Chief Engineer An's words are not exaggerated at all, steel output can be said to be a hard indicator, if it can't be completed, there will definitely be trouble, and how much money to make, in the eyes of the vast majority of leaders, in fact, is not necessarily how important. Director Yang was also a little undecided at this time, and said, "Not really, right? You see, we can provide billions of profits to the country every year because of electrical appliances and bicycles, isn't this more important than steelmaking?"

Li Zhao is already a little helpless, this Director Yang is already a little stunned, all he thinks about is how to engage in a side business to improve the profits of the factory, in his opinion, this is a real political achievement, which can be seen and touched. Li Zhao was also helpless for Director Yang to think like this, and said: "Factory Director, for superiors, it is important to make money, but only money cannot be transformed into real strength, that is, it is a castle in the air, and this money can be easily taken away by others."

Li Zhao couldn't help but think of the Qing Dynasty, which accounted for a quarter of the world's GDP, but because it did not have the corresponding strength, the final result was to usher in many hungry wolves. And the same is true for future development, just as many countries have a lot of resources in the future, when they have no strength, they can only become a powerful ATM, a little dissatisfied, often all kinds of rumors besieged, not only that, industrial processing capacity is also a resource.

And those poor jingle bells, where there are neither resources nor manufacturing capacity, are forgotten corners of the world, but they are safer, of course, no country wants to do that, who doesn't want to live a good life?

At this time, Director Yang couldn't help asking, "In this case, why does the material factory still engage in so many side businesses?" In total, there are more side businesses than our rolling mills, and we now have three aspects, a bicycle factory, a tricycle factory, an electrical appliance factory, and a material factory, how can you explain this?"

Li Zhao was helpless when he heard this, and Director Yang still felt that Li Zhao had given less things to the rolling mill, so Li Zhao had to explain: "The industries developed by the material factory are all for the purpose of arranging demobilized soldiers, which one is very profitable? The instant noodle factory is only a few million dollars a year, the majority of the profits of the ceramic factory's products have been taken by the steel rolling mill, the grain and oil factory is also supporting the instant noodle factory, and the clothing factory is completely producing military uniforms."

For a factory, there must be a clear positioning, just like the material factory, Li Zhao's purpose has always been those four directions, one is materials, one is a computer, one is a vehicle, one is a flying machine, where does the other Li Zhao care, if it wasn't for Master Zhang recruiting so many people, how would Li Zhao have engaged in so many affiliated factories. Of course, it is estimated that the milk powder factory can make money later, but the milk powder factory has not yet been put into production, and this is also for arranging people.

As for all kinds of machine tools, it is also done in order to improve manufacturing capacity, if you can buy it, Li Zhao is not willing to spend that thing, after all, to do so many projects, Li Zhao needs to draw slowly by hand, although most of them are mainly structural drawings, but Li Zhao's painting is also very irritable, with Li Zhao's speed, he can't draw a hundred pieces a day. You must know that Li Zhaoke is completely different, and the drawings of many things are ready-made in his mind.

Seeing Li Zhao say this, Factory Director Yang also asked, "Isn't the material factory producing military vehicles this time?"

Li Zhao had to explain: "Factory director, if I didn't promote manpower and agricultural machinery at the beginning, I would definitely enter the factory, let me give you a leak, I only have three things, namely tanks, airplanes, machine tools, the material workshop is the foundation of all, and the machine tool is the basis of all processing, and in the end it is for the purpose of building tanks and aircraft, which of these things do you think can be put in our rolling mill?"

Where did Director Yang know this, and now his eyes lit up after listening to what Li Zhao said, and he immediately became interested and asked, "You mean to say, you are going to build an airplane, what kind of plane is it, tell us about it."

Li Zhao thought about it, told the two of them about the generations of the aircraft, and finally said: "I am going to get an airplane, which can be called a third-generation aircraft according to the division, which requires not only the high-altitude and high-speed capabilities of second-generation aircraft, but also the ability to fight at low altitude and low speed, and finally develop the ability to strike beyond visual range."

Where is this kind of aircraft that Director Yang can come into contact with, and they feel very advanced when they hear it, but where is this? Li Zhao has actually begun to prepare for the fourth-generation or fifth-generation aircraft, for example, one of the research directions of the Institute of Inorganic Research is nanocarbon

Fiber, this is the signature composite material of the fifth generation aircraft. Of course, this is much more than that, but these studies will certainly be of great use in the future.

