Material Empire

"Brother, you are back!"

As soon as Qin Hai's foot stepped into the house, his little sister Qin Ling, who was watching a movie poster in the living room, jumped up in surprise, and hung her hands directly around his neck without any explanation, just like she did when she was a child. In fact, Qin Ling is already a 16-year-old girl at this meeting, and her intimate behavior made Qin Hai feel a little embarrassed.

"What are you doing, what are you doing, what a girl she is, and she's still like this!" Qin Haihu scolded.

"I miss you!" Qin Ling let go of Qin Hai as she spoke, and began to rummage through the bag Qin Hai brought back, asking, "Did you bring any delicious food back?"

Hearing the movement in the outer room, two more girls came out from the inner room, it was Qin Shan and Ning Ning. Since the Pingyuan Special Steel Works had a lot of profits, Qin Hai had asked his father to build several new dormitory buildings in the steel plant's factory area. Now his family lives in the largest apartment in the dormitory building, with a total area of ​​160 square meters, which was regarded as a giant first-class house back then. Both Qin Shan and Qin Ling have their own rooms, and Ning Jing usually comes here to do homework with Qin Shan after school. The relationship between these three girls can only be described as gluey.

"Brother, are you back?" Qin Shan smiled slightly and greeted Qin Hai.

Tranquility ran forward bouncingly, looked Qin Hai up and down with his head tilted, and said with a smile: "Well, it seems to be a little fatter, it seems that the food in the capital is better than our Pingyuan's. Yes Alright, Qin Hai, when will you take us out to play?"

"Where are you going to play?" Qin Hai asked with a smile.

"Go to the capital, or to Pujiang." Tranquility replied.

"Don't you need to go to school?" Qin Hai asked.

Tranquility put on a bitter face and complained: "You still talk about going to school, Xiaoshan and I are almost exhausted. There is still more than a month before the college entrance examination, we are so busy that we don't even have time to eat, you Say, do you want to comfort us?"

"Hehe, yes, how can I comfort you? What do you want to eat, I'll buy it for you." Qin Hai said generously.

"I want to eat the Spanish chocolate you brought back last time." Tranquility said.

This time it was Qin Hai's turn to put on a bitter face: "My aunt, this is a problem for me, and I haven't gone abroad, where can I buy imported chocolate for you? By the way, in three months, I might be able to Go to Brazil, how about I bring you Brazilian chocolates later?"

"Are you going to Brazil? Can you take me there?" Tranquility asked greedily.

"I want to go too!" Qin Ling raised her hand as if answering a question in class, and applied loudly.

"It's really not up to me." Qin Hai waved his hands helplessly. He knelt down and dug out a few packs of prairie beef jerky from the bag he brought back, which was given to him by Wang Changsong. He distributed the beef jerky to the three girls, and then asked Qin Shan, "Xiao Shan, where is Dad?"

"I must be in the workshop at this time." Qin Shan looked at the quartz clock hanging on the wall and said.

"Well, then you guys continue to study first, I'm going to find Dad." Qin Hai said, and went out.

"Go ahead, call Dad back for dinner." Qin Ling replied, and then the three girls happily chewed beef jerky and went about their own business.

Qin Hai came out of the house and walked towards the workshop, happily admiring the large area of ​​the factory.

Compared with two years ago, Pinggang has undergone earth-shaking changes. The dilapidated houses have been demolished and replaced by new administrative office buildings, dormitory buildings, scientific research buildings, small shops, Buildings such as bathrooms. In the production area, the dilapidated blast furnace has been dismantled, and three large-scale single-storey workshops have been built, in which newly purchased electric furnaces and continuous casting and rolling equipment are installed.

The two waste slag mountains behind the production area are still the same. Ever since Kunio Kishida tried to defraud the waste slag, everyone began to pay attention to these waste slag, knowing that these things are treasures. However, so far, Qin Hai has not been able to free up his hands to extract rare elements from waste slag. The extraction process involved is quite complicated, and the requirements for equipment are also high, which Qin Hai cannot do now.

Qin Hai walked forward while thinking about his thoughts. Workers passing by had spotted his whereabouts and quickly informed Qin Minghua who was discussing production issues with others in the workshop. Qin Minghua strode out of the workshop, greeted his son with a smile, and shouted, "Xiao Hai, you're back, have you gone home yet?"

"Dad, I just came from home." Qin Hai stepped forward and said with a smile, "Xiaoshan and the others asked me to call you home for dinner."

"There's no rush to eat." Qin Minghua said, "By the way, you said earlier that you went to the capital. How is it? Have you settled the affairs of the Ministry of Agriculture?"

Qin Hai is a dutiful son. No matter where he goes on a business trip, whenever he has a chance, he will call his family and report his whereabouts. In fact, this is also a habit he brought from later generations. In those days, people on business trips were worried about long-distance phone bills, and it was rare to get in touch with home at any time like this.

