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Qin Kai naturally did not participate in this large-scale battle for the foreign cloth market, this time the participants were all old fritters among the Chinese businessmen, as well as Fukang Yinhao to help, he also understood that the final result of this cruel market battle would take at least a month, this is a war to the death, once you make a move, there is no room for maneuver.

In addition to listening to He Xing's report every day, he didn't put too much thought into this matter, if the products of the same quality can't compete with imported products, it can only be said that Wu Jingui and these big shopkeepers are too mentally retarded.

At this time, he was looking at a letter in his hand, the pink envelope and the handwriting of Sicheng acquaintance, showing that the sender of this letter was the beautiful woman in dress who met again in Guangzhou. This beauty is different from the style of this era, which is somewhat attractive to Qin Kai, but to be honest, he can't tell whether he has the idea of pursuing it or not.

The girl's grace and autumn style really attracted him, I don't know what this second letter will be written? Qin Kai opened the letter with twelve points of curiosity, the letter was very short, the big beauty said some words of thanks, and then asked very seriously about the story of the seven-colored flower that Qin Kai said, as well as the question of the seven-colored flower wish, and the payment was a very elegant name - Qi Shuxuan.

"What a lovely girl," Qin Kai couldn't help but smile slightly, the story of the seven-colored flower is really not easy to fool, he took out a pencil and paper, and soon a fairy tale about the seven-colored flower and the beautiful girl jumped on the paper, and at the end, he asked the girl some small questions at random, and left a reply.

In the past two months, the management system of the shipyards, steel mills and various workshops under the Mawei Shipyard has undergone a major change, the workers have completed the identification of apprentices and junior workers, and the assessment of intermediate and senior workers has allowed all workers to see a new way out.

Except for a few small officials who are related to the outdoors, they basically rely on technology all the way from workers to their positions, which makes Qin Kai have to thank Lord Shen Baozhen of the Caochuang Ship Administration again, appointing people on the basis of merit, especially in a last-day empire, it is really not easy to do this.

This cohesion is nothing more than two ways, respect him, give him status, or encourage him, increase salary, from the bottom of his heart, for the Mawei Shipmaster, a group of workers brought out by French and British carpenters and blacksmiths, Qin Kai did not expect too much, and the group of people in the Artillery Bureau was already the essence of it.

However, in this assessment of intermediate and senior workers, there were 76 workers who passed the senior worker assessment and 245 people passed the intermediate worker assessment, which made Qin Kai also surprised for the total number of 2,000 people in the factory, after all, this proportion is not much worse than the middle and senior skilled workers of the Artillery Bureau, it is really a place where the dragon and the tiger are hidden.

Qin Kai snickered, and immediately made drastic reforms.

All the senior and intermediate technicians were summoned, and there was no such a large venue, just in the open space in the middle of the shipyard. Hearing that Supervisor Qin convened everyone to discuss the matter, these workers were naturally very excited, you must know that although they have passed the assessment now, the salary has not been cashed.

"Ding Monkey, Lord Qin doesn't know how much salary he will pay us today?" Wang Hai, the black fat man in the steel mill, got his wish this time, passed the assessment of senior workers, and was chattering with another thin man, and Zeng Qing, who had always had a good relationship with him, was admitted to the school as a teacher.

"Wang Fatzi, you have mixed up with senior workers, and the salary must be higher than that of me, an intermediate worker, and I entered the factory earlier than you! I heard that the senior engineer of the Artillery Bureau can have 30 taels of silver a month! Ding Monkey obviously has some opinions about being surpassed by Wang Fatzi, but this is a real test, and he can't be unconvinced.

"Yes, yes, we're only 4 taels now, it's really more popular than people!"

Qin Kai sat down and saw that the workers below were quietly discussing, waving their hands, and announcing the start of the formal meeting, which was completely unexpected by everyone, Qin Supervision did not mention the issue of salary at all, and first praised the technical level of these workers, and the conversation changed.

