Chapter 130 Employee Training

  While Cen Youjun was busy with the contract, Cen Youxin didn't idle around either. He rode a bicycle that made all sorts of noises except for the bell and sold the remaining 88 bags of urea in several villages before midnight.

  Unlike selling to Liu Limin, for these farmers who want to buy urea, Cen Youxin uniformly requires the other party to pay first. This reason is also acceptable, because Cen Youxin needs to go to the county town to pull back the urea, and first need to hand over the money to the supply and marketing association. Eight tons of urea cost more than 3,000 yuan, and no one can advance it.

  In the dead of night, Xie Youxin returned exhausted. He called Lin Zhenhua into his room, then took off his cotton-padded jacket and pulled out a bulging old canvas bag from inside it. From the bag, he poured out a large pile of banknotes. Among these banknotes, only a few dozen were large denomination RMB, while the rest were in denominations ranging from five yuan to one cent, piled up on the bed like a small mountain.

  "How much is it?" Lin Zhenhua asked.

  "There's a total of 3875.6 yuan, still short of 418.8 yuan, this is temporarily making up the money, tomorrow when we give them the urea, we'll make up the rest of the money." Xian Youxin said, he took out a small student's math workbook and handed it to Lin Zhenhua to look at, on which was written a bunch of names and amounts in crooked handwriting, as well as records of who owed how much money.

  Lin Zhenhua said: "Tomorrow we will use 3,360 yuan, we calculate this amount of money, the remaining is profit."

  "It's still not enough, there are also 182 yuan and 40 cents for Secretary Liu. And mine with Youjun, otherwise, let's just consider it a wholesale price."

  Lin Zhenhua hastily said: "Forget it, let's just go with the ex-factory price. I'm not so black-hearted that I'd make a profit from you and Pai Zhang."

  "Hmm, then thank you, Little Lin," said Xun Youxin. Calculated at the ex-factory price, his family's 4 bags of urea would be 48 yuan cheaper, which was a lot of money.

  Two people counted the money together, and 3260 yuan was taken out, tied with a rubber band, as the payment for tomorrow's delivery. After that, some money was left to hire a car to transport the goods. After deducting these amounts, Cen Youxin pushed all the remaining banknotes to Lin Zhenhua and said: "Little Lin, this is what you earned. Count it."

  Lin Zhenhua looked at the small change and felt a headache. He returned the money and said, "Xin Ge, take this money. As we agreed earlier, you'll take 20% of the profit as a handling fee. Can you help me count the rest of the money and then hand it over to Pai Zhang as the next step in the farm machinery factory's circulating funds?"

  "Alright, alright." Xun Youxin readily agreed. Although the money wasn't his, he felt happy holding it in his hands. With a 20% commission, the four bags of urea for his family wouldn't need to be paid for in cash, and there would even be over 100 yuan left over, which was equivalent to finding a gold ingot.

  The next day, Lin Zhenhua took Xian Youxin to the county town, went to Gongxi Oya's house, paid the money, and took out all 8 tons of urea. The supply and marketing association had a large truck, Lin Zhenhua spent money to hire one, ran two trips, and transported all 100 bags of urea back to Xian Youxin's home.

  The whole village was stirred up as soon as the urea arrived. Those families who had a connection with Xun Youxin rushed over to collect their own bag with joy and excitement.

  People who have no relationship with him also linger outside his house, asking long and short questions, revealing their admiration for him in every word.

  Cen Youxin and others arrived at Liu Limin's home in the countryside after dark, found a relative, pushed a flatbed cart, and delivered the four generations of urea sold to Liu Limin. Liu Limin paid according to the wholesale price and praised Cen Youxin with a lot of words, finally saying that if Cen Youxin had anything that needed the commune's help, just speak up.

  After the fertilizer arrived, Lin Zhenhua didn't care about this matter anymore and handed it over to Cen Youxin to go to Dali. The current Cen Youxin has been tied up with Yonghe Agricultural Machinery Factory's tank, he also likes to do this kind of work, why bother Lin Zhenhua to intervene again.

  Lin Zhenhua is now busy designing several new products for Yonghe Agricultural Machinery Factory, including the rolling gear machine that was originally designed to please Yang Xin. In addition, he has a few designs for small accessories in his mind, such as some kind of new fixture for injection molding machines.

  Such a small product is not complicated, it's just an idea. Occasionally writing mechanical factories can also be made by themselves, but they are unlikely to have qualified technicians to design them, and the factory itself does not have the initiative to innovate. If someone has already made it and sent it to their doorstep, and the price is not outrageous, I estimate that there will still be people willing to accept it.

