Chapter 127: Competing for Talents

Lu Chengxiang saw Zhang Zhimu standing up and thought it was time for him to leave. Stand up too. Zhang Zhimu said: "Don't go. There's something else to talk about. ”

Lu Chengxiang had no choice but to sit down again. Zhang Zhimu said: "This winter, your personnel training cannot be stopped, we will apply for a ticket number in the spring of next year, and we need a lot of people, so we must hurry up now." ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "You can rest assured about this, don't look at the ticket number, you brought it up, to be honest, I am more anxious about this matter than you now." That's a big deal. I have already started with the personnel, and I have selected 200 men and 50 women from among the new arrivals, and I will start training classes immediately. Many of these people have done business, worked as buddies, and can read a few words, and I personally interview and talk to each of them, and I only choose those who are flexible and practical. Li Zhi, these personnel, helped to check it. I don't want anything that I can't say at home, and I don't want anything vague. Li Yunhe started late and was very dissatisfied with me. Haha, I picked all the literate ones. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "This is great. ”

Lu Chengxiang said proudly: "There are a few people who have been shopkeepers here, they were robbed and set on fire again, and the people in the family shop's shop were also killed." They also had nowhere to go so they followed to the kiln. When I told them about the ticket number, they were just like me, their eyes lit up. I asked them to start writing the detailed regulations of the ticket number now, the management of our local branch in Shanxi is very strict, because our ticket number is directly moving silver, the rules should be stricter, whether it is external operation, or internal management, it must be different from the previous semicolon. ”

Speaking of business, Lu Chengxiang was immediately excited, as if he was born to do business.

Zhang Zhimu said: "The management regulations should be improved slowly, but the major principles must be determined first, and those who take advantage of the loopholes in the management will be severely punished. Because this is a silver business, integrity comes first. This is the case internally, and even more so externally, if something happens in the future, we would rather suffer ourselves than let our customers suffer. ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "What Mr. Zhang said is true. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "We must have both management regulations and inspection systems. Regular and irregular inspections are required. There should also be a reward system, and those who do well should be rewarded. Make sure that rewards and punishments are clear. In this way, employees can be restrained and motivated. ”

After listening to Zhang Zhimu's words, Lu Chengxiang said with sincere admiration: "Mr. Zhang must have been the shopkeeper of the ticket number before, otherwise he couldn't think of such a detailed matter." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "I just want to say wherever I want, and you still have to do the meticulous work." ”

After saying these things, Lu Chengxiang and Huang Yukun are leaving. Huang Yukun asked Zhang Zhimu: "Where are you going?" ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "I'll drink some water, and I'm going to see how the three glasses are grinding." ”

Zhang Zhimu was very satisfied with Sun Liang and the three people selected by Li Yunhe, and after these three people went back, they used steel cars to come out with a few molds for making glass materials on the lathe in just one day. In fact, a cylindrical plate-shaped thing came out of the car on the steel plate, and the glass solution was poured into the plate and slowly cooled to become a round glass.

After the mold was ready, Zhang Zhimu personally led them to the glass factory, asked the director of the glass factory to refine a glass solution with good transparency, and then heated the mold, slowly poured the glass solution into the mold, and then slowly cooled it next to the furnace. Zhang Zhimu had read a document in his previous life that the cooling time of the glass for the lens of a large astronomical telescope was three months, in order to eliminate the stress in the cooling process of the glass. This time, 10 pieces of each glass were made, as it was to leave room for the first time to make lenses.

When the glass was slowly cooling there, Zhang Zhimu told the three of them how to polish the glass lens.

What they didn't expect was that the polished lens turned out to be a spherical lens made by rubbing two pieces of flat glass against each other.

After Zhang Zhimu's explanation, these three people probably understood the truth.

It turns out that emery powder is evenly placed between two pieces of glass, and when they rub against each other, there must be a long time for the edge of a piece of glass to rub and a long time for the center of a piece of glass, so that a piece of glass will grind out a concave surface and another piece of glass will have a convex surface. Another reason is that when the upper and lower glasses are transported to the end of the stroke, the contact surface of the two glasses should be small, and when the pressure is the same, the pressure will be larger, so the wear of the glass will be greater under the action of emery. This creates one concave surface and the other convex surface.