"Now everyone has passed the technical level assessment, but ...... Technology! Do you know what that means? Qin Kai asked loudly. ,

"Ability!" "Ability!" "Pay ......," the workers replied in a rambling manner.

Qin Kai smiled and said loudly: "There is some truth in what everyone said, but what I value most is the creative power of technology!" The technology you have mastered should help the shipmaster to build more advanced ships, refine better quality steel, and make machine tools and parts with higher technology, which means that you are a qualified skilled worker! ”

The workers were stunned when they heard it, they naturally understood Qin Kai's meaning, but from their point of view, they didn't understand Qin Kai's so-called creative power......

Qin Kai naturally understands that even in all the research and development of the Artillery Bureau, he needs to give individual guidance and provide which direction of the research team to advance, after all, it is definitely a qualitative change from a worker to a creative worker.

He has seen workers with a sense of active innovation, in fact, there are not many, Qian Qing, a small man in the ironworks, Liao Dechang recruited from Guangzhou, there are only a few people, even if it is Xu Guofang, it is indeed a master of machine tools, but he is not satisfied with innovation.

However, fortunately, the diligence of the Chinese people has made up for the gap in this regard, and there is Qin Kai's absolutely accurate directional guidance, so the progress of the research and development of the Artillery Bureau can indeed be described as coming by leaps and bounds. Now, what he needs is to mobilize the strength of all Mawei Shipyard to promote the development of Mawei industry.

Qin Kai held up a delicate booklet that had just been printed and waved it, "Today is an important day for all the brothers here, and each of you will be issued a certificate proving your technical level!" This certificate must be certified by the technical assessment team of the shipping department once a year, and there is only one standard for certification, that is...... Do you use all your ability in the work of the shipmaster, who does not work only with technology, the shipmaster does not need such ability! ”

The students on the side all came up, and the certificates that had been sorted out in front were issued, these workers got the big red cover certificate for the first time, and they were all excited to death, this is their ability written in black and white, and it is also covered with the big seal of the red horsetail shipbuilding, which was something that I couldn't think of before, this thing was taken out, who would dare to say that our craftsmen are inferior......

Seeing that the certificate was issued, Qin Kai began to announce the salary that the workers were concerned about, "The salary of the shipmaster is all the silver allocated by the imperial court, how much it was before, and how much it is now, everyone has increased their salaries by 20% in the past few months, and that is the silver earned by the Artillery Bureau to subsidize everyone!" ”

Seeing the stunned expressions of the workers below, Qin Kai smiled slightly, let's tell the truth, Ding Tieji is short of money for "seeking truth from facts", how can this shipmaster have the money to raise salaries, of course, this word does not mean to despise Lao Ding at all, Comrade Lao Ding is a good comrade who is advanced in all aspects.

"But...... Since everyone has proved that they are capable middle and senior skilled workers, from this month onwards, the Artillery Bureau will pay for an additional reward of 5 taels for intermediate workers and 10 taels for senior workers every month, in addition, half a tael for apprentices and 1 tael for junior workers! ”

This kind of incentive has tripled the salary of senior workers, more than doubled the salary of intermediate workers, and the salary of apprentices and primary industries has increased by 30%, and the faces of the workers in the field are filled with excited expressions. And this silver, it was all given by Lord Qin!

Qin Kai looked at the table of the workers below with satisfaction, this extra reward will cost an extra four thousand taels of silver per month, but at this point, these workers have formed a closely integrated group with him, in this era, no one except him will be willing to pay such a high price for a group of people called craftsmen, so they have no choice.

A one-year list of technical breakthroughs and output expectations was issued to the officials in charge, and these technical research projects were all carried out around a purpose -- the manufacture of ironclad ships, which was the current technological difficulties put forward by the shipyard workers after careful investigation and study of the 501 ship for more than a month.

