industrial overlord

Chapter 25 Populus euphratica
The process of casting workpieces in the factory is as follows: first make a model of the workpiece with wood, and then wrap the wooden mold with sand, binder and water.After the sand mold raw materials are solidified, the wooden mold is removed to form a sand mold cavity.Subsequently, molten iron at 1300 degrees is injected into the cavity of the sand mold, and after cooling, a cast iron workpiece is formed.

The type of work that specializes in making wooden models is called wood model workers. Compared with rural carpenters, the technical level of wood model workers is more excellent, because the precision requirements of wooden models are much higher than ordinary furniture.In the factory, when workers make furniture at home, they often ask the factory woodworkers for help. Of course, although everyone is a colleague, the cost of making furniture must be paid accordingly.

Hu Yang is a wood model worker in Hanhua Machinery Factory. He is in his 40s and wears a pair of myopia glasses.Lin Zhenhua also knew Populus euphratica before, and he didn't know when Yang Hu came to work in Hanhua Machinery Factory. In his impression, Yang Hu has been in the factory since Lin Zhenhua was sensible.

Hu Yang's wife is Qin Ying, who also works as a statistician in the container workshop in Hanhua Machinery Factory.In Lin Zhenhua's mind, the impression of Hu Yang's family is very vague. It seems that they have never been involved in any disputes in the factory, nor have they received any commendation or punishment. In short, they are an extremely unknown family.

There is only one thing about Hu Yang's family that can attract others' attention, that is, their children don't follow Hu Yang's surname, but Qin Ying's surname, named Qin Bo and Qin Tao respectively.In Hanhua Machinery Factory, of course there are things where children take their mother’s surname, but generally speaking, there are multiple children, one or several of them take their mother’s surname, unlike Hu Yang’s family, where all the children follow their mother’s surname mother's surname.Some people speculate that Hu Yang may be the son-in-law of the Qin family, so the child born must follow the surname of the father-in-law's family.These good-natured people deliberately wanted to find out what kind of family Qin Ying's family was, but they were disappointed. Both Populus euphratica and Qin Ying seemed to have popped out of the cracks in the rocks, and there was no information about their family background at all. .

Qin Bo and Qin Tao are not very old, they are six or seven years behind Lin Zhenhua, so Lin Zhenhua has no friendship with them.However, he has also heard people say that the two siblings have exceptionally good grades in the primary school for the children of the factory. If any children of Hanhua Machinery Factory can be admitted to key universities in the future, then the two siblings should be The most promising candidate.Everyone said that Hu Yang and his wife were cowards, and they didn't expect that the two children would be so successful, and they could be regarded as helping their parents.

Now, Lin Zhenhua and Zhao Yongqun are standing in front of Hu Yang, begging him to help him make some wooden models.

"Master Hu, do me a favor if you have time." Lin Zhenhua said while putting an unopened box of Double Happiness cigarettes in Populus euphratica's toolbox.

Hu Yang glanced at the cigarette, but didn't refuse. He just took the blueprint handed over by Lin Zhenhua, looked at it, and was still thinking about something while looking at it.Lin Zhenhua asked someone to do something, so naturally he didn't dare to urge him, but just stood aside and waited.

Hu Yang looked at it for a while, then stretched out his hand, and said to Lin Zhenhua, "Where are your other drawings, I'll look at them again."

"No more, just these few pieces." Zhao Yongqun hurriedly said, Lin Zhenhua asked him to help cast these few pieces just now, so he didn't know that there were other blueprints.

Lin Zhenhua hesitated for a moment, and then took out several other drawings from his pocket. These were the parts he planned to process in the metalworking workshop after get off work. Since they did not require casting, he did not show them to Zhao Yongqun. .Now Hu Yang asked to see his other drawings. He didn't know what the purpose was, but he didn't mean to hide it. After all, it's not okay to ask for help.

Hu Yang took the drawing, looked at it again, shook his head, pointed to a place on the drawing and said to Lin Zhenhua: "Xiao Lin, there is something wrong with the design on your drawing, the X-axis output power of the universal milling machine is not enough. A set of gears may not be able to drive the universal indexing head, it is best to change the combination of gears."

Lin Zhenhua opened his mouth wide open, and it took him a long time to come to his senses: "Master Hu, do you know what I'm going to do?"

"Isn't it just to add a set of gears to the universal milling machine and convert it into a simple gear hobbing machine? This method was proposed 20 years ago." Hu Yang said lightly.

"Someone in our factory has done this before?" Lin Zhenhua felt frustrated, and wanted to show off his skills, but the Pomeranian smiled, unexpectedly picking up other people's leftovers.

Hu Yang shook his head: "No one in our factory has done this before, and I only saw someone introduce it in a book."

"However, you can think of the problem of output power, but I ignored it." Lin Zhenhua was very unconvinced, he forgot that he was just an 18-year-old young worker, and he was still a general worker.Although Hu Yang is a carpenter, he can be regarded as a craftsman anyway, besides, the age is there, the salt he has eaten... cough, much more than the salt he has eaten.

"What, did you ignore it?" Hu Yang bit the word "you" hard, and looked at Lin Zhenhua with serious eyes, "Xiao Lin, you mean, you designed this blueprint?"

Lin Zhenhua nodded: "It's me."

"Who is your master?"

"I...my master is Zhong Rulin's master."

