Scholars in the courtyard

Chapter 806
"Okay, now that it's settled, let's divide the work."

Liu Huaimin set the tone.

Yang Youning and Wang Guodong spoke after a little discussion.

Scanning the crowd below, everyone straightened up, wanting to take the task under their name.

"Grandson."

The first one is to name Sun Guo, after all, the strength of the first workshop is still there.

"The pot lid is handed over to your workshop. I remember that Lao Guo has an iron plate relief, let him come."

Sun Guo nodded, but then shook his head, "Director, this iron plate relief has something to do with the thickness of the steel. Besides, Lao Guo has been doing blacksmithing with a hammer for the past few years. I'm afraid this craftsmanship has fallen behind."

Yang Xiaotao frowned slightly when he heard this, this is a traditional craft.

But there is no way, the grade test is not for this, you still have to swing the sledgehammer!
"Let him try first."

"it is good!"

"The writing on the body of the pot, Lao Zhan. You are responsible."

Zhan Lei, the director of the second workshop, patted his chest and assured, "This is simple!"

"Everyone else is ready, and if there is any need, they must cooperate."

"Especially the Propaganda Section. The superiors have paid close attention to this incident. Once it is confirmed, the Propaganda Section will play a role in letting the revolutionary compatriots know about our pressure cooker and the rolling mill."

Yang Youning focused on the Propaganda Section. He was very dissatisfied with the work of the Propaganda Section for a while, and did not achieve the effect of high publicity at all.

"clear."

Director Li nodded, and then looked at the people behind him, each holding a notebook to memorize, but he didn't know if he could write a good sentence.

"And so are the others. Get ready. Take on the task."

"Yes!"

At the moment, the meeting ended and everyone dispersed.

When Yang Xiaotao returned to the office, he found the stationery and began to practice calligraphy. He wrote twice according to the existing manual, and felt that he found the feeling, so he began to write seriously.

Lou Xiaoe kept quiet the whole time, until Yang Xiaotao finished writing the last word, then moved his arm and handed the two pieces of letter paper to Lou Xiaoe.

"Send it to Secretary Liu."

Lou Xiao'e looked at the writing with the pen like iron and silver hooks, and couldn't help but praise, "Director, how did you practice this handwriting?"

"Usually it doesn't look very good, but when you get serious, it looks quite comfortable."

Yang Xiaotao was holding a water bottle to drink water. By the way, he moved his fingers and almost spit out when he heard Lou Xiaoe's words, "What's not so good? I don't know much."

"Send it quickly."

Lou Xiaoe glanced at Yang Xiaotao, not understanding how Yang Xiaotao practiced the word, turned and left the office.

Yang Xiaotao was worried about the carving of the pot lid, so he got up and walked to the first workshop.

When I came to the first workshop, I saw a group of people around. Outside, Liu Daming kept watching with a small hammer in his hand, and the sound of banging came from inside from time to time.

"Liu Yizuo, what are you doing with our hammer, you fitter?"

Before he passed, he heard a person yelling at Liu Daming. Yang Xiaotao saw that he was a skinny old man, about the same age as Liu Daming, but when he looked carefully, the muscles on his arms were sharp and angular, and he knew that he was quite strong.

"Hey, old hemp stick, it's often not good to hold it, and you're not the only ones playing with hammers."

"Hmph, you dare to play? You're not afraid of hitting your own feet."

"You can't even hit a foot that doesn't have eyes."

"Shut up, don't talk."

The two were still fighting, when there was a sudden angry shout from inside, although the two were not angry, they dared not speak.

Seeing Liu Daming like this, Yang Xiaotao suddenly became interested when Liu Yizuo, who is usually tough on everyone, was stopped.

Walking to the front, Liu Daming and the old man nodded and greeted each other, and Yang Xiaotao walked into the crowd with a smile.

In the middle, an old man was tapping with a small hammer. Yang Xiaotao saw that the man was taller and more muscular than the old man, but the difference was that his hair was almost gray.

On the side, Sun Guozheng was holding a flashlight and shining it on the lid of a pressure cooker.

