Chapter 148 German Craftsmanship

On the land on the west side of the port of Hamburg, Germany, there is a branch of the Krupp Steel Company, and today, the factory has taken over a group of young Chinese workers, which is part of the technical training program signed between Mawei and the German side.

There were a total of 33 young Chinese workers in this group, and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not have much interest in the arrangement of this matter, but because it was related to several very important foreign affairs of the Empire, it did its best in the arrangement, and a total of 300 workers were all sent to important factories in the Empire to participate in internships, and the process was based on the new German workers.

The manager of the Krupp Steel Company's branch was also a little confused about this task personally carried out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but he still solemnly brought the head of personnel to receive these Chinese workers. To be honest, at first glance, Karn didn't have much of a good impression of these Orientals who looked a little wooden, didn't speak much, and dragged a long braid, so out of responsibility for his work, he seriously asked for the names of these people one by one.

Unfortunately, less than half of these Chinese could speak simple German, and even communication required an interpreter, which gave him a headache...... Nothing has been done, God knows what these Chinese want to do?

Fortunately, the workers were accompanied by a handsome Chinese man in a suit who was fluent in German, and now Manager Kahn finally found someone to talk to, and he specifically raised the language problems of the workers, saying that it would be almost impossible for the workers to complete the internship process in the factory if it was not solved.

Naturally, Wang Chenyu, who was in charge of Hamburg's affairs, was accompanied by Wang Li, and he and Wang Li had discussed that with Brandenburg-Cologne as the dividing line, all those along the coast in the west would be arranged by him, and those that would depend on the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the east would be arranged by Wang Li.

After Wang Chenyu talked to Kahn's manager, Jiāo, he assured the other party with great confidence that within a month, these language barriers would be overcome

The director of the factory put forward the list, and then divided into groups according to the type of technology, and then the members of the Mawei Shipyard's strictest technical level assessment team collectively discussed to determine the final list.

They were all arranged to intern in factories near Hamburg and Berlin, basically on the periphery of the bustling city, and the living and working conditions were strictly arranged by the German side, and they lived in the same dormitory as ordinary German workers.

Of course, this may also cause some contradictions, Qin Kai also considered, but in this era, Europe's attitude towards the Far East was much more peaceful than the United States at that time, which stemmed from the great achievements made by Europeans after industry, although there was a peep at the huge empire of the Far East, but it still felt that there was no ability to annex at all, and the Chinese still retained moral respect, so it was not difficult for the Chinese to survive in Europe.

The so-called braids were not as prominent as they might have been, since most of the workers' activities were limited to the factory, and at first the Germans were somewhat curious about the braids of the Chinese workers, but soon they lost the motivation to pay attention to them.

Germany is in the stage of great industrial development, and the high intensity of factory labor is directly reflected in the attitude of those German workers towards Chinese interns, they do not have any hostile attitude, but more do not care about the estrangement and strangeness, and the manager of the Krupp steel plant Kahn arranged these matters to the personnel director after the first day.

In the following one-and-a-half-year internship, after each day of the internship, the team leader and deputy team leader organize the workers to learn from each other the skills and experience they have learned that day, and then organize the workers to carry out German conversation learning

At present, this group of trainees are basically horsetail graduates and skilled workers on the front line of production, and they have no contact with German, which is the first hurdle they have to cross.

At this point, Wang Chenyu is deeply experienced, his German was learned with his German partner Joseph before coming to Germany, all the way on the ship, he chatted with Joseph in bullshit German all day long, chatting with the Germans was very annoying, but under this kind of jiāo flow, after arriving in Germany, soon his German can be competent for the daily jiāo stream.

This trick was naturally used by him on these workers, and it didn't matter if he didn't talk, he immediately went to talk to Manager Kahn and the head of personnel, and two sets of Chinese-made stainless steel dark grain tableware and an authentic Oriental handmade silk gift were sent, and the relationship between the two sides was immediately very harmonious, and the matter after that was naturally solved...... It's a trivial matter

The head of personnel quickly transferred a group of honest German workers to become neighbors with Chinese workers, and the German workers had some opinions about this sudden transfer, but soon discovered the benefits, and the Chinese very warmly invited them to participate in the tasting of Chinese food, plus all kinds of small gifts from the Far East, and soaps that are rare in Europe, these Germans immediately discovered the loveliness of the Chinese.

Soon, the jiāo flow among the workers turned into small talk among friends, and the workers' originally stammering German naturally improved rapidly, and with the deepening of the Chinese small gift offensive, the Germans' view of these Chinese also had some new changes.

They soon discovered that this Chinese worker, who was not tall in stature and had an honest appearance, had a naturally intelligent mind, and mastered the technical work in the factory very quickly, and their ability to endure hardships and stand hard work was beyond the imagination of all German workers......

