Chapter 7: Finding an Entry Point

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  Of course, from the root cause, the nature of melamine and dicyandiamide incidents are different.

  The Sanlu milk scandal was a case of milk adulteration in China, where dairy farmers and unscrupulous salesmen added water and melamine to raw milk to deceive buyers about its quality and increase profits.

  The dicyandiamide incident was a response by New Zealand dairy farmers to prevent nitrate residues from fertilizers entering waterways and causing large-scale pollution, by spraying the pasture with a fertilizer containing dicyandiamide. This eliminated the nitrate risk but resulted in small residues of dicyandiamide remaining, which then entered the cows' stomachs along with the pasture.

  This part of the residual dicyandiamide finally reflected in the detection results of dairy products including pure milk and milk powder.

  Of course, no matter which one, it has a great impact on consumers' confidence in infant milk powder and other dairy products.

  Sun Zesheng's first thought was whether it is possible to find a technology that can make harmless treatment of pasture, improve the quality of pasture, and then improve the quality of dairy products including milk powder and fresh milk.

  The simplest way to achieve this is through precision agriculture.

  Sun Zesheng analyzed the technologies related to precision agriculture in Tianji Star 3000 and found that it's not easy to make money from these technologies.

  Each of these technologies is a large-scale system engineering, involving satellite positioning systems, remote sensing and sensor detection systems, geographic information systems, computer automatic control systems and other fields.

  The Tianji Xing 3000 has a complete set of precision agriculture solutions, but if he takes them out, there is no way to clearly explain their origin, and the risk of selling the entire system for money is not small.

  Moreover, precision agriculture originated in the United States. In the 1970s and 1980s, the US began to actively and steadily promote precision agriculture among its two million farmers nationwide.

  New Zealand is also a developed country, and the development of precision agriculture in this country is also very good. Although it is several generations behind the technology related to Tianji Xing 3000, they do not have an urgent need for relevant technologies.

  Shortly after the dicyandiamide contamination issue broke out, New Zealand's Ministry of Primary Industries announced to the outside world that no residues of dicyandiamide were detected in subsequent batches of milk powder produced by the country. These test results have also been widely recognized by the international community.

  This shows that New Zealand has a relatively complete set of mechanisms for dealing with this, and it's not easy for Sun Zesheng to sell his precision agriculture to New Zealand.

  Sun Zesheng retreated and sought secondary, and turned his attention to fertilizers. Tianji Star 3000 storage has a lot of advanced fertilizer formulations, from chemical fertilizers, organic fertilizers, to microbial fertilizers, numerous, numbering in the thousands.

  However, after comprehensive evaluation, Sun Zesheng gave up the idea of selling fertilizer to New Zealanders or other foreign companies. China's fertilizer industry is at a significant disadvantage compared to Western countries, and China's demand for fertilizers is extremely large. If they really provide advanced fertilizer formulas to Westerners, in the end, it will be the Chinese who lose out. In other words, Sun Zesheng would be giving away a hen that lays golden eggs for nothing, which doesn't make sense.

  Sun Zesheng kept flipping through the vast, advanced technologies stored in Tianji Star 3000 until his eyes felt a bit sore, at which point he finally stopped moving his fingers on the light screen of Tianji Star 3000.

  On the light screen was a picture of an instrument that was slightly longer than an ordinary mobile phone. Sun Zesheng's eyes lit up, it was the one.

  It is unrealistic to take out the most advanced generation of such instruments, it exceeds modern technology too much, and there is no way to produce them under current technological level.

  Sun Zesheng searched again on Tianji Star 3000 and finally found a similar product that is closer to the current production conditions. The volume of this product is much larger than that of a mobile phone, roughly equivalent to the size of a computer case, square in shape, with a silver-gray shell, giving people a very solid and reliable feel.

  Sun Zesheng chose this device, on the one hand, because its market prospects are good, and on the other hand, also because the technical difficulty of realizing it is not particularly great. Even a college student can develop similar products if they use sharp observation skills and a bit of luck. At most, the function may not be as complete and perfect as this device he came up with.

  With the lessons of his past life, Sun Zesheng would not take out those advanced technologies that could bring huge benefits and entanglements too early. He prioritized choosing things that fit his current identity.

  These days, whether at home or abroad, it's nothing new for university students to come up with something innovative and then sell it or start a company.

  The device Sun Zesheng took out might be dazzling among the inventions that university students could come up with, but it's also limited and won't attract too much attention. As for those who dream of getting rich overnight and think they can get a piece of the action just because there's a fat profit to be made, they probably wouldn't be interested in this device either.

