Material Empire

For Heizi's ridicule, Qin Hai just responded with a smile. In the past half a year, four factories have been set up one after another. In the eyes of others, it is indeed a bit greedy, but for Qin Hai, this is just the beginning. What he wants to build is a huge material empire, and just four small factories can't support his grand idea.

As a material scientist, Qin Hai knows that the material industry can be described as a gold-absorbing beast. The research and development of any material technology requires hundreds or even tens of thousands of experiments, and the money spent is measured in the order of millions or tens of millions. As for the equipment used in material processing, it is also outrageously expensive. For example, a 40,000-ton die forging press for powder metallurgy can cost as much as 1 billion yuan.

More than half a year ago, Qin Hai rejected Chen Heqian's invitation to do research work in the General Iron and Steel Institute, and insisted on staying at the grassroots level to do business. The fundamental idea was to make money and accumulate enough wealth to develop material science and material industry. The profits created by Pingyuan Special Steel Plant and other enterprises are just his first pot of gold, which is still far away from his expected goal.

After more than half a year of operation, Qin Hai's Pingyuan Special Steel Plant has now become a cash cow with stable income, which can provide Qin Hai with a steady stream of funds. The development momentum of Qujiang Cement Factory is also good. Under Qin Hai's guidance, a set of kiln equipment has been updated and the production of higher-grade special cement has begun. Beixi Special Steel Works is in its infancy, but Qin Hai is confident that it will grow vigorously. Once the annual production target of 200,000 tons of steel can be achieved, the annual profits will be calculated in tens of millions.

It was Qin Hai's idea to cooperate with Sha Renyuan to open an industrial ceramics factory in Quwu, but it was also part of his overall concept. Ceramic is a kind of material with high technical content and huge profits. Although under the current conditions, Qin Hai can only develop several low-end industrial ceramic products, but with the expansion of production scale, if funds permit, , Qin Hai will definitely continue to improve the product grade of this ceramic factory, and expand into the fields of special structural ceramics and functional ceramics.

To give a simple example, most of the cutting tools used in metal machining are made of metal materials, which are easy to soften when exposed to high temperature, so coolant needs to be continuously sprayed for cooling during processing. However, if the tool is made of nitride ceramics, the hardness of the tool will not change when the temperature of the tip exceeds 1000 degrees, which greatly expands the scope of use of the tool. Especially under the condition of high-speed cutting, ceramic tools have more advantages than metal tools.

Regarding these ideas, Qin Hai naturally wouldn't throw out all of them at once. He still doesn't know if any of the 13 families mentioned by Sha Renyuan is really usable. For an enterprise to develop, ideas and technology are important, but good internal management is also essential. It is impossible for Qin Hai to stay in Quwu and guard the factory for a long time, he can only give some principled guidance, and whether there are effective leaders in the factory is the key to the development and growth of the factory.

There is an urgent need for a large number of professional managers! Qin Hai thought with great emotion.

However, a creature like a professional manager cannot be grown by simply spreading some seeds and spraying some fertilizer on the ground. The emergence of this group needs to be tempered by the market environment, and it also needs to be screened like a big wave washing sand. There is no shortage of excellent corporate management talents in any era in China, but in such an era when the commodity economy is still in its infancy, many well-known managers of later generations are still repairing the earth with hoes in the fields, not realizing that there is still a day when they will be all-powerful .

Against the background of lack of talents, Qin Hai is mentally prepared and intends to continue to cast a net and then continue to reap according to the principle of planting widely and reaping little.

The next day, Qin Hai brought Heizi to Sha Renyuan's office at Jianxing Coal Mine. Sha Renyuan has already called several people he is optimistic about, and he is introducing to Qin Hai one by one: this is Liu Shuo, this is Ming Yongbo, this is Huang Yanling...

These children in Sha Renyuan's mouth are actually in their 30s to 40s. They are all mine workers, and some are still working as middle-level cadres in the mine. In front of Sha Renyuan, they all shouted Uncle Sha one by one. In fact, some of them are only one or two years younger than Sha Renyuan.

This is the factory manager Qin I mentioned to you, Qin Hai. Although he is young, he has a lot of money in his stomach. He told me yesterday that he wanted to set up an industrial ceramics factory in Quwu, and let the children of 13 of us Everyone who works in the factory can get paid, and the profits earned are shared equally among the 13 of you. Are you interested? Sha Renyuan asked the crowd.

Director Qin, we don't understand what industrial ceramics are. What should we do? Liu Shuo, with a beard on his face, asked Qin Hai.