Starting from shipbuilding, from heavy industry to light industry, this is also the development direction of the Mawei shipbuilding planned by Qin Kai, the technology involved in ship engineering is very extensive, and after conquering a technology, the new technology will be put into civilian industry in time, so as to form an orderly growth model of technology into productivity and resources. ,

For a long time after the reform and opening up of New China, the domestic economy, scientific research, and enterprises have developed rapidly, but most of them rely on the so-called joint ventures to introduce technology, and the local so-called scientific research institutions apply for tens of thousands of patents every year, but the real use to promote production and people's livelihood is rare.

If it were not for the radical overhaul of this deformed scientific research model in the mid-21st century, China's economy and science and technology would have been hovering at a low level.

Now the management mode of each factory has undergone some changes, and the original experienced officials are naturally retained, and at least three to four senior technicians are configured to assist in tackling key problems in related businesses.

The spirit of this meeting soon spread in the shipyard, the workers got benefits, and the enthusiasm for natural work increased greatly, and at the meetings of various research groups, there was even more shocking and exciting news.

Supervisor Qin personally promised that the technical breakthroughs and achievements made by the research team will be rated by the technical evaluation panel of the shipping administration, and each achievement will be rewarded to the research team, and especially important achievements can also get 10 years of profit sharing and extra points for the rating of skilled workers in related industries.

For a time, all kinds of key research topics issued by the shipmaster have become fragrant and sweet, and the workers actively participate in their own research and development teams in their spare time to brainstorm. But...... Obviously, technical research is not about eating and drinking tea, it is something that can be done by individuals, which requires not only sweat and labor, but also incomparable tenacity and perseverance, so this trend comes and goes quickly.

Which three days of fishing guys quickly feel at ease in the post work, hard to practice operational skills, and strive to get the technical level as soon as possible, and the heart of the workers, in this wave of quickly formed some small organizations, these team members generally have a long work experience, for the industry when the technology is quite familiar.

The daily processing work is already very simple for them, and these key projects provided by Qin Kai can give full play to their personal talents, get rich rewards, and also get technical improvements, which they really have thought of in the past, but have never had the opportunity, and these people soon formed the core force of a factory or workshop.

Andrew, is one of the technicians sent from Germany to Mawei Shipmaster a few months ago for technical guidance, and is also one of several senior technicians specially recommended by Consul Schleier to Qin Kai, he used to work in the famous Volkeng shipyard in Germany, engaged in ship design, he is very incomprehensible to the government's dispatch behavior, that far east country, the only thing that impresses people is porcelain and braids.

If it weren't for this two-year dispatch, the German government and Volkeng's shipyard promised to give twice the salary, no one would have come. After arriving at the Mawei shipyard, the Chinese here still seem to be very enthusiastic, which is very consistent with what Consul Schleier said, but after he looked at the equipment of the shipyard, steel mill, rolling mill and steam engine workshop, and then communicated with other technicians, the evaluation was very consistent, "The technology here is more than 30 years behind Germany!" ”

The only thing that surprised them was that the workers here were generally very good, with a literacy rate of more than 90%, which is rare in large German companies such as the Volkeng shipyard, and the spirit of Chinese workers who endured hardships and stood hard work.

Because of his special expertise in technology, Qin Kai specially approved him to participate in the technical research and guidance of several groups, and here, he saw some phenomena that shocked him, and recorded what he saw and heard in his diary, and these diaries, for decades, have become the authoritative materials for the study of the horsetail industry in the West.

"Today, I am participating in a key research topic of the ship design team at the Mawei Shipyard, and these technologies have already been mastered by our Volkeng Shipyard, but because the Mawei Shipyard does not have our processing machinery, and there are no German high-quality workers, they have encountered a bottleneck in the keel ......."

"The R&D team of Chinese is generally presided over by two or three people they call senior technicians, and the leader of this team is a man named Wang Ruijie, who has studied in the United States for four years and is said to have participated in the development of large machinery ...... the Shipmaster Artillery Bureau."

