Chapter 114 Newcomers join the team
"Sister, that's a great feeling, but I haven't gotten a permanent job yet. It won't be too late to talk about this once I get one." Xu Qiang said with a smile.

Like Zhang Decai, Xu Qiang did not dare to offend these old ladies and could only refuse politely.

According to what she said just now, the quota for regularization will not be announced until the end of the year, and by that time, no one will remember this matter.

"It's okay, you two can meet first, and I'll help you arrange it..."

"Wait a minute, I've only been working in the factory for a few days and I'm so busy every day that I don't have time to think about these things for now." Xu Qiang smiled, picked up a piece of soap at random, handed it to Li Yuqin, and changed the subject and said, "Sister, how about you try this soap?"

What Xu Qiang handed her was a piece of soap from a new batch of soaps produced in the workshop.

A few days ago, Xu Qiang concocted a daffodil-scented essence and prepared to sell it to Wang Yongsheng. Li Yuqin happened to come over today, so Xu Qiang simply let him try it first.

After more than half a month of production, Xu Qiang gradually changed some subtle processes in soap production and made the raw material ratios more precise than before, ensuring that each batch of products was better than the last.

In fact, for this old-fashioned soap, adjusting the strength of alkalinity requires experience.

Soaps with strong alkalinity have strong cleaning power, but they are also relatively irritating to the skin.

Although weakly alkaline soap is very gentle on the skin, its cleaning power is also poor. It is generally used as baby soap. For workers who work on the front line of factories for a long time, sometimes they cannot clean away oil stains.

So Xu Qiang has been trying to find a balance in the alkalinity of soap and the same goes for shampoo.

"Where did you buy this soap? I don't think I've seen anything like it." Seeing the dog bone-shaped soap that Xu Qiang handed over, his eyes suddenly lit up. After taking it in his hand, he said, "This soap smells good, better than the one I have at home."

"This is the soap our villagers brought back from Shanghai," said Xu Qiang.

"That's what I was thinking. After all, it's made in Shanghai. It looks high-end. I heard that Wang Yongsheng in our workshop has also been selling soap recently. People say it's very useful..."

"His soap is the same as mine. They are both new products from Shanghai Daily Chemical Factory No. 3. They say they use a Japanese formula." Xu Qiang smiled slightly and continued, "If you like this soap, I'll give it to you. I have some at home anyway."

"You are so... embarrassed..."

Li Yuqin said this, but she directly put the wrapped soap into her pocket and said with a smile: "Xiao Xu, you are a sensible child. I will help you find a good girl later."

Most people would not easily accept gifts from others, but Li Yuqin's husband is the deputy chief of the security department, and many people ask him for help. He is used to accepting gifts, so he doesn't have any psychological burden.

"Thank you."

"We are all from the same unit, why are you being so polite? You go ahead and do your work. I'm going back now."

After Li Yuqin finished speaking, she turned and left.

Seeing Li Yuqin leave, Xu Qiang smiled and shook his head.

This older sister was the first one who introduced a girl to him when she came to the factory.

In addition, Xu Qiang suddenly had some ideas this time.

Generally speaking, women are more sensitive to daily chemicals than men, which is very important for product feedback. Xu Qiang plans to let these female colleagues try out the new products next time. If they are good, he will let Wang Yongsheng sell them. If they think there are problems, Xu Qiang can also make improvements immediately. In other words, these female colleagues have become Xu Qiang's product testers.

It is also very important to have a good relationship with these female colleagues in the scrap warehouse. After all, Xu Qiang's future development in the factory still requires the support of internal connections.

It is difficult for people who only know how to work hard to get ahead. This is also the current situation of many state-owned enterprises. If someone can give you a hand at a critical moment, it may be more important than working hard for ten years!
Xu Qiang's laboratory was finally cleaned up after work in the afternoon. Zhang Decai helped bring a long table to place the test instruments and tools. In addition, the empty warehouse at the other end of the bungalow was also vacated. The next step was to know where Xu Qiang would put some chemical raw materials used for testing, especially some highly irritating raw materials, which had to be properly preserved.

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In the evening, Xu Qiang came to the peat field, but saw several unfamiliar faces from afar.

"Hello, Boss Xu!" When these people saw Xu Qiang, they immediately greeted him respectfully.

"This is..." Seeing this, Xu Qiang immediately looked at Erhu who was standing next to him.

"Uncle, these people are from our village. They were sent by the village chief Yang Dong. He said that he had agreed with you before that he would arrange a few people to come and do the work." Erhu said.

"Ah, that's right." Xu Qiang suddenly realized and asked, "Didn't you ask Yang Dong how the license issue is going?"

"He said it was in the process and it still needs approval from higher authorities. It will probably take at least a week."

"That's okay." Xu Qiang nodded, then looked at the new men.

According to what he and Yang Dong had discussed before, Xu Qiang would place three people to work in his peat field. As for the salary, it could not be lower than 30 yuan a month, which was almost equivalent to the level of factory apprentices.

Speaking of which, Liu Jun, Erhu and Da Hei Niu only earn about 20 yuan a month, but with bonuses, that's several times more. So even if these newcomers earn higher salaries than Erhu and the others, no one will object.

Moreover, Xu Qiang also talked to them privately about the salary issues of the new employees, and said that the new employees would not receive bonuses in the short term. Even if they did receive bonuses, they would be far less than what they received, in order to avoid making Liu Jun, Erhu, and Da Hei Niu feel unbalanced.

"Can you all introduce yourselves?" Xu Qiang asked with a smile after a moment.

"My name is Chen Qingcai."

"My name is Jiang Rong."

"My name is Yang Fulin."

Several people said their names one by one.

"I welcome you guys to come here today. Being sent here by your village chief shows that you are all good at work." Xu Qiang smiled and continued, "But let me be frank. My business is not like the big pot meal of the production team in the past. If you want to get by, you'd better get out as soon as possible. I don't care what your relationship with Village Chief Yang is. I have the final say here! But if you do a good job, I will give you extra bonuses. The more you work, the more you get. I don't mind this little bonus. This is my principle. Do you understand?"

Xu Qiang knew clearly that these guys came here with a "mission", so there was no need for him to be polite with them.

Although the method of extracting humic acid fertilizer is simple, there are some key links that need to be mastered, such as the pH value should be maintained at a certain degree during alkali extraction and acid extraction, the water temperature should be controlled at a certain degree, and the mesh size of the peat particles required. Errors in any link will seriously affect the purity of the final humic acid fertilizer.

So far, Xu Qiang has only taught these things to Liu Jun, who is closest to him. If others want to learn, it will take them a long time to figure out the tricks if they are not taught deliberately...

(End of this chapter)