Hong Kong Pegasus Bicycle Manufacturing Co., Ltd., founded in 1940, with total assets of 12 million US dollars, covers an area of 75,000 square meters, has the world's first-class chromium-molybdenum steel bicycle production line, with an annual output of 600,000 units, the production of road racing, mopeds, trucks and other series of bicycles are sold in more than 30 countries and regions around the world.

After reading it, Yang Weiping put the letter paper on the table, lit a cigarette, and asked with a slight frown: "What is the background of this Pegasus company in Hong Kong?"

Wang Xiangdong immediately replied: "The owner of this company, Hughes Field, is an Englishman, and it is said that he is the son of a British grand duke......"

"The Duke of England or the Grand Duke?" are you sure?" Yang Weiping's eyes suddenly lit up, and he interrupted Wang Xiangdong's topic in a loud voice.

"Sure!" Wang Xiangdong nodded decisively and replied: "I have a younger brother's Ma Zi who works as a clerk in this company, and the girl also got these materials for me, I just copied a copy." I asked her when I was looking for her, and she knew English and often received calls from the UK, so she knew something about her boss's family affairs. ”

Yang Weiping stood up from the chair with a slight frown, and walked back and forth while smoking non-stop.

After a long time, Yang Weiping returned to his seat and asked intently, "What is the current business situation of Pegasus Company?"

"Listen to my little brother's horse, it's terrible. Wang Xiangdong smiled a little gloatingly: "There was a big problem with the batch of steel that this company imported last year, and the bicycles sold out of the company had quality problems in more than 20 countries one after another, and I heard that there were also fatalities, and several people died."

Now the bicycles produced by the company are all collected in the warehouse, not only can not sell one, but also those foreign sellers have called and faxed to ask for returns, claims. The Englishman was now in a state of flux, drunk in the office all day, and often sat alone and babbling gibberish about what was all over and hopeless. ”

After listening to Wang Xiangdong's words, Yang Weiping laughed thoughtfully, "Adong, you have done a good job in this matter, I am very satisfied." ”

"It's good if you're satisfied, if you're satisfied. Wang Xiangdong raised his hand a little embarrassed and scratched his scalp.

"But, Ah Dong, you have to pay attention to the way you deal with those old brothers in the community. Yang Weiping had a smile on his face, and said seriously: "They have grievances and dissatisfaction, you have to persuade them, these days, it is not easy to be a big brother." Walking the rivers and lakes, righteousness comes first, although others are unkind, but we can't be unrighteous.

They said that they wanted to push you to the throne, and you had to reprimand them in a righteous and strict manner, and let them know that since you Wang Xiangdong recognized Zhang Hainan as your eldest brother, Brother Nan will be your eldest brother for life! Even if Brother Nan and the community have a place where you can't stand with you, but you, Wang Xiangdong, can also express your understanding, you are a person from Dongxing in life, and a ghost in Dongxing in death!

What you have to do now is to be happy, happily invite the brothers of the club to eat, drink and have fun, the old brothers should always keep in touch with each other, and the new generation of young people in the club also have to coax them to carry them, the bosses of each hall, you must make friends with them, and make them feel that you Wang Xiangdong is the most loyal example of the entire Dongxing Society!"

Wang Xiangdong suddenly couldn't figure out what he said, stared at Yang Weiping with wide eyes, and asked sneeringly: "Boss Yang, I'm a little confused by what you said, I ......"

"There are some things that you don't need to understand too much. Yang Weiping said with deep meaning in his eyes: "You just need to do what I say, and I will guarantee you in the future." ”

After finishing speaking, he didn't care whether Wang Xiangdong understood or not, got up and took 300,000 Hong Kong dollars in cash from the safe, put it on the desk, and said with an indifferent smile: "This 300,000 yuan, you take it first, remember, what you have to do now is to spend money to eat, drink, and make friends with the new generation and old brothers in the club, only talk about brotherhood, and don't say anything else." ”…,

Looking at Yang Weiping, whose smile was a little unpredictable, Wang Xiangdong raised his hand and patted his head, and said with a smile: "Yes, Boss Yang, I will listen to you, it is difficult to earn money, but everyone is willing to spend money to make friends." ”

"Well, go ahead, I won't delay you too much, Hong Kong's nightlife is rich and colorful. Yang Weiping nodded and smiled: "Remember, after you go back, appease those brothers who have grievances in their hearts, and tell them that there are some things that should not be said, and Qiancheng should not mention them again." ”

"Understood!" Wang Xiangdong unceremoniously stuffed the three bundles of 100,000 Hong Kong dollars into his trouser pocket, and clenched his fists and arched his hands, "Boss Yang, then I will thank you in advance and say goodbye." ”

"Go ahead and drive safely on the road. Yang Weiping smiled and nodded, and waved his hand lightly.

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The processing of the electromagnetic stirrer was very smooth, and it took only three days for the two electromagnetic stirrers designed by Yang Weiping to be installed at the bottom of the two 60-ton capacity melting furnaces, replacing the previous mechanical stirring device.

Yang Weiping accompanied Pratt and others to re-debug the smelting furnace, and then opened the furnace to smelt a furnace of aluminum-zinc aluminum alloy ingots.

The performance and efficacy of the melting furnace equipped with an electromagnetic stirrer even exceeded Yang Weiping's expectations. Pratt conducted a series of rigorous chemical and physical tests on the finished product, and the results made the French engineer dance and be ecstatic.

