Siheyuan: Craftsmen of a Great Country

Qi Fei was about to leave when the office door was knocked again.

Yang Weimin raised his head and said, "Please come in!"

The door opened and Zhang Shan walked in from the outside.

Yang Weimin said: "It's Gong Zhang, is there something wrong?"

Zhang Shan first greeted several leaders, including Jiang Chen, and then said: "Dear leaders, I want to report Liang Yue, a technician from the Engineering Office, who wrote a report letter to frame comrades in the factory because of personal grudges."

"And privately posted the report letter on the notice board, which caused extremely bad effects."

Yang Weimin was stunned, narrowed his eyes and said, "Zhang Shan, do you have any evidence for what you said? Otherwise, you may become one of those who falsely accuse comrades."

Zhang Shan said firmly: "Liang Yue told me personally."

Yang Weimin nodded: "Okay, we understand. Zhang Gong's political consciousness deserves recognition."

"Okay, go ahead and do your work. We will handle this matter."

Zhang Shan nodded: "Okay, I'll leave first."

Then he turned to Jiang Chen and said: "Director Jiang, I just went to the laboratory to find you. The soldiers stationed at the station said you came out. I just jumped over the rank and reported it. Please don't mind if you go to fight."

Jiang Chen waved his hand: "It's okay!"

Zhang Shan then turned and left.

Yang Weimin looked at Qi Fei: "Zhang Shan's report can be used as a reference."

"The most important thing is to do a handwriting comparison as soon as possible, and then arrest the person and deal with it as soon as possible."

Qi Fei nodded, turned and left.

When they were closed, Yang Weimin said to Tao Yuan: "Old Tao, please apply to the Ministry of Industry to transfer a new technician."

Jiang Chen added: "Now that the factory has become larger, and Sangang's machine tools will soon be put into formal production, Zhang Shan will definitely be too busy doing quality inspections by himself. If possible, apply for a few more."

"Right now, whether it's regular work or the laboratory, there is actually a shortage of people. If there were enough manpower, I wouldn't go all over the factory to find senior workers to join the laboratory."

Once this incident occurs, it is temporarily unknown what kind of punishment Liang Yue will receive.

But No. 3 Steel Factory will definitely not keep him.

After adding a laboratory, the Agency's staffing was already seriously insufficient, that is, young people were trained, and production had just begun after the year and could barely cope.

Now that Liang Yue is missing, he will definitely be too busy.

In addition, Sangang machine tool parts produced by other manufacturers are on the way and will be officially put into production soon, and manpower is also needed.

Simply replenish the manpower of the Engineering Department at once.

Tao Yuan nodded: "Can you give me a specific number?"

Jiang Chen thought for a while: "Five people."

Tao Yuan was stunned: "With the contribution of the Engineering Office, even five more people will be worthy of this establishment. But now there is a shortage of technical personnel. If you apply for so many at once, the Ministry of Industry cannot provide them even if they want to."

"I estimate that at most half of it can be given to 2-3 people."

Jiang Chen thought for a moment: "Then you apply for the establishment and personnel of 8 people, and then give a discount, and four people will be enough."

“When we really need it later, we can just ask the Ministry of Industry to transfer people over.”

Tao Yuan was stunned: "Good guy, you're raising the price first and then discounting it. You won't suffer any loss at all."

"Okay, I'll go to the Ministry of Industry to apply, but I'm not sure how many people will be transferred in the end."

Yang Weimin asked: "By the way, do you have any plans for the development of alloy steel?"

Jiang Chen nodded: "We have initially determined the approximate range of the ratio. We will do some experiments later to find the best ratio. This tungsten-chromium alloy steel will be successfully developed."

Yang Weimin said: "What are the main advantages of this tungsten alloy steel?"

Jiang Chen said: "His biggest feature is that its hardness is very high, probably more than ten times that of ordinary steel."

