The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 301: Reject Involution
Some people were not convinced and said: "Master Liu doesn't trust us? He asked us to be responsible for the construction, but he didn't tell us the specific name of the project. He is keeping it confidential from us."

The head engineer of the Petrochemical Group shook his head and said, "No, he is not keeping it secret from us. He is rushing the work. Didn't you notice that apart from holding a meeting with us when he came here, he spent the rest of the time rushing us to finish the work?"

"Then I should at least know what I'm doing."

"I've seen the tasks assigned to you. Although they are different from the projects we've been responsible for in the past," the leading engineer said, "but I found something very interesting. Engineer Liu must have read all of our resumes. The projects assigned to us are what we were best at in the past. Although they are different from the current projects, they have only been adjusted a little bit."

"But we have been working here for more than two months. We still don't know what the specific project is. It doesn't make sense to tell others about it."

The old engineer also felt that this was a bit unreasonable, so he frowned and said, "Well, you guys can see if there are any difficult problems on your hands. Let's take some time to discuss it with Engineer Liu, and then we can ask him by the way."

Unexpectedly, there were quite a few problems in this summary, so the old engineer contacted Liu Hua and prepared to take half a day to solve the problems in a unified manner.

The next morning, we held a meeting to tackle the difficult part of the problem. We worked together and solved it without much effort.

"Mr. Liu, we have a question."

Liu Hua raised his eyebrows: "Questions? What kind of questions?"

"It has been more than two months since the project was completed. In another two months, it will be almost finished." The old engineer asked tentatively, "But we still don't know what the installed production line will produce. It is completely different from the projects we have been involved in before."

“Didn’t I tell you that on the first day of the meeting?”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, then shook their heads. The old engineer smiled and said, "My memory is pretty good. I'm sure you didn't say that at the time."

Liu Hua slapped his forehead and said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I was so busy in the laboratory that I forgot to ask the most important question."

Liu Hua smiled and said: "The production line we are installing now is for the production of carbon fiber."

"Carbon fiber? It's the carbon fiber that Toray Chemical is best at."

Liu Hua nodded: "That's right. I can't say he's the best, but I can say he's a step ahead for now. My craftsmanship is not inferior to his. I even think it's better."

The old engineer said seriously: "Mr. Liu, this is no joke. Our country currently does not have a complete carbon fiber production process. If there is really a production line for carbon fiber, it will fill a domestic gap."

"I never joke when I'm doing science." Liu Hua said seriously, "It's carbon fiber. I have summarized a complete set of production processes in the laboratory, and I also designed the entire production line."

Liu Hua said proudly: "After the production line is installed, we only need to make appropriate process adjustments, and we will be able to produce carbon fiber that is better than Xiaodongyang. The most important thing is that it is cheaper."

The old engineer was a little excited. Although he was not an engineer specializing in carbon fiber, he knew that this thing was now stuck in our neck. If we could really achieve mass production, it would definitely be good news for the development of the country. The other engineers were also a little excited. After a little excitement, the old engineer clenched his fist and said, "Engineer Liu, this matter is still quite big. I think we should report it to the higher-ups."

Liu Hua shook his head: "Let's wait a while. I'm a private enterprise now. I'll report to the higher-ups after I have qualified products."

"That's right, I was a little too excited. After all, words are not enough."

Perhaps because they know they are doing such a great job, these engineers put in 150% of their energy every day.

The project, which was originally expected to be completed in two and a half months, was completed half a month ahead of schedule. This was the result of Liu Huajing and his team working overtime for a long time.

They were originally working eight hours a day, but they were forced to extend it to twelve hours. When Liu Hua found out about this, he firmly rejected their crazy behavior. However, he could not stop them from secretly taking advantage of the situation, so they had to work overtime for two hours every day, and Liu Hua generously paid them overtime pay.

Liu Hua hates the idea of involution. Generally speaking, everyone is positive. If you are too positive, it will make the originally positive people seem lazy.

Originally, they were willing to make positive progress, but because they couldn't keep up with your pace, they were looked down upon by others and had no choice but to just lie down.

This kind of involutionary trend is simply the root of all evil. It is just like writing online novels. Everyone updates 4,000 words a day, but some people insist on updating more rapidly. The readers are very happy, but it harms the health of the writers. There are many writers who die young these days.

Originally, these engineers could go back after the installation work was completed, but they asked the petrochemical company for some vacation time because they wanted to witness with their own eyes the production of carbon fiber by the equipment they installed.

Director Zhang has organized training for the employees, and 70% of them have passed the assessment. The remaining 30% who failed the assessment were either too old or had no education at all.

According to Liu Hua's instructions, he had already prepared the raw materials for production. Now everything is ready, except for the east wind, and experimental production can be carried out at any time.

Liu Hua picked a day from his family's almanac. Everything on this day was suitable except for burial. Although it did not explicitly say that it was suitable for childbirth, with so many suitable days it must be an auspicious day, so choosing this day should be a good choice.

From the initial preparation of raw silk to the finished carbon fiber, it needs to go through pre-oxidation, carbonization, graphitization, surface treatment and sizing. The whole process takes four to five days.

The engineers were responsible for the installation of their respective links in an orderly manner, monitoring every production condition and reporting the production status in a timely manner. Although it was only a short period of four or five days, it felt as long as a century.

The young apprentices following them were a little nonchalant, because they did not understand and so their ignorance was bliss.

The old engineer said to his young apprentice in the most plain and simple way: "Boy, if you learn this link thoroughly, you will never have to worry about your job. And the salary will be high. You will eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks. You won't feel bad at all."

(End of this chapter)