"I introduced to the Chinese the large hydraulic press and air hammer used in the German-made zuò, the steel used for the keel, which requires extremely high toughness and strength, and introduced the specific parameters of these German steels, obviously these Chinese workers were very surprised by this, and I let them know the rigorous German technology."

“…… Two days later, when I participated in the discussion of the keel process group again, they seemed to no longer discuss the keel process problems, in this regard, I was very puzzled, after asking, Wang Ruijie, the leader of the research team, he said that the research and development of the keel process has been submitted to the Qin Supervision Office, and a special research team has been formed for emergency research and development...... I deeply doubt this! ”

"Today, I was invited to a factory not far from the shipyard, accompanied by Wang Ruijie told me that a group of senior and senior technical workers of the shipyard wanted to communicate with me on shipbuilding technology, and I appreciated the Chinese's eagerness to learn...... In this new plant, I saw some very new machines, including very advanced fully mechanical grinding machines and boring machines, which are in use and run automatically by mechanical transmission, and only need one or two workers to operate them proficiently...... These machine tools, in my judgment, at least the Volken shipyard did not have them! I was very, very surprised! ”

"Today I met again Mr. Qin Kai, the superintendent of the largest shipbuilding factory in the East, his youth and wisdom are beyond my imagination, when I explain the whole steel ship keel technology, he is always able to put forward Chinese the most critical problems in the shipbuilding industry, and then hand these over to which hard-working technical researchers to deal with......"

"The young Chinese official knew far more technical details than I could have imagined, and he was interested in German-made structural steel, which I know can only be built in Chinese way of 1,500 tonnage...... I have a brief explanation for this! ”

"I was in another place, I saw a brand new steel plant, where, I was surprised to find that there was a high-power air hammer and a 300-ton hydraulic press, Qin also wanted me to show a composite multi-layer armor, which is made of high-carbon steel and high-toughness wrought iron by a hydraulic press, according to my estimate, the performance of this armor is ahead of the armor of German-made warships!"

"In view of my active guidance of the shipbuilding industry in Mawei, and the special instructions of the Qin Supervisor, I can receive a monthly teacher's allowance, which is about 100 taels of silver, which is equivalent to 600 German marks, and the far east is indeed extremely rich."

Inside the Mawei Steelworks, the temperature of the entire plant is more than ten degrees higher than that outside, and Wang Fei and Qian Qing are discussing with seven or eight young skilled workers.

Wang Fei waved his thick arm, held a stack of papers in his hand, and said angrily, "You see, this is a furnace of steel refined yesterday, according to the designed plan, high-pressure blasting, reducing the carbon content, the result of the whole furnace of molten steel rolling forming, the hardness of the test is up to standard, but the tensile strength and yield strength of the substrate are insufficient, it can be seen that this plan does not work at all!" ”

Seeing that the team leader was angry, a group of top technicians all bowed their heads and pondered the problem.

Qian Qing was the second to speak, "Brother Wang, this hardness is up to standard, it can be regarded as a partial success, you can try to quench and then return to the furnace for rerefining, in addition, didn't Lord Qin mention alloy steel, could it be that our steel lacks other special metals?" ”

An intermediate technician on the side asked, "Brother Wang, do you want to go to the supervisor to find a way, if there is anything that the supervisor can't do, maybe give us a little, and this steel will be refined!" ”

"Liu San, fuck you, you should supervise and take care of this matter, and this task is handed over to us, because we have completed the development of S1 and S2 artillery hard steels before, and this is a big topic, so it's a big seed! Give me a long time to think about it, when I eat, when I, and before I go to bed! This plan is one for each person, and they are all taken for consideration! Tomorrow morning, we will discuss it again! ”

The next day, the team members proposed several more proposals, including the replacement of iron ore and smelting, and soon the group formed two sets of plans, one was the quenching and reforging plan planned by Qian Qing, and the second was the alternative plan of choosing other ores.

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