Chapter 100: Do your job
The next morning, Xu Qiang arrived at the scrap warehouse. This time he arrived at work half an hour early in order to leave a good impression on his colleagues.

However, to Xu Qiang's surprise, someone had already started cleaning the scrap warehouse. This person was none other than the team leader Zhang Decai.

"You're here quite early." Xu Qiang stepped forward and greeted him.

"It's not time yet, is it?" Zhang Decai looked at his watch and asked with some surprise.

"I just wanted to come early to help you with some work." Xu Qiang smiled and said, "Master Zhang, why are you here so early?"

"I usually sleep here at night." Zhang Decai pointed to his office and said, "My home is too far away and the dormitory is not interesting. I listen to the radio by myself at night and fall asleep when I feel tired. It's pretty good..."

"So that's how it is." Xu Qiang suddenly understood.

In fact, Xu Qiang knew in his heart that Zhang Decai wanted to stay here until retirement. Although he was a team leader, he had no academic qualifications and no backing. If he wanted to stay here for a long time, the only thing he could do was to flatter him and perform well at work.

Yesterday, there were still some dead corners in Xu Qiang's house that were not cleaned thoroughly, so the two of them cleaned it again. It took them a full hour to clean the house thoroughly. It was not until this time that the middle-aged women who collected the waste money slowly came to work on their bicycles.

Seeing this scene, Xu Qiang couldn't help but be surprised. You know, it was already 8:30 in the morning class, and these people were half an hour late, but Zhang Decai seemed not to see it and just reminded them to go to the office to sign in themselves.

From this, it seems that the management of this place is even looser than he imagined. No wonder Zhang De wants to stay here.

Xu Qiang was a man who could not sit still. Seeing that there was nothing to do, he began to study the pile of things in the scrap yard.

In Xu Qiang's opinion, by studying these old pipes and valves, he can also learn about the current conditions of the chemical workshop equipment, and it will also be very helpful for him to participate in the workshop renovation work in the future.

"Director Liu! You're here!" Just as Xu Qiang was looking at the waste materials thoughtfully, Zhang Decai's voice suddenly came from behind him.

Turning around, I saw that this was the entrance to the warehouse compound, and the figure of the factory director Liu Biao suddenly appeared.

After seeing this, the other people in the warehouse also put down their sweaters and newspapers, picked up brooms and dustpans from the door, and started cleaning the room properly.

"Where is Xu Qiang?" Liu Biao asked Zhang Decai directly without even looking at the middle-aged women.

"Hello, Director Liu!"

At this time, Xu Qiang immediately appeared in front of Liu Biao with a smile on his face.

"You guys do your own things. I have something to talk to Xu Qiang about." Liu Biao waved to Zhang Decai, signaling that he could leave, and then turned to Xu Qiang and said, "How is it? What do you think of the working environment here?" "It's very good here!" Xu Qiang replied quickly, and then he continued, "The working environment here is good, and colleagues are easy to get along with. The most important thing is that I can have more time to study technology."

"I arranged all this for you." Liu Biao glanced at Xu Qiang, and then said, "But you can't let yourself get lazy just because your job is comfortable. You have to understand that I arranged for you to come here for a mission..." "Don't worry, Director. I have been studying the technical transformation of our chemical workshop these days. As long as the funds from the superiors are in place, I guarantee that I can cooperate with the manufacturer's installation personnel to complete the task successfully!"

"Well, very good!" Hearing Xu Qiang say this, Liu Biao nodded with satisfaction.

"Director Liu, I actually have a small request." Xu Qiang said with an apologetic smile.

"any request?"

"My request is actually very simple." Xu Qiang pointed to the room where he worked and said, "I hope the factory can provide me with some chemical testing equipment. In this way, on the one hand, I can help the workshop to test the products. On the other hand, I can also do some experiments myself and develop some new products for our chemical workshop."

In his previous life, Xu Qiang always had his own chemical laboratory. Many of his patented products were developed by himself and ultimately verified through the laboratory. So now that he has such an opportunity, he naturally wants to have his own laboratory in the factory. Only in this way can he truly return to his old business and fulfill his duties.

Xu Qiang also has a big plan, which is to help Shengli Machinery Factory develop some new products, such as high explosives, aramid bulletproof vests, high-quality military batteries, etc. Xu Qiang masters the formulas and processes of these products, which have not yet been developed in the country. He is also doing his job well.

If these products can be successfully mass-produced, they can fully support a large factory with tens of thousands of employees. However, under the current circumstances, everything may not go so smoothly.

"As for the equipment, it's easy. Our factory's technical department has an inspection room. There should be extra equipment. I'll have someone bring some to you later." Liu Biao said straightforwardly.

The laboratory of Shengli Machinery Factory is on the third floor of the office building. It is usually used to test the quality of some products, including those from the chemical workshop. However, due to the single product, the testing method is simple and rigid, with only a few steps going back and forth. As for the few employees in the laboratory, they are basically children of graduates from the factory's technical school, and there are no technical talents in the chemical industry at all.

"Those glass bottles and jars are not enough. I need special instruments." Xu Qiang frowned slightly and continued, "For example, a gas chromatograph, an electric mixer, a vacuum pump..."

"How much do these things cost?" Liu Biao's impression of laboratories has always been stuck in his school days. Chemical equipment is nothing more than alcohol lamps, beakers and the like. When he heard Xu Qiang actually talk about a series of instruments that he had never heard of before, he immediately frowned and asked.

"Total, it's probably less than 100,000 yuan..."

In his previous life, Xu Qiang's laboratory had various instruments worth millions. Although money was more valuable these days, due to the backwardness of the country's industry, the prices of precision machinery and instruments were still quite expensive. Some of them could only be purchased from abroad using foreign exchange. Based on Xu Qiang's previous conversations with Cao Liansheng in the provincial capital, he learned the prices of some instruments, so one hundred thousand yuan was just a conservative price.

"One hundred thousand!" Liu Biao's eyes widened when he heard that. He shouted, "Stop talking nonsense, kid! Do you know how much everyone in your workshop earns a month? It's less than 20,000 yuan! You just need one hundred thousand yuan to set up a laboratory! Do you think our factory gets all its money from the wind?"

Liu Biao is notoriously stingy, but not in terms of his lifestyle, but in terms of controlling various expenses in the factory.

If the factory earns an extra 100,000 yuan, Liu Biao will be very happy, but if someone wastes even one dollar, he may not be able to sleep all night.

"Only with large investment can there be large output. I can assure you that as long as you give me a laboratory with complete equipment, I guarantee that our factory will be able to make back its investment and profit in less than half a year!" Xu Qiang said confidently.

(End of this chapter)