"You are so frugal." The chief director glanced at the lighter in Zhang Yanming's hand, praised with a smile, reached out to take the lighter from Zhang Yanming's hand and pulled it a few times: "This thing is not common."

Although IMCO is the oldest lighter in the world, the inventor and manufacturer of the first lighter in the world, and its products are everywhere, it is not a luxury product, and its products are not famous for their expensiveness.

Zhibao (fuel) and Dupeng (gas) have already become popular in China. Starting from three to four thousand, one is not new, and tens of thousands of dollars are not new. It is the standard for successful people.

In front of the famous Zhibaoxiang copper and the exquisite and golden Du Peng, IMCO looks like an ugly duckling. The price is even more different. There is no sale in China at this moment.

But it is definitely not impossible. On the contrary, the popularity rate is quite high, especially in rural areas. Because the lighter factories in my country were basically imitated IMCO.

The reason for this is that IMCO has a great influence, low cost, easy operation, and extremely low production difficulty. It is an outstanding representative of being simple and easy to use.

During World War I and World War II, its figure appeared all over the world and became a spoil and souvenir for many people.

Although Zhibao followed Amilika's army to the whole world, in fact, even in Amilika's army, Zhibao's usage rate is not as high as IMCO. The failure rate is so low that it is outrageously low.

Then these lighters followed the veterans back to all directions. I used them after my son and continued to use them, and they remained the same for decades. If it were Zhibao Dubeng, it would not be possible to catch fire.

The older generation, especially cadres, have basically used or been exposed to IMCO.

"It's not a frugality, and I'm not a cheap one. I grew up at my grandma's house when I was a child. My grandfather had one, which was also a toy from my childhood. No matter how I tinkered with it, I couldn't break it, so I just kept on fire.

At that time, my grandparents used it to smoke, cook, burn wasteland, and work. They remembered it deeply and were familiar with it. In 1998, when I was in Lion City, I bought a few of them when I saw someone selling commemorative money.

It’s no longer popular now, and everyone thinks it is ugly and worthless. It seems that it can’t be seen in domestic shopping malls.

My dad and I are the only ones at home, and my brother and I have changed a long time ago."

"I also have one in my family, which was issued by the organization back then. The imported goods were not the batches we produced by ourselves." The chief director rubbed his fingers a few times and returned the lighter to Zhang Yanming.

I have imitated IMCO in China and I have also imitated Zhibao. It has been sold in cooperatives in the past. It was considered a high-end product at that time, and it costs two or three yuan. The cadres basically supply it.

"Have you been a soldier?"

"How many of us at our age have never been a soldier? At that time, the cadres were basically all officers and few political workers, and they were all treasures. I won't talk about these things anymore.

You are young and have a lot of thoughts, and you don't think less than the old guys like us.

It is good to be stable, but there is no need to be so careful.

The times are progressing and the country is progressing. We are still very enlightened and can be regarded as being able to keep up with development.

Where funds are needed now, to develop, we must first develop foundations, roads, bridges, airports, railways, communications, logistics, transportation, shipbuilding and ports, oil industry, power industry, light industry and heavy industry, and it is impossible to fall into any of them.
Chapter completed!