Chapter 5: Hardware Factory Makes Armor

After parking the car, Yan Xu came to the factory responsible for producing anti-theft doors and windows.

There are no complicated machines here. After all, anti-theft doors do not require any technical content. It is just time-consuming and laborious to polish and paint them.

However, we must not be careless in this regard. The protective effect is not important, but it must be beautiful and generous, arouse people's desire to buy, and make people feel proud when they buy it back. Anyway, it is impossible for customers to use a hammer to test the hardness after buying it home, and if they really try it, they will not refund the money.

"Master Jiang." Seeing an old master teaching a young worker how to weld, Yan Xu walked over and said hello.

"What's the matter, Director?" Master Jiang, who was holding a cigarette, was an old man in the factory. He was in his sixties, with a weather-beaten face and scars all over his hands, but he had a strong body and a loud voice.

Master Jiang was originally a level 6 fitter in the factory. Later, the factory closed down and he lost his job due to his old age. However, because of his good character and good skills, he was invited by Yan's father.

Although the technology that Master Jiang possesses is somewhat backward, his skills are the best in the factory and he is the most familiar with the old machines in the factory. Therefore, even though he is older and cannot do heavy work, he is still paid a high salary.

When Yan Xu took over the factory, he visited all the old masters in the factory one by one. Not only did he give them rice, flour and oil, he also increased their wages by 10% in order to stabilize the hearts of these old employees.

He knew very well that although technology was being updated rapidly, it would take several years before it had an impact on the town. So for a long time he would still have to rely on these old masters. Not to mention that these old masters not only had good skills, but also had a large number of apprentices. If he could keep them stable, the factory would remain in order.

After stabilizing the factory with the help of the reputation of the old masters, Yan Xu sent the deputy factory director out on the pretext of opening a security door and window store. He was responsible for sales and promotion, and it was estimated that he would not be back for two or three months. When he came back, the factory would also bear his mark.

"Master Jiang, find a few workers to make some things for me." After Yan Xu greeted them and told them his idea, Master Jiang's eyes suddenly became a little strange when he looked at him.

"The stuff is not difficult, the only problem is who will sell it?" Master Jiang is not afraid that Yan Xu will use these to commit a crime. Only a fool could do such a thing. He is just afraid that he will not be able to sell them and will waste the materials.

"You know how to fool the Japanese." Yan Xu said deliberately vaguely.

I don’t know what Master Jiang was thinking, but he suddenly became energetic and waved his hand, telling him not to worry about anything and leave everything to him.

"It can't be too sloppy. It has to at least look acceptable. Otherwise it will be troublesome if they don't buy it in the future. So you should find a few skilled workers to cut the steel bars into half a foot long, process them into a cone shape, quench and sharpen them. Find bamboo to cut into two-meter long pieces and fix the spear head. Then get some steel bars, three feet long and two feet long, to make them into the shape of samurai swords." Yan Xu gestured back and forth, and Master Jiang understood as soon as he heard it. He lost interest immediately and asked two workers to do it.

Without leaving in a hurry, Yan Xu proposed to get himself a set of weapons and armor. Master Jiang then became interested. After all, a man is a young man until he dies, and even when he is older, he will still be interested in weapons and armor.

However, after listening to Yan Xu's request, he shook his head, pointed to some steel parts on the ground and asked him to move them. After checking them, he sent him away.

After leaving the factory, Yan Xu walked around the factory to let the employees get more familiar with his presence.

Because he found a new way to make money for the factory, Yan Xu's prestige is not low now, especially those old employees, who praise him unanimously. The older they are, the more traditional they are. It is natural for a son to inherit his father's business. In addition, he knows how to behave and has given him face and money. What opinions can he have? Naturally, he supports him.

"It seems that there is no need to let the deputy factory director go to the province for another half a year." Yan Xu was very satisfied with this and planned to call the deputy factory director back in a month or so.

Yan Xu knew this very well. He could give some advice and suggestions based on his experience from his previous life, but he was still a little short of the knowledge on how to run a factory. Therefore, the factory really could not do without the deputy director. He could give him a warning, but he couldn't get rid of him. After all, the deputy director had made a lot of efforts when Yan's father was still alive. When he inherited the factory, although his attitude was a little confusing, he didn't cause any trouble. So there was no need to be too drastic.

After almost finishing the things in the town, Yan Xu drove back to Goujiazhuang. At this time, the yard was already full of things, all kinds of things, but after being sorted out, it was messy but not chaotic. It was obvious that the supermarket employees were working hard for the big boss.

As for why it was not put in the warehouse, it was of course because Yan Xu asked the recruited Japanese farmers and foot soldiers to hide in the warehouse and locked it.

Although they are all human beings, the Japanese farmers and foot soldiers are obviously not normal people, and they speak Japanese. He is afraid of being beaten to death if seen, so he definitely cannot let them show up, and it is also difficult to explain.

Opening the door of the warehouse, the farmer was holding a sickle nervously, and the foot soldier was holding a bamboo spear and guarding the grain vigilantly.

A lot of people came to the yard before, which scared them. They thought they were here to steal food. Fortunately, they remembered the adults' instructions and did not make any noise, so the other party retreated. It was really the adults' blessing!

At that time, Yan Xu could not understand the importance of food to them. After he knew it, he realized how lucky he was to live in this era.

Yan Xu was already used to the two men kneeling down at every turn. Seeing that it was getting dark, he asked the two men to get out the cart that had been idle for a long time, then moved the tools onto the cart and followed him out the door.

From the surname, it can be seen that the ancestors of the Yan family were not from Goujiazhuang. They were refugees from outside. Therefore, the land allocated to them was not good. It was located behind the village near the stone mountain.

Goujiazhuang has a flat terrain, with only a small hill around it, which is over a hundred meters high and is entirely made of rocks. There were trees there in the early years, but they were all cut down during steelmaking, and no trees have grown since then. You can imagine how bad the land near the rocky mountain is.

However, fortune and misfortune go hand in hand. Because the Yan family could not feed themselves by farming, they had to find other ways to make a living. As a result, they became the first group of people to become rich.

Of course, Father Yan also took good care of the people in his hometown. For example, the cement road in the village was the first to be built in the surrounding area. The mayor even came to cut the ribbon.
This cement road runs from the main road at the entrance of the village all the way to the front of Yan's yard, and then there is a single-lane forked path that goes around to the back mountain.

This road behind the mountain was built because Yan's father planned to start a breeding industry in the village and lead the fellow villagers to get rich together. So he built a pig farm in the depression behind the stone mountain, which could raise hundreds of pigs.

As a result, an epidemic killed most of the piglets, and the pig farm came to a halt. It has been idle until now. When Yan Xu thought about it, he found that this place was remote and deserted, so it was just right to use it as a temporary base.

(End of this chapter)