Material Empire

It was also a helpless move for Qin Hai to let his father contract the Baihe Agricultural Machinery Repair Factory. Although individuals are allowed to set up businesses in this era, issues such as the size of the business and the number of employees are extremely complicated and sensitive. It is said that some old men took the 1840 edition of the revolutionary mentor classics for research and found that private companies employing more than seven people belong to capitalist production relations, and they must be strictly guarded against, but it does not matter if they employ less than seven people. Qin Hai didn't have such a strong nerve to entangle with others on such policy issues, so he could only find ways to avoid them.

Contracting a township enterprise is the most effective way to circumvent the policy. The development of township enterprises is strongly advocated by the central government and will not involve policy restrictions. As for the so-called contracting, everyone at the township level knows it well, and they know that it is nothing more than putting a collective cloak on private enterprises. All business activities of such contracting enterprises are decided by the contractors, and they are responsible for their own financial profits and losses. What the township government has to do is to collect a certain management fee.

With such a policy loophole, Qin Hai would be a fool if he didn't take advantage of it. He understands very well that all these policy restrictions are only temporary, and in another 10 years, everything will become clear, and then it will not matter what to do. When he returned home last time, he asked his father to find out what companies in the town could be contracted to. This time he really got the order for the military shovel, and he did not hesitate to repair the non-existent Baihe Agricultural Machinery. The factory has packaged it up.

After completing the contracting procedures, Qin Hai drove straight to Hongze without delay, went to the provincial military region, and handed over the relevant materials to Ge Dongyan. After Ge Dongyan received the materials, he immediately handed them over to Yue Guoyang. Yue Guoyang called Company A to transfer the advance payment for the military shovel to the account of Baihe Agricultural Machinery Repair Factory. In this way, the working capital needed by Qin Hai to produce the military shovel was guaranteed.

During this period, Qin Hai also went to the middle school in the town, took out the school status information of his younger sister Qin Shan, and planned to transfer Qin Shan to Pingyuan to go to middle school. His purpose for doing this is twofold. One is that Qin Shan can take care of her father in life after she passes away, and the other is that Qin Shan will be in the second year of high school after school starts. Qin Hai plans to personally guide her younger sister in school so that her grades will be better Improved significantly.

After everything was settled, Qin Hai drove Qin Minghua and Qin Shan back to Pingyuan.

"Brother, is this our factory?"

When the jeep drove into the gate of Pingyuan Iron and Steel Factory, Qin Shan poked her head out of the car window, looked at everything in the factory curiously, and asked Qin Hai cheerfully.

The Pingyuan Iron and Steel Factory has been abandoned for many years, the buildings are already dilapidated, and the surrounding area is full of weeds. Although Ning Mo and others took a group of hired migrant workers to clean up for several days, the dilapidated atmosphere was still very obvious. However, in the eyes of a country girl like Qin Shan, the tall factory buildings, towering iron-making furnaces, and large pieces of scrap steel that can be seen everywhere seem so domineering, and they are far from the few small rice mills and carton factories in the town. class comparable.

She listened to her brother chatting with her father all the way, and knew that the factory they were going to would be in the hands of her father in the future, which was equivalent to their own factory. Now that the scale of the factory is so large, I can't help but feel elated.

"The back is still big." Qin Hai said to Qin Shan cheerfully while driving the car.

Qin Minghua was sitting in the front passenger seat. Although he didn't make a fuss like Qin Shan on the surface, he felt the same emotion in his heart. Is such a large factory really under his own control? Although I am only the director of the factory in name, and my precious son is the real master, this is far beyond my imagination in my dreams.

"Qin Gong is back?"

A few workers who were sitting around the road and eating lunch under the shade of a tree saw the jeep, they all stood up with their rice bowls in their hands, and greeted Qin Hai warmly.

Qin Hai parked the car beside him, jumped out of the car, and saluted everyone: "Master Qiao, Master Zhang, Master Liu..."

"Qin Gong, this is..." Qiao Changsheng saw Qin Minghua coming down from the passenger seat, and asked Qin Hai with doubts.

Qin Hai hurriedly introduced to everyone: "Masters, let me introduce to you. This is my father, named Qin Minghua. Our factory needs someone to take care of some daily administrative affairs, so I invited my father over. As the director of our factory, I hope everyone can support it.”

"Director Qin, welcome!"

"Hello, Director Qin!"

The workers greeted Qin Minghua in a chaotic manner, with enthusiastic smiles on their faces.

After these few days, the workers already knew that the reason why they were able to be hired back to work was all due to the credit of this "Qin Gong", who was the actual leader of the factory. Now that Qin Gong hired his father as the factory manager, everyone thought it was a matter of course. They even felt that it was more reliable for a middle-aged man like Qin Minghua to be the factory manager than Qin Hai.