Yang Xiaotao didn't speak, just watched carefully from the side.

This person should be 'Old Guo'. I heard that this craft was passed down from the ancestors. After liberation, he entered the rolling mill and became a blacksmith by virtue of his blacksmithing craft. Now it seems that this ancestral craft has not been left behind.

Everyone held their breath and watched carefully.

Half an hour later, a woman's head appeared indistinctly, and the concave and convex three-dimensional effect made people feel as if they were floating out.

It looks almost like the woman on the one yuan bill, and the hair is done in a sense of layering. Yang Xiaotao was shocked when he looked at it.

Lao Guo moved his wrists and sat aside to rest.

It took a lot of energy for half an hour.

Yang Xiaotao turned around and recruited someone over, "Let Master Zhang from the second canteen make a plate of braised pork. We need more, and prepare some steamed buns. We'll eat it later."

The man swallowed his saliva when he heard it, and ran away immediately after understanding what he said.

"You go to Lou Xiao'e and ask to bring some sugar."

Another person was ordered, and that person also ran away quickly.

Everyone around listened to Yang Xiaotao's arrangement, and Sun Guo helped Lao Guo up.

"Master Guo, your skills are really good."

Yang Xiaotao gestured his thumbs. Old Guo had long face and thin eyes, and two tufts of gray mustaches around his lips. When he saw Yang Xiaotao praised him, he smiled a little embarrassedly, but he didn't have the momentum to stop Liu Daming just now.

"Director Xiao Yang, don't, don't say that."

"Compared with your craftsmanship, it's still far behind."

Yang Xiaotao shook his head, "There are specialties in the art industry, you are old in this skill, not to mention me, even this rolling mill can't find a second one."

"I really admire it."

"Oh, I'm old. If I could knock it out in one breath when I was young, I'm not familiar with it now."

"It's okay, as long as it can be done."

As Yang Xiaotao said, Lou Xiaoe came running over in a hurry, holding a kettle and a white paper bag in her left hand, and an enamel jar in her right hand.

"Director, here is the white sugar you want."

Yang Xiaotao took it, and then put a handful of sugar into the jar, and Lou Xiaoe poured water into it, "Master, you need to work harder for this job."

Mr. Guo finally took a big sip from the enamel mug, then babbled, shook his head and exclaimed, "It's so sweet!"

After talking about tons of tons of water, he drank the water, "Don't worry, this matter will be taken care of for you today."

After speaking, Mr. Guo picked up the hammer again and tapped it little by little.

Seeing this, Yang Xiaotao got up and went to the second workshop. Here, the same group of people gathered together, and the three people in the middle were each guarding a pressure cooker and concentrating on carving with a carving knife.

Yang Xiaotao looked at it for a while, and the engraving was obviously less technically demanding than the embossing, but the few people were still nervous about engraving.

Finally, when he came to the tenth workshop, Huang Degong was checking the production status.

Yang Xiaotao looked at it for a while, and now the workshop is divided into three groups of people, and the production of heating furnaces and well drilling machines is still going on.

However, after the new year, the trends of the two are different again. The orders for heating furnaces began to decrease, but the orders for drilling machines increased.

Of course, the order for drilling rigs was much smaller than the other two. If it wasn't for the fact that steam power was involved and the production was not easy, Yang Xiaotao really wanted to send it to the branch factory.

"Old Huang, let the workers make more pressure cookers in the past few days, and let the other two projects go first if they can."

Huang Degong immediately understood when he heard it, "You mean, the pressure cooker is going to go up?"

"You think, if it is done this time, and the domestic publicity, do you think it will still be like this?"

Yang Xiaotao smiled, and then looked at the production line, "Let's not talk about the distance, just a few big cities in our country, do you think the consumption capacity of the population will be less?"

"Besides, this time I'm going abroad, maybe orders from abroad will come."

"The current output will not be able to keep up with the rhythm if it is doubled by then."

