Factory Building

More than ten days passed very quickly. On the twelfth day after Zhang Yi received Zhu Gang's order, Xiao Hua finally completed it, three days faster than expected. Of course, with Xiao Hua's ability, it should have been even faster, but she spent a lot of time teaching Zhang Yi how to operate the lathe during this period, which is why it took until today to finish. Even so, Zhang Yi was already very happy.

After the order was completed, Zhang Yi immediately delivered it to Zhu Gang. However, this time he didn't receive any new orders from Zhu Gang's factory. Zhu Gang told him that he would have to wait a few days until he received new orders from Geely Group before he could give him any.

After all, Zhu Gang's factory also needed to survive. They would only give orders to Zhang Yi when they were too busy to handle them themselves. Under normal circumstances, they wouldn't give orders to Zhang Yi.

Although he didn't receive an order from Zhu Gang, Zhang Yi wasn't disappointed. He took advantage of the free time in the past few days to buy a CNC machine.

As long as he bought the machine, Zhang Yi could start trial-producing the Aerodynamic Bicycle he bought from the mall.

Since the internet is very convenient now, only two days after Zhang Yi placed the order, the CNC machine he purchased arrived. It took one day to install, and by the third day, Zhang Yi's workshop had two machines, one of which was a CNC machine.

Although the CNC machine Zhang Yi bought this time was just an ordinary one, the price was not low. This CNC machine cost Zhang Yi a full 300,000 yuan. This price was a bit high among machines of the same model, but it was worth the money. This machine had a relatively good cost-performance ratio among ordinary CNC machines, so Zhang Yi believed that the 300,000 yuan was well spent.

"Hello! I'm Zhang Yi!" The morning after the machine was installed, Zhang Yi received a call from Zhu Gang. It turned out that Zhu Gang had received a new order from Ji Li, and this time when Zhu Gang took the order from Ji Li.

He had included the production capacity of Zhang Yi's factory, so the order was larger than usual. These extra orders were for parts with precision requirements, so he asked Zhang Yi to come to his factory to pick up the order.

"Uncle Gang! This order is so big!" When Zhang Yi arrived at Zhu Gang's office and took the order from Zhu Gang, he was a little confused because the order Zhu Gang gave him this time was very large. Of course, this was only relative to Zhang Yi's small workshop. It was a total of 10,000 parts, all with precision requirements.

Of course, the price Zhu Gang gave was also acceptable. The processing fee for each part was over fifty yuan, which meant the entire order was worth over 500,000 yuan. This was definitely the largest order their factory had received since it opened for Zhang Yi, but the deadline for this order was also quite tight, requiring completion within a month.

If it were before, Xiao Hua alone could complete it, but she would have to work overtime. However, now that he had just bought a CNC machine, Xiao Hua would be much more relaxed, and the quality would not be bad, nor would the speed be slow.

"Yes! This time I specifically took a larger order from Geely Group. By the way, I noticed this morning that your factory seems to have an extra CNC machine. This way you'll have more confidence in this order. Although Xiao Hua's skills are exquisite, doing this kind of work is a complete waste. Things that can be done by these machines are, of course, best done by CNC machines," Zhu Gang said.

"Yes! Uncle Gang! I think so too," Zhang Yi said with a smile.

Afterward, Zhang Yi transported all the raw materials for this order back to the factory. However, when he transported all these raw materials back, he found that the factory was full of these raw parts, with no space to even walk. This made Zhang Yi realize that his current factory area was too small. It was already very crowded with two machines, and with these raw materials this time, it was even worse.

At the same time, it made him realize that if his Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory was to develop, he would have to move to a larger factory building. For future development, the new factory building must be large enough, but with Zhang Yi's current funds of over a hundred thousand yuan, it was simply not enough to rent a factory building.

It should be known that although Xian County, where Zhang Yi is located, is a relatively poor county in Zhou Tai City, this is relative. In addition, it is located in a mountainous area, and the area of cultivated land is relatively small, so the price of land is relatively high.

Of course, Zhang Yi could also rent a factory building for temporary use, but even renting a factory building is not cheap. In Xian County, the annual rent for a factory building of one or two thousand square meters is around tens of thousands, and if it is larger, the price will be even higher.

And a factory building of one or two thousand square meters is too small for Zhang Yi's future plans. In his plan, he intends to at least rent a factory building of five or six thousand square meters first, and then build a larger factory building at once when he has enough funds, at least several hundred mu is barely enough.

Just as Zhang Yi was thinking about the factory building, his phone rang. Zhang Yi looked at it and found that the number was not familiar to him, but the location of the number was indeed Zhou Tai City. After thinking for a moment, Zhang Yi still answered it.

"Hello! Who is this?" Zhang Yi said after answering the phone.

"Hello! Mr. Zhang Yi! This is the Zhou Tai City Patent Office. Your patent application has been approved. When are you free to come and pick it up!" A voice that was a little familiar to Zhang Yi came from the other end of the phone. Coupled with what she said, Zhang Yi naturally knew who it was.

"Is this Sister Zhang from the Patent Office?" Zhang Yi found that this call was from Zhang Yingying, and he was naturally very happy. Moreover, the phone number Zhang Yingying was using now did not seem to be an internal number of the Patent Office, which meant that this number was very likely Zhang Yingying's private number.

It should be known that when he went to the Patent Office last time, Zhang Yi had asked Zhang Yingying for her number, but unfortunately, Zhang Yi did not get Zhang Yingying's phone number at all.

"Yes! Mr. Zhang Yi, I wonder when you are free to come and pick up the patent document," Zhang Yingying's voice came from the phone.

"Sister Zhang, how about this, I'll come and pick it up tomorrow afternoon. I wonder if Sister Zhang is free. I really appreciate your help with this patent application, so I'd like to treat you to a meal to express my gratitude." In fact, when Zhang Yi said this, he was still a little nervous, afraid that Zhang Yingying would refuse. After all, he was a novice and had never invited a girl to dinner.

After listening to Zhang Yi's words, there was no response from Zhang Yingying on the phone for a long time. Just when Zhang Yi thought he was going to fail again this time, Zhang Yingying's voice finally sounded on the phone; "Okay! I don't have anything to do after work tomorrow, so I'll give you face. Alright, Mr. Zhang, let's talk here for now! I'm going back to work."

Zhang Yingying hung up the phone before Zhang Yi could say anything, but fortunately, this time Zhang Yingying did not refuse his invitation like last time, which made Zhang Yi breathe a sigh of relief.