Early in the morning, Hu Wenkai rode to the newly built furniture factory on Yatian South Road (now Anting Road), and the old furniture factory only existed for more than a month before it was bought by the company at a high price. Hu Wenkaili agreed to build a factory on Yatian South Road, Yatian South Road was another high-end villa area in Shanghai at the end of the twenties, Jiang Baili Villa is here, in 1920 at this time it was still relatively partial but the water and electricity were complete, 20 acres of land factory area 3400 yuan per acre.

Li Congshan squatted there waiting for him at the gate of the factory, Li Congshan has been in charge of the construction here for more than ten days, the two-meter-high earthen wall made of soil blocks can save money, and a factory building of nearly 500 square meters in the westernmost part of the door has exposed the foundation of the wall. A three-rise steam engine was in the center of the factory, and the large steam engine used on this French warship was bought by Hu Wenkai for two taels of silver from the French fleet's repair shop in Shanghai as scrap metal, and there were lumps on the pipes to block the passage.

A cement base was built in the center of the plant, and the steam engine was fixed to the base with screws. Hu Wenkai instructed the workers to use small hammers to rhythmically beat the pipes in different directions, and asked Li Congshan to find seven or eight large water tanks to fill them with water and inject a bucket of hydrochloric acid into one tank to dilute them. At 10 o'clock, the sun burned the steam engine, and after the workers used a funnel to inject diluted hydrochloric acid into the clogged pipe, they heard a hissing sound coming out of the pipe.

More than a dozen people shouted after lunch in the open field, the pipe was open, and the workers rinsed the acid-laden impurities with clean water, blocked the water outlet hole with a wooden plug, and continued to add diluted hydrochloric acid. After it was filled, Hu Wenkai ignored the pipeline, and asked the workers to use a wire brush dipped in diluted hydrochloric acid to clean the body, until after four o'clock in the afternoon, the dilute hydrochloric acid in the pipeline was released and the pipeline was flushed with clean water.

Seeing the whirring operation of the flywheel, more than a dozen people were very excited about the machine, Hu Wenkai's clothes were full of stains, and his face felt itchy at this time, and he instructed Li Congshan to brush the machine with anti-rust paint and oil it overnight before getting off work.

When I got home, I took a shower and looked at the braised pork and winter melon soup left on the table by Liu's mother on the table in the restaurant. At night, draw the power transmission installation diagram in the study, use the existing machinery in Shanghai to design the band saw workbench at the minimum cost, and a transmission shaft drives the saw body to move up and down, which is very simple for Hu Wenkai. In the opposite direction, a transmission shaft is also used to drive a circular saw with a diameter of 10 cm, and two iron plates are used on both sides of the band saw as a protective surface. After designing several electric motors to do drilling equipment of different calibers, the time was already two o'clock in the night.

The next morning, I came to the company and asked Wang Xihaiden to recruit workers and engineers with mechanical work experience, regardless of nationality, and set the salary after on-site inspection of technology and theory. Let the design drawings be sent to Li Congshan and let him continue the construction according to the drawings. There was a shortage of skilled manpower everywhere, and even Wang Xihai made a cameo appearance to clean the office and boil water.

Sun Daming reported that he had found a two-story office building on Scott Road, and Manager Ivanov was satisfied with the on-site inspection. Hu Wenkai asked him to draw the drawings of the house and hand them over to him to design and decorate before moving in, and signed the application form for the finance to pay for the purchase first.

Sun Daming was just about to leave with the application form, when Hu Wenkai asked him how Xingye Real Estate was recruiting six employees. Sun Daming said that he had already been recruited, and he would give him the resumes of the six people in a while. Six people have resumes in hand, and five people are decent and there is no problem, but the sixth person is a little surprised. Graduated from Denton Women's University in the United States with a degree in social sciences, a 21-year-old female Carrota. He didn't understand why a woman with this degree wanted to work in Industrial Real Estate.

Sun Daming explained: "This woman speaks fluent Chinese, and her father was a pastor who preached in China and grew up in Shanghai as a child. After graduating from university, he went back to Shanghai to find his parents, her parents went to Sichuan to preach, she has been in Shanghai for more than a month and changed several jobs, manager Ivanov knows her. ”

"Did you go to work? What do you think of her work? ”

"I went to work on the same day, and the work was very good and I got started quickly"

"Let's use it first, there is a shortage of manpower everywhere" He waved his hand to let Sun Daming out.

