"Master, bring me two catties of soda ash, as long as the Yongli Alkali Factory is of the Chinese brand, I don't want anything else."

"Old man Xu, what do you want so much soda ash for, aren't you afraid of getting damp when you buy it home, can the steamed steamed buns still taste like that, if you want me to say, you can buy as much as you want."

"Hey, I don't like to hear this, Wang Lezi, you said don't buy so much, why do you carry such a big basket in your waist? Who are fooling you, you are too good at eating one set and doing another. ”

"Don't you slander people's innocence, Aunt Li next door is old and her legs are inconvenient, I don't want to take a copy for her, don't look at people in the crack of the door, and look at people flat."

"It's really staring and talking nonsense, how many years has your Aunt Li been dead, and I helped bury it at the funeral, what's the matter, did you buy soda ash to burn it? Or do you send it over in person? ”

"Phew! What are you talking about? Do you know why I bought it, and I know why you bought it, do you have to uncover it for the big guy to see the joke? ”

……

The sales of Chinese soda ash are too hot, and many people directly drag their families with big baskets and small bags to buy them.

On the one hand, the soda ash produced by Chengnuo is of good quality, far exceeding that of the foreign alkali of Bneimen.

On the other hand, it is also suffering from the high price of foreign alkali in Bneimen, and ordinary people are complaining.

Even if our country's imports of foreign alkali plummeted from 630,000 quintals in 1914 to 40,000 quintals in 1916, 90% of them were purchased from the British company Bannemen, and the price far exceeded the pre-war level, making these vampires make a lot of money.

Now there is a domestic product suddenly appearing in the market, and the price is still so cheap, they can't be unimpressed.

As for the quality, that's not to worry about at all.

The newly steamed steamed buns at the door, that is the best witness, it is called a soft to the touch, and it tastes even sweeter.

"Everyone buys in an orderly manner, you don't have to grab it, there are still many goods, as long as you need it, the soda ash of our Yongli soda plant will not be out of stock." Standing behind the shop window, Cheng Nuo shouted to the crowd.

"Professor Cheng, is there really no limit to the amount of soda ash in your Yongli soda plant?" A citizen asked, leaning their faces against the window.

"Yes, in front of the big guy today, I, Cheng Nuo, personally spoke Cheng Nuo, the price of our Chinese brand soda ash will definitely not exceed everyone's needs, and the quality and quantity will be guaranteed, and it will definitely not be hoarded like some foreign alkali and make ill-gotten gains." Cheng Nuo assured loudly.

"Okay, I can't believe the public, but I recognize Professor Cheng's words, the last time our child had a jujube core in his throat, it was a little trick that Professor Cheng published in the newspaper, and he picked up a life, and our whole family is grateful to him." As he spoke, this man bowed heavily directly in front of everyone.

This scene not only stunned the customers outside the window, but even Fan Xudong on the side was taken aback.

I couldn't help but want to pull Cheng Nuo aside and ask clearly.

Before leaving, Cheng Nuo also specially asked the employees to put several baskets of soda ash on the counter for everyone to understand.

In this way, when customers see so many reserves, they instantly feel much more at ease, and the team gradually becomes orderly.

In the courtyard, Fan Xudong pulled Cheng Nuo aside and said curiously: "Zhiyuan, you really didn't arrange it?" ”

With the well water, Cheng Nuo took a cucumber and brushed off the burrs on it, and slowly washed it: "Are you not confident in our alkali technology, or are you not confident in our market?" ”

Fan Xudong was stunned for a moment, and said to himself: "Also, our purity is higher than that of Bu Neimen, and the price is lower than them, why can't we sell them?" ”

"Isn't that it, let's eat a cucumber." Breaking the cucumber into two pieces, Cheng Nuo handed over a piece: "In the future, the output of our factory will be higher and higher, how to arrange the treatment of workers, I want to hear your opinion?" ”

"The treatment is the same as that of Jiuda Salt Making." Unable to stand the fragrance of cucumbers, Fan Xudong clicked after taking it: "Ordinary workers work 12 hours a day, and skilled workers work 10 hours." ”

Cheng Nuo shook his head: "Before I came out of the factory, I roughly investigated, the main work of our factory has six kinds of boiler stove pool and coal pushing and washing pool, especially the pot worker, the main job is to fish for raw materials, the summer is fine, but it will be cold soon, and the steam in the pot will be cold in winter, and it will invade the skin and be prone to disease."

