Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 293 Producing V16

In June, the refrigerator factory added a production line.

After the production of refrigerators was moved to the industrial zone, there was a new director and deputy director. The deputy director is a college student, and the director is transferred from a director of a local unit. It is normal for local units to be transferred to the factory as leaders like this. And it is also beneficial to the development of the factory.

Just because someone came from a local unit, it doesn’t mean that they have severed ties with the past. The connections that should be there are still maintained, which can bring some convenience to the factory.

The decision to increase the production line was made at a meeting between the refrigerator factory director and the assigned leadership team. Then it was reported to Director Du. Now Du Yongkang is no longer at the automobile factory and has gone directly to the park as director. Director Zhang of the Logistics Department, like Luo Cheng, ran both ways.

Refrigerators are in high demand, mainly due to the purchase of favor tickets from the above provinces and regions, which cost a lot every month. Moreover, the era of educated youth has not yet come, and some people with poor backgrounds actually have a lot of money. A refrigerator costs only a few hundred yuan, which is nothing to some rich people.

This refrigerator has already begun to be sold in southern cities, and areas like Ngee An and Jiangsu and Zhejiang are starting to get really hot. In some hot coastal cities, summer has officially entered in June.

It is a common practice for the province above to ask for favors and votes. Just like the large and small units and enterprises in Ngee Ann City, there are so many bicycles. Where did the bicycle tickets come from? Could it be that individuals went to the bicycle factory to beg for them, and they were not allocated.

Luo Cheng originally only wanted to designate some cities to sell first, cities with better economies first, and then expand next year. If it were a city like Ngee Ann in the past, they would definitely not arrange trucks to take people to sell.

But now, just because you don’t sell refrigerators in some cities doesn’t mean that people don’t know you sell refrigerators. Apart from anything else, which city does not have cadres and leaders who are in training? Even if units and enterprises do not buy it, these old leaders and cadres must be arranged first.

There are also some people who live in compound rooms. The house is matched with other people’s houses, and they still lack your refrigerator and air conditioner.

There were even calls from people from Sijiucheng, scolding the automobile factory for their lack of political awareness. You are thinking well. Sijiu City is in the north and does not heat up as quickly as other cities. But you have to think about it, other cities have it, but the central city of Forty-Nine City does not yet have it. Moreover, there are many compounds and leaders in Forty-Nine City. If you want to sell to the people, you can wait until July. But now, deliver the goods to Sijiucheng immediately.

Where foreign guests are received, priority is given to placing refrigerators and installing air conditioners.

Now that the business has grown, calls are being made directly to the refrigerator and air-conditioning factories. As the directors of the refrigerator and air-conditioning factories, apart from meetings and reporting, they really can’t stand the pressure.

Luo Cheng didn’t like to ask about everything. Previously, hundreds of air conditioners and refrigerators were arranged in one city. As for the refrigerator, he felt that not many people could afford it at 650 yuan a unit. Now he found out that he was wrong. This was just like the score in the exam. Someone scored ninety-eight points in the exam, and it was only two points short of the perfect score. It seems to be a little worse than those with perfect scores. But in the eyes of a person who gets a perfect score, it is because the total score is only 100 points, not that he can only get 100 points.

Just like some people have to save money for a year to buy a bicycle. But some people buy bicycles just because the bicycle is only worth so much. If it were more expensive, they would still buy it if they should.

Luo Cheng actually doesn’t know history, let alone normal people in future generations who would check how many refrigerators were sold when they were launched. When refrigerators began to be sold, demand was always in short supply. Even in 1986, an average of 80,000 units were produced per month, which could not meet demand.

Even though reform and opening up had been implemented in 1986, except for business people, it was still very difficult for ordinary people to buy a refrigerator even if their wages had increased. Xuehua’s refrigerators sold for thousands of yuan at the beginning. You must know that in the early 1980s, workers’ wages were still dozens of yuan a month. Even in 1986, the annual salary in most cities is only 1,000 yuan.

And compared to now, most refrigerators are actually bought by companies and localities. The number of units that entered the market and were bought by individuals was at most several thousand units, and the price was nearly half cheaper than the refrigerators after the reform.

