Traveling through 70's wine

Chapter 155 Getting to the bottom of things

At night, under the scolding of Zhuang's father, Zhuang Xiyin finally apologized to Wen Qing, but she refused to take off her clothes. "I made this dress dirty. I will wash it and return it to my sister-in-law later."

Wen Qing asked: "Where are my shirt and pants?"

Mother Zhuang shook her head. "I didn't see it. Maybe you made a mistake. Look again."

Zhuang Xien became more speechless and proposed to leave the next day, "We only asked for three days off."

Zhuang Ma said, "Your new house's things should be left to your brother, right?"

The things added to the new house were not very good. If it weren't for this matter, Wen Qing would not have taken them away. She glanced at Zhuang Xien, who understood immediately and said, "These are for our wedding, we should keep them."

Who would have thought that the next morning, when Wen Qing and Zhuang Xien came back after breakfast to clean up, they found that all the sheets and quilts in the room were gone.

Zhuang Xien went to Zhuang's father and told him about this. Zhuang's father said, "Boss, forget it. Just keep these things at home."

Zhuang Xien had no choice but to say to Wen Qing: "Xiao Qing, I'm sorry, let's go back and buy it."

Wen Qing had no choice but to pursue the matter for Zhuang Xien's sake, but she felt that Zhuang Xien's family was a little greedy.

After returning to Pingjing, the two lived in Balizhuang. Wen Qing found that she had almost no time to enter the space. Even for her daily practice, she had to take the opportunity of morning exercise to go to the nearby woods.

When Zhuang Xien was at home, Wen Qing would return to the courtyard to stay for one day every week, and spend all weekends at the Erxia Village Winery.

Fortunately, Zhuang Xien has to go to Ji Zhong for two weeks every month. This is an agreement between him and Lin Qingyuan. They take turns to be on duty at the Schindler Bicycle Factory.

At this time, Wen Qing basically returned to live in Erxia Village, and the yard in Wen Qinghuashuijing Alley was empty.

One morning, Wen Qing pushed the door open from outside. Zhuang Xien had just come down from upstairs. "Xiao Qing, are you back from exercise?"

Wen Qing: "Well, have you washed up?"

"After washing, I'll go heat up the milk."

Wen Qing went to the bathroom and took a quick shower. When she got dressed and came down, Zhuang Xien had already put breakfast on the dining table and brought a plate of pickles. The two sat down to eat breakfast.

After breakfast, Wen Qing pushed her bicycle out. It would take an hour to get from home to work by bus, which would require two buses, but it would take half an hour by bike.

Wen Qing rides a bike to and from get off work every day. Her bike is an imported mountain bike, which is not tiring to ride.

She was thinking about either designing an electric bike or just taking out the Jeep.

She has obtained local license plates for her pickup truck and jeep through the school transport team and can now drive on the road openly.

When she arrived at the Industrial Bureau, there were still 10 minutes before work time. Wen Qing wiped the table, ran some hot water, and tidied up the office.

Dong and Wu arrived at around 9 o'clock. When they saw Wen Qing, Tong Yali smiled and said, "Xiao Wen, I heard that you got married?"

"Yes, the wedding was held in my wife's hometown." He took out two bags of wedding candy and gave them to them, then went to the director's office and gave each of the two directors a bag.

Wen Qing asked: "Director Ye, what are your recent plans?"

Director Ye: "Xiao Wen, the director asked us to conduct a survey of the technology and equipment of the heavy industrial enterprises in the district to prepare for future technological transformation. Your sister Tong and Xiao Wu have already started, so you can join them."

Wen Qing agreed, and went to find Tong Yali and Wu Yi again, "Sister Tong, how many companies have you visited?"

Tong Yali flipped through her notebook and said, "We have visited two companies and are going to the foundry today. Will you come with us?"

"Okay." The three of them picked up their small backpacks and went out.

When they arrived at the foundry, Tong Yali said, "I have an appointment with someone from their technical department. Let's go to the technical department first."

In the technical department, the three explained the purpose of the survey, then gave them the questionnaire, analyzed the key technologies in the factory together, and asked the foundry technicians to fill in the service life and main functions of the factory's equipment one by one.

One of the technicians said: "Our casting machine was manufactured in the 1940s and is still in use. It is time to replace it."

Wen Qing and Wu Yi went to the workshop and registered all the equipment in the workshop with the factory technicians.

Wen Qing watched the workers in the workshop operating lathes to process axles and found that they were still using old-fashioned horizontal lathes.

In the foundry, workers melt the raw steel, pour it into the mold, cool it, and die-cast it. Most of the operations are still done manually.

While registering the equipment, the director of the casting workshop complained about the poor quality of the raw steel and the resulting products.

Wen Qing vaguely felt that she had seen somewhere a method to improve the quality of steel during the casting process, and decided to take some time to go back to the school library to look up information after returning.

After spending a whole day at the foundry, Wen Qing returned to work at the Industrial Bureau the next day and said to Tong Yali and Wu Yi, "The foundry's technology is still very backward. I found that they still use manual measurement during testing, and the accuracy cannot be very accurate."

Wu Yi said: "Yes, this production method is OK for producing simple equipment, but it is not suitable for producing high-precision parts."

Tong Liya said: "Well, the leaders asked us to do this survey in the hope of promoting technological transformation."

The District Industrial Bureau is still very sensitive to the development of technology, but due to historical reasons, the investment in technological innovation is too little and the foundation is too poor. As long as the higher-ups pay attention, these problems will be improved soon.

Regarding methods to improve the quality of castings during the casting process, she found a technology called "electroslag casting".

This is a technology that completes metal refining and casting at one time. It uses the resistance heat generated by electric current passing through liquid slag to continuously melt the metal electrode. The molten metal drips through the slag layer into the molten metal pool and solidifies into a casting in a special-shaped water-cooled mold.

This technology can be used to cast large, high-purity metal components. Wen Qing wrote a report on this technology and submitted it to Director Ye. Director Ye found the leaders of the foundry and suggested that they optimize the technology.

The foundry immediately organized personnel to tackle the problem, and the Industrial Bureau actively contacted relevant research institutes. After hard work, they achieved success. From then on, the foundry could undertake more advanced business.

During this period, Wen Qing was busy all day and had no time to return to Erxia Village. He could only call Wang Jianguo and Liu Quan to inquire about the production situation of the winery.

Wang Jianguo said: "Sister Wen, the batch of wine cellars that Xinjiufang started to cultivate last year are ready for use. When you come back this weekend, we will brew a batch of Luzhou-flavor liquor.

The foundation of the new factory has been dug and the underground floor has been poured.”

Liu Quan said, "Sister Wen, we only have 42 people in our winery now. We will need a large number of workers after the new factory is built. Can we recruit workers now and start training them?"

Wen Qing calculated in her mind that the new factory would have 700 ground vats, 1000 wine cellars, and 500 stainless steel fermentation tanks, which would require about 50 additional workers. Correspondingly, some administrative staff, maintenance workers, technicians, and marketing staff would also need to be added, so the number of employees in the winery would definitely have to reach more than 100.

It’s just that the wine cellar cannot be used all at once, and recruiting can be done gradually.

Wen Qing said, "Let's recruit 40 people first. Do you know a blending master? When our winery's production volume increases in the future, we can't rely on Jianguo alone."

Wang Jianguo said: "I will go to the nearby winery to ask if anyone is willing to work in our factory?"

Wen Qing said, "I'll go back to the winery on Sunday and we'll discuss it."