Siheyuan: I earned foreign exchange in the heyday

After hanging up the phone, Chen Changan was in a good mood.

Since coming to this era, for Chen Changan, eating hairtail is considered eating seafood.

The seafood that Li Huaide was talking about naturally couldn’t be hairtail.

For Chen Changan, who hasn't eaten seafood for a long time, he is still looking forward to it.

Just then Chen Changan called Li Chenglin and told him that a leader from the steel mill would come to pick up Xu Damao.

Asked him to clean up the footprints on Xu Damao's body and hung up the phone.

Uncle Nie called.

"The troops are in great need of the trucks from your factory.

The rolling mill's new steel product is progressing smoothly and will soon go into mass production.

How is your car factory preparing?"

"How come it went smoothly? Li Huaide just called me.

He didn’t tell me about this, I thought they were still in the research stage.”

"Then your car factory should make preparations early. The army may send people to inspect your car factory in a few days.

If there are no problems after the inspection, a military representative will most likely be arranged in your factory.

Military representatives are responsible for the quality of military products, and they have the right to supervise from raw materials to processing.

Ensure equipment meets military requirements and standards.”

“Uncle Nie, I’m afraid our car factory cannot complete such a big task.

As the automobile factory has just given up the three-wheeled motorcycle business.

The adjustment of tens of thousands of workers has just been completed. It took a lot of effort to complete such a big adjustment.

Production of Jeeps and pickup trucks is just beginning to ramp up.

You have to give me and the workers some time to catch our breath, right?

It has been several years, and yesterday was the workers' first day off.

Pickup trucks need to be exported to earn foreign exchange, and many leaders are waiting for jeeps.

Now here comes the truck, which is much larger than an ordinary car.

This thing is labor-intensive, has low production, and requires military representatives.

The car factory only has so many people, even if all the workers in the factory work together, the production of this truck cannot be high."

After hearing what Chen Changan said, Uncle Nie fell silent.

Chen Changan was right. Pickup trucks are currently the most profitable product in the country.

The country needs a large amount of foreign exchange to purchase various high-tech experimental equipment.

Without this source of income, many plans would come to a standstill.

Especially at this stage, there are national defense scientific research projects and medical projects.

Many so-called hospitals cannot even take the most basic films.

On the one hand, they keep talking about attaching importance to universal medical care, but on the other hand, they only come up with a barefoot doctor.

There wasn't a single decent piece of equipment in the hospital.

The only project that the automobile factory had to suspend was the Jeep.

But Uncle Nie also knew that the production of Jeeps was not high.

Even if production is stopped, the freed-up workers would be a drop in the bucket given the huge demand for trucks.

But now that we can produce trucks ourselves, we must produce them.

"How many workers do you think it would take to meet the army's demand for trucks?"

"Is it just because the troops need it? Once the trucks start being built, I'm afraid they won't be able to stop.

Mines, construction, water conservancy projects, various factories, transport teams, and even department stores and supply and marketing cooperatives.

Where isn't there a need for a truck that can load several tons at a time?

Not to mention anything else, just for the military, I'm afraid there would be at least tens of thousands of them, right?

If you give me 20,000 skilled workers, I can only guarantee 3,000 trucks per year at most."

"What do you mean only 3,000 a year?"

"What else? You don't think that producing trucks is as difficult as producing bicycles?

Even if some parts are processed by other factories, there are still many core parts that need to be produced by automobile factories.

Of course, if I were given 5,000 level 8 workers, the annual output should increase somewhat.”

Uncle Nie took a deep breath after hearing what Chen Changan said. He really didn't expect this.

Uncle Nie originally thought that with Chen Changan's ability, it would not be a problem to sell tens of thousands of trucks in a year.

Even if more than 20,000 skilled workers were employed, the annual output could only reach 3,000 vehicles.

In the past few years, the country has been controlling the size of the urban population. The reason is simple: there is not enough food.

With the gradual improvement in the past two years, the total number of workers in the country has also been slowly increasing.

Among the factories where the number of workers increased the fastest, the automobile factory was the one.

Even so, it is still not enough to mass-produce trucks.

Uncle Nie was a little hesitant. It’s not that there are no skilled workers.

However, such a huge investment of manpower and material resources only resulted in an annual production of 3,000 medium-sized trucks.

Is it cost-effective or not? These mobilized workers all have their own tasks.

"I need to report this matter to my superiors. Your car factory should remain on hold for the time being."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Changan thought about it and decided to make preparations in advance.

The country's demand for trucks is simply too great, even if the production is only 3,000 per year.

It is also much better than importing, which requires not only paying money but also agreeing to certain conditions.

Sometimes you don't have it, even if you go to your allies to buy things, not only is the price high, but you also suffer.

Logically speaking, you are the customer, and shouldn’t the customer be God?

It's not like I didn't spend any money, so I'll accept being ripped off by you.

It’s my fault that I don’t have the ability to make it.

It turned out that I not only spent money, but I spent a lot of money.

The result is the same as signing an unequal treaty, and you have to agree to a lot of things.

That’s fine. I have a good temper and I just have to accept it.

In the end, he was laughed at for being a fool with a lot of money who only cheated fools.

You think this is tolerable? Even if the output is lower and the performance is worse.

But after all, this is produced by ourselves, so at least we don’t have to rely on others.

You don’t have to spend money and then be ridiculed, and you don’t have to agree to some messy conditions.

Just go slow, be self-reliant, and have enough food and clothing.

As long as production can be achieved, the output problem can be solved sooner or later.

Chen Changan directly called Shi Heping, who was still testing the engine, over.

"How's the engine doing?"

“After a few simple minor modifications, the engine is now trouble-free.

The latest experiment has been running smoothly for a week.

I think it has basically reached the stage where it can be finalized and mass-produced.”

"Okay, let's make some preparations after we get back. We will stop the production of jeeps and start producing new engines instead.

The rolling mill has already produced the new steel, and the higher authorities will probably issue an order to mass-produce trucks soon."

Shi Heping was stunned for a moment after hearing what Chen Changan said.

Shi Heping has always believed that the factory would not start mass production of trucks so soon.

It is simply that the car factories cannot meet the conditions for mass production of trucks.

“Director, how many workers are there to produce jeeps?

If we rely on this number of people to produce trucks, we can only produce a few trucks a month."

"How could I not know? Go and get ready.

All the workshops, including those needed for mass production of trucks, have been vacated and prepared.

Our factory is likely to welcome tens of thousands of skilled workers soon.”