Seeing the three of them nodding their heads, Zhang Zhimu said, "These can only be experienced by you in the process of doing it." No two lenses in the world are exactly the same, because there are too many factors during grinding, all of which can affect the grinding effect. ”

Zhang Zhimu told them again that the grinding of lenses is divided into three parts: coarse grinding, fine grinding, and polishing.

The method of grinding the lens is very important, and it is divided into techniques and grinding strokes. Generally, we beginners use the Zhengxin method, which is to use two mirrors to pass through the center of the template below, and the stroke is divided into full, half, and third of the journey.

When grinding, each cycle is similar to their own heartbeat, the glass of the head lens is fixed on a shelf, and the other is quickly pressed by hand to sprinkle emery between the two pieces of glass and rub back and forth, the initial use of the whole process, the grinding person should circle around the shelf, and the glass in the hand should also rotate in the opposite direction at the same time, so that the lens can be ground evenly.

When grinding, you should always check the focal length against the sun, and measure the distance between the white paper and the lens when the lens is pointed at the sunlight so that the sun's rays are clearly imaged on a piece of white paper, which is the focal length. If the focal length is good, it is necessary to grind finely, and use finer sand to polish all the traces, at this time with a third of the stroke.

Finally, there is polishing.

Polishing should be made of a mixture of hard asphalt and rosin, heated with hot water to a moderate amount of hardness and softness, the lens heated with boiling water will be pressed into the arc shape of a lens, a two-centimeter grid is pressed out on the arc surface with a small thin iron sheet, and then pressed once with the mirror, and then the polishing liquid is coated on the arc surface and then pressed with the mirror for a period of time, so that the mirror and asphalt are fully combined.

In this way, after the asphalt is hard, the polishing tool is made, and it can be polished in the same way as grinding lenses. When the mirror surface of the lens is ground to reflect light, it means that the polishing is complete.

After listening to Zhang Zhimu, the three of them seemed to understand.

Zhang Zhimu said: "Let's learn while doing it, in fact, doing this thing also depends on understanding." Let's prepare our stuff now. ”

First of all, the sifting sand, Li Yunhe made the grinding wheel to sieve out the finest sand, and after taking it, he had to sift out a few more times, and the finest sand sieved out was already like dust. You must wear a mask during the screening process, otherwise you will inhale it into your lungs and your breath will blow away the finest sand. These last sand are no longer something that can be solved by the current sieve, so I have no choice but to use a piece of silk cloth as a sieve.

The most troublesome production of polishing powder, originally Zhang Zhimu wanted to use rust to grind and then wash and make do, but when he saw the rust, Zhang Zhimu immediately denied this idea, because the iron oxide in the rust is too low in purity and has a lot of impurities, so it can't be used as polishing powder at all.

In the end, Zhang Zhimu made up his mind to make iron oxide, because this thing is very useful, it is not only used as a polishing material, but also a non-toxic red pigment, and it can also be used to make anti-rust paint. Now there are more and more steel products, and the problem of rust prevention is also a big deal. In the future, steel-hulled ships will not have anti-rust paint, and it will not take long for them to rust.

The best and easiest way to make iron oxide is to calcine it with ferrous sulfate. But where to find ferrous sulfate? Generally, the alum in pharmacies is ferrous sulfate, but the cost of buying alum in pharmacies is too high. Be sure to find the ball mine.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhimu went directly to see Liu Baoxue, who was in charge of the two iron-making furnaces in Yaogang, he was originally the head of the smelting factory, and he had been making iron in Shanxi for a long time, so he should know where there was a green alum mine.

The current fixed one is wearing a work suit and a pair of sunglasses, and is watching the fire with the furnace worker. I heard the workers tell him that Mr. Zhang was coming. He hurried over. This Liu Baoxue left the smelter, and he was quite depressed at first, he really couldn't do without this iron-making furnace. Fortunately, after arriving at the kiln, I had the opportunity to take charge of the two furnaces, one large and one small. So he was pleased. First, it can make steel again; The second is that there is much less work to manage the two-seat furnace, and he can study the technical problems in steelmaking carefully. He basically followed each furnace of steel, and he recorded each furnace of steel, recording the situation of the steel smelted under different circumstances, and over a period of time, a large amount of empirical data has been recorded. This time, I followed the workers to see the furnace fire, because steelmaking is a thing, and you can't grasp the essentials without following the furnace.