Of course, life is not easy for other types of work, and we need to improve the treatment of workers. "The number of surgical visits was 3,612, accounting for 39.9% of all patients. Among the various traumas, inflammation and injury of the limbs were the most common patients, with a total of 2195 cases, accounting for 60.8% of the surgical patients.

In addition to the fact that most of the workers are from the countryside and are not familiar with the operation of precision machines and are often injured, a large part of the remaining reason is that the working conditions are too bad.

Once upon a time, workers and peasants were also a compliment.

But the more it goes to the back, it has also become a representative of low social status.

As an oppressed person, Cheng Nuo's arrival here is bound to change the historical pattern.

The dragon slayer's transformation into an evil dragon will never happen to him.

"For our Yongli alkali plant, technology is the key, but talent is the core, and this treatment is really bad." Cheng Nuo bit the cucumber in his hand fiercely, and said in a firm tone: "If we want to develop for a long time, we must propose reforms." ”

Fan Xudong was slightly stunned: "Then what do you say?" ”

Cheng Nuo thought for a while and said: "Once the alkali machine stops working, the factory will be greatly damaged, and it is unrealistic to blindly pursue burden reduction, so let's do it, at present, our factory implements an eight-hour three-shift system, and does five days off and two days off, and every month we have to take out a period of time for skill training, and try to make everyone have skills ......"

Although Fan Xudong enjoys a high reputation in the history of our chemical industry, she is far from being as famous as her in treating her own workers.

In addition to the monthly salary, the wages of workers also include salary, processing allowance, gifts, salt overflow and year-end bonuses. But like many of the companies that followed, the processing allowance and salt spill money were only available to some workers, and were purely for decoration.

Many workers earn most of their wages for food and clothing, and spend very little on miscellaneous expenses, and they do not have the time, money and energy to pursue recreational, cultural, educational and other activities.

Even the tooling could not be distributed to everyone, and those with poor families had to use white-faced cloth bags to make clothes.

Although there are reasons for historical limitations, the overall treatment is far inferior to other factories in the same period, not to mention that the trade unions in this era are not as simple as handing out some rice and flour oil during the New Year.

The corners of Fan Xudong's mouth twitched slightly: "In this way, isn't the production cost of our Yongli alkali plant too high?" ”

Cheng Nuo finished eating the remaining cucumbers, clapped his hands and said: "This is where to follow, there will be other chemical factories in the future, when the time comes, these skilled workers are all our wealth, our factory is mostly Zhili people and Shandong people, do you know what this means?" ”

Fan Xudong was curious: "What does it mean?" ”

Cheng Nuo said with a smile: "Shandong people talk about righteousness, Tianjin people and Tanggu people talk about face, which means that we pay special attention to these in terms of treatment, if there is a chance, we will also set up a night school for workers, pass on some more valuable things, don't forget the mission on our shoulders......"

After the call, Fan Xudong's heart twitched.

After a little tacit calculation, I almost rolled my eyes and fainted.

In this regard, Cheng Nuo just said happily: "Money is not enough, in the future, we will only get involved in the chemical industry more and more, at that time, we have to start recruiting people from scratch, the cost is not small, and the training time is also long, it is better to establish a talent reserve now." ”

Fan Xudong's pupils shrank: "What are you going to do next?" ”

Cheng Nuo smiled: "Of course it's acid, after all, the disposal of waste and raw materials in the process of alkali making is not a small problem." ”

Fan Xudong couldn't wait: "Then when will you start doing it?" What's missing? Do you want us to work together? ”

Cheng Nuo held back a smile: "It depends on whether the treatment of the workers has improved, I don't want to worry about the technology, but also the safety of the workers." ”

Fan Xudong patted his chest and promised again and again: "Don't worry, I'll show you when I go back, throw money, just have hands......"

With the passage of time, the soda ash of Yongli Alkali Factory completely covered the entire market, and the main focus was high quality and low price, which soon won the love of the people.

As for the side of Bnemen, the sales of alkali have plummeted, and it looks like it is about to be squeezed out of the market.

Li Lide, who saw this scene, was instantly dumbfounded, and his methods seemed to be more frequent.

A few days later, at the shareholders' meeting.

Cheng Nuo arrived late at the venue due to some workers.