"It's all done. Minister Cui of the Ministry of Agriculture has accepted my opinion, and the next step is likely to send some new tasks to our Qingfeng Factory." Qin Hai replied.

The father and son chatted a few more words about the capital, Qin Hai brought the topic back to the steel factory, and asked, "Dad, how is the production going these past few months?"

Hearing Qin Hai's question, Qin Minghua paused for a moment, then shook his head slightly, and said, "It didn't go well, the batch of special steel for Spain was almost not finished last month, but fortunately, the masters worked hard in the last two days If you work overtime, you have not missed the contract."

"How could this be?" Qin Hai was taken aback.

Compared with the past, the production conditions of flat steel are much better now. The raw materials for smelting special steel are directly imported from abroad, and there is no need to use scrap alloy steel for difficult matching. The steelmaking equipment has been improved, and there are already four new electric furnaces of different volumes. As for the steel-making workers, they are no longer all retired workers from Laoping Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. as in the past, but some excellent technicians dug from other enterprises have been added. In this case, how can there be a situation where the task cannot be completed on time?

"The big tree attracts the wind, our factory is running well, and some people are jealous." Qin Minghua said in a low voice.

Qin Hai asked in surprise: "You mean, someone blackmailed our factory?"

Qin Minghua said: "It's not just about extortion, someone wants to eat our factory. When you called a few times ago, I wanted to talk to you and ask you to come back and think of a way. I heard you were busy. I'm afraid that things about the country will affect you..."

"..." Qin Hai was speechless. No way, in the eyes of the older generation, the Ministry of Agriculture is the supreme national task, and it is worth giving up all personal interests to go all out to complete it. His family's property has reached the point of being threatened by others, yet the old man still keeps it a secret from him because he is afraid of affecting his work. Qin Hai really wanted to say to his father: Anyone can do the work of the Ministry of Agriculture. If the factory in his family is lost, it will be a disaster. However, the matter has already passed, why is it necessary for him to say this again?

"Dad, don't worry, let's go to the office, tell me about the matter, and I'll see who is not open-minded, and dares to hit me with ideas." Qin Hai comforted his father while gritting his teeth. Say harsh words.

The two entered an office and sat down face to face. Only then did Qin Minghua give Qin Hai a detailed introduction of what had happened to the factory some time ago.

It turned out that when the Pingyuan Special Steel Plant was first established, outsiders still had the impression of losing money and closing down, so no one would think about the steel plant. In addition, Chai Peide in the city, Guo Ming and Pan Shengjie in the county The others took good care of the factory, so the various production and operation activities of the steel factory went smoothly without any external troubles.

After Pinggang began to make money, on the one hand, the treatment of the workers improved, and on the other hand, there was a lot of construction work in the factory, which was quite prosperous. So some people around began to think about this factory, and every now and then, people came to take advantage of various banners, such as industry and commerce, taxation, health, public security, electricity, etc. up god. This has been going on for over a year.

Qin Minghua is a person who understands the ways of the world. He knows that if a company wants to survive in the local area, all aspects of the relationship must be managed. Therefore, he always greets these units that come to blackmail him with a smile, and he can always make them feel better. Get some benefits and go back, so as not to hurt face.

In the past, when Chai Peide was still the deputy mayor of the city, the various units did not dare to harass Pinggang too much, that is, occasionally come to eat a meal, take a few packs of cigarettes, and collect some New Year's goods during the holidays. After Chai Peide was transferred, the new deputy mayor, Miao Yonghua, had nothing to do with Pinggang, so naturally he couldn't talk about taking care of him. After each unit felt this change, their hands became longer and longer.

At that time, private enterprises were still in their infancy. Most private enterprises were nothing more than small restaurants and small shops on the street. There were few private factories with large businesses like Pinggang. Although the various departments in the county will also try to blackmail the state-owned enterprises, it is not as easy as blackmailing private enterprises, so Qin Minghua's demands for increasing profits are constantly brought up in front of Qin Minghua, which makes him feel miserable .

"What do they want?" Qin Hai asked.

"That's a lot." Qin Minghua counted for his son with his fingers: "Arrange children to work in the factory, bring customers to eat in the factory, ask the factory to help them reimburse various documents, and some people have taken a fancy to our new They built a dormitory building and asked to leave them with a few large units... Fortunately, we produce special steel, and no one in the county can use it, otherwise they would have emptied our inventory."

Some readers criticized that the update of this book is slow... Cheng Zi faces the wall. I'm really busy with work and can't tell where I'm from. As we all know, writing a book requires peace of mind, not just taking a few minutes to write a paragraph. The reader also threatened that if it is not updated, the monthly ticket will not be given... Don't listen to him, the monthly ticket still has to be given, and Cheng Zi is still a young man who can be educated.