Li Zhao felt that Director Yang had put the cart before the horse, to know that the various metals produced by the material factory played a too important role in the overall industry, and the rolling mill was the main raw material supply plant of the material factory, since the alloy steel production workshop was put into operation in October last year, until the material factory was officially put into operation, for such a long time, the output of the rolling mill was very limited, only up hundreds of thousands of tons, which is still the reason for the start of backward production capacity.

And what Director Yang thinks about every day is how to be in the limelight and engage in new projects, these projects have made a lot of money, but the income is limited, and now due to capacity constraints, the production of metal materials in the material factory is at a bottleneck. The current annual production capacity is only about 4 million tons, which is far from enough for the country.

At this time, although Director Yang was laughing, but it was quite reluctant, I thought about it, he also came back to the taste, the factory was promoted by one level, and as the factory director, he was only promoted by half a level, although he was still the factory director, but it was obviously reluctantly given by the superiors. And the next appointment also confirmed Li Zhao's thoughts, first of all, Deputy Director Zhong, who was transferred and became a director at the department level in other steel plants, and was also promoted by half a level.

The next appointment is Chief Engineer An, who was directly appointed as the deputy factory director, in charge of production, and the level was upgraded by one level, which is the same level as Director Yang, which directly explains everything. Li Zhao thought that his superiors intended to let Chief Engineer An take over as the director of the rolling mill, and if he couldn't get acquainted with him for a while, it was possible to let Chief Engineer An take over.

This appointment made Li Zhao understand that the superiors hoped that the rolling mill would increase steel production as soon as possible, and other things were dispensable, and the reason must be that the current alloy steel production capacity is insufficient. For a long time ago, only Li Zhao and An, chief engineer, cared about the steel output of the rolling mill, one built a blast furnace, the other built a converter, the blast furnace is the foundation, and the blast furnace must be used to produce molten iron, and then the converter can be added to oxygen.

Sure enough, the next appointment further confirmed Li Zhao's thoughts, that is, Li Zhao, took over the position of chief engineer in the factory, but the rank was more funny, Li Zhao became the highest-ranking person in the factory, and this appointment set his level and the level of the material factory to be the same, and this appointment also made the people below gasp.

What made Li Zhao happiest was that his salary had risen again, and this appointment had raised his salary to two hundred and fifty-three, while Director Yang and Chief Engineer An were only two hundred and eighteen yuan and five. In this way, Li Zhao's salary will reach more than 650, and this salary is no longer comparable to many people.

The next appointments are almost the same, basically they are all promoted by half a level, and there is no one who can be promoted by one level, and Chief Engineer An has become the only special case. And the new arrivals are also assigned to various departments, mainly as deputies.

After reading the appointment, the superior leader also said directly: "This appointment is a decision made taking into account the actual situation of the rolling mill, the superior has great expectations for the rolling mill, but the rolling mill is not doing well, you have all been upgraded now, I hope you can do better." After speaking, the leader said a few more words and left directly.

After the leaders were sent away, the main leading cadres also returned to the conference room, and the atmosphere in the conference room became heavy. After a while, Director Yang said: "Let's talk about it, this time we have been upgraded, but everyone has also seen that our superiors are not recognized, except for Chief Engineer An, everyone has only been promoted by half a level, let's talk about it, see what aspect of our work has not been done well."

Director Yang will also know that the superiors are very dissatisfied with the work of the rolling mill, and the upgrading of the rolling mill is completely because the personnel and profits are too high, and it needs to be upgraded. Otherwise, compared with other factories, it would be too different, and everyone didn't speak at this time, thinking that Chief Engineer An understood the reason, but he was not easy to say.

Seeing that no one said, Li Zhao had to open his mouth and explain, so he listened to Li Zhao and said, "This reason is actually very easy to guess, let's just look at the level of the factory." By the way, my level hasn't changed, I'm originally at this level, but it's just announced this time. Then if you look at everyone's level, you should understand that the superiors want us to make a breakthrough in steelmaking capacity, and even if we make money in other aspects, it doesn't matter."

With Li Zhao's words, everyone's faces were cloudy, and then Director Yang said: "We are already working hard to make steel, not that we are already building a new blast furnace, and you have not designed a new converter

Is it the end? Didn't you say you could start building a new converter next week?"

