Actually, what Wang Ye said is the path that Huaxia will take in the future.
There's no need to mention influence, from Huaxia's global military market share of only five percent forty years later, to being on equal footing with the United States fifty years later, it's all because of the increasingly terrifying influence.
And subjective initiative is even more straightforward. In the future, Northern Industries and Aerospace Groups are renowned entities in the global military market. Isn't it because, after the reforms, the research institutes and military factories under these groups started to innovate?
And imagination, forty years later, with Huaxia's mechanical dogs and various drones in Hexagon Building being purchased and tested, doesn't that already speak volumes?
Unfortunately, the road hasn't been smooth, even rocky.
After so many twists and turns, stumbling upon so many pitfalls, they finally achieved success.
So now, Wang Ye can't help but want to make some indirect attempts, even if they have just a little effect. Of course, there are different strategies for different stages of development. With so many talents and resources in Huaxia, they will naturally adapt to the current situation. Wang Ye never doubts this!
After lunch, Commander Song and Director Liang left.
When they left, Commander Song's expression was complicated, it couldn't be said whether it was disappointment or hope. Wang Ye could only sigh, not having time to ponder over these matters because he had a pile of tasks to attend to!
Two o'clock in the afternoon.
Wang Ye arrived at the "factory area" of the collective.
Although it's called a factory area, it's actually just a section designated within the mechanical factory, occupying about fifty acres in total. This includes five previously empty workshops, several rows of dilapidated bungalows, and quite a bit of wasteland.
These plots of land and buildings are the assets invested by the mechanical factory. Apart from these, there's the loan of a hundred thousand yuan, but now there's only seventy thousand left. Thirty thousand has already been converted into various materials stored in one of the workshops.
Arriving at the entrance of a workshop, Wang Ye saw a busy scene.
Hundreds of people were stationed in the workshop, busy with their respective tasks.
"Brother Ye? You're here!"
Seeing Wang Ye walk in, Li Baojun, who was on patrol, came over to ask.
In the past few days, with the arrival of purchased materials, Wang Ye selected ten foremen and began training the employees responsible for different production processes. These foremen were responsible for teaching the manufacturing process to other employees.
The first batch of projects launched were electric fans and washing machines, which actually weren't difficult to produce.
In fact, to compress costs to the maximum extent, and to make full use of the thousands of laborers in the collective, Wang Ye purchased the most basic and common materials from the Industrial Bureau, such as thin steel plates, iron sheets, iron pipes, copper wires, etc.
For these young people who grew up in the mechanical factory, playing with hammers and various tools since childhood, processing these parts wasn't difficult at all.
As long as they were given an anvil, along with tools like iron shears and hammers, they could easily turn the thin steel plates into fan blades, which were exceptionally beautiful, smooth and flawless!
Similarly, they could turn rolls of thin iron sheets into shells for electric fans and washing machines. There were also coils of copper wire, which, in the nimble hands of women, were quickly wound into motors.
Then, a simple assembly line was formed.
In the next few decades.
Such craftsmanship could be said to be primitive and crude, but it was just right for this era, and the products produced were very solid, far superior to the injection-molded products of later generations.
"How's everyone doing?"
"Any problems?"
Wang Ye's arrival only briefly attracted everyone's attention, and soon they returned to their work.
After all, not all workshops were in operation yet, and they were still in the learning phase of standardized production. The workers took turns to work, and producing each component meant money. Who had time to see what the factory director was doing?
In this era, things were different from previous years, especially for these young people who were short of money!
Whether it was buying a pack of good cigarettes, changing into fashionable clothes, going to a restaurant with a few friends, or saving money to buy the three essentials for marriage, money was needed everywhere. And Wang Ye's principle of distribution according to labor greatly stimulated their enthusiasm for work!
"Everyone is doing quite well, no problems."
"After all, they've been exposed to these things since childhood, and everyone learns very quickly."
Li Baojun explained with a smile. Wang Ye wasn't surprised by this result, and then he made a round and patted Li Baojun on the shoulder, saying:
"Keep an eye on things. If anything goes wrong, it's on you!"
"Don't blame me for being merciless when the time comes!"
Hearing Wang Ye say this, Li Baojun responded very seriously:
"Yes, Director!"
Li Baojun, as a foreman, could receive an additional foreman's salary, but if he wanted to earn more, he had to participate in the production of parts himself, and he was also responsible for the final inspection work.
And if Li Baojun dared to pass unqualified parts for personal gain and was found out, his salary would be deducted. If such incidents occurred twice, he would be kicked out, and the foreman position would be given to someone else!
After that, Wang Ye went to other workshops, seeing the orderly and busy scenes, he sighed in relief and returned to his office to continue his own work.
At four o'clock in the afternoon.
The convoy carrying the production line equipment from Quancheng finally arrived.
For the next half month, the entire mechanical factory entered a busy state. The focus of production shifted to steel pipe rockets and subcontracting small parts that couldn't be processed by other manufacturing plants. There was also the installation and debugging of the engine production line.
During the day, Wang Ye was busy with the production line, and at night, he stayed up late drawing blueprints. From time to time, he went to the manufacturing plant to see the increasing number of finished electric fans and washing machines, waiting for the weather to get a little hotter!
June 20th.
Wang Ye dialed the phone number of the Changshan Advanced Military School again, ready to pitch the second batch of products to Qibuck. Because the first batch of a thousand steel pipe rockets had been produced!
"What? He returned to the country?"
When Wang Ye heard the voice of the staff on the other end of the phone, he was stunned!
In Wang Ye's memory, Qibuck's return to the country should have taken at least another month, but now it seems he has returned unexpectedly early?
"Could it be because of the gas cylinders?"
The thought flashed through Wang Ye's mind, and the staff member continued:
"But Mr. Qibuck left you a communication address."
"If Director Wang has any questions, you can send a cross-border telegram directly to contact him!"
Hearing this, Wang Ye finally breathed a sigh of relief. If they had truly lost contact, it would have been a waste of previous efforts!
Then Wang Ye hung up the phone, pondering whether to make a special trip to Yuntai City to send a cross-border telegram to Qibuck.
Africa, Tanzania, the capital, Dodoma.
In an office, Qibuck sighed as he looked at the documents in front of him.
After returning from Huaxia, the appointment letter should have come quickly, but now the situation was very unclear. It had already been delayed for a week, and there was still no news at all. How could Qibuck not be anxious?
"Knock, knock, knock!"
At that moment, there was a sudden knock on the door.
"Come in!"
Only to see a sturdy man in military uniform push open the door and salute, saying:
"General, the goods have arrived at the port!"
Upon hearing this report, Qibuck's eyes instantly lit up!