  All of these designs need to be converted into mechanical drawings, which is also a tedious task. At the Hanhua factory, Lin Zhenhua himself no longer drew pictures much, he generally just came up with an idea, sketched it out with a pencil, and then handed it over to the technical staff in the technical department to draw. But now, he can only do these drawings himself, what shocked him was that among the workers at Yonghe Agricultural Machinery Factory, except for Chen Jinfu, no one else had ever seen an orthographic projection drawing.

  "What's Uncle Lin buying?"

  When Lin Zhenhua drew out the first picture, a young worker named Yang Wenyong asked Chen Jinfu.

  This Yang Wen Yong can no longer be described as a young worker, he is thoroughly and completely a child laborer because his age is only 15 years old.

  Although both are child laborers, Yang Wen-yong has been working at the agricultural machinery factory for two years and his mastery of technology is in stark contrast to his age, making Lin Zhen-hua feel somewhat unbelievable. Yang Wen-yong can do both car repair and forging work, and does them well. Compared to older workers, his experience seems a bit lacking, but in terms of agility, he has no equal among middle-aged workers. Lin Zhen-hua once stood beside him and pointed out something during operation, and Yang Wen-yong immediately understood what Lin meant and accurately completed the operation.

  Lin Zhenhua had heard that Yang Wenyong was the eldest in his family, with four younger siblings, and their family life was very difficult. When Cen Youjun hired Chen Jinfu to help out, Chen Jinfu only had one request, which was to let Yang Wenyong also come to the factory to work, as a temporary worker on the payroll. Yang Wenyong was the grandson of Chen Jinfu's uncle, and in relation to Lin Zhenhua, he was also Lin Xiu's nephew.

  Yang Wenyong first called Lin Zhenhua "Uncle" when Lin Zhenhua felt a chill, because although the child was only 15 years old, he was already over 1.7 meters tall, with clear eyebrows and eyes, looking like a young man. Lin Zhenhua intentionally asked Yang Wenyong to change his address to call him "Brother Lin", but was stopped by everyone together. In rural areas, the hierarchy is very strict, let alone Yang Wenyong's age being younger than Lin Zhenhua, even if he were older, with a lower hierarchy, he would still have to be called "Uncle" or "Grandfather".

  When Yang Wenyong asked, Chen Jinfu said: "Wenyong, take a look, this is the mechanical drawing. In the past, Uncle Xiao also drew one for you, but it's not as good as Lin Kechang's."

  Lin Zhenhua found it strange and asked: "Master Chen, your farm machinery factory doesn't use mechanical drawings, so how do you process parts?"

  Chen Jinfu said, "No way. Our factory doesn't have a single person who can draw this kind of diagram. When I was in the factory, I used to work with mechanical drawings every day, but if you ask me to draw one, I wouldn't be able to do it either. Every time we need to process a part, I would just roughly sketch something on paper for them, as long as the dimensions were right, that's all that mattered. This three-view drawing, I couldn't do it even if I wanted to. Never mind, our factory mainly does spare parts, which are just replacements for damaged original parts. The workers can use the original part as a reference, so there won't be any mistakes."

  Lin Zhenhua said: "Isn't this a temporary solution? Especially when we want to develop new products, there is no existing model, how can we do it?"

  Chen Jinfu said: "Director Lin is right, but no one in the venue knows this. I can only watch and can't explain it clearly if I speak. What do you think we should do?"

  Lin Zhenhua said: "How about this, I'll tell you all, and you can understand as much as you can. If there's anything unclear, please trouble Teacher Chen to explain it again later, what do you think?"

  Chen Jinfu said: "That's the best, Director Lin is so good at drawing pictures, it's definitely no problem to tell everyone."

  Lin Zhenhua also went all out, since he took on this task, he would see it through to the end. As the saying goes, "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools." If he didn't improve the quality of his workers a bit, his plan to revive Yonghe Agricultural Machinery Factory might also have to be greatly discounted.

  Lin Zhenhua first ran to the commune to make a phone call to Zhu Tiejun, requesting an extension of his leave. Zhu Tiejun considered the factory's situation and felt that it could still operate without Lin Zhenhua, so he approved his leave, but emphasized that this was a business trip and that his salary would be deducted when he returned. Lin Zhenhua said generously: "Deduct it, if you have the ability to deduct it all." After thinking about it, Old Zhu is actually not bad, besides, didn't he agree to your leave? Deducting some of your salary is just a matter of following regulations.

