King Kong is really busy now. It's not easy to be a big boss!
King Kong is busy with industry, agriculture, business, education and research!
Money makes things easier.
Industrially, rubber factory equipment was installed, glass factory was built, and machinery factory was expanded.
However, the gaskets produced by the rubber factory in half a month are enough for the country to use for one or two years now. To King Kong's delight, since they bought an old factory, they also brought in some of the molds they used to produce car tires, bicycle tires and other products, which was an unexpected gain. But how many tyres are needed in the national market now? One month of production is enough for the whole country to use for a year.
King Kong decided to start his own bicycle factory. Let the machinery factory prepare the production equipment for bicycles. Anyway, tyres are already available.
Fortunately, the glass factory is not very large and produces mirrors and flat glass, which are sold along with building materials. It also produces small glass bottles for antibiotics. This way, the equipment capacity is still available and the workers are free. There's no way around it. The domestic market is still small, and the key is that it can't be sold to the north. This Central Plains War is really killing!
King Kong asked the technicians and workers of the glass factory to study the production of optical glass. Try making glasses and telescopes. Of course, he took apart the optical sight he had brought and drew the blueprint. But the range and parabola of each gun are different, the optical part is the same, and the mechanical part will be tested and adjusted with the corresponding gun later.
The mechanical factory (excluding the pistol workshop) doesn't have much work either. They don't have a fixed product. Besides producing some work for ceramic and chemical machinery, they take on a little external processing work.
So, King Kong asked them to design and produce small punch presses, planning to set up an alarm clock factory.
As a basic processing method, welding equipment and materials were needed.
At this time, Shanghai was one of the most industrialized cities in the country, but no welding machines or electrodes were found for sale! King Kong asked the European agent, and they replied that there were two types of arc welding equipment, one that used a carbon arc to melt metal; The other is electrode, welding machine equipment.
But the welding rods and the welding machine are just too expensive! Isn't that killing people? No wonder nobody uses it.
The arc welder, King Kong knows. King Kong's dad bought a very small electric welder before, and he even took it apart for repair. So King decided to design and test it himself. Fortunately, he had heard his father talk about some welding techniques before, and welding was one of the key subjects in their chemical machinery major.
The electric welding machine is fine. It's just a transformer with a deliberately large internal resistance. Let's just imitate this small welding machine that I know.
As for the electrodes, he knew the low carbon and low impurity requirements for the core steel of the electrodes and ordered them from Germany first. As for the coating, he only remembered the main components of the protective agent (which produces protective gases such as carbon dioxide) and the arc stabilizer, so he had to get some limestone, feldspar, rutile, and several more formulas, using water glass as both the forming agent and the arc stabilizer, and try it slowly.
The semiconductor workshop has been set up long ago and is in the process of trial production.
Ferrite cores for radio have been trial-produced, which were originally products of Jingdezhen Keyi Company, and there is no difficulty for King Kong. But when it's done, no one knows what it's for.
Importantly, the ceramic chemical machinery factory also made chemical equipment for producing explosives. The explosives have been put into production and are in line with the production of bullets.
The bullet production line is ready: here the copper is fed in, melted, cast, rolled into sheets, cold-rolled, pressed, and one bullet case after another comes off the line. The loading of the charge, the loading of the bullet head, and the loading of the primer are basically automated.
Chinese patent medicine factories and dye factories are doing well.
Among them, the antibiotic factory is the most prosperous, with money flowing in.
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Shanghai has recently been affected by the depression abroad and the war at home, with many factories closing down and a large number of unemployed workers. It is said that Keyi Company is recruiting, and there are many people coming to look for jobs.
As long as they are engineers, technicians or skilled workers, King Kong will take them. It doesn't matter if the factory is running low. Just build up your technical reserves first. There is another criterion for King Kong to pick people: whether they love the country and the people, whether they are passionate young people? Yes, take it.
