Urban Sims

Tangshan City.

Longshan Iron and Steel Plant.

This steel plant is the fourth largest steel smelting enterprise in country Z, with an annual output of 40 million tons of steel, creating economic benefits of hundreds of billions of yuan, and a net profit of more than 10 billion yuan.

However, in recent years, due to the slowdown in economic growth, the market for crude steel and steel for building materials has shrunk severely, causing steel prices to plummet. The output and profitability of Longshan Iron and Steel Plant have experienced widespread declines.

In addition, the price of imported iron ore from abroad has remained high for a long time, and the cost cannot be reduced. In recent years, the life of Longshan Iron and Steel Plant has become increasingly difficult.

Huge losses, a large number of layoffs, and difficult transformation have put this steel plant on the verge of bankruptcy and closure.

Under this severe situation, Tang Tianqiang was appointed by the city as the director of Longshan Iron and Steel Plant. He shouldered a huge responsibility and must turn the factory around from losses to profits.

Tang Tianqiang is a middle-aged man in his early fifties. He is slightly stout, has piercing eyes, and is very courageous. He walks with great energy and acts vigorously and resolutely.

The only shortcoming is that he has a bad temper and is sharp-edged, which offends many people. He is nicknamed "Tang Tiger". The leaders of the city admire him but are helpless. When they want to use him, they will arrange some difficult tasks for him. When he didn't want to use him, he was sent to a certain Qingshui Yamen and he was not promoted all year round.

But for such a person, after becoming the director of Longshan Iron and Steel Plant, it took only one year for the plant's production and operation conditions to change dramatically.

The losses are still there, but reduced to 30% of the previous year.

Then we got rid of a few big rats in the factory and promoted a group of capable personnel. After being placed in key positions, the atmosphere was reversed and production efficiency was significantly improved.

However, these measures cannot yet reverse the fundamental situation.

At the workers' meeting, Tang Tianqiang told the workers of the All Steel Plant: "It is not enough for the steel plant to continue to smelt low-tech steel such as crude steel and building materials steel. It must improve its technical content and realize the upgrading and transformation of the steel plant from low added value to Steel production will shift to high value-added alloy steel and high-performance steel!”

That is true, but how easy is it to transform a company, especially for a steel company as big as Longshan Iron and Steel Plant? How high is the cost of realizing the transformation?

Equipment purchase expenses, personnel training expenses, technology research and development expenses, etc. add up to an astronomical figure of more than one billion.

How will this money come from?

The state can't give much, and the city government can't spend that much. For the most part, steel plants still have to figure out their own solutions.

"I will lower my own salary first, and other leaders and engineers will also reduce their wages. If the workers reduce their wages a little, even if they save money, they must save that money!"

Tang Tianqiang first took action on himself and cut his salary from 100,000 per month to 10,000. The deputy director, secretary, and senior engineer also all had the same amount. Tang Tianqiang's request was: whatever he could do, Others must follow suit!

After moving here and there, selling off warehouse assets, and trying every possible means, Tang Tianqiang collected enough money to transform the factory - 1.2 billion.

After the new equipment was purchased, alloy steel smelting experiments were started. Dozens of previous experiments all failed, and the cost of scrapped materials exceeded one million every day.

At the most difficult moment, the remaining funds of the factory were only enough to conduct another smelting experiment.

The entire steel plant was shrouded in an atmosphere of depression, pessimism, and despair.

If this last experiment fails again, this steel plant may really be completely destroyed.

Tang Tianqiang was also anxious and anxious, with handfuls of hair falling out. He didn't dare to start the furnace for the last experiment. He sat in the office, turned on the computer, and frantically searched for information on the Internet, but still found nothing.

Until a weird website, like a virus, popped up on his computer screen.

TechTree.com.

In the steel branch of the material branch, "Smelting of High-Strength Nickel Alloy Steel" is impressively listed.

And because the technology is too low-level, this material can be viewed for free.

The third day.

"It worked! We succeeded!"

"The steel mill can be saved, the steel mill can be saved!"

"Long live Director Tang!"

“Long live the steel mills!”

Huge cheers came from the smelting plant of Longshan Iron and Steel Plant!

The first batch of alloy steel smelting in the steel plant was successful.

Longshan Iron and Steel Plant’s transformation was successful!

