Material Empire

Returning from the iron and steel factory to the agricultural machinery factory, Qin Hai went back to the bachelor building by himself, while Ning Mo and the others went directly to the workshop and began to search for scrap steel and iron, even the iron shavings and iron filings processed by the machine tool.

"Fatty, what do you want this thing for?"

The workers on the night shift in the metalworking workshop were very surprised to see Ning Mo sweeping the iron filings beside the machine tool like picking up treasures, and carefully packing them in several different boxes. It is not uncommon for factories to pick up scrap iron and steel to make various things, which can be regarded as relying on mountains and mountains. But this kind of iron filings has always been removed as garbage, and I have never seen anyone pick up such things.

Ning Mo smiled and did not answer, but asked the person who asked the question: "What kind of steel did you use for the parts you just processed?"

"What steel?" The other party was puzzled, "No. 20 chrome steel, it's written on the requisition list."

"Well, No. 20 chrome steel..." Ningmo sincerely wrote the corresponding steel number on the paper box containing the iron filings. As for what the chrome word was written on, no one knew.

Although Qingfeng Factory is just a county-level agricultural machinery factory, it has grown to a certain scale in the past 20 years. It produces various types of products, and the steel grades involved are also complicated. For example, No. 20 chrome alloy steel is used to manufacture pinions used in tractors; and chrome 12 molybdenum vanadium steel is used to process cold work molds. Ordinary workers don't care about the performance differences of these steels. They just go to the warehouse to pick up the specified grades of steel according to the process requirements, and then process them.

Qin Hai planned to make a military dagger with outstanding performance for Man Gu's nephew, but first he had to find a suitable steel material. To be excellent in terms of toughness, strength, wear resistance, etc., the steel must be some kind of alloy steel. Qin Hai has a lot of formula materials for various alloy steels in his mind, and if he picks out any one, it is much better than the common steels on the market today. To smelt this kind of alloy steel, various metal materials such as chromium, molybdenum, vanadium, nickel, etc. are needed, and in Qin Hai's current capacity, it is very difficult to obtain these raw materials.

Fortunately, Qin Hai is an eclectic person. He thought that the various alloy steels currently used in the factory contain these metal elements. If various alloy steels can be skillfully combined and smelted in one place, the result will be The kind of ultra-high-strength steel he needs.

With this in mind, he assigned Ning Mo and others the task of collecting scrap steel and iron filings in the workshop, and asked them to clearly record the steel types of these scrap steel for preparation. Ning Mo and Miao Lei went to the metalworking workshop and foundry workshop respectively to look for scrap steel. Yu Haitao was a warehouse statistician, so he took advantage of his position to collect scrap turning tools, gears and other things recycled in the warehouse. Rare metals required.

Qin Hai didn't go with Ning Mo and the others to collect scrap metal. It wasn't his specialty, and he didn't need to waste time on it. He went back to the bachelor building alone, entered his room, took out the blank paper, and began to turn the several kinds of ordnance he thought of into processing blueprints.

"Tut Tuk, Tuk Tuk." Someone knocked on the door outside, followed by Wang Xiaochen's voice: "Xiao Qin, are you back?"

Qin Hai got up and opened the door for Wang Xiaochen, let her into the room, and asked with a smile, "Is there something wrong, Xiaochen?"

Wang Xiaochen held a hot water bottle in his hand and said, "I brought an extra bottle of boiled water for you to use. You left with Ning Mo and the others after work, so you must have left the water open?"

"Thank you Xiaochen." Qin Hai quickly took the hot water bottle and thanked Wang Xiaochen.

Wang Xiaochen said: "By the way, there is one more thing to inform you. After get off work today, Section Chief Xiang, Section Chief Xiao and Section Chief Leng came to see you together. I don't know what it is. Section Chief Xiang said, You're going to work in the foundry on time tomorrow."

Qin Haidao: "I also have to go to work in the foundry. Isn't that unnecessary? However, I know what they came to find me for. It must be the high-frequency induction surfacing that I told Section Chief Leng today."

"They didn't say anything." Wang Xiaochen said. After finishing speaking, she lowered her voice a few degrees and asked, "Xiao Qin, have you heard that our factory is going to change production again."

The content of the middle-level cadre meeting in the afternoon had already spread in the Qingfeng factory before overnight. There are only 200 cadres and workers in Qingfeng Factory, and more than 30 of them are middle-level cadres. Every middle-level cadre has three or five staff friends who are close friends. After the meeting, it is natural to disclose a little or two of the content of the meeting to his friends. The result of more than 30 people disclosing the news at the same time naturally spread the news to everyone.

"Changing production? Switching to what? What does this have to do with me?" Qin Hai asked in confusion. He was dragged away by Ning Mo and the others as soon as he got off work today, and he just came back from the meeting, so he naturally didn't know about the middle-level cadre meeting.