In the afternoon, the structural diagram of the house on the various roads of the Industrial Real Estate Division was sent, Hu Wenkai lay on the desk to draw the renderings, using the open foyer of the later real estate company, and the model of the concession street was placed in the center of the hall, and all the saleable houses were marked with numbers on the model, and a row of bookcases against the wall on the west side neatly placed the document boxes with detailed drawings and descriptions of the numbered properties.

On the other side, the furniture display board is hung on the wall, and on the east side of the hall are several groups of negotiation tables, and the use of low round tables and chairs makes customers have no difference between size and dignity, reducing customer resistance. Behind him is the company's business license and performance, and the profile of the company's employees to win the trust of customers.

On the second floor, near the staircase is the payment room, and inside is a large signing room, the signing room Hu Wenkai designed as a luxury reception room in later generations, a large writing desk, Taishi chair, table lamp, and the ground is a red carpet.

When signing the contract, the buyer sits at the desk to sign the contract, like the boss, and the employee can only wait on the opposite side of the desk. There are also two rooms, one is the manager's office and the other is a changing room, and the employees are uniformly dressed in navy blue suits and white shirts.

After sketching out the sketch first, Ivanov asked a French designer to improve the renderings, Ivanov and Sun Daming didn't understand very simple things, just put a few tables according to their ideas, why do they have to make it so complicated, Hu Wenkai didn't explain and let them do it as required.

The construction of the band saw factory progressed quickly, and the plant was capped after two weeks, and several workers recruited also entered the factory to familiarize themselves with the machine to participate in the factory construction, three simple furniture making workshops were built next to the band saw workshop, and a paint workshop was under intense construction. The workers of the original furniture factory participated in the construction from the beginning of the earthen wall, saving the company a sum of expenses, and the company built a band saw factory and a furniture factory at the lowest cost.

Hu Wenkai asked Li Congshan to erect a huge billboard on the left side of the gate, saying "Double Happiness Brand Furniture Factory", taking customers to open logs, processing wood primary products, processing with supplied materials, etc., and the artists painted colorful furniture on the billboards.

In mid-September, after the firecrackers, the band saw factory and furniture factory officially started. The huge logs are mechanically driven by a band saw and then transferred to a circular sawing table to make thick planks. Within a few days of opening, the band saw factory was running at full capacity, with horse-drawn wagons carrying logs and pulling away truckloads of planks.

The furniture factory has improved its ergonomics, making hardwood, which was previously difficult to punch, easy to make with a drill bit driven by a motor. Li Congshan was pleasantly surprised by the order of the Ministry of Industry, and more than three thousand street lamp poles should be made into squares with uniform specifications and coated with paint. The deck of the shipyard, the flooring band sawing factory of the construction company, and the furniture factory are scheduled for the end of the year.

Schroeder stationed two accountants at the factory and designed the factory circulation documents. Hu Wenkai is not relaxed at all in the company's financial system, and operators are not allowed to touch money and finance, and they are not allowed to interfere in operations.

Although they were very dissatisfied with the machinery of the factory, there was no way to do it, and now the conditions can only be like this, and the workers are paving the road from the gate to the workshop with broken bricks. The gate is made of demolished bricks, and two financial rooms are next to the gate. Old bricks were stacked in neat piles in the clearing, ready to be rebuilt outside the earthen wall.

Li Congshan accompanied Hu Wenkai to walk in the factory area the size of two football fields, and walked to the central axis of the factory, Hu Wenkai marked a circle on the drawing paper and said to him: "Congshan, this three-story building will be built before the end of the year, each floor will have eight rooms, and two rooms will be divided into one floor for you to make offices, and I will leave the rest for the engineer." ”

"Boss, Chen Yongcheng can't they come?"

"Yongcheng them, I am going to arrange them on the second floor of the company, you share the office with the finance and accounting for the time being, the financial room must be built opposite the guard room, the workshop must pay attention to fire safety, the water tanks must be checked every day, and the sawdust should be cleaned regularly next to the boiler. The management must be in place, and I will let Manager Ivanov check your work from time to time".

"Boss, you can rest assured that nothing will go wrong."

Hu Wenkai, who had been in the factory for nearly a month, finally got out. The company meeting in September has not been held until now, so I rushed back to the company and instructed Wang Xihai to notify the company department heads to hold a meeting at 6 o'clock in the evening, and booked a private room in the nearest hotel.