Hu Wenkai was directing the female employees of the real estate company to cut the ribbons with scissors, and the matter of arranging the auditorium somehow fell on poor Hu Wenkai. In the past few days, Carotta has been stalking him to compose the five lines of several songs, saying that Lao Yi invited a small band to accompany him live.

Make a lottery box, each person will receive a number plate registration when signing in and put it into the lottery box, the first prize is 200 yuan for a person, the second prize is 100 yuan for ten people, the third prize is 50 yuan for thirty people, all employees are awarded ten yuan, and each department selects an outstanding employee in 1920 to reward 200 yuan for a bronze medal stamped by the factory.

Hu Wenkai is accustomed to being a shopkeeper for such small things, and after explaining the precautions, he went to the factory workshop to guide the apprentices.

Yang Siliang's early planning is very in line with the needs of the factory, can become an apprentice at least to have a high primary culture, the apprentice stage does not pay wages only to provide food and accommodation, work during the day and concentrate on classes at night, after half a year of assessment, after passing the assessment, he will become a skilled worker and start to get a salary.

These apprentices recruited from all over the country were very satisfied with the treatment of the factory, not only did they have food and shelter, but also clothes, and the necessary daily necessities, and the factory arranged all the necessary daily necessities for them. Eating two meat and two vegetarian meals per meal is much better than at home, and the engineers teach the technology selflessly without reservation, and now the Chinese master teaches the apprentice at least two or three years for free.

Hu Wenkai wore goggles on his face and labor protection gloves on his hands, demonstrating in front of the grinder, explaining the key points while doing it, and letting the apprentice go up and do it once after completing a part, teaching the operation points hand-in-hand.

As several engineers returned to the factory from Tianfen to fully produce crawler tractors and walk-behind tractors, the cylinder blocks were sent to this place for grinding and assembly after the Tianfen Steel Mill was poured into the mold. The adoption of uniform specifications of the parts made it possible to produce on a large scale, and dozens of cylinders were ground and wired on the machine.

The six-meter-long steel axle was pressed into shape by a 5,000-ton hydraulic press at the Tianfen factory and transported to Yatian South Road to cut into a 60-centimeter-long axle, which the apprentices used to turn into the front axle of a walk-behind tractor. At this rate, it is equivalent to the efficiency of a county-level tractor in later generations.

Another day, December 31, 1920, Hu Wenkai sat in the sun under the south-facing window of his office. Looking out the window at Xia Fei Road, there has been a lot of cars on the road in just half a year. Ford, Citroen, and Mercedes-Benz sped past the Xiafei Road under the window from time to time, and the tram jingled to the bus stop downstairs, and men and women wearing cotton kaftani, tweed coats, embroidered cotton clothes, and cotton cheongsams stood in a row waiting for the bus. The plane trees on the side of the road are bare branches, and the signs hanging from the shops opposite sway back and forth in the breeze.

He is waiting for the financial statements of various departments, and today is the final deadline. Lao Yi has been urging each department since the morning, and Hu Wenkai also understands that all departments are struggling with the abacus in this era, and it is a lot of work to summarize the data of half a year.

Lying on the sofa with his eyes closed, the work here in Shanghai is ready to be handed over to Lao Yi after the Chinese New Year, and he is ready to stay in Haimen and Tianfen for most of the next year. To train a contingent of high-quality cadres in Haimen County, we must incorporate Shanghai County into our own system before Wang Shan leaves Jiangsu. While calculating, he warned himself not to be in a hurry, and to observe Wang Changrong's performance in Nantong County.

The data of various departments and Lao Shi's financial reports were sent to the office before four o'clock in the afternoon, and as he expected, the real estate company and the pledge company had the highest profits, but they also occupied the most funds, and the profit margin was the highest because the trading company had no profit because of the Vladivostok materials, and the factory was unexpectedly profitable for several months, and the profit had exceeded one million.

Lao Yi sighed next to him: The factory is still powerful, and the profit is doubling every month, and if the American market is opened, the factory will become the most important profit growth point of the company.

Hu Wenkai nodded and said: "The biggest profit point next year is the steel mill in Tianfen, and the factory is estimated to become the biggest profit point until the year after next." ”

Tianfen industrial base is now the ancestor of burning money, personnel wages, infrastructure costs, raw material purchases have used the company more than 2 million, with the electrolytic copper and steelmaking plant put into operation, the company will gradually reduce investment, and strive to start making a profit in March.

