Sail across the sea

Chapter 253 You Caused This Incident
According to local records: In 1983, the price of chemical fertilizers in Maolin Province was 350 yuan per ton of urea and 450 yuan for retail; 158 yuan per ton of ammonium bicarbonate and 187 yuan for retail.

During the same period, the price of automobile transportation in the province was 0.2 yuan per ton-kilometer.This means that if the distance from the fertilizer factory to the rural land is 100 kilometers, only the freight of the fertilizer will cost 20 yuan.

If the fertilizer to be transported is urea, then the freight of 20 yuan per ton is still acceptable.But for ammonium bicarbonate, there is only a difference of 29 yuan between the ex-factory price and the retail price of each ton of the product. After deducting the 20 yuan freight, the agricultural materials company basically has to lose money.

Before the 80s, China had not fully grasped the manufacturing capacity of urea equipment, and ammonium bicarbonate was the main fertilizer, which determined that the distance between the fertilizer factory and the countryside should not be too far, otherwise the price of fertilizer would exceed the affordability of farmers.

The Ministry of Chemical Industry once made a very detailed calculation based on the average level of chemical fertilizers used in domestic agriculture.For a fertilizer plant that produces ammonium bicarbonate, if the production capacity of synthetic ammonia is 0.5 tons per hour, that is, 4380 tons per year, the average distance of the sales area is 32.18 kilometers, and the shipping fee for a ton of nitrogen products is 26.76 yuan;
If the production capacity is increased to 5 tons per hour, that is, 43800 tons per year, reaching the level of a medium nitrogen fertilizer plant, the average distance of the sales range is 101.74 kilometers, and the shipping fee for a ton of nitrogen products will rise to 84.62 yuan.

For this reason, when the main product is ammonium bicarbonate, it is not economical to build large and medium-sized fertilizer plants. It is more reasonable for each county to build a small fertilizer plant with an annual output of 5000 tons of synthetic ammonia.

But when the main product is changed to urea, since the nitrogen content per ton of urea is equivalent to 3 tons of ammonium bicarbonate, the economic transportation radius can be greatly increased.The same is a chemical fertilizer plant with an annual output of 43800 tons of synthetic ammonia, and the shipping fee for a ton of nitrogen products is only 31.28 yuan.In this way, it becomes an economical choice to build a fertilizer factory in three or five counties.

Of course, in later generations, the price of urea has risen to 2000 yuan/ton, and railway transportation has become very common and the price is also very low. The impact of freight factors on the layout of fertilizer plants has been greatly reduced.This is also the reason why Gao Fan lacked a concept on this issue.

"That is to say, the production capacity of our factory can meet the needs of three to four counties. The best option is to ask Yanxiu and Wuyuan counties to close their fertilizer factories and use our urea instead."

Gao Fan finally understood the crux of the problem after listening to Gao Yiping's brief introduction about shipping costs and the like.

"The Chemical Engineering Design Institute did not agree to put the ammonium urine conversion pilot in our Canghai Fertilizer Plant, and it also considered this issue. We have little land here, and the transportation distance after the fertilizer is produced is long, and 4 tons of urea cannot be digested.

"If placed on the Great Plains of North China, they can digest the production capacity of 4 tons of urea in one county, and the effect of ammonium-based urine conversion is more obvious." Gao Yiping said.

Gao Fan said: "So, I still misunderstood those people from the Chemical Engineering Design Institute?"

Gao Yiping nodded: "President Song of the Chemical Engineering Design Institute came over a while ago to learn about the construction of the equipment, and asked Xiao Zhou to bring him to my office to sit for a while and explain it to me."

"Why does Lao Song hold grudges so much?" Gao Fan said with a smile.

Song Chunyuan, the vice president of the Chemical Engineering Design Institute, strongly opposed putting the ammonium urine modification pilot in the Canghai Fertilizer Factory. For this reason, Gao Fan had a confrontation with him, so he didn't get angry with the old man.

It was precisely because of Gao Fan's harsh words that time that the Chemical Engineering Design Institute had to seriously consider the possibility of choosing the Canghai Fertilizer Factory as a pilot plant, and finally Zheng Linong, the vice minister of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, made the decision.

Song Chunyuan specifically went to tell Gao Yiping about this matter, of course not to complain to Gao Yiping, but to explain the whole story to him, so as to save Gao Yiping and his son from harboring resentment towards the Chemical Design Institute.

In theory, the Canghai Chemical Fertilizer Factory proposed a new process of ammonium to urine, and the Chemical Design Institute adopted other people's ideas, but refused to choose him as a pilot plant, which is somewhat unreasonable.Now that the dust has settled, Song Chunyuan will of course come to explain one or two things.

Gao Yiping is also used to his son's poisonous tongue now, he did not correct Gao Fan's words, but continued the previous topic, saying:

"The current situation is like this. Both Yanxiu and Wuyuan counties refuse to accept our urea. If we end up having to sell urea to other regions, the freight cost alone will be huge. The Chemical Design Institute may be able to Let's see our joke."

"You said just now that you want to hear my thoughts?" Gao Fan recalled what Gao Yiping said just now.

"Yes." Gao Yiping said confidently, "You caused this incident, and now there is trouble. Of course I want to listen to your thoughts."

Well, you are my father, you are right.

Gao Fan slandered.

Of course he knew that Gao Yiping had begun to pay attention to him now, and when encountering such a thing, he couldn't help but ask him for advice.

But as an old man, Gao Yiping couldn't bear to ask for advice, so he put on such a face.

"How are the two chemical fertilizer factories in Yanxiu and Wuyuan doing?" Gao Fan asked.

Gao Yiping shook his head: "The situation is not very good. They are similar to our past situation. The two coal consumption is less than 3000, which is not much different. I have been making reports asking the province to allocate funds for their technical transformation, but now it is estimated that the province is not so good. The money will be paid."

"Is it because of our ammonium urine change?"

"Yes."

"The director of Yanxiu Chemical Fertilizer Factory, I think his surname is Yin. Everyone said that he supported the central government from the local government." Gao Fan recalled.

Belonging to the same area, several chemical fertilizer factories have a lot of walking among each other.As Gao Yiping said before, he once took Gao Fan to Yanxiu Chemical Fertilizer Factory to play, and the factory director of the other party invited them to dinner, so Gao Fan remembered the factory director surnamed Yin.

As for saying "the local government supports the central government", it is also a popular stalk among officials.It is about some people who are bald, in order to cover up, they grow the hair on the side long and comb it to the middle, so as to block the big bald head in the middle.Officials are all familiar with newspaper documents, so they found such a political vocabulary to describe it.

"Yes, Lao Yin, Yin Baowen, is five years older than me, and he keeps asking you to call him uncle." Gao Yiping said.

"Have you communicated with him about this?" Gao Fan asked.

Gao Yiping said, "That's for sure."

"What's his attitude?"

"What do you think?" Gao Yiping choked angrily.

Gao Fan was speechless.He also knew he was asking a silly question.Canghai Chemical Fertilizer Factory's success in ammonium urine conversion meant that the two fertilizer factories of Yanxiu and Wuyuan had to close down.

"So, it's useless to communicate with the directors of the two factories, and the Department of Chemical Industry must come forward to coordinate?" Gao Fan said.

(End of this chapter)