Huang Degong opened his mouth wide. He never thought about it. In his mind, it would be nice to be able to support construction at home, but abroad?Isn't it just a gift?Could it be possible to sell it?
He really didn't think that much.

"Okay, okay, I'll adjust it now and start working tomorrow."

At this moment, when Huang Degong thought of this pressure cooker going abroad, he felt a surge of motivation.

When it was time to get off work, Yang Xiaotao left a few people to look after him, and at the same time arranged for people from the security department to guard carefully, and then let the others get off work.

Say hello to Liu Yulan, I'm probably going back very late tonight, maybe even tomorrow.

Liu Yulan also heard that the matter was urgent, and said that she would make it clear to Ran Qiuye.

After the workers left the rolling mill one after another, Yang Xiaotao asked Mr. Guo and several overtime workers to come to the second canteen together.

When several people saw the prepared meal, their eyes lit up.

Yang Youning and Wang Guodong also came over, Sun Guozhan Lei followed, and several old masters had a meaningful meal in their lives accompanied by a group of rolling mill leaders.

After dinner, Yang Youning and the two left, and Yang Xiaotao stayed in the factory and returned to the workshop with a few old masters.

Yang Xiaotao and Sun Guo came to the first workshop to help, and this pot must be settled tonight.

While Mr. Guo was burning with his musket, Yang Xiaotao pulled Sun Guo aside.

"Uncle Sun, do you smoke?"

Yang Xiaotao took the lighter and flicked out the flames, and approached Sun Guo.

Sun Guo squeezed the cigarette, approached it and lit it.

"You boy."

Hearing Yang Xiaotao's address, Sun Guo knew what was going on.

"Is it the old Guo's idea?"

Yang Xiaotao laughed, and conveniently put the unopened cigarette and lighter on the machine beside him, "Nothing can be hidden from you, uncle, with your piercing eyes."

"You don't come here, just bury me, right?"

"No, no, no, no."

Sun Guo took two deep breaths, "Actually, if you don't tell me, I will bring it up."

Yang Xiaotao was taken aback for a moment, and his face was even more joyful.

Seeing him like this, Sun Guo immediately smiled, "Old Guo, he's old enough to swing a sledgehammer, alas."

"He has reached the top of the fifth-level blacksmith in his life. So."

Yang Xiaotao nodded quickly, "Don't worry, if Mr. Guo's craftsmanship goes to the research and development department, I will give him the same treatment as Liu Yizuo."

"If he can bring out an apprentice, bring one, I will personally subsidize ten yuan a month."

"What I said definitely counts."

Yang Xiaotao was eager in his heart, even if this technique is not bad for the stamping machines of later generations.

More importantly, such craftsmen are more valuable than machines in some fields.

"I know that you kid will draw everyone in it, but this time you have found a treasure."

Sun Guo was relieved when he heard Yang Xiaotao say that, and put the cigarettes and lighter on the machine in his pocket, which was not a loss in his mind.

But Yang Xiaotao was thinking in his heart, if it wasn't for the gift of the pressure cooker this time, he really didn't know there was such a capable person in the rolling mill.

"Uncle Sun, if there are any capable people under your command, let's introduce them together."

Cough
Sun Guo was choked by the smoke and quickened his pace, "It's gone, it's gone."

"Really? I don't believe it."

"It's gone."

"Okay, I'll go ask Lao Yang."

Cough
"You don't want to be greedy, kid. Well, let me tell you, there is a little man in the fourth workshop. Don't tell me about it, or Dong Da will definitely come to me."

"Uh-huh"

"That guy's craftsmanship of hollowing out and gilding is also a family tradition."

"anything else?"

"There are workshop seven."

"Yeah, hey"

In the empty workshop, Yang Xiaotao approached Sun Guo, laughing from time to time, making Old Guo who was about to use his hands shiver with a chill.

At three o'clock in the morning, a workshop.

Sun Guo was already asleep, and Mr. Guo rubbed his forehead and moved his back.

Yang Xiaotao held the lid of the pressure cooker he just made, and leaned under the lamp to watch carefully.

(End of this chapter)