Pero, southeastern Mexico, in the summer of 1992.

It is a picturesque coastal city, and the sea breeze in the Pacific Ocean brings abundant rain, giving birth to wide grasslands and dense forests.The waves have been washing the beach for years, leaving a large white as silver natural baths, making tourists from all over the world forget.

In the north of the city, about a kilometer from the waterfront, there is a construction site under construction, which is quite spectacular.Standing in the middle of the construction site, looking up, you can see a variety of towers, tanks and other giant containers, as well as dense all kinds of pipelines, weaving, through the rich industrial beauty.Outside the gate of the construction site, there is a huge sign with the name of the project:

Haoge Chemical Co., Ltd. Perot plant.

At this moment, the chemical plant construction site is silent, all the construction machinery has stopped, and those dazzling electric welding sparks in the past can not be found.Next to a large distillate lying on the ground stood a group of people of different skin colors.Although it is the sun, these people's faces do not see any warm and leisurely look, and replace it with a depressing weight.

“Mr. Uchida, please explain what’s going on?”

The owner's representative, Erskin, pointed to the falling distillate in front of him and asked the Japanese man with a warm and humble face in front of him.

This is a distillate tower of more than 20 meters high, weighing more than 100 tons.It was supposed to stand on the steel base, but last night's high wind made its base break, and the tower suddenly fell, smashed a group of pipelines next to it, and caused minor injuries to two night watchmen.In fact, we must also be glad that the accident occurred at night, there are no construction personnel around, if such an accident occurs during the day, the casualties may not be so slight.

The person questioned by Erskin was Uchida Yo-Yo, the sales director of Ikemiya Manufacturing in Japan.And this chemical plant is also built by Ikegu Production.Uchida was in the United States to attend a meeting, got the news, and came over overnight.Seeing the scene of the accident, Uchida was also stunned.You know, last night's wind is not particularly large, Ikegu production of the original design is to withstand the hurricane, if in such an ordinary wind there will be equipment collapse accident, the factory will not need to build.

"It was an accident."

Uchida bowed a 90-degree bow to Erskin and said apologetically.

“Of course I know it was an accident, but how does your company explain it?”Erskin said incdulously, "Now is only the construction stage, and there is room for recovery."If production has already begun, what kind of consequences will it bring down if a distillation tower falls down like this?

"This is absolutely impossible, before production, we will certainly carry out strict inspection, will not leave a problem of equipment."Uchida responded with sweat.As the sales director of a chemical equipment company, he knew even better than Erskin the consequences of the collapse.Chemical plant intermediate products often have the characteristics of highly toxic, flammable, explosive and so on, if in the production process a distillation tower fell out, and smashed some of the pipelines to transport intermediate products, the loss will be immeasurable.

“Our technicians are already on the plane and will be able to reach Perot tomorrow, and the exact cause of the accident will be tested by them.Until then, we will stop all construction work and inspect the equipment that has been installed to ensure that no similar incidents occur.”Uchida Yu said while bowing, a little grateful brain door shaking, a while the work has already caused Erskin to faint.

"Well, then we shall wait for the results of your examination, and the losses caused by the delay will be borne by you."Erskin said unappeally.

"Yes, we will take all the losses."Uchita Yo-Yo Road.

As Uchida said, technicians from Japan arrived the next day, bringing a full set of testing equipment, as well as the original design drawings.Because of the importance of the matter, as soon as these people arrived at the scene, they carried out intense work, some detected the situation at the rupture of the base, some investigated the technicians and workers responsible for the installation, and some people began to collect relevant information on local earthquakes and meteorology, and wanted to find some factors that could affect the quality of the project.

“Please give me your name.”

In a temporary office, Tian Xiongzhe, deputy director of the technical department of Ikegu Productions, also blacked out his face and asked a worker in front of him.The worker and Tian Xiongzhe are the same, also black hair, yellow skin, wearing the autumn society's yellow kaki cloth work clothes, but a mouth, but full of Chinese Haidong accent.He spoke Chinese, and Tian Xiongzhe had to communicate with him through translation.

"My name is Bi Jianxin, and I am a welder of An Chemical Machinery Factory in Haidong Province, China."The worker replied.

“Did you weld the base of the distillation tower that collapsed the night before?”

