Rebirth of the Legend of the Red Age

Chapter 140, Building Heating
Sure enough, Zhao Qiang was trustworthy. A week after they met, Zhao Qiang came to Wang Li's house with a military truck. Wang Li asked his father and Lai San to help unload the copper bricks from the truck.

Afterwards, Zhao Qiang briefed Wang Li on the results of the operation, and finally he said: "I'm so sorry! I failed to take credit for your contribution again."

This time the contribution is quite great. Thousands of tons of copper were found in that warehouse. These coppers have solved a lot of problems for national construction. After all, the country is short of everything now, and you have made a great contribution to the country!

Therefore, when applying for a reward for you, your superior did not hesitate and gave you 50 copper bricks as a reward for your discovery of the warehouse.

Don't complain about the small amount. After all, there is a shortage of brass everywhere in the country now, and this is the maximum I can give you.

Wang Li nodded and said: Don't worry, I know the current situation, and this is enough.

Zhao Qiang nodded with relief and said: I'm glad you understand. Since it involves national construction, I can't ask for too much from you.

Wang Li added: It’s already a lot. It’s useless for me to have so much copper. It’s enough to have enough.

Afterwards, Zhao Qiang also told about the government's reward to Zhao Gang. Zhao Gang was promoted as the acting captain of the Criminal Police Brigade of Kyoto City Bureau, which was a crucial step in his career.

When he is older, he can be appointed as the captain of the official criminal police brigade.

After Zhao Qiang finished talking about these things, he boarded a military truck and left Wang Li's house. After all, as the second in command of the Municipal Patrol Bureau, he was very busy.

If he had not wanted to thank Wang Li in person and explain to Wang Li what had happened, he would not have squeezed out the time to come to Wang Li's house. He could have just sent someone.

This can also be regarded as a kind of respect for Wang Li.

In short, the problem of the source of copper has been solved. Next time when Wang Li looks for someone to make heating, as long as he keeps a low profile, no one will be able to say anything.

Now all that’s left is to find a processing plant. This time, Wang Li looks for Li Ren to help because he works in the Ministry of Industry.

Wang Li thought he had a way, so he went to the Ministry of Industry to find Li Ren without hesitation on the afternoon when the copper was delivered to his house.

After listening to his request, Li Ren assured: Don't worry, I am quite familiar with this area. I will find you a smaller, more hidden, but best processing plant. You can then tell them your requirements.

Wang Li nodded and said, "Wait for your news," and then went home.
Early on the third day, Li Ren came to Wang Li's home and told Wang Li that the processing plant had been found.

Today I will take Wang Li to the processing plant to have a look. If Wang Li thinks it is feasible, we will discuss the processing.

After saying hello to his father, Wang Li rode his bicycle with Li Ren to the small processing plant.

The processing plant was located in the north of Kyoto City, close to the city's suburbs, which is around the current third ring road of Kyoto.

Wang Li discovered that the processing plant was not very big, with only dozens of workers, all of whom were old workers, and there were very few young faces.

He also looked at the processing equipment. It was not very advanced and judging from the rust on the equipment, it must be quite old.

Li Ren explained to Wang Li: This processing plant existed before liberation. Because its machinery and equipment are too old and its technology is not advanced, it is a semi-manual processing plant.

After the public-private partnership, production was not expanded and no workers were recruited.

But this place also has its advantages, that is, these masters are highly skilled, although they make large quantities of metal parts, not as fast as modern factories.

But the quality is absolutely first-class, and you can also see that the workers here are quite old. This is the country's way of taking care of them. When they all retire, this processing plant will probably no longer exist.

I think this processing plant meets your requirements. It is low-key and attracts no attention. It has good technology. What do you think?
Wang Li nodded with great satisfaction and said: Let’s choose this one.

After getting Wang Li's answer, Li Ren took him to the director's office of the processing plant.

The so-called factory director's office is just a small flat room far away from the work area.

After the two walked in, Wang Li found that there was a middle-aged man in his forties sitting inside. His hands were covered with calluses, and he was obviously a person who did manual labor.

At this time, Li Ren introduced to Wang Li: Wang Li, this is Li Tian, ​​the director of the processing plant.

Director Li is my friend Wang Li. He hopes to use the copper awarded by the state to make radiators and water pipes for heating his home.

After Li Ren introduced the two people, he said goodbye.

Because he had asked for leave and was very busy with his work in the department, he hurried back after making sure that Wang Li didn't need him.

After Wang Li told Director Li about his request, Director Li looked a little strange.

Although he didn't know Wang Li, he knew Li Ren. As the director of a metal processing factory under the Ministry of Industry, he knew this leader of the ministry.

Moreover, he knew something about Li Ren's background, so he thought Wang Li was also the son of a cadre.

So he was slightly stunned and replied: We can meet your requirements, but it may take a little longer. After all, your requirements are a bit complicated, and our factory can only make your products in half a month. Do you think it's okay?
Wang Li said: Thank you so much, Director Li, half a month is already fast enough.

It turned out that Wang Li had just introduced to Director Li that the heating he needed was very different from the cast iron heating that the public is familiar with today.

The heater that Wang Li wants to make is made of brass. Each radiator is 1.2 meters long, 1 meter high and 20 centimeters wide.

The reason why the heater he wanted took so long to build was that Wang Li not only required the thickness of the radiator copper to reach 1 cm, but he also required some metal relief on the front of the radiator.

That is to say, when casting the radiator, he needs to carve the required relief on the radiator mold, which takes more time.

Otherwise, the radiators and bronze pipes that Wang Li wanted could all be processed in three to five days.

In short, the radiator that Wang Li needed was made in this way. Apart from being time-consuming, labor-intensive and material-intensive, it had no other disadvantages.

Wang Li was afraid of trouble, so he asked the processing factory to cast 40 radiators of that specification and 800 meters of heating pipes and accessories at one time.

Just the processing fee for these things cost Wang Li several hundred yuan, after all, these were customized for him by the processing factory. All the casting models needed to be redesigned and built, which was very laborious.

These radiators and pipes use nearly half of Wang Li’s brass.

If the processing plant had not been relatively small, and if Li Ren had not used his connections to find another company as the buyer, things probably would not have gone so smoothly.

(End of this chapter)