Qin Hai introduced the concept of industrial ceramics to everyone, and then said: Brothers and sisters, don't worry, I will list the relevant production processes in detail. After the factory is completed, we can borrow some from other factories first. The technical workers came to guide us, and everyone learned slowly. The technology of ceramic production is not complicated, and I believe everyone will be able to master it soon.”

The management of the factory, will you be in charge of it, Factory Manager Qin? Huang Yanling, who is already a little middle-aged, asked. She is now the deputy chief of the personnel department of Jianxing Mine, and she is more sensitive to management issues.

Qin Haidao: I'm afraid I don't have time for this, so I need to rely on you all. Remember, I take 30% of the profits of this factory, and the rest of the profits are yours. I hope you have a sense of master and go all out Run and manage this factory well.”

Liu Shuo, you are the boss. From now on, you will be responsible for the management of the factory. If anyone dares to be disobedient, you can just slap him and say that Uncle Sha said it. Sha Renyuan commanded arrogantly.

Sha Renyuan once introduced to Qin Hai that after the roof fall accident, he merged these 13 families into one big family, and the 20 children were sorted by age, and they were grouped from the oldest to the twenty oldest. In the past 30 years, these 20 children are really like brothers and sisters. They play together, fight together, and help each other in difficulties. The relationship has continued to this day. Their next generation is now starting to grow up one after another. Although their relationship is not as close as that of the previous generation, the sense of family is still very strong.

Since Uncle Sha trusts Director Qin, we didn't say anything about it. Director Qin, just tell us how to do this. We don't know anything, but we have the strength to make sure we can get things done. .” Several people expressed their opinion to Qin Hai in this way.

Qin Hai's age has always been a flaw, and Liu Shuo and others are not without muttering in their hearts. But Sha Renyuan had great trust in Qin Hai, and these people had nothing to say. Over the years, they have gotten used to Sha Renyuan being their father and their backbone.

In the next ten days, Qin Hai led Liu Shuo and others to select the site of the ceramics factory and china clay mine in Quwu. Sha Renyuan's influence in Quwu is really unspoken. With Sha Renyuan's help, he can easily solve the cumbersome matters related to land lease, licenses, and electricity usage. The ceramics factory was finally classified as a collectively owned enterprise under the Jianxing Coal Mine. At that time, collective ownership was also considered a type of public ownership, which had political advantages over purely private enterprises.

Qin Hai called Yu Haitao and asked him to transfer 300,000 yuan as funds for land acquisition, plant construction and equipment purchase. The local land in Quwu is barren and there are countless wastelands, so the cost of land acquisition for building a factory is almost zero. In terms of equipment, Sha Renyuan did not know how to obtain some old equipment that was eliminated by ceramic factories in other places, which also helped Qin Hai save a lot of money.

With Qin Hai's funds in place, Sha Renyuan also fulfilled his promise and allocated 50,000 tons of coal to Qin Hai. Qin Hai transferred 20,000 tons to Liu Ziwen as promised, and Liu Ziwen happily returned to Hechuan with the quota for a business trip. Before leaving, he took Qin Hai's hand, thanked him for a carload, and threatened that if he had the opportunity in the future, he would definitely go to Hechuan Under Qin Hai's command, he served him without hesitation.

The newly built ceramics factory was named Quwu Brothers Ceramics Factory, implying the 14 miner brothers who were trapped underground by the roof fall accident. Sha Renyuan himself has never married and has no children. The remaining 13 families put their family members who were unemployed or whose jobs were not satisfactory into factories. During the meeting, everyone called each other big brother, brother and sister, auntie, fifth uncle, eighth sister, etc., which made Qin Hai, the only outsider, feel his scalp tingling.

The construction of a ceramics factory is not a matter of a day or two. The earthwork alone takes several months. The installation and commissioning of equipment are also calculated on a monthly basis. Qin Hai explained the relevant matters to Liu Shuo and others in detail, and through Sha Renyuan's relationship, he invited more than a dozen technical ceramic workers from other places to be responsible for the early production guidance. He couldn't care about what happened next.

During these days, Qin Hai has also established a deep friendship with the hard-working buyers in room 203 of the guest house, among which Xie Qijin and Wan Donghua are most interested in Qin Hai, because these two belong to him Entrepreneurs attach great importance to all available resources. Except for Liu Ziwen, no one knew Qin Hai's real identity, but the talent and generosity that he revealed inadvertently were enough to convince people.

Qin Hai stayed in Quwu for almost a month, and finally it was time to leave. A telegram signed by Ning Zhongying of Qingfeng Agricultural Machinery Factory flew into his hands. In the telegram, Ning Zhongying told Qin Hai that due to the excellent results in the localization of auto parts in Beixi City, the Pusang Automobile Localization Office decided to hold an experience exchange meeting in Beixi. How must be present.