The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

The next day.

Liu Tao got up earlier than usual, already getting up at dawn.

At this time, the military bugle sounded.

Construction is about to begin on the huge construction site.

Inside the factory and outside the factory are like two worlds.

Liu Tao breathed the fresh air and stretched.

Ever since I returned to Panshan Machinery Factory, I feel much more relaxed today, without having to hold a string tightly.

Liu Tao took a rare walk in the factory early in the morning, listening to the chirping of birds and smelling the fragrance of flowers and plants.

Panshan Machinery Factory is located in a valley and is surrounded by mountains. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It has inconvenient external transportation and little information. But from a certain perspective, it is a beautiful place with beautiful mountains and clear waters.

The negative oxygen ions in the air here are definitely extremely high.

I don’t know how much it will be the working environment that urban white-collar workers will dream of 40 years from now.

Liu Tao took a walk for a while, and then drove the 212 jeep toward the construction site.

At this time, you can see busy construction scenes everywhere.

With the huge investment of manpower, material resources and financial resources, it can be said that one floor is built every three days, and everything is changing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

There are more than 5,000 construction workers. Although there is a lack of construction equipment, including fewer bulldozers and excavators, the progress of the project is not slow.

At this rate, the project is expected to be completed in another two months.

In order to ensure the safety of electricity and water supply of Panshan Machinery Factory, this project also built three small reservoirs, which are specially used for water and power supply. After completion, they will also be under the jurisdiction of Panshan Machinery Factory.

The construction of this reservoir required a lot of manpower. After all, the dam construction site was located deep in the mountains, with inconvenient transportation, so a passage had to be carved out.

Now is the flood season, and Liu Tao is always worried about safety. After all, once the dam is washed away, the loss will be huge.

Logically speaking, it is better to schedule the construction of the reservoir dam during the dry season in September, but time is tight, so we can only bite the bullet.

During this period, it also rained, but fortunately it was not too heavy, so nothing happened.

"Director, there's a call from above, asking you to call back as soon as possible." As soon as Liu Tao returned to the factory, someone in the office shouted.

Liu Tao walked to the office and asked, "Which unit has the phone number?"

"Provincial Defense Management Office."

When Liu Tao heard this, he immediately knew what was going on.

Picking up the phone, "I'm Liu Tao, the director of Panshan Machinery Factory. Please answer the call of the Provincial National Defense Management Office for me!"

Soon, the call was connected.

Just as Liu Tao expected, Wang Tiezhu came to him to inform him that the expert team will arrive at Panshan Machinery Factory tomorrow to review the 'Type 78' sniper rifle submitted by Liu Tao and ask Liu Tao to make corresponding preparations.

Liu Tao hung up the phone and began to arrange the corresponding work.

By now, the troops on the Western Front have begun to gradually return to their bases, and the situation has greatly eased.

However, the production tasks of Panshan Machinery Factory are still very heavy. The troops need to upgrade to 'Type 78' pistols, 'Type 78' automatic rifles, 'Type 78' light machine guns, and even a large number of 'Type 78' heavy machine guns.

As for the 'Type 78' heavy sniper rifle, the army no longer purchases it.

It’s true that even if the ‘Type 78’ heavy sniper rifle is half sold and half given away, the troops still find it too expensive.

The previously provided 'Type 78' heavy sniper rifles are sufficient for frontline use, and the troops will not purchase them for the time being.

For other firearms, the production tasks are still there, requiring Panshan Machinery Factory to complete basic production task indicators.

It can be seen that the army originally wanted to replace the Type 63 automatic rifle, but now the army no longer mentions the replacement of the Type 63 automatic rifle, but requires the replacement of the Type 78 automatic rifle.

The ‘Type 78’ heavy sniper rifles produced in the past few days are all in preparation for delivery of orders from the Iraqi army.

At noon, had lunch.

Liu Tao went to a production workshop that had just been built and put into use.

The machines in the production workshop are all newly manufactured.

For Liu Tao, who has thoroughly studied these machines, manufacturing these machines is not difficult.

This production workshop is specially used to produce the '78-type' heavy machine gun.

The technical requirements for the production of the 'Type 78' heavy machine gun are much higher than those for the production of the 'Type 78' pistol and the 'Type 78' automatic rifle, and the production requirements for parts and components have been greatly improved.

The production of the 'Type 78' heavy machine gun is more complex, which means that the same number of workers can only produce almost one-fifth of the 'Type 78' heavy machine gun.

At this time, workers are carefully producing and processing parts, and qualified parts are transported to the assembly room for assembly.

The current batch of workers can produce about three '78-type' heavy machine guns a day.

As proficiency continues and the pass rate continues to improve, this production capacity will further increase.

"Director, you are here!" Wang Dehua greeted Liu Tao quickly when he saw him coming.

Wang Dehua was promoted by Liu Tao as the director of this production workshop, and was specifically responsible for the production of the '78-type' heavy machine gun.

As each production workshop is built and put into use, a director is assigned to each production workshop.

Above the director, there is another person in charge who is responsible for the production of a firearm.

For example, the '78' automatic rifle production workshop now has three production workshops and three workshop directors.

"How is it? Is the production going smoothly?" Liu Tao asked.

The production of heavy machine guns is related to whether he can complete the order.

"It went well. Everyone was serious and hardworking!" Wang Dehua said.

He originally produced machine guns. Because of his serious, hard-working and meticulous work, he was favored by Liu Tao and promoted to the director of the heavy machine gun production workshop.

"That's good, your burden is very heavy!" Liu Tao nodded slightly.

In the current production of heavy machine guns, the failure rate remains high.

This is quite a headache for Liu Tao.

But he also knows that it takes time to increase the pass rate. It takes time for workers to improve themselves and time to understand. Only by learning through continuous mistakes can progress be achieved.

The more advanced the firearm, the more complex it is, and the higher the technical level required of workers.

The production workshop can now produce three qualified heavy machine guns every day, which honestly surprised Liu Tao.

Because at the beginning, none of the heavy machine guns produced were up to standard, and he was so angry that he almost couldn't help but shoot it himself.

But he had to resist this impulse. He knew very well that he could not give birth himself because a person's power was limited.

Just like at the beginning, he was the only one who could make heavy sniper rifles. Later, with the gradual teaching, other workers gradually learned how to produce heavy sniper rifles.

So sometimes when he is impulsive, Liu Tao will take a deep breath and calm himself down instead of acting impulsively.

"Factory director, don't worry, I am confident that in two days, the number of heavy machine guns produced per day can be increased to 4, and next week we can produce 5 per day!" Wang Dehua said solemnly.

Although the current production efficiency of heavy machine guns is low and the pass rate is low, the production workshop also uses three shifts.

Everyone is making continuous progress, which makes Wang Dehua very confident.