Return to the red age

The next morning, Liu Hai found Section Chief Hou: "Brother Hou, I have two stoves over there."

"Section Chief, there are three of us in the hospital. They will deliver scrap metal at noon."

"Section Chief, there are two in our yard."

"Section Chief, there are five in our yard."

When Section Chief Hou heard this, he also said: "There are also five in our house."

"Section Chief, how do you charge processing fees? Do you want to ask for instructions on this?"

"No need to ask for permission. I'll go find the director of the sand foundry workshop to discuss it."

Section Chief Hou went to the director of the sand foundry workshop to discuss it, and then the two went to the factory director. The factory director looked at his two subordinates and said, "You can do it yourself, but the factory has to charge management fees. I’ll use this for daily life and other things from now on.”

Section Chief Hou nodded. After all, electricity bills and other expenses are definitely required.

Section Chief Hou also made a decision, that is to do it first, and then let everyone use scrap iron to replace it. With as much scrap iron as you can get plus the labor cost, you can directly replace it with a honeycomb briquette stove.

As for the briquettes, several apprentices are making handmade coal presses, while Liu Hai is designing the machine's coal press and drawing pictures.

Section Chief Hou looked at Liu Hai's drawing ability with envy. Everyone he met said that Liu Hai was born to do mechanical processing.

Workers in the sand foundry workshop should be given some benefits if they work overtime. This was discussed between Section Chief Hou and the director of the sand foundry workshop.

The technical content of the briquette stove is too low. In the afternoon, several people from the maintenance department pressed the coal manually. This is called home service.

Each family buys powdered coal and prepares soil...

On Liu Hai's side, he brought back two briquette stoves for the second uncle and Xu Damao, and gave the briquettes he made to nine families. Then he took out two of his own briquette stoves and replaced them with the two families first.

"Brother Xu, that's right, you learned it." Liu Hai watched Xu Damao press a briquette and gave a thumbs up.

"Brother, you did a good job."

"If it were me, I would buy one of these and use it to press coal for others."

"I didn't expect that the coal would burn so vigorously with so much mud in it." The second aunt said in surprise as she looked at the fire in the briquette stove.

“No more fumigation and choking.”

"That's right." Several people were pressing briquettes here, which naturally attracted other neighbors.

Among them, the third uncle was the most concerned because he heard that coal can be saved. The third uncle calculated how much he would use in a year and how much he would save. He was instantly moved, but he decided to take another look.

It started on Monday, and by Friday, the orders were already overwhelming. Everyone has seen the benefits of briquettes. The ability to have hot water at any time is very popular among gay women, not to mention that there is no need to buy more firewood to start a fire. It is convenient to change coal. The most important thing is to buy pulverized coal yourself and then dig some soil. Although the briquettes are also mixed with soil, the briquettes are mixed with more briquettes. This is a saving you can see with your own eyes.

Moreover, I borrowed a manual briquette press and did it myself, which saved another fortune.

There is no harm if there is no comparison. Those who burn briquettes will have hot water when they go home. When others open the damper, they sit and wait for cooking, while I am still huffing and puffing, chopping firewood, lighting the fire, and burning briquettes. By the time my own briquettes are burned, others' food has already been cooked. about there.

That's what it is, that's the gap.

It is easy for others to replace the briquettes, and there is no ashes everywhere. I have to clean out the ashes every time I burn, which makes me look disgraceful.

Others have hot water to wash up in the morning, but they have to make a fire.

There is such a house in a yard, and everyone else will do it one after another, not to mention saving money, which is an irresistible temptation.

After get off work in the afternoon, the director of the motorcycle factory saw at least a hundred people at the door, in groups of three or five, with carts and tricycles.

"Is the battle so big?" The factory director felt a little guilty. There must be too many people here, but he turned a blind eye when he thought that the factory had management fees.

Section Chief Hou was a little frightened when he looked at the list in the newspaper, but he was more excited. What do so many people mean? It means recognition from others.

The upper management is actually also considering the matter of briquettes, which will be officially replaced by coal next year. With so many households in Kyoto, each household lights a fire twice a day, and each time half a kilogram of wood is used to start the fire. How much firewood is needed?

In the morning and evening, the entire Kyoto is filled with smoke, and the pungent smell of burning coal briquettes is everywhere.

If briquettes can become popular, they must be recognized by the people. However, the production capacity of motorcycle factories is too low. After all, they cannot produce all of them.

Those who want to get a honeycomb stove can only queue up to register at the motorcycle factory, bring their own scrap metal, pay the processing fee, and then come back the next or third day.

The first thing to report was the material recycling stations in various places, especially the entire Dongcheng District. Although the material recycling stations did not have scrap iron tasks and had no plans (scrap iron was strictly controlled only when large-scale steelmaking was needed).

Another place that has also received reactions from the masses is the streets. Because you cannot buy briquettes, and if you want to press them yourself, there are not that many manual coal presses. Many people have no place to buy them.

The street side is also very confused, briquettes? Is this thing that good?

So I made a careful visit, and several people from the street office looked at the collected materials. Of course, it was clear who was doing the briquettes in a big way and where the briquettes stoves came from.

At this time, the factory was not under local management. The motorcycle factory was under the management of the First Machinery Department, and only a few streets were reported to Dongcheng District.

Dongcheng District also received a report from the material recycling station and decided to go to the motorcycle factory to investigate the next day together with people from the First Machinery Department.

On Saturday, Liu Hai was discussing with Section Chief Hou in the maintenance department, or in other words, Liu Hai was explaining the briquette machine he designed to Section Chief Hou.

"Section Chief, this is semi-automatic. It can be powered by an electric motor or a diesel engine. Here is the power part."

"Here is the mixing equipment, here is the conveying equipment, here is the pressing equipment, and here is the manual removal of the briquettes."

"Section Chief, what do you think?" Liu Hai looked at it expectantly.

Section Chief Hou looked at the drawings carefully and then nodded: "There shouldn't be much of a problem, but isn't Xiao Liuqian afraid of such a big battle?"

"Section Chief, we are serving the masses and thinking for the masses. What are we afraid of? We have not gained any benefits from it and are still half dead from exhaustion." Liu Hai said sternly.

Section Chief Hou was still a little worried. He was warned by the factory director in the morning not to make the matter a big deal, but there was nothing he could do. Many people knew him. Even inside the factory, many people came to greet him. How many times would it take? Several honeycomb briquette stoves and manual coal presses.

"Section Chief Hou, Director Liu, the factory director asked you to come to the office. The leaders of the district and the first machine department are here." At this moment, an employee from the factory office hurried over.