Workers are used to obeying. It doesn't matter to them who is the factory manager, what matters is who is responsible for paying their wages. Since Qin Hai said that Qin Minghua was the director of the factory, they naturally regarded Qin Minghua as their benefactor.

Qin Minghua has made countless psychological preparations for being the factory manager, but he still feels at a loss when faced with such warm greetings from the workers. Fortunately, with the support of many years of life experience, he still did not forget to smile and shake hands with everyone under the embarrassment, and kept saying "thank you for your support" and other polite words.

"Master Qiao, I've been away for the past few days, how is the work in the workshop going?"

After everyone exchanged pleasantries with Qin Minghua, Qin Hai asked Qiao Changsheng about the production situation. He also wanted his father to get back to work as soon as possible.

Qiao Changsheng said with joy on his face, "Production has resumed. We tried to smelt two furnaces with the scrap steel in the factory, and found that all the equipment was intact. Later, when the master Li you invited came, he guided us to make Refining has taught us a lot of knowledge, and we all suddenly realized that our Pingyuan Iron and Steel Plant was a waste of steel in the past..."

"Wait, what did you just say, Master Li?" Qin Hai was a little puzzled.

Qiao Changsheng also said in surprise: "Isn't it the steel-making master you invited from Hongze? It's called... It's called Li Han..."

"His name is Li Linguang, Master Li, and he has two young apprentices with him." A worker with a good memory reminded him.

"Li Linguang..." Qin Hai stroked his forehead with his hands, I sell cakes, why did Li Linguang come here by himself, and even pretended to be Master Li. However, if you think about it carefully, with Li Linguang's temper, it's really not a strange thing to pretend to be a steelmaker like this.

"What about others?" Qin Hai couldn't help asking.

"Isn't that coming?" Everyone pointed in one direction.

Qin Hai turned his head to look, and saw a middle-aged man in white work clothes leading two young men in work clothes walking in this direction, the middle-aged man said something to the two young men while walking, The two young men nodded desperately, very respectful.

"This is all the knowledge I told you when you were a sophomore. How come you forget it all in practice? Today's furnace of steel, you can tell from the color that the deoxidation is not sufficient. You are still in a hurry to tap the steel... Come back tonight After the dormitory, turn out all the textbooks on electric furnace steelmaking, and read the contents of Chapter 5 carefully."

From a distance of more than ten steps, Qin Hai could hear the angry voice of the middle-aged man. This was clearly Li Linguang giving students a professional practice class.

"Master Li, come over here. Mr. Qin is back and brought our factory manager Qin." Several workers shouted to Li Linguang together. It seems that Li Linguang has become very familiar with the workers these two days. He has no barriers.

"Oh, Qin Gong, you're back." Li Linguang raised his eyes to see Qin Hai, stepped forward quickly, and said to Qin Hai in a funny tone.

Qin Hai took a serious look at the overalls on Li Linguang's body, and saw the word "Honggang" faintly on the left chest, and knew that it was the clothes of Hongze Iron and Steel Works. Steel workers have special protective clothing when operating in front of the furnace, and ordinary work clothes after leaving the furnace. I don't know when Li Linguang's work clothes were obtained from Hongze Iron and Steel Works. Judging from the color, it must be at least 10 years old.

"What should I call you?" Qin Hai asked Li Linguang with a smile.

"Just call me Master Li, that's what they all call me." Li Linguang smiled and pointed at the crowd, and casually took a cigarette handed over by a worker, and clipped it to his ear. This natural and impeccable movement makes people really mistake him for an old worker who has worked in the factory for half his life.

"Let me introduce it to you." Qin Hai would not let Li Linguang always play tricks like this. He pulled Li Linguang to his side and said to everyone: "This is Professor Li Linguang from the Metallurgy Department of Anhe Institute of Technology, who specializes in steelmaking. Yes. Let's put it this way, there are not many experts in the world who are more capable than Professor Li, and there are not many alive."

As soon as Qin Hai's words came out of his mouth, the workers were all startled, their eyes widened, and they looked at Li Linguang, and couldn't believe it was true.

"What, Professor!"

"Ah, Master Li is a professor?"

"I really can't tell... no wonder you are so capable."

Everyone talked a lot, and a worker who was going to pass the fire to Li Linguang also stopped, until the fire on the match burned his finger, he screamed and threw the match away.

"Uh...don't be like this, everyone. Don't listen to Xiao Qin's nonsense. I'm just an ordinary teacher who teaches steelmaking. You can just call me Master Li. Professors and everything are fools and fools. "Like a naughty child whose disguise was exposed, Li Linguang said to everyone repeatedly with a bit of embarrassment on his face.