Seeing that the two of them listened carefully, Li Zhao continued: "But it is very difficult to produce this kind of aircraft, it is estimated that by the end of the year, the research institute should be able to complete the design of the 80,000-ton die forging machine, and then carry out the construction of the 80,000-ton die forging machine, this equipment will be the most important equipment for aircraft manufacturing, just this equipment, the material factory estimates that it needs to invest one billion construction costs, this kind of aircraft is what I am ready to study, and the others are all small fights."

As Li Zhao reported the cost, Director Yang and the two directly gasped, the cost was too high, and they directly killed one-third of the current annual profit of the rolling mill, and now they know how perverted Li Zhao has been. Especially Director Yang, there is nothing to say about this meeting, what he wants to do is in Li Zhao's eyes, it is really a petty fight, what kind of car can be compared with an airplane.

It's just that it is impossible for the rolling mill to participate in this matter, after all, the rolling mill is a public-private joint venture factory, and it is impossible for the state to allow the rolling mill to participate in Li Zhao's confidential research and summary, so Director Yang is only blind.

At this time, Director Yang said: "Then you can arrange the latter arrangements according to your actual situation, I will not participate in your work arrangement, you have done things over there, and it is really not comparable to our work." It's just that our factory can't participate in these projects, so it would be nice if we could get involved."

Li Zhao smiled and continued: "The rolling mill is still very important, and the rolling mill is now building a blast furnace and a converter being designed, which are not inferior to aircraft projects, and these projects can consolidate the country's basic strength. Let's just say that the blast furnace, after it is completed, the cost of our carbon steel is estimated to fall below 300, and now the price is 633, 5 million tons a year, how much money can you make?"

Director Yang was also shocked at this time, which can basically earn 1.6 billion yuan per year, which is definitely a huge progress, while in previous years there were only tens of millions of profits, if it comes down, it will be different. In fact, steel in this era is very expensive, in terms of purchasing power, the price of steel in this era is about equivalent to 251 tons 60 years later. In such a situation, it is conceivable how much room for reduction in the steelmaking cost of rolling mills.

It doesn't take much, as long as the cost of steel is reduced to 200, which is equivalent to the cost of about 8,000 in 60 years, the annual profit will be more than 2 billion, which is already comparable to a bicycle factory. So at this time, the most important thing for the rolling mill is to find a way to reduce the cost of steel, so that there can be amazing profits.

At this time, Director Yang couldn't help asking, "Chief Engineer An, can you really have so much profit?"

The answer of Chief Engineer An is, of course, yes, the use of large blast furnaces can effectively reduce the consumption of coke, and the consumption of coke is one of the biggest costs when making iron. The second is that the production efficiency is greatly improved, and the cost can also be reduced to a large extent. If the cost is converted after 60 years, in fact, the cost of carbon steel is only more than 100 points, and if it is reduced to this extent, then the annual profit of steel alone is close to 3 billion.

At this time, Director Yang said, "In this case, wouldn't the 5,000-square-meter blast furnace be more able to reduce costs? Well, we'll focus on steelmaking next, and we'll have to deduct that profit."

When Li Zhao heard Director Yang say this, he also replied: "Of course, if we use 5,000 square meters, and then we build all the supporting facilities, the cost of smelting one ton of carbon steel is very likely to drop to a little more than 100, and it may be 500 yuan cheaper than the current one-ton, but we need a supporting converter."

In fact, the price of pig iron in this era is a relatively good benchmark, the unified retail price in 62 years is 145 thousand tons, according to the purchasing power, it is about equivalent to 5,008 after 60 years, so the price reduction space of steel is really very large, but the equipment, facilities and technology of this era are very backward.

Through such a fact-based reasoning, Director Yang was finally convinced, Li Zhao definitely saved Director Yang once, if Director Yang has been developing a side business, and then leaving the main business behind, then waiting for Director Yang must step down, there is no second possibility. You know, the capacity of the rolling mill is and

The nationwide demand for alloy steel is closely related, and if all the steel from the rolling mill can be replaced, the cost can be greatly reduced.

After talking about the steelmaking, Director Yang asked: "Chief Engineer Li, you have a flexible brain, think about it for me, is there any way for our rolling mill to participate in the projects you mentioned, if we can participate in the manufacture of aircraft and tanks, then our rolling mill will really show its face in front of our peers."