Xia Xiaoqin and Xie Chuan rested in the guest house for the night, and the next morning, they went to see Zheng Kun.

Zheng Kun was holding a workers' meeting in the brick factory canteen, and Xia Xiaoqin and Xie Chuan were sitting at the back door listening.

"He's improving a lot." Xie Chuan said appreciatively.

"This is called three days of Shibei and impressive, Brother Kun used to just hide his edge, and when he shines, he will definitely shock all of you!"

"In the past, the family watched him closely, but now he doesn't smile anymore, it's time for him to fly freely. However, you are called the wrong person, he should call you sister-in-law. ”

Xia Xiaoqin's cheeks flushed with shame, and her little hand secretly climbed to Xie Chuan's waist and twisted it gently.

Xie Chuan snorted.

Xia Xiaoqin shook him with a roll of his eyes: "You don't pretend to be too good, your abdominal muscles are so tight, I can't twist it at all!" ”

Xie Chuan grabbed Xia Xiaoqin's little hand and gently put it on his abdomen: "You touched my wound, you want to rub it for me, it won't hurt if you rub it." ”

Xie Chuan's cheating behavior made Xia Xiaoqin speechless, there were still fifty or sixty employees in front of them in a meeting, Xia Xiaoqin didn't withdraw her hand, so she put her hand on it perfunctorily.

In the hot summer, through the thin short-sleeved undershirt, Xia Xiaoqin could clearly feel the outline of Xie Chuan's abdominal scar.

The burn scar is uneven, and you don't need to look at it with your own eyes, just by imagining it, you can guess its hideous appearance.

Xia Xiaoqin's first stroke was a perfunctory stroke, and the second time it turned into a careful stroke.

The softer Xia Xiaoqin's movements, the more Xie Chuan felt an itch in his abdomen, and when he saw Xia Xiaoqin's expression becoming sad and depressed, he quickly caught Xia Xiaoqin's little hand.

"Okay, it doesn't hurt anymore."

Xia Xiaoqin pursed her lips and silently withdrew her hand.

Xie Chuan was annoyed when he saw this, and regretted letting Xia Xiaoqin touch his scars.

Fortunately, the staff meeting ended soon, and after the workers dispersed, Zheng Kun walked towards the two with a light smile.

"It's hot here, let's go to the office and talk."

The temperature in Zheng Kun's office is not low, Xia Xiaoqin saw two electric fans produced by Xingfu Electric Appliance Factory in his room, and immediately smiled: "Brother Kun, you really take care of our business." ”

Zheng Kun also smiled: "When will you build a house?" Also take care of my business. ”

Referring to the business of the brick factory, Xia Xiaoqin asked: "Brother Kun, I see that all the bricks in the factory are red bricks, does the brick factory only burn red bricks?" ”

"I also burn refractory bricks, but the sales are low, and only one batch is burned a month."

"Is the main raw material of red bricks soil?"

"yes. How? Do you want to see how to burn bricks? ”

Xia Xiaoqin shook her head hurriedly, she was not interested in burning bricks, she thought of an incident she had experienced in her previous life.

Xia Xiaoqin remembers that when she was in the millennium, the wall of the school she was studying collapsed, and the school bought cheap red bricks to repair the wall.

As a result, the wall had just been repaired for two days, and suddenly it was demolished again and replaced with another type of sintered perforated brick.

The students were curious, and after asking the reason, they found out that red bricks had been banned for several years.

Xia Xiaoqin is also a curious baby, and she also deliberately checked the reason for banning red bricks.

It turns out that firing red bricks requires several times its volume of soil as raw materials, which will destroy the soil and arable land.

And the weight of red bricks is heavier than other bricks, the same height of the building, the use of red bricks will increase the surface load per unit area, resulting in the design of the pile foundation and pillars of the building, which indirectly leads to an increase in the amount of building materials such as steel bars and cement, and an increase in the cost of building a house.

On top of that, the amount of soot emitted when red bricks are fired is large, which damages the environment.

