium-sized enterprises. The factory buildings there were mostly small, one- or two-thousand-square-meter workshops, and nearly all of them were Arts and Crafts Factories. Even the few that did other business were basically half-dead.
Although the first section was for small and medium-sized businesses, a large number of its factory buildings still had no tenants. Some were even overgrown with weeds, showing that many had stood vacant ever since they were built.
The second section was for larger enterprises. The factory buildings in this area were generally over ten thousand square meters, but there were not many of them at present—only around a dozen. Of those, only one had a company operating inside it: Zhu Gang's Xian County Auto Parts Factory. Of course, Zhu Gang had already bought that factory building. The rest had no tenants and were all still vacant.
After seeing this, Zhang Yi had a clear idea of the situation. The Development Zone would definitely be more than willing to rent out a factory building, and he estimated that the rent for a ten-thousand-square-meter building would not be expensive. By his calculations, the annual rent definitely would not exceed five hundred thousand yuan.
After Zhang Yi finished walking around the Development Zone, he realized it was already noon, time for lunch. He immediately returned to the factory to eat.
After all, although he wanted to rent a factory building right away, he had no money in hand. He could only wait until the orders he had received were completed before negotiating with the Development Zone.
But when Zhang Yi was nearing the entrance to his little workshop, he saw a luxury car parked outside. He immediately quickened his pace.
When he arrived at the workshop, he found that there was now a middle-aged man inside. Judging by his clothes and appearance, he did not seem like an ordinary wealthy man.
Although the middle-aged man had arrived in a luxury sedan, his clothes were very plain. Zhang Yi was certain that his entire outfit did not cost more than a thousand yuan, which surprised him greatly. The luxury sedan parked outside their workshop was worth at least a million yuan, yet the man was dressed so ordinarily.
At that moment, the middle-aged man was watching Xiao Hua machine parts with complete focus, without making a sound. He had not noticed Zhang Yi's arrival.
Although Zhang Yi was puzzled, he still walked over to the man and said, "Hello."
Hearing Zhang Yi's voice, the middle-aged man came back to his senses. He hurriedly extended his hand and said, "Hello! I'm the owner of Hao Chen Pneumatic Tools Factory in Zhou Tai City. My name is Jin Hao Cheng."
Zhang Yi also extended his hand and shook his. Then he said, "Hello, Boss Jin. My name is Zhang Yi. May I ask why you've come to our Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory?"
"Boss Zhang! I previously found through the Great Hua Empire's Intellectual Property Center that your Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory had invented a new type of Air Motor. Is that true? Could you let me have a look?" Jin Hao Cheng asked.
Upon hearing Jin Hao Cheng's words, Zhang Yi finally understood why he had come. He was here to bring him money. Zhang Yi said, "No problem! I'll demonstrate it for you right away!"
With that, Zhang Yi went upstairs to the warehouse and brought out an Air Motor from an Aerodynamic Bicycle.
"Boss Jin, look. This is the Air Motor made by our Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory." As he spoke, Zhang Yi handed the Aerodynamic Air Motor in his hand to Jin Hao Cheng and waited for his response.
When Jin Hao Cheng saw the Aerodynamic Air Motor, the first thing he noticed was its extremely small size. It was only a few centimeters across, and its workmanship was exceptionally fine. One glance was enough to tell that it could not have been manufactured by an ordinary person or an ordinary CNC Machine.
"Boss Zhang, does your Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory only have this one type of Aerodynamic Air Motor? If this is all you have, then there are too few varieties for our Hao Chen Pneumatic Tools Factory. And your factory is far too small, isn't it?" In truth, ever since Jin Hao Cheng had arrived, his heart had been sinking. When he had found the patent for this new Aerodynamic Air Motor at the patent center, he had been overjoyed.
This Aerodynamic Air Motor was compact, powerful, and quiet. If it were installed in the pneumatic tools produced by his factory, their products could rise by at least one grade.
Although his factory was not small, the products it made were really just ordinary pneumatic tools among similar products. They had no distinguishing features, so their prices were naturally very low. It could be said that there was practically no profit to be made.
But putting aside whether Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory could produce the various models of Air Motors his factory needed, its production capacity alone was already far from enough to meet his factory's needs. His factory required no small number of motors every day. What was more, judging from what he could tell, Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory did not have any other models of Air Motors yet. This disappointed him somewhat.
"Boss Jin, our Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory currently only has this one type of Air Motor, and even the output of this model is not high. If you need other models of Air Motors, you'll have to wait a while. Before the end of this year, we should be able to produce other models of motors," Zhang Yi answered.
When Zhang Yi had registered the patent for this motor, he had registered an entire series of models, including miniature, small, medium, large, and even extra-large motors. Of course, the most important thing was the internal structure.
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