Qin Hai's conversation with the workers lasted for two hours, and the information he received was mixed.
The good news is that the workers Yu Haitao and the others hired cover several key links such as steelmaking, casting, and steel rolling. By hiring at most a dozen young auxiliary workers with less technical requirements, they can complete a set of steelmaking operations.
The process was streamlined. This relieved Qin Hai from worrying about skilled workers.
In addition, these workers are also very motivated to work. Yu Haitao privately revealed to Qin Hai that they promised the workers a monthly salary of 50 yuan, which is very attractive to these retired workers.
At that time, the salary standard for ordinary workers in the factory was only 60 to 70 yuan. These retired workers themselves received a pension. If they had an additional income of 50 yuan per month, they would be in the absolute high-income class. Retired workers are faced with
Due to the financial pressure of getting married and having children, they live a tight life every day. With a job opportunity that can earn 50 yuan a month, they have no regrets even if they have to sacrifice their lives.
What makes Qin Hai feel depressed is that these workers have no awareness of steel refining at all. Their understanding of steelmaking is only at the level of opening the furnace cover, putting in the charge, and then turning on electricity and blowing oxygen. Qiao Changsheng once went to Beixi
Those who have been studying in the steel plant for a period of time still know some knowledge about reading the ingredient list, determining the slag ratio, and calculating the amount of pre-deoxidizer, but they do not know much about it. Other workers simply said that they would follow the process back then.
I seem to have heard of things like work, slag, liquid temperature, etc., but I have never understood them.
"Is this how you made steel back then?" Qin Hai couldn't believe what these people said. He even wondered if everyone was pretending to be stupid on purpose so that they could do less work.
Qiao Changsheng looked at his fellow workers, then sighed and said, "Mr. Qin, I'm not afraid of your jokes. This is how we really made steel back then. When I was at the Beixi Steel Plant, I saw that they were very particular about making steel.
, it’s this and that. But our Pingyuan Iron and Steel Plant doesn’t have this technology, so we can only follow the same example and make molten steel.”
"How do you do dephosphorization, desulfurization, deoxidation, and carbonization?" Qin Hai asked.
Qiao Changsheng said: "We asked the technician from Beixi Steel Plant to help guide us. He wrote us several methods, and we followed these methods."
Qin Haidao: "Isn't this reasonable? Different compositions of scrap steel and different carbon contents of pig iron will affect the specific operation. How can we follow a few methods and remain unchanged?"
Qiao Changsheng looked at Qin Hai, with a look of shame on his face, but he no longer defended himself.
Ning Mo said angrily at the side: "My dad said back then that Pingyuan's steel is useless at all. It's no problem to use it to weld a water tank or the like, as long as it doesn't leak. It's just slag when used to process parts. Milling
A gear broke before the teeth were milled. Because of this, my dad often fought with the factory director that Master Qiao mentioned just now."
"Director Fu is a good man." Qiao Changsheng quickly defended their old factory director, "But he is a worker and peasant cadre and does not understand technology. There is nothing he can do about steelmaking. In order to improve the quality of steel, he followed us
We spent countless nights together in the workshop, but it was of no use..."
"Yes, if there is no relevant knowledge, just wasting time is definitely useless." Qin Hai said calmly.
"Qin Gong, look at this..." Qiao Changsheng said half a sentence timidly, and waited for Qin Hai to add the rest. What he wanted to ask was, with their skills, could they reach Qin Hai's level?
The requirements. If the requirements are not met, will the promised thing be ruined? The salary of 50 yuan a month was wasted before we got it. The loss in everyone's heart is indescribable.
Qin Hai saw what Qiao Changsheng was thinking. He smiled at everyone and said, "Masters, please forgive me for saying disrespectful words. The method we used to make steel in the past is really unjustifiable. However, I don't blame you, because these
Technology should be taught to everyone by technicians. If no one teaches you, it will be a shame if you don’t know how to do it.”
"Qin Gong, tell me, what do you want us to do?" someone in the crowd asked loudly.
Qin Hai nodded firmly and said: "Of course we have to ask the masters to do it. We will never go back on what we have agreed to do. I'm just worried that the masters are afraid of difficulties and are unwilling to help us."
"Gong Qin, as long as we can do it, we are not afraid no matter how difficult it is. We are afraid that our skills are too poor and we will miss the important event of Gong Qin and Platoon Leader Ge." The workers shouted one after another.
Qin Haidao: "As long as everyone is determined, there is nothing impossible. I think so, everyone should seize the time to clean out the machinery and equipment in the past two days. Master Qiao, you and everyone will try to make two furnaces of steel first.
Find out what you feel. Next, I will give you a supplementary course on steelmaking. Sorry, I may have to ask you to be students for a few days."