"In addition, it has high wear resistance and still has high strength under high temperatures of more than a thousand degrees."

Yang Weimin's eyes lit up: "Is the performance so superior?"

Jiang Chen nodded: "But this is just an estimate. The specific data and results will not be confirmed until the test is completed. They should be quite different."

Yang Weimin said excitedly: "It seems that it is very suitable for making cutting tools. Our Sangang machine tool will make up for the last shortcoming."

The current Sangang machine tools use props produced by flower growers themselves. When running at high speed, they wear out very quickly.

Jiang Chen nodded: "Yes, of course making tools is only one of its functions. It is applicable to many scenarios, and it is also suitable for use as bearings, gears, bolts, etc. for key components."

"There is a demand for it in molds, mining machinery, chemicals, manufacturing, etc., and it has a wide range of applications. However, processing it may be a bit troublesome under the existing conditions."

Yang Weimin said: "The trouble is only the initial trouble. When the first batch of alloy steel production knives comes out, this problem will be gradually solved."

"Do you think our No. 3 Steel Factory needs to build a professional tool production workshop?"

Jiang Chen said: "I think this kind of professional work should be left to professional factories. They have mature technology and complete facilities, which is much better than us building it from scratch."

"We will do a good job in research and development, production of core components, and final product assembly."

To bite off more than one can chew, instead of making everything ourselves, it is better to hand over some non-core parts to other more experienced factories for production.

As long as the core technology is in your own hands, it is equivalent to factories across the country working for you.

Yang Weimin nodded: "That's what I mean too. We need to be a technology-intensive enterprise that specializes in R&D and production of high-tech products."

Jiang Chen said: "However, according to the current scale of R&D personnel of No. 3 Steel Plant, it is far from meeting this requirement."

"To achieve continuous progress and always ensure that its technological level is at the forefront of the world, No. 3 Steel Plant must have a professional R&D team of at least 1,000 people who are always engaged in various research works."

The current laboratory can actually be regarded as Jiang Chen coming up with ideas and then leading everyone to realize them.

No matter how powerful Jiang Chen is, a person's time and energy are limited.

For example, alloy steel has thousands of types, and it takes a lot of time to develop each one one by one.

Jiang Chen couldn't just write down all the alloy steel ratios and let everyone produce according to the order.

Therefore, the best way is for Jiang Chen to propose photography and then lead the team to make a successful demonstration.

Then other team members continue to conduct in-depth research according to the successful method.

For example, after the successful development of Sangang machine tools, he handed over the development of supporting machine tools to Qin Kai.

For example, to improve the accuracy of machine tools, after he gave the plan, he threw it directly to Luo Xue.

Success may be slower, but the team grows.

When the team truly has independent research and development capabilities, he can be a hands-off manager and do other things.

Tao Yuan was a little stunned: "A thousand people, this is too exaggerated."

They can make such sighs only because of the limitations of the times and their understanding of the significance and reality of scientific research is not deep enough.

Like later generations, a company alone has a R&D team of more than 120,000 people, accounting for more than half of all employees.

Among them, there are 60,000 people with professional titles of engineers and above.

Jiang Chen smiled and said: "Science and technology are the primary productive forces. In the future, a truly technology-based company will have at least half of its employees engaged in research."

Tao Yuan's eyes widened: "No way, we've already gone to do research, who will be responsible for production?"

Jiang Chen said: "Intelligent and automated digital machinery, coupled with a small number of workers, are the main force of production."

"However, there is still a long way to go before this. It is indeed too early to say this now."

Yang Weimin said: "It's really far away. What happened today will be dealt with seriously by the factory. Regardless of whether he is a college student or an ordinary worker, he will be punished as he deserves."

“What’s the use of having a high degree if you have bad character?”

Tao Yuan said: "Should this matter be reported to the Ministry of Industry?"

Yang Weimin said: "Of course, but it's not us who report it, but the security department."

"After all, they are ultimately responsible for handling this matter."