Chapter 32 Lots of Talents
The next morning, when Xu Qiang finished his night shift as usual and was about to go home, he was stopped by his team leader Gao Bo.

"What's the matter?" Xu Qiang asked.

"Captain Sun is calling you." At this time, Gao Bo's face showed a bit of gloating.

Generally speaking, Sun Yulin seldom talks to temporary workers, but if a temporary worker is called over individually, it is probably a big deal.

Gao Bo has been reporting on Xu Qiang's work style issues for some time. At this point, he seemed to have guessed Xu Qiang's ending.

What Gao Bo didn't expect was that the factory director would actually veto this matter.

"Call me? What for?"

"You'll know when you get there." Gao Bo didn't want to waste time talking to Xu Qiang. He pointed to the dispatch room and said, "Captain Sun is in there."

"Yeah." Xu Qiang responded, then turned and walked towards the dispatch room.

Seeing Xu Qiang leave, Gao Bo took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it with a match, took a puff, and blew out a smoke ring comfortably...

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At the same time, Xu Qiang came to the dispatch room and saw Sun Yulin sitting inside.

"Captain Sun, you're looking for me?"

"Please sit down." Sun Yulin motioned Xu Qiang to sit down.

Xu Qiang actually didn't have much impression of Sun Yulin, except that he took him to the workshop for a tour. Later, because of the night shift, the two of them never met each other.

"I heard that you want to participate in the collection of our factory's military-to-civilian products. Is that true?"

"That's right." Xu Qiang replied straightforwardly.

“So what’s your product plan?”

"That's right..." Xu Qiang pondered for a moment, then continued, "I feel that if our chemical workshop wants to carry out military-civilian technical transformation, it will be a very easy thing. For example, the ammonium nitrate production line in the workshop can be directly converted to fertilizer production. Currently, rural fertilizer products are in short supply..."

"That's enough." Sun Yulin interrupted Xu Qiang and said, "Do you know that our chemical workshop is carrying out military tasks assigned by our superiors? We must ensure the quality and quantity of military products delivered."

"Of course I know this, but the problem is that the factory said it, this time the state has issued a document requiring our military-industrial enterprises to complete the transformation from military to civilian. Since the state has already issued the document, there is no problem for us to do this, right?" Xu Qiang said confidently.

"But how do you plan to modify this production line?" Sun Yulin asked with a frown.

"The ammonium nitrate production line equipment in our workshop is too old. I have seen it before. Some of the equipment is actually from before the liberation. The ammonium nitrate produced has low output and high energy consumption. If it is put on the market, it will definitely lose money." Xu Qiang paused and continued: "So I think if our workshop wants to go the route of military-to-civilian conversion, this ammonium nitrate production line must undergo technical improvements to reduce energy consumption and costs. Only when such products are put on the market will they be competitive!"

"Yeah." After hearing what Xu Qiang said, Sun Yulin actually felt speechless.

At first, he thought Xu Qiang might have some brain problems. He was jealous of the high bonuses offered by the factory, so he wanted to modify the production line. But after a conversation, Sun Yulin suddenly found that Xu Qiang had no problem with his logical thinking and was very eloquent. "I have already applied to Platoon Leader Gao to see the equipment drawings of the No. 2 synthesis tower in our workshop. Captain Sun, is it for this purpose?" Xu Qiang said with a smile.

"You're right, that's it." Sun Yulin originally called Xu Qiang here today to ask him to give up participating in the event and not do anything weird.

But now it seems that Sun Yulin feels that he cannot convince him.

In fact, Sun Yulin had no grudge against Xu Qiang. Since the factory director tried his best to protect him, Sun Yulin had no choice but to follow the leader's arrangements.

"Then can I go and look at the information?"

"Come with me." Sun Yulin looked at his watch and said, "The shift meeting at the office should be almost over, so it's just the right time for us to go there.

"Okay!" Xu Qiang's face immediately showed joy when he heard that.

Xu Qiang has spent a whole week to renovate the ammonium nitrate production line in this workshop. Now a preliminary sketch has been drawn up. What remains is to understand the parameters of these old equipment and then carry out targeted renovations.

After walking for nearly twenty minutes, Xu Qiang finally followed Sun Yulin to the office building.

The factory's data room is on the second floor, next to the technical department.

As the leading third-line military factory in Jiangxi, Shengli Machinery Factory is full of talented people. In response to the country's policy of "sending good people and good horses to the third line", all the land-aiding factories across the country sent some of their technical backbones and core members to inland areas. Therefore, many of the first batch of people who came here to open up the new land had high academic qualifications.

The factory has been replenished with fresh blood over the years. Since college students are assigned jobs by the state these days, Shengli Machinery Factory assigns some college students and technical secondary school students to the factory every year. Although the factory is located in a mountain valley, fresh graduates are willing to work in this factory because of the good benefits and high wages.

As a result, by now, the number of people in the technical department of Shengli Machinery Factory has reached more than 200, a large proportion of whom are technical secondary school students and college students. This is simply unimaginable in other companies. In general state-owned enterprises, there are only four or five college students at most, and some small companies do not even have any.

"Xiao Wang, take this comrade to the reference room and find him the blueprint of the No. 2 synthesis tower in the chemical workshop."

The director of the Information Department is named Huang Haitao. He is wearing a grey Zhongshan suit and a pair of black-framed glasses. He has fair skin and a gentle appearance.

Huang Haitao was informed by the factory director yesterday about Xu Qiang wanting to check the drawings of the chemical workshop. When he saw Sun Yulin coming with his men, he immediately arranged for his men to take Xu Qiang into the data room.

"Chief Huang, our group three needs to check the data drawings of product number six today. Could you please help me find them?" Just as Xu Qiang was about to follow the custodian into the data room, a female worker came over from the technical department and asked Huang Haitao with a smile on her face.

Xu Qiang just took a look and was stunned for a moment.

The female worker in front of him looked young, probably in her early twenties at most. She was tall, wearing a plaid shirt and a pair of white sandals. She had delicate and beautiful features, a neat ponytail, and her eyes were intelligent.

Even in later times, compared with those famous actresses, this female worker is not inferior at all. Moreover, there was no high technology and beauty filters in that era. It was completely natural beauty.

Xu Qiang felt that this female worker looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen her.

But when he saw the exquisite plum blossom watch on the female worker's hand, he suddenly realized that this female worker should be the girl Xu Qiang saw when he first went to the town to attend the market...

(End of this chapter)