Traveling through 70's wine

Chapter 176 Building a Factory

Wen Qing used single-chip microcomputer programming technology to design an automated control system for the feed factory. In the future, only about 10 people will be needed to carry out production in the feed workshop.

After she finished the design, she found Xu Shengli. Xu Shengli had already decided to have the commune construction team build the factory, but they had no experience in designing factories. Wen Qing then went to find Master Hu's eldest son, Hu Dingze.

After telling him his ideas and communicating with him the design drawings of the production line, Master Xiao Hu decided to install the production line in a large workshop and connect the products to the packaging workshop with pipes to minimize manual labor.

Wen Qing looked at his design and thought it was good. The feed industry will develop on a large scale in the future, and their feed factory must also consider the possibility of expanding production capacity.

Wen Qing introduced Master Xiao Hu to Xu Shengli. After several shareholders reviewed the design drawings, they calculated the construction and equipment costs, which would total approximately 180 million yuan.

Since it was a construction team from the commune, the materials were within the planned indicators found by the commune, which was 60% less than when Wen Qing built the new factory area for the winery. The construction cost was only about 120 yuan, 40 million yuan was spent on purchasing equipment, and the remaining yuan was used as working capital.

Xu Shengli submitted the factory building design drawings, production line design drawings and cost estimates to Secretary Ma for review. Secretary Ma sought Xu Shengli's opinion and, after a meeting of the commune to review it, replied that Xu Shengli could implement it accordingly.

After receiving the reply from the commune, everyone started to take action separately.

Xu Shengli found an accountant to coordinate the use of funds. Each shareholder deposited their own cash into the company account. Wen Qing transferred 157 million yuan at once. The company's registered capital was 220 million yuan.

In the 1980s and 1990s, it was common for companies to have insufficient registered capital. Due to insufficient operating funds, companies defaulted on payments for goods everywhere, resulting in widespread debt problems.

Wen Qing hopes that the feed factory can develop in the long term, so she has been very strict from the beginning. She told the accountant that the feed factory does not allow fraud and that taxes must be paid. Xu Shengli and Tan Yuanfang have both worked as accountants and sometimes think that she is too honest, but she is the major shareholder and has the most say.

Wen Qing and Liu Quan purchased equipment separately, such as boilers, transformers, stainless steel containers, pipes, etc. Liu Quan had connections.

Wen Qing asked Director Li of the school-run factory to customize a mixer, granulator, and dry goods packaging machine.

Since the school-run factory can produce filling lines, there will be no problem in producing these equipment with the drawings.

When Wen Qing resigned, she contacted Chen Rui. Regarding her divorce, Chen Rui advised her to just bear with it, but also said that if necessary, she would fully support her.

Wen Qing found her and hoped that she could help buy a truck. Liu Quan said that he had a way to buy a truck, but half a year has passed and there is still no sign of the truck.

Chen Rui's parents worked for Ji Zhong Automobile Supply and Marketing Company. After a while, Chen Rui sent her a message saying that there was a Jiefang light truck and asked her if she wanted it.

Wen Qing found out that it was a 4-ton truck and the price was the market price, so she bought it. At the same time, she told Chen Rui that if she had the chance, she would like to buy another one.

Now wineries and grain companies need cars, and feed factories will also need cars in the future.

After the feed factory started operation, Wen Qing went to the construction site every day.

The expansion of Changxia Winery was completed and all offices were moved into the new building. She made some simple renovations to the courtyard, added some furniture, installed a full set of home appliances, built a comfortable home, and moved back to the courtyard in Erxia Village.

Every day she walked through the orchard to the construction site, watching the peach and cherry blossoms bloom. The entire mountain forest was filled with mist and the fallen petals were colorful, which was a beautiful sight. Her mood gradually improved, and she gradually forgot the depression brought by the divorce.

Wen Qing found Shen Wei, the construction team leader of the commune. Shen Wei looked like an honest farmer, about 40 years old. Xu Shengli said that he was a house builder for the commune, and the current office building of the commune was built by him.

The feed factory building this time adopts a brick-concrete structure. Most of the buildings are one-story buildings, and only the office building is two-story. The overall construction is not difficult.

Shen Wei could understand Master Xiao Hu's design drawings. When Wen Qing went there, he had already drawn the construction lines on the ground.