  Sun Zesheng is going to take advantage of this misconception that people have accumulated over the years, and make some money without drawing too much attention.

  After selecting this technology, Sun Zesheng faced the problem of how to cash out the technology.

  Sun Zesheng, after careful consideration, ordered Tianji Star 3000 to produce a perfect and convincing document for him, in other words, to fabricate one.

  This involves data collection, drafts, calculation notes, original manuscripts, computer chat records and so on. At the same time, these things need to be arranged in a reasonable chronological order, which is not something that ordinary people can do, but for Tianji Xing 3000, it's just a piece of cake.

  It's better to be prepared for the worst-case scenario, even if it may not happen. Making preparations in advance will prevent panic and exposure of weaknesses when the unexpected happens.

  While Tianji Star 3000 was handling things, Sun Zesheng logged on to the internet again and started searching. This time, he had two tasks: one was to find a suitable processing plant that could help him manufacture the instruments he wanted to sell, and the other, which was the most important, was to find a suitable buyer so that he could sell his goods and obtain a substantial amount of funds.

  Time is tight and tasks are heavy.

  Looking for a factory in another place to do OEM, it's definitely not possible. Fortunately, the city where Sun Zesheng is located is a prefecture-level city. In the early years, the state had built a batch of state-owned enterprises here, and after the reform and opening up, these state-owned enterprises went bankrupt or closed down. However, there are still a few that have adapted to the market rules and are still doing well, including one that is engaged in high-tech industry in the traditional sense.

  Sun Zesheng wrote down the company's address and planned to visit them the next day to ask for their help in processing that instrument.

  The next morning, Sun Zesheng told his parents that he was going to play with his classmates and left the house. He first ran to a nearby bank and withdrew some money from an outdoor ATM machine. Then, he found a printing shop that could print engineering drawings and asked them to help him print out the design papers.

  The drawings include overall assembly drawings and part drawings, as well as detailed process files, which are thick when printed out.

  The shop owner was a middle-aged woman in her forties, and she joked with Sun Zesheng, "Young man, you're quite capable, so young and already making inventions."

  Sun Zesheng smiled and said, "It's nothing, just nonsense, don't mind it."

  "You're quite a talker, young man. When you settle the bill later, I'll take care of it and have the change waived for you," said the middle-aged woman with a smile.

  Half an hour later, Sun Zesheng came out of the printing shop with a bound document and hailed a taxi on the side of the road. "Take me to the Patent Office."

  Arriving at the patent office, Sun Zesheng inquired and only then learned that the city's patent office did not have the authority to accept patent applications. He would need to go to Yanjing or the provincial patent office. If this was too far, there was a local company specializing in applying for patents on behalf of others. If all else failed, he could apply online through the national intellectual property rights bureau's website.

  He got the address and phone number of that patent agency from the Patent Office, and Sun Zesheng hurried over.

  Intellectual property is a very complex concept, and the application of intellectual property rights is an extremely delicate matter. Sun Zesheng has always believed that "professional matters should be left to professional people", he does not plan to deal with patent applications himself, which would be time-consuming and laborious, and if he is not careful, he may fall into a patent trap, allowing others to legally bypass his patents and profit from them.

  Compared with the potential losses in the future, patent application fees and agency fees are negligible.

  The patent office recommended a regular patent agency. This company did not underestimate Sun Zesheng because of his young age. After the receptionist asked him which type of patent he wanted to apply for, she took him to an office.

  After communicating with the other party in detail, Sun Zesheng signed a patent agency application contract with the patent agency company and provided necessary and detailed patent application documents, ID card copies and other materials as required by them.

  After leaving the patent agency, Sun Zesheng let out a long sigh of relief. By this time, it was almost noon. Sun Zesheng found a restaurant nearby and ordered two dishes, a bowl of rice, and a bowl of soup to fill his stomach.

  After leaving the restaurant, Sun Zesheng hailed another taxi and headed straight to the High-tech Development Zone. The factory he was looking for was located in the middle of the zone.

  This is a national key construction enterprise, affiliated with the Huaxia Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Group. He has no idea about the outsourcing work they do or don't take on. Anyway, you have to try it out to know for sure.

  As soon as he got off the taxi, Sun Zesheng walked straight to the factory gate with his head held high and chest out. Before he even entered, the security guard poked his head out of the guard room, "Hey, that student, who are you looking for?"