Courtyard light

Chapter 83

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

"Section Chief, there are three in our courtyard, and they will bring scrap iron here 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 need to ask for instructions?"

"It's not necessary to ask for instructions. I'll discuss it with the director of the foundry workshop."

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.”

Chief Hou and the two nodded. After all, electricity and other expenses are definitely required.

Section Chief Hou also made a decision, let’s do it first, and then ask everyone to exchange it with scrap iron. How much scrap iron you get plus manual costs, you can directly replace it with a 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, and he was only envious. Everyone who met him said that Liu Hai was born to eat a bowl of mechanical processing.

The workers in the foundry workshop should also be given some benefits for working overtime. This was discussed between Section Chief Hou and the director of the foundry workshop.

The technical content of the briquette stove is too low. Several people in the maintenance department in the afternoon, one person presses the coal manually, this is called home service.

Each family buys pulverized coal and prepares soil...

On Liu Hai's side, I brought back two briquette stoves for the second uncle and Xu Damao, and gave nine of the briquette briquettes I made myself, and then took two from my own briquette stove, and replaced them with the two first.

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

"You still did a good job, brother."

"If it were me, I'd buy one of these and send coal to 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 choking smoke."

"That's it." A few people pressed 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, orders were already overwhelming. Everyone has seen the benefits of briquettes. The ability to have hot water at any time is very popular among female comrades, not to mention that there is no need to buy more firewood to start the fire. Yes, it is also convenient to change coal. The most important thing is to buy pulverized coal by yourself, and then dig some soil. Although briquettes are also mixed with soil, more briquettes are mixed. This is the savings I saw with my own eyes.

And borrow a hand-pressed honeycomb briquette, and do it yourself, which saves a lot of money.

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 will sit and wait for cooking, while they are still wheezing, chopping firewood, lighting a fire, and burning briquettes. about there.

That's what it is, the gap.

It is easy for others to replace the honeycomb coal, and there is no ash everywhere. Every time I burn it, I have to clean the ash, which makes my face dirty.

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

There is such a family in a yard, and other people will do this one after another, let alone save 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 small groups, carrying scooters and tricycles.

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

Section Chief Hou looked at the list in the newspaper, and he was also a little scared, but more excited, so many people, what does it represent, it represents the approval of others.

In fact, the upper management is also considering honeycomb briquettes. Coal-to-coal will be officially replaced next year. There are so many households in the capital, and each household lights a fire twice a day. Each time half a catty of firewood is used to ignite the fire, how much firewood does it need?

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

The popularity of briquette must be recognized by the people, but the production capacity of motorcycle factories is too low, after all, there is no way to produce all of it.

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

The first to report is the material recycling stations in various places, especially the entire Dongcheng District. Although the material recycling stations have no scrap iron tasks and no plans (the scrap iron is only strictly controlled when large-scale steelmaking is required.)
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 Chief Hou in the maintenance department, or Liu Hai was explaining the briquette machine he designed to 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 the briquettes are manually removed."

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

Chief Hou looked at the drawings carefully, and then nodded: "There should be no big problem, but isn't Xiao Liu afraid of such a big battle?"

"Chief, we are serving and thinking for the masses. What are we afraid of? We haven't benefited from it, and we're exhausted." Liu Hai said sternly.

Chief Hou was still a little bit upset, and was warned by the factory manager in the morning not to make things worse, but there was no way, many people knew him, and even many people in the factory came to greet him. Several honeycomb coal stoves, manual coal press.

"Section Chief Hou, Director Liu, the factory manager 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 rushed over.

(End of this chapter)