Coming to Zhang Zhimu, he took off his hood and sunglasses. Zhang Zhimu said first: "It's hard work. "Go over and shake his hand. Zhang Zhimu admires Liu Baoxue, a person who has both ability and ability.

Liu Bensheng hurriedly said: "It's not hard, thank you Mr. Zhang for coming to visit you." "Liu Bensheng is also a very good talker, and after all, he is also the head of a large plant.

Zhang Zhimu asked: "You have been engaged in metallurgy in Shanxi for so many years, do you know that there is a green alum mine in Shanxi?" ”

Liu Bensheng said: "Green alum mines are all associated mines, and there is no shortage of this thing, and we have it in our smelter." Only those who make medicine can make a little soak in vinegar, and then calcined for medicinal purposes. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Is there a lot of this thing? I'm going to use it to extract the pigment. ”

Liu Bensheng said: "If it is used as a pigment, it will not be used much, but in the mine behind our smelter, that thing is enough." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "That's great. It didn't take much effort to get there. You get busy first, I'm leaving. ”

Back in the office, Zhang Zhimu saw that there were two more young women in their twenties outside the office, and Yang Yulin was telling them something. After seeing Zhang Zhimu come back, Yang Yulin followed Zhang Zhimu into the office.

Zhang Zhimu asked, "What?" We've added people to import. ”

Yang Yulin said: "No, I picked two people to come over to help me." The robbery outside is about to start, so I'm going to join in the fun. ”

Zhang Zhimu asked: "Tell me quickly, why is there a fight outside?" ”

"Oh, it turned out that Mr. Lu made the first move and got more than 200 people first. Li Yunhe went to get more than 500 people, saying that he wanted to expand production. Originally, more than 500 people agreed to work with Li Yunhe, and Li Yunhe was about to arrange someone to train and lecture them, but Mr. Lu felt that there were not enough people, so he started recruiting people again. Some people who have already arrived at Li Yunhe's place feel that it is good to do business, and many people have gone to Mr. Lu's place again. The angry Li Yunhe went to find Mr. Lu, and both of them turned red when they said it. As a result, Mr. Lu returned to Li Yunhe, and it took a few people to finish the matter. Speaking of this, Yang Yulin's smile trembled.

Zhang Zhimu said: "Okay, I thought there were too many people a few days ago, but now I am starting to grab them again." Paying attention to talent shows that they have caught the idea. ”

Yang Yulin finished laughing, and then said: "Now there is a bit of culture here, and a little craftsmanship is delicious, Liu Bensheng and they have recruited a lot of carpenters and bricklayers." Liu Yun came over again and asked those who had been soldiers to leave. I heard that there are still a few officers and soldiers here. These people didn't dare to say it at first, they all hid. However, as soon as they saw that they had a little ability, they were asked to leave, so they took the initiative to find the registration office and identified themselves. Unexpectedly, when Liu heard about it, he came over on horseback and took them away. The angry Li Zhi glared and said that these people hadn't finished the review yet. But Liu Yun didn't care, and took the person away directly. Liu Yun took nearly a thousand people away before and after. Now whether it is a man or a woman, as long as they are educated, someone will immediately snatch them away, and Li Zhi's women will go to fifty or sixty. One of these two is from Mr. Lu, and the other is from Li Zhi. I looked at their files, they are all scholars, and they are both talented and beautiful. I've seen them, and they're speaking properly, so I'm asking for them. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "You are also domineering enough, you will come over if they are selected." ”

"Hehe, they can't wait for it. The fact that the people they selected can come to Mr. Zhang's office shows that they have vision. Yang Yulin said.

Zhang Zhimu said: "Don't pick too beautiful, otherwise I will have ideas." ”

Yang Yulin snorted with her nose and said, "Hmph, you just have the heart, and you don't have the courage." After speaking, Yang Yulin went out.

This sentence made Zhang Zhimu so depressed, and said in his heart that I recruited someone to provoke someone, isn't it good to be a good man with my duty?