Even if the years are different, if you produce one or two thousand units per month, compared with others who produce 80,000 units per month, the gap is really huge. The supply of 80,000 units exceeds demand. If Luo Cheng had not started production and accumulated inventory at the beginning of the year for these several thousand units, it would be difficult to distribute them to ten cities.

Luo Cheng wanted to learn from others about hunger marketing, but he couldn’t be too hungry. The high school students who sold air conditioners from cars felt too relaxed, and they couldn’t return to Ngee Ann immediately after the goods were sold out. Because there are purchasing personnel accompanying the car, and they need to buy some local specialties back. This leaves high school students to basically sell for a few days and then take a few days off.

As for installing air conditioners, it is not so easy. When you arrive in a city, you are busy and have to install it with the leaders of your unit and company. One person has to install dozens of them a day. You have to cooperate with the masons who knock on the wall and fill the cement. Some of them are installed directly on the windows, so you need carpenters to modify the windows.

The most intuitive thing about this kind of purchasing method is that there is already a fruit seller in the canteen window.

Nowadays, workers in automobile factories feel that their wages are not enough. Not to mention workers, even some masters, whose salaries are in the fifties and sixties, feel they are not enough.

In the past, there was no place to spend flowers, so I was reluctant to eat them and reluctant to spend them. But now that I have somewhere to spend it, I feel like I don’t have enough money.

For example, an apprentice worker whose salary is less than 20 yuan can buy a pound of free staple food in the canteen. One pound in the morning and two pounds in the evening. If you eat rice, it’s about 35 cents. You should always eat food that costs two cents. If there are meat dishes in the cafeteria, you can buy them without paying a ticket. In other factories, you can only eat them once a month. The car factory has meat dishes, so it’s rare that you don’t hurry up and buy them.

So the average food cost of 40 cents a day is not too much, and then there is the rice that can be purchased internally. Even an apprentice worker can buy ten kilograms. It would be a fool not to buy it. The one and sixty-five cents per month is gone.

In addition to the individual rations, about thirty kilograms of firewood, rice, oil, salt, and coarse and fine grains, four or five yuan will be spent.

Now there is a situation where even if an apprentice works in an industrial area, the food that one person can get is enough to feed several people. But if I really go and do it, I just do some calculations and I’ll have no money. As for young people, they always have to spend extra money. Workers basically receive a cinema ticket every month. It’s free to watch, but you don’t eat anything when you go to the movies.

There are few sunflowers in Nghe An, and the yield of melon seeds is not high, but there are places where they can be found, and now the business of car factories is running in various cities. Factory Director Luo especially likes to prepare all kinds of food and drinks. Don’t ask for melon seeds on non-staple food stamps. Find out more. One or two cents for a small bag is cheap.

There is also an ice rink, where unmarried young men like to play, and there are many pretty girls playing there.

There is also a food court, and the car factory has gourmet curls, which is also a bonus. The person you’re talking to often hangs out there, and it’s cheaper if you have a book. If you don’t have a test paper, you will be charged a ticket. As a result, some people now ask their coworkers to borrow a test paper when they go on a date. Some older people are asked to take away the rolls in their hands every month.

Now that fruits are available, middle-aged and older masters are willing to buy a piece of fruit to take home and try it for themselves and their families. The automobile factory also has various large-ticket tickets, and highly skilled workers are relatively easy to obtain. It would cost hundreds to get a big one. In the past, when I had a lot of money, I was reluctant to buy because there was often not enough food to eat, so I had to prepare money to buy it at the pigeon market. Now that we don’t have to worry about food, we have more money and we have more things to think about.

Luo Cheng actually didn’t expect that sending out various curls would actually promote various consumption. In fact, Luo Cheng didn’t want to engage in these rolls, but if he didn’t do it, he would be taking the lead in violating the policy. The higher-ups implemented bill purchases, and if you canceled the bills, you would be rebelling. In fact, the canteen does not require meal tickets to provide meals, but it is also done internally. After the food city is completed, if there are no food coupons issued, you will still need food stamps to eat in the food city.