Xia Xiaoqin picked out a few points of what she thought of and told Zheng Kun and Xie Chuan, and after hearing them, both of them looked shocked.

When Zheng Kun took over the brick factory, the business model of the brick factory was already very mature.

Although he has not been accepting it for a long time, he has already seen the profit in his account.

At first glance, when he heard that red bricks might be banned, Zheng Kun's intuition was not credible.

"Pengcheng is being built everywhere, almost all of them are using red bricks, and red bricks are really banned, what bricks does the construction company use to build buildings? Do you know about the Nanhai Hotel, which has just laid the foundation? They are about to build a five-star hotel with red bricks! ”

Of course, Xia Xiaoqin knows about the Nanhai Hotel, which is the first five-star hotel in Pengcheng!

Xia Xiaoqin remembers that the Nanhai Hotel was opened in 86 years, and now the foundation stone has just been laid?

It's possible, after all, there are a lot of cumbersome procedures to prepare before laying the foundation!

Knowing that the foundation stone of the Nanhai Hotel had just been laid, Xia Xiaoqin suddenly had a bold idea!

Xia Xiaoqin gathered the fragmentary memories in her mind, and said slowly: "Burning red bricks is a fixed thinking, jumping out of this limitation, we can come up with a bold idea, for example, sintered porous bricks?" Concrete hollow bricks? Sand-lime bricks are also OK, there is more than one kind of red brick that can be replaced! ”

Zheng Kun disagreed: "Red bricks are the easiest to burn, brick factories are also good at burning red bricks, the country has not banned red bricks now, we don't break the law by burning red bricks." ”

"Yes, you're right. But you don't have a sales advantage when you burn red bricks! ”

Zheng Kun motioned for Xia Xiaoqin to continue.

Xia Xiaoqin drank saliva to moisten her throat, put down the enamel tea jar and started talking.

"Indeed, now the brick factories are burning red bricks, but the quality of the red bricks is linked to the craftsmanship of the workers, the market is large, and the competition is also great."

"The scale of your brick factory is okay, but when I came, I saw a two-meter-high pile of waste materials at the back door, and those scraps were all your torn money!"

"The competitiveness of your red bricks in the market is only medium and low, but if you research a new type of material that can replace red bricks, those red bricks that will be banned are not your opponents at all!"

"Take the Nanhai Hotel as an example, their positioning is a five-star hotel, isn't it a very good gimmick to build it with new materials? It's the only one of its kind in the country! ”

"The most important thing is that burning red bricks is good for the country and the people!"

Zheng Kun's thinking was led to a broad road by Xia Xiaoqin, and he quickly called the backbone of the brick factory to hold an impromptu meeting.

Xia Xiaoqin, as a guide, and Xie Chuan attended the meeting together.

For the research of new materials, only one of the five backbones of the brick factory agreed.

Their thinking is old-fashioned, the same as Zheng Kun just thought, now that they can make money by burning red bricks, why not burn them?

The state doesn't care about it yet!

Another person listened to Zheng Kun's words: "I have been burning bricks for 20 years, I know that what you said is right, if there is a new material that can replace red bricks, I am willing to participate in the research!" ”

After Zheng Kun's lobbying, three backbones were willing to participate in the research of new materials, and the other two conservative backbones continued to lead the workers to burn red bricks.

After all, before the research of new materials, there were still dozens of workers to be raised in the brick factory!

It was noon after the meeting, and Xia Xiaoqin and Xie Chuan had dinner in the brickyard canteen.

During the meal, Xia Xiaoqin said to Zheng Kun: "Reform and opening up, the whole country is setting sail for construction, building materials are very promising, you must work hard!" ”

Zheng Kun smiled: "After listening to your words, I want to quit my job in the government and concentrate on burning bricks to make money in the future." ”

Xia Xiaoqin hurriedly begged for mercy: "Don't, let Aunt Lan and them know, they will definitely shoot me to death!" ”