Chapter 127 Cherish each other
In less than half an hour, Xu Qiang got the parts he wanted.

"As expected of a Level 6 worker, this part is well made."

After measuring with a caliper, Xu Qiang nodded with satisfaction.

At this moment, Xu Qiang realized that if he wanted his product project to proceed efficiently and smoothly, he must have his own team.

But now he has little experience and is still a temporary worker. Even He Wei, who has the lowest technical science degree, is unwilling to join his team, and the workers in the front-line workshops are even more unwilling to help him.

If Xu Qiang was not the head of the project team, he would definitely not be so proactive. He would only need to assign tasks to the workers. Even if the tasks were completed, it would not matter how long it took, after all, he would not need to take responsibility.

But now he is the person in charge of this project and has issued a military order, so he has to take care of everything.

Now it seems that the most efficient way is to pave the way with money, but compared to Xu Qiang's ambition, he is still willing to pay this money.

"Needless to say, when I was in the Northeast, it took others two years to become apprentices, but I could operate the machine in just half a year. I dare say that there is no other stamping worker better than me in the factory!" Huang Baoshan said proudly when he heard Xu Qiang's praise.

"Let's have a meal together when we have time. I'll treat you." After Xu Qiang put away the parts, he said to Huang Baoshan.

"What exactly do you do? I think you are not an ordinary person." Hearing this, Huang Baoshan asked with some confusion.

Huang Baoshan often deals with people in the technical department, but Xu Qiang is the first technician who is willing to pay out of his own pocket to let him help process parts.

Usually, Huang Baoshan would delay as much as possible until the leader found him personally and gave him a pack of good cigarettes worth a few cents, and then he would start helping with the work. This has become an old routine. After all, this is not a task within the workshop's responsibility, so many older technicians who would ask him to do work would take the initiative to give him a pack of cigarettes first.

However, Xu Qiang directly chose to pave the way with money, and the first thing he offered was a big unity. It was the first time that Huang Baoshan met such a generous person.

"You'll know later." Xu Qiang replied casually, then took his things and left.

Xu Qiang took the lead plates and went directly to the battery workshop.

Last time, Xu Qiang had visited the battery workshop. This workshop was separated from the previous assembly workshop and currently mainly produces nickel-chromium batteries and lead-acid batteries.

Nickel-chromium batteries have good macroscopic performance, but when used in artillery shells, due to volume and size limitations, their performance is difficult to meet targets under extremely low temperature conditions, so lead-acid batteries are relatively more advantageous.

Xu Qiang chose to use lead plates as electrode metal first. After all, lead plates are cheap and easy to process. Then he used a special chemical process to coat them to make new electrodes.

Unlike ordinary civilian batteries, military electronic fuse batteries discharge instantly and do not need to last too long. Their working time may even be as short as a few seconds. Therefore, the choice of electrode metal materials is relatively broad. The key lies in the subsequent coating process.

The person who received Xu Qiang was still Zhang Qiang, the director of the battery workshop.

Zhang Qiang was still quite enthusiastic towards Xu Qiang.

"Just tell me if you need any help." Zhang Qiang said with a smile, "I heard that you signed a military order from the factory director. You are so brave. I have been working in the factory for so many years, but this is the first time I have seen a technician as hardworking as you. I want to see how capable you are." It can be seen that Zhang Qiang still admires Xu Qiang very much.

In fact, what Xu Qiang didn’t know was that before joining the factory, Zhang Qiang had been a border guard. During the Sino-Indian Self-Defense Counterattack War, he was serving in the XJ Military Region and participated in that battle.

At that time, Zhang Qiang was the squad leader. When the troops launched a full-scale counterattack, he led the whole class to sign a military order, to bypass the Indian Army's 7th Brigade at dawn that day and insert into the then Kejielang area from the right side. In that battle, Zhang Qiang's class completed the task excellently and captured a captain company commander. The whole class was awarded the second-class merit, which was also the biggest highlight of Zhang Qiang's military career.

So when he learned that Xu Qiang, who had just joined the factory for less than a month, dared to sign a military order in front of the factory leaders, he couldn't help but recall the past. Out of that special complex, he felt a sense of sympathy for Xu Qiang.

"Thank you, Captain Zhang." Xu Qiang said gratefully, and then said, "I already have a project plan for the new product. I just went to the stamping workshop to ask them to make a batch of parts. Now I need to coat these parts. Does our workshop have any experienced masters in this field?"

Since Xu Qiang wants to form his own R&D team, he must find the best people. Only in this way can he avoid unnecessary troubles in sample production.

"That's no problem. We have an electroplating team in our workshop. They specialize in electroplating battery electrodes. Come with me." After Zhang Qiang finished speaking, he led Xu Qiang to the other side of the workshop.

Compared with other areas, the electroplating work area has a particularly strong smell. There are more than a dozen electroplating pools here, which are filled with dark brown chemical liquids. The metal sheets are fixed on the bases above. More than a dozen workers are producing in an orderly manner according to the work flow.

"Master Chen, please stop for a moment."

In front of a workstation, Zhang Qiang said to a middle-aged man.

"Captain Zhang, what's the matter?" Seeing Zhang Qiang, the middle-aged man surnamed Chen put down the work at hand, turned around and asked.

"This is Comrade Xu Qiang. He is responsible for developing a new product this time. The factory has notified us to cooperate, so let Xu Qiang arrange what you should do later." Zhang Qiang explained, then turned to Xu Qiang and said, "Xu Qiang, this is Chen Qingcai, the best electroplating worker in our workshop. If you have any problems in the future, just go to him directly."

"Okay." Xu Qiang nodded, and then said to Chen Qingcai: "Hello, Master Chen, please help me in the future."

"Xu Qiang? The name sounds familiar. I know almost everyone in the technical department, but I've never seen this young man before. Are you new here?" Chen Qingcai asked.

Electroplating has always been a key process for many military products, so almost every time the technical department develops a product, they will ask Chen Qingcai to make the components, so Chen Qingcai has more contact with people in the technical department.

"He is the one who won the first prize in the military-to-civilian project in our factory..." Zhang Qiang reminded.

"Oh, it's you." Chen Qingcai suddenly realized.

"Xu Qiang has a heavy research and development task this time. He has already signed a military order in front of the factory director, so you have to cooperate with him well." Zhang Qiang added.

"What!? He actually dared to issue a military order in the factory? He is so bold..." Chen Qingcai said in surprise.

(End of this chapter)