"Lao Yi, you talk to Sun Daming about buying land and building a building to sell, the company has steel and cement supply in Tianfen, and first build some Shikumen communities. During this time, housing prices have soared by more than 15%, and in the future, housing prices will be higher than buying someone else's house and selling it instead of building it yourself. ”

"This plan is better, the cost of their own steel and cement is much lower than others, and they now have a maintenance team of dozens of people who can be put into construction immediately, the key is to carefully study the site." Lao Yi is very old-fashioned now.

"You are solely responsible for this matter, and you will implement it at the beginning of the spring." Hu Wenkai set the tone.

"Lao Yi, are you ready? I'm going to the U.S. in a few days. ”

"Boss, I've been ready for a long time, isn't it investment immigration? Boss: Actually, I want to become a Chinese citizen, you are not the governor of Haimen, it should be easy to become a naturalized citizen in Haimen. ”

"Lao Yi, you don't understand, I let you become an American citizen to leave a way out for our industry, if I fail in Haimen and then be expelled from the Shanghai Concession, what will we do?"

"Boss, I know, I'll do what you say. In your words, you have me, and I have you. Ivanov knew that he and Hu Wenkai were inseparable.

"When we are not at home, Yang Siliang is in charge of the company, and he comes back once a week to preside over the company's work. Liu Zhaohui of Tsinghua transferred him to the finance department as a deputy to assist Lao Shi in his work. James can't count on him now, and it doesn't take long for him to be promoted to head of HSBC Shanghai. Hu Wenkai arranged for him to go to the United States after the company was running.

"Okay, I'll arrange it." Lao Yi got up and went out to find Wang Xihai's documents to arrange Yang Siliang and Liu Zhaohui's affairs.

Lao Yi came in again after a while and said that a group of people from the Board of Directors were going to attend the dinner, Hu Wenkai almost forgot that Lao Yi was now a director of the Board of Directors, and after thinking about it for a while, he invited them to come over and give each person 100 yuan to reward them.

Since Lao Yi was drunk at Adele's last time, he has always believed that Hu Wenkai and Adele had an adulterous affair, and said with a strange smile that Adele called and thought it was necessary for you to invite the Dewey family to the party with her.

"Boss, Adele is a married woman. But it's not bad. Lao Yi with a wicked smile stepped forward and said.

"Die, believe it or not, I'll call Wang Xihai now."

"Don't be like this, boss, I'm proud of you." Lao Yi quickly took the door and left.

Dewey invited him and his wife to a New Year's Day dinner by phone, and Dewey happily accepted the invitation and suggested that it would be best to arrange a table for the consulate to attend.

Adele's phone was never answered, and after twenty minutes he asked again, this time Adele's lazy voice came: "Wen Kai? ”

"yes, Adele. You are invited to attend the company's New Year's Day party tomorrow night. ”

"Okay, I'll go with Edmund."

"Edmund is in Shanghai?"

"I arrived in Shanghai four days ago, and I have to go back to Tokyo after a while. Little Apleev arrived in Shanghai around the 10th of January. ”

"This is arranged by the company, and I will go to the United States for a period of time on the 3rd to estimate that I will come back before the Chinese New Year."

"Okay, let's meet." Adele said softly.

"Okay, see you first"

"Goodbye."

Adele's understated goodbye rippled in Hu Wenkai's heart, and he was a little unwilling. Standing up and stretching in front of the window facing the street, the door was pushed open and you didn't have to look back to know that it was Lina who had come in.

These children are actually not a few years younger than him, and they are forced by him to express their meanings in language. If you don't speak Chinese at dinner, you can't serve good food, you will be punished for speaking Russian in the company, and non-commissioned officers and students are not allowed to communicate in Russian.

"Boss, the Japanese company telegraphed to ask for the purchase of stainless steel ingots and steel plates." Lina handed over the telegram, on which were written crookedly in Chinese characters.

The telegram was sent by a Japanese shipyard that planned to buy 4,000 tons of stainless steel and steel plates from Industrial Industries, hoping that the price would drop by 10%. The Japanese thought the factory belonged to his? Light the newspaper with a lighter and put it in an ashtray.

Thinking about it, it is not angry to send a telegram back to do business, and I wrote a note to ask Lina to call back to the effect that our company's production capacity is very small and can not meet the market demand, and I am sorry that I can't supply to your company.