Of course, if employees have spare money, they cannot spend it all in places where automobile factories operate. With food security, many people have begun to pay attention to family conditions, such as the most common things, tables, chairs and benches. Children’s school supplies and daily necessities. For example, when Luo Cheng was not working, he would bring his own tableware and tableware when entertaining relatives.

Because wages cannot be increased, workers working in industrial zones have seen significant changes in their family conditions as their lives have gradually improved. At least when it comes to eating, I won’t have to count how much I can eat while eating a bowl of rice like before.

Moreover, people these days are willing to spend money for their children and parents, but not for themselves. A lot of street lights have been installed near the automobile factory, and they are all used through the automobile factory. In other places, there is only one street lamp far away. I could only roughly look in the direction, but couldn’t see anyone.

For example, when you are walking on the road at night, you can only see light in front of you, but you are not under the streetlight, and the surroundings are still dark. Therefore, even if there are street lights, it is not very safe to walk on the road at night, especially for women. No one can guarantee that a bad guy will suddenly appear in a dark place.

But it is different near the automobile factory. According to the distance, the light on the entire road is ensured. At least it’s not easy to squat alone on the roadside.

Not only the automobile factory, but also all places leading from the automobile factory to the industrial zone, including the industrial zone, will have street lights. Make sure everything is lit before ten o’clock at night. After ten o’clock, only the street lights in the living area are guaranteed to be on.

Luo Cheng didn’t care about the electricity bills, but electricity was a resource and had to be saved for the country. Otherwise, if there are street lights, it will go straight to dawn at night.

More importantly, there are almost no people going shopping at night. Even the skating rink closes at nine o’clock. In fact, the skaters are called five to ten minutes in advance to ask them to pack up their things early, return their skates and leave five to ten minutes in advance.

The world has changed to the 1960s, and Luo Cheng has stayed there for more than eight months. From starting a job to getting married, it was actually completed in eight months. He felt that the world would never change back, and he didn’t want to change back. If it did, where would a loser like him find a goddess-level wife?

But it would be false to say that we don’t miss the era of later generations, the Internet, entertainment, celebrities, etc. Therefore, the industrial zone he is working hard to build is to get as close to the post-era as possible. Even if there is no internet or anything, at least it would be nice to have somewhere to eat, drink, and hang out at night.

So recently, he has been very concerned about the development of life in the industrial zone, and has no intention of caring about the domestic situation. But sometimes you don’t just have to care. Sissi’s parents are in the army, and her grandfather is a military research and development boss. Even if Luo Cheng didn’t take the initiative to understand, someone would take the initiative to tell him.

Against Vietnam, we have begun to support 230 battalions of military equipment. Ordinary trucks are still used for rear support, and dodges are used for frontline support.

On Asan’s side, he really couldn’t escape, as if he was ready to start a war.

Luo Cheng was a little puzzled when he heard that there was going to be a war against Asan. To be honest, he was a military illiterate. During the war after liberation, he only heard about the anti-eagle sauce and aid Korea. Many people died, I heard. Regarding Vietnam~~If no one mentioned it, he would not be able to imagine that there was still a war on Vietnam. Luo Cheng was completely confused about Ah San, and he actually had a fight with Ah San.

Luo Cheng always thought that there would be no wars in the country after liberation. It had been peacefully developing for more than sixty years.

The reason why Dai Tiande told Luo Cheng this was because Luo Cheng designed the armored vehicle’s engine and knew how to produce it. Directly issued an assistance task to produce engines for the military factory. A large sixteen-bar engine weighs a lot, and it burns oil just like water.

As a last resort, all those who had assembled engines in the military factory had to devote themselves to new work. Luo Cheng directly handed over this processing task to Director Zhao. Add new production lines and start operations at full capacity.

In fact, the choice of Ngee Ann Automobile Factory to produce armored vehicle engines was also discussed above. Ngee Ann is inland. Once the engine is produced, transportation alone will be very difficult. Under normal circumstances, it is to produce nearby, find some units to place orders for each component, and then the military factory is only responsible for assembly.

But the automobile factory has an advantage that all factories currently do not have, that is, the automobile factory has many large trucks. Moreover, the load capacity and speed are simply not comparable to the nine-meter-long car with a front end that Jicheng just barely succeeded in imitating.

