On June 25th, Manager Wu came to the factory. Along with Mr. Wu came a vice chairman surnamed Yang of the consortium and Mr. Sun Tongqing, the introducer of Jingang. Sun was pleased with King Kong's performance in the factory, thinking it was an honor for him.
Vice Chairman Yang presided over the management meeting. The management of the factory consists of only five people: the manager, the steward (finance, personnel), two engineers (production, technology, also workshop director), and the assistant manager (supply, sales, warehouse). The main topic of the meeting was to try to increase the output of the chemical plant. King Kong found that the plant's products are now in a seller's market, with many people waiting to buy them. Their products are truly "substitute for imports and in short supply", and there is no need for advertising at all.
The two workshops managed by King Kong saw a significant increase in production two months after King Kong took over, and Vice Chairman Yang expressed his satisfaction. But the output is still insufficient, so there is an intention to increase investment and expand production. Of course, existing equipment also needs to be tapped to increase production and improve productivity. The ultimate goal is to increase the economic efficiency of the factory.
Because of his excellent work, the higher-ups intended to have him lead Charlie Huang and manage the technology and production of the entire factory. Charlie Huang looked a little unpleased.
Vice Chairman Yang asked them to discuss how much additional investment would be needed to increase production by one and a half times. King Kongxin calculated and proposed an investment of 50,000 yuan, which would take half a year to reach full production.
Just then, Charlie Huang jumped out and said it was impossible. He has data on the prices of imported equipment in various countries, even if he buys Czech stuff (cheaper?) It's more than 70,000 yuan! And orders, equipment production, delivery to the country, and final installation and commissioning are all within a year! Mr. Light is just talking nonsense!
King Kong offered an investment of 50,000 yuan at the price of its own production equipment in Shanghai, with a lot of leeway. After hearing Charlie Huang's words, King Kong said he could take over the factory.
"What does contracting mean?"
King Kong explained that he was supposed to manage the factory and he was guaranteed to complete the tasks mentioned earlier. If the target is not met, he will take responsibility; If he meets or exceeds the target, he will share it with the company.
The working efficiency of the Meiya Consortium is really high: just two days later, the company agreed to King Kong's proposal. At the same time, Manager Wu and Charlie Huang were transferred to another factory. On the third day, the first additional investment of 20,000 yuan was credited to the factory's account.
King Kong has money!
The debt of the ceramics factory is over two hundred and thirty yuan, and the existing porcelain clay and products are worth five hundred and fifty yuan. After negotiating, King Kong gave the owner 1,800 yuan and bought the ceramics factory. It was equivalent to spending more than 1,560 yuan on the factory's equipment and factory buildings. The land of the ceramics factory was rented, the factory buildings were bamboo sheds, and the production equipment was mainly two kilns.
The money for the purchase of the ceramics factory was taken from the chemical plant in the form of equipment deposits.
The owner of the ceramics factory was about to go back to Jingdezhen with the money, and King Kong asked him to help contact the purchase of porcelain clay so that he could get a commission.
He changed the name of the ceramics factory to "Keyi Chemical Company". He stopped making bowls and jars and switched to making ceramic tubes and valve cores. Contact the machinery factory to make the valve body.
Existing ceramic kilns must be improved and the temperature should be measured with instruments. Order platinum-铹 platinum thermocouples from Germany. Expensive, and according to the instructions, it's a manual bridge balance type! It's really outdated. It will take another one and a half months to arrive.
King Kong decided to install a bimetallic strip thermometer outside the kiln wall first. He made a sheet of alloy for lead type and riveted it to the copper sheet; Because the two metals have different coefficients of thermal expansion, they bend differently at various temperatures. When the deformation is amplified by a lever and transmitted to a pointer, it becomes a thermometer. Although the exact numbers are not accurate, having a basis is much better than looking with the eyes or estimating with experience.
At the same time, King Kong made fiberglass production equipment. He produced the glass fiber using a crude "clay crucible production process". He made glass balls by melting broken glass collected from scrap stores with an appropriate amount of kaolin as raw material; The glass fiber was drawn out of a leaky plate made of heat-resistant ceramic. Although the quality of the glass fibre is a bit poor, it still allows King Kong to produce glass fibre reinforced ceramics.
With the glass fiber reinforced ceramics, medium-pressure reaction tanks can be produced. In this way, the entire set of chemical equipment can basically be produced in-house, except for mechanical processing and motors, which need to be outsourced and purchased.
Dalong was a mechanical enthusiast, so King Kong brought him to the ceramics factory. He was immediately drawn to the technology and came to work here every day. King Kong handed over the production of fiberglass to him.
Under the lead of Tian Jiawang, King Kong came to the "Jinxin Machinery Factory" where many of his fellow apprentices were. The crude mechanical processing equipment in Shanghai at that time also gave King Kong a fright: the mechanical factory used crude belt-driven lathes, and flat belts! Not V-belts. Two sets of tower pulleys and one flat belt are the belt speed control device for the lathe.
The large belt pulley set, which is as tall as a person, is right beside the operator and does not need to be covered by a belt guard, and the worker's hand could be drawn in at any time. When asked why he doesn't use a safety cover, the worker retorted, "What body needs a cover? I haven't heard about it. And cover up and speed up to avoid bento."
King Kong even saw workers, in a rush to save time, using their hands to adjust the speed of a still-rotating belt without turning off the motor! The workers thought they were "clever and bold" and were very proud of it. It really reflects the "Great Chinese people are not afraid of death" at that time!
Such a lathe! Such an operation! If King Kong were not in this time and space, he would never have imagined it!
