Qin Hai's conversation with the workers lasted for two hours, and the information he received was mixed.

The gratifying thing is that the workers invited by Yu Haitao cover several key links such as steelmaking, casting, and steel rolling, and at most a dozen young auxiliary workers with less high technical requirements can be used to bring down a set of steelmaking processes. This relieved Qin Hai of his worries about skilled workers.

In addition, the motivation of these workers is also very high, Yu Haitao privately revealed to Qin Hai that they promised the workers a salary of 50 yuan per month, which is very attractive to these retired workers.

At that time, the wage standard of ordinary workers in the factory was 60 or 70 yuan, and these retired workers themselves received a pension, and if they had an additional income of 50 yuan per month, they were definitely high-paid people. Retired workers are facing financial pressure in terms of children getting married and having children, and they live a tight life, and there is a job opportunity that can earn 50 yuan a month, even if they sell their old lives, they have no regrets.

What made Qin Hai feel depressed was that these workers had no awareness of steel refining at all, and their understanding of steelmaking only stayed at the level of opening the furnace lid, putting in the charge, and then turning on electricity and blowing oxygen. Qiao Changsheng had been to the Nord Stream Iron and Steel Plant to study for a period of time, and he also knew some knowledge such as reading the ingredient list, determining the slag ratio, and calculating the amount of predeoxidizer, but he didn't know it well. Other workers simply said that they would work according to the process back then, and they seemed to have heard of slag, liquid temperature and other things, but they never understood it.

"That's how you made steel?" Qin Hai couldn't believe what these people said, and he even wondered if everyone was deliberately pretending to be stupid so that they could do less work.

Qiao Changsheng looked at his co-workers, then sighed and said, "Qin Gong, don't be afraid of your jokes, we really made steel like this back then." When I was at the Nord Stream steel plant, I saw that they were very particular about steelmaking, and it was one way and another. However, our Pingyuan Iron and Steel Plant does not have this technique, so we can only draw a scoop based on a gourd, and we can refine the molten steel. ”

"What do you do about dephosphorization, desulfurization, deoxygenation, and carburization?" Qin Hai asked.

Qiao Changsheng said: "We asked the technician of the Nord Stream Iron and Steel Plant to help guide us, and he wrote us a few methods, and we followed them." ”

Qin Haidao: "How can this be true, the different composition of scrap steel and the different carbon content of pig iron will affect the specific operation, how can it be set in stone according to a few methods?" ”

Qiao Changsheng looked at Qin Hai, his face was ashamed, but he no longer defended.

Ning Mo said angrily in an urn on the side: "My dad said back then that the steel in Pingyuan can't be used at all, it's no problem to weld a water tank or something, anyway, it doesn't leak." It is used to process parts is slag, milling a gear, and the tooth is broken before the milling is completed. For this matter, my dad fought with the director Fu that Master Qiao mentioned just now. ”

"Director Fu is a good person." Qiao Changsheng hurriedly defended their old factory director, "But he is a worker and peasant cadre, he doesn't know how to make steel, and he can't do anything about steelmaking." In order to improve the quality of the steel, he spent many nights in the workshop with us, but it didn't work......"

"Yes, if you don't have relevant knowledge, it's definitely useless to waste time." Qin Hai said calmly.

"Qin Gong, look at this ......" Qiao Changsheng said half a sentence timidly, and the rest of the words were waiting for Qin Hai to add. What he wanted to ask was whether they could meet Qin Hai's requirements with these skills of theirs. If you don't meet the requirements, it's not going to be yellow. 50 yuan a month's salary, before I got it, I soaked in the soup first, and the loss in everyone's hearts is indescribable.

Qin Hai saw Qiao Changsheng's thoughts, and he smiled at everyone: "Masters, forgive the juniors for saying a disrespectful word, the method of steelmaking in the past is really a bit unreasonable. However, this is not to blame everyone, because these techniques should have been taught to everyone by technical personnel, and no one taught everyone, and everyone will not be ashamed. ”

"Qin Gong, you say, do you want us to do it?" Someone in the crowd asked aloud.

Qin Hai nodded firmly, and said: "Of course, we have to ask all the masters to do it, and we will never regret it, I am only worried that the masters are afraid of difficulties and are unwilling to help us." ”

"Qin Gong, as long as we can do something, no matter how difficult it is, we are not afraid, we are afraid that our skills are too poor and we will miss the big thing of Qin Gong and Platoon Commander Ge." The workers shouted.

Qin Haidao: "As long as everyone is determined, there is nothing that cannot be done." I think so, everyone should hurry up and clean up the machinery and equipment in the past two days, Master Qiao, you take everyone to try to smelt two furnaces of steel first, and find out the feeling. In the next step, I will make up for the steelmaking course for you, sorry, I may have to ask you to be a student for a few days. ”

"Don't be afraid, as long as we can learn, we are willing to be a student of Qin Gong." The workers said.

