Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

"It's okay!"

Facing everyone's questions, Zhou Tian nodded slightly. But deep down in his heart, he was not very satisfied.

But he also knew that this was 1954, not the s.

In this period, being able to produce a car with such performance is already a rare advancement.

Even if he wanted to cross the generations and produce the kind of automatic transmission cars that he had in his previous life, he would have to have the conditions to do so.

Considering the current domestic industrial level, cars at this level have already reached their limit. If further improvements are made, it would be a bit of a hassle.

After all, technological progress does not necessarily mean pursuing leapfrog improvements. Sometimes, gradual and steady progress is more conducive to building a solid foundation.

"Really? Then I'll try it too!"

Song Weiguo, who had been unable to contain himself and was eager to try, heard this and hurried forward, opened the car door first and got in.

However, as soon as he entered the car, he was dumbfounded.

He had no idea how to operate it, especially the complicated electrical equipment inside the car, which made his scalp tingle. This was completely different from the operation on the jeep, and for a moment, he felt he had no idea where to start.

"What's wrong, Weiguo?"

Zhou Tian and others saw that Song Weiguo had been in the car for a long time without starting it, so they all gathered around with curiosity.

"Dean, this...how do I start this?"

Song Weiguo had no choice but to ask Zhou Tian without caring about the embarrassment.

"Hahaha, Lao Song, you can't even start it, and you still want to drive this car?"

Song Weiguo's words instantly caused everyone around to burst into laughter. Especially Zhang Mingzhi, perhaps because he and Song Weiguo were both in charge of the administrative work of the institute, the two had the closest relationship, so when he teased Song Weiguo, he was merciless and laughed particularly loudly.

The corner of Zhou Tian's mouth twitched slightly, but he didn't have time to speak.

Song Weiguo was already filled with shame and indignation, and immediately retorted: "Lao Zhang, you can do it, you drive it!"

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Mingzhi's laughter stopped abruptly, and Lao Jiang and others looked at him with joking eyes. This made Zhang Mingzhi speechless for a moment, and he managed to utter a few words after a long while.

"Tsk, I didn't say I could drive!"

Although his tone was tough, everyone knew that Zhang Mingzhi had given in. So everyone couldn't help but laugh again.

"Okay, okay, everyone stop laughing!"

Zhou Tian saw that both of them looked unhappy, so he stepped forward to smooth things over. Then, he leaned over, asked Song Weiguo to roll down the window, and began to carefully explain the functions and effects of the electrical system in the car. He didn't stand up until he saw Song Weiguo nodding like a chicken pecking at rice.

Under the watchful eyes of several people, Song Weiguo followed Zhou Tian's instructions, started the car step by step, and slowly drove away.

Seeing Song Weiguo driving away, several people could not hide their envy in their eyes, and secretly made up their minds: they must learn to drive. After all, the factory has already produced such a car, and as a vice president, he can't drive, wouldn't it become a joke among others?

After Song Weiguo drove a few laps, he stopped the car steadily and walked over with excitement on his face.

"It's so smooth and easy to drive! I never thought that driving could be so addictive!"

As he spoke, his hands were still gesturing in the air, as if he was still holding the steering wheel in the car.

"Okay, Xiao Zhang, you drive the car back to the workshop first. You continue testing the other three cars. The vice president and I will go back first."

Zhou Tian looked at Song Weiguo's showing off look, glared at him unhappily, then turned around and gave instructions to the technician beside him.

"Okay, Dean!"

Xiao Zhang responded, got in the car, and started the engine. With a slight roar of the engine, the car quickly sped towards the workshop.

As the car drove away, the surrounding workers and technicians also dispersed and walked towards the workshop. Groups of three or four were still discussing the scene of the dean driving just now.

Zhou Tian led everyone to the office. After everyone sat down, Zhou Tian turned his attention to Song Weiguo.

"Weiguo, how is the progress of the automobile factory during this period?"

Seeing that several auto parts production lines have been manufactured, in two or three months, the subsequent production lines will probably be completed. At this moment, it is time to ask about the overall progress of the auto factory. After all, it is impossible that the production lines have been manufactured, but the completion of the auto factory is far away.

"Dean, the progress of the car factory is not slow now, but it is estimated to take another three months to complete!"

When Song Weiguo heard Zhou Tian's question, he immediately straightened his expression and reported seriously.

"Three months, that's not bad, it's still in time!"

Zhou Tian heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that it would only take three months. This progress was not slow at all.

Then, Zhou Tian asked Song Wei about the production progress of the power plant, machine tool plant, engineering machinery plant and electronics plant in detail. Compared with the automobile plant, which had not yet been fully built, the production progress of these four plants was relatively smooth.

Let’s talk about the machine tool factory first. The output of machine tools this month is nearly 3,000 units, a figure that is comparable to the total output in more than two months last year.

Being able to achieve such production capacity is not only due to Zhang Yuanchang's management skills, but also closely related to the workers' operational proficiency.

After all, compared with home appliance factories, the training time for workers in machine tool factories has already exceeded half a year, so the increase in production capacity is reasonable.

As for the home appliance factory, perhaps because of the urgency of the task, or perhaps because of the fact that the research institute had assigned a group of technicians to train the workers, in short, although its production capacity did not increase as significantly as that of the machine tool factory, it also increased by nearly one-third this month.

This number may not seem to have increased much, but Zhou Tian, ​​Zhang Mingzhi and others were all very satisfied. This showed that the strategy they had formulated at the beginning had already begun to bear fruit.

The diodes, triodes and transistors produced by the electronics factory today, in addition to being supplied to home appliance factories, are also sold to various electronics factories and laboratories in the city. There is no need to worry about product sales as its production capacity is sufficient to meet the needs of home appliance factories.

Finally, the Engineering Machinery Factory gave Zhou Tian a pleasant surprise this month. Not only did it exceed the tasks assigned by its superiors, but it also received many orders from various mines, most of which were from coal mines and iron mines.

The number of orders from road construction teams in various places is not a small number.

There is also an agricultural machinery factory, but since the agricultural machinery factory is located in Sijiu City, Zhang Mingzhi reports to it. The agricultural machinery factory can be said to be the one that Zhou Tian pays the least attention to among the five branches. Of course, when he says he pays less attention to it, it is only compared to the electronics factory and the machine tool factory.

But Zhou Tian himself knew very well that the agricultural machinery factory should actually be the one with the greatest influence in the country.

After all, as the saying goes, food is the first necessity of the people, and to be frank, my country is still a big agricultural country in this era. No matter how the industry develops, agriculture must always be put first.

If last year was the year of the agricultural machinery factory's explosion, then today is the year of its complete take-off. This month alone, in addition to national tasks, orders from the Ministry of Agriculture and surrounding rural areas for various agricultural machinery at the agricultural machinery factory are enough to make the factory's profits comparable to those of the previous three months.

After listening to everyone's reports, both Zhou Tian and Lao Jiang were delighted. Although they usually didn't ask about these matters, they were all members of the research institute after all. Only when the research institute prospers can they benefit from it.

In addition to the matters concerning several branch factories, Song Weiguo also reported to Zhou Tian on the construction progress of the staff housing and facilities surrounding the district government.

After all the reports were completed, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon and it was almost time to get off work.

After seeing everyone off, Zhou Tian packed up his backpack and prepared to go back.

After all, he had been away from home for more than a month, and now that he had finally completed the most difficult auto parts production lines, he was eager to go home and take a look. If he didn't go back, the three little ones at home might not recognize him.