In late November, the first dormitory building was completed. The children moved in three or four rooms, the Fu brothers and Ren Zhenyu each had a room, and King Kong occupied a suite. Finally, there was an electric light and running water in their house. And King Kong's best thing is that he finally has a flush toilet! No more stinking wooden toilets!
During the move, Amao and Ade offered to go with the gang and be treated like the Fu brothers. Since the Fu brothers did not ask for money from the East Sea Alliance and followed King Kong as guards, King Kong gave them eighty yuan a month in addition to food and accommodation. As a result, the two refused it and had to give it to Dafeng as living expenses. After declining for a long time, each of them ended up keeping 30 yuan as pocket money every month.
King Kong was also about to hire people, so he moved Amao, Ade and Aqing (Luo Qingsheng) 's families to join him.
After the second building was completed, the two apprentices from the chemical plant also moved in. In fact, they had been helping King Kong manage their new factory in Keyi, and the production at Meiya Chemical Factory was stable. They only went to have a look when the manager Sun and others came to see them for something.
Of course, the medical clinic has also been moved in. The ground floor houses along the road here are all designed to be suitable for shops. But no one has rented it except for the company's product sales department. The infirmary moved in and used a few rooms to see if it could boost the housing market?
King Kong also hired dozens of engineers and technicians, set up a technical department, and called it "Koyi Industrial Technology Research Institute". Now the proportion of college students is very small, but since there are few industrial enterprises, there are also unemployed college students, and it is not very difficult to find them. Those who come in include those who study mechanical engineering and those who study electrical engineering.
King Kong also wanted to open a watch factory. Now watches and alarm clocks are all imported and very expensive. He also wants to build a semiconductor factory, an organic factory, a welding machine factory... He would do anything that could make money.
Want to do so much? Sure, otherwise why would he hire so many engineers and technicians? ! He had the technicians work in a large office, separated by desks and partitions over a meter high. The appearance of the office in another time and space, King Kong thought this should also be his first idea, because the offices of the American Asia Company are all individual. But he was wrong. Some people saw it and said, "Why does it look like a stock exchange?" It turns out that such an office already exists in Shanghai!
The workers were grouped by the factory where they were installing and producing. But there were also watches, welders, radios... And so on, if someone comes up with a project themselves, that's fine too, you do the research.
Research on weapons and semiconductors is to be kept confidential. King Kong is going to pick some people from here to work on such projects. It's not just about having good skills; it's about having good ideas and being reliable. If spies or traitors are mixed in, the losses will be huge. It would be better to pick labor Party members.
What about intellectuals in this time and space? All of them are dedicated to their jobs and love their country and people. By the circumstances of the 21st century, more than half of them could meet the standards of a Party member.
Are you putting on an act in front of your boss and actually a Congress Party spy? When King Kong doesn't go himself, ask the big dragon, the two dragons and the three dragons to go to the institute when they have time and see who is more patriotic and people-loving? Are there any ill-intentioned people mixed in?
The big Dragon and the others went, the Four Dragons and the others went too, and even the Little dragon and Mi Long and the others went to play. Look at the drawings and the engineering manual. You say, Little Dragon, Mi Long, can they understand?
The eldest son, the second son, and so on, are doing well with the technicians and can discuss some technical issues. But, like King Kong, no suspicious person was found.
If it were just for the production of rubber seals, only a very small rubber factory would be needed. King Kong asked at a firm that a medium-sized rubber factory in Britain had gone bankrupt due to the Western economic crisis, and the equipment was sold at a low price, which was very cost-effective. King Kong, on a whim, bought it.
Another glass factory's equipment was the same, very cheap, and King bought it too. There are also some second-hand machine tools, cheap, buy! They will be delivered to Shanghai in one to three months.
In this way, King Kong won't have enough money. All the opium in his hand was sold by Luo Qingsheng. Anyway, if you don't sell the King Kong, others will. The thread is in your own hands. Do more for the people in the future. That's it.
It was Tian Jiawang who was responsible for making the box gun. The main problems were the high precision requirements for the inner diameter of the barrel and the need for special boring machines for rifling.
The tools used on the machine at that time were imported "white steel turning tools", which were not only expensive but also not wear-resistant. After a few strokes of processing, the cutting edge was worn out and needed to be reground.