In addition, car-long trucks are now running around in many big cities. Many children see them and say that the train has run onto the road. Many employers want to ask the car factory to buy such a truck, but the car factory currently only uses it for its own use. If you want to buy it, you have to wait, at least for a few months.

There were some overbearing people in Sijiu City who forcibly detained a large truck delivering air conditioners from the automobile factory. Not only did they impound the cars from the automobile factory, they also called the provincial and district leaders in Ngee Ann to scold them.

In February this year, just after the Chinese New Year, Jicheng re-produced several trucks on a trial basis. After summarizing the reasons for the last failure, all the basic details were in place, and then this test run finally passed the test. Then, there were a lot of reports from various places that China finally had its own trucks.

And damn you, if you didn’t ask the car factory to send refrigerators and air conditioners to Sijiucheng. People don’t even know that you have just built a 12-meter large truck. The most important thing is that it is not a replica. The truck is bigger than others and it runs faster than others.

For their independent production, they still have to rely on purchasing components from various companies. As for the automobile factory, in addition to ordering a marine engine in Tianhu at the beginning. Nowadays, engines are all produced in-house, and water and fuel tanks are also designed and produced by ourselves.

If you don’t impound your car, I will impound the car directly. People over there in Sijiu City are looking for reporters to take the initiative to report this 12-meter large truck to the car factory. It was even placed directly in a certain exhibition area for people to visit. This is a new achievement of domestic industry, and we are catching up.

Car factories have ‘large’ trucks, which is the main reason why the military industry lets Ngee Ann Automobile Factory process V16 diesel engines. The secondary reason is that Luo Cheng is half a military worker. He designed the engine and can also assemble it. The provincial military factory disassembles the engine into its components and then finds other companies to process them.

Luo Cheng asked Dai Tiande if there was any benefit to him from taking this order. You must know that when this order was sent, the cost of each component had been calculated very clearly. When it came to Ngee Ann Automobile Factory, there was really not much profit. To produce an engine of that size, the engine alone would weigh a ton. The profit earned is less than that of a three-wheeled truck.

In fact, the production of V8 engines is enough for the Dodger armored vehicle. After all, compared with the Boxer armored vehicle of later generations, the simple Dodger has reduced several modules and its own weight is also much lighter. But who made Luo Cheng leave the other module design drawings of the boxer to the people of Factory 617?

Everyone has said that after the recent incident processing is completed, several other modules will be modified and developed. The other modules designed by Luo Cheng are very useful. Therefore, in order to facilitate modification in the future, the engine is still ready in one step, directly V16.

Dai Tiande always believed that Luo Cheng was not suitable for the army or the military industry. Luo Cheng’s behavior of actively asking for benefits shows no sense of dedication at all. What’s more, when the order is sent to the automobile factory, it doesn’t mean that no money will be given. But in other words, unless the car factory is allowed to produce this engine for a long time, the profits will not be enough to increase the production line of the car factory.

Of course, if a new production line is added and other types of engines can be produced, Luo Cheng will never lose money.

Finally, Dai Tiande told Luo Cheng that there was no profit in processing things for the military industry. But in fact, this is a mix of seniority. It is the military industry that is endorsing the automobile factory. If someone disrupts the production of the automobile factory or industrial zone in the future. Luo Cheng can take advantage of this cooperative relationship and directly go to the local army to transfer people.

The impact on the production of ordinary enterprises and the production of military equipment is completely different in nature. By then, if there is really any trouble in the industrial zone, even if it has nothing to do with the production of armored vehicle engines, you can still call a deer a horse and a rat’s head a duck’s neck. If you really want to torture someone to death, it’s not impossible.

And Luo Cheng wants new steel, and he can definitely apply for it if it is used in this engine. Then, by the way, you will declare your own demand. Considering that this contribution to the military industry plus your own demand is indeed to improve performance, they will basically be approved at the same time.

If there is no such thing as a military engine, even if it is declared, it is not known when it will be approved.

So this matter, not to mention there is still some profit, even if there is no profit, we still have to do it.