Zhang Zhimu just sat down, thinking that he hadn't done anything yet. got up and went outside, and said to Yang Yulin: "Go and arrange someone to bring me back a cart of green alum to the smelting factory." ”

As soon as Zhang Zhimu came out, the two women in the room hurriedly stood up.

Seeing this, Zhang Zhimu said, in the future, you should work here, you should be casual, and you don't have to be so restrained. Yang Yulin also said to them: "Sit down, you can be casual when there are no outsiders." I'm not comfortable with you being so nervous. Then he said to Zhang Zhimu: "We have no soldiers and no power, who will command you to pull the green alum." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "I don't care, who let you be in charge of my business." ”

After speaking, Zhang Zhimu went back to the back room. Yang Yulin outside smiled and bent over, the two new girls, they didn't expect Yang Yulin to dare to talk to Zhang Zhimu like this, and Zhang Zhimu was so good-tempered and not angry.

One of these two girls is nineteen named Song Jiaxin, and the other is eighteen named Yang Qinglian.

After laughing, Yang Yulin said to Song Jiaxin: "You go to Mr. Lu and tell him that Mr. Zhang wants a carload of green alum and asks him to send someone to the smelting factory to bring it back." ”

Song Jiaxin had work to do for the first time, and happily went out to deliver a letter to Lu Chengxiang.

When Song Jiaxin passed by Zhang Zhimu's window, Zhang Zhimu glanced up, and his heart was shocked. Because he saw that Song Jiaxin was such a beautiful girl with a pair of small feet. Zhang Zhimu, who was a little annoyed, came to the outside room to see that the other Yang Qinglian was also small. The angry Zhang Zhimu returned to the inner room and closed the door.

Zhang Zhimu really hated this kind of cruel foot-binding behavior. He knew that this foot-binding was a very painful thing, and there was a proverb: "Wrap a pair of little feet, and tears will flow into a tank." ”

This vice originated in the Tang Dynasty, Li Yu, the queen of Li in the Southern Tang Dynasty, liked to watch women dance on the "golden lotus", because the golden lotus was too small, the dancer wrapped her feet in white silk so that her feet were bent and stood on it, and when she danced, she looked graceful, soft and graceful, it was originally a kind of dance attire, and then slowly spread from the harem to the upper class, and in the future, folk women followed suit, and gradually became a common social custom, becoming a sick aesthetic.

Zhang Zhimu knew that he couldn't change the status quo with his current strength, but he decided to start from the kiln, at least he was no longer allowed to bind his feet in the kiln. There are those who put their feet to be rewarded.

Zhang Zhimu, who was not in a good mood, came outside to wander around. When he came to the elementary school, he found a group of children lying on the wall of the primary school, it turned out that these children were all newcomers, and they were too envious of the children in the school, but they still had no chance to enter the school, so they could only look inside the wall.

When Zhang Zhimu walked over, the children jumped off the wall in fright and ran. There were a few bold ones who didn't run there, and Zhang Zhimu went over and asked, "Do you all want to go to school?" ”

One child bowed his head and said, "Yes, but we don't have the money to go to school." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Children who come to Yaogang don't need money to go to school. I'll arrange for you to go to school right away. But the children who go to school in the kiln gang have a requirement, that is, they must be clean, and they can't be like you, who don't wash their faces and hands. ”

When the children who ran away saw that they were fine, they all gathered around and boldly asked, "Can we really go to school?" ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Yes." I'm going to arrange your school now. But you have to wash your face and hands every day, do you see, are the children in the school clean? ”

The children all ran away at once, and Zhang Zhimu knew that they had gone back to wash their faces and hands.

Leaving the children, Zhang Zhimu came to Lu Bingyi's office, it happened that Lu Chengxiang had just arrived here, and it turned out that he had made an appointment to meet the budget of the Xiaoling River navigation plan together.

