Chapter 68 High Level

  Li Xiang squeezed out a laugh from his throat and eyes in response to Qin Shihuang's astonishment, with an air of triumph evident on his face.

  Two thin sheets of paper, Qin Shihui looked at them for three minutes before lifting his head and exclaimed: "Your three devices work well together, the effect is really good! Without using anti-wear and corrosion-resistant oil pipes, but relatively speaking, the wear ratio with quenched carbon steel pipes is 2.5, and the wear ratio with ion nitrocarburized pipes is 0.5. It's equivalent to using three small gadgets to increase the Rockwell hardness of the oil pipe to above 65."

  "He continued to praise: 'The design is exquisite and cost-effective, very much in line with the style of Czech industry.'"

  Su Cheng nodded silently. Describing this anti-bias grinding system with Czechoslovak industrial design is unexpectedly appropriate - it's like a Czech-style machine gun, bringing stable performance, low cost and simple structure with its advanced design. Qin Shihui can say this sentence, his ability can be seen at a glance.

  Qin Shiwai walked to the iron frame with an unfulfilled intention, looked at each workpiece one by one, and then said: "Your anti-deviation grinding system, I think it can compare with imported oil pipes from abroad. In this way, a lot of expenses can be saved. Not bad! Who designed it? I must meet such a designer."

  Director Yang unhesitatingly gave up his position for Su Cheng.

  Qin Shiwai was taken aback and said: "Does Director Su still understand oil extraction machinery?"

  Su Cheng's face didn't flush and her heart didn't skip a beat as she said, "I only know a bit about design."

  "That's also extreme, I thought your major was geophysical exploration... Learning two things at the same time is not easy."

  Su Cheng was forced to say: "Director Qin isn't also knowledgeable about both mechanics and exploration..."

  "Technically, there are too few people who can reach my level." Qin Shihuang said with a smile, "I also loved to draw such design drawings when I was young, all learned from the Soviet Union. At that time, studying in Beijing was really hard, every night checking data, sleeping late... My Russian was not good, often had to look up one word at a time in the dictionary... It must have been more comfortable for Director Su to study."

  Director Yang said in a timely manner: "Our Director Su is a graduate of Peking University."

  "Ah, does Peking University still have a petroleum major?"

  "I graduated from the Chinese Department of Peking University."

  Qin Shihui's endless chatter finally came to an end, his eyes bulged out and the muscles on his arms tensed up.

  Su Cheng sighed, if Principal Qin was born 30 years earlier, he would have been pushed down by the school girls at least three to five times, just because of his figure.

  Holding a workpiece weighing over ten kilograms to do manual grinding experiments is equivalent to pushing dumbbells weighing over ten kilograms, and if someone has the patience to do 1,170,077 times, their muscles will become as hard as stone.

  Director Yang coughed lightly and said with a smile: "Dean Qin, look, isn't it time for us to hand out the certificates?"

  "Alright, Little Wang, issue the certificate." Qin Shihui helped to unload the goods and smiled: "This set of things, I recommend that you submit it for approval. Our oil field has many deviated wells. How about adding 20% to the cost? Now that business is not good, many are only adding 10%. Does this set of deviated milling system cost more than 300 yuan?"

  This is a pure state-owned enterprise style. In the planned economy era, superiors calculated costs and added 10% or 15% profit to become the final selling price of products. If there were no other changes, this price would never change. As a result, a strange phenomenon formed: the longer a product was produced, the lower its cost and the higher the enterprise's profit. On the contrary, new products had the lowest profits. It is not surprising that enterprises lack the consciousness to push out old products and introduce new ones.

  Beside him, Li Ruo Xiang suddenly felt embarrassed. The design drawing was done by Su Cheng, and the process design was also his work. Qin Shi Wei calculated the cost through design, thinking it should be 300 yuan, but the actual cost of what he did was 360 yuan, wasn't that saying his cost was too high?

  Su Cheng laughed before Li Ruo Xiang spoke, saying: "Director Qin has miscalculated. The price of the forged steel blank is already several hundred yuan more expensive. In order to put this set of equipment into production, we specially updated the assembly line and machine tool equipment. If the sales volume is less than 10,000 sets, the cost per unit will be around 1,000 yuan. This does not even include the labor and machine time used for design and experimentation."

  "1,000?" Qin Shiwei's face turned cold: "How much do you want to sell it for?"

  "To achieve the same level of wear resistance, you would need to equip an anti-wear sucker rod worth around 2,500 yuan. We only charge 80% of that price, which is 2,000 yuan. Moreover, when it's time for replacement or accidental damage, most of the cost goes into replacing the stabilizer and tubing, so maintenance costs are halved."

  Su Cheng took a deep breath and smiled: "Moreover, what's most important is that using our anti-deviation wear system doesn't prevent customers from continuing to use anti-wear sucker rods on certain special oil wells to achieve better results. Choosing this solution has a higher cost-effectiveness ratio. For example, our anti-deviation wear system plus an anti-wear sucker rod of the same level only costs 4,500 yuan, but its effect is even better than that of a 10,000-yuan chrome-plated composite resin coated sucker rod."

  Qin Shiwei's face slightly cleared, but still didn't look good, and sarcastically said: "Your last sentence is simply deceiving people. The manufacturers of anti-wear oil rods can also use their oil rods to match your rod anti-wear sleeves, straighteners, and weight bars, which are more flexible."

  "They can match the old model's reinforced rod and stabilizer, but our new model is more effective, which can be seen from the test. In addition, they also cannot match our pipe rod reduction friction sleeve. There is a patent."

  "We have a patent!" Qin Shiwei indignantly said, "Having a patent means you can sell it for three times the profit? A 300% profit is outrageous! You're still a state-owned enterprise..."

  "We are a joint venture." Su Cheng corrected in a low voice. If it were someone else, it would be fine, but if it fell into Qin Shiwei's hands, the cost could be seen at a glance, and the 3-fold profit was indeed embarrassing.

  But it's just shyness after all.

  "Are you a joint venture?" Qin Shiwei repeated.

  Su Cheng nodded.

  "This... " Qin Shihui was a bit unclear about the situation, and said in a low voice: "Joint ventures should also make reasonable profits, right, reasonable profits."

  Su Cheng shook his head and said, "Director Qin, you're not right here. Think about it, this set of anti-deviation grinding system can save the country more than 200,000 yuan, and there are 20,000 producing oil wells in Shengli Oilfield alone, saving 400 million yuan. If we take 10% of that, isn't that a reasonable profit?"

  Qin Shiwai nodded dazedly, suddenly bursting into rage: "You still want to make 400 million!"