  Zhu Tiejun finished talking about deducting wages and asked Lin Zhenhua about his situation as a team leader. After hearing that Lin Zhenhua stayed behind to help the team leader solve living problems, he said, "Then you can stay for a few more days, finish things up and come back later. As for taking leave, I'll talk to Old Liang about it, or we can count it as a business trip for you. When you get back, go visit some of our brother companies, take a look around, and that way you'll have something to report when you return."

  "Director Zhu is truly wise." Lin Zhenhua flattered him with a sentence before hanging up the phone.

  Cen Youjun strongly supported Lin Zhenhua's plan to organize worker training, which he called "Big Exercise". He even found someone to write slogans on the factory walls. However, the person responsible for writing the slogans searched everywhere but couldn't find any red paper, so they used two white papers instead and wrote the propaganda slogans by hand. From a distance, it looked like big-character posters, which was quite impressive.

  To make this training session a success, Lin Zhenhua also spared no effort. He wrote a thick book of training materials and asked the teachers at Gong She Middle School to help engrave them onto wax paper, which was then printed on an oil press into 100 copies. Cen Youjun suggested not printing so many, but Lin Zhenhua said that since they had already gone to the trouble of engraving the wax paper, they might as well print a few more. If they only printed 30 copies, what would happen if they recruited new workers in the future?

  In Lin Zhenhua's training materials, there are some basic processing knowledge, mechanical drawing, safety production knowledge, and commonly used mechanical processing tables to be checked, such as the gear ratio conversion table when turning threads on a lathe. With this kind of table, those lathe workers with lower cultural level do not have to worry about these complex calculations.

  Chen Jinfu understood the importance of this training. Before he came to the agricultural machinery factory, the workers' techniques were all rough and unrefined, with everyone doing things their own way. After he arrived at the factory, he gave some guidance to everyone, correcting a large number of incorrect operations. However, this kind of guidance was mostly just addressing specific problems as they arose, without any deeper consideration or planning.

  Lin Zhenhua's training was very systematic, covering almost all the knowledge that workers should master. In the process of writing training materials, Lin Zhenhua also exchanged ideas with Chen Jinfu and wrote some of his operational experience into the text. For the convenience of workers, a large number of diagrams were inserted in this textbook. These diagrams were drawn by a part-time art teacher from the commune middle school. Lin Zhenhua was so happy that he specially gave him an electronic watch sold exclusively at Xinxin Store, and the beautiful face of the young woman smiled like a peony flower.

  The training session was held outside the workshop, and in those years, the unit had no shortage of blackboards. Lin Zhenhua set up a blackboard on an iron frame, holding chalk to write while explaining to everyone. All employees wrapped in cotton-padded jackets listened below. Although it was freezing cold, some people didn't feel cold at all, their hearts were warm and eager to memorize everything Lin Zhenhua said immediately.

  A great man once said that when society generates a certain demand, it will promote the development of technology more than 100 colleges. The dissemination of knowledge is not achieved by standing on high and shouting from the predecessors, but by the ordinary people generating a motivation to learn from their hearts.

  Lin Zhenhua's training at the agricultural machinery factory was just like that. The workers lacked systematic learning, and in actual operation, they deeply felt the inadequacy of their skills and knew the obstacles this brought to them. Now, a technical director from a big city factory has finally come, who can give everyone a comprehensive lecture, who wouldn't want to take advantage of this opportunity to upgrade their skills?

  "Director Lin, I still don't understand this three-view drawing you're talking about," a worker raised his hand and asked, "What exactly does the thing you drew in the book look like?"

  Lin Zhenhua scratched his head and began to gesture with his hands: "Everyone looks, this workpiece, from the front view, is 270mm, roughly this long, which is what the main view shows. Next, it's cylindrical in shape, if we look at it from this side, it forms its left view. The position of the left view"

  "Uncle!" Yang Wenyong sat down and raised one hand.

  "What's wrong, Wen Yong?" Lin Zhenhua furrowed his brow. He had just seen Yang Wen Yong eating a turnip while listening to him, and he was already somewhat displeased. Now, hearing him speak out of turn, he felt even more uncomfortable. However, he wouldn't put on any airs of being a dignified teacher, after all, this wasn't some serious classroom or educational setting with strict requirements.

  Yang Wenyong stood up, holding the radish in his hand and said, "Uncle Xi, you say this way, everyone can't understand. I'll use this radish to help you carve out a workpiece, see if it's right or not."