Zhang Zhimu said: "I'll say one thing first, you are studying it when it's over." ”

Lu Bingyi said: "Mr. Zhang, you can tell me first." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "I want to say that we still have more than 1,000 new children who are not in school. Let's see if we can figure out a way to solve this problem first. ”

Lu Bingyi laughed and said, "I knew that Mr. Zhang would definitely come to ask about the children." Don't worry, Mr. Zhang, when we registered the staff, we selected several teachers, all of whom were women. Because of the elementary school students I think it is better for women to attend classes, they are patient. But we'll arrange for people here to give math lessons. Outsiders can't take our math classes yet. Now your wife is leading people to make school uniforms for elementary school students. The school cafeteria is going to be dedicated to one. Otherwise, eating will also be a problem, and the students' principal and deputy homeroom teachers have also arranged it. There are not enough classrooms in the primary school, so some classes can be arranged to the middle school side, which are all next to each other anyway. Textbooks are enough, and tables, chairs and benches are not enough. We don't have a shortage of people now, and we can do things quickly. Ha ha! ”

Lu Bingyi dispelled Zhang Zhimu's doubts in one breath, and Zhang Zhimu said, "It's too hard for you." Investing in education is the most effective investment. Although his investment cycle is long, its effect is longer and more far-reaching. ”

Lu Chengxiang said beside him: "At this moment, Mr. Zhang is relieved. Now everyone in the kiln is busy. There are endless things to do, otherwise the kiln gang can't become so fast. Every day changes. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "After Mr. Lu and Mr. Lu have finished arguing about the transformation of Xiaolinghe, we will sit down and study the long-term plan for the future of Yaogang." Now that the idea is outdated, our new plan must be ahead of its time. Strive to make a plan within a few years. ”

Lu Bingyi said: "Okay, Mr. Lu and I were also discussing this matter a few days ago. You've got you coming to the door today. ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "This is what the hero sees! ”

The three of them laughed.

When Zhang Zhimu went out, Lu Chengxiang said: "I have already sent someone to pull the green alum that Mr. Zhang wants." ”

Leaving Lu Bingyi, Zhang Zhimu was in a good mood. Because the people in the kiln gang have slowly entered the state, everyone is in charge of their own affairs, and they no longer need to supervise themselves every day.

Walking on the road, Zhang Zhimu felt relaxed.

Coming to Li Yunhe made Zhang Zhimu feel another atmosphere. Li Yunhe has withdrawn those who have a skill from the production workshop and has specially engaged in the research and development of high-tech products. Mature things are handed over to the workshop to be produced.

Now he was in a meeting to study the production of steam engines. Seeing Zhang Zhimu come in, Li Yunhe said: "Mr. Zhang came just in time, we are studying the production of steam engines." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Okay, I also want to know if your steam engine output can come up." If there are no major defects in this product that we have finalized, it should be mass-produced, which is efficient and cost-effective. Standardize the main machine, so that it is convenient for us to repair and prepare accessories in the future. As for where it is used, it is necessary to specialize in interfaces. ”

Li Yunhe asked: "Does Zhang Zhimu mean mass production like a steel spring carriage?" ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "That's what it means, but this thing doesn't have such a large production demand." But the demand is not too small. You see, we need to make alkali, we need a lot of ammonia and carbon dioxide, which requires compressed gas into the cylinder, and now we are all using people to operate, and it is not possible to produce it in large quantities. It must be solved by steam power, which is not only efficient, but also can increase the pressure of the cylinder, and a cylinder can hold more gas. Our lathes also have to be changed to steam-powered, we not only have lathes, but also planers, milling machines, grinding machines and forging presses, etc., all need steam engines. We wanted to build a sawmill and we also needed a steam engine. How many places do you think there will be a need for a steam engine in the future? ”

Li Yunhe said: "Then we will decide to build another big workshop to specialize in steam engines." Is our theory of justice a one, or is it improvising in the existing place? ”

"The new workshop can be built, that is the beginning of spring next year, where is the location. Don't stop this year, continue to do it under the existing circumstances. Zhang Zhimu said.

Li Yunhe said: "Okay, just do what Mr. Zhang said." I have already explained to Liu Baoxue the silicon steel sheet you want, and you can press it out after our roller press is adjusted. Marine steam engine, we have arranged for someone to work with me, I don't know when we will go to Lingshui Wharf, and we will know the size when we look at the ship. You tell Lu Qi about their locks and zippers, and they are trying to produce them. ”

"I think it's better to go sooner rather than later, let's go to Lingshui together tomorrow. With this settled, there is still a lot to be done when the steam engine is on board. Zhang Zhimu said.

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