In a huge factory building outside the city of Xuzhou, several middle-aged and elderly people were gathering together. The leader was a man in his 60s. He was sitting at the top with his eyes slightly closed, while the people below were also sitting with frowns on their faces.
Outside the house where these people were located was a huge factory building, and several huge chimneys could be seen rising into the clouds, spewing thick smoke, and the smell of coal was flowing in the air.
Through one of the huge factory buildings, you can see red molten iron splashing inside. Workers wearing thick protective clothing are operating machinery to pour molten iron into the mold tank. After a while, the still red iron blocks appear.
, judging from the shape, it should be the steel product with the greatest demand these days: rails!
But after a while, a middle-aged man came forward with a few people to check, and after a while, he frowned, and then sighed!
The middle-aged man then walked out of the factory, entered a nearby three-story building, went directly to the second floor and opened the door of the conference room.
When this man opened the door, several men in the conference room looked at him. Immediately, a man in his thirties, wearing the professional attire commonly worn by professionals these days, stood up: "Old Lin, how are you?
, is the sample qualified?”
The middle-aged man shook his head, then showed a hint of embarrassment and said with a slightly guilty expression: "Lin's abilities are limited. I am afraid that I will let everyone down. This batch of samples still cannot meet the quality standards!"
Immediately, the white-haired member Zhao who was sitting on top said immediately: "I can't blame you for this. Although I am not familiar with technology, I also know that steel rails seem simple, but if you want to make them, if you want to make them well, it is extremely difficult.
Difficulty, there are countless iron factories in the world, but there are less than five fingers that can make these rails, and all of them are first-class big factories. It is reasonable for Xu Tie to want to build these rails, so it is not easy!"
At this time, an elderly man next to him also said: "Brother Zhao is right, these rails are not the ordinary pig iron rails in the early years, which are easy to forge. This steel is the latest technical standard proposed by Datang Railway Corporation. If you want to make it,
Extremely difficult.
Although our Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company is a big factory here in Jiangbei, looking at the world, our Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company is only a medium-sized iron factory. It is normal that it takes some time to overcome the rail difficulties!"
Then he looked at Mr. Lin and said: "Gong Lin, you are a top student from the Royal Institute of Technology, and you are one of the earliest batch of top students. You have a lot of talent and learning. Although you have encountered setbacks for a while now, I believe that in some time, you will be able to succeed."
Those who can overcome this steel difficulty!"
"Yes, although steel is extremely difficult, it represents the future. In the past two years, the railway company has become increasingly demanding on the quality of the rails. The ordinary pig iron rails in the early years have been completely abandoned. Now
Already only wrought iron is used, but ordinary wrought iron rails also have quite a few shortcomings. Otherwise, the railway company would not have started experimenting with rails on a small scale.
In the next few years, the world will inevitably be dominated by steel rails. Whether it is pig iron, wrought iron in the past, or even ordinary steel, I am afraid that it will be eliminated one by one, and then this special rail will be fully adopted.
This special rail represents the future, and no matter how difficult it is, we at Xutie must take it down!"
Then these people started talking to each other again and began to discuss how to solve the current technical problems. However, the others were the administrative and financial executives of Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company. For technical problems, they could only say that
It's just a few professional terms. It won't work if you really let them engage in technology.
The technical problems of Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company have always been the responsibility of the company's chief engineer Lin Puxiang. This Lin Puxiang is actually not a simple character. He was born as an orphan. He entered the Young Army Camp in his early years and later entered the Young Army Camp General Camp.
, later the military camp was reorganized, and he became one of the first students of the Royal Institute of Technology, and studied in the Department of Materials, specializing in steel.
However, although this person is not simple, he still has no way to get ahead in the Royal Institute of Technology where geniuses are everywhere. After failing to pass the junior promotion exam for several consecutive years, he became one of the many Royal Institute of Technology dropouts.
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Later, he entered the Imperial College to teach, but soon he got together with several people who were interested in entering the steel industry and established the Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company. When Lin Puxiang established the Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company with them, he had no money.
Out, relying on what I learned, I occupied 28% of the shares.
You must know that the first phase of investment accounted for 300,000 yuan. Later, there were multiple financings. Now Lin Puxiang still holds more than 20% of the shares in Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company, but
Today, the market value of Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company has reached nearly one million.