King Kong's salary is three hundred and eighty dollars a month as Manager Wu did before! The standard of food at home has been raised again!
At that moment, someone came to give him money again! Dr. Hans had a friend named Ryan who was a doctor at the big hospital, Guangci Hospital. There was a young man in the hospital who had a high fever that wouldn't subside for several days and was on the verge of death. Hans said King Kong had a miraculous medicine, and the patient's father immediately drove a car and came with Hans to look for King Kong. King Kong took Amor Xianlin and got into the car to Guangci Hospital on Father King Road.
The doctors at Guangci Hospital had no faith in the doctors of Dahua Land and traditional Chinese medicine, but for the sake of Hans and his friend Dr. Ryan, and because they had basically sentenced the patient to death, after emphasizing responsibility to the patient, they allowed the patient to use this "folk medicine". A dead horse treated as a living horse doctor.
After arriving at Guangci Hospital, King Kong was certain that this would later become Ruijin Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in Shanghai. So Father Jin Road was later Ruijin 2nd Road?
At that time, the bacteria had poor drug resistance, and antibiotics were effective. The patient's fever subsided in one day, and the inflammation subsided in three days after taking the medicine. The family offered a thousand dollars to Dr. Xu to accept with a smile, and even the introducer Hans gave him a reward.
The patient ate three pills in total, one pill a day, divided into four doses. A box of 24 Amoxianlin costs just a few yuan, but now one-eighth of a box is sold for a thousand yuan!
King Kong counted that he had brought three boxes of amoxicillin and one box of cefradine (cephalosporin) to Shanghai. And remember that in the ceramic balls in Quzhou, there were several times the amount he had brought from Shanghai, he got rich!
King Kong took Erlong to Shanghai Jiao Tong University again, wanting to find out which army his brother Li Jingru was in, but no one knew.
In the campus, King Kong heard several students Shouting and cursing, cursing another student group, cursing the Party branch of the university. It was said that the silk factory workers' night school they had arranged was snatched away by another student group. It turns out there were two unions at the factory! Two student groups each contacted one of them. In the end, the two unions negotiated with the workers to run only one night school, and they wasted their contact. "There's no way around it. After all, they have the backing of the school party!" One student said.
Two sides competing for business? King Kong went over and asked how much they would pay to teach the workers. No money! Not a penny! Completely free!
What a group of good young people, good students! Teach the workers for free and compete to go.
The students were overjoyed to hear that King Kong was the manager of the American Asia Chemical Plant and was planning to set up a workers' night school for the workers there! King Kong did have such an intention, but he was afraid that it would be too expensive to consult a teacher, so he did not carry it out for the time being.
Looking at the appearance of college students now, not only does King Kong not have to pay, but it's also possible for students to give him some money instead. King Kong proposed to set up a daytime school for the children of the "rickshaw workers", and also invited college students to be teachers. The students agreed, but they didn't take a penny. But they can't go every day. Ok, go and teach when you have time, and study on your own when you don't.
These students are just a group formed by a few more progressive students. A small group that wants to learn from each other and do more for this disaster-stricken country. No party affiliation.
In addition to the "Xishan Conference Faction", "Reorganization Faction" and "Ning faction" (Jiang Zhongcai faction) in the Congress Party, there are also factions among those who are all "Ning faction", which is very complicated! Some students are disgusted by the power struggles and the fighting among themselves and do not want to join the Congress Party.
Most of the labor Party members in Shanghai were young students, but they had gone underground at that time and not in large numbers, after all, if caught, they would be beheaded!
But many of the college students at that time had the spirit of taking the world as their own responsibility, and it was also advocated by many schools that they would enter society and transform it with practical actions. So there were quite a lot of small groups like this society and that society in schools. Many people have the idea of doing more for the nation.
A passionate young man! King Kong, who was once a college student, feels ashamed: when he was a college student, people's awareness was not so high.
At that time, the traditional influence of Confucianism still lingered, and many people who were called intellectuals had a bit of the spirit of taking the world as their own responsibility. At that time, as long as it was a primary school graduate (called: high school graduate!) It was considered an intellectual.
Two college students, one named Zhao Zhigao and the other named Qian Guochen, often came to teach the factory workers and his children.
They taught more than just the thirteen children of the King Kong family. The children of the nearby coachmen also came to listen and played with them at night until they went to sleep. King Kong asked the teacher to have lunch with the children nearby. The children in the neighborhood had no lunch at home, so they insisted on coming to study no matter how much they could learn. And my thirteen children have a sense of superiority.
At first, King Kong asked the children who didn't know his surname to take his surname Xu. Later, all thirteen of them said their surname was Xu.
The factory workers' night school was also set up. It was really hard for the workers to study at that time: the workers in the chemical plant worked in two shifts, that is, twelve hours a day. But many of the workers cherished the opportunity to study and made time to do so.
King Kong used the first batch of products from the ceramic factory: ceramic pipes and ceramic valves, to replace the pipes on the existing equipment of the chemical plant. The maintenance cycle of the equipment was greatly extended, and the output and efficiency of the chemical plant increased. Having paid for this part of the equipment from the chemical plant and handed it over to the ceramic factory, which was his own, he had more financial relief. Moreover, Yamei Company saw that the products of "Keyi Chemical Company" were of good quality and agreed to use domestic equipment with more confidence.
After selling the antibiotics for a thousand yuan, King Kong felt even more at ease. King Kong asked the children to raise their food expenses and buy furniture. He bought his own watch, which was a must-have for successful people at the time.
After estimating the potential share he might get from the chemical factory in the future, plus his current salary, King Kong must be considered a successful person at all!