Tang Ming is a graduate of the Mawei Boat Administration Art Garden last year, he was originally a rural baby in Fuzhou North Village, his family of three brothers, the eldest brother and the second brother worked in the field, and the land at home no longer needed him as a laborer, was sent to the Mawei Art Garden by his father to study, originally expected to earn a salary of 8 yuan per month after leaving the school, which can be regarded as being able to support himself.

However, this qiē has undergone earth-shaking changes after Qin Kai became the master of Mawei Shipbuilding, when he recruited workers, because of his excellent studies and strong hands-on ability, he was recruited into the Mawei Iron and Steel Plant by Wang Fei, and after entering the factory, with his active brain and the strength to study technology hard, he was quickly promoted from an apprentice to an intermediate worker.

Now the salary of more than 20 taels of silver made his father completely dumbfounded, and asked Tang Ming to find them Wang Daguan to walk the mén road all day long, wanting his two eldest brothers to stop working in the fields, even if they went to Mawei to find a hard job, it would be far better than the income from farming. This time, when he came to Germany to learn technology, Tang Ming can be said to have passed the test and became the leader of the first team of the steel mill.

He still remembered that before leaving, he got a very rare opportunity to be received by the political envoy Lord Qin, of course, this process was very short, and there were a lot of people to see that day, a huge team of 300 people set off in batches, and Qin Kai just made a face with these people.

However, he found a photographer very fashionably and took a group photo, which made everyone feel extremely honored The entire Mawei Ship Administration knows that Lord Qin attacked thousands of miles and beat the countrymen, such a great cause is definitely possible only when the martial arts stars in the sky come down.

Afterwards, the team leaders and deputy team leaders were received separately for 10 minutes, and the political envoy repeatedly told them to study hard while they were outside, and to learn German management while bringing back German technology, and every bit of experience they learned might be of great use

Each group leader is the soul of this group of workers, and I hope that they will keep abreast of the thoughts of the group workers, and report to the local responsible supervisor, and at the same time ask them to give full play to their abilities in the jiāo flow of German workers

Tang Ming didn't know the amount of the reward that Lord Qin said, but Mawei's experience convinced him that what Lord Qin said would definitely be fulfilled

Now Tang Ming has been in the Krupp steel plant for half a month, and finally began to gradually integrate into the atmosphere of the factory, in the morning, the adjacent German technical training worker Müller will be extremely punctual to meet Chinese friends for breakfast, this is not any special friendship, just because these Chinese friends have self-service kitchens, and they are also very generous to welcome neighbors to come over for a light meal.

Of course, these expenses are all in Wang Chenyu's calculations, 33 workers' food expenses are calculated according to 10 taels of silver per person per month, and after using the self-service kitchen, a chef is hired, the expenses are saved, the workers eat Chinese food is even more good, and the workers will cook by themselves, and the delicious Chinese food has become a new communication link with the German teaching workers. ,

After accounting, but double the monthly expenses, for the whole year and a half, will pay 200 taels of silver for each of these workers, can bear the living expenses of these workers, and the attraction of Chinese food has greatly promoted the interaction of workers, so that hard-working and intelligent Chinese workers have been welcomed in all workshops, after all, Chinese workers will have the opportunity to taste Chinese food for free...... This is a rare opportunity

As for his technical teacher, Tang Ming's evaluation of his ability is actually very average, Muller is a new worker who has just entered Krupp Steel Company for only a year and a half, and Tang Ming has actually worked in Mawei Iron and Steel Plant for more than a year, although in Mawei Iron and Steel Plant, he often feels good about himself, and has some experience in mastering steelmaking technology and heat, but in the internship, Muller only praised his skills for showing Xiàn.

Tang Ming was a little unconvinced at first, but a month later, the young German worker Müller gave him a real craft class......

Muller's quenching process after hot-rolled steel forming, Tang Ming is blast furnace steelmaking in the horsetail tube, but the quenching process is a technology that intermediate technicians must master, and he has also learned very seriously from several old workers in the factory, thinking that he has already mastered the key to the mid-term.

But from this day, he suddenly found that his learning in the steel process processing has just begun, in the morning, the director of the rolling workshop brought down a new task, is a batch of German steel processing. Hearing the news, Tang Ming, who was learning steel rolling skills from German workers on the side, was immediately excited.

When he first arrived at Mawei Shipyard, it was the period when Wang Fei and Qian Qing led the research team to tackle key problems in steel armor processing technology, at that time, every day according to different schemes to complete the hot rolling processing of a variety of steel plates, and then carry out cold water quenching tests, a few days of light return to the furnace of scrap steel have several tons.