Therefore, Lin Puxiang is not only the chief engineer of Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company, but also one of its shareholders.
However, after the meeting, Lin Puxiang seriously considered another issue on his way back!
Although others may not know it yet, Lin Puxiang knows that his talents and knowledge can no longer support the technical needs of Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company, which is getting bigger and bigger and has higher and higher technical requirements.
Although he is one of the earliest students at the Royal Institute of Technology, being "the first" is an honor, but from a technical perspective, being the first means backwardness.
Nowadays, the development of science and technology is almost rapid. When he graduated six years ago, the steel industry was one thing, but now the steel industry is another thing.
In the past few years, a variety of alloys have appeared. Although due to technical problems, many alloy steels can only exist in laboratories and cannot be mass-produced, but this undoubtedly proves the rapid development of the steel industry.
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He, a graduate six years ago, can no longer keep up with the development of the times!
Since my own technical capabilities are insufficient, I can only find a technical expert. After all, Xuzhou Iron and Steel will always develop, including rails and even more special steel products in the future!
Otherwise, Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company can only lag behind others step by step. In the end, let alone maintain its position as a second-rate domestic steel company, I am afraid that it will soon become a third-rate or even inferior.
But it is not so easy to be a technical master!
Some of these technical personnel, especially those in the steel industry, are concentrated in several large steel companies in China, such as Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company. In addition, a considerable number are concentrated in the Royal Institute of Technology and many universities.
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Among them, those who have graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology should not expect to stay in school. Needless to say, those professors and associate professors are all too ambitious and it is impossible for them to work in a small Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company.
Those ordinary researchers, although some may resign from the Royal Institute of Technology and work outside, most of them will choose to start their own joint ventures with businessmen, or go to large companies to become technology leaders, and they will not come.
Xuzhou Iron and Steel is a second-rate steel company.
It is also very difficult to poach people from other steel industries, because the people to be poached are all technical leaders in major companies, and their incomes are already very high. If you want them to take care of the family, and also have a family.
Carrying a negative reputation for job hopping is a big price to pay, not to mention the super high salary, and the bonus of shares is also reasonable.
The only thing that is easier is to recruit people from a few universities. Most of the professors in those universities are dropouts from the Royal Institute of Technology. But even if they drop out, they are still engaged in technical research in various universities.
Unlike Lin Puxiang, too much energy was wasted by daily work matters.
Lin Puxiang began to count them one by one. After all, there were not many people who could be called technical experts in the steel industry. In fact, there were only a few dozen people.
He also had an idea of who could be poached and who couldn't. Finally, he identified a few potential targets and prepared to personally invite them to join.
When Lin Puxiang told other people in the company about this matter, others naturally would not object. How Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company was established and established a foothold in Jiangbei was based on what Lin Puxiang said at the beginning.
bring technology, so they also know the value of technical personnel.
As long as they are experts with excellent skills, they will be given shares upon arrival, regardless of their salary.
And there are definitely a lot of them, starting from 5%. When the real big guys come, they are willing to give 10% or even more.
Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company is a steel company worth more than one million yuan. This five percent share represents tens of thousands of yuan, and ten percent is worth hundreds of thousands.
In this era when the monthly salary of ordinary workers is only more than one yuan, and the basic technical managers only have a few yuan or more than ten yuan, it is only possible to hire a technical expert and directly give them shares worth hundreds of thousands of yuan. This is only possible in the current Datang Empire.
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We are now in the era of the industrial explosion, and the market potential is so great that some people have lamented that "there is money on the ground just picking it up". However, the empire's training of technical talents has always been on a small scale, and it trains top-notch people.
The only one with technical talents is the Royal Institute of Technology.
There are only so many talents from the Royal Institute of Technology who are displaced every year and are willing to work in companies. Everyone wants them. Under this inflated price, the value of these talents is naturally very high. If they don’t have the strength to bear to pay a huge price, they still have to pay a huge price.
Don't expect to hire talents from the Royal Institute of Technology.
Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company has such a tradition. If it had not attached great importance to technology research and development, it would not have been possible to become a second-rate domestic steel company from scratch in just six years.