Li Zhao said at this time: "We have carried out these works, but obviously it is not enough, and the production capacity built now can only barely meet the scale of the current material factory, and may not be able to meet the scale of the future material factory." Now the material factory needs to transfer more than 2 million tons of steel raw materials from other places every year, and it has been producing at full capacity, but until now, the material factory has no inventory, and I think the factory manager should be able to understand what this means."

It's easy to guess what this means, that is, the supply exceeds demand, and in such a situation, of course, the superiors want to further increase the capacity of the material factory, but the current railway capacity is really limited. You must know that the daily output of the material factory is 120,000 tons, plus various auxiliary materials, the daily cargo throughput of the material factory has reached nearly 30,000 tons, generally a train is more than 1,000 tons, basically more than a dozen trains every day.

This requires a huge amount of capacity, and if the raw materials can be provided by the rolling mill, a lot of capacity will be saved. In this era, the capacity of the national train is also very insufficient, it can be said that it can be saved, and if the rolling mill can provide raw materials, it can directly save millions of tons of capacity every year, which is a big deal, you know, now need to transfer steel raw materials from the outside world, there are nearly three million tons, about three thousand trains.

At this time, Director Yang believed Li Zhao's words, Li Zhao mentioned this matter to him before, but Director Yang didn't care about it at all, and urged Li Zhao to engage in cars as soon as they met, and Li Zhao, who was annoyed, could only come over to see the construction site every day, and after talking to Chief Engineer An about the design of the converter, he ran away directly, and he didn't want to see Director Yang at all. In fact, in Li Zhao's thoughts, the production of civilian cars is still a bit early, and if it can be exported, it will be okay.

If it can't be exported, the country's demand for official cars, there is a production capacity of several thousand units a year, this era is not the future, and private cars are not open. The cars that ordinary people can use are basically related, borrowed from some factories or departments, and very few private people have cars. Even if it is Lou Dong, the car he is using now is actually strictly speaking, it is still provided by the rolling mill, and it is not private at all.

Li Zhao has always felt that the country's demand for cars is not urgent, so he is not very active in manufacturing cars at all, except for military vehicles, of course, Li Zhao knows the army's urgent need for vehicles. So Li Zhao directly engaged in a military vehicle, and the civilian car, which had been pressing, was also urged to be really anxious, so he got on the horse.

This will be as Li Zhao expected, now the superior directly in the rolling mill after the promotion, to give Director Yang a hammer, this time if Director Yang still does not care, then Director Yang may be transferred, this is also the reason why the chief engineer of the security is up. Put the chief engineer in the position of deputy factory director, then the work he promotes will definitely be better implemented, such as the top and bottom reblowing converter designed this time.

If this converter is put into operation, it will be able to greatly improve the quality and production capacity of the steel rolling mill, which is very critical to the development of the rolling mill, and now the design has entered the final stage, and the construction can basically start next month, and the construction speed is also quite fast, you must know that this converter is only a large hemisphere with a diameter of 3.8 meters, and it is quite easy to manufacture this converter.

According to Li Zhao's estimate, it can be completed within half a year, and after the construction is completed, it will be tested, and if there is no problem, a new converter can be built directly for the blast furnace, and it will not affect the use of the blast furnace. According to Li Zhao's current estimate, the blast furnace will probably be put into operation in August and September next year, and the intermediate time is just in a hurry.

After listening to Li Zhao's analysis, Director Yang also regretted the abnormality, you must know that the difference between this half level is very large, it may be that others can't cross the hurdle in a lifetime, and if he performs too poorly in the future, then it can basically be concluded that he will retire directly at this level, although he is not very old.

At this time, Director Yang asked: "Is there any remedy now, this is a major matter related to the promotion of our leading cadres in the whole factory, and if I can't go up to the level of factory director, others will definitely follow suit."

Li Zhao also understood this situation, so he said: "Since we have come to this point, there are only a few things we need to do, one is to stabilize the current side business, the promotion that should be promoted, and the development that should be developed

Develop. But now that we have a considerable profit, we should increase the improvement of the steel production process in the factory, such as our material transportation system, such as our backward production technology, only these are the most important."

Li Zhao said very generally, but they all know what it is, after all, Li Zhao and Chief Engineer An have designed a new process, and they can understand what needs to be improved by comparison, which Director Yang did not pay attention to in the past.