Even if there is a nickel steel to achieve the effect of the completion of processing, but the yield has always been a strict problem, and finally after repeated attempts, although the research team of the steelmaking plant has found a solution to roll the new steel armor, but the solution is the high scrap rate of this processing, even if the scrap rate of the steelmaking plant senior technical workers have not met the needs of industrial production.

Muller obviously noticed Tang Ming's excitement as well, he smiled and joked: "Don, you can be lucky this time, in our German proverb, the fruit of labor is sweeter than a qiē fruit, and you will have the opportunity to taste your fruits later, don't get too excited now."

The new task is the carburized steel that the Germans call ST07, and Müller, who is responsible for the production of this steel, does not know much about the specific technical parameters of this steel, which makes Tang Ming, as a student, a little disdainful, but Müller is familiar with the quenching process he is responsible for......

Soon the newly produced steel plate slipped to the quenching pool on Muller's side after the treatment of the previous processes, the fiery red steel plate was completely impossible to contact at this time, Muller pointed to the steel plate from a distance, let Tang Mingtong Guò Yan sè observe the change in the temperature of the steel plate, just when the light and darkness changed, he shook the gear shaft, and the steel plate that was stuck in the front and rear quickly sank into the quenching pool.

Of course, what made Tang Ming strange was that this quenched cào was completely different from the experience he had learned at the Shipyard Iron and Steel Plant, after the half-thickness steel plate was sunk into the water, it was lifted by Muller, and then the runner was shaken to move quickly to another quenching pool.

Seeing Tang Ming's suspicions, Muller Chukong, who was working intensively, said: "Tang, this process needs to complete at least three cold water quenching and two salt water quenching within 5 minutes, so that the surface of the steel forms carbon steel layers of different hardness, so as to finally produce ordinary quality ST07 carburizing steel."

Tang Ming heard the black line on his face, and hurriedly took out a pen and paper to record Mueller's words in his small book, "Mueller, isn't there a simplified handling office?" ”

"Of course not, this is the hot quenching specification that we have developed after several years of research in the real yàn room of our Krupp company, every step is indispensable, you are now here to carefully look at my cào process and gestures, pay attention to look carefully"

Naturally, Tang Ming was confused when he heard this, could it be that this Muller was also a martial arts master, and he also let himself observe his gestures, but now he is here to learn technology, and every bit of experience has been summed up by the Germans, if he can learn more, he will be able to take fewer detours when he goes back in the future, so he immediately carefully devoted himself to the observation ......,

Müller continuously transferred the steel plates coming down from the rolling line to the cold water quenching bath and the salt water quenching bath, and then repeatedly reversed back and forth, sometimes the steel plates on the rolling line came down slowly, and he would quench one more in five minutes.

However, soon, Tang Ming saw some Ni Duan, this old Mu from the beginning of observing the quenched steel plate, to the amplitude of shaking the runner, and even the thickness of the steel plate quenched into the water, the whole processing for an hour, close to the process of 12 steel plates, there has never been any stop, during this time, Mueller did not even say a word to him......

When the processing of 12 steel plates was completed, Muller looked at the clock, picked up the cup and drank a large sip of water, and then quickly poured the water cup and put it into work again, the time before and after was 1 minute, and then the processing process was still repeating the entire process before, Muller never omitted a quenching, or shortened the quenching time, every time the entire process was completed, Tang Ming had seen the clock, generally 5 minutes less than 5 seconds, and the error would not exceed 2 seconds.

After two hours of non-stop processing, Müller took the initiative to stop.

"Mueller, is it over?"

Muller waved his hand and smiled slightly, "It's still early, according to the regulations, you must rest for 20 minutes every two hours, so I'll take a break now, and I want to do my best."

He still drank the water in 1 minute, poured it full again, and then took advantage of the 20-minute break, he simply explained the key points of the whole process to Tang Ming, which was just a requirement for his quenching position, and Tang Ming was shocked that these complicated processing plans were formulated.

And the worst thing is that if this complex cào is carried out in the process of industrialization, and if the cào is aimed at a new worker who has only a year and a half of work experience, he again observes the workers on several other rolling lines, and their movements are almost exactly the same as Müller's, it seems that even this work has been completely regulated in the German way.

But...... It was really an incredible thing to bring these workers into one appearance, Tang Ming was secretly surprised, and carefully wrote down all the details he observed, and went back at night to carry out the jiāo flow.

After a 20-minute break, Muller started the completely standardized production process again, which made Tang Ming always feel awkward, and he was meticulous to put it mildly, but he thought it was more mechanical and old-fashioned, but what surprised him was the work results at noon