The reason why Lin Zixuan wanted to copy radio was mainly to cheat American Osbon.

Osbon is ambitious and ships a thousand radios from the United States at one time and sells them to the public at a price of 100 silver dollars each.

According to Douglas Sheila, the price of this ore radio in the United States is only 20 yuan, and the shipping fee and profit are sold in Shanghai for 40 yuan, which is considered a high price.

Osbon felt that Chinese people were not familiar with radio broadcasts and wanted to borrow new things like radio broadcasts to make a fortune.

Anyway, Lin Zixuan paid for the radio equipment, and he only sold the radio and would have at least tens of thousands of dollars in net income.

According to his idea, there are so many Chinese rich people in the Shanghai Concession, and a thousand radios can be sold easily. Once you make money, you can continue to run the radio business.

To this end, he increased his investment, advertised in English and Chinese newspapers in Shanghai, and promoted products everywhere.

Lin Zixuan has always wanted to drive Osbon away. If there were cheaper radios on the market, Osbon's radio would be smashed into his hands and he would not be able to kill him.

Moreover, cheap radios are conducive to the popularization of radios among the people of Shanghai, otherwise the radio will only become a toy for high-ranking officials and cannot play a role in publicity.

In China, there are also places to cultivate radio talents.

In 1913, the Beijing Transportation Training Institute began to train radio telephone broadcasting talents, establishing Class A of Advanced Electrical Engineering, Class B of Advanced Electrical Engineering, and Radio Crash Class.

In 1917, the Beijing Post and Telecommunications School, the Army’s Radio Coaching Office in 1919, and in 1921, Shanghai Jiaotong University, etc., they also trained radio telephone broadcasting talents.

By the end of 1922, China had trained more than 500 radio talents.

Of course, most of these talents work in relevant government departments, but there are still many amateur radio enthusiasts.

Lin Zixuan found a graduate from Tongji University in Shanghai, named Su Chugui.

Su Chugui was born in 1900. His ancestral home is Yongding, Fujian. He graduated from the Department of Mechanical Sciences of Tongji University in 1921. He likes to study radio technology in his spare time.

He saw news from the radio station in the newspaper that Shanghai Vientiane Radio Station will broadcast to the whole city by the end of November.

This radio station was jointly organized by Vientiane Bookstore and Oriental Radio Company of the United States. He came to Vientiane Bookstore with a try-out attitude, hoping to recommend himself and participate in the construction of China's first radio station.

Unexpectedly, Lin Zixuan gave him an ore radio and asked him if he could assemble it himself.

This was the first time Su Chugui saw the radio. Although it was his first contact, it was not difficult for him. He disassembled it several times and felt that as long as there were parts, there was no problem with assembly.

Ore radios are not as complex as electronic tube radios. They use common radio components on the market. They are relatively simple to assemble and do not have much technical difficulty.

Lin Zixuan asked him to estimate the price of the parts, which was about 30 silver dollars.

These parts are not produced in China and can only be imported from abroad through foreign companies. The only difference is that they are assembled in China, saving labor and freight. If you want to reduce the price, you need to start with the domestic production of parts.

Even so, if an ore radio sells 40 silver dollars, it will have a higher profit.

Lin Zixuan and Su Chugui discussed that he paid for importing parts from foreign banks, and Su Chugui organized manpower to assemble them, and the profits obtained by both parties were divided into 64.

In this business, Lin Zixuan did not intend to make money, mainly because he wanted to deal with Osbon.

After Su Chenggui returned home, he mobilized his brothers and sisters to form a family-style small workshop, and since then he embarked on a road of copycat radio.

He was not satisfied with copying ore radio, but was also preparing to study electronic tube radio.

So, Yamei Radio Co., Ltd. was established like this.

American Osbon overestimated the enthusiasm of Chinese rich people for radio. Chinese people have always been conservative. They don’t even know what radio broadcasts are, so how could they spend money to buy them?

Only those rich young men in foreign fields are interested in this kind of new thing and don’t care about money. In half a month, Osbon sold about 400 radios.

Although the craze for buying ten thousand people in Osbon's fantasy has not arrived, his current performance has also made him very rewarding.

He believed that with the start of the radio, these Chinese people saw the wonders of radio broadcasting and would definitely come to buy his radio, so he decided to use the money to transport a batch of radios from the United States.

Osbon is a salesman. He understands that once he finds that the radio is profitable, other foreign companies in the Shanghai Concession will also intervene in the radio business. At that time, the competition will be fierce and the prices will inevitably drop.

So, he wants to seize the initiative.

To be honest, Osbon doesn't care much about what programs the radio broadcasts. As long as the radio station can make a sound, someone will come to buy his radio.

He thought of leaving after making a vote.

Osbon doesn't care, but Lin Zixuan can't ignore it.

He asked the technicians that due to the use of materials in the equipment, the radio station could not broadcast all day. After using it for a long time, the machine would heat up and even burn out the equipment. It should not exceed five hours a day.

This is already the limit.

Lin Zixuan arranged for a while to play storytelling or opera one hour in the morning, music two hours in the afternoon, and newspapers or stories one hour in the evening.

In this way of programming, it is a completely non-profit radio station.

Lin Zixuan also has a profitable plan, but he is unwilling to take it out now. After driving Osbon out, he can switch the music to a radio song ordering program.

You can order songs and send blessings to your loved ones, whether it is birthday, farewell, or praying for illness, it can be broadcast on the radio station for just one dollar.

This program is definitely in line with the tastes of those rich young men in the foreign market. Such high-end, elegant and upscale confession methods are so expensive that it seems to become a fashion.

Moreover, you can also add advertisements.

This requires waiting until the radio is popular before advertisers will come to you. It doesn’t matter, he can spend twenty minutes a day promoting new movies from celebrity film companies.

On November 13, 1922, Lin Zixuan attended a dinner party of teachers at Shanghai University.

In the spring of 1922, Pastor Wang Litang established the Southeast Higher Normal College in Qingyunfang, Qingdao Road, Zhabei, Shanghai with the call of promoting new culture.

However, the principal Wang Litang was greedy for money and was not moral and ran the school to enrich his personal pockets, which led to the inability of salaries of faculty and staff and the inability of students to provide food, which led to a "demonic trend".

After Wang Litang left the school in shame, the students asked to renovate the school in order to continue their studies.

On October 1922, under the promotion of Sun Zhongshan and Chen Duxiu, the Southeast College Normal School was reorganized into Shanghai University and invited Yu Youren to serve as the president.

The school building is more than 10 2-story building in the old Shikumen.

Cai Yuanqi, Wang Jingwei, Zhang Taiyan, Zhang Jingjiang and others served as school directors, Shao Liwei's name was vice president, and Deng Zhongxia was appointed as general affairs director.

The first batch of students was only more than 100, and Lin Zixuan was hired as a visiting professor in the Department of Chinese Literature of Shanghai University.
Chapter completed!