Chapter 34 Leisure Life
When Liu Siying walked into the information room, she subconsciously glanced at Xu Qiang. A hint of curiosity flashed across her eyes, but she then looked away.

At the same time, with the help of the staff, Xu Qiang finally got the equipment drawings he needed, then found a table in the reading room and began to study them carefully.

After several days of research and thinking, Xu Qiang's technical improvement plan has taken shape, and the most critical step is to modify the No. 2 synthesis tower in the workshop.

Currently in the chemical workshop, the No. 1 synthesis tower has actually been in a state of long-term maintenance and suspension. The equipment was left over from the Japanese occupation period before liberation. At that time, it was used to produce ammonium nitrate explosives. It became a fertilizer plant after liberation. The words "Showa 15" can still be found on the machine, which shows that this synthesis tower is quite old.

Nowadays, the chemical workshop still mainly relies on the No. 2 synthesis tower to complete the synthesis of ammonia, which is also the key point of Xu Qiang's technical transformation.

The No. 2 synthesis tower is actually quite old. It was an equipment built with aid from SL. Although the Russian stuff is a bit rough, it is still sturdy and durable. Until now, there have been no major problems.

Since we are going to take the route of military-to-civilian conversion, fertilizer production must consider the issue of cost and energy consumption.

One of the very important indicators is the 'coal consumption per ton of ammonia', which refers to the amount of fuel coal and raw coal consumed to produce one ton of synthetic ammonia.

According to Xu Qiang, the amount of coal required to produce synthetic ammonia in the chemical workshop is very high. Compared with some large domestic fertilizer plants, the amount is almost twice as high. Fertilizers produced at such a high cost naturally have little market competitiveness.

In fact, if the main factory was not so large and powerful that it had to endure losses in order to complete its tasks, the chemical workshop would have been disbanded long ago.

Xu Qiang's goal this time is to reduce the production cost of synthetic ammonia to at least the domestic average level. In order to achieve this goal, the upgrading and transformation of equipment becomes imminent.

Xu Qiang spent the entire morning in the reading room of the information room. After recording all the key data of the drawings in a notebook, he returned the documents and left the room.

After returning to the village, Xu Qiang continued to work on extracting humic acid.

"Uncle, I've been waiting for you."

Seeing Xu Qiang, Erhu came towards him, followed by Liu Jun and Da Hei Niu.

After yesterday's celebration banquet, everyone in Xu Qiang's team seemed full of energy and started working at dawn in the morning. By noon, the three of them had completed the widening of the reservoir and the tertiary sedimentation tank in accordance with Xu Qiang's instructions, and filled them with water.

"start!"

Following an order, several people started today's production in the midday temperature of over 30 degrees...

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At five o'clock in the afternoon, the melody of "We Workers Have Power" sounded from the factory loudspeakers. Hundreds of workers on bicycles quickly formed a huge stream of people and slowly drove out of the workshops.

Workers who are already married go directly to the vegetable market, while many single young workers quickly rush to the canteen. Some have even changed into their jerseys, ready to work hard in the evening.

The nightlife of Shengli Machinery Factory can be considered rich and colorful. In the early years, due to the lack of entertainment, workers in various workshops always liked to fight with each other, and the public security in the factory was once very chaotic. In order to let these young workers release their vigorous energy and hormones, the factory director Liu Biao began to build a football field, basketball court, lighted stadium, dance hall, and the original theater street was upgraded to the Workers' Cultural Palace. Whenever there is a new movie, it will basically be released in the machinery factory as soon as possible, so that every night, the factory is much more lively than the county town.

Nowadays, the factory has spontaneously organized a "Philatelic House", "Literary Society", "Chess Society", "Calligraphy House" and so on. There are countless small groups like this, which undoubtedly greatly enriched the employees' spare time life.

"Xiaoying, come out tonight. I heard that the dance hall just got a new sound system and rearranged the lights. It's so beautiful..."

At the entrance of the office building, Liu Siying was pushing a bicycle, and a female worker next to her said excitedly.

The female worker was named Lin Yueying, and she was a typist in the factory. Because both sets of parents were factory leaders, they had known each other since childhood and had a very good relationship.

"If you want to go, go ahead. I still have some work to do and I have to finish it tonight." Liu Siying was obviously not interested.

"Or you are such a boring person!" Lin Yueying sighed and said, "What's there to do at work? Everyone goes to work on time and leaves work on time. How can you go home and work? If you want to be a model worker, why don't you just ask your dad to give you a place? Who in the factory dares to object?"

"They just don't say anything, how can they not have any objections?" Liu Siying smiled slightly and continued, "Besides, I don't want to compete for the title of model worker."

"Then what do you want? Forget it, let's not talk about it." Lin Yueying was a little disapproving, but then she said excitedly: "I'm telling you, I recently discovered that there are some dancing masters in our factory, especially in the chemical workshop, there is a guy nicknamed 'The Great Sage', he dances disco really well, and he looks very handsome, I can't help but want to applaud him..."

"You're not attracted to him, are you?" Liu Siying said with a smile upon hearing this.

"How is that possible? Don't talk nonsense!" Lin Yueying denied it, but a blush flashed across her face. She said with a bit of arrogance: "If I'm looking for a partner, I'll at least find someone with a cadre system. After all, my father is a factory leader. You can't let me marry a worker, right? Besides, what kind of place is the chemical workshop? It's the worst workshop in our factory. The workers there smell so bad that I feel dizzy..."

"So you still like watching people dance?"

"The one called 'Great Sage' is different. He's handsome and tall. He's a good dance partner. But forget about the other stuff." Lin Yueying said while biting her lip.

"Okay, whatever makes you happy."

"So are you going tonight or not?"

"I've already told you that I still have work to do tonight..." Liu Siying hesitated for a moment, then said, "How about this, the day after tomorrow, Sunday, let's go shopping in the county together and buy some snacks. Don't you like eating melon seeds and fruits the most? I'll pay for it."

"That's more like it!" Lin Yueying smiled immediately when she heard that.

Then, the two of them rode their bicycles and slowly left the office building...

(End of this chapter)