Tang Tianqiang gained great reputation.

In the following months, Longshan Iron and Steel Plant turned losses into profits. Not only did it successfully transform, it also became a key enterprise supported by the state. It can be said that it has made a wonderful turnaround.

But problems also arise.

When the birds are gone, the good bows are hidden; when the world is settled, the heroes retreat.

Tang Tianqiang's mission was completed. The city leaders planned to arrange another position for him to be the mayor of a remote town.

As for the position of director of Longshan Iron and Steel Plant, it will be taken over by a cadre named Liu.

In the past, Tang Tianqiang would have obeyed the arrangement and given up his position to others. He was also very used to it. After handling the crisis, he would be hidden away by the leader who hated him.

But this time...

He doesn't plan to move his butt, he wants to stay at Longshan Iron and Steel Plant.

Then smelt all the high-strength titanium alloys, rare earth alloys, and nano-alloys that require a fee on the technology tree website to create an alloy empire!

He no longer accepted the city's arrangements. He demonstrated his contribution and argued with reason. In front of the leader, he expressed that he did not want to change jobs and would stay at Longshan Iron and Steel Plant.

The leader was very embarrassed and began to explain principles to him and do his ideological work. After several good discussions, Tang Tianqiang refused to accept hard or soft advice or move his butt.

The superiors were furious and immediately removed him from the position of factory director on the grounds that he opposed organizational arrangements. There were no other work arrangements and they planned to let him sit on the bench for a few years and then arrange for him to retire early.

In short, Tang Tianqiang, who was seen as unorganized, stubborn and domineering, would never use him again.

Helpless, Tang Tianqiang had no choice but to name "Technology Tree Network", saying that this website contained a lot of technical information and was very useful to the country, but this website had been bound to him. If he left, no one would be able to use this information. If it can no longer be used, the loss will be immeasurable.

"Tech Tree Network?"

The city leader's expression changed and he immediately reported the matter to his superiors.

As a result, Tang Tianqiang retained his position as "factory director" as he wished, but with the word "deputy" added in front.

The current director of the factory was still the parachuted cadre surnamed Liu. Because he was short, slender, and always had a glint in his eyes, Tang Tianqiang called him "Dwarf Liu."

After Liu Aizi entered the steel factory, there was no conflict between the two for the first two months. But soon after, Liu Aizi's high emotional intelligence came out, and he unknowingly took over a large part of the factory. The management staff pulled to his side.

Tang Tianqiang, who was immersed in researching new alloy materials, did not watch out for Liu Aizi. He took advantage of his loophole and formed a larger force. He began to stumbling upon Tang Tianqiang and slowly ousted him.

Even normal smelting experiments were disrupted.

Tang Tianqiang cannot control some key departments in the factory.

After discovering that Liu Aizi was causing trouble behind his back, Tang Tianqiang warned him sternly many times and ordered him not to hinder his work, but Liu Aizi always agreed with a smile in front of his face, and used more and more obstacles behind his back.

Until that day, a batch of materials worth more than 30 million was halfway smelted in the smelting furnace. When the key rare earth powder needed to be put in, the rare earth powder disappeared and could not be found no matter how hard it was searched. As a result, as time passed, the furnace Not only were the materials scrapped, but the temperature rose too quickly, and the smelting furnace worth 200 million was declared scrapped.

The reason was later found out: The rare earth powder was transferred to another warehouse by Liu Aizi without informing Tang Tianqiang.

"Liu Chaozi, I will beat you to death!"

Tang Tianqiang, furious, rushed into Liu Aizi's office, locked the office door, and beat him violently, almost leaving him half disabled. Finally, an ambulance sent Liu Aizi to the hospital.

Things are getting serious.

It's totally a big deal!

…

"Master, this kind of incident is not limited to Longshan Iron and Steel Plant. Many companies seem to have similar situations, which makes the binders unable to carry out their work stably."

"Master, how should we deal with this situation?" Assistant Yiyi asked.

Zhou Ming shook his head: "I can't control this kind of thing. Send a push message to tell these companies that if this situation persists and cannot be improved, we will reduce the number of bindings for such companies and increase the number of private companies. A certain amount...may not even be considered for this type of business.”

"Yes, I know Master."

According to what Zhou Ming said, assistant Yiyi sent this push message.