When he came to the door, he just wanted to push open the door and apologize for being late, but he happened to hear something he shouldn't have heard.

Listening to the voice, it seemed to be an unknown small shareholder A, pulling the voice of the male duck: "For such a big meeting, why didn't Professor Cheng come, didn't he take us people seriously?" Does our Yongli alkali plant still have a place in his heart? ”

Unknown minority shareholder B: "Yes, I heard that it was because of him that our alkali factory could have made three percent of the profit, and it was because of his words that we had to give one cent of profit to these mud legs, isn't this damaging to the interests of our shareholders?" ”

Unknown minority shareholder C: "Yes, Xudong, you are the director of our Yongli Alkali Factory, not his surname Cheng, and we old people have been with you for so long, knowing that you are a capable person, the husband was born between heaven and earth, how can he be depressed and live under the people for a long time!" ”

Unknown minority shareholder A: "Lao C is right, if you know people and persuade us to eat enough, we should go it alone." ”

These small shareholders were stunned for a while, especially when they took out Lu Bu's famous words, so angry that Fan Xudong's face darkened.

For the sake of years of cooperation, Fan Xudong forcibly suppressed his anger and said: "According to what you say, what should we do now?" ”

After a few small shareholders with bad stomachs looked at each other, they elected a person and said: "Bonemen Company wants technology and technology, and capital and capital, we should cooperate with them strongly, so that we can make a lot of money, and the one surnamed Cheng is really in the way." ”

Fan Xudong frowned, glanced at these people, and asked, "This is also what you mean?" ”

Although the small shareholders did not dare to look directly at Fan Xudong and lowered their heads to dodge, this silent silence is precisely the best expression.

"Tell me, how long have you been working with Bnemen?" Fan Xudong couldn't suppress his anger anymore, and roared: "We are charging and fighting on the front line, and you are so cruel to your own family?" ”

The so-called opinion leaders stubbornly stiffened their necks: "The so-called people die for money, and birds die for food." As a person who has come over, I would like to advise you again, the ideal is too illusory, far less real than real money. Mr. Li Lide has promised that he will buy Yongli Alkali Plant at five times the market price.

Earn money easily, spend how you want, and be accompanied by good wine and beauties, isn't it better than spending the moon in the mirror? ”

Fan Xudong closed his eyes, gasped and asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

The opinion leader felt that there was a play, and hurriedly said: "Let me tell you the truth, in addition to the shares in the hands of you and Professor Cheng, the soda factory was sold to Mr. Li Lide and got a lot of income, which is enough for this life to have no worries about food and clothing, you are still young, and it is not too ......late to pursue your so-called ideals when you have money."

"Enough, don't say it again!" Before this person finished speaking, Fan Xudong directly slapped the case and scolded: "I don't blame you for selling your shares, but you shouldn't have it, you still have my idea, the reason why an ideal is an ideal is that it does not allow people like you to tarnish!" ”

The speed of the flip made the opinion leader a little unexpected, muttering to himself: "Don't you really want to make more money?" ”

"Isn't this money hot to hold?" Fan Xu said angrily: "For the sake of friends for many years, you'd better leave with these people now, we will never get along with each other from now on!" Also, being a good teacher is not necessarily a good thing! ”

"Xudong, we also have good intentions, the surname Cheng may not be ......"

"Get out, get out of here!"

"That's okay, Xudong, think about it, if you figure it out, feel free to contact us."

Before he finished speaking, these people were blown away by Fan Xudong.

Everything in the house was heard by Cheng Nuo, and now when he saw someone coming out, he quickly flashed to the side, and waited until these people were almost gone, and there was no movement in the house, so Cheng Nuo pushed open the door and quietly went in.

Fan Xudong, who mentioned the movement, habitually shouted: "Didn't I say it, hurry up, I don't want to see you!" ”

Cheng Nuo coughed lightly, poured a glass of water, and asked knowingly, "What's wrong Xudong?" ”、

After Fan Xudong turned his face and saw Cheng Nuo, his face instantly turned from cloudy to sunny, and then after thinking of the incident just now, he was a little complicated: "Zhiyuan, why are you here?" ”

Cheng Nuo smiled: "Why can't I come, I didn't talk about acid making last time, I came to you this time for this, and I heard from a friend that our soda ash can be sold to Japan." ”