King Kong experimented with the ceramic formula and made the ceramic turning tool. A 7.62mm diameter ceramic reamer was made. After drilling the gun barrel, it went through several processes of rough reaming and fine reaming, and the precision reached the level of German products!
The successful manufacturing of the ceramic turning tools and reamers not only brought the processing quality and efficiency of the products of Koyi Machinery Factory to the current high level, but also added a flagship product to Koyi Ceramics Factory. Later, the ceramics factory had a workshop dedicated to producing ceramic cutting tools.
The problem of the inner diameter dimension accuracy of the gun barrel was solved. The problem with the rifling boring machine, Diamond uses a flat steel bar twisted into a twist and inserts it into a flat square hole in a steel plate; When the flat bar is pushed and pulled back and forth, it follows the trajectory of the rifling in the barrel. When a tool bar and a double-edge boring tool are added to one end of the flat bar, the rifling of the barrel can be processed. Of course, this machine tool is rather inefficient.
Two sample guns were made and the quality was good, but a lot of the parts were filed by hand and the efficiency was too low. Tooling fixtures are to be made to prepare for mass production.
Sun Yutian, Dalong's master, is really good at working as a fitter, and he uses his brain. A lot of the parts are made by him.
Ceramic knives are durable and good for reamers; But not very impact-resistant, King Kong decided to make hard alloy tools. He designed and made ceramic vacuum induction furnaces, along with ceramic crystal pulling furnaces and ceramic vacuum diffusion furnaces, and prepared to research the production of transistors. These devices are more or less the same, all produced in Jingdezhen before. For King Kong, the difficulty now is that the power frequency transformer has to be made in-house, unlike in Jingdezhen when it was purchased from outside. Fortunately, silicon steel sheets, enameled wires, copper wires, etc. are available for sale.
The installation of Meiya Chemical Plant was completed in October and the commissioning went smoothly as well. The two production lines that have been debugged are twice as productive as the original ones, fully meeting the design requirements of King Kong. King Kong roughly calculated that if he followed the agreement with the company, he would receive at least 20,000 yuan a year in dividends from the chemical plant in the future!
King Kong's accountant now is Da Feng.
Dafeng didn't attend school for a single day, but had a special talent for arithmetic. At first, King Kong only asked her to keep a record of the household expenses, and later she came to help with the accounting at the ceramics factory while learning to write. She didn't need to learn arithmetic, addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, and her mental arithmetic skills were much better than those of King Kong. She also learned abacus. She also learned to read quickly. So King Kong simply handed over the accounting work to her, including the dye factory, the Chinese medicine factory and so on later. The household chores were mainly handled by Erfeng and Sanfeng.
At the end of 1929, the cost of producing the four production lines of the Yamei Chemical Factory was over 20,000 yuan, and he sold them to the factory for 50,000 yuan. In addition to buying the ceramics factory and machinery, he made more than ten thousand.
Amo Xianlin sold for more than 22,000 yuan. King Kong was a little reluctant to sell, always keeping something to save his life, but couldn't resist the begging.
In terms of Chinese patent medicine, not only did he not lose money, but he also made several hundred yuan a month, which was beyond his expectations.
Building materials are okay, ceramics and wood have a bit more sales, but not much profit.
Dye factories are the main source of income, making around 50,000 yuan, with stable profits.
After December 1929, the war between China and the Soviet Union in Northeast China had gradually subsided, and compared with the war at home, it was nothing. The Guangxi army was defeated by the Central Army, but the Northwest army fought fiercely with the Central Army, the Guangdong army fought with the Central Army, and Tang Shengzhi came to overthrow Jiang Zhongcai!
Another big battle! Chiang used bribe tactics to get some generals of the Northwest Army and Tang Shengzhi's army to follow him, and also won over Yan Xishan, Zhang Xueliang, Liu Zhenhua, Chen Tiaoyuan and others. The situation was not bad.
King Kong thought, with the invasion of foreign enemies, let's not fight for the time being and fight together against the enemy? None of the warlords cared about the war between China and the Soviet Union.
Fortunately, before the end of the year, the negotiations between China and the Soviet Union came to an end. After obtaining the conditions they wanted, Rossu agreed to cease hostilities and withdraw troops, bringing a bit of joy to the New Year.