After receiving the test report sent by Pratt by fax, the general receiver of EDF immediately arranged for a technical team led by a deputy chief engineer to arrive in Hong Kong by special plane overnight.

After arriving at the Tiangong smelter, he did not care about resting, and immediately asked Pratt to take out a sample of aluminum alloy, and the deputy chief engineer personally conducted various tests in the laboratory, and the results, of course, were satisfactory to all the French.

The agreement came into effect, and the French also kept their word and informed the head office that a new 3,600-ton extruder, 1,000 tons of standard aluminum ingots and 100 tons of rare earths were ready to be sent to Hong Kong. At the same time, it also signed a confidentiality agreement with Tiangong Smelter for a period of ten years.

In addition, EDF offered to sign a three-year contract with Tiangong Smelter for the purchase of standard aluminum ingots, which gave EDF another long-term major customer in Asia.

With standard aluminum ingots and rare earths shipped from France, Yang Weiping began to spend all day in the laboratory, preparing all the fluxes such as slag removers, refining agents, and covering agents.

The flux is an important auxiliary material used in aluminum alloy melting, and the main components of the flux sold on the market are chloride and fluoride, among which chloride has strong water absorption and is easy to get wet.

Therefore, the raw materials used in the production of flux must be dried, the water must be completely removed, the packaging should be sealed, and the damage should be prevented during transportation and storage, and the production date should be paid attention to.

If you control the hydrogen absorption, you can control the melting temperature.

Aluminum alloy melting is one of the most important processes in the production of high-quality casting rods. If the process is not properly controlled, it will produce a variety of casting defects such as slag inclusion, porosity, coarse grains, and feather crystals in the casting bowl, so it must be strictly controlled.

The melting temperature of this aluminum alloy developed by Yang Weiping must be strictly controlled between 750-760 °C, too low will increase the generation of slag inclusion, too high will increase hydrogen absorption, oxidation, nitriding burning.

The solubility of hydrogen in molten aluminum rises sharply above 760°C. There are many ways to reduce hydrogen uptake, such as drying melting furnaces and melting tools, and preventing the use of fluxes from deteriorating due to moisture. However, the melting temperature is one of the most sensitive factors, and too high the melting temperature not only wastes energy and increases costs, but also is the direct cause of defects such as pores, coarse grains, and feather crystals. …,

Mastering these exclusive "secret techniques", in a short period of time, Yang Weiping basically does not have to worry about the aluminum alloy products produced by Tiangong Smelter being cracked and pirated by other manufacturers.

Studying aluminum-lithium alloys, as well as other aerospace aluminum alloy materials, all aluminum companies in the world are spending huge sums of money in repeated experiments, as long as there are no results, you can toss as much as you want.

From laboratory samples to industrial mass production, this is a more complex and expensive process.

What Yang Weiping has to do now is to use the whole set of mass production process preparation process for the production of an aluminum-magnesium-zinc-copper alloy for aviation in the 7XXX series, as a cover for the production of second-generation aluminum-lithium alloys in small batches.

Because the most valuable thing in material technology is not to take out samples, but to achieve large-scale industrial production.

There are French people staying in the Tiangong smelter, Yang Weiping of course will not come up with any new alloys, the kind of aluminum alloy ingots smelted during the test furnace belongs to a common aluminum-zinc alloy in this era, but the use of the new smelting furnace after the technical innovation of this aluminum-zinc alloy ingot, its fineness is now in the European and American markets circulating aluminum-zinc alloy must be a little higher.

Don't underestimate this little bit, this gap is enough to raise the grade of the aluminum-zinc alloy ingots produced by Tiangong Smelter by one grade, and its price will naturally be more expensive. It is for this reason that EDF is eager to sign Yang Weiping, a major customer.

A week later, the technical renovation project of Tiangong smelter was completed. After Yang Weiping's acceptance, Pratt, who had already received the company's promotion and salary increase notice, returned to China happily with his technical team.

After the French left, Yang Weiping picked an auspicious day of the zodiac, personally took a group of old workers with many years of smelting experience, and successfully opened the furnace to produce a batch of aluminum alloy ingots named 6063 alloy. The ingots are then processed into plates and tubes of various specifications.

With real materials in his hand, Yang Weiping began to fight the "crooked" idea of Hong Kong Pegasus Bicycle Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

When the French did not leave, Yang Weiping confirmed from Pratt's mouth that the British boss of Hong Kong Pegasus Bicycle Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Hughes Field, was indeed a British aristocratic child, Chinese New Year's Eve and six-year-old, the fifth son of a British Archduke of Field, who was nearly seventy years old.

The Field family is an old British aristocracy, and Hughes Field's generation is a contender for the heir to the family title, in addition to his four older brothers, one or two younger brothers, and more than thirty cousins and cousins on the side of the family.

The Grand Duke of Field made it clear that no matter whether he was a direct or a side line, only he was capable, and that anyone in the younger generation of the family had a chance to inherit his title.

In this way, the more than forty competitors of the Field family, from the day they came of age, have not stopped fighting each other.

Based on the information provided by Pratt, combined with the internal information of Hong Kong Pegasus Bicycle Manufacturing Co., Ltd. that Wang Xiangdong heard, Yang Weiping can now basically judge that Hughes Field was severely pitted by his brothers, and his purpose was nothing more than to squeeze Hugh Field out of the title contenders.