"Yes, I sold it with some other teachers."

"So, when you are welding, have you strictly operated in accordance with the process specifications, and have there been any violations of the process specifications?"

"You can go to the work desk and see if my old bile is the kind of person who will violate the rules of craftsmanship."Bi Jian's new face also sank, the other side clearly questioned his work attitude, which had to be annoyed.

A few years ago, the members of the Japan Chemical Equipment Association because of the excessive price of domestic labor, resulting in the lack of competitiveness of products, the group went to China to discuss business outsourcing matters.Under the organization of the reinstallation office, Chinese enterprises formed an alliance, and repeatedly consulted with the Japanese side on the issue of outsourcing prices, and finally obtained a relatively satisfactory price, and the business outsourcing cooperation between China and Japan was launched.

In recent years, although there have been some twists and turns, the scale of cooperation between the two sides has continued to expand.The reason is naturally due to the continued appreciation of the yen, which has led to rising labor costs in Japan, and Japanese companies have to rely more on Chinese skilled workers to help them complete the construction of overseas projects.In the process of these cooperation, the technical level and discipline of the Chinese workers have also impressed the Japanese who have always pursued rigor, which has made this cooperation continue to deepen.

Bi Jianxin is the ace welder of the Hoi An Chemical Machinery Factory, and he was loaned out by Nguyen Fukuen of Quanfu Machinery Company and sent to the Mexican site with dozens of workers of Quanfu Company.It is of course more difficult to send overseas, and Nguyen Fugen has paid all the dispatched workers three times the salary, which is an important reason why the workers are rushing to this task.

The distillate that was dropped the day before yesterday was completed in Japan and transported to Perot by sea.The task of Bi Jianxin and several other workers is to erect the distillation tower and weld the foot below the distillation tower on the pre-built base.Such a work, they have done a lot of back, this time naturally is also light car familiar road, do no pressure.

But who would have thought that the distillation tower that had just been erected was blown down by a wind, which could not help but be shocked.Bi Jianxin heard this news, but also scared out of a cold sweat, for fear that because of their own operation is wrong, resulting in welding quality can not meet the design requirements.He went to the dispatch department to check the production records of that day, although he did not recognize a few Japanese in the record book, but also determined that his operation was not wrong, fully in line with the requirements of the process documents.With such a background, he was naturally able to call Tian Xiongzhe.

Tian Xiongzhe is also in front of the talks with Bi Jianxin, naturally also read the production records, know from the record, Bi Jianxin and several other welders' operation is not wrong, he wants to ask, just hold some luck, hoping to hear some different situations from Bi Jianxin.

From Tian Xiongzhe's heart, he hopes that the cause of the accident will be implemented to the heads of Chinese workers such as Bi Jianxin, so that the credit losses to bear by the Japanese side will be much smaller.He did not expect that Bi Jian's new reaction would be so strong, leaving him no opportunity at all.

“Are you sure you won’t make a mistake?”Tada is also making a last-ditch effort.

Bi Jianxin shook his head resolutely and said, "My old Bi's technology, I dare not say how high it is, but at least welding a distillation tower base is no problem."If you do not believe it, you can check the test record to see what I sold on this site, and there is no mistake.

"Well, I'm very sorry, Mr. Bee, you can go back.But if you think of something else these days, please don't give advice."Tian Xiongzhe also stood up and sent Bi Jianxin out of the room.

The same talk, also occurred between Tian Xiongzhe and several other Chinese welders, these welders have the character of irritability, immediately with Tian Xiongzhe also theory, some are relatively weak, but when it comes to whether there are mistakes, their attitude is also very firm, that is, never admit that there is something wrong with their operation.

"Mr. Tian Xiong, Mr. Bi and his Chinese colleagues, the technical level is very good, and the work attitude is very good, as if to give their own enterprise work."I think that for such good workers, we should still have more protection and not easily doubt them.”

After completing a round of talks, the on-site dispatch of Iwasaki at the site also suggested to Tian Xiongzhe.Bi Jianxin these people, there are several brushes on hand, especially in the work of the grievances, do not put forward any additional requirements, which makes Iwasaki look at them.Uchida and Tian Xiongzhe are also these people, although they are from the headquarters and are in awe, but Iwasaki still wants to persuade them to say a few words.