"Alright then, let's talk about it today, let's get back to work." Qin Hai said.

The workers dispersed, and under the command of Qiao Changsheng, they began to clean up the machinery and equipment. They were used to doing these jobs in the past, and the workers who worked with them were all co-workers back then, and they cooperated very tacitly, so they didn't need Qin Hai to worry about it.

Qin Hai asked Miao Lei to stay in the workshop to work with the workers, and together with Ge Dongyan, Ning Mo, and Yu Haitao, he walked out of the workshop, came to a shady place, and found a few pieces of scrap steel as a stool to sit down.

"Xiao Qin, with the skills of these workers, can you do it?" Ge Dongyan, who had been silent just now, asked worriedly, he didn't understand the technology of steel production, but from Qin Hai's questions and answers with the workers, he could feel that the skills of the workers were really not very good, and most of the questions Qin Hai asked, they didn't know what the Tao meant.

Qin Haidao: "It's a little troublesome, but it's not enough to be impossible." Who else can they not be counted on now? ”

Ge Dongyan said: "No, let's contact some big steel mills and let them help." ”

Qin Haidao: "Platoon Commander Ge, we don't talk darkly, the cooperation between us, the provincial military region does not have a stake in the name, but in fact it wants to pay dividends, and this dividend is the equipment we provide for the provincial military region for free." If we find a big steel mill to help, how will the money be calculated? ”

"We let them help make steel, and we gave them as much as they could. The payment for the military shovel is on your account, and the rest of the money is not your profit? Ge Dongyan said. Although he is a soldier, he is not completely ignorant of this kind of accounting.

Qin Hai said: "Platoon Commander Ge thinks things simply, if I do this, outsiders will not see that I have provided free equipment for the provincial military region, and only see that I Qin Hai bought low and sold high, making a lot of money." Whoever goes to the Public Security Bureau to report me, this is the crime of speculation, and you will send me food when the time comes? ”

"Who dares to arrest you." Ge Dongyan's eyes widened.

"What, you want to meddle in local affairs?" Qin Hai asked rhetorically.

"We ...... At least I can help you explain. Ge Dongyan's tone softened. He also knew that what Qin Hai said was right, Qin Hai ran a steel factory, no matter how much money he earned, it was regarded as legal business income, and others couldn't control it. But if you don't have a factory, you can rely entirely on buying and selling, which was indeed a very sensitive thing back then.

In case someone crooked his mouth, not to mention that Qin Hai was arrested by the Public Security Bureau, even if he was asked by the county for questioning, it would be a great trouble. Of course, Yue Guoyang can come forward to help mediate, but this is equivalent to causing trouble for Yue Guoyang. The military's business was a well-known secret back then, but after all, it was not appropriate to talk about it in public. So, to be able to have a little less trouble, of course, it is better to have as little as possible.

Qin Haidao: "Platoon Commander Ge, you don't have to worry, the basic operations of these workers are still very proficient, and what they lack is only technical guidance." I'm going to find a way to get a group of technicians to come and give them real-time guidance in front of the furnace. ”

"A group of technical practitioners......" Ning Mo smacked his mouth, wanting to say something, but finally he didn't say it.

These days, Ning Mo and the others have also learned about the situation of technicians, and found that it is much more difficult to hire technicians than to hire workers. The number of technicians is very small, and since it is a cadre establishment, it is not as easy to recruit as a worker establishment. They have been looking for so long and have not found a single skilled artist who can be used, Qin Hai is a "batch" with one mouth, how domineering is this...... Or is it hubris?

"Platoon Commander Ge, to start production, you need to have capital investment, the 2,000 yuan that Commander Yue lent me before is not enough at all, have you brought more funds over?" Qin Hai began to ask substantive questions.

Ge Dongyan looked at Ning Mo and Yu Haitao, hesitated for a moment, and did not say anything.

Qin Hai followed his eyes and looked at his little friend, and then said: "Platoon Leader Ge has something to say, I am buddies with the fat man and Haitao, and I don't have to hide everything from them in this project." ”

Hearing Qin Hai's words, Ning Mo and Yu Haitao glanced at each other, and their eyes showed a little emotion: Qin Hai is really a righteous buddy, such a big project, at least tens of thousands of profits, actually did not hide it from our buddies, can the entire Pingyuan County find such a righteous person?

Ge Dongyan also nodded, and he had a little more respect for Qin Hai's character in his heart. He said, "Xiao Qin, since you are so honest with Ning Mo and them, then I will say it directly. The army has already paid 200,000 yuan in advance, and Commander Yue instructed you to hurry up and build a bank account, and once it is built, he will ask people to call the money. ”