Wen Qing has heard a lot about the dangers of shoddy construction projects, so she is very strict about the grades of cement and steel bars used in the factory, and regularly checks the grades of cement and steel bars used in construction.

Since the feed factory will produce a certain amount of sewage, they designed the factory's drainage system. All sewage must be purified before it can be discharged into the city sewer and cannot be discharged into Qingyun Lake nearby.

During the construction process, Wen Qing constantly checked whether the construction team was doing things according to her requirements. She inspected hidden projects such as sewers and electrical wires in more detail and would never allow any cheating.

Shen Wei had never met such a stubborn party A before. Her demands were very reasonable, so he could only follow her silently and immediately arrange for people to correct any problems found.

Although most of the buildings in the feed factory are bungalows with shallow foundations, usually made of earth bricks or stone slabs, Wen Qing required the use of steel bars and concrete for the foundation, which must be able to withstand a magnitude 7 earthquake.

Although Shen Wei felt that the possibility of a major earthquake was small, since Party A was willing to spend money, he nodded and agreed to do so.

The people in the construction team were all farmers from nearby, so they only provided three meals a day and did not arrange any accommodation. Wen Qing also instructed Xu Shengli to arrange better meals for everyone.

Wen Qing was also concerned about the production situation at the winery. When she returned to the winery from the construction site, she found Wang Jianguo, who was instructing Tang Lin, who had bought white clay from Zhuye County, to make wine. Tang Lin was a young man in his twenties. He was a little shy when he saw Wen Qing, and took the initiative to report: "Director Wen, we are making the dregs of Luzhou-flavor liquor today."

They were making the first batch of wine cellars in the new factory. After the workers crushed and soaked the grains, they mixed them one by one, put them on a sieve and steamed them with rice husks, spread them out to dry, mixed them with an appropriate amount of cold water, then added koji, mixed them evenly, poured them into the wine cellar, and sealed them for fermentation.

Wang Jianguo would check from time to time whether the grains were fully cooked, the temperature of the koji, and even the frequency with which the workers sprinkled the grains into the sieves, "Spread evenly, don't over-strain the air."

She watched the workers meticulously carry out the winery's process and nodded.

The newly built factory building is tall and well-ventilated. Except for some traces of food and water where people are working, the rest of the ground is very clean.

The machines and equipment were also cleaned very well. The workshop seemed a little stuffy due to the steaming of grain, and the air was filled with the aroma of grain and wine.

Wen Qing looked for a while and returned to the backyard. After the new factory area was built, the old factory area was called Workshop 1.

A workshop has 110 wine cellars and 100 ground vats, and Jin Zicong is in charge of making wine with 20 workers.

When Wen Qing went there, they were collecting mash and steaming wine in wine cellars No. 51 to 53. Jin Zicong was explaining to everyone how to collect yellow water and how to prevent wine from pooling when filling wine bottles.

Wen Qing greeted them and helped pull the soaked grains to Zhenzi's side, preparing to mix them with the slag.

The wine cellars here can hold 2000 kilograms of wine lees. One worker stands in the wine cellar to shovel the wine mash, and two workers pull the mash up and transport it to the stove.

For strong-aroma liquor, the dregs are steamed first, and then the dregs are discarded. Then the large dregs and second dregs are steamed. The drying platform in a workshop has also been renovated, with a blower underneath for exhaust and cooling. After adding the koji, it can be automatically stirred, which is faster and more evenly stirred than manual stirring.

Jin Zicong grabbed a handful of rice husks and squeezed them, then put them to his nose and smelled them. When he felt that there was no problem, he signaled the workers to add them to the grain dregs and mix them.

Now one workshop has also switched to the wine cellar method. The mixed slag is poured into the wine cellar in layers, and the workers step on the cellar to seal it. Only then does Jin Zicong come over to tell Wen Qing about today's wine yield.

"Director Wen, today the wine output rate of the three cellars is only 36%, which is a bit off the mark and lower than expected. It may be because the firepower is a bit low."

“How can we improve it?”

"I'll have someone come and optimize the stove."

"Ok."

Wen Qing took the newly distilled wine for testing, mainly to analyze the content of ethyl hexanoate in the wine. After the test, it was found that several indicators were slightly lower than the standard value.