Chapter 19: Fight with reason
"Master Liang, I heard that you have a set of skills for making sofas, and now is the perfect time to show it to me." At this time, Gao Bo looked at a master standing in the back row and said with a smile: "If we can really win the prize, there will be a bonus of 800 yuan..."

For a moment, everyone's eyes turned to the old worker named Liang.

"This...will it work?" Master Liang said excitedly.

Master Liang's name is Liang Baoguo. He is a farmer from Xiazhuang Village, a neighboring village of Xu Qiang. In his early years, like Xu Qiang's father, he was recruited as a rotation worker by Shengli Machinery Factory in the local area.

Before coming to work in the factory, Liang Baoguo was a carpenter in the village. His carpentry skills were well-known in the local area. Because of this, while working in the factory, he would occasionally take some carpentry jobs in the local area. More and more people from the factory asked him to make "48 legs". In the past two years, Liang Baoguo's skills have kept pace with the times and he started making sofas. Including the sofas in the workshop director's home, they are all made by Liang Baoguo.

Because of this, Liang Baoguo was transferred to the warehouse as a warehouse manager. His job is relatively leisurely, and he can still receive a pound of pork every month.

"It'll work. Everyone in our factory gives a thumbs up to the sofas you make. They won't break even after being used for several years. If we sell such a product out there, it will definitely be a best-seller!" Gao Bo said confidently.

Actually, Gao Bo had no choice but to mention Liang Baoguo. In the entire Shengli Machinery Factory, other workshops were full of talented people, including many people who were skilled in turning, riveting, casting and forging, and had technical knowledge and education. Only their chemical workshop was full of local farmers. There was absolutely no problem asking them to farm, but asking them to engage in technological innovation was obviously asking too much.

As the saying goes, you can pick a general from a group of short men. The current situation is that the factory's tasks must be completed, and the only thing that seems to be worth showing off is Liang Baoguo's sofa.

"Then I will definitely do a good job when I get back!" Liang Baoguo said excitedly.

Liang Baoguo had never thought of becoming a model worker, but the 800 yuan bonus was too tempting. With this money, the three major items for his youngest son's marriage would be secured.

"You must use your best skills to make a good one and bring honor to our workshop." Gao Bo said with a smile.

"Don't worry."

"That's it." Gao Bo nodded, and then said, "There's nothing else to do, let's get ready to work."

"and many more!"

At this moment, Xu Qiang suddenly shouted.

"What's the matter?" Seeing that it was Xu Qiang who was speaking, Gao Bo frowned slightly.

Gao Bo had a bad impression of Xu Qiang from the first day he started working.

Although Xu Qiang had never made any mistakes and was able to complete the required moving work every day, Gao Bo felt that this young man lacked ambition and had no drive to show positive performance.

In fact, these leaders of the chemical workshop, whether it is the team leader Gao Bo or the workshop director Sun Yulin, are all transferred from the army. These people have some common characteristics, that is, they are highly obedient and absolutely obey the orders of their superiors. Another point is that no matter they are performing tasks or working, they are full of energy and enthusiasm.

And people like Xu Qiang, who is obviously very young and a rotation worker, but just "muddles through" like some of the "old hands" in the factory, which naturally makes Gao Bo dislike him.

"I also want to participate in this technology solicitation activity." Xu Qiang said.

"You want to join this event?"

"That's right!"

"So what would you do?"

"I also have the technology to produce civilian products."

"You have the technology to produce civilian products?" Hearing this, Gao Bo was stunned for a moment, then asked: "You can also make sofas?"

"I can't make a sofa, but I can definitely make something better than a sofa." Xu Qiang raised his eyebrows and said. For Xu Qiang, 800 yuan is also very tempting. With this 800 yuan, Xu Qiang can sell a diesel engine and produce more humic acid fertilizer.

Moreover, for someone like him who was a top chemical expert in his previous life and who knew the formulas and production processes of many civilian chemicals, it was not difficult for him to participate in such a technology solicitation activity.

In fact, the "military-to-civilian" technology collection activity at Shengli Machinery Factory started a few years ago, but the products collected each time were not very good.

Last year, the "military-to-civilian" product exhibition held by the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building and the Defense Industry Office of JX Province was full of things with no technical content, such as steel wire beds, Sanwu brand table clocks, sewing machine tables, dough shakers, bicycle pedals...

The most outstanding military-to-civilian product of Shengli Machinery Factory is the radio developed by the Technical Department. This radio even won the provincial gold medal for quality and can be said to be the factory's "ace civilian product."

But in fact, all the key components of Shengli Machinery Factory's radios were provided by its parent factory, Shanghai Radio Factory No. 3, including the product design. Shengli Machinery Factory only designed and produced a plastic shell, and after purchasing the parts, it did a simple assembly and sold it.

Because of product competition, Shanghai Radio Factory No. 3 has also begun to restrict the supply of these radio parts in the past two years. With low production, the profit is naturally less. So up to now, Shengli Machinery Factory has no real civilian products to show off.

"You'd better save your energy. You have no skills, and no craftsmanship. Do you think this is just playing house? You can win a prize by just piling up some urine mud? Just do your job well first!" Gao Bo said unhappily.

"Hahaha~"

As soon as Gao Bo finished speaking, everyone around him burst into laughter.

The matter is obvious. Those who work in the chemical workshop are either local farmers or "troublemakers" who cannot be managed by other workshops in the factory. If they are really talented, they would have been transferred to other workshops or offices in the factory long ago.

Xu Qiang also wanted to win the 800 yuan grand prize, but to others it was just a pipe dream.

"Since this is an open solicitation activity in the factory, as a factory employee, I have the right to participate, right?" Xu Qiang ignored the mocking looks around him and continued, "Besides, Chairman Mao once said that practice is the only way to test truth. If you don't allow me to participate in the activity, how can I practice?"

"You..." Gao Bo realized at this moment that this young man in front of him, who looked somewhat honest, was actually so sharp-tongued that it was difficult for him to refute him.

"Besides, if I really win the prize, it will bring honor to our workshop. You should encourage me to participate..."

"Okay, okay, okay!" Gao Bo interrupted Xu Qiang and said, "If you want to participate, you can, but you have to bring out your ideas and products before the end of this month. The technical department of the factory will conduct a unified evaluation."

In front of everyone, Gao Bo was talked back to by a rotation worker, and he felt somewhat embarrassed.

But this activity was indeed an open recruitment by the factory, so there was nothing to say, so Gao Bo had no choice but to agree to his participation.

Seeing that Xu Qiang dared to argue with Gao Bo face to face, everyone else present was surprised, and some even showed an expression of gloating.

"Let's get to work!" Gao Bo waved his hand, signaling everyone to start working.

The next moment, everyone dispersed and started today's work.

"You are quite a gutsy kid."

At this moment, Xu Qiang suddenly felt someone patting his shoulder from behind, and a voice came immediately.

"You are……"

At this time, there was a tall young man standing behind Xu Qiang. He was at least 1.8 meters tall, with curly hair and a slightly raised corner of his mouth.

(End of this chapter)