Chapter 130: It's all about looking at money, it's all about eating alone!

The most common coating is Teflon, which is polytetrafluoroethylene; if you understand chemistry, you know that anything that has anything to do with fluorine is highly toxic.

However, discussing toxicity without considering dosage and conditions is just being a rascal, just like talking about fuel consumption without looking at road conditions.

Polytetrafluoroethylene has excellent non-stick and corrosion-resistant properties; it can be said to be the simplest and most convenient material. Moreover, its upper limit for heat resistance is 260 degrees Celsius; as long as it stays below that temperature, there is no problem, unless you directly bake the inner pot over fire, otherwise it will not pose a health risk. Of course, if you scrub off the inner pot's coating with a steel wool brush and keep using it...

In later times, as environmentalist arguments became widespread, this coating technology was looked down upon by many, and at the same time, new coating technologies emerged.

The high-end option is ceramic coating, using silicon carbide, silicon nitride, zirconium oxide and other ceramic materials as raw materials, after high-temperature treatment, sprayed onto the inner pot; it is heat-resistant, scratch-resistant, non-toxic, and environmentally friendly.

Of course, the price is also high; don't even think about anything under one hundred, and even the better ones cost three or four hundred.

Besides this, there is also stainless steel coating, which looks shiny on the surface, just like stainless steel, but the inside is actually ordinary steel; through stainless steel evaporation technology, it is coated onto the inside, solving the rust problem, but the tendency to stick to the pot remains unsolved.

Therefore, among the three, Qin Miao still looks forward most to the ceramic coating, and moreover, this ceramic material, once made, has other uses...

"Well, this inner pot coating technology is indeed quite complex; we need to study it thoroughly." Professor Ding said: "If we can't make it before the winter break, then we'll continue researching during the winter break, and once your electric rice cookers are produced over there, this material will definitely be supplied; we can't delay the market launch!"

"Well, then thank you all for your hard work; once this technology is researched, I will have my father's factory put up 500,000 to purchase this technology!" Qin Miao was very satisfied: "Of course, we also need to sign an exclusive agreement, so the technology cannot be sold to other factories in the future."

"Young man, you have a lot of ideas in your head, but it's a shame you place too much importance on fame and profit; the advanced technology developed by Ha Gong Da should benefit society, not let a certain company eat alone; if all research achievements in society were handled this way, how could our nation's overall technology develop?"

Hearing this, Qin Miao turned his head slightly out of curiosity and saw a group of people standing at the door.

Director Mao of the Materials Department, who was currently standing there embarrassedly, obviously hadn't expected that among those who came, someone would say something like that.

The speaker was a middle-aged man wearing a four-pocket Mao suit; his overcoat had been taken off when he entered, with a stern expression, as if… someone owed him money. Beside him stood an elderly man, not very tall, his face full of kindness; he didn't take to heart the words of the middle-aged official beside him, but rather… seemed to want to see how Qin Miao would answer.

"How are we eating alone? We paid for it! How is it, comrade, that you look down on us for eating alone, but you're just looking for an excuse to freeload for yourself?"

Sure enough, Qin Miao was still as fierce as before; Director Mao, a little worried, spoke up: "San Shui, this Leader Li is..."

"I don't care who he is, Director Mao; don't announce his title first, let me debate with him!" Qin Miao stopped Director Mao's words, because he was pissed off; damn it, just because someone is a leader doesn't mean they're amazing and can come lecture us?

I, after being reborn once, just want to instantly defeat heaven, earth, and air—I respect those who respect me, and I respect them back; but if someone puts on the airs of a leader, acts all high and mighty to lecture me, I just won't buy your nonsense, no matter how high you are, can you be as tall as my father-in-law?

Leader Li, pushed by Qin Miao like that, also got angry: "Fine, then let's debate. Are we still a socialist country? There's no trace of proletarian brotherhood left; it's all just money, money, money. If this continues, the social climate will surely be ruined."

"Proletarian brothers? What proletarian brothers? It's just that I treat you as a brother, and you eye my family's property—not only wanting to take it for free, but also wanting to take it with a righteous excuse. Leader Li, did you hear what I just said about those plans, so you want to take them for yourself? Using the whole nation as a shield, deep down you're nothing but a refined egoist."

"You!"

"What 'you'? I haven't finished yet; even the old leaders know that developing the country as before won't work! After eating communal meals for too long, some people just want to lie flat; when they see others making money, they shout about proletarian brotherhood to get a share. We're all proletarian brothers, so why don't they think about sharing some of their own stuff with others?"

Qin Miao looked at the other party: "You demand that Ha Gong Da contribute its developed technology to other factories; what can Ha Gong Da gain? Never mind honor—can honor be traded for food, or can it let Ha Gong Da continue its research?"

Leader Li's face turned red.

"Money is the most real thing! I, Qin Miao, am just this vulgar; without me bringing in foreign orders, could Ha Gong Da have money to continue research? You leaders shout about being pure—then why don't you solve Ha Gong Da's research funding problem? If you can't, that's just empty talk!"

"Over these years, how many problems do state-owned enterprises have? I'm sure you know! Especially the old enterprises in the Northeast Three Provinces, their problems are even more severe; it's precisely because of these problems that the state had to reform! It's about making those who lie flat get back on their feet; lying around waiting to be fed means you'd better prepare to starve; we who work hard with our heads down also have no obligation to feed those who don't work!"

"I!"

"What 'I'? Leader Li, have you grasped the spirit of developing a market economy as urged by the superiors? You couldn't possibly be one of those people obstructing our market economy development, could you?"

"I certainly am not!"

"Then why do you harbor such great hatred toward market economy behavior?"

"I don't, don't try to label me!"

"Market economy is just about looking at money, not talking about brotherhood, it's about eating alone! It's about letting those who wait to be fed starve to death! You just criticized what I said earlier, tearing it apart completely! Otherwise, let's go to the Capital, find the Capital's leaders to judge for us, see who's right."

Leader Li fell completely silent.

"If you had just said you could compete on price, I'd offer 500,000, you offer 600,000, and I still wouldn't have said those words; if you came here with the intention of freeloading, then Ha Gong Da is not welcome! Director Mao, am I right?"

"You little brat, you spoke your mind—don't hang me over a fire to roast!"

Director Mao hurriedly changed the subject: "San Shui, let me introduce you—this is Master Lao, who came all the way from the Metal Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shenyang."