"Don't be afraid, as long as we can learn it, we are willing to be Qin Gong's students," the workers said.
The workers dispersed and, under the command of Qiao Changsheng, began to clean the machinery and equipment. They were used to doing these jobs in the past, and the people who worked with them were all former workers, and they cooperated very well, so Qin Hai didn't need to do more.
Fuck your heart.
Qin Hai asked Miao Lei to stay in the workshop and work with the workers. He, Ge Dongyan, Ning Mo, and Yu Haitao walked out of the workshop and came to a shady area, where they found a few pieces of scrap steel to use as stools and sat down.
"Xiao Qin, can it be done with the skills of these workers?" Ge Dongyan, who had been silent just now, asked worriedly. He did not understand the technology of steel production, but from Qin Hai's questions and answers with the workers, he could feel that the workers
Their skills were really not that good. Most of the questions Qin Hai asked them didn't know what they meant.
Qin Haidao: "It's a little troublesome, but it's not bad enough. Who else can we count on if we don't count on them now?"
Ge Dongyan said: "If it doesn't work, let's contact some big steel mills and ask them to help."
Qin Haidao: "Platoon Leader Ge, let's not talk secretly. In our cooperation, the Provincial Military Region does not have a shareholding in name, but in fact it will be divided into dividends. This dividend is the equipment we provide to the Provincial Military Region for free. If
Let’s find a big steel mill to help, how will the money be calculated?”
"We ask them to help make steel, and we will pay them as much as they should. The payment for the military shovel is credited to your account, and isn't the remaining money your profit?" Ge Dongyan said. Although he is a soldier,
But I don’t completely understand this kind of accounting thing.
Qin Hai said: "Platoon Leader Ge made things simple. If I do this, outsiders will not see that I provide free equipment to the provincial military region. They will only see that I, Qin Hai, bought low and sold high, and made a lot of money. Anyone can
Go to the public security bureau and report me. This is a crime of speculation. When the time comes, will you bring me food?"
"Who dares to arrest you?" Ge Dongyan glared.
"What, you want to interfere in local affairs?" Qin Hai asked.
"We... can at least explain it to you." Ge Dongyan's tone softened. He also knew that what Qin Hai said was right. Qin Hai running a steel factory, no matter how much money he made, it was considered a legal business.
Income is not something others can control. But if you don’t have a factory, you have to rely entirely on buying and selling. It was indeed a very sensitive matter back then.
If someone talks crookedly, let alone Qin Hai being arrested by the Public Security Bureau, even if he is questioned by the county, it will be a huge trouble. Of course Yue Guoyang can come forward to help mediate, but this is equivalent to causing trouble for Yue Guoyang
Trouble. The military's business was a well-known secret back then, but after all, it was not appropriate to talk about it in public. Therefore, it would be better to have as little trouble as possible.
Qin Haidao: "Platoon Leader Ge, you don't have to worry. These workers are still very skilled in basic operations. What they lack is just technical guidance. I will find a way to get a group of technicians to stay in front of the furnace to provide them with real-time information."
Give me guidance."
"A group of technicians..." Ning Mo smacked her lips and wanted to say something, but finally couldn't say it.
These days, Ningmo and the others have also learned about the situation of technicians and found that hiring technicians is much more difficult than hiring workers. The number of technicians is very small, and because they are cadres, they are not as easy to hire as workers. They
After searching for so long, he still couldn't find a useful technician. Qin Hai just said "a batch of people". How domineering is this...or is it arrogance?
"Platoon Leader Ge, to start production, we need capital investment. The 2,000 yuan that Commander Yue lent me before is not enough at all. Have you brought more funds?" Qin Hai began to ask substantive questions.
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Ge Dongyan looked at Ning Mo and Yu Haitao, hesitated, and said nothing.
Qin Hai followed his gaze and looked at his friend, and then said: "Platoon Leader Ge, just tell me if you have anything to say. Fatty and Haitao and I are buddies. There is no need to hide anything about this project from them."
Hearing Qin Hai's words, Ning Mo and Yu Haitao looked at each other, and their eyes showed a bit of emotion: Qin Hai is such a loyal brother, such a big project, at least tens of thousands of profits, is actually right?
Our brothers don't hide anything. Can we find such a righteous person in the entire Pingyuan County?
Ge Dongyan also nodded, and he had a little more respect for Qin Hai's character. He said: "Xiao Qin, since you are so honest with Ning Mo and the others, I will tell you directly. The army has already paid 20 yuan in advance.
For a payment of ten thousand yuan, Commander Yue has ordered you to hurry up and open a bank account. Once it is established, he will have someone transfer the money over."