In addition, he only reported to Qingfeng Factory yesterday, and the grievances and grievances of Qingfeng Factory in the past are quite distant things for him. In his opinion, what Qingfeng factory is willing to produce is something that the factory manager has to think about, so what does it have to do with him? He does have a lot of knowledge in material technology, but it also depends on whether the factory needs it or not. If his knowledge is not needed in the factory, then he can simply go to private work with Ning Mo and the others to earn money.

Wang Xiaochen obviously intends to have a good chat with Qin Hai about changing production, because from her point of view, she believes that the rise and fall of Qingfeng factory is directly related to her own interests, so she has been worried about this matter. She felt that Qin Hai was a cultured person with no airs and was willing to communicate with her, an ordinary flaw detector, so she really wanted to hear Qin Hai's opinion on this matter.

"Xiao Qin, you don't know." Wang Xiaochen sat down on Qin Hai's bed and said, "Our factory has changed production this time, and it's been a big one. Factory Director Wei means to completely abandon the production of agricultural machinery and switch to washing machines. "

"Changing to the washing machine?" Qin Hai saw Wang Xiaochen sitting down and knew that she was going to have a long talk with him, so he also sat down on the chair and listened patiently to Wang Xiaochen's story. Hearing Wang Xiaochen say that Qingfeng Factory plans to switch to washing machine production, Qin Hai couldn't help laughing: "Wei Baolin's head was kicked by a donkey? When is this, and switching to washing machine production, isn't this suicide?"

"Really?" Wang Xiaochen stared at Qin Hai with wide eyes, and asked in puzzlement, "Isn't it good to switch to a washing machine?"

Qin Haidao: "If it was three years earlier, it would be a good choice to switch to washing machines. Of course, the premise is that our factory can solve the supply problems of raw materials such as motors and plastics. Today, washing machines are already so popular, so we can switch to production at this time." Washing machines, that’s a dead end. Do you know how many cities across the country are building their own washing machine factories?”

"Ah!" Wang Xiaochen was dumbfounded by Qin Hai's words, "You mean, if our factory switches to washing machines, it will definitely fail, right?"

Qin Haidao: "Whether it will fail or not, no one can say for sure, but this is indeed not a good decision. According to my impression, in the past two years, a large number of home appliance companies have been launched across the country, including TV sets, washing machines, and refrigerators. Wait, there will be a surplus soon. Our factory has no advantage in this regard, if the market is surplus, the first to collapse will naturally be a factory like ours."

"Is that so?" Wang Xiaochen was thoughtful, "Today we heard middle-level cadres come back from a meeting to talk about changing the production of washing machines. Everyone said everything. Some people think that making washing machines is more profitable than making agricultural machinery, and some people think that making washing machines is more profitable than making agricultural machinery. I think our factory may not be able to make washing machines, but no one thinks like you."

Qin Hai smiled slightly without explaining. At that time, China was still a country with a shortage of materials. People only thought about whether they could make things, and never considered whether they could sell them. And in later generations, when materials are highly abundant, selling things becomes more important than making things.

Qin Hai was able to plan ahead and think about the crisis of oversupply in the washing machine market, all because he was a traveler from later generations. If he didn't have such a foresight, he might be like the cadres and workers of Qingfeng Factory, who would only limit his thinking to the issue of production capacity.

"Qin Hai, please tell Factory Director Wei about your thoughts, and tell him not to make washing machines." Wang Xiaochen begged, she was really worried about the future of the factory. She could understand the reasons Qin Hai said, and she felt that if Qin Hai explained these reasons to Wei Baolin, Wei Baolin would definitely realize the risk of switching to washing machines and change this wrong decision.

Qin Hai thought to himself: After all, Wang Xiaochen is only a 20-year-old girl, it is too easy to think about the problem. Wei Baolin and the others have not failed to pay attention to the risks of producing washing machines. They insist on launching this idea, and I am afraid that it is more out of profit. This is not something that can be changed by just talking about it.

Thinking of this, Qin Hai shook his head and said: "I am a soft-spoken person. It seems inappropriate to go to the factory manager to talk about this kind of thing? Section Chief Xiang and Section Chief Xiao are all experienced people. Couldn't they have thought of this? ?”

Wang Xiaochen said: "I don't know if they have thought of this, but I talked to several masters about this matter today, and none of them mentioned this, only you Xiao Qin thought of it. Oh, if it is true As your little Qin said, then our factory will be in trouble."

Qin Haidao: "Meat eaters should seek advice, this kind of thing is not something we small workers can worry about."

Wang Xiaochen was also a little depressed. She stood up and walked out, saying, "Well, okay...Xiao Qin, you should rest early."

"Okay, Xiaochen walk slowly." Qin Hai said.

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