Chapter 334: Heating Stove

Qin Delu picked it up, looked it over, and noticed something.

"It would be great if we could find a few experts."

"Factory Director Yang once said, we can figure out brick-making ourselves by trial and error, but the deeper stuff requires professional staff."

"Look, these bricks, although they've been finished, the surface is still a bit rough; if we could apply a glaze like porcelain, they'd look much better."

"Also, the deformation problem needs to be solved."

As he spoke, he put the two bricks together, and a large gap appeared between them.

The bricks deformed.

(The original exterior wall bricks, not fully attached, only decorating the bottom layer, can prevent dampness and alkali rebound.)

To have researched this far, Ma Xianglin has already exhausted his efforts.

This has already exceeded his capabilities.

"Professional staff aren't that easy to find."

"Nobody wants to give up."

"Besides, nobody looks down on our run-down brick factory."

"Village Head, I think we should go see Factory Director Yang and see if he has any solutions."

How could Village Head Qin, who was just preparing to develop independently, agree?

"Factory Director Yang has already helped us enough; how can we bother him over every little thing?"

"From now on, we're not allowed to bother Factory Director Yang unless it's a matter of life and death."

"We need to learn to use our brains and figure out solutions ourselves."

"You don't know? Factory Director Yang never went to school a day in his life; he's entirely self-taught."

"You have nothing else to do, so you should read more; this big brick factory has been entrusted to you, so you must do well."

Ma Xianglin rolled his eyes, saying you're all talk and no help, and even dragging us down.

Easier said than done.

"Village Head, why don't you use your connections? We'll send a few people to the Glazed Tile Factory to learn from them."

"That Glazed Tile Factory has been around for so many years; its experience in this area must be rich."

"We don't need to learn how to produce glazed tile; we just need to learn how to prevent deformation and apply glaze."

In this era, doing things is extremely difficult, because you can't do this, you can't do that.

Saying it's easy is also very easy, because in this era technology is free; you just find a plausible excuse and share it.

Thus, various forms of seeking knowledge are a common phenomenon.

Qin Delu felt this could be tried.

Although they are a village collective enterprise, they are also part of the larger collective.

Now public-private partnerships are allowed; they, being politically reliable, should not have any problems.

"Alright, I'll handle this."

"Go find a few youngsters who are well-read, clever, and have brick-making experience."

"Once things are settled, we'll go right away."

With competition from other brick factories, they are full of motivation.

The person who brought the furnace cores the next day also brought news of Qinjiacun's situation.

Although Yang Qing was missing, the person delivering the goods still hoped Yang Qing would learn about Qinjiacun's situation.

He learned from people in Honghai that with other brick factories competing, he realized the era of easy profits for brick factories was over.

What could get them through this crisis might be relying on that Factory Director Yang who repeatedly creates miracles.

He has been to the city many times, knows a lot, and deeply understands how formidable Yang Qing is.

So he sent the information over, hoping Yang Qing would know.

Yang Qing had no time to deal with this; he was busy to the point of exhaustion developing the production line.

He could barely take care of his wife.

However, the arrival of the furnace cores still caught his slight attention.

The heating stove is another money-making device he's preparing.

Relying solely on current profits, it's hard to support him in completing the production line overhaul.

The booming Agricultural Machinery Factory needs money everywhere.

From the Mayor, he can't wheedle money out anymore, so he can only create it himself.

As soon as the furnace cores arrived, Xiao Lin immediately told Yang Qing.

Yang Qing didn't even look up, directly giving orders.

"Check the quality; if there's no problem, let the workshop that produces agricultural machinery go all out making heating stoves."

"As for sickles, hoes, and such, what's in the warehouse is enough for winter sales."

"When winter comes, everyone wants to hole up; who would buy agricultural machinery? Now is a great time to sell heating stoves."

He rambled on and on, but his only point was: don't produce low-value-added items like sickles and hoes; produce heating stoves, which have higher profit.

The heating stove Yang Qing presented has been optimized over many years, drawing on the experience of wood-burning stoves, with high combustion efficiency, strong fire, and coal-saving.

Once this big killer hits the market, those small stoves in Jingcheng will probably pile up unsold.

Unfortunately, this big killer can only earn him one wave of money.

Before long, others will be able to produce it as well.

Moreover, the authorities won't stand by and let the small stove factories go under.

Otherwise, he might even get scolded—you, a producer of agricultural machinery, what are you doing stirring up trouble in the stove business?

Hurry up and hand over the drawings.

Then Yang Qing obediently handed it over.

Having put in so much effort, Yang Qing certainly doesn't want to make a small fuss; he must make a big move.

Production, step up production.

Xiao Lin obediently went to arrange it.

A group of people who were leisurely crafting agricultural machinery instantly became workers producing heating stoves.

Wow, I thought winter had come and we could finally relax.

Factory Director isn't human, giving us such a huge burden.

With such a huge workload, we won't have an easy time over the next two months.

The workshop chief said unhappily.

If there's work, do it well.

Our factory is getting bigger and bigger, all we produce are big items.

The things we produce have low technical content.

Now we have a new task, yet you're not secretly happy, instead you're spouting nonsense here.

You bunch of lazybones, you won't be happy unless our workshop is cancelled.

The chief's words made these people put away their petty thoughts, and also let them know they are the most worthless group in the Agricultural Machinery Factory.

A sense of crisis came immediately.

Chief, let's get to work, we'll start right away.

It's rare to get something with technical content for us to produce, yet we don't cherish it; we really deserve to die.

You idiot, hurry up and get to work; even if you're not enthusiastic about work, your thinking is also problematic, we almost got led astray by you.

In a chaotic scramble, the production of heating stoves immediately got on track.

Yang Qing didn't know these things; he just gave a few reminders.

Let Qinjiacun quickly increase output.

Our target is ten thousand; twenty thousand would be even better.

By the way, are our raw materials sufficient?

Xiao Lin's eyes shifted.

I'll have people go to the scrap yard to scavenge, and have the procurement department get some off-plan items.

Should be, no problem.

If that still doesn't work, I think our truck bed can still be optimized.

For example, the wooden truck bed we used at the start was not bad.