"Master Zhong? Isn't he a porter?"

"That's right, I'm currently in the handling class of the metalworking workshop."

"You are a porter, how did you think of modifying the milling machine? And, how could you think of doing this? No, you must have seen it somewhere?" Hu Yang threw a series of questions in bewilderment.

Lin Zhenhua also knew that what he did was really against the sky. An 18-year-old veteran and a glorious porter actually designed a simple gear hobbing machine. No one would believe it.

"Master Hu, actually, this is really not my own idea. I learned it in the army. There is such a device in our army's repair shop. I saw it at the time, so..."

Hu Yang snorted, and said: "Let me tell you, if you haven't seen it, you probably wouldn't think of doing it. However, your mechanical drawing is very good, very standardized, and you seem to be from a professional class. Could it be that you are in the army? Do you still want to learn this?"

Lin Zhenhua had no choice but to find out the same rhetoric he used to deceive He Haifeng in the past: "Well, it was actually taught to me by a professor at Huaqing University. He is a rightist, sent to the countryside, and lives near our army. .I met him by chance, and he taught me all my skills."

"A professor at Huaqing University? What's his name?" Hu Yang asked.

"It's Xia Hanmin."

"Xia Hanmin? I've never heard of it." Hu Yang said to himself.

Lin Zhenhua stared straight into the eyes: "Master Hu, you don't think you know all the professors in Huaqing University, do you?"

Only then did Hu Yang realize that he had made a slip of the tongue, and quickly said: "Of course not, I just like reading books, so if it is a famous professor at Huaqing University, I must have some impressions."

Lin Zhenhua said: "Professor Xia may have used a pseudonym. He is a rightist, so he may have kept his name incognito. Unfortunately, he has passed away, and I can't ask him anymore." He had to say the last sentence Otherwise, if someone asks him to look for this Huaqing University professor in the future, he won't be able to find it.

Hu Yang said: "What you said is also possible, then, what does the professor you mentioned look like?"

Lin Zhenhua thought about the appearance of the professor he had seen in later generations, and made up a few words, Hu Yang took it seriously, he pondered for a moment, and slowly said: "Xiao Lin, from what you described, it looks a bit like a mechanical department. Professor Yao Heliang, has he passed away too?"

Yao Heliang!Lin Zhenhua almost jumped up. After Hu Yang mentioned it, he really remembered that when he described it, he subconsciously said it in the image of his postgraduate supervisor, Professor Yao Heliang.In that ten-year catastrophic era, Professor Yao was indeed transferred to the lower levels. Of course, he did not die when he was transferred.Lin Zhenhua never imagined that in the wood model class of Hanhua Machinery Factory, someone could think of Yao Heliang from the few words he described.

"Master Hu, let me ask you a question. Besides the prince, who else could be riding the white horse?" Lin Zhenhua asked.

Hu Yang was taken aback, thought for a while, and replied: "Tang Monk also rides a white horse?"

"Ah!" Lin Zhenhua didn't know whether he was happy or worried, "Then I would like to ask you another question. Besides angels, who else could have wings?"

"Birdman?"

Lin Zhenhua was stunned: "I'm dizzy, Laohu, what is your QQ number, usually you use Baidu or Google, and when did you come here?"

Hu Yang was puzzled: "Xiao Lin, what are you talking about? What QQ? What ferry? Also, what are you wearing?"

Lin Zhenhua patted himself on the head and asked, "Old Hu, you really didn't come here through time travel?"

"What do you mean by time travel?" Hu Yang didn't understand at all.

Only then did Lin Zhenhua feel relieved: "It's okay, Master Hu, I was thinking about it just now. By the way, how come you are so familiar with Huaqing University? This Yao... what professor are you talking about, is he famous?"

Hu Yang said: "Oh, I'm guessing too. Professor Yao is a relatively well-known mechanical expert. I once saw his photo in the newspaper. Of course, that was more than 10 years ago."

"Master Hu, who are you and how do you know so many things?" Lin Zhenhua asked the bottom line. Hu Yang's performance today was enough to surprise him.

Hu Yang smiled slightly: "I'm just an ordinary worker. If I have to say, I like to read books more than others. These are not worth mentioning. Xiao Lin, the gear hobbing machine you designed is very good, and it will be fine if you modify it a little. For the few pieces you want, I will make wooden models for you right away."

Saying goodbye to Hu Yang, when Lin Zhenhua and Zhao Yongqun walked out, Lin Zhenhua asked Zhao Yongqun in a low voice: "Yongqun, what is Master Hu's background? I think he looks like he has some background."

Zhao Yongqun said: "I don't know about the background, but everyone knows that Master Hu likes to read. We have many technical problems that the engineers in the factory can't solve. Sometimes we have to ask him for advice. Actually , the factory office has always wanted to transfer him to the technical department as a technician, but he is determined not to go, so he is willing to be a wood model worker."

"I see." Lin Zhenhua nodded slightly.Indeed, among the workers there is such a kind of person who is talented and loves to study. Although he is not highly educated, his technical level is extraordinary.Lin Zhenhua still remembers that when he was studying at Huaqing University in the past, there was a handyman selling steamed buns in the cafeteria. He used his business hours to study English hard. Talk about beauty.Hu Yang is probably a typical example of this kind of self-taught talent.

(End of this chapter)