There are indeed some talents among them, and Engineer Deng Fuguang is one of them. Deng graduated from Shanghai Labor University. He came from a poor family and studied while working from middle school to university. He is very familiar with the theory and practice of mechanical design and mechanical processing.
With talents in place, expand the research institute, establish a product development department, and develop new products.
King Kong was going to develop watches, bicycles and other products and build a new factory. Deng's special equipment was fast and good, so he soon became the backbone of the industrial technology research department.
Too many people are being recruited! Just set up a new factory, buy more land, form your own construction team, build factories and dormitories.
King Kong bought hundreds of acres of land across the road from the Keyi Industrial base.
Among the refugees and unskilled workers, there were more than two hundred men, all formed into a security team, with Fu Baotian as the captain. These men trained and studied, sometimes worked as porters, or dug the foundation and repaired the road.
To avoid being pestered by Qu Guoliang, the Hongmen brother was invited to be the instructor of the security team. After all, he claimed to be a graduate of the fourth and a half classes of the Whampoa Academy!
To accommodate the female workers, King Kong set up a garment factory to produce clothes in bulk. Contact Huang Jingang of the Central Army Logistics Department to see if military uniforms can be made. Nowadays, the clothes of the Great Chinese people are basically made of fabric and sewn by themselves or made by a tailor. To promote ready-to-wear sales.
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In terms of education, some of the recruited middle school graduates will work while continuing their studies according to the needs of the King Kong business. So night school was set up. There are highly skilled engineers and experts among the teachers. For some classes, King Kong, of course, has to teach himself. These classes can be attended by anyone who is willing to listen, whether they are workers or students of workers' schools, like university lectures.
Among young female workers, those who are good at studying read books or study nursing. Medical and nursing schools were established. There's no problem with the teaching staff and internships in this area, with the nationally renowned Koyi Hospital backing it up!
Kids, go to the Workers' Children's School. The number of people increased so much that they bought land, built buildings, hired teachers and set up new schools.
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In terms of agriculture, there is no problem with rice. Early rice harvest is in sight and late rice fields have been secured.
The only problem is growing wheat. Summer wheat has been planted in the south, but there is slow progress in going north to grow wheat. It's not a matter of money. But now there is a great war in the Central Plains. The two families are fighting fiercely. The people in the Central Plains are fleeing the war. How can they grow wheat?
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The economic crisis in America and Europe is getting worse and worse. European agents asked King Kong if he still wanted old ships that someone was dealing with, smaller ones, from a few hundred tons to over a thousand tons, but at a very low price. King Kong calculated that it was cheaper than buying scrap steel and said yes, as long as it could still reach China, he would buy it. Prepare to modify and then go for ocean fishing or transportation.
King Kong has recruited a lot of people, but they are still few compared to the number of people laid off in Shanghai. So, as long as there is a project that can make money, King Kong will do it.
King Kong has expanded his business so much that his own funds are not enough. But now all the banks are begging for a loan from Koyi Enterprise, no matter how much it is. King Kong mainly borrowed from Shanghai Zhongxing Bank, which offered loans to him before he became famous. The boss was from Ningbo and had an old relationship.
Now Ke Yi has a strong ability to repay the loan.
King Kong also asked Luo Qingsheng to secretly sell counterfeit subbox guns and counterfeit Type 54 pistols in the underground market in Shanghai. Made by Koyi, but not daring to type "made by Koyi factory", only the pinyin of "Shanghai". As a result, there was a rumor in the market that it was a copy made in China by a British factory. It is said that a British factory in Shandong did produce counterfeit subhull guns before.
The guns for export were all completely German replicas. Side-handled subbox guns, not for sale. To be honest, if you put a side-handle gun on the market, it's not certain that anyone will want it.
The Type 54 pistol was initially called "New Browning" by the outside world, but later users called it "eight-shot" because it was loaded with eight rounds. Of course, the accompanying silencer is not available for delivery.
The black market for guns, of course, doesn't sell well at the beginning.
I bought a copy of the gun from Koyi and used it, saying it was of good quality.